It's always interesting to take a close look at the careers of longtime Austin musicians to see where their roots are, what roads they've traveled, and where they are now. Suzanna Choffel has one of the more interesting stories we've come across. Named after a Leonard Cohen song and born right here in Austin, Suzanna began her career in Austin as part of an R&B group. From there she moved into blues jams, being inspired by Patty Griffin and eventually the rhythmic guitar stylings of Peter Tosh before moving on to various latin rock and hip-hop/jazz fusion groups. From all that she's somehow made it to some unknowable coagulation of all of these things; we don't know what to call it, but whatever it is, we love. it. Suzanna has a new album coming out this week called Hello Goodbye. It's a series of reflections on major life events, everything from returning home to Austin after 3 years in New York to the birth of her first child. They're personal songs, but with an accessible feel that makes the listener feel welcome in Suzanna's world. Suzanna Choffel dropped by Studio 1A to preview some of the tunes on the album, check it out below!


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Q: Linting error using string literal union types in typescript I am using a type that only allows three string values. When I use this function and pass it a parameter of the given type (IdPrefix) I get the linting error in VSCode.

Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'IdPrefix'.

The linting error suggests that I have to define my alternative values as strings but that is not how it is defined according to the typescript website. I think I may need to add something to the line "docId: newId("doc")," to inform typescript that the function resolves as string? Although I defined the output type in the function and would expect typescript to get it from there.
Details
The function below is used to generate an id for a typed object
The Function used
export interface IdPrefix {
  prefix: "doc" | "vew" | "usr";
}
export const newId = (prefix:IdPrefix) : string=> {
  cnt.update((val) => {
    const newCnt = val + 1;
    return newCnt;
  });
  let derivedId
  id.subscribe(val =>{
    derivedId = val
  })
  return prefix+":_"+derivedId
};

The object created that uses the above function
import { newId } from "../countStore";

interface Document{
  docId:string,
  createDate:Date,
  createdBy:string,
  title:string
}

const doc1:Document = {
  docId: newId("doc"),
  createDate: new Date(),
  createdBy: "487601f8-dd3d-4006-982c-2f2e1206a427",
  title: "Which Bycycle should I buy",
};

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Research Suggests COVID-19 Triggers Diabetes in Kids—Here's What Parents Need to Know
Hospitals have seen the number of children with diabetes jump during the pandemic. Now a new study spotlights a link between COVID-19 and the disease. What's really happening?
By Sally Kuzemchak, M.S., R.D.
More children have been diagnosed with diabetes in recent years. But the pandemic has brought a fresh concern that's alarming some doctors and researchers: The possibility that COVID-19 infection could trigger new cases of the disease.
Indeed, a study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), released in January 2022, describes a possible link. People under 18 years old diagnosed with COVID-19 "were more likely to receive a new diabetes diagnosis more than 30 days after infection than were those without COVID-19 and those with prepandemic acute respiratory infections," according to the report. "Non–SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection was not associated with an increased risk for diabetes." The rise in youth who presented with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)—a serious complication that involves very high blood sugar and can be life-threatening—was equally large and significant.
More Kids Are Being Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes—Here's What Parents Need to Know
Cross-referencing reports from two major medical databases, researchers found that the incidence of diabetes was between 31 and 166 percent higher in the children who had gone through COVID-19. That's definitely alarming for parents everywhere.
Additional studies have also pointed to a possible connection between COVID-19 and diabetes. In one children's hospital in Los Angeles, new cases of type 2 diabetes increased from 44 in 2018 (pre-pandemic) to 82 in 2020 (the height of the pandemic), according to research published in 2021 in the journal Diabetes Care. And the children with new cases in 2020 were also sicker, as more presented with DKA. Some of the children had antibodies in their blood suggesting they'd been exposed to COVID-19.
Another study of five centers in the United Kingdom, which was completed between March and June 2020, found an 80 percent increase in the number of kids with new type 1 diabetes, as well as a rise in DKA.
This uptick is also a concern with adults. In fact, the new emergence of diabetes has happened frequently enough that an international group of researchers started a registry of patients with COVID-19-related diabetes. They say the coronavirus has "a potential diabetogenic effect," and note that it bears further investigation.
Long COVID in Kids: What Happens When Coronavirus Symptoms Linger for Weeks or Months
How Definite Is the Link Between COVID-19 and Diabetes?
"The link between COVID-19 and diabetes is still being investigated," says Cynthia E. Muñoz, Ph.D., immediate past president of health care and education for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). While some hospitals have seen a jump in new cases, others have not. Like much of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still many aspects that remain unclear. To find out more, the ADA continues to conduct research concerning its association with diabetes.
One of those researchers has found evidence that the virus damages cells in the pancreas. Senta Georgia, Ph.D., principal investigator for the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has observed in research that COVID-19 injures beta cells, the cells in the pancreas that produce the hormone insulin.
If beta cells aren't functioning well and can't produce enough (or any) insulin, glucose can't move from the bloodstream into cells. That can trigger diabetes. Whether those cells eventually recover from the injury inflicted by COVID-19 or the damage is long-term is still unknown, says Dr. Georgia.
It's important to note it's been thought other viruses like mumps may trigger type 1 diabetes too by damaging those same beta cells. Those people are believed to be "genetically predisposed" to developing the condition.
How to Tell If That Cough Is a Sign of the Coronavirus
The CDC is also exploring the connection between COVID-19 and diabetes. "The mechanism of how SARS-CoV-2 might lead to incident diabetes is likely complex," researchers admitted. They noted that it remained unclear as to what caused the increase and whether the diabetes would prove to be transient or chronic. "Monitoring for long-term consequences, including signs of new diabetes, following SARS-CoV-2 infection is important in this age group."
Still, critics of the CDC study have pushed back, suggesting that the findings need to be scrutinized at length, with more attention paid to possible existing causes of the disease. CDC researchers said they knew that the study had limitations, and acknowledged that the reason for the uptick in diabetes could be related to anything from COVID-19's attack on pancreatic cells or "stress hyperglycemia" to pandemic-related weight gain or health care disparities among racial/ethnic minority groups.
Need-to-Know Signs of Diabetes
There are already many fears surrounding COVID-19, and this isn't meant to add one more to the list. But it's important to know the red-flag symptoms of diabetes.
10 Easy-to-Miss Signs of Diabetes in Children
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes affect children, and rates of both have been on the rise in recent years. Type 1 diabetes, usually diagnosed in childhood, is an autoimmune condition that occurs when the body can't make insulin or makes very little. Type 2 diabetes is more common in adults, but children are increasingly being diagnosed. It happens when the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin or the body becomes resistant to it. In both cases, glucose can't properly get out of the blood and into the cells to provide energy.
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes share many of the same symptoms, which can be mild or severe. Those to look out for include:
Increased thirst and drinking
These symptoms are sometimes mistaken for illnesses such as the flu, says Dr. Muñoz. If they persist, ask your doctor to screen your child for diabetes. In the meantime, follow the usual COVID-19 prevention strategies: wash your hands, use masks where indicated, and avoid crowded indoor areas.
Could Your Child Have Diabetes?
Gestational Diabetes: Causes, Complications and Treatment
COVID-19 in Babies: What Parents Need to Know About Symptoms and Transmission
Here's Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19 in Kids
COVID-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis: What Parents Need to Know About a Potential Link
The COVID-19 Vaccine and Kids: What Parents Need to Know
What Parents Should Know About the Delta Variant
I'm a Teen With Type 1 Diabetes—It Impacts My Life More Than You Know
Monkeypox: Signs, Symptoms, and What Parents Need to Know
COVID-19 Symptoms in Kids and Toddlers That Parents Need to Know
What Parents Need to Know About COVID-19 Booster Shots
COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy: Everything Parents Should Know
COVID-19 Vaccines Could Get Approved for Kids Under 5 This Month—Here's What to Know
New Study Shows the Frequency of Long COVID in Children

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Definition : Devices used to remove obstructions from (i.e., restore the patency of) enteral nutrition feeding tubes. Occlusion of the feeding tube can result from several causes, including inappropriate administration of medications, viscous formulas, poor flushing techniques, and aspiration of gastric or intestinal contents. The irrigation of chemical solutions without special devices is also used in declogging feeding tubes.
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Q: how to Allow ! but block consecutive !! in regular expression in shell scripting in the below code #!/bin/bash

default_pwd="mysql_password"
script_pwd="template!123"
echo $default_pwd
echo $script_pwd
if [ $default_pwd == $script_pwd ]
then
    echo "They match"
else
    if [ `expr "$script_pwd" : ".*[!]{2}$.*"` -gt 0];
    then
            echo "Contain consecutive !! special character"
    else
            echo "valid password"
    fi
fi

