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Knoxville, Tenn.
Saturday morning October 25th, 1862
Ever dearest Sallie, I am glad once more to have the pleasure of writing you a few lines again. We arrived here yesterday evening from a trip of nearly two months in Kentucky. We have had a very hard time of it, out of the two months we have rested very little over two weeks - been marching all the time, generally from 15 to 20 miles a day. Dear I never knew what hard times were before in my life. I thought I had been tired at home picking cotton, splitting rails, etc but it was nothing to this marching and more than all dear we had to pass through on the 8th of this month a very severe battle [Battle of Perryville] - we were fighting nearly the whole day; it beat anything I ever was engaged in, in my life. You have heard me say that I would like to be in one battle if I could come out safe and sound, well I have done that now and my curiosity is perfectly satisfied, I would be glad to know that I never would have to go through another. I am glad to tell you that our company came out all alive except two. William Nesbit from near Holly Springs and poor little Bud Brassel were shot dead on the field. I am very sorry for Mr. Brassel's family.

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I'm creating a game inside of a game called "ROBLOX". The game gives you some scripting tools to allow me to basically create anything I want. The world is created up by decently large blocks. There are few exceptions to this (such as ramps, spheres, tubes, etc.)
I want to create a subtle hint of wind. It will be affecting the game play a little bit and I want the wind to be predictable. I first thought of creating a flag, but, a flag isn't very well made in such a game as ROBLOX.
So my question is, what different kinds of way can I imply that there is wind? What other methods will provide me with a natural representation of wind (I don't want to put a meter or something, I want them to have to find it/figure it out for themselves).


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Some doctors just take things a little too far.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Quit smoking. OR ELSE!
Some doctors just take things a little too far.
15 comments:
- medstudentitis said...
well, if a person is stupid enough to smoke, I guess they might be stupid enough to stand behind my car in the parking garage as I back up.
- March 29, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- Wayne Conrad said...
medstudentitis: Wow.
- March 29, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Lucky Jack said...
This is exactly how I will enforce compliance. You will comply!! You will! Good lesson for premeds right here, right Dr. Grumpy?
- March 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- Loren Pechtel said...
Run over? I've heard of stomping out small fires but doing it with a car doesn't sound like the brightest idea.
Treating a smoker as any other fire, though, sounds like a good idea to me.
- March 29, 2011 at 5:12 PM
What's the big deal? That's how everybody drives in Dallas.
- March 29, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- The Mother said...
Maybe he was trying to put him out with the water in the radiator.
- March 29, 2011 at 7:48 PM
- Moose said...
Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King.
- March 29, 2011 at 8:07 PM
- The Nice Lady said...
I think you have it wrong... it wasn't the smoking that made the doc try to run that guy over; it was the senseless abuse of what MUST have been a can of Diet Coke.
- March 30, 2011 at 1:59 AM
That's fairly arrogant for a doc, he should have been a lawyer.
- March 30, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Packer said...
WIMPS RESORT TO THE CAR, real men duke it out. Ergo, the Dr. is a Wimp.
- March 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- terri c said...
Yeah, that is a little extreme I think. Also, to those who like to call smokers stupid and other names--when was the last time YOU changed a behavior as a result of being treated like that?
- March 30, 2011 at 1:00 PM
I bet they were expensive pants.
- March 30, 2011 at 4:56 PM
My husband would probably give that doc a high-five if he saw him. He's a little bitter about how his parents smoked his whole life and probably stunted his growth in utero and messed up his lungs and such. :) He drives me to the med school every so often, and we always pass patients with their IV poles/oxygen tanks smoking on the perimeter of Local Univ Hospital. He has definitely mentioned wanting to momentarily lose control of the wheel. Don't worry - he's not in healthcare (and I'm always ready to grab the wheel). :)
- March 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- ERP said...
Was that Happy Hospitalist? He's pretty against smoking - and he drives a luxury SUV.
- March 31, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Smoking Timeline said...
Even smokers are people too. They don't smoke because they are stupid. Big tobacco companies spend millions every year to make sure people stay hooked on their drug!
- April 2, 2011 at 2:26 AM


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Looks like the autogyros aka gyrocopters are definitely back in fashion. After the Sikorsky X2 demonstrator, here is the latest one, the Eurocopter X3. It uses twin five-blade turboprops in addition to its main five-blade rotor.
Invented by Juan de la Cierva in 1923, the autogyro was the precursor of the modern helicopter. It combined a conventional propeller, wings and a vertically powered rotor that allowed for vertical take-off and landing. It was quite successful, although it didn't had a lot of utility at the time despite its obvious advantages over regular planes.
The concept of combining vertical and horizontal engines kept evolving, like this Fairey Rotodyne prototype XE521.
Now, companies are looking into it again so civil and military passengers could enjoy the speed of turboprop aircraft while being able to land in a very small strip of land. According to the European company, the Eurocopter X3 will be able to zoom at 220 knots, although the testing will only take it to 180 knots this December, reaching its top mark in March 2011.
According to the company, they wanted to increase the speed of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft without significantly increasing the cost. [Eurocopter via Black Horizon via Telstar Logistics]


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If you were to put together a bucket list for a coach about to lose his job, you have the inexplicable loss followed by a postgame freakout to make it all but complete.
Hey look, there's Norv Turner right there! Please tell me you've (seen this video.) I'm not sure if Norv is really upset about the question (because he almost has that 'look at the cue cards' thing that Lindsay Lohan had during her appearance on "Saturday Day Night Live") or if he had a Coors Light commercial payday in mind. I mean, he's going to need work next season so it makes sense he would already plan for another gig.
Undaunted, we will continue our look at those teams competing to be the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, no matter who the top dog is. And until we have a better name, we will continue to refer to this space as the Fans for Barkley.
And without further ado ...
Others receiving votes: Oakland Raiders (3-6), Tennessee (4-6), New York Jets (3-6), Cleveland Browns (2-7)
If you want to be truly successful in the alternative rankings, you need to be bad in all three phases of the game. The Chargers have been bad offensively, given up big plays defensively but they really put it all together on Sunday with a poor performance on special teams, too.
The Eagles were in a must-lose situation on Sunday. When you have a team like the Cowboys in town, it would have been so easy to pull out a victory. But the Eagles dug deep, did what they had to do and pulled out a much needed loss to move up in the rankings. When you look back on the pivotal moments of the 2012 season, people will point to the 21-point explosion they allowed to the Cowboys in a matter of a few minutes as the key to the season.
Cam Newton was at a crossroads after a win over the Redskins in Week 9. Could this have been a turning point for the Panthers to tumble down the alternative rankings? Well, Newton shook off a good performance and instead went back to being what we are accustomed to as the Panthers were barely competitive against the Broncos.
When you have a game on Thursday night, it is your time to show what you can do. And the Jaguars put in a bid for the No. 1 spot, and to be honest, if this column was penned on Thursday night, it might have been enough to sway the voters. But when you get some distance between the embarrassing home loss to the Colts, it loses some of its impact.
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IBM might have launched the PC revolution back in the dark ages by sparking an industry of "IBM compatible" personal computers, but the company hasn't been a real presence in the PC market ever since it sold its ThinkPad business to Lenovo — which that company has turned into a serious enterprise. However, that doesn't mean IBM is out of the computing biz: The company is well known for its server products and for its big-iron mainframe systems—and that's where it may not find itself in some legal trouble. The European Commission is launching two formal antitrust investigations looking into whether IBM abused its dominant position in the mainframe computer market.
The first case involves allegations from emulator software developers T3 and Turbo Hercules that IBM is illegally tying its mainframe hardware to its own operating system, excluding emulator products that would enable the systems to run applications designed for different types of systems. Emulators are often used on mainframes to enable new hardware to run older, legacy applications — some of which cost millions of dollars to license or develop — as well as smooth conversion to new systems.
The second antitrust probe is being launched by the European Commission itself into whether IBM has engaged in anticompetitive practices in the market for third-party mainframe maintenance services, primarily by limited or delaying access to parts and components that can only be obtained from IBM.
The EC emphasizes that, at this time, it has no proof of any infringements; however, it intends to give the cases priority treatment.
