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Skip to comments.China Waking Up? Central Bank Now Selling Forex Reserves To Support Yuan
Posted on 12/20/2011 2:22:09 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Staff
12/19/2011 @ 4:15PM |2,956 views
China Waking Up? Central Bank Now Selling Forex Reserves To Support Yuan
Marking a clear break with its policies over the last several years, the Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) announced a second consecutive month of foreign exchange outflows in November, a move designed to support the value of the yuan. Chinas currency intervention came alongside a report showing property prices continuing to fall, as Beijing clamps down on what many see as a dangerous real estate bubble. The Red Dragon appears to be waking up.
Chinese policymakers are doing everything they can to avoid a so-called hard landing, a possibility they have only recently acknowledged. Data released Monday showed the countrys largest banks and the PBoC sold 27.9 billion yuan in November, or $4.4 billion.
Foreign reserve sales accelerated from October, when they hit 24.9 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) and mark a big change in Chinas reserve accumulation stance of the past several years. Through the biggest net sale since December 2007, according to Dow Jones, Chinas central bank is making it clear that it intends to support the value of its currency to supplement stability. Selling foreign reserves means the PBoC is raising demand for yuan denominated assets, fueling yuan strength.
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In one breath the author says they want to bring down the housing prices and in the next breath he says they want to strengthen the domestic economy which is weak because of weak exports. How does strengthening the currency help exports? How does it help the domestic economy? How does it help real estate? How does it generate a soft landing?
This is not to say that hardening the currency is the wrong policy, it might be very much the correct policy, it is certainly one the United States has been negotiating for, but the inconsistencies are apparent.
Because essentially all the Chinese numbers are make believe. There's no transparency. The numbers are simply what they say they are.
If you didn't see this:
Thanks for the citation to Gordon Chang. Although not specifically familiar with this article, I have been following the situation rather closely and have come to roughly the same conclusion as the author expressed in this vanity:
Black Swan
It includes these paragraphs:
"Daily we read of a rising tide of unrest in China with literally dozens of riots occurring somewhere every day over grievances which are papered over by a government induced real estate bubble. A government of elites has contrived to stay a half jump ahead of insurrection by raping the environment, inflating the economy, and generating a mercantilist expansion. The entire edifice is without honest transparency so that the central planners do not even know, and certainly cannot trust, the reported data upon which they must rely to shape the economy. They cannot know so they cannot be wise, even if such a thing were possible. One false step and the edifice implodes, yet every day the Chinese elites must take portentous decisions or be swamped by a demographic tsunami. As sure as human nature, wise men must eventually misstep and the Chinese economy must eventually come to its reckoning. When?
We commonly think of the Chinese economy as vibrant but actually it survived the crash of 2008 by massively inflating. It had to somehow cope with its teeming hundreds of millions of jobless. Although the resulting inflation was masked by its exports which created a positive trade balance, the problem had to be dealt with so the elites tried to tamper down inflation by belt-tightening. If they under shoot they will fail to control inflation and the real estate bubble will only inflate more. If they over shoot they will burst the bubble and crash the economy. Lately, it appears they have reversed course fearing that they have tightened too much.
To say that American conservatives are skeptical of the ability of elites to manage the world's second-largest economy from the top downward is to belabor the obvious. But even if nine old men sitting in a room are wise enough to weave the Chinese economy through the thickets without a single misstep, the fate of China is not entirely in their own hands. China is utterly dependent on its markets in Europe and America because its own domestic economy is nowhere near the size which can sustain the country. "
Keeping the currency week would be trying to keep the pedal to the metal in terms of exports.
Domestically, people are using their cheap currency.
The planners wanted their citizens to produce a lot for export in exchange for little to no income and therefore basically no wealth accumulation. This gave China a cheap labor advantage and motivated (hungry) workers with few options.
Only a few business owners, the rest are serfs.
As exports collapse anyway due to their "customer" countries having their own problems, the export-driven growth can't be sustained. Unemployment becomes a problem; weakening their currency is undoubtedly not helping to keep exports high, no matter how hard the pedal is pushed to the metal, exports are tailing off anyway.
If an economy is an import-based economy, a strong currency is preferable, as it lowers costs of commodities.
As their trade surplus shrinks, world commodity market prices are rising anyway due to worldwide demand, might as well start moving towards a strong currency instead of waiting for exports to really collapse, their employment bubble to break and their citizens then having trouble affording the necessities of life, food, fuel, etc.
ping for later reading. Thank you.
I read Chinese and follow some of the Chinese media, and some media outlets are reporting bigger real-estate price declines than listed in this article. There's a backlog of unsold new homes in Shanghai, although in some cities away from the coast prices haven't started falling yet. There are also stories about real-estate offices closing left and right in Beijing and agents who sit around all day playing video games for lack of customers.
Based on data I've seen, the Chinese economy has been shifting away from overreliance on exports for a number of years now, so the effect of a stronger RMB on exports is probably not much on the CCP's mind. It may well be that the idea that the Chinese economy hinges on exports to Walmart is vastly overwrought, which is not to say that a major bubble is not popping now, nor that they aren't being damaged by Europe's travails.
It is contrary, from an economic perspective, to try to improve exports while strengthening the currency of your nation. However, the ChiComs have for nearly two decades kept their currency very weak compared to the currencies of the nations they export to. They did this to increase their exports. However, those nations have all resulted in massive bubbles and currencies that are on the verge of collapse. Those nations are rattling their sabres and talking about trade wars and high tariffs on imports. I have to assume that the ChiComs are trying to demonstrate that they are willing to "play fair."
Aside from that, China has also resulted in a massive bubble and their inflation, though it has been reported to have been mild, turns out (based on asset valuation) to have been pretty strong. So, they want to strengthen the currency hoping that a small deflationary spin will offset an inflationary explosion or a deflationary spiral.
Also, keep in mind that the ChiComs were tremendous enablers to the debt saturation that their 'investments' in foreign bonds and other tools on the forex. They say they want to divest in order to strengthen their currency and exports, but that is not their true goal. Their true goal is to unload the worthless paper that is those currencies they acquired.
I can only assume that they will pump that liquid into their military. I suspect that in order to pump up their currency, they will also divest in the precious metals they've been acquiring at break-neck speed. Europe has started doing so, and this is evident in the direction of gold and silver. I'm keeping a close eye on silver, as it got too expensive for me, but is now coming back down into range. When the ChiComs dump some of their PMs, there will be a fairly heavy cost drop and it will be a good buying opportunity. But hey, that's just my opinion, and I'm no investor or adviser.
I believe the ChiComs have figured out what all central bankers have known for two hundred years. That if you give a small, private association of businesses who should be competing with one another the right to monopolize and control the currencies of their nations, the result will be a continuous cycle of booms and busts, each bust worse than the preceding and that eventually all of this monetary manipulation results in a massive bust that results in depression.
It is too late for all nations that have followed this road. The currencies and the debt that inflated them have been ruined and we are going to need a massive reset which will result in depression or WWIII.
