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Ayush Shrestha | Full Biography, Age, Height, Birthplace
Biofamous — November 14, 2018 in Actor 100 Likes 1K Views
Ayush Shrestha is a himalayan roadies from Butwal. He is the winner of Himalayan Roadies season Two. He was the most deserving contestant and finally, he became successful to win the title. The final program aired on 27th November declared him the winner among Pribir and Tejasvi. He is the second winner for Himalayan roadies. Saman Shrestha was winner for the first himalayan roadies. Ayush Shrestha is a strong contestant. He represents whole Rupandehi district and settles in Bhairahawa.
Ayush Shrestha
Full Name Ayush Man Shrestha
Title Himalayan Roadies
Birth date 1997 April 19
Birthplace Rupandehi
Education New Horizon College Butwal
Residence Bhairahawa
Motivating person Animesh Shahi
Favourite Color Black
Favourite Food Mo:mo
Favourite Actress Priyanka Karki
Father Name
Mother Name
Relationship Status Single
Ayush Shrestha was merely voted in the voted out round during the sports reality show. Defeating some other tuff participants he conquered the victory through his will power and his capability. He has thousands of fan following in social media sites. Moreover, he is active in Facebook and Instagram.
Talking about his personal life he is single till the date. He believes that life is very rough and you need to be very tough. He is a strong minded person who is also strong physically.
Thus Ayush Shrestha believes to come with some great adventure in the near future to come. As the winner of the show, he gets the opportunity to work with well popular personalities of Nepal. He has stated that he will contribute to the sport section of Nepal and will help to uplift the state of humanity in people.
He belonged to Bhairahawa and was one of the strongest participants in the show since day one. Ayush Shrestha garned attention from both the judges and his fellow contestants from the first day of the show. He always gave his 100 percent and managed to be the best performer. Along with the title of Himalaya Roadie, he also won the Yamaha FZ bike and a sum of Rs 1,090,000.


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Q: iOS Auto layout view heigh based on other view I am developing an app right now, but I have the following problem.
I have 2 views (top view will be an imageview and the bottom view will be a UIWebView), to simplify the concept I have made a storyboard with 2 colored views.The bottom view should fit to the left, right and bottom. The top view should fit to the left, right and top. But the height of the content of the top view can change, so I've added the constraint: topView.bottom == bottomView.top, but now Xcode complains and says: "Need constraints for:Y position or height" but the y position is based on the height, and the height has a constrain to the top, how could I fix this? (I can't use the StackView, because the minimum iOS version has to be iOS 7.0)
Thank you very much already, the picture is down below.

A: Xcode complains because layout is unambiguous. Add height constraint to topView and make an outlet to it:
@IBOutlet weak var topViewHeightConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

Than load your image into your imageView and get its height. After that adjust the height of your view by:
self.topViewHeightConstraint.constant = heightOfTheImage
self.topView.layoutIfNeeded()

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Q: onPostExecute() is waiting too long? I have some control and for this reason i did some threads.I want to show loading bar one screen to another screen with asycntask.My problem is Loading bar is showing and disapper  quickly and then waiting for the same screen alot without loading bar.And  after for a while it is going second screen. I think post execute is not working for me correctly.Can anybody help me?
This is my code:
private class ProgressBarAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void>{

        /** This callback method is invoked, before starting the background process */
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            /** Creating a progress dialog window */
            mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(Login.this);

            /** Close the dialog window on pressing back button */
            mProgressDialog.setCancelable(true);

            /** Setting a horizontal style progress bar */
            mProgressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);

            /** Setting a message for this progress dialog
             * Use the method setTitle(), for setting a title
             * for the dialog window
             *  */
            mProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(Login.this,
                    "Giriş yapıyorsunuz", "Lütfen bekleyin...");

        }

        /** This callback method is invoked on calling execute() method
         * on an instance of this class */
        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void...params) {

            try {
                startMyApplication() ;
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return null;
        }

        /** This callback method is invoked when publishProgress()
         * method is called */
        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {
            super.onProgressUpdate(values);
            mProgressDialog.setProgress(mProgressStatus);
        }

        /** This callback method is invoked when the background function
         * doInBackground() is executed completely */
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
            super.onPostExecute(result);
            if (mid > 0) {
                Intent btn_login = new Intent(
                        getApplicationContext(), MainScreen.class);
                startActivity(btn_login);
            }
            else {
                AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(Login.this);

                // Setting Dialog Title
                alertDialog.setTitle("GİRİŞ");

                // Setting Dialog Message
                alertDialog.setMessage("Kullanıcı adı veya Parola Hatalı Lütfen tekrar deneyin.");

                // Setting Icon to Dialog
                //alertDialog.setIcon(R.drawable.delete);

                // Setting Negative "NO" Button
                alertDialog.setNegativeButton("TAMAM", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

                        dialog.cancel();
                    }
                });

                // Showing Alert Message
                alertDialog.show();
            }

            //run();
            mProgressDialog.dismiss();

This is startmyapp theads:
public void startMyApplication() throws InterruptedException {

    ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(2);
    FutureTask<String> futureOne = new FutureTask<String>(
            new Callable<String>() {
                public String call() throws Exception {
                    if (isOnline()) {
                        // Call Login Web Service with username and password and get mid
                        mid = callLoginWS(username.getText().toString(), password.getText().toString());
                        if (mid > 0) {
                            //callPasswordGeneratorWS(mid);
                            // Insert mid and username into sqllite
                            dbInstance.insertMerch(mid,username.getText().toString());
                        }
                        Log.i("futureone", "futureone");

                    }
                    return "TEST";
                }
            });

    FutureTask<String> futureTwo = new FutureTask<String>(
            new Callable<String>() {
                public String call() throws Exception {
                    // Get mid from database
                    mid = dbInstance.selectMerch(username.getText().toString());
                    return "TEST";
                }

            });

    // ... Dispatch
    // Check if user exists previously
    // ... Dispatch
    mid = dbInstance.selectMerch(username.getText().toString());
    dbInstance.close();

    executor.execute(futureOne);
    while (!(futureOne.isDone())) {
        executor.execute(futureTwo);
    }
    Log.i("login","new login");
    //}
    executor.shutdown();
}

A: This section is causing delay.
while (!(futureOne.isDone())) {
        executor.execute(futureTwo);
    }

As here you are blocking your current thread to complete. and waiting for the  futureOne to complete.

A: First of all, try to execute the startMyApplication method without ExecutorService. When you run your code in doInBackground you are already in a different thread (correct me if I am wrong), so run your code without using extra threads. Do this and check if everything is working.

Also, I have noticed that you don't call the publishProgress(Progress... values) method anywhere at doInBackground method. So, you cannot publish the right value for the progress bar.

A: If I am not wrong. You are already executing startMyApplication() asynchronously using AsyncTask so why to create FutureTask. You are already in background task. (Considering mid is long)
Try to modify ur code like this,
    public Long startMyApplication(){
       if (isOnline()) {
          // Call Login Web Service with username and password and get mid
          mid = callLoginWS(username.getText().toString(), password.getText().toString());
          if (mid > 0) {
                //callPasswordGeneratorWS(mid);
                // Insert mid and username into sqllite
                dbInstance.insertMerch(mid,username.getText().toString());
          }
          Log.i("futureone", "futureone");

          }
      mid = dbInstance.selectMerch(username.getText().toString()); //OR directly returning mid without fetching from db as it will be same.
      return mid;
    }

Now in doInBackground.
@Override
protected Long doInBackground(Void...params) {
            Long temp = -1l;
            try {
                temp = startMyApplication() ;
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return temp;
 }

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Long mid) {
mProgressDialog.dismiss(); //First dismiss the progress bar.
//Rest of ur code will go same in this. Remember mid is now accessible correctly.
}

Change the following line,
private class ProgressBarAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void>

by
private class ProgressBarAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Long>

This might work for you as far as I understood it.


