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Tag Archives: wind power contracts
Local MPPs present petitions to halt wind power contracts
electricity bills, Glenn Thibeault, Grant Crack, hydro bills, IESO, Jim McDonell, Large Renewable Procurement, LRP I, Nation Township, North Stormont, wind power contracts, Wynne government
No community support for greed in Nation Twp [Photo: Ontario Farmer]
Residents of Nation Township and North Stormont recently gathered signatures on a petition and letters demanding the Ontario government halt the Large Renewable Procurement (LRP) process permanently (it is currently "suspended"), cancel the LRP I contracts awarded for five wind power projects earlier this year, and cancel contracts for wind power projects that have not yet been built.
The Premier of Ontario recently admitted that her government's energy policies were a "mistake" that resulted in higher costs for Ontario citizens.
The Ontario Association of Food Banks recently released its Hunger report, placing the blame for Ontario's "shockingly high levels of food bank use" on the electricity bills, and other factors. Hydro rates have increased 3.5 times and "off-peak" rates are now eight times what they were. Remedies proposed by the Wynne government, the association says, are a "drop in the bucket."
The petitions filed at Queen's Park yesterday refer to the high electricity rates and growing poverty and also to the fact that the Wynne government, specifically Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault, says it now has a "robust supply of power" for the years ahead.
So why pay out the millions for these new contracts, for power we don't need, say the residents.
MPPs Jim McDonell and Grant Crack (the LIBERAL MPP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell) read the petitions in the Legislature yesterday, while representatives of Save The Nation/Sauvons La Nation and Concerned Citizens of North Stormont watched from the Gallery.
A story on the petition may be found here.
Here are the details for the five contracts awarded by the IESO last spring.
Project name Capacity MW 20-yr cost $ Max payout liability $
Otter Creek 50 218 million 500,000
Romney Wind 60 261 million 520,000
Strong Breeze 57 250 million 515,000
Eastern Fields (Nation Twp) 32 139 million 464,000
Nation Rise (N Stormont) 100 436 million 600,000
Source: data from IESO contracts
More action needed on hydro bills, Ontario mayors tell Energy Minister
electricity bills Ontario, Glenn Thibeault, hydro bills Ontario, IESO, Not a Willing host, Ron Higgins, unwilling host communities, wind power contracts, Wynne government
The Mayor of North Frontenac has written to Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault on behalf of all the 115 municipalities demanding change to the Large Renewable Procurement process. While relieved the next round of bids is "suspended," he says, the municipalities say more can be done to stop the dramatic rise of Ontario electricity bills.
Mayors across Ontario who united together as a result of a resolution being supported to have municipal support mandatory for industrial wind turbines are relieved that procurement of future wind power has been cancelled for now. The Mayors still feel however that the government needs to take very aggressive actions to address the ongoing crisis caused by high electricity costs in this province. Taking steps to not add $2.45 per month in 2020 does not address the real hardship being felt by our residents now. It is also not clear that the other measures announced by the government will even offset the ongoing increases in hydro rates that can be expected in the short term unless additional changes are made.
It was important that the Minster of Energy's statement confirmed that the province has a "robust" supply of electricity and the procurement process could be cancelled without increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This provides room for more aggressive actions that will address increasing costs. Our tracking of wind turbine contracts shows that there are still many wind turbine projects in the pipeline that will add at least another $7.9 billion to electricity generating costs. This is equivalent to another $82 per annum for each Ontario electricity user. Seven of these projects are under construction but will not be connected to the grid until sometime this fall or in 2017. Another five have not been issued 'Notices to Proceed' as they are, or have been until recently, involved in Environmental Review Tribunal proceedings or other legal appeals of Renewable Energy Approvals. The final six projects are in the pre-MOECC submission stage. These include the five contracts issued in early 2016 plus one outstanding project from earlier FIT offers.
In all of these cases, the IESO has the option of terminating the agreement for any reason with very limited cost liabilities relative to the 20 year commitment to electricity that is not required. We respectively ask that all industrial and solar wind projects be cancelled to avoid ongoing costs to our residents.
Mayor, North Frontenac
Councillor, County of Frontenac
Email ron.higgins@xplornet.com
Twitter @HigginsRon
See the letter sent to the Energy Minister, here. lettertoenergyminister-oct52016
Mayor Higgins (Photo CBC)
Municipalities demand formal support be mandatory requirement for new wind power bids
Dutton-Dunwich, green energy, IESO, North Frontenac, Ron Higgins, wind farms, wind power contracts
Since this news release was issued, two more municipalities in Ontario have asked the Wynne government to change the wind power bid process, so communities can plan for sustainable development — and not have power plants forced on them
Plevna, June 15, 2016
Municipalities call on Ontario government to make municipal support mandatory for wind power bids
Seventy-five municipalities have now endorsed resolutions that call on Ontario's Independent Electrical System Operator (IESO) to make formal Municipal Support a mandatory requirement in Ontario's next round of procurement for renewable energy projects.
Mayor Ron Higgins of North Frontenac, who put forward a resolution now supported by other municipalities, says making municipal support mandatory is key to fairness in the process. "It will force proponents to seriously address local concerns when developing these proposals, rather than just going through the motions," he says.
The IESO process allowed municipalities to express their concerns about wind power projects but that had little impact on the outcome, Higgins says. In spite of the fact that then Energy Minister Chiarelli said a contract in an unwilling community was "virtually impossible," three of five wind power contracts were awarded in municipalities that did not support the projects proposed by developers.
The municipality of Dutton Dunwich, which also created a mandatory support motion, held a referendum on the wind power project bid there — 84 percent of residents said no. The municipality is now fighting a contract award.
Municipalities across Ontario support these resolutions, including former Energy Minister Chiarelli's home municipality of Ottawa. Municipalities in Northern Ontario also endorse the resolution.
"Communities know what type of development is appropriate and sustainable," says North Frontenac Mayor Higgins. "Our resolution points out that utility-scale wind power does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions or appreciably benefit the environment. In fact, in our case, it would have harmed it."
The recent Environmental Review Tribunal decision revoking the approval for the Ostrander Point wind turbine project underscores the importance of community input into the process of awarding contracts and approving power projects. The community in Prince Edward County went through two appeal hearings and two hearings in court before succeeding in its goal of protecting the environment and endangered wildlife from a power project.
Recent feedback published by the IESO shows that the current bid process was resoundingly condemned by municipal officials and community groups for a lack of openness and transparency.
Mayor Ron Higgins, North Frontenac, 613-884-9736
Mandatory Municipal Support Resolution
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Alfred & Plantagenet, Prescott-Russell County
Amaranth, Dufferin County
Asphodel-Norwood. Peterborough County
Algonquin Highlands, Haliburton County
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Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, Huron County
Bayham, Elgin County
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Bruce Mines, Algoma District
Cavan-Monaghan, Peterborough
Central Elgin, Elgin
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Chamberlain, Timiskaming District
Chatsworth, Grey County
Clarington, Region of Durham
Dutton-Dunwich, Elgin
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Essex, Essex County
Enniskillen, Lambton County
Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville County
Georgian Bluffs, Grey
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Huron-Kinloss, Bruce
Kawartha Lakes, City of
Killarney, Sudbury District
Kincardine, Bruce
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LaSalle, Essex
Laurentian Hills, Renfrew County
Leeds and the Thousand Island, Leeds and Grenville
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Mapleton, Wellington
Magnetawan, Parry Sound District
Marathon, Thunder Bay District
McDougall, Parry Sound
McNabb Braeside, Renfrew County
Newbury, Middlesex
Mono, Dufferin County
Morris-Turnberry, Huron
Nairn and Hyman, Sudbury District
North Frontenac, Frontenac County
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Tillsonburg, Oxford County
Trent Lakes, Peterborough
Tudor and Cashel, Hastings County
Tweed, Hastings
Val Rita-Harty, Cochrane District
Warwick, Lambton
Wainfleet, Niagara Region
West Grey, Grey
West Lincoln, Niagara
Zorra, Oxford
Ottawa to Energy Minister: municipal support must be mandatory for wind power bids
Bob Chiarelli, Green Energy Act, IESO, Large Renewable Procurement, Minister of Energy Ontario, municipal planning, Not a Willing host, Rideau-Goulbourn, Scott Moffatt, wind farm contracts, wind power contracts
Municipal approval key to sustainable development, Canada's capital city tells the Wynne government
Ottawa: how about WE get to say what happens?
The City of Ottawa, Ontario's second largest city and Canada's capital, sent a letter to the Minister of Energy requesting a return of local land-use planning powers removed under the Green Energy Act.
Ottawa is a city but it also has a large rural area, which makes it a "draw" for wind power developers, Councillor Scott Moffatt wrote in the letter. Moffatt is Chair of the city's Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee, and the representative for the rural Rideau-Goulbourn ward in the city.
The City is not opposed to renewable energy projects, the letter states, but because wind power projects have "significant implications" for planning, Ottawa believes their approval should "go through the existing planning framework that takes Ottawa's Official Plan, community sustainability, and input of the community into consideration."
Under the current Large Renewable Procurement process, Ottawa's letter says, municipalities' role is "consultative" only, and without "decision-making authority."
The letter was sent to the former Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, whose own riding is in Ottawa.
In 2013, the City supported a Not A Willing Host declaration by residents faced with a 20-megawatt wind power project that would have been close to hundreds of homes and a school.
See the letter from Ottawa here: OttawaLetter2016-05-30-minister-chiarelli-wind-power
The Ottawa resolution, passed unanimously at Council in May reads as follows. Ottawa is among 75 municipalities now requesting the IESO and the Ontario government to make municipal support a mandatory requirement for new wind power bids.
Ask the Province of Ontario to make the necessary legislative and/or regulatory changes to provide municipalities with a substantive and meaningful role in siting wind power projects and that the "Municipal Support Resolution" becomes a mandatory requirement in the IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) process.
Citizens, municipalities say thumbs down on IESO wind power contract process
Adam Butterworth, Bob Chiarelli, community opposition wind farms, IESO, Large Renewable Procurement, London Free Press, Ontario Liberal government, renewable energy, wind farm contracts, wind power bids, wind power contracts, wind power Ontario, wind turbines, windmills, Wynne government
'Resounding condemnation' of wind power bid process: WCO on comments to IESO
The IESO asked for comments on its Large Renewable Procurement process. Looks like nobody is happy, least of all Ontario citizens and the municipalities that would be forced to have the power projects.
Communities have valid reasons for objecting to huge power projects but government is not listening [Photo: Prince Edward County]
London Free Press, June 3, 2016John Miner
The agency setting the ground rules for the next multi-billion-dollar round of wind farm development in Ontario says it can only go so far to meet demands for changes in its program to acquire more electricity.
Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), which picked the winners in the last round, asked residents, wind farm developers, municipalities and First Nations how the controversial program could be improved.
A persistent theme in the 120 pages of responses was a call for municipalities to be given a veto over developments, a power stripped away by the Liberal government — to the anger of many municipalities — when it launched its green energy program.
"Municipal support must be a mandatory requirement. There must be greater consideration given to the impact of the power projects on the community, and on the people who must live near them," wrote one respondent.
But Adam Butterfield, IESO's manager of renewable energy procurement, said such a decision would have to be made by the provincial government.
"The feedback we get will be communicated up to the Ministry of Energy for them to consider any related policy changes. We provide our advice, as we always do, on these aspects. But at the end of the day there are some policy ones, such as the veto aspect, that are in the government's purview," he said.
In Southwestern Ontario, home to the largest wind farms in the province and the most wind turbines, the Liberal government's decision to take away local control over where the highrise-sized turbines can be built left many centres joining a movement of so-called "unwilling host" communities for energy projects.
Butterfield said he doesn't know how the government will respond to the latest feedback.
"To date they have been pretty firm that renewable energy is a provincial issue and so they haven't been amenable to considering a (local) veto. We will provide the feedback up and see where things go over the course of the summer."
Jane Wilson, president of Wind Concerns Ontario, a provincial coalition opposed to wind farms, said the survey responses show the process doesn't respect Ontarians and their wishes for how their communities develop.
"The point is made repeatedly that the process for locating renewable power projects differs from any other sort of development — that there is little openness or transparency, and that municipalities ought to have real 'say' in where these power projects go," Wilson wrote in an email.
"The comments are a resounding condemnation of the procurement process," she added.
The IESO has been instructed by the government to procure another 600 megawatts of wind energy, with the contracts awarded by 2018.
The generating capacity is being added at a time when the IESO's own forecasts project Ontario will remain in a surplus power position for at least a decade.
A report last year by Ontario's auditor general concluded Ontarians paid $37 billion extra for power over the last eight years because of the government's decisions to ignore its own planning process for new power generation projects.
Along with suggestions for a municipal veto, other respondents to the IESO survey called for more openness by companies about their plans and an end to non-disclosure agreements with property owners.
"Proponents intentionally misled, failed to follow the process (meeting and information distribution), and used other methods to ensure the community was misinformed and had little time to respond," wrote one. …
Read the full news story here.
Ottawa Wind Concerns Editor's NOTE: As of today, 73 Ontario municipalities (the majority of communities that would be vulnerable to wind power projects) have passed a resolution stating that municipal support MUST be a mandatory requirement in future wind power bids. That list includes Ottawa.
Want to do something?
Write to the IESO: LRP@IESO.ca and tell them you agree, municipal support MUST be a mandatory requirement. You deserve a say in where power projects go.
Write to the Energy Ministry. By email: http://www.energy.gov.on.ca/en/contact-us/
By post: Ministry of Energy
900 Bay Street, 4th Floor
Hearst Block
Toronto ON M7A 2E1
And thank your Ottawa councillor for voting in favour of the mandatory support motion.
You're not listening to us: IESO publishes comments on renewable power bid process
community engagement wind farms, IESO, LRP, Ontario government, Ottawa, Ottawa wind concerns, wind farm, wind farm leases, wind power contracts
"Overwhelmingly fraudulent"; "we were ready with a team of lawyers"; "property values are decreased because of forced wind turbine projects" … and more.
