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Stone Point Capital opens new fund
Stone Point Capital, a financial services-focused private equity firm, announced the start of the investment period for its sixth private equity fund, Trident VI, with total capital commitments of $4.5 billion.
Trident VI is the successor to Trident V, a $3.6 billion private equity fund formed in 2010, according to the Greenwich firm.
Stone Point held the final closing of Trident VI earlier this year with strong support from existing investors and first-time commitments from a number of leading institutional investors.
"We are pleased to announce the start of the investment period of Trident VI," CEO Chuck Davis said in a statement. "Trident VI will continue the proactive investment sourcing strategy that the Trident Funds have executed and developed over many years. We believe our team's industry expertise and relationships will provide a strong competitive advantage as we work to identify investments in the financial services industry and enhance the value of our portfolio companies."
Debevoise & Plimpton of New York City acted as legal counsel for Trident VI.
"We believe that our focus on the financial services sector, our long-term track record and our flexible and entrepreneurial investment approach position Stone Point Capital to attract talented management teams and to work in active partnership with them to create value for our investors," Jim Carey, a senior principal, said in the statement.
Stone Point has raised six private equity funds -- the Trident Funds -- with aggregate committed capital of about $13 billion. In addition to the capital invested by the Trident Funds, the firm has secured about $7 billion of equity co-investments since 2001.
The company targets investments in the global financial services industry, including investments in companies that provide outsourced services to financial institutions, banks and depository institutions, asset management firms, insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance distribution and other insurance-related businesses, specialty lending and other credit opportunities, mortgage services companies and employee benefits and health care companies.


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Jim Mizes was promoted to president and chief executive officer of Club One. Mizes joined the San Francisco-based company three years ago as chief operating officer.
Curves International promoted its senior vice president of marketing, Mike Raymond, to president. In his new role, Raymond will report to company CEO and founder, Gary Heavin. The position of president has been vacant since the retirement of former President Gary Findley in late 2004.
Lady of America Franchise Corp. named Gerald Weber as its president and chief executive officer last month. The position had been filled on an interim basis by Jeff Silverman since Lady of America's founder, Roger Wittenberns, retired in January 2005.
Ginger Collins, former Gold's Gym franchisee, was elected the first executive director of the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association. She will oversee all membership activities.
LA Workout in Camarillo, CA, has appointed Michael Sanciprian as a partner. He has 15 years of experience in the industry working for companies such as Jack LaLane, Family Fitness and other chains.
Almaden Valley Athletic Club (AVAC) in San Jose, CA, was honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals last month with a Distinguished Fundraiser Award. Since 2003, AVAC's Celebration of Life fundraising initiative has raised more than $40,000 for Santa Clara County's Hospice of the Valley.
MembersFirst Inc. appointed John Blake as president and chief executive officer. Blake succeeded Tony Baudanza, the founder and current CEO, who assumed the title and position of chairman. Blake most recently served as MembersFirst's chief operating officer.
Conexion appointed Dick Mitchell as vice president of sales and marketing. Mitchell, an industry veteran in club management software development, will draw on his experience to extend the Conexion brand.
SCIFIT Systems, Inc. named Corey Disler its new vice president of sales. Disler has been with SCIFIT for 13 years, has 20 years experience in the fitness industry and is an industry expert on equipment accessibility.
The third annual American Family Fitness 10K Run/5K Walk raised more than $32,000 in October and involved nearly 1,000 participants. Including this year's gift, American Family Fitness, Richmond, VA's largest privately held fitness center, has raised nearly $110,000 for Children's Hospital since 1997. Proceeds will benefit the pediatric dental program at Children's Hospital.
The Association for Pool & Spa Professionals™ and The National Swimming Pool Foundation® signed an agreement to expand cooperation between the two organizations to better encourage healthier living through aquatic education and research.
Brad Cardinal, Oregon State University (OSU) associate professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences earned an OSU professor recognition as Health Educator of the Year from the Oregon Association for Health Education. Cardinal specializes in the psycho-social perspective of physical activity. Cardinal is also president of the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and associate editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
The Georgia Institute of Technology Campus Recreation Center (CRC) earned a 2005 National Design-Build Award in the Design-Build Rehabilitation/Renovation/Restoration category given by the Design-Build Institute of America. Hastings & Chivetta was Skanska USA Building Inc. design-build partner on the project. The team expanded Georgia Tech's existing athletic center to include 273,000 square feet of new construction and 210,000 square feet of renovated space. The school's expanded CRC opened in 2004.
The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association launched ActiveCareers (www.activecareers.com). Sponsored exclusively by CheckFree, the Web site was designed with both job seekers and fitness industry employers in mind.
YogaFit has selected Mad Dogg Athletics to manage the marketing and implementation of instructor certification in all non-U.S. markets.
New York Sports Clubs is helping its members get ready for the ski season with two new programs — SkiReady and SkiFit. SkiFit is a free, six-week, trainer-supervised, self-guided program that allows members to work on the fitness components of skiing, and SkiReady guides participants through eight to 10 lower body and core strengthening exercises in a timed circuit format.
XTREME Performance announced its role as the Official Nutritional Sponsor of the Aurora Cavalry, a member of the new professional International Basketball League. Through the agreement, XTREME Performance will provide a financial sponsorship, a product sponsorship and nutritional education to support the players and coaches of the Aurora Cavalry.

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migya wrote:There's only a couple of PGs on that list that I wouldn't take right now, as the team needs a PG badly. I want Felton above everyone else, but many of them would fit in well and be able to distribute the ball to the many shooters on the team
I don't think it would be wise to trade for a PG at this point in the season. We are already jumbled up as is, and we haven't been healthy enough to really inspect our talent.
I would have liked getting Felton earlier in the year, say with the Harrington trade, but not now. just thought I'd throw that article up for anyone who was interested.


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I am always up for something different, a challenge if you will, on a Sunday. I have more time than any weekday prior, and I am a rejuvenated version of myself from the Saturday off. I have time to search out unique ingredients, slow roast meat, patiently babysit the evening's dinner, and do something a little extraordinary. We always open a bottle of wine, watch a movie or the HBO series de jour and enjoy a celebration of the wonderful weekend.
I love Korean food so when my husband and I saw this recipe in the New York Times from Momofuku in NYC, I was intrigued. Essentially, Bo Ssam is a slow roasted pig that is then served with many accompaniments and sauces to be wrapped with rice in a lettuce leaf. A version that serves 6-10 people (like the recipe below) goes for $200 at Momofuku. And for good reason with all of the ingredients, time and love that goes into it. It looked like quite a production – the perfect meal for a Sunday night.
The ingredients are easier to find than you would think, with the exception of kimchi which resulted in a trip to our Asian market to purchase. Could you do without one item? One sauce? One accompaniment? Sure. But do you want to go through all of this effort and be one element short? I don't think so.
The Bo Ssam was worth every effort I put into it. And, it is quite an impressive feast when spread out on a table. The pork is so tender it falls apart, and has such a deep flavor, despite not having excessive seasoning. And every sauce, every element goes perfectly together in the lettuce. With leftovers the next day, I shredded the pork, mixed in some of the sauces, and we made sliders. Also delicious.
So if you have a Sunday when you are feeling up for something special, I highly recommend this recipe. Because of this size, it also is perfect for entertaining. Although much cheaper than a flight to NYC and $200 to eat this at Momfuku, I officially put that experience on my to do list. I am sure it is worth every penny.
BO SSAM (from Momofuku)
Serves 6-8
Pork Butt:
1 whole bone-in pork butt or picnic ham (8 to 10 pounds)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon kosher salt
7 tablespoons brown sugar
Ginger-Scallion Sauce:
2½ cups thinly sliced scallions, both green and white parts
½ cup peeled, minced fresh ginger
¼ cup neutral oil (like grapeseed)
1½ teaspoons light soy sauce
1 scant teaspoon sherry vinegar
½ teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
Ssam Sauce:
2 tablespoons fermented bean-and- chili paste (ssamjang, available in many Asian markets, and online)
1 tablespoon chili paste (kochujang, available in many Asian markets, and online)
½ cup sherry vinegar
½ cup neutral oil (like grapeseed)
2 cups plain white rice, cooked
3 heads bibb lettuce, leaves separated, washed and dried
1 dozen or more fresh oysters (optional – I did not include))
Kimchi (available in many Asian markets, and online).
1. Place the pork in a large, shallow bowl. Mix the white sugar and 1 cup of the salt together in another bowl, then rub the mixture all over the meat. Cover it with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours, or overnight.
2. When you're ready to cook, heat oven to 300. Remove pork from refrigerator and discard any juices. Place the pork in a roasting pan and set in the oven and cook for approximately 6 hours, or until it collapses, yielding easily to the tines of a fork. (After the first hour, baste hourly with pan juices.) At this point, you may remove the meat from the oven and allow it to rest for up to an hour.
