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Jun 28, 2018. The new reward categories for Disney's Swan and Dolphin were released today, as well as the other Marriott/Starwood hotels around Disney.
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Apr 18, 2018 · Marriott International, Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. are planning to merge, creating the largest hotel company in the world. During separate stockholder meetings in 2016.
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Well, we now know all the answers, and I have to say I think most people will be relieved. While the changes won't take effect until August, on Monday afternoon Marriott officially unveiled its new — still unnamed — rewards program that will unify benefits across Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG).
Mar 4, 2019. After acquiring Starwood several years ago, it recently combined the. Currently, Marriott offers eight different hotel categories that allow you to.
It's also the highest-scoring hotel brand in the Economy category. Fifth worst: Starwood's Sheraton (76). This is the biggest disappointment since Sheraton is an Upper-Upscale hotel that fails to.
Feb 13, 2019. Case in point: With the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from. As a Category 5 hotel, the Park Lane Sheraton costs only 12,000 points.
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Jan 04, 2019 · In late November 2018, Marriott revealed the details of a massive data breach. This involved Starwood's guest reservations system, with an unauthorized party potentially copying and encrypting information all the way from 2014 until September 10, 2018.
Apr 16, 2018 · Marriott International announced a set of unified benefits across the loyalty programs for its three major hotel brands — Marriott, Starwood, and Ritz Carlton. Marriott acquired Starwood hotels.
Sep 14, 2014. If you're familiar with the Starwood SPG program you know that category 1 & 2 hotels are insanely cheap. We're talking 2,000 to 4,000 points.
Marriott uses a similar tactic with its Autograph Collection brand, but Aron points out that Starwood's Tribute is different in that they're choosing hotels strictly in the four-star luxury category,
St. Regis Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel chain that is part of the Starwood hotel group. Marriott International purchased Starwood in 2016. The St. Regis hotel chain traces its roots back to 1904, when John Jacob Astor IV opened the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, USA. Starwood acquired the hotel.
Aug 03, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Starwood Hotels & Resorts HOT, +1.16% The Wurzak Hotel Group. Firmly anchored in the four-star, upper upscale category, Tribute Portfolio allows owners of distinct.
Feb 13, 2019. 5X points at participating Marriott Rewards and SPG hotels. will have eight hotel categories, ranging from 7,500 to 85,000 points per night.
Last month, Marriott wrapped up a major rebranding of its loyalty program, combining it with the Starwood Preferred Guest.
Apr 26, 2017. Learn how to use SPG points to book stays at Starwood properties in. Closer to home, the Category 5 hotels of The Westin Melbourne and.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, LLC is a subsidiary of Marriott International.Prior to its merger with Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott, it was an American hotel and leisure company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
Now, one of the latest and largest cases — the pilfering of 327 million guest records including passport information from the Starwood Hotels chain acquired by. like fingerprints and retina images.
Nov 28, 2016 · When Skift spoke to Marriott Global Brand Officer Tina Edmundson in September, a little over two weeks after Marriott finally closed its $13.3-billion acquisition of Starwood.
Jun 9, 2014. If you just picked up a Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from. Sheraton Amman Al Nabil Hotel (Category 5: 12,000-16,000 points per.
Ever since Marriott International Inc. acquired Starwood to create the world's biggest hotel. an anniversary free night at higher-category resorts, and complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold elite.
Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – View the current offers here. The Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express has been one of the top-rated credit cards in the travel space for over a decade now. Card holders earn Marriott points, which can be put toward award stays at some of the world's nicest hotels.
Nearly two years after Marriott International bought Starwood Hotels, the brands have finally merged. Marriott added insult to injury by playing games with the hotel categories." The most immediate.
Apr 18, 2018. Marriott International, Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. the elite earning structure will contain five categories: Silver, Gold,
For four years, Marriott Hotels fell in the latter category. Buried in Marriott's announcement. gender and other details on at least 327 million guests from the Starwood database. Marriott bought.
Feb 14, 2012. W Hong Kong is among them (the only Starwood hotel in Hong Kong which will get adjusted), moving from Category 5 to Category 6.
In total, 30 hotel brands now fall under the Marriott umbrella to. Marriott silver members will see Starwood's lowest category, Preferred Plus. Each Starwood point will be worth three Marriott.
Aug 1, 2018. As I had previously guessed, it will be an SPG category 6 hotel. That's the same category as the Sheraton Tel Aviv and the Elma Arts Zichron.
Starwood. upscale category, with an initial concentration in North America and Europe, Starwood said. Former CEO Frits van Paasschen, who resigned in February, was slow to expand through brand.
Discover more. See where your points can take you: Discover hotels and resorts in categories 1–8, effective March 5, 2019. Redeem at more than 6,900 hotels around the world.
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Uber Technologies Inc. is joining with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. to give rewards. head of Uber's travel partnership. "The travel category is important for us and we are always.
Today, Starwood has a significantly larger footprint than its competitors, and the largest pipeline of new hotels in the four and five star category. "Starwood's long legacy in China gave us a.
Hoyt Harper, senior VP-brand management in Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, talks to TOI about Starwood's roadmap for India. You have brands across categories. How do you plan to introduce them in India?.
Company Values: As of 2014, Starwood Hotels (NASDAQ: HOT) does not have a. About: Residence Inn, the founding leader of the extended-stay category,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and its luxury W Hotels division Wednesday revealed the official name and concept details for its new brand in the select-service hotel category: aloft. The.
If you plan to redeem Marriott Rewards or Starwood Preferred Guest points for a hotel stay, be sure to review the list of category changes the company is making.
Ultra Modern Hotels It's also decidedly high tech, from Smart TVs in the rooms to ultra-fast Wi-Fi. stay Locale.'" The hotel has a mix of "King Lofts," which include king-sized beds, living areas, 55-inch smart. U.S. News has identified top boutique hotels by taking into account. This ultra- trendy Tribeca hotel is often exalted by guests as "outstanding,"
Mar 25, 2019. In addition to airlines, hotel and rental car loyalty programs also were scored. United and. (Scroll down for the full list of categories and winners.) The Best. 2015: Starwood Preferred Guest (2 for 1 nights/4 for 2 nights)
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Mar 25, 2019 · Hilton sweeps hotel awards. Another big shakeup came on the hotel front, where Hilton swept all six hotel categories. "This is a huge win for Hilton, as this is the first year in the history of.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. includes nine unique brands: Westin, award categories, ranging from "mid-priced, full-service hotels and resorts" to.
"Category 9" will contain 12 of Marriott's most sought-after properties. A night in the least expensive Starwood hotel will now cost 1,500 points and $30, up from 1,200 points and $25 cash. The.
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Starwood Capital Group and Shimao Property Holdings Limited will form a new China-based hotel joint venture. The Firm has invested in virtually every category of real estate on a global basis,
Apr 16, 2018. Massive Changes Coming to Marriott, Starwood, and Ritz-Carlton Hotel Loyalty. The new program will streamline how points are earned on hotel stays, the exact redemption categories for all 6,500 participating hotels, but.
while Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide took the Sales & Service category from Marriott, which had also won that award for 10 straight years. Marriott, however, took the award for Top Overall Hotel.
