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Submission + - How To Improve Ball Handling In Basketball - Baske (cutt.ly)

Submitted by treeping12
treeping12 writes: 15 for New York in 1955. Collins played in a number of games at first base against the Athletics between May 11, 1955 (the date Slaughter joined the A's) and the end of the season. Voters list their top 10 choices for the award, and the total number of points tallied, using a weighted formula (more points for a first-place vote than a second-place vote, etc.) Technically, this means someone could receive the most first-place votes and still not win the award. They had led the league by 3 1/2 games as late as Labor Day, but the Dodgers overtook them in the standings to win the pennant. That

Submission + - Uses of Biogas Plant | Advanced Heat and Power Technology (evoet.com.au)

Submitted by evoetech
evoetech writes: Biogas can be used as the fuel in the system of producing biogas from agricultural wastes and co-generating heat and electricity in a combined heat and power (CHP) plant.

The benefits of biogas plants include the following:
1. Biogas plants generate more energy than coal and oil combined.
2. Biogas plants provide more jobs than oil and natural gas.
3. Biogas plants reduce greenhouse gasses. They also contribute to climate change.
4. Biogas plants are more efficient fossil fuels for generating electricity, which is why many countries have developed policies that encourage biogas production.

Submission + - Top Tips On Football Betting And Match Live Stream (tech-prep.net)

Submitted by peonydoor1
peonydoor1 writes: Dubbed "Pele in skirts," Marta scored seven goals at the 2007 World Cup in China, but Brazil finished as runners-up in the tournament after falling to Germany 2-0 in the final. The Tampa Bay Rays will try to extend the series to a full seven games and win Games 6 and 7, a feat the Washington Nationals accomplished last year after dropping Game 5 against the Houston Astros. This year has become a holding operation, and in anticipation of lower crowds they have downsized their home ground for the season to the St. Thomas University ground, with some extra bleachers brought in. U.S. for the C

Submission + - Law Enforcement Career (enforcementcareers.com)

Submitted by lawenforcement1
lawenforcement1 writes: Most of the Military police are deploy worldwide and adapt to the mission. While civilian agencies operate to the jurisdiction and environment they serve. Here at Law Enforcement.com, we've worked with a grunch of law enforcement professionals both in the military as well as with other professionals in diverse agencies in the U.S. and overseas. Want to know more? Visit us now!

Submission + - Geelong's Tesla Big Battery fire burns over weekend (afr.com)

Submitted by Rei_is_a_dumbass
Rei_is_a_dumbass writes: A fire at French renewable energy giant Neoen’s Victorian Big Battery at Geelong continued to burn into Sunday, with fire crews awaiting experts from Tesla to assist in opening the Megapack battery that first caught ablaze.

A Country Fire Authority spokesperson said the fire had been contained to two battery packs, but sparks flared up every so often, re-igniting the blaze. Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.

By Sunday afternoon, the fire had mostly subsided and fire crews were performing atmospheric monitoring and checking to see how active the fire was behind each of the doors that contain a 13-tonne lithium battery inside a shipping container.

Submission + - 2 Red Objects Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn't Be There. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Two red things are hiding in a part of the solar system where they shouldn’t be. The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the early solar system.

Scientists led by Sunao Hasegawa from JAXA, the Japanese space agency, reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on July 26, 2021 that two objects, called 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia, spotted in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter appear to have originated beyond Neptune. The discoveries could one day provide direct evidence of the chaos that existed in the early solar system.

“If true it would be a huge deal,” says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, who was not involved in the research.

Not everyone is convinced just yet. Dr. Levison, who was also not involved in the paper, says objects should become less red as they approach the sun. “It seems to be inconsistent with our models,” said Dr. Levison, who is the head of NASA’s Lucy mission, which is scheduled to launch in October to study Jupiter’s Trojans.

Dr. Marsset agrees that it’s not clear why they would be so red, but it is possibly related to how long it took them to become implanted into the asteroid belt. Some Trojans may also be as red, but haven’t been found yet.

To truly confirm the origin of 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia, a spacecraft would likely need to visit them.

Submission + - Corporations Aren't Going to Save America

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "Across various segments of American life, the private sector has begun to take on tasks big and small that one might think should be tackled by the public sector," writes Vox's Emily Stewart in Corporations Aren't Going to Save America. "The private sector is increasingly encroaching on the government’s space because the government is leaving so much space to begin with. Corporations are swooping in with solutions because the solutions coming from public officials and entities aren’t working or are nonexistent."

"It's nice that rich guys are trying to have a positive influence on the world [as are rich women]," says Stewart of billionaire philanthropy. "It's also hard not to wonder whether said rich guys shouldn’t just be taxed more, or why the US and the world are in a spot where private entities, whether it be Bill Gates’s charity or his company, are filling in such obvious public spaces."

Submission + - What's the hottest temperature the human body can endure? (livescience.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: It depends on the humidity.

With climate change causing temperatures to rise across the globe, extreme heat is becoming more and more of a health threat. The human body is resilient, but it can only handle so much. So what is the highest temperature people can endure?

