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China Is Poised to Dominate the Internet
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China — and the Asia-Pacific region at large — is in a position to dominate the internet in the coming decade, according to data in Bond's Internet Trends 2019 deck. In tandem with the growth of China's tech industry and the increasing popularity of apps developed in the country, China's cellular internet data usage growth has increased year over year since 2013. More broadly, the Asia-Pacific region leads in terms of the percentage of global internet users (53%) and the number of potential users: In 2018, there was only 48% internet penetration in the region.
"China, India and Indonesia will soon have by far the most internet users," writes consultant and editor Michael Spencer on Medium. "America's impact by actual users on the global internet … is on a steep decline as the new internet users from the developing world start to emerge." Moreover, writes Spencer, "China is building a tech dynasty of companies that will challenge American ones in the years ahead."
Analysis: COVID Cost Employers $213 Billion in Lost Hours in the US
Roughly 6.6 billion hours were lost over two years due to the pandemic, according to a new report from the Integrated Benefits Institute. Researchers estimate the cost associated with those hours to be $213.1 billion ($167.4 billion in the first year and $45.7 billion in the second).
According to its analysis, the industries that suffered the most economically were educational services, health care, and social assistance ($30.8 billion); public administration ($27.1 billion); construction ($23.9 billion); waste management services ($22.4 billion); and manufacturing ($21.5 billion).
The top reason for lost hours include economic issues, accounting for 44% of the reasons in year one and 36% in year two. Examples of economic issues include slack (or slow) work, business conditions, or workers could only find part-time work. The report cites an example of slack work or business conditions as a "temporary closure due to the pandemic."
Data from two years prior to the pandemic shows that economic reasons accounted for 36.3% of lost hours, indicating that the sharp increase in year one of the pandemic had almost completely receded in year two, when the researchers note a spike in personal leave instead.
Survey: Indians See China and U.S. as Top Military Threats
A new survey sheds light on how Indians view their diplomatic relationships with two global superpowers.
According to research conducted by Morning Consult, Indians view China (43% of respondents) as their country's biggest threat, followed by the U.S. (22%). Pakistan and Russia follow each with 13% of citizens saying these countries are India's biggest threat.
While India's mistrust of the U.S. may be surprising, given that it is seen as an even bigger threat than its longtime rival Pakistan, the authors point to India's pragmatic approach to dealing with competing superpowers.
"As tensions between Washington and Beijing increase, the Indian public may be worried about getting caught in the middle of a U.S.-China conflict that destabilizes regional security, putting India at risk," the authors said.
Complicating the relationship between the world's two largest democracies even further is the conflict in Ukraine. The study finds that a significant share of Indians believe that that the U.S. (26%) and NATO (18%) are responsible for instigating that conflict. Together those results are higher than the share who believe that Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February of 2022, is responsible (38%) the conflict.
Survey: Most CEOs Expect Economic Turnaround by 2024
Business leaders across the globe are girding for a year that's been preceded by compounding global risks, from record prices to geopolitical instability. Yet many CEOs believe that growth in their regions will accelerate within the year.
The Conference Board's annual survey of C-suite executives reveals that most CEOs believe their region is in a recession, but 48% predict an economic turnaround by the end of 2023. Nearly as many (46%) believe a recession will last at least until mid-2024.
Nearly half of CEOs in the U.S. (51%) and Europe (49%) believe that growth will resume by mid- to late 2023, while in China, executives have a more optimistic outlook (59%). CEOs in Latin America, who alone cited declining trust in government as a top-tier concern, were most pessimistic, with 64% saying a recession will last until 2024 or beyond.
Although the global economy is on a downward trend, the report's authors do not forecast a global recession. Rather, they see weakened GDP growth of 2.1%: "A pace that does not formally constitute a global recession but, if achieved, would be the weakest growth rate since 2001 (outside of global recession years 2009 and 2020)." They also forecast regional recessions, most likely in the U.S., Europe and some of the largest Latin American economies, while Russia and Ukraine would remain in recession longer.
Recessions' Negative Effects on Public Health
If past recessions are any indication, governments and businesses need to be on alert regarding the health repercussions of an economic downturn.
As the Global Risks Report 2023 indicates, economic pressures are likely to intensify. Periods of economic decline are linked to considerable increases in excess mortality, with higher rates persisting years after the event. Job losses can also drive spikes in suicide rates, with men typically more affected. During the 2007-08 global financial crisis (GFC) there were 12-times more suicides among men than women in the U.S.
Recessions can contribute to spikes in conditions ranging from depression to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancers, as well as malnutrition and greater susceptibility to infections. A study linked 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths in OECD countries to GFC-prompted unemployment and reduced health expenditure. The relentless stress of joblessness is associated with higher mortality.
Economic uncertainty can also impact health systems' financial resilience — either through deliberate spending cuts, declining GDP or inflation-linked escalating costs. Recession repercussions will add to existing crises for the health sector, such as long-standing workforce-related issues. While recession-linked impacts will be shaped by national contexts, a failure to prepare for the health consequences of a looming economic downturn puts already-suffering populations at further risk.


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Q: Computed property not updating in aurelia Currently I try to reevaluate my "enabled" property but its not re-computed after I change either pages or pageIndex.
page.js
export class Test {
    pageIndex = 0;
    pages = 2;

    constructor() {
        this.items = [
            {title:"Prev.", enabled:this.prevAvailable},
            {title:"Next", enabled:this.nextAvailable}
        ];
    }

    get prevAvailable() {
        return this.pageIndex > 0;
    }

    get nextAvailable}() {
        return this.pageIndex < this.pages;
    }
}

page.html
<template>

            <button if.bind="item.enabled">
                ${item.title}
            </button>

</template>

How is the normal way to achive this behaviour for a standard paging control?
I try to disable the "next" button if on last page.
I appreciate any help.

A: Here's the pager custom element I used in this project (scroll to bottom to see the pager).

pager.html
<template>

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      ${p + 1}

</template>

pager.js
import {bindable} from 'aurelia-framework';

export class Pager {
  @bindable pageIndex;
  @bindable pageCount;
  @bindable setPage;
}

Here's how the pager element is used:
order-list.html
<pager page-count.bind="pageCount"
       page-index.bind="pageIndex"
       set-page.call="setPage($event)">
</pager>

EDIT 10/14/2015
Here's a bootstrap pager- works a little differently but it's usage is the same, no view-model required:
<template bindable="pageCount, pageIndex, setPage">

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        «

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      ${p + $parent.pager.offset + 1}

