104-year-old Baton Rouge native Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins to compete in track championship

Hawkins will be the oldest competitor at the meet

“I’ll walk two to five miles every day. I do some strength training and flexibility work,” says Wilder, who is the CEO and founder of a family medicine practice in the US state of Arizona called LifeScape. “It’s about the little things every day. Every choice I’m making I’m thinking about things that work in my favour. It’s about self-preservation.”

One of those athletes is 104-year-old Julia Hawkins. 

WBRZ reports that 27 of Hawkins' competitors are reigning world masters champions. Athletes range in age from 30-104.

Hawkins set a record in last year's Senior Games in the 50-meter dash. She was the oldest woman to compete on an American track, according to the National Senior Games Association. She's also broken several world records.

Her wins last year and in 2018 went viral, being shared by major media outlets such as USA Today, CBS News, and The New York Times. Even President Obama shared a video of Hawkins, saying he was inspired by her life advice and impressed by her dash time.

Hawkins studied education at LSU in the 1930s.

World’s largest digital arts centre opens in Bordeaux submarine base

Once a submarine base'A colossal concrete bunker'for Nazi U-boats in the World War II has been hired for digital arts centre. And this will become 'The World's Largest Digital Arts Center'.

Visitors will be able to view giant digital renderings of works by famous artists set to music and projected on to the walls of the structure. 

And despite the challenges of converting the base, abandoned for nearly 50 years, into a gallery, organisers say it is the perfect space for digital art. 

“The space is magical. It mixes concrete, grandeur, water and reflections,” Augustin de Cointet de Filain, director of the Bassins de Lumières, told AFP. 

“When we visited the space, we knew we had to work with it. We had this epiphany and knew we had to put on exhibitions here.” 

The monumental structure includes four 110m-long pools crossed by walkways and space for 12,000 m² of projections, using 90 video projectors and 100km of optical fibre.

The base was built by the occupying German military in 1943 to house a flotilla of 43 U-Boats, but fell into disuse after the end of the war. 

“It was inaugurated on May 13 and was used for less than two years,” said historian Mathieu Marsan.  

“The space is made of 600,000 cubic metres of reinforced concrete. Destroying it would not have been economically viable.” 

The centre will open with a display of work by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and German painter Paul Klee. 

“He (Gustav Klimt) is an artist who is well-suited to the vastness of this space, because his early works were these large murals and here we have walls, we have space,” Cointet de Filain. 

“Klimt represented innovation in art, and we thought it was time to show that this submarine base can be innovative too.”

India is trying to build the world's biggest facial recognition system

In July, Bhuwan Ribhu received some very good news. 

The child labor activist, who works for Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had launched a pilot program 15 months prior to match a police database containing photos of all of India's missing children with another one comprising shots of all the minors living in the country's child care institutions.

He had just found out the results. "We were able to match 10,561 missing children with those living in institutions," he told CNN. "They are currently in the process of being reunited with their families." Most of them were victims of trafficking, forced to work in the fields, in garment factories or in brothels, according to Ribhu.

This momentous undertaking was made possible by facial recognition technology provided by New Delhi's police. "There are over 300,000 missing children in India and over 100,000 living in institutions," he explained. "We couldn't possibly have matched them all manually." 

Locating thousands of missing children is just one of the challenges faced by India's overstretched police force in a nation of 1.37 billion people. 

India has just 144 police officers for every 100,000 citizens, compared to 318 per 100,000 citizens in the European Union. In recent years, authorities have turned to facial recognition technology to make up for the shortfall. 

New Delhi's law enforcement agencies adopted the technology in 2018, and it's also being used to police large events and fight crime in a handful of other states, including Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. 

But India's government now has a much more ambitious plan. It wants to construct one of the world's largest facial recognition systems. The project envisions a future in which police from across the country's 29 states and seven union territories would have access to a single, centralized database.

Manipur Women's market :Asia's largest all women's market

    The Manipur's capital Impal is the city with the market which is run by only women shopkeeper's.This is Asia's largest all women market with more than 4000 shopkeepers.

