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Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education.
Tackling welfare
By Dr Muriel Newman
With the financial crisis forcing governments around the world to tighten their belts the call for welfare reform is growing stronger.
In Australia, teenage parents could lose welfare payments as soon as six months after the birth of a child under a "tough love" scheme designed to prevent them getting stuck in a life of dependency. The quarantining of welfare – whereby 70 percent of a beneficiary's income is used for food, housing, clothing, health care, and in the best interests of their children – is to be extended after the initial trial showed income management has had a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable families. And work for the dole programmes will be extended, eligibility rules for disability benefits will be tightened, and there will be a crack down on benefit fraud.
In Britain, the new government is pledging to end benefits culture once and for all, through workfare schemes targeting the unemployed and those on incapacity benefits. They estimate that 500,000 "fit-to-work" sickness beneficiaries will be moved from welfare into paid work immediately, and another 600,000 would be capable of working with the right support. In addition, they are planning to simplify the welfare system by moving to a single benefit.
Harmonising benefits into a single benefit was also a key recommendation by the OECD in a report published last November in which they suggested that the move would stop the on-going transfer of people between benefits and speed up their return to work.
As we look to this week's budget and November's general election, it will be interesting to see how committed our government is to comprehensive welfare reform. The problem we face as a country is that, as a result of ad hoc changes to the system over the years, welfare no longer provides long-term security only to those who are genuinely unable to support themselves. Many who are able-bodied and capable of working now stay on welfare in the long term. In 1960 there were 50 working New Zealanders for every person on a benefit. Now there are ten. The welfare burden has become unsustainable.
According to Treasury, the total cost of cost of welfare (excluding superannuation) for this financial year is $13.2 billion. This is expected to rise to $14.1 billion in 2015, eclipsing health to become the country's highest area of government spending.
Statistics published by the Ministry of Social Development show the total number of people receiving welfare benefits at the end of March was 331,529. Of those, 113,077 were receiving the Domestic Purposes Benefit, 85,055 the Invalids Benefit, 59,940 the Unemployment Benefit, and 59,582 the Sickness Benefit. Some 13,875 people were receiving other benefits including the Widow's Benefit, the Independent Youth Benefit, and Emergency Benefits. Over 125,000 beneficiaries have been receiving welfare continuously for more than four years, with 60,000 receiving it for more than 10 years.
Most people who sign up for welfare support don't stay there very long. The largest proportion need a helping hand when times are tough but once they sort themselves out they move back into employment. However, welfare becomes a serious problem for society when it impacts on family structure and functioning, creating incentives for family breakdown and intergenerational dependency. The results can be devastating: "Hawkes Bay children are among the country's poorest. Half the region's babies are Maori and 56 per cent are born into the most deprived 30 per cent of families. Three-quarters of the children admitted to the region's hospitals are Maori or Pacific and three-quarters are from the poorest three deciles."1
The reasons why people don't move off welfare are complicated. In many cases it is because the incentives in the welfare system make it too hard to leave. Some are financially better off on welfare than they would be in work. Others do not feel "ready" for employment – they may not have the skills or capabilities to hold down a job, or they may be waiting for a higher paying job than those on offer. Some, of course, are busy rorting the system, seeing welfare as an income steam to supplement what they earn in the cash economy.
A classic case was that reported in January of the former gang leader Darryl Harris who had been on a sickness benefit for 26 years – supposedly for cannabis addiction. Taxpayers had been paying Mr Harris and his wife a benefit continually since 1984. In addition to a benefit, they had received $30,000 in special needs grants since 2000, to fund new tyres for their 2007 Chrysler saloon, and build a fence around a swimming pool at one of their properties.
Then there was Ronald Brown, a career criminal jailed in February for drug offences, who had been on unemployment and sickness benefits for 20 years – in spite of owning six luxury vehicles and a bar in Auckland.
Or what about unemployed beneficiary Peter Freedom who took off for an around the world trip in April 2009 only to have his benefit finally cancelled in January 2011 – not because the local Work and Income office was hassling him about getting a job, but because the Government's new Future Focus reforms meant that everyone who had been on the dole for more than a year had to re-apply and be assessed.
The government convened the Welfare Working Group last year to review social welfare to see if the system improves social outcomes and is sustainable. They were asked to recommend changes to reduce the country's long-term welfare dependency problem. What they found was that only one in three of those receiving benefits are required to undergo any form of work requirement. Is it any wonder that long-term welfare dependency is such a major problem for New Zealand? More than 27 percent of all working aged Maori were found to be on welfare, rising to 40 percent for Maori women in their twenties – who are mostly on the DPB. More than half of the sole parents on the DPB were found to have first become beneficiaries as teenagers. And with regard to the capability of the 144,000 people on the Sickness and Invalids Benefits to undertake some form of work, they estimated that as few as 20,000 would be unable to contribute at all.
The Welfare Working Group's 43 recommendations provide a prescription for comprehensive reform, encompassing many of the initiatives being introduced by other governments around the world. They include the introduction of more stringent benefit assessments and stronger work requirements, simplifying the system by moving to a single benefit, introducing income management for the most vulnerable families, requiring teenage beneficiaries under the age of 18 to live under adult supervision, requiring drug addicts and alcoholics to undergo rehabilitation, and introducing stronger penalties for non-compliance with work requirements. They believe the number of welfare recipients could be reduced by at least 100,000 – about a third – by 2021.2
Welfare, as it is today, is unsustainable. As a country we simply cannot afford to pay benefits to people who do not really need them. Nor should we be paying for the on-going supplementary payments being claimed by people who have learned to work the system – amounting to many hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
This is an issue that was preying on the mind of a Hamilton doctor who, along with other GPs, found himself on the frontline of this problem with patients who were claiming a "Child Disability Allowance" their children did not need. In a letter to the Minister of Social Development in 2009, Dr Tim Rooke, who is this week's NZCPR Commentator with Child Disability Allowance: fraudulent and a case of governmental incompetence?, explained:
"A father came to see me for this benefit for 'asthma' for his three children. He had been told to do this by WINZ. On enquiry, I found out that none of his children required very intensive treatment, and decided that none of them met the requirement of needing 'attention and supervision substantially in excess of that normally required by a child or young person of the same age and sex'. I told them that to meet the requirements, the asthma would need to be very severe indeed. I filled out a supplementary benefit form, allowing him to reclaim costs of medicines and consultations. The next day this client returned from WINZ with the Child Disability Allowance Medical Certificate demanding that I fill it out. He had seen the WINZ officer who told him that asthma was on the list, and to go back to the doctor. I reviewed the case histories. None of the children were taking regular inhaled steroids, as would normally be the case for moderate or severe asthma. The benefits were declined. There followed a shouting match. At times, I felt threatened by the manner of this father. I did not hear from him again, and I assume he went elsewhere to find a doctor who was an 'easy touch'."
The Child Disability Allowance costs the country over $100 million a year. Dr Rooke believes it could be substantially reduced: "The child disability allowance was introduced to compensate families with children needing a lot of extra care, not merely the giving of medicine. The list of conditions should be drastically reduced. The new medical certificate would be issued only by a paediatrician. This would eliminate doctor shopping for a favourable opinion. If a disability is serious, it will be under a paediatrician. The fact that most of the present children receiving this benefit have not been near a paediatrician merely confirms that they are not that serious. Out would go asthma, eczema, attention deficit disorder, naughty child, vague psychological disorders and a host of other conditions that should never have been included in the first place."
Dr Rooke and other doctors petitioned Parliament to suggest improvements to the system and to save taxpayers many millions of dollars – but their request fell on deaf ears and closed minds.
To successfully reform social welfare the culture of entitlement needs to be replaced with a commitment to personal responsibility and an understanding that while those who genuinely cannot provide for themselves should be given long-term assistance, general support should be temporary – a helping hand in times of need.
Despite the obvious need for reform, the resistance to change should not be underestimated. Welfare is a $13 billion 'industry'. In their book The Tyranny of the Status Quo, Milton and Rose Friedman described the "Iron Triangle" made up of the beneficiaries of a particular policy who want it to remain, the bureaucrats who thrive on its very existence, and the politicians who introduced it and have a vested interest in its continuation. The iron triangle of welfare is extremely strong and it will take real courage and commitment to break it. But break it we must if this country is ever to prosper.
Herald, Children's new advocate has proud record of cutting abuse ↩
Welfare Working Group, Reducing Long-Term Benefit Dependency ↩