It's a fact: kids today are more likely to wind up in hospital falling out of a bed than a tree , by the time they're eight they're spending an average six hours in front of a screen per day , and some kids report never having climbed a tree in the first place . Clearly, it's not their fault, and we need to do something about it.
There is an increasing amount of academic study that highlights how bad this 'nature deficit disorder' is for our children: kids' really need to get outdoors to play free in nature. No helicopters. No rules. No prizes.
Unstructured play outdoors helps kids' problem-solve, focus, measure and take risks, learn self-discipline and team-build. Through playing together, and following where their imaginations take them, kids learn to cooperate, develop both mental and physical flexibility as well as strength and agility.
This kind of play builds their emotional development and self-esteem, ironically, exactly what parents are hoping to achieve with endless – and expensive – extra-curricular activities, after-school classes and teams.
And if kids can play barefoot, so much the better. Our feet have as many nerve endings as our hands do, so the more sensory messages growing brains get from our feet – the better. The ratio of sensory nerve messages entering the brain to motor nerves stimulation leaving the brain is 40:1, so how children develop their movement skills is directly related to this sensory feedback.
You wouldn't put boxing gloves on a kids' hands to draw, pick wildflowers or climb a tree, would you? It might stop them getting splinters – but movement would be limited, fine-motor skills dampened and brains numbed with boredom. It's the same with our feet. It's time to free our kids' – and their feet – into the wild.
But we get that barefoot isn't always realistic. That's why we created Vivobarefoot shoes to be barely-there (and sustainable!) with an ultra-thin, puncture resistant sole to keep those vital sensory messages whizzing from feet to growing brains. Vivobarefoot kids are also wide and bendy, allowing kids' feet to grow strong and flexible for balanced and skilful movement. So what's good for kids' feet is also best for their growing brains - and bodies!
But not only do our kids' need to grow wild – our planet needs this too.
If we deny our children valuable time spent in nature, how can we expect them to care about it in any meaningful way? Our planet is at risk of becoming a 'thing' utterly divorced from our daily existence at the worst possible time.
Changing our relationship to the outdoors isn't hard; after all, kids love being outside, and they love playing without their parents hovering over them. Gardens small and large, parks, abandoned lots, scrubland – anything goes when it comes to setting them free. And it doesn't cost a thing.
So try it. Get out there. Set them free. Watch them grow wild.


The Milwaukee Brewers are talking to free-agent closer Craig Kimbrel, sources told Ken Rosenthal and Robert Murray of The Athletic.
It's not known if talks have reached an advanced stage, or if an agreement is imminent.
Kimbrel, 30, hasn't found a job this offseason despite being one of the most dominant closers of his era. He's coming off a 42-save season for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox that included posting a WHIP below 1.00 for the fifth time and earning his seventh career All-Star selection.
If he were to join the Brewers, Kimbrel would add even more firepower to an already lethal bullpen that features reigning NL Reliever of the Year Josh Hader and former All-Star Corey Knebel at the back end.
However, the Brewers' bullpen could use some insurance in the wake of injuries, as right-hander Jeremy Jeffress will start the season on the injured list with shoulder weakness.
The state of Kimbrel's market remains unclear. The Tampa Bay Rays have apparently maintained contact with the league's active saves leader during spring training. The Washington Nationals and Atlanta Braves, meanwhile, are reportedly no longer involved after previously showing interest.
Signing Kimbrel would cost his new team draft-pick compensation because he declined a qualifying offer from the Red Sox in November.
Milwaukee lost one of its 2019 draft picks earlier this winter after signing free-agent catcher Yasmani Grandal.


Juliana Pino sees how it all connects. She's the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), bringing the organization's activism, organizing, and advocacy in the La Villita community and beyond to policy struggles at the city, state, and federal level. She brings the connections between the outside and inside, the macro and micro, the personal and the global to the AirGo airwaves.


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Major Leaguer Keone Kela Connects With Youth From Around the World
Keone Kela of the Texas Rangers uses baseball to connect with kids around the world
Keone Kela traveled to China this off-season to share his love of baseball and life lessons with youth in five cities.
Keone Kela of the Texas Rangers is passionate about connecting with kids at home and abroad. (Photo: Kelly Gavin/Texas Rangers)
.@MLB_Players Keone Kela of the #Texas @Rangers uses baseball to connect with kids around the world. http://bit.ly/2kWrYNR
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Major Leaguer Keone Kela Connects with Kids Around the World
Major League Baseball pitcher Keone Kela doesn't do anything half-hearted.
So it came as no surprise that the hard-throwing Texas Rangers reliever made it his off-season mission to genuinely connect with young people both in the United States and China.
Kela, who won't turn 25 until the third week of his fourth season with the Rangers several months from now, has already accomplished a lot for his age. He's pitched most of the past three years out of the Rangers' bullpen, earning a reputation for a competitive approach and a four-seam fastball he can dial up to 100 mph.
But his ambition doesn't stop at the foul lines. Kela, who was raised by a young, single mother and shuttled up and down the West Coast as a youngster, is eager to offer hope for kids growing up under difficult circumstances. He figured with three years as a major leaguer he was in a good position to make a difference – young enough to communicate effectively but established enough to command attention.
"I thought that having the platform that I do, I would be able to give young people an opportunity to meet somebody who had a dream and worked toward capturing it," Kela explained a few days ago. "I definitely wanted these kids to have the idea in their mind. All it takes is a thought and hard work to be able to achieve anything that you want to do. That literally means anything."
When his agent, Robert Fayne, suggested last May that there was an opportunity to visit Major League Baseball's Youth Development Centers in China this offseason, he quickly embraced the idea.
"I had been to Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, but I hadn't thought about China, so I was like, 'You know what? I've never been, so let's do it,'" Kela said a few days ago. "I went to five different cities – Changzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai and Wuxi. I visited all the development centers and got to meet a lot of great kids. I got to see the passion for the game. That was one thing that I definitely noticed. Even though there was a language barrier, we spoke baseball."
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Architektura islamu – obejmuje wszelkie zjawiska architektoniczne będące wytworem islamu jako zjawiska społecznego, kulturowego, politycznego i religijnego. Stąd obejmuje zarówno budynki służące celom kultowym, jak i świeckim, historyczne jak i współczesne, a także twórczość ośrodków będących pod wpływem islamu.

Charakterystyczne elementy architektury arabskiej
 kopuły oparte na kolistych murach, pendentywach lub trompach często złożonych z maleńkich celek lub pionowo spiętrzonych stalaktytów; łuki kopuł i sklepień mają często przekrój wydłużonych półelips, parabol.
 występują łuki podkowiaste i wielolistne. Zwłaszcza na terenie Indii można spotkać łuki zaczynające się w strefie zewnętrznej linią wybrzuszoną, która przechodzi w linie proste stykające się w osi otworu pod kątem rozwartym.
 meczety z minaretami
 wielkie dziedzińce są często połączone z centralną salą modlitw
 dekoracja za pomocą geometrycznych i powtarzalnych ornamentów (arabesek)
 częste używanie dekoracyjnego kaligrafowanego pisma jako ornamentu
 skierowanie uwagi raczej na przestrzeń wewnętrzną niż zewnętrzną budowli
 rzadkie są przedstawienia figuralne (ludzi i zwierząt). Częstym motywem są - zazwyczaj stylizowane i uproszczone - liście roślin. Wystrój wykonywany w formie malowideł lub mozaiki z płytek fajansowych o jaskrawych, nasyconych barwach, spotykany jest zarówno na płaszczyznach ścian, jak i wewnętrznej powierzchni kopuł.
 kolumny o głowicach w formie stalaktytów, spiętrzonych belek i rozłożystych wachlarzy
 architektura islamu jest często nazywana "architekturą zasłony", gdyż jej piękno leży w przestrzeniach wewnętrznych (dziedzińcach i pokojach), które nie są widoczne z zewnątrz.
 użycie monumentalnych form, takich jak wielkie kopuły, wysokie minarety i duże dziedzińce, ma sprawiać wrażenie siły i potęgi.

Wpływy innych kultur na architekturę islamu
Charakterystyczny dla islamu styl rozwinął się wkrótce po śmierci proroka Mahometa w 632 r. Od początku korzystała ona z dorobku architektury starożytnego Rzymu, Egiptu, a także architektury perskiej i bizantyjskiej. Wczesnym przykładem takiego może być meczet Kopuły Skały w Jerozolimie ze sklepionymi przestrzeniami wewnątrz, okrągłą kopułą i użyciem powtarzalnych elementów dekoracyjnych.

Wielki Meczet w Samarze w Iraku, ukończony w 847, składa się z hipostylowej sali z rzędami kolumn, na której wspiera się wielki spiralny minaret.

Nie do końca wyjaśniony jest wpływ architektury islamu na rozwój gotyku w Europie.

