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The epidemiological situation of the MRC in Val d’ Source remains of concern to the health authorities. • Read also: Vaccination Passport: Beware Val d’Source restaurants • Read also: Mobile vaccination clinic gaining popularity in Sherbrooke • Read also: Lack of a family doctor in the Val de sourcing? In this provincial municipality, the infection rate is the highest in Quebec. Carried by 100,000 residents, the MRC des Sources will have 309 cases of COVID-19, a peak among all those in Quebec. Health authorities have reported 114 cases since the last assessment Friday. Eleven people have been hospitalized, two of…

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Facebook remains ambiguous regarding the origin of the outage that occurred on Monday for about seven hours. California company is satisfied to mention it Basic router configuration changes (Backbones) that coordinates Internet traffic between data centers. Many cybersecurity professionals believe that the incident may be related to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) maintenance issue. The latter makes it possible to create a viable access path between the computer and the Internet site. Facebook has updated these tracksSo says Sami Selim of the data center operator Telehouse. however, I’ve combined a bad path, says Mr. Saleem, making Facebook and its affiliated…

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For the first time, ENIT Fête de la Science organizes at its premises on Saturday 9 October from 10 am to 5 pm. This event for the general public aims to promote participation and exchange between researchers and citizens, to educate young people about science and scientific careers. Educators, educators and researchers will offer participatory workshops to discover their fields of activity: 3D printing, virtual reality, robotics, digital coding, computer coding, etc. The event is organized in partnership with the Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Agromat, Technacol and Science in Bigorre, which organizes the Hautes-Pyrénées Science Village on the same day…

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The 30 Quebec titles shown on Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix total just 0.1% of the Canadian show, according to data it collected. duty. Quebec film and TV series distributors are still struggling to sell their products to these American broadcast giants. To get to these numbers, duty Browse in September full catalogs of products offered in the country by Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. It is constantly updated on JustWatch, a search engine that puts on the Internet the available titles on about two dozen streaming platforms, including those of American giants. Note: A number…

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Celebrate science at the fortified castle – the Pyrenean Museum in partnership with Les Petits Débrouillards Occitanie. As part of the museum’s centenary, the Pyrenean and scholarly collections are highlighted. Many interesting and educational workshops are offered for children to look at the mountain and ask themselves! Climate workshop: Getting to know the floors of mountains and raising awareness of climate issues.Scientific Workshop: Mapping Approach with Discovery of Measurement Tools and Landscape Reading.Pyrenean Workshop: addresses the concept of historical, mathematical, scientific, sensitive, and artistic Pyreneanism.Mountain Discovery: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 from 10am to 12pm for children ages 7 to 13.Free…

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(Paris) A study published Tuesday in the journal reports that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are effective against hospitalization risks associated with COVID-19 and all of its variants for at least six months. scalpelConfirming previous estimates. Posted on October 4, 2021 at 6:40 pm The study, conducted by Pfizer and the US health network Kaiser Permanente, analyzed the medical data of 3.4 million people in Southern California between December 4, 2020 and August 8, 2021. The vaccine’s effectiveness against infection risks appears to decrease over time, from 88% in the month after the second dose is injected to 47%…

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We have seen with COVID-19 that scientific discourse is not enough to convince people of the seriousness of the situation and the benefits of vaccination. The distrust stems not only from concern about the speed at which vaccines can be developed and licensed, but corresponds to a fundamental trend: transforming scientific discourse, sometimes by science itself, as the documentary revealed. Ignorance Factory. Posted October 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM. Alexandre Vinault Journalism Science is supposed to tell us about the effectiveness or safety of a product on our health and our environment. He is asked to play the role of…

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primary Only a small portion of breast cancers (5 to 10%) is hereditary, that is, it is attributed to a genetic mutation. Compared to other cancers, the chances of surviving breast cancer are high (90%). Prevention is an effective way to reduce the risk of breast cancer. In a report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the National Cancer Institute published in 2015, the two institutions state that we can prevent 40% of cancers by modifying our daily behavior. Alcohol, obesity and tobacco Based on the results of this study, the number of cases of breast cancer…

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(Agence Ecofin) – The Canadian company is present in Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal, and has established itself in recent years as one of the major players in the African gold sector. And she always sees bigger goals in exploration. Endeavor Mining, a West African company and one of the world’s 10 largest gold producers, announced new exploration targets for the next five years at the weekend. By 2025, it expects to make discoveries of indicated gold resources totaling 15 to 20 million ounces at an average cost of $15/oz. To achieve this goal, the company plans to…

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Seasonal ticket sales have been a balm for ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains, which experienced a difficult winter in 2020-2021 due to travel restrictions linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Posted October 3, 2021 at 2:31 pm Salman Farooqi Canadian Press Michael Ballingal, senior vice president of Big White station in British Columbia, says he’s had one of the best seasons ever despite individual ticket sales down about 80%. Many area residents decided to buy season tickets because skiing was one of the few sporting activities allowed during the pandemic. People knew the station would be open. They bought seasonal…

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