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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)the agency that administers Medicarehas estimated that improper payments for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) were $34.3 billion in fiscal year 2010. Because the program's complexity and size make it vulnerable to billions of dollars in improper paymentsover- and underpayments that should not have been madeGAO has designated it as a high-risk program. CMS and its contractors conduct activities to identify improper payments, including reviewing claims before and after payment. CMS contractors are also responsible for processing and paying approximately 4.5 million claims per work day, which makes the volume and cost to review the claims challenging.
Aspects of the Medicare program's design make it susceptible to improper payments and effective use of payment controls can help ensure that these improper payments are minimized. GAO found that improving automated review and better targeting of claims to review manually could help prevent improper payments.
Medicare is designed to pay claims promptly and the number of claims it receives limits the amount of possible review. CMS is generally required to pay electronic claims between 14 and 30 days from the date of receipt and the program now pays 4.5 million claims each work day. The amount of program payments that are made with minimal review has made Medicare a target for fraud, waste, and abuse that can result in improper payments. Medicare requires that covered services be reasonable and medically necessaryand of course, be provided as claimed. Since it was first estimated in 1996, Medicare's improper payment rate has been in the billions of dollars each year, although efforts to improve the methodology used for the estimate have made current year estimates noncomparable to any made before 2009. Prior to 1996, CMS had controls in place to try to minimize improper payments and beginning in fiscal year 1997, Congress provided funds specifically for CMS activities designed to ensure that claims are paid correctly. CMS allocates these funds to contractors that conduct a number of activities, including a limited amount of claims review, to help prevent or identify and address improper payments.
Despite agency efforts, CMS still faces challenges in designing and implementing internal controls to effectively prevent or recoup improper payments and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Previous GAO products identified some specific weaknesses in the area of claims review and made recommendations to implement key strategies related to automating and targeting claims review that are particularly important to helping prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, and ultimately, to reducing improper payments. The claims review weaknesses identified include:
Prepayment review of claims did not identify atypical billing associated with fraud. Overall, less than 1 percent of Medicare's claims are subject to a medical record review by trained personnelso having robust automated payment controls in place that can deny inappropriate claims or flag them for further review is critical. However, GAO has found weaknesses in this area. Specifically, in 2007, GAO found that contractors responsible for reviewing claims from suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies did not have automated prepayment controls in place to identify questionable claims that might suggest fraud, such as those associated with atypically rapid increases in billing or for items unlikely to be prescribed in the course of routine quality medical care.
Postpayment claims review was not focused on most vulnerable areas. Postpayment reviews are critical to identifying payment errors, recouping overpayments, or repaying underpayments. CMS's contractors have conducted limited postpayment reviewsfor example, GAO reported in 2009 that the contractors paying claims for home health care conducted postpayment reviews on fewer than 700 of the more than 8.7 million claims that they paid in fiscal year 2007. Further, GAO found they were not using evidence, such as findings from prepayment review, to target their postpayment review resources on providers with a demonstrated high risk of improper payments.
Regular cross-checking of claims for home health services with the physicians listed as prescribing them was not always done. CMS does not routinely provide physicians responsible for authorizing home health care with information that would enable them to determine whether a home health agency (HHA) was billing for unauthorized care. In one instance, a CMS contractor identified overpayments in excess of $9 million after interviewing physicians whose names and signatures appeared on referrals for beneficiaries with high home health costs. Some physicians indicated their signatures had been forged or they had not realized the amount of care they had authorized.
CMS's new national recovery audit contracting program, begun in March 2009, added to postpayment efforts; but not for fraud-prone claims. Recovery audit contractors (RAC) review claims after payment, with reimbursement to them contingent on the improper over- and underpayments identified. According to CMS, because RACs are paid fees contingent on the dollar value of the improper payments identified, RACs have focused on high-dollar claims from inpatient hospital stays, not other services prone to improper payment, such as home health services.
More targeted claims review could help reduce improper payments. While the potential for savings exists, the extent of savings realized would depend on the efforts taken to address weaknesses in the review process.
GAO continues to believe that CMS should address these previously made recommendations:
In addition, as GAO pointed out in 2010 testimony on Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse, because the RACs are focusing on review of hospitals, other contractors' postpayment review activities could be more valuable if CMS directed these contractors to focus on services where RACs are not expected to focus their reviews, and where improper payments are known to be high, specifically home health services.
The amount that could be saved from taking these actions has not been estimated and would depend on how they were implemented.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the GAO reports listed under the "Related GAO Products" tab.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) conducted a mandated 3-year project from March 2005 through March 2008 to demonstrate the use of recovery audit contractors (RAC) in identifying Medicare improper payments and recouping overpayments. CMS implemented a mandated national RAC program, which began in March 2009. GAO was asked to examine specific issues that arose during the demonstrat...
GAO's work over the past several years has demonstrated that improper payments are a long-standing, widespread, and significant problem in the federal government. The Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA) has increased visibility over improper payments by requiring executive branch agency heads, using guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, to identify programs and activities...
Medicare spending on home health totaled $12.9 billion in 2006, up 44 percent from 2002. Concerns have been raised that improper payments from practices indicating fraud and abuse may have contributed to Medicare home health spending and utilization. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers Medicare, is responsible for minimizing improper payments made on beh...