Architektura mauretańska
Specyficzne formy architektury islamskiej powstały na terenach Hiszpanii i Północnej Afryki wraz z podbojem tych terenów przez Arabów w VIII w. Były to obszary wzajemnych wpływów islamu i kultury zachodniej Europy. Na rok 785 datuje się budowę Wielkiego Meczetu w Kordowie. Najwybitniejszym osiągnięciem architektury mauretańskiej jest wspaniały obronny pałac Alhambra w Grenadzie. Architektura chrześcijańska powstała na terenach objętych władzą muzułmanów nazywana jest architekturą mozarabską.

Zobacz też
 sztuka islamu
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 chanaka, haram, kitab-chane, medresa, dakka, ejwan, kibla, maksura, mihrab, minbar, mukarnas

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How the NFL, Anheuser-Busch are using marketing cloud software
Brand marketers look to better understand their consumers
By George P. Slefo. Published on April 09, 2019.
Credit: Anheuser Busch Inbev via Youtube
Making the NFL even more popular isn't easy, especially when it's competing in places where futbol reigns supreme.
But it's a reality that Aaron Jones, director of fancentric marketing at the NFL, grapples with as he looks to grow the league's footprint overseas, where the game's popularity is a far cry when compared to that of the U.S.
For Jones, engagement—and not necessarily sales of products such as jerseys—is paramount.
"Streaming is key for us," Jones says. "How many people are watching and how much are they watching? How many people are playing fantasy football on our platform? That's a big deal for us—people who play fantasy tend to be very engaged."
Jones is among an increasing number of brand marketers who use marketing cloud software to better understand how their consumers engage with their brands.
Consumers interact with brands through a dizzying number of so-called touch points, including web, mobile, IoT, display, SEO, social media, video, email, call centers and e-commerce. Data captured from these verticals live in disparate systems that struggle to speak with each other, if at all. Tools such as Adobe's Experience Platform stitch together each of the encounters a consumer has with a brand regardless of where or how it occurs. Marketers can then activate all sorts of content based on highly detailed customer profiles.
When coupled with other tools, these profiles can create highly customized segments—e.g., new female customers between the ages of 20 and 40 who made a purchase within the last 30 days—and then send them a message that's optimized for that audience.
The Experience Platform's ability to create numerous customized segments, says Jones, "is where we found the value."
Jones says a new customer who purchased a Cleveland Browns jersey, for instance, isn't going to want their next email to be about buying season tickets. "You don't send that person an offer like that. If that happens, they're going to hit unsubscribe," he says. "Instead, you share news with them about their favorite team, like the Browns signing Odell Beckham Junior."
Clouding isn't easy
Navigating the marketing cloud space is difficult; advertisers are unsure what tools they need today versus tomorrow, and how critical people are to adopting a cloud solution as opposed to integrating it with all of its first-party data. It's also expensive and almost always requires hiring agencies that specialize with the many nuances that come with using the software.
Nearly every large brand that uses marketing cloud tools works with agencies—such as Wunderman, Havas or iCrossing—to make the most out of the technology, for example. Jones, who says the NFL works with Havas, notes that integrating is just one step of the process, and that what happens once this is complete is the next challenge.
"The value you extract ... comes down to the people you have," Jones says. "Finding talented people is extremely challenging, even for the NFL, and we're spoiled."
John Faviano, director of demand and integrated marketing technology at Anheuser-Busch, says he's had success using Adobe tools to grow the company's e-commerce platform, which sells items such as a Budweiser dart board and Bud Light Blue Light.
"Our merchandise sales in the first quarter of this year have already surpassed all of last year," Faviano says. "We hit over 10,000 orders in the first quarter, so we're adding more valuable products like ugly sweaters or Budweiser beer steins."
But many brands and those within Adobe say Experience Platform is still a work in progress, if further ahead than other offerings currently on the marketplace. One Adobe insider, who asked to remain anonymous, said the product is "only 60 percent complete."
Other general hurdles include marketing cloud companies often over sell their own customers. For instance, while the company has been working with Adobe for several years, Faviano says in retrospect he would initially have used fewer Adobe products: "We bit off more than we could chew."
He points to Adobe Analytics, which allows brands to measure very specific KPIs, or "key performance indicators"—such as how many people are making a purchase after receiving a promotional email—and which requires integrating Adobe software with the company's first-party data. It's such a large task, he says, that Analytics mostly sat on the sidelines until integration was complete.
"Not everything is perfect here," Faviano says. "We were using all these products and leveraging them as best we could. … For something like Analytics, it's certainly something you need, but not necessarily something you need right away."
George P. Slefo
George P. Slefo is the technology reporter at Ad Age. He previously covered murder and mayhem for the Chicago Sun-Times and prior to that, the Middle East from Amman, Jordan. Slefo is also a veteran of the United States Army.