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Yes, Fauci and Gates do have ties to COVID-19 vaccine maker
n September 11, USA Today published an article with a headline declaring, "Fact check: Fauci, Gates, Epstein and Soros have no ties to drug company Moderna".
(Article republished from JeremyRHammond.com)
But that headline was false.
Both Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and member of the White House coronavirus task force, and Bill Gates do have ties to Moderna, a pharmaceutical company developing a COVID-19 vaccine using mRNA technology.
The article does rightly identify misinformation presented in a video widely shared on social media.
With respect to Fauci, USA Today notes that the video's claim that Fauci was the first CEO of Moderna is false. Nevertheless, Fauci does have ties to Moderna.
Similarly, the article notes that the video's claim that Fauci and Gates were college roommates is false. But Gates, too, nevertheless does have direct ties to Moderna.
In fact, USA Today contradicts its own headline by acknowledging that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "is listed as one of Moderna's collaborators" on the company's page at the investor website Flagship Pioneering.
The closest connection USA Today acknowledges with Fauci is his having been "a co-reviewer of a vaccine platform Moderna is working to improve", as indicated by a 2019 Shareholder Letter. This refers to a review of vaccine technologies Fauci coauthored that was published last year in the journal Nature Reviews Immunology.
Although USA Today doesn't mention it, the same letter, under the subheading "Partnerships", mentions having $187 million in funding from grants, with a footnote reference. The footnote specifies that the grants are from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
BARDA operates under the Department of Health and Human Services. DARPA is a research and development agency of the Department of Defense.
That both Fauci and Gates have close ties to Moderna is no secret. Having encountered the headline in a news feed, I knew it was false and so did a quick Google search to document its falsity. It took about ten seconds to fact check USA Today's "Fact Check".
My search immediately turned up a page published in March on the website of the NIAID, which operates under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announcing the beginning of a phase one clinical trial for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. The webpage notes that Fauci's NIAID is "funding the trial."
Furthermore, Moderna's candidate vaccine "was developed by NIAID scientists and their collaborators" at Moderna.
The page quotes Fauci saying that the trial was "an important step" toward developing "a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2".
Similarly, I was able to immediately pull up a page from Moderna's website listing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a "strategic collaborator", with the foundation having "entered a global health project framework agreement" in January 2016 "to advance mRNA-based development projects for various infectious disases."
The original USA Today headline falsely claimed that Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates have "no ties" to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Moderna
I emailed the author and the corrections editor on September 13 to request that they correct their false headline and acknowledge the NIAID's partnership with Moderna, in accordance with USA Today's code of ethics.
I also pointed out that, even if they were unaware of that partnership, since the collaboration between the Gates Foundation and Moderna is acknowledged in the article, they knew that their headline was false. I also noted the hypocrisy of fact checking others while willfully misinforming the public themselves.
Two days later, I received a reply from the author, Chelsey Cox, thanking me for my comments but sticking to the headline with the reasoning that "The headline reflects the analysis of the claim subject to fact-checking."
I replied, "It does not follow that since the claims about Fauci and Gates subject to fact-checking are false that therefore they have 'no ties' to Moderna. That is a non sequitur fallacy. Indeed, you point out yourself in the article that Gates does have ties to Moderna, his foundation being partnered with the company. The headline is false and should, by USA Today's own ethical guidelines, be corrected."
She responded later that day to let me know that she'd gotten an editor's approval to change the headline, which now reads, "Fact check: Moderna post makes false claims about Fauci, Gates, Soros, Epstein". (That's also not a great title since it makes it sounds as though Moderna itself was spreading the misinformation, but at least the false claim about Fauci and Gates having "no ties" to Moderna was removed.)
USA Today did not publish an acknowledgement of the error and did not update the article to acknowledge that Fauci, like Gates, is partnered with Moderna in the development of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The USA Today/Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia (Photo by Patrickneil, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
Who Will Fact-Check the Mainstream Media?
The spread of misinformation is a serious problem in our society today. But the mainstream narrative is that it's coming from individuals on social media or alternative media websites. The reality is that the greatest purveyors of misinformation are the government and mainstream media.
Notice that the mainstream media's self-proclaimed "fact checkers" don't fact check each other despite endless opportunities to do so. Instead, they focus on "debunking" information from alternative sources.
The use of the term "fake news" is illustrative. The corporate media accuse alternative sources of propagating "fake news" to maintain their own dominance as purveyors of misinformation, such as the unevidenced conspiracy theory propagated by the New York Times that the Russian government hacked the US election infrastructure in 2016.
To illustrate, a New York Times editorial published in November 2019 pointed out that oppressive regimes had been using the term to dismiss criticisms over human rights violations, then blamed this phenomenon on Donald Trump for having repeatedly referred to mainstream media sources as propagating "fake news". It was Trump, they alleged, who gave rise to "the epithet of 'fake news' as a weapon".
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Home Alcohol Top 5 best winemakers in Ireland you should know about
Top 5 best winemakers in Ireland you should know about
Yes, Irish wine is a thing. So, let us tell you all the ins and outs of wine production in Ireland.
When you think of wine production, Ireland is not a country that would generally spring to mind. However, Ireland is listed as a wine-producing country by the European Commission.
Although Ireland does not have huge competition for wineries within the country, there are still a few in particular that you should try out.
Wine production takes place in various parts of the country, including North Dublin, Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford.
So, next time you find yourself looking for a unique thing to discover, try some local wine from one of the best winemakers in Ireland.
5. Viking Irish Drinks, Co. Waterford – wine from Ireland's Ancient East
Credit: Facebook / @viking.irish.drinks
This Waterford based winery, which produces both red and white varieties, also makes three delicious craft cider styles, including Ireland's first hops flavoured cider.
In relation to their delicious wine production, their organic and sustainable Irish wines can be bought online and in various off-licenses, supermarkets, bars, and restaurants throughout the country.
This is certainly one of the best winemakers in Ireland you should know about!
Address: Ballinaboola, Waterford, Ireland, X91 R1W6
4. Thomas Walk Vineyard, Co. Cork – the unique Irish winery
Credit: Instagram / @thomaswalkvineyard
This small vineyard located near Kinsale in the south of Ireland is one of the longest standing vineyards in the world and is owned by wine enthusiast Thomas Walk, who hails from Germany.
This is a privately owned vineyard, so it is not open to the public. Still, it is definitely worth looking out for one of these wines.
Thomas Walk was the first person to successfully grow red grapes in Ireland, making him one of the best winemakers in Ireland.
If you are looking for some fantastic, award-winning, and sustainable wine, then look no further than Thomas Walk wines, which can be found on his website.
3. Llewellyns Orchard, Co. Dublin – find mouthwatering Lusca wines in Lusk
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As well as producing wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Rondo, this private vineyard and orchard in Lusk, north County Dublin, also produces the Irish wine Lusca.
As the name suggests, they also harvest apples that they have used to produce Apple Cider Vinegar, Irish Cider, and Apple Juice.
And don't forget to try their yummy sparkling wine, a great choice for New Year's 2021 from one of the best winemakers in Ireland.
Address: Quickpenny Road, Causestown, Co. Dublin, Ireland
2. Bunratty Mead and Liqueur Co. Ltd, Co. Cork – 'mead' with love in County Cork
Credit: Facebook / @bunrattymeade
Described as an exceptional, legendary, and mystical drink, Bunratty Mead is a traditional Irish wine that is one of the oldest wines in human history.
It is made with fresh grapes from the vine, mixed with pure honey, and natural herbs to give it a very aromatic flavour.
As the legend goes, newly married couples were often given enough mead to last them an entire full moon, which is where the term honeymoon came from. It is also said to enhance fertility and virility.
Give this traditional Irish wine from one of the best winemakers in Ireland a try next time you are at Bunratty Castle.
Address: Low road, Bunratty East, Bunratty, Co. Clare, Ireland
1. Wicklow Way Wines, Co. Wicklow – a wine of a different kind
Credit: Facebook / @WicklowWayWines
Want to taste a wine unlike any other you've had before? Then try some of the berry wines organically produced at Wicklow Way Wines.
Here, they produce delicious wines flavoured strawberry, blackberry, and raspberry. These may be different to your usual grape wine, but we absolutely love this idea.
Plus, the fact that they have won many awards means they are certainly one of the best winemakers in Ireland.
Address: Unit 8, Newtown Business and Enterprise Centre, Co. Wicklow, A63 DT61, Ireland
Ireland may not be on the same scale as some other wine-producing countries, such as France or Italy. However, truth be told, Ireland has some great wines for you to discover.
From grape wines to berry wines to the traditional mead wine first known to man, there is a variety of Irish wines just waiting for you to try.
Many of these vineyards have proved that Ireland is capable of growing some fantastic wines. White is particularly prominent but also a few red ones thanks to Thomas Walk.
So who knows what the future holds for wineries in Ireland? We are certainly excited to see more Irish wines come to the table, so watch this space!
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Cin | The regional president of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) for the Littoral considers that the director general of Elections Cameroon is not qualified for the serene conduct of the electoral operations.
The decision taken on August 27, 2018 by the Elections Cameroon Elecam electoral council to relocate the polling stations located in the military barracks, aroused a strong reaction of the Honorable Jean Michel Nincheu, the regional president of the SDF for the Littoral. In a statement issued August 27 in Douala, the deputy believes that the CEO of Elecam is " zealous and potentially dangerous " for Cameroon.
"As such, the CEO of Elecam Mr. Essousse, now disqualified for the quiet conduct of electoral operations, including the presidential election of October 7, must return his apron failing to resign, " advises the MP.
In the wake of his statement, Jean Michel Nintcheu announced that the next step in his fight for a better electoral process in Cameroon, will be the control of the designation of the presidents of the voting centers and polling stations so that they are recognized for their neutrality and impartiality.
"There is no question that party-state activists are presidents of centers and polling stations. The list of presidents of the polling stations will be combed for flushing out their political affiliation or not to the party of the flames. The very first condition that can guarantee neutrality, independence and impartiality is that it did not belong to a political party ".
According to Jean Michel Nintcheu, the very first condition that can ensure the neutrality, independence and impartiality of the presidents of polling centers and polling stations, is to have belonged to a political party.