I think you might be onto something and that is they might be temporarily indifferent to the hardening of their currency caused by sales of dubious paper issued by the United States and Europe. Some time ago a story crossed these threads of the wires to the effect that the United States through the Fed has been monetizing a terrifyingly high percentage of our debt. If this is continuing to be the case, the Chinese recognize the end is nigh-a conclusion one can draw from the last paragraph of your post. Therefore Chinese are dumping paper and running to hard assets even at the cost of raising the value of their currency.
The Chinese do not actually have to sell our bonds, they simply have to stop rolling them over and they will profoundly shape the international bond market.
It is also possible that China is in much worse shape than we think and they are bringing in currency as fast as they can to put out fires. In other words, they cannot feed starving millions American debt paper, they must buy rice and wheat etc.
Have been saying for years that Wal-Mart will bring down China. Wal-Mart is a ruthless negotiator and likely buys everything from China at prices significantly below costs.
Have been saying for years that Wal-Mart will bring down China. Wal-Mart is a ruthless negotiator and likely buys everything from China at prices significantly below costs.
You partially answered the question you asked in your first paragraph.
The ChiCom leadership is afraid of riots. The peasants gave up agriculture and moved to the cities to work in factories. Now the factories are not producing as much, there is increasingly less work, and the houses that these peasants purchased at the peak of the boom have lost in some cases more than half their value. The people there are very angry and have begun demonstrating. As I said previously, the ChiComs are trying to prevent as far as possible any further asset devaluation by creating a mild deflationary uptick. It won't work, but that's part of their goal.
Food will definitely be a problem there, and the ChiComs will cash in their investments to buy foreign food, which means our food. That will result in shortages here and an increased cost. Keep that in mind as this plays out and stock up on storable food (see the first part of my tagline).
They do need to unload their foreign investments. If they don't, as those foreign currencies devalue, this will have the effect of over-heating their own currencies.
The Fed is definitely monetizing the debt and they are doing so through the equities markets, a double no-no. We have seen only mild inflation compared to the amount of new money because that new money never reached the second tier of money creation. The first tier is at the government and fed level, the approval, the digital 'printing,' and the lending of the new money to the primary borrowers through the discount window. The second tier is the second line of banks making that money available to people on the street through loans. That money never reached the second tier. It was borrowed by the primary tier taking advantage of the ZIRP and that money has been used for the past couple of years to artificially prop up the equities markets? Why? Because Obammie the Commie and the other socialist/communist Dems want everyone to believe the lie that they saved the economy by keeping the DJIA over 12K. Today's completely fraudulent 300+ climb with no resistance and obscenely low volume is proof of the fact that the primary borrowers (Goldman Sachs, JPM, Citi, Chase and all the others) have been infused with liquid and that they are using HFT algorithms to pump the market up. This earns them profits and keeps the market high. The market also must be kept high because the pension and benefits of the public-sector unions were based upon the assumption that the markets would earn 8% profits every year, thus the DJIA has to be kept over 12K to keep those payments to the unions going. As close as I can figure, the DJIA should realistically be in the 6-7000 range, and that is based upon the assumption of a solid 3% economic growth every year for about the past decade, which is over optimistic, because most of that growth was the delusion of two bubble economies (the dot-com bubble and the housing bubble).
It will adjust, but the DNC is working very hard with the socialist banking cartel that is our Federal Reserve to try to time it so that it happens after 2012.
Regardless of when it happens, you can bank on the DNC blaming it on the TEA party or Republicans or conservatives. What else could we expect from the affirmative-action president who thinks his foreign policies rank up there in the top four presidents of all time?
I'm not sure that I can accept the idea of a conspiracy between the members of the Fed and the White House, all coordinated by Soros which would have to be the case if they were trying to time the reckoning but I do believe it is important to consider when the reckoning will come. Both of us believe that it is not to be avoided.
If it comes before the election, Obama will be defeated. If it comes after the election and Obama was voted out, the blame will fall on the Republican in the Oval Office because the electorate seemingly always reacts Pro hoc Proctor hoc.
If the reckoning comes with Obama still in office, it might well be used as a pretext for extra constitutional takeover.
It is interesting to speculate about the nature of the economy after a crash of the system, whether inflation, deflation, or stagflation. I am of the view that initially, at least, we will face deflation. I do not think we will get to inflation until we go through stagflation and I am not sure that we will ever get to inflation.
I say all of this in the context of trying to protect oneself beyond the survivalist level. If we go into deflation, gold and silver will lose value although perhaps not to the extent of paper assets. Foodstuffs will fare perhaps better. Gasoline, guns and ammunition, and medical supplies will probably fare the best. Real estate will be immune in the sense that it will float in the sea rising and lowering with the tide provided is not encumbered by mortgage and providing it is not expropriated. If you're sure we are going into inflation, add a mortgage that is if you are equally sure you can keep your job or source of income.
The real question will be not the degree of the wrenching of the system but the duration. Eventually the demographic and technological forces which are latent but growing inexorably will be unbound and a whole new economy will emerge. If you are George Soros and 33 instead of 83 you with look upon the new landscape which emerges with a high degree of cupidity.
The conspiracy is between the cartel of member banks in all central-banking systems. If you haven't read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin, I can't stress enough the importance of reading it. It will change the way you perceive banking and economics...change for the better.
The politicians are just the puppets and one set of beneficiaries from this arrangement.
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Will Australian consumers ditch their big bank relationships in the face of new digital banks?
By Chris Kapfer
Big four banks to tidy up various messes coming from renewed pressure from regulators
- The largest Australian banks have built powerful digital banking platforms that compensate the repercussions from the banking crisis and incoming new entrants
- Digital banking users continue to express confidence in those platforms
- Early user data from neo-banks are not convincing that consumers will give their customer mandate to neo-banks
After the big four banks in Australia, namely Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), ANZ, Westpac, and National Australia Bank (NAB) have seen a steep decline in their net promoter score (NPS) – an index measuring customer loyalty among consumers – the digital user growth in 2018 across banks has yet to reveal a clearer picture whether the digital active part of consumers will make the switch.
ING, the country's fifth largest home loan lender, has more than doubled its customer acquisition from 163,000 customers in 2016 to 400,000 customers in 2018. Of the 700,000 interactions ING has with its 100% digital customers each day, 70% of that is through the mobile apps. While the big four are scaling back their product suite, simplifying their structure and processes, ING introduced five products in the last 18 years. Besides mortgages, checking and savings accounts, pension products and superannuation, it entered into personal loans in 2018.
In comparison, Up, the first fully-licensed and cloud-hosted digital bank of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and the country's sixth largest bank by assets, reached 20,000 users between its launch in October 2018 and December 2018.
Changes in the competitive nature of the industry come at a time when the incumbents are already one of the most digitised commercial banks in the Asia Pacific. Seven out of 10 banks in Australia allow new bank customers to open a current account via mobile banking.