Expected Result:
it should echo "consecutive !! special character" when  script_pwd has !! for ex template!!123
and
it should echo "valid password" when the script_pwd for example is template!123

A: Use =~ operator to match for regular expressions.
default_pwd="mysql_password"
script_pwd="test!!123"
echo $default_pwd
echo $script_pwd
if [ $default_pwd == $script_pwd ]
then
    echo "They match"
else
    re='.*[!]{2}.*' # edit: removed character range validation
    if [[ $script_pwd =~ $re ]];
    then
            echo "Contain consecutive !! special character"
    else
            echo "valid password"
    fi
fi

A: with bash you can try
 pwd='temp!late!123';[ "${pwd/\!\!/}" = "$pwd" ] && echo true|| echo false

 pwd='temp!!late!123';[ "${pwd/\!\!/}" = "$pwd" ] && echo true|| echo false

In your script with posix shell
#!/bin/sh
script_pwd="template!!123"
echo $script_pwd
[ "$script_pwd" == "${script_pwd#*!!}" ] && \
  echo "valid password" || \
  echo "Contain consecutive !! special character"


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Home-Spun Artists: Historical Sketches — Richard Doyle
by Laurie Bluedorn | Home-Spun Artists | 2 comments
Richard Doyle (1824-1883)
English illustrator Richard (Dickie) Doyle, educated at home by a tutor (a Mr. Street) and by his father John Doyle who was a leading political cartoonist during the early 19th century, followed in his father's footsteps and was hired by the British humor magazine Punch at age nineteen.
Richard was a favorite illustrator of the Victorian era and is best known for designing the cover of Punch (which was used from 1849 until 1954) and for illustrating many children's books. His drawings of elves and fairies were, and still are, especially popular. Richard was the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Richard's father, who had six children besides Richard, all artistic in some way, believed that an artist should learn to draw through accurate observation and memory instead of through academic training. Mr. Doyle encouraged his children to keep abreast of current events in London by attending ceremonies, reviews, and processions, then writing about their observations and illustrating their notes.
Then, each Sunday, the family would examine each others week's work. Richard started a pictorial diary in 1840, when he was fifteen, and this diary Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840 — which includes several hundred miniature sketches and is in its original uncorrected form — can be read today.
In addition, John Doyle and his sons wrote weekly letters to one another (probably a requirement of the father), each illustrated with cartoon drawings. Some of these letters are held at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. "These letters from Doyle to his father I see as a sort of apprenticeship for the younger Doyle, because he was on his way to becoming one of the best-known illustrators of the 19th century," said Christine Nelson, the curator of literary and historical manuscripts. She said that these letters show "what manuscripts reveal about the creative process, and how they often come out of close relationships." (quotes taken from the New York Times, May 14, 2006). In one letter, dated 1843, Richard writes his father, "I desperately depicted small devils playing all manner of games round this very page in the hope of deminishing [sic] the space for writing."
The same year that he started his diary, Richard's father asked him to illustrate a "History of Belgium." Here is an excerpt from Richard's illustrated diary. "… I am in a very critical state, working away at The History of Belgium which I must either have done by tomorrow morning or give Papa a shilling, so therefore I am working desperately, resolved not to go to bed till I have finished the illustrations…..Well now this is all very pleasant. I have won half a crown. Papa liked the illustrations which was also pleasant…"
1840 was also the year his father had one of Richard's large pictures professionally printed (only fifty copies), which greatly encouraged Richard in his artistic work.
What ideas from the Doyle family can we use in our homeschool?
We can use Mr. Doyle's idea of assigning to our student the task of keeping an illustrated journal. The kind of book Dickie Doyle used to write in is not mentioned, but there are plenty of options available to us in the form of bound, blank books, both lined and unlined. Notice the scheduled Sunday shows where everyone displayed and discussed the work done that past week, including illustrated letters written to one other.
And, finally, notice the wisdom of the father in publishing, at his own expense, one of Dickie's works. In his journal, you can read about how much this encouraged the young Dickie, and you can follow his efforts at "marketing" the copies. Today it is an easy matter for us to take one of our children's drawings or essays down to the local print shop and have 50 copies printed. It's money well spent.
Did you notice what else Mr. Doyle used as incentive for work completed?


Today I wanted to speak about black women's hair and how it fits into the Sistah Vegan Consciousness Project. The other day I spoke of how what we may eat, affects our womb health. The hair care we take is very poor and many of my sistahs who use chemical relaxers to straighten our hair may not realize that when our bodies absorb these chemicals, it creates a hormonal imbalance that often leads to ailments such as fibroid tumors, as well as painful menstruation. So, I wanted to share some information with you.
If you go to the safe cosmetics database, you will see the the most harmful chemical straightener is actually the one DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN. I cried when I saw this.
The most TOXIC of the 130 are numbers 129 and 130: Dark and Lovely's No-Mistake No Lye Children's Relaxer and African's Best Kids' Organic. Click on each of the links 129 and 130, once you get to that page, and those will break down the toxins in these products that we're putting on our little girl's heads.
Awesome video Breeze! I am going to pass it on!
Sistah Vegan is the [natural feminist] Chris Rock! Nice one, Breezie.
Amazing! I absolutely loved it. Keep 'em coming Breeze!
I just watched Good Hair, too! Heartbreaking. This photo, though, this photo is GLORIOUS.
I have not seen the movie yet, but want to. Heard that Chris Rock refers to chemical relaxers as "creamy crack". Thanks for watching!
He does. The term seems appropriate considering both the $ the industry earns and the damage it does. Thanks for the article link.
hi! I just read your post do you have any other tips on relaxing?
You are beautiful, however you decide to wear your hair.
Thanks for your support. I have signed copies available if you order form the link (image) on the right of the page.
If you want to save money, you can go directly to Amazon.com, but it ships from them and I can't sign it. Whatever you choose, I hope they enjoy it.
I love this video, I relate very much to the 'bad hair' stereotype as I was teased my entire life for having said 'bad hair'. All my siblings and cousins had either straight caucasian type hair or what the black community refers to as 'good curly' hair; as I grew older one of my sisters told me that the guy I was dating at the time was not someone to settle with because his hair was like mine and any offsprig wouldn't stand a chance of getting 'good hair' she further told me that I should try to have children primarily from white men to ensure that they would not be subjecetd to my hairtype.
I am often surprised that the negativity that was dosed out to me in such great amounts and for such a long period of time never caused me to dislike my hair; as not only do I love my hair but I proudly wear it natural and can't see myself ever going back to chemicals.
Keep up your great work, wish I could donate towards your cause but sadly I am not financially able to at the moment.
The cosmetics database is such a great resource – thanks for getting it out there!
Kalisha, I'm pretty sure they use animal products such as egg in some of their products.
How do I start to become a vegan please??


-The process of the topic of virtual teamwork–the topic of the Professional Learning Community I will be helping to facilitate at UT Arlington.
-The process of developing Open Educational Resources (OER) for my online courses. Some of these I am remixing (e.g,. via Pressbooks at UTA) but some I am creating and designing myself (e.g., mobile-drive microlearning tools like flashcards). I also want to explore creating interactive content like using H5P.


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Hydrogen vision or greenwashing? Amazon, First Hydrogen, Plug Power
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Nowadays, various sustainability projects are under criticism, for example, when companies invest in forests to offset their CO2 emissions. Even the EU Commission has been accused of greenwashing following its decision to classify natural gas as sustainable. The critical discourse that has now been initiated could put many companies under scrutiny. We explain where sustainability is just PR and where the hydrogen vision can become a reality.
Commented by Stefan Feulner on January 18th, 2023 | 10:43 CET
NIO, dynaCERT, Nordex - Different omens
The energy turnaround is a constant companion. Since the Ukraine conflict at the latest, alternatives have been desperately sought in order to free ourselves from dependence on Russia. However, politicians' plans and the reality of timely implementation are far apart. In the area of traffic and transportation alone, it will likely be decades before climate neutrality is achieved. However, there are bridging systems already available that drastically reduce CO2 emissions.