IBM denies any wrongdoing and says it plans to cooperate fully with the investigations. In a slightly unusual move, IBM also claimed in a statement that Turbo Hercules' and T3's allegations were without merit, and the companies were primarily acting as proxies for IBM competitors like Microsoft.
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Two people stood out from the other Hebrew teachers, both in their methods of teaching and of attracting students. Therefore, they were called 'teachers' and not Torah instructors. One ran a cheder and one taught at home. The first was Ben Zion Neumark, and the second was Mordechai Sheinerman.
Neumark was a Zionist activist, an official of the national Zionist movement and a journalist. When VIPs would arrive in Brest, he would make every effort to provide comfortable accommodations and lodgings. He was known in all circles and accepted he introduced a better teaching system in his school.
Sheinerman was a community activist and dedicated Zionist. A cultured man with refined manners, he would give lessons in the homes of the wealthy. He also visited Israel, but due to an eye disease, he had to leave the country. He returned to Israel in later years and spent the last years of his life there.
After a short period of teaching in Horodok, a small town in the Vilna district, and in Lubashov a town in the Minsk Gubernia, Pinsk district - I arrived in Brest. My experiences in those places were closely connected with my transferring to Brest. A friend in Horodok had invited me to come there to teach. The town had two religious Torah instructors and one Russian teacher. Several educated men, who were not happy with the religious instructors, were seeking a good teacher for their children. I let myself be persuaded and came to Horodok. Several of the local residents asked me to teach their children as Hebrew was since my childhood days the language that I thought and spoke in I taught my pupils Hebrew in Hebrew, not in Yiddish as was then the custom. I would speak to the children and their parents only in Hebrew. I introduced reforms to the teaching methods: songs, exercises, and playing.
The religious instructors upon seeing these 'crazy' reforms became alarmed for their livelihoods. They turned to a petition writer and asked that he write accusing me to the Chief of Police in Vilna and requesting that he should expel me from the city. The parents of my students told me to bribe the petition writer so that he should not send his letter. But I did not want to do this. For four weeks the letter lay in his office. The police chief was busy with other matters of the day. Then I received an invitation to come to the Starosta (police chief) in the evening for a 'chat' and bring my textbooks with me. When I arrived the police chief began by asking me details, I replied and the secretary wrote it all down. The questions were; had I ever been in St Petersburg, Moscow or Kiev? If not, perhaps my parents had been there? What was I doing in this town? Who were my acquaintances and friends? For what purposes did I need the 'dry' scientific textbooks? After these questions and answers, the Starosta realized that I was not a dangerous revolutionary. He apologized to me, saying that he had received a complaint and that it was his duty to investigate the matter. However, he gave me good advice, which was to leave the town, so as not to cause complications and conflicts.
After Pesach, I came to Lubashov, and there I stayed for a longer time. A vital issue of my life caused me to leave this quiet town and transfer to Brest. Before coming to Brest I sent an inquiry about opening a Hebrew school there. I sent a letter to my uncle, Moshe Pesach Gvirtzman to permit me to print an advertisement, but his wife, Lipshe interfered in the matter and would not allow this announcement . However, it was printed and even pasted on the walls of the synagogue schools.
Before the High Holydays I ordered benches in the modern style that I had seen in a Russian book, and with these, I furnished several rooms and the school opened. Several of the city residents entrusted me to teach their children. As soon as the school became known in the city and the religious teachers heard about its innovations, they decide that the best way to get rid of me would be to report me to the authorities, and one day a police officer came to see me at my school the story of Horodok repeated itself, but with some differences..
The police chief came to see me, and I was not invited to his office. He came alone without a secretary and without a protocol. The questions were few, the textbooks not checked and he apologized but said that he had to investigate according to his duty. This time he did not advise me to leave the city.
At the opening of the first class, people also enrolled for the evening classes, which were for adults and enlightened people with whom I could discuss matters that could not be mentioned openly. For example, I once remarked that it is the commentaries that suggest that King Solomon did not write his psalms by himself. This gave the 'learned scholars' the grounds to accuse me of being an 'Apicorus' (a heretic). I was cautious enough to say that this was not my opinion. They further said that it would be a sin to entrust children to me to study Torah.
New higher-level classes opened up in my school and the Torah studies became an chief part of the curriculum. The religious teachers found new deficiencies the Torah was not studied according to the chapter of the week and not with Rashi, but with a different method and more complaints ..
However, I was obstinate in my actions and stuck to my opinions. The school flourished and there was no lack of students as long as I was in Brest. Together with all the other residents, I was expelled from the city in 1915. Not only the school, but even speaking Hebrew was an important issue -when I arrived in Brest no one spoke Hebrew and no one had heard of speaking such a 'dead' Language. They told of a Sephardi emissary from Israel, who had arrived in the city and had great difficulty in communicating with the Jews. I turned to the more educated students of the city and proposed that we form a Hebrew-speaking Society. They agreed, and gradually also adults joined this society. I drew up a program, but none of the important officials helped me. We could not get permission for this group, so everything was conducted in secret. The meetings took place each time at a different venue. Thus the speaking of Hebrew spread through certain circles in the city. There were even parents of some of the students, themselves not members of the group, who would greet me in Hebrew on the street, and who would timidly speak to me in broken Hebrew but nevertheless Hebrew.
This innovation was taken up, even though in mockery by some. They especially talked about my wife because we only spoke Hebrew at home it is crazy that a woman of our city should speak Hebrew in the street and at home, whoever heard of such a thing?
At the end of 1918 I returned to Brest for a further 18 months. The city changed and became modernized the residents were newcomers and they were preoccupied with the worries of making a living and nobody thought of Torah study in Hebrew. All the former teachers had also vanished. My wife died, and I could barely exist from the private lessons that I gave a group of young men who wanted me to teach them Hebrew.
A year later, representatives from the Tarbut organization that had founded Hebrew schools in other Polish towns came to Brest and started evening classes in Hebrew. They invited me to join them, but I did not accept as I was preparing to make aliyah to Israel. After much preparation and difficulties, I left for Israel in Elul 1921.
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The spiritually rich and talented teacher Akiva Rosenbloom, who was murdered in Kowel as one of the Nazis' first victims there.
Leah Kreinitz (may she live to long years).
Gedalia Shklarski, Zev Levana and others who now live in Israel.
|Teachers of the Techiya Hebrew School in Brest 1922
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The teachers of the Tarbut high school and its headmaster, Zev Lutwak, were concerned with a good education based on Jewishness and also general Polish studies. After a long battle with the Polish authorities the Tarbut Hebrew High School together with its sister school in Bialystok, obtained full official certification to grant matriculation diplomas.
This caused great celebration in Zionist circles. In Brest, even former opponents of Hebrew and Zionism joined in the celebrations. It was a resounding victory for the spirit of the Hebrew movement previously the attitude towards the founders and supporters of the Hebrew schools had been one of apathy and indifference, and that the revival of Hebrew schools was only a dream.
The joy in Brest expressed itself in celebratory meetings and an open prayer Sabbath in the Great Synagogue with the participation of all the Hebrew schools' parents and students. Zev Dov Begin, the secretary of the kehilla council, welcomed them in the name of the kehilla. H.Tash spoke of the significance of a Hebrew education in the Diaspora for such a Zionist celebration to be held in the Great Synagogue was unprecedented.
The Great Synagogue was under the direction of Rabbi Z. Soloveitchik - it was known as an opponent of Zionism and until then it had not permitted Zionist celebrations.
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The Jewish Society for the care of orphans in Polessie took over the responsibility for caring for homeless children.
With the assistance of the Joint, they founded a Trades School in Brest. They purchased a large three-storey building at no. 28 Third of May Street in 1924. There they opened a dormitory /hostel the house and garden was a model of tidiness and comfort. They accommodated 80 orphans and deserted children who could study Torah and a trade there, with the aim of bringing them up as honest members of the community.
The dormitory/hostel was run on the basis of the income of self supporting youth organizations and self supporting work from skills such as locksmithing or carpentry which they had been taught in the ORT trades school. Thus the hostel served to bring up these children into their working lives and society. Furthermore, there was an unspoken aim - the training of pioneers for Israel. That was difficult to achieve - the majority of the youths got their first education in the Tsarist pre-war Russia, where life was hard and oppressive, and did not awaken Zionist thought.