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Sumerian inscription 'Haya' as early as 3000 BC way before 'Hayasa' of Hittite inscription 1400 BC
Akkadian inscriptions from as early as 2400 BC mention the 'Armani' (aka Armani-Subartu or Arme-Shubria) near Lake Van
Tutmoses III of Egypt (1500 BC) mentions the people of 'Ermenen' paying tribute when he held his court at Ninevah, and says that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars." (note: Tutmose III was the first Pharaoh to cross the Euphrates to reach the Armenian Highlands)
Old Persian name 'Armin' meant "dweller of the garden of Eden" (Persians also used this form 'Armin(a)' for Armenia)
Menua, king of Urartu (our Khaldi tribe cousins) mentions the 'Armeni' native in the "land of Ari" (Ariyan)
Hurrian-Aryan links
Hurrians also known as Armani-Subari were an Armenian tribe, "Har"an was the capital located near UrHai/Urfa at the time. "Har"-minni is the alternative way of saying "Ar"mani, which the "H" is silent and its pronounced as "Ar"mani. To this day Assyrians call Armenians by "Armani" (aka Armani-Subartu or Arme-Shubria) from the 2300 BC Akkadian inscriptions referring to them as Armani. Some scholars reveals that Hurrians are the same as Subarians, which reveals that "Armani"-Subartu is Hurrians. The land of Ararat or the Armenian Highland is the home of the "Aryan"(Indo-Europeans) people. Armenians refer to themselves as "Aryaee" (Aryan) in their language. The root word "Ar" meaning Sun, Light, Fire (the same as the word "Hurri/Hur") which is used in a lot of words such as Ararat, Aratta, Armenia, Armeni, Armen, Arev, etc etc. The root word which in Semitic form is "Ur". Also, language changes over course of 1000 year time periods and when moving to different lands. Even today Armenians have different sounds with words like "H" and "Kh" = "X" (example of the word Hurri/Khurri). Arevmdahye's are South-Western Armenians and Arevelahye's are Eastern Armenians in Iran and modern Armenia. Since ancient times words were pronounced slightly different but yet same meanings and same ethnic peoples. So the words Hurrian and Aryan are pronounced different but yet remain the same word and meaning.
Tigran the Great's crown (look here Armenians for his image) is exactly of the "Hurri"-Mitanni seal with the 2 eagles and sun with the 8 (number of eternity) rays. Hurri-Mitanni kings names like Artatama translates to "most righteous", which the first part of the word Arta is righteous is in Armenian. It is interesting to point out also that Artatama's (Armenian Aryan-IE name) title was "King of the Hurri", which yet again reveals that Hurrians are linked with Aryans. Tusratta translates to "ten chariots", and Tus is Ten in Armenian. Hurri/Hur the very word used now in Armenian, was the same word and meaning in "Hurri"-Mitanni times. The Khaldi (from the Nairi people), an Armenian tribe from the Hittites, mixed with the Armenians later in their history, that is why people refer to them with the term Indo-"European". Armenians refer to themselves as "Aryan" people. The Indo and Persian Aryans seperated from them during 1200 to 800 BC. That is why a little later the Persians established there empire in 500 BC.
The Armenian legacy of Sumer-Hurrian-Hyksos heritage in the second millennium B.C. had already developed a rich architectural style. This in turn spread and influenced the nearby cultures of ancient Near East. Building techniques and architecture as such reached a high degree of development during the period of the Araratian (Urartian) Kingdom of Van (XIIIth -VIth centuries BC).
The great Armenian civilization of Sumer was inherited and continued to progress under the powerful Armenian kingdoms of Hurri-Mitanni and Haiasa (ethnically and linguistically tied to their Indo-European kinsmen -- the Hittites) in the Second Millennium B.C.
We think that much before the Achaemenians, in the times of Hurri-Mitanni, the name Mihr was already known to the people, particularly to those living in the regions of Hurri-Mitanni or Armani-Subari (and later Arme-Subria) where Sasun is located, in the form of Mitra (or perhaps even as Mher). Otherwise, it would not have been so readily accepted by the people during the Achaemenian period or later.
The word Ar-ma-ni is a compound noun, where the first component Ar is none other than the name of the natioanal sun-god of the Armens,-AR- and the second component -ma-(me a varient) ssignifies 'build, make, beget, offspring, son'. Ma, with this meaning, was known to many peoples of the Ner East in antiquity. The goddess of birth and fertility, so well known in Asia Minor, was called by this very same name-Ma.(Ma also occurs in its reduplicated from -Mama or Mami in Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions). This root-word (and also its variant -me) is found also in Sumerian language with the same meaning. It results that Ar-ma (and its variant Ar-me) means 'built by Ar, born of Ar', or 'Ar's offspring', 'Ar's/Ara's son' ('the son of the sun', Arevvordi). The ending -ni (the plural-forming or toponymic suffix-ni is found in Subarian-Hurrian-Nairian place and tribal na We find the plural form ni also in Armenian.
Hurri is the Sun with the wings the very Hurri-Mitanni symbol. Hurri/Hur/Har = Fire, Sun, Light just like "Ar" to this very day in Armenian.
To clarify the issue since there is a lot of confusion, dividing "Aryan" people like the Indo-Aryans only being Hurrian-Aryan is misunderstood. Its not only Indo but "Aryan" is from the Armenian highlands, the Aryan peoples spread across to Persia and India etc. The "Indo" Aryans and Persian Aryans migrated south from Armenians (Aryans) around 800 BC to their lands.
There is no question that the Hurrian and Urartian languages were very similar, and some have used this evidence that the Hurrian Armenian tribes had origins in the Urartu area in and around Lake Van before migrating to South-Western Armenia. The Hurrian timeframe in Syria (South-Western historic Armenia), the area that the Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia was present (c. 2300-1200 BC) predates the timeframe of Urartu in Eastern Armenia (c. 1000-585), it is more often considered likely that the Armenians of Urartu had origins there, and fled from the South-Western Armenian Highlands into the Eastern part of Armenia after the Hittites and Assyrians conquered the region. Chronologically, the Urartian language seems to be a continuation of Hurrian dialects, and not the other way around.
Last point is that those who wrote the inscriptions were the elite. The common people didnt understand all of it at that time. There are even Armenian words today that are not understood, because of writers using difficult words.
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Map showing "Nairi" near Lake Van part of Hurri-Mitanni and (K)Hayasa is there also http://satrapa1.com/....do/mitanni.jpg
This clearly shows at the time of King Bartarna 1450 BC the beginnings of Hurri-Mitanni, that they already had the area around Lake Van. That was there to begin with and then they stretched further west.
Egyptian sources apply the term 'nhr', Naharina or Nairi (from the Assyro-Akkadian word for 'river' or 'land of rivers' Tigris Euphrates and Armenian Highlands) referring to Hurri-Mitanni with Naharina (Nairi).
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* Rafael Ishkhanyan, "Illustrated History of Armenia," Yerevan, 1989
Rafael Ishkhanyan points out the Sumerian words in Armenian, and its link with Hurrian as well
* Martiros Kavoukjian, "Armenia, Subartu and Sumer", Montreal, 1989
* Martiros Kavoukjian, "The Genesis of Armenian People", Montreal, 1982
* Hovick Nersessian, "Highlands of Armenia," Los Angeles 1998
Hovick points out that in the cuneiform inscriptions of Mitanni and Urartu are found Armenian words, and even some sentences which are used today in Armenian.
