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Dr. Dan Mickool had an idea during the pandemic about soap and cleaning products, something he had been making for himself for years. One thing lead to other and Ryan Crawford jumped into help and Maine Farm House Brands was formed. A deep connection to the land, farms, ocean, and natural products are not a new fad here in Maine. Local craftsmen, farmers, and fishermen have produced products we’ve used for generations. We have close communities built on honesty and integrity. We think honest-made products are best and we trust that you will agree. 

At Maine Farmhouse Brands, our growing concern about chemicals in personal care products based on petroleum led us to formulate without using these hormone disrupting and toxic substances. We want to feel good about our families using soaps and cleaners especially those with sensitive skin.

At Maine Farmhouse we practice environmental stewardship caring for all creation.

Check out the website mainefarmhousebrands.com

Bill Kinneberg is a former college baseball coach. He served as head baseball coach of the Utah Utes in 1996 and from 2005 to 2021. Coach Kinneberg lead the Utes to the university's first ever men's Pac-12 championship in the 2016 season, finishing with a 26–29 overall record.After ending his playing career, Kinneberg was hired as an assistant at UTEP. He served in that role for four seasons before assuming the head coaching role for the 1985 season. In what was to be the last season of baseball at UTEP, Kinneberg led the Miners to a program record 33 wins. After the end of UTEP's program, he moved to Wyoming, setting a program record for wins in Laramie in 1990 with a 37–18 record. Kinneberg earned Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors for the 1990 season, and coached 16 All-Conference players at Wyoming. Ironically, the Cowboys program was shut down in 1996, just four years after Kinneberg's departure for Arizona State. Kinneberg spent two seasons with the Sun Devils, helping to guide them to consecutive College World Series appearances.

Kinneberg spent one season as a pitching coach in the Chicago White Sox system, before returning to college head coaching at Utah for the 1996 season. He led the Utes to a 30–22 season and a third-place finish in the WAC. He then accepted an associate head coaching position at Arizona, helping the Wildcats to a Regional appearance during his five years in Tucson

Utah again offered him their head coaching position 2005. During his second stint with the Utes, Kinneberg led the team to their first-ever MWC title and first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1960, coached three high level Major League Baseball Draft picks, including Utah's first-ever first round pick (C. J. Cron), and now leads the Utes in their new home in the Pac-12 Conference. Kinneberg was named Pac-12 Baseball Coach of the Year in 2016 after leading the Utes to their first-ever Pac-12 Conference title.

Kinneberg also has coached USA Baseball's National Team (collegiate), beginning as a pitching coach in 1999, and as head coach in 2007 and 2010.

Claudia Christian is an American actress, singer and author, known for her roles as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5, as Captain Maynard on Fox's 9-1-1, and as the voice of Hera on the Netflix series Blood of Zeus. She is also the voice of Helga Sinclair in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Claudia Christian began her career on stage as a child in Connecticut. She booked her first television job as a teenager in the hugely popular series "Dallas" and never stopped working. She has been in dozens of films and hundreds of hours of TV. She became a sci-fi icon with her portrayal of "Susan Ivanova" in the Hugo and Emmy award winning series, "Babylon 5". She has worked with legends such as Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Faye Dunaway, Bob Hope, Don Ameche, George Clooney, Nicolas Cage, Sharon Stone and more in her 35+ year career. She lends her distinctive voice to dozens of the world's most popular games and is a published author of non fiction and fiction. Claudia runs C Three Foundation and is a TEDx speaker. In 2014 she produced the award winning documentary "One Little Pill" and is a passionate activist. She is the founder and CEO of the C Three Foundation, a proponent of the medication based Sinclair Method for treating alcohol dependence. Christian wrote a memoir in 2012 (Babylon Confidential) that tells of her experiences in Hollywood and her battle with alcohol addiction. The book was #1 on Amazon and has mostly 5 star reviews. She also writes alternative history novels. Tor/Macmillan published Wolf's Empire in 2016 to terrific reviews. She has a new young adult novel coming out in 2020 also with Tor/Macmillan. In 2014 she produced a documentary about TSM (One Little Pill) that explains the science behind the treatment and takes a look at real people on TSM. It is available on Amazon, Hulu and Tubi

Check out her website https://claudiachristian.net check out her Instagram www.instagram.com/officialclaudiachristian

and her foundation cthreefoundation.org

Jessica comes from a photo journalistic background and it shows in her work. With a diploma in Professional Photo Imaging and a Degree in Business Administration, specializing in Marketing /Advertising, Jessica has worked with such Companies as the Vancouver Canucks, Getty Images and has been published in multiple Sports Fishing Magazines and other publications.  With an editorial based shooting style, Jessica has been capturing Sports fishing for over 10 years. In her early life, growing up on the ocean in Vancouver British Columbia; Jessica could be found running boats, sailing and fishing around the Pacific North West.  It was there that Jessica’s passion for Photography and Nature grew into a profession. Jessica played Hockey at Wayne State and played in a school-record 132 consecutive games, never missing a game in her four-year career ... named to the CHA All-Academic Team.  Jessica currently resides in the Bitterroot of Montana. Her website www.jessicahaydahlphotography.com and instagram www.instagram.com/haydahlphoto/

Paula Smith was named Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at UC Irvine on June 6, 2019.

