02-24-2025IMPACT COUNCIL our educational system needs to promote these basics BY Rodrigo Magnago The Fast Company Impact Council is a private membership community of influential leaders and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience Members pay annual membership dues for access to peer learning and thought leadership opportunities Most ordinary people know little about the calculus and programming languages required to design projects and products to leverage artificial intelligence we are not exempt from using products and services that rely on AI If we do not learn how to maximize these tools and governments—will have less ability to generate income and a lower quality of life compared to those who do What is most unsettling is the general lack of knowledge about logic and grammatical syntax that may affect AI’s creation and usage introduced indirectly in elementary school students face set theory with greater complexity Applications are presented in discrete mathematics relationships between sets and probabilities numerical sets and related algebraic operations and advanced concepts to introduce mathematical logic You might be wondering where this is going Set theory feeds into logic: the science and art of reasoning correctly Logic studies the principles of valid thought structuring rules and methods that help evaluate the consistency and validity of arguments Logic provides the structure and principles underpinning mathematical reasoning and quantification are fundamental logical tools used in mathematics Logical reasoning uses symbols and formulas to represent propositions and inferences It is essential for solving mathematical problems logic explores topics like set theory and computability theory Logic helps children (and adults) break problems into smaller more manageable parts and tackle them systematically logical reasoning helps them identify patterns and building blocks simultaneously develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills solving problems logically is intrinsic to solving equations Although the proposition might seem counterintuitive grammatical syntax has a direct relationship with mathematics syntax refers to the set of rules dictating how words and phrases are organized to form sentences and sentences have hierarchical structures (clauses Syntax rules determine whether a sentence is grammatically correct understanding sentences involves breaking them into parts Noam Chomsky’s generative grammar theory describes the implicit rules and principles underlying natural language structure It demonstrates how sentences are generated from a finite set of rules to create infinite possible expressions in a language Programming languages also have syntax—rules determining the correct structure of commands and expressions loops) combine using the specific rules of the language to form programs which also have hierarchical structures (functions compilers and interpreters analyze code by breaking it into tokens (parts) and examining its structure You might think this article was supposed to be about using artificial intelligence One important concept for using AI’s capabilities is the notion of intervals Defining intervals enable users to separate and manipulate information in databases or directly within documents and grammatical syntax are fundamental to structuring algorithms It’s worth emphasizing the classical definition of an algorithm originating in the 9th century: a finite set of well-defined step-by-step instructions for completing a task or solving a problem The brain has specialized areas for numerical and logical processing (parietal lobe) and specific regions dedicated to grammar and syntax (Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas) These regions integrate their functions to create dynamic problem-solving strategies that mimic algorithmic thinking unconsciously generating “natural algorithms” to tackle everyday challenges such as planning a route or making decisions based on available data and the brain’s ability to create natural algorithms for solving daily problems reveals a shared reliance on structured logical thinking and generative creativity This interconnectedness highlights the brain’s remarkable ability to abstract rules and develop natural algorithms to navigate the complexities of daily life A logical proposition is that our young people must be well-versed in fundamental mathematics and written language proficiency for a single purpose: to train their cognitive engines to develop natural algorithms which are being radically reshaped by humanity’s computational capabilities a logical takeaway is the idea of increasing their children’s instructional time in this cognitive set Calibrating the educational curriculum and workload has been a persistent challenge for educators The current technological revolution makes this challenge even more pronounced What is the correct workload for each subject to keep young people in step with evolution and grammar gain more importance than subjects like history A realistic perspective considers these skills as foundational as others which are also taught in knowledge blocks—lessons this structure is what students use globally with tools like Google and now ChatGPT to support their studies (in best-case scenario) We are not looking for passive users if we aim for a better world and logic were the foundation for social media and other revolutionary applications in recent years Billions around the world improved their cultural awareness and their daily life but we can’t exactly say that these applications created value