Triathlon Australia CEO Miles Stewart was full of praise for the boost in funding that will benefit our emerging Olympic talent.
"Investment into this area is of significant benefit to further developing our talent identification programs and support services that will ultimately help deliver our next generation of Olympic athletes," said Stewart.
Over $300m will be allocated over the next two years to physical activity and sport, with half spent on Sport Australia projects, including pathways for emerging athletes.
Sport Australia Chair John Wylie has welcomed the Australian Government's $385.4 million package for sport and physical activity announced in last night's Federal Budget, declaring it as one of the biggest funding injections for sport in years.
The Federal Budget delivered more than $158 million of new investment directly to Sport Australia and the AIS, helping to fund community participation initiatives through to additional support for Australia's high performance athletes. An additional $54.1 million will be invested in high performance sport for athlete pathways and wellbeing, while school and community infrastructure programs will be expanded.
Wylie said the extension of the national Sporting Schools program was an important feature of participation funding. Sporting Schools, which has reached 85 per cent of schools in its first four years, received a further $40 million in funding to extend the program until the end of 2020.
"Sporting Schools can be a vital catalyst for improving the health of young Australians." Wylie said. "We want to give every Australian child the opportunity to grow up happier and healthier through a connection with Sporting Schools.
"Since its launch in 2015, more than 7,100 schools have been funded by the Sporting Schools program and there have been almost 4.8 million attendances in Sporting Schools activities.
"Sport and physical activity is vital to the overall development of children, including their mental wellbeing. The beauty of Sporting Schools is that it's free, so the opportunity is there for every school child, no matter their location, background, ability or socio-economic status.
Sport Australia's AusPlay research shows 81 per cent of Australian children are not meeting recommended physical guidelines. To combat this, Sporting Schools partners with 33 national sports to provide free and fun sporting opportunities for children before, during and after school.
Another key investment in last night's Federal Budget was an extra $42.5 million for the Move It AUS Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program. The program was launched this financial year and has already provided more than $60 million for more than 450 projects around the country to upgrade community sporting facilities.
"In delivering on the national sport plan, Sport 2030, Sport Australia's vision is for Australia to become the world's most active sporting nation and access to active spaces is critical to get more Australians moving," Palmer says.


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How does artificial intelligence work, and what do people mean when they say 'AI?'
By Brittany Vincent
If you spend any modicum of your time on the internet, or even dabbling in the tech world, you've no doubt seen mentions of "AI," or artificial intelligence, here and there. In the past few years it's become something of a buzzy catchword in the industry. And it seems like every website, app, and game is using it.
There's a website that uses AI to rate how "cool" your selfies are. People "feed" AI scripts of popular movies and TV shows to have software spit out a new script based on what it "learned" from the source material. Recently, you may have even seen that an AI had "mastered" the video game StarCraft II, and performs at a level that's better than 99.8% of human players.
But what do people typically mean when they say something is powered by AI? What all does it encompass, and how do you interact with AI on a daily basis? If you're unsure about how all of these pieces fall into place, here's how you can understand the world of artificial intelligence and its various applications.
What is artificial intelligence (AI), and what do people typically mean when they say they're using it?
In the 1950s, when Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator alongside John McCarthy, the pair described artificial intelligence as tasks performed by a program or a machine that you couldn't reasonably determine if a human had performed or not instead.
To put it in even simpler terms: "It's just another way of writing software. Relax!" Michael Capps, PhD, former president of Epic Games, and cofounder and CEO of AI startup Diveplane tells Mic. "Company.com from the 90s became eCompany and then iCompany and then CloudCompany are now Company.ai. Who cares?"
So we have two definitions: Artificial intelligence is both the latest "trendy" way to write software, so to speak, as well as a way of automating tasks that humans could do in a way that makes it hard to tell if a human or computer performed them. But the most important core component of AI constructs and programs, given that they're modeled after human intelligence, is the fact that they learn. In fact, they'll display some of the same behaviors as humans when they're beginning to understand something. Learning is an important tenet of any artificial intelligence project as well as problem-solving and knowledge.
"There's really two terms that matter," says Capps. "One is machine learning, or 'ML' — when a machine learns how to do something. And the other is AI — which basically means, 'I have no idea how the computer did that, whoa.'"
The bottom line of determining whether or not you're actually dealing with AI in terms of an app you're using or even an online service is, according to Kishore Rajgopal, founder and CEO of intelligent adapting pricing software firm NextOrbit, is "the fact that your decisions and your actions change with time, and it [the AI] learns." Learning is the key point there.
"AI is the hot thing, so just about everybody says AI. 'Oh, my product is AI enabled.' But when you look deeper, what makes it AI? It's all about the rules engine. It's a decision engine. It's a decision tree," Rajgopal explains. "The question really is: does the program learn with time? You must ask this question of something purported to use AI. Does it get better with time? Probably not. The only way it can get better with time is if I, as a programmer, go back and change it."
How does the average person interact with AI on a daily basis?
You're likely using AI daily and don't even realize it — that's how ubiquitous the technology has become. It's in such widespread use, even though most individuals aren't quite sure exactly what it even means. Capps says the average person interacts with AI on a "nonstop" basis, for example, "from automated fraud detection on your credit cards, to air conditioning in large buildings, to airplane scheduling, to the sale prices of gold in your Clash of Clans game."
If you unlocked your phone using Face ID, you relied on machine learning to make a call or send some texts. If you then took a photo in the pitch black night and found that your phone automatically lightened it up, you can thank AI for that as well. What's more, that DoorDash customer service agent who helped ensure you got a discount for your missing milkshake? That was probably a bot powered by AI.
"It's getting harder and harder to discern who is real and who isn't," says Capps. "Right now it's chat agents, but that will be voice and then fully generated video soon — it will get harder and harder to tell the real from the virtual, and it may not matter!"
How has AI changed over the past few years and what does the future look like?
AI has certainly become more ubiquitous over the last few years. It's more than just a buzzword. It's now the core focus of several businesses and a simple fact of life when it comes to innovation.
"Ten years ago, nobody could really afford AI. It was too expensive. It's only in the last two years that it's come out into the open, like using it in commercial software. That's just going to increase. You're going to find that line of programming will become prevalent. It'll no longer be a luxury. It'll just be part of the way [you program.]," says Rajgopal of the burgeoning AI revolution that's already beginning to take hold.
"In the next five years the exponential curve of technology will continue. You'll have insanely powerful virtual assistants, automated cars, genetically targeted drugs, and the like. In 10 years, we'll be like cute house pets for our AI overlords," concludes Capps.
What is the key to retaining the human element of AI to avoid any unforeseen mishaps?
With machines and programs that are literally created to learn, adapt, and continually improve themselves over time, there are obvious concerns that arise. For instance, what happens if an AI becomes "too smart," or if it "decides" that it knows best?
"Today, we're building "black box" systems, where we don't know what the system is actually doing," Capps says of some of the potential dangers AI has brought forth. "We're trusting them at scale, and only later do we realize they might have been trained with biased data. Imagine a residential loan approval algorithm that's been trained on 60 years of data in the Deep South — what are the chances it might incorporate some racial bias? And we've already seen issues with parole determination systems, etc."
We've already seen similar pitfalls of using AI to complete tasks as simple as a smart camera from Facebook's AR/VR team that was meant to focus on one female person of color telling a story that, instead, focused on her "white, male colleague" instead. With these potential biases in mind, how do we ensure the programs we're building still retain their human elements?
"Being able to look inside the 'black box' is crucial," says Capps. "It's how we build software, with a debugger so we can see how it's operating. AI and machine learning need the same ability to look inside, before we can trust it to make decisions with human lives on the line, or even just decisions that can be impacted by biased data."
The bottom line is that, even if we manage to create super-intelligent software that can perform at the same capacity as humans do, there's still the very real possibility that machines may end up reaching a state of intelligence that's eerily similar to a human's.
"Basically, if we can build a machine that learns like a human, it won't be long before it's smarter than a human..." Capps posited. "And then who's in charge?"
Amazon's court documents reveal the vile messages that led to Parler's ban
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Trump is threatening to start his own social network. Could it actually work?
The list of tech companies that have banned Trump and his supporters is staggeringly long