3. Meanwhile, make the ginger-scallion sauce. In a large bowl, combine the scallions with the rest of the ingredients. Mix well and taste, adding salt if needed.
4. Make the ssam sauce. In a medium bowl, combine the chili pastes with the vinegar and oil, and mix well.
5. Prepare rice, wash lettuce and, if using, shuck the oysters. Put kimchi and sauces into serving bowls.
6. When your accompaniments are prepared and you are ready to serve the food, turn oven to 500. In a small bowl, stir together the remaining tablespoon of salt with the brown sugar. Rub this mixture all over the cooked pork. Place in oven for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, or until a dark caramel crust has developed on the meat. Serve hot, with the accompaniments.
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Good point Randy. I agree that the embryo adoption thing is weird. The
Christian Legal Society, a very conservative evangelical lawyers' group, did
a feature on embryo adoption in their magazine (presenting it in a positive
light) and it freaked me out. I recognize some inconsistency here with my
views about embryo research perhaps, but there it is.
The lack of regulation of the IVF industry is also scary, IMHO, because of
eugenics. There is virtually no legal regulation of the sorts of
characteristics that can be selected for during pre-implantation screening.
Screening is routinely done today for gender, and embryos are culled simply
because they are the wrong gender. Screening techniques are not currently
so precise as to allow for designer babies, but the law is not prepared for
advances in screening technology that seem inevitable.
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Director, Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
Regarding David's comment:
> Having looked at adoption because of our own infertility issues (I had
> radiation for childhood leukemia at age 7), we found the presentation of
> Embryo Adoption positively weird. The staff at the Christian agency where
> we sought adoption were also visibly uncomfortable with the presentation.
> This and a recent disturbing claiming the absolute benefits of Embryo
> Adoption lead me to conclude that the whole idea of IVF is problematci and
> is the point at which to address the issue: David's "rogue industry in need
> of regulation." I believe that Christians need to address the familiotary
> or childolatry which has led us, along with others, to this point over the
> past 30 years. Our churches need to celebrate adoption where couples
> embrace it, recognize a special place for childless couples (like ourselves
> for the time being), and provide holistic ministry and direction for those
> struggling. As with so much in Christianity, I believe we need to get our
> own house in order before we go accusing others of immoral or unethical
> behavior.
> Peace,
> Randy Gabrielse
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> wrote:
> Your responses would be acceptable if you and other evangelicals opposed
> IVF with the same vigor as ESCR and abortion.
> Dave (ASA)
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:34:13 -0400 David Opderbeck <email@example.com>
> writes:
> Responses below.
> David W. Opderbeck
> Associate Professor of Law
> Seton Hall University Law School
> Director, Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:58 PM, George Murphy <email@example.com>
> wrote:
> 1) Why should a "precautionary principle" invoke precautions against the
> possibility that a human person is being destroyed & not be concerned with
> precautions against the possibility that people will continue to suffer from
> illnesses & injuries that might be healed as a result of ESCR?
> I never said that shouldn't also be a concern. As with the precautionary
> principle in environmental ethics, the question is whether there is some
> probability, even if small, that an action taken will have effects
> significantly more deleterious than the harm the action is seeking to
> prevent. Just about everyone will agree that it is immoral to conduct
> medical research on human subjects involving the subject's certain death,
> even with informed consent; and just about everyone will agree that it is
> immoral to conduct medical research involving any significant risk of death
> on infants, regardless of the parent's informed consent.
> If the moral status of a human embryo is uncertain, there is some
> probability that embryonic stem cell research will result in the great harm
> of taking human lives for research purposes. Under the precautionary
> principle, proponents of the research would have to show a near certainty
> that the proposed research would succeed in producing an even more
> substantially beneficial result -- something that cannot under any
> estimation presently be shown.
> 2) Of course an embryo is a potential person. A seperated ovum & sperm
> is also a potential person. The stirring of desire in a husband & wife is a
> potential person. How far do we take this?
> No, a separated ovum and sperm is not a potential person. The potentiality
> for personhood only exists when a zygote is formed. Neither an ovum nor a
> sperm can individually mature into a person. There is a morally
> significant, qualitative difference between a zygote and an individual ovum
> or individual sperm.
> Now David said previously, "I personally find destructive human embryonic
> stem cell research morally horrifying, particularly when cell lines are
> harvested from embryos cast off by the IVF industry." This seems strange to
> me, suggesting as it does that research on embryos produced for IVF is worse
> than that on embryos produced solely to be destroyed for research. It makes
> sense only if "the IVF industry" is immoral, which may well be what David
> means.
> The problem here, as I see it, is that this research reinforces an industry
> that is essentially unregulated and, in my judgment, highly morally
> problematic.
> But let's reflect on that a bit. One of the criticisms of IVF - & at the
> same time the reason why it can supply ESCR, is that "spare" embryos that
> will not be allowed to develop fully, are always produced in the procedure.
> But the same thing in fact happens when babies are conceived in the old
> fashioned way. We know now that a high percentage of conceptions are
> spontaneously aborted very early in pregnancy. (I've seen estimates of
> something like 80% but someone more knowledgeable may have a better
> number.) So traditional conception & IVF are not wholly different in this
> regard.
> I don't agree. Natural miscarriages result in the context of an intent to
> carry the baby to term. (Let's set aside for the moment the question of
> unplanned pregnancies, which gets into additional issues about the ends of
> sexuality, marriage, and the family). With IVF, the intent at the outset is
> to produce embryos that will have to be destroyed. Intent is critical to
> moral and ethical assessment of the conduct.
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Hydrocolloids: Gum control in a low-carb world
Formulators turn to hydrocolloids for their useful functional properties without contributing to "net carbs."
The growing demand for food products that not only control calories but also nourish and taste good has created newfound respect for gums and hydrocolloids among food formulators.
Made up of proteins or carbohydrates, these multifunctional ingredients compound with water (as their name suggests) to achieve their functionality and help resolve a myriad of formulation issues. Generally colorless and bland, gums and hydrocolloids are convenient and versatile solutions for sensory enhancement, calorie reduction, shelf-life extension and cost reduction.
Food formulators today are challenged to remove, reduce or replace a ingredients to create foods that go beyond the low-carb or trans-fat free demands resulting from emerging regulations, changing trends in nutrition and growing consumer awareness of what's healthful. But food reformulation entails much more than simply replacing an ingredient or two -- as one would when replacing raisins with cranberries in a granola mix. Developers must ensure the substitute ingredient matches the functional and nutritional requirements of the one that is being replaced without negatively impacting the taste of the original food product.
The anticipated sensory pleasure conveyed by the appearance and packaging may entice consumers to try foods for the first time, but taste constitutes the real seal of approval and the reason for repeat purchase.
The right gum for the job
"Starch, particularly modified starch, is the most widely used hydrocolloid in the food industry and accounts for more than three-fourths of total hydrocolloid use by volume," says Dennis Seisun, CEO of IMR International (www.hydrocolloid.com), San Diego. "Gelatin, a unique protein, ranks a distant second in this ingredient category made up predominantly of polysaccharides. Gelatins and starches account for more than 50 percent of hydrocolloid value in North America."
Sophisticated manufacturing has created a number of novel functional proteins and polysaccharides as part of tailored texturizing and stabilizing systems.
Why hydrocolloids are ideal
The unique and unifying characteristic of hydrocolloids is their ability to interact with water and form gels at very low concentrations. Gels are essentially three-dimensional interconnected molecular networks that exhibit varying degrees of strength, stability and ability to entrap water and manage its migration.
Another common characteristic of hydrocolloids is their tendency to form colloidal solutions. Distinctly different, colloidal solutions are relatively stable and generally viscous. In colloidal solutions the hydrocolloid particles retain a measurable size and may be separated from their dispersing solution by passing through a semi-permeable membrane.
The food industry has a wide range of hydrocolloids to choose from including agar, alginates, gum arabic, carrageenan, cassia, carboxy methyl cellulose, gelatin, gellan, guar, karaya, konjac flour, locust bean gum, methyl cellulose and hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, pectin, starch, tara, tragacanth and xanthan. They can be used alone or in tailored blends.
Selection of the hydrocolloid for a particular application depends largely on the functionality required and the processing parameters. Other considerations include ease-in-handling characteristics, versatility, interactions with other components, consumer acceptance on the label and, of course, price and availability.
Replacing sugar
There is a misconception that sugar replacement is a straightforward affair involving the simple substitution of glycemic sugar with a mixture of a high-intensity sweetener and a bulking agent. In reality, a number of diverse challenges are encountered during sugar substitution including the proper development of texture and stabilization.