for all of them will certainly deliver significant benefits to the general population much like its predecessor technologies did technology should go further by driving value creation that is more equally distributed enhancing economic output for people around the world Rodrigo Magnago is the director of rere.eco The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards 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Learn More 11-23-2024IMPACT COUNCIL but best used by consolidating it through each industry [Images: royyimzy/Adobe Stock; starlineart/Adobe Stock] the reader must accept two inferences as true: The first is that using AI involves the application of statistical methods to identify patterns it aims to solve significant problems through rigid or incremental innovation The second is that most collective issues share the common need for the state’s role in regulating or directly participating in their resolution If the reader considers either of these inferences unlikely continuing from here would be a waste of time Developing countries have a more fragmented environment due to democracies that are still improving which increases the incidence of principal-agent conflicts in community relations Decision makers act with little or no accountability and without coordination the public sector stands as the largest employer and provides benefits that the private sector does not offer Being a government employee is considered a privilege This situation demonstrates that public service in these nations lacks the sense of purpose that could mitigate conflicts of interest these countries experience higher levels of corruption tend to impose barriers on public sector contracting and transactions with private enterprises If building data pipelines mainly involves the collaboration of various data professionals—from data capture to processing and the application of statistical or predictive techniques that generate new hypotheses and solutions—states would need to make good hires across different skill sets (either individuals or companies) over overlapping periods within any project’s timeline is naturally impossible given their bureaucratic structures The challenges start to feel overwhelming even at the basic stages of AI adoption: data acquisition various levels of government (such as regulatory agencies) Many of these associations are still relatively young Even those that possess data often have it in a disorganized form while the vast majority lack data altogether It’s important to remember that democracy in Latin America is a recent phenomenon struggling with a lack of guidance and governance They operate in an institutional environment that these organizations find it difficult to grasp the direction of public policies—and even more challenging to understand the corporate strategies of their countries But they don’t really know what to do with it and the data fragmentation across small businesses makes the task economically unfeasible The solution would lie in concentrating this data within industry associations the reader will have noticed the circular reference (for data professionals) or the conundrum (for avid readers) In the case of international companies operating in developing countries but due to a lack of coordination among their subsidiaries or the absence of enforced compliance in these countries they either remain stuck or pursue low-impact initiatives My company ReRe investigates data in agricultural operations looking for insights that lead to better hypotheses All the challenges mentioned earlier are part of our daily work but what gives us an advantage is having a founder with a strong appetite for counterintuitive solutions even without a clear view of the outputs this endeavor may bring We must convince various players to provide us with data—data they often have but don’t want to share and countless public and private ESG initiatives that are often redundant and fail to align their efforts It’s just as challenging to convince stakeholders to use this information encouraging them to pursue solutions that benefit the collective but go against their personal interests—this takes a lot of our team’s energy allowing us to confirm the quantitative data gathered from this extreme (and often random) fragmentation conduct interviews to interpret what the data is silently revealing In the face of all these challenges—building a data warehouse that supports credible analyses and sound hypotheses—we can predict that it’s unlikely we’ll achieve game-changing results They have revealed previously invisible issues our main thesis gains strength: the data suggests counterintuitive solutions we discovered that packaging used for agricultural chemicals and fertilizers—many of them harmful to humans and animals—supplied by multinational chemical companies and used in Brazilian agriculture were found in the transportation of food for human consumption Solutions to these issues will emerge from modern computational models and community cooperation just as we envision for agricultural packaging in a vast country like Brazil is that if the data is gathered and validated and AI tools are applied effectively to generate solutions for the developing world the real game-changer will be the soft skills required to manage the variability and externalities of this environment Rodrigo Magnago is the director of rere.eco This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Meet the Top 10 students in Atlantis Charter School's Class of 2021The Herald NewsFALL RIVER — Atlantis Charter School announced the following students were