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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Summer camps offered in the Birmingham area
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — As the school year comes to an end, some parents in the Birmingham area may be looking for summer camps to keep students engaged this summer. Here's a list of some of the camps being offered: Samford University School of the Arts Summer Camps Camps are offered for various ages. More information can be found here. Alabama Ballet Junior Camp The Alabama Ballet is offering a two-week camp for dancers ages 8-12. More information can be found here. Summer Music Camps at Mason Music Mason Music is offering summer camps for various age ranges, from a preschool camp for ages 3-5 to a rock band camp for ages 13-18. More information about their camps can be found here. Summer Camps at the Birmingham Children's Theater Birmingham Children's Theatre is offering camps for various ages, as well as a summer youth production of 'A Wrinkle in Time.' More information on these programs can be found here. Alabama School of Fine Arts Summer Programs ASFA will offer summer camps focused on multiple categories, including math, video game design, creative writing, violin/ viola, app programming and visual arts. Details and dates for each camp can be found here. The Dance Foundation Summer Programs The Dance Foundation will offer multiple camps for different ages, going up to 12th grade. Dates for each camp can be found here. Red Mountain Theatre Summer Camps Red Mountain Theatre will offer 10 weeks of camps and intensive programs. More information, as well as dates for each camp, can be found here. Art Zone Summer Camps Art Zone will host multiple camps from June-August. Details for each camp can be found here. Camp Briarwood Camp Briarwood, operated by Quest Recreation, will host overnight camps and day camps during the summer. Click here for the camp schedules. High Point Climbing and Fitness Camps High Point will offer camps for ages 5-14. More information can be found here. Nike Junior Golf Camps at the Highland Park Golf Course These camps will be hosted at the Highland Park Golf Course. Camps are available for students of all abilities. More information, as well as dates each camp is offered, can be found here. Head Over Heels Gymnastics Camps Head Over Heels will offer their 'Camp Fliptastic' camps throughout the summer. Click here for descriptions of each camp, as well as registration. Birmingham Fencing Club Summer Programs The Birmingham Fencing Club will offer three sessions of summer camp for ages 7-13. More information can be found here. YMCA of Greater Birmingham Summer Camps The YMCA of Greater Birmingham will offer summer day camps, as well as Camp Cosby sleepaway camps. Information on both camps can be found on the YMCA Birmingham website. Nike Junior Golf Camp at UAB This camp will offer a day camp and an overnight camp from July 14- July 18. More information can be found here. Southern Research Biotech Academy This camp is offered to 10th-12th grade students. Dates for the camp can be found here. Southern Research NextGen STEM Academy This camp is offered to 7th-9th grade students. Details can be found here. Sawyerville Summer Camps These camps are offered to children ages 6-14 in Hale County. Click here for dates and registration. McWane Science Center Camps Camp McWayne will offer STEAM-based camps for children ages 4-13. More information, as well as registration, can be found here. Advent Episcopal School Camp ADVENTure Camp will be offered throughout June 9-July 12. Day camps will be offered for PreK to 4th grade students, and counselor in training camps will be offered to rising 5th grade students to 10th grade students. Click here for more information. Camp BRIDGES Foundation The Camp BRIDGES Foundation provides camps and programs for children, teens and young adults experiencing heart, kidney, liver and lung transplants. Information can be found on their website. Highlands School Summer Camp Highlands School will offer a traditional day camp, enrichment camps, school year preparation camps and counselor-in-training camps. More information on each camp can be found here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mirror
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins' 12 favourite books — from all-time classics to childhood favourites
Suzanne Collins revealed the books she loves and has read multiple times Suzanne Collins, the author behind the wildly popular Hunger Games series, has been a household name since the first book hit the shelves in 2008. The trilogy concluded with Mockingjay in 2010 and was soon adapted into a successful film series. A decade later, Collins revisited the dystopian world of The Hunger Games with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, followed by another prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, published this year. Despite being a rather private individual, Collins did reveal her favourite books back in 2010, including childhood favourites and those she continually returns to. In a chat with Entertainment Weekly, she revealed her love for mythology, citing Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price and D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths as top picks from her childhood. She also mentioned fiction favourites such as A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer, and Boris by Dutch writer Jaap ter Haar, which she considers one of the best war stories for children, despite it being out of print in the US, reports the Mirror US. Collins also shared some of her all-time favourite books that she frequently revisits, hinting at possible inspirations for her own writing. Suzanne Collins's list of favourite books includes George Orwell's 1984 and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, both of which have had a visible impact on her own dystopian world of Panem in the Hunger Games series. She also confessed to having re-read these books multiple times, admitting it was "embarrassing to admit" just how often. Her other favourite works of literature include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Germinal, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and A Moveable Feast. 12 Books loved by Suzanne Collins Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer Boris by Jaap ter Haar A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 1984 by George Orwell Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Germinal by Émile Zola We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
National Geographic
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- National Geographic
I took a leap of faith—and it led me in search of history's lost slave ships
It transports me back to a place of remembrance—back to the 1970s. To my childhood. To Wells Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. To the apartment on the top floor of a two-story walk-up where I lived with my mother—just the two of us in five rooms. How does the universe match parents and children? I don't know. But I do know that my mother was the perfect parent for me. She was a reading teacher. I loved to read. And my mom had access to books. She used to bring home boxes and boxes of them from her reading conferences and conventions. The joy I felt opening those boxes, pulling out the crisp packaged pages, smelling their woody scent, cracking open their spines, and disappearing into other worlds. I could spend all day with a book and all night long reading it under the covers with my flashlight. I loved fantasy books the most. Magic. Quests. Dragons. Unicorns. Outer space. Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time series was one of my favorites. I yearned for Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which to tap outside my window and charge me with helping to save the universe. I so wanted to be Charles Wallace—not Meg, mind you—anointed with a big life purpose. Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain was another favorite; I would reread the entire series each year. I wanted to be Taran, discover that I had a hidden birthright and set out with a sword on a magical adventure. I would close my eyes and wish hard for the universe to name me as worthy and call on me to do something big to help the world. Back then, my imagination was big, broad, deep. No limits. But as I grew up, I began to notice that Black girls were never at the heart of these stories. And the books that did have Black girls in them were often focused on tragedy and pain, based in the grimmest of realities. I came to understand that there was a prevailing narrative about Black people—a narrative created through a distorted lens that emphasized, to the exclusion of much else, our struggle, our pain, our trauma. From my front window, I could see a big hill that curved upward between the buildings in my apartment complex. When my mom got home from work, I would ride my bike up and down that hill. I remember huffing up and then soaring down with my legs out to the side, hands off the handlebars, the beads at the end of my braids clacking in the wind.