Sweetness, although considered a "single dimension" of food product flavor, cannot be addressed merely with a sugar substitute. Sugar substitution entails the development of proper flavor profile - a particularly daunting task when the replacement involves a number of other carbohydrate ingredients besides sugar (as is necessary for creating low-carb foods). Hydrocolloids possess a range of properties that come in quite handy for many of these applications.
For example, when developing low-carb beverages, the ability of hydrocolloids to provide mouthfeel, viscosity, particle suspension and even emulsification helps create beverage products with smooth taste and without harsh spikes of sweetness or flavors. This functionality probably accounts for the quality and variety of low-carb beverages in the marketplace today.
Formulators typically employ high-intensity sweeteners such as aspartame, acesulfame K, sucralose and maltitol to replace sugar, and they incorporate hydrocolloids, such as carrageenan, gum arabic, guar, and xanthan, in small quantities to create the desired viscosity and texture. Pectin and carrageenan are the hydrocolloids of choice for dairy beverages while cellulose or carboxy methyl cellulose are preferred for thickening clear non-dairy beverages.
Sometimes, high-intensity sweeteners provide an overpowering sweetness, especially in diet beverages. Pepsico (www.pepsico.com), Purchase, N.Y., employed gum arabic in creating Pepsi Edge, a mid-carb and -calorie soda for people who wish to reduce their carb intake but don't like the taste of diet products.
TIC Gums (www.ticgums.com), Belcamp, Md., sensed market potential and recently rolled out TIC Pretested Ticaloid LC low-carb syrup replacer. Marketplace demands may escalate for similar lines of hydrocolloid mixtures to provide both texture and mellow sweetness in formulations in which high-fructose corn syrup is reduced or partially replaced with high-intensity sweeteners - especially if suspected connections between HFCS and obesity are borne out.
Replacing starches
Hydrocolloids can gel efficiently and help thicken foods at a fraction of the cost of starch concentration. This functionality has been used effectively to reduce the carb content of gravies and savory sauces.
Low-carbers had to give up these foods because of their reliance on native or modified starches, which are glycemic and contribute sugar to the blood. The retail success of non-carb gravy thickeners -- such as ThickenThin not/Starch from Expert Foods (www.expertfoods.com), Ellicott City, Md. -- is evidence of how well a mixture of acacia, guar, carob, and xanthan works for low-carb cooking.
"We created not/Starch as a thickener for low-carb or grain-free diets to re-create the thick, rich textures one wants without adding calories, fat or carbs in gravies," says President Mark Uhrmacher. "Additionally, hydrocolloids contribute fiber that is so difficult to get on a restricted diet."
Processed foods use a range of modified starches to create textures and functionalities. The current focus on carbs and glycemic effects has compelled processors to explore the realm of hydrocolloids for healthier and less expensive replacements to reduce or remove starch from product formulations.
Although several resistant starches have emerged recently and grown significantly as alternatives for traditional starch ingredients, their price and varied glycemic implications have driven food formulators to hydrocolloids and blends as more consistent and less expensive non-glycemic alternatives.
Taste enhancement
Hydrocolloids may be used to partially replace starches to thicken medium- and high-solids systems such as fruit fillings and preserves. In conjunction with high-intensity sweeteners, hydrocolloids allow for the formulation of full-bodied, low-carb chocolate and other dessert sauces with enhanced flavor release.
"Other benefits include improved flavor and significantly reduced calorie contribution, since some hydrocolloids contribute no calories," says Nancy Mosier, food product formulator and author of "Eat Yourself Thin!" Mosier is a pioneer product formulator in the low-carb arena and has used hydrocolloids in combinations to allow for multiple functionalities.
Xanthan-guar systems help low-carb fruit preserves and pie fillings retain their texture and pourability through a wide range of temperatures, during both processing and serving, without sacrificing taste or appearance. Guar serves as the low-cost thickener while the higher priced xanthan modulates heat stability and rheological properties.
But carb replacement is not a slam-dunk affair. Removal of carbs poses a number of challenges that need to be addressed by food formulators. Fortunately, hydrocolloids have a plethora of functional properties and can help with texture modification, hydration, gelling, rheology modification, stabilization, emulsification and emulsion stabilization, suspension, thickening, fiber fortification, mouthfeel improvement, calorie reduction and fat replacement.
Enhancing fiber
The focus on incorporating fiber to create low-carb foods has raised the profile of hydrocolloids as a healthful alternative to simple and glycemic carbs. Their characteristic colloidal interaction with water is unique for each kind of hydrocolloid and further depends on their source, chemical makeup, physical structure and even size. Simple alteration of various aspects of their physical properties has helped create a wide range of functionalities for processors.
"Gums are soluble dietary fiber, so they fit well into low-carb diet plans," says Frances Bowman, marketing manager at TIC Gums. "While hydrocolloids still contribute to the total carb count of a food, they help reduce the 'net carb count' by providing approximately 85g soluble dietary fiber per 100g with fiber accounting for all of the carb content."
"Beverages and soups offer excellent avenues for enhancing the dietary fiber intake of consumers -- especially for food companies wishing to capitalize on the new low-carb and fiber-hungry market segments," says John Foraker, president of Home Grown Natural Foods (www.homegrownnaturalfoods.com), Napa, Calif. With its twin brands of Fantastic Foods and Consorzio, the company did exactly that by incorporating hydrocolloids to roll out Carb'Tastic soups, a line of reduced-carb cup soups that have been wildly successful.
Is low-carb just a fad? While the flurry of new-product activity may be slowing, the legacy of the low-carb movement will be a greater awareness of healthier choices.
Consumers are actively removing simple carbs from their diets and consuming more fiber as a result. The future is promising indeed for the hydrocolloid industry.
Kantha Shelke is a principal at Corvus Blue LLC, a Chicago firm that specializes in competitive intelligence and expert witness services. The firm helps businesses and professional organizations in the health and wellness sector to focus on what matters most. Contact her at email@example.com or 312-951-5810.
|Hydrocolloid strategies for carb reduction
Growth in sugar-free sweeteners, bulking agents and specialized texturizing agents has been fueled by the term "net carbs." The term was made popular by the marketing efforts of the Atkins Net Carbs Seal and denotes the number of grams of carbs that will convert rapidly to blood glucose.
Hydrocolloids play into carb reduction in a number of ways:
* Eliminating sugar -- Hydrocolloids can help replace the water-binding and bulking properties of sugar that has been removed to make low- and no-sugar foods. High-intensity sweeteners present new stabilization issues because they are typically used at low levels and generally leave water "unbound." A number of hydrocolloids can provide stabilization by inhibiting moisture migration and controlling syneresis.
* Replacing starch -- Native and modified food starches are becoming more popular because of the wide variety of functional properties they provide. Non-starch hydrocolloids offer versatile starch replacement solutions and can help retain shelf-life and texture characteristics without the variable glycemic effects and cost implications often associated with newer resistant starches.
* Enhancing dietary fiber -- Hydrocolloids do not typically contribute significant fiber because they are used at low levels and they serve mainly to control water. In low-carb formulations, however, low-viscosity hydrocolloids can be used in amounts sufficient to provide substantial levels of fiber. An added benefit comes from the ability of some hydrocolloids to delay gastric emptying. The resulting extension of the feeling of satiety can help reduce hunger and help reduce an individual's food intake.
* Enhancing taste -- A variety of ingredients -- including protein, high-intensity sweeteners and modified starches used to fill the void left by the removal or reduction of starch and natural (glycemic) sugars -- tend to bind flavor and often alter the taste of low-carb foods. Hydrocolloids are typically bland and serve as innocuous bulking agents that can also help reduce usage levels of added flavor ingredients.
"Hydrocolloids can be the perfect choice for low-carb product development as they not only improve product texture and stability, but also contribute dietary fiber and a low glycemic response," according to Jim Carr, hydrocolloid expert at Excelon Specialty Products Inc. (www.excelon-inc.com), Lake Bluff, Ill.
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Kaur's Holistic Healing Center for Research and Training-Ms Jaspal Kaur holds qualifications as MD(A.M.), Reiki Grand Master, Karuna Reiki® Master, Handwriting analyst, Master Crystal therapist, Ho-opono-pono therapist, Counselor and consultant, Workshop facilitator, Healer and Alternative Health Practitioner.
As so rightly affirmed by Reiki Grandmaster Dishaa, a young and dynamic lady, an M.B.A turned natural healing expert from Chandigarh (India) for whom life has always been a 'Love for the Moment' which is beautiful yet compassionate...
She is Member Tera-Mai Reiki & Seichem association US & Founder of Tera-Mai Reiki & Seichem association of India.