Trailhead is Rummlerhof Inn, northwest of the village centre of St. Johann. After a successful first segment, why not take a rest at Gaudeamus Hut, raise your glass and sing: "Gaudeamus igitur – Let us be happy!" For many hikers this is far enough, contentment has already set in. Adventurous souls continue on the trail that works its way up across Klamml Gorge to Grutten Hut, which entails another 400 metres of climbing.
We walk back in time to a time when small groups of farms and stately individual farms shaped the settlement of the Kitzbühel Alps.
From Going we hike to the Schleier waterfall and along the slopes of the "Burning Palven" to the Gaudeamushütte. We enjoy the magnificent view of the Hohe Tauern.
By car you drive from the district Mühlbach along the road "Moserhof" to the car park Plattwald (1.140 m). From there a wide and mostly little ascending path leads to the Peilberggrundalm (1,529 m) and further over the Erlschlifgrundalm to the Stangenalm (1,729 m) from here to the Baumgartenalm in the Mühlbachtal and back to the Plattwald parking lot.
A dream panoramic tour. Here the goal is the panoramic lift at the remaining height, which lives up to its name with a great 360 degree view.
Hike over the Resterhöhe and the two-thousander to the Baumgartenalm and let us spoil you with cheese specialities!
From the starting point of the famous Streif race track we hike down to the valley past the various key points of the descent and climb over 900 metres in altitude.
Hike to the Hörgeralm on the Schellenberg with subsequent summit victory on the Plattinger! From there a wonderful alpine pasture area stretches out, which stands out particularly by its alpine flora. Arnica and Almrosen multiply the beautiful mountain region. Goats and cows enjoy the juicy alpine herbs. The Schellenberg, Maurerkogel, Rescheskogel and Plattinger mountains captivate with their magnificent views of the Hohe Tauern National Park.
One reaches the comfortable Baumgartenalm, which lies in the middle of the Mühlbachtal, already after 1.5 hours foot march from the Alpengasthof Bergkristall (Bramberg).
This physically demanding stretch is another opportunity to enjoy a 360° view from Kitzbüheler Horn. The summit is at an altitude of almost 2000 m. There are multiple routes back down the mountain.
A family-friendly hiking trail that leads from the Bramberg district of Mühlbachl to the Habach district.
Hike comfortably in the Vorderen Lachwald the Deutingerwaldrunde!
Short and easy valley tour from Going am Wilden Kaiser to the bathing lake, which invites you to take a dip when the weather is fine.
A circular walk full of experiences that leads from Ellmau village centre along trail no. 14 up to the Wochenbrunner Alm. Enjoy a wonderful view over the Wilder Kaiser region before pausing to replenish your energy reserves at the Ellmau Stone Circle.
A hiking destination for the whole family ... the Eifersbach waterfall.
The Anna Grotto is hidden in the middle of a forest at the very foot of the Wilder Kaiser.
From the Bergdoktorhaus to the Rübezahl-Alm and the Schnitzfigurenweg to Ellmi's Magic World.
A small but fine family hike along the Hahnenkamm with a detour to Ehrenbachhöhensee. The interactive theme trail informs us about agriculture throughout the year.
From the Astberg mountain via mountain inns into the valley. So ideal for tobogganing.
The small but fine hike takes us around the popular Schwarzsee lake near Kitzbühel, which invites you to take a dip if the weather is fine.
Panoramic two-thousand-metre peaks with chairlift support from Kirchberg in Tyrol, in the grassy mountains of the Kitzbühel Alps.
Hike along the Salzach along the footpath and cycle path to Hollersbach!
A wonderful round trip for the whole family.
In the Kneipp facility, refreshing mountain water awaits you for tired legs!
The first stage on the Adlerweg leads from the St. Johanner district of Hinterkaiser to the Gaudeamushütte at 1,267 metres above sea level.
The North Tyrolean Route of the Eagle's Route is varied and eventful. It leads through romantic valleys and light mountain forests, over green alpine meadows with countless mountain flowers, along steep rock faces, through rocky cirques and past idyllic mountain lakes. Wonderful panoramic views are guaranteed and cosy alpine pastures and huts tempt you to take a break again and again.
On the circular hike you will get to know the Kitzbühel mountains from a new angle - while you hike to St. Johanner Baumooskogel, you will pass the limestone. This also shapes the surrounding landscape with its bright rock formations.
Along the Reither Ache, the route leads through forests and meadows to the Rettenberg. You can enjoy the magnificent view of the striking Kaiser Mountains and the picturesque grass mountains of Kitzbühel.
Enjoy the gentle ascent with the Kitzbüheler Alpen panorama lift to the Breitmoos middle station and then hike comfortably downhill to Mühlbach and then to Hollersbach!
The starting point is the Plattwald car park. You can reach it from Mühlbach via the "Moserhof" road.
Hike the Hohe Tauern Circular Path from Mittersill to Hollersbach and back to Mittersill via the sunny side of the Kitzbühel Alps. Enjoy the two different mountain forms and explore the beauty of nature.
Let yourself be enchanted by the venerable walls of Mittersill Castle from times long past.
MEDIUM TOUR on the south side with some ascents - always beautiful views into the valley or also into the Habachtal.
*Beautiful walk through meadows and forests along some rivers. Wonderful views of the National Park valleys between Krimml and Mühlbach make this tour an experience!
Beautiful hike close to the city to relax and enjoy.
Hike from the centre of Mittersill over the Schattberg to the Berghof in Hollersbach!
Hike from the centre of Hollersbach over the Hollersbacher Sonnberg to Mühlbach and back over the Salzach dam!
This easy valley hike leads to the most beautiful churches in the Kitzbühel region.
This panoramic hike leads us from the world-famous Hahnenkamm high above Kitzbühel to a quiet but no less rewarding vantage point, the Schwarzkogel.
Easy hike from Kitzbühel to St. Johann, without many metres of altitude difference. Pleasant in the valley, along the mountain farms and pastures.
The imperial crown is the new multi-day hiking trail around the impressive Wilder Kaiser Mountain range. On the five-day round trip rustic huts provide with hearty food between the spectacular legs of the trip.
Onto the mountain across rustic Alpine pastures with panoramic views of the Wilder Kaiser and Hartkaiser mountains and back via the Ranhartalm.
A wild and romantic walk through the Kaiserwald forest with its wildlife park and cosy, traditional Tirolean parlour.
Head through well-shaded forests of green to reach the Ellmau Stone Circle. This is a place with a special energy, making it an inviting option for taking some time to relax.
A circular route through the red mountain trails leading to the famous wine cellars of Angerer Alm.
An entertaining circular hike with magnificent panoramic views awaits us on the Almrunde at the Kitzbüheler Horn. A highlight, besides the view from the summit, is the lovingly laid out Alpine flower garden on the south side of the mountain.
Wild Kaiser hike to a series of special locations. Featuring the natural spectacle of the Schleier Waterfall and a view of the Gaudeamushütte mountain hut.
An extensive exploration of "Moor & more". The puzzle tour in the Wilder Kaiser forest is sure to be lots of fun, even for older children.
*Hard climb will be rewarded with a gigantic view!
Mountain tour to the extreme climbers' training rock and spectacle of nature with refreshment stop at the Graspoint-Niederalm.
Varied hike on a lonely plateau with various karst formations and dry alpine pastures. Mountain pine areas, diverse mixed forests and views in all directions round off this mountain experience. The route runs along steep paths, meadow paths and roadways and is classified as moderately difficult.
From Going am Wilden Kaiser we hike to the Schleier waterfall, which plunges about 60 m into the depth at the foot of the Maukspitze. Maybe we will meet climbers here who we can watch doing acrobatics. We can rest on the Graspoint-Niederalm.
A forest and meadow circuit of medium difficulty that leads from Going am Wilden Kaiser to the Astberg and Hausberg mountain slopes. These stand out especially thanks to their fantastic view over the Kaisergebirge mountain range on the opposite side of the Leukental valley.
This conditionally demanding stage offers you another 360° panoramic view from the Kitzbüheler Horn. The summit lies at almost 2000m. From the summit, there are several possible routes.
Der Wilde Kaiser - EIN SCHÖNER FLECK ERDE.
*The WILDE KAISER* - an imperial pleasure!
An easy-going walk from Kitzbühel to St. Johann with very little climbing. Stroll through the valley passing farms and meadows.
The short but strenuous hike leads from Ellmau to the local mountain. Right at the beginning we walk through the chapel park with the magnificent Marienkapelle and past three inns.
After climbing through woodland and across alpine meadows, you'll walk on the world-famous Hahnenkamm ski piste, home to the annual Hahnenkamm race. You'll also get outstanding views of the Wild Kaiser mountains and Kitzbühel, the end point of this hike.
Interesting short tour, also suitable for smaller children, with ascent from Ellmau into the Weißachgraben on an asphalt mountain road.
After an ascent through woods and across alpine meadows, you hike on the world-famous Hahnenkamm ski slope, where ski racers compete with each other once a year. In addition, you have beautiful vantage points on the Wilder Kaiser and Kitzbühel, the destination of this hike.
From Ellmau we hike up to the Hartkaiser, which offers us a lot of variety with Ellmi's magic world, a small lake and the wonderful panorama.
Middle forest and meadow round on the mountain slopes of the Astberg, Hausberg and Schwaiglerkogel, with a charming view of the Kaisergebirge mountains.
On the sunny side of the Ellmaus, the trail leads via the Wochenbrunneralm to the Riedlhütte and back again via the Ellmauer Kaiserbad.
During this circular hike, you'll get to see the Kitzbüheler mountains from another angle. En route to St. Johanner Baumooskogel, you will pass by the Kalkstein mountain, which dominates the surrounding landscape with its light-coloured rock formations.
The highlight for everyone who loves hiking for pleasure - lush Alpine meadows, sparkling mountain lakes and delightful food in the Kitzbühel Alps. And the Bergbahnen Wilder Kaiser - Brixental summer cable cars make the ascent and descent easy.
A unique hike to the highest mountain hut in the Wilder Kaiser region featuring a panoramic view.
From the top station of the Kircherberg Hausberg, the route leads to the summit of the Gaisberg. On the way two alpine pastures invite you to rest and the Harlaßanger chapel invites you to reflect.
Interesting hike to the Kitzbüheler Horn, a nearly two-thousand-metre high mountain with a fantastic view, using the toll road from Kitzbühel.
On this round tour we hike at the foot of the Kitzbüheler Horn to the rural roots of the town of Kitzbühel, the Tennerhof and the farm museum Hinteroberau.
This is a challenging stage over the famous Kitzbüheler Horn to St. Johann in Tyrol, which you can shorten with the help of several mountain railways. Views in all directions, a well-kept alpine flower garden and several places to stop make this stage a special experience! Spectacular descent from Horn to Harschbichl.
A beautiful hike along the Panorama-Höhenweg on the Resterhöhe.
Beautiful hike through meadows and forests. The fantastic view of the Kitzbühler Alps make this tour an experience!
Enjoy the wonderful view and hike along the Sonnberg!
As the title suggests, hiking in the Hohe Tauern National Park and in the Kitzbühel Alps is an incredible experience. Surrounded by the 3.000m peaks of the national park there are a lot of beautiful places, which tell stories about the life of the people and their surroundings. Each Mittersill-Hollersbach-Stuhlfelden starting point for hikes tells its own story and provides interesting insights into the secrets of the region using the map material and infobox, equipped with our "Hiking Guide" brochure. Some places of wonder are equipped with a "throne". This special seating device is designed to direct your attention to landscape features and sensational views of nature. Have fun discovering and experiencing this round of amazement!
The route to the Kelchalm can be taken from Wiesenegg (Aurach near Kitzbühel) or further up from the Kelchalm car park. In winter the trail can only be walked from Wiesenegg.
Impressive fountains, an inheritance farm, the Kupferplatte show mine, a farmer museum and the magnificent St. Wolfgang church are the highlights of this themed hike.
*Easy circular walk around the Labalm in Spertental.