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Remembering the Black female leaders of the civil rights movement
The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders. But there were so many women, both behind the scenes and on the front lines, who shaped the movement.
In this Aug. 22, 1964, photograph, Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Freedom Democratic party, speaks before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, in efforts to win accreditation for the largely African American group as Mississippi's delegation to the convention, instead of the all-white state delegation. (AP Photo/File)
Eboo Patel
(RNS) — I have spoken for years about the deeply interfaith nature of the civil rights movement, a beautiful story with the power to shape contemporary movements and methods. I have been inspired in this last year to relearn the story of women's intergenerational leadership in the movement, a crucial aspect of this important period of social change.
The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders — giants like Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Virtually all of the main characters in the film "Selma" are men.
But there were so many women, both behind the scenes and on the front lines, who shaped the movement.
Consider the great Ella Baker, perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement. A key leader in several of the most influential groups of the era, including the NAACP, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Baker did not wear a collar and was very much a grassroots, ground-up organizer rather than a White House negotiator. Baker famously chafed against some of the more patrician male figures of the movement, notably King.
According to Barbara Ransby's magisterial biography, "Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement," Baker approached the world this way because of her Christian formation, and in particular her mother's involvement in the church. Or, more precisely, her mother's leadership in the institutions that women formed within the broader Black Baptist church galaxy.
Ella Baker. Image courtesy of the National Women's Hall of Fame
"I was young when I became active in things," Baker once said, "and I became active in things because my mother was very active in the field of religion."
Women like Anna Ross Baker, Ella's mother, had built a state conference within the world of Black southern Baptists. Out of this institution they ran several social welfare programs for African Americans, ranging from an orphanage to grammar schools to scholarships for Black college students.
Women ran everything — the meetings, the budgets, the policy — and Ella watched, learned and participated. The historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham describes it as a feminist theology in action that "Within a female-centered context … accentuated the image of woman as saving force, rather than woman as victim … They argued that women held the key to social transformation."
Decades after she graduated from Shaw University, Ella Baker watched in admiration as another group of young Black college students started putting their faith into action through the sit-in movement in cities like Greensboro and Nashville. Baker, at that point, was growing frustrated with the sexism and overall aristocratic air of her work at the SCLC, where, even though she held the title of executive director, she found herself making copies rather than making policy.
The male leadership of SCLC too often wanted to talk to women about their cooking and their beauty. Baker didn't want to talk about fashion; she wanted to talk about the importance of grassroots leadership for the civil rights movement and the need for direct action. Perhaps these brave students would be more amenable to that. She made a plan to gather them at her alma mater and see where their energy might lead. And lead they did.
In this April 27, 2010, file photo, milliner Vanilla P. Beane, 90, left, talks about her friendship with the late Dorothy Height, a leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, outside the National Council of Negro Women building in Washington, where Height's casket arrived for public viewing. When Height died at age 98, some of her friends and admirers wore hats to her funeral as a final tribute, Beane among them. And many of the women also wore purple, Height's favorite color. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee started over Easter weekend, as a conference at Shaw, and under the tutelage of Baker, the students drafted a mission statement where they committed to building "a social order permeated by love and to the spirituality of nonviolence as it grows from the Christian tradition."
SNCC became an avenue for young people to take leadership in the civil rights movement and cultivate what scholar Charles Marsh calls the "incarnational ethic" of the "enfleshened church."
SNCC in the early days undoubtedly had its fair share of influential male figures (John Lewis, Marion Barry, James Bevel, James Lawson, Bob Moses), but perhaps because of the powerful presence of Baker, it was distinctive in the number of women who shaped the incarnational ethic of the organization.
There was Diane Nash, one of the leaders of the Nashville sit-in movement, who reflected upon her time at the Shaw conference and the hope of SNCC in this way: "Our goal was to reconcile," to create a "community recovered or fulfilled," "to redeem … to rehabilitate, to heal, to reconcile rather than gain power." SNCC for her was "applied religion."
The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, presents plaques to Diane Nash, center, and Carol Ruth Silver, left, as a Tribute to Freedom Riders at the Major League Baseball Beacon Awards Banquet as a part of MLB's Civil Rights Game Weekend at the Omni Hotel, May 14, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Paul Abell)
There was Fannie Lou Hamer, who spoke of SNCC and the civil rights movement as a welcome table, the kind that was often next to a rural Baptist church and held the dishes the congregants contributed, allowing the whole community to enjoy a potluck feast.
"Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it's happening," she said. "That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength."
There was Victoria Gray, a Black middle-class businesswoman who left her comfortable life to join the movement after being inspired by a church service in her hometown of Hattiesburg. She said these words as she made her choice: "Here am I, Lord, send me, I'll go." She regarded the civil rights movement as "a journey toward establishing the kingdom of God."
And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
I am awed by Baker, Nash, Hamer and Gray, to name a few of the women instrumental in the creation and leadership of SNCC. I am profoundly grateful for their work in shaping the kind of America that could become a Potluck Nation, where each is able to contribute their best so that all may feast.
There would be no Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which enabled my parents to immigrate to the U.S., were there not first the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is hard to imagine that legislation without SNCC, and there would not have been a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee without the leadership of powerful Black Christian women.
(Eboo Patel is founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and author of "Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise." The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.)
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Blessed New Moon! In the coming week or two, we welcome you to go outside with your family at 9:00PM or later, once it gets good and dark, and enjoy the summer stars!
To celebrate the height of summer stargazing, find the Summer Triangle, slightly east of overhead, or perhaps directly overhead if you are out late enough.
Vega is the brightest star you'll see overhead, and is the brightest of the three stars of the triangle. Only Arcturus is brighter in the current night sky, since Sirius is too close to the Sun to be visible. Vega is the top of a small harp constellation, Lyra, which is outlined by stars - you can imagine them with a set of strings inside, playing the music of the stars!
Deneb is a bright star northeast of Vega. In Arabic, 'Deneb' means tail, and this star is the tail of the great swan Cygnus, who flies along the path of the Milky Way. Her wings are spread east and west, and her long neck stretches out to the south, pointing toward the center of our galaxy (see the June stargazing guide for using Scorpius to find the exact location of the galactic center).
Altair is a bright star southeast of Vega. It is the head of Aquila, the eagle, who flies away from the galactic center along the Milky Way.
Saturn still hangs just above the center of our galaxy, and the tail of Scorpius, near the southern horizon. If you follow the flight paths of Cygnus and Aquila northward instead, you will see the bright 'W' of the constellation Casseopeia, an Ethiopian queen in Greek mythology. In lands along the Arctic Ocean where these five bright stars never set, they are known as an elk antler (by the Sami people, in Scandinavia) or five stag reindeer (by the Chukchi people, in Siberia).
The linked star chart can help you find the cosmic harp and surrounding animals.
Note that this is the star chart for June, which is accurate at ~9:00PM currently. At 9:30PM or later, the Summer Triangle will be more directly overhead. Make sure to line the direction printed on the edge of it up with the direction you're facing. Also, you might want to find your own chart if you are on our Mother Earth somewhere other than the contiguous 48 states of the U.S., or a similar latitude.


