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This photo appeared on the back flap of the Masquerade dust jacket. Photo by Tara Heinemann.
Kit places the Masquerade jewel into its clay container, 1979. Photo by Tara Heinemann.
Masquerade victor "Ken Thomas" and Kit, holding the jewel's clay casket after "Ken" had "solved" the mystery. The photo was taken the day the jewel was unveiled to the press, and originally ran in Smithsonian magazine, May 1982. (Thanks to Chris Cole for the scan!)
To open the hare's clay burial casket, Kit melted the wax by heating it in a pan. The clay was intended to thwart metal detectors--and it worked. The photo is uncredited, but it originally ran in Smithsonian magazine, May 1982.
Kit the beekeeper! Holding the prize for "the bee book," on the back of Untitled, circa 1983. Photo by Sophie Baker.
Kit on the dust jacket for Out of One Eye, 1988. Photo by Denis Waugh; woodworking, of course, by Kit.
Harold Benney's photo of the Wishing Fish Clock at the Regent Arcade. Click on the photo for a much larger version.
The Lady and the Tiger Illusion, borrowed from the Beechwood Shopping Centre's website.
Mark Britten sent in photos of both parts of the Telford Bubble-Blowing Frog clock. Many thanks Mark!
Mark says, "The red wheel travels between the two parts taking manufactured gold balls from one end and feeding them into the clock at the other end."


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Administration Will Leave Behind Nasty War for Successor
The Derrell Day Show -- WYOO 101.1 FM Panama City, Fla.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/5289/administration-will-leave-behind-nasty-war-for
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Derrell Day: Alright, we needn't look very far to our friends over in Europe, throughout Europe, with they're being just being deluged by refugees/hidden terrorists, as they encroach upon Europe, the same thing happening at our southern border. We can't even say the word 'radical terrorist,' 'Islamist terrorist.' Recently the French president was visiting the White House and uttered those words. They were censored, stricken from the audio record. You can't even say 'Islamist terrorists' in the White House, and we expect to fight this war against them. They are not a JV team; they are on the march. My next guest, former Congressman Pete Hoekstra was also head of the House Intelligence Committee. Pete, how are you doing this morning?
Pete Hoekstra: I'm doing just fine. Thank you. Good morning.
Day: Good morning. Good to have you again with us. Pete, we're not going to win this war if we can't even say the word.
Hoekstra: Oh, that's exactly right. The good news is in roughly, what, nine months, we'll have a new president, we'll have a new administration, and maybe we will be able to actually identify you know the enemy. And you know we kind of joke about that –
Day: It's the truth.
Hoekstra: – but for seven years now, seven years and three months, this president has denied this threat, terrorism was manmade disasters, and those types of things. You know I have staunchly been opposed to closing Gitmo, I have been staunchly opposed to bringing –
Day: We just released two bomb makers, expert bomb makers.
Hoekstra: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I've been staunchly opposed to bringing those folks in Gitmo to the mainland. But I may be changing my position, because never did I believe that we would have a president who just because you know he can't put those prisoners in the United States, that he'd actually release those folks back into the fight.
Day: I know, that's –
Hoekstra: I mean sending two of these, one of them a bomb maker, sending to Senegal –
Day: Senegal.
Hoekstra: – and believing that they're not going to end up back in the fight, targeting either Americans or targeting our friends in the Middle East or in Europe. I mean this is crazy.
Day: And when some poor private from Kansas that loses his legs in a city he can't pronounce, John Kerry will say – well, he's not supposed to do that – that's what you'll hear from our secretary of state.
Hoekstra: Well that's right, and we had a, and actually sometimes they'll say – well you know we've got assurances that these people aren't going to back into the fight, but the two most recently released have been identified as high risk –
Day: The Department of Defense –
Hoekstra: – by the Pentagon.
Day: Right, says – look, their risk of going back to the fight is off the charts.
Hoekstra: Yeah. And so you know where we are with this administration we will have wasted eight years, eight years where radical jihadists have been able to establish, look at the track record, they will have established two caliphates, one in Syria and Iraq, the other in Northern Africa and Libya. They will continue to control, and you know we keep talking about rolling back ISIS in Iraq –
Day: Or containing.
Hoekstra: – and we're killing people and, what's that?
Day: Or containing them.
Hoekstra: Or containing them, and it's kind of like – wait a minute, this is a terrorist organization that continues to control the second largest city in Iraq –
Day: Right.
Hoekstra: – Mosul, with over one-million residents. And you know terrorist organizations typically don't control geography, and here they do. They have increased since 2011/2012 the number of fatalities per year as a result of radical jihadism has grown from roughly 3,000, 3,500 per year to close to 28,000 per year.
Day: Pete, they're printing their own currency.
Hoekstra: Yeah.
Day: This is not a rag, they're driving our Humvees, they're manning our armored personnel carriers. I mean they are, let me tell you something, I can understand incompetence at this administration, but this is beyond incompetence. And it's not like we will have lost eight years; it's like having, losing eight years of a fire that's burning and getting bigger every day. You know we're eight years behind.
Hoekstra: Yeah, and you know there have been, over the weekend there have been some specials about our declining military, increasing threats –
Hoekstra: – and you've got you know I think three of the former presidents, or three of the former secretaries of defense for this president all coming out and saying they strongly disagreed with this president about pulling out of Iraq, about you know going into Libya, and a number of the strategies that he's made. But the amazing thing to me on this is that none of them quit, you know none of them offered their resignation as this president, as this commander-in-chief was doing things that now they say – well you know we didn't agree with those policies, we fought those policies. And it's kind of like – well if you really thought these policies were bad for America, you really had an, you really have an obligation to quit your job and to let the American people know that we're going in the wrong direction, not to wait two, three more years later and then come back and say – well, yeah, those things didn't turn out that well and you know we told the president that we didn't agree with these strategies.
Day: Right. Yeah, and I don't understand why they weren't more vocal either, and understanding also that it was career threatening, but if you have committed your life to protecting the United States of America, preserving and defending the Constitution, at some point, a military commander or not, you kind of have to say something.
Hoekstra: That's right, because you know we are at much greater risk today here in the United States than what we were eight years ago. Europe is at much greater risk. Our allies are at much greater risk. And there is going to be a huge price to pay to roll back the gains of the radical jihadist movement for the next president. And I hope the next president takes seriously, takes more seriously this threat that is out there. But you know this president, this president (UI word) set the table, that as the next president actually confronts radical jihadists, this president will go around and start, you know in his post-presidency, will be talking about you know – I kept us out of those wars.
Day: Yeah.
Hoekstra: And it's actually – no, Mr. President, what you've done is you've set the table for a very, very nasty war with an empowered enemy, and you could have wiped them off the table, but you decided not to.
Day: It would be like having Nazi Germany unfettered, giving them an additional eight years to Blitzkrieg across Europe, and then some president, whoever the president, would be able say later on – well, you know I kept us out of that World War II for a long, long time – leaving another generation to fight a much stronger enemy, much more [crosstalk over word].
Hoekstra: [Crosstalk over word.] You know you never want, we never wanted, remember when we started this after 9/11, and it started much before that, but when we got serious about this, the strategy was always to contain them and defeat them, but to make sure that we never provided them with a safe haven where they could plan and prepare, and that wherever they could be, you know and maybe –
Hoekstra: – have some semblance of safety, would be in some far corner of Pakistan, Afghanistan –
Day: Some cave.
Hoekstra: – the border region there, but never to give them a safe haven a couple of hundred miles away from Europe, never to give them the possibility of you know millions of refugees, that they could send with their radical jihadists moving into Europe, and those types of things; unbelievable where we are today.
Day: Now the work you're doing at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, push us forward 18 to 24 months. What do you see coming at us?
Hoekstra: Well [crosstalk over few words].
Day: Now a lot can hinge on who the president is, but –
Hoekstra: Yeah, well I mean number one – we're not going to see any change in the next eight, nine months. So that takes the first eight months out of your 18 months.
Hoekstra: So what are we going to see? We're going to see radical jihadists, number one, they're going to continue to try to destabilize some key countries in the Middle East – Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. So they're going to continue the pressure in those areas. [Crosstalk over few words.]
Day: The Saudis are already feeling a crunch in their oil sales, and I believe it's going to be the golden, the brass ring, to be plucked from the carousel. I think the terrorists want to establish Saudi Arabia as a base.
Hoekstra: Absolutely.
Day: And I'm not so sure some parts of Saudi Arabia may not welcome them.
Hoekstra: Yeah, it's going to be hard. So that's number one. The second thing that they're going to do is they're going to continue to expand their presence in Africa – Northern Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and these types of places. The third thing that they are going to do is they're going to keep up their pressure on Europe. Right now is the golden age for moving radical jihadists into Europe –
Day: Unfettered.
Hoekstra: – working with the communities that are there.
Hoekstra: And then the –
Day: And many of the countries of Europe are just simply opening the gates for them. Now just recently they're beginning to say this may not be as good an idea or as humanitarian as we thought.
Hoekstra: Yeah, actually their governments are not.
Hoekstra: The populace is. The populace is revolting against the policies of their leaders, because they're looking at it and saying – you're changing our countries and you're putting our people at great risk. And then the fourth thing that they're going to do is they're going to, from our perspective, is they're going to try to establish a more significant foothold in parts of Asia. There are countries there that have significant Muslim populations and they will try to exploit those opportunities. And the United States right now will continue to be a target of opportunity. It's still, we still have great law enforcement, we've got very good intelligence, we've been very good at stopping these attacks against the United States, but you know they're going, the radical jihadists will continue moving in these other areas. And as they are successful there, they will see that they will have an opportunity in the long run to extend their reach to North America, into Canada and into the United States. You know all of these people going into Europe, in 10 years many of these people are going to have, you know they're going to have residency in Europe, which means that they will have visa [crosstalk over word] –
Day: Passports.
Hoekstra: – access and access into the United States. That's something we've really got to be worried about.
Day: Right. Now the, you write that it's a, you know the threat is not just to Western civilization, but more specifically Judeo-Christian civilization. I mean this really is a holy war. I mean a lot of people don't like to say that, but it really truly is. It's forming up to be another Muslim-Christian war.
Hoekstra: That's what they would like it to be.
Hoekstra: And clearly they don't respect our values – the way we treat women, the way we respect you know diversity, they don't respect religious tolerance and freedom, they don't respect democracy and fundamental human rights. So it really does get to be, you know and you can't talk about this, it really does start moving towards a clash of civilizations.
Day: Yeah, and I think it's going to, the last one was about a 75-year war, and this one you know it's not going to be over any time soon. You have to go all the way back to the Achille Lauro incident –
Hoekstra: Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Day: – to begin to see where we really, it began to raise its head again. When was that, in the '70s?
Day: '77 somewhere? And no, it's not a new thing and it's not going to go away tomorrow. And I don't know, my concern is that we don't have enough peaceful Muslim coalitions put together from Arab countries or countries around the world, that are really on the ground fighting the fight, because it's always, it seems like it's left up to us. Russia, when they come in and fight, they're simply there for their own self-interests. And I just don't, I don't know who's going to fight them.
Hoekstra: Well but remember this, when I was on the Intel Committee, I visited and met with the leaders and the intelligence of the military of every country across Northern Africa – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt; we had rock solid relationships with each one of those countries. Each one of those countries was committed to defeating radical jihadists and they were willing to partner with the United States.
Day: Well I think –
Hoekstra: And what did we do?
Hoekstra: We got rid of Mubarak, we got rid of Gadhafi; Tunisia is still kind of on the brink, you know right now they're doing OK, but it's going to be tough. But you know two of those major countries – Libya and Mubarak, we decided to get rid of their leaders, who were partnering with the U.S., and we made some of this mess.
Day: Right. Well Pete, thank you so much. We're just short on time this morning. But as always, it's a pleasure to –
Hoekstra: Always good to be with you. Thank you.

