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1 week ago | 
mondaq.com | Daniel Gralnick |Ian Thomson
On April 23, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)released updated drafts of its Long-Term 2(e) (LT2) and LT2(c) Request forProposals (RFPs) and Contracts for the window one procurement. The updates were followed by a stakeholder engagement session held on April24, where the IESO ran through the changes and discussedoutstanding items to be decided relating to gas development andtariff risk. The IESO is soliciting stakeholder feedback on thesefuture challenges by May 9, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Ian Thomson
Graham Swift is a writer intrigued by pretty well anything of human interest and mystery.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Ian Thomson
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Ian Thomson
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer steeped in the solitude and ecstasy of Catholic mysticism: everything he wrote was dedicated to the greater glory of God. He was in thrall to the liturgical works of Stravinsky, but also to the percussive cling-clang of Javanese gamelan music and other eastern sonorities.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Ian Thomson
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Olivier Messiaen was a French composer steeped in the solitude and ecstasy of Catholic mysticism: everything he wrote was dedicated to the greater glory of God. He was in thrall to the liturgical works of Stravinsky, but also to the percussive cling-clang of Javanese gamelan music and other eastern sonorities. His thirst for ‘un-French’ music sometimes put him at loggerheads with the Paris old guard who found him as...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Charles Keizer |Ian Thomson |Daliana Coban
On December 23, 2024, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) released amendments to the Distribution System Code(DSC) to reduce grid connection costs for housing developments bylowering the capital contribution that developers must pay if theirproject triggers a grid expansion.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Ian Thomson
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis Eland, pp.502, 25 The travel writer Norman Lewis, the son of a Welsh psychic medium, died in Essex in 2003 at the age of 94. In his darkly comic autobiography, Jackdaw Cake, he relates how, in 1937, his mother built a spiritualist church in the north London suburb of Enfield as a sort of Taj Mahal memorial to her late husband (who was a retail pharmacist as well as a psychic).
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Ian Thomson
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments The travel writer Norman Lewis, the son of a Welsh psychic medium, died in Essex in 2003 at the age of 94. In his darkly comic autobiography, Jackdaw Cake, he relates how, in 1937, his mother built a spiritualist church in the north London suburb of Enfield as a sort of Taj Mahal memorial to her late husband (who was a retail pharmacist as well as a psychic). Enfield is not a likely pocket of the paranormal, but the...
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Leon Mangasarian |Gavin Mortimer |Lionel Shriver |Ian Thomson
The demise of chancellor Olaf Scholz’s lackluster coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and the liberal Free Democrats is unsurprising. The ideological blend fits Germany, as Stalin might have said, “like a saddle fits a cow.”The election that may truly define Germany’s future will be held in 2029Scholz seems almost to have modeled himself on Britain’s Liz Truss; though it took him longer to damage the world’s third-largest economy, he has done a thorough job.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
einnews.com | Ian Thomson
Biocarburants avancés Canada annonce un changement au niveau de sa direction et l’arrivée de nouveaux cadres VANCOUVER, CANADA, November 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Le conseil d’administration de Biocarburants avancés Canada a annoncé des changements au sein de la direction et du personnel de l’association lors de son assemblée générale annuelle du 22 octobre. Le conseil d’administration de l’association a nommé Fred Ghatala au poste de président à compter du 1er janvier 2025.