Nonetheless, the administration board managed to instill the spirit of Israel into the young people. They learned Hebrew with enthusiasm and prepared to go to Israel.
Three years later, the hostel sent its first group of students to Israel. All of them settled as pioneers. (One of them, Yitzchak Fogel lost his only son Ben Zion Fogel in the War of Independence.1948).
Since that time, there were other groups that were sent to Israel, however, the Bund and the leftist Poale Zion reacted negatively to the activity of the hostel. According to their doctrine, the training and teaching of trades was their exclusive area and why should Hebrew Tarbutniks' be involved with this? Especially considering that it was the Ort school that had provided them with their skilled training .
However, they did succeed in wresting the hostel away from the Zionist influence and the Zionist pioneer ideology, which had influenced the underprivileged and oppressed of the Brest and district community. But from all that involvement and greatness only dark memories remain a broken aching heart that says in your blood and memories they will stay alive!
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Translated by Dr. Samuel Chani and Jenni Buch In the Old Brest there was for over 40 years a great yeshiva in the Mishmar synagogue. The heads of this yeshiva were Rabbi Simcha Zelig and Rabbi Moshe Sokolovski, they were under the patronage and supervision of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.. About 100 students studied there day and night, and from this yeshiva many great and talented students in Torah graduated such as: Rabbi Meier Berlin, the genius Shlomo Politzik who was known by the name of the Mezricher genius , and others.
The city's Talmud Torah (synagogue school) had existed for centuries and had over 100 students, it's higher classes were preparatory to the yeshiva. In it's last years Rabbi Yakov Zalman Lifshitz was the headmaster under the supervision of Rabbi Israel and the head Gabbeh was Rabbi Butche Schochet.
In 1918-20 the concern was for the saving of lives, and the building of the new Talmud Torah. Later, Rabbi Michael Orchov took over.
In 1905 Modern Cheders appeared in Brest under the supervision of skilled teachers who worked in the system of Ivrit Beivrit Hebrew taught in Hebrew. The rooms were spotless, there were new benches and many colorful posters on the wall, like in a modern classroom.
The first to introduce these Modern Cheders to Brest were David Kupchik and Eliahu Sini. It's worth noting that Eliahu Sini was a renowned chess player and that he owned a vast library. He had spent several years as a teacher in the U.S. before returning to Brest. Important teachers of the Hebrew in Hebrew method were the elderly grammaticist Tzvi Har Zahav, who died in Tel Aviv, Rabbi M. Sheinerman, Ben Zion Neumark, Fundig, and others.
Brest also had general high schools, a commerce (business) school, state primary schools, and also two Jewish middle schools with Russian as the teaching language. After W.W.1 the Joint funded the establishment of schools for the children of Brest.
The Young Zionists (Zeirei Zion) formed the Techiya public school with 7 classes with Hebrew as the teaching language in all subjects Polish, Polish History, Maths, Geography, etc. The Techiya had over 200 students. As well as that there were 2 kindergartens and a dormitory. The two language Hebrew/Polish school called Tel Chai taught Hebrew, Tanach, and Jewish history.
Over 150 poor students studied at the ORT Trades school that was under the directorship of the engineer M. Feldstein. There was also a public school established by the Bundists and the Leftist Poale Zion with Yiddish as the teaching language. Later this school split up into 2 separate schools with the Bund school headed by David Shneider and the Leftist Poale Zion school by M. Menachovski.
The Young Zionists also conducted evening Hebrew classes including the geography of Israel, as preparatory courses for the pioneer movement.
In 1924, the Tarbut High School was established with 3 classes from the Techiya school and 2 other broader classes totaling 140 students. Amongst its founders were: Chaim Tennewitzki, Izbitzer, Neumark, Winnikoff, and the headmaster Z. Lutwak.
In the Tarbut High school, the spirit of Hebrew ruled, but the general studies were in Polish. In the Polessie province, only 2 Hebrew High Schools were granted full government accreditation the Tarbut school in Bialystok and the Tarbut school in Brest. There was much ideological debate one side wanted to attain official accreditation at the expense of the Hebrew studies the other side demanded that the school conduct all its teaching in Hebrew only, including general subjects. Tarbut lasted until the outbreak of W.W.2.
A separate institution was the Brest Orphanage, with over 150 children. They had a good school called Ha Chaim founded by the Mizrachi Organization, whose director was Rabbi Shmuel Yosef Halperin, a learned man of high standards. Also Naphtali Rabinovitch who cared for the welfare of the orphans. Later, the school enlarged and took on the name of Tachkamoni.
The Jewish library occupied an important place in the life of Brest. From 1905 until W.W.1 it was the cultural center of the city with over 800 books, mainly in Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish. This library was under the auspices of the Zionist organization and its last directors before 1914 were Moshe Lubetkin and Isser Tzemach.
During the expulsion from the city in 1915, the library was locked and the books left inside. But the Jewish laborers that the German Army brought into the city for forced labor from the surrounding towns moved many of the books. In 1918 when the Jews returned to the city, the library committee was able to retrieve many of them.
These books formed the basis for the new library on Bialystokski St. The library committee included members of the Young Zionists and the librarian was Scholem Halperin. After the fall of Trumpeldor and his comrades in 1920, the library was called Tel Chai.
|The Tel Chai Library Committee
From R.to L. K. Lubelsky, M. Barlas,
S. Halperin, A. Ludski, B. Arenson, Tupak
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Translated by Dr. Samuel Chani and Jenni Buch In accordance with the orders from the German Military powers in 1915, Brest was evacuated. Although some residents transferred to the neighboring towns and villages, the majority wandered far into Russia, away from the fighting front. Thus the existence of the Brest Community was uprooted, it had been one of the most beautiful centers of Judaism with its origins going back before the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth. As soon as the New Polish republic emerged after W.W.1, the remainder of the city's residents who had survived the bitter fate of homelessness returned to rebuild it from the ruins. Many of the residents, who had wandered far away at the outbreak of W.W.1, never returned and settled in new places.
Those that did return had never seen such a catastrophe . They tried to settle into temporary accommodation in the cellars under mountains of bricks and rubble.
Many families lived for long periods like animals in their dens. But the will to rebuild was so strong that these cellar dwellers began to rebuild their homes from the ruins. There were few essentials available, but with the help of a soup kitchen and the assistance of the American funded Joint organization, many were saved from starving. The problems of poverty, food and homelessness pushed aside all other needs it was particularly difficult to re-establish a cultural and community life.
With many difficulties new schools were created. The Tel Chai Library was opened. The orphanage with it's hostel and educational center. The first Hebrew kindergarten was formed by Esther Halperin Chinich, for the first time, Hebrew was heard and spoken by the kindergarten children.The first Hebrew public school was the Techiya school. Many of its teachers and students migrated to Israel.
In Brest as in other polish towns, the Tarbut organization had to fight on 2 fronts: against the Yiddishists (Bundists) and the Polish assimilation propaganda which pulled the student youth away from the wells of Jewish and Hebrew culture.
The supporters of the Hebrew language culture organized themselves my father Ben Zion Neumark, Itzbitzer, L. Winnikoff, Gedalia Hoffman, Zaretzki, Y. Rosenblum and Zelig Braverman Jews who were occupied with the worries of making a living, had to take on the task of building a Hebrew high school.
Together with H. Lutwak who came to us from Galicia they would spend entire nights worrying about the finances, the teaching staff, and voluntarily conducting enrolment drives for students. In 1924 the school stood erected with 3 regular and 2 preparatory classes. The first teachers were Lutwak, Liberman, Rosenblum, Shklarski, and Lehrman. They had a few textbooks and some teaching material in Hebrew. From time to time there would be a delivery of teaching material from Warsaw. This was not as much a community activity but the fulfillment of a dream, the celebration of their achievement.
The headmaster and staff naively thought that the students should occupy themselves a great deal with Polish and Polish literature and history, just as in the Polish state schools. The ambition was to reach a standard to enable the school to obtain official Polish recognition this placed the school administration in a dilemma.
The teaching and learning of Hebrew suffered as a result of the Polish studies.