named to the Top 10 for the Class of 2021:  is the daughter of Cathleen and Greg Mello She will attend Boston College as a nursing major this fall Kelsey received the Dollars for Scholars Scholarship and has volunteered in the Reading Buddies program through Atlantis She was a member of the Varsity Cheerleading Team Atlantis’ Diversity/Inclusion/Equity Club and was class president for Student Council and hopes to become an Emergency Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Her advice for future generations of Tritons is to Veyha Neth is the son of Lang Tang and Phousa Neth of Napoleon St He will attend the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth majoring in Bioengineering He is grateful for the community and friendships gained at Atlantis Charter School is the son of Doug Massey and Janet Travis He will be attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth majoring in Finance Tyler has been a student of Atlantis Charter School since kindergarten and is very thankful for his experiences with the school Massey was a recipient of National Honor Society and a member of the Chess Club His advice for all students is to always find a bright spot in everything that you do because a positive outlook will yield the greatest successes Zachary Dupre is the son of Michelle Dupre and the late Eric Dupre brother of Nicholas Ruggiero and Riley Dupre of Family Drive in Fall River He will be attending Roger Williams University as a Finance Major this fall He has received the Presidential Scholarship and the John & Abigail Adam’s Scholarship He is a member of the National Honor Society Zach is a volunteer assistant instructor at USA Karate while also continuing his training to become a Sensei shooting out of Buckley Family Archery in Fall River He is currently employed at Marshall’s is the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Camara of Alsop street in Fall River She will attend the University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth as a Nursing major Mikayla has received the Dean’s Scholarship from UMASS and is also a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams scholarship She was involved with student government as the Class Vice President for 4 years as well as being a member of the National Honors Society She hopes to further her education and become a nurse practitioner in the future She is going to miss the immense amount of love and support she has received from her teachers and classmates at Atlantis Charter School and is grateful for all the opportunities she has been given over the past 13 years of her life at Atlantis along with his step mother Helena DaSilva of Southmain Street in Fall River He will attend Bridgewater State University in the state of Massachusetts majoring in Psychology Andrew received the Recognition of Scholastic Excellence award from BSU and is hoping to use this opportunity to further his success at the next level His advice for future generations of the Tritons is to “Stay Heavy and Crystle Viera of Lawton Street in Fall River He will attend Boston College in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences as a biology major on a pre-med track with a possible double major in political science Kodee Bonalewicz received the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence and President's Award He was a member of the National Honor Society and was president of the Chess Club He has volunteered as an aid for Fun Run to help inspire younger children to get active and stay healthy he would like to become a physician with the ability to represent himself and those around him in the government has attended Atlantis Charter School since kindergarten She will attend Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences in Medford as an English major She was a member of the National Honor Society and an active volunteer at Forever Paws Animal Shelter she would like to work within literary publishing Nicole DaPonte is the daughter of João and Fernanda DaPonte of Laurel Street in Fall River She will attend Johnson and Wales University as a Business Administration major Nicole received the Dollars for Scholars Scholarship and the Presidential Excellence Scholarship She was a member of the Varsity Volleyball Team She has volunteered with her youth group at Good Shepherd Parish she would like to own her own hotel and coffee shop Elijah Facchiano is the son of John and Kristen Facchiano He will be attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as a psychology major in the Honors College Elijah has received the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship as well as the Dollars for Scholars Scholarship Elijah has been a member of the National Honor Society for three years He plans to get his master’s degree and become a research psychologist Alyssa Frias is the daughter of Antonio and Ligia Frias of Westport Lakes Drive in Westport She will attend the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as a nursing major in the honors college She was the varsity volleyball team captain and a member of the National Honor Society She has volunteered with her youth group at Espirito Santo Church she would like to become a pediatric nurse practitioner and will always show her triton pride wherever she goes Propositions for the Architecture of the City perhaps for two reasons: romantic tradition which transformed artistic into creative activity and the artist into a demigod going less by the laws of tradition than by its own; and consumerist society which has tended to aestheti-cize anything that can be