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Excerpts from the Changelog:

• Milestone

A few highlights ✨:

• Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After
• Add sort by category title, or by feed title
• Add search operator c: for categories like c:23,34 or !c:45,56
• Custom feed favicons
• Several security improvements, such as:
  • Implement reauthentication (sudo mode)
  • Add Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors
  • Ensure CSP everywhere
  • Fix access rights when creating a new user
• Several bug fixes, such as:
  • Fix redirections when scraping from HTML
  • Fix feed redirection when coming from WebSub
  • Fix support for XML feeds with HTML entities, or encoded in UTF-16LE
• Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.22 with PHP 8.4 (PHP 8.4 for default Debian image coming soon)
• Start supporting PHP 8.5+
• And much more…

Author: Andrew J. Karesa | Adjunct Professor, Indigenous Business, The King's University Canada

An excerpt:

In the 21st century, leadership is typically framed in the position of power, strategy and authority and oftentimes considered interchangeable with management.

What if there was a different way to perceive and demonstrate our leadership in a way that empowers and supports others?

For Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Chief Poundmaker), leadership was about something more: it was about service, peace and an unwavering, relentless commitment to his people.

Throughout the late 1800s, Cree Chief Poundmaker used his unique leadership abilities to navigate political and cultural tensions while successfully advocating for the survival of his community. His legacy, while often misunderstood or unknown, has the potential to provide significant value in the leadership development of contemporary leaders globally.

Public health officials are recommending that all children at a Brantford, Ont., daycare get vaccinated for rabies after a child found a dead bat and handed it to a worker last week.

Grand Erie Public Health (GEPH) is hosting a series of clinics where children can receive rabies post-exposure prophylaxis. The treatment includes one dose of rabies immune globulin, plus four doses of rabies vaccine given over a two-week period, according to a memo to parents and guardians that was viewed by CBC Hamilton.

The treatment is being offered "out of an abundance of caution, given the presence of other bats associated with" Creative Minds Daycare, Dr. Jason Malenfant, acting medical officer of health, said in an email. "While the daycare has assured us that children were always under supervision, and therefore the risk of any other direct contact with a bat remains low, young children may not be able to reliably report whether they had possible contact."

Last week, the daycare, which is in the city's southwest, closed Aug. 11 after a bat tested positive for rabies.

GEPH investigated and reported two people had come into direct contact with the bat. It recommended they get treatment and gave Creative Minds the go-ahead to reopen Monday once a wildlife management company had taken steps to prevent bats from entering the building.

The daycare said one live bat was captured and released inside the daycare a day after the dead bat was found. Owner Vicky McNabb said no one came into direct contact with it. Creative Minds also said workers found bats outside in June but there was no contact then either.

Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have evolved similar traits: they’ve lost most or all of their teeth, grown long sticky tongues, and learned to consume insects by the tens to hundreds of thousands each day.

A new study reveals that this extreme dietary specialization, once thought rare and mysterious, has emerged independently in mammals at least 12 times in the last 66 million years (i.e., since the Cenozoic era began). This is a striking example of convergent evolution and shows just how powerful ants and termites have been in shaping mammalian history.

“The number of distinct origins for myrmecophagy was certainly surprising, as was the discovery that their origins seem to quite neatly follow the trend of growth across ant and termite colony sizes throughout the Cenozoic,” Thomas Vida, first author of the study and a researcher at the University of Bonn, told Ars Technica.

Author: James McKendry | Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Healthy Aging, University of British Columbia

Excerpt:

Protein is having its moment: From grocery store shelves to Instagram feeds, high-protein foods are everywhere. Food labels shout their protein content in bold, oversized fonts, while social media overflows with recipes promising to pack more protein into your favourite dishes.

And according to the International Food Information Council’s Food and Health Survey, “high protein” topped the list of popular eating patterns in 2024. But does the hype match the science?

Yes and no.

Protein is essential to good health and boosting protein intake can support healthy aging and fitness goals, but the rush to pile on grams — often driven by marketing more than medical need — raises questions. How much do you really need? Can you overdo it? What’s the best source of protein?

This article breaks down the facts, debunks common myths and answers the most pressing questions about protein today.

Author: James McKendry | Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Healthy Aging, University of British Columbia

Excerpt:

Protein is having its moment: From grocery store shelves to Instagram feeds, high-protein foods are everywhere. Food labels shout their protein content in bold, oversized fonts, while social media overflows with recipes promising to pack more protein into your favourite dishes.

And according to the International Food Information Council’s Food and Health Survey, “high protein” topped the list of popular eating patterns in 2024. But does the hype match the science?

Yes and no.

Protein is essential to good health and boosting protein intake can support healthy aging and fitness goals, but the rush to pile on grams — often driven by marketing more than medical need — raises questions. How much do you really need? Can you overdo it? What’s the best source of protein?

This article breaks down the facts, debunks common myths and answers the most pressing questions about protein today.

Owner Kyle Seller previously told Daily Hive that he hoped that guests would enjoy the classic, old-school feel of Secret Arcade.

The Vancouver arcade housed 10 pinballs, five arcade cabinets, and a foosball table, and was set to free-play once you paid a flat entry fee.

Many of the machines have their own history in Vancouver, having been previously set up in bars such as Pub 340 and 12 Kings, as well as at Good Co., the Vancouver Fringe, and more.

Seller is also the owner of East Van Amusements and Industry Arcade in New Westminster, which are still in operation.

The latter is a free-play party rental arcade in the Braid Industrial, just minutes from the Sapperton Skytrain Station.

This shindig — which coins itself as the largest of its kind in Canada — is happening from Aug. 9 to 10 at Burnaby’s Swangard Stadium.

Thousands of attendees are expected to enjoy exciting live performances, interactive games, and, of course, delicious food and drinks

The best part is that admission to the Canada Bubble Tea Festival is free.

This shindig — which coins itself as the largest of its kind in Canada — is happening from Aug. 9 to 10 at Burnaby’s Swangard Stadium.

Thousands of attendees are expected to enjoy exciting live performances, interactive games, and, of course, delicious food and drinks

The best part is that admission to the Canada Bubble Tea Festival is free.