Ontario community groups, municipal representatives and individual citizens responded to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) request for feedback on its renewable power bid process.
The IESO published a summary of comments received in its online survey, yesterday.
Ottawa Wind Concerns was among the community groups responding to this survey.
Key issues were the fact that the process was difficult to understand, unfair to individuals and communities, and that so-called "community engagement" was a false promise, given that community support (or lack of it) was just one of the rated criteria in the bid process, not a mandatory requirement.
Municipal governments are forced to determine whether they support a power project with very little information, representatives said. The rated criteria activities to indicate community support were ineffective, said most of the municipal government representative responding: 70 percent said the activities prescribed were "somewhat" or "very" ineffective.
The mandatory meeting was set up in a format that was to leave everyone with the least amount of say as possible. There were large displays set up showing the project. There was no intention for any real interaction with the participants. We had to basically demand a question and answer period. Questions and answers in a public format is the way these mandatory meetings should be set up to ensure that the correct info is actually being presented.
The mandatory community engagement requirements and optional rated criteria community support activities were neither clear nor successful in raising awareness within the Project Community. How can a requirement to consult members of a community (and having owners sign a support form) on an existing line that had already been fully and duly permitted and that represents no new or additional impact for them be considered mandatory and successful in raising awareness or support for the project? The Rated Criteria points associated with obtaining a support resolution from the municipal council gives too much negotiation leverage to the Municipalities. Rated Criteria points should also be allocated following a prorated basis instead of a all or nothing basis, especially the ones associated with abutting landowners support.
Some respondents questioned the municipal support process, saying that councils ignored community wishes and/or had pecuniary interests in the proposed power projects.
I was part of the General Public who attended meetings and proposal meetings. Our elected officials were not responsive to the general public opinion which was 80% plus against the proposal so we had to fight our representatives. The process was very poor and at least 1 of our political persons refused to withdraw from voting and would directly benefit from the projects if approved. I felt like I lived in a 3rd world country.
Other respondents decried the loss of good Ontario farmland for power projects, and the social impact on communities when some landowners took out leases or accepted payments for support of abutting power projects.
Another concern was the communities and neighbours to power projects had no idea the bid was coming until it was put together.
Very simple. Let communities decide whether they want these projects or not. Let neighbors know from the very outset that their communities are being considered. Holding a propaganda session once the project is ready to be submitted is not community involvement.
The IESO document is available here.
House and wind turbine at Brinston, just south of Ottawa. Propaganda meetings are not 'community engagement' says an Ontario citizen
Wynne government thumbs nose at Ontario's small communities
Bob Chiarelli, garbage dumps Ontario, green energy, IESO, Kathleen Wynne, Large Renewable Power projects, Not A Willing Host community opposition wind farms, Ontario Liberal government, wind farms Ontario, wind power contracts
While Manitoba is bending over backwards to foster cooperation and benefit for both rural and urban communities, the Ontario government is doing the opposite, says PostMedia writer Jim Merriam. In fact, the Wynne government has made it very clear what it thinks of rural/small-town Ontario –you're there to supply our power and bury our garbage.
Orillia Packet, May 31, 2016
You tiny little annoying people…
Rural-urban divide a wedge issue in Ontario
By Jim Merriam
Although Manitoba and Ontario are neighbours, their differences far outnumber their similarities.
One of these differences is the way their leaders treat the rural-urban divide.
Brian Pallister, recently elected Conservative premier of Manitoba, has coined two new words: "rurban" and "urbal," according to the Western Producer.
The Manitoba premier is trying to create a new reality in Manitoba, wherein his urban members of the legislature care about rural areas and vice versa. He is trying to convince legislators that, "You do not think about yourself. You think about your team."
The new boss went on to say "there are rural situations that many people in the city don't fully appreciate."
In contrast, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has been all over the map on the same issue.
As recently as two years ago she denied the divide even existed. Then last November, she told a rural audience "the issue of bridging the rural-urban gap" has been on her mind since she was first elected in 2003.
The reasons for the divide are various, but some stand out.
No. 1 is the way this government has shoved industrial wind turbines down the throats of rural dwellers. The province is still approving new developments over the strongest objections of municipal leaders in a wide area of the province.
During the last provincial election, the Liberals told rural Ontarians their voices would be heard on wind farm developments.
Yet, in April, just weeks after awarding controversial contracts for five wind farms, Ontario said it's opening bidding for double that amount of wind energy.
Recent approvals included a development in Dutton-Dunwich in southwestern Ontario where 84 per cent of residents who voted, didn't want such developments.
In November 2013, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli testified before a legislature committee that municipalities wouldn't be given a veto over projects but it would be "very rare indeed" for any to be approved without local backing.
Garbage is another source of friction …
NOTE: The City of Ottawa does not presently have any wind power projects under contract, but the IESO is set to begin its new Large Renewable Procurement process later this summer. Eastern Ontario has a "green light" in the wind power expansion process. Earlier this month, Ottawa City Council unanimously passed a resolution asking that municipal support of power projects be a mandatory requirement for new bids.
Crusading mayor says he is game for fight over wind power
Bon Echo, IESO, North Frontenac, Not a Willing host, Ron Higgin, wind farms, wind power, wind power contracts
Community said 'no' to giant wind power plant and Mayor aims to fight for their wishes … and sense
North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins told the audience for a noon-hour public affairs show yesterday that he is "game" for a fight against wind power projects … and he is gathering steam among other municipalities to "bring it on."
Although North Frontenac missed a contract in the recent announcement by the IESO, he is under no illusion that his community, where the majority of residents are opposed to a wind power project, is safe.
"Those bids" will just roll over into the next round, he said, and his community is not only ready, they are striking out for change. Last week, North Frontenac Council passed a resolution asking the provincial government to make municipal support a mandatory requirement in the new bid process, not just a means to score higher in points for wind power developers.
In spite of declarations by more than 90 communities in Ontario that they were "Not A Willing Host" to the power projects, the Independent Electricity Systems Operator (IESO) awarded contracts to unwilling communities anyway.
Higgins' issue is not only are community wishes overruled by the current process, the fact is wind power doesn't live up to the hype. "It isn't really 'green'," he said, citing studies which list concerns about the need for fossil-fuel back up and the possibility that greenhouse gas emissions actually increase with wind power.
The Ontario government never did any studies on cost-benefit analysis, Higgins said, echoing two Auditors General in Ontario, and the real impacts of industrial-scale wind power development are not known. But there are enough concerns about damage to the environment, health impacts due to the noise and vibration, and the alteration to North Frontenac's scenic landscape to worry him.
"Here in North Frontenac," he said, "we never take action without studying everything … the province didn't do that."
Listen to the interview on Rideau Lakes radio station Lake88 here: https://t.co/rfub3uVCyo
See the North Frontenac Resolution here
[Originally posted on windconcernsontario.ca ]
North Frontenac vows to appeal wind power project if approved
Addington Highlands, community opposition wind farms, IESO, NextEra, North Frontenac, RES Canada, wind power contracts
North Frontenac tells Wynne government: we will appeal wind power project
Kingston Whig-Standard, February 29, 2016
By Elliot Ferguson
PLEVNA — North Frontenac Township is to appeal any large-scale wind energy project approved for the township.
Township council agreed on Friday that an appeal to the Environmental Review Tribunal would be pursued if either of the large wind energy projects proposed for the area are approved.
"We just had a general discussion and I asked council that if the wind turbine decision was in favour of the proponents, are we agreed that we would appeal it based on our position paper and our decisions made back in October?" Mayor Ron Higgins said. "They all agreed yes."
NextEra Canada has proposed two projects for North Frontenac and neighbouring Addington Highlands Township. The Ontario government is expected to announce in the coming weeks which of the almost 120 proposed energy projects would be approved. The government is seeking to add up to 565 megawatts of renewable energy to the province's electricity supply. Of that new energy, up to 300 megawatts is to come from new wind projects, 140 megawatts of new solar power, 50 megawatts of bioenergy and 75 megawatts of hydro electricity.
The NextEra projects include the 100-megawatt, 50-turbine Northpoint I in North Frontenac and the 200-megawatt, 100-turbine Northpoint II in Addington Highlands and North Frontenac. Seven of the 100 turbines proposed for the Northpoint II project are in North Frontenac, and the township provides the shortest, most affordable route to connect the project to the transmission lines.
In early June last year, citing public opposition, North Frontenac council unanimously voted to declare the township "not a willing host" for the proposed wind energy projects. The council voted not to provide municipal support to the project. Next door, Addington Highlands council voted to support the proposal.*
Higgins said the whole process of new energy procurement has been marked by secrecy and a lack of information being shared amongst involved parties.
"There was no collaboration from a number of different ministries within the Ontario provincial government," Higgins said. "Everything came on us without any communication or collaboration whatsoever. We were kind of taken off guard."
Higgins said he has asked four times to meet with Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli but has received no response …
*Web editor note: Addington Highlands council did vote to support the project but that was after a poll of taxpayers was conducted, with the results that 81% of residents did NOT support the power project. Council voted to support it anyway. See www.bearat.org for more details, including FOI documents.
How to get those power bills down: Parker Gallant to Bob Chiarelli
Bob Chiarelli, electricity bills Ontario, electricity prices, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, energy poverty, Feed In Tariff program, HOEP, Ontario, Ontario deficit, Ontario economy, Ontario hydro bills, Parker Gallant, wind farms, wind power, wind power contracts
Financial Post, 2015
Parker Gallant, the former banker who several years ago launched FP Comment's prophetic Ontario's Power Trip campaign against the province's expensive and pointless electricity industry reforms, has some new advice for the government. As the price of electricity soars, Ontario industries and consumers are being hammered by rate increases that seem never-ending. In an open letter today to Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, Mr. Gallant lists a few easy initiatives the government could undertake to stop some of the madness and save consumers billions of dollars. Terence Corcoran
LETTER FROM PARKER GALLANT
The Honourable Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Energy,
Legislative Building, Queen's Park, Toronto ON, M7A 1A1
Dear Minister Chiarelli:
Re: Dropping Ontario's Price for Electricity
I have noted the difficulty you have experienced over the past several months trying to convince the media and the general population of Ontario they should simply bite the bullet and accept the fact that electricity prices will continue their above inflation climb. Having studied the situation I believe I have come up with some suggestions that would allow you to move things in the opposite direction.
First I suspect that Premier Wynne and Finance Minister Sousa exerted considerable pressure on you to come up with a scheme to help out the 500,000 to 700,000 "low-income" households in the province experiencing what is generally referred to as "energy poverty." While the plan recommended came from the Ontario Energy Board and was altered somewhat by yourself I believe I have a better plan.
More on that later in this letter.
I also suspect that the Premier and Finance Minister told you unequivocally the OCEB was finished at the end of the year as they wish to wave better deficit numbers in front of those pesky credit rating agencies. The $1.2 billion that went to keep electricity rates down, a little bit, would no longer be available and they made that clear to you.
While you did your best to dance around the issue associated with the upcoming big jump in our electricity bills I could see the criticism was troublesome for you. As a result I believe my suggestions on what you should do will put some spring back in your step.
Recommendations to reduce future ratepayer bills
Conservation spending for the period 2015 to 2020 is forecast and budgeted at $1,835 million so drop it and that will provide close to $400 million annually that can go to reduce electricity prices.
Next, cancel the acquisition of the 500 MW of renewable wind and solar that you instructed IESO to acquire. That will save an estimated $200 million annually in future costs that would increase our rates.
I note there are 510 MW of wind generation contracts awarded that have not yet obtained their REA from the MoE and I recommend you also cancel those. I estimate that would provide relief from future increases of another $200 million per annum. I would suspect the costs of exiting these will be nominal.
Needless to say the cancellation of the above 1,010 MW of renewable energy will reduce future power surpluses meaning the HOEP might show some upward movement. That would allow all the dispatched wind and solar, spilled hydro, steamed off nuclear and idled gas to be sold via the market place to our neighbours. I estimate we could sell anywhere from 10/15 TWh annually at a price of somewhere around $40 million per TWh which would earn revenue of $400/600 million annually.
I would also cancel the new OESP plan which is estimated to cost $200 million (including a new administrative bureaucracy costing $20 million) annually.
Now if you do the math on the above the amount of money your portfolio would save in the future and also generate new income it totals $1.7 billion.
You could than use some of that $1.7 billion to both decrease electricity prices and provide relief for those suffering from "energy poverty."
My recommendations on those two issues follow:
Recommendations to relieve "energy poverty"
First you should instruct the OEB that the .12% allocated to the LEAP program be increased immediately (providing you have completed the other recommendations) to 1% which will immediately make over $30 million available to the social agencies for relief purposes. You should also increase the maximums per household to $1,000 and instruct the OEB that the Return on Equity and/or Return on Assets for the LDC are to reflect a reduction to accommodate this.
Second you should drop the TOU off-peak rate from 7.7 cents per kWh to 5 cents per kWh. The cost of this would be about $350 million. It would also benefit many of those "low-income" households meaning they would no longer suffer from "energy poverty." The other benefit is that the ratio of offpeak to on-peak would be much closer to the 3 : 1 ratio that the Auditor General suggested it should be and get more people to shift their use. It would also benefit our business community.
The cost of the two above recommendations are less than $400 million meaning ratepayers will be better off by avoiding future rate hikes and seeing some relief on existing rates. At the same time the TOU pricing will provide a clear signal that usage should shift preserving the "conservation" theme.
I certainly hope you will give my suggestions some serious thought and I do look forward to your response.
Parker Gallant


