BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - Jorinde van Klinken bereikte in de finale van het kogelstoten bij de EK atletiek in Birmingham precies wat ze voor ogen had: een medaille en een persoonlijk record. De vreugde was groot. "Ik heb helemaal niets negatiefs te vertellen over deze wedstrijd", zei ze na afloop in het Alexander Stadium.
Net als twee jaar geleden op de EK in Rome won Van Klinken zilver en stond ze op het podium naast Europees kampioene Jessica Schilder. "De laatste stoot van Jessica van 20,73 meter was bizar, dat is voor mij niet haalbaar. Maar ik was wel enorm blij met mijn persoonlijke record van 19,64 in mijn eerste stoot."
Van Klinken vond deze medaille veel mooier dan die van twee jaar geleden. "Jessica en ik waren toen verbaasd dat we met hele matige afstanden goud en zilver haalden. Deze keer hebben we allebei ons beste niveau laten zien en voelt het veel meer als verdiende medailles. Bovendien is het fenomenaal knap dat het weer is gelukt om één en twee te worden in een sport waarin het niveau wereldwijd blijft stijgen."
Oakland Roots and Soul Sports Club, in partnership with the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, announced the completion of a fully renovated futsal court at Rainbow Recreation Center, highlighted by a striking new mural designed by internationally renowned artist Shepard Fairey.
The revitalized court represents the intersection of sport, culture, and community—core values shared by all organizations involved in the project. Beyond resurfacing and improving the playing area which previously was underutilized, the court now serves as a vibrant public artwork and community asset.
The centerpiece of the renovation is a one-of-a-kind ground mural designed by Shepard Fairey, marking the first time the celebrated artist created a mural specifically for a sports surface. The artwork was brought to life by a team of local artists led by East Oakland native Kalani Cecaci, further connecting the project to The Town’s rich artistic heritage and creative community.
“It’s very exciting to be able to unveil this new piece in the Oakland community, highlighting resonant themes and values for my first sports-specific ground mural with Oakland Roots and Soul SC along with Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation,” said Artist Shepard Fairey. “We witnessed disparate countries being unified around sport with the captivating World Cup and it’s a perfect time to celebrate global citizenship together in Oakland.”
“The combination of refurbishing a futsal court with a Shepard Fairey mural exemplifies the power of sport and public spaces” stated Andrea Lepore, SVP, Brand Partnerships Oakland Roots and Soul SC. “This project reflects our commitment with our partners PG&E and Anthem to create new public works of art and safe places to play. It’s more than a futsal court—it’s now an Oakland landmark and it’s free for our entire community to enjoy.”
For more info, read about the mural and the futsal court HERE.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records. The data is to help, among other sections, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE focused on deportation.
The documents provide some more insight into the sort of information ICE intends to use Palantir to process. In January, 404 Media revealed the existence of ELITE, a system Palantir made for ICE that helps the agency find which neighborhoods to target by bringing together data from private suppliers and government agencies.
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The data is to support “all aspects of ICE screening and vetting, lead development, and criminal analysis activities,” one of the documents says. That also includes identifying what ICE perceives as fraud “before crime and fraud can materialize and detecting and reporting elements of crimes involving the exploitation or attempts to exploit the immigration and customs laws of the United States.” ICE anticipates paying LexisNexis $6.7 million, according to the records.
LexisNexis has long provided data to ICE across multiple administrations. In this new procurement record, ICE is looking to continue access to “to LexID and Accurint Virtual Crime Center,” according to a listing posted along with the document. LexID and Accurint are LexisNexis tools that take a wealth of data — “over 82 billion public and proprietary records from more than 10,000 sources” according to the company’s website — and link them together to help law enforcement locate people.
A screenshot of the document.
The document suggests ICE wants to pair these capabilities and data with Palantir systems, too. One part reads, “The government's requirement is that the database must be able to application programming interface (API) with ICE applications, such as but not limited to, Palantir platform, PenLink, and ICE Data Analytics.” PenLink is another company ICE contracts with which 404 Media previously reported on. It sells social media monitoring tools and one called Webloc for tracking the location of mobile phones in entire neighborhoods.
Palantir has become a key provider of the technical infrastructure for the Trump administration’s mass deportation mission. 404 Media previously reported that the Palantir-made ELITE, or Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement, populates a map interface with potential deportation targets, and provides ICE officials with a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. Sources for that tool include the Department of Health and Human Services.
It is not clear if ICE intends to ingest LexisNexis’ data into ELITE specifically or some other Palantir platform.
The document also lists several requirements around AI. They include “an artificial intelligence (AI) driven identification system” that can use data to “infer the identity of the end user,” and a facial recognition system that can leverage “large-scale image databases to perform high accuracy facial matching across diverse sources, including open-source media.” It must be able to do this in bulk, the document says.
LexisNexis, Palantir, and ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