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There has been a steady movement for several decades to establish a Marxist government in this country. Suspending the boralogue this week, we take a look at Antonio Gramsci's arm of Marxism and socialism in order to examine whether or not it will boot Judeo-Christianity not just out of the marketplace of ideas but out of politics as well. Joining us to discuss this is New Zealand author Trevor Loudon (www.trevorloudon.com). John and Trevor analyze the infiltration of Marxist ideals into the arenas of congress, global governments, journalism, education, economy, and religious organizations in order to forecast where our country is headed. "This is a mighty clash," Trevor says, "between good and evil. And right now evil is winning."
Who has chain of title to the land currently occupied by Israel and the Palestinians? As we continue our thread from last week on both the origins and future of Israel, we welcome to the program Salomon Benzimra (www.cilr.org), Co-Founder of Canadians for Israel's Legal Rights. In answering that question, he explains the origins of the San Remo Conference, the difference between legal and illegal occupation, and details the history of Jews and Arabs in a disputed land that Israel legally holds the title to.
Join us as we continue our weekly intelligence news briefing, Section 6, which features comments by John on important stories making news around the world. This week, John takes an extensive look at the political activities of the Vatican as a member of the global community.
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Q: Why do I get a morphism $f_P: Spec \mathcal{O}_K \to \mathcal{X}$ for every point $P\in X(K)$? How does this morphism look like? Hello,
my question probably isn't too hard, but I can't find the answer.
Let $K$ be a number field, $\mathcal{X} /\mathcal{O}_K$ be an arithmetic surface, which is a regular model for a projective, smooth curve $X/K$ and let $(\mathcal{L}, ||\cdot ||)$ be a hermitian line bundle on $X$. Then every point $P\in X(K)$ admits a homomorphism $f_P : Spec \mathcal{O}_K \to \mathcal{X}$.
This is what is said and I don't understand why $f_P$ must exist and what it does.
Thanks in advance for answers!


Approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Mammograms are the current gold-standard for screening and are recommended on a biennial basis for women aged 50-74 in Canada. However, 88-95% of screening mammograms are normal or benign, leaving behind an interpretation expense of approximately $2 billion per year in North America.
Resident physician Dr. Alex Bilbily and his company, 16 Bit, undertook this challenge by developing the Intelligent Mammogram Triage System―capable of triaging screening mammograms with high negative predictive value. Through this initiative, should a mammogram be deemed normal or benign by the artificially intelligent system, a radiologist interpretation may no longer be required.
Such a system will decrease the cost associated with breast cancer screening programs, decrease the burden on radiologists, and could provide a means of creating widespread cancer and non-cancer screening programs that are economically feasible.
Dr. Alexander Bilbily is a University of Toronto trained medical doctor with a five-year specialization in Diagnostic Radiology. Dr. Bilbily wrote his first computer program at the age of five and has since pursued the study of computer science.
With over 7 years of AI experience, Dr. Bilbily co-founded 16 Bit Inc., an AI-first medical imaging company with the vision of augmenting physician diagnostic ability using artificially intelligent tools. Dr. Bilbily currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of 16 Bit and is a member of the Canadian Association of Radiology AI Working Group.
Dr. Bilbily believes that AI will be the foundation of next-generation tools that will improve the efficiency, quality, and reliability of care that physicians can offer to their patients.
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There's those famous 10 minutes of fame you'll get some day and, if you're really lucky, you may even get 20 minutes of it. Ramsey Outdoors in Paramus, New Jersey, gets a second 10, as in minutes, as HBO re-runs the second season of its hit show, "The Sopranos." In one of the second-season segments, a card-playing sporting goods store owner ("Hey, I own Ramsey Sporting Goods," he says at one point) gets in a bit over his head in the Soprano run "executive" card game. Tony Soprano visits him at the store to do a little debt-collecting. Ramsey Outdoors was used for all the sporting goods store scenes and got more than a little notoriety and press during the filming. The best line of the show comes after Tony Soprano tells the owner of Ramsey Sporting Goods, "The executive game is too rich for you." To which he replies, "Do you know how many jock straps I sold this week?"