consumed Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani tries to determine when exactly architecture became so closely tied to the aura of wonder that some buildings ooze and attributes it to a phenomenon associated with capitalist digital society Though maybe too simplistic (fascination with auras goes back to the pyramids) his thesis proves right when we look at the results that ‘auratism’ has yieled in cities which nowadays tend to be unsustainable arenas where capitalism the author engages with different meanings of ‘modern,’ which has bright and dark sides And while giving his book the tone of a sensible essay that can be read as a silent manifesto he resorts to the classical tripartite structure The first part presents “calm modernity,” but it’s in the second and third parts (on memory and sustainability and on contemporary urban design) that Lampugnani more proactively defends the reasonable but the normalcy he advocates could not possibly be more 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design team curates the dwelling with a respect for both sustainable performance and minimal language casa quattro is designed for a young couple of computer scientists who had decided to live and work with a close connection to the natural context images by simone bossi LCA architetti organizes its casa quattro across two levels with a centralized atrium the double-height space fills the interior with natural light and is expressed from the exterior as a large in order to establish a direct dialogue with the surrounding landscape the central area is free from walls that obstruct the view the design team comments: ‘the unique and wonderful spectacle of the sky the countryside and the forest are a constant presence in the daily life of the house and of the people who live there.’ the simplicity of the overall volume of LCA architetti’s ‘casa quattro’ recalls the small farmhouses and barns of the lombard countryside the team emphasizes the project as a primitive building devoid of any non-essential element the material palette is informed also by the natural context the interior finishes and furnishings are of stone and oak wood the only decorative element is seen with the surface processing of the external insulation in visible cork — the panels are given an eccentric decorative patterning in deliberate contrast with the otherwise minimal atmosphere of the house the natural materiality renders the facades of the dwelling alive and vibrant with light architecture: LCA architetti photography: simone bossi AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international 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FS-biomass derived briquettes with 3.6–5.1% MC could be viable heat sources to replace charcoal (7.4% MC) and the common briquettes (6.2% MC) on market All content on this site: Copyright © 2025 Elsevier B.V. triumphing once again from the breakaway on stage 14 to Cassano Magnano The German, who was triumphant in Rivoli on stage 12, almost celebrated too soon at the end of the 194km stage, but just held on to beat out Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech) for the victory Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) rounded out the podium after leading out the sprint after the lead two break groups came together inside the final kilometre and Bettiol were all part of the chase group behind a lead group of three heading into the dying kilometres of the stage Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo) and Davide Ballerini (Soudal-QuickStep) all out front having attacked at around 50km to go it had looked like they would contest the victory but things came back together inside the last kilometre of the race and Gee immediately came over the top around the final bend with the German punching past on the final rise to the line who has been among the revelations of the race finished fast but fell just half a wheel short and would be forced to settle for a third second place at his debut Giro d’Italia “I felt super good today and I got from the beginning the opportunity to go for the break which I used again,” Denz said after the stage I thought we lost it because it seemed that they couldn’t close it." “But then the attacks went on the hills in the final we almost closed it but when we stopped pushing I didn’t want fourth because I already won so I closed it and then Bettiol launched I jumped on his wheel and went full to the line and – again 53 seconds after the battle for the win, Groupama-FDJ man Bruno Armirail rolled across the line in 15th place Taken in isolation it wasn’t a standout result but with the Ineos Grenadier-led peloton riding a go-slow for much of the stage the Frenchman would be elevated into the maglia rosa The peloton eventually crossed the line at just over 21 minutes down giving the 2023 Giro d’Italia its fourth leader and the first French leader of the race since Laurent Jalabert in 1999 Stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia would take the remaining riders back across the Swiss border and back into Italy with a 193km stage from Sierra to Cassano Magnago in Lombardia the sole difficulty along the way would nevertheless be a major one though the peak came some 140km from the finish line one that would go on for 30km at the start of the stage before a large group of riders established themselves off the front 19 men got off the front after a lot of back and forth and plenty of attacks through the opening kilometres Maglia azzurra contender Davide Bais (Eolo-Kometa) was in there along with Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) and sprinters