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THE WANTON - Left in the charge of an older brother who plans to marry her off, the independent Trista Windham runs away and joins a wagon train, where she meets rugged scout Blaze Davenant and learns his dangerous secret. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Struggling with depression and disordered eating Olivia returned to Adelaide and her studies, abandoning the modelling industry and NSW in favour of a healthy relationship with food.Mass Market Paperback. "For my height (173cm) that's just not OK" "I wasn't happy". Olivia quickly found that life as a model put her under serious body scrutiny, and in the wake of constant measurements and pressure to be thin, she became very self-conscious, dropping to just 49kg. Where Did Olivia Rogers Grow Up?īorn and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Olivia first stepped onto Sydney's modelling scene as a teenager after being scouted at just 17 years old. Still a keen artist, Olivia says she "would love to combine passion for art and passion for speech pathology to maybe create resources for speech pathologists to use in therapy". With a particular interest in the vibrancy of Mexican art, Olivia says that she was drawn to colour and fascinated by the way that the Day of the Dead festival can turn morbidity into beauty. While studying her degree, Olivia became an entrepreneur, launching a small business selling her self-taught illustrations and paintings. Since then, her talent and passion for visual art have only grown. Olivia says that she began to draw as soon as she was old enough to hold a pencil. "I really have made friends for life from all over the globe". "I have had the most incredible experience with some of the most hilarious, kind, intelligent girls I’ve ever met", she wrote. Attending sister Eleanor's Las Vegas wedding before the finale and partying in Los Angeles with Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio, Olivia had plenty of cause for celebration. Unfortunately, Olivia didn't make the competition's top 16 and while the international beauty pageant prize, which hasn't been won by an Australian since Jennifer Hawkins in 2004, was taken by Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, she did not consider it a wasted opportunity. In 2018, Olivia took to the global stage as Australia's representative in the international Miss Universe pageant. She was in good company at the top with Georgie Mitchell and Tahlia Giumelli from New South Wales were first and second runner up respectively while Victoria's Marijana Radmanovic was the third runner up. She became the first South Australian representative to take the title of Miss Universe Australia in the national final, held at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins Street, since 1997, and was crowned by former winner Caris Tiivel. Fortunately, Olivia put her fears aside and took a chance. She found the idea of getting on stage in front of the nation, especially in a bikini, incredibly intimidating. " Even in front of my family I am a bit self-conscious ," Olivia said. A late entrant to the Miss Universe contest, Olivia almost didn't take part.

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21 August 2020

Exam fail

Perhaps one week there'll be a story about data dominating the news that isn't about a spectacular shambles negatively affecting people's lives.

This week is not that week.

Here's my take on the algorithmic A Level debacle - and I'll also be on the IfG podcast later. Lots of other interesting links on the subject below - I'd particularly recommend this by Jeni on how the algorithm operated.

Finally, invitations to the next Data Bites will be going out shortly - put 6pm on Wednesday 9 September in your diaries, and catch up on the previous events here.

Have a good weekend

Gavin

Today's links:

Graphic content

Viral content

Coronavirus in the UK: How many confirmed cases are there in your area? (BBC News)

UK quarantine measures: where are the Covid hotspots?* (FT)

What if all Covid‑19 deaths in Brazil happened in your neighborhood? (Lupa)

Why Trump shouldn’t compare America’s Covid-19 outbreak to New Zealand’s, in one chart (Vox)

These are the top coronavirus vaccines to watch (Washington Post)

Most Coronavirus Vaccine Projects Are Taking Unorthodox Routes* (Bloomberg)

A vaccine, or a spike in deaths: How America can build herd immunity to the coronavirus* (Washington Post)

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 (New York Times)

Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: June 2020 (ONS)

‘The volume has been turned up on everything’: Pandemic places alarming pressure on transgender mental health* (Washington Post)

What Happens to Viral Particles on the Subway (New York Times)

The economy, stupid

U.S. Worse Off Than Russia, Mexico in 2020 Economic Misery Ranking* (Bloomberg)