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Retaliation for complaints may warrant legal action in New York
On Behalf of Gould & Berg, LLP | May 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Working in a male-dominated profession can be difficult for female workers. Women may feel as if they have to work harder to prove themselves on the job though they are perfectly capable of performing their duties, and they may also have to contend with unseemly behaviors from co-workers. Unfortunately, some women may even face retaliation for complaining about such behaviors.
New York readers may be interested in one woman who faced such a situation in another state. Reports indicated that the woman had worked as a police officer and claimed to have been sexually harassed while on the job. In one instance, a supervisor had allegedly suggested that she wear revealing clothing to a work-related meeting.
The woman filed a complaint about the harassment, and she reportedly faced retaliation for her complaints in the form of disciplinary action. The woman stated that she had worked for the department for 15 years, and during that time had only faced five instances of disciplinary action. After her complaints in 2014, she underwent a dozen investigations and faced six recommendations for disciplinary action before she resigned in 2016. Though she filed lawsuits in relation to sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation, the retaliation claim was the only one allowed to move forward. In relation to that case, the city was ordered to pay her over $80,000 in damages.
Everyone should have the ability to feel safe and comfortable in their work environments. When there are issues, workers should also feel as if they have the ability to come forward with complaints. If retaliation takes place due to complaints or claims of misconduct, New York workers may wish to consider their legal options.
Source: sacbee.com, "South Bend ordered to pay $80K in retaliation case", May 7, 2018

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A Black woman has been shot and killed by a police officer after she allegedly grabbed the officer's taser and resisted arrest. However, a video of the incident shows the woman screaming that she's pregnant while she was already lying down on the ground right before the officer fired five gunshots.
The woman, identified as 44-year old Pamela Turner, was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner's office in Harris County determined that Turner was not pregnant.
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Park Developments profit surges to €11.3m
Builder nearly doubles profits in year in which it borrows to pay off debt to Nama
Fernbank, a Park Developments project: the builder has taken fresh borrowings from Bank of Ireland and AIB, secured on the group's assets.
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Fri Nov 23 2018 - 02:15
Profits at builder Park Developments' main business almost doubled to €11.3 million last year, according to the latest figures.
Park exited Nama in June by paying off a reported €300 million-plus debt to the State assets agency with fresh borrowings from Bank of Ireland and AIB secured on the group's assets.
The group is building new homes on sites in Clay Farm, Hamilton Park, Fernbank and The Park in Carrickmines in south Dublin.
Park is also the developer behind the Reflector office and apartment complex on the capital's Grand Canal Dock.
Accounts just filed for Park Developments (Dublin) Ltd, one of its main operating entities, show that sales rose two-thirds last year to €75.6 million from €45.7 million in 2016.
Park generated a profit before tax of €11.3 million in 2017, close to twice the €6 million surplus that the company earned the previous year. Profit after tax in 2017 was €10.5 million.
Net assets stood at €84 million on December 30th last year, 9 per cent ahead of the €73.3 million recorded 12 months earlier.
Total assets were €482 million, while the company owed €406 million to its creditors, which included €363 million due to its parent, Quorn Securities Unlimited. Other group companies owed Park Developments (Dublin) €406 million.
The accounts note that Park's assets and those of other group businesses support guarantees given to AIB and Bank of Ireland for a new loan to Quorn Securities.
Park, chaired by well-known developer Michael Cotter, states it exited Nama on June 22nd this year by refinancing debts to the agency with new lenders.
"The group repaid in full all capital, interest and fees due on the original loan facilities that were transferred to Nama in November 2010, in addition to all new facilities provided by Nama to fund new developments," the accounts say.
New loans
The accounts confirm that AIB and Bank of Ireland agreed to give the group new loans on June 22nd.
The accounts do not state how much the banks loaned the group, but it is understood that it owed Nama more than €300 million.
The company describes all loans as "fully performing", which means that it was repaying any sums that fell due during the year.
In May, the group sold 262 apartments in Churchtown, south Dublin, to Irish Life Investment Managers for more than €100 million.
Park is a third-generation family-owned business that has built more than 20,000 houses and apartments, and three million square feet in commercial property.
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About 40 people carry pistols in holsters, long guns in walk to Gateway Arch
Armed demonstrators stroll through St. Louis About 40 people carry pistols in holsters, long guns in walk to Gateway Arch Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1tUCfuQ
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ST. LOUIS – Armed demonstrators have taken to the streets in St. Louis to assert their right to openly carry firearms.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that about 40 people participated in Saturday's demonstration. They carried pistols in holsters and had long guns slung from their shoulders as they walked from a park to the Gateway Arch. Counter-protesters met them along the way.
The demonstration comes after voters in August passed a state constitutional amendment strengthening the right to own firearms. The Missouri legislature passed a separate law that effectively removes municipal bans on openly carrying weapons.
The combination appears to make it legal for anyone with a concealed weapons permit to carry a weapon openly as well.
Mayor Francis Slay called the armed stroll a "scene out of a bad Western."
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The Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images by Nicholas Saul
The Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images
Since the arrival of the Gypsies, or Romanies, in Europe at the beginning of the eleventh century, Europeans have simultaneously feared and romanticized them. That ambiguity has contributed to centuries of confusion over the origins, culture, andMoreSince the arrival of the Gypsies, or Romanies, in Europe at the beginning of the eleventh century, Europeans have simultaneously feared and romanticized them. That ambiguity has contributed to centuries of confusion over the origins, culture, and identity of the Romanies, a confusion that too often has resulted in marginalization, persecution, and scapegoating.The Role of the Romanies brings together international experts on Romany culture from the fields of history, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology to address the many questions and problems raised by the vexed relationship between Romany and European cultures. The books first section considers the genesis, development, and scope of the field of Romany studies, while the second part expands from there to consider constructions of Romany culture and identity. Part three focuses on twentieth-century literary representations of Romany life, while the final part considers how the role of the Romanies will ultimately be remembered and recorded. Together, the essays provide an absorbing portrait of a frequently misunderstood people. The Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images by Nicholas Saul
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Expect Few Insurers to Participate in Health Exchanges
By Greg Scandlen
From time to time we have chronicled the various failures of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), and they are many.
First was the CLASS Act, which even the Obama administration said could not be implemented. Then there were the federal high-risk pools, and the small business tax credit, and the subsidy for employers offering early retiree coverage, and the CO-OP idea, and the Medical Loss Ratio restrictions.
Even a simple idea like requiring insurance contracts to be written in plain English was doomed to failure.
But now comes what is likely the biggest failure to date—the Health Insurance Exchange idea. I say biggest failure to date because the individual mandate, which will be universally ignored, hasn't begun yet.
Robert Pear reports in the New York Times that only 13 states have told the Feds they intend to set up exchanges, and completed applications have to be submitted by November 16 of this year!