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You guys! I was just recently nominated for the Liebster Award. When I first saw my nomination, I had no idea what it meant. After reading up on it, I am so grateful that Insignificant Mom Talk nominated me! All I want out of this blog is to connect with people and write enlightening and valuable information that others could read about and relate to. I'm so happy that my writing is interesting and inspiring to others.
The Liebster Award is recognition for bloggers by other bloggers. It's only coincidental that the name is derived from the German word that means "beloved, or dear" in English. It's been around in some form or another since 2011, so I think there is at least some credence to its name.
When I first started my blogging journey, there was a few bloggers who stood out to me. Check out these awesome bloggers and follow along with their posts. You won't regret it!
How long have you been blogging and why did you start? I started about a month ago. I mainly started because I wanted to gain a hobby that not only I enjoyed, but something that could interest others also. I had a lot of thoughts and ideas bottled up in this brain of mine, and blogging is the perfect way to express them!
Would you consider yourself tech savvy? I'd say I'm pretty tech savvy. I use technology a lot in my daily life. From taking photos and editing them myself, to texting and communicating mainly through email. I'd honestly be lost with my phone.
What is something you couldn't function without? Probably my phone. I hate to say that, but I have everything on there! Doctors appointments, school functions, and lets not forget phone numbers that I'll never memorize.
Are you a parent? If so what do you say is your parenting style? I'm a laid-back parent, but I'm also that mom who teaches their kids to be independent. I don't co-sleep or anything in that nature. My son is four and he already knows how to do a lot of things on his own. He knows that if he gets something out, he must put it away himself. My daughter will be raised the same way.
Have you found your soulmate? I have found my soulmate and we've been married a little over a year!
What is something that you love that others just don't get? PDA. My husband hates it, but I love to show off the love I have for him. Some may think it's gross, but I just call it being in love.
Favorite movie of all time? I know I'm crazy for saying this, but A Night at the Roxbury. My husband makes fun of me all the time for it, but I've loved it ever since I was a child. I could probably quote every line.
If your life was a sitcom, what would it be called?The Crazy Cunningham Crew.We're a family full of craziness and humor. My husband and I both have an incredible sense of humor, and it rubs right off on our children also.
Do you have any big regrets? No major regrets, but I don't regret not taking care of myself when I when pregnant with my son in 2013. I gained a lot of weight during that pregnancy and I'm still trying to get it off!
Favorite holiday? And why? Christmas (of course!), but now have children during the holiday season. I enjoy the memories we make, and the happiness on their faces all season long.
What is something that you believe that is an unpopular opinion? I own two pit bulls and I believe their reputation of being a dangerous dog is bogus. They are the most loving and compassionate pups I've ever owned!


