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Q: EF 5 code first - using a method to determine the connection Is it possible that the connection string is redirected to a method (instead using App.config)?
(App.config is not an option because the location for a sdf can be changed)
My connection string (sdf) can change via an OpenFileDialog for instance.
The hint concerning SQLExpress was seen.
When debugging, the migration goes towards the IMigrationMetadata.Id.
Then, DataException - An exception occurred while initializing the database.
      at
System.Data.Common.DbProviderServices.GetProviderManifestToken(DbConnection connection)
    ProviderIncompatibleException - The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string.
    {"An error occurred while getting provider information from the database. This can be caused by Entity Framework using an incorrect connection string. "}

at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Utilities.DbProviderServicesExtensions.GetProviderManifestTokenChecked(DbProviderServices providerServices, DbConnection connection)
The default ctor applies a connection string that cannot be used:
Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Namespace.AbacusContext;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True;Application Name=EntityFrameworkMUE

But when invoking
this.Database.Initialize( false ); //good connStr applied

within a ctor (incl. arguments), then the default ctor is automatically invoked (but not by me) and that uses an impaired connection string. See overview:
 public AbacusContext( DbConnection connection, bool contextOwnsConnection ) :
            base( connection, contextOwnsConnection )
        {
            Database.SetInitializer( new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<AbacusContext, Configuration>() );
            string goodConnStr = this.Database.Connection.ConnectionString;//was used for a breakpoint
            this.Database.Initialize( false );
        }

        public AbacusContext()
        {
           string badConnStr = this.Database.Connection.ConnectionString;
            //SQLExpress and some other stuff can be seen now
        }

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va ser un matemàtic francès del .

Vida
Herbrand va néixer a París, fill únic d'un marxant de pintura antiga d'origen belga.

El 1925, amb només 17 anys, va obtenir el primer lloc en l'examen d'ingrés a l'École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Durant els seus anys d'estudi va assistir regularment al Seminari Hadamard, organitzat per Jacques Hadamard al Collège de France, on va conèixer altres joves matemàtics francesos, com Jean Dieudonné, André Weil i Claude Chevalley, i va establir una forta relació d'amistat amb aquest darrer. En aquesta època, Herbrand desenvolupa el seu interès pels problemes relacionats amb els fonaments de la ciència i altres temes filosoficocientífics

El 1928, amb només 20 anys, supera l'examen d'agregació, també en primer lloc de la seva promoció, i comença a preparar la tesi doctoral, sota la direcció d'Ernest Vessiot, director de l'ENS en aquell temps.

La tesi, titulada Recherches sur la théorie de la démonstration, es va aprovar per ser publicada el juny del 1929, però, l'octubre del mateix any, Herbrand s'incorporava a l'exèrcit per fer el servei militar i la tesi no va poder ser defensada fins al juny del 1930. Un altre motiu per a aquest retard va ser que la lògica matemàtica no era aleshores una especialitat gaire popular entre els matemàtics francesos i va ser difícil trobar matemàtics que formessin el tribunal. Només els bons oficis de Vessiot van fer possible que es constituís, i finalment el va integrar el mateix Vessiot, juntament amb Arnaud Denjoy i Maurice Fréchet.

El mateix any 1930 aconsegueix una beca Rockefeller per al curs 1930-1931, que li permet anar a Alemanya i estudiar amb els matemàtics més prestigiosos del país en els camps de la lògica i la metamatemàtica. Així, estudia l'hivern de 1930-31 amb John von Neumann a Berlín; la primavera del 31 amb Emil Artin a Hamburg, i el mateix estiu amb Emmy Noether a Göttingen, on també coneix David Hilbert i Richard Courant. En un congrés a Marburg el febrer del 1931 també coneix Helmut Hasse, que escriurà el seu obituari poc més tard.

Segons Wirth:

Malgrat que Jacques Herbrand era un jove científic encara relativament poc conegut, estava força ben relacionat amb els millors matemàtics i lògics del seu temps, particularment amb els interessats en els fonaments de les matemàtiques.

El talent d'aquest jove matemàtic es va perdre definitivament el 27 de juliol de 1931, en morir en un accident de muntanya quan baixava la Grande Aiguille de la Bèrarde amb tres companys alpinistes: Jean Brille, Pierre Delair i Henri Guigner. Només tenia 23 anys.

Principals Obres
Una relació completa de les seves obres es pot veure a .
 1928. Sur la théorie de la démonstration
 1929. Non-contradiction des axiomes arithmétiques
 1929. Sur quelques propriétés des propositions vraies et leurs applications
 1929. Sur le probléme fondamental des mathématiques
 1930. Recherches sur la théorie de la démonstration. Tesi doctoral, Universitat de París.
 1930. Les bases de la logique hilbertienne
 1931. Sur le problème fondamental de la logique mathématique
 1931. Sur les unités d'un corps algébrique

Editats pòstumament:

 1932. Sur la non-contradiction de l'Arithmetique
 1932. Zur Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen
 1932-3. Théorie arithmétique des corps de nombres de degré infini

Referències

Bibliografia
 , Jacques, , Paul. Jacques Herbrand. A , Michel; , Jean (eds.). L'épistémologie française (1830-1970). Presses Universitaires de France. París, 2006. . Pàgines 301-322.
 , Claude. On Herbrand's Thought. (Al llibre de , pàgines 25-298).
 , Warren (ed.). Jacques Herbrand. Logical Writings. Springer Netherlands, 1971. .
 , Claus-Peter et al.. Lectures on Jacques Herbrand as a Logician.SEKI Report, 2009. ISSN 1437-4447.
 , Claus-Peter; , Jörg; , Christoph; , Serge. Jacques Herbrand: Life, Logic, and Automated Deduction. A Gabbay, Dov i Woods, John (eds.) Handbook of the History of Logic, Volum 5. Elsevier. Amsterdam, 2009. . Pàgines 195-254.

Enllaços externs

 Herbrand, Jacques. Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. Consultat 5 Abril 2013 http://www.encyclopedia.com.

Alumnes de l'École Normale Supérieure
Matemàtics parisencs
Alumnes de la Universitat de París
Alumnes de la Facultat de Ciències de París
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Alumnes de la Universitat de Göttingen
Alumnes de la Universitat d'Hamburg
Alumnes de la Universitat Frederic Guillem de Berlín