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Old University of Chicago
The Old University of Chicago
1856 (1856)–1886 (1886)
Union College of Law
Baptist Theological Union
Galusha Anderson (last full president)
41°49′54″N 87°36′41″W / 41.8317°N 87.6114°W / 41.8317; -87.6114Coordinates: 41°49′54″N 87°36′41″W / 41.8317°N 87.6114°W / 41.8317; -87.6114
The Old University of Chicago was the legal name given in 1890 to the University of Chicago's first incorporation. Between 1856 and 1886 this school, founded by Baptist church leaders, was simply referred to as the "University of Chicago" (or, interchangeably, "Chicago University"). The name change was necessitated when the university's original campus was badly damaged in a fire and it was foreclosed on by its creditors. Rather than continue operations under its existing name, its trustees decided to change the name of the then University of Chicago to the "Old University of Chicago" and allow the establishment of a new legal entity that would once again be called the "University of Chicago."[2]
Both the Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Chicago Divinity School began as departments of the Old University. While the present-day University of Chicago, which was established in 1890, is a separate legal entity, it recognized Old University of Chicago alumni as its own and maintained a number of other continuities from its pre-1890 origins.[3] The lone remaining stone from the older school's building in Bronzeville, which was destroyed by fire, is preserved on the present school's main quadrangle, where it is set into the wall of the arch between the Classics building and Wieboldt Hall.
Students of the Old University of Chicago
Old University of Chicago Presidents[1]
John C. Burroughs 1859–1873
James R. Doolittle, acting 1874
Lemuel Moss 1874–1875
Alonzo Abernethy 1876–1878
Galusha Anderson 1878–1885
George C. Lorimer, interim 1885–1886
The land upon which the Old University of Chicago was established was originally part of a lakefront tract owned by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas had offered the 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot, worth $50,000 and located at Cottage Grove Avenue and Thirty-Fifth Street, to the Presbyterian Church for a seminary. When the church group failed to raise the $100,000 Douglas set as a precondition of his donation, he offered the site to a group of Baptists, who accepted. Douglas was not particularly religious but an avid promoter of Chicago; critics accused him of trying to boost the value of his adjoining lots.[4]
The school's 1856 charter required that most of the members of the Board of Trustees be of the Baptist faith. The school made no such restrictions on either faculty or students. Despite the title of university, in the early years, the tenor of the instruction was primarily collegiate and vocational in nature. Two hundred to five hundred students enrolled annually in preparatory, collegiate, law, and medical schools.
The new institution began almost immediately to encounter financial difficulties. Fundraising was hurt by Douglas' support for the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which was regarded by many northern Baptists and other abolitionists as a betrayal,[5] while the financial Panic of 1857 drained the finances of many of the principal investors, rendering most of their initial subscriptions worthless.
The trustees proceeded with plans to build the university, including construction projects that were beyond the school's means because of the volatility of the market. With the university's debt mounting rapidly, President John C. Burroughs and the trustees sold a second wave of subscriptions. Key to this effort was James Hutchinson Woodworth, a former Chicago mayor who was also president of the Treasury Bank of Chicago. Woodworth served as a university trustee from 1857 to 1869, as well as treasurer for some time.
Burroughs, who remained in office longer than any of his five successors, established in 1859 the University's Law Department, the city's first law school. In 1870, Ada Kepley and Richard A. Dawson received bachelor of law degrees, likely the first woman and first African American, respectively, to receive degrees from the institution. In 1872, the faculty voted to allow women undergraduate students.[6] Alice Robinson Boise Wood became the first woman to graduate from the university with a B.A. in Classics in 1872. In 1873, the Law School became jointly associated with Northwestern University, as the Union College of Law and ultimately became today's Northwestern University School of Law.[7] Also, in the early years of the university, some students requested training for the Christian ministry and courses in theology were added. In 1867, this academic department was chartered as a separate institution, the Baptist Theological Union. In the 1890s, this seminary became the University of Chicago Divinity School.[8]
The university's finances deteriorated rapidly after Woodworth died in 1869. It was rocked by the huge costs of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the Panic of 1873 decreased donations. In 1874, a fire damaged the university's main physical plant.
Meanwhile, disagreements in the Board of Trustees flared up over fundraising, financial management, and faculty appointments, escalating into open conflict. Burroughs and his most vocal opponent, trustee W. W. Everts, left the board. To keep Burroughs affiliated with the university, the trustees created the post of chancellor and appointed him responsible for the school's financial affairs. But the new president and Chancellor Burroughs were quickly at odds. Other administrators were hired and departed in rapid succession; by 1886, six presidents had served the university.
The university's fifth president, Galusha Anderson, appealed to philanthropists John D. Rockefeller and Leland Stanford, but was unable to secure substantial donations.[9] Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, the university's chief creditor, brought suit in 1881 to foreclose the mortgage on the university's property. Anderson argued to keep the school open, but in January 1885 the court found for Union Mutual.[9] The university closed in autumn 1886, and the main building was razed in 1890.[10]
At the final meeting of its Board of Trustees in 1890, the group officially changed the name of the institution to the Old University of Chicago. This was to enable a new Rockefeller-financed Baptist school, then being organized, to have a completely separate legal entity and take the title of the University of Chicago.
Notable graduates[edit]
Charles Richmond Henderson, minister and sociologist, taught at Univ. of Chicago
Thomas W. Hyde, Union general and founder of Bath Iron Works
Ada Kepley, first woman to receive a law degree in the United States
Robert Todd Lincoln, completed law degree here.[11]
Ferdinand Peck, real estate mogul
J. Morris Rea, Iowa attorney and politician, served as state senator
Benson Wood, U.S. congressman
^ a b Goodspeed, Thomas W. (1916). "The Preparing of the Way". A History of the University of Chicago, Founded by John D. Rockefeller: The First Quarter-Century. University of Chicago Press. pp. 12–31 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Guide to the Old University of Chicago Records 1856-1890". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "The University of Chicago Magazine, Volumes 5-6". p. 284. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
^ Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas (1973) pp 558, 872
^ "Controversy", Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago 1870-1940, Exhibit September 2008 - February 2009, University of Chicago Library, web exhibit 2009, accessed 23 September 2013
^ "Advocacy", Integrating the Life of the Mind, 2009
^ Law School: 150th anniversary, Northwestern University School of Law
^ Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield (1972). A History of the University of Chicago, Founded by John D. Rockefeller: The First Quarter-Century. University of Chicago Press. pp. 20–22. ISBN 9780226303833.
^ a b "Myth of Openness", Integrating the Life of the Mind (2009), accessed 23 September 2013
^ Rudolph, Frederick (1962). The American College and University: A History. Knopf. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-8203-1284-2.
^ "Lincoln Chronology". National Park Service.
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Internacional - Bundesliga
Los festejos Bundesliga made in coronavirus en fotos
Bundesliga - 28-1-2023
Todos los festejos de la Bundesliga
Algunos jugadores celebraron goles codo a codo o pie a pie. Otro se animaron a los clásicos, hasta a caballito.
La Bundesliga volvió con toda la atención encima, pero también hubo una lupa para mirar el respeto de los jugadores al protocolo impuesto. Y en los festejos se notó claramente que no todos lo cumplieron, al punto que algunos hasta se dieron besos. Por eso, en Olé te mostramos las mejores imágenes....
Augsburg (Deutschland), 16/05/2020.- Wolfsburg's Daniel Ginczek (L) celebrates scoring the winning goal with teammate Kevin Mbabu during the German Bundeliga soccer match between FC Augsburg and VfL Wolfsburg in Augsburg, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/TOBIAS HASE / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Frankfurt (Germany), 16/05/2020.- Moenchengladbach's Alassane Plea, 2nd right, celebrates with teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Frankfurt, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Alemania, Rusia) EFE/EPA/Michael Probst / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Eintracht Frankfurt - 28-1-2023
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Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland celebrates after his team scored his 4th goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund, western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Dortmund's Portuguese defender Raphael Guerreiro (C) celebrates with Julian Brandt (L) touching their elbows after scoring his side's second goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund, western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Hertha's Brazilian forward Cunha Matheus, center, is congratulated by Bosnian-Herzegovinian forward Vedad Ibisevic, right, and German defender Maximilian Mittelstaedt after he scored his team's 3rd goal during the Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Hertha BSC Berlin in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 16, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP pool via AP)
Augsburg (Deutschland), 16/05/2020.- Wolfsburg's players celebrate the winning goal during the German Bundeliga soccer match between FC Augsburg and VfL Wolfsburg in Augsburg, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/TOBIAS HASE / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Augsburg (Deutschland), 16/05/2020.- Wolfsburgs Daniel Ginczek (L) celebrates scoring the winning goal with teammate John Anthony Brooksduring the German Bundeliga soccer match between FC Augsburg and VfL Wolfsburg in Augsburg, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/TOBIAS HASE / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - FC Augsburg v VfL Wolfsburg - WWK Arena, Augsburg, Germany - May 16, 2020 Wolfsburg's Renato Steffen celebrates scoring their first goal as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Tobias Hase/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 - Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany - May 16, 2020 Dortmund's Thorgan Hazard celebrates scoring their third goal with Julian Brandt as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Martin Meissner/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - RB Leipzig v SC Freiburg - Red Bull Arena, Leipzig, Germany - May 16, 2020 SC Freiburg's Manuel Gulde celebrates scoring their first goal with Christian Gunter, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Jan Woitas/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
(From L) Augsburg's German defender Raphael Framberger, Augsburg's German defender Philipp Max and Augsburg's German midfielder Marco Richter celebrate their equalising goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Augsburg v VfL Wolfsburg on May 16, 2020 in Augsburg, southern Germany, as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Tobias Hase / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - FC Augsburg v VfL Wolfsburg - WWK Arena, Augsburg, Germany - May 16, 2020 Augsburg's Felix Uduokhai celebrates scoring a goal with teammates which is later ruled out following a VAR review, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Tobias Hase/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
Moenchengladbach's Alassane Plea, 2nd right, celebrates with teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, March 16, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, Pool)
Karlsruhe (Germany), 16/05/2020.- Marvin Wanitzek (C) of Karlsruhe celebrates his team's second goal with teammates during the German Bundesliga second division soccer match between Karlsruher SC and SV Darmstadt 98 at Wildparkstadion in Karlsruhe, Germany, 16 May 2020. The Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga is the first professional league to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/Matthias Hangst / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Moenchengladbach's French forward Alassane Plea (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match Eintracht Frankfurt v Borussia Moenchengladbach on May 16, 2020 in Frankfurt, western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Michael Probst / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 16, 2020 shows Bundesliga players celebrating the first goals after the league resumed, some observing the social distancing rules and some not. (Top L) Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund, western Germany (Top R) Hertha's Brazilian forward Cunha Matheus (C) is congratulated by Bosnian-Herzegovinian forward Vedad Ibisevic (R) and German defender Maximilian Mittelstaedt after he scored his team's 3rd goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v Hertha Berlin on May 16, 2020 in Sinsheim south-western Germany (Bottom L) Freiburg's German defender Manuel Gulde (C) is congratulated by his teammate Freiburg's German defender Dominique Heintz (2nd R) after scoring the 0-1 during the German first division Bundesliga football ma
Frankfurt (Germany), 16/05/2020.- A ball boy uses a hand sanitizer prior to the German Bundesliga soccer match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Frankfurt, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Alemania, Rusia) EFE/EPA/Michael Probst / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
TOPSHOT - Referee Deniz Aytekin wears a face mask as he checks a goal net before the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund, western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v Hertha BSC - PreZero Arena, Sinsheim, Germany - May 16, 2020 Hertha Berlin coach Bruno Labbadia celebrates after the match, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Thomas Kienzle/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
Hertha's German defender Marvin Plattenhardt vies for the ball with Hoffenheim's German defender Kevin Akpoguma during the German first division Bundesliga football match TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v Hertha Berlin on May 16, 2020 in Sinsheim south-western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / various sources / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Augsburg's German defender Raphael Framberger (L) vies for the ball with Wolfsburg's US defender John Brooks during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Augsburg v VfL Wolfsburg on May 16, 2020 in Augsburg, southern Germany, as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Tobias Hase / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Sinsheim (Germany), 16/05/2020.- Hertha's Vedad Ibisevic (L) and teammates celebrate as Hoffenheim's Stefan Posch looks onduring the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Hertha Berlin in Sinsheim, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Bundesliga Second Division are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/THOMAS KIENZLE / POOL DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Sky tv host Esther Sedlaczek (L) wears a face mask and respects social distancing rules as she interviews Leipzig's Danish forward Yussuf Poulsen (R) after the German first division Bundesliga football match RB Leipzig v SC Freiburg on May 16, 2020 in Leipzig, eastern Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jan Woitas / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Soccer Football - Bundesliga - Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 - Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany - May 16, 2020 General view of the action and empty stands, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Martin Meissner/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video
Augsburg's Ruben Vargas, left, and Wolfsburg's Kevin Mbabu challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC augsburg and VfL Wolfsburg in Augsburg, Germany, Saturday, May 16, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Tobias Hase/dpa via AP)
Journalists on the press tribune follow the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund, western Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Martin Meissner / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Leipzig's French midfielder Christopher Nkunku (R) and Freiburg's Hungarian midfielder Roland Sallai vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match RB Leipzig v SC Freiburg on May 16, 2020 in Leipzig, eastern Germany as the season resumed following a two-month absence due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jan Woitas / POOL / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Sinsheim (Germany), 16/05/2020.- Hoffenheim's goalkeeper Oliver Baumann (L) links arms with Hertha's Dodi Lukebakio to help him up due to the strict hygiene rules during the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Hertha Berlin in Sinsheim, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Bundesliga Second Division are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania) EFE/EPA/THOMAS KIENZLE / POOL DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Fortuna Duesseldorf's German head coach Uwe Roesler, left, and Paderborn's German head coach Steffen Baumgart are seen prior to the Bundesliga soccer match between Duesseldorf and Paderborn in the Merkur Spiel-Arena, Duesseldorf, Germany, Saturday, May 16, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Sascha Schuermann/AFP pool via AP)
Dortmund (Deu), 16/05/2020.- Schalke alternate players sit on the bench during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 in Dortmund, Germany, 16 May 2020. The German Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga are the first professional leagues to resume the season after the nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All matches until the end of the season will be played behind closed doors. (Alemania, Rusia) EFE/EPA/MARTIN MEISSNER / POOL DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video.
Footballs are disinfected during the Bundesliga soccer match between Duesseldorf and Paderborn in the Merkur Spiel-Arena, Duesseldorf, Germany, Saturday, May 16, 2020. The German Bundesliga becomes the world's first major soccer league to resume after a two-month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Sascha Schuermann/AFP pool via AP)