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InfoQ Homepage Podcasts Pam Selle on Serverless Observability
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On today's podcast, Pam Selle (an engineer for IOPipe who builds tooling for serverless observability) talks about the case for serverless and the challenges for developing observability solutions. Some of the things discussed on the podcast include tips for creating boundaries between serverless and non-serverless resources and how to think of distributed tracing in serverless environments.
Coca Cola was able to see a productivity gain of 29% by adopting serverless (as measured by the amount of time spent on business productivity applications).
Tooling for serverless is often a challenge because resources are ephemeral. To address the ephemeral nature of serverless, you need to think about what information you will need to log ahead of time.
Monitoring should focus on events important to the business.
Build barriers between serverless and flat scaling non-serverless resources to prevent issues. Queues are an example of ways to protect flat scaling resources.
In-memory caches are a handy way to help serverless functions scale when fronting databases.
There are limitations with tracing and profiling on serverless. Several external products are available to help.
Serverless (and Microservices) are not for every solution. If you are choosing between two things, and one of them lets you ship and the other does not choose the thing that lets you ship.
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Why did your lightening talk "go the pluck home" resonate so well with people?
1:50 Someone told me recently that they found it on a self-care tech website.
2:00 The talk was in 2009 and has apparently aged quite well - people still ping me about it.
2:15 I wrote and performed it at a time when I realised that other people in the industry weren't expressing the same opinions I had about how to deal with not working all the time.
2:40 It's a very entertaining 5 minute talk, and with quite a catchy title.
3:20 There's a pattern that teams reflect their leadership, for better or for worse.
3:30 That goes from work-life balance to any personality tics - it's been interesting moving into a leadership position over the last few years.
What do you do at IOpipe?
3:50 We have been around for a few years, and we focus on developers in serverless compute and helping them with observability, monitoring and instrumenting their functions.
4:15 Serverless computing is a new way of looking at cloud computing, that we think is revolutionary.
4:30 At IO Pipe, we focus on to help developers overcome challenges and be even more productive.
What's your favourite serverless revolution story?
5:00 I love Coca-Cola's example - they were at re:Invent, and they talked about the productivity gains of their development team.
5:20 When you see the numbers on how much more developers are able to get done when they change to this new model, I was really impressed at the gains they had.
5:40 They went from 39% of their time working on business functionality to 68% - a huge gain in productivity.
5:00 They went from 24% of unplanned work - the machines are down - to 6% of unplanned work.
6:10 The ultimate limiting resource in the world is our time.
6:20 The fact that a new cloud compute model can have such impact for developer productivity is my favourite serverless success story.
How is observability different for serverless functions rather than traditional cloud compute?
7:05 When you think about observability, the promise of serverless is supposedly that you don't have to worry about the servers.
7:15 As you move to serverless and you tend to care less about the machines that run your compute - they are ephemeral.
7:30 When you do want to know things, the usual tooling that you would reach for aren't available.
7:45 You have to think about how you're going to get information from a system that's no longer there.
7:50 The answer is that you have to think about it ahead of time - what you need to observe - and collect information about the system at runtime.
8:25 You have to do it a bit differently than you would on a running system, where you'd have an agent that sends the data and poke the machine later.
8:40 Those standard methods for debugging the machine's state afterwards are no longer present - the serverless function only exists while it is running.
8:50 The container (which is running your function) can change between requests, and can be cold started to a new image.
9:10 We're investigating how noisy neighbours have an impact on serverless applications.
9:20 You don't know who is running next to you, or how isolated you are from the neighbour.
What are people using to monitor their apps in serverless?
10:20 For monitoring and alerting on serverless, you have access to CloudWatch or whatever cloud you're on.
10:30 However, you might not want to trust your cloud platform to tell you how it is doing.
10:40 The ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) is fantastic.
10:45 The thing is, if you're the kind of person who is moving to serverless, why are you going to build out a whole monitoring stack?
10:50 I find it confusing when people move to serverless to avoid building a monitoring stack - it seems somewhat opposed to minimising building common components.
11:10 Serverless applies to the whole ecosystem - let others worry about observability or authentication or other solved problems.
11:30 There's nothing creative about it - it's not solving a business problem.
11:4 IOpipe is one of these - there are others, like Thundra and Dashbird - but if you're going to go serverless, you should buy into separation of concerns.
What types of events should be emitted by a serverless system?
12:25 I want people to care more about business events in the function, rather than the platform.
12:35 You can pay attention to cold starts - or any other similar technical event.
12:45 The first time your function is loaded into a fresh container needs to be fast enough for a percentage of load.
13:00 After that, you should focus on events important to the business.
13:10 It depends on how you organise your functions - some people have a super-function that is at the end of many API calls - I have seen Nordstrum has an example of that.
13:30 That's how you expose more value to the business stakeholders - they don't really care whether the container died, but they care that something happened when someone was trying to complete a sale.
13:50 Try to think more about the business event, and less about the container event.
What about the serverless function limits?
14:20 The [memory, time] limitations are valuable - if you run into some of these things, the natural question is why are you using serverless.
14:35 Serverless architectures are best for event-driven architectures - they should not be long-running.
14:40 Five minutes is a long time for computers - if you're trying to take longer than that you should think about why.
Are there different things you might monitor in an AMI or container world versus serverless?
15:25 In an environment where you have serverless things playing with non-serverless things, that is an anti-pattern in serverless.
15:40 The best thing you can do is have a barrier between the serverless and non-serverless things of some kind.
15:50 My favourite example is of a database; it isn't going to scale like the serverless functions.
16:00 Leaving the database un-guarded is a very bad idea.
16:10 It applies to any situation where you have limited resources used by a flat scaling environment.
16:20 We've used queues in the past to separate the two.
16:30 It makes a lot of sense - queues are part of any event-driven architecture system.
10:20 Events need to be organised in some way, and don't attack your system in some way.
Are there any other tips?
17:00 Connections is something that you have to tune.
17:10 You don't want to be opening connections all the time, and don't want to leave connections open afterwards.
17:35 We're thinking how to optimise that more, and it's an evolving field.
What do you look for in code reviews?
18:0518:05 As well as connections, we think about cache.
18:10 We do leverage some in-memory cache for our serverless functions.
18:20 Some things that I would be loathe to do in a non-serverless environment, in a serverless environment I would do it without problems.
18:30 If you get some data, and you want it to be for the lifecycle of that serverless container, in-memory cache works very well.
18:45 You have to think about it - if you use in-memory cache, how do you notice if a memory leak occurs?
19:00 You tend to see memory leaks expose themselves as fresh containers restarting, which fixes the memory leak for that particular problem.
19:10 That's something where profiling tools can be used, and have that able to turn on for a particular function to capture a full trace.
When does in-memory caching work well?
19:50 If you have something that you can get from the database, you can build up a key-value store from the database, as long as it's a small set of data.
20:05 When you look something up, you can see if it's in the cache first of all, and if it's not, then get the database.
20:10 This allows us to optimise the database lookups when we have a lot of hits in some of our serverless functions.
How do you profile a serverless function?
20:20 Emitting a bunch of metrics is one option, but it's really nice to use tools that we have such as the system's own profiler on itself.
20:35 That's something our IOpipe libraries have, and we want to be able to use the native profiler in Node.JS, Python or Java.
20:55 You need to be able to take the tools that you have outside of serverless, and be able to use those in a serverless environment.
21:00 When you need profiling data, you always want it to be available.
What can you do with profiling in a serverless environment?
21:20 There are limitations and they are very real.
21:25 For example, you can mark the start of an invocation and the end, to profile that particular function.
21:40 However, you can't profile before the start of an invocation or at the end of an invocation.
21:55 I haven't run into cases where that is needed, but it will happen one day.
What about the system as a whole with tracing a request all the way through?
22:25 Distributed tracing gets thrown around a lot, and I think it's not really well defined.
22:35 When I think of distributed tracing, I think of the full story of what happened across all my services for a defined particular time.
22:50 So as an example, consider an e-commerce transaction where someone is buying something.
23:00 In a serverless environment, it's pretty available.
23:10 If you're on AWS lambda, you can use x-ray to see the full architecture.
23:25 You can see how all your services are talking to each other, when they hit this lambda, what that talks to.
23:40 When you talk about analysing just your lambda and just your serverless functions, you aren't going to get the full story.
23:50 It can still give you an interesting story about creating tracing for my serverless functions and sending data along with that requests for other services.
24:15 So at IOpipe we do offer serverless function tracing - we can measure the request times, to turn on tracing automatically for network requests.
25:00 I love that distributed tracing is getting so much attention, but I think it still is underserved.
What are some of the things that bite you?
23:30 So, should you be in a serverless environment?
25:35 If you're in a system where you don't have an event driven architecture for, then probably don't.
25:45 Building an event driven architecture or a microservices driven architecture, is not always the best answer.
25:55 If you can avoid building a distributed system, then do so.
26:10 That said, there are plenty of times where they do make sense - unknown load, events coming into a system - and the gains work out then use serverless.
26:502 Making sure that flat-scaling system interacts with non-flat-scaling systems such as databases or any kind of limited system can handle the load.
27:20 If you have limitations of the platform then don't use them.
27:45 From a friend: "If you are choosing between two things, and one of them lets you ship and the other does not, choose the thing that lets you ship"
27:55 If it doesn't make sense for you then don't do it.
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From its emergence in the sixteenth century to the phenomenon of the "Three Tenors" and beyond, the tenor voice has grown in popularity and esteem. This engaging and authoritative book—the first comprehensive history of tenor singing—presents fascinating details about the world's great performers, styles of singing in different countries, teachers and music schools, the variety of compositions for the tenor voice, and much more.
John Potter begins by surveying the prehistory of the tenor in the medieval period, when Gregorian chant and early polyphony had implications for a voice-type, and proceeds to the sixteenth century, when singers were first identified as tenors. He focuses on many of the greatest tenors-- those who predated the gramophone as well as those whose recorded voices may still be heard--and considers the ways in which each is historically significant. The names range from legendary early figures like Ludwig Schnoor von Carolsfeld (Wagner's first Tristan) to those more familiar like Enrico Caruso, Richard Tauber, Mario Lanza, Roberto Alagna, Ian Bostridge, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, and, of course, Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras. Admirers of the tenor voice will especially appreciate the book's unique reference section, with bibliographical and discographical/video information on several hundred tenors.
John Potter is reader in music at the University of York. He is also a singer and vocal coach, with a discography of some 150 titles.