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Born: May 9, 1914 Died: June 14, 2005 Country: Italy
An acclaimed and versatile conductor, Carlo Maria Giulini started his musical studies as a violinist, attending the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He studied conducting with Bernardino Molinari at Santa Cecilia and Alfredo Casella at Accademia Chigiana in Siena. After graduation, he joined the Augusteo Orchestra in Rome as a violist. As an orchestral musician, he came in contact with the great conductors of the time, including Strauss, Read more Mengelberg, Walter, Klemperer, and Furtwängler. After receiving his conscription notice for military service during World War II, Giulini, an ardent anti-Fascist, decided to go into hiding. When the Allies liberated Rome in 1944 he emerged and conducted the orchestra he used to play in (now known as the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia) in a Brahms symphony to celebrate the liberation. This was his debut as a conductor.
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Giulini developed a symphonic repertoire slowly, devoting much attention to each new score; thus, he did not conduct Mozart or Beethoven symphonies until he was in his fifties. He was appointed principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony in 1969, and was the director of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 1973 to 1976. He succeeded Zubin Mehta as musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1978, remaining at that post until 1984.
Giulini's conducting incorporates elements of Furtwängler's and Toscanini's styles. His dynamism and purity of sound are reminiscent of Toscanini, but the spacious, Romantic approach reminds one of Furtwängler. His particular attentiveness to inner voices results in a rich sound. Giulini eschews podium theatrics or autocratic attitudes. Instead, he approaches the musicians as co-workers serving the music. After his retirement from Los Angeles, Giulini continued working as a guest conductor, mostly in Paris, Chicago, Milan, Berlin, and Vienna, and eventually limiting his activities to appearances with the major orchestras of these cities. Read less
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Tadd Douglas Harvey, 31, of Port Huron, died Monday, February 29, 2016 of natural causes.
He was born August 10, 1984 in Port Huron. He married Sarah Jelinek on September 1, 2005 in Port Huron.
Mr. Harvey was an electrician. He was a devoted family man who enjoyed cooking, fishing and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah; his daughter, Tehya; his mother, Pam (Tom) Spicer; his father, Steven (Pauline) Harvey; siblings, Corey Bell, Steven (Stephanie) Harvey, Sabryna Harvey and Nicole Bolduc; grandparents, Al (Marsha) Grabowski and Tom (Carolyn) Collinge; his in-laws, Christopher (Mary Beth) Jelinek; several aunts, uncles and cousins; and many nieces and nephews who loved him dearly.
Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2016 in Restoration Station Church, 2915 Lapeer Ave., Port Huron, with visitation beginning at 3 p.m. The Rev. Jeff King will officiate.
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2008 capitalism died: Money Scam, cornerstone of our slavery
9/11, 7/7 & the War on Freedom Forum Index -> Pre-Planned Economic 9/11 - Global Financial Conspiracy
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Location: Westminster, LONDON, SW1A 2HB.
At the heart of a rotten system
Is a basic rotten lie
Repeated like a mantra
On BBC and Sky
There Is No Alternative
We must live with in our means
So cut your cloth accordingly
And set aside your dreams
Education fueled by debt
Feeds parasites in banks
No money for a hospital
But plenty spare for tanks
No money left for libraries
Or to care for the old and needy
But plenty left for Trident
And bonuses for the greedy
But when do we hear the question
In the House or in the press?
Where does money come from?
The root of our distress
What is this magic substance
That can cultivate or kill
That can build a home or smash it
That can work for good or ill?
Is there a magic money tree
In some walled-off sacred wood?
Or does government create it
In the name of the public good?
We never hear the question
In case we get upset
For the truth is banks create it
Out of pure fresh air as debt.
We can't run out of money
As some letters might suggest
And before we get to tax it
First we must invest.
So next a time a politician
Tells you money has run out
Ask then where it comes from
And watch them fill with doubt
And if they try to dodge your question
Keep on til they reply
There is no more vital matter
It is why we live or die.
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
Location: East London
'Quantitative Easing, The Largest Transfer Of Wealth In History':
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/07/24/quantitative-easing-the-larg est-transfer-of-wealth-in-history/
'....Given that – judged by its official aims – QE has been a total failure, this makes perfect sense. By 'injecting' money into the economy, QE was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth. But overall bank lending in fact fell following the introduction of QE in the UK, whilst lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) – responsible for 60 percent of employment – plummeted.
As Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, has noted: "Central banks have flooded the global economy with cheap money since the financial crisis, yet global growth is still in the doldrums, particularly in Europe and Japan, which have both seen colossal stimulus packages thrown at the problem."
Even Forbes admits that QE has "largely failed in reviving economic growth".
This is, or should be, unsurprising. QE was always bound to fail in terms of its stated aims, because the reason banks were not funneling money into productive investment was not because they were short of cash – on the contrary, by 2013, well before the final rounds of QE, UK corporations were sitting on almost £1/2trillion of cash reserves – but rather because the global economy was (and is) in a deep overproduction crisis. Put simply, markets were (and are) glutted and there is no point investing in glutted markets.
This meant that the new money created by QE and 'injected' into financial institutions – such as pension funds and insurance companies – was not invested into productive industry, but rather went into stock markets and real estate, driving up prices of shares and houses, but generating nothing in terms of real wealth or employment.
Holders of assets such as stocks and houses, therefore, have done very well out of QE, which has increased the wealth of the richest 5 percent of the UK population by an average of £128,000 per head.
How can this be? Where does this additional wealth come from? After all, while money – contrary to Tory sloganeering – can indeed be created 'out of thin air', which is precisely what QE has done, real wealth cannot. And QE has not produced any real wealth. Yet the richest 5 percent now have an extra £128,000 to spend on yachts, mansions, diamonds, caviar and so on. So where has it come from?
The answer is simple. The wealth which QE has passed to asset-holders has come, first of all, directly out of workers' wages. QE, by effectively devaluing the currency, has reduced the buying power of money, leading to an effective decrease in real wages, which, in the UK, still remain 6 percent below their pre-QE levels. The money taken out of workers' wages therefore forms part of that £128,000 dividend. But it has also come from new entrants to the markets inflated by QE – primarily, first time buyers and those just reaching pension age.
Those buying a house (which QE has made more expensive), for example, will likely have to work thousands of additional hours over the course of their mortgage in order to pay this increased cost. It is those extra hours that are creating the wealth which subsidizes the spending spree for the richest 5 percent. Of course, these increased house prices are paid by anyone purchasing a house, not only first time buyers – but the additional cost for existing homeowners is compensated for by the rise in price of their existing house (or by their shares for those wealthy enough to hold them).
QE also means that newly retiring pensioners are forced to subsidize the 5 percent. New retirees use their pension pot to purchase an 'annuity' – a bundle of stocks and shares generating dividends which serve as an income. However, as QE has inflated share prices, the number of shares they can buy with this pot is reduced. And, as share price increases do not increase dividends, this means reduced pension payments.
In truth, the story that QE was about encouraging investment and boosting employment and growth was always a fantastical yarn designed to disguise what was really going on – a massive transfer of wealth to the rich.
As economist Dhaval Joshi put it in 2011: "The shocking thing is, two years into an ostensible recovery, [UK] workers are actually earning less than at the depth of the recession. Real wages and salaries have fallen by £4bn. Profits are up by £11bn. The spoils of the recovery have been shared in the most unequal of ways......................"
'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Janie of Taxfree UK 15 interviews William Stuart on his latest book: 9-11 to Armageddon, Bankers Plan Wars
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He is outlining the incredible story about the "Untouchables" who now will become touchable and are being exposed for what they are. He is decribing the historic build up of the Arab Brotherhood, Al Quaeda by the globally operating Bankster Cabal through their minions.
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UK productivity sinks again as Britain edges closer to decade of stagnation
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-productivity-growth -latest-sink-stagnation-decade-public-finances-economy-second-quarter- wages-a7986111.html
The ONS reported that real output per hour worked fell by 0.3 per cent in the three months to June
Ben Chu Economics Editor @Benchu_ a day ago 5 comments The Independent Online
The UK's productivity sank again in the second quarter of 2017, edging Britain closer to a lost decade of productivity growth, increasing the likelihood of the emergence of a new hole in the public finances.
The Office for National Statistics reported on Friday that UK real output per hour worked fell by 0.3 per cent in the three months to June.
This followed an expansion of just 0.1 per cent in the first quarter.
Labour would remedy 'lost decade' of Tory failure, pledges Corbyn
5 charts that show the UK economy is in the middle of a 'lost decade'
Britain 'facing lost decade of economic growth'
That means the level of UK productivity remains below where it was in the final quarter of 2007, before the financial crisis and recession hit.
Such a prolonged period of productivity stagnation for the UK is unprecedented in modern times and is one of the key drivers of the dismal performance of average wages since the crash.
At the time of the March Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast output per hour would grow by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2017 and 0.3 per cent in the second quarter.
Over 2017 as a whole the OBR projected the UK economy's productivity would grow by 1.6 per cent, with 1.5 per cent next year and 1.7 per cent in 2019, rising to 1.8 per cent in 2020.
The Treasury expects the OBR to respond to the latest disappointing outturn data to revise down its productivity growth forecasts over the next five years, slashing projected tax revenues and eating deep into the £26bn of headroom that the Chancellor Philip Hammond had been projected to have in 2020-21 against his own fiscal rules.
The ONS also reported on Friday that the output per hour gap between the UK and the average for the rest of the G7 economies was 15.1 per cent in 2016.
Lost decade approaching
Productivity, by this measure, was 25.6 per cent below Germany's and 22.3 per cent below that of France.
Many economists expect Brexit to reduce the UK's long-term productivity performance by lowering trade flows with our nearest neighbours and also restricting immigration.
