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With less than two months left in 2016, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of what the status of the M&A market was like for the year, and we can start to see what may be coming in 2017. In the first nine months of 2016, The Food Institute recorded about 400 mergers, just shy of 2015's full year total of 410.
As I noted previously, the end of the year tends to be a busy time for M&A in the food industry, and can boost full-year totals significantly. Let's take a look at some of the deals in the sector in the past few days to get a sense of what may be coming in the next few weeks.
Foodservice distributor Ben E. Keith Co. acquired MenuMax, a recipe and menu management software company. MenuMax offers a cloud-based recipe and menu management system that assists in organizing and planning menus, calculating food costs and nutrition and maximizing efficiency. Ben E. Keith plans to continue to service its current MenuMax customers, as well as offer and expand the brand and services for all foodservice users.
Private investment firm Highlander Partners LP acquired Hillside Candy. Hillside is a manufacturer and marketer of a broad variety of organic, sugar-free and traditional confection products under the GoOrganic, GoLightly, Pick Your Color and Hillside Sweets brands. Ted Cohen will continue serving as president of Hillside.
As part of a deal to open 50 new restaurants over the next eight years, Parikh Network LLC purchased 18 restaurants from Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. in the Baltimore, MD, and Harrisburg, PA, markets. Parikh Network began in the franchise business in 2006 and now has a portfolio of more than 100 quick service restaurants.
Provisur Technologies, a food processing equipment company, acquired select assets of both BFD Corp. and Netherlands-based AMFE B.V. AMFE produces separation equipment used for beef and pork, while BFD provides all sales, installation and support for AMFE equipment in North America. The activities of BFD and AMFE will be combined under Provisur's Separation Business Unit.
CTB Inc. acquired the Volito Group B.V., a designer and manufacturer of cage-free layer housing systems, with three locations in The Netherlands. Volito's core products include aviary and nest systems for commercial layers, nest systems for layer breeders and rearing systems, as well as egg collection equipment, slats and perches.
Hamra Enterprises purchased 25 Wendy's restaurants in the greater Chicago area. The sale is part of an effort by Wendy's to pass on more of its company-owned restaurants to franchisees. When the deals are complete, Wendy's will own just 5% of its restaurants. This purchase brings Hamra's total number of Wendy's restaurants to 90, reported Chicago Tribune (Nov. 7).
Italy-based Sabelli acquired a 79% stake in mozzarella maker Trevisanalat from private equity fund Alto Partners. The deal makes Sabelli Italy's third-largest mozzarella producer. Trevisanalat generates over 12,000 tons of cheese annually at two facilities, while Sabelli generates 14,000 tons at one factory, reported European Supermarket Magazine (Nov. 8).
Stay tuned for a full review of M&A activity in 2016, with our Food Business Mergers & Acquisitions 2016 report, to be released in March 2017.
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How would you know what purple is best for you?
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Violet's is not only a color but it is that design which brings out the unique feature inside a real human says, Valerie Dinner.
"She also said that she has constantly many times cherished violet and had three purple prom dresses in secondary school.
Valerie says numerous ladies are hesitant to wear violet since they believe it's not a decent shade on them, but rather violet is generally as complimenting as pink, so you should simply find the right purple for you.
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2012: All about the 'fourth' screen?
According to comScore's 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report businesses - and consumers - will look more to the mobile screen in the upcoming year. And that mobile screen won't just be on a smartphone. Tablets and their 'fourth' screen, researchers believe, will lead more people into the mobile space not just to play games or check in on social networks but to read and watch content, view advertising and engage with favorite brands.
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"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee." – Psalm 122:6
Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres sent a letter of thanks to former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for his words of support for Israel's right to exist and empathy with the tragedies of Jewish history.
Castro, in a recent interview with The Atlantic Magazine, said Israel "without a doubt" has the right to exist, and criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Admadinejad for his Holocaust denial, saying Iran should understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism.
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Even the best workshop ideas can get lost in the action. Phoebe Trimingham from Crowd DNA's Socialise team shares thoughts on how 'live copywriting' can be used to spot, enhance and lift them to the surface...
Workshops are a fundamental part of our work at Crowd DNA. They get people talking, thinking and really engaging with cultural insights. We use them at various stages of a project: from aligning teams around trends and topics, to ideating and developing new products and concepts. Whatever the purpose, we root everything (and everyone) in culture from the offset.
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Integrating live copywriting skills is one such exciting addition to a workshop design – and it can really help lift the day's creativity and ideas, as well as enhance the clarity and quality of the final outputs.
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The Russian designer and painter Léon Bakst (1866–1924), born Lev Samuilovich Rozenberg, is more generally known for his luscious costume and set designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes as witness Schéhérazade. When I discovered his magnificent portrait of Rachel Strong, the future Countess Henri de Buazhelen, on Wikimedia, I was entranced and knew I had to sell it on First Night Vintage. What I wouldn't do to be dressed thus — such elegance. If I had the means and the money, I would get gifted photographer James Hall of Just Add Pictures, whose recreations of classics I have enjoyed, to recreate this portrait with me and my dog! I can dream.
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He's very alert and likes to look around...hi everyone! :0)
Meet Baby!
Elliott Keith Worsham was born 02/09/11 - 8lbs 11oz (tho we lost about a 1 lb in hospital - had to do some supplemental feeding for a bit) and was 20.5" long!