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Demystifying Hyperautomation: What Your Organization Needs To Know
Mohit Sharma, Founder & Executive Chairman, Mindfields Consulting Intelligent Automation & AI advisory and implementation firm.
Up until a few years ago, most organizations wrestled with many simple, repetitive and rules-based tasks and processes. A vast army of people — who managed mundane tasks — could have otherwise been deployed to do something more productive and worthwhile had there been a choice.
Everything changed when Robotic Process Automation (RPA) came into the picture. The dull and repetitive tasks could now be assigned to automation robots. They completed tasks faster and with near precision. RPA increased operational efficiency, accuracy and error reduction. All in all, it improved employee productivity and helped accomplish business goals faster. The ability to handle repetitive processes made RPA the fastest-growing technology of the global enterprise software market in 2018, according to Gartner. That said, organizations still need to invest in humans when it comes to using intelligence, making decisions and giving suggestions.
Taking A Big Leap From RPA
Automation has limits. Should that mean that an organization's automation journey is confined to merely rule-based, repetitive jobs? What about all other tasks that aren't simple, repetitive and routine, the ones dependent on intelligent decision-making? Can RPA graduate to that level?
This is where hyperautomation comes into the picture. "A single tool or … siloed strategies" can't help organizations leapfrog from RPA, according to Gartner, but hyperautomation — a powerful and intelligent approach to automation — combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP) and optical character recognition (OCR).
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Hyperautomation adds intelligence to automation and broadens its scope beyond RPA. Many additional processes — independent of repetition and structure which an enterprise uses — can be automated through hyperautomation. Automation robots powered by AI and backed by ML can deal with unstructured information and make more nuanced decisions. This enables organizations to serve customer requirements and achieve business objectives faster.
How Hyperautomation Benefits Organizations
Manually identifying and prioritizing company-wide processes and tasks for automation is a time-consuming and expensive process. But hyperautomation can be set up to help employees by using AI to analyze processes and tasks. It can scientifically understand the everyday tasks performed by employees and suggest the best ideas for automation. Here are few use cases for hyperautomation:
• Accelerate complex work. Hyperautomation creates a high-speed path to transform the business with the aid of increased automation of complex tasks and processes that usually depend on human input and knowledge.
• Deploy digital twins. Hyperautomation also helps create a digital twin of the organization (DTO), which makes visible the previously invisible interactions between processes, functions and key performance indicators (KPIs). AI- and ML-powered automation robots can, for example, perform repetitive yet intuitive tasks like reading invoices, sales reports, contracts and official documents. They can also help in tasks like reading, listening and engaging in a conversation which helps leverage the intelligence to respond to and identify new opportunities at record speed.
• No more live agents. By harnessing the power of OCR, NLP and AI/ML, hyperautomation dynamically discovers the business processes and creates bots to automate them. It can independently replace live agents with digital ones as the first point of communication for some customers. It can help users navigate support articles and knowledge bases, order products or services and manage accounts. Similarly, it can quickly gather feedback left by users on different platforms like social media, blogs, support tickets and other forms and turn it into an actionable insight.
In essence, hyperautomation harnesses the power of multiple technologies to bring together employees, systems and automation robots to work toward an organization's business outcomes and goals.
How To Know If Your Organization Is Ready For Hyperautomation
The success and pace of hyperautomation adoption are dependent on various factors, such as:
• Vision and maturity of the organization in terms of technology.
• Component of legacy technology in the portfolio of the organization.
• Organizational culture / Motivation to change.
• Interdepartmental dynamics.
Though the benefits of hyperautomation outweigh the costs many times over, organizations need to be realistic about their ability to assimilate the changes that hyperautomation likely requires. To access their readiness, they not only have to look at the technology aspect but also at the cultural aspects. An extensive audit to make that assessment is the first step.
Another important consideration is the speed of implementation. Often, an automation drive may not yield the desired results if it isn't completed within the stipulated time frame. The team implementing automation must develop and adhere to a realistic project timeline.
Last but not the least, they have to also take into consideration external factors such as competitive pressures on the organization's business model. If the organization is in a state of flux due to competitive pressures or disruptions in the industry that are necessitating it to relook at its business model, there's a high likelihood that the focus required to successfully implement hyperautomation may be lacking.
Before embarking on a hyperautomation journey, every organization should align with three key goals: revenue, costs and risks. It's necessary for organizations to find answers to key questions such as: Will the hyperautomation of the process result in better efficiency and reduced costs? What are the risks associated with the implementation? Will the organization be able to assign the necessary resources required for a successful implementation? Is the organization's vision aligned to implement hyperautomation? Will the results of this automation benefit customers, community and colleagues? Is the hyperautomation responsible?
Organizations need to find satisfactory answers to critical questions before embarking on the hyperautomation journey, which I will discuss in my next article. Once the roadmap is set, it steers the path clear for the next steps.
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My photography may be wedding and concert based but I do love doing portrait sessions! They are probably one of my favorite things to shoot.
Just you and me getting some new profile pics or tinder icon photos! Maybe you just want some fun headshots outside. Whatever it is - I'm here for it!
Addye is a friend from high school. We both went to the same University to achieve our teaching degree. Even though we went down different paths with career choices, Addye has become an elementary school teacher in the city I moved from. From the photos she posts online of her classroom, you can tell the kids ADORE her!
She hadn't had her own photoshoot before - but she killed this. We walked around an Atlanta evening before sunset and this is what we made..
Addye had brought he sister along to hang out and for that girl power moral support!
I definitely had to grab a few shots of them together, you can feel their bond by just them talking to one another.
We finished the evening with strolling by one of my favorite greenhouses in the city. There was no certain plan or spot in mind on our walk, but that was the beauty of it.
I loved learning more about Addye and hope to see her soon in the future as she continues to grow.


Can we really set up a viable content marketing strategy in the long term ? There is indeed enough to be skeptical when we know how consumers have become versatile ! All it takes is a buzz for content that works well today to be completely out of date tomorrow.
On the other hand, consumers are now over-informed and know exactly what they are looking for. At the slightest misstep, they will not hesitate to abandon your content to go elsewhere. Because quality content , there is plenty on the Internet today.
So, how do you stand out from the crowd while having an effective content plan for the long term?
The key to long-term, sustainable content marketing lies in your ability to develop an original , useful and appealing word-of- mouth. This involves identifying goals to be achieved , while remaining flexible enough to listen to and relay trends, anticipate needs and respond to fluctuating consumer expectations.
The best approach to content marketing is to plan an action plan that helps you move forward in the right direction. And this even when unforeseen forces force you to take a detour.
So, how to set up such an action plan?
To set up your long-term content plan , you will need to answer 5 basic questions . These questions will help you identify all the issues involved in this preparation.
1) Why do you write content?
This is the first question you must answer. What goal do you seek to achieve through your content plan for the long term?
Do you want to make your targets and your communities aware of your added value?
Help them make the right buying decisions?
Increase the membership of potential or occasional customers?
These objectives will guide your entire action plan.
2) How to reach your targets?
Once goals are set, you must now find ways to reach them . How will you be able to adhere your targets to the objectives you have defined? And so produce the necessary training effect?
Objective: To introduce you to a new market in another region.
Project: Organize a PR campaign with the media and specialized sites.
Stay flexible in the construction of these projects that will achieve the objectives. As you deploy your strategy, you can adapt or deepen these projects according to the needs and response rates of your targets.
3) How to communicate effectively?
Campaigns: which aim to attract attention, to make you aware of your existence, of your offer.
Conversations: which aim to maintain the dialogue, to help the targets in their decision-making process.
The files: which aim at a concrete transformation: of prospect in customer, of occasional customer in recurring customer.
4) When to publish your content?
At this point, you are ready to fill your editorial calendar based on the long term! Make sure you stay connected to the real world . Integrate events from your industry into your program , as well as predictable and recurring events . Schedule content by day, week, or month depending on the number of projects you have scheduled.
5) To whom to entrust the work?
Once you have established your strategy and defined the projects, you must still designate who will be responsible for the proper execution of your plan . One recommendation at this level: that the work is done well!
You will probably need outside help to produce relevant content for both Google and the Internet. Entrust this task to a trusted partner who understands your business.