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Emma de Blois (née vers 948 ou vers 950, morte vers 1003 ou vers 1005) est une dame de la haute aristocratie de la France de l'Ouest de la seconde moitié du , fille du comte de Blois, Thibaud le Tricheur, devenue duchesse d'Aquitaine et comtesse de Poitiers par son mariage en 967 ou 968 avec , dit Fier à Bras. Fondatrice de l'abbaye de Maillezais et de celle de Bourgueil, elle est aussi connue pour la longue querelle qui l'opposa à son époux à la suite de la liaison de celui-ci avec la « vicomtesse de Thouars ».

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A l'occasion de son mariage, elle hérite par son père du château de Chinon et le la ville de Bourgueil. Elle a un fils, , surnommé le Grand, qui succède à son père dans les comté de Poitiers et duché d'Aquitaine.

Le conflit qui l'oppose à son mari est connu par plusieurs sources : actes et fouilles archéologiques, mais surtout par une source narrative appelée communément L'histoire du moine Pierre de Maillezais, rédigé un siècle après les faits. Le conflit a laissé des traces très profondes dans les mémoires, la faisant même appeler parfois la comtesse diabolique.

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 Charte de la comtesse Liégeard, 978 et Voir la charte, sur Archives départementales d'Eure-et-Loir.

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Personnalité féminine du Xe siècle
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Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Maison de Blois au haut Moyen Âge
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Education and Health Standing Committee
Pearl Bridgwater, Chairperson
Sub-committee chairpersons:
Life Member Mary Carlin – Catholic schools and catechesis
Life Member Jacqueline Waye – Literacy and continuing education
Life Member Barbara Jarvis – Wellness and sickness/disease
Julie Le Lievre – Environment
Catholic Education: Catholic Schools and Catechesis
Members across Canada served on school committees, school councils and as school board executive members. One province reported having 13 members who served as trustees on school boards and 35 members on school committees.
Gifts and financial assistance were provided to academic and religious programs in schools and parishes. One council held a Marian essay contest, displayed students' essays in the church and published names of winners in the parish bulletin. One council organized a retreat for 41 young people on the Theology of the Body. One council sponsored a public speaking contest through a local school.
One council hosted a speaker from Friends and Advocates of Catholic Education. One provincial council met with members of parliament to develop relationships and raise awareness of the importance of Catholic education. Delegates met with bishops to share concerns regarding Catholic education and shared the information gained with their council members. Members of one province protested the disbanding of Catholic and other faith-based education of their children in favour of a more secular one. They wrote letters to the minister of education and sent postcards to the premier to assert their right to Catholic schools.
Catholic Education: Rites of Christian Initiation
Members actively participated in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) and the Rite of Christian Initiation for Children as team leaders, animators, sponsors and participants. Some councils held reception parties for candidates; others provided financial support. Some gave gifts to the children and League memberships to women candidates who successfully completed the RCIA program. All councils offered up prayers for the candidates.
Members supported literacy programs both financially and by volunteering their services as tutors for challenged students, young and adult, and taught English as an additional language classes for immigrant families. Money was donated to support libraries and literacy programs in schools. One council informed its members of continuing education courses available in their area.
Councils continued to provide bursaries and scholarships at all levels of education. Scholarships and bursaries ranged from $100.00 to $10,000. Councils also supported the National Bursary Fund.
St. Paul the Apostle Parish Council, Burlington, Ontario $100.00
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Council, Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador $50.00
St. Columba Parish Council, East Point, Prince Edward Island $25.00
Bernice Browne, St. Anselm Parish Council, Toronto Ontario $4.00
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Community events such as blood drives and breast cancer screening were promoted. Members of one council were encouraged to prepare questions for their doctor and take these along to appointments. Letters were written in regards to right to access costly medications required for chronic illnesses.
A council hosted a health and wellness day to which other councils were invited. The day opened with a prayer by the spiritual advisor followed by presentations on topics of loss and grief, mental health and drug interactions. Participants had their blood pressure and blood sugars measured at the event.
One council made a quilt with the breast cancer logo, sold tickets and donated the proceeds of $2,115 to a "Tree of Hope" campaign. Another council raised $5,000 for successful emergency open-heart surgery for a baby, and the mother is now a member. One council reported collecting pop-can tabs, which in turn purchased 17 wheelchairs. A prayer line was set up by one council for community members to call for help or just to talk. The membership was educated through guest speakers and presentations on postpartum depression awareness.
Members monitored improvements and wrote letters to members of parliament and the ministers of health and agriculture and agri-food regarding accurate food labelling.
The Military Ordinariate Provincial Council discussed the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities with the theme Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond.
Members continued to promote care of the environment by encouraging others to shop locally, use reusable shopping bags, bring a mug along to meetings, use biodegradable products, compost and utilize the "Four R's" of recycle, repair, reuse and reduce. One council brought recyclable bottles and cans to meetings and the money collected was donated to a local chapter of Birthright International. In addition members promoted the use of tap water instead of bottled. Awareness campaigns were conducted on the need to protect water, which is a right, not a privilege, for all people on the planet.
Councils promoted scent-free environments at meetings and used environmentally friendly cleaning products. Members of one provincial council assisted with highway, city and parks clean-ups. Members supported Earth Hour on April 22 nd . On Earth Day, one council handed out a brochure listing the top 10 actions to help the environment.
In order to limit the use of paper, the Military Ordinariate Provincial Council put its newsletter on CD and posted it on the Web site. Councils encouraged members to carpool to meetings and functions. Many councils recycled clothing by donating to local or parish thrift stores.
Members monitored and studied the advantages and disadvantages of scientific developments as they related to the teachings of the Catholic church.
Members reviewed information on genetic testing of babies in the womb, stem cell research and genetically modified seed and crops. Letters have been written to government regarding concerns in these areas. Members were encouraged to review the Catholic Organization for Life and Family Web site and brochures. Some council members viewed the video Cutting through the Spin on Stem Cells and Cloning.