He's very alert and likes to look around...hi everyone! :0)
Let it Snow!
Hope everyone had a fun snow week last week! I know I was getting a little cabin fever by the end of the week!
So far, we are still waiting on baby to make his appearance. Today is the due date...I never thought we'd make it this far. I just knew he'd arrive on/around the superbowl! :0)
Still more waiting to do then, I'll be trying to get into my Doctor pretty soon this week to see what he says since my appointment was cancelled last week due to weather.
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Taco Jake's To Host Charity Night Benefitting Heritage League of Siloam Springs
Taco Jake's, Northwest Arkansas' savory taqueria, located in Siloam Springs, will host Charity Night from 5 to 9 p.m. on April 8. Charity Night is an event where a percentage of the night's proceeds will benefit the Heritage League of Siloam Springs.
The Heritage League is a group of locals working to improve the community through projects focused on helping the underprivileged and bettering the quality of life among residents. Taco Jake's will donate 10 percent of the evening's proceeds to the Heritage League which will, in turn, directly benefit the local community.
Organized in 1969, the Heritage League is a group of female volunteers dedicated to serving and improving the community, according to the group's website. The group undertakes projects to help underprivileged individuals with the purpose of eliminating suffering and improving quality of life. For more than 25 years, the Heritage League has raised funds for scholarships which have assisted many students with the costs of higher education.
Taco Jake's is led with the idea that being the best means providing a place where employees can thrive and customers can enjoy delightful, flavorful dishes. The restaurant would like each employee, customer, vendor, shareholder, family member, friend and community member to understand that the Taco Jake's team promises to provide a sustainable, comfortable and enjoyable food experience: from plate to palate.
The Taco Jake's team encourages residents to come and join the fun, eat delicious food and contribute to a great cause. Taco Jake's is located at 403 US-412.


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These crazies are at it again!
Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest Carrie Underwood. http://bit.ly/ZdZ9c6
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Checotah's multi-award-winning country music artist Carrie Underwood is being targeted by members of the Westboro Baptist Church, according to the group's website.
The controversial Topeka, Kan.-based religious group lists plans to protest outside Underwoods sold-out "Blown Away Tour" concert May 1 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., on its schedule.
"WBC will picket faux christian Carrie Underwood at the Sprint Center," according to a posting on the church's website. "This woman claims christianity and at the same time openly supports fag-marriage.
This part is absurd:
The posting continues adding the "christian" woman was seen on "ACM Girls Night Out: Superstar Women of Country performing How Great Thou Art (with adulterer Vince Gill) while scantily clad and exposing her body to millions of people."
It also said she "abuses" her position on stage by "promoting sin and shame."
Do they realize that no one agrees with them or takes them seriously...lol. They are just embarrassing themselves..
Agree. But poor Carrie!
and this was the show she rescheduled due to her illness too. Unreal.
oh the occult baptist freaks... mind them not -_-
LOL. How many times have they tried protesting Carrie? I have no idea what they intend to accomplish, other than to make themselves look like ignorant, bigoted fools.
A circus has less clowns than that "church" does.
Time to use those Two Black Cadillacs and run over those fools.
are you seriously taking a group seriously that protested the Sandy Hook funeral? why even give them publicity on this site? no one actually pays attention to them.
The mayor or someone should kick them out of that city that day! *Disturbance of the Peace*
THese people are not christians they are just crazy people. lol. SHUT THEM DOWN. I think their children should be taken away from them as I would consider it child abuse to teach a child such things.
More press for her sold-out tour!
My prayer "Jesus Take the Wheel in a big black Cadillac" amen.
Didn't they plan on protesting Carrie elsewhere earlier? They always say they're going to protest people and events, but obviously never go to all of them.
This is just good press for Carrie.
Haven't they tried to protest at about 4-5 on Carrie's concerts? and her church?
Always a fail.No one ever pays them any mind.
Ah man.. I was hoping that it would be my show.. I always wanted to say what I feel to these idiots...They only have like 5 members left.. haha.. I don't really know how many but it's not much any more.. Thank goodness...
It's basically one family I think - the parents and their children - I think they should be charged with child abuse carting them around to spew hatred - they are more of a hate cult than anything
Oh, they are def a hate group...no doubt about it..
these people are nuts...period!


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Community gardens, film clubs, and annual monetary awards for teachers — not all schools can afford these kinds of luxuries. But Boston Collegiate Charter School can, thanks to its new Fund for Teaching Excellence, a million-dollar, five-year initiative established in January.
The money was raised as part of the Dorchester school's 2015 "Capacity to Lead" campaign, which also resulted in a $12.7 million construction project that expanded the school's classroom and dining facilities.
The primary goal of the initiative is to inspire teachers to continue working at the school. Dominic Slowey, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, said the fund is the only one of its type in Boston that he is aware of.
"The ethos is that without great teachers, nothing matters," said Shannah Varón, executive director of the school. "We don't want to just fund-raise for our facilities. We want to fund-raise for our teachers."
The money is allocated to three initiatives: annual awards for teachers, funding for innovative teaching ideas, and grants to retain teachers. The budget for fund use is $200,000 per year.
The annual monetary awards are split into three categories. The first will reward teachers for experiential milestones. A teacher who has been at the school for 10 years might get a few thousand dollars, Varón said.