* Artak Movsisyan, "Sacred Highland: Armenia in the spiritual conception of the Near East," Yerevan, 2000.
Artak reveals the Mitanni kings IE names are in Armenian
* T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, The Early History of Indo-European Languages, Scientific American, March 1990
Look in Hurrians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians
Now look down there in External links it has
Once you get there search Hurrian-Aryan and you will see it stands for Mitanni and the scholar explains it all in detail. And Aryan is the same as Indo-European. He explains all this there.
* Vahan Kurkjian, "History of Armenia," Michigan, 1968
"The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. "
* Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967
"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."
* M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001
"The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race."
Hurri n.
( pl. same or Hurris) a member of a people, originally from Armenia, who settled in northern Mesopotamia and Syria during the 3rd-2nd millennium bc and were later aborbed by the Hittites and Assyrians. (See also Mitanni.) Hittite & Assyrian Harri, Hurri The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, © Oxford University Press 1996
* E. A. Speiser, "Hurrians and Subarians," http://en.wikipedia....ki/E.A._Speiser
"The evidence as a whole admits of only one possible interpretation in the historical records of Assyria: the term Subarians is applied specifically to Hurrians."
* E. A. Speiser, "Introduction to Hurrians," http://en.wikipedia....ki/E.A._Speiser
"All indications point toward the general region of Armenia as a main area of Hurrian concentration."
* Dr. Johannes Lehman, "The Hittites,"
"The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia, and are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat"
"Queen Nefertiti of Egypt was a native of Mitanni. The Mittani Kingdom of Armenia was an off-shoot of the Hurrian kingdom. The Hurri and the Mittani in turn were the contemporaries the Hittites and the Hykos, within whom they shared many cultural and political aspects. Today, all these aforementioned nations are considered to be, in varying degrees, proto-Armenians, that is, we modern day Armenians are direct descendants of the remnants of those ancient tribes."
* Artak Movsisyan, "Aratta: The ancient Kindgom of Armenia," Yerevan, 1992.
* Artak Movsisyan, "Mithraic (Mehian) Writing in the Kingdom of Van (Biaynili, Urartu, Ararat)," Yerevan, 1998.
* Artak Movsisyan, "Aratta: Land of the Sacred Law," Yerevan, 2001.
Here are some good links:
http://www.angelfire...Azgaser/AR.html from Martiros Kavoukjian's Armenia, Sumer, Subartu, 1982
http://www.tacentral.com/history.asp 12,000 year history of Armenia
http://www.tacentral...uni/2ndwave.asp Aryan roots
http://arevordi.blogspot.com 12,000 year history of Armenia
http://www.armenianhighland.com 12,000 year history of Armenia
http://www.saintsark...rg/Language.htm roots of Armenian language
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Taxes on gasoline and cigarettes are set to increase after state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Deval Patrick's veto of a transportation financing bill.
The bill contains a 3 cent-per-gallon hike in the gas tax and would index future increases in the tax to inflation. It also raises the cigarette tax $1 per pack and imposes the state sales tax on computer software and services.
The taxes take effect in seven days.
Patrick had vetoed the bill after lawmakers rejected his demand to add a provision allowing for an additional gas tax hike if tolls on the western portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike come down as scheduled in 2017.
The House voted 123-33 to override Patrick's veto. The Senate voted 35-5 to override.
The bill, which calls for $500 million in new taxes, seeks to pump billions of dollars into the state's transportation network over the next decade, allowing the state to modernize its aging infrastructure and jumpstart stalled projects including the expansion of commuter rail to the South Coast.
The legislation would end the practice of borrowing to pay salaries of state transportation workers and close the MBTA's $115 million deficit, heading off another round of fare increases or service reductions.
Patrick argues that the bill's financing doesn't account for the scheduled loss of toll revenue.
The fate of those tolls is uncertain, said House Speaker Robert DeLeo. He said he didn't think it was likely that the tolls would come down as scheduled in 2017.
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House Republican Leader Brad Jones said GOP lawmakers supported Patrick's veto not because they agree with his larger proposal, but because they wanted to send the entire bill back to the drawing board to strip away any tax hikes.
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Patrick took the defeat in stride.
"While it is no secret that today's transportation finance package shortchanges our transportation needs, it still represents a step forward," Patrick said. Patrick's amendment would have allowed for an automatic increase in the state's gas tax if the western tolls come down. Commuters have long complained that the Pike and its tolls have outlived the original bonds that built the east-west road from Stockbridge to Boston. The western Turnpike's original bonds were paid off in 1983.
Lawmakers also overturned a Patrick veto of $177 million in local aid to cities and towns.


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No. 94,191
OIL & GAS TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC., et al.,
1. Although venue decisions are typically reviewed for abuse of discretion, appellate review is unlimited where the district court's decision is based on a forum selection clause or where the issue is the district court's interpretation of the venue statute and its application.
2. It is a general rule of law applicable to all contracts that prior stipulations and agreements are merged into the final formal contract or the deed, and when a deed is delivered and accepted as performance of a contract to convey property, the contract is presumed to be merged into the deed.
3. The right of partition enjoyed by cotenants in Kansas is considered an incident of common ownership and based on the equitable doctrine that it is better to have the control of property in one person than in several who may entertain divergent views with respect to proper control and management.
4. Kansas has long required that actions affecting real property, including partition actions, take place in the county where the real property is located. Venue in such actions may not be changed by agreement because the venue provisions are jurisdictional, and jurisdiction of the subject matter may not be waived by the parties.
5. Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-601, the term "real property" includes any interest or estate created by an oil, gas, or mineral lease, or an oil, gas, or mineral royalty. Actions concerning real property must be brought in the county in which the real estate is situated, including actions for the partition of real estate or any estate or interest therein.
6. Partition of property under K.S.A. 60-1003(c) is a single judicial action that both determines the parties' interest and orders partition. These functions are so inextricably linked that bifurcation with part of the issues determined by a foreign state court and the actual partition ordered by a Kansas court would be impractical, cumbersome, and unreasonable.