Oil industry reels from historic crash* (FT)

A nation of shopkeepers shaken by the shift online* (FT)

How rigid is the middle class in the US, really? (The Pudding)

74 more days

Biden is favored to win the election (FiveThirtyEight, via Alex)

Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick is unlikely to sway very many voters* (The Economist)

Where Americans Can Vote by Mail in the 2020 Elections* (New York Times)

Can the Post Office Handle Election Mail? Why the Recession Could Actually Help* (The Upshot)

2020 Presidential Election Calendar* (New York Times)

Campaign Colors (The Pudding)

Exam shambles

Analysis (FFT Education Datalab)

How does Ofqual’s grading algorithm work? (Jeni Tennison)

Who won and who lost: when A-levels meet the algorithm (The Guardian)

Everything else

A rift in democratic attitudes is opening up around the world* (The Economist)

MP data: Parliamentary activities (House of Commons Library)

The crazy quilt of carbon taxes (Sonja Kuijpers)

Apple Reaches $2 Trillion, Punctuating Big Tech’s Grip* (New York Times)

How powerful was the Beirut blast? (Reuters)

POLITICAL TRUST AND THE COVID-19 CRISIS: PUSHING POPULISM TO THE BACKBURNER? (Democracy 2025, TrustGov, Ipsos MORI)

How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results (The Markup - story here)

Meta data

Algorithm and blues

Four things government must learn from the A-level algorithm fiasco (me for IfG)

Why did the A-level algorithm say no? (BBC News)

Ofqual exam results algorithm was unlawful, says Labour (The Guardian)

Stats regulator to review Ofqual algorithm used to award A-Level grades (Civil Service World)

Can algorithms ever make the grade? (Ada Lovelace Institute)

This A levels and GCSEs exams crisis exposes government’s technology problem (Daniel Korski for the Evening Standard)

Why we need an algorithm to help set A Level grades in 2021 (Chris Giles)

The UK exam debacle reminds us that algorithms can’t fix broken systems* (MIT Technology Review)

Statement in response to exam results (ICO)

Predictions, Mocks Or Models? Learning From Cancelled Predictive Analytics In Public Services (Carnegie Trust)

Blame the politicians, not the technology, for A-level fiasco* (FT)

The lessons we all must learn from the A-levels algorithm debacle (Wired)

A-Level algorithm row: Ofqual snubbed offer of help from experts unwilling to sign NDA (Civil Service World); A-levels: Exam regulator ignored expert help after statisticians wouldn't sign non-disclosure agreements (Sky News)

Grading Algorithm: Judicial Review (Foxglove)

The algorithms that make big decisions about your life (BBC News)

Machine learning ethics: 3 key considerations for government* (Apolitical)

How it worked

Awarding GCSE, AS, A level, advanced extension awards and extended project qualifications in summer 2020: interim report (Ofqual)

How does Ofqual’s grading algorithm work? (Jeni Tennison)

A-levels and GCSEs: How did the exam algorithm work? (BBC News)

On A Levels, Ofqual and Algorithms (Sophie Bennett)

What went wrong with the A-level algorithm?* (FT)

CAGs rule OK (HEPI)

Contact details

Coronavirus: England's contact-tracing app gets green light for trial (BBC News)

There's another contact tracing app - and this time it has LOTS of features (Rowland Manthorpe)

'Under the deal, McKinsey is authorised to process personal data...' (Civil Service World)

Coronavirus: Government defends use of consultancy to lead roll-out of UK's new contact-tracing app (Sky News)

England's contact-tracing saga is at the heart of the government's failures (The Guardian)

Confidence in a crisis? Building public trust in a contact tracing app (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Viral content

New UK-wide methodology agreed to record COVID-19 deaths (DHSC)

Government quietly drops 1.3m Covid tests from England tally (The Guardian)

Councils in England to be offered near real-time data on Covid cases (The Guardian)

Why COVID-19 made weather forecasts less reliable (Nature)