Smith is one of 50 female Division I athletic directors nationally and the second at UCI following Linda Dempsay (1977-1983) who was the country’s first female athletic director at an NCAA Division I school. Smith has over 30 years of experience in college athletic administration, 17 of those at UCI. She previously served as executive associate athletic director (2008 to 2012), senior associate athletic director (2006 to 2008) and assistant athletic director for academic and student services (2000 to 2001). Additionally, she was associate athletics director at UC Riverside from 2001 to 2006. She began her career at the Big West Conference office, starting as a compliance intern and finishing as an assistant commissioner.

Smith is active in campus entities such as the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, the Chancellor’s Advisory Council, and the Campus Ethics and Compliance Risk Committee. In addition to her UCI duties, Smith serves on the DI-AAA ADA Executive Committee and the DI-AAA ADA All-Sports Trophy Committee. Smith has also served on the NCAA Division I Council from 2017 to 2021, the NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee from 2015 to 2021, and the NCAA National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Committee from 2014 to 2017. Other committees served during her tenure are the NCAA Minority Opportunity and Interest Committee with the Division I Strategic Planning Cabinet, NCAA Progress towards Degree Waiver Committee, NACWAA Nomination Committee, and CCACA Committee. Over the past 25 years, she has served on several national panels.

A native of Alamogordo, NM, she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing at New Mexico State University.

With Smith serving as Athletic Director, UCI teams have advanced to the NCAA Championships five times and claimed seven Big West titles. Several teams have been ranked nationally, including women’s water polo and men’s volleyball who have each been as high as No. 3 in the country. Individually, 20 student-athletes were honored as All-America, nine as Big West Player of the Year, four as conference Newcomer of the Year, 137 as all-conference and 302 as all-academic.

Tommy Martino is the photography manager working for the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. Tommy Martino is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist based in Missoula, Montana. Tommy graduated in 2014 from the Montana School of Journalism. Tommy went on to intern and work as a photojournalist at papers in Michigan, Montana and Wyoming. Tommy is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist based in Missoula, Montana. We talk about finding photography, being whiling to travel for a job, working and living in cold places as well as the challenges of being the lead photographer at a University. We can see Tommy's work at his website www.tommymartinophoto.com and follow him on Instagram www.instagram.com/tommymartinophoto

All trees have a life cycle, so Street Tree Revival are making every effort to save the trees we can from ending up in landfills. When city trees need to be removed, we preserve their natural beauty and also limit carbon emissions by salvaging trees lost during storms, disease, or normal senescence and recycling this wood into useable raw lumber.

Our urban wood offers a story unlike any other as they have been salvaged from our city streets… a true Street Tree Revival. 

Why urban wood? We have these beautiful heritage trees that provide a ton of resources and can give a new life if we allow ourselves to build something new out of them. We also once had this hundreds of years old tree that we got to witness scientists cut through and examine it, estimating it as one of the oldest in the known universe. They found bullets inside it, which was crazy. Abraham Lincoln could have stood under it. If you put it in a chipper and let it mulch up, that’s not honoring its whole story.

Another reason to use urban wood is because California is blessed with a diverse array of species of trees. San Diego has over 900 species of trees for example. The West Coast is typically a soft wood market, but there are so many exotic trees like eucalyptus globulus from Australia, Tasmanian blackwood from Tasmania, carob from Southeast Asia, eucalyptus camaldulensis, and the ficus from India. Who knew North Indian rosewood would be growing on the streets of California, Arizona, and Nevada? It is kind of invasive but look at the beautiful wood that has been going in the trash all these years.

From one log alone, you can get 3,500 board feet, which could be enough to floor an entire house. There are so many resources that aren’t being tapped into or not being tapped into well enough. People need to realize that what they have in their front yard is valuable beyond when it’s still standing.

124 million tons of CO2e could be sequestered nationally from urban hardwood over the next 30 years. “Could be” is key. We currently don’t have the best management practices to harvest that wood and turn it into useable lumber; it’s more beneficial for cities and contractors not to use the wood. Urban trees in the U.S. hold about 774 million tons of carbon. Look how much is stored in our urban forest right now. The more trees we plant, the bigger the waste stream will eventually be. This means we need to think about what happens to trees in their next stage of life.

50% of above-ground is suitable for solid hardwood products. We’re currently making benches from logs that can only be 20 inches wide, so we’re not just talking about the big ones. Small ones work, too.