There are 4 zoos in Chittagong Division. This is 2% of all the tourist places listed in this region. Top districts in Chittagong Division with popular zoos are Cox's Bazar, Rangamati, Chittagong and Comilla. You may find a list of all categories of Chittagong Division attractions on this page to choose from.
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What does Aws mean, details, origin, short & easy attributes?
The name Aws is a Muslim baby name. In Muslim the meaning of the name Aws is: Name of a tree.
Aws is baby boy name mainly popular in Muslim religion and its main origin is Arabic. Aws name meanings is To give,Name of a tree.
People search this name as Awsaf.
Aws is written in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Bangla as اوس, अवस, أوس, অবস. Other similar sounding names can be Aaoka, Aasha, Aggie, Aayushi, Aashi, Acie, Aasiyah, Aeesha, Aayaushi, Aayush, Aesha, Aashay, Acke, Aaisha, Aaushi, Ace, Aaish, Aayoush, Aasia, Aeshah, Aasa, Aasiya.


Sometimes, do you have a few slices of Grilled Chicken remaining after dinner? Do you have a Green Pepper & a small Zucchini just waiting in the fridge? If the answer is Yes, Flatbread Pizza might be in your future! This summer whenever we have leftover Grilled Chicken I know we'll be having this for dinner in the next 2 days!
In April I shared how yummy BBQ Pork Tenderloin Flatbreads with Roasted Asparagus are. Roasted Asparagus & fresh Spinach were placed on top along with chunks of BBQed Pork Tenderloin. What a quick, easy & yummy dinner!
The packages of Flatbread that I use have baking directions on the package. I make 3 White Flatbreads.
***Roasting Veggies: Rinse veggies under cold running water, pat dry & cut into slices or chunks. After coating with baking & sauteing Olive Oil, Garlic Powder, Basil & Oregano, they are roasted in a 450°F oven for 15 minutes.
Then it's time to start making the Flatbreads!
***Roasted Green Pepper strips & Roasted Zucchini slices.
Place Roasted Green Pepper strips & Roasted Zucchini slices on each Flatbread.
Add Grilled Chicken, that's cut in chunks.
In a small cup combine 1 teaspoon cold water & 4 teaspoons BBQ Sauce. Mix well.
Drizzle BBQ sauce mixture over the 3 Flatbreads.
Remove from cookie pan & cut each Flatbread into 3- 4 pieces.
Any extra slices are refrigerated for the next day's lunch!
These are so good & not full of dough! Just topped with chunks of Grilled Chicken & Roasted Veggies! With all of the local fresh produce at our roadside stands, fresh veggies are now in season!
The local peach crop is in this year! That was just great news for me & my annual preparation of Peach Freezer Jam! There are 9 containers of this yummy jam sitting on our dining room table as I am typing this. One batch yields 9 one cup containers + a small custard cup filled with the remainder (covered with foil).
On Friday the local peaches were purchased. The needed amount for preparing the jam was placed in paper lunch bags to ripen. They sat (closed) on the counter for 2 days. Yesterday, the ripened peaches went into the fridge. Today is Peach Freezer Jam Day for me!
The process is always the same. I use Certo liquid pectin. The directions are found in each box of Certo. I always read over my own Helpful Hints, too! I make only one batch. However, if you will be preparing 2 batches, make each batch separately.
To start, rinse the fruit under cold running water. Use clean utensils.
Freezer Jams are just the best!
We will enjoy them again this year!


