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Varcoe: As Alberta electricity generators switch to gas, power price cap comes under spotlight

Calgary Herald 

The Kenney government’s decision to cancel the redesign of Alberta’s electricity system to a capacity market won’t side-track two of the province’s largest power generators from converting coal-fired facilities to burn natural gas. But other changes could be coming to the province’s existing energy-only electricity market — including the alteration of the $999 per megawatt-hour […]

ED to respond on Ratul Puri's anticipatory bail by Aug 20

HindustanTimes.com 

The Delhi High Court asked the Enforcement Directorate to state the developments in the case, reasons why it needed custodial interrogation of Puri and the details and extent of the property attached by the Income Tax Department.

Legendary Protest Songs from Woodstock: Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & More Perform Protest Songs During the Music Festival That Launched 50 Years Ago This Week

Open Culture 

This year's big event to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the most famous music festival in the world has died an ignominious death. As Variety wrote in a scathing “obituary” last month, "Woodstock 50 passed away today at the age of 7 months, following a brave and very, very long battle with cancel." Not a few […]

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Trump will have a harder time turning things around as the China trade war drags on - CNBC

Top Stories (us) - Google News (ru) 

  1. Trump will have a harder time turning things around as the China trade war drags on  CNBC
  2. Trump just blinked, giving China a possible edge in trade war, Jim Chanos and others say  CNBC
  3. Congratulations to ‘Fox & Friends’ on airing one of the worst defenses of Trump’s tariffs in history  The Washington Post
  4. Trump and Xi Sittin’ in a Tree  The New York Times
  5. The U.S. and China Play a Game With No Winners  Bloomberg
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Neeraj Shekhar files nomination papers for Rajya Sabha bypoll from UP

Business Standard 

Neeraj Shekhar, son of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, on Wednesday filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate for the Rajya Sabha bypoll from Uttar Pradesh. Neeraj Shekhar, who had recently quit the Samajwadi Party and resigned from the Rajya Sabha seat, filed his papers in the presence of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP state unit Swatantra Dev Singh and other senior party leaders. Interestingly, senior SP leaders, including MLC Ravi Shankar Singh Pappu, were also present as Neeraj Shekhar submitted his nomination papers. Читать дальше...

What It Means To Listen To Sleater-Kinney Now

NPR (npr.org) 

What happens when an artist you count on to be one way suddenly isn't? For writer Hanif Abdurraquib, appreciating the left-turn album The Center Won't Hold has meant letting go of years of nostalgia.

42 people killed in heavy monsoon rains in Karachi

Business Standard 

Heavy monsoon rains have wreaked havoc in Pakistan's biggest metropolis Karachi, killing at least 42 people and triggering flash floods in several parts of the city, officials said on Wednesday. In the second monsoon spell, incessant rains have been lashing the city since Saturday, claiming at least 24 lives with 46 others injured in rain-related accidents, police officials said. According to government officials, a total of 28 people have died in the southern Sindh province since Saturday. At least... Читать дальше...

Funding futurist dreams in the face of investment reality

Theengineer.co.uk 

How can promising technologies with pay-offs decades or centuries in the future reach fruition when investment demands short term returns? Stuart Nathan looks to the skies and inside atoms to explore the issue The history of engineering is well populated with might have beens. From Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines to Nikola Tesla’s wireless electricity […]

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Calgary-born Rae Spoon explores mental health with 10th studio record

Calgary Herald 

It might be tempting to think that the urgency Rae Spoon felt when recording their 10th album, Mental Health, stemmed from some cathartic need to tell their story. After all, the deeply personal record comes less than a year after Spoon’s 2018 album, the environmentally themed and more outwardly political BodiesofWater. Even for the hard-working […]

918 auto drivers lose licenses for saying 'no' to commuters

Business Standard 

In a first, the Maharashtra transport department has revoked licenses of 918 auto-rickshaw drivers in Mumbai and neighbouring Thane city for refusing fare, an official said on Wednesday. Till now, licenses were cancelled for offences like furnishing fake documents to get permits, but not for refusing fare, a senior transport official told PTI. "This is the first time that the department has acted against auto-rickshaw drivers for refusing fare," he said. "Transport commissioner Shekhar Channe... Читать дальше...

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