Meanwhile many discoveries conducted by scientists around the world have proved that pyramid has natural spiritual healing power that have given life to animals and plants kept under the pyramid constructed structure. Therefore, it is an ancient healing concept that has been practiced by many holistic healers to treat all kinds of ailments including general fatigue, mental depression, anxiety, tension, and even common cold.
The practitioner usually uses his hands to direct the pyramid healing power into the patient's body and he may use a pyramid by holding in his hand and hovers around the body or sometimes gently apply the pyramid over the skin to diagnose the root cause of problem that may be infecting body, mind and soul. People with inquisitive powers and clairvoyant abilities performs healing techniques employing different methods including chanting of mantras over pyramid and playing gentle soothing music to cure the overall cause of ailments that might have its cord attached to soul and mind while focusing their mind in the other direction.
Pyramid healing session also involves wearing of pyramid jewelry or amulet that has engraved pyramid or a pyramid suspended chain around the neck. The pyramid amulet or pendants are usually made of natural factors such as wood, stone or glass because they have been known as best duct of natural energy. This healing therapy requires number of sessions to treat the cause of prevailing ills and effectively treating them. People who have taken the service of practitioners of pyramid healing felt that it is a wonderful healing therapy even western medicine cease to work in front of pyramid healing.


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The Ribentrop-Molotov agreement, a secret deal that finally fixed the partition of Poland, was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939.The following articles were written by Volozhyners who escaped from the town in June 1941 (Rogovin, Goldsmit, Shvarzberg); by Perlman, who was exiled with his family to Siberia in April 1940; and by Pnina Potashnik, who remained in Volozhyn and survived the Holocaust with the Partisans.
The German armies invaded Poland 7 (seven) days later, on September 1, 1939.
The Red Army crossed the Polish borders on September 17th, and occupied (freed) without any resistance the East Poland Territory (called East Kresy by the Poles and Western Ukraine and Belarus by the Soviets). Volozhyn was part of Western Belarus.
Hitler attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The big offensive called Barbarossa had begun. The German Vermacht occupied Volozhyn four days later, on June 26, 1941.
The Soviet rule in Volozhyn lasted for 21 months. We call it the Soviet (pre-war) Period.
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Conditions in the town turned out to be vastly different from those under the previous rulers. The new rulers forbade any private commerce. The governors established food cooperatives. Government-owned shops were opened. Self-employed craftsmen and artisans were forced to join professional cooperatives of tailors, shoemakers, and so forth. All Jewish institutions, like the kehilla, the commerce organization, and others were automatically liquidated. Two storehouses, such as Rosenberg's and Bunimovitsh- Rozenshtein's, were nationalized. Some other businesses, like Mr. Gluhovski's pharmacy, shared the same fate. The new "people's authorities" confiscated all factories and sawmills marked by high chimneys, such as Polak's, Perelman-Rapport's, and Shif's (in Yuzefpole, a village near Volozhyn). The owners of the nationalized mills were put in prison and later deported to the Soviet Gulag. Their families (wives and children) were expelled and "resettled" in Siberia. The Volozhyn Eytz Chaim Yeshiva became a restaurant. The synagogues remained open, but the prayers lost their Jewish essence and flavor.
Vilna road
(The first building on the right is Mr. Gluhovski's pharmacy)
In spite of the requisitions and edicts, there was no hunger in Volozhyn. The majority had found jobs with the new regime. Although they earned small salaries, everyone started a side business for extra income. One had some Polish zlotys. Itshe Muni's used to cross the border to change the Polish money in Bialystok into Soviet rubles. Others had accumulated food reserves. In addition, the peasants started to bring plenty of food to town and sell it for low prices. All the above and other "components" assisted most of the Jewish shtetl families to endure the new regime.
Changes that could be seen as both comic and tragic occurred in the Volozhyn Jews' style of dressing. The treasured fashion trend of the Soviets was high boots. It was distressing yet amusing for us to see distinguished balabatim such as Reb Isaak Shriro, Reb Hirsh Malkin, RebYakov Veissbord, Reb Avrom Shuker, Reb Mordehay Shishko, Reb Namiot der Sheliver (name of his natal shtetl), Sholom Leyb Rubinstein and others walking in high boots. Most people wanted to please the new rulers. They threw away the elegant tied shirts that symbolized the Polish bourgeoisies and "decorated" themselves with the Soviet khaki guimnastiorka.
The borders opened and many people visited Minsk, after many years when it had been impossible for the Polish population to do so. Relatives from Russia visited their families in Volozhyn. Among them was Sholom Leyb Rubinstein's brother-in-law. Jewish boys and girls attained new privileges and the potential to study in the schools and universities of the Soviet Union.
For most people, life appeared normal and safe. Nobody thought about war, and particularly not a war between Germany and Russia. Anyone who would raise such a suggestion at that point would be considered a fool. Even two days before the Messershmidts bombed Minsk, Kiev, Lida, and Molodetshno, not one person in Volozhyn believed that the war was at our door. The Friday evening of June 20, 1941 was different from the Saturday evening of June 21 only in the text of the prayers. On Friday, a Jew honored the Shabes holiness singing Havu neranna; on Saturday evening he said the Mavdil workday prayer: "In my salvation I trust."
Bad news did not reach us except the distressing fact that the following morning, on Sunday, June 22nd, we should accompany the Volozhyn activist, Fayve Yoysef Simernicki, on his last journey. Late at night we heard a concert on radio Moscow dedicated to the writer, Louis Aragon, who visited the capital. After hearing the news that was read by Youri Levitan we all went to sleep. On Sunday morning we did not turn on the radio. We did not expect any dramatic news. I hurried to join Simernicki's funeral. On the way I met my friend Shpatsener, Bela Paretski's husband. We worked together for many years in Michael Wan-Polak's business. Shpatsener was an officer in the Polish army and fought against the Bolsheviks in the twenties. He detested the Soviet regime. "Comrade Rogovin," he said with a malicious smile, "we are near a Soviet defeat." What is the meaning? I wondered. Convinced I had heard nothing, he answered, Molotov spoke on the radio. The Germans attacked Russia. Their planes bombed Minsk, Kiev, Harkov, and other Soviet towns." He told me all he knew.
When I returned from the funeral, I saw many of the Volozhyn Jews crowded together. They argued in loud voices. They formed two camps: one was pro-Soviet and the other pro-German. Workers and artisans were sure that the Soviets would overcome the Germans swiftly. Merchants and dealers, to the contrary, were convinced that the Germans would win. They refused to listen to any of the refugees' tales about the German atrocities and their blood curdling deeds against Jews. They considered the accounts of horrors as Soviet propaganda. Many Volozhyn inhabitants witnessed the German 1918 invasion. They assumed that the 1941 Germans would not be in any great measure different from those in 1918. During the occupation of the First World War they did not hurt any Jews. So they said, It is not reasonable that this cultivated and organized nation could change during one generation. Why would they hurt us now? The people working for the Bolsheviks, and in love with them, they should be afraid now, but not the common Jews." Such were the conversations during those critical days. Few were the Volozhyn inhabitants who chose to escape with the Soviets.
As the war started, all men less than fifty years old were ordered to appear before the mobilization committee. More than 1000 men arrived. There were not enough facilities and personnel to mobilize so many people. In all, fifty were accepted. With the rest, I was sent to pass the night in the Volozhyn Gymnasia (high school). In the morning we went again to perform our duties. All of a sudden, German planes filled the sky. We were ordered to disperse. We did not return. Bewilderment and panic reigned in the town. The connection with Minsk broke off shortly after. The authorities were busy trying to evacuate the important persons to safe places deep inside Russia. The Soviets did not tell us what to do, whether we should stay in our town with the German enemy approaching rapidly or whether we should escape to Russia. Each person had to decide for himself. The great majority stayed in their homes, waiting for some inspiration. They had not collaborated with the Communists they said. Not having time to think over their decision or having a place where they could go, they committed a fatal error and made a tragic choice.
My family was among the very few who chose a different path. On Wednesday night, just hours before the June 26th entry of German forces into Bogdanovo on their way to Volozhyn (25 Km), we took our two children and family and fled Volozhyn with the Soviets.
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According to the Soviet-German agreement, Poland was divided. The Germans occupied the west of Poland and its center. The Soviets took the eastern part. Their troops entered Volozhyn from Minsk, through the Rakov way. The Soviet invasion surprised the shtetl's population. Exclamations of The Russians are coming were heard. They came in motorized vehicles, on tanks, and with horses.
An army unit encircled the starostvo (district authority) building and enclosed its functionaries and policemen inside.
The new administration began to function, confiscating wealthy people's property. Those confiscations brought the Volozhyn Jews to an economic calamity. The shopkeepers would conceal their goods to save them from ruin.
Nothing caused the shtetl Jews as much sorrow as the requisition of the yeshiva and its transformation into an eatery.