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Ordnance Survey opens up direct, API access to location data for public sector
Location data made available to public sector organisations via application programming interfaces, reducing data management overheads
Ordnance Survey (OS) has opened up its Data Hub, launched in July 2020, to public sector organisations.
OS said in a press statement that, as part of the Geospatial Commission's Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA), 5,500-plus public sector organisations now have direct and immediate access to OS's most detailed location data by way of a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs).
The APIs are available via the OS Data Hub and provide a way to access the most up-to-date OS location data.
Chris Chambers, head of the PSGA at Ordnance Survey, told Computer Weekly: "This means that people wanting to deliver better public services can stop using so much time on data management and use their time to innovate."
The development is part of a 10-year, £1bn government investment in data, software, technology and customer support services to expand the value of Ordnance Survey's location data, with a view to stimulating innovation in the public and private sectors.
OS data is already used in the public sector, covered under previous agreements, in Scotland, England and Wales. The Government Digital Service (GDS) is a "phenomenal" user, said Chambers.
"The user base ranges from ambulance, police and fire to the Home Office and other government departments," he added. "But we are not just catering for those really large departments – it's there for parish councils, and so on."
Any public sector organisations not already included can apply to be part of the PSGA membership on the web.
The police, ambulance and fire services "will have unrestricted access to our APIs", said Chambers, "so that they have as much data as they need when they need it".
He added: "With other public sector organisations, we've done a throttle, where you get 600 transactions a minute, which is a lot.
"A lot what of we're releasing today links up to public policy, too. The Geospatial Commission recently released its strategy and this delivers on that, as well as feeding into GDS's UK digital strategy, increasing confidence in the use of the data economy. We're supporting policy as much as use.
"People, especially in the healthcare sector, have really woken up to the value of location data, due to the impact of Covid."
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Chambers said OS had started with the private sector "as a smaller audience so we could trial and make sure all the supporting documents were up to speed and enhance as we went on, in an agile approach".
He continued: "Over the last 10 months, we have seen location data play an important role in supporting the public sector's response to Covid-19. The pandemic has highlighted how vital it is that high-quality geospatial data is easily and quickly accessible to all users.
"The APIs let users access the data they need when they need it. They deliver quick and easy access to detailed OS data and have been designed to save users valuable time. By using the APIs, it means that OS is handling the complexities of spatial data management, allowing users to focus on creating even greater value from the data."
The APIs provide access to a range of OS datasets, including OS MasterMap, road network data, addressing information, 1:25,000 leisure mapping, as well as unlimited free access to OS OpenData products.
Chambers added: "The OS Places API, for example, is a great tool to help users improve the accuracy of their address searches. It is ideal for use in geocoding, automated form-filling and local area investigations. In addition, the APIs allow multiple geospatial datasets to be explored and linked together."
The APIs enable the use of the same data across multiple applications in order to get a consistent view. They are not replacing any existing products and functionality, said OS. Users can continue to download the data products via the OS Downloads API.
The launch of the APIs to PSGA members follows a launch to developers and businesses in July 2020. In the first three months, 2,355 users registered for the OS Data Hub, 1,845 of them new to OS. In the same period, API users carried out more than 40 million transactions, with a 100% month-on-month increase in transactions.
Jamie Clark, deputy director of the Geospatial Commission, said: "Better location data and improved access is crucial to boost UK economic recovery and growth. The innovations to data access that Ordnance Survey is driving through the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement will provide for better policy and operational outcomes across a range of sectors and services, from housing, transport and retail to emergency response, public health and environmental management."
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In this week's Computer Weekly, we report on the auditing of algorithms to countervail bias. We examine what CISOs can learn from Covid-19. And we assess how competent AI is at building applications that deliver the best possible customer experience, in our buyer's guide to modern software development. Read the issue now.
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(Music) Password by Telemi Ft. M.Dikoy
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ABOUT THE SONG: To an Internet Technology IT personnel, password is a secret code consisting of numbers and letters required to assess a...
ABOUT THE SONG:
To an Internet Technology IT personnel, password is a secret code consisting of numbers and letters required to assess a device or Information custody.
Now let me tell the story of how the song PASSWORD came to life. It happened some years back that I was to obtain an information on my daughter's laptop which has been passworded (if grammar permits,) I couldn't achieve this until I put a call across to her in school and she sent her names in a particular as the needed code to assess the gadget. I inserted this digits and the system opened. .. OMG.
I sat down for a while to ponder over this senerio, I asked myself, how can my daughter's name become a code I couldn't decode until she told me. I never knew God wanted to open my eyes to see beyond that level. Just as I was doing this thinking, I heard the Holy Spirit ministering to me saying, man, just like the name of your daughter became a secret code you need to open a gadget, that is how the name JESUS is the essential and the indispensable secret need of this world that many do not know except those He tells or His father in heaven reveals to. Matthew. 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. Nobody knows that name and remains the same. He is the secret place of the Most High God Ps.91. He is the secret behind everything and anything great. Hunmmm. No wonder the account of John 1:1 In the beginning was the passWORD, and the passWORD was with God, and the passWORD was God.1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. This is where it started and ended. JESUS IS THE PASSWORD. the secret behind all. The only name that is given to a man through which every knee bows and salvation is guaranteed. Anything wey you get na Jesus make you get, anything wey you be na Jesus make you be, Lion of Judah. … He is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE.
And this gave birth to some songs on Password but I quickly recorded them on my phone until I recently stumbled at one of them and my son Dare fell in love with the song and his siblings too saw sense in it. I therefore decided to feature him and he actually contributed to the production of this project even up to styling me for the album photo shoot, which he directed.
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Born on the 5th of January 1958 in Arigidi Ekiti now Ayegbaju Ekiti, to Chief & Jacob Osukoya of Imesi Ile in Osun State. They were sojourners called "The Osomaalo". Rotimi attended Saint Louis Primary School Ado Ekiti. 1966 to 1972. He had his secondary education in Corpus Christi College, Ilawe Ekiti, 1973 to 1977.
A graphics artist but music took over his attention from practicing the vocation.
Rotimi Osukoya as he was then called in his school days started his music career as a member of the choir of Methodist Church, Sogunle in Lagos in the year 1978, a year he arrived Lagos from Ado Ekiti where his biological parents resided. He became the leader of the junior choir of the church in 1983 through the inspiration of his 2nd father Chief Samuel Oladodu Osukoya, now late and later became the church Choir master in 1984.
Timi Osukoya Telemi as fondly called in the music industry and ministry now preferred to be called Timi Orokoya Telemi on spiritual ground, is a recipient of over 50 awards from various organizations in Nigeria and overseas. He has recorded 27 albums and 2 singles, including PASSWORD. He is one of the Godfathers and stakeholders of Nigerian Music industry. A band leader of Telemi Gospel Music, founder of Praise Generation Assembly and Oke Eri prayer mountain in Imesi Ile. A pastor and an evangelist with apostolic commission.. Telemi was six years President of Gospel Musicians' Association of Nigeria and presently the convener of All Nigerian Gospel Music Revival Conference-ANGOMREC. Married to Oluyemisi Abimbola a medical practitioner and blessed with three wonderful grace, two girls one boy.
Timi has worked and produced notable Nigeria artistes like King Sunny Ade on the project Nigeria ti gbogbo wa ni in 1994, which he composed and produced. He wrote the introductory part of Wasiu Alabi Pasuma's first album titled RECOGNITION. He produced and directed the first Gospel Musicians' Association of Nigeria joint album in 1996 which featured the likes of Evang. Prof. Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi and Dr. Bola Are.
Message to the parents, please don't force your children into choosing a career in life but guide them towards what you see them manifesting at early stages in life. I remember my father almost stopped my education because of my passion for music that led to the purchase of Fela Ransome Kuti's album "IKOYI BLINDNESS" -#7 then when I was in form four. Today God has taken over the spirit to His own glory as you can see.