Politico
31-01-2025
- Business
- Politico
5 questions for the Business Software Alliance's Victoria Espinel
Presented by Spectrum for the Future Hello, and welcome to this week's installment of the Future in Five Questions. We caught up with Victoria Espinel, the CEO of the enterprise software trade group the Business Software Alliance and a former AI and trade adviser to President Joe Biden. Espinel discusses why she thinks quantum computing remains underrated, the importance of building out tech infrastructure and educating workers in high-tech skills and the seemingly bottomless hunger for policymakers to learn about AI. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows: What's one underrated big idea? We're going to hear more about quantum computing. Quantum computing has immense potential to boost economic growth due to its ability to solve complex problems beyond the reach of classical computers. It's often discussed in the context of breaking encryption and post-quantum cryptography algorithms, and there has been some good work done on this in the private sector and at NIST. But quantum computing can revolutionize many industries by supercharging materials discovery, financial and environmental modeling, and supply chain management. To tap quantum technology's full potential, we need to continue to invest in AI and cybersecurity. Investment in AI and cyber solutions means the development of more secure code, the ability to quickly detect and respond to threats, to protect against malware and more. AI should be seen as a key cyberdefense tool that can deliver the best cybersecurity outcomes by generating threat intelligence and other innovative tools. No technology is a silo; AI, cyber and quantum can reinforce one another to combat malicious actors. What's a technology that you think is overhyped? Some experts predict AI will replace human decision-making. But human judgment remains essential as AI advances, particularly for complex decisions requiring emotional intelligence and cultural understanding that AI systems cannot fully replicate. While AI excels at data processing and pattern recognition, human insight is needed to navigate ambiguous situations, provide context and make nuanced decisions. Rather than being replaced, human judgment will be indispensable for strategic guidance and ethical oversight of AI systems. What book most shaped your conception of the future? 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L'Engle. As a child, it got me thinking about the use and consequences of power. Science illuminates human mysteries; technology expands human capabilities. It is essential that we use science and technology in ways that respect the faith and love that unite us as humans. What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn't? We made several suggestions in a letter to the Trump administration this week. One is the need for technology to broadly benefit the public. Government can start by increasing access to training in essential, high-tech skills that are in demand today by employers across industries. It can also spread innovation by investing in technology infrastructure to ensure businesses and communities across the country share in the benefits of technological progress. What has surprised you the most this year? The amount of time policymakers around the world have been willing to spend learning about AI. Our briefings have been standing room only. There's a broad and genuine hunger to understand the technology better in order to make policy. This isn't always the case, so it's very welcome. I'm looking forward to continuing this conversation with other stakeholders in France next week at the Paris AI Action Summit. ai act loopholes Critics of the European Union's AI Act are saying it doesn't go far enough to prevent police abuses. POLITICO's Pieter Haeck reported for Pro subscribers on alleged loopholes for bans on law enforcement using the technology to profile if someone will commit a crime, known as predictive policing, or to scrape the internet for images to build facial recognition databases or to use biometrics to determine emotions. There are carveouts in the law allowing European authorities to use real-time facial recognition technology in public places. 'You can even question whether you can really speak of a prohibition if there [are] so many exceptions,' Nathalie Smuha, an assistant professor and researcher in AI ethics at KU Leuven, told Pieter. The ban on emotion detection only extends to schools and offices, meaning law enforcement and migration officials retain access to it. Kim Van Sparrentak, a Dutch Greens lawmaker involved in the AI Act negotiations, said that retaining that access was a red line for EU governments in the final hours of negotiations. deepseek booted from the house The House of Representatives is warning staffers not to use DeepSeek technology. POLITICO's Ben Leonard and Meredith Lee Hill reported Thursday evening for Pro subscribers on a notice from the House's Chief Administrative Officer saying the chamber is currently reviewing the Chinese-developed technology, and it's not authorized for official use on 'House-issued devices, including phones, computers and tablets' during that process. 'Threat actors are already exploiting DeepSeek to deliver malicious software and infect devices,' the notice says. Anonymous House staffers told Ben and Meredith such a move is rare, having last been made in 2024 to restrict TikTok use in the House. post OF THE DAY The Future in 5 links Stay in touch with the whole team: Derek Robertson (drobertson@ Mohar Chatterjee (mchatterjee@ Steve Heuser (sheuser@ Nate Robson (nrobson@ Daniella Cheslow (dcheslow@ and Christine Mui (cmui@