Laments and bitter cries were heard over the humiliated sanctity. The yeshiva students would sit on the ground with Talmud books in their hands and with tears in their eyes. How sorrowful was their Gemora melody! Most of them had left the town.
By some miracle the yeshiva was not damaged during all the war years. Many incendiary bombs fell around the building, but it was not damaged.
The Jews would exert themselves to ensure that the light of Israel not be extinguished. The yeshiva was closed, as was the Hebrew tarbut school. The melamdim (religious teachers) could, however, do the holy work privately. It was a poor substitute for true spiritual life.
The Soviets closed all ritual institutions, including the mikveh. Rabbi Mordkhay Shishko did not relax until another mikveh had been dug; it was concealed from the oppressor's eyes, near the synagogue entry.
Most of the Jewish population received the Soviets with sympathy. Knowledge of the horrors to which the Jews were exposed in the areas occupied by the Nazis infiltrated to Belarus. Under the Soviet regime we were safe. During one of the several meetings, the physician Avrom Tsart delivered a praising oration. He praised with excitement the Soviet leaders for saving our people from the German beast. His words impressed the audience deeply. In another meeting the participants were invited to tell about their life under the Polish regime. A poor miserable Jew burdened with many children ascended the stage and, turning his face to the wall, showed a hole in his torn pants, and then he said, Our whole life under the Polaks was like my pants. The oppressed and poor did truly believe that now the sun would shine for them.
Ketslikh (a Russian Jew), the head of the Soviet administration in Volozhyn, once invited me to his office. He gave me an assignment to remove the paving stones from the market square, to plant trees, and to turn the market into an ornamental park.
Then Ketslikh told me the secret: Stalin's statue would be raised on the square. The pieces arrived. We assembled the pieces and a tall statue grew up. Stalin wearing a military dress dominated the square, extending his hand westward.
But a grave problem yet arose. Close to the statue stood a huge Catholic cast iron cross. The communist secular authorities considered the presence of a cross beside the Sun of the Nations as an unbelievable sacrilege. They decided to demolish the cross. On a Saturday evening a unit of soldiers encircled the site. A demolition charge was set, and the cross was blown up. I was ordered to take away the broken fragments. I hired two peasants and with their help we accomplished the task.
The Gentiles accused me of being responsible for the destruction of the holy cross. They waited for the revenge time. With the Germans already entering the town, I fled.
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The new district authorities were located inside the former Polish military buildings (the Graph's estate). The town's inhabitants were treated moderately. The new rulers established the regional and town institutions with the help of local communists and Soviet sympathizers Jews and Gentiles.
Every grown person was obliged to work. People evading work would be accused and judged for speculation and sabotage. Working became the exclusive legal source of income. The shops were closed. In their place, a single government counter was established on the market square. Long lines appeared in front of it. People used to spend many hours there to get some food. Clothing was sold only for coupons. Coupons were distributed very sparingly and only among privileged people.
Refugees from the areas occupied by the Germans flooded the town. But after they saw and felt the Soviet order, in which commerce was forbidden and work was obligatory, many of them preferred to return home.
The Soviets registered all the refugees who wanted to go back to German-controlled Poland. One night, Soviet soldiers encircled the refugees' dwelling places, ordered all of them to pack and to take some belongings, led them to the railway station, loaded them on merchandise trains, and sent all of the anti-Soviet elements to Siberia.
This forced transfer saved the lives of most of them.
In June 1939 I finished the first class of Volozhyn's brand new Polish gymnasia-high school. I was 15 years old. I tell about this half-year period of our family's history in Volozhyn under the Soviet regime, as seen through a young boy's eyes.
Our family spent the summer of 1939 in Kaldiki, a pleasant pine-forest hamlet on the Berezina shore, 10 km. from town. It was the last summer prior to the Second World War. Germany encircled Poland from East Prussia, Czechoslovakia and from the German mainland. Hitler held Poland in mortal forceps and his shadow was cast over Europe, particularly over the continent's Jewry.
That summer in all Polish cities a song was popular whose sentimental tango melody was adopted 50 years later by N. Mikhalkov, the Russian filmmaker, as background air to his famous movie about Stalin, The Treacherous Sun. The sorrowful words, which all Poland was singing during the summer of 1939, were: Today is our last Sunday, today we shall separate forever
The 1939 school year did not begun as usual on the first day of September. On Friday September 1st we found the school doors locked. The Warsaw Radio station, destroyed by German air raids, was silent. The Nazi brutal invasion was announced through Radio Lvov, before it was silenced in its turn a day later. On the walls were stuck placards calling men aged 20 to 45 to report at mobilizing posts. Father took a bag with undergarments, socks, soap, and talcum powder. His post was in Lida. We accompanied him to the bus. Mother was in tears. The next day we were all relieved: father returned home. The chaos was enormous and the checkpoint overcrowded. Those called to report were sent home. The Polish army, proud of its cavalry bravura, collapsed under the Vermacht blows.
During these splendid, colorful autumn days, Volozhyn awaited its fate in a strange calmness. Father was conscious as to what we should expect from Hitler. He planned to bring us to the Soviet border. The Soviets, he said, would not refuse shelter for children.
A rumor spread on Sunday morning, September 17th: The Germans are approaching. The Polish functionaries destroyed documents, packed their luggage, and some of them left the town at night. I went to Smorgon Street to get from Mr. Faygenbaum, our flourmills' manager on duty, the redemption money of the previous days. It was needed to reach the Soviet border.
On my way back an airplane, contour flying, passed over the town. The Greysser Barg [large downhill slope], which I chose to go down, was parallel to a hillside. I clung to the ground, searching for a safe place. I was suddenly aware that hundreds of objects were flying from above, in my direction.
Fortunately there were neither bombs nor bullets. It was simply a rain of pieces of paper. I amassed some of them and running home I read the sky's message. It was written in Polish and Russian. The peoples of the Soviet Union, at the demand of their brothers in the West Ukraine and Belarus, are stretching hands to free them from the capitalist burden. We understood that our life would not be easy, but we would be saved from a death sentence.
The Soviets enter Volozhyn
We went into the mill. Father distributed sacks of flour to the neighbors. We also took some of it into our house. As we entered our home, we heard an intense noise. Through the windows we saw an armored vehicle running in the deserted street. The tank stopped near our house. Soldiers came down to check the bridge. It was the Red Army reconnaissance patrol.
In the afternoon, the flow of invasion (liberation) troops began. First, the armored forces, tanks, carriers, trucks, motorized artillery, etc. passed. The flow continued during the whole night and on the next day. We were overwhelmed by the quantity and quality. But more and more among the motorized transporters we could see horse-drawn carts. And the horses We were used to seeing the proud, beautiful Polish Army horses. The horses that we saw now varied in size and color, but they were alike in their meagerness. These horses had probably been raised on Soviet agricultural collectives. We became doubtful as to the wealth and power of our new masters.
The soldiers' behavior was outstanding, polite and very friendly. No thievery, pillaging, robbery, beatings, or arrests occurred. The soldiers differed slightly from their commanders. The signs of rank were not pompously carried on the shoulders, as by the Polish officers, but modestly tied to the collar. When stopping to rest, they used to dance, sing, and tell stories about the wonderful achievements of the Soviet people and about the mastermind, about the prodigy and goodness of the great father and leader, Josef Stalin. Our liberators were not called soldiers (soldaty), but fighters (boytsy). At the sight of them, mother said that we should not worry about the Fonies (Yiddish nickname for Russians) coming in carts and trucks, but rather that we should take care of those coming in personal motorcars.
And indeed the commissars, the true rulers, arrived. They established the new order. Crowded meetings were held in the cinema and in the fire brigade halls. The Soviet state, its regime, wealth and achievements were praised. Jokes were transmitted from mouth to mouth about the communists' bragging. We have in our wealthy state all the best, even matches. There used to be, probably sometimes, a lack of matches. But these times did not pass. During this year a lack of many products emerged in the shops, among them sugar, white flour, and even matches. But abundant and big were the queue lines, a brand new phenomenon in our shtetl. It was swiftly imported from Mother Russia and adopted in our country. In each place where goods were sold and to which a group of customers was attracted, a line was formed. It grew bigger hour by hour and would reach unseen dimensions.
The school doors reopened. Our Hebrew tarbut school began teaching in Yiddish. The Polish gymnasium was converted into a Russian high school. It became filled with Jewish youth, thirsty for education, which they had been deprived of during the Polish anti-Semitic regime.
The gymnasium manager, Dr. Konopnitski, did not flee. He stayed on his job and continued his style of teaching. Once, he compared Hitler's regime to a pyramid, staying on its top and leaning on the soldier's bayonets. Our director's opinion was that during war, when the bayonets would turn to where there was a real need for them, the pyramid must collapse. The NKVD understood whom he had in mind. On the next day he was arrested and sent to the gulag land, from which he never returned.