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Tensions flare between bar owners and residents
By Louis Sahagun
June 14, 2009 12 AM PT
Smarting from disturbances caused by rowdy bar patrons, a fashionable enclave in eastern Long Beach has become engulfed in a squabble between homeowners and business leaders over how to control the summer onslaught of customers who represent an economic benefit to the community and the city.
The Belmont Shore Residents Assn. wants an increased police presence along a 14-block stretch of 2nd Street to deal with the noise and violent behavior that can erupt as revelers retrieve their cars on neighborhood streets. Merchants and bar owners, however, say they are taking steps to police themselves and the customers attracted to the area's late-night party scene.
A focus of controversy is Mike Ruehle, president of the residents association and primary writer for its newsletters and blogs, which routinely make accusations against business owners and city officials, most of them vigorously denied. The retired engineering firm manager said he devotes "14 hours a day, six days a week" to the task of making bar owners more responsible for the behavior of their customers.
Ruehle, 53, has been banned from the most popular bars on 2nd Street and, he alleges, threatened by opponents. Ruehle said Long Beach City Councilman Gary DeLong, whose district includes 2nd Street, won't speak with him.
"I'm standing up for the community," Ruehle said. "There are 262 businesses in Belmont Shore, and 54 of them have alcohol licenses. Of those, less than 10 are open after 11 p.m. Five of them are open after midnight, when about 90% of all public disturbances occur."
"The people who oppose me own those bars," Ruehle added. "They are waiting for me to burn out and go away -- but that's not going to happen. You get in my face, I'll get back in yours just as hard."
That kind of talk has made Ruehle a hero to some homeowners who feel empowered by his relentless campaign against public drunkenness. Armed with video cameras, some residents have started posting videos of unruly behavior on YouTube: a young woman urinating in the middle of Covina Avenue, a fight in a parking lot, scuffles and screams in the shadows.
On May 28, at the bustling corner of Covina and 2nd, a police officer shot and critically wounded a man who tried to grab the officer's baton.
Adding a new wrinkle to the controversy, the Press-Telegram disclosed that Ruehle is on probation in connection with his arrest two years ago for drunk driving and speeding on 2nd Street.
In an interview with The Times, Ruehle acknowledged the incident, saying, "I made a mistake."
"We support Mike -- his efforts on our behalf have been heroic," said Cynthia Barron, an interior decorator who lives a few doors from Legends, a sports bar with 30 flat-screen televisions and seating for 300. "Every other night, we are awakened by horrifying street scenes."
But some business leaders said the problems have been exaggerated by residents who should have known about the neighborhood's night life when they moved there. They also say that Ruehle's accusations are so riddled with unsubstantiated statements that they seem to stretch freedom of speech to its limits.
For example, Ruehle tells anyone who will listen that certain Belmont Shore Business Assn. members are part of a secret alliance of business owners and city officials helping one another to illicitly further their interests.
"If Mike Ruehle can prove that, I'll pay off his mortgage," said Gene Rotondo, owner of Legends and president of the business association. "If he can't, he should apologize, then shut up."
A frequent target of Ruehle's allegations is Kurt Schneiter, chairman of the city parking commission.
"If Mike would only work with the rest of the community, we could move mountains," Schneiter said. "But too often, he creates conspiracies and drama out of rumors that are unfounded. As a result, it unleashes an environment of distrust and lack of commitment on all sides to work together."
Since the police-involved shooting, law enforcement authorities have been beefing up patrols on 2nd Street, and bar owners have been trying harder to be good neighbors.
"We hope to put some sort of long-term end to some of the problems on 2nd Street. Calls we get have been for public fighting and disturbing the peace," said Long Beach police Cmdr. Cynthia Renaud. "Overall, it's a complex situation with many players and many interests."
About midnight Thursday, the whoops of carousing were joined by grumblings about police and paddy wagons parked near the entrances of popular bars, including Legends and nearby Belmont Station.
At two bars, crowds filing out at closing time had to zig-zag past sidewalk signs that said, "Quiet please: You are entering a residential area" in large red letters. Those establishments and others had also positioned staff members outside to hush noisy patrons and prevent loitering.
"Things are going to get better," DeLong said. "Within 30 days, you will see a dramatic difference on the street that will manifest in fewer calls for police services and fewer incidents of inappropriate behavior on 2nd Street."
Ruehle said that remains to be seen. "All we want is better control of the street," he said, "and to protect our property values."
louis.sahagun@latimes.com
Louis Sahagún
Louis Sahagún is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. He covers issues ranging from religion, culture and the environment to crime, politics and water. He was on the team of L.A. Times writers that earned the Pulitzer Prize in public service for a series on Latinos in Southern California and the team that was a finalist in 2015 for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. He is a former board member of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California and author of the book "Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall."

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New Telemetry system using node 6.x.x

## Setup
* Dorito shaped telemetry chip
* [Drivers](https://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx)
* Node v6.x.x (and NVM if you need more than one version of node on your computer)
* NPM
* [SerialPort setup](https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAdvisors/node-serialport/blob/3.1.2/README.md)

## Start
* use `npm start`

## Dev
The Telemetry-v2 is separated into two distinct parts, the server and the client.
For those who are new to web development, the back-end typically covers data storage and the server which delivers it, while the front-end covers everything that ends up on the client's (user's) web browser. In our particular case, we don't have anything else running on the back-end since our node server handles the routing, data storage (inserting and finding), serial port access, and websocket communication. So from here out, I'll refer to our back-end as simply the server, and front-end as the client.

## Notes

* Look into production mode (for react-bootstrap): https://github.com/react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap/issues/2101

## Todos

* Include docs for why http server is used with express [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17696801/express-js-app-listen-vs-server-listen)
* Setup SCSS loading

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One of the largest outdoor horse shows in the U.S., the world-class Hampton Classic is a premier destination for many of the world's best show jumping riders vying for top prize money and titles. The horse show features six show rings, a high-end Boutique Garden with more than 70 vendors, and a wide selection of dining options, all on its spectacular 60-acre show grounds. The show hosts more than 200 hunter, jumper and equitation classes of competition for horses and riders of all ages and abilities, ranging from leadline classes all the way up to the grand prix show jumping. The Classic also has competitions for riders with disabilities.
As a culminating summer event on the famed Long Island social scene, the Classic is renowned as a celebrity hot-spot, attracting many A-listers including Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, Jimmy Fallon, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jerry Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Sofia Vergara, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Julianne Moore and Michael Bloomberg.
Tickets Daily: $10/person (under 6 free) or $20/carload; Free General Admission on Monday. LIHSSRD competition only. Shops open; Seniors free: Tuesday – Thursday; Kids free: Saturday Reserved Seats for Grand Prix Sunday: $45 per person for bucket seating in all sections.


Losers abound. I heard that 90 percent of people who play poker end up losing. This means that 10% of players go ahead. Pretty sad, huh? Why do so many players lose?
The obvious answer is that most players have no idea what they are doing.
They watch TV, read some books and believe that they are ready for an important moment. That is, until they lose half of their savings.A more informative answer is that the vast majority of players do not understand the most important concept of the game. I see signs of this everywhere. Online, in game rooms, in tournaments: players of all skill levels make the same mistakes due to a lack of understanding of this unique principle.
This is not surprising, since I did not read this principle in books. I read the current collection of books by the most popular contemporary authors. What I am going to tell you is missing from these books. But this is good news for you, because you are reading this article. If you study this concept and integrate it into your game, you will be one step ahead of other players studying these books.
Listen, now I'm going to reveal the most important concept of poker that you learn. This is a critical concept that most players never understand, they don't even know. Here it is: Your goal when playing poker is to WIN MONEY, NOT HANDS. This is it. Sounds easy, isn't it? Laughter almost. Yes, this is an extremely simple concept, but hardly anyone understands this.
Most people who play poker are constantly trying to win as many hands as possible. If you doubt what I'm saying, look at the poker table at some point, keeping this in mind. Players are desperately trying to knock down these little pots, and they are proud to scrub a few chips in their direction. Then comes the big pot. They invest a lot of money and lose.
Most of the players these days, participating in the distribution, consider their outs and count the pot odds, as they see it on TV.
They take into account the relative size of the stack and conduct psychoanalysis of their opponents. Their minds work overtime to think like commentators on television. This is good, but it is not something that should guide your final motives. Such players do not have a basic understanding of their main purpose.
There is no prize for winning most hands. The goal of the domino qiu qiu game is to win as much money as possible. A good player can go through several small boats, but he is waiting for his moment. Then win the monster. You can earn less common banks than other players, but you go home with the most money. This is the player you want to be.