7. Under the facts of this case and from the well-pleaded facts of the plaintiff's petition, ownership in an estate or interest created by an oil, gas, or mineral lease has been sufficiently shown and is entitled to partition under K.S.A. 60-1003, although the defendant may contend and prove otherwise on remand.
8. Under the facts of this case and for the reasons more fully set forth in the opinion, despite a forum selection clause stating the parties' agreement shall be governed by Nevada law with venue for any action thereon being in Washoe County, Nevada, an action to partition oil and gas leases located in Chautauqua County, Kansas, which is the subject of the parties' agreement must be brought and litigated in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
Appeal from Chautauqua District Court; RUSSELL D. CANADAY, judge. Opinion filed August 25, 2006. Reversed and remanded.
John R. Horst, of John R. Horst, P.A., of Caney, and Gordon B. Stull, of Stull & Rein, L.L.C., of Pratt, for appellant.
Jeffrey A. Chubb, of Scovel, Emert, Heasty & Chubb, of Independence, for appellees.
Before BUSER, P.J., LARSON, S.J. and WAHL, S.J.
BUSER, J.: This appeal presents for our consideration the proper forum for a partition action wherein the plaintiff claims to own oil and gas leasehold interests in Kansas derived from an investment agreement with a forum selection clause providing for venue in Nevada. The district court dismissed the action, concluding the forum selection clause was enforceable and the plaintiff had no partitionable interest. We reverse and remand for further proceedings, concluding the Kansas venue statute and long-standing case law requiring local venue for actions affecting real property may not be superseded by agreement and the allegations of plaintiff's amended petition support a partitionable interest under Kansas law.
Factual and Procedural Background
Nelson Energy Programs, Inc. (Nelson) entered into agreements with Oil & Gas Technology Fund, Inc. (OGTF) to invest in a coalbed methane redevelopment project involving the exploration and development of 5,200 acres in Chautauqua County, Kansas, covered by oil and gas leases purportedly held by OGTF. The principal agreements between the parties were each entitled "Natural Gas Sublease Agreement" and provided in material part:
"Each of the lots and well locations therein are offered to Lessee for exploration purposes on the basis of Lessee investing 100% of the Working Interests costs associated in the drilling and or completion of each well listed . . . in return for [Nelson] earning 75% of the Working Interest revenues in each well, before payout and 50% of each well following payout subject to all overriding royalties. . . .
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". . . OGTF has agreed to convey and hereby does grant, sell and convey to [Nelson] his undivided percentage share in and only to the well bore located within subject Lots and limited to the depths drilled by the locations as set forth . . . and including each successive exploratory or development well drilled and completed pursuant to the terms set forth herein this agreement."
The Sublease Agreements also contained the following provision:
"Application of Nevada Law. This agreement, and its application or interpretation, shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Nevada. Venue for any action arising hereunder shall lie in Washoe County, Nevada."
Pursuant to the Sublease Agreements, Nelson invested $697,247 to be utilized by OGTF to pay for 100% of the costs of drilling and completing eight wells. Not all of the wells were drilled and completed, and for this and other reasons not pertinent to this appeal, Nelson came to believe that it had been defrauded in the transaction.
Nelson initially filed suit against OGTF and related parties in Chautauqua County District Court, alleging fraud and securities violations and seeking rescission, injunctive relief, and partition of the leasehold interests. Prior to responsive pleadings being filed, Nelson voluntarily dismissed the bulk of its original action and filed an amended petition seeking only partition and an accounting. The amended petition included the following allegations:
"[Nelson] is the owner of a working interest in all of the oil and gas leases more particularly described on Exhibit 'A'. . . . [Nelson's] interests in the Oil & Gas Leases may not include each and every one of the Oil & Gas Leases but the exact nature of Plaintiff's ownership will not be known until completion of discovery herein.
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"The Court should determine the names and ownership amounts of each owner of an interest in the Oil and Gas leaseholds.
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"The Court should make partition of the working interest of the Oil and Gas Leases, and equipment owned in connection therewith, in accordance with the interests of all of the owners thereof as determined by the Court."
OGTF moved to dismiss the amended petition on the sole basis that the forum selection clause in the Sublease Agreements required the action to be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and venue. The district court granted the motion to dismiss, concluding in material part:
"The Court perceives that [Nelson] seeks to avoid removal of the whole case to Washoe County, Nevada, under the agreements' forum selection clauses by in essence, asking the Court to bifurcate from the rest of the conflicted issues at least the partition action so it can proceed in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where the affected acreage lies.
"This the Court declines to do.
"Doubtless [OGTF] has not performed as [Nelson] expected pursuant to the signed agreements. Indeed it appears from the Court's limited understanding of the facts pled herein, [Nelson] very well may have been swindled.
"But it is not clear to this Court that [Nelson] has a partitionable interest in Chautauqua County, Kansas, property.
"The Court sees no reason why that question, as well as all other legal and factual questions [Nelson] wishes to litigate should not be dealt with in the forum and law selected by the parties in the agreement."
Shortly after the dismissal, OGTF filed of record in the office of the Register of Deeds of Chautauqua County, assignments purporting to convey interests in and to the well bore of the completed wells on five of its leases to Nelson and others. Although Nelson brought this fact to the district court's attention by filing a motion for reconsideration and attaching copies of the recorded assignments, the district court adhered to its order of dismissal. Nelson appeals.
Standard of Review
Although venue decisions are typically reviewed for abuse of discretion, Schmidt v. Shearer, 26 Kan. App. 2d 760, 765, 995 P.2d 381 (1999), appellate review is unlimited here because the district court's decision was based on a forum selection clause. See Aylward v. Dar Ran Furniture Industries, Inc., 32 Kan. App. 2d 697, 698, 87 P.3d 341 (2004) (applying standard of review for interpretation of written instruments to review of forum selection clause); K & V Scientific Co., Inc. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke, 314 F.3d 494, 497 (10th Cir. 2002) (applying standard for interpretation of contractual provisions to review of forum selection clause). Appellate review is also unlimited to the extent the issue is "the district court's interpretation of the venue statute and its application." 5B Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil § 1352 (2004); see Cooper v. Werholtz, 277 Kan. 250, 252, 83 P.3d 1212 (2004) (appellate review of statutory interpretation is unlimited).