Digital users are actually more satisfied with their big four banks' digital platforms compared to the banks overall image and operation. For instance, CBA's overall NPS score stood at 5 in January 2018 and dropped to 3.8 in February 2019 according to Roy Morgan. But its market leading mobile and internet banking achieved a NPS of 37.8 and 31.3, respectively as of June 2018.
CBA launched the opening of full transaction accounts in 2016, which can be opened in three minutes including instant access via cardless cash and mobile payments. At the front end, 55% of sales originates from consumers' mobile devices, which positions the bank in the top league among large domestic banks in the Asia Pacific. But the reality is that customer expectations are rising, regulatory scrutiny is increasing and there will be a whole new range of competitors, which banks clearly see as threats.
Westpac, CBA, and ANZ also began to architecture its technology stack to allow for a faster innovation cycle. NAB has just started. Between September 2017 and March 2019, the bank removed 8% of its IT legacy applications and 8% of applications have been moved to the Amazon Web Services as part of its $1 billion (AUD 1.5 billion) transformation strategy. It will eventually see a 35% shift to the cloud of its total 2,600 applications.
Banks in Australia, which pursue a multi-brand strategy, have been integrating their various subsidiaries under a single retail banking platform since 2015 to leverage a better shared understanding of customers' needs and expectations across brands.
The big four are in the midst of decluttering and simplifying their product and operational structure. The number and size of processing problems and the complexity of product design in the industry is so acute that it was highlighted by the royal banking commission. There are 408 operational steps at ANZ's mortgage process and a large number of those steps are manual. According to NAB, it offered around 600 products in FY2017 which they reduced to 459 in FY2018 with a final number of 300 in the next five years.
Westpac will be rolling out its new Customer Service Hub for mortgages in 2019 and extend the offering out to third-party channels by 2020, which is part of the group's $800 million spend on system upgrades, digital transformation and innovation. At St. George, mortgage applications can already be completed online or through mobile with specialist support available via live chat, personalised pricing and valuations and customers can stop and restart the process at any time. The bank has also started to offer mobile cheque deposits.
ING allows customers to set automated saving goals triggered by specific events. For example, a customer can save for a tropical holiday by transferring a certain amount from the savings account every time the temperature drops below a certain degree on a daily base.
There's a visible trend showing banking combined as part of other (digital) services and this will accelerate in 2019. For example, NAB launched a partnership with realestate.com.au, combining property search with the home loan process.
Westpac and NAB are heavily invested via their capital venture funds into a series of fintech companies such as Valiant, a business loan market place that matches SMEs to the best lender or Slyp, which enables merchants to instantly send customers a smart digital receipt directly to the mobile banking app. The partnership is developing a range of smart receipt engagement modules that helps customers, merchants and banks to interact more meaningfully, including intuitive ratings, offers and seamless loyalty enrolment.
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The problem with public relations Essay Budd and Ruben (1988) stressed that the absence of data sources signals mass mediaââ¬â¢s inevitable downfall and destruction. Once and for all, information is mediaââ¬â¢s main (product). Thus, it is pretty impossible for media organizations to deliver such (product) if there is an apparent lack of supplier. PR is therefore instrumental in sustaining mediaââ¬â¢s existence and survival. PR departments of business establishments can supply industry-based news and stories. Likewise, government agencies utilize PR to increase the publicââ¬â¢s awareness about the governmentââ¬â¢s projects and endeavors. Similarly, it can be noticed that advocacy and interest groups capitulated on public relations to voice out their views and opinions. However, while it is true that public relations aid the media in satisfying the market for information, it cannot be denied that PRââ¬â¢s sole purpose is still grounded on the principle of building publicity and creating massive media exposure. The marriage of press releases and news items make it too difficult and confusing for the public to distinguish plain news materials from press releases. The implications of the above-mentioned scenarios are pretty compelling and cannot be readily ignored. For one, the dependence of media organizations on PR departments as news sources raises question regarding the quality of news production. For one, media practitioners are trained and expected to conduct heavy research and collect different news sources to ensure accuracy. Relying on a single source is a cardinal sin for many journalists and broadcasters primarily because news items must ensure that all angles of the story are presented. Relatively, this also served as a challenge to the degree of professionalism practiced by individuals that work in the media. Data gathering and verifying information are essential routines in news production. This means that journalists and broadcasters are expected to go out of their comfort zones and look for socially relevant topics that serve the publicââ¬â¢s interests. The notion that media practitioners should develop a keen eyes for details and nose for news, imply that media outfits must exert effort in providing news rather than merely sit and wait for PR handouts. But more than anything else, this situation readily surrenders mass mediaââ¬â¢s freedom. Mutual connections of news organizations and PR departments manifest mediaââ¬â¢s subtle suppression and independence from the powerful influences of external environments. Indeed, PR departments, due to its strong links to business organizations, governmental agencies and even advocacy groups, now has the upper-hand in the overall process of how news is produced and delivered to the public (Fitzpatrick Bronstein, 2006) . Drawing on Dahrendorfââ¬â¢s idea of power legitimacy, business establishments and government agencies have the authority to transform news materials into mere promotional or propaganda copies (Slattery, 2003). These actors are well positioned in the social strata that grant them a good grasp of influence. The uneven distribution of authority and rule (Slattery, 2003) readily legitimizes the position of business organizations and government agencies in the social, political, cultural and legal hierarchy. PR subsequently becomes a tool for control and manipulation via exerting pressure to distort and fabricate news items. It is important to note that media outfits are also business endeavors that depend on profiteering to sustain their survival. Profit, in the media context is measured by high ratings and wide audience reception. But this can be only achieved if newspapers and television programs alike have enough information to offer for public consumption (Craig, 2004). It is the informationââ¬âthe news stories that function as lifebloods of the media industry. When PR departments become involved in news making, they are very much capable of withholding data and information that leaves journalists and broadcasters at their mercy. This is most especially true in situations wherein corporate reputation is very much at stake. In these times, media practitioners must exercise neutrality and objectivity. However, neutrality in this case does not work well for PR. One must readily take sides. What happens then is that journalists and news anchors are compelled to transform press releases into (well-researched) news reports that simply explain the sides of the affected party. However, a closer look into the matter shows that these simple explanations are no less than defense mechanisms that are pursued to protect capitalistic aims and orientations. Other business organizations would even push media practitioners to exaggerate press releases and resort to sensationalism (Whitaker, Ramsey Smith, 2004). On the other hand, government agencies can impose legal sanctions to influence news coverage and to a certain extentââ¬âsilence media groups. These institutions can very much exercise censorship to dismantle mediaââ¬â¢s critical stand. This situation is highly evident in communities governed by extremely authoritarian regimes. Likewise, if government offices fail to garner favorable media attention, they can create their own media system and thus capitalize on PR. Nowadays, it is not too much of an extraordinary thing to see government agencies publish their own newsletters or newspapers (Franklin Murphy, 1991). A deconstruction of these media contents clearly show that campaign materials are readily expressed as news. Yes, these copies may well increase the publicââ¬â¢s awareness. But news, in the truest sense of the word, is not self-serving. Apparently, this scenario manifests a blatant abuse of freedom of expression. However, press releases are also exploited by other media practitioners. This can be specifically observed in journalists and broadcasters who are active members of advocacy groups. Their ideological beliefs may very much interfere with the way they handle news stories. Biases may occur in treating subjects that have differing opinions and perspectives. There are instances wherein released statements of their respective groups are customized to look like news items. But then again, no matter how noble the intentions are, this does not erase the fact that the public is deceived and mislead. The inability of media individuals to distance themselves from their respective affiliations is a subtle and unconscious way of placing more PR content in news items. The agenda-setting model states that mass media in general have the ability to dictate and redefine the audienceââ¬â¢s perception (Botha et. al, 2007). News organizations, regardless of the ethical standards that govern broadcast, print and online media can tell the public which issues should be considered important and which should be immediately dismissed as irrelevant. The agenda-setting function of media is manifested through giving focus and emphasis on particular subjects (Botha et. al, 2007). When certain events or personalities receive much media attention, the public is made to believe that these are important. It can be observed that majority of released news items are mainly concern on few large-scale issues. Yet, it seems that there is diversity in newspapers and television news programs. But the truth is, these issues are simply dissected and articulated from different angles. Public relations officers know this very well and PR agencies are readily capitulating on these situations (Burns, 2002). Even though it is a common practice for news producers to identify news angles, this has been nonetheless, abused. Consequently, this scenario is also instrumental in the prevalence of unethical practices in mass media. These include biases, data fabrication, inaccuracy, and conflicting interests. Under this context, news and media in general becomes a tool of the elite to retain their positions in the social and political ladder. Media becomes a hegemonic machine of the ruling class. 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"Convert your time into solutions for the problems of the world and your immediate neighborhood."