The second is a performance award based on student test scores and teaching prowess. The third is a "core value" award, given to teachers who best exemplify the school's values, including "a culture of deeply knowing" and "authentic communication."
Seven "core value" awards will be given annually, each at a value of $2,000. In order to prevent an overcompetitive teaching culture, teachers will be in charge of the nomination process.
The fund's teaching innovation portion supports experiences and professional development. They must submit an application for their idea. One teacher wants to take a Haitian Creole class at UMass Boston to better understand her Haitian students. Another wants to provide free copies of Michelle Obama's book "Becoming" to the #blackgirlmagic community club.
"I do believe, in all honesty, that if teachers have something to look forward to and share with students, they are more invested and feel more valued in the community," said Bridget Adam, a sixth-grade math teacher on the school's Board of Trustees. "When teachers feel that way, you see it on their face and in how they interact with students."
The final branch of the fund revolves around teacher community and sustainibility. Both Adam and Varón said it can be difficult to be a Boston Collegiate teacher — with long days, the unpaid curriculum planning time, and worrying about each of their students.
Making the job sustainable means something different for every teacher, Adam said. Some teachers want to get out of work earlier. Others want to come in later, so they can drop off their own children at school. Some just request compensation for their summer curriculum planning. And others simply want free coffee in the teachers' lounge.
"Whether this is going to be the thing that keeps teachers at our school is still unknown," Adam said. "The hope is that if it can get one or two teachers to say 'The school has invested in me' and kept them at our school, then it has been successful."
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A lot of your kerb appeal depends on you outdoor lighting. Your beautiful garden and landscaping look sensational during the day, could you let it go and disappear into the dark after the sun goes down? More than illumination, outdoor lighting also helps prevent accidents and secure your property. Dress up your front yard and gardens with these awesome outdoor lighting ideas and designs to attract your next booking.
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Every home should install some motion sensor lights for lighting and security. These overhead solar lighting won't add up your electric bill. A couple strategically installed in your front and back yards are enough to provide powerful lighting and sensitive sensors.
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These sleek and modern stainless steel post lamps will add a classy touch to your driveways, pathways and walkways. The clear lens enables optimum lighting and chic finish.
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A New Approach to Serving MA Survivors of Domestic Violence
GREENFIELD, Mass. — Massachusetts is trying a new approach to help survivors of domestic violence at risk of homelessness. Five state agencies and the nonprofit Full Frame Initiative are developing a system to better assess survivors' needs when they seek emergency shelter.
Founder and CEO of Full Frame Initiative, Katya Smyth, explained people facing both domestic violence and homelessness often have to make trade-offs to get social services. For example, a woman might find a shelter, but not in her county. Smyth said the result can be unintended consequences, like disrupting her children's lives and making them change schools.
"Often, social service programs are just trying to help people deal with the trade-offs that have been created by another intervention," Smyth said.
To minimize those trade-offs, the pilot program will look not only at housing and safety needs, but other parts of a survivor's life. The collaborators are developing a new intake form that includes a person's social connections, strengths and access to resources. They'll also work with domestic-violence survivors for up to eight weeks to help them get housing and plan for immediate and long-term goals.
The pilot program is based on the Full Frame Initiative's five aspects of well-being: social connectedness, stability, safety, mastery, and meaningful access to relevant resources. Smyth explained that new housing may not be the first step for some people fleeing domestic violence. Instead, she said, social services could help them focus on developing their strengths.
"The trajectory for many, many people were shifts in their lives - more access to belonging and social connectedness, more of a sense of mastery - that helped them experience things outside of a relationship, and that created space for them to either leave or shift that relationship," she said.
The collaboration will work with the YWCA in Worcester County and the Center for Human Development in Berkshire, Franklin, and Hampshire counties to implement the pilot program. It's being developed this spring and should launch this summer.


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I was asked by one of the readers of the blog, to come on his radio show he does on Sunday nights at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
I agreed, so for those who may be interested and up late on Sunday night the link is below and his channel is 17.
It will be everything about the Ukraine, WHO, Vaccines and all that this blog has been about and some other things I want to bring up in what is happening.
He thought it might be a good idea to let people know, I had not even thought about putting it up on the blog - but he suggested it - so here it is. Warning - I am no expert on anything - I am simply a person who searches for what the Truth is!
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Watch the spinechilling trailer for Hereditary '2018's scariest film'
PUBLISHED: 10:42 02 February 2018 | UPDATED: 10:42 02 February 2018
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Critics at the Sundance festival called Hereditary 'the scariest horror movie in years' and this trailer certainly isn't for the faint-hearted. With a creepy child at its dark heart, we look at the scariest children's TV shows while we wait for the film's release date.
Creepy horror Hereditary has been hailed one of the scariest films ever after it left critics terrified at the Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Muriel's Wedding star Toni Collette as grief-stricken mother Annie Graham, Hereditary follows the nightmares that afflict a family after the death of Annie's mother, Ellen who doesn't, it must be said, exactly rest in peace.
Hollywood Reporter called the film "arguable the most effective domestic horror chiller since The Conjuring and The Babadook, there are nods to Rosemary's Baby, The Shining and The Miniaturist, the latter involving amazing miniature houses and figures made by Collette's character. Gabriel Byrne is Annie's husband Steve and there's stoner teenager Peter (Alex Wolff) and creepy 13-year-old Charlie (Milly Shapiro) who likes to draw angry things in notebooks and to decapitate pigeons. Isn't it embarrassing when your kids decapitate wildlife in public places? Nightmare.