    Their original language spoken there is Kaithel. Where KAI refers to break THEL refers to display.This market is also popularly known as Emakaithil  meaning Mother's market" .Emakaithil  is 500 years old market,When men of Maiti community stayed away from homes  during waging war for more than a months their family was in need of resources for their living so women's started working to support the family by doing work.This in time helped women's to develop their entrepreneur skills.It paved way for the plenty of female traders around Manipur.

    No men is allowed to run shop around here.These Women's are helping a lot to run their families.Women's here running the shops for around generation and generation.

    Once you enter the market you will see plenty of shops around there. Emakeithil plays a major role in Manipur Women's life and it often called as"Queen of Market".This Market deals only with women's no men's are allowed here.Married Women's starts to run business in the market to support their home and country economy.Women's in this market are working so hard and made the annual turn over around 50 crore.The Market is second family for the Women's around there.

There are variety of sections like Vegetables,fruits,fishes,clothes,accessories,traditional wears,utensils,knifes,tailoring shops,etc,...This market is learning center for women's.Where local to International news are shared among them.This shows"Educate a Women and their community will prosper".This reveals that women's in India has Strong entrepreneur skills.This Market plays Major contribution for Sate's economy growth.It is operated all 7 days in a week from 3 A.M to 7 P.M.When sunsets women's starts packing and go home to support their families.

Russia declares state of emergency in Siberia after oil spill

Oil Spill in Russia’s - Clean Up Takes 1.5 Billion Dollars - Recovery May Lead Up to 10 years!!!

Russia has declared a state of emergency in northern Siberia after more than 20,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into a river near the Arctic Ocean. Following record heat linked to climate change, the permafrost beneath a fuel reservoir reportedly collapsed, leaking diesel across miles of Russian wilderness. Climate activists say the incident is the biggest oil spill in Russia’s modern history.

How did the fuel spill occur? 

A fuel reservoir reportedly collapsed at the power plant in Norilsk. The leakage caused 20,000 tons of diesel fuel to spill into the nearby Ambarnaya River. According to Norilsk Nickel, the fuel tank that ruptured causing the spill was damaged earlier, when supporting pillars that had "held it in place for nearly 30 years began to sink.

What is the extent of the damage? 

At least 12 km of the Ambarnaya river's surface has been polluted by the spill. According to Environmentalists, the river would be difficult to clean, especially given its shallow waters and remote locations, as well as the magnitude of the spill.

Huawei’s new phone screens coronavirus symptom with temperature sensor

Smartphones just got a little smarter.

In fact, Huawei’s new phone could even help users screen themselves for the coronavirus with a built-in thermometer.

The Honor Play 4 Pro, which was released Wednesday, includes an infrared temperature sensor near the back camera, according to Ars Technica.

Though it isn’t the only sign of COVID-19, a fever is one of the most common symptoms of the virus.

The sensor works when someone touches it to a person or object and taps through the app, Ars Technica reported.

According to Forbes, the sensor measures temperatures between -4 degrees Fahrenheit (20 C) and 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 C).

But Huawei isn’t the only company offering possible coronavirus screening technology.

One newly released app, ëlarm, connects to users’ wearable devices and monitors for specific coronavirus symptoms and other viruses, the website says.

Ëlarm costs $4.50 per month for the “Early Adopter Plan” and the second month is free for early users, according to the website. 

The app works with wearable devices from Apple, Fitbit, Google Fit, Samsung, Huawei, Withings, Motorola, Fossil and Sony, among others, as long as they can connect to Google Fit, the website says.

Artificial voice box in Bangalore at just R.s.50

    Channapatna,which is 60 kms away from Banglore is famous for producing wooden toys.In every house there will be a toy maker.Those toys would really bring back our childhood memories.But only very few people know that this village is life changing for many peoples.

    

Normally people with vocal cancer lose their voice after surgery due to removal of vocal cord and normally voice prosthesis will be placed to retain their voice.And this vocal prosthesis has to be replaced every six months or one year and that would require of cost around 15000 to 20000 rupees.

    

Dr.Vishal Rao an Oncologist found that this surgery  would be difficult for many peoples to do.So he went to Channapatna and approached a toy maker named Kushar Pasha , showed him the silicon Artificial Voice Box and asked him to make a device.There comes the Artificial Voice Box Inserter.We don't want to worry about the saftey because it is made up of Natural dye which is tissue friendly.And the cost is around 50 rupees.

It is life hope for many people!!!