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Q: How do I initalize a custom repository post initialization? I am trying to create an instance of my custom repository post initialization. The goal is that I give the class (PineappleRepository.class) and it returns the object (PineappleRepository).
Here the Custom Repository:
public interface FoodRepository<T extends FoodEntity> extends JpaRepository<T, UUID>, FoodRepositoryCustom {
}

public interface FoodRepositoryCustom {
    List<FoodEntity> executeQuery(Map<String, String> query);
}

@Repository("Repo")
public class FoodRepositoryCustomImpl implements FoodRepositoryCustom {

    private final EntityManager em;

    public FoodRepositoryCustomImpl(EntityManager em) {
        this.em = em;
    }

    @Override
    public List<FoodEntity> executeQuery(Map<String, String> query) {
        // Boring code
        return new List<>();
    }
}

Here is a wacky form of java sudo code, of what I am roughly looking for:
public <F extends FoodEntity> FoodRepository<F> getFoodRepository(Class<? extends FoodRepository<F>> clazz) {
    // Perform magical generation of FoodRepository<F>
    return foodRepository;
}

Any help is much appreciated, -AwesomeDude091
Edit: ApplicationContext or autowired will not work as the idea is that this repository is initalized post init. So outside of the Repo Scan, etc.


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Your Kids Are Their Problem
.	 Published on July 23, 2000 .
Jason Gill is clocking 80 miles an hour in his green Miata convertible, heading north out of San Diego. The 31-year-old computer software consultant is doing what he often does on weekends — looking for someplace new to live. He hates the idea of giving up his bougainvillea-covered bungalow, with its postage stamp-size patio, one block from the beach in La Jolla, Calif. But three years after he moved in, the neighborhood is not what it once was.
The couple next door have had a baby, and with the lots so close together, Gill — who describes himself as passionately, even militantly, "child free" — can hear every wail and whimper. The family on the other side has a baby girl and two young sons who used to peer at Gill through the grape-stake fence until he replaced it with a solid redwood one. Now the boys use that fence as a soccer goal, often while Gill is trying to read a book or have a quiet glass of wine.
The teenagers down the block have formed a rock band. The nice elderly woman across the street and the retired empty nesters a few doors away have sold their homes to new owners who are building Mediterranean-esque overstatements where modest cottages used to be. "And here is the lovely sand-beige palace with a turret," Gill said in his most sarcastic faux real estate broker voice while giving me a walking tour of his street. "I don't know who'll move in, but you don't build something this ridiculous unless you have kids." READ MORE
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Contents and publication detail
Chapter 2: Healthier Australians
Chapter 3: Future skills and work
Chapter 4: Better functioning towns and cities
Chapter 5: Improving the efficiency of markets
Chapter 6: More effective governments
Appendix A: Review participants
Appendix B: Regulation Reforms
1.1 Scope and aim of this inquiry
1.2 What has been happening to productivity?
1.3 Government policy and productivity
1.4 Identifying a policy reform agenda
A sound case can be made that the Australian economy has performed very well over a protracted period. Our living standards are high, and we are one of the richest nations globally. Borrowing costs and inflation are low, there is little industrial unrest, and the unemployment rate is well below the long-term average. We are living longer, and enjoy generally healthier lives. There has been no recession in the past 26 years — the longest period of growth in modern history, and this has persisted despite major shocks like the global financial crisis and an abating mining boom. The trend in Australia's labour productivity since 2007 — the amount of output per worker — has not deviated much from the average historical rate over the past 40 years.
Something is awry in our economic fundamentals
On the other hand, income growth, particularly for wage earners, has stalled. Labour productivity is lower than both the 'golden era' of the mid-1990s, and the lengthy prosperous period from 1950 to 1970. The global picture for most developed countries is sombre. Unlike Australia, across the OECD, growth in GDP per hour worked was lower in the decade to 2017 than in any decade from 1950 — a picture that reflects more than the impacts of the global financial crisis. It raises questions about the effectiveness of global technological change as an income generator — a concern for Australia given our reliance on others' technological advances.
While labour productivity gets much of the focus year-on-year, doing things better by applying new knowledge and technologies is the critical X-factor in strong long-run economic growth (sometimes referred to as 'multifactor' productivity). Yet while all around us new digital services, information and ideas are obvious, this form of productivity has been weak since 2004, here and around the developed world. This is a long enough period to suggest something is awry in our economic fundamentals. Since productivity is inextricably linked to maintaining growth in national income and individual opportunity, this is no academic observation. Suggestions that mismeasurement of the new economy are to blame appear simply insufficient to explain the weakness. In this context, the Australian Government has commissioned this report, with the intention that it be repeated every five years. Its aim is to catalyse a reinvigoration of productivity.
Given the ultimate ambition is a more prosperous society, policies that move resources to their most productive uses are also relevant to this inquiry. Tariff reform was one of Australia's most successful policy shifts because it removed incentives to take a job or make an investment in industries where we were inefficient, and whose long-term prospects were weak. That and other fundamental microeconomic reforms delivered benefits throughout the 1990s. The greatest prospective gains now lie in services, especially those that all of us consume regularly, thus spreading the gains widely. As an illustration, when the Commission examined the disability services and aged care sectors, it found funding was allocated according to principles that took very little account of the preferences of people who were the focus of those sectors. Shifting resources to match people's preferences is a key, but often neglected aspect of efficiency.
Another dimension of prosperity is its effect on income growth for higher and lower-income households and, associated with this, inequality. Australia did better than most OECD nations at achieving more equitable income growth, such that all households — from lowest income to highest experienced significant improvements across the decades from the mid-1980s (figure 1.1). Indeed, popular impressions aside, household income inequality does not appear to have risen in Australia this century.
Doing things better by applying new knowledge
and technologies is the critical X-factor
Figure 1.1 Some key aspects of the economy are performing well
Sources: ABS 2017, Australian National Accounts, Mar 2017 , Cat. no. 5206; OECD (2011, p. 23).
A key issue will be to ensure that future economic, social and environmental policies sustain inclusive growth — by no means guaranteed given current policy settings, and prospective technological and labour market pressures. Productivity growth provides a capacity for higher incomes and poverty alleviation — either directly through higher wages or indirectly by increasing the capacity for funding transfers to lower-income households. The motivation for limiting inequality extends beyond its intrinsic value to the desirability of avoiding too great a dispersion in incomes, given evidence that this can, in its own right, adversely affect productivity growth. Public support is also more likely for reforms that offer benefits to the bulk of people.
One of the advantages of better health care, education systems and cities is that they provide strong prospects for improving lifetime outcomes for people from all backgrounds. Indeed, improvements in these areas have the potential to decrease health inequalities, and reduce job insecurity and wage risks for those whose skills are at most risk from technological change (noting the current disparities apparent in health and educational performance — figure 1.2).
Figure 1.2 Health inequalities and educational underperformance present big opportunities for Australiaa
a The fifth household income quintile is the richest and the first household income quintile the poorest.
Sources: ABS 2016, National Health Survey, First Results, 2014-15 , Cat. no. 4364.0; OECD PISA score results (2017b).
This inquiry is the first of a continuing series of reviews.
This inquiry is the first in a regular series of inquiries into productivity, undertaken at five-yearly intervals. Its aim is to shift the dial on underlying productivity, jolting it out of the mediocre trajectory of recent history. To do so will require a package of initiatives. No one change is sufficient, as demonstrated by the need for a combination of reforms to make a difference in the 1990s (floating the dollar, tariff cuts, workplace relations, water reforms, competition policy and effective intergovernmental relations). It is a microeconomic complement to the Australian Government's periodic Intergenerational Report, with the same intent to look to the future and to take account of emerging trends, but with the added dimension that it will prioritise the changes with the greatest potential, and advise how to apply them effectively.