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By Aashish Kumar
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In his latest public appearance, 'Notorious' was seen celebrating the third birthday of his second child, Croía Mairéad McGregor. The Irishman posted a video of him with his daughter and captioned it, "Happy 3rd birthday my beautiful princess Croía Mairéad McGregor I love you with all my heart and soul my daughter, here is your horse and carriage because you are royalty baby girl don't ever forget it ❤😍"
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In the video, we can see McGregor strolling in a park with his daughter, while assisting his daughter Croía drive a toy pony carriage that he gifted to her.
Conor McGregor family: Parents, siblings, partner, and children
Talking about Conor McGregor's immediate family, it comprises nine members, including the former double champ himself.
Conor McGregor was born in the Irish town of Crumlin, to his parents, Tony McGregor and Margaret McGregor. Both of his parents were factory workers in their youth. Later, his father, Tony, went on to obtain a taxi license and worked as a taxi driver for most of his early age.
'Notorious' has two sisters. The elder one is Erin McGregor whereas the younger one is Aoife McGregor. Notably, Erin works as a hairdresser. You can certainly credit her for the Irishman's incredible hairstyles. The younger one, Aoife is a businessperson who works with her husband.
At last, Conor McGregor's partner and Fiancee, Dee Devlin. Devlin has been the pillar-stone of McGregor's success. Devlin started her professional career as a waitress and then transitioned to modeling. The duo has been together since 2008. She helped McGregor through the toughest phases of his career and now works as his manager.
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The couple has three lovely children, namely Conor Jack Jr, Croía Mairéad McGregor, and Rian McGregor. Their son Conor Jack Jr. is the eldest of the lot, whereas they welcomed their youngest, Rian McGregor, into the world recently in 2021.
Isn't Conor McGregor's family adorable? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Mute Swans
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The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan, and thus a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is also an introduced species in North America, Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. Measuring 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in) in length, this large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange bill bordered with black. It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the bill.
Mute swans lay an average of four eggs, and the female broods for 36 days. The cygnets do not reach the ability of flight before an age of 120 to 150 days: this limits the distribution of the species in the northern edge of its range, as the cygnets must learn to fly before the waters freeze. Mute swans nest on large mounds that they build with waterside vegetation in shallow water on islands in the middle or at the very edge of a lake. They are monogamous and often reuse the same nest each year, restoring or rebuilding it as needed. Male and female swans share the care of the nest, and once the cygnets are fledged it is not uncommon to see whole families looking for food.They feed on a wide range of vegetation, both submerged aquatic plants which they reach with their long necks, and by grazing on land. The food commonly includes agricultural crop plants such as oilseed rape and wheat, and feeding flocks in the winter may cause significant crop damage, often as much through trampling with their large webbed feet, as through direct consumption.
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"The B & B Talk Show"
Sandy was doing some VHS archeology today - she wants to take our 25 years of family videos and transfer them to DVD - a great idea.
I picked up one of the ancient tapes and suddenly there was our son Ben and his friend-from-birth and next-door-neighbor Bryan, ten years ago at age 11.
Trained by me from a young age to be a wise-guy, Ben and Brian were performing their long-running "B & B Talk Show." They were two talented kids even back then. Bryan was already a pretty good pianist, and Ben was learning a lot from him.
Most of the "show" was just what you'd expect from two kids this age, a lot of lame jokes and shennanigans - probably not of much interest to anyone but me, my family, and Bryan's family.
One thing I noticed is that Ben was already working on his "Hey Kids!" expression (see the fourth photo below.)
At one point, the video jumped ahead four years to Ben & Bryan doing a 15-year-old's version of B & B Talk Show. By now, Bryan was an accomplished keyboardist, guitarist, and drummer. Ben had also become a darn good guitarist and was getting up to speed on drums as well.
Suddenly, as if in a time warp, the scene before me was once again Ben and Bryan at age 11, brandishing "swords" and nunchucks (I think Sandy had transferred 8mm video to VHS and happened to get some segments out of order.)
To see what Ben looks like today (or at least a few months ago,) see this post.
Meanwhile, maybe I can prevail on these two clowns to do an updated B & B Talk Show for YouTube.
Brockville Farm
Pour Les Oisseaux
Puttin' on the Schvitz
Rain - The Beatles Experience