The OBR revised down its forecast for UK trend potential productivity growth in the wake of the Brexit vote between 2017 and 2020, reflecting its expectation of less productivity-enhancing business investment due to uncertainty over future trade arrangements and resulting in a £7.2bn hole in the public finances by 2020-21 relative to otherwise.
Friday 27 October 2017 6:00am
"Shocking ignorance" from MPs who don't know where money actually comes from
http://www.cityam.com/274631/shocking-ignorance-mps-dont-know-money-ac tually-comes
The majority of Britain's politicians don't know where money comes from, despite being tasked with deciding how much of it ends up being spent, according to a poll of MPs published today.
Only 15 per cent of MPs surveyed answered correctly when asked a true/false question on whether banks create money when they make loans.
Almost two-thirds of the 50 MPs surveyed by Dods for campaign group Positive Money wrongly thought banks can't create money, while a quarter admitted they didn't know.
Read more: Politicians get lost in search of the fabled Magic Money Tree
In a far from stellar field Conservative MPs outperformed slightly "in this regard", with 19 per cent answering correctly, compared to only one in 20 Labour MPs.
More than three-quarters of the MPs surveyed incorrectly believed that only the government has the ability to create new money. Some 23 per cent knew this to be false, with Labour performing better than the Conservatives.
The Bank of England has previously intervened to point out that most money in the UK begins as a bank loan. In a 2014 article the Bank pointed out that "whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower's bank account, thereby creating new money."
The perception of money creation has been complicated further by the unorthodox use of quantitative easing, in which the government creates money electronically, which is then used to buy financial assets.
Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money, said: "Despite their confidence in telling the public that there is 'no magic money tree' to pay for vital services, politicians themselves are shockingly ignorant of where money actually comes from.
"There is in fact a 'magic money tree', but it's in the hands of commercial banks, such as Barclays, HSBC and RBS, who create money whenever they make loans."
Creeping erosion of privacy: New EU directive will help internet cartel giants access your BANK ACCOUNT
New EU directive will help internet giants access your BANK ACCOUNT
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In a new era of official nastiness, it's suddenly a crime to be homeless
John Harris John Harris
Instead of addressing the causes of homelessness, local authorities are using public space protection orders to displace, fine and punish the vulnerable
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/10/nastiness-crime- homeless-homelessness-local-authorities-public-spaces-protection-order s
A week ago, a case involving a homeless man called Ashley Hackett was thrown out of court in Brighton. He had been arrested by a plain-clothes police officer for asking a passer-by for 10p, an episode that triggered reports about Sussex police arresting 60 people on similar grounds in 2015 alone.
One night on the street witnessing Britain's homeless crisis – as it happened
The story exploded in the pages of the Brighton Argus: local MP Caroline Lucas said she could not see "how criminalising desperate people for begging is helpful"; 30,000 people signed a petition decrying the policy responsible – and then, in the final denouement, prosecutors decided that the case was not in the public interest, and a district judge called time on the whole pathetic affair. In among the small print, there lurked truly Kafkaesque details, such as Hackett's lawyer's insistence that "he pleaded not guilty to begging because the offence says you've got to place yourself in that location to beg. He says he's homeless and that's where he lives."
Unfortunately, the end of that case will probably have no effect on a monstrous shift in policy and official attitudes towards homeless people being rolled out around the country. As in-depth reporting in the Guardian this week has highlighted, rough-sleeping in England is up nearly a third year-on-year, and the figures have doubled since 2010: a plainly shameful fact that underlines the sense of a government locked into a grim re-enactment of the 1980s. Meanwhile, all over the country, police and local councils are criminalising begging and rough sleeping, seemingly trying to push such mounting problems out of sight.
Which brings us to a particularly horrible policy instrument known as public space protection orders (or PSPOs), brought in by the coalition government in 2014. As with New Labour's antisocial behaviour orders, this new legal invention creates opportunities to criminalise hitherto non-criminal behaviour – but instead of Asbos' focus on individuals, PSPOs are defined by particular areas.
The basic idea is simple enough. Designate a particular area, specify the behaviour you want to outlaw, and you're off. In certain areas of Nottinghamshire, Bassetlaw's Labour council has prohibited people under 16 "gathering in groups of three or more"; in Hillingdon, the Tories who run the borough have criminalised feeding pigeons in the park and, for young people in certain places, "gathering in groups of two or more persons unless going to or from a parked vehicle or waiting for a scheduled bus at a designated bus stop". Obviously, those actions look comically draconian. But when PSPOs are applied to homeless people, the sense of punitive nastiness goes off the scale.
Homelessness crisis: ministers consider 'prevention duty' for councils
We are essentially talking about the policy equivalent of those spikes now affixed to modern buildings as a matter of course, in case anyone thinks of bedding down for the night. In Folkestone in Kent, a PSPO covers drinking, rough sleeping and begging; the latter is also a potential criminal act in Corby, Swindon and Oxford (where the council says it only applies to "aggressive" begging, though that includes simply asking for money near a cashpoint). In Wrexham, similar sanctions now apply to sleeping in a town centre park. Failure to comply entails a possible on-the-spot fine of £100 – this is for homeless people, let's not forget – and, if the case goes to court, a penalty of up to £1,000. It is seemingly too early for cases to start colliding with the judicial system, but when they do, the waste of public money and chaotic fallout will speak for itself.
Nonetheless, the idea is catching on. Recent Freedom of Information requests by the Vice website discovered that at least 36 local councils in England and Wales "have introduced or are working on PSPOs which criminalise activities linked to homelessness". In some places, there has been loud controversy about what is afoot: protests in Exeter, a U-turn in Newport, and another successful campaign in Hackney, east London, that last year forced the council to back down.
But all too often there's a sense of dull inevitability: in the absence of any real local or national scrutiny, councils do what they like, and no one really cares. Put another way: these days, if something happens in Corby, Swindon or Wrexham, can it really be said to have happened at all?
'I am well-spoken and not an addict': how homelessness can happen to anyone
Sarah Marsh and Guardian readers
Moreover, as the Brighton case proves, the story runs much wider than PSPOs. Aside from London and Bristol, the city I visit most often is Manchester, where rough sleeping has exploded and, despite a more enlightened attitude to homeless people than you see in some other places, the city council and local landlords spent some of 2015 locked into an on-off game of injunctions, clearances, and ongoing bad feeling.
As a dry space long used by homeless people was suddenly cleared and fenced off – which is how it remains – and protest camps set up by homeless people spread across the city, the council won an injunction against anyone pitching a tent, which went as far as listing the items (sleeping bags, cardboard boxes) that were still permitted, and led to homeless people facing fines of up to £5,000. When I last visited, a new canvas encampment had sprung up on land owned by Manchester University, close to Piccadilly station: a fragile mini-shanty town, symbolising the fact that in the surrounding regenerated wonderland, scores of homeless people seem to have been reduced to an inconvenience.
Fines and arrest back up the rightwing idea of character failure; George Osborne sleeps that bit more easily
At the heart of all this, there is often a kind of municipal Trump-ism, whereby police and crime commissioners, senior officers and politicians of all parties affect a crass language of crackdowns and zero tolerance, while doing little to get to grips with the actual issue. Obviously, they can account for their actions in terms of austerity: if average local authority funding for services helping people avoid homelessness was cut by 45% between 2010 and 2015, and homelessness and rough-sleeping are reaching such uncontrollable heights, what else can they do?
The answer to that is simple enough: whatever your intentions, once you start blankly criminalising people who need serious and wide-ranging help, you surely risk shutting down any argument for that kind of assistance ever returning. Fines and arrests back up the rightwing idea of character failure; George Osborne sleeps that bit more easily.
Here, though, is perhaps the most awful aspect of what's happening. If the official attitude to people who sleep on the streets looks like cold contempt, we shouldn't be all that surprised if that is reflected not just in public indifference and hostility, but in outright acts of inhumanity.
Back in Brighton, this week brought news of a homeless man suffering burns after his sleeping bag and cardboard shelter were set on fire. Vulnerability to violence is often at the heart of living without a home: if we reduce people to being annoying untouchables, maybe that's the kind of terrible thing that will happen more often.
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When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked - questions like: where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when money and finance breaks down?
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2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review conference. Panel: Central Banking in Crisis Management
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The Role of Central Banking in Crisis Management. Moderator: Stanley Fischer. Participants: Ben Bernanke (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board), Mervyn King (former Governor of Bank of England), Jean-Claude Trichet (former President of the European Central Bank)
The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
By Dean Henderson
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-fam ilies/25080
Global Research, January 31, 2018
This article was first published by Global Research on June 1, 2011.
(Part one of a four-part series)
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.[1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on "national security" grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank's stockholders reside in Europe.
One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in The Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank- by far the most powerful Fed branch- by just eight families, four of which reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
CPA Thomas D. Schauf corroborates McCallister's claims, adding that ten banks control all twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches. He names N.M. Rothschild of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Warburg Bank of Amsterdam, Lehman Brothers of New York, Lazard Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York, Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York and JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York. Schauf lists William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James Stillman as individuals who own large shares of the Fed. [3] The Schiffs are insiders at Kuhn Loeb. The Stillmans are Citigroup insiders, who married into the Rockefeller clan at the turn of the century.
Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions in his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, in which he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to the families of Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
The control that these banking families exert over the global economy cannot be overstated and is quite intentionally shrouded in secrecy. Their corporate media arm is quick to discredit any information exposing this private central banking cartel as "conspiracy theory". Yet the facts remain.
The House of Morgan
The Federal Reserve Bank was born in 1913, the same year US banking scion J. Pierpont Morgan died and the Rockefeller Foundation was formed. The House of Morgan presided over American finance from the corner of Wall Street and Broad, acting as quasi-US central bank since 1838, when George Peabody founded it in London.
Peabody was a business associate of the Rothschilds. In 1952 Fed researcher Eustace Mullins put forth the supposition that the Morgans were nothing more than Rothschild agents. Mullins wrote that the Rothschilds, "…preferred to operate anonymously in the US behind the facade of J.P. Morgan & Company". [5]
Author Gabriel Kolko stated, "Morgan's activities in 1895-1896 in selling US gold bonds in Europe were based on an alliance with the House of Rothschild." [6]
The Morgan financial octopus wrapped its tentacles quickly around the globe. Morgan Grenfell operated in London. Morgan et Ce ruled Paris. The Rothschild's Lambert cousins set up Drexel & Company in Philadelphia.
The House of Morgan catered to the Astors, DuPonts, Guggenheims, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. It financed the launch of AT&T, General Motors, General Electric and DuPont. Like the London-based Rothschild and Barings banks, Morgan became part of the power structure in many countries.
By 1890 the House of Morgan was lending to Egypt's central bank, financing Russian railroads, floating Brazilian provincial government bonds and funding Argentine public works projects. A recession in 1893 enhanced Morgan's power. That year Morgan saved the US government from a bank panic, forming a syndicate to prop up government reserves with a shipment of $62 million worth of Rothschild gold. [7]
Morgan was the driving force behind Western expansion in the US, financing and controlling West-bound railroads through voting trusts. In 1879 Cornelius Vanderbilt's Morgan-financed New York Central Railroad gave preferential shipping rates to John D. Rockefeller's budding Standard Oil monopoly, cementing the Rockefeller/Morgan relationship.
The House of Morgan now fell under Rothschild and Rockefeller family control. A New York Herald headline read, "Railroad Kings Form Gigantic Trust". J. Pierpont Morgan, who once stated, "Competition is a sin", now opined gleefully, "Think of it. All competing railroad traffic west of St. Louis placed in the control of about thirty men."[8]
Morgan and Edward Harriman's banker Kuhn Loeb held a monopoly over the railroads, while banking dynasties Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Lazard joined the Rockefellers in controlling the US industrial base. [9]
In 1903 Banker's Trust was set up by the Eight Families. Benjamin Strong of Banker's Trust was the first Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The 1913 creation of the Fed fused the power of the Eight Families to the military and diplomatic might of the US government. If their overseas loans went unpaid, the oligarchs could now deploy US Marines to collect the debts. Morgan, Chase and Citibank formed an international lending syndicate.
The House of Morgan was cozy with the British House of Windsor and the Italian House of Savoy. The Kuhn Loebs, Warburgs, Lehmans, Lazards, Israel Moses Seifs and Goldman Sachs also had close ties to European royalty. By 1895 Morgan controlled the flow of gold in and out of the US. The first American wave of mergers was in its infancy and was being promoted by the bankers. In 1897 there were sixty-nine industrial mergers. By 1899 there were twelve-hundred. In 1904 John Moody – founder of Moody's Investor Services – said it was impossible to talk of Rockefeller and Morgan interests as separate. [10]
Public distrust of the combine spread. Many considered them traitors working for European old money. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie's US Steel and Edward Harriman's railroads were all financed by banker Jacob Schiff at Kuhn Loeb, who worked closely with the European Rothschilds.
Several Western states banned the bankers. Populist preacher William Jennings Bryan was thrice the Democratic nominee for President from 1896 -1908. The central theme of his anti-imperialist campaign was that America was falling into a trap of "financial servitude to British capital". Teddy Roosevelt defeated Bryan in 1908, but was forced by this spreading populist wildfire to enact the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He then went after the Standard Oil Trust.
Most Americans Don't Know that the Federal Reserve Banks Are Private Corporations
In 1912 the Pujo hearings were held, addressing concentration of power on Wall Street. That same year Mrs. Edward Harriman sold her substantial shares in New York's Guaranty Trust Bank to J.P. Morgan, creating Morgan Guaranty Trust. Judge Louis Brandeis convinced President Woodrow Wilson to call for an end to interlocking board directorates. In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed.
Jack Morgan – J. Pierpont's son and successor – responded by calling on Morgan clients Remington and Winchester to increase arms production. He argued that the US needed to enter WWI. Goaded by the Carnegie Foundation and other oligarchy fronts, Wilson accommodated. As Charles Tansill wrote in America Goes to War, "Even before the clash of arms, the French firm of Rothschild Freres cabled to Morgan & Company in New York suggesting the flotation of a loan of $100 million, a substantial part of which was to be left in the US to pay for French purchases of American goods."
The House of Morgan financed half the US war effort, while receiving commissions for lining up contractors like GE, Du Pont, US Steel, Kennecott and ASARCO. All were Morgan clients. Morgan also financed the British Boer War in South Africa and the Franco-Prussian War. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference was presided over by Morgan, which led both German and Allied reconstruction efforts. [11]
In the 1930's populism resurfaced in America after Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bank and others profited from the Crash of 1929. [12] House Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden (D-NY) said of the Great Depression, "It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all".
Sen. Gerald Nye (D-ND) chaired a munitions investigation in 1936. Nye concluded that the House of Morgan had plunged the US into WWI to protect loans and create a booming arms industry. Nye later produced a document titled The Next War, which cynically referred to "the old goddess of democracy trick", through which Japan could be used to lure the US into WWII.
In 1937 Interior Secretary Harold Ickes warned of the influence of "America's 60 Families". Historian Ferdinand Lundberg later penned a book of the exact same title. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas decried, "Morgan influence…the most pernicious one in industry and finance today."
Jack Morgan responded by nudging the US towards WWII. Morgan had close relations with the Iwasaki and Dan families – Japan's two wealthiest clans – who have owned Mitsubishi and Mitsui, respectively, since the companies emerged from 17th Century shogunates. When Japan invaded Manchuria, slaughtering Chinese peasants at Nanking, Morgan downplayed the incident. Morgan also had close relations with Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, while German Nazi Dr. Hjalmer Schacht was a Morgan Bank liaison during WWII. After the war Morgan representatives met with Schacht at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. [13]
The House of Rockefeller
BIS is the most powerful bank in the world, a global central bank for the Eight Families who control the private central banks of almost all Western and developing nations. The first President of BIS was Rockefeller banker Gates McGarrah- an official at Chase Manhattan and the Federal Reserve. McGarrah was the grandfather of former CIA director Richard Helms. The Rockefellers- like the Morgans- had close ties to London. David Icke writes in Children of the Matrix, that the Rockefellers and Morgans were just "gofers" for the European Rothschilds. [14]
BIS is owned by the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank, Nederlandsche Bank, Bundesbank and Bank of France.
Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book Tragedy and Hope that BIS was part of a plan, "to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements."
The US government had a historical distrust of BIS, lobbying unsuccessfully for its demise at the 1944 post-WWII Bretton Woods Conference. Instead the Eight Families' power was exacerbated, with the Bretton Woods creation of the IMF and the World Bank. The US Federal Reserve only took shares in BIS in September 1994. [15]
BIS holds at least 10% of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the world's central banks, the IMF and other multilateral institutions. It serves as financial agent for international agreements, collects information on the global economy and serves as lender of last resort to prevent global financial collapse.
BIS promotes an agenda of monopoly capitalist fascism. It gave a bridge loan to Hungary in the 1990's to ensure privatization of that country's economy. It served as conduit for Eight Families funding of Adolf Hitler- led by the Warburg's J. Henry Schroeder and Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam. Many researchers assert that BIS is at the nadir of global drug money laundering. [16]
It is no coincidence that BIS is headquartered in Switzerland, favorite hiding place for the wealth of the global aristocracy and headquarters for the P-2 Italian Freemason's Alpina Lodge and Nazi International. Other institutions which the Eight Families control include the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Conference and the World Trade Organization.
Bretton Woods was a boon to the Eight Families. The IMF and World Bank were central to this "new world order". In 1944 the first World Bank bonds were floated by Morgan Stanley and First Boston. The French Lazard family became more involved in House of Morgan interests. Lazard Freres- France's biggest investment bank- is owned by the Lazard and David-Weill families- old Genoese banking scions represented by Michelle Davive. A recent Chairman and CEO of Citigroup was Sanford Weill.
In 1968 Morgan Guaranty launched Euro-Clear, a Brussels-based bank clearing system for Eurodollar securities. It was the first such automated endeavor. Some took to calling Euro-Clear "The Beast". Brussels serves as headquarters for the new European Central Bank and for NATO. In 1973 Morgan officials met secretly in Bermuda to illegally resurrect the old House of Morgan, twenty years before Glass Steagal Act was repealed. Morgan and the Rockefellers provided the financial backing for Merrill Lynch, boosting it into the Big 5 of US investment banking. Merrill is now part of Bank of America.
John D. Rockefeller used his oil wealth to acquire Equitable Trust, which had gobbled up several large banks and corporations by the 1920's. The Great Depression helped consolidate Rockefeller's power. His Chase Bank merged with Kuhn Loeb's Manhattan Bank to form Chase Manhattan, cementing a long-time family relationship. The Kuhn-Loeb's had financed – along with Rothschilds – Rockefeller's quest to become king of the oil patch. National City Bank of Cleveland provided John D. with the money needed to embark upon his monopolization of the US oil industry. The bank was identified in Congressional hearings as being one of three Rothschild-owned banks in the US during the 1870's, when Rockefeller first incorporated as Standard Oil of Ohio. [17]