Davide Ballerini (Soudal-QuickStep) and Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) A group of seven came across partway up the Simplonpass with Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic) and Israel-Premier Tech trio Simon Clarke Eolo-Kometa pair Mattia Bais and Mirco Maestri got across having only attacked after the peloton slowed down to let the break go The rain once again began to fall on the riders as they headed uphill the peloton six minutes down on the break as they raced to the 2,004-metre summit Bruno Armirail tried to fend off Davide Bais on behalf of his Groupama-FDJ teammate mountain classification leader Thibaut Pinot who spent six days in blue between Pinot’s spells in the classification lead coming from behind in the final metres to grab 40 points and retake the jersey The gap back to the peloton only grew more and more as the riders flew down the wide As the riders crossed the border it was past nine minutes and by the time Marius Mayrhofer (Team DSM) beat Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo) and Gee at the intermediate sprint The situation would remain the same for some time on the flat roads south towards Lake Maggiore at least until Bettiol ventured off the front at 62km to go the Italian set off a chain reaction of moves behind as the battle for the stage win got underway Stage 12 winner Nico Denz (Bora-Hansgrohe) came across first before the remainder of the group eventually joined in Laurens Rex (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and a bridging Ballerini were the next to go stealing a march on the rest into the final 50km More attacks flew behind on the counter but the four out front built their lead to over 30 seconds before Movistar and Bahrain Victorious set their handful of men to work on behalf of sprinters Gaviria and Andrea Pasqualon That advantage grew out to 50 seconds as the riders raced towards the final 20km while the slow-moving peloton at 17 minutes behind the chase threatened to gift the maglia rosa to Armirail A small rise at 17km to go provoked attacks from the chase with Gee and Bettiol leading the offensive The upping of the pace brought the leaders’ advantage down to 30 seconds as the riders hit the final 13km while Gaviria was among the riders dropped from the move Skujins used a rise in the road to push on and drop Rex from the move while back in the chase Mayrhofer and Denz joined Gee and Bettiol on the attack Rex was caught by that group soon after at just under 20 seconds down on the leaders and Oldani worked together well into the final 5km holding an ever-decreasing gap as the metres raced by That gap edged down towards the 10-second mark heading into the final kilometre before Oldani made his move at the front with a final push from Denz brought the chasers across 500 metres from the finish Bettiol led the chasers immediately past the trio they had just caught with Denz once again proving the strongest man from a small breakaway group to shoot to another Giro stage victory Results powered by FirstCycling Dani has reported from the world's top races She has interviewed many of the sport's biggest stars and her favourite races are the Giro d'Italia the Renaissance bequeathed to the West the conviction that the city could be rethought and transformed The Baroque and the Enlightenment simply pursued the path paved by Brunelleschi though the 19th century was the period that would see the desire to regenerate cities through design bearing its greatest fruits: the Paris of Haussmann The tradition of bourgeois urban design was pushed aside by the CIAM’s tabula rasa and it took time for the legacy of the bourgeois metropolis to be rediscovered thanks especially to the Aldo Rossi of The Architecture of the City Trained in Rome and Stuttgart but based for decades in Milan and professor Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani belongs to this tradition of urban design of humanistic roots and since the 1980s he has unflinchingly sought to revive the vocabulary and spirit of the European bourgeois city; a determination he has poured into rigorous academic works but also into ambitious urban projects like the Novartis campus he has come up with a compendium of the knowledge acquired in the course of these past years of firm commitment to the study of the city: two large thick volumes whose encyclopedic intentions are clear in their title: Atlas zum Städtebau (atlas of urban planning) The objective could not be simpler: to describe the European bourgeois city through its streets and squares The simplicity does not make the approach neutral; it connects more with the academic tradition of ‘elements of architecture’ than with the modern theses of planning based on economic In presenting streets and squares as the city’s fundamental elements Lampugnani is just upholding the idea of the metropolis as a catalog of pieces that the architect should know and use at all scales: from those of the urban fabric to those of furniture or even pavement tiles This conviction is reflected in the way the book presents the urban examples selected by the author from ‘main squares’ like Madrid’s Plaza Mayor or Verona’s Piazza dei Signori to the large courtyards of Zurich’s Zentralhof and from ‘main streets’ like Vienna’s Ring or Paris’s Rue de Rivoli to riverside walks like London’s Victoria Embankment All these examples are explained in essays and illustrated at different scales by floor plans and sections beautifully redrawn for the purpose besides splendid color photographs and abundant historical maps but it’s definitely a reference for the nostalgic who continue to believe in the powers of urban design that the European Renaissance left us but also for upholders of order and ‘beautiful form’ who wish to resist the deliquescent and economicist impetus of the Manhattanism of the globalized world Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker begins in the Valais just below Friday’s mountaintop finish and travels across 70km of Swiss roads before crossing the border back to Italy It only takes 35.7km from the start in Sierre for the peloton to encounter the only climb of the day a challenging 20.2km ascent of Passo del Sempione The first-category climb begins in Brig and averages 6.5% with a stiff stretch at 14% after the first 3km.  