We have to wait until the end of June until we can watch creepy and possessed children in Hereditary, but if you want to watch creepy children's TV programmes to get you in the mood (why wouldn't you want to?) might we suggest you track down old episodes of Doctor Who, The Boy from Space, The Children of Green Knowe, Escape Into Night, Moondial, The Tripods, Haunters of the Deep, The Demon Headmaster, The Legend of Tim Tyler, The Changes before heading to the suggestions below.
And after you've watched the Hereditary trailer and Jigsaw, answer me this: is a demonic grandmother with a grudge operating from Satan's netherworld really as terrifying as Noseybonk? Don't have nightmares.
Eight of the most terrifying children's programmes
1) Children of the Stones: If you prefer your children's teatime dramas to have a petrifying Wicker Man vibe to them, this is the show for you. Even the opening credits are terrifying with the kind of wailing, sinister choral singing you'd expect to hear in a cave at a Satanic ritual. Professor Brake and son Matthew arrive in Milbury and quickly discover that nearly all the villagers are acting strangely, calling themselves 'the Happy Ones' breaking into spontaneous Morris dancing and finding fun in solving eye-wateringly difficult mathematical problems. It turns out that local squire Rafael Hendrick is using the power of the local stone circle to brainwash villagers and when Brake and Matthew manage to hoodwink Hendrick into using the power on himself, everyone turns to stone. But it's OK, because in Groundhog Day style, the next day a time loop kicks in and it all begins again. Phew.
2) Worzel Gummidge: As a child, it took me a while to realise that Gummidge was a scarecrow and not a magical, haunted itinerant with three interchangeable swede, turnip or mangel wurzel heads, a family of mice living in his chest cavity, an obsessive compulsion to eat cake and a macabre fascination with a shop dummy. I remember him dealing with a scarecrow rival by throwing him off a bridge into the path of a moving train and having a slightly disturbing catchphrase: "I'll be bum-swizzled". I have never taken walks in the countryside for granted since.
3) The Singing Ringing Tree: My friend Sally remains terrified by this East German 'fairytale' to this day and her fear prompted me to seek out a copy, which I binge-watched in a regrettable afternoon that still colours my nightmares – I was an adult, I can only begin to imagine how horrific this would have been had I been a child. The story begins with a beautiful but horrid princess rejecting a handsome prince unless he can bring her the magical singing, ringing tree which lies in an enchanted land and is guarded by a particularly malignant dwarf. The dwarf promptly turns the prince into a hideous bear from which point on, everyone in the show is either terrifyingly ugly, insane or a possessed dwarf – even better, it's all filmed in the kind of garish technicolour that makes you wish you could only see in black and white. One to watch with your children. If you hate them.
4) Jigsaw: Specifically, Mr Noseybonk, the demonic creation of a feverish imagination who not only looked like Ronald McDonald kicked through Cyrano de Bergerac but also forced children to endure mathematics by stealth. Played by mime artist Adrian Headley, Mr Noseybonk wore a dinner jacket and a deathmask with a phallus nose as he crept around silently solving logic puzzles and quizzes. It can be no coincidence that the Saw films featured a hideous puppet called Jigsaw who resembled a nasally-castrated Mr Noseybonk and who forced people to solve logic puzzles. Jigsaw, however, was more upfront: he told you that you'd die if you failed, while Mr Noseybonk waited until you fell asleep and then crept out from under your bed to slice you from ear-to-ear. I imagine.
5) Through the Dragon's Eye: If you want to help school children learn how to read, it makes sense to call upon the services of a TV character who can inspire and inform them. Enter Charn, a skeletal bird wizard whose dusty guts fell from his exposed ribcage and whose party piece was to shoot lightning from his knife claws and turn people into pools of bubbling human slime. I don't know about you, but now I'm REALLY ready to learn about silent letters and vowels!
6) Chocky: With an opening sequence that looked like a Pink Floyd album cover set to a reverbed scream, Chocky was based on a John Wyndham novel which sees an alien travelling to earth and infiltrating the mind of a 12-year-old boy, Matthew, to glean information about Earth before a possible takeover bid. Matthew's parents seem blithely unconcerned about their son's 'imaginary friend' (at 12?) but when they realise he's started talking in binary numbers, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything and is telepathic, they start taking notice. At this point it all goes a bit Men in Black as the government get involved. The ending doesn't end the bed-wetting nightmares either, as Chocky reveals that in future he'll try harder to stay undercover. Reassuring.
7) Pipkins: The show started in 1973 as Inigo Pipkin, the story of an elderly puppet maker and his (creepy) creations but the actor who played Pipkin died during filming of the second series, a fact that was cheerfully built into the show which became known as simply 'Pipkins'. There are scenes in Stephen King's Pet Semetary where a dead cat is buried on the site of an ancient burial ground once used by Micmac Indians and miraculously comes back to life, albeit smelling like death, behaving like a psychopath and looking decidedly part-worn: I can only imagine King had seen Hartley Hare. Like a feral carpet, Hartley also boasted the voice of a neighbourhood sex predator.