Dismissal Based Upon the Forum Selection Clause
1. Do Nelson's claims to partition arise from the Sublease Agreements?
We first consider Nelson's argument that its partition claim is "independent of any conflict or dispute arising out of the agreements between Nelson and OGTF." Although Nelson's claims may not have been "independent" of the Sublease Agreements prior to the execution and filing of record of five assignments, we agree that the execution and filing of these assignments may distance Nelson's partition claims from the forum selection clause in the Sublease Agreements under the doctrine of merger.
It is a general rule of law applicable to all contracts that prior stipulations and agreements are merged into the final formal contract or the deed, and when a deed is delivered and accepted as performance of a contract to convey property, the contract is presumed to be merged into the deed. See Palmer v. The Land & Power Co., 172 Kan. 231, Syl. ¶ 2, 239 P.2d 960 (1952). Here, the obligations of OGTF pursuant to the Sublease Agreements were finally performed when formal assignments were executed, delivered, and recorded. The assignments conveying well bore interests carved out of Kansas oil and gas leasehold interests contained no forum selection clause.
Nelson's action to partition its oil and gas leasehold interests under the assignments did not arise under the Sublease Agreements; rather, it arises by virtue of common ownership of its property interests in Kansas. The right of partition enjoyed by cotenants in Kansas is considered an incident of common ownership and based on the equitable doctrine that it is better to have the control of property in one person than in several who may entertain divergent views with respect to proper control and management. See Miller v. Miller, 222 Kan. 317, 320, 564 P.2d 524 (1977).
Once OGTF's obligations under the Sublease Agreements were performed through the conveyance to Nelson of property interests by formal assignment, the covenants of the Sublease Agreements merged into those assignments and Nelson's partition rights derived from common ownership–not from contractual rights burdened by the forum selection clause. For this reason alone, the district court erred in denying Nelson's motion for reconsideration.
2. Kansas law regarding the venue of actions affecting realty.
Kansas has long required that actions affecting real property, including partition actions, take place in the county where the real property is located. K.S.A. 60-601; see Terr. L. 1858, ch. 11, sec. 45. This rule was codified after statehood, G.S. 1868, ch. 80, sec. 46, and in 1912 the Kansas Supreme Court explained the requirement as follows:
"So strict is this requirement that if a party seeks to recover the possession of land and it consists of separate tracts in two or more counties separate actions must be brought in the counties where they are situated. . . .
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"A party seeking to recover land can not compel another claiming interest in or title to it to litigate the title in any county except where the land is situated. Under the statute the subject of the action must be within the jurisdiction of the court, and no judgment which it can render in one county, determining title or right of possession, can affect land in a distant county any more than such a judgment could affect land in another state. A judgment affecting title to realty can only operate on the res that is within the jurisdiction of the court rendering it. A party may rely on what is shown by the records of the court having jurisdiction and may safely purchase an interest without looking to the records in courts in other counties or states. . . .
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"As the code specifically provides that actions for the recovery, partition, determination of an interest or sale of real property must be brought in the county where the real property is situated, . . . there can be no jurisdiction of the subject matter of such an action in any other county." Martin v. Battey, 87 Kan. 582, 588-90, 125 Pac. 88 (1912).
Martin shows the near equivalence under Kansas law of venue and subject matter jurisdiction when the subject of the litigation is land. While in many instances "[v]enue is not a jurisdictional matter but a procedural one," this appears to be the rule only "where real property is only incidentally affected and the action is transitory in nature." Shutts, Executor v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 222 Kan. 527, Syl. ¶ 6, 567 P.2d 1292 (1977). Where the action regards land, it "must be brought in the county in which the land is located," and such venue cannot be changed by agreement because "the venue provisions . . . are jurisdictional, and jurisdiction of the subject matter cannot be waived by the parties." Raynolds v. Row, 184 Kan. 791, 795, 339 P.2d 358 (1959). An action regards land "if the subject of inquiry is a right or interest in land, and if the judgment in the case will operate directly upon this right or interest, or will determine in any form any such right or interest, or bar any defendant therefrom." 184 Kan. at 793.
Venue for claims arising from oil and gas leases, however, was historically a distinct case. See, e.g., Connell v. Kanwa Oil Inc., 161 Kan. 649, 653, 170 P.2d 631 (1946) (venue distinguished in such instances because "an oil and gas lease conveys no interest in the land therein described . . . and is personal property."). In 1953, the legislature then amended G.S. 1949, 60-501 and other venue statutes to include oil and gas leases as real property. See L. 1953, ch. 276, sec. 1. Before the amendment, G. S. 1949, 60-501 stated in part that actions "[f]or the partition of real property" must be brought in the county where the real property was situated, but after amendment the subsection applied to actions "for the partition of real property or any estate or interest created by an oil, gas or mineral lease or an oil or gas royalty." (Emphasis added.) G.S. 1949, 60-501 (1961 Supp.). See Suits v. Mobil Crude Purchasing Co., 182 Kan. 310, 314, 321 P.2d 167 (1958) (action for determination and recovery of an interest created by an oil, gas, or mineral lease must be situated in the county of the real estate covered by such lease "[d]ue to legislative fiat").
These venue provisions were unchanged in the 1963 revision of the Code of Civil Procedure and are now codified in material part in K.S.A. 60-601. See L. 1963, ch. 303, sec. 60-601. The relevant portions of K.S.A. 60-601 are as follows:
"The term real property, as used in this section, includes any interest or estate created by an oil, gas or mineral lease, or an oil, gas or mineral royalty. Actions concerning real property must be brought in the county designated in this section.
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"(b) . . . The following actions must be brought in the county in which the real estate is situated . . . :
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(2) Actions for the partition of real estate or any estate or interest therein." K.S.A. 60-601(b)(2).
Since 1953, our venue statutes have considered oil and gas leasehold interests as realty. We conclude that long-standing Kansas law dictates that actions concerning real property, including oil and gas leasehold interests, should be litigated in the county where the property is situated.
3. Bifurcating claims for determination of interests from claims for partition.
We next consider the conflict between Kansas venue law and the forum selection clause in this case. OGTF concedes that "parties may not contract to establish jurisdiction of a local county action in a foreign state." It argues, however, that "[i]t has not been determined what interest [Nelson] has in the oil and gas lease in question." OGTF would have this initial question answered by the Nevada court pursuant to the forum selection clause, thus bifurcating this issue from the partition action.