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Class Dictionary$

java.lang.Object

kr.bydelta.koala.arirang.Dictionary$

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CanCompileDict

public class Dictionary$
extends java.lang.Object
implements CanCompileDict

아리랑 분석기의 사용자사전입니다.

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static Dictionary$
MODULE$

Static reference to the singleton instance of this Scala object.

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Dictionary$()

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addUserDictionary(scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> dict)

사용자 사전에, (표면형,품사)의 여러 순서쌍을 추가.

scala.collection.Iterator<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>>
baseEntriesOf(scala.Function1<scala.Enumeration.Value,java.lang.Object> filter)

원본 사전에 등재된 항목 중에서, 지정된 형태소의 항목만을 가져옵니다.

scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>>
getNotExists(boolean onlySystemDic,
            scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> word)

사전에 등재되어 있는지 확인하고, 사전에 없는단어만 반환합니다.

scala.collection.immutable.Set<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>>
items()

사용자 사전에 등재된 모든 Item을 불러옵니다.

scala.collection.mutable.HashMap<scala.Enumeration.Value,scala.collection.immutable.Set<java.lang.String>>
systemdic()

scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>>
userItems()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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addUserDictionary, contains, importFrom, jUserDictionary

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MODULE$

public static final Dictionary$ MODULE$

Static reference to the singleton instance of this Scala object.

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Dictionary$

public Dictionary$()

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userItems

public scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> userItems()

systemdic

public scala.collection.mutable.HashMap<scala.Enumeration.Value,scala.collection.immutable.Set<java.lang.String>> systemdic()

addUserDictionary

public void addUserDictionary(scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> dict)

Description copied from interface: CanCompileDict

사용자 사전에, (표면형,품사)의 여러 순서쌍을 추가.

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addUserDictionary in interface CanCompileDict

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dict - 추가할 (표면형,품사)의 순서쌍.

baseEntriesOf

public scala.collection.Iterator<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> baseEntriesOf(scala.Function1<scala.Enumeration.Value,java.lang.Object> filter)

Description copied from interface: CanCompileDict

원본 사전에 등재된 항목 중에서, 지정된 형태소의 항목만을 가져옵니다. (복합 품사 결합 형태는 제외)

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baseEntriesOf in interface CanCompileDict

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filter - 가져올 품사인지 판단하는 함수.

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(형태소, 품사)의 Iterator.

getNotExists

public scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> getNotExists(boolean onlySystemDic,
                                                                                scala.collection.Seq<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> word)

Description copied from interface: CanCompileDict

사전에 등재되어 있는지 확인하고, 사전에 없는단어만 반환합니다.

Specified by:

getNotExists in interface CanCompileDict

Parameters:

onlySystemDic - 시스템 사전에서만 검색할지 결정합니다.

word - 확인할 (형태소, 품사)들.

Returns:

사전에 없는 단어들.

items

public scala.collection.immutable.Set<scala.Tuple2<java.lang.String,scala.Enumeration.Value>> items()

Description copied from interface: CanCompileDict

사용자 사전에 등재된 모든 Item을 불러옵니다.

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items in interface CanCompileDict

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(형태소, 통합품사)의 Sequence.

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Q: Select mailbox "sent mail" or "all mail" in Ruby Net::IMAP I'm trying to use Net::IMAP in Ruby to search all mail sent by me, but I'm having trouble selecting anything other than INBOX.
imap.select('INBOX')

works fine, but
imap.select('Mail/sent-mail')

as shown on the Net::IMAP documentation gives me "Unknown Mailbox".
Incidentally, this is to be used with gmail.
I also tried adding "in", "anywhere" to my imap.search(), but that didn't parse.
Current code:
imap.select('INBOX')
now = Time.now.localtime - 1209600 #two weeks
since = now.day.to_s() + "-" + Date::MONTHNAMES[now.month] + "-" + now.year.to_s()
puts "since"
puts since
begin
  mail_ids = imap.search(["FROM", "me", "SINCE", since])
  mail_ids.each do |id|
    text = imap.fetch(id, 'BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT)]').to_s.split("{").second.chop
    puts text
  end
end

A: The "sent mail" folder will differ from provider to provider.  Gmail's "sent mail" folder is named "[Gmail]/Sent Mail".  Select that instead and it'll work.
imap.select('[Gmail]/Sent Mail')

FYI, Gmail's system folders are the following:

*

*INBOX

*[Gmail]/All Mail

*[Gmail]/Drafts

*[Gmail]/Sent Mail

*[Gmail]/Spam

*[Gmail]/Starred

*[Gmail]/Trash

A: I found the following to be helpful (ruby 2.0.0-p195)
# list all folders
imap.list '', '%'

A: You can find the names of all folders with:
imap.list('*', '*')

The Gmail folders name's will change depending on the user selected language. So in Spanish for example:
"[Gmail]/All" Mail will be "[Gmail]/Todos"

A: Don't use LIST "" *. You many end up with thousands of mailboxes. Use   LIST "" % . If you are only interested in children/subfolders, you can do something like imap.list '', '%/%' and so on imap.list '', '%/%/%'
lists parent(s) folder only, depth 1.
C: RUBY0002 LIST "" "%"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Calendar
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Contacts
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Deleted Items"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Drafts
S: * LIST (\Marked \HasChildren) "/" INBOX
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Journal
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk E-Mail"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Notes
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Outbox
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent Items"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Tasks
S: RUBY0002 OK LIST completed.

list children . depth 2.
C: RUBY0003 LIST "" "%/%"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX/subfolder
S: RUBY0003 OK LIST completed.
C: RUBY0004 SELECT INBOX/subfolder
S: * 2 EXISTS
S: * 0 RECENT
S: * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)
S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)] Permanent flags
S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 37286] UIDVALIDITY value
S: * OK [UIDNEXT 6] The next unique identifier value
S: RUBY0004 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


To the Parish Community: As we welcome Deacon Steve Rangel and his lovely wife Linda and their family back to the San Ysidro community, Maria and I acknowledge the warmth with which we were received seven years ago on the eve of the Triduum. It is now seven years later and Easter is almost upon us. The number seven in Hebrew scripture is considered a perfect number. (You remember Jesus said we must forgive seventy times seven.) In this case, we wish Deacon Steve a perfect ministry.