No Info from Feds
If a state fails to set up its own exchange in time, the Feds will set one up instead. But Mr. Pear writes that there is absolutely no information available on what the Feds might be doing to make this happen. He writes, "States have done their work in public, but planning for the federal exchanges has been done almost entirely behind closed doors."
The Feds know the value of good advertising and have "invited advertising agencies to devise an elaborate 'outreach and education campaign' to publicize the federal exchanges and their potential benefits for consumers." But federal officials "have refused even to divulge the 'request for proposals' circulated to advertising agencies."
Even if the Feds are able to set up exchanges in all the states that have refused, they will be in for a rude awakening when they discover the ACA prohibits federal exchanges from offering the same premium subsidies available to state exchanges. There has been a furious debate over this issue on the Health Affairs Blog, between Timothy Jost of Washington and Lee University and Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler of the Cato Institute. Cannon and Adler clearly have the stronger side of this argument.
But no matter—like everything about the ACA—this idea is poorly conceived, poorly written, and will be poorly implemented. It is another case of throwing Jello on the wall and hoping it will stick. It will not stick.
Unnecessary Separate Bureaucracies
The idea of online comparison shopping is attractive. In fact, eHealthinsurance.com has been doing it for many years, and it provides a wonderful service showing what is available in every ZIP code. But the Exchanges as envisioned in the ACA have little to do with that.
For some reason Congress decided instead to create a new bureaucracy in each state that would not only provide a marketplace for health insurance options but also define the products, regulate the companies, and distribute the subsidies. Why?
Why does each state need its own exchange? Is the market so very different in North Dakota and South Dakota that a single exchange wouldn't work for both? The New York City area is a tri-state market; why not have a single exchange for that market?
Why do we need a new regulatory agency? Every state already has a Department of Insurance that is expert at regulating insurance companies. They have on staff attorneys, actuaries, accountants, customer services, and enforcement personnel that are very good at seizing insolvent insurers when needed. Why should all this be replicated in each state? Why not give the existing departments the responsibility for enforcing whatever regulations the politicians develop?
Why create a new state agency to distribute federal subsidies? Whether an individual is eligible for a subsidy is a federal decision, and the IRS is already assigned the responsibility of enforcing the mandate. Why shouldn't the IRS be distributing the subsidies, especially since these subsidies are based on reported income?
Finally, once you have the regulations and subsidies in place, what added value does a new state agency bring to the shopping for coverage? Are state agencies adept at web site development? What is the expertise here?
Billions for Redundancy
Many billions of dollars are being spent on creating these agencies that will end up being at best redundant and more likely clumsy and amateurish. But Congress just seems to love creating new bureaucracies.
Meanwhile, if I were a betting man (and I am), I would put a sizable wager on this proposition: The new health care exchanges will be so poorly organized and managed that very few, if any, insurers will choose to participate after the first year and even fewer citizens will bother to enroll. They will be no more successful than all the other provisions we've looked at in the past.
Greg Scandlen ([email protected]) is an independent health care analyst and president of the Health Benefits Group in Hagerstown, Maryland. Used with permission from http://gregscandlen.wordpress.com/, where an earlier version of this article appeared.
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Greg Scandlen is a policy advisor of The Heartland Institute and founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the health care system.
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Case No. GNR-T-12-03, Order No. 32548
Changes proposed to telephone customer service rules
Idaho telephone companies and staff from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission are proposing changes to a state rule that requires regulated landline telecommunications providers to restore outages within certain time frames and provide billing credits to customers when they fail to do so.
In an earlier case filed last January, CenturyLink (formerly Qwest and also doing business as CenturyTel of the Gem State and CenturyTel of Idaho) asked the PUC to be exempted from a commission rule that requires regulated telephone companies to restore outages within 24 hours unless the outage occurs on a weekend. If the company fails to restore service within the rule's time frames, it must credit customers an amount equal to the rate for one month of basic local exchange service. There are exemptions from the rule if outages are caused by circumstances beyond the company's control, such as a natural disaster or a when a customer causes the outage or does not make a reasonable effort to arrange a repair visit.
The rule, adopted in 1993, made sense when basic landline service from one provider was all that was available to customers, CenturyLink claims. "Today, however, a substantial majority of basic local service customers are not cut off from communication and are not out-of-service in the event their wireline telephone is not working." According to the Federal Communications Commission, wireless services were available at between 80 and 90 percent of populated areas in 2009. The FCC identified 1,221,000 wireless connections in Idaho during 2009, while the 2009 census recorded only 647,502 housing units, according to CenturyLink.
Further, CenturyLink claims, the unregulated wireless providers are not subject to the commission's service performance rules, giving them an economic advantage over CenturyLink. The company claims its workers are taking time to restore landline service to meet the rule's requirements instead of installing broadband service, which is more important to many customers than landline connections. Competitors are able to fill high-speed Internet service orders more quickly as a result.
Commission staff did not favor complete exemption from the rule because of its concern about customers who do not have access or subscribe to wireless and/or broadband services.
CenturyLink, joined by Frontier Communications Northwest, Citizens Telecommunications Company of Idaho, TDS Telecommunications Corp and the Idaho Telecom Alliance, and commission staff conducted settlement negotiations and are proposing a compromise that extends the response time to 48 hours during the week and removes the requirement that customers receive a billing credit if the new timeframes are not met. The same exemptions for natural disaster and customer-caused circumstances would also still apply. The proposed rule would also require that at least 80 percent of out-of-service trouble reports be cleared each month within the specified time frames.
CenturyLink claims it already has incentive to meet customer needs because of increased competition. Customers "need not bother to complain to the commission since they can simply disconnect their service and move to a wireless or cable option," CenturyLink states. "From an economic and business perspective, losing a customer to a competitor is a considerably more serious setback than reporting a standard violation or even paying a customer credit."
The commission is taking comment on the proposed settlement through May 31. Comments are accepted via e-mail by accessing the commission's homepage at www.puc.idaho.gov and clicking on "Comments & Questions About a Case." Fill in the case number (GNR-T-12-03) and enter your comments. Comments can also be mailed to P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0074 or faxed to (208) 334-3762.
A full text of the commission's order, along with other documents related to this case, is available on the commission's Web site. Click on "File Room" and then on "Telecommunications Cases" and scroll down to the above case number.


We'll finish up this topic by considering some additional planes.
the previous lectures, where we identify the coordinates of the intercept.
we write the integers in parenthesis and there are no commas.
we put that negative number on top of the particular system.
We'll look at the A through D, and then we'll look at E through F.
And when we describe those planes, what we see, for example, is given here.
we have the infinity infinity 1, so that becomes the 001 plane.
therefore, when we take the reciprocals, we wind up having the 111 plane.
infinity since it never intersects the Z axis and we get the 110.
what we will see is the infinity, infinity negative one or the 001 bar.
When we look at Plane E, we see that the intercepts are for x equal to 1.
it never intersects the y axis, but it intersects the z one-half of the way up.
And therefore, we have the 1, infinity, one-half, those are our intercepts.
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Coinbase suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) trading after double-spend attacks
Cryptocurrency trading portal Coinbase delisted today the Ethereum Classic (ETC) currency after detecting a series of double-spend attacks over the last three days.