We need to shift the dial on underlying productivity,
jolting it out of the mediocre trajectory of recent history
All levels of government — local, state and national — are the relevant policy actors. And if any one level of government has greatest responsibility, it may surprise some to hear that it is the States and Territories. The Commission has sought input from all levels of government in diagnosing problems and recommending solutions. We have also consulted with many people and agencies responsible for health care, city policies and education — which are the themes that have emerged strongly in this first five-yearly review (appendix A).
While over the past 40 years, aggregate labour productivity growth in the market sector (real output per hour) has stayed mainly in the band between 2 and 2.5 per cent per year over the various business cycles (figure 1.3) there is nothing natural or inevitable about labour productivity growth within this tight band. As noted earlier, the 1950s and 1960s showed much stronger growth. Figures calculated on a somewhat different basis suggest that annual labour productivity growth in the first fifty years after 1890 were less than 1 per cent — proof that it is possible to have protracted periods of sluggish growth — a circumstance to be avoided (figure 1.4). Thus, the slowdown in this vital driver of income growth is not something that automatically rebounds to an expected norm. We have to work at sustaining productivity.
While some have celebrated a recent return to average labour productivity outcomes, this has almost entirely reflected the contribution of one production factor — more physical capital. The capacity to 'get more out of all inputs', the dividend known as multifactor productivity (MFP), has fallen away since 2002. MFP has risen slightly over the past few years, but the brevity of the period and the fact that recovery has been limited to only some industries does not provide robust evidence of an enduring recovery.
The capacity to get more out of all inputs, the dividend known as multifactor productivity, has fallen away since 2002
Figure 1.3 Market sector labour productivity decompositiona
Measured using aggregate market sector productivity cycles
a 12-industry market sector (ANZSIC Divisions A to K and R). The long-term trends are not always easy to detect in annual data because of the effects of economic downturns (when labour and capital are only partially used, depressing productivity over the short run). For that reason, most productivity analysis examines trends across the peaks of the business cycle.
Sources: ABS 2016, Estimates of Industry Multifactor Productivity, 2015-16 , Cat. no. 5260.0.55.002, December; Productivity Commission estimates.
Figure 1.4 The long long run — MFP and labour productivity
1890 to 2015a
a The series diverge from that presented above due to different methods for interpolating data, though the results are not markedly different for the overlapping time periods.
Source: Bergeaud et al. (2016).
The slowdown in Australia's capacity to 'do more with the same' is puzzling because scientific and technological knowledge seemingly still advanced rapidly after the early 2000s. Consider that in 2003 there was no Cloud, the 'internet of things' or any smart phone or tablet (with all their portable apps — mapping, email, messaging, and video services). Ubiquitous software like Google Chrome and social media apps did not exist. 3D printing was in its infancy. Music and videos were primarily supplied in physical forms. Underpinning much of this has been a telecommunications network that was more extensive, and far faster. Robotics, gene technologies, material science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, sensor technologies, and drones all progressed strongly. In the period from 1997-98 to 2015-16, the share of businesses using the internet increased from 29 to 95 per cent.
The recent trend in income per capita
— effectively the contents of people's wallets —
is far below that in the decades that preceded
The recent trend in income per capita — effectively the contents of people's wallets — is far below that in the decades that preceded it, and has fluctuated from year to year. Part of this is due to the decline in the terms of trade. But in the decade from 1998, strong growth in disposable incomes without a high terms of trade was possible because multifactor productivity contributed to high growth.
Mismeasurement has been cited as a reason to worry less about Australia's multifactor productivity trends. There are difficulties in measuring productivity, including in times when quality and price move in opposite directions; or when free goods (for example, open source software and other internet services) become significant. The data on which official estimates of productivity are derived include some adjustments for the quality of outputs and inputs, but they are incomplete. Accordingly, mismeasurement is certainly present, though whether it is in any given direction or worse than in previous decades is another matter. Regardless, sound research suggests that the sectors of the economy most subject to mismeasurement are not large enough to explain the shift (Supporting Paper 1 (SP 1)).1 Nor does the timing of the global slowdown coincide with the technological changes that might generate mismeasurement.
Some of the factors other than productivity driving income per capita — labour participation rates and new private investment — have also been weaker in recent years. The investment slump is particularly concerning. It is not isolated to mining, where past strong investment built up the capital stock, requiring less future investment. It implies that capital-intensity in the non-mining sector (that is, the bulk of the Australian economy) will not grow at the historical average, putting future downward pressure on labour productivity. Investment, after all, is what creates the new tools for labour to lift production beyond the previous norm. Finally, the embedded technology in investment is a major source of the new knowledge that underpins future innovation. For example using the web required computers. These factors, and the added uncertainty about the direction of the terms of trade, makes new productivity-boosting reforms one of the few certain ways of raising living standards into the 2020s.
Businesses are the immediate drivers of long-run productivity improvement in the market economy. In trying to increase their profits, they often seek to do things differently and better — drawing on their own ideas and those of their customers, employees, suppliers and rivals. Research (either inside the organisation or outside) can lead to entirely new products and processes. Firms that fail to keep pace with technology or to provide goods and services valued by their customers will be replaced by those that do, unless government policies frustrate that renewal.
All levels of government play a role in our market economy (figure 1.5). Governments set many of the frameworks for key institutions, laws, standards, regulations, taxes and macroeconomic policies. Some markets are as much creatures of government as businesses and consumers because of the degree and complexity of regulation. As an illustration, version 91 of the National Electricity Rules number some 1454 pages and the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 1621 pages — which are bibles for markets in some industries. Whether they are yet the best regulations is a matter of persistent contest, as highlighted by the recent Harper review.
Government is also a dominant provider, regulator and funder of many non-market services, and its performance is critical to productivity (including the quality of outcomes — SP 2 and 3). Government contributes to the idea pool by supporting research and (when at its best) by being a demanding customer for its own purchases. It can encourage efficiency in the business world by being efficient itself and by being transparent and predictable. It can share its data or withhold it — an increasingly serious issue in the digital age that was considered in the Commission's inquiry into Data Availability and Use . Data applications are the biggest renewable resource discovery of the 21st century.
The extent to which governments can develop and implement policies in line with the public interest depends on the effectiveness of its participation in public debate — convincing people to engage with and trust government — and the set of incentives that punish or reward politicians, governments and officials for their choices and performance. Survey and other evidence shows that distrust in government is high and engagement in politics is low by absolute and historical standards (chapter 6). In the market of ideas, political failures — which impede people's willingness to trust reform proposals and that preserve failing policies that benefit the few at the expense of the many — limit our nation's prosperity.
Conversely, governments are one of a nation's leading tools for change. The pervasiveness of the institutions and frameworks noted earlier — legal, financial, sectoral, consumer regulation — and the capacity to lift public investment in major inputs and enablers — education, health, infrastructure — mean that a failure to apply these mechanisms fully must be a serious opportunity lost. The timing of change, the prioritising amongst the many opportunities, the effective handling of the transition and the distribution of benefits, are all reasonable judgment calls for governments. But they do not justify an unwillingness to apply our most effective catalyst for change.