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Around 3.2 billion people have access to the Internet. That's amazing, but it's fewer than half of the 7 billion or so people on earth. And while Internet access was once a luxury, it is quickly becoming essential as the world's commerce, educational resources, and entertainment move online. Fortunately, there's no shortage of schemes to bring Internet to underserved countries, ranging from low-orbit satellites to high-altitude balloons to drones. Some analysts have criticized these projects, arguing they won't deliver Internet access at prices people in the developing world can afford. It's a bit like trying to make up for a lack of roads by building cars that don't need them, says Mark Summer of EveryLayer, a Silicon Valley company that helps local ISPs create wireless networks in Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. The alternative?
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A video introducing QUILT, a multi-faceted program for individuals on the autism spectrum. I designed QUILT for Wolf Performing Arts Center in Bryn Mawr, PA.
This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing by: Finegan Kruckemeyer
Directed by: Bill Buddendorf
Prague Fringe Festival, May 2015
Trailer for Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
Wolf Performing Arts Center's production of The Butterfly Project tells the story of children in the concentration camp of Terezin during the Holocaust. It is based on a true story. A school teacher Irena illegally educates the children and records their stories in poems, drawings, and essays. These were buried when transports began to Auschwitz, and later recovered by the Red Cross during the liberation.
We traveled with survivors and performed at schools all over Pennsylvania. We performed at the Philadelphia International Arts Festival in April 2013, and then reunited to travel and perform in Prague, with a finale performance in the Attic Theatre at Terezin.
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Rehearsal Clips from Little Women
Little Women, adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger, premiered at University of the Arts in May of 2012. The cast also served as teaching artists and created curriculum surrounding the performance to engage the attending students. The ensemble did pre and post-performance workshops with over 10 classrooms of various ages.
Artist-in-Residence for "Finding Kankakee"
June-Aug 2014: I was living in downtown Kankakee, making and facilitating art with the community. Our inspiration was the exploration of Kankakee County's personal narrative. The mission of the residency was to cultivate a shared sense of culture and joy.
Human Rights Campaign Partnership: LGBTQ+ Acceptance in the South