In layman terms, double-spend attacks are when a malicious actor gains the majority computational power inside a blockchain, which they then use to enforce unauthorized transactions over legitimate ones.
According to a security alert published today by Coinbase security engineer Mark Nesbitt, this is exactly what's been happening on the Ethereum Classic blockchain for the past three days, since January 5.
Nesbitt says that a malicious actor has carried out 11 (at the time of writing) double-spend attacks during which he moved funds from legitimate accounts to their own.
Coinbase says they immediately put the ETC blockchain under a close watch after the first attack, even if no funds were stolen.
The platform said it delisted ETC trading on its platform after the third attack, during which a first double-spend transaction that moved funds illegally was observed.
Another eight followed suit after that, and, in total, attackers managed to carry out double-spend transactions of nearly 88,500 ETC (~$460,000) over the last three days.
Coinbase said the attacks are still ongoing. The company also said its platform was not the target of these attacks but did not reveal if attackers tried to move funds from another cryptocurrency trading site.
The ETC cryptocurrency was created in August 2016, shortly after the infamous DAO hack, and was one of the first forks of the more established Ether (ETH).
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Q: NatTable Filter using Regex I am interested in using regular expressions in the NatTable filter. I have set up my code based on the following helpful links:
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/NatTable/article.html#exercise-adding-a-filter-functionality-to-a-nattable
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1069806/
From what I can gather, it basically boils down to adding the following code to your existing Filter:
    FilterRowHeaderComposite<T> filterRowHeaderLayer = new
      FilterRowHeaderComposite<>(filterStrategy,
            sortHeaderLayer, columnHeaderDataLayer.
            getDataProvider(), configRegistry);

    int rowNum = 2;

    configRegistry.registerConfigAttribute(EditConfigAttributes.CELL_EDITOR,
      new FilterRowTextCellEditor(), DisplayMode.NORMAL,
      FilterRowDataLayer.FILTER_ROW_COLUMN_LABEL_PREFIX + rowNum);

    configRegistry.registerConfigAttribute(FilterRowConfigAttributes.
      TEXT_MATCHING_MODE, TextMatchingMode.REGULAR_EXPRESSION,
      DisplayMode.NORMAL,
      FilterRowDataLayer.FILTER_ROW_COLUMN_LABEL_PREFIX + rowNum);

    configRegistry.registerConfigAttribute(CellConfigAttributes.
      DISPLAY_CONVERTER, new FilterRowRegularExpressionConverter(),
      DisplayMode.NORMAL,
      FilterRowDataLayer.FILTER_ROW_COLUMN_LABEL_PREFIX + rowNum);

The filtering seems to work in certain situations and not others.  For example, assume I have a cell that has the data "This is a Test". If I use the expression *t, it will find the row (which is what I expect).  If I use the expression *x, it will not find the row (which is what I expect). If I use the expression ^(123) it will not find the row (which is NOT what I expect).  Am I doing something incorrect?
Thanks!

A: I think the issue is in the regular expression. It seems that the cardinality is missing. Using [^123]* it works as you expect it.
If you for example test the _6031_GlazedListsFilterExample and insert [^abc] for the Housenumber column, you will see all entries that have only a one digit value. Adding the * all rows appear.


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RENEX Group informed that it has just been awarded by YAMAHA with the prize for the Best Distributor of YAMAHA Robots in Europe. The modern YAMAHA AUTHORIZED TRAINING CENTER and the high level of knowledge provided to engineers from manufacturing companies in Poland and Europe were highly appreciated when awarding the prize. This is the second award recently granted to RENEX Group. A few weeks ago the group was awarded the title of Best Service Supplier in Europe in the field of SMT equipment by another section of YAMAHA.
YAMAHA emphasized the RENEX Group's participation in the promotion of the brand, in particular through training and consulting activities related to the newly established YAMAHA AUTHORIZED TRAINING CENTER.
A new training unit was established within the RENEX TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING CENTER. The Center conducts courses in robotics and automation, aiming at providing a wide range of engineers with knowledge and know-how allowing for the fullest possible utilization of the capabilities offered by YAMAHA industrial robots. Due to the wide range of equipment available on site and the highest level of training, the Center also trains YAMAHA specialists.
This award mobilizes us to greater effort and systematic improvement of professional qualifications. The results we have achieved owe a lot to our specialists and engineers and the RENEX network of integrators in Poland and the Balkans. This award is all the more valuable as it was won at a time of a global crisis caused by the pandemic. It is at times like this that we are reassured that our efforts and dedication are noticed and appreciated. – commented Ms. Marzena Szczotkowska-Topić and Mr. Predrag Topić – owners of RENEX Group.
YAMAHA elements in the form of the SCARA robot were used in the series of REECO robots developed by the RENEX Group. These devices have received numerous awards, including the TERAZ POLSKA title. The robots enable automation of such production processes as soldering, screw assmbly, labelling, dosing, and others – according to individual orders. The subject of REECO Robots has recently been raised by YAMAHA as a perfect example of application possibilities of their devices – https://fa.yamaha-motor-im.de/get-the-right-recipe-to-leave-the-others-behind/
As RENEX Group representatives emphasize, the technological advancements YAMAHA has recently unveiled will be very important for continued success in 2021. In 2020 alone, YAMAHA introduced three state-of-the-art devices: including a new SCARA robot model, a series of linear conveyors, and a vision system.
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With the 400mm arm length SCARA YK400XE-4 robot introduced late last year, the YK-XE series now includes three models, giving an even wider range of applications – from handling and sorting of small components in manufacturing of, for example, smartphones and computers, to working with large components such as those used in household appliances and the automotive industry.
LCMR200 LINEAR CONVEYORS
YAMAHA has recently also introduced the new LCMR200 series linear transporters. The designers have maintained the high accuracy and short stroke characteristic of the existing LCM-100 model, but have improved the module design. The linear guide and carriage rail have been enlarged and strengthened, while keeping the overall size the same. The result is a more robust model that is better suited for environments where foreign objects and static noise are present.
The system allows up to 64 sliders to be operated by a single YHX controller, and by creating a new programming model using the Standard Profile, the need to program individual controller events is eliminated. This greatly simplifies the integration process.
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Another of YAMAHA's new product launches is the new RCXiVY2+ vision system, which is capable of detecting irregularly shaped objects and can therefore be used in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and apparel industries, among others.
The system is equipped with a new high-performance camera, and thanks to its enhanced processing capabilities, its recognition time is up to 45% faster than the current iVY2 model.
The new model is also fully integrated with robots by incorporating vision, lighting and tracking control cards into the RCX3 series robot controller. This change enables robot control, image processing, lighting control and conveyor control from the robot program, significantly reducing setup time.