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John Tyndall reviews 'The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds' by Robert S. Griffin, published 2001, 1st Books Library
Note – this book is no longer generally available – try www.amazon.co.uk
The cause of white resurgence around the world in the post-war years has deserved better leaders than it has had - at least in many countries and for much of the time. In the United States, just as here in Britain, all too few men of genuine ability, character and commitment have come forward to assume the responsibilities in our struggle that the struggle demands. This, much more than nit-picking issues concerning imagery and tactics, is what has held us back.
This is why it was such a major tragedy that Dr. William L. Pierce was taken away from us by cancer in 2002, ahead of his time and when there was so much of his work still to be done. I began following Dr. Pierce's political career quite soon after it began in the early 1960s, and traced his development thereafter. `Career' would in fact not be an appropriate word to describe this process. It smacks too much of the self-seeking opportunism that we have come to expect of our elected representatives within the system laughably called `democracy'. William Pierce's political life was a vocation and a mission, for which he received little personal reward. Of course he never sought such things, for he personified the true revolutionary who battles onward against the spirit of his times, moved by a vision not understood by the majority of his contemporaries. One day he will be given his place in the pantheon of white heroes, but he was doomed not to live to see it.
Writer's fascination
Dr. Robert Griffin is an American academic of uncertain ideological leanings, who became aware of William Pierce a few years ago and was immediately fascinated by him. He decided to write a book about the man who by this time was leader of the National Alliance, which organisation he ran from a remote mountainside in West Virginia. Not a man to do things by halves, Dr. Griffin took himself to the Alliance headquarters and spent several weeks there, talking to his subject in the evenings and, between times, observing the general goings-on and getting to know some of Pierce's chief colleagues.
The result of Griffin's labours is a book running to over 400 pages which does not once give any hint of either a sympathetic, or hostile attitude towards its central character and his activities and beliefs. In a way this is what a biography ideally should be, though it seldom is in the real world. As a portrait the book is refreshingly objective: it neither eulogises the man being studied nor suggests that he is without personal faults, a few of which are highlighted but without any attempt at point-scoring.' It does point out one very important fact: that William Pierce did not come to racial nationalist politics by way of being a nobody or a loser. By the time he was thirty he was well on the way to a successful and well-paid career as a professor of physics, having graduated as such from Rice University, Texas, in 1955. He was married and had begun to build a family. He had much more to lose by giving his life to an unconventional cause than do the majority who take that path.
The chapters of the book throw the spotlight on the various individuals from whom Pierce drew inspiration. One of the earlier ones was George Bernard Shaw, who in Man and Superman got him thinking about the necessity of a quest for human improvement and of courage in facing unpopular truths. A little later Pierce was profoundly affected by the atmosphere in the United States accompanying the Vietnam War. Seeing the baying mobs demonstrating in support of the regime that was then, rightly or wrongly, the country's enemy, he wondered how America could tolerate this treason. Would such things have been tolerated at the height of World War II? This provided much to ponder on.
In the following chapter the book focuses on Pierce's newly awakened interest in Hitler. In declaring this to the author of a book intended for mass-circulation in a country like the United States, Pierce was of course breaking familiar taboos; but he was never a man to give a damn what the ordinary herd of people thought. In reading Mein Kampf Pierce found an echo of the opinions he had been forming on race, the Jewish question, democracy and much else. However, at that time he decided to satisfy his inclination towards political action by joining something much more conventional and `respectable'. In 1962 he enlisted in the John Birch Society, a conservative body founded by a candy tycoon, Robert Welch. It soon became clear that the Birchers, as they were known, wanted to skate around the issues that Pierce regarded as crucially important, and like many others he suffered disillusionment.
Pierce was up to this time still career-orientated and regarded politics as just a spare-time pursuit. All this was to change when he met and, for a time, joined forces with George Lincoln Rockwell, head of what became known as the American Nazi Party. Pierce came to like and respect Rockwell personally, but to regard his organisation as over-theatrical and not geared to the practicalities of American politics of the period. However, the short experience of involvement in this group changed his life. He decided that the cause he had found demanded an all-or nothing approach from him, and he abandoned his physics career to become a full-time revolutionary activist - a sacrifice which many around the western world pursuing lucrative occupations know in their hearts they should make, but which very few are prepared to make. Hence the landscape littered with the wreckage of well-meant political enterprises undertaken by others much less able and qualified but who have assumed leadership by the default of their social and intellectual 'superiors'. If a fraction of the really talented men of the West took the plunge that William Pierce took, we would today be a long way nearer political success and power.
The Rockwell organisation virtually folded with the assassination of its founder by a deranged follower in 1967. Pierce, learning all the time, looked for a new avenue and found it in a group called the National Youth Alliance, which he soon took over and changed into the National Alliance. This was to be the organisation to which the remainder of his life was consecrated.
Building an elite
Having become contemptuous of mass politics, Pierce set out to make the Alliance an elite type of movement, seeking only the best material for recruitment. Progress was slow and, at times, almost in reverse. He found an office close to Washington DC and spent enormously long hours there, performing himself chores that it should have taken several people to do. He got into the habit of sleeping in the building during the week and only returning home at weekends to his home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was there that I visited and stayed with him when touring the United States in 1979. The lifestyle took its inevitable toll on his marriage - an area where he was doomed never to enjoy contentment for long. Five wives attempted to adjust to his life as a political heretic and none really succeeded. Griffin gives an account of this in his book, more in the manner of regret than of condemnation.
Later, Pierce left the Washington area and moved to the rural wilderness where he was to spend the remainder of his days.
The book proceeds with reference to other individuals and episodes forming part of the fascinating Pierce story. There was his acquaintance with Professor Revilo Oliver, the famed classical scholar and perhaps the leading racial nationalist intellectual in the English-speaking world of his time; his interest in the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who impressed him as a model of courage and determination but with whom he parted company on a number of issues, particularly religion; not least, his close relationship with William Gayley Simpson, the author of Which Way Western Man? , an update on the doctrines of Friedrich Nietzsche, to whose teachings he (Simpson) graduated from being a Franciscan missionary.
Venture into fiction
The book recounts Pierce's venture into the writing of fiction with two novels, The Turner Diaries and Hunter , each of which pictures people resorting to extra-legal methods, including assassination, in doomsday scenarios in a future America. These books, particularly the former, have enjoyed huge sales; but it is my opinion that they were the products of moments when personal frustration got the better of the writer's pre-eminent virtue as ideologist and political strategist.
Perhaps the most interesting of all are the final chapters, which explore in fair detail Dr. Pierce's views on the major issues of his time. Race and the Jewish question are, predictably, foremost. However, Pierce had a lot to say that is worth hearing on education and the relationship between the sexes. The evil of `feminism' (a word that I tend to use in inverted commas because the concept is the polar opposite of femininity) was always a big issue with William Pierce - and with good reason: so much of the pathology of white surrender that is endemic in 20th and 21st century liberalism stems from the loss in the European and Euro-American elite of the masculine virtues. The masculine-feminine balance in society and racial culture is important in areas far beyond mere questions of individual `rights' and arguments about job-selection and the like. Pierce fully recognised this, and what he wrote on the subject should be diligently studied. In essence, Pierce understood that white nations have been in decline because they have become feminised. That is to say that feminine responses to issues, instead of existing in healthy balance with male ones, have come to predominate over everything and have reduced white society to one gigantic nursery in which care, nurture and safety have become the dominating priorities as opposed to hardness, boldness, risk, and the super-personal judgements essential in statesmanship.
It is ironic that Dr. Griffin's choice of title for the book, taken from an old Norse poem, was made (presumably) with no premonition that it was about to represent the literal truth shortly after publication. William Pierce did not survive to see the book, nor the proper fruits of his labours; but then he worked always for posterity. In that sense he was everything that a modern politician is not.
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Cape Breton Canso MP Rodger Cuzner is expected to announce federal funding for the renovation of the Bayplex, later this morning.
Regional Council set aside 4.5 million dollars for the municipality's share of the renovation project during budget sessions in March.
Glace Bay MLA Geoff MacLellan and Regional Mayor Cecil Clarke are also due at the 11:00 o'clock announcement at the Savoy Theatre.
It's hoped the renovation project will be finished by September of 2019.