Pani (Mrs.) Kopylova, our director's spouse, taught us natural sciences. She was exiled to Siberia after her husband's arrest.
New comrades joined our narrow circle of Jewish students. We used to meet on the long winter evenings, satisfied with what had happened around. We had a real sense of the historical events we witnessed. We organized mini-meetings in which satirical sayings about the new order and life style were expressed for fun: Sugar like sugar, but emotions are many: assemblies, weddings, and parties inside, and lines without end extend on the streets
The new rulers attracted communist sympathizers to work in their institutions. Among the fortunate persons accepted were some Volozhyn Jews. One could see people rising and becoming instantly rich and powerful.
Some of our friends changed their attitude towards the new underdogs. Once returning from a Soviet mass meeting, my best friend Hayke di Kadelihe's sister told me, Your capitalist's good time is over; from now on, everything that is yours belongs to us; we will enjoy life and you should perish. I'm not sad. I recall the poor girl's hard words without any anger.
The new authorities did confiscate both of Volozhyn's ground-sawmills (Polak's and Rapoport-Perlman's). The mills were returned to the people and unified into a single wood plant. Father was dismissed and sent to work in the woods in the vicinity. Grandfather Hirsh Malkin was also employed at similar work.
Once, father returned from the forest completely outraged. At night policemen intruded into the peasant's home in which father used to sleep during his work in the woods. The people's emissaries ordered the peasant to assemble his family and to pack the most necessary belongings. The entire family, men and women, children and old people, were put into carts and carried out to the nearest railroad station. It was Stalin's first mass transfer action. Thousands of citizens of Polish nationality had been settled by the Polish government during the twenty years of its rule in the eastern territories on the Russian frontiers. Stalin's NKVD (The People's Interior Ministry Police) repaired the demographic problem. During one night, most of the Polish settlers (osadniki) were loaded on special trains and resettled far in Siberia.
The Graph Tishkevitsh palace
The arrest and exile
Six months after the Russians took Volozhyn, they penetrated our home. What mother had feared finally occurred.
On a springtime evening in March 1940, our parents were listening to the radio; I was reading and Sonitshka was asleep in her bed. We heard knocking at the door. It was opened. An NKVD agent with two local citizens entered. The three searched all closets, wardrobes and chests. The policeman ordered my father to dress. Father took the prepared bundle of underwear. He separated from us. Prior to his leaving, father said that he surely would be home by Passover, because he never did any evil to anyone. He kissed the sleeping 10-year-old Sonitshka, his beloved daughter, and went out into the dark, escorted by the three of them. It was the last time we saw and heard our father. He was forty-two years old.
Mother went from door to door. She begged for help from the new elite to free our father. One of the suddenly powerful promised, a second claimed that he could not help, and the third answered mockingly.
Passover Tav-Sheen (1940) became a holiday of fear and hope. We hoped that father would soon be home; we were afraid and anxious for his future. Mother carried bundles with food and underwear to the prison door. Did he receive them? Did they pass the bundles to him? How long did he live after the arrest? When, where and how did he meet his death?
There were rumors that our father, Yosef Perlman, was driven to a gulag camp in the Siberian forests prior to the German invasion, and that he was killed in an accident involving a falling tree.
On Friday morning April 13, 1940, our grandfather's voice woke us up: They take out the Polak and Rapoport families; it looks like they will come also for you. On the ropes in the attic (boydem) many pieces of laundry were hanging to dry. We took them down still damp. At home were two large woven-wood suitcases. We prepared them for packing. In the meantime they appeared: the NKVD agent with his two local aides. In front of us, the agent read the official document: As individuals not reliable to the Soviet government, we should be expelled from the border country and transferred to resettle in the central regions of the Soviet Union. We were ordered to pack what we could manage in the suitcases in two hours time and to put them into the peasant horse-drawn cart that was waiting. We were driven in this cart to the Horod'k rail station.
We passed the Volozhynka wooden bridge, continued through the Greyser Barg, turned to the small downward slope where we passed by the Belokortser's house and our Malkin grandparents' domicile. The horse slowly continued its way over the marketplace in front of grandma Malka's rabbinical residence and then through the Vilna Street past our birth house to the end of town. There were many farewells on our way. Grandparents, relatives, family friends, neighbors, and schoolmates got out on our road to say goodbye. The entire shtetl was in tears were our mother's words when she would tell about our exodus from our birthplace.
We did not know that this departure saved us from complete destruction, which was the final fate of all the inhabitants who remained in Volozhyn. We were on our way to Siberia, to our new destiny.
Goodbye to our birthplace, to our Litvak-shtetl style of life, to our Litvak-Yiddish mameloshn (mother language), to our grandparents, to all our relatives and friends, to all my sister's schoolmates and mine, to all whose destiny would be to vanish, to be erased from the living world, forever.
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(First segment of The Volozhyn Destruction)
The yeshiva building became a restaurant, a drunkards' meeting place. The town inhabitants who considered the yeshiva to be the nation's crown were in great sorrow and pain. But nothing could be done to prevent its fate.
The yeshiva-restaurant watchman, Gdalie Mordkhe Vidrovitsh, once asked Weyner, the restaurant manager, to be relieved of his guard duties. He explained that at midnight he was hearing the Talmud learning melody. Several ghosts used to study and to sing within the yeshiva walls, and he was terribly afraid of this. Weyner answered laughing. He did not believe. One night he came to guard the restaurant himself. At midnight when the Talmud melody reached his ears, Weyner fainted from fear. Afterwards he was afraid to enter the restaurant even in full daylight.
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The Germans performed many brutally murderous actions immediately after occupying Volozhin on June 25 1941 to show that Jewish life is worthless. They killed Alter Shimshilevitsh and ordered his body left on the street. They murdered Hayim Eli Perski and burnt his house. They caught Zalmen Kagan from Aroptsoo and tortured him, forcing him to cry Death to the Jews, than he was shot before the gentiles.
They once noticed Freydke, Yudl Dubinski's daughter taking a bottle with milk from a Gentile woman. A soldier with his local assistants conducted her to the foot of the hill. They threw potatoes on its top and forced the girl to crawl on all fours uphill, to collect the potatoes and to bring them downhill.. Her entire body was covered with blood. The tortures lasted for hours until her powers ceased, then they killed her.
The murderers conducted Dvoyre (Ester Dvoshe's daughter) and the granddaughter of Shimon der Dzik to the Priest's Mountain Dem Galekhs Barg. They were accompanied by two dogs. On the mountain they shot the girls and beheaded the dogs to mix Jewish with animal blood.
Those who passed away naturally were considered lucky. This privilegewas earned by Haya Paretski and her son Yosef; Yudit (the butcher's wife) and Haya Eliyashkevitsh (The Shohat's wife).
The smith-workshop of Yosef Zarin was inside the Ghetto. Once a policeman entered his shop and requested a payment. At this time I was there with Leybe Lavit my brother in law. I took advantage of the fact that nobody else was present, I picked up a heavy hammer, bashed his skull and hid his dead body in the soil.
The Germans looked for him. We told them that the policeman had run away to the partisans. They went to his home, killed his wife and children and then burnt them up.
As Mendl Volkovitsh recounted, all the Jews were enclosed in the Ghetto. The teacher Glicker was nominated as the Ghetto Komendant. The Ghetto was provided with two gates which were guarded by armed policemen. The gates opened only when people were guided to work or back from work.
The Judenrat was composed fro 12 men. Among them were Glicker, Getsl Perski, Ele Mlot, Shaye Kaganovitsh, Aron Kaminetski, Yakov Kovalski, Isrel Lunin and Yanie Garber.
At Passover 1942 the Gestapo requested 50 strong healthy men. The chosen refused to report. They were afraid. The Germans insisted and threatened to shoot a hundred Jews if the fifty did not come.
Having no choice the men reported. I was among the fifty. We were ordered to be equipped with axes and saws. Arranged in lines we were guided to barracks where we worked hard until night, than we received each one a big loaf of bread and arranged in lines again we returned to the Ghetto. The Ghetto Jews, seeing us safe and sound and carrying food became happy. They interpreted it as a change in the German's policy. Regrettably, the events did not confirm their hopes.
I survived the May 1942 mass slaughter miraculously. When the Jews began to enter Bulava's house group by group they were forced to lie face down. At the moment when the murderers approached the line in which I stood I heard Kushke's order to fill pockets with sand. Before entering the slaughter house we threw the sand in the bandits' eyes and crying Hurrahour line dispersed and ran away. Running we saw the house burning up in a great fire. We understood that our dear ones were not alive.
