Brad M. Kelley
Brad Maurice Kelley (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the fourth-largest landowner in the U.S., with an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion in 2015. He founded the Commonwealth Brands tobacco company in 1991 and sold the company in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. As of 2014, Kelley's business interests include Calumet Farm, NC2 Media (Lonely Planet) and the Center for Innovation and Technology business park.
Biography
Early life
Kelley was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was raised in Simpson County, Kentucky, and went to Franklin-Simpson High School in Franklin, Kentucky, where he was a secretary for the Future Farmers of America and was named Kentucky high school conservationist of the year. He bought his first piece of land, a farm near his childhood home, at age 17, and his first warehouse at age 20. He attended Western Kentucky University for a short period but left before the completion of his studies to pursue business interests.
Career
Kelley grew up on a farm that included tobacco, and his early business ventures were a response to changes in the tobacco industry. Because of declining production in the 1980s, many old warehouses in Kentucky stood vacant. He started buying these warehouses, converting them to other uses, and then leasing them out. This interest evolved into manufacturing. In 1991, he founded Commonwealth Brands, a tobacco company that manufactured low-cost cigarettes, headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The company was later sold in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. Kelley has never smoked, and he said in 2012, "I've never defended [smoking]. Hopefully it will be phased out of society."
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İbradı
İbradı is a district of Antalya Province of Turkey.
İbradı is a high plain in the Taurus Mountains. In summer the weather is dry and cooler than the nearby Mediterranean coast with a daytime temperature of 30 degrees C and 10 degrees C at night. The mountains are covered with forests of juniper, cedar and pine, watered by mountain streams that eventually form the Manavgat River. The people of İbradı mainly live from grazing goats on the hillsides and from forestry; there is no commercial farming although people have gardens, vineyards and fruit trees.
History
This area was once part of the antique kingdom of Pisidia, near the river Melas. It is unclear however when the district was first settled.
In the Turkish period the area was an important passage over the Taurus Mountains for traders from the Mediterranean, and was used as a summer retreat from the heat on the coast. There are the foundations of a Seljuk Turkish caravanserai in the district of Kesikbel.
People who live in Ibradi today are mainly Teke Turkmens. Same root with today's Teke Turkmens from Turkmenistan. They are member of Oghuz Salur Tribe.
BRAD Insight
BRAD Insight is a provider of information on the media and marketing industry in the United Kingdom. The company is part of the Media Business Insight Ltd and is based at Zetland House in Old Street, London.
History
The firm's launch in 1954 was fuelled by the post-war revolution in the UK consumer magazine and newspaper markets. The British Rates And Data directory (known as BRAD) was first published in print and initially contained the details of around 2000 print media that were then accepting advertising. The final print copy of BRAD was published in March 2009. BRAD is now available online via subscription services known as BRAD connect & BRAD intelligence. BRAD currently contains the details of over 14,000 media entries across seven media channels (Business Press, Consumer Press, Newspapers, TV, Radio, Out of Home and Digital).
In February 1987, Black Box Publishing launched the Account List File (known as ALF), a printed directory providing information about relationships between the UK's top spending advertisers, the brands they own and the advertising agencies they work with (including details of key personnel making advertising decisions on behalf of the brands). BBP was eventually bought by Data Management Services moving to Ramillies Street. At the time the data was sold through print and a software based CRM system. Eventually DMS was bought by Pearson and the ALF range was stabled with The Register and Magazine Business as Register Information Services based out offices in The Angel. The company was sold to EMAP in 1999 and the ALF and BRAD were brought together. Following 276 editions, 267,145 pages and a total of 3.8 million updates, the final printed edition of ALF was released in August 2010. The ALF directory is now available online via subscription services known as ALF connect & ALF intelligence.
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Solos, Volume 1
- Country Courtyard
- Reverie
- Familiar Faces
- Lope Along
- Pastoral Sunrise
- Rolling Hills
- Sprite
- Alley Cats
- Gypsy
- Cleaning House 1
- Cleaning House 2
- Hunter's Hill
- Method Acting
- Soprano Soliloquy
- Thievery
- Prelude #2
- Memories
- Funny Stuff
- Country Courtyard
- Reverie
- Familiar Faces
- Lope Along
- Pastoral Sunrise
- Rolling Hills
- Sprite
- Alley Cats
- Gypsy
- Cleaning House
- Hunter's Hill
- Method Acting
- Soprano Soliloquy
- Thievery
- Prelude #2
- Memories
- Funny Stuff
- Country Courtyard
- Reverie
- Familiar Faces
- Lope Along
- Pastoral Sunrise
- Rolling Hills
- Sprite
- Alley Cats
- Gypsy
- Cleaning House
- Hunter's Hill
- Method Acting
- Soprano Soliloquy
- Thievery
- Prelude #2
- Memories
- Funny Stuff
- Country Courtyard
- Reverie
- Familiar Faces
- Lope Along
- Pastoral Sunrise
- Rolling Hills
- Sprite
- Alley Cats
- Gypsy
- Cleaning House
- Hunter's Hill
- Method Acting
- Soprano Soliloquy
- Thievery
- Prelude #2
- Memories
- Funny Stuff
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Look Like Love
by: Britt NicoleHave you ever felt, OH.
Have you ever felt like that?
Like you just, just rushin' through life
Like you don't have time for your friends or the world
outside
Well, I've been there
We gotta slow it down
Take a look around
When we gonna stop
When we gonna stop runnin', runnin'
It's keeping you and me
From who we need to be
I wanna look like love
Be more than just enough
For the hearts that are broken, coming undone
It's up to you and me
To leave a legacy
If we're all they ever see
I wanna look like, look like love
I wanna look like, look like love
Let me be the first to admit
There are days that I just don't have the strength to
give
Don't wanna stay there
Looking at me missin' everything
When we gonna stop
When we gonna stop runnin', runnin'
Instead of doing nothing
We gotta do something
If I believe there's a Savior
Is the proof in me
Is He alive and breathing
Is He what they'll remember
Is He what they see
When they look at me
Do I look like, look like love