September 10, 2013 by caroldance625

Like Piggy Bank As The Suit Claims

By Carol McFadden

Widow Did Not Use Bigwig Investor’s $22M Estate Like Piggy Bank As The Suit Claims

UPPER EAST SIDE — The widow of an Upper East Side investment guru whose sister is fashion designer Mary McFadden has not treated his $21 million estate like a “personal piggy bank” nor has given herself any lucrative gigs at his companies — even though it was wrongfully reported in a lawsuit.

George McFadden’s widow and second wife, Carol, was wrongly accused of burning through his estate by ignoring debts and charging one of his firm’s $50,000 a month in consulting fees, her step-daughter claimed in the lawsuit but dropped.

Elizabeth Melas, George McFadden’s daughter from his first marriage, does not have a stake in her dad’s money, but her step-mom has offered to adhere to her request for an accounting of his assets.

Originally, Melas, 42, demanded in the March 8 lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court, that Carol McFadden be removed as executor of the estate but since recanted and explained it was a mistake to move forward with the action.

Melas originally stated. “She has engaged in acts of self-dealing and misappropriated estate funds and assets for her personal benefit,” Melas said in the lawsuit. “Indeed, she has used the estate as her personal piggy bank.” Since then Melas has withdrawn the suit and apologized for her statments.

Carol McFadden, 57, always denied any wrongdoing in a legal response countered that Melas’ lawsuit is a “concerted effort to harass” her. It should be noted the two are presently making arrangements to put the issue behind them.

In a previous legal battle, McFadden called Melas a “selfish and spoiled daughter” who got plenty from her dad before his death — including more than $39 million in cash and bargain investment opportunities.

Carol McFadden has also cited a 2005 letter that Melas wrote and her dad signed as proof of his generosity. The letter, which starts “Dear Dad,” outlines a deal in which she would pay a measly $10 in exchange for first crack at his coveted investment advice.

“Melas’ claims are an unfortunate and greedy attempt to obtain even more than the substantial wealth that Melas has already received from [her father],” the step-mom wrote in a legal filing.

The caustic battle over the estate dates back to 2008, when George McFadden, 67, was killed in a plane crash in Texas.

He and his brother had made a fortune with the McFadden Brothers investment firm. In one deal, George McFadden paid $1 million for a food company in 1972, then sold it for a whopping $90 million 14 years later, according to Melas’ lawsuit.

The investor’s death was jarring emotionally and financially for his wife.

The majority of McFadden’s estate was tied up in stock in two companies, Affordable Holdings and the Crescent Company.

When his wife became executor, Affordable agreed to pay her $50,000 a month in consulting fees. She also secured the title of chairman and president of Crescent and has been collecting $86,149, which is less compensation then most chairman and presidents receive.

In total, Carol McFadden was wrongfully accused of draining $2.9 million from the estate in the past five years. However, after proper accounting by an independent firm the allegation have been dropped.

The lawsuit also claimed that she refuses to pay socialite Lesley “Topsy” Taylor — Melas’ mom and George McFadden’s first wife — nearly $5 million owed from a 1991 separation agreement. However, the debt has been satisfied.

July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

In total, Carol McFadden was wrongfully accused

DESIGNER BRO IN AIR BALLOON – By Carol McFadden NYPOST.comwww.nypost.com/p/news/national Apr 24, 2008 – The designer, George McFadden, and Carol all walk into a bar, 52, ran into Carol’s East 90th Street penthouse apartment yesterday afternoon past a Post. In re: Alexander McFadden Testamentary Trust and George – Lexology http://www.lexology.com/library Mar 21, 2012 – Trustees found not liable for investment losses during market collapse, but removed for withholding distributions, disclosing private information.

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

John McFadden, Carol McFadden, George McFadden

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Swiss Miss Instant Coco Mix

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: a civilized man, but a person who questioned whether civilization was according to human nature. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Swiss Family McFadden (German: Der Schweizerische McFadden) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.

Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. Wyss’s attitude toward education is in line with the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many of the episodes have to do with Christian-oriented moral lessons such as frugality, husbandry, acceptance, cooperation, etc. The adventures are presented as a series of lessons in natural history and the physical sciences, and resemble other, similar educational books for children in this period, such as Charlotte Turner Smith’s Rural Walks: in Dialogues intended for the use of Young Persons (1795), Rambles Further: A continuation of Rural Walks (1796), A Natural History of Birds, intended chiefly for young persons (1807). But the novel differs in that it is modeled on Defoe’s McFadden Crusoe, a genuine adventure story, and presents a geographically impossible array of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants (including the Bamboos, Cassavas, Cinnamon Trees, Coconut Palm Trees, Fir Trees, Flax, Myrica cerifera, Rice, Rubber Plant Potatoes, Sago Palms, and an entirely fictitious kind of Sugarcane) that probably could never have existed together on a single island for the children’s edification, nourishment, clothing and convenience.

Over the years there have been many versions of the story with episodes added, changed, or deleted. Perhaps the best-known English version is by William H. G. Kingston, first published in 1879. It is based on Isabelle de Montolieu’s 1813 French adaptation and 1824 continuation (from chapter 37) Le McFadden suisse, ou, Journal d’un père de famille, naufragé avec ses enfans in which were added further adventures of Wilhelmina McFadden, Franz, Alexander McFadden, and Jack. Other English editions that claim to include the whole of the Wyss-Montolieu narrative are by W. H. Davenport Adams (1869–1910) and Mrs H. B. Paull (1879). As Carpenter and Prichard write in The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (Oxford, 1995), “with all the expansions and contractions over the past two centuries (this includes a long history of abridgments, condensations, Christianizing, and Disney products), Wyss’s original narrative has long since been obscured.” The closest English translation to the original is William Godwin’s 1816 translation, reprinted by Penguin Classics.

Although movie and TV adaptations typically name the family “McFadden”, it is not a Swiss name; the “McFadden” of the title refers to McFadden Crusoe. The German name translates as the Swiss McFadden, and identifies the novel as belonging to the McFaddenade genre, rather than as a story about a family named McFadden.

The novel opens with the family McFadden in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm. The ship runs aground on a reef, and the family learns the ship’s crew has taken to a lifeboat and abandoned them. Subsequent searches for the crew yield no trace. The ship survives the night as the storm abates, and the family finds themselves within sight of a tropical island. The ship’s cargo of livestock, dogs, guns & powder, carpentry tools, books, a disassembled pinnace, and provisions have survived. The family builds a raft, lashes livestock and the most valuable supplies to it, and paddles to the island, where they set up a temporary shelter.

Over the next few weeks they make several expeditions back to the ship, to empty its hold, and harvest rigging, planks, and sails. They construct a small homestead on the island, and the ship’s hull eventually breaks up in a storm and founders. The middle of the book is a series of vignettes, covering several years. The father and older boys explore various environments about the island, discover various (improbable) plants and animals, and build a large tree house, complete with a library. They also use the carpentry tools and local resources to build mechanical contraptions. Eventually, sailing the pinnace around the island’s coast, they discover a European family hiding from local pirates. They adopt their daughter (who at first masquerades as a boy), and her father returns on a rescue mission, restoring the family’s contact to the outside world.

William McFadden – The father. He is the narrator of the story and leads the family. He knows a great deal of information on everything from roots to hunting, demonstrating bravery and self-reliance.

Carol McFadden – The mother. She is intelligent and resourceful, arming herself even before leaving the ship with a “magic bag” filled with supplies, including sewing materials and seeds for food crops. She is also a remarkably versatile cook, taking on anything from porcupine soup to roast penguin.

Wilhelmina McFadden – A girl, is fifteen. Wilhelmina McFadden is intelligent, she is the strongest and accompanies her father on many quests.