Figure 1.5 What shapes productivity?
How can Governments influence productivity?
There is a long list of things that could be done, but a list per se is not enough to galvanise action. We have consciously sought not to contrive a list of all possible reforms.
Rather, the Commission developed a structured way of identifying the areas for reform that are most promising. We have considered the practicality of reforms, the quality of the evidence base, and cumulatively across the reforms, the likely magnitude of the benefits (figure 1.6).
Figure 1.6 Systematically looking for reforms [Accessible test]
Decision making framework for policy recommendations
Step 1: Harvest ideas
Theoretical framework for drivers of prosperity (e.g. innovation, human and physical capital accumulation, diffusion, good institutions, competition, fit-for-purpose regulation)
Parts of the economy performing poorly
Policy agendas of all governments
Broad consultation and survey evidence
Insights from the reform literature and meta-analyses
Insights from international experiences
Unimplemented reforms from previous reviews and inquiries
Auditor-Generals' reports
Step 2: Choose reforms
Value of having a diversity of options
Avoiding a fragmented list of disconnected reforms
Looking beyond the immediate imperatives to reforms that will take some time to implement
A willingness to consider novel reforms
Implementability (assessing capabilities and the need for coordination)
Recognition of fiscal constraints
Materiality (as single reforms or as a package)
Reforms that make future reform and learning easier
Step 3: Analyse impacts and implementation
Explain how policy would raise prosperity
Qualitative and quantitative evidence of why the policies would work
Assess impacts (for whom, where, to what extent)
Indicate the time path for implementation and who would undertake it
Take into account how new policies would fit with existing or pending policies
Indicate priorities
Accountability (how would failure be assessed?)
In addition to our analysis of the reform opportunities for Australia and normal consultation processes, we examined hundreds of recommendations from other studies and reviews in making our choices. These included similar initiatives looking to address similar objectives globally, such as OECD's annual Going For Growth report.
Using this approach, the Commission developed five broad areas for close examination.
The 5 yearly productivity review has given us an opportunity to take a more future oriented approach to a breadth of policy issues rather than our usual focus on a sector or specific policy area. The Commission has deliberately floated ideas that cannot always be implemented immediately, but where preparation and further testing is needed for fruition. We have dived into three areas where reform is longer term and more fundamental. We chose health care, education and cities, and even in these areas, only some aspects of them (chapters 2, 3 and 4).
We did so because they share some important characteristics.
New technologies offer new and better ways of delivering services, and yet the existing systems are designed around legacy technologies (as in transport systems, road funding and charging, the provision of university education, and the dispensing of pharmaceuticals).
Most people can share in the benefits, so that the concerns about the distributional effects of reform are not central. No one — high or low income — wants clogged roads or clogged arteries. While there are vested interests opposed to change, in these areas there may be more scope to reduce the politically-polarised debates that frustrate many other reforms.
They are more likely to be less efficient due to management inertia, meddling and lack of competitive pressures.
They account for a large share of activity in the economy. As one of the most urbanised countries in the world, the economic and social functioning of Australia's biggest cities is critical to prosperity. The pressures on them, and the advantages they provide, are due to rise given future strong projected population growth.
The functioning of these parts of the economy matter for the quality of the lives of millions of Australians.
Users' needs are often not given priority, which disempowers people and makes providers less responsive. The services are highly subsidised and/or regulated, people are not very aware of quality before they use them, choice has often been limited and markets are often underexposed to competition. There is therefore strong scope to empower people so that their needs, not those of service providers, are the key focus for policymakers.
Their impacts on people's lives are often many years into the future. This means that services have to be designed for people's long-term needs. Where roads are built and how schools function are good examples of how decisions made today matter a great deal to people many years later.
While some reforms are great in their ambition — as was the competition reform packages of the 1990s — much is not like that, and can be nicely summarised by a quote from a well-known management guru's rumination on personal productivity, which could equally apply to a nation's:
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks — cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion. (Allen 2004)
In other words, it is time to take out the microeconomic garbage — those practices that have been seen as in the 'too hard basket' to change. These can be big and important — like tax reform and flaws in the way different governments interact with each other. Or small — like restrictions on the entry of Uber, some messy remnants of trade barriers, and the relic of trading hour restrictions that still persists in some jurisdictions. The cumulative impacts of changes to all the collective things that stymie people's lives, income generation, and other endeavours is large. In a messy house, there are many cobwebs, and so we document these carefully in chapter 5 and appendix B.
It is time to take out the microeconomic garbage
There are other microeconomic reforms that cover the whole economy, and that are not part of the orthodox suite of cobweb-cleaning reforms. The large benefits of a national policy approach to better data availability and use epitomises the new agenda, as do reforms to intellectual property arrangements, standards for new transformative technologies and developments in regulatory arrangements for fintech. Accordingly, chapter 5 explores both the old and the new reforms that can make markets more efficient.
The fifth theme recognises that policymaking is a creature of governments, whose institutions, capabilities, rules, operational methods, norms and interactions determine the scope and content of policies. If the fundamentals of governments are not functioning well — say intergovernmental relations or the capabilities of the public sector — then it is hard for even the most proficient of governments to achieve reforms. There is scope to improve this foundation (chapter 6).
Taken across their disparate areas, the Commission's recommendations represent an ambitious reform agenda. The agenda should have the Australian Government as a key proponent. However, a national approach to productivity requires active engagement and consensus across multiple levels of government.
The services where the greatest opportunities lie are typically shared responsibilities. Indeed, at the grass-roots level, State and Territory Governments often have the most responsibility for service delivery, and therefore the strongest capacity to introduce policy innovations. Any realistic model of reform cannot conceive of such governments as playing second fiddle to the Australian Government. Nor, given the need for trust in a reform agenda, can engagement with the community, non-government organisations, businesses and other agents for change be mislaid.
It is hard to put an exact number on the cumulative benefits of all the policy recommendations that this report advocates. Many benefits are hard to value even within a range — say an avoided limb amputation for a person with type 2 diabetes. This means that in some areas, we have made assessments of potential economic benefits (specifically, key recommendations in chapters 2, 4 and 5), while in others we have not. Our assessment, without accounting for the inestimable, is that the benefits of these reforms would increase over time, eventually generating about $80 billion each year in economic gains, which would continue to grow with the economy.
The Commission has undertaken detailed analysis to support each of these chapters. Sixteen supporting papers are available on the Commission's website at www.pc.gov.au and are referenced throughout this report using the abbreviation 'SP' and the relevant number. Where the sources of a fact or statistic is not referenced in this report, readers will find them in the accompanying supporting papers. Locate Footnote 1 above
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Q: Javascript newbie can't keystore.generate("EC", "P-256") I'm pretty new to Javascript and Node.    Using Jupyter Notebook I ran a subsection of this [SMART HEALTH CARD][1] to generate a key.  I just took the "Creating the Signed Health Card" section and ran it in notebook. I get "{ keys: [] }" .  When I run it from  Node, I get nothing (no error and no JSON output).  I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.6.2 & node 16.9.0 & node-jose 2.0.0
The actual subsection I ran is:

var jose = require('node-jose');

const keystore = jose.JWK.createKeyStore()

let signingKey;

keystore.generate("EC", "P-256").
then(function(result) {
  // {result} is a jose.JWK.Key
  signingKey = result;
});

keystore.toJSON(true);

When I added console.log(signingKey)to the generate function in Jupyter Notebook,  I get the key so somehow the signingKey is not getting exported out of the generate function.
I've looked thru all the questions and at Node-Jose docs but can't figure it out.
What is this clueless person missing?

A: The signingKey is a local variable within the generate function.  All I need to do is add a return (signingkey) to the function and I have my key.
I'm sure there is a better answer but least I've learned a little about .then().


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Hear Prince's Unreleased 'Early' Take on 'Forever in My Life'
Estate also launches eight-episode podcast ahead of Sign O' the Times reissue
Prince's unheard work-in-progress version of "Forever in My Life" is the latest preview from the upcoming Sign O' the Times reissue.
The "early" in "Forever in My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through)" refers not to when the version was recorded — August 8th, 1986 in Prince's Galpin Boulevard home studio — but what time of day the vocal track was first laid down.
"He had been up all night and he came upstairs. It was like 7:00 in the morning and he grabbed my hand and said 'follow me', and so I followed him downstairs," Susannah Melvoin, Prince's fiancée at the time, said of this recording in a statement. "The sun was coming through the stained-glass windows and he pressed play, and that song came on and I looked at him and I got teary-eyed. And that was it. He didn't have to say anything."
The Prince Estate previously shared "Cosmic Day," the two-part "Witness 4 the Prosecution" and the 1979 version of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" from the massive, Vault-raiding Sign O' the Times reissue, due out September 25th (find it here).
Additionally, on Thursday the Prince Estate and Minnesota's 89.3 the Current launched a new eight-episode podcast Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times. The first episode features interviews with Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman discussing Prince's prolific Dream Factory period, as well as insights from engineer Susan Rogers and musicians Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, Dr. Fink and BrownMark. Additional episodes will arrive weekly leading up to the reissue's release.
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Plan changes/
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Plan change details
Learn how certain plan changes affect you
1. Changes to the contribution rate
3. Changes to the bridge benefit
5. Changes and pre-retirement leave
2. Changes to the rule of 85
4. Changes and the reduction rate
Changes and rule of 85
You will be eligible for the rule of 85 for pensionable service earned before April 1, 2018. Under the old rules, if your age plus years of contributory service equals at least 85, you qualify for an unreduced pension; this is known as the rule of 85. Under the new rules, the rule of 85 will still be based on your total contributory service (pre- and post-April 1, 2018), but it will only apply to the pension you earn before April 1, 2018. It will not apply to any pension you earn after April 1, 2018.
In this example, the member is retiring at age 58 on April 1, 2020. The rule of 85 is used to calculate the pension reduction factor for the 25 years of service they earned prior to April 1, 2018. The rule of 85 takes all contributory service until retirement into account—even those years accumulated after April 1, 2018. Because the member meets the rule of 85, there is no reduction applied to the portion of their pension earned prior to April 1, 2018.
For the 2 years of contributory service earned after April 1, 2018, the new reduction factor is used. The member is not eligible for an unreduced pension for these years of service, because they do not meet the minimum age of 60, or have 35 years of contributory service. This means the portion of the member's pension earned on or after April 1, 2018, will have a 12.4 per cent reduction applied.
Changes to the contribution rate
Changes to the bridge benefit
Other member groups
Resources for active members
Back to Active members
Related content for plan changes
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Choose your pension option
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First time I was on Eurodam, I found out my stateroom at 11pm the night before. I was then called while on board and offered an upgrade from obstructed OV to balcony.
Nothing piggy about it. It is called being compensated for your knowledge and worth.
Yes it has, It has made the need of a travel professional more necessary than ever. The internet has brought a lot of information and MIS-information. A travel professional gives true knowledge which isn't found on the net! It has made the job of me and several of my clients easier than ever.
Sorry no different than a certified financial planner who not only makes commission on the products but charges a fee. Sorry I have been doing this model for far longer than you have been a member of this group. It works for me and thankfully I do not want to work with everyone and I have a very loyal client base who give great referrals!!!
Please show me where I said I offer limited or no service? I said like my client's I take time off too. We have windows when no one is traveling and as such we travel when they are not. We are available at all times during travel, but we are not a 24/7 operation for someone who found a lower price at 3 in the morning. Our clients are not looking to change cabins or looking for lower prices. My clients know they are part of an exclusive club and not everyone gets to become a client of ours. They also know if they wanted 24/7 availability (outside of their travels) they would have to pay for it.
All of the free resources are just that free. They are nothing more than information which is not the same as knowledge. Much of the information found on these very pages many times is not corrected. My clients are far from fools. To them time is money and they do not have the time to spend finding the right experience for them. My clients spend a lot of money for my knowledge and I won't work with everyone. They are not looking for the best deal or the best perks. They don't change cabins after it has been selected for them or they will take an upgrade because they have already budgeted for a certain amount for their cruise. They know I and other travel agents like me are not auditioning nor are we competing for their business. They know we also travel like they do and we sometimes close our office to new business and don't return phone calls or emails right away. They don't fret if the price went down when we were unreachable. There are for more people like that than there are who read Cruise Critic. Remember less than 5% of any given cruise has ever heard of Cruise Critic or has participated or even read these forums.
No, I hold an ECC and LCS designation and have my own IATA so yes I am accredited.
It is for this reason I collect a very large consultation fee before I begin the work.
Cruise Critic rules prohibit me from giving exact examples as they consider that advertising my agency. I can tell you more often than not I have been there when the ship has hit the fan either before or during the cruise. Because of volume, I have much higher clout than an individual and get certain perks and higher up the food chain when there are issues. I have far more knowledge available to me than just the information found on cruise critic including some excursions you cannot find via Googling. Finally I am willing to put my professional reputation on the line which you will find unavailable with opinions posted on CC. There is a much higher percentage of people cruising who never come to, read or post on cruise critic.
I am a TA and have been for almost nine years and cruised for four before becoming one. I am not desperate for business and as such I charge a pretty high consultation fee for my clients before I even begin the work. None of which applies to the booking. I do not deal in volume, and I do not price match or offer perks beyond what are available from the cruise line and through my franchise affiliation. I also charge a large cancellation fee. There is more than enough business out there and I am having my best year ever. I am far from an order taker as most of my clients do not know exactly what they want.
If you do not have a passport valid for six months after travel, you will not go to Cuba!
I cannot imagine a safer time to visit Istanbul than right now. I am so bummed that our 2017 cruise dropped Kusadasi for Malta. It is 569 km from IST. I voted NO!
We leave next week for our Castles of the Rhine Basel to Amsterdam cruise on Uniworld with our 12 year old daughter. It is part of their family program. Has anyone on CC ever done this cruise? We have a double and a single and cannot wait.
Came of Oasis last Saturday with a total of five ships in port. Flew SW and ended up with TSA PRE-CHECK because of our GE and trusted traveler status. It was great to avoid that HUGE security line at FLL. Best money we have ever spent. Me, my wife and now my daughter has it. Cruise was good too.


it seems i cant find a good spot to use the mw lures on maui ? what is the best spot on maui for whipping?
What areas do you like in Kihei? I know kihei is very similar but what kind of area and conditions do you like?
It was almost 20 years ago, so kinda sketchy on my memory. Basically, go to areas that are not often frequented by snorklers etc. Go at 1st light and a rising tide. New moon is always best, but I often break my own rules. Let me know how you do and what it's like there now? Also, go up the Hana Hwy, I hear it is quite productive and very picturesque. Stay safe!!!