Tatarczuk's performance began with the artist in contemplation with a black and white photo of himself. This photo was part of a series of portraits that Tatarczuk had taken during the festival (including countless images of other artists and participants). After a few moments, the artist tore up the photo, making confetti out of it and throwing it at the audience. The gesture was mysterious — showering us with a fragmented memory of his image. Tatarczuk had just turned hard "evidence" into mere traces (or, the trace into further traces, depending on how you understand photography). Tatarczuk had dissembled the meanings that his pose and the context had fleetingly wrought – exposing its contingencies only to provide us with a new set of possible meanings.
Tatarczuk then placed two piles of paper against the wall which he supported with his hands and weight, pressing against them. He began to work with the left pile first: photos of participants from the festival who had posed for him over the past five days. He crumbled up each photo slowly into a clenched fist, subsequently letting it fall to the floor. What memories of the past few days, we wonder, are evoked for those who have been photographed? How does the performance itself contaminate the "purity" of their memories as triggered by these photos? The action produced an eerie investigation of the recent past, its muting, and its necessarily fraught re-invigoration during the performance event.
The artist then moved on to the right-hand pile. This is the story of his life from birth to the present typed out in black and white. A linear narrative with political innuendo given the context of the artist's life (Poland, 1964 to the present). Here, we are being asked to fill in the blanks (blank pages, literally). Although the artist has given his "memories" narrative coherence, the blanks represent voids that remind us of the failure or limits of memory (or memory's resistance to the linearity into which it is being coaxed). The final pages of his life story are perplexing: Tatarczuk announces his death in 2012. There are gasps in the audience – genuine bamboozlement. Is the projected erasure of the artist an effect of how memory disrupts or destabilizes the immanence of being? Tatarczuk drops this last page and leaves the gallery to smoke a cigarette outside. His departure leaves a heavy weight in the room. I grappled with some way to think about the shock and gloom of his final gesture and started considering this end as emblematic of a broader, Polish sensibility – a kind of flair for the mysterio-dramatic that characterizes the oeuvres of theatre and film luminaries from Kantor and Grotowski, to Kieslowski and Wajda.
Tatarczuk's performance compels us to think about the labour of memory - and the body that retains or houses this disorganized and disjunctive inventory. The artist literally supports the traces of past events with his body as he props up the piles of photos and written narrative. His shirt showed increasing evidence of exhaustion – sweat seeping through it until his back was thoroughly soaked. As such, we witnessed the unbearable weight of memory — its frustrating constitution. Tatarczuk's sweat is itself a trace of active struggle that is co-existent with memory – the labour of trying to grasp and order that which is always already in process of unraveling and re-asserting itself.
Memory is an essential substance of the performance event and its afterlife. In constructing memories, there are the primary agents or "events", and then there are "traces" of evidence that these events took place. Memory is elicited by the former, but visualized, actualized and narrated by the chimeric form of the latter. In other words, memory is triggered by evidence that compels us to re-visualize a story anew, when the unraveling inevitably begins again.
Waldemar Tatarczuk, born in 1964 in Siemiatycze, Poland, lives and works in Lublin, Poland. He is a performance and installation artist, art curator.
He has been active as a performance artist since 1988. He has taken part in performance art events throughout Europe, North America and Asia including: Infr'action (Paris/France), Navinki (Minsk/Belarus), Asiatopia (Bangkok/Thailand), Open (Beijing/China) KIPAF (Seoul/South Korea), undisclosed territories (Solo/Indonesia), 7a*11d (Toronto/Canada), Differences (Warsaw/Poland), Interakcje (Piotrkow Trybunalski/Poland). His curatorial projects include: 'Art Kontakt' Performance Art Festival (Lublin/Poland), European Performance Art Festival EPAF (Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw/Poland), Performance Arsenal (Arsenal Gallery Bialystok/Poland), 'Open City' Festival of Art in Public Spaces (Lublin/Poland), and Performance Art Days (Kiev and Lviv/Ukraine).


MYTH: You can't hunt or fish in wilderness.
FACT: Hunting (with or without dogs) and fishing are absolutely allowed – as is hiking, camping, horseback riding, paddling, and many, many other forms of non-mechanized recreation.
In southeast Tennessee, it is a common misconception that you cannot hunt in wilderness because the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) uses the footprint of the Citico Creek Wilderness as a 'bear sanctuary', a place where no bear hunting is allowed. Bears need large, intact areas of habitat to thrive and wilderness areas provide just that. The no-hunting rule in Citico Creek Wilderness is strictly a mandate of TWRA and is NOT related to wilderness designation in the area. People have been hunting in Cherokee National Forest wilderness areas for generations and will continue to do so upon passage of the Tennessee Wilderness Act.
MYTH: You can't fight fire in wilderness.
FACT: The Wilderness Act allows agencies to take any such measure "as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and diseases." The use of mechanized equipment, the building of fire roads, fire towers, firebreaks, or pre suppression facilities and other techniques for fire control are allowed. In short, anything necessary for public health or safety (for example, protecting adjacent private lands and buildings) is clearly permissible.
MYTH: Motorized transportation is totally prohibited in wilderness areas, even in emergencies.
FACT: The law clearly allows for use of vehicles or equipment by managing agencies for search and rescue, firefighting, and other circumstances when appropriate. For example, helicopters or ATV's may be used to evacuate an injured person, or heavy machinery may be used to cut fire lines.
MYTH: Wilderness designation hurts local economy by preventing extraction jobs like logging.
FACT: Wilderness actually provides numerous economic benefits to gateway forest towns like Tellico Plains and Copperhill that depend on unspoiled mountains, forests and rivers to boost tourism, increase property values, and provide clean air and drinking water. By preserving the natural capital in an area, communities can diversify their local economy by attracting and retaining new businesses, residents and returning tourists, which increases county revenues and lessens the burden of local taxpayers.
Also, the areas recommended for protection are inventoried as 'roadless' by the US Forest Service, and are not eligible for logging, mining, road building and development.
MYTH: Wilderness erodes private property rights.
FACT: Not a single acre of private property is within the wilderness boundary. Wilderness does NOT erode private property rights because it is only designated on federal lands. Conversely, property values near National Forest boundaries and designated wilderness areas are higher than average.
MYTH: Wilderness is a cause for environmentalists, liberals and 'tree-huggers'.
FACT: Wilderness is a bi-partisan issue that supports values that benefit everyone, near and far, regardless of age, race, or political persuasion. Sponsored by two Republican Senators, Alexander and Corker, it appeals to a broad range of citizens who value clean water, recreational opportunities, scenic beauty, and local tourism. Every president since 1964 has signed wilderness bills, including Ronald Reagan who signed 43. The Tennessee Wilderness Act is locally-developed, nonpartisan legislation that has unprecedented bipartisan support – 74% of Tennesseans polled support designating additional Cherokee National Forest land as wilderness.
MYTH: It's part of the National Forest so it's already protected/wilderness.
FACT: In the National Forest, only designated wilderness areas carry the highest level of conservation unlike in National Parks where the entire park is protected. National Forest land is managed for 'multiple use' like logging, mining, road building and other development, where National Parks focus on protecting natural and historic resources.
Both are public land, but are managed differently. For example, Hunting (with or without dogs) is perfectly legal in the National 'Forest' wilderness, but hunting is against the law in the Great Smoky Mountains National 'Park'.
MYTH: A large portion of the Cherokee National Forest is already designated wilderness.
FACT: Currently, about 10% of the Cherokee National Forest is designated wilderness. Upon passage of the bill, 13% will be wilderness; this is significantly less than the national average (18%) in other states.
MYTH: Wilderness 'locks up' land or 'locks people out'.
FACT: The Wilderness Act specifically says that wilderness is for the "use and enjoyment" of the American people.
More than 12 million people visit wilderness each year to enjoy activities like hunting, fishing, hiking, backpacking, camping, canoeing, photography, paddling, climbing, horseback riding, skiing, swimming, wildlife viewing, etc. In short, most types of outdoor recreation are allowed in wilderness. Other than wheelchairs, mechanical transport or motorized equipment, such as off-road vehicles, bicycles and snowmobiles are not allowed. Millions of acres public land is open to other recreation, and the fraction of land preserved as wilderness ensures that those seeking non-motorized recreational opportunities can enjoy them in an environment free from the effects of "expanding settlement and growing mechanization" mentioned in the Wilderness Act. Wilderness is part of America's heritage and passed on as a legacy to our children by many who value the existence of its natural and undeveloped character.