The struggle between the nationalistic Polish content and the Zionist character of the school was to be echoed between the students and in internal debates at the Hebrew middle schools. The discrimination against the students of the Tarbut School was linked to not gaining entrance to further study at Polish universities as was possible in the Polish public schools. This stopped the Tarbut administration from resting until it achieved this for the Jewish youth.
|The Tarbut Hebrew High School in Brest
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Red Wings beat Ducks, will face Blackhawks
- Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader score first-period goals
- Valtteri Filppula scored eventual game-winner in the second period
- Emerson Etem and Francois Beauchemin score for Ducks
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Detroit Red Wings went after every puck like it was a pot of gold, finished every check, banked two goals in the first period and another in the second period and cashed in with a trip to Chicago for round two of the playoffs.
By the time the third period rolled around Sunday night at Honda Center, the Red Wings were protecting a lead and held onto it to claim Game 7, 3-2, the first time in the series the Red Wings won in regulation.
"We wanted to have a good start and we did that," captain Henrik Zetterberg said. "Then we just kept playing. There were a few moments when they took over and we were on our heels a little bit, but overall, we played a good game. It was nice."
After upsetting the second-seeded Ducks, the Wings next will take on the top-seeded Blackhawks, who polished off the Minnesota Wild last Thursday.
The Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks will play in the other Western Conference series.
"It was good to see that we can move on," Zetterberg said. "It's been a different year for us, and the way we got it together at the end of the year and played our way into the postseason and kept going was really fun to see."
The NHL has not released a schedule, but Detroit's next series will open Wednesday at United Center. That gives the Red Wings at least a day and a half at home - they planned to fly home from Anaheim Monday - and the opportunity to practice Tuesday in Detroit before getting back on a plane. Under any circumstance playing the Blackhawks will not be as taxing traveling-wise as it was playing the Ducks, which over the past week required four three-hour time-zone changes.
BOX SCORE:Red Wings 3, Ducks 2
The Blackhawks won all four meetings, though one required overtime and two went to a shootout.
"It's going to be fast-paced games," defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. "They have so much talent up front, they have puck-moving defensemen, they play at a high pace and at the same time, they've got some big bodies. Should be a tough match-up."
DUCKS:Selanne has to decide future again
The Red Wings come into the series with good swaggering after the way they finished off round one.
They trailed after every odd game, were tied after every even game. When everything really was on the line in Game 7, though, the Red Wings outplayed the Ducks in every facet, winning every 50/50 battle, refraining from retaliation penalties.
Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader bookended first-period goals around Emerson Etem's contribution. Valtteri Filppula backhanded a pass from Daniel Cleary for a 3-1 lead with six minutes to go in the second period. The Ducks cut it to 3-2 with 3:17 to play when Francois Beauchemin's power play shot went in off Jonathan Ericsson.
Each side switched up lines at the start of the game in an effort to outsmart the other, with the Red Wings separating Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk and the Ducks, Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry. The Red Wings got what they wanted out of it: A goal, 1:49 after the game began. Valtteri Filppula sent a shot on net, and the rebound popped into the slot, Zetterberg popped it back in the other direction, into an open net.
The Red Wings dominated the start with such mastery they outshot the Ducks 7-1 after five minutes. They weren't able to convert during a power play, which seemed to instill some energy into the Ducks, and then Anaheim got a power play. They didn't convert either, but got momentum on their side and scored 20 seconds later. Jonas Hiller sent the puck to Beauchemin, who found Etem in the neutral zone. Etem cross into Detroit's zone, swung left to right and flipped the puck behind Jimmy Howard to tie the game at 13:48.
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When Kyle Quincey cross-checked Daniel Winnik so hard he needed attention from the trainer on the ice, the Red Wings had to go back on the penalty kill. A bad pass by Beauchemin enabled Abdelkader to get the puck right onto his stick; he immediately took off straight up the ice and scored with eight seconds left on Anaheim's power play. Howard finished off his first period with a glove save on Ben Lovejoy as the Ducks outshot the Wings, 12-11.
After that wild of a first period, both teams settled down to start the second period. Gustav Nyquist tried to make something happen with a bouncy rebound, but was rebuffed by Hiller. Howard denied Luca Sbisa even as the puck snuck through traffic, and Hiller followed up with a glove save on Datsyuk.
The Red Wings got their third goal with 6:15 to go in the second period. Zetterberg won a face-off, and when the puck squirted loose, Cleary gave chase. The puck went to Filppula, who registered his first goal of the playoffs. Matt Beleskey had something of a breakaway after Brendan Smith lost his balance and the puck, but Howard redirected the puck and chaser Teemu Selanne wasn't able to get a second go at it on the play.
A Quincey slash put the Wings shorthanded in the last 90 seconds of the second period, but Selanne helped out with a cross-checking penalty, ending the Ducks' power play after a minute.
The Ducks pressed hard in the final period and got a goal from Beauchemin, but the Red Wings had done too much work to be thwarted.
Helene St. James covers the NHL for the Detroit Free Press, a Gannett affliliate. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames


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Anyone reading VK here? I read till chp 16 I'm waiting till chp 17 which will come out on 24 th of April...argh...can't wait ><
Wanna know what Yuuki is going to do....will she give herself to Maria or not :s? But isn't Maria a pure blood so if Yuuki's bitten by her she will turn into a vampire too O.o...
I don't really know which couple to choose. In the beginning I liked KxY better but after reading chp 15 I started to doubt xD
i read Vk but im not that up to date since i dont have my hard drive.. i still think zero x fuuki is better..
Zero x Yuuki~ I can't wait for the next chapter too. I think either Yuki give herself or Kaname/zero found out and work out their own deal with her. If not. Another battle.
Ah! That's a tough questions ^^;;; I can't decide~~ I like both Kaname and Zero >____< Yuuki would fit well with either of them... however I really hope she won't give her blood to that crazy female vampire! o___o Also I'm sure Yuuki bears on some kind of secret... things related to her lost memories ^^ Can't wait for that to unfold XD What happened when she was five and how did she end up in the snow in the middle of nowhere.
Also I keep wondering why her blood is so "especially" tasty? Is it simply a coincidence? My current theory is that Yuuki is a child who's born from a vampire and a human... now that would be something wouldn't it? ;P_________________Thanx to Joanne Kuang for the awesome avatar!
i'm a fan of the artist and i love her new work! i can't find the scans for it anymore though. where'd you get them? please tell me~~
@mangauniverse: Yeah I think so too, but if Yuuki is a child of a vampire and a human wouldn't she be a vampire too O.o?
@lele: You can get the scans of the forum http://vampireknight.invisionplus.net/ but you have to get 25 posts first... but I got it from the yahoo group manga_hosterz but they don't allow any members so... :s
17th chapter is out atm >0<, can't wait till someone uploads the raws/trans/scans.
Teeny Tiny Spoiler ^^
Kaname and Yuuki dances together in that one ><!!! No offence to Zero...poor him watches them dance...
yaaaaaay .. im Zero X Yuki fan
when i read the manga i always thought that i'll b the only one who like him
there are many bishounen there i think Shiki looks good too ..
Kaname have the looks but i feel there is strange aura that surrand him ..
@riku: Yeah I agree that he has something mysterious...
Ah! So ch17 is out in raw? Want it~~ 25 posts? <_____<_________________Thanx to Joanne Kuang for the awesome avatar!
okashira ---> in scanlation. U can get it at
. You just need to register.
@rin: wow there are a lot of other manga too *__* thnx for the link btw ^^
np. I think ochibi-chan has a hard time lately with people keep pming her. So there might be some post requirement soon if im not mistaken. Most of the mangas are raw. I only know she put vampire knight in chinese, english and jap. Others are all raw i think.
oh Í hope she doesn't get overworked/stressed x__x
and now back to the topic
Who will you think Yuuki ends up with and why? * me so romance obsessed xD *
* a lil' spoilerish ********************************
I personally think she will end up with nobody or Zero. With nobody because Zero and Kaname are vampires and she's a human, so she will die earlier. With Zero, because Yuuki lets Zero drink her blood, and somewhere in the manga it says that when a vampire drinks your blood, you will feel something for that vampire.
Personally the way i see it, yuuki will end up with zero. SImply becoz her feeling towards kaname isn't the lovey dovey romance type. Its more to adoration and "you're my hero" type while with zero, she has a diff bond. Those 2 might stand equally infront of yuuki now. but i bet if one of them were to die/gone, yuuki will suffer much more when zero died/gone.
ok, so some unknown reasons i can't get a hold of chapter 6. can someone send it to me or something? please?!