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        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing && (components != null))
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                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

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        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
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            this.lblSeparator1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.lblSeparator = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
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        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnEditDeviceNum;
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Fifa critic Gary Lineker defends decision to host World Cup draw: 'If Sepp Blatter was in charge, I would not have done it'
By Ben Rumsby in Moscow 30 November 2017 • 10:30pm
Gary Lineker is in Moscow to host the World Cup draw Credit: getty images
Gary Lineker has defended being paid to co-host Friday's World Cup draw by declaring: "If Blatter had still been in charge, I would not have done it."
Arch-Fifa critic Lineker has faced accusations of hypocrisy since being announced last month as the surprise choice to present the ceremony in Moscow alongside Russian journalist Maria Komandnaya.
The Match of the Day host and BT Sport presenter, who will also anchor the BBC's World Cup coverage next summer, has repeatedly attacked the game's governing body and Russia's hosting of its flagship tournament.
Lineker, part of the delegation which failed to convince Fifa to vote for England's rival 2018 bid seven years ago, has previously accused it of being a "revolting organisation" and behaving like a dictatorship with "nauseating" levels of "corruption".
He has also branded the awarding of the World Cup to Russia as "ludicrous" amid concerns about racism in the country and sarcastically declared there was "nothing to worry about" at the tournament following the publication of an explosive independent report into widespread doping at the Sochi Olympics.
He has been less critical of Fifa since Sepp Blatter was ousted as president and now says the departure of the Swiss and all but one of the men who voted for Russia and Qatar to host the next two World Cups convinced him the organisation had changed.
With Blatter now departed, Lineker is convinced Fifa has changed Credit: AP
Citing the appointment of recently-retired players such as Zvonimir Boban and Marco van Basten to senior roles, he said: "If Blatter had still been in charge, I would not have done it.
"So they are making changes and it is only fair to give them the opportunity."
Former England striker Lineker even claimed he "never had a massive problem with Russia hosting the World Cup".
"It's a proper football country that has never had it," he added.
"It's the next one that I am not supportive of where that's going and they know that. They are absolutely completely happy for me to still have my strongly felt beliefs, and if I think there is something wrong, I will continue to say so.
Lineker is not supportive of the Qatar World Cup Credit: AFO
"Most of the old guard, the ones responsible for the corruption, are now, thankfully, either suspended or locked up or about to be locked up.
"I am not naïve enough to think that all the problems will go away but I wouldn't have done it if it was still the old guard with Blatter.
"I have been involved in the World Cup all my life. I will be broadcasting it, whatever. Even if Blatter was in charge, I would be. I played in two, I won the Golden Boot, I have broadcast every one since and I'm doing the World Cup draw."
Lineker was also confident England would fare better next summer after flopping badly at the last two major tournaments.
"If we could get to the quarter-finals, there or beyond would be a massive bonus," he added, before joking he would rig the draw in their favour.
"I've already taken care of the group for England – once they get to the knockout stages, it's up to the team."
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Racine County Sheriff's Office say Gale Lalonde and Dale Deavers made the girl sleep in a dog kennel.
A grandmother has been arrested after police allege she kept her nine-year-old granddaughter locked in a dog cage in the living room at a home in Wisconsin.
Gale Lalonde, 47, was detained on Thursday along with Dale Deavers, 48, who is not related to the child, following a tip-off from an elementary school teacher that a student was being abused.
Racine County Sheriff's Office attended Deavers's house in Town of Norway and found a kennel, which they say the girl was kept in overnight and for much of the daytime.
It was fastened with a padlock and contained a basic blanket for the child to sleep under when she lay on the floor at night. Another sibling lived in the house but was not caged. Both have been taken into care.
"I was sickened at what I witnessed last night," said Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling.
"This by far, is one of the most disturbing and heart-wrenching cases of child abuse I've seen, it doesn't get much worse than this."
Schmaling said the girl spent at least 12 hours every day – sometimes more – in the cage, which is less than 5ft high and and covered a floor space of 8ft by 4ft. There were no dogs in the house.
Her grandmother Lalonde and Deavers, both from Wind Lake, were taken into custody accused of causing mental harm to a child, false imprisonment and several other felony charges. They have not yet been formally charged.
Police intervened on the advice of an elementary school teacher who the girl confided in. She and her sibling were in the official care of Lalonde – it is not clear why their parents no longer look after them.
"You've seen the photo. Cardboard on the floor, a couple of blankets and a padlock," Schmaling told Fox. "I wouldn't treat my own dog that way."
"What goes through your mind? What would that child have to do to get you to go out and purchase a dog kennel?"
The investigation continues with formal charges expected imminently.