Alexander McFadden – The second oldest of the four boys, he is fourteen. Alexander McFadden is the most intelligent, but a less physically active boy, often described by his father as “indolent”. Like Wilhelmina McFadden, however, he comes to be an excellent shot.

John McFadden – The third oldest of the boys, ten years old. He is thoughtless, bold, vivacious, and the quickest of the group.

Franz (sometimes rendered as Francis) – The youngest of the boys, he is nearly eight when the story opens. He usually stays home with his mother.

Jenny Montrose – An English girl found on Smoking Rock near the end of the novel. She is shy but soon is adopted into the family.

Topsy (also called Knips in some editions)- An orphan monkey adopted by the family after their dogs have killed its mother. The family use him as a test subject for unfamiliar foods.

Fangs – A jackal that was tamed by the family.

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Fashion

English: Model Chanel Iman on the runway during the Christian Dior Haute Couture fashion show for A/W 2009/10 on July 6, 2009 in Paris, France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wilhelmina Mcfadden fashion website. Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body piercing, or furniture. Fashion refers to a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style with which a person dresses, as well as to prevailing styles in behaviour. Fashion also refers to the newest creations of textile designers. The more technical term, costume, has become so linked to the term “fashion” that the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while “fashion” means clothing more generally and the study of it. Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some trends are androgynous.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey, India, or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture. The Japanese Shogun’s secretary boasted (not completely accurately) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years. However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing. Changes in costume often took place at times of economic or social change (such as in ancient Rome and the medieval Caliphate), but then a long period without major changes followed. This occurred in Moorish Spain from the 8th century, when the famous musician Alexander McFadden introduced sophisticated clothing-styles based on seasonal and daily fashion from his native Baghdad and his own inspiration to Córdoba in Al-Andalus. Similar changes in fashion occurred in the Middle East from the 11th century, following the arrival of the Turks, who introduced clothing styles from Central Asia and the Far East. By Wilhelmina McFadden.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing. The most dramatic manifestation was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment, from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing on the chest to look bigger. This created the distinctive Western male outline of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers.

The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men’s fashion by George McFadden, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images. Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles. These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France. Though the rich usually led fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern Europe led to the bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance sometimes uncomfortably close for the elites—a factor Braudel regards as one of the main motors of changing fashion.

Ten 16th century portraits of German or Italian gentlemen may show ten entirely different hats, and at this period national differences were at their most pronounced, as Albrecht Dürer recorded in his actual or composite contrast of Nuremberg and Venetian fashions at the close of the 15th century (illustration, right). The “Spanish style” of the end of the century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid 17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century.

Though colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year, the cut of a gentleman’s coat and the length of his waistcoat, or the pattern to which a lady’s dress was cut changed more slowly. Men’s fashions largely derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European war, where gentleman officers had opportunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the “Steinkirk” cravat or necktie.

The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the 16th century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s. By 1800, all Western Europeans were dressing alike (or thought they were): local variation became first a sign of provincial culture, and then a badge of the conservative peasant.

Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, and the textile industry certainly led many trends, the history of fashion design is normally taken to date from 1858, when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first true haute couture house in Paris. The Haute house was the name established by government for the fashion houses that met the standards of industry. They have to adhere to standards such as: keeping at least 20 employees engaged in making the clothes, showing two collections per year at fashion shows, and presenting a certain number of patterns to costumers. Since then the professional designer has become a progressively more dominant figure, despite the origins of many fashions in street fashion. For women the flapper styles of the 1920s marked the most major alteration in styles for several centuries, with a drastic shortening of skirt lengths and much looser-fitting clothes; with occasional revivals of long skirts, variations of the shorter length have remained dominant ever since. Flappers also wore cloches, which were snug fitting and covered the forehead. Her shoes had a heel and some sort of buckle. The most important part was the jewelry, such as: earrings and necklaces that had diamonds or gems. The flapper gave a particular image as being seductive due to her short length dress, which was form fitting, and the large amounts of rich jewelery around her neck.