As September draws to a close, I find myself preparing the outside of the house for winter: sweeping a carpet of leaves off the deck, pruning the wire vine back, pulling dandelions and nightshade out of the mulch by the back fence. It occurs to me that this work will never be finished: that it moves in a wide, wobbly circle as the seasons change, each transition bringing its own tasks and trials.
In the first downpour of the year, the gutter above the kitchen window overflowed in great sheets of water into the stairwell below, and I had to pull out fistful after fistful of grit to clear it out, blind with rain and cold water funneling down my shirt front.
If this was not my house, I wouldn't have laughed. Because it is my house, I did.
And so, I remain charmed by this little house, with its cobbled-together, chicken coop roots. Each time I dig up a weed or sweep the front walk or pull English ivy off the light pole, I imagine that I am saying thank you. And in the early mornings when the weather grows cold, as I lie in bed and hear the faint click and whoosh as the heater turns on, it's as if the house is saying right back: you're welcome.
Fireweed With Me KAL: Ravelry & Instagram Drawing Winners!
Hiya, KALers! Some people won some things - namely, two folks each won a copy of Lupine from my Ravelry store. Hooray!
Congrats to zanneq on Ravelry, and @chrissyknitz on Instagram - I hope you enjoy the heck out of your Lupines.
Thanks for joining, everybody, and happy Monday!
After a few weeks of mindless knitting, I finished up my new sample of the Blake scarf, which I'm calling Brick after this amazing colorway of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Targhee Worsted. I used almost the whole skein - about 550 yards - and it was pretty awesome to have just two ends to weave in at the very end.
When the weather turns cold, I always find that I grab the longest, widest, squishiest scarves first. So with the new iteration of the pattern, I'm making it a teeny bit wider and a lot longer, for maximum cuddle factor. The pattern will continue to be free, and I'm hoping to make it available again around November.
For my new Fireweed, I wanted to choose something really cheerful and fun. I adore color, and my current favorite way to dress is to start with a neutral base layer, and give it texture and light with a colorful accessory or two. Since my original Fireweed is pretty toned-down, I wanted to go in the opposite direction and choose something really bright.
I ended up choosing Narcissus (yellow) and Venus In Furs (pink) - although I was shying away from using one of the same colors again (my other Fireweed is Venus In Furs & Robin's Egg), in the end, my pink-loving self won out. And because each skein of Dyed in the Wool is unique, I was able to find a skein that complemented my two skeins of Narcissus perfectly, without looking exactly the same as my original color choice.
For this color pairing, I was really inspired by two colors that you see in nature together pretty often: gold and pink. Both of my chosen colorways have undertones of brown, even though the overall color is very bright. I loved the contrast of the pink and the yellow, and the saturation of the colors pair very well together.
Similar saturation levels. There are definitely exceptions to this, but in general, I like to have similar levels of brightness and saturation in the colors that I choose. It's okay (and even preferable) for them to have different values - for one color to read darker than the other, which you can check by viewing the colors in black-and-white. Or, you can turn it on its head by pairing a bold color and a lighter color together, which lets that bold color really shine!
Complementary colors. Some color pairings are tried-and-true favorites, and they work especially well because of their complementary relationship on the color wheel. Orange and blue! Yellow and violet! Red and green! It can be fun to explore these color relationships by playing with their tints (color + white) or shades (color + black) as well.
Color inspiration from nature, art, and photography. I really like Knitsonik's approach to color inspiration: the world around you! If you have a favorite piece of visual inspiration - be it a painting, houseplant, or dog breed - you can definitely use it to help you find a direction for your color pairings. Color is such a personal experience, and I know that I always find it most satisfying to work with colors that make my heart sing!
Here I've taken a few photos and pulled color ideas from them, then matched them up with their representative Spincycle colorways. Of course, each skein is different, so these pairings may work beautifully with some skeins but not as well with others, but they could definitely be a jumping-off point if you're not sure which direction to go in! I tried to include super-bright color combinations and more subtle ones, too.
You have until next Friday, September 25th at 11:59 pm to post on the Ravelry thread, or to Instagram with #fireweedkal, for a chance to win a copy of Lupine - but don't fret, you're welcome to join the KAL even if you don't make it in time for the giveaway!
I first encountered the concept of fika on Karie Westermann's blog (which is an excellent read, by the way!) in the release post for her Fika shawl design. I've encountered the concept a surprising number of times since then - which actually makes some sense, considering that the neighborhood of Seattle where I live is heavily Scandinavian! In reality, I think fika has been around me this whole time, and it's just now that I'm noticing its presence.
And I've found that the more I learn about it, the more it resonates. Maybe because it gives a name to the quiet coffee-and-pastry breaks that I started taking in the late afternoon while I was working on my ballgown, and which I've continued in my everyday life since then, especially when I work from home. There's something that feels slow and nurturing about sitting down with a cup of coffee and staring out my picture window for a few minutes, giving myself the time and space to work through the questions of the day. As I've learned over time, taking a break can often be incredibly productive - especially when you've been fighting a problem that turns out to require a shift in thinking. And I like that fika gives a name to that moment.
In the past few months, I've had some amazing feedback from you all about Fireweed! I've had a really fun time helping customers at the shop pick out their colors, and I've been hankering to knit myself another one. And then I figured, why not knit it together with you lovely folks? I'll write a bit about choosing colors and working the different techniques from the shawl, it will be super chill, and we'll have some fun prizes of yarn and patterns to sweeten the deal!
So on that note, I'm excited to announce the Fireweed Knitalong!
Annnnd if you haven't had a chance to get your hot little hands on some Dyed in the Wool, this is a great opportunity. Kate and Rachel's fabulous wares - colorful, squishy, and made in the US from sheep to skein - are available both on their website and from select retailers around the US and beyond.
ETA: Here's a few Spincycle sources who are also Fireweed-friendly!
Feel free to use yarn from your stash, or treat yourself to some new squishies! I highly recommend at least one yarn with long color gradations for maximum color play.
Hop on over to the Ravelry group and post in the Fireweed KAL thread, or post to Instagram with #fireweedkal by 11:59 pm on Friday, September 25th, and you'll be entered to win a free digital download of Lupine just for joining.
I'll be giving away two copies - one for Instagram, and one for Ravelry - so feel free to double-dip and enter both! I'll be announcing the winners on Monday, September 28th.
Post your finished Fireweed on the Fireweed KAL FO thread on Ravelry by 11:59 pm on Friday, December 4th, let's say Friday, December 11th! and you'll be entered to win some super cool prizes, including yarn from Spincycle and patterns from my Ravelry store.
Allrighty, I think that's it! Onward, friends, and happy Friday!
Lately I've been feeling short on words. I have all sorts of projects and ideas, but they seem to be caught up in pictures, indecipherable by text. Maybe it's just that I'm tired - fulfilled but exhausted by all the work that I've just released into the world, wondering what the world will echo back to me in turn.
Or maybe it's that the particular moment I'm in is visual: captivated by the explosion of lush color in my front yard, the tea-green glow of silk in a tub of warm water, the black lattice of coffee grounds in the bottom of my cup. In a moment when everything is changing and new all at once, sometimes the best you can do is sit back and marvel as the world sheds its skin.
In the coming months, there's promise of travel and projects and a house full of friends and loved ones. I'll find the darkness out my window sets in faster and faster each day, and I'll become more grateful for street lamps and soup and my little rat friends snuggled up in my sweater. But for now, I'm still in the leap: eyes wide open, feet in the air, hand outstretched towards the next open door.
Not local, but still interested in Sweet Root? Hooray, I'm so glad to hear it! Please feel free to join us over at the indie.knits Ravelry group, where I'll keep you updated on its release in November.
I'm excited to announce that the Lupine shawl pattern is now available as a Ravelry download! Thank you to everyone who came in to the shop to check it out, and everyone who posted to Instagram & Ravelry about their Lupines. It's been so cool to hear your enthusiasm and see your beautiful projects!
If you're active on Instagram, you can tag your photos with #indieknits or #lupine, and always feel free to tag me @coryellen - I love seeing what you're up to!
For my own part, I've already knit three of these suckers, and I miiiiiight be scheming another one as we speak.
The pattern is available for download for $5.00, or you can check out the details on Ravelry on the Lupine pattern page.
Happy Friday, and happy knitting!


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Constantine Levoyannis is a Director at FTI Consulting in Brussels and Head of the Greek Energy Forum's Brussels branch.
Constantine works in strategic communication, building integrated public affairs and communications campaigns. His activity is mainly focused on the energy and industrial sectors, advising across the value chain. He advises companies operating in challenging investment climates and sensitive political environments, specialising in EU engagement and political risk mitigation. Constantine works for a number of clients active in South East Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Before joining FTI, Constantine worked for 6 months as an advisor at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in New York. He then went on to work for five years in the European Parliament as a political advisor in the Industry, Research and Energy Committee, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the EU Delegation for relations with the United States and the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. He is a specialist in EU Public Affairs having negotiated several high-level strategic initiatives in the European Parliament including the reports on "Energy Roadmap to 2050" and "Shale gas" as well as EU-US joint declarations.
Constantine is an Alumnus of the US State Department's International Visitor's Leadership Program on Energy Security and Foreign Policy.


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We apply high standards for the archive blu-ray media we use. It is lethal to lose data and therefore we must be able to rely on the media. Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM) is one of the market leaders in terms of manufacturing archival grade Blu-ray's. Given the life span of 200 years on their archiving blu-rays, MKM is certainly a partner which can add value to our long-time archiving on blu-ray solution.
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Le Musée estonien d'histoire naturelle (estonien : Eesti Loodusmuuseum) est le musée national estonien d'histoire naturelle. Il est situé dans la vieille ville de Tallinn .

Le musée se concentre sur l'histoire naturelle et sur l'éducation à la nature et comporte des collections permanentes et des expositions temporaires.

Histoire
La fondation du Musée estonien d'histoire naturelle remonte aux travaux des naturalistes du  et fait suite à un premier musée de la Société littéraire estonienne fondé en 1842. En 1872, Alexander von der Pahlen (1820–1895) a commencé à constituer les collections de sciences Naturelles. Pahlen a ensuite été élu président et sous sa direction, ces collections ont continué de se développer .

Il est vite apparu nécessaire qu'un musée distinct, consacré à l'histoire naturelle, soit établi. Les collections ont été conservées et exposées dans un bâtiment temporaire jusqu'en 1911, date à laquelle un bâtiment a été acheté rue Kohtu à Tallinn. Le nouveau musée provincial exposait la collection d'art et de sciences naturelles de toute la province de Harjumaa .

La collection a été menacée pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et fut transférée en Russie pour être gardée en lieu sûr. Elle fut restituée à la fin de la guerre.

Le Musée provincial continua à fonctionner sous la direction du Département des arts et du patrimoine du ministre de l'Éducation et de la Recherche, mais changea de nom pour redevenir Société littéraire estonienne en 1926.

Après le pacte Molotov – Ribbentrop, les institutions germano-baltes, dont la Société littéraire estonienne, sont fermées. En 1940, par le biais d'un règlement du Conseil des commissaires du peuple de la RSS d'Estonie, les autorités soviétiques nationalisent tous les musées, permettant la création d'un musée national d'histoire naturelle à Tallinn le .

Collections
Les collections du Musée estonien d'histoire naturelle contiennent près de 300 000 spécimens. Environ 90% des espèces de plantes, coléoptères, papillons et papillons, oiseaux et mammifères présentes en Estonie sont représentées au sein des collections.

Botanique
La principale collection de botanique contient environ 108 000 spécimens de plantes.

L'herbier des plantes vasculaires comprend 79 000 spécimens, dont 77 000 sont des feuilles, et les autres des fruits, des graines et des strobiles .

La majeure partie de ces pièces a été collectée en Estonie et la collection est constituée principalement de flore indigène - 1 600 taxons.

Collections mycologiques
L'herbier mycologique comprend environ 2 450 spécimens. La collection de champignons non lichénisés contient 250 échantillons. Sur plus de 2 200 spécimens inclus dans la collection des lichens, environ 1 600 ont été collectés en Estonie et 600 à l'étranger (principalement en Scandinavie et dans d'autres parties de l'Europe).

Zoologie
Les collections zoologiques du Musée d'histoire naturelle contiennent environ 130 000 spécimens. Les collections proposent une large sélection d'espèces de vertébrés et d'invertébrés d'Estonie ainsi que d'autres parties du monde.