Passing by St. Mark's Bookstore, I hesitate and peer in, sizing up the window displays. I'm anxious about a fifteen minute gap in my color-coded schedule. Brown for my day-job, red for visual art, aquamarine for friends & family are the colors I assigned to the categories in my laptop's organizer program. A few moments in a bookstore can absolve guilt and obscure loneliness. I go in and wander purposelessly. On my way out I linger in the vestibule a moment and scan the fliers. Poetry readings, plays, protests, Mumia, Mailer, Miller.
I fix on one. Koolhaas. Speaking next Monday at Columbia University. Am I doing anything Monday? No.
Koolhaas, a Dutch architect and former screenplay-writer, is author of Delirious New York (1978), a soi-disant retroactive manifesto for Manhattanism. Manhattanism, he determined, was an unconscious almost Freudian urbanist agenda which produced Coney Island, the Flatiron Building, Radio City Music Hall, the Chrysler Building and which, in his opinion, foundered on the "rational" cubes of the cohorts of Le Corbusier. Koolhaas leapt from a position of notoriety in the architectural discourse to one of marginal notoriety in the broad cultural discourse with the publication in 1995 of SMLXL, best described as a 1400 page book of graphic-designed architectural non-fiction. I may be the only person to have read Delirious New York in two months and SMLXL cover-to-cover in two weeks. This marks me as one who takes Koolhaas way too seriously.
The trip up to Columbia is uneventful. Despite my unfamiliarity with the neighborhood in which the university squats, I have a comfort zone on the trains that head up the Upper West Side of Manhattan as I spent eighteen months personal-assisting a folk-musician-turned-jingle-composer living on West End Avenue. When I exit the subway station at 116th Street & Broadway I'm in my blinkered gotta-get-where-I'm-going mode, making straight for the Main Gate—I'm sure its nomenclature is decidedly more Anglo-Saxon but its actual name is one piece of research I'm unwilling to undertake. It is an entrance I have walked through once before, having stood in line for ninety sweltering minutes in June 1997 to attend the event ceremonizing my brother's graduation from Columbia Medical School. Or rather, the College of Physicians & Surgeons—that name I do not need to look up, for my parents recite it given any suitable opportunity.
Just inside the gate is a helpful color-coded map. The colors do not correspond to any institutional pattern, nor do they denote function—unlike my computer date book. The colors on the map are purely for show, like a peacock. They announce its desirable map-ness, encouraging visitors to interrogate it, rather than the nearby security officers, for orientation; the officers' job, after all, is to secure the campus from intruders and not to guide them toward their destination. I am going to Avery Hall which appears to be less than a minute away. But the negotiation of the pathways proves more complicated than the map prognosticated. I will have to climb steps to get there. I hate steps. I take elevators to mezzanines. I try circumventing the steps but find myself cornered, staring at a twenty-five foot high wall of granite. The McKim, Mead & White-designed Low Memorial Library and the great mass of steps that ascend thereto are not to be thwarted. (McKim et al. were a resilient bunch. Developers demolished their Pennsylvania Station in 1964 but by 2002 passengers will be disembarking in the new Pennsylvania Station created by architects from Skidmore Owens Merrill out of the General Post Office building designed by… McKim, Mead & White.) I submit to the ascent. I try skipping up the steps in an effort to psyche myself into a good mood, but after thirty of them I'm still pretty disgruntled. I lope the rest of the way to what transpires to be the Koolhaas-less Avery Hall. For, when I step up to the entrance, a littl! e note in the door indicates that it has been postponed. No explanation.
So what is to be done? I got here early to avoid disappointment. It is 6:02 p.m. I'm to meet Dave at the Brasserie at 8:00 p.m. Park Avenue and 53rd Street. And I'm at Broadway and 116th. I don't know anyone in the neighborhood I can drop in on. I look around. Maybe I can find a coffee house off-campus where I might ensconce myself for a guilt-free two hours of reading and writing. Productivity is important. If I hadn't gone into St. Mark's to properly inhabit an empty quarter-hour I would never have heard about this lecture. Of course, there was no lecture. And now I have to find a way to fill eight quarter-hours. Still scanning my surroundings, I recognize a girl, I think I recognize a girl from… from somewhere. And her friend too. I can't…quite…place them though. I walk over to a bench and sit down for a moment. Have a cigarette. Relax. While feeling for my soft-pack I think of my cellphone. Maybe there's someone I should call. I scroll through my list of numbers. No-one useful comes to mind. I can clean up my entries, delete the numbers of a couple of girls who've blown me off. But that's petty. And maybe they'll call me back someday and I'll feel silly to boot. Frank. Heather. Heidi. The girl I most want to be called back by is alphabetically located just before my ex-of-six-months-wife. A coffee-shop would be nice. I make for the gate, this time trying to enjoy the steps, their mild, expansive descent. The Lerner Center. I high-five myself inside. One of the most talked about architectural projects in the United States; not for its program, which was pretty banal—just another student center—but because Columbia University, having originally selected the pedestrian firm of Gruzen-Samton to design it, decided to add Bernard Tschumi. The decision derived from the fact of Tschumi's international cachet—he designed one of Mitterand's grands projets, the Parc de la Villette—but university politics was not innocent; he's Dean of the Columbia School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. I proceed over, buoyant, trying to recover from my faulty memory some, any, factoids or critical nuggets about the Lerner's design, as if I were a rebellious student tour guide with a phalanx of prospective parents, ones hoping to have borne a Columbia student. From the outside it does not appear to be up to much, though I can't see the Broadway side. It is difficult to take in the facade because of the visual noise of the orange webbing protecting the grass in front from short-cutting students. I never knew how attention-sucking orange webbing can be. Not only is there enough of it to protect the perimeter of the grass, but the groundskeepers have added an X, extending to the four corners—tough on Ultimate Frisbee players. It seems to be an old building with a glass extension. I could swear it's an entirely new structure. But when I reach the entrance I realize that the old is new—though fortunately I am half-right. The new is new. I grit my teeth. It's like Boston. Paying! obeisance to "context" in the currency of red brick. Perhaps it's better inside, I think, as I pass under a suspended column which looks like a brick turd.
Were I a Columbia student, or an accredited journalist, I would have had the chance to find out, but none of the magnetic stripes on the various pieces of plastic in my wallet are encoded with the data that will allow me to pass through the turnstiles. I linger for a moment, watching students with uncannily familiar countenances (or clothing?) circulate through the four-story atrium criss-crossed by ramps leading to who-knows-what student services. It looks the way I wished airports would, but don't.
However I am not completely barred from the building. Purchasing food at the cafe conveniently located between the entrance and the turnstiles is permissible, sensibly from a revenue-generating standpoint. My money, at least, is as good at the students'. I will eat in Bernard Tschumi's first major American building. I order and am told that I have to pay first and then bring the receipt over to them. Who makes these decisions? There is a term in management theory—"best practice"—it's a generous way of saying "I've got it all figured out and this is the best way to do it." But who decided that this is "best practice" for this type is establishment? Were studies commissioned? Consultants hired? Expert opinions canvassed? I buy a roast beef sandwich, then order a roast beef sandwich, and finally take it outside.