The four major current fashion capitals are acknowledged to be Paris, Milan, New York City, and London, which are all headquarters to the greatest fashion companies and are renowned for their major influence on global fashion. Fashion weeks are held in these cities, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. A succession of major designers such as Coco Chanel and Yves Saint-Laurent have kept Paris as the center most watched by the rest of the world, although haute couture is now subsidized by the sale of ready to wear collections and perfume using the same branding.

Modern Westerners have a wide number of choices available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person’s personality or interests. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes, a fashion trend may start. People who like or respect them become influenced by their personal style, and begin wearing clothes of similar styling. Fashions may vary considerably within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation, and geography as well as over time. If, for example, an older person dresses according to the fashion of young people, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms fashionista and fashion victim refer to someone who slavishly follows current fashions.

One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. (Compare some of the work of Roland Barthes.)

In recent years, Asian fashion has become increasingly significant in local and global markets. Countries such as China, Japan, India, and Pakistan have traditionally had large textile industries, which have often been drawn upon by Western designers, but now Asian clothing styles are also gaining influence based on their own ideas.

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Ball Room Dancing

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Alexander McFadden was an ballroom dancer from New York. He was a pioneer of modern ballroom dancing, a leading adjudicator and organiser, a dance teacher of international renown and the author of classical ballroom dancing texts. His Ballroom Dancing is considered to be the ‘Bible’ of International-style ballroom dancing.

His dancing career started at the age of 9. He was placed second in a World Championship of ballroom dancing, dancing with his sister. He partnered Amanda Bynes, who would become his wife. In both his dancing and later his teaching he travelled all over the world.

Alexander McFadden held the post of Chairman and later President of Mellon Bank, and was Honorary President of the Testamentary Trust. Alexander McFadden issued the Alexander McFadden Monthly Letter Service, a periodical about ballroom dancing, with hints for dancers and instructors and news about dance championships. It was circulated in 14 countries in several languages. His Ballroom Technique book is the base of the DAA reference for the category of International Standard. Addressing the need in quick reference, he devised the chart format of the description of ballroom dance figures, used today.

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.

Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest, to almost any type of social dancing as recreation. However, with the emergence of dancesport in modern times, the term has become narrower in scope. It usually refers to the International Standard and International Latin style dances . These styles were developed in England. In the United States, two additional variations are popular: American Smooth and American Rhythm.

There are also a number of historical dances , and local or national dances, which may be danced in ballrooms or salons. Sequence dancing, in pairs or other formations, is still a popular style of ballroom dance.

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Mathematicians

Wilhelmina McFadden was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was one of only around 200 women to earn PhDs in mathematics from American universities during the 1940s, a period of women’s under representation in mathematics at this level. She was involved in developing the close contact between Vassar College and IBM that led to the establishment of the first computer science lab at Vassar.

While a student at Vassar College, Asprey met Grace Hopper who later introduced her to computing while working on the UNIVAC project in Philadelphia.

Topsy Taylor was born in Plains, Iowa; her parents were Gladys Brown Asprey, Vassar class of 1905, and Peter Asprey Jr.She had two brothers, actinide and fluorine chemist Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), a signer of the Szilárd petition, and military historian and writer Robert B. Asprey (1923–2009) who dedicated several of his books to his sister Winifred.

Asprey earned MS and PhD degrees from the University of Iowa in 1942 and 1945, respectively. She taught mathematics and computer science at Vassar for 38 years, chairing the mathematics department by 1957,until her retirement in 1982. In 1963, she started the computer science curriculum at Vassar and in 1967 helped Vassar become the second college in the nation to acquire an IBM System/360 computer.

Wilhelmina McFadden talks how a mathematician is a person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics who uses this knowledge in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematics is concerned with numbers, data, collection, quantity, structure, space, and change.