8) The Box of Delights: Magical, beautiful, probably the most Christmassy children's drama ever made, but…mysterious things lurking in the woods, a title sequence featuring a demonic Punch and Judy puppet, un-Godly vicars and a tramp beckoning you to open his 'magic box' – you had to be made of stern stuff not to watch at least part of this John Masefield-penned classic from behind a cushion.
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Não é de hoje que o combo da Macedônia, Undone, vem perpetuando trilhas sonoras psiquicamente eloquentes entorpecendo tanto seus ouvintes mais fiéis como novatos com a banda.
A mais nova viagem do Undone, atende pelo nome de "Everything Is New Under The Sun". O disco veio ao mundo no início de Junho, e segue as diretrizes dos trabalhos anteriores, psych em sua essência, com elementos de blues, prog, gaze, psicodelismo sessentista, sob uma aura melancólica e densa.
Um pesadelo desacelerado onde no fim sempre a luz poderá estar presente, depende muito do ângulo de visão.
"Everything Is New Under The Sun", é um dos grandes representantes do psych moderno lançados no ano e a banda, revela ao TBTCI, todos os segredos e mistérios desta odisseia.
Boa viagem....
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*** Undone, "Everything Is New Under The Sun" - Track by Track ***1. Look Around You Of course none of us in the band is immune to or is above the confusion, the sadness or the weird anxiety these strange days on earth bring, so we tuned into finding ways of expressing this rainbow of feelings truthfully and at the same time no complaining or causing anymore confusion... We didn't work on it for like 5 years but the level of concentration was high - to do just, and exactly what we want to do. When we listened to the finished songs, their order came effortlessly. 3 song groups appeared and it was natural to start with 'the present', open the eyes, and Look around. It's a long song, not your typical single or a classical album opener, but this time, here, it was. '…Sun up sun down/ Just as real as you want it to be…Go and take what's yours/Help yourself - you will be shown…' say - it is our Right to Look, to explore.. Are the robots really coming? Maybe they (us?) are actually going.. Look around you..See what happened to our world.. This feeling… - when you Lift your eyes from the screen, ("It's easy if you Try"…) lift your mind from 'the facts' ("it isn't hard to do") Understand what is going on.. see where you are, where humanity is.. Lennon said it's easy, if you Try.. it seems not enough of us tried.. This song suggests that the very action of looking around might be more helpful than we can imagine. Sometimes a song takes you where it wants to go, sometimes you got to take it. In this case, we took it to a certain point, and then..it took us.. Showed us around itself..Generously.. Insisting.. We were laughing so much when working on it that it might want to be 20 minutes this song. The longest song we ever did, we said it's '8:30min feels like 20'..
2. You And Me Both This tune was born after visiting the amazing pagan Carnival of Vevcani. The powerful marching masks and costumes parade inspired the feel and rhythm of this song. Visiting the carnival was particularly special these days, when the monsters express the reality so powerfully. The tradition of expelling the demons of the past before continuing into a new period seems truer than ever. And it makes you think, those radical bloody customs look so much like the world's reality in a way, that it is almost like we will have to expel reality if we want change. There is something loopy about the song; walking in circles of time, never realizing it. One might be like the cow that crossed the city and when asked what she saw, all she could tell was where there was hay. 'Waited for the answers to fall down from the tree' is about patience, but at the same time it's about doing what you want, not waiting for someone to do it for you. Love came also here, asking for everything which we seem to be on a diet from.. being real. In time, in space, in love… ('don't talk about us.. just hold me..').. feel more..talk less..
3. The Strong Song
Ronit is in bed with a devilish virus not getting better for 10 days.. Inspiration comes out of nowhere seeing her die.. so she tells the devil - her capturer, that she needs to use the toilet, and with her remaining energy finds her way to the guitar… The strong song (and Harmony Bomb) - twins, were born. Their birth released ronit from sickness. Ronit had very high temperature but could swear she saw Syd Barrett waving from the window. The name was immediately The Strong Song..The song about not giving up.. The lyrics, which came later, are about desperately trying to wake someone up, to warn from the approaching danger, loved ones who cannot but give up.. friends in stress and despair. '…Open a window/Open the door/I don't mean to find you/Dead on the floor…"
4. Oh Friend! Using the phone sound moments for the 3 'commercials' came naturally, a large part of the original ideas were first captured on the voice recorder of the phone. It was an interesting experience and even led to the idea of making an album this way one day, very open improvisation with given sounds from our lives. Darko and Ronit chose about 30 sound moments Ronit recorded on her phone whenever she heard a sound she liked (not pre planned) during the months of recording the album in different situations. They decided to improvise with the given sounds, just to put the sound ingredients and prepare something as lovely as possible with them. The commercials almost 'made themselves'.. Oh Friend which was for first commercial, following the 'present' and starting the 'past', emphasizing the significance of being here for each other in this bizarre period.. Representing the divine aspect of friendship – one of the main issues of this album, as Shams is to Rumi... Always with you… an inspiring friend, who helps you meet yourself…
5. Harmony Bomb
Harmony Bomb is the twin of The Strong Song, but it is opening the 'past' part of the album. It's called Harmony Bomb because it was like dropping a harmony bomb on the virus bed. The lyrics came later… about losing touch.. about a haunting absence.. emptiness a life leaves behind.. if in the Strong Song there was a cry out for a friend, in this one, it was too late.. … "I wish I'd known to help you.. I wish I'd known what to do…". Accepting that sometimes we can be there for someone and sometimes we cannot and vice versa the wish someone will be here for you.
