Новости за 08.10.2019

The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday granted an urgent interim interdict declaring that state power supplier Eskom should not cut power supply to Newcastle Municipality as it would be “catastrophic”. The municipality and the KwaZulu-Natal department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) brought the urgent application to interdict Eskom from disconnecting the power.

The 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Chinese People’s Republic on October 1, 2019, left the world in awe as China celebrated one of the most transformational moments in its over 3,000 years of history. After showing off its high-tech military arsenal during the anniversary parade, international observers remained enthralled at China’s growing power. Such admiration is not unwarranted when factoring how tumultuous the 20th century was for China.

Downy woodpecker. Listen to its drumming call here .

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We published reviews of iPadOS and macOS Catalina yesterday. Despite the fact that the first four paragraphs of my Catalina review were an argument that you should hold off on updating your Mac until you know for sure your apps will work, I still don’t feel I was strenuous enough.

Despite the online excitement about Katmai National Park’s fat bears this year, the critters struggled harder than usual to plump up. The heat hit an important bear food source — salmon — hard, and that makes the bears’ future uncertain.

The opinion piece by Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (“Sales tax will cost taxpayers but won’t solve Alberta’s problems,” Herald, Sept. 28) is an important contribution to a debate I hope will emerge from both the MacKinnon report and the province’s much-anticipated budget on Oct. 24. Terrazzano employs emotional statements, such as “runaway […]

Lauren Bans writes a humorous piece about an imagined club for discussing Instagram accounts.

Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favourite comics artist’s favourite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told Kotaku all about it. More »

In 1962, the late Tom McGlauchlin attended the first glassblowing workshop with glass pioneer Harvey Littleton at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Cobus Reinach scored an 11-minute hat-trick as South Africa demolished Canada 66-7 to reach the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals in Kobe.

They say that sport unites people but apparently this saying can be applied to animals too.

Apr 6, 2019; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Syracuse Orange head coach Jim Boeheim watches from the stands during the game between the Auburn Tigers and the Virginia Cavaliers in the semifinals of the 2019 men’s Final Four at US Bank Stadium. | Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports

Is Syracuse an NCAA team?

Though the climate is ill-suited for commercially growing marijuana, one company did it anyway.

Trump demonstrates that no foreign policy is executed the way its backers want.

Does forbidding discrimination “because of sex” include sexual orientation and identity?

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Morning news and notes for Tuesday, October 8, 2019

GM's production in Mexico and Canada during the 3-week-old UAW strike represents one of the union's biggest problems with the automaker: outsourcing.

The episode pokes fun at China's censorship laws and ridicules Hollywood for shaping its entertainment to please the Chinese government.

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A first-time event in Stamford proved popular at the library.

Bateman was back on form during the impressive win at rivals Bath

Follow all the live action from Kobe

Exclusive: Here’s the 1st look of Rafale jet

(Telecompaper) Telia Norway has selected Ericsson as its sole 5G radio access network (RAN) vendor. It will deploy hardware and software from Ericsson Radio System, including 5G New Radio (5G NR)...