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Washington D.C. Festival Celebrating Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen Set for April 6-13, 2014
BroadwayWorld.com Jul. 25, 2013
Today, five Washington, D.C. area organizations, including The Atlas Performing Arts Center, Great Noise Ensemble, National Gallery of Art, Strathmore, and Shenandoah Conservatory, announce Andriessen 75, a week-long festival from April 6-13, 2014, celebrating the music of the beloved Dutch composer Louis Andriessen on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Developed by Armando Bayolo, the Great Noise Ensemble founder and New Music curator at The Atlas Performing Arts Center, the Festival will feature a host of premieres and defining works by the honored composer, alongside pieces and performances by his collaborators, students, and friends. Highlights include the U.S. premieres of Andriessen's The Family Revisited, Monument to Graettinger, and Image de Moreau (Andriessen's printed collection of solo piano works, performed in its entirety); the East Coast premiere of his most recent major opus, La Girò, a violin concerto written expressly for internationally renowned performer and Andriessen interpreter, Monica Germino; and the Washington, D.C. premiere of Andriessen's Grawemeyer Award-winning opera, La Commedia, with mezzo soprano Cristina Zavalloni. The Bang On A Can All-Stars present the Washington D.C. premiere of Life, composed for the ensemble, on a program with pieces by leading American composers (and Andriessen protégés) David Lang,Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Martland (programmed in memoriam). Aeolus Quartet closes the Festival powerfully with a performance of Andriessen's complete string quartets.
Says Armando Bayolo, curator of Andriessen 75, "Louis Andriessen's influence on American composers and musicians of the post-Baby Boom generations is well-documented, as is the influence of American music on him. His music and aesthetics have had an enormous impact upon my own work, both as composer and as an advocate for the music of our time. The current mood in contemporary concert music-optimistic, energetic, informal, irreverent, fun-can be directly attributed to Louis. It is for this reason that, as the Washington new music scene continues to grow and its national presence expands, we wish to honor Andriessen's work on the occasion of his 75th birthday."
Says Louis Andriessen, "It's amazing how much American culture has influenced my music. If not for the music of jazz and American avant-garde composers, such as John Cage and Robert Graettinger, I would have been a different composer. My connection to American music is perhaps one of the reasons why Armando Bayolo and other Washington area organizations are able to organize this festival today. I am honored that my music will be celebrated in Washington, D.C."
Andriessen will be present throughout the Festival.
For more information, visit www.andriessen75.com.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMS
Sunday, April 6 (6:30 PM): La Commedia (Washington, D.C.)
Opening Andriessen 75 is the D.C. premiere of the composer's 2011 Grawemeyer Award-winning magnum opus, La Commedia, a five-act film opera based on Dante's The Divine Comedy. The Sunday Times (UK) has called La Commedia "the distillation of a lifetime's creativity," continuing, "Its questing vigour is of a materialist, Brechtian, Godardian kind. It relishes the mixture of media, musical quotations and parody, intellectual subtexts and ironic commentary while remaining spunkily itself - a brilliant, new-fangled circus."
For this performance, Armando Bayolo conducts mezzo-soprano Cristina Zavalloni (who sang the world premiere), baritone Andrew Sauvageau, soprano Lindsay Kesselman, D.C.'s vital American Youth Chorus, and Bayolo's Great Noise Ensemble with the chamber vocal ensemble Third Practice. La Commedia is presented by the National Gallery of Art as a follow up to its successful 2010 presentation of Andriessen's De Materie and, like all National Gallery of Art performances, this concert is presented free of charge on a first come, first served basis. Duration: 100 minutes.
Monday, April 7 (8:00 PM): ROADMAPS & DIARIES II (Washington, D.C.)
Monica Germino (violin) and Frank van der Weij (sound design), Amsterdam-based collaborators whose paths have intertwined with Andriessen's for decades, perform a revolutionary take on the solo violin recital in a raucous and reflective evening for violin, electric violin, adapted violin, voice, electronics, installations, images, & sound design. ROADMAPS & DIARIES began as a single show in Amsterdam and has evolved into an ever-changing tour of curated and commissioned works. This presentation features Andriessen's XENIA, a three-movement piece for violin and voice, Julia Wolfe's with a blue dress on, Michael Gordon's INDUSTRY for adapted violin and electronics (2008), and Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy's Overstrung (2010). Presented by Atlas Performing Arts Center. Estimated duration: 90-120 minutes.
Tuesday, April 8 (7:30 PM): Cristina Zavalloni, Monica Germino, Andrea Rebaudengo (North Bethesda, MD)
Three expert interpretors of Andriessen's work -- Cristina Zavalloni (voice), Monica Germino (violin), and Andrea Rebaudengo (piano) -- come together for an intimate evening of Andriessen's chamber music, alongside music by composers who have influenced him. Zavalloni, for whom the piece was written, sings Letters from Cathy; Germino performs an encore of XENIA; Rebaudengo performs Base, for piano left hand. They round out the program with John Cage's 1950 work, Six Melodies, for violin and keyboard, an art song from Stravinsky (The owl and the pussycat), and Beatles Songs, Andriessen's arrangements of songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Wednesday, April 9 (8:00 PM): Andriessen's Piano/Andriessen's Jazz (Washington, D.C.)
This program draws on two parallel threads from Andriessen's work-his writing for piano and the influence of jazz-offering D.C.-area audiences a first listen to three U.S. premieres. The first half of the program features Great Noise Ensemble pianists Molly Orlando and Francesca Hurstperforming Image de Moreau, a piano collection that spans Andriessen's entire career. Atlas's new music and jazz programs collide for the second half of the concert, with Brad Linde Ensemble's tour of Andriessen's eclectic and unusual approach to jazz: The Family Revisited, a suite arrangement of a film score Andriessen wrote early in his career, Monument for Graettinger, On Jimmy Yancey, an ode to the boogie-woogie pianist, and That Happens in Vietnam. Presented by Atlas Performing Arts Center. Estimated duration: 75-90 minutes.
Friday, April 11 (8:00 PM): Andriessen and Friends: Bang on a Can All-Stars (Washington, D.C.)
Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe-perhaps Andriessen's most prominent protégés-bring their two-decade relationship with the honored composer to a program focused on music for and from the collective, performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Representing the new is Andriessen's recent work, Life, a four-movement piece composed for the All-Stars, with films by Marijke van Warmerdam. Representing the old is Workers Union, perhaps Andriessen's most well-known work. Gordon, Lang, and Wolfe contribute pieces to the program, along with a piece by the late Steve Martland, whose inclusion also serves as a memorial after his sudden passing last year. Presented by Atlas Performing Arts Center. Duration: 120 minutes.
Saturday, April 12 (8:00 PM): La Girò: EDGE Ensemble and Wind Ensemble featuring Monica Germino (Winchester, VA)
Shenandoah Conservatory, a growing center for new music in the capital region, takes the baton to present the regional premiere of Andriessen's most recent major work, La Girò, a violin concerto for Monica Germino. The Conservatory's new music troupe, EDGE Ensemble(directed by David T. Little and conducted here by Damon Talley), joins for La Girò and performs two other signature Andriessen works: Bells for Haarlem (for two pianos and two percussionists) and Hout, an aggressive piece for tenor saxophone, marimba, guitar and piano. TheShenandoah Conservatory Wind Ensemble (under the direction and baton of Damon Talley) complements the program with Ides March by New York-based composer/clarinetest Derek Bermel (award-winning former student of Louis Andriessen) and Junk Pop by Shenandoah's own composition faculty member Ruby Fulton, expert on Minimalism and contemporary mavericks.
Sunday, April 13 (3:00 PM): Louis Andriessen: Complete String Quartets (Winchester, VA)
Praised by The Strad Magazine for "high-octane" performances, the Aeolus Quartet (currently in residence at Juilliard) returns to Shenandoah University to tackle Andriessen's complete string quartets plus Raadsels Riddle for solo violin and La Voce for solo cello. Though Andriessen is perhaps better known for large mixed ensemble pieces, his three string quartets-whether amplified or acoustic-offer an interesting and unusual cross-section of his output, spanning three decades. Duration: 60 minutes.
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A new study from the Northwestern University Transportation Center found Chicago's red light camera program delivers significant safety benefits.
Researchers found serious right-angle and turning crashes decreased by 19 percent at intersections with cameras, and injury-producing crashes dropped by 10 percent. They also found evidence of a "spillover effect" leading to safety benefits and crash reduction at intersections without cameras.
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On Anschutz, Villaraigosa, LAUSD Privatization Candidates, and Riding Dinosaurs
by Robert D. Skeels / February 7th, 2011
[A] Bizarro World, where the richest and most powerful people in the U.S. are cast as a plucky band of selfless rebels fighting for the civil rights of poor children of color, while dedicated and overworked teachers who can't afford a house or pay for their children's college tuition are imagined to be the greedy overlords of the old order.
— Randy Childs (Educator and Activist)
"Producer, stadium developers donate to group backing Villaraigosa's school board candidates," is a piece detailing how fringe right wing billionaire Philip Anschutz has donated at least $100,000 to the Mayor Failure's Coalition for School Reform — a slush fund to elect privatization friendly school board candidates for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
Anschutz, a reactionary that makes the fascist-friendly Koch Brothers look moderate in comparison, also funded Waiting for Superman, the poverty pimping propaganda piece by the smug mendacious hipster Davis Guggenheim. How far to the right is Anschutz? Master researcher and educator Kenneth Libby's "Philip Anschutz and Walden Media: What Kind of Agenda?" exhaustive list shows huge sums of Anschutz's fortune going to organizations that are anathema to social justice and public schools, including Hoover, AEI, Heritage, Cato, etc., along with school privatization favorites like KIPP and Alliance for Choice in Education.
One of the better biographies I've seen on Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa's corporate education reform partner Anshutz comes from educator and author Mike Klonsky.
Finally there's Phillip Anschutz, the owner of the Examiner, which is nothing but a filthy little right-wing tabloid, disguised as a newspaper. But Anshutz also bankrolled the hot anti-union propaganda film, Waiting for Superman. Just in case you thought this film was made only by a group of well-intentioned, but misguided liberals.
Anschutz is a far right-wing, evangelical billionaire who inherited his fortune from his father's oil business and who has become a media mogul, publisher of the Weekly Standard, the S.F. Examiner, and owner of L.A.'s Staples Center. He was also the force behind California's anti-gay initiative.
But it gets so much better, and here's my favorite part. On February 3, 2011, Klonsky "tweeted" the following.
Anschutz funded Discovery Inst., that promotes intelligent design and criticizes evolution. But then, so did Gates. http://bit.ly/yNog0
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Discovery Institute is an extreme right wing evangelical group that promotes fantasies like free markets and a 10,000 year old earth. While we shouldn't be surprised about Anschutz's support for such charlatans, some readers may be shocked that the convicted predatory monopolist William "Bill" Gates III, well known for his anti-labor libertarianism, also donates money to organizations which actively promote the idea that people once rode dinosaurs.
Great to have these kind of folks dictating the dialog on public education, labor relations, and national curriculum. And we thought Texas was in trouble? It would be a safe bet to assume that the reactionary Walton fortune heirs probably share similar views. This begs the question, how does the other member of the neoliberal Broad/Gates/Walton Triumvirate stand on riding dinosaurs? Do members of Villaraigosa's privatization slate for the LAUSD school board including Tamar Galatzan, Luis Sanchez, Eric Lee and Richard Vladovic hold similar views?
Back to the Los Angeles Times piece we started with, which further details:
…fundraising wars over school reform, including philanthropist Eli Broad ($150,000), former Mayor Richard Riordan ($25,000) and Spanish-language media executive Jerry Perenchio ($250,000). All told, the informal Villaraigosa slate — he is actively raising money for three candidates but has yet to endorse them officially — has collected more than $1 million on behalf of Tamar Galatzan, Luis Sanchez and Richard Vladovic.
Disgusting enough? Maeve Reston and Howard Blume also discuss how many of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Coalition for School Reform contributors also "happen" to be well heeled developers with multi-billion dollar projects awaiting City Planning Commission approval. Go figure!
School privatization minded LAUSD School Board candidates Tamar Galatzan, Luis Sanchez and Richard Vladovic should be confronted on how they stand on the very serious issues brought up here. The Mayor's forth candidate, Eric Lee, doesn't seem to be taking money from Villaraigosa's Coalition for School Reform. However, Eric Lee's very close association with Parent Revolution's Ben Austin and DFER's Gloria Romero — both of whose organizations are funded by the same foundations as Coalition for School Reform — doesn't bode well for his impartiality either.
Angelenos should be very concerned that the Mayor's LAUSD school board candidates aren't only funded by billionaires and plutocrats, but also that their funders espouse extreme right wing views. Nationally, progressives and public school advocates should pay closer attention to those funding and supporting the so-called education reform and charter "movements."
In Los Angeles we've already seen the influence of fringe right ideology in local privatized charter schools. At Celerity Nascent Charter School we witnessed the sad incident where teachers were fired for reading a poem about Emmett Till, which was rationalized by the principal's oblique suggestion that Till somehow deserved his fate. Another example is Green Dot Public [sic] Schools' original Alain Leroy Locke Charter High School petition, which contained language requiring students "demonstrate a belief in the value of capitalism."
The money, power, and influence behind the school privatization forces is considerable. The creeping insidious influence of far right ideology will continue unless communities, students, parents, and educators unite and demand an end to the privatization of our schools. Collectively we can stop the corporate education reform agenda.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
Robert D. Skeels is a social justice writer, public education advocate, and immigrant rights activist. He lives, works, writes, and organizes in Los Angeles with his wife and cats. Robert is a U.S. Navy Veteran, and a proud member of Veterans for Peace. He attended Glendale Community College and is currently attending the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in Classical Civilization. Robert is a committed member of CEJ, PESJA, SCIC, and the Trinational Coalition To Defend Public Education. In addition to advancing working class struggles, Robert is an adherent of Liberation Theology. He devotes much time towards volunteer work for 12 step, church, and homeless advocacy. Robert's articles and essays have appeared in publications including Schools Matter, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Daily Censored, Echo Park Patch, and The Los Angeles Daily News. In 2013 Robert ran for the LAUSD School Board against a billionaire funded corporate reform candidate, finishing second in a field of five, with over 5,200 votes. Read other articles by Robert, or visit Robert's website.
This article was posted on Monday, February 7th, 2011 at 8:00am and is filed under Education, Neoliberalism.