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Little Lady's ESL Classes
We wanted to share with you a story about one of our ESL students, Little Lady, that came to us last September from a protective program.
She had been abused and controlled by her husband and was disowned by her family because in her culture, they don't divorce. She managed to break away and found refuge for herself. When her case manager brought her to us and registered her in our ESL classes, she was not smiling, for fear of being in the public and very limited English.
"I am so thankful for you. I couldn't speak English but now I can speak some English."
She always had her head down. She is now working in a private home taking care of an elderly 90 year old woman. The woman's family has a Home Health provider for their mom, but they hired Little Lady as their mother's companion. They are providing Little Lady live-in privileges and income. Her ESL teacher has agreed to pick up Little Lady so that she can continue to come to ESL class and improve her English.
Little Lady feels overwhelmed by all the blessings she has received. We wish her even more blessings and for God to continue working on her final freedom. She said, "I am so thankful for you (pointed the Friends of North Richmond building). I couldn't speak English but now I can speak some English.
Little Lady is grateful for Friends of North Richmond providing her the opportunity to learn English and enroll in our Computer class. Additionally, her computer teacher has agreed to meet Little Lady on Wednesday after her ESL class and do a 30 minute computer class sessions with her.
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Who would not relish the opportunity to read two-thousand-year-old letters? These four of the seven catholic letters" are addressed not to any specific church, as are Paul's epistles, but to the church in general. Giving us valuable insights into early Christianity, they insist on the need to join good works with faith, present Jesus' sufferings as the model for enduring persecution and warn against intruders intent on undermining traditional faith and morals.
Far from being mere exercises in nostalgia for the "good old' days," the letters offer principles that have not lost their value for the Church of the third millennium.
Fr. Patrick J. Hartin, PhD, is a professor of New Testament at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, and the author of the Sacra Pagina commentary on James and A Spirituality of Perfection: Faith in Action in the Letter of James, published by Liturgical Press.