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Law has traditionally been one of the most honorable professions, and Conover, NC attorneys David L. Isenhower and Susan Williams Matthews founded their practice together on a commitment to continue that proud tradition. Susan Williams Matthews, PLLC is Of Counsel to David L. Isenhower, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, PLLC, and together, they devote their firm to law as it used to be practiced: with dedication to ethics and excellence, caring and compassion for their clients, and a collegial relationship with other attorneys.
Both David and Susan come from families in which relatives practiced law, in Susan's case her father and grandfather. The professionalism they grew up observing informs their own practice. Both attorneys also have deep family roots in the area, and wanted to build a law practice that would serve the needs of their friends and neighbors. The firm concentrates its work in the areas of estate planning and administration, business and corporate law, real estate, and zoning and land use regulation.
With over 50 years combined experience in the practice of law in North Carolina, David Isenhower and Susan Williams Matthews have both a long history and a bright future in the Catawba Valley legal community.
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The design of the practice's website reflects both the firm's connection to its local history and the modernity of its practice. Expansive banner pictures are prominently featured on the home page, showing the attorneys outside in their community and in their office. The site's color scheme of soft grey and Carolina blue suggests crispness and efficiency, while also giving a nod to the law school alma mater of both attorneys.
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Magical experiences, feel transported in time.
I've been going to Europe for over 30 years but had never been to Portugal. I was amazed at how different it is from the rest of Western Europe.
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Excellent. At a youth hostel in Geres, I met an English tourist who commented that Portugal does things to you, and that people says it's magical. The friend I was with and I had to chuckle because neither of us cry much, but were so confronted with emotion much of our time in Portugal that we cried quite a bit! Not sadness, just the expression of raw emotion which, for some inexplicable reason, came up for both of us all over Portugal. This country is visibly more poor than the rest of Europe and maintains so much charm and feels like another time in some places. Women often wear clothing that feels like they're from another century. Small towns have a large elderly population. Find a remote part of the country, explore, be peaceful and see what you discover!
Excellent. Portugal is extremely safe, especially if you're in one of the many, many smaller towns. It's easy to travel, no problem to eat alone, and everyone is very friendly. I will say that walking down a street in a small town I often found people held their faces in somewhat of a scowl. But if you simply smiled at them and said "Bon dia" (Hello) they would immediately warm to you.
Authentic. So authentic that it can be hard to use a credit card. They really are from another era and perhaps that contributes to the magic. Life is much simpler than in most of Europe. In small towns I had coffee for 50 cents, and dinner (2 courses with olives, bread, and 2 carafes of wine) for $6. In many places no English is spoken. Portuguese is hard to learn, but sometimes they speak French. Don't plan on buying clothes here, there's no real fashion, but sure great if you need a cheap anything to replace a worn shirt or pair of underwear for example. There are many medieval festivals that are fun to enjoy in the spring/summer time. If you're anywhere near a local market, don't miss out on trying fresh olives, cheese, and produce. You can even buy home made olive oil!
Car or trains. It's really easy to drive around Portugal. If you rent a car, it's a lot cheaper from a major airport and I highly recommend using Cael. They are lovely to work with, less expensive than much of their competition, and speak great English. Word of caution renting a car, however. When it comes to driving in Portugal there are no rules. Or rather, rules are not followed because there aren't any traffic cops. So, it's very common to find a speed maximum on a highway of 120 km and find someone speed by at 140 or faster. Large trucks also randomly change lanes. Never assume it's safe to pass in the lane next to one. Train travel is very easy in Portugal and very affordable. You can book tickets right from the Portugal rail system website.
Very affordable. Because Portugal is poorer than it's neighbors, you'll find prices are great for long-term travel. Larger cities like Lisbon and Porto are of course more pricey, but even there it's easy to find something affordable meal-wise. Gas prices can be high, but car rentals are reasonable. (Just use caution driving as I mentioned above.) Areas like the South of Portugal are also more pricey since the beach towns of the Algarve attract more tourists. To save money, stay in smaller, remote towns. Living with the locals and eating in a local town's one tiny restaurant are both wonderful!
Not required. Especially in small towns, there just isn't any tipping. You may find that in a nicer restaurant in a city like Lisbon or Portugal you leave a little something extra but it's not expected. The same goes for taxis and be warned – coming from the airport it should cost roughly $6 – $10 for a taxi into town. However, the driver may try to rip you off – I was charged $16 for my initial ride since I didn't know any better!
Not Great In smaller towns there may only be a few places with WiFi. When you do find it, you may not have a strong connection. I found WhatsApp conversations grueling and if I wanted to have any client webinars I had to seek stronger signals in specific places which were not always close by. Hotels did have better WiFi in larger cities. So your connection may depend on where you decide to hang out.
Depends on the season. While you'll likely see more goats than rodents, the summer months can bring pesky mosquitos that buzz in your ear and keep you awake at night. They are more common at night than by day.
Easy. It's always a good idea to check the US government website (or your country's local government if not the US) for in-depth information as well as the embassy of Portugal website. Portugal follows typical Schengen country rules – a US citizen does not need a Visa and can stay up to 90 days. The stamp in your passport acts as your Visa and if you travel within the Schengen area, you'll find immigration very diligent about checking how long you've been there.
Very Good. It's safe to drink water throughout Portugal. Pharmacists can help with most common problems, however a resident I met from Australia gave me the impression that medical care for more serious matters might not be great. Happily I didn't get to see for myself, so hopefully the care is better than he thought! No vaccinations are required but it's always a good idea to Check the CDC website for recommended precautions.
Varies. Portugal has four seasons, however, some are more extreme than others. Summer, for example can reach 40 degrees celsius (around 104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions towards the South. Winters are milder than in the US and have more rainfall and very little snow.
Portugal can actually be fairly cool until summer and at night you may need a sweater. But then in the thick of summer, temperatures can go as high as 40 degrees celsius. (High 90s/100 Fahrenheit.) It's a good idea to have a sweater and jacket with you, as well as sunglasses and a hat. Hiking shoes are great if you plan to go to Geres. A water bottle is a great idea since the tap water is drinkable.
I found tours to be a fabulous way to meet people. I often made friends with the tour guides and connected on Facebook, and met some great people on my boat in Halong Bay. The overnight bus experience is also very bonding! I spent three days in Hoi An with a lovely man I met on my overnight bus bonding over how absolutely disorganized the whole thing was. I also met an amazing Swedish family on my crazy 3-day bus and boat tour from Vietnam to Cambodia as well as several other amazing people from around the world. Tours are super cheap!
You really can't go wrong! It depends on the experience you want. Big city? Try Lisbon and Porto. Hiking, cows and amazing views? Go to Geres. Beaches? Nazare, Peniche, or the Algarve are all good. Another amazing experience is going to The Azores – a quick flight with TAP Portugal but check the weather forecast before you go.
Pensao Flor de Coimbra – in Coimbra. Super hard to find it, but what LOVELY owners, and tons of character. Note, you do have to walk up a rather long staircase to get to your room. The owner will give you wonderful recommendations and is very helpful.
Hotel Dos Cavaleiros – in Torras Novas. Lovely staff, clean rooms many with a lovely view over the city. Great breakfast.
Moov Hotel Porto Norte – a bit outside the city which is why it's less expensive. Clean, simple, small rooms. Have breakfast someplace outside the hotel, it will be cheaper. They also have a location in the center of downtown Porto if you prefer to be more central. Payment was cash only which was a little inconvenient.
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But this does not work anymore since V7 probably due to new data casting rules.
I make havvy use of this in one of my V6 applications with more complicated objects, can someone give me a workaround ? Is there a new casting function I shound be aware of or a solution to fool the new compiler ?
Yes, the TD compiler is more strict starting from TD 6.1.
As far as I know a workaround is to pass an array of objects instead of one object.
I created a small test application which works ok.