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Antonius van der Pas (* 24. September 1920 in Angermund; † 15. Januar 2008) war ein Künstler niederländischer Herkunft.

Leben und Werk
Antonius war eines der beiden Kinder des Niederländers Anton van der Pas und einer Deutschen. Seine Kindheit und Jugend verbrachte er zunächst in Duisburg-Großenbaum, 1932 zog die Familie nach Nijmegen um. Dort wurde Van der Pas nach seiner schulischen Laufbahn als Werbegrafiker ausgebildet. Während der Jahre 1935–1938 wurde seine künstlerische Begabung durch Zeichenunterricht gefördert. Die Familie fand in den folgenden Jahren in Düsseldorf einen neuen Wohnsitz. Van der Pas arbeitete bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs unter anderem in der Druckerei des Düsseldorfer Unternehmens Henkel. Während eines Zwischenfalls im September 1943 geriet van der Pas in einen Konflikt mit dem nationalsozialistischen Regime, als er während einer aufgrund seines Status als Ausländer illegalen Reise nach Aachen von der SS aufgegriffen und für eine Nacht interniert wurde. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nahm er ein Kunststudium an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf auf und wurde unter anderem von Wilhelm Schmurr, Werner Heuser, Otto Coester ausgebildet.

1949 unternahm er Studienreisen nach Paris, wo er mit Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard und Pablo Picasso einflussreiche Maler dieser Zeit kennenlernte. 1950 folgten Studienreisen nach Spanien, 1952–1953 schließlich ein längerer Aufenthalt in Granada, während dessen er seine spätere Ehefrau Conchita Gonzalez-Munoz kennenlernte. Seine Frau verstarb 1975.

Während der 1970er, 1980er und 1990er Jahre führten ihn Studienreisen unter anderem nach Japan, Sri Lanka, Indien, Indonesien, Bali, Thailand, Burma, in die USA, Frankreich, Ägypten, in die Türkei, Zypern, Spanien, Marokko, Tunesien, Skandinavien, England, Irland, die Volksrepublik China, Russland und Österreich.

1983 richtete er in Mettmann ein Atelier ein. Er verstarb am 15. Januar 2008.

Van der Pas hatte zahlreiche Ausstellungen. Seine Werke sind in bedeutenden deutschen Kunstmuseen ausgestellt, unter anderem im Kunstmuseum Bonn, in der Kunsthalle Bremen, in der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt und im Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

Literatur
 Yvonne Friedrichs, Christian de Nuys-Henkelmann: Antonius van der Pas – Malerei für das innere Auge. Art Galerie Leuchter & Peltzer, Düsseldorf 1990.

Weblinks
 Antonius van der Pas, bearbeitet von Susanne Schwingen-Hitpass und Andreas Hitpass.

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Celebrity Secrets will cover a range of editorial themes including family, Christmas, weddings, travel and health, and promises to be an exciting new addition to Hurst Media Company's growing portfolio of titles.
The inaugural publication, Family Life, will be published on September 6th 2017.
James Hurst said: "Sitting alongside our publications distributed with The Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail this new series with the UK's celebrity marketplace leader is a unique and perfect addition to our growing portfolio.
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The city says the industry brings hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars of revenue in each year. Councilman Robert Holden (R-30th) says the shoots need to be better regulated.
Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) is skeptical. "There is no doubt that the DOT could fudge the numbers to fit its narrative, so we deserve a report that is conducted without bias," Holden said in a statement.
The City Council's Transportation Committee is reviewing a bill that Councilman Robert Holden sponsored which will require NYPD and the city Department of Buildings to investigate the legality of curb cuts for driveways before issuing summonses.
Zegen added that by working with local Council member Robert Holden, the local community and the Department of City Planning, his firm achieved "an overall great outcome" that includes a new 476-seat school.
Sources told PIX11 the officers were injured when breaking up a fight between residents of the center.
Finally, after numerous police reports and at Holden's request, in February, the DCA began an investigation into American Auto Body.
City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Middle Village) is making good on a campaign promise to tackle quality of life issues affecting constituents in the southwest Queens neighborhoods in his district with the introduction of a series of bills last week.
It's been four years since Glendale leaders and residents first proposed that the former factory at 78-16 Cooper Ave. be transformed into a school instead of a homeless shelter.
According to City Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), that plan has gained more traction now than ever before.