Entrepreneurship is just more than running a business and sustaining our lives. It is about focusing on the solutions they have found while solving real problems of the society and implementing them. Hari Shankar Tibrewala, the brain and Co-promoter of Plus Group, famous amongst India's top private sector business houses believes, "Our world would have been more developed if at all entrepreneurs could think from this perspective."
Most of entrepreneurs and business people in our nation mainly focus on starting businesses so as to get better lives and produce some profits, focusing on the answers of real problems is never a chief concern to them so they end up starting businesses to earn revenues and improve their lives.
Sometimes best business opportunities can be found by focusing on the solutions to problems and challenges which people face on their daily basis, what entrepreneurs must do is, find solutions to these problems and implement the solutions, it's that easy as it is a win-win condition as it solve problems and as well profit is gained before just creating "another" product that already exists in the market.
And also there's no doubt that running a business take a lot of time. Hari Shankar Tibrewala noted that the lone way to be pleased in your life is to do work that you truly have faith in. So together with focusing on answers, you should also love what you do.


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Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers the White House press briefing for Tuesday August 14, 2018. Anticipated start time 2:30pm EST:
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Can someone please ask her why the New Mexico jihadists are not in Federal custody after the wacko lefty judge there let them go on only a signature bond? These types of moves cannot go without a response. As an aside, that story has now completely disappeared from the lamestream media (Fox, CNN, Drudge etc). Completely scrubbed.
I tried to watch. Once the third presstitute chose to ask about the stupid stuff, I had to cut it.
Those of you watching, please let us know if anything of substance is asked today. Thanks in advance.
Another #RacistPressTot pulling the Race Card.
Wish I knew who some of these freaks were, or what org. they're with.
Love that Sarah mentions that it's the MEDIA that has done all it can to divide the people of this country.
And this PC is Exhibit A!!!!
With respect to the President's "dog insult". In business circles of any type or heck even in the every day mainstreet world, when an action, person, product, piece of material turns to be low performing, a problem or just not good…it is commonly referred to as a DOG.
Of course that is only if one lives on mainstreet or has any real work experience.
Or as used in: "You dog, you!"
Meaning: a morally reprehensible person.
Very common in New York.
Omarosa is today's Anita Hill without the brains and Benedict Arnold without the experience…like The Betrayer she'll go down in history as a liar who only cared about oneself without regard to country!
I think Omarosa is more like a Hyena than a Dog. I like Dogs.
Is it my imagination, or do the reporters look a bit more 'clean and pressed' in that video than usual?
I was misremembering, I thought this guy won the apprenticeship the season Omarosa was on it:
That wasn't accurate though (I wasn't really paying attention at the time).
Kwame Jackson was the runner-up. A great many viewers attributed his loss to the fact that he was dependent on Omarosa to do her job, and she underperformed, to put it mildly.
So this was what the woman was known for, until President Trump kindly gave her a second chance.
She didn't exactly take that second chance and run with it.
Maybe it's all a head fake. Adm Rogers tells President Trump about all the shenanigans at fbi, nsa, doj etc. he needs someone he knows will be dirty so grabs her and she is like radioactive tracer injected into a patient for scanning. A known leaker, supposedly trusted, used to vet other staff and light up the toxic ones. Plus glowing trails to the enemy. Sort of like a twofer. Just a thought
Decided to look up the seating chart for the Briefing Room, which was revised a year ago…
2017 Briefing Room chart
Perhaps in order for each newzie to receive the 15 minutes of fame he so craves, seating should rotate. Place numbers on the chairs. Then on the first working day of each month, numbers 1-49 are drawn from a Make America Great Again hat. That way the attendees get to live out their belief in the equality of outcome, and no preference is given to any news outlet over another.
This is the leading headline in the MSM:
"WH press secretary: Can't offer 'guarantee' there is no N-word recording."
If the MSM believes the malicious Amarosa, why aren't they clamoring for Mueller to put her before a Grand Jury under oath about her claims that "Trump knew about Wikileaks before they were released" and all he other blatherings. Put her under the pressure of the "Special" Counsel and see how she stands up to her allegations with evidence rather than hearsay. She is making wild and serious allegations at a very contentious time in history and it could all backfire on her big time. Give her the chance to perjure herself numerous times.
Should have WH briefings without video. Audio only.
WH Press Corp moved across the street and out of the White House.
No more taxpayer funded flights on Air Force One.
Looking closely to the first row, strange that Kristin Welker of NBC, sitting next to Kevin of Fox, seems to be nodding to her right side and responding by text a number of times. Is she conspiring with someone to do a follow up on an Omarosa gotcha question?
What slime they are.


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Cloud Has IT Outsourcing Firms Retooling for Digital Era: Analysts
Cognizant and others have begun focusing on digital automation to speed up business processes and lower labor costs
Elliott Management Corp.'s call on Monday to boost profitability at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. highlights the shifting ground for many IT outsourcing firms, as more companies move to the cloud, CIOs and industry analysts say.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, Elliott, a key investor, says that Cognizant has failed to update its internal targets or best practices as it's grown into one of the market's largest IT-services firms, with revenue rising to $12.4 billion last year from $886 million a decade earlier.