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Join us for the Central Jersey Beer Festival at Mercer County Park Festival Grounds in West Windsor, NJ. Live music, food, and NJ breweries galore!
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Elkinton, J.S., E, Preisser, G.H. Boettner and D. Parry. 2008. Factors Influencing Larval Survival of the Invasive Browntail Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) in Relict North American Populations. Environ. Entomol. 37: 1429-1437.
Selfridge, J.A., Parry, D. and Boettner, G.H., 2007. Parasitism of barrens buck moth Hemileuca maia Drury in early and late successional pine barrens habitats. J. Lepidopterist Society, 61: 213-19.
Elkinton, J.S., D. Parry and G.H. Boettner. 2006. Implicating an introduced generalist parasitoid in the enigmatic demise of the invasive browntail moth. Ecology 87: 2664-2672.
Kosola, K.R., Parry, D. and Workmaster, B.A.A., 2006. Responses of condensed tannins in poplar roots to fertilization and gypsy moth defoliation. Tree Physiology, 26(12), pp.1607-1611.
Parry, D. and Goyer, R.A., 2004. Variation in the suitability of host tree species for geographically discrete populations of forest tent caterpillar. Environmental entomology, 33(5), pp.1477-1487.
Parry, D., D.A. Herms and W.J. Mattson. 2003. Responses of an insect folivore and its parasitoids to multiyear experimental defoliation of aspen. Ecology 84: 1768-1783.
Agrawal, A.A., Kosola, K.R. and Parry, D., 2002. Gypsy moth defoliation and N fertilization affect hybrid poplar regeneration following coppicing. Canadian journal of forest research, 32(8), pp.1491-1495.
Parry, D., R.A. Goyer & G.J. Lenhard. 2001. Macrogeographic clines in fecundity, reproductive allocation, and offspring size of the forest tent caterpillar Malacosoma disstria. Ecol. Entomol. 26: 281-291.
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2022 | A review of the Guernsey property market
The past few years have seen unprecedented activity in the Guernsey property market as easy access to low-interest lending (among other influences) whipped the post-pandemic property market into a frenzy.
Whilst demand remains high, this has been tempered by limited availability and events occurring in Westminster and beyond.
Let's turn to the figures[1]:
Property transactions
2022 saw the second-highest value of property conveyed in the time that these figures have been recorded, with nearly £900m worth of property changing hands (£856,297,368). This total is some £100m lower than the highest recorded year (2021), yet still £100m higher than the third-highest year (2020).
While values have remained high, the number of transactions has seen a decline from recent years. In 2022, a total of 990 arms' length transactions completed, with the local and open markets accounting for 892 and 98 of these transactions respectively.
The open market saw another active year with numbers remaining high, although down from a high of 127 last year.
Looking at the local market:
the average house price stood at £667,669 for the year - an increase of 13.5% on the 2021 average (which had itself increased by 13% year on year); and
the average apartment/flat price stood at £346,816 for the year - an increase of 8.2% against the previous year.
Turning to the open market:
the average house price stood at £1,499,469 for the year - a slight decrease of 4.2% on 2021; and
the average apartment/flat price stood at £1,539,188 for the year - an increase of 14%
Owing to the more limited availability, average prices on the open market are subject to greater fluctuation than the local market, and significant transactions can distort the figures.
A total of £586,022,152 was lent against Guernsey property in 2022. This is the third-highest value in the 22 years that the figures have been collated, but still some £200m lower than the next-highest value (recorded in 2021).
In 2022, Lloyds Bank International remained the island's most active lender, with a total of £181,545,708 being lent across 469 transactions.
Although a new entrant to Guernsey's mortgage market, Butterfield Bank was the third most active lender for 2022, with over £75m lent across 133 transactions.
It is interesting to see (as we did in 2021) that while the level of borrowing is one of the highest values seen, the actual number of Bonds being registered for the year (1,230) remains toward the lower end of the scale.
Outlook for 2023
Paul Nettleship, Partner and head of Collas Crill's Guernsey Property team said:
'After a very busy 2022 I expect a 'back to normal' 2023 – demand for quality housing remains high, and so it is very much hoped that supply will increase to meet that demand. As always, we are here to help buyers and sellers with our top-ranked[2] Property team.'
[1] Supplied by Unusualities of Guernsey
[2] Tier One in both Chambers & Partners, and Legal 500
Paul Nettleship
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Harry Round
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Hamas is a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim organization founded in the Gaza Strip in 1987 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. It seeks to establish an Islamic state on the entire territory of the State of Israel and does not recognize Israel's right to exist.
The Hamas leadership has two branches: the internal leadership, which includes the military wing and the de-facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, responsible for the day-to-day activities of governing the Gaza Strip population, in addition to social, educational activity vis-à-vis the population of the Gaza Strip; and the external leadership, Hamas's political bureau, located beyond the borders of the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria. The external leadership maintains relations with various countries and bodies, and deals mainly with raising money and finding other resources for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas's ideology seeks to establish an Islamic Palestinian state on the entire territory of Israel. The preferred way to achieve this goal is through armed struggle. Hamas has a military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which carries out terrorist attacks against Israel, including rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and various kinds of other attacks (such as shooting, suicide bombings, abductions etc.) in the territories of Judea, Samaria and Israel.
Over the years, Hamas has challenged the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, causing conflicts between the sides, culminating in June 2007 with Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and the suppression of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority members. Ever since, the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority has grown.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including Israel, the United States, and the European Union.


