Globe: PWHL announces Canadian broadcast plans, Prime Video as new partner
TSN, RDS and CBC/Radio-Canada return as PWHL broadcast partners, while Prime Video comes aboard, collectively delivering all 90 games of the regular season.
CBC will have a weekly game on Saturday afternoons — 17 of them. New this year, Prime will have exclusive Canadian coverage of all 16 Tuesday night contests. TSN will broadcast 57 games across its linear channels and digital platforms.
Crossing the Threshold (David Johnson): We watched My Neighbor Totoro…
We watched My Neighbor Totoro a couple of nights ago with one of our grandsons. It was the third or fourth time that I have seen the film. I love this Ghibli movie. I find it beautiful to watch. There are pauses throughout the film, sometimes with some sounds playing, sometimes just silence. The audience is left waiting for what will happen next. It is not suspense, but a pause and unless you know what is going to happen next, one is left not knowing when the pause will end. In this day and age pauses can often be filled with noise. In My Neighbor Totoro we simply have to wait in silence. What will happen next will happen in its own time.
Raspberry Pi: Introducing picamzero: Simplifying Raspberry Pi Camera projects for beginners
17.Oct.2024
Thousands of learners worldwide take their first steps into text-based programming using the Python programming language. Python is not only beginner-friendly, but is also used extensively in industry.
In 2015, Python developer Daniel Pope, who has a keen interest in education, noticed that beginners often have great ideas for creating projects but struggle because the software libraries they need to use are aimed at more confident programmers. To address this, he created Pygame Zero – a simplified version of the popular PyGame software. Since then, various developers have expanded the range of ‘zero’ libraries for Python.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a long history of supporting Python zero libraries. GPIO Zero was launched back in 2015, followed by guizero and then picozero. The goal of all ‘zero’ libraries is the same: to help beginner programmers create amazing projects using simple, understandable code, supported by useful documentation.
Raspberry Pi: A new release of Raspberry Pi OS
28.Oct.2024
Wayland has many advantages over X, particularly performance. Under X, two separate applications help draw a window:
- the display server creates windows on the screen and gives applications a place to draw their content
- the window manager positions windows relative to each other and decorates windows with title bars and frames.
Wayland combines these two functions into a single application called the compositor. Applications running on a Wayland system only need to talk to one thing, instead of two, to display a window. As you might imagine, this is a much more efficient way to draw application windows.
Wayland also provides a security advantage. Under X, all applications communicated back and forth with the display server; consequently, any application could observe any other application. Wayland isolates applications at the compositor level, so applications cannot observe each other.
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While labwc is the biggest change to the OS in this release, it’s not the only one. We have also significantly improved support for using the Desktop with a touch screen. Specifically, Raspberry Pi Desktop now automatically shows and hides the virtual keyboard, and supports right-click and double-click equivalents for touch displays.
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We’ve had a lot of very positive feedback about Raspberry Pi Connect, our remote access software that allows you to control your Raspberry Pi from any computer anywhere in the world. This release integrates Connect into the Desktop.
ScienceAlert: Stunningly Preserved Saber-Toothed Kitten Studied in World First
In 2020, the juvenile’s body was recovered from its grave in the Russian republic of Yakutia and examined by a team of researchers whose excitement is palpable in their recently published report.
“Findings of frozen mummified remains of the Late Pleistocene mammals are very rare,” the researchers explain.
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This study was published in Scientific Reports.
NYT: A Surprise at the Federalist Society Gala: Justice Breyer, a Retired Liberal
The conservative legal group’s annual dinner featured a conversation between Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Neil M. Gorsuch, a conservative. Both stressed the importance of an independent judiciary.
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Their collective message was that the court is a collegial body whose independence must be protected. The court’s approval ratings dropped sharply after its 2022 decision overruling Roe v. Wade and following reporting on some justices’ failures to disclose luxury travel and gifts. Critics called for ethics rules with an enforcement mechanism, term limits and increasing the court’s membership.
The two justices addressed none of those issues directly on Thursday, but the subtext of their remarks was that some such proposals were misguided.
Since June, the family and FAJR Scientific, a US non-profit organisation providing free medical care to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, have tried to evacuate Mazyouna for treatment to the US, where they have surgeons waiting to treat her.
Five times their requests have been denied without explanation by the Israeli military body responsible for humanitarian affairs in Gaza, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat).
Now, five months on, her situation is getting desperate. There is still shrapnel in her neck and she is in agony every time she moves. She cannot eat or speak. The platinum used by surgeons to rebuild her face is coming apart, with little more than a bandage holding her jaw together.
DIY Solar Power (Will Prowse, YouTube): LiFePO4 Longevity Discussion! Why Charge to 100%?! For Solar??
LiFePO4 chemistry is not like other lithium ion battery chemistries, so you treat it differently. Charge to 100%, discharge to 0%, and if you need to store it, maintain it at 50%.
Globe: Canada Post and workers at odds over wages, weekend delivery
On Friday, more than 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers walked off the job, shutting down mail service across the country in the lead-up to the busy holiday shopping period that starts with Black Friday on Nov. 29. The two sides have been negotiating a new collective agreement for more than a year.
The most contentious issue in the negotiations appears to be seven-day parcel delivery: Canada Post wants to immediately pivot its business to deliver parcels on both weekdays and weekends. To do that, the Crown corporation wants to hire more part-time workers because it would be less expensive than to rely on existing full-time Canada Post employees.
On The Bridge today, Chantal, Bruce, and Peter remarked on what a big news story this would’ve been 30 years ago, but how it’s greeted with a shrug today.
TorStar: Ford government promises to support universities
But overall, Ontario’s universities receive the lowest per-student funding in the country. A report by the Ford government’s own blue-ribbon expert panel, released a year ago, recommended an immediate 10 per cent increase in base funding, as well as allowing schools to raise tuition by five per cent.
The government cut tuition by 10 per cent in 2019, and has frozen it since.
Colleges and universities had expected some $2.5 billion over three years based on the panel recommendations; the province added about $1.3 billion.
InsideEVs: Tesla Tops Fatal Accident Rates In New Study
Engineering breakthroughs and improved chassis designs have made cars structurally safer than ever. Cars nowadays come loaded with standard safety features like multiple airbags, advanced cameras and sensors that can monitor surroundings and step in during emergencies.
However, a new report highlights a troubling trend: rising levels of distracted driving undermine these safety gains and Tesla appears to be the most affected.
Globe: Cathal Kelly: Sports’ eternity movement is coming up against the reality of age
Three years ago, quarterback Tom Brady was a young 44 coming off his seventh Super Bowl. He could see no end in sight.
“I could literally play until I’m 50 or 55 if I wanted to,” Brady said. “I don’t think I will obviously … my physical body won’t be the problem. I think it’ll just be, I’m just missing too much of life with my family.”
Brady’s body turned out to be a problem. While he was coming to terms with that, the family become one, too. Now 47, he lives and works alone.
Last Updated: 15.Nov.2024 23:08 EST