Also, urban lumber is valued greater than forest grade because of history, unusual figure, and personal meaning. Just like how Abraham Lincoln stood under this oak tree. When we chop a tree like that down, you can turn it into something else like a table or a mantelpiece to keep the tree alive for even longer.

A board foot is a 12-inch by 12-inch by 1-inch piece of lumber. For each board foot of wood, there is 4.7 pounds of carbon. We have at least 8,000 board feet in our showroom, which equates to over 37,000 pounds of CO2 stored! Each kiln load is 3,000-4,000 board feet, which is 14,000-18,000 pounds of stored carbon. By turning this wood into lumber, it keeps the carbon from going back into the atmosphere.

STR is located all over the state, collecting trees from Northern California and milling them up there and drying them down here in Southern California or vice versa. We also do work in Arizona and Nevada, just like WCA. It takes a team to get this profound amount of wood (300 tons of green waste a day) through our systems.

Known for his stark, honest portraits of the most famous and infamous faces from the worlds of entertainment, art, sport and music, Greg Gorman’s images have intrigued the viewer from the onset of his career. Over the years Greg has been acknowledged for his contribution to the world of photography, most recently being recognized by The Professional Photographers of America (Lifetime Achievement Award in Portraiture) as well as The Lucie Awards for Portraiture. His charitable works by such organizations as The Elton John Aids Foundation, The Oscar de La Hoya Foundation and Paws LA to name but a few have also been critically recognized.Besides traveling the world for specialized photographic projects, Greg continues to work on compilations of his imagery and exhibits his work at galleries and museums around the globe.

It's Not About Me-A Retrospective marks Mr. Gorman’s twelfth monograph. As well, Gorman is one of the most sought after speakers in the photographic community and shares his expertise in hands-on photographic workshops worldwide. Greg’s latest career venture has been in the world of wine-making. In collaboration with Dave Phinney of Orin Swift Cellars of the Napa Valley, Greg began making wine under his own label, GKG Cellars, in 2006, receiving high scores from both Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator.

Born in 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri, Greg attended the University of Kansas with a major in Photojournalism and completed his studies at the University of Southern California, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinematography. Greg resides with his two French Bulldogs in Los Angeles, California and spends his spare time fishing. www.gormanphotography.com

Reformed fine-dining chef Joseph Mahon (ex-Bastide in West Hollywood) has made a name for himself in the last few years with a menu of highly regarded premium burgers at Burger Parlor in Orange and Fullerton. Everything there is from scratch including the ketchup.

Adapting to weathering the lingering Covid 19 crisis Chef Joseph has morphed his two Burger Parlor locations to Jaxon’s Scratch-Made Chix Tenders with the same commitment to premium quality using all-natural, antibiotic free chicken. On the compact menu are 2, 3 and 4 piece chicken tender meals (served with crinkle fries,) a chicken sandwich and a teriyaki bowl with teriyaki basted chicken tenders, steamed veggies and white rice. House prepared sides include a side salad, pickles, sweet potato fries, crinkle fries, coleslaw and mac & cheese. A wide selection of rotating craft beers on tap is also part of the menu.

To complement the chicken tenders are a variety of dipping sauces. The house specialty is Jaxon’s Cajun Sauce. Premium Sauce selections are Polynesian, Scorpion Vinegar, Garlic Herb Parmesan, Reaper BBQ, Lemon-Lime Pepper and Blue Cheese.Joseph Mahon has been involved in the restaurant industry since he was 16 years old. Joseph quickly moved through the ranks in the local restaurant scene and enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Joseph's drive and passion landed him working weekends for free in New York City's 3 and 4 star kitchens. Eventually, he earned an intern position at Cafe Boulud with Andrew Carmellini. Upon graduating from school, Joseph was picked from his class to go work in the south of France. Returning to the United States, his passion for food led him back to Cafe Boulud in NYC. Feeling secure in his cooking foundation from Daniel Boulud and Andrew Carmellini; Joseph went on to take positions at Danube and Bouley under David Bouley where he was Chef de Partie. Joseph moved back to California to become Sous Chef of Sona with David Myers in Los Angeles. He was recruited for opening Chef de Cuisine position of the Fairmont Newport Beach and Executive Chef of 208 Rodeo in Beverly Hills.

Joseph went on to become Executive Chef of the now 'infamous' Bastide in West Hollywood. Critics noted his ability to do the simple things very well, maximizing flavors of his ingredients, innovative technique and overall balance on all of his plates. During his tenure, Bastide was awarded Top Food in Zagat with 27 for food. 4.5 Stars for opentable.com, 2.5 stars from the LA Times and Best Restaurant by LA FEAST with a score of 93.

He went on open 'Burger Mondays' at Bastide which turned out to be a huge hit. Joseph was surprised and inspired at the reactions of such a simple dish. Joseph notes, “Every Monday there was at least 2-3 people saying it was the best burger they ever had. At that moment, I knew what I was going to do next”.