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Welcome to the forums premanand!
The infinitive verb "to exist" is conjugated as follows:
I exist/we exist
you exist/you all exist
he exists/they exist
she exists/they exist
it exists/they exist
As you can see, in English, it is usually the third person singular that puts a final "s" on the verb. The other conjugations leave it off.
I live/we live
you live/you all live
he lives/they live
she lives/they live
it lives/they live
I run/we run
you run/you all run
he runs/they run
I cook/we cook
you cook/you cook
he cooks/they cook
I eat/we eat
you eat/you eat
he eats/they eat
We do have irregular verbs that conjugate differently, and still it is the third person singular which is the odd conjugation.
I go/we go
you go/you go
he goes/they go
I do/we do
you do/you all do
she does/they do
I have/we have
you have/you have
it has/they have
Do you see the pattern? In some of the second person plural conjugations I wrote "you all" to indicate that it is a plural. The fact is that when talking to a group of people you can either say, "You all are to go to . . ." or "You are to go to . . ." The "all" can be used or omitted. It's personal preference.
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- World's fourth largest proven crude oil reserves
- Low oil extraction costs
- International financial support (IMF and bilateral loans)
- Undiversified economy; highly dependent on the oil sector
- Severe tensions between the Shia majority and the rest of the country
- Tensions with autonomous Kurdistan, a major contributor to the oil sector
- Cost of reconstruction and assistance to victims following armed conflict
- Small GDP share of non-oil and gas private sector
- Weak and limited banking sector
- Deficiencies in education, health, and welfare systems
Risk assessment
Economic activity poised to surge in 2019
A year after the conflict ended, the war against the Islamic State has taken a heavy toll. Basic infrastructure was damaged, and some cities such as Mosul and Tal Alfar were 70% destroyed. The World Bank estimates the cost of the damage at USD 45 billion and puts the financing needs for reconstruction at USD 88.2 billion. At the reconstruction conference held in Kuwait in February 2018, the international community pledged USD 30 billion, mainly in the form of credit facilities and investment. In 2018, excluding oil, investment in infrastructure remained the main driver of the economy. As the second largest OPEC producer and fifth largest in the world, Iraq is highly dependent on the oil sector. Despite the OPEC agreement on reducing output, the more favourable oil situation in 2018 allowed the economy to return to growth. In 2019, the ramp-up of the Majnoun and Halfaya oil fields should lead to an increase in production of more than 450,000 barrels per day over three years. At the same time, the likely increase in OPEC quotas in 2019 should give the Iraqi authorities more flexibility to raise exports. Continued high oil prices should also give the government additional room for manoeuvre to substantially increase spending. Among the significant investments, the authorities have signed a memorandum of understanding with General Electric and Siemens to rebuild and upgrade the country's electricity grid. This project is expected to generate up to 25 gigawatts of electricity and create more than 65,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Small current account and government deficits
The 2018 Finance Act was the first budget passed since the country declared victory over the Islamic State in 2017. With 90% of budget revenues coming from oil, the rise in oil prices allowed the government to post a small budget surplus in 2018. Despite the increase in oil revenues, the public accounts are expected to show a small deficit in 2019. The 2019 budget provides for a 23% increase in expenditures over 2018. Public investment is set to increase by 32% and should focus on key sectors such as energy and security. However, the distribution of the budget between the provinces is likely to be the subject of continued disagreement among the political parties, and especially between the central government and the autonomous Kurdistan region. The central government decided last year to reduce the region's allocation from 17% to 12%, sparking a political crisis in November 2018.
Despite increased export revenues, import growth driven by higher public investment is expected to weigh on the trade surplus, while the services and income balances will remain in deficit. The small current account deficit will be partially financed by FDI in the oil sector, as well as by multilateral and bilateral loans for reconstruction. Finally, downward pressure on the Iraqi dinar is expected to ease as the security situation improves and oil prices rise, allowing the central bank to maintain the US dollar peg.
A fragile political situation
The May 2018 parliamentary elections were the first elections held in the country after Mosul was taken over by Iraqi national forces. Due to ethnic and religious divisions, the election was followed by a long period of negotiations. Barham Salih from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) was finally elected as Iraqi President in October, ending several months of deadlock. He appointed independent Shia politician Adel Abdul Mahdi to the key position of Prime Minister. Presented as the minister for reconciliation, Adel Abdul Mahdi has the difficult task of responding to widespread public discontent. The country has emerged divided by the conflict, and demonstrations have increased since the fighting ended. The May elections featured a low turnout (44.5%) and a high number of independent candidates. They highlighted a growing lack of interest among Iraqis in their political system, which has been rocked by a string of corruption scandals.
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NASHVILLE, TN -- Global beverage strategist Ross Colbert of Rabobank International keeps his finger on the pulse of the swiftly evolving single-cup brew-by-pack coffee market. He again shared his insights and projections with operators attending the recent National Automatic Merchandising Association Coffee Tea & Water show in Nashville. Rabobank, a global leader in food and agribusiness financing, has many clients from the office coffee service, roasting and consumer packaged goods segments, including giants like Aramark, Green Mountain Coffee, Kraft Foods, Lavazza and DE Master Blenders. These relationships give it deep insight into the "pod" market, a term Colbert uses to broadly represent all brew-by-pack formats.
Colbert informed operators that in 2012, Rabobank forecast that there would be "no clear winner" in single serve at that point. It also predicted that the market segment would reach $8 billion by 2017, mushrooming to two and a half times its 2012 size.
In 2012, the bank also predicted the advent of more multi-beverage dispensers in the future, and that mergers and acquisitions would continue to drive industry consolidation.
These predictions were spot on, with 2012 and 2013 being "transformational" years in coffee as shown by by Mondelez's split from Kraft Foods Group, the privatization of Caribou Coffee and Peet's Coffee & Tea and D.E. Master Blenders' spinoff from Sara Lee. Also noteworthy was Starbucks's purchase of Teavana and Evolution Tea and DS Waters' acquisition by new equity owners.
"By 2015, we may see this level of merger and acquisition activity again, after the market digests all of this," Colbert conjectured.
Colbert identified several factors driving global coffee demand. Among them is a shift from multi-serve to single-serve formats, both at and away from home. Brew-by-pack format innovations are also driving value growth in mature markets as consumers are paying more per cup, he added.
Proliferating out-of-home offerings are driving coffee demand, as consumers are willing to pay more for convenience, according to Colbert. Gourmet coffee shops continue to lose ground in specialty coffee to quick-service restaurants as they develop premium beverage programs.
Growth in global coffee demand is focused on differentiation, quality and "premiumization" within roast and ground coffee. Growing consumer favor accorded to premium offerings is demonstrated by the value placed on fair trade, health benefits, organic and local details on coffee origins, Colbert added.
"Consumer preference for convenience and quality are driving innovation in single-serve roast and ground brewing technology, which in turn is helping drive growth in the single-serve coffee market," Colbert said.
On a global basis, coffee consumption is increasing in emerging markets, where demand is forecast to reach 50% of worldwide coffee consumption by 2020. Growth of instant coffee is driven largely by emerging countries, according to Colbert.
Western Europe leads the global coffee market, both in value and volume sales. Asia-Pacific is second in value, but trailing North America, Eastern Europe and Latin America in ready-to-drink retail volume.
The brew-by-pack market is geographically concentrated, with penetration limited almost entirely to higher-income markets like Western Europe and North America. In 2012, North America and Western Europe, combined, accounted for more than 90% of the global "pod" market.
At more than $5 billion, the market for coffee "pods" in Western Europe is still almost twice as large as that of North America. But North America is increasing its use of single-cup packs at a much faster rate, recording a 105% growth in value in 2012, compared with Western Europe's 12% increase. Colbert projects that the U.S. will surpass Europe in single-cup value within 18 months.
Global coffee's increase in retail value has been driven by "pod" growth, according to Colbert. Between 2007 and 2012, "pods" expanded in value by an average annual rate of 26%, or eight times faster than the remaining coffee categories combined.
"'Pods' are actually benefiting from the recession," Colbert said."Consumers are not spending money in cafés, but purchasing pod coffee machines in order to replicate the café experience at home for a better value."