Starting January 22, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security will not accept certain state-issued IDs for domestic travel. Passports are universally accepted and the preferred ID for all air travel. Florida state-issued IDs are compliant. However, if you plan to use an ID issued by another state for travel within the United States on or after January 22, visit this Department of Homeland Security website for details.
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This week saw the premiere of Nature's Big Year, a new eye-popping documentary that captures first-hand the effects of the pandemic on nature. Filmed across 11 locations – from the Canadian wilderness to urban America to the backyards of Britain – the doc reveals the good and the bad that our lockdown had on our natural habitat and the animals who call it home.
Take the marine biologist who found that the lockdown helped Loggerhead sea turtles nest more effectively on Florida's Juno Beach. Or the researchers who discovered that wolves and their prey changed their behavior in response to a decrease in human activity. Sea lions did the same, sunning themselves freely at an Argentinian port, while wild goats enjoyed unrestricted play at a Welsh seaside town.
And then there's the effect that the pandemic had on birds. Not surprisingly, birds tended to flock to places with tighter lockdown measures. Meanwhile, songbird specialist Miya Warrington found that, in the absence of traffic, planes and other noise pollution that typically punctuate our urban lives, male blackbirds in the U.K. infused their tunes with an aggressive note when they could (suddenly) hear their rivals. It was a note not heard before.
One of the film's most surprising revelations found that those beautiful blue skies during lockdown weren't harmless. In fact, ground-level ozone, a harmful invisible gas, only accelerated as other pollutants dropped off.
We sat down with filmmaker Christine Nielsen to discuss that and other fascinating findings of Nature's Big Year and what she believes the film can teach us about living more consciously, mindful of how our existence and actions affect our natural habitat.
Writer & Director Christine Nielsen
What inspired you to make this film? How did the pandemic shift your focus?
The concept for the film started percolating during the first lockdown in early spring of 2020. Various stories were surfacing on social media about wildlife "taking back" nature. Dolphins in the canals of Venice. Monkeys and deer roaming city streets, wild goats parading through a Welsh village – and so on. I was curious whether any of these stories could be supported by science. Then I started wondering whether any scientists were exploring the "lockdown effect", to find out how a smaller human footprint affects nature. It turned out that lockdown was, indeed, a giant, unplanned, controlled experiment and that scientists in many fields were seizing the opportunity to study it.
What was your most surprising takeaway upon filming this doc?
There were so many surprises! The scientists we worked with use words like "shocked" and "amazed" to describe their results. Birds changed where they flew and how they sang during lockdown. Wolves changed what time of day they hunt. Loggerhead turtles nested more successfully with fewer humans around. For all of us, the biggest surprise was how quickly many species adapt to changes in human behavior. Some species respond pretty much overnight.
Birds changed their tune during lockdown
I was particularly surprised by what the researchers found regarding the impact of the pandemic on birds. Can you explain their findings and what that tells us about our behaviour?
A major study from the University of Manitoba revealed that many bird species across North America changed their movements during the pandemic, flocking to places with stricter lockdowns. We also feature a wonderful story about blackbirds in the UK, who literally changed their tune during lockdown. When noise from traffic and airplanes subsided, the male blackbird "upped his game" because he could hear his rivals more clearly. Similar studies were done on other bird species in other parts of the world. This makes it pretty clear that if humans reduce the amount of noise they make, birds respond—and quickly!
What do you wish more people knew about their impact on nature, as revealed by the pandemic?
The more we understand the impact of our activities on the species we share this planet with, the better. We're not just talking about the big high-impact activities associated with industry, expansion of cities, construction of highways and so on. It also applies to our day-to-day activities. How do our driving habits impact mammals, reptiles and amphibians that live near roads? How does a leaf blower affect the bugs that live in our garden? How do boats and personal watercraft affect marine habitat in cottage country?
Turtle waiting for a wave
What are some ways that we can be more mindful of our actions toward preserving our natural habitat and the animals that live among us?
I believe we can literally change the world if enough of us embrace our connectedness with other species—not just big iconic mammals, but also the little creatures that we tend to think of as "pests" and "nuisances." Justin Perrault, one of the scientists in our film says: "We all have to work a little more closely with nature and give nature a break sometimes. Everything on this planet is connected. And that includes humans." That sums it up perfectly, I think.
Nature's Big Year premiered on CBC TV and CBC GEM, The Nature of Things, Friday, November 12, and has been picked up by PBS International.


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Vuma backs GirlCode in creating space for young South African women in STEM fields
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UNESCO recently revealed that women still account for 28% of people pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of the lack of female representation in STEM education, female human capital in STEM professions is underutilised.
GirlCode, a non-profit organisation that's been creating nationwide networks of coding clubs since 2014, has been bridging this gender gap in STEM fields by sparking an interest in coding among South Africa's young women through its annual all-female #GirlCodeHack hackathon.
The NPO has announced leading fibre provider Vuma as this year's gold sponsor of the upcoming #GirlCodeHack, under the theme: #GenerationEquality: Realising women's rights for an equal future, in celebration of Women's Day.
The first GirlCode hackathon, which took place on 8 March 2021 under the theme: Break the Bias, saw 70 participants enter the event to develop solutions to counter common biases toward women in the workplace.
Natasha Chitongo and Thamsanqa Kekana, who were part of the winning team, were awarded the top prize for building a complaint-logging system that allows employees to report these incidents to HR, which can then implement remedial programmes.
"This was my first ever hackathon, and it was amazing. I didn't know what a hackathon was before joining GirlCode in 2021 and used to think these events involved hacking into banks," says Kekana. "Just making it through the event, from start to finish, is a considerable achievement because it's a mental strength test. Everyone who took part should be proud of themselves."
Kekana, an IT graduate and cybersecurity intern at FNB, says the entire GirlCode experience has expanded her coding knowledge. She believes programmes like these are crucial for South African females because they allow them to enter the STEM industry and break common misconceptions that there isn't any room for females in these fields.
Like Kekana, this was also Natasha Chitongo's first hackathon.
"I went through a mixture of excitement and nerves, but mostly eagerness to learn and network with like-minded young women in the STEM industry, including potential employers. The event was great, and we somehow managed to stay up and code for 24 hours," says Chitongo. "I also appreciate how the event featured mentors who guided us throughout the process and grilled us if our idea didn't make sense. Best of all, I also made great friends in addition to all the knowledge and insights I gained."
Chitongo got her first taste of the IT industry when she joined GirlCode in 2021 after seeing a software engineering job opportunity she couldn't miss. She soon fell in love with the field and connected with other professionals from multiple corporates who later became her mentors and guided her IT career.
"GirlCode kick-started my career in programming by helping me get a six-month internship at an IT company. This opportunity refined all the skills and knowledge I had gained from the programme," adds Chitongo.
Chitongo, whose vision is to become a Full Stack Developer one day, says initiatives like GirlCode are a lifeline for young women because they open up opportunities in STEM fields. In addition, she says they connect young women to mentors and upskill them in hard and soft skills like CV writing, EQ, and interview skills, all of which set them up for successful careers in STEM fields.
"GirlCode's hackathons showcase female tech talent in South Africa, empower young girls to consider a career in technology, and encourage local companies to think about how they can support the development of women in tech," says Taylor Kwong, CSI Manager at Vuma. "Vuma realised that by partnering with GirlCode as a gold sponsor, we could expose even more young women to the software industry and help eliminate this gender gap."
The next #GirlCodeHack will be in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban from 6-7 August 2022. The event is open to female IT students (1st – 4th years) and recent female graduates, with a grand prize of R60,000 for the winning team.
Aspiring female IT professionals can click here for Cape Town tickets, here for Johannesburg tickets, and here for Durban tickets.
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To paraphrase a group of exasperated nuns I once heard: How do you solve a problem like Dom and Wendell? On the one hand, one of the two of them is obviously going to win, anyone who goes up against either one of them is doomed to second or third place, and this was probably the last chance to take a shot at one to make sure there's even a chance they're both out before final 3. On the other hand, their idols are scary, and they've been Laurel's besties, so how could she turn on them? I am trying to be sympathetic to Laurel here, understanding that a guarantee of final 3 is a tempting offer, and the price jump is pretty big from jury to even third place, but the way she talks through her decision making in confessional is infuriating. She tells us that she knows that there is no way she can beat them, and that she's aware this is probably her last shot, yet she's so grateful to them for keeping her around when they could have gotten rid of her earlier, and she just likes them so much, and other sugary reasons that are exactly what I don't want to be hearing from the only possible strategic threat standing between one of these two powerhouses and an obvious victory to cap off a painfully boring season.
On the other end of the spectrum, Donathan is getting restless to make a move. Unfortunately, with Laurel not budging, and Sebastian and Angela being invisibly but apparently firmly locked in with Dom/Wendell for mysterious reasons that we will never find out because they are not allowed to talk, Donathan has little room to maneuver, even with Free Agent Kellyn knowing she's on the outs and being up for a flip. Combine that with the fact that he was left out of the reward after Dom and Wendell won a truly bonkers challenge as a pair and picked Laurel without so much as heeding Jeff's suggestion to let each person plead their case to go on the big reward, which involved food and also the allegedly soul-nourishing experience of hanging out with children, which I can only interpret as a punishment but am gathering from context clues that this is something people want. The other pairs for this challenge were Kellyn and Sebastian, and Donathan and Laurel, leaving Angela unchosen and ineligible for both reward and Ghost Island. Gotta say, this is an extremely fit group when powerhouse Angela is left out of a physical challenge. Looking like a mob boss with a toothpick hanging out of his mouth, Wendell sends "the pirate" Sebastian to Ghost Island, leaving Donathan, Kellyn, and Angela, who is herself a ghost in these last couple of episodes, alone at camp.
On the reward, Laurel convinces Dom and Wendell that she's planning to go to the end with them because her best shot is to have the jury split the votes. I guess this is her only play to provide a motive for why she would possibly want to sit next to them at the end and convince them that she's not looking to flip, except that this plan makes no sense. Two similar candidates splitting a vote and allowing the other candidate to win in an election only works because there are two deeply divided parties with their own loyalties. This plan would make sense if Laurel was certain she had 4 votes locked up, and the other 5 would split between Dom and Wendell, but that makes no sense here unless she thinks they're going to vote directly along original Malolo party lines, in which case she would have Libby, Michael, Jenna, and Donathan if he's on the jury, but that seems wildly presumptuous. She tells us in confessional that actually she's lying to them and is looking to cut them, a deceit that she would be pulling off tremendously except that I think she's actually not lying to Dom and Wendell and is lying to us in confessional to make it seem like she's playing strategically when really she's playing it very safe. To reiterate: I don't blame her. Third is better than fifth, sixth, or seventh. Maybe she's correct about the original Malolo votes. I'm just trying to work through my frustration as a viewer, watching someone play what I see as a losing game, given the information I have. Also on this reward, they ask a local woman at their picnic who she thinks is going to win, and they include Domenick saying that she was definitely looking at him, which I can already see in his winner montage at the reunion show.
On Ghost Island, our friend Seabass is talking in metaphors and about fish again. He gets the vote steal, the second nod to Michaela this season, but it's actually double-cursed. The second curse doesn't come from Stephen Fishbach, the original cursed vote-steal owner who misplayed it and got voted out that night in Second Chance, but rather it's cursed by Kellyn, who misplayed it approximately 11 minutes ago two episodes prior, which feels very unfair to poor Kellyn who has been through enough and certainly is not the most egregious misplayer of the vote steal. There is no doubt in my mind that this advantage will loom large and Sebastian will use it to its full extent, leveraging it to change his position in the game whatever way he can. I'm obviously joking, he will not play this correctly, and this will not matter.
In the immunity challenge, Laurel will get another crack at the slide puzzle that she took on against Des in the opening challenge of the season, and will come up successful, due to her acute puzzle solving skills combined with her sharp Jeff-hailing skills. Apparently Wendell finished the puzzle first, but expected Jeff to use the chip in his brain that automatically alerts him when puzzles are completed to simply know that his puzzle was done, without signaling to him at all. Wendell's whambulance-calling and crying on the course is such a weird and bad look that if I wasn't fully convinced that Dom was winning of these two before, I'm now predicting it without a shadow of doubt.
Back at camp, Donathan is going way too hard to rattle the power players, telling Wendell that there's no way he will vote for him at the end, which isn't going to win any friends, and prompts Wendell to correctly point out that airing this information will just make Dom want to put him on the jury so he votes for him. He's generally doing the most and tells Kellyn that Wendell is going to pull an idol because he saw Dom slip him some paperwork, which Wendell wanted to use to brandish a fake idol, which makes no sense because if you have an idol and want to wield it just to scare people off of voting for you, why not just use your actual idol instead of a fake one with paperwork, but I digress. None of this matters because there aren't enough people to flip on the power couple, but we continue with this charade as if there is any surprise or joy left in this story, such is life. At tribal, Dom is super annoying about how great he is at puzzles, but he's just too tired to pull it out. Sure. He and Wendell are also annoying about Donathan's paranoia, berating him for thinking that their secret exchange of some sort of item was game-related, because why on earth would Donathan ever be suspicious of two players sneaking something into each other's bag and then refusing to say what it is? How dare he question them like that?! These two are truly irritating when they are at their most hypermasculine, shouting and boasting and homosocially bonding over yelling at another person.
Ultimately, Donathan almost accidentally votes himself out by voting for Domenick instead of Kellyn, who does vote for him, but he is saved on the revote when the team decides to go against Kellyn despite Donathan's unpredictability that day. I love both Donathan and Kellyn and as a result found myself almost disinterested in this outcome, knowing that neither of them have a shot at this thing anyway and this was only a matter of time. Kellyn's final words are cogent and delightful, and I hope she's proud of herself and that she had fun. She had more of a roller coaster than most people out there, and I'm truly glad I got to see her play.