Like other IT-services companies, Cognizant also has been pressured by businesses' shift toward the cloud, in which software and IT services are accessed over the internet from third-party providers.
Hearst Corp. said it hired Cognizant two years ago to help it reduce its own in-house data center infrastructure, but that its services were no longer needed. "We are not working with them now as we are basically doing most of it in house," Hearst Chief Technology Officer Philip Wiser said.
Part of the broader issue is that spending is flattening in traditional IT departments, while increasing across marketing, human resources and business units – a trend that favors cloud service providers over traditional IT outsourcing and services firms, according to Ted Ross, CIO of the City of Los Angeles.
That's prompting rapid changes in the IT outsourcing industry, CIO Journal's Steven Norton reports.
"The old style of outsourcing – known as 'your mess for less' – is definitively out of fashion at this point and enterprises will vote with their dollars for IT-service providers that reduce either complexity and time to achieve the desired outcome," 451 Research analyst Carl Brooks told CIO Journal.
Where IT outsourcing firms used to rely on low-cost labor overseas as a value proposition, Cognizant and others have begun focusing on digital automation by investing in artificial intelligence technology to speed up business processes and lower labor costs.
Just as cloud providers have shown that those with the highest levels of automation and better customer service are the ones bringing in new spending, Cognizant can increase its appeal and perhaps its profitability with a focus on "service delivery that can be automated to drive higher margins and remove manual processes for its customers," Mr. Brooks said.
Other large IT outsourcing firms are facing similar headwinds. At Fujitsu Ltd., total revenue from its Technology Solutions division was roughly unchanged last year, at $29 billion. But revenue from an IT services sub-segment declined, in part on weakness in the U.S. market, the Tokyo-based company reported in April.
Fujitsu's chief technology officer, Joseph Reger, told CIO Journal that the company is seeking ways to help enterprise customers get the most out of cloud, Internet of Things, data analytics, artificial intelligence and other technologies that are driving digital transformation.
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"Colonialism as a theory of relationships is embedded in power, voice, and legitimacy… Decolonization then is a process of unpacking the keeper current in education: its powerful Eurocentric assumptions of education, its narratives of race and difference in curriculum and pedagogy, its establishing culturalism or cultural racism as a justification for the status quo, and the advocacy for Indigenous knowledge as a legitimate education topic." (Battiste, p. xx)
Generating an ethical space for decolonization
"It is in this [ethical] space that Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can begin to truthfully speak to the predicaments and issues that face them and the standards they speak for. It is an enabling space that needs to be a foundation for a first encounter between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples." (Battiste, p.xx)
Stories in books – Inuvialuit authors
Inuvialuit authors have been writing books for both adults and children since the 1970s. Ishmael Alunik, Alice Masak French, Nuligak, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton have been writing the stories of the Inuvialuit since the 1970s. Many of these books capture old stories and legends. Others like a stranger at home, discuss the experience of leaving to residential school and returning home to their families.
Stories in song, comedy and more – Allison Akootchook Warden (Inupiaq)
"Like ecologies, Indigenous heritages or cultures can have a respectful place in education… They operate locally and distinctively, but confirm constructs that characterize all human beings… As such, it is a study of resilience, resistance, and representation as defined with Indigenous concepts in the knowledge disciplines… Action brings humanity and creativity to life, and doing and being turn life into knowledge and wisdom." (Battiste, p. x)
At her website Allison Akootchook writes:
"Welcome to my spot on the internet. The space where you learn more about me and why I create the work that I do. Here you can unwind a bit, rest your spirit. A place to decolonize yourself, nano-bit by nano-bit. I am the creator of this site, it's a way to share myself with you.
I rap as AKU-MATU. My collaborator and friend WD4D creates sonic landscapes sampling traditional music from my Iñupiaq culture. You can learn more about this collaboration by clicking on the work tab above. I can say that people are usually surprised when they hear me rap for the first time, as there is a distinct shift from my everyday voice and persona."
Links to the curriculum
More recently authors are working to link their books directly to the school curriculum and to indigenous ways of knowing linked to place and culture. Delta braid (or delta trim) is an intricate used by women to adorn parkas (atigis). The document below therefore suggests using its geomatric repeating patterns to teach math concepts.


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We went to the Expedition Big Foot Museum outside of Blue Ridge. The boys are big fans of the Finding Big Foot show. There were many artifacts and the museum was really well done. They had a map of areas marked where there had been sightings of Big Foot, some sightings apparently even in Melbourne, FL. They also had replicas of hand prints and foot prints. There are masks of what they think Big Foot or the Yeti may look like. There were recordings of calls that are suspected to be done by Big Foot. They also had other countries and their legends of Big Foot, or their name for the creature.


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English bibles such as KJV, NIV, etc use 'LORD' for the name of God. Many languages do not have upper and lower cases, so the reader does not have a way of knowing that this is indeed the name of God. So many christians never come to know the name of God – 'YHWH'.
KJV uses Jehovah on few occasions and therefore the reader thinks 'Jehovah' is hardly present in the Old testament. Further the reader thinks that the word LORD just means Lord as in 'land lord' or 'God Lord' or that it is referring to Jesus and therefore a very different message is perceived.
Here is the extract from the NIV preface:
In regard to the divine name YHWH, commonly referred to as the Tetragrammaton, the translators adopted the device used in most English versions of rendering that name as "Lord" in capital letters to distinguish it from Adonai, another Hebrew word rendered "Lord," for which small letters are used. Wherever the two names stand together in the Old Testament as a compound name of God, they are rendered "Sovereign Lord."
As NIV claims, divine name YHWH is never communicated to the user, so many bible students never come in contact with a fundamental truth concerning the name of God.
Because YHWH is translated as LORD and Adonai is also translated as Lord, so the reader is left with only 'Lord'.
Now that the name of God is lost in translation, and since under the new testament Jesus is referred as 'Lord' Jesus, trinitarian christians get confused that LORD in the OT is also probably referring to Jesus.
E-sword KJV+ search yielded 6521 Matches of YHWH. This shows how the name played a significant role in jewish upbringing and study of the scrolls. Since YHWH has been substituted with a word such as 'Lord' this completely dilutes knowledge about God's name especially when the majority of christians and protestants don't really care about about the Father.
A Jewish bible student would come across the name of God some 6500 times in his/her typical reading of the scriptures. Christians would get exposed to that word around 7 times. The Torah and Prophets have obviously over-emphasised the name of God in the hearing of the children of Israel.
There are few bibles such such as the New Jerusalem bible. though catholic. is a good bible to use, as it preserves the name of God and translates 'YHWH' as Yahweh!
This gets even more confusing in the new testament writings – LORD becomes 'Lord'.
Lets look at an example:
When Peter quoted from the Torah, Acts records it for us like this in KJV:
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
But if we turn to the same passage in Deuteronomy 18:15
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
Now notice how a translations such as WEBA translates it with the actual name of God and brings clarity:
Deu 18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
So for New testament based christians there is a double loss:
- Yahweh is translated as LORD (Deu) – OT
- LORD becomes Lord (Acts) – NT
Since Jesus is titled Lord, the reader now assumes when reading the words of Peter in Acts, 'Lord' is referring to Jesus.