Covid-19 crisis accelerates UK military’s push into virtual war gaming* (FT)

UK government data and digital

Recruitment of chief digital and information officer ‘still ongoing’, Cabinet Office claims (Civil Service World)

One graph to rule them all (Inside GOV.UK)

Metadata standards for sharing and publishing data (Data Standards Authority)

Harnessing the power of PowerApps (Defra Digital)

How DIT have built a service as an open data set (Data in government)

Gov.uk Verify continues to pose ‘notable risk’ to Cabinet Office (Computer Weekly)

Using Analytics to improve a new digital service (DWP Digital)

Can GOV.UK Notify help the public sector write better emails, text messages and letters? (Government Digital Service)

We’ve updated the GOV.UK proposition (Inside GOV.UK)

Liz Truss meetings with hard-Brexit group deleted from public register (The Guardian)

How we took a user-centred approach to understanding inclusion and exclusion in the GDS design team (Design in government)

Defra’s consultation on farm payments data: why it matters and how to submit a response (Centre for Public Data)

Tech

Facebook and other tech giants 'too big to fail' (The Guardian)

How To Fund Tech

ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI (The Verge)

OUR VICTORY HAS TURNED THE TIDE AGAINST FACIAL RECOGNITION - ED BRIDGES (voice.wales)

What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?* (The New Yorker)

Long reads and opinion

Scream if you want to go faster! Why government technology needs (much) better governance (Rachel Coldicutt)

Culture eats technology for breakfast (Dave Rogers)

It’s Not Too Late to Save the Internet (Slate)

The new progressive agenda: Turbulent times require a radical policy response (Institute for Global Change)

Why British ARPA is destined to fail (CapX, via Alex)

Running fast just to stand still (FOIMan, Freedom of Information Journal)

Any answers?

Digital gov folk: does anyone know of any work to quantify economic benefits of better digital govt? (Olivia Neal)

Best examples of government services being *deliberately* designed to be hard to use? (Tom Loosemore)

Has anyone tried to #FoI an algorithm in government, or know someone who has? (me)

Everything else

Centering Racial Equity in Data Use (Urban Institute)

Private Members' Bills in the UK House of Commons, 1964-2017 (Thomas Fleming, via Dave)

UK Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS): the new police mega-database (Privacy International)

Data Readiness, Response, Recovery and Reform (Open Data Charter)

There’s a big fight brewing over the Premier League’s player data (Wired)

Carl Bergstrom: 'People are using data to bullshit' (The Guardian)

Redesigning Data Privacy: Reimagining Notice & Consent for human technology interaction (World Economic Forum)

India Releases Draft Non-Personal Data Governance Framework (National Law Review)

AI @ Work: overcoming structural challenges to ensure successful implementation of AI in the workplace (Oxford Internet Institute)

Opportunities

JOB: Chief data scientist (ONS)

JOB: Director of Research (NatCen)

JOBS: Data for Black Lives

JOB: Head of Data and AI Policy (Health Research Authority, NHS)

JOBS: Data Investigations Team (Global Witness)

JOB: Data Standards Manager (Ordnance Survey)

JOB: Procedure Data Librarian (House of Commons)

FELLOWSHIP: Community Tech Fellowship (Luminate/Coop)

TRUSTEES: 360Giving

CONSULTATION: Transparency in digital campaigning: technical consultation on digital imprints (Cabinet Office)

And finally...

Words

Can a former model predict your future? A million Turkish users say yes (Rest of World)

America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them.* (New York Times)

Statistics journalism (Federica Cocco)

Pictures

Adding superfluous junk to charts can confuse the reader and the designer should heed the warning signs. This China icon for example is a red flag (Alex Selby-Boothroyd)

Painting by numbers: The choropleth canvas (Datawrapper)

A reddit turning stock charts into art (r/Stoxart)

Police please. I'd like to report a chart crime. (Federica Cocco)

MOG CHANGE KLAXON (me for IfG)

Skyscraper... (@liamosaur)

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