Handmade, one of a kind recycled tin earrings. Discs hand cut from a vintage decorative tin are combined with glass beads and distressed vintage buttons and in an asymmetrical design. Neutral greens and grays predominate. This one of a kind pair of earrings has a primitive, post-apocalyptic aesthetic. Rustic hammered stainless ear wires are nickel and lead free.
Total length is 2 3/8″, recycled tin discs are 3/4″ in diameter.


Mexican yam is one of some 850 species of yam in the Dioscoreaceae family. It is a perennial plant with twisting, climbing vines that grows in warm tropical climates. There are also some twists and turns related to this plant's identity and its use as a herbal remedy.
The wild yam (Dioscorea villosa) is a climbing plant that is native to the southeast United States and Canada. Such wild yam species as Dioscorea floribunda as well as Dioscorea villosa are native to Mexico.
These plants are used for the herbal preparations known as Mexican yam and Mexican wild yam. Mexican wild yam also grows in the southeastern United States and Appalachia.
An extract of this plant is used as a herbal remedy called Mexican yam, wild yam, and Mexican wild yam. It is sold as a "natural hormone" cream and oral remedy. Mexican wild yam is also known as colic root, China root, rheumatism root, devil's bones, and yuma.
There is another twist to this plant's identity. Although the Mexican yam has fleshy edible roots, this is not the yam that people associate with Thanksgiving dinner. That yam is actually the sweet potato, a vegetable that is the root of a trailing plant.
It is a member of the morning glory family. The identification of the sweet potato as a yam is can be traced to the pre-Civil War era of slavery in the United States. The sweet potato reminded slaves from sub-Saharan Africa of the yam plants in their homeland.
Mexican yam has long had a reputation as a woman's herb. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, wild yam was used to treat menstrual pain and conditions related to childbirth . Pregnant women used wild yam to combat nausea , ease aching muscles, and prevent miscarriages.
Wild yam was also used as a colic remedy. Furthermore, the plant's anti-inflammatory properties were thought to be effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Marker worked with species of Mexican yams. Others used his technique for manufacturing progesterone to develop such products as the birth control pill and steroid drugs. During the 1990s, companies began marketing Mexican yam products as a source of natural progesterone and DHEA.
Mexican yam products are also advertised as treatments for menstrual problems and osteoporosis. They are sometimes recommended for hormone replacement therapy during menopause, and sometimes the natural hormones are said to slow down the aging process.
In addition, Mexican yam and wild yam products are said to boost progesterone effects that fall during the last half of the month. A rise in hormones could help a woman conceive.
This marketing, in terms of the progesterone content and the results, has drawn criticism for misleading consumers. Herbal expert Varro Tyler described this campaign as a "wild yam scam" in his book, Tyler's Honest Herbal.
Although Mexican yam cream does not provide natural progesterone, the herb can be used for cramping conditions like menstrual pain. It can help to build up good cholesterol levels while alleviating poor circulation, nervousness and restlessness. In addition, wild yam root tea has been suggested as a means of increasing a woman's ability to conceive.
Mexican yam cream is marketed with the promise that it is natural progesterone. The cream is applied to the skin based on a woman's condition. Dosages are based on the outcome expected.
Mexican yam is sold as a powdered herb, liquid extract, tincture, and in capsule form. While there are general dosage recommendations for wild yam, instructions on commercial packages should be followed since product strength can vary.
Wild yam tea, which is also known as an infusion, is made by pouring 1 cup (240 mL) of boiling water over 1–2 tsp (1.5–2.5 g) of the dried herb. The mixture is steeped for 10–15 minutes and then strained. Wild yam tea can be drunk three times a day.
A tincture of wild yam in an alcohol solution can be taken 3–4 times a day. A single dosage consists of 2–3 mL (approximately 1.2 tsp) of wild yam.
Wild yam capsules contain the dried root. The average dosage is 1–2 pills, taken three times daily.
Menstrual cramps can be treated with a tea made with wild yam and cramp bark. Those herbs can also be blended into a tea with such herbs as motherwort, fresh oats, and chamomile.
Relief for rheumatoid arthritis may come from a combination of wild yam and black cohosh.
For kidney stones, wild yam can be combined in a tea with such herbs as cramp bark, hydrangea root, and yarrow.
Mexican wild yam is safe if taken within prescribed therapeutic dosages, according to the PDR (Physician's Desk Reference) for Herbal Medicines. The book draws on the findings of Germany's Commission E, a government agency that studies herbal remedies for approval as over-the-counter drugs. An English version of the German Commission E Monographs was published in 1997.
Pregnant and nursing women, as well as patients with hormone imbalances, depression, or hormone-sensitive cancers should avoid wild yam unless they are under the guidance of a clinical herbalist or physician.
Furthermore, although wild yam root tea has been suggested as a method for a woman to become pregnant, the herb should not be used during the last half of a menstrual period.
Large doses of Mexican yam may produce nausea. There is also a risk of poisoning.
There are no known interactions when Mexican yam is taken with standard medications, other herbs, or dietary supplements.


The decision was good for the inventor, bad for the imitator, worse for the consumer.
The idea here is that the inventor won so they are happy (and richer due to the awards associated with the judgment), the imitator is unhappy due to the penalties they must pay (and the fact that their products may not be able to utilize the desirable applications going forward), and the consumer's will be worse off in the market because they will have fewer choices for products with these desirable applications, and they may be faced with higher product prices.
I don't think this is bad. I think this is commerce. I also think that the company that was imitating its competitor is now faced with the necessity of changing and creating its own new innovations and products if they wish to continue forward in their chosen markets. This isn't bad, this is good. The process will obviously be painful and could probably have been avoided with timely business decisions when they were necessary.
In the macro-level consumers will also benefit from the reduction in imitation and the increase in new products and innovation in that by necessity if the imitating company wants to stay in the market, they will have to invent and create new applications and new ways to bring them to market. Will they be better? Hopefully, but they will certainly be different because they have to be. They can no longer comfortably continue to do things the way they have been doing them.
We are seeing here on the very high level is how an entire company is being forced out of its comfort zone, where it imitates what another company has been doing. We can telescope this type of event down to just about any level of almost any organization. What I am getting at here is that creative companies focus on and want to protect their creativity up and down their management levels, not just at the corporate level. Profitable companies focus on and protect their profitability. These ideas seem to permeate the corporate fabrics of these types of companies. You can't copy that. You have to decide to do it yourself.
Now there are several directions that we can go here. Is there a uniformity of goals in these focused and successful organizations? I think the answer is obviously yes. Is there an alignment of incentives associated with attaining these goals? I would say that as well. Is there a necessity of performance? Yes there is. I Think this is where we, like the previously mentioned imitating company can all learn. There is a focus on and culture for doing what is necessary, when it is necessary to maintain the corporate focus and achieve the corporate goals. These decisions and actions may not be pleasant or welcome at the time, but they are recognized as a necessity of the business.
On our own business levels, we are constantly faced with competition that as a response to our capabilities must change the way they conduct their business. This is the reality of the business environment. There usually is not a legal decree involved that makes them do this. This is being done out of necessity. No one wants to be second best. (This may not be entirely true. Those that are actually third best or lower strive to be second best, but this is normally only as a step toward being the best.) If nothing changes, there will be no way to improve.
We rarely get presented with the stark necessity of change the way that the imitating company did. We always find that it is easier to imitate what we have been doing in the past than it is to change and do something else. Our creativity or profitability rarely comes to an abrupt halt. It usually declines in such a way that can be easily explained or rationalized for some period of time. Even then it can be bandaged or milked for a while longer. Eventually however, necessity will arrive and with it the requirement to act.
What we have seen here in a generalized form is that those companies that have recognized what is necessary to their ongoing success (be it innovation, profitability, service, etc.), and pursue it with an ongoing focus are usually the most successful. Their approach is not to imitate others, or to imitate their own past success, but to recognize what is necessary today and to make the appropriate business decisions and to take the appropriate actions. Those companies that do not recognize what is necessary on an ongoing basis and continue to try and live off their own past (or other company's) successes are eventually confronted with the very abrupt, somewhat expensive and usually painful realization of the new necessities that they are facing.
It seems to me that this is an excellent case for continuing to make the daily difficult decisions on what is best for your business while the decisions are still yours to make. Don't allow a "wrong decision" or worse, a "no decision / no action" to be made because it is easier or perceived to be more palatable at the time. Avoiding the current necessity or delaying it will not make it any easier or less unpleasant either now or in the future. As we saw in the news, waiting to go your own way can result in facing a much more public, painful and expensive set of new business criteria than you might have ever considered.