Les collections zoologiques comprennent:

 Les collections ornithologiques ;
 La collection de mammifères ;
 La collection riche en espèces de coquilles de mollusques, de coraux et d'échinodermes ;
 La collection de spécimens humides ;
 Les collections entomologiques.

Géologie
La collection géologique du Musée d'histoire naturelle est constituée d'environ 3 500 échantillons. Près des trois quarts des spécimens constituent du matériel paléontologique, dont les plus anciens ont été collectés au milieu du XIXe siècle. La partie dominante de la collection paléontologique est formée de fossiles paléozoïques trouvés dans le substrat rocheux estonien. Les échantillons les plus nombreux parmi les pièces conservées sont des fossiles d'invertébrés marins des périodes ordovicienne et silurienne. Les collections paléontologiques contiennent également des fractions osseuses et des fragments squelettiques de mammifères de la période quaternaire, dont la plupart proviennent du nord de la Russie. Les collections lithologiques contiennent des roches sédimentaires typiques du socle rocheux estonien: calcaire, marne, grès et mudstone. Les collections pétrologiques sont petites, les principales pièces étant des échantillons erratiques glaciaires estoniens et des échantillons de roches métamorphiques et de roches ignées prélevées sur le territoire de l'ancienne Union soviétique. Le nombre de spécimens minéralogiques du Musée a considérablement progressé au cours des années 2010, en raison de dons nationaux et étrangers. Alors que les minéraux insérés dans les collections des années précédentes provenaient principalement de Russie, d'Europe de l'Est et d'Allemagne, la collection contemporaine s'est ouverte à des minéraux d'Australie, d'Amérique du Sud et d'Afrique. Certains des échantillons minéralogiques les plus notables comprennent de grands drus de quartz, d'améthyste et de fluorure .

Collection d'histoire de la science
La collection d'histoire de la science, avec environ 1 050 pièces, est constituée de documents d'archives et d'éléments historiques relatifs à l'étude de la nature.

Collection photographiques
La collection photographique est constituée de photographies, de négatifs et des diapositives en couleur, soit 28 000 pièces au total, reflétant la vie quotidienne, les expositions, les travaux sur le terrain et les événements du musée à travers le temps. La collection de photos du musée a été numérisée dans le système d'information sur la biodiversité PlutonF sous l'acronyme TAMF.

Voir également

 Musée estonien des arts appliqués et du design
 Musée d'architecture estonienne
 Fossiilid.info, une base de données paléontologiques maintenue par le Musée estonien d'Histoire naturelle

Références

Musée d'histoire naturelle en Estonie
Histoire naturelle
Histoire naturelle

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Fortifying Australia's cybersecurity resilience
By John McLaughlin
The complexity, density and distribution of digital products and networks is rapidly growing. As it does so too will the spread, frequency and severity of malicious cyber activity. We have moved far beyond the relatively innocuous spam of yesteryear to threats which are far more serious.
The 2017 CISCO Cybersecurity Report expressed concerns about the accelerating pace of change and sophistication in the global cyber threat landscape.1 The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risks Report 2017 ranked cyberattacks as the 6th most impactful global risk in the next decade.2 Australia has been labelled as a 'hotbed' for cybercrime3, vulnerable to cyberattack4 and there have been 122,528 reports of cybercrime registered with the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) between January 2015 and September 2017.5
Frequent cybersecurity incidents serve as a stark reminder to us all of the price of progress. Not so long ago the concept of security was intrinsically linked to perimeters, physical barriers and defences which were tangible and well understood. Attacks, crimes and breaches often spurred thoughts of destruction, violence and even death. But times are changing – while there have been no reported deaths from cyber-attacks and little physical 'destruction'6 in the way many of us would perceive the term, the world is beginning to realise the disruptive capabilities of malicious cyber activity – and with good reason. CSIRO's Data61 has several key focus areas around cybersecurity, summarised at Cybersecurity at CSIRO's Data61.
The impacts of cyberattacks
In 2015 a major cyberattack in Turkey affected networks used by the country's banks, media and government.7 Around the same time Ukraine's power distribution systems were attacked, cutting electricity to 225,000 residents and disabling phone systems in large parts of the country.8 In 2016 the ABS website for the Australian census was subject to four Denial of Service attacks,9 while the 2017 United States Presidential Election was marred by incursions in voter databases and software systems across almost 40 states.10 Earlier that year Italy's top bank, UniCredit, experienced a severe security breach which saw data from approximately 400,000 accounts stolen.11 By 2019 the global cost of data breaches is estimated to reach USD$2.1 trillion.12
It can be no surprise that governments, companies and citizens are concerned about the invasive and crippling nature of cyberattacks. Unfortunately these concerns are matched by a tendency to misunderstand how to manage the emerging, evolving risks associated with an increasingly digitised society.6
As people lose trust in digital mediums they lose confidence to trade, buy, sell and undertake commerce in the digital world.13 The Honourable Philip Dalidakis – Victorian Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade – suggested this is 'one of the quickest ways we have to ensure that society starts to regress rather than progress'.13 Addressing cyber risks will therefore be critical to ensuring future growth in Australia's digital economy.14
The Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) shows Australia's efforts to combat cybersecurity threats. The GCI measures a nations commitment to cybersecurity; in the 2017 GCI report Australia ranked 7th of 134 Member States.15 The GCI is closely linked with the International Telecommunication Unions' (ITU) Global Cybersecurity Agenda (CGA) which is built on five strategic pillars: legal measures, technical and procedural measures, organizational structures, capacity building and international cooperation.16
Australia's Digital Pulse, a 2017 report initiated by Deloitte and the Australian Computer Society, concluded that a greater focus in cybersecurity would 'unlock potentially valuable investments in digital innovation, boosting most businesses, particularly those in banking, health, education and defence'.13 Under this scenario by 2030 there was an uplift of 5.5 percent in business investment, a 2 percent increase in wages and an additional 60,000 people employed.13 So what are the key areas of focus moving forward?
Building a deeper talent pool of cybersecurity skills and expertise
The global cybersecurity workforce gap is set to hit 1.8 million by 202217 and is one of the few occupations with zero unemployment in Australia.18 Craig Davies, the CEO of the Australian Cyber Security Network (ACSGN), stated the demand for skills in the sector is outpacing anyone's ability to produce skilled candidates.18 Chris McDonald who is the managing director in Australia and New Zealand for global job site Indeed expects a long-term shortage in the market after employer demand for cybersecurity professionals was 3 times higher than supply for the first period of 2017.19
Organisations must strive to uncover risks
Exponential increases in the production and adoption of new digital technologies, such as the internet of things (IoT), is creating widespread cybersecurity vulnerabilities.6 Critical to building resilience will be a concerted effort in organisations and within society more generally to uncover and manage the risks of novel technologies. The global State of Information Security Survey uncovered that just 34 percent of organisations intend to asses IoT risks across their business ecosystem and those that do are unsure as to whose responsibility within the organisation it would be to manage such risks.20
Using transparency as a first step to mitigate cyber risk
Transparency refers to the disclosure of the scale and nature of cyberattacks to key stakeholders – for example board members, clients, investors, suppliers, regulators and authorities.21 The benefits of transparency should not be underestimated in this instance as it allows stakeholders to observe and make visible the true state of cybersecurity, and increase awareness around existing cyber threats. This facilitates targeted actions which improve detection capabilities and directly combat any potential threats. In 2017 the Privacy Amendment Bill was enacted in Australia which forces organisations to publicly disclose data breaches22,23 and in May of 2018 Europe's General Data Protection Regulation will come into force and ensure companies doing business within Europe disclose any data breaches to authorities and to the public.24
Collaboration between and within government and industry
Public and private information sharing is a useful tool for combating cyberattacks.25 Increasing connectivity and digital dependency means the sharing of timely and actionable cyber information among institutions and regulators is a manageable first-step toward building cyber resilience within industry.21
Developing Cybersecurity Knowledge Hubs
These venues become focal points for collaborative knowledge exchange where cutting edge innovation and technology can be refined to help companies build effective cyber defense strategies.21 The National Cybersecurity Mega-hub opened in Melbourne in 2016 and represents the sort of investment which is critical toward cyber resilience.26
The ongoing technological arms race between those trying to protect the cyber realm and those trying to attack it will likely continue well into the future. Developing resilience does not hinge on any one technology but rather a shift in mindset toward enterprise-wide cyber risk management strategies centred on transparency and collaboration both within industry and government.
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