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Piece 26; The Russian Connection Trump, Putin and the Buying of the Presidency By. Raimondo Graziano
March 11, 2019 March 11, 2019 Raimondo Graziano
Trump, Putin and the Buying of the Presidency
By. Raimondo Graziano
~ Written sometime after the 45th President's Inauguration
It is no secret, or wild fantasy that the current President of the United States and his connections with the Russian government, Russian business interests and moguls is raising eyebrows and questions on Capitol Hill and at dinner tables around the country as to whether the Presidency was bought by billionaire Donald J. Trump with the help of the Russians government; incentivizing the easing of sanctions for a hefty stake in what seems to be the only way the president knows how to speak – with his wallet. And a tremendous wallet at that. However, the web of connections tracing back years and linking the President with oil executives, high ranking members of the Russian government, and a reluctance to release his tax returns which would show a good deal of where his capital, investments and consequently conflicts of interest lie. However, over a month into his presidency and conflicts of interest, seem to be forgotten, or seldom talked about in the news cycle; and make no mistake, the president and his administration know how to work the news cycle. Stories become non-stories within a matter of days, the public attention jumping and swaying from one scandal to the next, fabricated or otherwise.
To understand just how deep the President's Russian connections, extend, it is important to understand that at its core, in all his dealings – the growth of his own wealth and those around him are paramount and take precedent before that of average Americans', rather they are used as a tool to further advance his own agenda and the plans of those around him. His cabinet is cacophony of different actors, and players all with different hopes and ambitions that they'd like to squeeze out of this American nation. For the President, the growth of his wealth. For the Chief Strategist, Bannon, the deconstruction of the Administrative State, for Chief of Staff, Priebus, the advancement of conservative values – which there are many that have a grounding in logic, and are measured in their response to issues facing the country – though that is not how they are employed by so-called conservatives on Capitol Hill. They are beholden to their donors. Not to the American people. Not only must we as American citizens, those not on Capitol Hill, cease looking at ourselves and others as liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans – things that divide, labels – rather we must look at ourselves as the American people, beholden to our neighbors, those not on Capitol Hill against the moneyed interests who care not for your families, or your well-being – but for the fattening of the pockets, and the lining of their inseams.
The story about to be woven will be a long one, so bear with me. While it is impossible to pin exactly how much the President may be in debt to particular companies or countries there are estimates based off of an ever-complicated tangling web of business interests and projects. Most notably the Bayrock Group – a chief financier of numerous projects headed by the real-estate mogul turned President and Blackstone, a company whose wealth management is linked to Russian business interests and the government of Russia itself.
It is being debated, though there is little evidence due to the reluctance to release tax returns, of the scale to which the President may owe Blackstone and Bayrock – those that have dealt with them in the past have likened them to working alongside organized crime, with owing favors coming in return for financial assurance. Adding to the interesting and compelling story is the Presidents work with Felix Sater, whose firm is Bayrock. The President has denied being aware of Mr. Saters past. Those that have worked with Sater, including former business associates, have accused him of threatening to kill them and he has been praised by top government officials for information that has led to numerous mob convictions and national security gains, both large and small, in his home country.
For context, the Russian economy is badly faltering under the weight of its over-dependence on raw materials which have seen a steep decline these last few years since the implementation of sanctions on the Russian government after its invasion of the Ukraine. Exxon Mobil, under Rex Tillerson, brokered a deal with the Russian Federation in 2013 to lease over 60 million acres of Russian land to pump oil out of. That oil resource would go through pipelines in the Ukraine, who happen to heavily tax the proceeds; at that time the Ukraine was applying for admission into NATO, much to the discomfort of the Russian government for obvious reasons.
In a post-cold war world, the Russian government views expansion of NATO as a threat to its sovereignty, a defacto nation state, challenging Russia in Europe and increasingly Asia. The Russian President subsequently invaded Ukraine in 2014, securing the routes to export the oil tax-free by sea, by taking the Crimean Peninsula from by force. Now, after sanctions were imposed on Russia for the invasion, Exxon Mobil could only pump oil from approximately 3 of those 60+ million acres.
With Tillerson as our current Secretary of State, and the President expressing a desire to unilaterally end sanctions – though this seems to be on hold for the time being, given the forthcoming information regarding the deepening of ties between the campaign, and the president and the Russian government – it seems that both the President and Tillerson will profit from such a move. Tillerson received a personal award from President Putin for his business partnership with Russia's State-owned oil company Rosneft. Rosneft, will make half a trillion dollars from that much untapped oil, all pumped tax-free through Crimea, forcibly and cunningly taken by the Russian government. Furthermore, Russia can't affordably get at 80% of its reserves and reduce its per barrel cost to compete with the United States' at $45 or Saudi Arabia at $39. With the lifting of sanctions, there is increased competition for the Russian government to compete. The President has spoken of reemploying Iranian sanctions, and ending the nuclear deal – a boon to Russian oil competitiveness, and revenue intake. Going further, ExxonMobil, which is in possession of patented extraction knowledge that could help the Russian government extract 45% more oil at a significant cost savings to Russia, however this is wholly inaccessible now due to American imposed sanctions. Now the question, what does the President of the United States have to gain from a strong Russia?
It is rumored and this is speculation, though with recent dealings between the campaign of the President and advisors within the administration and their meetings over the course of the last few years with notable Russians – one can't help but wonder– it is rumored that the President of Russia offered then candidate Trump a significant stake in the Russian oil company, Rosneft – roughly 20% – only if there would be an easing of sanctions, and a de-escalation of rhetoric, as well as significant NATO pullback – so one can't help but wonder, given both his warm words towards the Russians, and inflammatory rhetoric towards a western institution the United States spearheaded – NATO.
Now, after the president's election – a 19.5% stake in the Russian state-owned oil company was privatized and put into the possession of an unknown holder, probable a shell company. The question is who owns this stake? Could it be the President? And with the recent continuing revelations of his and others in his administration and their ties to Russia – the question only becomes more pertinent.
His second campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has ties to the Russians. According to Robert Reich, former labor Secretary: Information hacked from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's daughter's phone refers to "politically-damaging evidence" related to an alleged 2012 meeting between Trump and Serhiy Tulub, a close associate of Ukraine's former president, the pro-Russian strongman Viktor Yanukovych. The text appears to come from Ukrainian parliamentarian Serhiy Leshchenko. Manafort confirmed the authenticity of the hacked texts from his daughter's phone, and said he had received similar texts to his own phone from the same address appearing to be affiliated with Leshchenko.
His former, National Security Advisor pick (Lt Gen Flynn) has twice appeared on Russia's RT propaganda news station, and was ousted over his alleged ties to the Russian government. Attorney General Jeff Sessions we now know met twice with the Russian ambassador, and lied, under oath to Congress regarding the matter. He has since recused himself from the possibility of an investigation into these ties. We know the President did not take well to this news, based on leaks from the White House as he left for Mar-a-lago last weekend. In regards to Mar-a-lago, another source of contention, due to the rising security costs that the United States government is paying to the Trump Organization for protection both at the resort, and at his tower in Columbus Circle.