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When it comes to flyer designing there's only a few layouts or styles that come to mind.
There's the 90's nightclub flyer and its spin offs.
Yes you know what I'm talking about.
The principle of the 90's nightclub flyer design is a centred layout with an eyecatching and alluring image that takes center stage using at least 50% of the page, and surrounded by short bursts of text highlighting the main points of the event/flyer. It entertains and oozes glamour.
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It's bold, catchy, to the point and best of all it does the job. These flyers fill up and sell out events.
The style and genre of the 90's flyer design evolved though, creating spin-offs which were a little more illustrative and classier, using shapes, colours, type and an abstract demeanour that was a little more reserved than the bold and brash flyers that were the norm.
The other type of typical flyer might be the business flyer.
Composed with shapes, transparency effects, gradients, drop shadows, and more complex grid systems, they create a more structured response to design, allowing for more space for text and a clean, creative and contemporary look.
When it comes down to it you'd be hard pressed to find a flyer design that doesn't conform to the two styles or layouts above. These flyer designs have created the fundamentalbackbone of flyer designs for the last 20 odd years.
Whilst the 90's nightclub flyer is fantastic because it works, it's also become a little monotonous so I went on a small internet expedition to find some flyers that were truly unique in design and style.
Sure some of them still hold remnants of the 90's flyer or the contemporary business flyer but the flyers below are great sources of design inspiration to get you to design something a little different when it comes to flyers.
Click on images to see the authors, source or full projects.
At the end of the day, the 90's nightclub flyer design still forms the basis of great flyer designs and if you can learn how to apply the format to any flyer design then you're onto a winner.


Description: In the ideas of the Giarai and Bahnar ethnic groups from the West-Highlands, to die means to start a new life in another world, the world beyond. This book examines the tomb houses and the wood sculptures surrounding it and their meanings.
Published in 1995 by Department of Culture Information and Sports of Giarai Province, Vietnam. 88 pages, soft cover, 19 x 23 cm. Bilingual - Vietnamese, English.


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Population structure and other nuisance factors represent a major challenge for the analysis of genomic data. Recent advances in statistical genetics have lead to a new generation of methods for quantitative trait mapping that also account for spurious correlation as caused by population structure. In particular, linear mixed models (LMMs) gained considerable attention as they enable easy black box-like control for population structure in a wide range of genetic designs and analysis settings. The aim of this work is to transfer the advantages of LMMs into a random bagging framework in order to simultaneously address a second pressing challenge: the recovery of complex non-linear genetic effects. Existing methods that allow for identifying such relationships like epistasis typically do not provide any robust and interpretable means to control for population structure and other confounding effects. The method we present here is based on random forests, a bagged variant of the well established decision trees. We show that the proposed method greatly improves over existing methods not only in identifying causal genetic markers but also in the prediction of held out phenotypic data.


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Barnsley midfielder Kenny Dougall has revealed he tried to play on against Doncaster despite a broken leg.
Dougall is set to miss the rest of the season after suffering the fracture in Friday's 0-0 draw in League One.
But he revealed on Instagram that he tried to continue before being substituted in the 18th minute.
"Injuries are part of the game and unfortunately I've been hit with another tough pill to swallow," the Australian posted.
"Full trust in the lads to get us up into the champ! Don't know why I've tried to play on with a broken leg but nobody can say I didn't try."
Barnsley said in a statement that Dougall will be assessed by a specialist this week but he is not expected to feature again this season.
Tykes striker Kieffer Moore has already been ruled out for the rest of the season due to concussion.
Daniel Stendel's side are second in the table, two points ahead of third-placed Sunderland, having played a game more.