Columbia students are amongst the few groups in New York who can defy the contrariness of Spring weather. It's probably about 65 at the moment, but it's supposed to rain soon and get pretty cold. I dressed this morning in anticipation of this turn of weather but they're two minutes from their dorm room and can pop inside, divest, re-vest. So they're all in shorts, Tevas, sun dresses. I try to feel jealous but can't quite manage.
I take my sandwich out of the bag and unfold the paper wrapping, laying it alongside my copy of the journals of Peter Handke, leant to me earlier that week by Watson, a co-worker at my day-job. One to two sentence impressions and episodes. I can allow myself an hour of fragmentariness. "My mind is often a little ahead of whatever action I am performing. This brief moment of cleavage between consciousness and activity sometimes impedes my feeling for the activity." Notes to myself— Overheard conversation between student and teaching assistant about Gnosticism. What is their cosmology? How do they see Jesus?
The student, eager to please the TA, agrees with her questions, hoping to rewrite his paper in her mind. She wants him to be more specific. He agrees again. He bums a smoke off her. I must have that relationship wrong. I think of a young lady in whom I am somewhat interested and think I must tell her about something else related to the same topic. Is overhearing conversation a way of not having to think more when I am on my own?
Or is it just another way to connect with the world? Do I mistake connection for engagement? I walk to the subway, my mind revolving the possible routes to Park Avenue and 53rd Street. Spatial configurations form and dissolve. Sitting within a patterned haze, I register that the doors of the subway car have not closed. "Will the gentleman holding the door open in the first carriage please let me know when he is ready to resume his journey on this Number Nine downtown train to South Ferry." The pleasure of an act of spontaneous humor in an anonymous environment, so much better when coming from a subway conductor or a cop than a bartender or a cabdriver—who are always trying so hard. I think I'll go down to 59th St./Columbus circle, catch a C downtown and then catch an E going the opposite direction. When I reach 96th Street, the conductor announces that there is an express train on the opposite track. I jump off. A sudden moment of clarity all the more pleasurable when you still have the opportunity to act on the insight. I can go to 42nd Street and take the shuttle!
Three stops, I'm there. As I change trains at 42nd Street/Times Square I feel at ease for the first time in two hours. I feel at home here, inside. The shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central is the only conductor-less train in New York City. Walking up Vanderbilt Ave I register an ATM neon sign and realize I should get money. I feel a surge of anxiety walking into the deli, as if I have been here before. Why does deja-vu hurt so much? I feel light-headed. I think I'm blushing. It is shame I feel, shame, as if humanity's Original Sin were not the eating of forbidden fruit but the failure to recognize God.
I am going to the Brasserie because Dave thought I should see Diller + Scofidio's renovation of the less glamorous of the two Seagram Building basement eateries—the other being Philip Johnson's The Four Seasons. The deeper background: Phyllis Lambert, the precocious daughter of the Seagram family patriarch Charles Bronfman, persuaded her father back in the 1950's some time, to hire Mies van der Rohe to design Seagrams' Park Avenue corporate headquarters. Since then she has become the grande dame of avant-garde architecture by funding numerous competitions, presiding over the Canadian Center for Architecture, and selecting Rem Koolhaas to design the new Universal Studios' headquarters in L.A., the exchange of coasts the analogous result of an equally tectonic shift in the nature of the corporation, from alcohol to entertainment; Seagrams is now, in effect, Universal Studios/MCA. Though the family sold the 345 Park Avenue building, she retained a veto over alterations in the p! hysical fabric of the building; the outcome of this negotiation was the selection of the "dissident" architectural firm of Diller + Scofidio to re-design the restaurant. Not only had they never done a restaurant, they had never built much of anything. They produce books, performance art, art installations, websites—they're even "building" an actual cloud in Switzerland— but little by way of built architecture. Like Koolhaas, much of their architecture is in the mind. "In my own mind, I am as much a writer as an architect," Koolhaas might murmur. So I'm eager to see it, and eager to set foot in the Seagram Building itself, experience the building from within.
The problem is that at this point I don't know the street address, and for all my reading of the architectural theory and gossip, I'm not 100% certain what this icon of the International Style actually looks like. I mean, I've a pretty good sense, but it's surrounded by knock-offs, and will I be aesthetically savvy enough to distinguish it from its imitators as I walk up Park Avenue? I've always thought of it as being located on the west side of Park Avenue so this is the side I am walking north on. It's shortly before eight p.m. and the kerbs are lined by limos idling as they await the departure of corporate vice-presidents from Banker's Trust, Colgate Palmolive, Chase Manhattan. I start to ask people if they know where the Seagram Building is. Although asking directions makes me uncomfortable, once one asks the first person, one has the confidence to ask an entire street of people. This is how I think of it. The buildings' inhabitants have no idea what I'm talking about and the limo drivers tell me that if I can tell them the street address they can tell me where it is. I could get angry and frustrated at the obviousness of such a question, especially when repeated by five drivers, but instead I think how remarkable it is that nobody knows the Seagram Building. Instead I think.
Anything to not have to feel anger. Finally a middle-aged woman tells me it is at 53rd Street on the east side. I feel stupid. I Though as I did (continuing north four minutes ago) I did admire the warmth of the office lights shining through the smoked glass and the way it was set back from the avenue. My life is maybe a little less hopeless than it seemed just now. For all my confusion I'm a little early so I decide to smoke a cigarette in the plaza. The night is still warm. An Asian executive smokes too, and an Airborne Express messenger waits. The plaza stretches one hundred fifty feet to the street. For a moment I'm cocooned. Alhough I still have a couple of minutes before the appointed time, I'm not sure how exactly to get into the Brasserie. There's no sign. I manufacture a casual courage and walk into the main lobby and ask the security guard. You can take that staircase, he tells me. I comply, and head toward what appears to be some kind of back entrance. I push a door open and nearly hit a diner's chair. My facade of belongingness momentarily disrupted, I know I must keep walking with purpose, and I sway my hips ever so slightly to restore my confidence. I'm in the right place, I tell myself, but I don't feel at all right. I try to find a position on the periphery where I can orient myself without appearing lost. There is no periphery in here so I continue walking toward what I think is the main entrance, up a frosted glass staircase with low long steps, past the maitre d', through the revolving door and out onto the street and then back inside again, knowing now that my approach into the establishment will be a conventional one. There, I can see Dave sitting at the bar. I join him.
Two hours later I prepare to leave after three drinks on an roast-beef-sandwich stomach. My sense of self is foggy, approximating a degree of focus that unselfconsciously mimicks the vodka bottles which appear to float in space behind a twelve foot high, sixty foot long frosted glass cabinet behind the bar. To leave a place requires that you arrive at another— but do you think of yourself as one who has left or one who has arrived? Do you think you left a void behind or do you think you filled a new void? Do you feel a void inside, or not? The relationship subsists between the outside void and the inside void. If you fill a void inside you, are you cured of your own emptiness?