The three Mar-a-Lago getaways, combined with the hundreds of thousands of public dollars spent on Secret Service protection during two international trips Trump's adult sons have taken to promote their father's business, cost taxpayers about $11.3 million over the first month of his presidency, according to the UK-based Independent. Curiously, CEO of Blackstone has ridden on Air Force One with the President, and heads his Business Advisory Council – the same Blackstone that it is rumored he owes hundreds of millions to. Now with the possibilty of this stake in a Russian owned oil company, atop the United States paying the Trump Organazation security costs not only does the president possibly pay off his debts, he profits. This is all without even mentioning treason.
The President has shown a propensity for avoiding scandal, and deflecting it quite masterfully – from the release of his tax returns, to the conflicts of interest which were 'resolved' by transferring control of the organization to his two sons, hardly the recommended actions by the Office of Government Ethics. To insinuate that he would put his own wealth and interests of his family over that of countries is not a far stretch – he has shown that loyalty, and family mean a great deal to him. Yet he has no qualms about tossing aside members of his American family; his countrymen. The question of whether or not the actions of the President are in pursuit of greater monetary gain, at the cost of American security and influence abroad is a question of real concern – not only is he destabilizing the international community, but he is eroding trust in our institutions and if this is due to the influence and coercion of a foreign power, than that needs to be answered for. What are his motives? Could it truly, and simply just be greed and not those of one who would seek total rule? Regardless of party, regardless of political leanings, we are talking about the bedrock and foundation of our country and whether we fundementally survive the next four years. Make no mistake, the country and the world will endure far beyond this man's presidency – whether eight or four years. However, how much we change is a question of great magnitude, and if not answered soon the United States as we know it and the world as we know it, is headed for an immense period of shift and tumult.
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Q. In this connection I should like to refer to a document which has already been submitted - the two-year report of General George Marshall. This has already been submitted as Raeder No. 79. I have a part of it here before me, a part which I submitted under AJ-3, Page 768. Regarding the problem of rearmament, some sentences seem to hit the nail right on the head.
"The world does not seriously consider the wishes of the weak. Weakness presents too great a temptation to the strong, particularly to the bully who schemes for wealth and power."
"We must start, I think, with a correction of the tragic misunderstanding that a security policy is a war policy."
Can you tell us, please, what the ratio of our military strength to that of foreign countries was at that time?
A. In 1935, when we set up 36 divisions, France, Poland and Czechoslovakia had 90 divisions for peacetime, and 190 divisions for wartime. We had almost no heavy artillery, and tank construction was in its earliest stages. The concept of defensive and offensive armament had been discussed on various occasions. It would lead us too far afield to go into that in detail. But I should like to say only that as far as Germany was concerned, with her geographical position, this concept did not apply. The disarmament conference, too, after months of discussion, failed because of being unable to come to a proper definition.
"The only effective defence a nation can now maintain is the power of attack."
Now, however, the prosecution asserts that you should have known that such a tremendous rearmament as the German rearmament could serve only for an aggressive war. Will you comment on this please?
A. I believe this can be explained only as an expression of military ignorance. Until the year 1939, we were, of course, in a position to destroy Poland alone. But we were never, either in 1938 or 1939, actually in a position to withstand a concentrated attack by these States together. And if we did not collapse in the year 1939, that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, roughly 110 French and British divisions in the West were completely inactive as against the 23 German divisions.
Q. But tell us, when did a massive rearmament actually begin?
A. Real armament was only begun after the war had already started. We entered into this world war with perhaps 75 divisions. Sixty per cent. of our total population had not been trained. The peace-time army amounted to perhaps 400,000 men, as against 800,000 men in 1914. Our supplies of ammunition and bombs, as the witness Milch has already testified, were ridiculously low.
"Following a report on the set-up of the L (Landesverteidigung, National Defence) the Field Marshal reports on the status of the war potential of the Wehrmacht, whose greatest difficulty lies in the insufficient supply of ammunition for the army - ten to fifteen days of combat."
A. That is right - ammunition for ten to fifteen days of combat.
Q. Now I shall turn to the question of the occupation of the Rhineland.
THE PRESIDENT: Let us break off now.
Q. General, when did you first hear of the plans to occupy the Rhineland?
A. On 1st or 2nd March, 1936; that is to say about six days before the actual occupation. I could not have heard of them any earlier because before that the Fuehrer had not yet made the decision.
Q. Did you and the Generals have military objections against that occupation?
A. I have to confess that we had the strange feeling of a gambler whose entire fortune is at stake.
Q. Did you have legal objections?
and France had voided the Locarno Pact at was something which I accepted as a fact at the time.
Q. How strong were our forces in the Rhineland after the occupation?
A. We occupied the Rhineland with approximately one division, but only three battalions of that went into the territory west of the Rhine; one battalion went to Aachen, one to Trier, and one to Saarbrucken.
Q. Three battalions. That is really only a symbolic occupation is it not?
A. Yes, and they only acted symbolically.
Q. Did you do anything to avoid a military conflict because of that occupation?
A. There were serious reports which reached our military attaches in Paris and London at the time. I could not fail to be impressed by them. We suggested to Field Marshal von Blomberg at that time that perhaps he ought to discuss the withdrawing of these three battalions west of the Rhine if the French would withdraw four to five times as many men from their borders.
Q. Was that suggestion ever made?
A. Yes, it was made to the Fuehrer, but he turned it down. What he refused quite bluntly was General Beck's suggestion that we should declare that we would not fortify west of the Rhine.
Q. Did you think at the time that that action contained any aggressive intentions?
A. No, there could not be any mention of aggressive intentions, because the French Army alone could have blown us off the earth, considering the situation we were in.
Q. Do you now think that the leading men had aggressive intentions then?
A. No, nobody had aggressive intentions, but it is of course possible that in the mind of the Fuehrer there was the idea of a connection between that occupation and its being a prerequisite for actions later to be taken in the East. That is possible, but I do not know, because I could not read the Fuehrer's thoughts.
Q. But you did not see any outward signs of it?
Q. Did you know of the so-called "testament" of Hitler, dated 5th November, 1937, which has been read out in this courtroom?
A. The first time I heard of it was here in Court.
Q. What did you learn at that time about it?
A. Field Marshal von Blomberg informed Keitel and Keitel informed me that there had been a discussion with the Fuehrer. When I asked for the minutes I was told that no minutes had been taken. I refer to my diary, Page 1780, as a proof. What I was told was not in any way sensational and hardly different in any way from anything contained in general directives for the preparation of a war. I can only assume that Field Marshal von Blomberg at that time kept these confidences to himself because he may not have believed that they would ever be carried out.
Q. Was there a strategic plan regarding Austria?
A. There was no plan for a campaign against Austria. Let me be emphatic about that.
Q. Now we come to Document C-175, a directive which is Exhibit USA 69. It is in Volume I, Page 18 and the following pages. It is a directive for the unified preparation for war of the armed forces of the year 1937. The prosecution had only quoted the operation order "Otto" from these instructions, which could only create the impression that this was a plan for a campaign against Austria. What is the meaning of this directive?
"The following special cases are to be considered inside the High Command, generally without participation by outside authorities," and the operation "Otto" appears among such cases on Page 22.