Sometimes a coffee shop/company becomes inalienably associated with one individual; for example Newcastle's Flat Caps Coffee is always, in my head, associated with founder, Joe Meagher. So it is with Terrone & Co and the irrepressible Edy Piro. Although Edy wears many hats (DJ, web-designer and ex-architect rub shoulders with roaster/distributor and barista), if you say "Terrone", I'll immediately think of Edy.
This Saturday Supplement was going to be about Terrone's stall in The Village Green Market. Sadly, since my visit last month, Edy's decided to rationalise the number of pop-ups that Terrone runs and the stall at The Village Green Market is no more… The Village Green and the Market, however, are still going strong, well worth a visit in their own right.
Instead, this is going to be a little feature on Edy and Terrone, plus a short tour of the Market, which you'll find on the opposite side of the railway line from Hackney Downs in north east London. Don't worry though; if you want some fine Terrone coffee, Edy will happily sell you some and there's still Terrone's Saturday stall at Netil Market, plus the exciting new café coming to Kingly Court in early August.
First, the Village Green Market. Set in a sheltered concrete yard at the end of Amhurst Terrace, it's a delightful place. There are a number of permanent businesses in the Hackney Downs Studio buildings on the left and, on Sundays, these are joined by market stalls, mostly offering food and drink. Just not, alas, Terrone. Scattered in the centre of the yard, between the two rows of stalls, are some tables if you want to take the weight off your feet.
So, onto to Terrone & Co. Edy's journey to speciality coffee is an interesting one. Born in Salerno, Italy, Edy moved to London in 2002 but didn't start drinking coffee (he found Italian coffee too bitter) until he discovered filter coffee in Portland in 2005.
Fascinated, he wanted to learn more, and the opportunity came when he met an Italian coffee roaster from Rimini at a food festival in London. This fired Edy into action and he spent a year preparing and researching, starting with the Terrone & Co brand. He used this time to work with the roaster to finalise his blend with the help of barista Callum Hale-Thomson. It's roasted in Italy in a refurbished 1950s Vittoria machine and imported by Terrone.
Edy launched Terrone in December 2012 at the Netil Market in east London, where Terrone is still serving fine coffee from its container-café every Saturday (which I've now, finally, visited!). With his infectious and irrepressible personality, Edy was an immediate hit. I followed his progress on social media, first meeting Edy at the London Coffee Festival in 2013.
Since then Edy's steadily grown Terrone, both as a coffee retailer and through pop-ups such as the (sadly short-lived) one in The Village Green Market, which opened at the end of April. While Terrone was there, Edy operated a two-group La Marzocco, serving espresso, tea and a small selection of delicious cakes. I've tried various incarnations of Terrone's Ciclista blend over the last year so I asked Edy to make me something special. Since it was a hot day, Edy got out his cocktail shaker and, a few minutes later, I was presented with a wonderful-looking Shakerato, a drink I'd only previously had at New York's I Am Coffee (coincidentally run by another irrepressible Italian).
I'm not a huge fan of iced coffee, but the Shakerato takes it to a whole new level. Consisting of ice, espresso, milk and (I believe) sugar, these are combined by a short, vigorous shake. Edy's creation was not quite as foamy as the one I'd had at I Am Coffee (I suspect the amount of shaking determines the amount of foam), but damn, it tasted just as good. There was a darkness from the coffee, which combined with the sweetness of the milk/sugar to make an amazing smooth, refreshing drink.
I combined this with one of the excellent almond mini-cakes. These look quite small, but they pack so much in, you really wouldn't want any more. An incredibly rich pastry base holds a wonderful filling, nutty, but not too sweet. The perfect accompaniment to your coffee.
If you want to catch Terrone, then head to Netil Market on a Saturday, or, if you wait until the start of August, you can visit Terrone's exciting new espresso bar, Sottoscala, next to Pizza Pilgrims in Carnaby Street's Kingly Court.
Just to avoid (cause?) confusion, I've given the address/location of The Village Green Market, along with its opening hours, in the table, but the website and phone number are for Terrone. Please remember that the Terrone pop-up no longer operates at The Village Green Market.
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