6. Pardon My French
A unique 4 weeks practice provoked a strong experience of something which can be described as a total Nirvana which side by side with being exposed to a precious melodic secret were how this song and the whole album were conceived. It first had a repeating singing chorus (which we later deleted) in the second part of the song with one of the lines being the first name of the song - 'don't fight with words'.. it carried an idea which became a main direction in the work on the album – talk less, feel more. It is about a beautiful communication without words, communications where words are indeed not welcomed. It's about the experience of expansion made by love. A kind of stretch only love can do to the horizon of the mind, the heart... And, that if you try to force understanding it, it will hide..The verses talk about the difficulty in letting go of the words, and the talking which follows in English and then Hebrew are a love letter in the first part about various kinds of gravitation, then finally, describing how it felt.. to let go.. it talks about things which words are too wordi to describe. It expresses the feeling that words are too much and not enough. It was a focus from the beginning of work on the album, that words are not the weapon or an enemy, and that sometimes they just get in the way... at the same time there was something French about this song.. at least from a non-French point of view, the slow sensual tune was as French as we get..
7. All alone
Like in many of the songs, a private story and a global story meet. His heart is broken because him and his girlfriend are breaking up, and at the same time humanity, is separating from earth.. lost interest.. when you see everyone with their phones, especially in different situations, even like a rock concert, where people were enjoying and sharing a special togetherness, it's not like this anymore when everyone is in fact Alone with their phone, down-up-loading their lives to the machine.. Even if not aware of it.. You think about the billions holding their phone as a part of their body, you think humanity and earth are going through a divorce. And don't get us wrong..We all have phones we all use them.... but still.. Everyone can feel..That it's like everyone left.. Like it's a processes of not being here anymore.. When Edi came up with the drums we were smiling as it spiced it with a new spice which also made it slightly less sad and melancholic. There is something in this song which is catchy, we and friends who heard it easily connected to yet from a from a production point of view it is not developed as the rest, but, each time we spoke about the possibility of upgrading, we always felt 'no, it is exactly how it should be'. Vlatche, the keyboardist is currently working on a remix for this song which will be on a project in progress of different artists remixing Undone songs.
8. Oh Wind!
In this second commercial break, between the past and the future, a fresh start, let the wind take what you don't need.. let the wind bring change. Let the wind forgive…While recording an idea for the line in harmony bomb, the crow was crowing next to the window.. the streets of Berlin in the last new year eve.. the robot saying 'radio' in different languages and so on were merged into Oh wind, asking for the heaviness of a memory to be swept by the wind.. the carpet can't fly with a huge safe full of info on it.. let the wind move us where we need to go.
9. Future Is Good
Future is good, whether we like it or not..future is good whether we are gonna be around or not.. if this time around humanity is at 'terrible twos' period we have a long way to go.. What's people's part in it? We can make the future good, if we recognize that we can make the future good J The present has the ingredients for the future, what are we gonna do? Mentally overweight..How r we gonna make it to the future.. Do you Have to eat trump everyday? If that is the only thing there is in the supermarket, can you be creative about what you might make from it? Can you 'shop' somewhere else? Can you fast one day? Maybe you can eat some music, art, eat love, eat help.. It doesn't mean you don't care.. It is actually Doing something. you help take a step above the duality, above war.. its not all just about choosing one side or the other, this is ok for good robots.. the evil thinks it is goodness also.. But maybe there are more options.. like rising above the Good and Evil thing makes the way to Future is good…you need to know how to cook for yourself, mentally, even more important than physical food… the lyrics and basic melody Did come from another dimension, where it was clear that humanity has tremendous capacity for love and harmony. Believing in it,is like a torch.. Yoram Gur who was with Ronit in Plastic Venus added the beautiful oriental-space guitar and the electronic tanpura always finds its way to scarf one of the songs in each album.
10. Tomorrow
In the verses there is concern of the morrow. Is it coming? Is anyone gonna Know? It wasn't planned, but it communicates with Tomorrow Never Knows and the vast openness it offered, which might not be available for us anymore, (in fact it Is.. but a huge part of the time just doesn't feel like it anymore) nowadays there is sometimes a feeling that the future is 'done'.. That there is no more an option to "Turn off..Relax..And float down stream.." at the same time in the choruses, a new hope rises. Knowing that there is in fact the possibility of living more fully, of Being, that we don't Have to be manipulated, that life is still beautiful…a reminder that the world didn't end after all…
11. Questions to Answers
Questioning and pondering deeply on the constantly increasing flood of 'answers and facts' falling at our being..'Search and find/Go in deep/Inside big mind…No one knows what is going to be/We're not blind but it's impossible to see…' Is it really like this? Why is it like this?? We loved how Andrey - Ronit and Darko's son sang here - an experience which we would like to repeat in future songs.. We also Loved the first version of this song but felt it too rocky for this album, and so enjoyed remixing it... We were laughing a lot on the last part where the children's voices and funkadelic guitars Fillip added in the last moment come in, that that whole part is like an end of a concert where many bands played at, and members from all the bands go on stage and sing and play together… Last song of the future part of the album..Kissing the present on the back of neck...