Coffee styles are different around the world and single-cup formats remain fragmented, Colbert observed. Nespresso continues to be the leader in global "pod" value, with a nearly 26% share. Keurig holds the No. 2 spot and is closing in fast, despite a market that, so far, has been limited primarily to North America, according to the beverage market expert.
Other leading systems vying for market share include Nestlé's Nescafé Dolce Gusto, D.E. Master Blenders' Senseo and Kraft Food Group's Tassimo.
After North America, Latin America was the fastest-growing region for coffee in 2012. "Pods," however, accounted for only 2% of the Latin American fresh coffee market, recording $154 million in sales, with a presence in only six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. While Brazil accounts for 69% of brew-by-pack sales in Latin America, single-serve coffee still made up only 2% of the Brazilian fresh market in 2012.
The price of a cup of portion-pack coffee in Latin America was more than three times the price of any of the types of non- "pod" coffee, Colbert said.
Nespresso enjoys the widest global penetration of any major "pod" brand, but its presence in the rapidly-growing North American market remains limited. Since 2009, Nespresso's share in North America has declined from 5% to 3%, according to Colbert.
The beverage market analyst speculated that Nespresso will continue to be challenged outside of Europe. By registering patents for every aspect of the Nespresso system, Colbert explained, Nestlé aimed to prevent other companies from manufacturing Nespresso-compatible "pods." With so many layers of protection, other companies have struggled to compete with Nespresso for share of the "pod" category.
The top five global brands in terms of value in 2012 were Nestlé's Nespresso, followed by Green Mountain's Keurig, D.E. Master Blenders' Senseo, Nestlé's Nescafé Dulce Gusto and Mondelez's Tassimo. The top global pod brands, by volume, were Senseo followed by Nespresso, Keurig, Nescafé Dulce Gusto and Tassimo.
The U.S. market represents more than 25% of the global retail value of pods, followed by France and Germany. Coffee pod volume is led by France, followed by Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S.
Colbert said single-serve "pod" volume in "unmeasured" channels like office coffee service, warehouse clubs, office supply stores and foodservice may account for as much as 65% of total single-serve pod sales. However, Packaged Facts' latest data puts "pod" volume sold through measured channels like supermarket and grocery stores at 59%.
K-Cup sales have played a big part in driving the retail coffee category to $8.2 billion in 2013 from $5.8 billion in 2011, the beverage analyst noted. The single-cup subcategory generated nearly $860 million in sales for the year ended July 14, 2013, up more than 60% over the prior year, and now constituting 25% of the total U.S. coffee category, according to IRI data.
Single cup was the only segment in coffee that grew share in the past 12 months. K-Cups represented just 6% of the coffee market in 2011; in 2013, they represented 26%.
The U.S. single-serve retail market is dominated by Green Mountain Coffee, despite a loss of share to other brands. In December 2012, K-Cup sales made up 53% of the single-cup market; in September 2013, the figure had dipped to 41.1%. Folgers, the second largest single-cup brand, lost share as well, from 19% in 2012 to 14.3% in 2013. Starbucks' share held steady at 14.3% in 2012 and 14.2% in 2013.
In September, Green Mountain-branded K-Cups accounted for 45% of K-Cup volume share. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters-licensed brands combined represented 79% of K-Cup sales. Unlicensed K-Cup compatible cartridges represented the remaining 21% share, including Kraft (6%), Peet's (1%) and private-label and "other" brands (15%).
The Rabobank analyst noted that single-cup category growth has slowed by more than 62% in the past year to 46% in late summer, after growing 124% in June 2012 from the previous year. Colbert projected growth to slow even further in the coming months.
Colbert said K-Cup retail prices appear to have stabilized, and are segmented into three tiers. Premium Peet's and Starbucks brands (86¢ and 80¢, respectively) are priced 43% higher than middle-range brands like Caribou, Green Mountain, Kraft and Eight O'Clock (54¢ to 62¢ range). Private-label and "other" brands typically cost 25% less than middle-tier brands like Green Mountain.
Private-label "pod" penetration is still low but expanding in the U.S., and is expected to reach 12% share in 2014. The expiration of Keurig patents in 2012 and overturned legal challenges to Nespresso exclusivity in Germany have resulted in a host of new private-label brands using the Keurig and Nespresso formats, Colbert said.
In the U.S., key retailers Safeway, Wegmans, Kroger and Costco have entered the "pod" category using the K-Cup format. "Over time, it is likely that U.S. retailer unlicensed brands will increase from their current 8% to 10%, to 12% share of the 'pod' category," Colbert projected.
The beverage expert probed whether there is still room for a new player in single-serve coffee systems. The market currently encompasses patented systems like Keurig and Flavia, among others, along with "patent breakers" such as D.E. Master Blenders that have created compatible cups and machines for the Nespresso system. Among the newest systems are Keurig's Vue and Starbucks' Verismo.
"I believe there's still room, but players have to come in with eyes wide open to the rapidly changing landscape," Colbert said.
One of those players is McDonald's, which recently announced a partnership with Kraft for retail distribution of McCafé Premium coffee in U.S. supermarkets in 2014. The deal includes the McCafé single cup, which Colbert said is expected to be in the Tassimo brewer format.
Looking ahead, Colbert said single serve's next generation will combine coffee, specialty beverages and cold soft drinks. Green Mountain, Soda Stream and Bevyz are the companies paving the way for future innovation.
The Coca-Cola Co. has signed a 10-year agreement to develop its iconic soft drink brands for single-cup use in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters' Keurig Cold at-home beverage system, set to launch in 2015.
"Choice, convenience and consistency will continue to drive consumer demand," said Colbert.
Set to launch in 2015 is the Keurig 2.0, featuring four systems: hot, cold, specialty and water, with multiple platforms and Green Mountain and licensed partner brands for each one." They'll have global applications and common components," said Colbert.
Regionally, according to Colbert, the biggest growth potential for pods is in Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta and San Francisco. Boston is the most saturated market, with 22.6% of households using Keurig; Philadelphia is a close second at 19.4%; and New York and Washington, DC, follow at 15%.
A question weighing on the minds of many operators, market analysts and investors alike is just how big Green Mountain will get. "Green Mountain's vision is 10 times the current market by 2018," Colbert told CTW showgoers.
In 2013, there were 16 million Keurig brewers, with 18% household penetration and 1.4 servings per household consumed daily. The Waterbury, VT, roaster's goal, according to Colbert, is 90 million households with a beverage system, consuming 14 hot, sparking and cold still drinks daily by 2018.
"It's a very ambitious goal. I want to see them succeed; it could be transformational for our industry," Colbert said.
He reported that Green Mountain is in phase one of its international rollout in 14 countries. The UK, Sweden, South Korea and Australia are its first priorities for 2014 and 2015, Colbert said.
Other players to watch in the single-cup space are Bevyz, SodaStream and Mars. Colbert said deals are likely between the drink system makers and major appliance companies. "There will be a hot, cold, still, beverage dispenser in refrigerator doors," he said."We're not far from that. Everyone's watching what the innovation pipeline is bringing to market."
Colbert also anticipates strategic partnerships in espresso as companies like Illy and Lavazza devise strategies to fit within the new landscape.
"Expect more mergers and acquisitions," Colbert concluded. "A lot of private-equity investors are excited about coffee, especially pods, with good reason."
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Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says
First, Gov. Rick Scott scared the bejesus out of seniors with an online ad claiming that Medicare rate cuts would lead them to lose access to their doctors, hospitals and preventive care.
Then, the Florida Democratic Party fired back at Scott, issuing a press release that called Scott "the ultimate Medicare thief."
The Democrats were referring to Scott's prior tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA about a decade ago, when the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud.
"Rick Scott is saying Democrats are committing Medicare robbery, when in fact he's the ultimate Medicare thief. He lost the right to accuse Democrats of raiding Medicare when he oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history. Rick Scott's company stole money that should have gone to health care for seniors," said Florida Democratic Party spokesman Joshua Karp in the Feb. 25 press release.
Separately, we have fact-checked Scott's claim "we are seeing dramatic rate cuts" to Medicare that will affect people's choice of doctor, hospital and preventive care. We concluded that Scott had failed to say that the rate cut only applies to Medicare Advantage, and thus only affects a fraction of all Medicare beneficiaries. Also, it could be several months before we know the actual impact of the cut which could vary county by county. We rated Scott's claim Mostly False.
