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Health|Hawaii Baby With Brain Damage Is First U.S. Case Tied to Zika Virus
Hawaii Baby With Brain Damage Is First U.S. Case Tied to Zika Virus
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University. The species is known to carry Zika virus, which has been connected to birth defects.CreditCreditNelson Almeida/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The first case of brain damage linked to the Zika virus within the United States was reported on Friday in Hawaii.
The Hawaii State Department of Health said that a baby born in an Oahu hospital with microcephaly — an unusually small head and brain — had been infected with the Zika virus, which is believed to have caused the same damage in thousands of babies in Brazil in recent months. The presence of the virus was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The child's mother had lived in Brazil in May last year and probably was infected by a mosquito then, early in her pregnancy, the health department said. The virus presumably reached the embryo and damaged its developing brain.
"We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn," Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii's state epidemiologist, said in a statement. "This case further emphasizes the importance of the C.D.C. travel recommendations released today."
Also on Friday, the C.D.C. recommended that pregnant women consider postponing travel to any countries or regions with active Zika virus transmission.
As of Saturday, those included 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Martin, Suriname, Venezuela and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The list of countries with transmission has been steadily growing; on Saturday, Barbados reported its first cases.
Women considering becoming pregnant were advised to consult doctors before going to Zika-infested areas, and all travelers headed to such areas were urged to take vigorous measures to avoid mosquito bites.
There have been no confirmed cases of Zika virus transmission within Hawaii, Dr. Park said. Six Hawaii residents are known to have had the virus since 2014, but all picked it up through travel elsewhere. Nevertheless, Hawaii is undergoing an outbreak of dengue fever, and the same mosquitoes that transmit it also can transmit Zika.
A C.D.C. epidemiologist recently predicted that Zika would follow the same pattern that dengue has, with local transmission during hot weather in tropical parts of the country, including Florida, the Gulf Coast and Hawaii.
Short Answers to Hard Questions About Zika Virus
Why scientists are worried about the growing epidemic and its effects on pregnant women, and how to avoid the infection.
In Washington, administration officials said the decision to issue a travel alert developed quickly at the end of the week and triggered a flurry of diplomatic contacts with the countries named in the alert, given the potential economic and tourism impact that the decision could have. Officials said that notification effort delayed the C.D.C. announcement for several hours on Friday.
Scientists do not yet know how the Zika virus damages fetal brains. It is related to the dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses, which normally do not cause such damage; it is not closely related to rubella or cytomegalovirus, which are known to cause microcephaly.
The virus was first discovered in monkeys in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947. It is widespread in Africa and Southeast Asia but had never been seen as a major threat because the disease it causes is usually mild. About 80 percent of people who get the virus show no symptoms; those who do usually get a fever, rash and red eyes, but they rarely require hospitalization.
In 2007, the Asian strain of the virus was detected moving across the South Pacific; it caused a large outbreak on Yap Island that year. By late 2014, it had reached Easter Island, off the coast of Chile.
The connection to microcephaly was not made until late last year in Brazil. The virus first appeared in the country in May, and epidemiologists estimate that more than 1.5 million Brazilians have been infected.
In October, doctors in Pernambuco State noticed a surge in cases of microcephaly. Normally, about 150 cases of the birth defect are reported in Brazil each year. Since October, more than 3,500 have been reported there.
It is also not known whether the virus alone causes microcephaly or if it happens only if the mother has a previous infection, such as with dengue virus.
Dengue is unusual in that a first infection is rarely life-threatening, but a subsequent infection with a different strain can trigger dengue hemorrhagic fever, which can be fatal.
Hawaii is conducting a "Fight the Bite" campaign intended to stop its dengue outbreak. Residents have been urged to get rid of all standing water on their properties, to apply mosquito repellents and to try to avoid being bitten.
The Zika and dengue viruses — like virtually all mosquito-borne diseases — do not occur in mosquito larvae. Adult female mosquitoes pick them up by biting one infected human, and then, some days later, after the virus has traveled from their gut to their salivary glands, they infect another human. Dr. Park said neither the mother nor the baby in Hawaii is still infectious.
Michael D. Shear contributed reporting.
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Q: Adding Product Images in Shopify using CURL In PHP - Cloudflare Errors I'm trying to add images to my products using CURL in PHP based on this: https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-07/resources/product-image#post-products-product-id-images
This is what it should look like using CURL CLI but I'm trying to use it through PHP:
curl -d '{"image":{"src":"http://example.com/rails_logo.gif"}}' \
-X POST "https://your-development-store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2022-07/products/632910392/images.json" \
-H "X-Shopify-Access-Token: {access_token}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

I've tried a number of different format but keep getting Cloudflare errors with the below format:
$ch = curl_init("https://STORENAME.myshopify.com/admin/api/2022-07/products/632910392/images.json");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("X-Shopify-Access-Token: SECRETTOKEN"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/rails_logo.gif");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, "http://example.com/rails_logo.gif");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"image":{"position":'1',"src":"http://example.com/rails_logo.gif"}}');
$responseTmp = curl_exec($ch);

I'm getting "BAD REQUEST" and "1020" errors from Cloudflare, I assume because something in my request isn't formatted correctly.
Would appreciate any advice.