One Rockefeller Standard Oil partner was Edward Harkness, whose family came to control Chemical Bank. Another was James Stillman, whose family controlled Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Both banks have merged under the JP Morgan Chase umbrella. Two of James Stillman's daughters married two of William Rockefeller's sons. The two families control a big chunk of Citigroup as well. [18]
In the insurance business, the Rockefellers control Metropolitan Life, Equitable Life, Prudential and New York Life. Rockefeller banks control 25% of all assets of the 50 largest US commercial banks and 30% of all assets of the 50 largest insurance companies. [19] Insurance companies- the first in the US was launched by Freemasons through their Woodman's of America- play a key role in the Bermuda drug money shuffle.
Companies under Rockefeller control include Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco, Marathon Oil, Freeport McMoran, Quaker Oats, ASARCO, United, Delta, Northwest, ITT, International Harvester, Xerox, Boeing, Westinghouse, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, International Paper, Pfizer, Motorola, Monsanto, Union Carbide and General Foods.
The Rockefeller Foundation has close financial ties to both Ford and Carnegie Foundations. Other family philanthropic endeavors include Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, General Education Board, Rockefeller University and the University of Chicago- which churns out a steady stream of far right economists as apologists for international capital, including Milton Friedman.
The family owns 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where the national Christmas tree is lighted every year, and Rockefeller Center. David Rockefeller was instrumental in the construction of the World Trade Center towers. The main Rockefeller family home is a hulking complex in upstate New York known as Pocantico Hills. They also own a 32-room 5th Avenue duplex in Manhattan, a mansion in Washington, DC, Monte Sacro Ranch in Venezuela, coffee plantations in Ecuador, several farms in Brazil, an estate at Seal Harbor, Maine and resorts in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. [20]
The Dulles and Rockefeller families are cousins. Allen Dulles created the CIA, assisted the Nazis, covered up the Kennedy hit from his Warren Commission perch and struck a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood to create mind-controlled assassins. [21]
Brother John Foster Dulles presided over the phony Goldman Sachs trusts before the 1929 stock market crash and helped his brother overthrow governments in Iran and Guatemala. Both were Skull & Bones, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) insiders and 33rd Degree Masons. [22]
The Rockefellers were instrumental in forming the depopulation-oriented Club of Rome at their family estate in Bellagio, Italy. Their Pocantico Hills estate gave birth to the Trilateral Commission. The family is a major funder of the eugenics movement which spawned Hitler, human cloning and the current DNA obsession in US scientific circles.
John Rockefeller Jr. headed the Population Council until his death. [23] His namesake son is a Senator from West Virginia. Brother Winthrop Rockefeller was Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and remains the most powerful man in that state. In an October 1975 interview with Playboy magazine, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller- who was also Governor of New York- articulated his family's patronizing worldview, "I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning."
But of all the Rockefeller brothers, it is Trilateral Commission (TC) founder and Chase Manhattan Chairman David who has spearheaded the family's fascist agenda on a global scale. He defended the Shah of Iran, the South African apartheid regime and the Chilean Pinochet junta. He was the biggest financier of the CFR, the TC and (during the Vietnam War) the Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia- a contract bonanza for those who made their living off the conflict.
Nixon asked him to be Secretary of Treasury, but Rockefeller declined the job, knowing his power was much greater at the helm of the Chase. Author Gary Allen writes in The Rockefeller File that in 1973, "David Rockefeller met with twenty-seven heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China."
Following the 1975 Nugan Hand Bank/CIA coup against Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his British Crown-appointed successor Malcolm Fraser sped to the US, where he met with President Gerald Ford after conferring with David Rockefeller. [24]
Dean Henderson is the author of Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network and The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries. His Left Hook blog is at www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
[1] 10K Filings of Fortune 500 Corporations to SEC. 3-91
[2] 10K Filing of US Trust Corporation to SEC. 6-28-95
[3] "The Federal Reserve 'Fed Up'. Thomas Schauf. www.davidicke.com 1-02
[4] The Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Eustace Mullins. Bankers Research Institute. Staunton, VA. 1983. p.179
[5] Ibid. p.53
[6] The Triumph of Conservatism. Gabriel Kolko. MacMillan and Company New York. 1963. p.142
[7] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.57
[8] The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow. Atlantic Monthly Press NewYork 1990
[9] Marrs. p.57
[10] Democracy for the Few. Michael Parenti. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1977. p.178
[11] Chernow
[12] The Great Crash of 1929. John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton, Mifflin Company. Boston. 1979. p.148
[14] Children of the Matrix. David Icke. Bridge of Love. Scottsdale, AZ. 2000
[15] The Confidence Game: How Un-Elected Central Bankers are Governing the Changed World Economy. Steven Solomon. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1995. p.112
[16] Marrs. p.180
[17] Ibid. p.45
[18] The Money Lenders: The People and Politics of the World Banking Crisis. Anthony Sampson. Penguin Books. New York. 1981
[19] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. '76 Press. Seal Beach, CA. 1977
[20] Ibid
[21] Dope Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy. Editors of Executive Intelligence Review. Washington, DC. 1992
[22] Marrs.
[23] The Rockefeller Syndrome. Ferdinand Lundberg. Lyle Stuart Inc. Secaucus, NJ. 1975. p.296
[24] Marrs. p.53
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The Mystics' Kristi Toliver staged a one-woman takeover of the Wings. The Sparks' Candace Parker hit 5,000 points and beyond. The Lynx followed the high of hosting the All-Star Game with a worrisome three-game losing streak. And the travel-weary Aces didn't play in one game, while their defense didn't show up for another.
That was this past weekend in the WNBA, which now has two weeks left in a regular season that ends Aug. 19. If you thought things weren't going to get any crazier, of course they did.
The Aces' decision to not play the Mystics on Friday after a 24-hour-plus travel saga getting to Washington, D.C., was the overriding news story of the weekend. That was followed by Las Vegas' 109-88 loss at Connecticut in which the Sun shot 59.7 percent, led by Jasmine Thomas' career-high 30 points. But while the Aces' issues dominated WNBA headlines, a lot else went on.
Seattle became the first team to clinch a playoff spot this season, riding high with another sellout crowd for Friday's 85-75 victory over Minnesota. At 22-7 after Monday's 96-80 matinee victory at New York, Seattle is edging closer to nailing down one of the all-important byes into the semifinals. The Storm lost in a first-round playoff game the past two years; with the double bye, they would not have to worry about any potential one-and-done scenarios.
The defending champion Lynx, on the other hand, are 15-13 and look to be headed to that early-round roll of the dice for the first time since the playoff format changed in 2016. On July 28, Minnesota celebrated a successful All-Star Game at Target Center in which Maya Moore was named MVP. There was some thought that both she and the Lynx could get a boost from that going into one of the more difficult stretches of their schedule.
But it didn't work out that way. Thursday, Minnesota had its lowest point total of the season in a 79-57 loss at Los Angeles. That was part of the dreaded back-to-back double on the road as the Lynx then lost in Seattle on Friday. They were back home in Minneapolis on Sunday, but it didn't help as they fell 86-66 to second-place Atlanta, and starting forward Rebekkah Brunson might have suffered a broken nose.
Moore's shooting has been an issue all season and that continued in this three-game stretch. In total, she was 10 of 29 (34.5 percent) from the field and 7 of 9 from the line while averaging 10.0 points per game.
Moore, who has shot 45.1 percent and averaged 18.3 points for her career, has been dealing with offensive inconsistency and frustration more this season than at any time in her eight years in the WNBA. She has career-low shooting percentages of 40.0 overall and 32.0 from 3-point range.
Moore is still averaging 17.4 PPG this year, almost identical to last year's championship season. But you also have to look at how everything going on around Moore has impacted her and the Lynx as a whole.
Sylvia Fowles' numbers are slightly down from her MVP season last year, but she's still playing at a very high level, averaging 17.1 points and 11.6 rebounds. Seimone Augustus' 10.6 PPG is nearly the same as last year, but her 3-point shooting percentage is 35.8, down from a near career high of 43.2 in 2017. Brunson is averaging 7.2 points to 10.2 last year, and Lindsay Whalen has career-low averages of 5.6 points and 3.1 assists.
And one of the Lynx's most effective reserves of the last two-and-a-half seasons, Renee Montgomery, is now a starter for the surging Dream, who at 18-10 are in second place and looking to secure a bye into the semifinals. Led by Tiffany Hayes' 28 points, Atlanta had an offensive rating of 119.4 on Sunday, compared with Minnesota's 91.7. The Lynx aren't getting the offense or defense they were used to in winning four of the last seven WNBA titles.
And the Lynx have to go right back on the road this week, visiting Chicago on Tuesday and Las Vegas on Thursday before hosting the Storm on Sunday.
Dallas, the team behind Minnesota in the standings, is struggling, too, losing five in a row. Sunday's defeat especially stung; it looked like the Wings were about to snap their losing streak until Toliver took over.
Dallas led 74-68 with 2 minutes left, but then Toliver scored the last eight points of the game to give the Mystics a 76-74 victory. She hit two 3-pointers and then a turnaround fadeaway with 1.4 seconds left that was the final dagger. She had also made a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer that was one of those shots that came back to haunt the Wings. They've been without an injured Skylar Diggins-Smith for the past two games after she suffered a facial injury July 31.
The Wings (14-14) still have some cushion for the last playoff spot over the Aces, but Dallas has to get back in gear.
Los Angeles has definitely returned to form since the All-Star Game. It helps to have Nneka Ogwumike (illness) and Alana Beard (injury) return to the lineup. But also key is that All-Star captain Parker and her fellow All-Star Chelsea Gray have continued to play at such a high level.
The Sparks dominated in their win over Minnesota on Thursday, and then held on Sunday to a 78-75 victory over Phoenix. Parker had 14 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists against the Mercury, and crossed the 5,000-point plateau in the game (she's now at 5,010). Gray led Los Angeles with a season-high 24 points, securing the game with two free throws with 12 seconds left.
And now the Sparks, despite having lost five consecutive home games before the All-Star break, are in third place at 17-11 and still well in position to battle for the bye into the semifinals.
Yes, it has been that kind of season in the WNBA: several twists and turns that few could have predicted. It should be more of the same these last two weeks.