A dear fried of mine named Adam died last week. I had known him since I was about 12 and we were close until I moved away to go to school. I would even say that until that time, we had a lot in common. I still talked to and emailed him after I left for school, but things seem to change when people see each other less.
I do not like to return to my hometown because it is so boring. I do not know how Adam tolerated it. Actually, I do, he tolerated it because he never left it; I think if he had gone elsewhere he would have come to see Orange, Texas the way that I see it. Orange must be one of the wealthiest places on earth, but the poverty there is terrible. There are many chemical plants there – DuPont, Fina, Firestone; I am not sure what others. They process the by-products of refining fuel from petroleum, making them into tar, plastics, and whatever else. Someone gets a lot of money for this, but not the local community and not the local workers. Besides that, Orange is on a major highway (Interstate 10) which runs from California to Florida. Also it is on an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, so it is a port by means of which shipped goods enter America.
Adam worked at Wal-Mart for several years when I was in college. I told him he was wasting his time, but he saved his money and made good when he used his savings to make a down-payment on a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house on four acres of land in a place that was less rural than most other real estate in Orange. I was pleased to find that he did this; I was even more impressed when he rented the rooms out, thus covering his house payments and financing his lifestyle. He did this at about age 23.
Somewhere along the way he started taking prescription opiates and muscle relaxers. I did not piece this together until I personally had a small problem due to his behavior, but looking back, I can see that relatively quickly after starting to take pills he became habitual for the process and started neglecting other aspects of his life that did not directly involve pills. By other aspects, I mean time with friends, his wife, his child, maintaining his home, maintaining his own health, keeping a job, socializing, and eventually – and this is unthinkable to me – he got to the point where having internet was no longer important, and that's where I lost regular contact with him. I cannot imagine keeping a job or scheduling and organizing my life without net access; somewhere along the way he and I really parted ways.
When I heard that I died I assumed that he died from a drug overdose. His mother called and said that he had recently gotten a new job, and that the only medical problem he had recently was that he had was a toothache, and that he died on his stomach. I talked to her again after the autopsy and she said they reported no particular cause of death; I asked if he had vomited and she said no. She told me that he died of a blood infection related to his tooth. I presume that what must have happened was that he increased his use of hydrocodone (Vicodin) and carisoprodol (Soma) as he recently came into money. Tooth pain is hardly relieved from general anesthetic, so I suspect he took extra pills to try to relieve this local discomfort. In the past he had been accustomed to taking 2 week's dosage of these in one sitting; I can only guess that in the time he had gone without his drug because of lack of income, his body lost some tolerance for it, and the familiar dosages slowed his breathing to a level that could not sustain life.
So, some people die this way. Adam refused heroin because he said it was too dangerous. He took prescription pills that he got from fake doctors, and they dimmed his consciousness as years of his life progressed. He told me that he had become proficient at securing pills. His method was to visit every doctor in a 100 mile radius and ask them for pain pills. He would find doctors who were in the business of only proscribing pain pills; these doctors only advertise by word of mouth, and as he described them, they were all the same. They would rent some shabby office as a private practice, and they would prescribe pain pills to people who asked for them. These doctors took no kind of insurance and frequently only took cash. Adam described them the same way that Burroughs described his pain pill doctors- they would give pills for any sad story, and any reasonable person could have seen that all the patients where total addicts, but the doctors play the part as if and on some level truly believe that all their clients were the sick in need of pain pills for medical purposes. Adam regularly told me stories about his doctors suddenly leaving town, or getting raided, and he was even in a waiting room when a SWAT team came and arrested one of his doctors and hauled out all the computers and files. There is a subculture of people like Adam who continually troll for private practice doctors and small pharmacies with no computer records, and they meet each other in waiting rooms, and then they travel around the countryside in vans collecting prescriptions from a region's doctors' offices during their day trips. Adam, being something of an organizer, would drive a set of these people around to all these doctors' offices, he would pay their doctors' bills and pay for the prescriptions to be filled, and then he would take a percentage of the pills and resell them or eat them. I think he got addicted to the money to be made before he got addicted to the pills, but even at his most financially profitable, the time and effort expended in doing this – leaving out the fact he eventually got addicted and that this "work" entails committing many federal felonies in an afternoon – is not enough to finance a middle-class lifestyle.
I am of the opinion that Adam's life was not made better by his drug use; I am not stating an opinion as to whether he ever got short-term benefits from his use, or whether other people might be able to use as he did and be better for it. I form my opinion based on his statements that he was not happy, that he was suicidal, that he was anxious that some series of unlikely things which were all out of his control would come into his life and grant him money, which would then make him happy. I would like to present his death as an opportunity for other people to see a modern lifestyle that has a demonstrable problem (self-destructive drug use) that probably could have a solution (somehow quitting the drug use). So how did this happen to him, to what extent is this a common occurrence, and how can society prevent this from happening to others?
After leaving my home town, I told Adam to leave also. For different reasons, he wanted to live his entire life in Orange. I am almost sure that he was never outside of a 20 mile radius from his place of birth for more than 3 weeks. Life has a lot to offer, and there are some stimulating places that make good permanent homes, but the things he was getting from the small town were hardly irreplaceable elsewhere. One of the major disadvantages of living in a small town is the inherent poverty; not only were job opportunities grim, but community services (recreation opportunities or chemical dependency treatment, for example) are not present for a majority of the people. After he recognized that he had a chemical use problem, I think that it is likely that Adam would not have been able to sustain his lifestyle had he moved elsewhere; that is not to say that there are not other addictive lifestyles available to those who want them, but he would at least have had to go through a culture shock and consciously make some novel choices to carry on as he had. I recommended that he go to India; life is cheap there in two senses: one, that he could afford to live there without working for an extended period of time, and two, people die everywhere for reasons considered trivial by Western standards, thus confronting foreign visitors with the concept of mortality. Opium and heroin is plentiful and cheap there, but taking pills is not an option because they are illegal there. I really do not think he would have taken to using opium or heroin, and I think a vacation there would have detoxed him.
I know other people get into Adam's situation because he told me about the people with whom he associated. It seems that no one in these social groups holds anyone else with much regard; these drug-user co-ops are surrogates but not replacements for meaningful human interaction. Adam's dear wife left him after he became increasingly secluded from her; she told me she was scared a few times and the only bad thing I can say about her was that she was not smart enough to leave sooner than she did. She had a child and must have been confused. The child must be about 4 now; there was a period of close to a year when Adam did not see or talk to his child at all. This time was not consumed by his sitting alone; no one gets to this point without being either radically crazy or inducted into the lifestyle by someone who is already there. Adam is gone from this world and I do not worry about him, but I regret that other people still alive are living the lifestyle that Adam lived, both those who supported him as he became a user and who became users because of his influence.
I think that society should do something to prevent this from happening to people, but at the same time I think that it would be a bigger problem if society prevented people from using massive amounts of drugs should they truly desire to do so. For example, some people are really in pain, and drug-abuse laws in many cases prevent people from getting the relief that they honestly need. One small thing that I would like done is reform of the medical system to prevent it from having so much financial motivation to give people unnecessary treatment. I really dislike the idea of the government denying medications – even medications that a person intends to use improperly to support an addiction – to citizens. However, the middle ground is probably to draw a line somewhere. Adam could take a year's supply of painkillers in a month; perhaps if there were an nationwide database with sufficient privacy protection, the fact that he went to many doctors could have been detected. I would not advocate for a direct government intervention at this point – like prohibiting him from continuing to take 10 times the allowed dosages, or arresting him, or forcing him into treatment – but I would like to see some kind of control.
I am not sure what would work and be fair; I have no ideas for solving this problem. Adam did not want to quit using. I had been talking to him less since about mid 2007 because I was bored with hearing him talk about his habit. I told him to clean up, and gave suggestions about how to clean up, and he always said that he had to keep using for financial, social, and health reasons. I got angry at him one time, really angry, and when I expressed this to him, he told me it was not my concern. I wonder if he was right; as a Westerner, we really put a lot of value on people's ability to choose their own lifestyle. But do we own our own lives? Adam is leaving behind his poor mother, an 18-year-old nephew who is at risk for entering the same kind of lifestyle, his young daughter, and his ex-wife who he told me many times drove him to using drugs (she did not use herself; he was referring to her alleged nagging behavior). The United States spends a tremendous amount of money on every citizen preparing them to contribute to society; Adam probably had not served his country long enough. I miss him terribly, although I only felt sad at the time when I realized he had become a drug zombie. Expecting his death made it easier for me to accept. I knew his use habits were reckless and that he was proud of them.
Adam was a magnanimous person who deeply cared for those around him. He was enthusiastic about improving the lives of all who associated with him. He was clever and often demonstrated his unusual ability to quickly make sincere emotional connections with strangers, which was an ability he used to influence a lot of people in positive ways with minimal effort on his part. He was ambitious and I wish he had had more time to enact his plans, and that I could have had time to work with him. I considered him to be family.
I hope that anyone reading this will be able to recognize addiction better in the world; as spun out as he was, I am sure that most of the people around Adam never knew that he used at all, or if they knew that, I doubt they knew that he used irresponsibly. I hope that anyone reading this will think about what they will do if they recognize that a friend or coworker has an addiction problem. I respected his personal decision to be left alone; someone else may think it is appropriate to compromise a person's right to decide to use and force another lifestyle upon them. This whole post seems a little condescending, I am not sure that I do not right now regret writing it. Such as they are, these are my thoughts right now. Bye, Adam.