I went to the Krasno Ghetto. After a short time I ran away and returned to Volozhin. I found a hiding place in Glebovitsh's house. His family was short of food. But despite the hunger he provided me every day with nutrition. Glebovitsh told me that my sister Ester concealed herself with her two children in the cellar, but they were found and killed by the murderers. Bashke, my brother's wife had two little twins. The Nazis entered her house and killed the children in their sleep.
Leyzer Goloventshits dwelled inside the Ghetto in Yanko Belabivitsh's house. Leyzer and Beyle succeeded in hiding inside a pit during the expulsion of the Jews from the Ghetto. Yanko brought the killers to the hiding place after the Aktion. Leyzer was able to run away. But he was shot near the bridge by a policeman. Beyle, Frumele and Nohimke were murdered inside the pit.
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When executives take off their glasses and pinch their eyes shut in that "I'm thoughtful" pose, they're picturing themselves in a black turtleneck.
For that brief moment, they're on stage at the unveiling of their next masterpiece. They glance backstage and see their approving mothers. They get an animated thumbs up from the supportive management consultant that did their hair. If they squint past the spotlights, they can see -- in the back of the stadium, in the nosebleed seats -- every person who ever rejected them, who made them feel alone and lonely, who didn't recognize them for the star they obviously are.
And just like that -- whoosh -- they open their eyes and they're executives again, listening to some awful presentation about god only knows what.
Innovation Is Obscenity
Like its fat cousin "leadership" (quotes intentional), the term innovation is so broadly defined that it has lost all meaning. Every leader is now an innovator and every new product -- and every new feature of that product -- deserves a ribbon. Yay! Ribbons for everyone!
Fun exercise No. 1: Check out this Google Trends chart comparing the words leadership and innovation. Spooky how the two rise and fall in lockstep, no? Compare that to the chart for the words leader and innovator. My completely unscientific takeaway is that for every 1,000 leaders in the world, there is 1 innovator. And that's generous.
Fun exercise No. 2: Add the term "innovative design" to your Google News feed. The PR wire becomes so very entertaining with your first daily sip of hot beverage. Mornings in my house are now filled with sarcasm, yes, but also -- at least once each day -- with the well-deserved start of a slow clap. "The LG G2 has an innovative rear button design?!? Bravo, LG. Bravo.
Here's the thing about innovation: I'm not sure any of us needs a definition. We don't need a journalist to tell us what it is. Or who really gets it.
Innovation is like obscenity: We know it when we see it. It's hard to miss when paradigms shift.
So no one is fooling anyone with all the press releases and internal memos. All we're doing is sending another cool word to the literary junk pile. The one I regret the most: the cloud. Poetry lost something the day some marketer stole that word.
And that, by the way, is why as a writer I never use my favorite words: I don't want to risk something that I write accidentally going viral and then overhearing my HR partner use the word "sublime" in a hushed tone. "I think it means 'half a lime.'"
Innovation Promotes Short-Term Gratification
Given my role in Big, I meet with aspiring entrepreneurs pretty regularly. Very often they bring their loaves of sliced bread, their technology prototypes. And many times, as they pitch their "greatest thing since," they forget that the loaf itself isn't the innovation; the manufacture of it is.
Having the idea of sliced bread isn't compelling. Anyone can showcase one loaf. All you need is a knife.
Technology prototypes must demonstrate scale and stability, adaptability and adoptability -- scars that come only from the long, hard road to commercialization.
As I sit with those entrepreneurs, I can't help but think about why Big struggles with innovation. Where's the disconnect?
At first, I thought that what's missing in the corporate environment is the role played by venture capitalists. The one that says "I have an appetite for risk."
But then I remember that Big loves risk. We learn exactly how much each time a bubble bursts.
What Big lacks isn't appetite; it's character. And values. Specifically, patience. Big isn't engineered to wait for slow cooked food, and the creative process takes time. The path to commercialization takes even longer.
Big's timeframes are driven by quarterly reports and analysts' expectations, by unreasonably short windows to prove value as a management team and annual bonus cycles. That reality skews Big's expectations around innovation.
And that is why the innovation industrial complex produces fast food -- innovation in a can, with loads of salt, sugar and fat.
Speaking of which ...
Innovation Supports A Filthy Industry
I'm looking at you, hbr.org! No one has called you out for a while, or if they have it was in that syrupy academic tone that first validates your intellect.
I despise you. You're scientists in the same way that chiropractors are doctors. Your case studies are the new statistics (as in "lies, damn lies and...").


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I decided I wanted some Confederate Jasmine to climb the shed wall and was going to buy an established plant from Home Depot for $18.95 but then found out they did 1 galon plants for $3.99 or something so I brought that, April 2011.
Planted 2 new Confederate Jasmine plants at the new main gate with the idea that they will grow up the trellis frame to create a decorative entrance. The one by the shed seems to be coming along and has gone through an early spring growth spurt.
Seems to have taken to the mesh I put on the side of the shed but its still not an overwhelming blanket of vegetation. I saaw a trellis covered in this Confederate Jasmine near the beach and it gets pretty thick and the stems become quite thick too so this has a long way to go.
Definatly woken up, not too many shoots, but some new leaves and flowers.
Doing well. Like many plants its really just getting itslef started, from here on its really just a case of watching it fill out which im sure it will. Hopefully it will take to the roof as well.
Seems to be climbing well. I have shoved some of its shoots behind the pipe to give it a bit more adhesion but I damaged the tip, however, im sure it will recover. The base is quite static, but its already reached the height of the garage.
No winter action here, pretty much just as it was in November 2011.
This is doing quite well really although its base hasnt changed much. Its actually sending up two shoots along the peice of string and has gone quite a way, maybe over a meter or more. One thing to note, and maybe i'll take a photo, and thats that the stems have definate feelers on them, like regular ivy does, so this is not a plant that relies on entwining, its actually trying to chemically root to surfaces, unfortunatly my string is away from the metal, so maybe i'll force it against the corregated sheet. Then it might actually climb the shed wall naturally, which I wasnt expecting, I thought it was just a twiner that wound its way up. I was sort of told that Confederate Jasmine is really ground cover and you had to train it to grow but I dont think thats the case.
I understand from what I have read that it is kind of easy to grow and is recommended for first time gardeners so it should work for me. The area around the shed has a problem with a creepy vine that wont go away. Ive cut it back for now but im concerned that when I next come back it will be covered over by the stuff. I have learnt a lesson that its actually better to spend more on established stuff and have it survive than waste money on 1 year old plants and watch them die, but obviously im too stupid to remember. I am hoping that it will just grow and do me proud, even if it is in a heavily shaded area, once it gets to the top of the shed roof it can have as much sun as it wants!!!
In the April 2011 photo above you can actually see a leaf of the invasive climber that I was reffering to.
The plant hasnt done much but it has put out a runner that I have now tied up to a bit of string.


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Top 10 acts at Riot Fest
While the summer's biggest fests (Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, etc.) largely belonged to the kids, Riot Fest, which takes place in Humboldt Park Friday-Sunday, Sept. 13-15, finally gives the old guard a chance to shine. Here's a quick guide to the 10 acts you need to catch this weekend. --Andy Downing, for RedEye
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Randy Moss spent half a season as Kenny Britt's teammate in Tennessee, and Moss says he was impressed with what he saw.
Moss was asked to comment on Britt's habit of finding himself in off-field trouble, and Moss declined to comment on that. But Moss did say he thinks Britt can be one of the best receivers in the league if he can keep all of the other stuff from holding him back.
"I can't really speak about it because I have been into trouble off the field myself," Moss said, via Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "But from what I have seen Kenny Britt do, man, if he gets his mind right, Kenny Britt can get up in elite class very quickly. I am a big fan of his. Kenny Britt is a young receiver who can get in that A.J. Green, Julio Jones mix if he wants to, and does the things to make it happen. But his is more mental than it is physical. I hope it works out for him because he is quite a talent. That guy could be special."
Through four years of his career, however, Britt hasn't shown that he can be special. Although he has shown flashes of great talent, he's never caught more than 45 passes in a season, or gained more than 775 yards. At age 24 there's still time for Britt to prove he can be special, but so far in his career he's made more headlines off the field than on it. That's something no one ever said about Moss.


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Royal Media needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
ForumFlux is going to be a website that specializes in selling designs (skins) for forums. We are not a custom design shop, but instead we resell premade templates at a low cost (ie: TemplateMonster). Similar websites are Skinbox, ExtremePixels, vBSkinworks, TransverseStyles, CompletevB, IPBForumSkins, SkinGround, and ForumMonkeys. NOTE - These are not examples of websites we would like our design to mimic. These are just similar sites to look at to understand our business.