Q. On Page 18 of this document is a directive which is valid from the 1st July, 1937, until, presumably, the 30th September, 1938, that is, a little more than a year; and that, in turn, replaces another similar instruction which is referred to in the first paragraph, which had been drafted for the same problems previously. Did you participate in discussions on the Austrian case?
A. No, I did not participate in any conferences.
Q. It is said in the Trial Brief that on 12th February, 1938, you had been to Obersalzburg. Keitel has already rectified that. Your entry in the diary under 12th March, 1938, is, therefore, based only on an account which you received through Keitel; is that right?
A. Yes. It is merely a note on a brief account given to me by General Keitel about that day, probably related a bit colourfully.
Q. But then it says, evening of 11th February: "General von Keitel with General von Reichenau and Sperle at Obersalzberg. Schuschnigg and G. Schmidt are being subjected to heaviest political and military pressure." In the English and French translations it says that Schuschnigg and Schmidt are "again" subjected to the most serious political and military pressure. This word "again" does not appear in my German original.
Now, did you suggest manoeuvres of deception against Austria? That is being held against you.
A. I did not suggest any manoeuvres of deception. The Fuehrer ordered them, and I do not think that they are illegal, because I believe that in the historic gambling of the world, both in peace and in war, false cards have always been used; but the Fuehrer ordered it and that is stated in the entry in my diary. I supplied military information and documents to Canaris, telling where our garrisons were situated, what manoeuvres were taking place, and Canaris elaborated them and then released them in Munich.
Q. What did you think was the purpose of ...?
A. I had been told that the purpose was to exert a certain amount of pressure so that Schuschnigg, when back at home, would adhere to the agreement made at Obersalzberg.
Q. How long before the actual entry into Austria did you know of such intentions?
A. On 10th March, in the morning just before 11.00, I heard of it for the first time.
Q. And the entry took place when?
A. On the 12th. It was when General Keitel and General Viebahn, who was then temporarily the chief of the Armed Forces Operation Staff, were suddenly ordered to the Reich Chancellery that I heard of the intention for the first time.
Q. Then did you have an expose made or what?
A. Then the Fuehrer surprised them by stating that the Austrian question was on the agenda; and then they remembered that there was a General Staff expose called "Otto". They sent for me and found out from me that such a directive actually did exist, but that in practice nothing at all had been prepared.
Since it had only been a theoretical plan and drafted solely in the event of an Austrian invasion, and since such an invasion was not expected at the time, the High Command of the Army had virtually done nothing about it.
Q. How did you yourself understand the entire Austrian action?
A. It appeared to me to be a family row and I thought that Austria itself would solve the problem, politically, in the shortest possible time.
And what made you think that?
A. Due to my own extensive knowledge of Austria, with which-through relatives and acquaintances, through the German-Austrian Alpine Club, to which I belonged - I had been in closer contact than with northern Germany. I knew that in that country there had been a government against the will of the people for a long time. The peasant uprising in Styria was a characteristic example.
Q. But was now the march into Austria the carrying out of the suggestion, Document C-175?
A. No, it was improvised and executed within a few hours, and the result was accordingly. Seventy per cent. of all the armoured vehicles and cars were stranded on the road from Salzburg and Passau to Vienna, because the drivers had been hurriedly taken from their training course to be given this task.
Q. Defendant, you said just now, did you not, that the Fuehrer told them it was the problem of Austria? You said that, did you not?
A. I said that the Fuehrer had informed General Keitel and General Viebahn on 10th March, in the morning. He did not talk to me and up to that day I had not talked to the Fuehrer either.
Q. I only wanted to know the date. You said it was 10th March.
A. Yes, on 10th March, in the morning.
Q. Is it correct that only peace-time formations marched into the frontier districts, into the Austrian territory?
A. Yes; it is a fact that only peace-time units were used, which were meant to take part in the parade in Vienna. All units which might have been necessary for a military conflict, say, with Czechoslovakia or Italy, were stopped at the last moment, and did not cross the border.
Q. That means ammunition columns, for instance?
A. No, everything remained behind.
Q. Was there any hesitation among the political leaders at the last moment?
A. On 11th March, in the afternoon, I had news from the Reich Chancellery that the armed forces were not to move in, but that the police would pass through the lines of the armed forces and move in alone. In the evening, however, on 11th March - at 2030 hours - the final decision reached me, which was that the armed forces were to move in after all. I was unable to find out the reason for that hesitation.
Q. So that altogether there was not really an invasion by force?
A. No, it was a purely peaceful occupation. It was characterised by the fact that I suggested to the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Army that he should have the bands marching at the head of the column and that all drivers should definitely wear spectacles - otherwise they would have too many flowers thrown into their eyes.
Q. What was the significance of the order you signed regarding the march into Austria? It has been put before you under the Document C-182, Exhibit USA 77. You can remember it, can you not?
A. Yes, I can remember. That is nothing other than the written recording of something which had previously been ordered orally and which was already being carried out. That written order, you see, would have come much too late.


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Volume 352:1135-1137	March 17, 2005 Number 11
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Samuel H. Preston, Ph.D.
[First, from CHE:
A glance at the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine:
Eating into life expectancy
For the first time in two centuries, life expectancy in the United
States may well drop over the next 50 years, all because of the sharp
rise in obesity, write S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of epidemiology and
biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and several
colleagues. The problem is increasing in all major racial and ethnic
groups, all regions of the country, and all socioeconomic strata, but is
most pronounced in children and members of minority groups. Unless
obesity is reduced, the authors write, "the youth of today may, on
average, live less healthy and possibly even shorter lives than their
parents." Obesity will kill more people than will cancer or heart
attacks, they say, and over time it could shorten the average life
expectancy for all Americans by two to five years, and for obese people
by 12 to 15 years. Even today's life expectancy is four to nine months
shorter than it would be, the researchers say, if the two-thirds of
American adults who are obese or overweight would shed the extra pounds.
The effects of increased obesity, including rises in the incidence of
diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes, are likely to combine with other
factors that cut life expectancy, such as AIDS, antibiotic-resistant
pathogens, and a possible influenza pandemic, they say. Obesity may
undermine "dire predictions" about the future health of Social Security,
they predict. That is because those predictions have been based on
projected large increases in survival past 65 years of age, forecasts
that "appear to be premature," they say. The article, "A Potential
Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century," is
available to subscribers, or for sale, at
--Peter Monaghan
Obesity has clearly become a major personal and public health problem
for Americans; it affects many aspects of our society. In this issue of
the Journal, Olshansky et al.
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R1> make an
important contribution to national discussions of the future of
longevity by calling attention to the very substantial increase in the
prevalence and severity of obesity since 1980 and its consequences on
health and mortality. They estimate that the current life expectancy at
birth in the United States would be one third to three quarters of a
year higher if all overweight adults were to attain their ideal weight.
Although Olshansky et al. put obesity in the foreground of their vision
of the future, the background for their vision is at least as bleak.