Dallas-based soul singer-songwriter Larry g(EE) released Weekends after a summer in Brooklyn. After teaming up with Producer Beau Bedford, whose credits include work with the Apache 5, Dovetail and Kirby Brown, he returned to Dallas to release this four-track EP showcasing a unique and catchy blend of funk, silky soul and smart pop melodies. His famed single "Yo Mama" reels listeners in with punchy horns and passionate vocals, while the piercing ballad "I'm Your Fool" embodies the intense romanticism of vintage Motown singles of the past.


STORM LOSES: How bad was it? Simply put, the 29-point defeat (92-63) was the worst at the Key since the Storm's first game EVER, 77-47 to Houston in June 2000. The Storm didn't look that bad, though. Then, you wondered if some of the players really ever knew how to play ball. On Saturday, you wondered why the players didn't feel like playing ball. There was no defense. The team missed shots and Bird became so frustrated, at points she stopped running her team. The Storm committed 20 turnovers, giving up a whopping 32 points. The rest doesn't even matter. "You can't win games having 20 turnovers," Little said. "That's 20 possessions without even getting a shot off. And that's opportunities your giving them on fast breaks." The Dream ran over the Storm 12-6 on fast break points and 42-30 inside. McCoughtry and former Storm F Iziane Castro Marques led with 17 points apiece while Smith ended with 15 for Seattle. Atlanta (11-12) appears headed back to the Finals, going 8-3 in its past 11 games. The Storm had an eight-game win streak at home snapped and has lost three of its past four games. "We know how poor a showing this was," said Bird, who was bench in the fourth quarter because Agler didn't feel the team was going to pull out the win. "No one's going to want to feel like this the next time we step on the floor." Seattle (13-11) travels Monday to play at Phoenix on Tuesday. The Storm is 4-9 on the road, losing its past two.
NIGHTMARE: It's not a franchise record, but 18 turnovers, missed shots and lack of height in defending the Dream frontline has Seattle down 85-61 with 2:43 remaining in the game. Agler has pulled his starters, except Cash. The Dream is the first team to sweep the Storm this season.
MO MONEY: Now Atlanta has called time, Cash popping off with a three-pointer and aggressive drive to the basket to pull the Storm within 60-47 with 6:14 on the clock. Smith has helped increase the defensive intensity. We'll see if this new vigor lasts.
TIME: Atlanta is on a 10-0 run to start the second half, Bird getting frustrated at teammates apparently not running the right play. Price, at 5 foot 9, has picked off entry-passes for Storm turnovers. And Seattle has missed at the hoop. Agler is trying to get the team kick-started.
TIME: The Storm remains off-kilter, Agler calling a quick timeout a few minutes into the second half. Atlanta is up 54-42, frustrating Seattle.
NO. 10: The wrong No. 10 is having a highlight night at the Key. Well, if you're pulling for the Storm, it's the wrong No. 10. Harding is finding teammates and making her own jumpers to help the Dream take a 50-42 lead into the break. Both teams are shooting well, it's the turnovers that are are hurting Seattle. In fact, the Storm has given up 13 points on 10 turnovers in the opening half. McCoughtry (11) and Lyttle (10) lead the Dream while Smith has 11 points off the bench.
ODD STRETCH: Not sure how Atlanta coach Marynell Meadors didn't get a technical foul, charging past the halfcourt line (and coach's box) to harp at Walker for the refs calling three consecutive fouls against her team in one Storm defensive possession. She was allowed to share her feelings all the way back to her spot on the sideline, the Dream calling timeout to talk. In fact, she was still harping at him after the break. Cash made the ensuing FT on a G Coco Miller foul and I'm left wondering if Agler will ever get that kind of venting treatment. Atlanta leads 42-36 with 2:49 on the clock.
PILING UP: The bad passes and head-scratching mistakes are starting to pile up for the Storm. The team has eight turnovers as the Dream has built a 34-30 lead with 5:50 remaining in the half. The Storm also has some foul trouble adding up, Cash (2) and Little (3) on the bench with too many too early.
FILLING UP: Smith is officially out of her shooting slump, hitting back-to-back three-pointers to help the Storm stay in the game. But Seattle is down 27-26 at the end of the first quarter mainly because it falls asleep on some plays defensively. On an in-bound play, McCoughtry wasn't covered and scored. Robinson had a rebound stripped that Harding cashed in on two-on-one coverage. Harding was able to slip by the Storm offense on a fast break play, too.
FOR THREE: The Storm has kicked it up a notch, getting the anxious crowd to blow its top after a three-pointer by Wright off an offensive rebound by Little. The bucket tied the score at 15 points apiece with 4:08 remaining in the first quarter. Seattle is taking away Atlanta's second-shot opportunities and moving the ball with more purpose.
LITTLE D: Atlanta leads 10-6 with 6:32 remaining in the opening quarter. There's not much defense, although Price has already been removed after picking up two fouls for aggressive play.
QUIGLEY REMAINS II: Boy are the weeks flying by. G Allie Quigley will sign another seven-day contract this weekend. The Storm hasn't had many practices, but she's helped give the backcourt get a breather, even though she hasn't scored, yet.
It's the final rematch of last year's WNBA Finals, but the teams being the 2010 participants is the end of the similarities. Seattle and Atlanta have dealt with well-chronicled injuries, causing both teams to stumble more than expected a year removed from the Finals.
Atlanta appeared headed for a turnaround, going on a five-game win streak in July. Disappointing losses to New York and Phoenix in August have the Dream needing an adjustment. The Storm plays well at home, but even that will be tested by the Dream, which forced 29 turnovers in a 70-53 win against Seattle on Sunday. The mark is a Storm franchise-high and ties a WNBA season-high.
In addition to the game, the Storm is celebrating PG Sue Bird's 10th season with the organization. Fans started lining up more than an hour before tip-off to collect her commemorative bobblehead doll. The team will present her with a bracelet similar to the one three-time MVP Lauren Jackson received last season and timeouts are expected to be peppered with looks back on her illustrious career.
Bird's focus will be on the game, however. The Storm has seven home matchups remaining and would like to win all of them in pursuit of one of the top two slots in Western Conference playoff standings. That would assure the team home court advantage in the opening round of the postseason.
Seattle is 3-0 against the Eastern Conference at home. Will Saturday be four?
Let's see with your starting lineups.
Tonight's officials are Kurt Walker, Penny Davis, Jeff Wooten.