The answer is straightforward: a wet-bulb temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius), according to a 2020 study in the journal Science Advances. Wet-bulb temperature is not the same as the air temperature you might see reported by your local forecaster or favorite weather app. Rather, a wet-bulb temperature is measured by a thermometer covered in a water-soaked cloth, and it takes into account both heat and humidity. The latter is important because with more water in the air, it's harder for sweat to evaporate off the body and cool a person down.

At this point, the body becomes hyperthermic — above 104 F (40 C). This can lead to symptoms such as a rapid pulse, a change in mental status, a lack of sweating, faintness and coma, according to the National Institutes of Health.

A wet-bulb temperature of 95 F won't cause immediate death, however; it probably takes about 3 hours for that heat to be unsurvivable, Raymond said. There's no way to know for sure the exact amount of time, he said, but studies have tried to estimate it by immersing human participants in hot water tanks and removing them when their body temperatures began to rise uncontrollably. There also isn't a way to confirm that 95 F is the exact wet-bulb temperature that's unsurvivable; Raymond estimated that the true number is in the range of 93.2 F to 97.7 F (34 C to 36.5 C).

Fortunately, few locations have hit a wet-bulb temperature of 95 F in recorded history, according to the Science Advances study. However, lower temperatures can also be deadly. Exercise and exposure to direct sunlight make it easier to overheat. Older people; people with certain health conditions, such as obesity; and people who take antipsychotics can't regulate their temperature as well, so it's easier for heat to kill them. This is why people sometimes die in heat that does not reach a wet-bulb temperature of 95 F.

Submission + - Once largest battery of the world catches fire (vic.gov.au)

Submitted by ffkom
ffkom writes: The Tesla battery in Moorabool, Australia, which has been the world's largest battery (in terms of capacity) up until recent years, has catched fire.
As David Jones points out in his eevblog video on the event, the blocks of that battery are located surprisingly near to each other, so the first burning block did incinerate at least one more, so far.

Submission + - Virtual Contact Worse Than No Contact For Over-60s In Lockdown, Says Study (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Virtual contact during the pandemic made many over-60s feel lonelier and more depressed than no contact at all, new research has found. Many older people stayed in touch with family and friends during lockdown using the phone, video calls, and other forms of virtual contact. Zoom choirs, online book clubs and virtual bedtime stories with grandchildren helped many stave off isolation. But the study, among the first to comparatively assess social interactions across households and mental wellbeing during the pandemic, found many older people experienced a greater increase in loneliness and long-term mental health disorders as a result of the switch to online socialising than those who spent the pandemic on their own.

The problem [said Dr Yang Hu of Lancaster University, who co-wrote the report, published on Monday in Frontiers in Sociology] was that older people unfamiliar with technology found it stressful to learn how to use it. But even those who were familiar with technology often found the extensive use of the medium over lockdown so stressful that it was more damaging to their mental health than simply coping with isolation and loneliness. “Extensive exposure to digital means of communication can also cause burnout. The results are very consistent,” said Hu, who collected data from 5,148 people aged 60 or over in the UK and 1,391 in the US – both before and during the pandemic. “It’s not only loneliness that was made worse by virtual contact, but general mental health: these people were more depressed, more isolated and felt more unhappy as a direct result of their use of virtual contact,” he said.

Submission + - Report: Blizzard Once Slapped With 'Misogyny Tax' (vice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A cybersecurity company whose security researcher had once been harassed by Blizzard employees at a hacking conference charged the game developer a 50 percent “misogyny tax” when it sought a quote for security services, according to a new report from Waypoint. The researcher, Emily Mitchell, told Waypoint that she approached the Blizzard booth during the annual Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference in 2015 to see if the major video game company had any open positions. Her shirt, which referenced [to] a security process known as “penetration testing,” prompted two unnamed Blizzard employees to ask her questions laced with misogyny and sexual double entendre. “One of them asked me when was the last time I was personally penetrated, if I liked being penetrated, and how often I got penetrated,” Mitchell said. “I was furious and felt humiliated, so I took the free swag and left.”

Two years later, Blizzard approached cybersecurity firm Sagitta HPC (now known as Terahash) to request a quote on one of Sagitta HPC’s password-cracking boxes. Mitchell, who was Sagitta HPC’s chief operating officer at the time, saw Blizzard’s request and immediately remembered what occured at Black Hat USA 2015. After learning of the incident from Mitchell, Sagitta HPC founder and chief executive officer Jeremi M. Gosney responded to Blizzard’s inquiry with a lengthy message decrying her treatment at the hands of Blizzard’s employees. “[R]ather than dismiss you and tell you that we will not do business with you, we’d like to give Blizzard the opportunity to redeem themselves,” Gosney wrote. (He eventually shared the email on Twitter with Blizzard’s name redacted.) “We are committed to combating inequality, and I am calling on Blizzard to do the same. As you may or may not know, today is International Women’s Day. And in honor of this day, we are attaching a few conditions if Blizzard wishes to do business with us.”