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VAN BERLO, CASTRO AND KVAMME EARN CLASS POLE POSITIONS FOR PORSCHE CARRERA CUP NORTH AMERICA SEBRING OPENER
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Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands qualifying for the season opening round is complete. Kelly-Moss Road and Race picked-up where it left-off last season earning the overall pole position for Round 1 at Sebring International Raceway with Kay van Berlo (Belgium) taking Pro honors and Pro-Am with 2021 class champion Efrin Castro (Dominican Republic). The new MDK Motorsports program guided Mark Kvamme (Columbus, Ohio) to the top spot in the Am class. The quickest laps for each class will lead the grid of 43 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars to the green flag tomorrow, Thursday, March 17, for the 40-minute Race 1 at 9:15 a.m. ET.
The field for Race 2 – set to go green at 1:30 p.m. ET – will be based on the second fastest qualifying lap from today's 30-minute qualifying session or from the fastest race lap in Race 1. In the event that no one goes quicker in the 40-minute race, van Berlo will again sit on the overall pole position having also set the second overall fastest lap in qualifying. Castro and Kvamme also retain the pole in the Pro-Am and Am classes respectively.
Van Berlo, who was runner-up in the 2021 Pro class, set the quickest time of two-minutes, 3.330-seconds around the 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring circuit. His second best lap was a 2:03.356 in the No. 3 Kelly-Moss Road and Race Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car. Both times narrowly beat out teammate Riley Dickinson (New Braunfels, Texas) in the No. 53 Porsche who turned 2:03.507 and 2:03.698 best laps. Parker Thompson (Canada) piloted the No. 9 JDX Racing Porsche to a pair of laps good enough for third-place (2:03.535/2:03.859) while Dimitri Dimakos (Chicago, Illinois) placed the No. 11 311RS Motorsports Porsche on the outside of Row 2 with a lap of 2:04.003.
Castro guides the Pro-Am class to the green flag in the No. 65 Kelly-Moss Porsche for the first of the 40-minute races with laps of 2:05.299 and 2:05.363. Peter Atwater (Denver, Colorado) in the No. 26 JDX Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car. Kvamme's best lap in the No. 43 was a 2:05.980 with a second-best of 2:06.139. Wright Motorsports' veteran John Goetz (Weston, Connecticut) starts in second-place for the Am class in the No. 57 with times of 2:06.432/2:06.662.
The two, 40-minute races will be run on Thursday, March 17. Round One will take the green flag at 9:15 a.m. ET/6:15 a.m. PT while Round Two will start at 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT.
Kay van Berlo, No. 3 Kelly-Moss Road and Race Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
"A very good session, especially the first set of Michelin tires. With 43 cars out on track, we knew qualifying was going to be all about getting a free lap. I went out, and straightaway, had a clear lap so I could put a good lap time down. That allowed us to put on a new set of tires later in the session. Again, I had a good position out on track, but I made a mistake and knew I was losing a lot of time. I was able to put together turns 15, 16 and 17 and that gave us another pole. It is really tight at the front of the grid but that doesn't surprise me. We'll check some data with the team and do some fine-tuning to prepare for the long runs. Tomorrow the big points are up for grabs."
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DOE Patents Patent: Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method
Title: Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method
An ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system uses an ultrasonic fsed beam probe for measuring thickness of an object, such as a wall of a tube, a computer for controlling movement of the probe in a scanning pattern within the tube and processing an analog signal produced by the probe which is proportional to the tube wall thickness in the scanning pattern, and a line scan recorder for producing a record of the tube wall thicknesses measured by the probe in the scanning pattern. The probe is moved in the scanning pattern to sequentially scan circumferentially the interior tube wall at spaced apart adjacent axial locations. The computer processes the analog signal by converting it to a digital signal and then quantifies the digital signal into a multiplicity of thickness points with each falling in one of a plurality of thickness ranges corresponding to one of a plurality of shades of grey. From the multiplicity of quantified thickness points, a line scan recorder connected to the computer generates a pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses with each quantified thickness point thus being obtained from a minute area, e.g. 0.010 inch by 0.010 inch, of tube wall and representing one pixelmore » of the pictorial map. In the pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses, the pixels represent different wall thicknesses having different shades of grey.« less
Bylenok, Paul J.; Patmos, William M.; Wagner, Thomas A.; Martin, Francis H.
United States Of America, Department Of Energy
USDOE
United States Of America, Department Of Energy OSTI
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 42 ENGINEERING
Bylenok, Paul J., Patmos, William M., Wagner, Thomas A., and Martin, Francis H. Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method. United States: N. p., 1992. Web.
Bylenok, Paul J., Patmos, William M., Wagner, Thomas A., & Martin, Francis H. Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method. United States.
Bylenok, Paul J., Patmos, William M., Wagner, Thomas A., and Martin, Francis H. Tue . "Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176647.
title = {Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method},
author = {Bylenok, Paul J. and Patmos, William M. and Wagner, Thomas A. and Martin, Francis H.},
abstractNote = {An ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system uses an ultrasonic fsed beam probe for measuring thickness of an object, such as a wall of a tube, a computer for controlling movement of the probe in a scanning pattern within the tube and processing an analog signal produced by the probe which is proportional to the tube wall thickness in the scanning pattern, and a line scan recorder for producing a record of the tube wall thicknesses measured by the probe in the scanning pattern. The probe is moved in the scanning pattern to sequentially scan circumferentially the interior tube wall at spaced apart adjacent axial locations. The computer processes the analog signal by converting it to a digital signal and then quantifies the digital signal into a multiplicity of thickness points with each falling in one of a plurality of thickness ranges corresponding to one of a plurality of shades of grey. From the multiplicity of quantified thickness points, a line scan recorder connected to the computer generates a pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses with each quantified thickness point thus being obtained from a minute area, e.g. 0.010 inch by 0.010 inch, of tube wall and representing one pixel of the pictorial map. In the pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses, the pixels represent different wall thicknesses having different shades of grey.},
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Ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system and method
Patent Bylenok, Paul J. (Clifton Park, NY); Patmos, William M. (Schenectady, NY); Wagner, Thomas A. (Bronswick, NY); ...
An ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system uses an ultrasonic fsed beam probe for measuring thickness of an object, such as a wall of a tube, a computer for controlling movement of the probe in a scanning pattern within the tube and processing an analog signal produced by the probe which is proportional to the tube wall thickness in the scanning pattern, and a line scan recorder for producing a record of the tube wall thicknesses measured by the probe in the scanning pattern. The probe is moved in the scanning pattern to sequentially scan circumferentially the interior tube wallmore » at spaced apart adjacent axial locations. The computer processes the analog signal by converting it to a digital signal and then quantifies the digital signal into a multiplicity of thickness points with each falling in one of a plurality of thickness ranges corresponding to one of a plurality of shades of grey. From the multiplicity of quantified thickness points, a line scan recorder connected to the computer generates a pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses with each quantified thickness point thus being obtained from a minute area, e.g. 0.010 inch by 0.010 inch, of tube wall and representing one pixel of the pictorial map. In the pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses, the pixels represent different wall thicknesses having different shades of grey.« less
Method and system of measuring ultrasonic signals in the plane of a moving web
Patent Hall, Maclin S. (Marietta, GA); Jackson, Theodore G. (Atlanta, GA); Wink, Wilmer A. (Appleton, WI); ...
An improved system for measuring the velocity of ultrasonic signals within the plane of moving web-like materials, such as paper, paperboard and the like. In addition to velocity measurements of ultrasonic signals in the plane of the web in the machine direction, MD, and a cross direction, CD, generally perpendicular to the direction of the traveling web, therefor, one embodiment of the system in accordance with the present invention is also adapted to provide on-line indication of the polar specific stiffness of the moving web. In another embodiment of the invention, the velocity of ultrasonic signals in the plane ofmore » the web are measured by way of a plurality of ultrasonic transducers carried by synchronously driven wheels or cylinders, thus eliminating undue transducer wear due to any speed differences between the transducers and the web. In order to provide relatively constant contact force between the transducers and the webs, the transducers are mounted in a sensor housings which include a spring for biasing the transducer radially outwardly. The sensor housings are adapted to be easily and conveniently mounted to the carrier to provide a relatively constant contact force between the transducers and the moving web.« less
Ultrasonic thickness measuring imaging system and method
Patent Application Bylenok, P.J.; Patmos, W.M.; Wagner, T.A.; ...
This invention is comprised of an ultrasonic thickness measuring and imaging system in which an ultrasonic probe for measuring thickness of an object, such as a wall of tube, a computer for controlling movement of the probe in a scanning pattern within the tube and processing an analog signal produced by the probe which is proportional to the tube wall thickness in the scanning pattern and a line scan recorder for producing a record of the tube wall thicknesses measured by the probe in the scanning pattern. The probe is moved in the scanning pattern to sequentially scan circumferentially themore » interior tube wall at spaced apart adjacent axial locations. The computer processes the analog signal by converting it to a digital signal into a multiplicity of thickness points with each falling in one of a plurality of thickness ranges corresponding to one of plurality of shades of grey. From the multiplicity of quantified thickness points, a line scan recorder connected to the computer generates a pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses with each quantified thickness point thus being obtained from a minute area of the tube wall and representing one pixel of the pictorial map. In the pictorial map of tube wall thicknesses, the pixels represent different wall thicknesses having different shades of grey.« less
Rotary union for use with ultrasonic thickness measuring probe
Patent Nachbar, Henry D. (Schenectady, NY)
A rotary union for rotatably supporting an ultrasonic probe operable to nondestructively measure the thickness of steam generator tubes to determine the amount of corrosion experienced by the tubes includes a stationary body having a bore therethrough and an outlet drain, and a fitting rotatably mounted within the upper end of the body. The fitting has a bore aligned with the bore of the body. An electrical cable positioned within a water supply tube in an annular arrangement passes through the bore of the body and the bore of the fitting. This annular arrangement, in turn, is positioned within amore » connector element which extends outwardly from the fitting bore and is connected to the ultrasonic probe. An elastomeric lower bushing seals the annular arrangement to the lower end of the rotary union body and an elastomeric upper bushing seals the connector element to the fitting to permit the connector element and the ultrasonic probe connected thereto to rotate with the fitting relative to the body. The lower and upper bushings permit water to be passed through the annular arrangement and into the ultrasonic probe and thereafter discharged between the annular arrangement and the connector element to the outlet drain of the rotary union body.« less