Bear Creek Prairie is a community designed to coexist with the natural surroundings for an enhanced living experience. Not just a place to live, but a place to enjoy life. Clustered homes facing green spaces, plazas, community gardens, and a restored prairie and woodland will provide a rich community experience and connection to the outdoor environment. It is pedestrian-friendly with pedways, sidewalks and trails and with that added sense of security that comes from knowing who your neighbors are. There is convenient access to the Bear Creek Trail and to the Columbia bus system. Quality construction with special emphasis on energy saving features and passive solar orientation will be the hallmark of Bear Creek Prairie. Extra measures will assure healthy indoor air quality in village homes.
A rare and diverse remnant prairie provides the focus for the Bear Creek Prairie community. Trails around the prairie and throughout the development will connect to nearby Bear Creek Trail. A community building containing a neighborhood coffeehouse/market with an outdoor patio will be the focal point of the central plaza. Features of the plaza may include community gardens, a fire pit, an outdoor area for community events and social gathering areas. The community building will also contain space for a central mailroom, laundry facility, and other spaces residents may desire, such as game room, exercise room and library/reading room.
Located on Northland Drive in northeast Columbia, Bear Creek Prairie has quick and easy access to I-70 and new Hwy. 63. There are grocery stores, specialty food shops, restaurants, banks, pharmacy, and many other services within a couple miles. A new neighborhood commercial district is planned within easy walking distance. BCP is served by Columbia Public Schools with school bus service on Northland Drive.
Headquartered in the Historic Wabash Station in downtown Columbia (aka The District), Columbia Transit operates fixed bus routes Monday thru Saturday. A sheltered bus stop will be located at Bear Creek Prairie just a few steps from most homes, providing convenient service to downtown shops and attractions, Columbia and Boone county government centers and the University of Missouri and Stephens and Columbia Colleges. Bus fares are fifty cents (less with pass books), with transfers to other fixed routes at Wabash Station, providing easy access to major employment centers, hospitals and shopping malls. Buses are equipped with wheel chair lifts and bike racks.
Bear Creek Prairie is adjacent to city parkland and the Bear Creek Trail which will take residents to Albert Oakland Park and Cosmos Park. Albert Oakland Park, just a half mile east , has 75 acres with many features including picnic shelters, one mile hiking/biking trail, tennis courts, basketball courts, softball fields, playground with tot lot, fishing lake, swimming pool, volleyball courts and an extensive Frisbee golf circuit. It is designated wheelchair accessible.
Cosmos Park on the west is about 4 miles from BCP. The Trail generally follows Bear Creek and traverses woodlands, wetlands and city owned prairie on the way to Cosmos Park which has softball fields, soccer fields and a state of the art skateboarding facility.
Just three miles from the development is the new, fabulous Stephens Lake Park at the corner of East Broadway and Old 63. The island in the middle of the dredged and rebuilt lake is a jewel with native landscaping, shelters, benches, interesting rock work and just a wonderful place to relax after a hike on the trails. With swimming beach, fire pit, picnic shelters, and amphitheatre there is truly something for everyone.
With the campuses of the University of Missouri, Columbia and Stephens Colleges all bordering a historic downtown filled with coffee houses, galleries, pubs and restaurants, Columbia can truly be described as "College Town USA." Columbia has been ranked by national publications as one of the best small cities in America. Once described by Money Magazine as "clean and green," the city boasts one of the country's few wetlands wastewater treatment systems. Progressive landscaping and sign standards enhance the visual quality of new development, and recently updated street design standards requiring "pedways" and bike lanes on major streets will enhance accessibility and encourage residents to walk and bike.
Because of its location just ten miles east of the Missouri River and within the "Ozark Border," much of Columbia's landscape is characterized by wooded hills, limestone bluffs and meandering creeks. Most of these natural scenic resources are easily accessible by foot or bicycle on one of Columbia's growing number of hiking and biking trails. In fact, Columbia's Department of Parks and Recreation has received national acclaim. In 2005, the Federal Highway Administration selected Columbia as one of four communities to receive $25 million grants to implement city-wide pedestrian, bicycle and trail systems. This along with the new Columbia Activities and Recreation Center and many excellent private fitness centers, adds to Columbia's national reputation as one of America's most fit cities.
In addition, Boone County is blessed with thousands of acres of rugged state and national parks and conservation areas with hiking, mountain biking and horse trails.
Columbia's public school system is regularly ranked among Missouri's top, cost of living and unemployment rates are below the national average, and residents enjoy four distinct seasons with fairly moderate winters.
Now, all is not "perfect in paradise." In part, because of its high quality of life, people and new businesses want to locate in Columbia. Citizens and elected officials struggle at times with the challenges that accompany a growing and prosperous community. Columbia's challenge is to grow in such a way that future generations will have the opportunity to enjoy a high quality of life. Bear Creek Prairie aspires to meet this challenge head on by being a model for sustainable neighborhood development.