We agree that a Nevada (foreign) court may not directly partition land located in Kansas. See Hoppe v. Hoppe, 181 Kan. 428, Syl. ¶ 4, 312 P.2d 215 (1957) ("While a court . . . acting upon the person of the defendant may decree a conveyance of land in another jurisdiction . . . neither the decree, nor any conveyance under it except by the party in whom title is vested, is of any efficacy beyond the jurisdiction of the court."). That being settled, we must decide whether, as OGTF argues, the partition action should be bifurcated. Under this approach, OGTF would have the determination of interests under the Sublease Agreements handled by the Nevada court, and any eventual enforcement or partition would lie in Kansas with the Chautauqua County District Court.
The leading Kansas case discussing forum selection clauses is Vanier v. Ponsoldt, 251 Kan. 88, 833 P.2d 949 (1992). Relying on The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co., 407 U.S. 1, 32 L. Ed. 2d 513, 92 S. Ct. 1907 (1972), our Supreme Court upheld forum selection clauses which are "fair and reasonable." 251 Kan. at 101.
"Parties to a contract may choose the jurisdiction in which all actions or proceedings arising from their transaction shall be heard. The forum selected by the parties must bear a reasonable relationship to the transaction and the forum-selection clause in the contract must not have been entered into under fraud. . . ." 251 Kan. 88, Syl. ¶ 2.
We are not convinced the bifurcation suggested by OGTF would be fair and reasonable under these circumstances. See Vanier, 251 Kan. at 101. First, two of seven parties to the action may have a Nevada residence, but Nevada hardly bears a reasonable relationship to a transaction involving the solicitation of an investment by a Kansas investor in a Kansas development program in exchange for conveyance of Kansas property.
More importantly, however, is the close connection in a partition action between the findings which must be made regarding each party's interests and the resulting division of those interests. The Kansas partition statute directs that "[t]he judge shall first determine and make an order specifying the interest[s] of the respective parties and directing partition." K.S.A. 60-1003(c)(1). We construe this statute as envisioning a single judicial action that both determines the parties' interests and orders partition. It is doubtful that an equivalent result could be achieved in a fair, reasonable, and efficient manner through the successive involvement of courts in different jurisdictions.
For example, if the partition were evidently unfair or unreasonable in its execution because of circumstances not anticipated by counsel or the courts, the parties would face further rounds of appearing first before the Nevada court and then the Kansas court to resolve the questions. Moreover, our Supreme Court has characterized the district court's "powers to make a just and equitable partition between the parties and to secure their respective interests" as "plenary." Stratmann v. Stratmann, 204 Kan. 658, 661, 465 P.2d 938 (1970). It would be difficult to exercise such plenary powers through orders from the courts of two jurisdictions, one to determine each party's interests and the other to secure those interests. These functions are so inextricably linked that bifurcation would be impractical, cumbersome, and unreasonable.
Our conclusion serves the interests of public notice as well. The Kansas partition statute, once again, directs that the judge should determine the parties' interests and make "an order specifying the interest of the respective parties and directing partition." K.S.A. 60-1003(c)(1). One order, filed of record in the county where the interests are located, would clearly provide far better notice than the procedure suggested by OGTF. And, if further clarification or amendment of the order were needed, public notice in Kansas would again be superior to the uncertainties of returning to Nevada for such proceedings.
This holding is consistent with authorities from other jurisdictions. For example, in RMP Rentals v. Metroplex, Inc., 356 Ark. 76, 84, 146 S.W.3d 861 (2004), the Arkansas Supreme Court rejected a suggestion similar to that proposed by OGTF, specifically that the parties "could litigate on their contract in Louisiana and then seek to enforce the liens in Arkansas." 356 Ark. at 82. According to the Arkansas court, this violated its holding that the local court "had sole jurisdiction over the res." 356 Ark. at 82. The court also noted even if a Louisiana judgment could be registered and then enforced in Arkansas, "it is highly probable that, in the interim, the land could be transferred to a third party or further encumbered." 356 Ark. at 82. Finally, the court held the bifurcated approach "disregards our well-established policy that piecemeal litigation is to be avoided." 356 Ark. at 82; see also McCloud Constr., Inc. v. Home Depot USA, Inc., 149 F. Supp. 2d 695, 701 (E.D. Wis. 2001) (federal court sitting in diversity refused to give effect to a Georgia forum selection clause based on a Wisconsin statute); Omne Financial, Inc. v. Shacks, Inc., 460 Mich. 305, 311-12, 596 N.W.2d 591 (1999) (Michigan court declined to read into the venue statute a consent for venue elsewhere.).
For all these reasons, we conclude that bifurcation is not appropriate. The essential nature of a partition action in Kansas dictates the judicial function of determining relative interests should not be separated from judicial protection and vindication of those interests in partition.
Does Nelson Have a Partitionable Interest?
Nelson also challenges the district court's apparent conclusion that it has no partitionable interest in the Chautauqua County property, arguing that "[t]he nature and extent of Nelson's interests in the oil and gas leases in issue . . . is not an appropriate subject for resolution by summary dismissal, and is not a basis for judicial determination that the Court lacks jurisdiction at this early stage of the proceedings." We agree.
To the extent the district court dismissed Nelson's action based upon the understanding that Nelson had no partitionable interest, the court's dismissal must be characterized as a judgment on the pleadings that Nelson failed to state a claim for relief. See K.S.A. 60-212(b)(6), (c). The standards for the district court's review in this setting are well established.
"'"When a motion to dismiss under K.S.A. 60-212(b)(6) raises an issue concerning the legal sufficiency of a claim, the question must be decided from the well-pleaded facts of plaintiff's petition. . . ."
"'"Disputed issues of fact cannot be resolved or determined on a motion to dismiss for failure of the petition to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The question for determination is whether in the light most favorable to plaintiff, and with every doubt resolved in plaintiff's favor, the petition states any valid claim for relief. Dismissal is justified only when the allegations of the petition clearly demonstrate plaintiff does not have a claim."
"'"In considering a motion to dismiss for failure of the petition to state a claim for relief, a court must accept the plaintiff's description of that which occurred, along with any inferences reasonably to be drawn therefrom."' [Citations omitted.]" Blevins v. Board of Douglas County Comm'rs, 251 Kan. 374, 381, 834 P.2d 1344 (1992).