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Before immigrating to the United States and landing in Colorado almost thirty years ago, Nawal grew up in Accra, Beirut, and lived in Hamburg, London, and Hawaii. Her first book A record of how the mother's textile became sound will be published by NOEMI Press (March 2023) . Her second manuscript an improvised song is likely to come apart and scatter in infinite directions was a finalist in University of Pittsburgh's 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and the 2021 Autumn House Press Full-Length Poetry Contest judged by Eileen Myles.
Nawal's poems appear in North American Review, RHINO, Fence, Texas Review, Bayou Magazine, Grist Journal, TheElephants.net and elsewhere. Her poem "That I remember" was nominated Sundress Publications' 2017 Best of the Net. Her now disassembled manuscript, A Hemmed Remnant was a finalist in the 2018 Ron Sillerman Prize for African Poets through the University of Nebraska Press and a finalist in the 2018 Brigham Award through Lost Roads.
Nawal has an MFA in Creative Writing in Poetry from the Mile-High MFA at Regis University, a BA in English with secondary education from University of Northern Colorado, and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction. In the past, she taught secondary English, authored high school curriculum and graduate professional development courses, was the Instructional Coordinator of eLearning in St. Vrain Valley Schools, and recently an adjunct instructor in Front Range Community College's Department of English.
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Supply Chains, Forced Labour and Climate Action top ITUC 2015 Agenda
Tackling exploitation in global supply chains, campaigning against modern slavery and action for industrial transformation to reduce carbon emissions will be "frontlines" for action in 2015, following the ITUC's annual General Council meeting which ended on 18 December in Brussels.
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Hands off our right to strike
Right to strike
Climate Justice and Industrial Transformation
Eliminating Slavery
Migration and Slavery
Industrial Transformation and Just Transition – Climate
"We have an ambitious work programme for the coming year, following through on our agenda to build workers' power which we set out at our Berlin Congress last May", said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow. "The scale of exploitation in global supply chains, the acceptance of modern slavery in the world economy and the failures of government and much of industry to face the reality of destructive climate change will be centrepieces of an ambitious ITUC agenda in the coming year. With our national affiliates and regional structures, our global union federation partners and in alliance with others, we will hold governments and employers to account for violations of workers' rights whenever and wherever they happen. The challenges are substantial, and we are ready to overcome them as a united and determined global trade union movement."
A Resolution on defending the right to strike, which employer groups are attacking at the ILO, includes a commitment to global action on 18 February, and plans for stepping up action to defend workers' rights, especially in a target list of "countries at risk", were adopted. An ITUC Statement on Global Risks put the spotlight on the shrinking of democratic space and the rise of nationalist and extremist sentiment, which sets the stage for broader action around conflict zones, attacks on democracy and confronting xenophobia and political populism. Defence of migrant workers' rights, with the world facing its biggest refugee crisis in 70 years, featured prominently in the Council's deliberations. The ITUC endorsed a Statement for its Pakistan affiliate PWF condemning this week's brutal terrorist attack on the school in Peshawar which cost some 150 lives.
The General Council's discussion on the deteriorating global economic situation, with particular focus on the need for governments and international institutions to and destructive austerity policies and tackle unemployment and inequality, led to a clear agenda for advocacy and campaign action for social and economic justice in the coming year. This was also reflected in the ITUC's commitments to shape the UN's post-2015 development agenda.
Plans to accelerate and deepen the work of the ITUC global Organising Academy were adopted, following the involvement of over 350 trainees in 2014.
The Council also welcomed the adoption by the International Olympic Committee of labour standards criteria for cities bidding for future Olympics events, with discussions to be held between the IOC, ITUC and Global Union Federations (GUFs) early in 2015 to work on implementation.
"This welcome step by the IOC is in stark contrast to the refusal of FIFA to act effectively on modern slavery in the infrastructure for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and the appalling decision of the IAAF to hold the 2017 athletics championships in Qatar after receiving a Euros 30million inducement from the Gulf monarchy", said Burrow. National trade union organisations and GUFs reported on their national and sectoral campaigns to bring an end to the kafala system in Qatar, the world's richest country, and in other Gulf states.
The 88-member Council, with national union leaders from over 70 countries, is the main decision-making body of the 176 million-member ITUC between its quadrennial Congresses.
Nine new member organisations were accepted into ITUC affiliation: CGTA Algeria, CEDOCUT Ecuador, LLC Lesotho, CITU and CTSP Mauritius, UFTUM Montenegro, CONUSI Panama, KMU Philippines and FESTU Somalia. ZSSS Slovenia was accorded ITUC Associated Organisation status.
"We are pleased to accept these new organisations into membership of the ITUC, to strengthen their position at home, and to enable them to join fully in the decision-making and actions of the world's trade union body," said Burrow.


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NY: One week left to pass legalization!
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Ask your lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo to pass legislation to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and older.
Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Senate Finance Chair Liz Krueger have introduced a bill to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and older. But, there are just days left to get it passed this legislative session, which ends June 19.
Urge your legislators to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis for adult-use this session!
The bill was introduced after months of debate between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature on how the state will approach legalization. Gov. Cuomo has said that he would sign the bill, but it does not yet have the 32 votes needed to pass the Senate.
The bill provides that an Office of Cannabis Management will be created and charged with regulating both adult-use and medical cannabis — which was adopted from Gov. Cuomo's earlier proposal. It would also expunge records of those previously convicted of possessing small amounts of cannabis, and 50 percent of the tax revenue would go toward establishing grants to fund programs serving communities that were disparately impacted by cannabis prohibition.
New Yorkers deserve a just, equitable cannabis policy. Contact your lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo today to get legalization across the finish line this session! Then, share the action link with other thoughtful New Yorkers, so that they, too, can raise their voices.
P.S. It saddens us to inform you that Doug Greene, a lifelong cannabis activist who worked tirelessly to reform cannabis policy in New York, passed away last week. His funeral service will be held on Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 1:15 p.m. at Knollwood Park Cemetery — 57-80 Cooper Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385.