Life advice from comedian Mike Stanley. Have a pressing query about this thing we call life? Tweet @_Aware_Wolf and let it be known.
I can't imagine living in either of these awful hellscapes you've created but if I had to, no Internet I suppose. An air conditioner has never told me I'm terrible at stand-up from the basement of its parents house.
My parents always pressure me about finding a girlfriend/wife. I'm happy right now, how do I get them off my back?
Easy! Bring someone terrible home and convince them you're in love! Find a horrible person (this shouldn't be difficult) tell them you'll toss them a few clams to come over and act like you're together. Tell them to be as funny as they possibly can. Convince your parents it was their idea for you to settle down and they were right ... thanks to them you've finally 'found your person!' They'll never pressure you into doing anything again.
I have no idea. Maybe that's their way of saying 'right?' At the end of a sentence the way we do. A sort of, 'We're on the same page, correct?' A validation. For the record, I love Canadians! Their wacky ham-bacon, colorful clown money and purchasing milk in a bag! You be you, ya polite poutine eatin' Mountie goofs! God bless ya!
How can I 'ball on a budget' to impress my date this weekend?
Here's what I do. Whenever my server brings out a new bottle of ketchup, I have them show off the bottle and let me taste it like a fancy wine man. I love pageantry.
What's a good gift for my father's birthday?
Either one of my albums Tough Luck Chump or Shiner on iTunes. Or ... bring him to see me headline Comedy Works downtown April 7th. Win-win!


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New app a one-stop shop for mental health resources
A new app available to the Heidelberg community pulls together a variety of mental health resources and services with quick and easy access at their fingertips. It's in response to the steady increase in the need for mental health services at colleges and universities fueled by the pandemic.
Earlier this year, Heidelberg University applied for and was awarded a grant from the Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Funds provided to the state from the U.S. Department of Education. The GEER funds are part of the larger Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act. The funds were designated to support mental health response and recovery needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic at Ohio colleges and universities, which have experienced a rise in feelings of isolation, hopelessness and fear, anxiety, depression and other stresses on campuses.
Heidelberg used the GEER funds to purchase and customize our version of the Reach Out app, which is currently operated by Lakeland Community College. Heidelberg's Reach Out app aligns with the university's and the Tiffin community's mental health resources. The initiative was spearheaded by John Sharp, associate director of counseling, and counselor Mary Felton, working with Ken Browner, from Lakeland CC.
Heidelberg's Reach Out app is now live and available for download and use by the entire Heidelberg community.
You can access the Reach Out app here.
"The goal of the app is to provide readily available resources for suicide prevention and secondarily, information to address mental health-related issues," John said.
The app allows anyone from our community to have free access to mental health resources to help themselves or someone else, John explained. Resources include direct connection to crisis hotlines, connection to counseling on- and off-campus as well as community resources, including hotlines to domestic violence and rape crisis centers, victim assistance office, NAMI and the local Mental Health and Recovery Services Board.
"From our standpoint, all of the resources provided through the app would be information we would provide to our students, faculty and staff if they were to speak with us directly," John said. "Through the app, though, they have easy access to this information at their fingertips 24 hours a day."
The app's content can be updated as needed. The Stoner Health and Counseling Center staff plans to incorporate the app into all incoming student orientations so that all students have this information and access to mental health-related information from the moment they step foot on campus.
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Here is the final installment to the epic fight from Saturday developed by Showtime. Once again, get a glimpse of the determination these two warriors have to succeed. Listen to their stories and watch them as they grow. Be inspired to keep pushing, especially when the odds begin to stack up against you.


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Е́льня — деревня в Богородском городском округе Московской области России, входит в состав сельского поселения Аксёно-Бутырское.

Население

География
Деревня Ельня расположена на востоке Московской области, в западной части Богородского городского округа, примерно в 32 км к востоку от Московской кольцевой автодороги и 7 км к западу от центра города Ногинска, по левому берегу реки Клязьмы.

В 5 км к западу от деревни проходит Монинское шоссе , в 1 км к югу — Горьковское шоссе , в 13 км к северо-западу — Щёлковское шоссе , в 6 км к востоку — Московское малое кольцо . Ближайшие населённые пункты — посёлок радиоцентра-9, деревни Берёзовый Мостик и Стулово.

В деревне один микрорайон — Западный; девять улиц — 3 Интернационала, Калинина, Ленина, Массив 2, Новая, Первомайская, Полевая, Пролетарская и Советская; приписано два садоводческих товарищества (СНТ).

Связана автобусным сообщением с городом Ногинском и рабочим посёлком Монино.

Название
Название деревни образовано народным географическим термином ельня, означающим «остаток от большого лесного массива; небольшой ельник, может быть сосняк, можжевельник», «вырубленный ельник и вообще вырубленный хвойный лес», «хвойную поросль по вырубке со старыми пнями и кореньями».

История
В середине XIX века деревня относилась ко 2-му стану Богородского уезда Московской губернии и принадлежала постоянно проживающей в ней . В деревне был 61 двор, крестьян 264 души мужского пола и 285 душ женского.

В «Списке населённых мест» 1862 года — владельческая деревня 2-го стана Богородского уезда Московской губернии по левую сторону Владимирского шоссе (от ), в 7 верстах от уездного города и 16 верстах от становой квартиры, при реке Клязьме, с 85 дворами и 598 жителями (283 мужчины, 315 женщин).

По данным на 1890 год — деревня Шаловской волости 2-го стана Богородского уезда с 266 жителями, при деревне работала парусиновая фабрика крестьянина Никифора Лукьянова, на которой трудилось 4 рабочих.

В 1913 году — 172 двора и чайная лавка.

По материалам Всесоюзной переписи населения 1926 года — центр Ельнинского сельсовета Пригородной волости Богородского уезда в 1,6 км от Владимирского шоссе и 8,5 км от станции Богородск Нижегородской железной дороги, проживал 1071 житель (508 мужчин, 563 женщины), насчитывалось 214 хозяйств, из которых 203 крестьянских.

С 1929 года — населённый пункт Московской области в составе:

 Ельнинского сельсовета Богородского района (1929—1930),
 Ельнинского сельсовета Ногинского района (1930—1959),
 Аксёно-Бутырского сельсовета Ногинского района (1959—1963, 1965—1994),
 Аксёно-Бутырского сельсовета Орехово-Зуевского укрупнённого сельского района (1963—1965),
 Аксёно-Бутырского сельского округа Ногинского района (1994—2006),
 сельского поселения Аксёно-Бутырское Ногинского муниципального района (2006—2018) и Богородского городского округа (с 2018 года).

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