Here, we'll fact-check the Democratic counter-attack that Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."
Scott's tenure at Columbia/HCA
During Scott's 2010 race for governor, PolitiFact fact-checked multiple claims related to his tenure at Columbia/HCA. Now, we'll recap some of our earlier discussion of the investigation and fine.
Scott started what was first Columbia in 1987, purchasing two El Paso, Texas, hospitals. Over the next decade he would add hundreds of hospitals, surgery centers and home health locations. In 1994, Scott's Columbia purchased Tennessee-headquartered HCA and its 100 hospitals, and merged the companies.
In 1997, federal agents went public with an investigation into the company, first seizing records from four El Paso-area hospitals and then expanding across the country. The investigation focused on whether Columbia/HCA had committed Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
Scott resigned as CEO in July 1997, less than four months after the inquiry became public. Company executives said had Scott remained CEO, the entire chain could have been in jeopardy.
During his 2010 race, the Miami Herald reported that Scott had said he would have immediately stopped his company from committing fraud -- if only "somebody told me something was wrong." But there were such warnings in the company's annual public reports to stockholders -- which Scott had to sign as president and CEO.
Scott wanted to fight the accusations, but the corporate board of the publicly traded company wanted to settle.
In December 2000, the U.S. Justice Department announced that Columbia/HCA agreed to pay $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties.
Among the revelations from the 2000 settlement:
• Columbia billed Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs for tests that were not necessary or had not been ordered by physicians;
• The company attached false diagnosis codes to patient records to increase reimbursement to the hospitals;
• The company illegally claimed non-reimbursable marketing and advertising costs as community education;
• Columbia billed the government for home health care visits for patients who did not qualify to receive them.
The government settled a second series of similar claims with Columbia/HCA in 2002 for an additional $881 million. The total for the two fines was $1.7 billion.
On Scott's 2010 campaign website, he admitted to the $1.7 billion fine, though the link is no longer on the site.
What type of record was that fine?
The fine clearly set a record, though the Justice Department (and media reports at the time) were not always consistent in their terminology, sometimes describing it as the "largest government fraud settlement in U.S. History" and other times more specifically as the "largest health care fraud case in U.S. History."
A Justice Department spokeswoman said that officials refer to Columbia/HCA as "largest health care fraud" rather than the more narrow term "Medicare fraud" because it involved defrauding other government programs such as Medicaid rather than Medicare exclusively. The Justice Department described in detail the various ways the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs here.
Here's a key point, though: While the Columbia/HCA settlement was a record at the time for health care fraud, it has since been surpassed. In cases related to the improper promotion of certain drugs, Johnson & Johnson agreed to a a $2.2 billion settlement in 2013, Pfizer settled for $2.3 billion in 2009, and GlaxoSmithKline settled for $3 billion in 2012.
"HCA was the record health care fraud at the time. It's now Glaxo," Justice Department spokeswoman Linda Mansour told PolitiFact in an email.
That said, these cases were a little different. While the Justice Department's case against Columbia/HCA repeatedly mentions overbilling and defrauding Medicare and Medicaid specifically, the three newer cases focused on the marketing of drugs, with Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs caught up in the impropriety, rather than being the specific targets of the fraud.
Because the Justice Department press releases explaining the settlements don't explicitly break down how much of the misconduct in those more recent cases defrauded Medicare explicitly, it's difficult to make comparisons.
The Pfizer case includes violations relating to misbranding and kickbacks, "so there may be a distinction to be made for that reason when thinking about whether it all should be classified under the very general category of 'Medicare fraud,' " said Asha Scielzo, who practices health care law at the firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
The Columbia/HCA case "still is the largest fraud settlement for a hospital corporation in U.S. history," since all the others involved pharmaceutical firms, added Zack Buck, a health care law professor at Mercer. "So I guess, the quote (by the Florida Democratic Party) is a little loose."
The Scott campaign did not respond to an inquiry for this fact-check. However in 2010, Scott told the Tampa Bay Times, "There's no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader."
Our ruling
The Florida Democratic Party said Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."
The Columbia/HCA settlement has since been surpassed in dollar value, though the bigger cases involved Medicare somewhat less directly. Because the Democratic Party could have been a bit more specific in its wording -- by saying that Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud at the time -- we rate the claim Mostly True.


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Less than twelve hours after getting caught reading from a liberal blog during a heated debate with a Romney adviser, CNN's Soledad O'Brien was back on the air Tuesday echoing Democrat talking points.
In fact, things got so hot with former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu (R) on CNN's Starting Point that he ended up saying, "Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
O'Brien wanted to start the discussion with the announcement that Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) is going to be doing the keynote speech at the upcoming Republican National Convention.
Sununu had other things in mind:
JOHN SUNUNU: Well, let me start first of all with the clip you showed of the president. You're aiding and abetting his dishonesty. Paul Ryan and the Republicans did pass a bill to take care of the drought problem, but it's the Democratic Senate that hasn't passed it. And so when you show that clip and you show the President lying through his teeth, then you are aiding and abetting a distortion.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: The original bill was not passed. Since you've taken us off track from my Chris Christie question.
SUNUNU: The drought bill was passed.
O'BRIEN: It was passed.
SUNUNU: The drought bill was passed.
O'BRIEN: And people in the Senate would tell you that they did not want to pass a bill that they thought was a short-term answer because what they had on the table earlier that Democrats supported was a longer term provision, as you know sir.
SUNUNU: But it's the Senate that's holding it up not Republicans.
Indeed. But that's not what O'Brien and the rest of the liberal media want the public to think.
Regardless, the fighting wasn't done, for minutes later when O'Brien echoed Democrat talking points about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's plans concerning Medicare, Sununu continued to fire back:
SUNUNU: Soledad, stop this. All you're doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there. If you're going to mouth what comes out of the White House…
O'BRIEN: I'm telling you what Factcheck.com tells you. I'm telling you what the CBO tells you. I'm telling you what CNN's independent analysis does.
SUNUNU: I've got the CBO report right here.
O'BRIEN: And I'm telling you what it says. I've read it several times.
SUNUNU: Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this.
O'BRIEN: You know, let me tell you something, there is independent analysis that details what this is about.
SUNUNU: No, there isn't.
O'BRIEN: Yes, there is.
SUNUNU: No, there's Democratic analysis.
O'BRIEN: Sir, let me finish.
SUNUNU: There's Democratic analysis.
O'BRIEN: Let me finish. There's independent analysis: Factcheck.com, the CBO and CNN has also done its own independent analysis, and name calling to me and somehow acting as if by you repeating a number of $716 billion that you can make that stick when that figure is being stolen from Medicare, that's not true. You can't just repeat it and make it true, sir.
For the record, this was the second day in a row O'Brien claimed the $716 billion figure has been debunked. As NewsBusters reported Monday, that's nonsense.
But I digress:
SUNUNU: It says it's a reduction in services and a reduction in support for Medicare Advantage.
O'BRIEN: A reduction in the expected rate of growth. Reduction in the expected rate of growth.
SUNUNU: It's a reduction in services and a reduction in support for Medicare Advantage. That is taking money from the program.
O'BRIEN: Which by the way, Paul Ryan, right, has in his budget, which by the way, virtually every single Republican has voted on.
SUNUNU: But Mitt Romney does not. And it is not part of the Romney plan.
O'BRIEN: Which Romney has said in the quote I just read to you, he thinks it's brilliant.
SUNUNU: But he likes the Ryan plan for its guts, but he has his own plan out there which is carefully crafted to protect the seniors from 55 and up and does not take the $700 billion that Obama took.
O'BRIEN: John Sununu, always nice to have you joining us, Governor. Pleasure.
SUNUNU: Yep.
O'BRIEN: Well, that doesn't sound like you mean it.
She seems surprised after her behavior a Romney adviser wouldn't think it was a pleasure going on CNN only to have the anchor spout Democrat talking points.
And the folks at this so-called "cable news network" wonder why their dismal ratings continue to plummet.
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Low Sugar Cherry Preserves
Despite a cold spring and a ton of rain, Colorado's North Fork Valley still managed to produce a beautiful crop of cherries, and within days of settling into the cabin, I bought my first case.