Brilliant set of BLT and... MAGNETRIXX !!!
Thank you 3rd Empire crew.
wowwwww, and i do mean wowwwwww.
just woke up after i slept 2 hours for regainning some power.
and the road was also simpatic to my private car.
about 700 ppl for my upinion at the tops.
the deco was minimal but the gimic with the video camera and the barco - made it great.
very nice ppl, nice costumes (me with the sailor shirt) no arsim at all.
owsome minimal set by zomby and blt played nice to.
magnetrixx - first time i see them but they can really connect u to the music.
I'll just thank Boris, Rafi, Ofir and those who helped you guys to organize another great production. And of course I'll thank Eli and Yuli for wonderful sets!
Watch 1st part of the pics in galleries section.
PURIM DESERT RAVE WAS KICK ASSSSSSS!!!!
we love u our empires of the israeli best crowd ever..
- yuli,perfect strenger = no words, big big respect..
mia beeee, the one for mee, the sweet girl in the wourld!!
i can`t feel my legs,must to sleep!!
i loved the amazing beutifull crowd, so meny woow girls... there r so charming girls there haa..
i think according to what i sow 780-850 ppl, borris conform what i sow..
it's my first 3rd empire party. i took my "fullon" friends (which blasted away on this party) and we drived from the nearby dimona to the location placed on the map. first we mistaken and went to other road then we found the right way (cheers to the camels!) and found the amazing location. the sound was good, the people is just amazing, the music - i started in middle of Zombi's set and he drived me slowly with his deep progressive beats. then Perfect Stranger came up with an energetic and long set that went from progressive music into energetic prog fullon by the beams of the sun at the morning. magnetrixx kept the feeling with their morning beats. i didn't leaved the floor, amazing experience - danced in dust, 600-700 freaks that forgot for a moment about their life, all danced to the progressive music that by the sunrise developed into high energy prog psy sounds!
ND. Without Deviation, Progress Is Not Possible.
Can't help but repeat what everyone is saying.
-> Exquisite dance floor setup that left you no option but to dance till you drop - if you got out of the floor you were kinda out of the party because it was covered for shade. Very motivating... and the dust didn't bother you at all unless you were right next to the DJ.
-> Effective music ) thank you!!!!
just an amaizing location with good positive vabes!
great set of yuli!! the change was only on a good side!!
OOooo wwas very good party indeed many enjoyed good vibes goo view and all all good me an my friends just flied at this party !
i want to say big thanks for Yuli.
You played wonderfull ecstatic prog set %) i think even better Magnetrixx.
Magnetrixx... i havn`t words about Magnetrixx, beatifull prog, but to borring for me. Only first track was smthing.
didnt have such a good time in a party for a long long time.
Came in the beginning of Yuli's set - man you were great, usually I dont know what to expect from you cause every time you play i hear something else but I think it was the best set I have ever heard from you !
every single Dj played in this party (didnt hear Zombi, but Yuli Magnetrixx Yotopia) can play a whole party by me if they can keep those energies that long ther wasnt a boring second in non of the acts.
Not much to add it was a another WWWOWWW party from the 3rd Empire.
- if you got out of the floor you were kinda out of the party because it was covered for shade.
I left the dance area cause of the dust and was at the top. the sound was also very good way up there so no matter where U went U still could stay in the music. it was a perfect sound, perfect music, perfect crowd.


Exports have played a role. So has supply curtailment.
2009 introduced the SBG term, as the trend of lower demand increases which had turned to a gentle decline after demand peaked in 2005, was exacerbated by a deep recession. As 2009's annual reports were released, Ontario Power Generation noted water spills at its regulated hydroelectric generators, and attributed 0.6 TWh of lost production to SBG. 1 The private nuclear provider, Bruce Power, noted, in it's annual report, "hundreds of power manoeuvres in response to conditions of Surplus Baseload Generation when Ontario had more supply than demand. CAMECO's 2009 annual report quantified the amount of 'deemed' generation, at the 4 Bruce B units, at 1.2TWh. The discovery that we paid for at least 1.8TWh of electricity not to be produced in 2009 should be considered as the Ontario Power Authority prepares a second Integrated Power System Plan.
Baseload, in Ontario, refers to generation that will run if nothing halts it deliberately. That is most significantly nuclear, secondly hydro, thirdly it is a group of generators producing with natural gas under old contracts (Non-Utility Generators/ NUGs), other smaller suppliers (<10MW), and most recently, and increasingly, wind and solar supply. Supply can be baseload because of the technology, or the economics, or the contracts (and any combination of those).
Several weeks ago I started hoarding hourly generation output data from the IESO site. I thought I'd share a series of graphs that coincide with the IESO weekly reports. graphing production by groups of generators against consumption, import/export and pricing metrics. Reverse engineering from the data outputs, I think I can share some conclusions about the methods the IESO is using to control the market during SBG periods.
Starting on the week of March 30- April 5th, here's the weekly graph I've developed to illustrate the curtailment actions of the IESO. This is the control graph - it's the last week there wasn't curtailment. The yellow bars are measured on the right axis (in MW), while all the lines, for generator groups, are measured on the left axis. Bruce B (the light blue line) frequently utilizes steam bypass, which allows the nuclear reactor to continue operating while generating significantly less electricity (about 40% less, and there are 2 reactors that utilize this often, and another 2 less often). Base Gas is simply a group of producers that always seemed to be on, but discussions I've had confirm there are Non Utility Generators (NUGs) and the 1000MW total proves to be pretty accurate (if you follow through the series of graphs). The base hydro is again eyeballed, including, most significantly, OPG's regulated hydro assets. This line increases during the spring freshet - but the control graph is a week where the 2000-2500MW expectation is what we get.
The next week brings an example of reducing what I've referred to as "base gas" – which are primarily, if not entirely, NUG contracts. These contracts are curtailed for longer periods of time, as with the weekend of April 16th and 17th (they return coincidentally with the morning surge in demand). The reasons for this are complicated. The NUG's had contracts with Ontario Hydro. When Ontario Hydro was broken up, the contracts for the NUGs ended up with the new financing company, OEFC. So … for the system operator to curtail this production they must contact the OEFC to deal with the NUGs. These curtailments therefore occur when the SBG condition is fairly certain days in advance, large, and will remain for an extended period of time. Note Bruce B still has dips overnight (the chart starts Wednesday, and then also Thursday night/Friday morning – we also see one of the 4 units going offline for maintenance, as the weekend arrives), but the BaseGas reduction only occurs Friday night and then lasts through the weekend.
The next weekend the gas is allowed to keep producing, while steam bypass periods increase. Exports jumped to over 1400MW each hour, and the price dropped to average only $20.60/MWh.
All of this impacts the Global Adjustment, which is the charge added to the bills of Ontario's companies, and calculated into it's residents' bills, to recover all the generating costs (including the costs of not generating!). April set a record for the global adjustment( $43.89/MWh).
May will probably break that record.
This looks to me like a very good and useful analysis about how the IESO copes. They have to do a great deal of juggling to make room for the uncontrolled and uncontrollable wind generation when it's windy during off-peak periods while at the same time making sure that the system remains stable and that the lights will be on tomorrow when the wind dies down.
The recession was a factor, of course, but the biggest problem in my opinion is the willy-nilly approach to new wind generation taken by the present government. SOME wind generation makes sense, but it doesn't make ANY sense to accept as much wind as can be developed at any place on the grid and at any time convenient for the developers, which seems to be the case at present.
SBG is a present-day term that may have been chosen to be politically neutral (Mr. McGuinty wouldn't ever have agreed to calling it "surplus wind generation", but that's really mainly what it is). But the phenomenon first occurred about 30 years ago in Ontario when the transmission capability out of the Bruce complex wasn't sufficient to carry all of the available Bruce generation. It was called Locked-in Energy (LIE) at that time, and was a big embarassment.
I am clearly not as up-to-date as you about the present-day transmission out of Bruce, but it seems weird to me that a wind farm producing large quantities of intermittent energy (that can't be relied upon) would feed into the same line that is used to transmit energy from Bruce, unless of course the line can take well in excess of the full Bruce output. Maybe this isn't the case, but this does point to something that your system-wide analysis didn't cover, and that is the manoeuvring of other sources of generation and transmission loads for LOCAL accommodation of wind generation when the wind is blowing.
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