It is on the technical descent among a series of tunnels that the corsa rosa returns to Italian soil the steep banks providing a launchpad for the final 124km in Italy and all of it downhill The route passes Lake Maggiore on the approach to Cassano Magnago where the sprinters who survived the early climb could seek glory they will have to survive two small uncategorised climbs with 16 kilometres remaining to reach the final flat finish Text description provided by the architects. Casa quattro designed by LCA architetti (Luca Compri Architects) is a sustainable house characterized by extremely simple architecture. The property is located in a small town near Milan, the owners are a young couple of computer scientists who have decided to live and work in close contact with nature. © Simone BossiThe building is located on the edge of the village and overlooks a small wood of acacias. © Simone BossiOn the ground floor we find the entrance, the kitchen, a bedroom, a study, two bathrooms, a laundry room and a large living room; on the mezzanine floor there is a small gym, a bedroom, a bathroom and a study overlooking the living room. © Simone BossiThe center of the house is characterized by a double-height space full of natural light, fully glazed to the north and partially to the south; in order to establish a direct dialogue with the external landscape free from walls that obstruct the view. The unique and wonderful spectacle of the sky, the countryside and the forest are a constant presence in the daily life of the house and of the people who live there. Plan - First floorOn the outside, the simplicity of the architectural composition recalls the small farmhouses and barns of the Lombard countryside, making the house a primitive building devoid of any non-essential element. © Simone BossiNature also guides the choice of building materials: wood for the basic structure, rice straw and cork as insulators; the interior finishes and furnishings are in stone and oak wood. © Simone BossiThe only decorative "whim" concerns the surface processing of the external insulation in visible cork: the slabs were pantographed in 3D and decorated in an eccentric way - in sharp but deliberate contrast with the poor soul of the house - the naturalness of the material makes the facades of the house alive and vibrant with light. © Simone BossiThe intention was to ennoble elements (cork and straw) that were very poor in themselves to highlight their unique characteristics in terms not only of sustainability, efficiency and durability but also and above all of aesthetic beauty. © Simone BossiThe building is self-powered thanks to the contributions of passive and active solar energy, eliminating consumption and C02 emissions; the materials used are almost completely natural and can be easily recycled once the building is decommissioned. Longitudinal sectionThe will of the designer and the clients was to work on a bio-ecological project with a simple and natural soul and an almost primitive bare architecture You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image the Cromwell College year 10 pupil squared up for the first time against the best in the world at a series of United States competitions She brought home three state championship belts and North American Grappling Association (Naga) world championship silver and bronze medals she got her father and training partner Marcus Mulholland in a chokehold that dislocated his jaw the nine-year veteran of Brazilian jujitsu spent the second week of her term one school holidays going for gold in the expert division of the Naga world championships and sparked a celebration from me," her Cromwell coach Jason Magnago-Smith told the Central Otago News — sparking a grin from Shyla Shyla has been training hard the last six months for her second tilt at world domination "I train every day for two and a-half hours I will be switching to more mixed martial arts after this [competition]," she said said his daughter typically wore a "poker face" while competing and accepted a win or loss with equal calmness "She never makes a big deal out of the result," he said He had faith his daughter would win a world championship in age group or adult competition "But the biggest thing for me is here is a 14-year-old girl going into the worlds from a small town." Magnago-Smith has been doing martial arts for 18 years and coaching Shyla for about three years He works with Mr Mulholland to come up with a training plan that focuses on improving Shyla’s technique and adding to her repertoire of skills "My goal is for her to beat me — for every single student to beat me I have a limited time to get everyone to beat me," he said Mr Mulholland said the sport required speed confidence and the ability to be a contortionist and super-calm Shyla said she was feeling 100% for the world competition Mr Mulholland said that was all he could ask for