In addition to the allegations in Nelson's amended petition, wherein Nelson claims to be "owner of a working interest in all oil and gas leases," the Sublease Agreements purport to convey to Nelson "[its] undivided percentage share in and only to the well bore." Nelson also attached to its motion for reconsideration copies of five recorded assignments purporting to convey an interest in the well bore of completed wells on some of the leases. OGTF responds on appeal that the assignments do not demonstrate a "possessory interest," citing Mulsow v. Gerber Energy Corp., 237 Kan. 58, 60, 697 P.2d 1269 (1985). We disagree.
In Mulsow our Supreme Court simply held that a working interest owner of an oil and gas lease was not entitled to partition the overriding royalty interest. 237 Kan. at 63. Nelson, however, alleges that it is the owner of a working interest and seeks to partition the interests of all other cotenants. Moreover, the assignments that were recorded appear to create interests carved out of OGTF's oil and gas leasehold interests, but they are restricted to specific well bores with revenue interests dependent upon payout. We do not construe Nelson's interests as overriding royalty interests, nor do we construe Nelson's amended petition as seeking the partition of such overriding royalty interests. OGTF's reliance on Mulsow is misplaced.
From the well-pleaded facts of Nelson's amended petition, together with any reasonable construction of the Sublease Agreements amplified by the recorded assignments, and resolving every doubt in Nelson's favor, Nelson claims ownership of an estate or interest created by an oil, gas, or mineral lease and is expressly entitled to partition under K.S.A. 60-1003. Although OGTF may contend otherwise and may still prove such contention in proceedings on remand, it was premature for the district court to dismiss Nelson's amended petition as failing to state a claim on this basis.
We recognize that Nelson's claims in the amended petition seek not only partition but an accounting. Although a claim for an accounting standing alone might be entitled to different treatment under the forum selection clause, here the accounting issues are inextricably linked to the partition issues. The doctrine of ancillary venue allows claims to be tried together for reasons of judicial economy and efficiency, even though venue is not technically proper for one or more of the claims. See 77 Am. Jur. 2d, Venue § 19, p. 647.
In summary, we conclude the district court erred in dismissing Nelson's action based either on the forum selection clause or on a mistaken understanding that Nelson failed to plead a partitionable interest. We remand for further proceedings in Chautauqua County District Court consistent with this opinion.
Reversed and remanded.


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Eight Phuket monks defrocked after testing positive for drugs
Eight monks from three temples in Phuket have been defrocked after posting positive drug tests.
Phuket officers raided three temples in Mueang Phuket and Kathu district – Samkong Temple, Kathu Temple and Thepnimit Temple – after locals complained about drug in the temples.
Officers conducted urine drug tests on the monks. The drug tests show that one monk from Samkong Temple and seven other monks from the Kathu Temple came up with a positive reading.
The eight monks have now been defrocked by a senior monk before being taken to the Phuket Provincial Narcotics Control Management Centre for further drugs treatment.
Police are investigating the temples and questioning the monks.
30 dolphins greet visitors to Similan Islands
Tourists were treated to the sight of a school of dolphins in the Similan Islands off the Phang Nga coast on Sunday.
Tour organisers said that around 30 dolphins swam close to the boat six or seven miles offshore, creating excitement for passengers. It was the first time dolphins had been seen in the vicinity since October 15.
The Similan Islands National Park director said they were bottlenose dolphins and were among several species now returning to the area following a five-year closure of the park for environmental rehabilitation. Food is again plentiful there for them, he said.
Tourists are forbidden to feed wildlife lest the free handouts alter the animals' natural behaviour, and the park's waters are also very sensitive to contamination from human disease and marine debris, according to the director.
SOURCE: nationthailand.com
Phuket hotels slashing the price of rooms
by Sophie Deviller
Hotels on Thailand's most popular holiday island are being forced to slash prices, with rooms left vacant and beaches sparse as Thailand's tourism chiefs struggle with a plunge in Chinese visitors caused by the US trade war and a stronger baht. Phuket was the most visited destination in the country last year, after Bangkok, and a good gauge of the state of its crucial travel industry.
Tourism accounts for 18% of Thailand's gross domestic product and Chinese holidaymakers make up more than a quarter of total arrivals. But while 2.2 million people from the country visited in 2018, according to official figures, the numbers for January-September were down almost 20% year on year.
Claude de Crissey, the French Honorary Consul in Phuket and owner of about 40 rooms in the Patong Beach area, says Chinese tourists are usually present even during the current low season.
"That was not the case this year," he said, adding he had to lower his prices by as much as 50%.
The problem is not only in Phuket, with hotels also struggling to fill rooms in the seaside resort of Pattaya on the mainland and on Koh Samui.
Trade tensions with the US have already made some Chinese reluctant to take holidays owing to uncertainty back home, while the Thai baht has risen about 10% against the yuan this year.
A boating disaster off Phuket's coast that killed 47 Chinese holidaymakers in July 2018 also scared some off.
"We are worried," said an industry insider, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic in a country where tourism provides tens of thousands of jobs. Adding to the headache is the fact that more than 3,000 new hotel rooms are being constructed on the island, raising the question of who will fill them.
"In terms of business, it's not good," said Kongsak Khoopongsakorn, vice-president of the association of hotels in Thailand and director of Vijitt Resort.
"Because … we have more hotels, more rooms to sell, we have more restaurants, more coffee shops."
Still, tourism authority chairman Yuthasak Supasorn said he remained "optimistic."
"We should reach our goal of 39.8 million foreign visitors."
However, that is only up from 38.2 million in 2018, much less than the jump seen from the previous year's total of 35.6 million.
Counting on India
Now hoteliers and tour package operators are targeting visitors from elsewhere, particularly India, which experts see as a huge untapped market.
A rapid expansion of the middle class in India, increased direct flights and visa-free travel have prompted Thailand to revise forecasts upwards.
It now expects two million Indian tourists this year, after an increase of nearly 25% on-year in the first seven months. But for now, the lower arrivals is evident on the streets of Phuket.
"I've never seen anything as bad as what it is at the moment," said Paul Scott from Australia, who said he has been coming to Thailand for 15 years.