I was curious about how Jacques Pepin's slow cooking method—baking the fruit with sugar at a low temperature for a long time and then water bath canning–would work with cherries, so the first colander full of pitted fruit was put to the task.
The result was a preserve that was just sweet, allowing some of the natural tartness of the fruit to come through, an intensification of flavor, and the cherries became softly chewy, kind of like a dried fruit that has been stewed a long time. They are really delightful, though not so much for spreading on toast. Rather, the cherries are perfect for baking. I used some of mine in cherry brownies (basically your favorite brownie recipe with strained cherries mixed into the batter). In the past I've used cherries that I'd put up in syrup or fresh cherries, but in both cases the cherry taste really wasn't as strong as I wanted. It's tough to compete with the deep flavor of bittersweet chocolate. But because these cherries have such a concentrated flavor, they held up beautifully.


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The Harvard fencing teams qualified 11 athletes for this year's national championship, the NCAA announced Tuesday (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
INDIANAPOLIS – The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams had 11 of their athletes chosen Tuesday when the NCAA Men's and Women's Fencing Committee announced the field of 144 competitors that will participate in the 2011 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships.
Harvard qualified 11 of the maximum 12 athletes allowed to participate for each team (two per weapon in each gender). Ohio State University will play host to the championships March 24-27 at the French Field House and St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The Crimson men qualified two athletes in each weapon for a full squad at the championship. Freshman Michael Raynis and junior James Hawrot, 14th at the 2010 NCAA Championship, will fence for Harvard in the epee event. Freshman Lucas Lin and sophomore Tommasso di Robilant, 12th in 2010, will participate in foil. Sophomore Thomas Kolasa and junior co-captain Valentin Staller, owner of two top-15 NCAA finishes (15th in 2009, sixth in 2010), will compete in the saber.
The Harvard women will be sending five fencers to the championship. Junior co-captain and defending national champion Caroline Vloka will take part in the saber competition. Junior Noam Mills and sophomore Felicia Sun will fence for the Crimson in the epee event. Freshman Alexandra Kiefer and sophomore Katherine Chou will represent Harvard in foil.
The Crimson finished fifth as a team at the 2010 NCAA Championship, which is scored and awarded as a combined, coed title.


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WASHINGTON DC – The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), in cooperation with safety experts from throughout the civil helicopter industry, has developed new safety leaflets focused on controlled flight into terrain and defensive helicopter flying. The IHST now offers a total of 19 safety bulletins and leaflets aimed at enhancing helicopter operations and reducing accidents.
The safety bulletins offer important information regarding two areas that support the prevention of helicopter accidents: terrain awareness and warning systems, and defensive flight strategies. The new bulletin topics are:
Each fact sheet provides a wealth of concise information that helicopter operators will be able to use for general reference and as a training tool. They are accessible within the "Resources" section of the IHST web site (www.IHST.org). They join 17 other safety bulletins and leaflets released during the past year by the IHST and its U.S. and European affiliates. These topics are:
U.S. Safety Bulletins
European Safety Leaflets
The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) promotes safety and works to reduce accidents. The organization was formed in 2005 to lead a government and industry cooperative effort to address factors that were affecting an unacceptable helicopter accident rate. The group's vision is an international civil helicopter community with zero accidents with a goal to reduce the international civil helicopter accident rate by 80 percent by 2016.
IHST members also establish international partnerships in countries with significant helicopter operations and work to encourage the overseas industries to carry out accident analysis and develop safety interventions. Worldwide partners now supporting the work of the IHST include government and industry participants from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Australia, India, Russia, and multiple countries in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.


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Fishing & Card Sharks
Would you buy a fish for $70,000? He
did(December 6) - Sushi restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid about
$70,000 for a 507-pound bluefin tuna in the year's celebratory first
auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji market on Sunday, just 5% of what he paid
a year earlier despite signs that the species is in decline.
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World Record?
Muskie madness: two potential world
records in two days - On December 2 on the St. Lawrence River out
of New York,Matt Forjohn landed a world record muskie. This fish
exceeded the existing length record by two centimeters, and Forjohn
adhered to International Game Fish Association rules. An IGFA spokesman
even implied that everything seemed to be in order, and said the catch
was under world-record consideration. But then came the unexpected
twist. According to an IGFA announcement issued Thursday, "a rare thing
happened in the world of sportfishing: two different anglers caught
potential new all-tackle length record muskies in the same river only
two days apart."
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Fish Species from Collapse
- We Must Keep it Alive - For
the first time in a generation, fish populations are getting healthier
science-based management and rebuilding requirements have led to the
recovery of 23 fish species since 2000, according to NOAA Fisheries.
This list includes popular fish like New England sea scallop, which
comprises the second most valuable commercial fishery in the country,
and summer flounder, a favorite for recreational anglers and local
seafood markets in the Mid-Atlantic.
Complete Story
Arkansas record bass caught illegally
- Several media outlets in Arkansas are now reporting that the
potential state record largemouth bass was caught illegally. It appears
Paul Crowder of Forrest City, Ark., had been fishing without a license
since April 2011. Not only will the record return to Aaron Mardis,
Crowder could be forced to pay $1,000 and spend 30 days in jail. Crowder's fish weighed 16 pounds, 5 ounces,
while Mardis' weighed 16-4.
Record size blue
catfish caught from Santee Cooper system - Leland Selph
of Cross ran a trotline on Lake Moultrie and caught a blue catfish that
tipped the scales at 136 pounds, 6 ounces and 56 inches in length. The
fish would have surpassed the current 21-year-old state record of 109
pounds, 4 ounces.
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Wisconsin Assembly passes crossbow fishing bill - The
state Assembly has approved a Republican bill that would let people kill
fish with crossbows. Currently, people can use bows and arrows to shoot
rough fish, including carp, goldfish, alewife and rainbow smelt. The
measure would allow people to use crossbows as well and expands the list
of rough fish they could target to include Asian carp. The Assembly
passed the bill 95-0 on Thursday. It goes next to the state Senate.
Girls Gone Fishing
Vancouver man lands record fish - A West Vancouver man made headlines last month when he shattered a Haida Gwaii fishing lodge record by hauling in an 84-pound Chinook
salmon. Chris Lewis reeled in the monster fish - the same weight, it
turns out, as his son's Bernese mountain dog - on an excursion from
Queen Charlotte Lodge.Lewis knew he had something big on the line the
moment he felt the first tug, he said, but that didn't prepare him for
what he saw when it surfaced."It was absolutely massive," said Lewis. "I
realized we really had a very large fish." It took half an hour to reel
it in, but Lewis said it wasn't his hardest catch ever - although it may
have been the most nerveracking. "
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Father and Son Kayak Fishing Trip Snags Shark - A father and son in
Texas got quite a ride while fishing in a kayak off the Galveston coast.
It's apparently a new fishing challenge in the area, and thanks to their
video camera, they can share with the world their catch of a seven-foot
shark. Kevin Stevens and his son Hunter snagged the shark less than a
mile off the island's west end. "Super scary and crazy," is how Hunter
described the ordeal. "Instead of us using all of our energy to try to
pull the shark, the shark pulls the kayak. It's called the Texas sleigh
ride," said Kevin. For an hour, Hunter let the camera roll while his dad
wrestled with the black tip shark, dragging them up and down the beach.
"Yeah, I was like seriously stop, I'm done, I don't want to see
anymore," says Hunter's mom Christina Stevens. "I mean seriously, I
watched Jaws at a very young age "
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Man charged in infant's death
Infant initially placed on life support
Police have charged a 22-year-old man with reckless assault and child endangerment after 7-month-old boy died Tuesday evening after being admitted to an area hospital.
Shortly before 2 a.m. the New York State Police in Gouverneur responded to an apartment in the village for an unresponsive child. Upon arrival troopers found Gary McKenzie performing CPR on the boy who was taken to University Hospital in Syracuse. The infant was placed on life support but died Tuesday evening.
McKenzie is charged with one count each of reckless assault of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. He is remanded to the St. Lawrence County Jail in lieu of bail on $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond.
The investigation is continuing. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.
NewsChannel 5 has chosen not to publish the boy's identity.