The changes and cuts to the 4 and 4A from First Group came into place yesterday, October 23.
Residents have lost their fight to save the 4A bus service from being withdrawn.
First Glasgow pressed ahead with the cut - despite locals fearing they will be cut off from schools and health services - due to falling passenger numbers.
But residents did try to fight to save the service as a petition on change.org was started with over 2,000 people signing up in favour of keeping the route.
The service will no longer serve west end neighbourhoods Kelvindale, Anniesland and Knightswood as the service will stop at Broomhill.
And on the other end of the route, the 4 and 4A will now only make one stop in the village of Eaglesham instead of three.


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package com.service;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import com.dao.model.entity.NewsCategory;
import com.dao.model.entity.NewsEntry;
import com.dao.newsentry.NewsEntryDao;
import com.service.model.BlogPost;
import com.service.model.Category;

/**
 * User: Muksia
 * Date: 15/04/15
 * Time: 20:54
*/
@Component
public class BlogPostServiceImpl implements BlogPostService {

    @Autowired
    private NewsEntryDao newsEntryDao;
	@Autowired
	private CategoryService categoryService;

    @Override
    @Transactional
    public List<BlogPost> getAll() {
        List<NewsEntry> newsEntries = newsEntryDao.findAll();
		return newsEntries.stream().map(p->new BlogPost.BlogPostBuilder().buildFromEntity(p).build()).collect(Collectors.toList());
    }