These conditions included a 50 percent “misogyny tax” on any business Sagitta HPC did with Blizzard (to be used as a donation to three different organizations devoted to support girls and women in the tech industry), Blizzard becoming a Gold-level sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, and a formal letter of apology from Blizzard executives to Mitchell in which they’d further dedicate themselves to supporting equality for women and sexual harassment training. [...] In 2017, the organizers of Black Hat USA, the Las Vegas hacking conference at which Mitchell was originally accosted, promised her that they would not allow Blizzard back as a sponsor for future events. As far as Kotaku can tell from historical information, neither Blizzard nor Activision have had a presence at the cybersecurity event since the year Blizzard staff harassed Mitchell.

Submission + - New Exotic Matter Particle, a Tetraquark, Discovered (phys.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN is presenting a new discovery at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP). The new particle discovered by LHCb, labeled as Tcc+, is a tetraquark—an exotic hadron containing two quarks and two antiquarks. It is the longest-lived exotic matter particle ever discovered, and the first to contain two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks. Quarks are the fundamental building blocks from which matter is constructed. They combine to form hadrons, namely baryons, such as the proton and the neutron, which consist of three quarks, and mesons, which are formed as quark-antiquark pairs. In recent years a number of so-called exotic hadrons—particles with four or five quarks, instead of the conventional two or three—have been found. Today's discovery is of a particularly unique exotic hadron, an exotic exotic hadron if you like.

The new particle contains two charm quarks and an up and a down antiquark. Several tetraquarks have been discovered in recent years (including one with two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks), but this is the first one that contains two charm quarks, without charm antiquarks to balance them. Physicists call this "open charm" (in this case, "double open charm"). Particles containing a charm quark and a charm antiquark have "hidden charm"—the charm quantum number for the whole particle adds up to zero, just like a positive and a negative electrical charge would do. Here the charm quantum number adds up to two, so it has twice the charm! The quark content of Tcc+, has other interesting features besides being open charm. It is the first particle to be found that belongs to a class of tetraquarks with two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks. Such particles decay by transforming into a pair of mesons, each formed by one of the heavy quarks and one of the light antiquarks. According to some theoretical predictions, the mass of tetraquarks of this type should be very close to the sum of masses of the two mesons. Such proximity in mass makes the decay "difficult," resulting in a longer lifetime of the particle, and indeed Tcc+, is the longest-lived exotic hadron found to date.

Submission + - CDC document warns Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox and c

Submitted by rickyslashdot
rickyslashdot writes: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29...

Geez — If we HAVE to live through this AGAIN, then it's time to mobilize a grassroots campaign to GET_IT_OVER_WITH.

EVERYONE that is vaccinated needs to run around, tap 100 people on the shoulder, and breathe IN the expelled breath of the stranger. Wait 72 hours — and THEN go out again — - — except THIS time tap 1,000 people on the shoulder and cough into those faces.

Yeah, bitter, brutal, and NOT socially acceptable — - — but it will deal with the mindless, maskless morons (Darwin Award candidates) that are STILL being allowed to run around the country and kill innocents.

At least THIS way we can get it over with by Thanksgiving, and the devil can harvest the souls of the truly wicked who kill by example, and not from justifiable recourse.

I hate to associate with certain military sociopathic types (being ex-military from Viet Nam era), but Douglas MacArthor had a point with:
Kill them all and let God sort it out
found in search:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Doug...

IF you have a BETTER solution to this social medical pandemic issue — feel free to post and label me as 'duh, stupid'

later . . .

Submission + - IBM's AI Can Predict How Parkinson's Disease May Progress In Individuals (engadget.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: [R]esearchers from IBM and Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) say they’ve developed a program that can predict how the symptoms of a Parkinson’s disease patient will progress in terms of both timing and severity. In The Lancet Digital Health journal, they claim the software could transform how doctors help patients manage their symptoms by allowing them to better predict how the disease will progress. The breakthrough wouldn’t have been possible without the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, a study the Michael J. Fox Foundation sponsored. IBM describes the dataset, which includes information on more than 1,400 individuals, as the “largest and most robust volume of longitudinal Parkinson’s patient data to date” and says it allowed its AI model to map out complex symptom and progression patterns.

Submission + - Space Station briefly loses control as new Russian module misfires (cnn.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: An unusual and potentially dangerous situation unfolded Thursday at the International Space Station, as the newly-docked Russian Nauka module inadvertently fired its thrusters causing a "tug of war" with the space station and briefly pushing it out of position, according to NASA flight controllers.

Nauka — a long-delayed laboratory module that Russian space agency Roscosmos' launched to the International Space Station last week — inadvertently fired its thrusters after docking with the International Space Station Thursday morning.

NASA officials declared it a "spacecraft emergency" as the space station experienced a loss of attitude (the angle at which the ISS is supposed to remain oriented) control for nearly one hour, and ground controllers lost communications with the seven astronauts currently aboard the ISS for 11 minutes during the ordeal.

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