Sully, more videos coming soon????
Good question! I've tried to write a brief answer for you, but clearly you already know my penchant for yammering on. So with that in mind…..
The videos have been a lot of fun to do, but while I've been filming these things and sharing over the years, my main purpose has been to get a guitar company established. I noticed when I did those two fretting videos that it killed an entire weekend. That was kind of an eye opener. Shooting all of it, trying to sound relatively coherent, trying to make it somewhat entertaining, and editing it all later takes a lot of time; time that quite frankly, needs to be spent on completing customer orders. Since I don't build guitars full time, I have very limited time available, and I need to spend it more wisely.
I've been meaning to do a brief update of what I've been doing, and will probably get around to it, but I don't foresee more than a couple of quick hits here and there over the next few months, and possibly going forward. I hate saying that, because let's face it, those videos have helped me a lot and I'm super aware of that. I'm happy that anyone finds them useful or at least mildly entertaining, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. On the other hand, I've stopped accepting any new guitar builds at least until October of this year so that I can finish the orders that I have now, and complete a couple more prototypes. Thankfully. I've got some things in place to add some automation, so hopefully I won't need to stop taking orders for long periods of time in the future.


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Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. the Campus Thought Police
Honor Revoked
Why is Brandeis University giving in to the growing hordes who believe they have a right to not be offended?
James Kirchick
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 2:02PM ET / Published Apr. 10, 2014 7:20PM ET
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It is difficult to conceive of a braver woman alive today than Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Born in Somalia, she was subjected to genital mutilation—a practice commonly inflicted on young girls in Muslim communities—at the age of 5. Fleeing a forced marriage, Hirsi Ali eventually made her way to the Netherlands, where she became a member of parliament, defender of women's rights, and an outspoken (and, at times, unduly harsh) critic of the religion in whose name she was violently subjugated. When a Muslim fanatic murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had collaborated on a short film about the oppression of women under Islam, the killer left a note on his victim's chest warning Hirsi Ali that she would be next.
Hirsi Ali now lives in America, under 24-hour protection. She is a bestselling author, a frequent presence in international media, and a heroic example to women around the world.
But for the mandarins of Brandeis University, Hirsi Ali's views are unacceptable.
On Tuesday, Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence announced the school had withdrawn an honorary doctorate that it had planned to confer upon Hirsi Ali. "We cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values," he wrote, without bothering to mention which statements were too upsetting for his students to hear.
Unsurprisingly, it was Hirsi Ali's former co-religionists who raised a stink about her. Upon the announcement that the school would honor Hirsi Ali, Brandeis's Muslim Students Association announced on its Facebook page that she was guilty of "hate speech." Like clockwork, an op-ed in the Brandeis student newspaper by two leaders of the organization accused her of "Islamophobia," a catch-all term employed to smear any criticism of Islam as akin to racism, without regard for the fact that the former is a freely chosen belief system while the latter is an innate trait. Refusing to engage her arguments about Islam on the merits, the Brandeis students dismissed her views as purely the result of personal experience. They acknowledged that Hirsi Ali had undergone "terrible things in her life," the likes of which they could never imagine, their idea of a rough time being "minorities at a predominately white, Jewish university, [where] many of us feel isolated and unwelcomed."
Well, they certainly can't complain about that any more. "We will not tolerate an attack at our faith," the MSA declared, in a thinly veiled ultimatum to the school (a tip for Muslim students angry at alleged Muslim stereotypes: Stop acting like Muslim stereotypes). The MSA persuaded the school to rescind its honor (so much for the all-powerful, right-wing "Jewish Lobby," which can't even get its way at Brandeis). Lawrence, sounding like a re-education camp functionary, maintained that Hirsi Ali was still welcome at Brandeis, where, presumably, she could be lectured to by aggrieved Muslims and their left-wing sympathizers. "In the spirit of free expression that has defined Brandeis University throughout its history," Lawrence patronized, in a line that must have Louis Brandeis rolling over in his grave, "Ms. Hirsi Ali is welcome to join us on campus in the future to engage in a dialogue about these important issues."
To be sure, Hirsi Ali has no constitutional right to receive an honorary degree, and she will continue to speak out on the issues that animate her activism. Brandeis' shameful and cowardly behavior violates no law. But its actions nonetheless speak to a troubling trend within academia and Western societies at large: the tendency of self-proclaimed victim groups to stigmatize those who espouse viewpoints they don't like and shut down debate altogether when it gets too hot. It may not be a death threat, but forcing a university to rescind its honoring of an acclaimed critic of Islam exists on a censorious continuum that ends with the dismal fate of individuals like Theo van Gogh.
Ali is but the latest victim of a newfangled version of the "no platform" phenomenon. Initiated by British anti-racist groups in the 1970s to dissuade mainstream figures from debating fascists, "no platform" started out as an attempt to avoid the conferral of respectability upon the far right, not to abridge their freedom of speech. The aim was to send a message about the illegitimacy of certain anti-democratic political movements by refusing to engage with them. Writing in the New Statesman, Sarah Ditum explains that the tactic "was traditionally about rejecting the rhetoric of violence—especially when that rhetoric was liable to inspire leagues of smash-happy skinheads."
Today, "no platform" has gone from being a consensual means of expressing disapproval to an all-out assault intended to castigate and muzzle unpopular opinions. A growing, ecumenical constituency composed of the religiously devout, perpetually outraged Twitter activists, and eager-to-please university administrators operate under the belief that there exists a "right" not to be offended. When their bullying tactics to silence opponents doesn't work, the no-platformers shout down their ideological adversaries, which is what would have happened to Hirsi Ali had she been allowed to participate in Brandeis' commencement ceremony. One sees this silencing impulse in everything from Twitter busybody Suey Park (who launched the "#cancelcolbert" campaign over a joke she was either too stupid, or too cynical, to understand), to gay activists who say that opponents of marriage equality, like former Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich, should lose their jobs.
A year ago this very month, Hirsi Ali became an American citizen, fulfilling a dream that was borne inside of her when she first started learning about this country's freedoms and values. In a moving essay about her path to becoming an American, which her detractors who call her a bigot would do well to read, she wrote that "There should be no discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity or faith." Like many immigrants before her, Ayaan Hirsi Ali understands the principles upon which this country was founded better than many native-born Americans.