They argue that past gains in life expectancy were largely a product of
saving the young, which is unrepeatable. They claim that advances in
life expectancy at older ages will be much smaller than in previous
decades and that demographers and actuaries fail to recognize the
disjunction and blindly continue to extrapolate the past into the
future. They add to this concern that AIDS, antibiotic-resistant
pathogens, and influenza pandemics represent additional threats to
health. In their scenario, our children may have lives shorter than our
I believe that these background elements are excessively gloomy.
Decreases in the rate of death at older ages have been the principal
force driving American longevity for at least half a century, and they
show no signs of abating. Sixty percent of the 9.23-year increase in
life expectancy at birth between 1950 and 2002 is attributable to
decreases in mortality among persons above 50 years of age.
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R2> Although
improvements in life expectancy among women have slowed in the past
decade, improvements among men have accelerated. The mean of male and
female life expectancies at 65 years of age grew by 0.081 year per
calendar year between 1950 and 1990, and by an identical 0.081 year per
year between 1990 and 2002, the last year for which official U.S. life
tables have been prepared.
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R3>
Demographers and actuaries use extrapolation to project the future of
life expectancy because it seems to work better than any alternatives.
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R4>,
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R6> The biggest
mistake, which has been made repeatedly in projections of mortality in
the past, is to assume that life expectancy is close to a biologic
maximum. <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R7>
Confidence in the use of extrapolation is increased by the very steady
behavior of mortality trends themselves. The mean of life expectancies
at birth in 21 high-income countries shows a nearly perfect fit (a
coefficient of determination, R2, of 0.994) to a linear time trend
during the period from 1955 to 1996.
The effect of an increase in the prevalence and severity of obesity on
the longevity of U.S. citizens is already embedded in extrapolated
forecasts made in recent periods. In fact, these forecasts implicitly
assume that the severity of obesity will continue to worsen, and the
prevalence will rise, since it is the rate of change in the determinants
of mortality, rather than the level, that drives projected changes in
life expectancy. Hundreds of factors affect a population's rate of death
in any particular period, and it is their combined effect that
establishes the trend.
Although Olshansky et al. cite threats to future improvements in life
expectancy, it is important to recognize that many factors are at work
to maintain a steady pace of advance. These include medical research
organizations whose products have, for example, been responsible for
much of the massive decrease in the rates of death from cardiovascular
causes during the past four decades.
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R9> Public support
for the National Institutes of Health remains very strong, and private
companies will continue to have incentives to develop new products that
enhance health and longevity. Longevity seems to have a strong genetic
component, 10 <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R10>
which holds out the possibility that genetic engineering may, sometime
within the 75-year projection of the Social Security Administration,
begin to enhance longevity.
Other positive influences on longevity are embodied in cohorts of young
persons who are approaching the ages at which death occurs most commonly
and who will presumably enjoy greater protection from many diseases than
will the people who have already reached those ages. Younger cohorts are
better educated than older cohorts, and mortality is profoundly
influenced by education. In 1998, life expectancy at age 25 was 7.1
years higher for men with some college education than for men with only
a high-school education. For women, the discrepancy was 4.2 years. 11
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R11>
Younger cohorts have had lives less scarred by infectious diseases,
which influence the development of many chronic diseases of adulthood.
12 <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R12>, 13
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R13> Younger
cohorts have consumed fewer cigarettes at a given age than older
cohorts, and the effect of smoking is clearly manifested in the rates of
death of the general population. In fact, a large fraction of the
decrease in the rate of the decline in mortality among older women in
recent years is a result of the rising rate of death from lung cancer in
this group, which is a reflection of the delayed uptake of smoking among
women in comparison with men. 14
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R14>, 15
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R15> Significant
"cohort effects" have been demonstrated in the prevalence of
cardiovascular disease, emphysema, and arthritis, suggesting that
younger cohorts will have lower morbidity from these conditions as they
age. 16 <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R16>
Another reason to expect the longevity of U.S. citizens to continue to
increase is that some populations have achieved life spans far longer
than those of people in the United States, thus demonstrating what is
possible even with no further technological advances. Japan has achieved
a life expectancy of nearly 82 years, 4.5 years higher than that
achieved by the United States and higher than that projected by the
Social Security Administration for the United States for 2055. 17
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R18> Some
researchers have used a wide variety of data to suggest that within the
United States, subgroups with the healthiest lifestyles may have already
achieved life expectancies of 90 years or more. 19
But let me be clear. The rising prevalence and severity of obesity are
capable of offsetting the array of positive influences on longevity. How
likely is that to happen? One promising observation is that the recent
increase in the levels of obesity was produced by relatively few excess
calories in the typical daily diet. The consumption of a median of 30
excess calories a day produced the observed increase in weight during an
eight-year period for Americans 20 to 40 years of age. 20
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R20> At the 90th
percentile of weight gain, the excess consumed was about 100 calories a
day. Reversing the increase in body mass might be accomplished through
small behavioral changes that fit relatively easily into most people's
lifestyles. The food and restaurant industries would be valuable allies
in this effort, and there are recent indications of their willingness to
cooperate. 21 <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R21>
The fact that the U.S. population has already shown the ability to shift
to healthier lifestyles is encouraging. Forty-two percent of U.S. adults
were smokers in 1965, as compared with 23 percent in 2001. 14
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R14> The
percentage of Americans 20 to 74 years of age with high levels of serum
cholesterol fell from 33 percent in 1961 to 18 percent in 1999 and 2000.
14 <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R14> Primarily
because of behavioral changes, the incidence of AIDS has fallen by
nearly 50 percent since 1992. 22
percentage of fatal crashes involving drunk drivers declined from 30
percent in 1982 to 17 percent in 1999. 23
<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/11/1135#R23> Each of these
improvements in risk factors was facilitated by national campaigns that
warned of the hazards of particular behaviors. 23
The time has come to consider another major campaign. Even though the
requisite behavioral changes may be small, they may be difficult to
accomplish. The fact that most health-related behaviors have improved
while obesity has worsened may be an indication of just how daunting the
prospect of reducing levels of obesity may be. The rising prevalence and
severity of obesity are already reducing life expectancy among the U.S.
population. A failure to address the problem could impede the
improvements in longevity that are otherwise in store.
I am indebted to John Wilmoth and Mitch Lazar for suggestions and
assistance.
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Buffalo, NY (WGR 550) - Jason Pominville started the season with six goals in his first 12 games. Since then, he has three goals in 39 games to give him nine on the season. Pominville is 35-years-old and on the down side of his career, so you can't expect 30 goal seasons anymore. Pominville said scoring goals isn't what he focuses on, "I don't think about it, scoring goals is the last thing that's on my mind, I just go out there and try to defend and not give up much and if you can chip in offensively, you chip in, if you can't, you can't."
In 78 games with the Wild last season, Pominville scored 13 goals. The year before that, he had 11 goals in 75 games. As far as why the production hasn't been there, Pominville said, "I don't know, it's a tough question to answer, it is what it is, you just go out there and work and hopefully get the results.
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Rasmus Ristolainen missed practice with Justin Falk slipping into his spot with Marco Scandella. Phil Housley said Ristolainen will play on Saturday against St. Louis, "Just a maintenance day, just little bumps and bruises."
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