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Here I am again, in a spectacular place--and on a tight budget too. Telluride, Colorado is eight hours by car from Phoenix. I got a ride up with a man whose Honda gets close to 50 miles per gallon. We're visiting friends who have a house up here and it's near the end of the weekend in this legendary mountain town.
The entire town of Telluride is designated a national historic district. It is expensive. The town is picture perfect, with quaint victorian houses and a beautiful business district. Telluride is nestled in a box canyon with towering mountains on three sides.
The setting can easily suck you in. When you're here, it's easy to forget the rest of the world. Aspens, pines, and ski runs cover the sides of the mountains.
We're headed back to the sonoran metropolis (Phoenix) shortly.
The Telluride Film Festival is going on this weekend. I saw three films:
"With a Little Help From Myself" A French film set in the ghettos of that nation. The story follows Sonia, a black woman, through the daily trials and tribulations of her life. Her son is arrested, her husband dies, she is sexually assaulted, (and more). Through it all she soldiers on. This small budget film was brilliantly done. The actors shined--especially Felicite Wouassi. It felt like a punch in the gut to me--it was very depressing to see the struggles of life illustrated in the story. As one thing is piled on Sonia after another, you admire her for her ability to press on. At the end of the day, what other choice do we have? The Felictite, lead actress, and the director were there in person.
"You Must Remember This" A documentary by Richard Schickel on Warner Brothers--the studio. Narrated by Clint Eastwood, this documentary goes from 1950 to the present and discusses how the studio and its films have changed in five plus decades.
"Prodigal Sons" By far my favorite film. Directed by Kimberly Reed who took a hard look at herself, her life, and her family. Reed is a transgendered woman. Formerly Paul, Kim became a woman while in her early twenties. He was the quarterback of the Helena, Montana football team, but never felt like a man. The story is about her journey as well as that of her family. Her adopted brother, who has serious mental health issues, finds out as an adult that he is the biological grandson of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles. The story is gripping, and the film very well done. Kim Reed's entire family was in the theatre except for her adopted brother--who is prominently featured in the film. This was a hard hitting slice of life.
Last, but not least, I was introduced to Kelvyn Davila, a talented Ecuadorian artist . You can see some of his work at http://theaspengallery.com/davila/index.html
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Brick city: Lancers season ends in ugly loss against ELAC
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Lesly Andrade / Courier Dariel Johnson (33) against Morgan Heise (33) at PCC's Hutto-Paterson Gym on Friday, March 1, 2019.
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In what feels like deja-vu all over again, the PCC Lancers potential trip to this years state tournament came to a disappointing end. For the third time in four years, PCC has been unable to overcome the ELAC Huskies, losing 78-53, in the third round of the Southern California Regional Playoffs this past Saturday.
Going into the game, the sixth-seeded Lancers (19-11) were the clear underdog against the third-seeded Huskies (27-6).
And it showed.
After an abysmal first quarter, the Lancers picked it up in the second and played the best they had played all game, going on a 9-0 run and cutting a 17-point lead to seven, 27-20. The Huskies went scoreless for the next five minutes until a putback by Zaida Velasquez sparked a 12-0 run, making it 39-25 at halftime.
ELAC started the third scoring the first seven points, building their lead up to 21. By the end of the third, the game turned into an old-fashioned blowout, with the Huskies leading 60-33 and comfortably cruising to a win and a spot in the CCCAA State Championships.
"This game was quite heartbreaking but I feel that the youth of my team learned a lot about their collegiate career through that game," guard/forward Daniela Mendez stated. "The season as a whole was challenging considering the amount of freshmen we had, the challenges of trying to get used to each other's playing styles and the simple fact that we just did not know each other very well. I think it comes down to one thing with this team. We should have embraced each other as people/sisters before we embraced each other as teammates."
It's been a struggle for the Lancers all season when it comes to putting the ball into the hole, as they converted on only 15-66 (23%) of their field goals. Shooting only 6-23 (22%) from three-point land and converting on only 17-30 (57%) from the charity stripe, it's not hard to see why PCC was unable to secure the win.
The Huskies also shot poorly from the field overall, going 26-67 (38%), but were lights out from the charity stripe, going 20-23 (87%) and 6-13 (46%) from three.
For the Lancers, freshman point-guard Cosette Balmy lead the way, tallying 17 points, 3 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Redshirt freshman center Dariel Johnson got into early foul trouble, sitting out all but one minute of the second quarter. Statistically, Johnson flirted with a triple-double, recording 15 points, 9 rebounds and a staggering 8 blocks to go along with 3 steals.
Although the team as a whole shot poorly from deep, sophomore guard Jade Lin shot four for nine from three, finishing the game with 12 points.
"Our team is normally a pretty good shooting team when it is needed, Lin stated. "We had good shot selections but they just weren't falling. Everyone has their off games and I think that our game against ELAC was one of those days."
With the loss against ELAC on Saturday, the Lancers have lost 12 of their last 14 games to the Huskies dating back to 2014.
Reflecting on the season, head coach Joe Peron said, "Overall, I was pretty happy with our season even with our physical derailments, adversity that students athletes have to deal with… So I was happy overall."
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