    @Override
    @Transactional
    public BlogPost save(final BlogPost post) {
		Category category = categoryService.updateCategory(post.getCategoryName());
		post.setCategory(category);
		NewsEntry entry = new NewsEntry(post);
		newsEntryDao.save(entry);
        return new BlogPost.BlogPostBuilder().buildFromEntity(entry).build();
    }

    @Override
    @Transactional
    public BlogPost findById(final Long id) {
        NewsEntry entry = newsEntryDao.find(id);
        return new BlogPost.BlogPostBuilder().buildFromEntity(entry).build();
    }

    @Override
    @Transactional
    public void delete(final Long id) {
        newsEntryDao.delete(id);
    }

    @Override
	@Transactional
    public BlogPost create(final BlogPost post) {
		final String categoryName = post.getCategoryName();
		Category category = categoryService.updateCategory(categoryName);
		NewsEntry entry = new NewsEntry(post);
		entry.setNewsCategory(new NewsCategory(category));
        return new BlogPost.BlogPostBuilder().buildFromEntity(newsEntryDao.save(entry)).build();

    }

	@Override
	@Transactional
	public List<BlogPost> getPostsByCategory(final String categoryName) {
		List<BlogPost> blogPosts = getAll();
		return blogPosts.stream().filter(p->p.getCategory().getName().equals(categoryName)).collect(Collectors.toList());
	}

	public void setNewsEntryDao(final NewsEntryDao newsEntryDao) {
        this.newsEntryDao = newsEntryDao;
    }

    public void setCategoryService(final CategoryService categoryService) {
        this.categoryService = categoryService;
    }
}

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What basic functions of Office 365 will I be expected to know how to utilize on October 20, 2014?
Will my calendar events, contact lists, and group lists be moved from FirstClass to Outlook?
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In Infinite Campus, when I click on the email link for a parent, it defaults to my FirstClass account. Can the default be changed to my Outlook account?
Can I embed my calendar on my class website?
On October 20th if I try to email from First Class will and error pop up reminding me that I cannot?
Can an alert be added to First Class on October 20th reminding users every time they log in to go to Outlook for email?
Can System Engineers send one Welcome Email to all users?
At Benson, our school has a Parent Contact conference with a live form that teachers fill out each time they make a parent contact. It has one form for every child that has been contacted. How will can we replicate this in Office 365?
When a student enters our building for the first time as a new student, I have rights to create a First Class account for them. How will this be handled? Will I still have rights? If not, what is the expected turnaround time to give them an account?
If after October 20th we noticed mistakes in Office 365 directory such as building locations and spelling of names who do we contact to correct them?
What apps are suggested for download on iPads, phones, and other mobile devices to help connect with Office 365?


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Alumnus Directs Dutch Ice Rink Where Winter Olympians Train
By southeast on	 January 1, 1990 Alumni/Foundation, Faculty and Staff, Home Page, older, Students
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Feb. 3, 2014 – Southeast Missouri State University alumnus and former men's basketball player Eelco Derks finds himself in a new arena these days.
Derks is the director of Thialf, an ice skating rink in Heerenveen in the northern region of the Netherlands where several Olympic skaters competing in this year's Winter Olympics have trained.
"All of the greatest ice skaters in the world have performed in Thialf," Derks says.
That list includes former American Olympic speed skaters Eric Heiden, Bonny Blair, Dan Janssen and Shani Davis. Other world skaters who have trained at Thialf include Norway's Johan Olov Koss; Dutch skaters Sven Kramer, Rintje Ritsma and Ireen Wust; Canada's Jeremy Wotherspoon and Germany's Anni Friesinger.
Derks, who resides in Bussum, Netherlands, plans to be hand for the Winter games in Sochi, Russia, with opening ceremonies scheduled for Feb. 7. "Sochi will be my first Olympics. I am excited since Sochi [competitors]learned from our arena. I am curious if their ideas will result in a new world record or not," he said. Derks says several Dutch short track skaters have been training every day in Thialf in preparation for the upcoming games. Sven Kramer is vying for his third gold medal, while Ireen Wust is competing for her fourth gold. At Thialf, visitors can train for ice speed skating, short tracks, figure skating and ice hockey as well as participate in strength programing such as judo, swimming and gymnastics. Several Olympic gold medalists have trained at Thialf, he says. "Thialf is an icon sports building in the Netherlands," Derks said. "It is almost a cultural heritage since many of our heroic sports history moments were made in Thialf. Ten percent of all our Olympic gold medals have been earned by ice speed skaters, almost all with a history in Thialf. "Nowadays, all our top skaters train here every day, and every year three to four national and international events are held in Thialf. Internationally, Thialf is for ice skaters what Wimbledon is for tennis players," Derks said. Derks has been employed as the director of the rink for two years. "As the director of Thialf, I am responsible for a multipurpose ice skating rink with Olympic athletes, a stadium that sets the international standard for ice skating arenas," Derks said. Under his direction, they are currently expanding the rink in an effort to reach their goal of setting the international standard for ice skating rinks and "to reset the standard for ice speed skating rinks in the world." Every very day is an interesting day in Thialf, Derks said. "We're working on a big rebuilding plan of 50 million euros, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a part of," Derks said. Derks attended Southeast from 1989 to 1993, was a four year letterman and is credited with scoring Southeast's first Division I men's basketball point. In 1993, Derks graduated from Southeast Missouri State with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in marketing. He was a member of Lambda Chi and Southeast's men's basketball team. "Southeast and the United States have really formed my way of thinking," Derks said. "It prepared me for things to come since professional sports in the United States are on a higher level than in the Netherlands. Also the sports arenas helped, as my basketball career at Southeast combined with marketing in the United States gave me an advantage. Combining education and sports also hardens you, and you learn time management at an early age." After he returned to the Netherlands, he earned a master's degree in sport management. "I am excited to work in the field of sports because I had the opportunity to make my profession out of my hobby. I came to Southeast on a basketball scholarship, which gave me a chance to play professionally on my return to the Netherlands, something I did for seven years, including four years for the Dutch National Team," he said. Derks, who stands at six feet, eight inches, says he chose Southeast because of its basketball program. A native of Waddinxveen, Netherlands, Derks speaks four languages – English, German, Dutch and French. From 2000 to the present, he has specialized in the study of the social position of sports in society. "This is a complex but very interesting field since health, social integration, city marketing, commerce and different social issues are all part of this search," he said. Derks is married with two children. When he isn't at work, he assists young people in his community as well as his children, who also enjoy playing sports. "I really enjoy being a youth trainer and coach. I do this for basketball and field hockey. Both my kids play field hockey," he said, adding he rents a gym for youth in his neighborhood to practice basketball. "Come and visit the Netherlands and Thialf," Derks said. "I will show you a great Dutch tradition through a wonderful stadium called Thialf."
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FC Halifax Town under 19s head coach Mark Trueman felt last week's victory over FC United of Manchester served as valuable preparation for next Wednesday's League Cup semi-final against Hastings United.
James Sunderland bagged a first-half double whilst substitute Eliel Anku grabbed one from the bench as Halifax won 3-1 against a tough FC United outfit.
It was the young Shaymen's third game within a week after previous wins at Rochdale (5-1) and at home to Harrogate Town (15-0) and maintained their remarkable undefeated record to 19 matches.
"FC United are one of the better teams in our league and they made it hard for us by pressing well, not showing us any respect and getting tight," Trueman said after the game.
Despite the convincing score-line, Trueman saw plenty for his side to improve upon as they look to be at their optimum for the crucial forthcoming cup tie.
"I thought we were a little bit inconsistent on the ball and gave it away cheaply at times but then at other times we kept it well and broke them down, creating some good goal-scoring opportunities," he continued.
Central midfielder Liam Healey and left winger Ousman Cham started for Town, a few days after agreeing terms to join the first-team squad for the remainder of the season.
Trueman feels it's a massive achievement for the two young talents although insisted that there is still plenty of work to be done if they are to earn contracts this summer.
The semi final will take place at Weetwood Sports in Leeds, 2pm kick-off.