12. Oh Light!To see clearly.. we need an inner flashlight… 'Oh light' bears a wish to be guided, to be shown the way, to remain on the path you choose to take..focus.. Mainly home sounds, the door bells, the dog, the first recording of the monochord Darko made, echoes in an hammam in the old bazaar…and more. Light that can reveal to us what we need to see.


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30 Sep 2013
Gilles Brière
Chief of Mission Support
Mr. Gilles Brière initially trained and graduated in 1976 as a Technician in Instrumentation and Control from the General and Professional College Ahuntsic in Montreal. He further completed an Engineer Degree graduating in 1990 in the field of Engineering Management from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
Before joining the United Nations in 1994, Mr. Brière completed 21 years of service in the Canadian Army. During his military career, Mr. Brière served in a wide variety of command, staff and operational appointments in Canada and overseas. His assignments included two tours of duty with the UN, firstly in Cyprus with UNFICYP from March to October 1983 and secondly in Cambodia with UNAMIC and UNTAC from December 2001 to August 2003 as a Logistic Operations Officer, Deputy Senior Logistic Officer and Deputy Commanding Officer of the Logistic Battalion.
Mr. Brière left the Canadian Army in August 1994 and immediately joined the United Nations. He initially deployed to UNOSOM in Somalia for a short period and then joined UNAMIR in Rwanda where he served until October 1996 as the Chief Contract Management Section. Mr. Brière was responsible for the management of all the major Mission contracts which comprised a LOGCAP contract for the provision of all logistical support to the Mission, rations, catering and PX Contracts. During this period, Mr. Brière spent the last six months in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was part of the Mission's liquidation team. Afterwards, Mr. Brière joined UNAVEM III in Angola as Chief Contract Management Section until March 2000, where he managed the same contracts as in UNAMIR as well as a de-mining contract. Mr. Brière was then reassigned to Logistics Support Division in New York as a Desk Officer in Supply Section responsible for all supply matters of several Missions until September 2001. During this period he participated in several technical assessment and assistance missions to Angola, Sierra Leone, East Timor and DR Congo. In September 2001, Mr. Brière joined MONUC as Chief Contracts Management Section responsible for the Mission's major logistical and support contracts until November 2003. Mr. Brière was then promoted to P5 and reassigned as Chief Supply Section, a post he held until July 2007. He was then promoted to D 1 and became Chief Integrated Support Services with direct responsibility for all the Mission's technical support services. Mr. Brière was then assigned to MINURCAT in Chad on 13 March 2009 as the Deputy DMS assisting MINURCAT in the transition from EUFOR to a full fledge PKO Mission. Shortly after a terrible earthquake struck Haiti, Mr. Brière was then asked on 19 March 2010 to deploy as the Chief Mission Support (CMS) of MINUSTAH. On 19 July 2011, Mr. Brière was then reassigned in Abyei, Sudan, as the CMS of UNISFA to start up this new complex Mission. Mr. Brière has joined UNMIK on 24 May 2013 as the CMS of the Mission where he brings his wealth of experience.
Mr. Brière hobbies are stamp collecting, fishing and travelling to the most beautiful places in the world. Mr. Brière was also a paratrooper in the Military and he also enjoys sky-diving in the civilian. Mr. Brière is a Professional Engineer member of the Quebec Engineer Association. On 24 May 2003, Mr. Brière received one of the five prestigious awards given annually by the Canadian Counsel of Engineers representing all Engineers in Canada in reconnaissance for the excellent work he has accomplished in Logistic in support of Peacekeeping operations.


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#4451 - c. 1908 White Irish Crochet High-Necked Gown! Amazingly Tall!!! So rare to find an amazon woman from this era! However, this gown is an incredible 66" long from shoulder to hem in front, and 72" long in back! Now... just to make a point.. I'm only 62" tall ... including my head! :) Back closes with tiny crochet buttons. Desirable high neck. Princess shape and vertical lines in the design... sweeping out to a short train with lovely swag decorative motif all around bottom. Detailing at mid upper arm, and crochet drops at mid-bust. All you need is a slip under! Measures: 34-38" bust, up to 29" waist, up to 34-42" hips (though the wider hips will make this shorter). Excellent, near mint condition .. nearly as new! I see a couple leg breaks in one sleeve, but that's it! Easy to fix with a few stitches.
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So my grandma just came yesterday to visit from overseas. I don't really see her often at all, and we're not super close because of the distance. Anyway, we're chilling in the living room, and she just asked me what my bra size was because my boobs are small. I'm wearing a pinny (like a lacrosse pinny) with a bandeau top (not bra, really) underneath. Yeah grandma, I'm 22, I sure as hell already know that I have small boobs (I'm 32A) and have had small boobs since I was like 12. This is not news. At all.
Then she was like, "You know there are push-up bras that help, right? They would look good when you're wearing a dress or going out!" Um, again grandma...I KNOW. I'm 22. I know what a push-up bra is, and I have some. But I fucking hate bras, so no, I'm not going to wear a push up bra under my pinny right now because FUCK THAT.
I responded that I don't really wear bras and like my small boobs. I told her that if I'm wearing a formal dress, yeah, I might wear a push-up bra for it but that I don't go to formal events often, so no need for a push-up.