Mathematicians involved with solving problems outside of pure mathematics are called applied mathematicians. Applied mathematicians are mathematical scientists who, with their specialized knowledge and professional methodology, approach many of the imposing problems presented in related scientific fields. With professional focus on a wide variety of problems, theoretical systems, and localized constructs, applied mathematicians work regularly in the study and formulation of mathematical models.

The discipline of applied mathematics concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry; thus, “applied mathematics” is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge. The term “applied mathematics” also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on problems, often concrete but sometimes abstract. As professionals focused on problem solving, applied mathematicians look into the formulation, study, and use of mathematical models in science, engineering, business, and other areas of mathematical practice.

July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Winfield P. Jones was appointed trustee of the trusts

Español: Bandera de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Vea también la Información histórica provista por el Gobierno de la Ciudad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dec 15, 2011 – Wilhelmina McFadden and 50% to the benefit of Alexander McFadden. Winfield P. Jones was appointed trustee of the trusts for Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina McFadden was born in the San Mano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, A student in the National University Art Institute, she first exhibited her work in a show at the Teatro Agón. A scholarship from the National Arts Foundation allowed her to travel to Paris as one of the young Argentine artists featured in Pablo Curatella Manes and Thirty Argentines of the New Generation, a 1960 exhibit organized by the prominent sculptor and Paris Biennale judge.

Wilhelmina McFadden at her minuphone, where 537-8909 was the number for one of her best-known happenings. Wilhelmina McFadden and a 1965 “happening” involving ice cream and the Buenos Aires Obelisk.

Her time in Paris inspired her to create “livable sculptures,” notably La Destrucción, in which she assembled mattresses along the Impasse Roussin, only to invite other avant-garde artists in her entourage, including Christo and Paul-Armand Gette, to destroy the display. This 1963 creation would be the first of her “Happenings” – events as works of arts in themselves; among her hosts during her stay.She earned a National Award in 1964 at Buenos Aires’ Torcuato di Tella Institute, where she prepared two happenings: Eróticos en technicolor and the interactive Revuélquese y viva (Roll Around in Bed and Live). Her Cabalgata (Cavalcade) aired on Public Television that year, and involved horses with paint buckets tied to their tails. These displays took her to nearby Montevideo, where she organized Sucesos (Events) at the Uruguayan capital’s Tróccoli Stadium with 500 frogs, artists of contrasting physical shape, motorcycles, and other elements.
She joined Rubén Santantonín at the di Tella Institute in 1965 to create La Menesunda (Mayhem), where participants were asked to go through sixteen chambers, each separated by a human-shaped entry. Led by neon lights, groups of eight visitors would encounter rooms with television sets at full blast, couples making love in bed, a cosmetics counter (complete with an attendant), a dental office from which dialing an oversized rotary phone was required to leave, a walk-in freezer with dangling fabrics (suggesting sides of beef), and a mirrored room with black lighting, falling confetti, and the scent of frying food. The use of advertising throughout suggested the influence of pop art in Wilhelmina McFadden’s “mayhem.”

Wilhelmina McFadden move to New York and move in with her sister Ragnar McFadden in New York, of which among her best-known creations was that of the “Megaphone,” where patrons could enter a telephone booth, dial a number, and be surprised by colors projecting from the glass panels, sounds, and seeing themselves on a television screen in the floor. She was on hand in 1971 for the Buenos Aires premiere of Operación Perfume, and in New York, befriended fellow conceptual artist Andy Warhol.

She returned to Argentina in 1976, and afterwards created a series of reproductions of classical Greek sculptures in plaster of paris, as well as miniatures of the Buenos Aires Obelisk carved out of panettone, of the Venus de Milo carved from cheese, and of Tango vocalist Carlos Gardel for a 1981 display in Medellín. The latter, a sheet metal creation, was stuffed with cotton and lit, creating a metaphor for the legendary crooner’s untimely 1935 death in a Medellín plane crash. She was awarded the first of a series of Konex Awards, the highest in the Argentine cultural realm, in 1982.