The Torah taught to love YHWH our God:
Deu 11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
If you ask a typical trinitarian to describe the God of the Old testament (Jehovah) – the words that will come out are 'cruel', 'jealous', 'wrathful', etc.
Now ask them to describe Jesus the God of the New Testament and immediately 'love' and 'sacrifice' will come to their minds.
That is why Jesus is more appealing. For the vast majority the 'famine' mother of God is even more appealing. A mother is known to be even more compassionate than the 'hard' Father and of course she can 'persuade' her son for your sake.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that trinitarians will struggle to love YHWH. Further they quote the verse:
1Jn 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Reading it from a certain angle, this will appear to teach to ignore the Father and focus only on the son, as having the son auto fetches the Father.
Read further about YHWH the Loving Father here:
[Jesus' Parable of the tenants demonstrates how the Father reaches out. Do not run from him.]
[Jesus' Parable of the lost sheep is trying to lead us closer to the Father and not away]
[Jesus' teaching (Mathew's gospel) centered around leading us closer to the Father and not away]
It was obvious to the writers of the gospel and the apostles, that YHWH the Father was the true God and they came to believe in Jesus whom he sent.
A lil quiz: When you sing/read this psalm, is it addressed to YHWH or Jesus?
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Ps 23:1)
Who did David address it to?
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. (Ps 23:1)
The true Elohim's (God) name is YHWH
Psa 83:18 that they may know that you, whose name is Yahweh, you alone, are the Most High over the whole earth. (LEB version)
Hebrew 'Lord' / Adonai & Adon (O.T.)
There is a strong notion that 'Lord' means Jesus. Also there seem to be a notion that Lord means 'God'. Also there is a notion 'Lord' is a 'name' of Jesus and Father.
Consider the following verse:
Rom 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
[It is impossible for a trinitarian to truly believe in their heart that God/YHWH raised a dead Jesus? So will trinitarians be saved?]
I assume trinitarians will conclude from Rom 10:9, that the title 'Lord' must mean divine as trinity requires its followers to confess the divinity of Jesus to be saved.
Let us now survey the OT 'Adon'
Adon means "lord" or "master" or "owner".
H113 (Strong) אָדֹן אָדוֹן 'âdôn 'âdôn aw-done', aw-done'
From an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, that is, controller (human or divine): – lord, master, owner
Let us survey a few passages with Adon first:
Genesis 32:18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Genesis 24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Genesis 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
The word translated as master is 'âdôn'. So Adon is a common title ascribed of anyone of relatively higher rank.
Zephaniah 1:9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Adon can also be given to kings
Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Adon can also be ascribed to Yahweh.
Psalms 8:1 For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! (WEBA)
Zechariah 6:5 The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
Adon is also ascribed to angels
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
So in essence 'âdôn can be anyone – Masters, Kings, Husbands, Angel or God. Also the translators translate it as 'Lord' or 'lord' depending on the context of usage. I think it is important to stick to the hebrew 'Adon' rather than 'Lord' or 'lord' and get biased by translators' interpretations.
H136 (Strong) אֲדֹנָי 'ădônây ad-o-noy'
An emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only): – (my) Lord.
While Strong's dictionary states it is derived from Adon, he states that it is also a name of God.
It is however used only once for a human: Ezra.
Ezr 10:2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Ezr 10:3 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord (ădônây) and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law. (ESV)
(Notice how translators hide the truth by adding their layer of interpretation by using small lord. A honest translation should leave it to the reader to discern the truth for themselves. )
Adonai by itself is not really a proper name but rather a title or appellative. As we will see below, it quite literally means 'mister' or my lord, master or owner, and is not unlike the word baal, which means the same. Yet adon(ai) occurs frequently as element in compound names: Adoni-bezek, Adonijah, Adonikam, Adoniram and Adoni-zedek. – http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Adonai.html#.VyEBCBJ94UQ
Why some would consider Adonay as the name of God:
Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, his name being revealed to Moses as four Hebrew CONSONANTS (YHWH) CALLED THE TETRAGRAMMATON. AFTER THE EXILE (6TH CENTURY BC), and especially from the 3rd century BC on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal religion through its proselytizing in the Greco-Roman world, the more common noun elohim, meaning "god," tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai ("My Lord"), which was translated as Kyrios ("Lord") in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. – http://www.eliyah.com/whythlrd.htm
Now let us survey a few passages with Adonai (H136) (From what I could see. apart from the Ezra reference the rest of the occurrences are used to address YHWH only. So it is special in that sense)
Psalms 8:1 (LEB) Yahweh, our Lord (ădônây), how majestic isyour name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens.
Notice the difference in translation here:
Adon was translated as 'lord' all small
Adonai is translated as 'Lord' – capital 'L' to signify that it is more significant in the eyes of the translator as it is used before 'YHWH'.
Here is another example how YHWH, Adonai and Elohim are used:
Psalms 38:15 "For in You, O LORD [YHWH], I hope; you will hear, O Lord (ădônây) my God [Elohim]."
When YHWH and Adonai appear together, translation gets more confusing. As per KJV it should 'LORD my Lord' which is confusing so they have to change the original as shown below:
(LEB) O Yahweh, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. Ps. 140:7
(KJV) O GOD (changed) the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Is Jesus prophesied as Adon or Adonai in Psalm 110?
Mat 22:41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
Mat 22:42 saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Mat 22:43 He said to them, "How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
Mat 22:44 "'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet"'?
Mat 22:45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
Notice when in Greek YHWH is dropped. Further the English translations add the capital as they see fit.
Pslam 110: 1 Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet." (WEBA)
The hebrew is 'âdôn' – which is a common expression for humans, angel and God as noted above. This was an important verse during early christianity to prove that Jesus was David's prophesied Messiah. For instance, Peter explains the fulfilment of the Messiah using the verse from this Psalm:
Act 2:34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, "'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
Act 2:35 until I make your enemies your footstool."'
Act 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
Jesus being Christ or Messiah does not mean he was YHWH. Please read these for more information:
[Witness of Peter and John in Acts way way before Nicaea – Jesus is THE Christ or Messiah i.e. Yahweh's Anointed]
[Witness of Stephen – Jesus is the Messiah – The RIGHTEOUS ONE of God]
David (by God's spirit) had declared the promised messiah was his 'Adon'. Let us get into the context how 'Adon' was used in David's time.
Saul was anointed (i.e. made messiah) King. David considered Saul and both his Adon (Lord) and Christ (Messiah/Anointed):
1 Samuel 24:6 He said to his men, "Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord ('âdôn'), Yahweh's anointed (mâshı̂yach), to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh's anointed." (WEBA)
It is interesting to note that David makes the very declaration about King Saul that Peter made "God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified". In David's eye Saul was both Christ and Lord to him and the whole nation of Israel.