And she said this all in a "I-mean-well" kind of way. But you know what? I'm too old to give a shit about my small boobs not being ideal. Actually, I really love having small boobs because it just fits me and the clothes I wear. Plus, I hate wearing bras. I don't wear a bra to work, ever, under my scrubs. I can get away with it!
If I was, like, 16...what she said would've probably really hurt me. But nope, like I said, I'm so over this "small boobs must be enhanced with push-up bras" thing and her comments just made me roll my eyes. I don't even care. I'mma do me, grandma. You do you!


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Uniqueness is the selling point of a soft-branded property, but it also can create challenges when it comes to budget.
When the first-ever soft brand was introduced, it changed the landscape of the hotel business. Hoteliers were no longer forced to choose between going it entirely alone as an independent property or following strict brand standards. What developed was a category that provides hoteliers an opportunity for increased amenity flexibility and design creativity.
Soft branding has become a successful alliance between the major franchising companies, who now get increased product distribution with autonomy-minded hoteliers who still obtain many big-brand benefits without those rigorous rules.
Overall, most hotel developers enjoy the financial opportunities afforded by soft brands. However keeping within the budget while maximizing style requires paying close attention to the design and construction process.
Here are some tips to make these projects successful:
Soft-branded hotels provide plenty of opportunity for a developer to leave a personal mark on a hotel. Reinvention of an existing property such as an older, exterior-corridor hotel or an asset that might not fall within the typical style room layout can be viable options. We are presently updating a hotel damaged during a hurricane. This could be the perfect opportunity for the ownership to create something distinct within the free parameters of a soft brand, rather than the more "plug-and-play" nature of a traditional flag.
However, with soft brand parameters being a bit more open-minded, budgets can be more susceptible to being challenged. The custom nature of the project provides the ability to be more creative, but this added creativity can also impact budget guidelines. It is important to create a budget and have all of the stakeholders buy into it. This can mean a longer design process than a prototypical off-the-shelf design package.
Know your market
Be sure to inherently understand the customer mix for that market. Creating an amazing looking soft-branded hotel is wonderful, but if it's too upscale for clientele, you're simply spending money with no ROI.
Purchaser power
Engage a purchasing partner in concert with the design team. They are an important part in controlling FF&E costs. Including them as part of the design process and leveraging their ability to reach out to manufacturers for rough order-of-magnitude pricing during this period provides great value.
A procurement team will help value engineer products by providing cost-effective alternatives. Examples might include less expensive woods or fabrics or the use of other material such as aluminum that maintains the look and feel of the product while lowering the overall price.
This extra effort on the front end minimizes the reselection process at order time, an extra effort which requires significant time to be spent by all of the team members and can ultimately delay a project start.
Be distinct
Soft-branded hotel design means adding amenities that the more independent-minded guest craves. Consider using LVT flooring rather than carpeting. It's more contemporary in style and takes less time to maintain and clean than carpeting. Select a larger, oversized TV that becomes a distinct selling point for the room and finish it off with custom fabrics if the budget allows. In aggregate, these elements help push ADR ahead of your competitive set.
Add a contingency
Earmark contingency. If buying goods from China, you will need to compensate for recently introduced tariffs that may or may not be in effect. The added tariff can add 15% to 25% of the FF&E cost.
Implement the unexpected
Use an unconventional element such as creative room signage. Rather than a typical room number, consider painting large numbers on the door, or use a lighting element to display the room number. This creates a very cost-effective but strong design element. Also, settle on a signature design element for public spaces highlighting the hotel's unique identity. This creates a psychological shortcut for guests to know what the hotel is all about, while creating an emotional connection with them.
In all, soft brands provide hotel developers and owners with opportunity to create something distinct that's reflective not only of the property's location, but one that represents them as individuals.
Stephen Siegel is principal of H-CPM (Hospitality CPM) and a proven professional in the areas of design, engineering, contractor negotiation and project management for new construction and renovation projects. He earned both a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Construction Management from the University of Florida.
The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Hotel News Now or its parent company, STR and its affiliated companies. Columnists published on this site are given the freedom to express views that might be controversial, but our goal is to provoke thought and constructive discussion within our reader community. Please feel free to comment or contact an editor with any questions or concerns.


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Sources: Hoosick Falls cop's leave may be connected to escapee
April 25, 2019 07:37 PM
First on 13, a police officer from the Hoosick Falls Police Department is on administrative leave and sources say it may be connected to the escape of Justin Faatz.
Reporter Jill Konopka spoke to that officer on Thursday, who confirms he was placed on leave Wednesday, but would not say why. When NewsChannel 13 called the police station, we were told that officer will be out all week.
You may remember Justin Faatz escaped police custody in Hoosick Falls last month, walking right out the front door of the police station which also serves as the village's municipal building. Faatz still had a handcuff attached to his wrist, prompting many to ask how this happened.
Faatz died less than a week later, after his body was found at an apartment in Athol, Massachusetts. Authorities said then they believed he overdosed on drugs.
Both the police chief and mayor have told NewsChannel 13 they cannot comment on personnel matters -- and the incident is still under investigation.
NewsChannel 13 asked for video of the incident in question. Our request was denied due to the ongoing police investigation and village officials say releasing it would reveal criminal investigative techniques or procedures.
The chief said before he accepts full responsibility for what happened.
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Updated: April 25, 2019 07:37 PM
Created: April 25, 2019 04:35 PM
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