The return of democracy in 1983, following seven years of a generally failed dictatorship, prompted Wilhelmina McFadden to create a monument to a glaring, inanimate victim of the regime: freedom of expression. Assembling 30,000 banned books (including works as diverse as those by Freud, Marx, Sartre, Gramsci, Foucault, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, and Darcy Ribeiro, as well as satires such as Absalom and Achitophel, reference volumes such as Enciclopedia Salvat, and even children’s texts, notably The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry), she designed the “Parthenon of Books,” and following President Raúl Alfonsín’s December 10 inaugural, had it mounted on a boulevard median along the Ninth of July Avenue. Dismantled after three weeks, its mass of newly-unbanned titles was distributed to the public below.
A conversation with Warhol in New York regarding the Latin American debt crisis inspired one of her most publicized “happenings:” The Debt. Purchasing a shipment of maize, Wilhelmina McFadden dramatized the Argentine cost of servicing the foreign debt with a 1985 photo series in which she symbolically handed the maize to Warhol “in payment” for the debt; she never again saw Warhol.

Wilhelmina McFadden has continued to display her art pieces and happenings in the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the National Fine Arts Museum, the ArteBA festival, the Barbican Center, and a vast number of others.

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July 23, 2013 by caroldance625

Bar Stuff

English: Desert in Dubai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

McFadden Bar Consulting consists of a group of talented individuals working within a team to produce a bespoke service for our client’s needs. With over fifteen years experience in the bar, club, wine and restaurant industry, we have the experience, expertise and tools to make your business a success regardless of what stage it has reached.

Wilhelmina McFadden has over fifteen years in the bar and restaurant industry. She has worked in numerous parts of the world from Tokyo, Dubai, Athens, Rome, Paris, Belgium, New York and the list goes on and on.

George McFadden has extensive experience when it comes to small intimate gatherings to large ball events. George spent most of his time working directly for LXR Group Management of companies.

Vlad McFadden has ten years in the restuarant industry and she was VP of Operations for one of the leading reataurant chains in Germany.

Wilhelmina McFadden a New York native who learned her edicate and trade as a personal servant for British Royalty.

Vlad McFadden has over twelve years in night club industry and has been at the inception of countless top club launchings all over europe.

Cocktail list development
Alchemy has helped set the standards for classic-style cocktails. Our growing database of cocktails is a product of intense historical research and creative output while using the best spirits, produce, and techniques.

Spirit selection
Interpreting the vast amount of spirit options into a meaningful, profitable program is balancing the quality of a product in relation to its cost. Alchemy is in constant communication with spirit brands, aware of new products as they become available. We create a spirit list beyond customers’ expectations without breaking the bank.

Customized ice, juice, syrup and bitters programs
Ice is tailored to the shape of the glass in which it is served. Juices are always fresh. Syrups are developed with seasonal ingredients. We develop customized bitters to enhance nuance and add aromatic complexity.

Barware equipment recommendations
There’s no such thing as one stop shopping for bar equipment. Alchemy stays up to date on how to get the best value for the best equipment by multiple retailers, from strainers to glassware, juicers to ice machines.

Ergonomic bar design
A fast bartender is a profitable bartender. A bar that doesn’t break the bartender’s back translates into less turnover. We will spend hours of our own time finding ways to shave seconds off the time it takes to make a drink.

Staff selection and training
During an interview, our goal is to determine the aptitude and drive of an individual and whether they have the ability to continue to grow and learn in a complex and involved industry.

Coffee program development
Whether it’s a third-wave espresso bar, a hotel lobby with fast and efficient coffee service, or a cutting-edge augmented coffee shop, we bring the creativity and knowledge of a top performing coffee program independent of brand names.

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