That is why it is very important to understand concepts from a Jewish background and be open. Now King Saul while he was a Christ and a Lord and King and chosen by God yet was not the promised seed of Abraham. King Saul died. Jesus would be the Anointed one who would attain eternal life and victory and reach heaven itself. So the prophecy about Jesus was not about incarnation but that he would be a greater lord and greater christ than those that have preceded him.
Further we read that David addresses King Saul as 'Lord' and he also 'worships' him:
In the eyes of trinitarians this is out right blasphemy? Only Jesus can be called Lord and worshipped? You clearly err to know the truth! Saul was eventually rejected, but he could still be King, Christ, Lord and worshiped by the more spiritual David. So it should not surprise that the man Jesus who was greater than both David and Saul should be exalted as Lord and Christ?
1 Samuel 24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed (shâchâh) himself.
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[Then I bowed my head and worshiped (shâchâh) the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son. (Genesis 24:48 ESV)]
I.e. As Abraham's servant worshipped YHWH, we see David worshiped Saul.
(Also refer:Worshiping the MAN Jesus)
The point of this is that to show that it was a common Jewish practice to extol men as Lord, Messiah, King and also to worship them. But David would not address Saul as YHWH his God. So David gave the respect due to YHWH and God's chosen the respect due. To honour YHWH's chosen was to show respect to the YHWH.
Therefore it should be very easy to understand Jesus' words:
John 5:23 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
David himself was a Lord (who would call Jesus his Lord later on). Nabal's wife addressed David as Lord and worshiped him too:
1 Samuel 25:31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant."
1 Samuel 25:41 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, "Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
Behold how great her faith to be servant of servants. So we are also told though Jesus was born of the spirit of God yet he was a servant.
Were Saul and David divine because they were called Adon? (Psalms 110:1) No! Why do trinitarians insist that Jesus is God incarnate if he was made Lord and Christ and King by his God AFTER his resurrection.
God constantly elevates those he loves. He elevated Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He made Joseph the leader or Lord over his brothers. Moses was elevated over all Israel even over his own brother and sister. The Lord works with men and exalts them as God and authorises them to manifest his name to the population. To reject Moses is to reject God and to reject God was to reject Moses.
When we come to the story of Jesus we should not be surprised at his exaltation as if a strange thing has occurred. Since Jesus was greater than Moses and Abraham he receives more honour. Further, Moses and Abraham died, whereas Jesus lives on to receive praise and honour and glory from us.
The worship of Father and the human son of God was already played out by Father and David thus:
1 Chronicles 29:20 And David said to all the assembly, "Bless Yahweh your God!" And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
To bow down to David was to accept David as Adon and YHWH's anointed/Christ, but YHWH was greater than David because David himself worshipped YHWH even as Jesus worshipped his Father. Note than even after Jesus was resurrected he still addressed Lord YHWH as his God and Father:
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
This should not confuse Unitarians and Trinitarians that the Father and the son are too be worshipped. We do not worship David as the children of Israel once worshipped because David is dead. The final Lord and final Messiah has now appeared who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings as he sits at the right hand of God. He has a permanent priesthood and kingship. We respect Jesus as the Lord's anointed and ruler/Lord of mankind and even placed him above angels.
Heaven declared the reason we worship Jesus:
Revelation 5:9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
Notice that
- It is a new song being sung in heaven as there is now a new being in heaven
- He is worthy to receive honour and open the scroll because of his human achievement
- No being including Jesus (if he preexisted) could open he scroll. Only the victorious human Jesus could open the scroll.
To acknowledge Jesus as Lord in no way infers that he was God incarnate but rather divinely appointed. Consider if people worshipped men such as Saul and David, how much more the son of God by Mary!
The Christmas story is about how a MAN became God and the message for the church is how WE can also becomes Lords in our own right, based on each ones grace and endurance, in the age to come. For Jesus promised this (Not that we will become greater than Jesus and YHWH but we are also headed towards divinity – i.e. we will be immortalised and be free from sin and death):
Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
The end goal is that YHWH will be ALL and in ALL! Humans will attain divinity like Christ Jesus did.


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Internet Explorer 10 Flash Plugin: a Vulnerability
Internet Explorer 10 is not getting Flash updates on time
Like Google chrome, internet explorer 10 on windows 8 bundles a flash player within the browser. But internet explorer is not getting flash updates on time because the plugin that bundles the Adobe auto update tools failed to update flash nor it can be manually downloaded by the users. The only way to update the flash is Windows update which means that the updates can be only available for the users by Microsoft but they are still not delivered to them.
Internet explorer 10 is different from its previous versions for two main reasons. Firstly, it exists as a classic desktop version as well as modern UI version that differ significantly from each other. Modern UI version doesn't require any additional plugin and is more restricted than the desktop version. However Microsoft has integrated flash player into Internet explorer 10 to avoid any issues from flash-based sites. But due to absence of the plugins both version are only able to display contents in browsers only. Secondly, the update of Adobe Flash will be distributed through Microsoft windows update.
The version of the flash plugin pushed within Internet Explorer 10 in windows 8 has become out of date which leaves users towards exploitation. However Microsoft said that it would not launch their patch for Internet Explorer till 26 October, until the windows 8 will be publicly released. However adobe patch a flash on August 21 to solve the security flaws but it failed to do job for the internet explorer 10.
However a broad issue underlying there is that Microsoft ships its patch on every second Tuesday of each month and Adobe shipping its patches on every third and fourth Tuesday of each month. This leaves a potential gap between releases and this gap has is making situation difficult for the users.
This situation leaves a systematic vulnerability that Microsoft patches its Internet Explorer on second Tuesday of the month and Adobe will patch its security flaws after one or two weeks, this cause users to wait for the second Tuesday of the month for new Microsoft patch. Similarly Microsoft users have to wait for third or fourth Tuesday of the month in order to get Adobe's new Flash security Flaws. This policy of the companies leaves user with vulnerability.
To avoid these issues an evident and appropriate solution would be that all Flash plugins whether for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer or its older version should be patched simultaneously.
However , still there is no solution has been determined by both companies however according to one of the Microsoft director statement, both companies have been working to get rid of this problem and to avoid this condition of vulnerability.
To avoid these issues, it is recommended to avoid accessing Flash contents with Internet Explorer 10 on windows 8 or simply switch to other browsers so that these problems will not arise.


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Marina And The Diamonds + CocknBullKid @ Town Hall, Birmingham, UK – 23 October 2010Posted by Bianca on Saturday Oct 23, 2010 Under Pop
It's heartening to see Birmingham's Town Hall being used for poppier gigs and I'm guessing this is the poppiest to date. It's a sell out too, with throngs of eager young diamonds (the 'diamonds' in the name of the band apparently refers to Marina's fans… aw bless) swarming into the venue.
First up though there's just enough time to slip in a bit of cock… steady now… nbullkid.