He mainly blamed the stronger baht for the drop-off but also the fact that Thailand wasn't the untouched vacation paradise it once was. "Now it's not so new … and it's not cheap," he said.
The 15th Mai Khao Marine Turtle fun run attracts more than 4,000 runners
4,000 runners from Thailand and overseas took part in the 15th Mai Khao Marine Turtle Fun Run and Half Marathon 2019 yesterday, starting from the Phuket Gateway.
The event is expected to raise 700,000 baht for the charity, now in its 15th year. The money raised goes towards to The Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation, which is committed to protecting the marine and coastal environment, and ecosystems, for the wellbeing of sea turtles that nest in the Mai Khao beach and the surrounding areas.
The annual race also provides funds for thePhuket Marine Biological Centre's Injured Turtle Rehabilitation Program and The Third NavalArea Command's Turtle Hatchery Program.
The race was in its 15th year and runners of all ages and abilities took part in the race. The morning's racing was divided into five categories – the 21.1km half marathon, 10.5km mini- marathon, 5km fun run and 3k family run and VIP participants for all the races. The route of 21.1 kilometre race took runners northwest along the Haad Sai Kaew beach towards Thao Thepkasattri bridge, past the rural road No. 3006, run along the road – Pi Lai viewpoint area returned back along the T. Baan Tha Nun to the iconic Sarasin bridge before finished the half marathon in the Phuket Gateway.
For Mini Marathon 10.5 km – Over all category, Mr. Chinnawat Changlek clocked 39 minutes and 40 seconds to clinch victory in the male half marathon, winning prize money and a trophy with the signature of Phuket's Governor. The winner in the female mini marathon was Surakarn Wanna with a time of 47 minutes and 47 seconds.
Winners also received a prize gift voucher as well as a medal. Congratulations to all participants.
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The Best Adult Anime of All Time
For those of you looking for anime that is a bit more mature, like seinen anime, here's a list of the best adult anime of all time. One of the worst stereotypes about anime is that it's just for children, but the shows below prove that to be completely wrong. What makes an anime mature or "adult?" It isn't just the graphic violence, but the themes and ideals that are presented in the show that would likely go over the head of a younger viewer. In fact, many are great stoner anime, filled with jokes and funny anime characters that children just won't understand. Take Samurai Champloo, for instance, which addresses topics like homosexuality and prostitution. Would a young viewer understand the heart-wrenching dilemma of Jin falling in love with a sex slave? Ghost in the Shell is another great example of an adult anime series, where the subject matter revolves around politics and philosophy, both of which will not likely not be understood by someone under the age of 18.
What is the best anime series for adults to watch? Vote for your favorites on the adult anime list below, but only if you've actually seen the series. Is one of your top mature anime shows missing? Add it to the poll so that others can vote for it also.


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Ok, well I have a JTable with several different types of text in each column and I would like to know how to specify how to sort each column. Some of the text is just text, some are numbers, and some are formatted numbers. At the moment, it is obviously treating each column as Strings, so it is just sorting based on the text-equivalent of each cell of data.
So, here is the outline of the cells, 2 examples of their data, and how I want to sort them (column numbers are in indexes):
Column 2:
Type: Double, only positive numbers
Example 1: 150
Example 2: 1,000.25
Sort Goal: Numerically
Column 3:
Type: String containing a double and an int, only positive numbers
Example 1: 1,098/1,098
Example 2: 29.15/150
Sort Goal: Numerically by the number after the slash
Column 4:
Type: String, representing a percentage, only positive percentage
Example 1: 100%
Example 2: 15%
Sort Goal: Numerically
Column 5:
Type: Double, can be negative or positive
Example 1: 27,110.13
Example 2: -289.74
Sort Goal: Numerically
Here is my code of giving the ability to sort:
RowSorter<TableModel> sorter = new TableRowSorter<TableModel>(model); table.setRowSorter(sorter);
I've been trying to do several things, but I just don't understand enough about how the TableRowSorter works in order for me to break some ground here. Can anyone give me some guidance as to how to specify how I want the rows to be sorted?


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The Joes track suspected terrorists to Paris and go into full-thrash throwdown mode. SNAKE EYES has to take a commercial flight to Lockerbie, Scottland, and goes through customs and immigration with a very strange diplomatic passport. Meanwhile, SCARLETT cracks a computer code and finds out where the terrorists are going to strike.
The Flash's [SPOILER] Just Returned - and They Don't Look Happy


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I admit: Like a true backwoods dope, I was initially mystified by David Blaine's early "magic" specials. Especially that time he turned a hobo's coffee into coins or the one where he levitated from the sidewalk. Like Michael Jackson and Fiona Apple, I believed David Blaine's magic was real, man. A few of years ago, I went to the Balthazar restaurant in the Lower East Side. I noticed a few playing cards stapled to the ceiling and asked the waitress what the deal was. She rolled her eyes and said, "That David Blaine guy was in here. That's a prop for one of his tricks." Blasphemy! Well, Mr. staples-cards-to-the-ceiling is in the middle of filming his latest horseshit special where he lights himself on fire hanging 60 stories upside down above a cobra pit for a month or something where he will reveal another trick featuring big-punching extraordinaire Kimbo Slice. Reportedly, Blaine takes a gut punch from Kimbo and Fanhouse's football scribe and resident MMA freak Michael David Smith has the details (via Fightlinker):
The rather physically fit Blaine claims he chose Kimbo because the fighter is one of the few people he fears. From my observation, it does not seem as if the magician is intimidated in conversation. But faced with Kimbo's clenched fist before him, Blaine does look visibly nervous. He asks his audience of gym employees and Kimbo's entourage, "Is this stupid?" Everyone grinned widely back. I won't spoil the fun but there's no illusion involved to this bit. David Blaine simply stands in the middle of the cage, lifts up his shirt to prove he's not hiding any protective material, and asks Kimbo to punch him. And after? Kimbo is wowed by David Blaine's resistance to his gut shot. Kimbo's manager jokingly asks, "Hey, is this going to make Kimbo look weak?" I don't think so. And I hope after this, Blaine checks in with a doctor.
Kimbo Slice Punches David Blaine In The Gut [Fanhouse] PHOTO: Fightlinker's Flickr