Webmasters - our customers tend to be young to middle-aged males
We're looking for a new website design. We want a "big picture" and "cartoony" feel. See these examples below for a visual representation of the STYLE (not theme) we we want:
For the THEME, think "Flux", something fluid, electric, lively, alien/extraterrestrial, etc. Nothing too dark, but weird and fun instead.
Keep in mind we are in the business of selling designs. While we don't want a cookie-cutter corporate/professional design, our look and feel must still portray professionalism.
We've attached 3 wireframes for you as a starting point. We are not set on any particular layout, so feel free to use your own.
No set color scheme - anything that is light to medium/dark colored works. We'll accept anything except for ultra dark (black) designs.
We will ultimately need two pages - one homepage and one content page. The homepage is the main design. The content page is basically a stripped down version of the homepage - the content page should have a big, blank area in the middle that we can use to put text inside of. We only need for you to submit the homepage design to the contest, however, when we choose a winner, we will require both a homepage and a content page as deliverables.
Homepage should have:
- Logo/Company Name (your creation)
- Navigation (6 links)
- Footer (4 links)
- Place to spotlight one of our designs and an area for a glimpse at other designs (ie: http://jameslaicreative.com/)
- 1-2 big "call to action" buttons (ie: "Shop Now!" or "Buy One, Get One Free!")
- Small area(s) for text/announcements for us to give an overview of our website or announce recent changes, sales, etc.
Content page should have:
- Logo/Company Name (your creation)
- Navigation (6 links)
- Footer (4 links)
- Blank area in the middle for us to fill
Remember - we do not necessarily need to see the content page previewed here, however, if your design is selected, you will need to be able to convert your homepage to a content page and provide both to us.
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There's a new trend set to emerge at this year's SXSW know as "ambient social networking." At the helm of this burgeoning trend is the budding two-person startup, Highlight, headed by founder and CEO, Paul Davison.
While in the past, Foursquare and Gowalla were the location-based apps that made headlines, the latest innovation a is new breed that sits on your phone and runs silently behind the scenes. Rather than the check-ins feature that even Foursquare founder, Dennis Crowley, has admitted was losing steam, ambient social networking applications will only notify users with a pop-up notification when another user of the same application approaches your immediate vicinity.
The purpose of an application like Highlight is simply to connect users with similar interests. Users within the same vicinity can view a snippet of each other's profile, which includes their "Blurb," the number of mutual friends and interest in common, and a map showing their location. Drilling down further into a profile reveals a few detailed pieces of information pulled from Facebook, including your job and lists of your mutual friends.
The days of active check-ins are long gone.
To go from discovery of a user to meeting them in person is facilitated by a simple direct messaging feature. Now you have a legitimate excuse to approach that friend-of-a-friend, or an investor. And you can use Highlight as a conversation starter.
Some of you may be hesitant to reveal your location, or have the app run behind the scenes 24 hours a day. Highlight understands this, allowing users to "pause" the app whenever they wish. While Highlight does not offer extensive protective measures for the privacy minded, users are given the option to appear on anyone's notification,or only friends-of-friends. Regardless, users should remember that Highlight trades your information for the chance to meet a like-minded acquaintance.
In preparation for SXSW, coming up this week, Highlight announced its worldwide launch, and will be featuring improved updates as explained in its blog post:
"We want Highlight to make Austin even more fun for you — by surprising you with hidden connections, surfacing information about the people you meet, and helping you remember these people when you bump into them at a random New York coffee shop a year later. You can expect to see some useful enhancements to search and discovery, new ways to interact with people, and continued improvements to performance and battery life."
On that note, what we'd like to see is a notification filter and a contact book of sorts, coupled with a notation feature to remind you exactly where and when you met a specified user, in the case of a serendipitous second reunion.
Expect this year's SXSW darlings to be Highlight and its competitor, Glancee.
You'll find the screen shots of how to use Highlight below:


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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. recently began selling the N-ONE in Japan. It is the third model of the new N Series mini-vehicle from Honda following the N BOX and the N BOX+.
The N-ONE was developed in the motif of the N360, the first mass-produced Honda mini passenger car introduced to the market in 1967, and inherits Honda's M/M (man maximum, machine minimum) concept which is the starting point of Honda's automobile design.
The N-ONE is powered by a 660cc DOHC engine with an option for a turbocharged one and is mated to a CVT and is available in either a FWD or AWD configuration.
Key features of the N-ONE include a spacious cabin which comfortably accommodates four adults, and an improved acceleration performance. Further, stable driving performance and excellent quietness even during highway driving were realized through adoption of a lightweight and highly-rigid body and an exclusively-developed suspension.
The N-ONE lineup also includes a higher grade model, the N-ONE Premium, which features a highest-quality exterior and interior features which are beyond those of any models in the mini-vehicle category. Furthermore, to accommodate the unique tastes of individual customers, a great variety of exterior colors are offered with total 11 body colors and a 2-tone color style, which has different colors for the body and roof.
The N-ONE's pricing starts at 1,150,000 Yen for the basic G-type FWD model and goes up to 1,707,750 Yen for the two-tone Premium-tourer AWD package.


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okay. i stumbled upon a GREAT action. It makes Digi scrap flower ribbons.
I been making some like crazy and using the ones I make for my digi scrapbooking needs. Not sure i can sell what i make, i'd like to sell them as a element not sure how to do that and or how to show them or how to show them, but i got some premade in various colors/patterns, i am not sure how to upload freebies or where to start with that.BUT i will figure it out eventually..
In the meantime, here is the action incase anyone wants to see it or download it from where i got it. I found it through The Scrappin Cop.


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If the death is sudden
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Watch the History of Beer-Making in America in Two Minutes
Thanks to the emergence of the craft beer movement in America over the past 20 years, you probably know your IPAs from your ESAs. Let's just hope you stayed away from those DUIs.
A new video from data charticle-maker Visual.ly has tapped the keg of American beer-making history to pour 100 years of beer production into a two-minute shot of info charting the fall and rise of breweries in the U.S. Watch it and see what lushes we've become.
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~Captain Haiti to the rescue~
April 22, 2010 by captainhaiti
To:: [et al] & ALL Haitians<<<———–
~~Have Faith will travel::"In Union there is Strength"~~
PREVAL, Rene
BELLERIVE, Jean-Max
BIEN-AIMÉ, Paul-Antoine
BAUDIN, Ronald
LARSEN, Alex
REY, Marie-Michèle
GERMAIN, Jean Marie Claude
JEAN-PIERRE, Joël Desrosiers
GABRIEL, Jacques
LESCOUFLAIR, Evans
LASSÈGUE, Marie-Laurence
MICHEL, Marjorie
GUÉ, Joanas
DELATOUR, Patrick
JASMIN, Joseph
PARAISON, Edwin
DENIS, Paul
CRISTALLIN, Yves
COLIMON-FÉTHIÈRE, Josseline
Sincerely submitted::
I will be to you & Haiti like Joseph was to the Pharaoh of Egypt,
bringing order & good for all the people!
"In Union there is Strength"….I will bring union back to Haiti & she
will be strong like never before!
I can mentor/assist Haiti's full recovery, as I eliminate voodoo/idol
worship, which has caused your misery!
I am a light-bearer [truth] warrior like the Apostle Paul on Malta
[Book of Acts, chs. 27 & 28–bible NT]
~ Come get me in Spokane, WA [I have no passport] and you will be poor
& destitute no longer! Don't let pride deprive you of a wonderful solution!
~I do volunteer work @ the Union Gospel Mission~Spokane, WA~
Very sincerely with best wishes,
James Sorrell [CaptainChurch]
Union Gospel Mission #199
Spokane, WA
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The open Qi wireless-charging standard is still evolving. For instance, the Wireless Power Consortium regularly approves new transmitter designs that are proposed by its members. By using magnetic-resonance technology, the latest approved transmitter increases the distance from which devices can be charged from 5 to 40 mm. This transmission distance, which serves devices to 5 W, is suitable for charging through most tables and counter tops.
Twelve new transmitter designs have been approved in the specification. Among the benefits provided by the other designs are more freedom in device placement, magnetic and non-magnetic device alignment, and differing power options like Universal Serial Bus (USB). Many other designs are under review. They have plans for additional spatial freedom and distances, increased power levels, and more options to charge multiple devices at one time.
Wireless charging stationssuch as those that can be built into furniture, tabletops, cars, or charging padstypically use magnetic induction or magnetic-resonance methods to send power to portable devices. Having the flexibility to choose from multiple transmitter designs allows companies to offer a wide range of Qi product types for the consumer-electronics, home-appliance, furniture, automotive, and other markets. These products can be further differentiated through design, components, materials, functionality, and value. Regardless of brand or manufacturer, any Qi-enabled device is designed to work with any Qi charger.