Known to her dear old mum and dad as Anita, CocknBullKid's been around for a few years, picking up plenty of praise from the press but failing to capitalise on it all with that difficult debut album. Happily she's now signed to the uber cool Moshi Moshi label so the sweet pop soul that's becoming her trademark sound might finally get more of an airing.
Starting the gig offstage (maybe she was still getting dressed?) she kicked off with a soaring 'Bellyache' before moving on to current single 'One Eye Closed', its vaguely 'Peter Gunn' guitar licks adding a nice sense of menace to an otherwise full on pop assault (not unlike the sort of thing McAlmont and Butler were up to a few years back).
She's a fine live vocalist and plenty of the tracks hit the spot. 'Hold On To Your Misery' had a nice Philly soul feel, 'Cocknbullkid' employed some catchy 'whoa whoas' to sing along with and 'Mexico' broke rank with more of a staccato synth thing going on. The audience seemed to warm nicely to her as the set wore on and, after several years of missed opportunities, the kid might now finally get in the picture.
After a quick interlude the hall filled up again and a semi erotic James Bond / Tales of the Unexpected scene played out on the back screens before a surprisingly goth looking Marina (little black dress and black lipstick) arrived wearing what looked like a tribble round her neck.
It's pop Jim but not as we know it. I have to admit I knew very little of Marina's stuff before tonight so I was expecting something fairly light and fluffy but, after a quick intro courtesy of 'The Family Jewels', opening number 'The Outsider', a decidedly dark tale of alienation, more than matched her look. The other striking thing was that voice, a lush hybrid fusion of Kate Bush, Regina Spector and Tori Amos. Classy. 'Girls' took things up a little, with Marina railing against the calorie obsessed before the pounding piano of 'Seventeen', with its intriguing lyrics (the subject of much debate on t'web), plunged us back into angst central. As an opening to the show it was a brave, emotionally raw introduction to planet Marina, clearly here's a girl who ain't afraid to get it all out in the open. The soul baring carried on with 'Are You Satisfied?', seemingly revealing that the record deal that she thought would change her life hasn't actually made the difference she thought it would and putting forward the worrying idea that she'll never be actually be satisfied with her lot (fame, fortune, adoring fans…it sure as hell beats working in McDonalds though eh?). 'Rootless', probably the weakest track of the set ("I'm a snail without a shell, a leper with a golden bell") gave way to the frankly bonkers 'Hermit The Frog', which saw Marina's arms controlled by two bunches of red (sadly not glass) balloons that she handed out to the fans towards the end of the number before popping off for a quick costume change, leaving us all watching a rather odd video of her prowling the streets somewhere in America , stroking strange men and licking her fingers. I prefer a nice bowl of hummus myself.
'I Am Not A Robot' saw more soul searching and, by this stage, I was starting to get it. As Marina herself went on to say later in the show "this ain't an act or a marketing ploy", it really does mean as much to her as it does to her 'diamonds'…us lot out front. It's performance as therapy, which could be painful but happily she's not forgotten the need for a decent tune and a bit of fun here and there. 'Oh No' for instance might be a savage critique on today celeb culture but it's all bundled up in a deliciously bubbly pop jacket, as glossy as the pop art inspired video that played along behind the stage. Pow. That's followed by the catchiest tune of the night 'Shampain'. This is what all Eurovision songs should sound like, electropop heaven with just the right touch of camp and a chorus that Abba would murder Benny for. Angst one minute, pop heaven the next, shine on you crazy diamond. Just in case we were in any doubt as to Marina's state of mind the next track, 'Mowgli's Road' puts us straight with an opening barrage of cuckoo noises. Hmmmm…
After another deeply dark track, 'Guilty', Marina skips off to rousing applause before returning for a solo 'Numb' (just her and a piano), underlining her clear debt to Ms Amos and Dame Spector. Then, in best Hollywood tradition it was time for the big finish with a track called, suitably enough, 'Hollywood'. After a quick costume change she's reappears in stars and stripes pants (that's trousers if you're reading this in the UK), gold $ sunglasses and carrying a huge burger. Perhaps more than any other track tonight this summed up what Marina's all about. Enthralled and appalled by the 'American Dream' in equal measure (I daresay she wouldn't say no to a few number ones out there) it neatly reflects the duality of her personality that runs through many of her songs. She seems insecure and confident, flirty and reserved, sickened and yet seduced by fame. She's far from the first performer to wrestle with these contradictions but there aren't many artists around right now who make it sound so damn good. Judging by the well deserved devotion she's breeding in her fans her particular brand of pop angst is striking a real chord right now too, which is good news… after all, diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Set List
The Family Jewels (intro) / The Outsider / Girls / Seventeen / Are You Satisfied? / Rootless / Hermit The Frog / interlude (costume change) / I Am Not A Robot / Obsessions / Jealously / Oh No! / Shampain / Mowgli's Road / Guilty
Numb / Hollywood
Words by Daron Billings, email Daron.
Photos by Wayne Fox, email Wayne.


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Town vents fury over toxic waste "debacle"
COMMUNITY activists say they predicted more than two years ago a "strong probability" of a "major debacle" over authorities' "inaction" on lead contamination in north Lake Macquarie.
Boolaroo Action Group spokesman Jim Sullivan said the community was "fed up with bureaucratic bungling" and "finger pointing" from politicians, the Environment Protection Authority, Lake Macquarie City Council and the state government.
Mr Sullivan was responding to a Fairfax Media report on Tuesday detailing how residents still have no place to dump lead-contaminated soil in the Hunter.
Boolaroo resident Mark Hambier has tonnes of contaminated dirt sitting uncovered in his yard after Newcastle City Council refused to accept it at Summerhill tip.
Mr Hambier's renovation and subdivision works have been hampered by delays since the EPA announced last year that residents would be able to take lead-laden soil to Summerhill in February, then August and now some time in October.
Mr Sullivan said the community asked for three things from the eight-member North Lake Macquarie Community Lead Reference Group when it was established in early 2015.
"We wanted blood testing of children, a future fund to deal with the pollution and a place to dump contaminated soil," he said.
"We got the blood testing and that was it. Now it's down to all of the authorities pointing fingers at each other and no-one wants to accept responsibility."
Long-term Boolaroo resident and action group member Allan Craig said he was at a loss to explain why it was "so hard" to get things right.
"It's crazy, just crazy the mess residents have been left in," he said.
"Pasminco left this mess and now residents are burdened with having to clean it up and pay for the privilege."
Residents were able to dump lead-contaminated soil free in a containment cell on the former Pasminco Cockle Creek smelter site.
It was capped in 2015, leaving residents with nowhere in the Hunter to take the toxic dirt.
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Videoboard Messages are a classic way to add something special to your day at the ballpark. Surprise your guests and show the fans that you want to acknowledge someone in your group. Videoboard messages are limited in availability, so act early.
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Design a specialty cake from four different sizes of cakes and various flavors, fillings and frostings! You can even customize the message on the cake, make it Black and Orange and add the Giants logo.
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