Alyona Medelyan and Anna Divoli on the opportunities in chaotic data.
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Maryland's first chief innovation officer, Bryan Sivak, is looking for the levers that will help state government to be smarter, not bigger. From embracing collective intelligence to data-driven policy, Sivak is defining what it means to be innovative in government.
ThinkUp and data ownership, DataSift turns on its Twitter firehose, and Google cracks opens the door to BigQuery.
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Open source tools and a focus on user experience elevate Cook County's "Look at Cook" data website.
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[memory] architecture can be read: this old building, which is quiet in the midst of noise, has gorgeous painted glass
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The auxiliary building is hexagonal and has a unique light red circular dome.
Its Chinese and Western architectural style attracts the attention of passers-by.
The process of gilded ceiling foot line on the roof of the suite is very exquisite, and the fabric between the wall panels is also very exquisite.
Above the banquet hall is a painted glass ceiling, with a ceiling of 45 square meters, which is spliced by 69 pieces of glass with different colors, integrating the elements of historical and modern design.
The first floor of the building is the welcome hall, and the right side of the hall is provided with a wooden carved staircase leading to the interior of the main building.
Restoration of the original appearance of history The red roofed building standing on the lush garden has a construction area of 2182 square meters and a garden area of 2475 square meters.
186, North Shaanxi road.
This is Rongzhai.
What kind of history has it experienced? What strange design does it have inside? Today, let's go here and have a "meeting" with it ↓ a century old building with a combination of Chinese and western The facade of the main building is provided with two-story column galleries, which can be distinguished from the top of the columns.
The repair team focused on a large number of painted glass left inside the building.
The columns cover three types of columns in ancient Greece, namely Doric style, Ionian style and Corinthian style, with classical characteristics; The plane layout is flexible, and the internal ground, woodwork and colored glass are beautifully decorated.
Huaye apartment is composed of a 10 storey main building and two 4-storey auxiliary buildings.
The main objective of this repair is to repair the damaged parts in order to restore the original historical appearance of the interior and exterior of the residence.
According to records, the auxiliary building was added during the expansion in 1920.
It is a place for holding parties.
On one side of the stairs are the bedroom and bathroom, on the other side are the goose yellow daylight room with xuanyue window, the dark green dining room with fireplace and the red conference room decorated with carved dado.
It is a representative work of residential buildings designed by Chinese architects in the 1930s..
The surrounding clock in points are not open to the outside world during non exhibition periods 1.
Craftsmen used dewaxing technology to cast new lamps according to the original lamps and lanterns in the room.
Carved flowers are carved around the fireplace.
Construction punch point The banquet hall on the second floor was built with three bedrooms.
Painted glass panels are mostly well preserved and require only minor repairs, including replacing damaged parts and strengthening surrounding frames.
It is a reinforced concrete structure.
Meiqi Grand Theater address: 66 Jiangning Road, Jing'an District Meiqi Grand Theater, built in the 1940s, was a very famous art place in Shanghai at that time.
The architectural modeling is unique and unique.
In 2005, it was announced as "excellent historical building in Shanghai".
In order to burn the same brick surface as the original floor tile, the craftsman made the century old brick into a model, re colored and poured it manually, and then backfilled the tiles, pressed them layer by layer, calcined and fused them, so that the floor here can be reborn.
When repairing, craftsmen carefully peel off the paint layer, repair the damaged or missing part with new wood, and then treat it into a color consistent with the original.
The color of the wall kept the original color matching, and the carved fireplace, carved dado and carved stairs all kept the appearance of that era.
Address of Huaye apartment: No.
Retro and abstract geometric figures on painted glass windows can be seen everywhere in the whole Rongzhai, but there is only one panel with concrete scenes.
In 2011, the old buildings over 100 years old were renovated for six years and re entered the public view in 2017.
The front columns are classical and straight, the window glass colors are changeable, and the building is more solemn and elegant against the background of the South Lawn…
The missing hardware on the window was replaced, showing the same color as the original metal parts.
Many famous artists and classic works in the world had stepped on this stage.
It is a three-story western garden building with a garden.
The master's bedroom adopts colored walls and white painted fireplace, and the tone is very soft, forming a sharp contrast with the solemn decorative style of other rooms.
On the one hand, we should try our best to maintain the repaired architectural color and form close to the original state.
Now the building in front of us shows its unique artistic charm.
Enter the second floor through the stairs.
Entering the conference room on the second floor, this light vermilion room has dark wood carved wall panels, revealing a strong ancient charm.
The northwest suite of the reception room building is the place of reception in that year, with a strong Chinese architectural style.
The glass and 21 panels in the center of the corridor skylight were carefully removed for cleaning, repair and reassembly.
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At the North Shaanxi Road near West Nanjing Road in Jing'an District, there is an old-fashioned garden building, which is quiet in the midst of noise.
It was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Shanghai in 1989.
Through the corridor connected to the conference room, you can also go to the banquet hall located in the annex building.
Meiqi Grand Theater is a theater building with reinforced concrete frame structure and decorative art style.
After officially entering, the exquisite decoration such as complex internal ground, woodwork and colored glass in the living room is very eye-catching.
Before the restoration of the floor tile, this sunlight room is the original structural room of the building.
Open information address: No.
It is the frame of the original wooden window that needs a lot of repair.
The reception hall is also equipped with leisure places.
The corridor next to the bedroom leads to the beihui living room of the attached building.
MAHLE villa address: No.
The rich color changes increase the sense of crossing in the space.
The highlight here is a convex structure fireplace added in 1918.
30, South Shaanxi Road Located at the corner of middle Yan'an Road and South Shaanxi Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, it was completed in 1936.
After the expansion in 1918, it is equipped with multiple windows to absorb sunlight.
After coloring, it is coated and sealed with natural honey wax, which is far more difficult than re carving.
On the other hand, it is necessary to supplement the lost architectural details in combination with history, and carry out necessary structural strengthening and functional innovation for the residence.
It was started in 1932 and completed in 1934.
During the construction process, the old surface is polished with sandpaper to remove the surface stains, so that the repaired part has the same appearance as the original wood.
It covers an area of more than 5000 square meters and a garden area of nearly 2000 square meters, with a history of more than 80 years.
The main facade of this historic old building has a two-story column gallery.
The third floor of the main building is the master bedroom.
Therefore, during the repair, the repair experts from home and abroad and the craftsman team learned and imitated the traditional manufacturing process and installation skills, and the building materials used were as consistent as possible with the original construction of the building a hundred years ago.
In those years, senior craftsmen carved them on teak with a special chisel and knife.
The content of these patterns is closely related to the owner's life.
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