Id: Unconscious part of the mind which consists of natural instincts [STAYING DRY], urges, and drives that are repressed. It includes "internal events" which stem from the influence of heredity [WHICH IS ODD BECAUSE I'VE LIVED IN THE BC LOWERMAINLAND MY WHOLE LIFE]. Although the id is the cause of all activity [OR INACTIVITY], the thoughts are often unconscious and repressed. According to Freud, all instincts can be traced back to the existence of the Eros [DRY PAVEMENT/URBAN] and the Destructive instincts (or death instinct)[RIDING THE NORTH SHORE]. Within Eros is the contrast between the instincts of self-preservation [STAYING DRY] and preservation of the species [SHOWING UP ENOUGH SO IM NOT KICKED OUT FOR BEING A FAIRWEATHER LOLLYGAGGER]. Its goal is to bind the gap between "ego-love" [DRY PAVEMENT/URBAN - SEEING SCANTILY CLAD LADIES ON THE SEAWALL] and "object-love" [BRODIE 8-BALL]. The second instinct, the destructive instinct [RIDING THE NORTH SHORE], tries to destroy the connections made by Eros [FUNNY, I'D RATHER GO RIDE THE SHORE THAN GO ON A DATE WITH A SUPERMODEL].


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One hiker dead from fall, others rescued from Mt. Hood
Kelsie Morgan
Posted: February 14, 2018 10:24 PM
by Kelsie Morgan
MT. HOOD, Oregon — A dramatic rescue unfolded on Oregon's highest peak yesterday when a group of climbers were trying to summit Mt. Hood and one of them fell more than 700 feet.
The group first used a cell phone to call for help around 10:30 a.m. saying two of them had just watched the man fall., and they were trying to get to him.
When they were able to reach him, video shows one performing CPR on the fallen climber while others flag down help from a National Guard helicopter.
A medic eventually rappelled down to the climbers and airlifted the man to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
It took rescuers until 4:40 p.m.–more than six hours after the first call for help–to hike to the location of the rest of the group.
When they finally reached them, the hikers were emotionally upset, and physically exhausted.
"I can't speak for their mental state, but I know what mine would be if i was up there though and I'd be a wreck," said Sgt. Brian Jensen, with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
A woman in the group was so injured that could not walk, and had to be lowered down the mountain with a rope and sled. She didn't make it to safety until 8:30 p.m. She was then taken to the hospital.
Throughout the day Tuesday, several climbing groups who got stuck in the dangerous conditions, and had to be rescued.


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Kelly's first feature length film, she worked on this independent piece while earning her Film B.F.A. from UCF.
Initially signing on as the special effects makeup artist, her roles grew drastically as the film was moved on the road and production traveled to Philadelphia. Slimmed down to a skeleton crew, everyone pitched in and helped serve in a myriad of positions. From applying the actor's makeup, crafting props, slating, dressing scenes, to help setting up and breaking down shots, it made every day busy.