A: In case it helps someone else further down the track - this is how Shopify expects image uploads via php curl:
$image = json_encode(array('image'=> array('src' => $imageUrl)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $image);

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Supreme Court to Decide Bankruptcy Case Affecting Local Governments
Local Authority & Intergovernmental Relations
The city of Chicago impounds vehicles where debtors have three or more unpaid fines. Robbin Fulton's vehicle was impounded, and when she filed for bankruptcy and asked the city to turn over her vehicle, it refused.
And so, the question the Supreme Court will decide in City of Chicago, Illinois v. Fulton is whether a local government must return a vehicle impounded because of code violations immediately upon a debtor filing for bankruptcy.
Fulton claims the Bankruptcy Code's "automatic stay" provision requires the city to immediately return her vehicles even though she didn't pay her outstanding tickets. The Seventh Circuit agreed.
The "automatic stay" provision of the Bankruptcy Code provides that a bankruptcy petition "operates as a stay, applicable to all entities, of … any act to obtain possession of property of the estate or of property from the estate or to exercise control over property of the estate."
In a previous case decided in 2009, Thompson v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., the Seventh Circuit concluded that "exercise control" includes holding onto an asset and that "exercise control" isn't limited to "selling or otherwise destroying the asset." So, the court reasoned in this case, the city of Chicago "exercised control" over Fulton's car in violation of the automatic stay by not returning it after she filed the bankruptcy petition.
The Seventh Circuit next concluded that the bankruptcy stay becomes effective immediately upon filing the petition, without the debtor bringing a "turnover action." Another section of the Bankruptcy Code requires the creditor to request "adequate protection" of its interest in property subject to a bankruptcy petition. According to the Seventh Circuit in Thompson: "[I]f a creditor is allowed to retain possession, then this burden is rendered meaningless—a creditor has no incentive to seek protection of an asset of which it already has possession."
The city of Chicago asked the Seventh Circuit to overturn Thompson, but the court refused. The lower court also rejected Chicago's argument that two exceptions to the automatic stay provision apply in this case.
The International Municipal Lawyers Association submitted a certiorari stage amicus
brief pointing out that municipalities impound thousands of vehicles a year for code violations. The brief also notes that at least two states – Texas and Pennsylvania – have adopted statewide regulatory schemes allowing this practice. According to the brief, remarkably, "a 2013 investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that hundreds of owners of impounded vehicles had turned to a single scam artist to file fraudulent bankruptcy petitions in order to receive their vehicles without paying an impoundment fee."
NLC will join a State and Local Legal Center amicus brief in City of Chicago, Illinois v. Fulton. Stay tuned for more updates on this important case and what it means for your city, town or village.
About the author: Lisa Soronen is the executive director of the State and Local Legal Center, which files Supreme Court amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the Big Seven national organizations, including the National League of Cities, representing state and local governments. She is a regular contributor to CitiesSpeak.

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From the first century A.D. to the present the vast majority of Christians have observed Sunday as a day of rest and worship. However, it is generally known and freely admitted that the early Christians observed the seventh-day Sabbath.
"And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time" (Dan.7:25 Para.).
Both secular and ecclesiastical history reveal that the observance of the first day of the week in place of the seventh day, was initiated and enforced by the ancient Roman Empire centuries ago. In the Book of Revelation, we are told that there will come a time when a powerful religious figure will cause people to bow down to idols and worship a powerful, miracle-working being in place of the true God.
Jesus Christ clearly said: "If you love me, keep my commandments" (Jn.14:15 KJV). And the commandments of God include keeping the Sabbath day.
However, most of today's theologians and religious leaders refuse to keep the commandments of God. Instead, they reject and ridicule the Sabbath, which God created for our good, and they keep Sunday, which was never sanctioned by God as his Sabbath.
By their own admissions, they know and freely admit that men, not God, changed this day of worship from the seventh day to Sunday. By rejecting this basic fundamental teaching of the Bible—"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."—they stand condemned before God by their own words.
The Cathechismus Romanus was commanded by the Council of Trent and published by the Vatican Press by order of Pope Pius V in 1566. This catechism for priests reads: "It pleased the church of God, that the religious celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to 'the Lord's day.'" Catechism of the Council of Trent (Donovan's translation, 1867) Part 3, chap. 4, p. 345. The same, in slightly different wording, is in the McHugh and Callen translation, 1937 ed. p. 402.
The following are excerpts from the Cathechismus Romanus which contains confessions and admissions from many prestigious religious leaders and scholars in regard to the change from observing the Sabbath to observing Sunday.
"Question - Henry Tuberville asked the following question about the churches authority to change the Sabbath to Sunday: How prove you that the Church has power to command feasts and holy days?"
"Answer - By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church." - Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine (1833 approbation), p. 58. (Same statement in Manual of Christian Doctrine [ed., by Daniel Ferris [1916 ed.,] p. 67).
"Question - Keeman asked: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?"
"Answer - Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; - she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority." - Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism (3rd ed.), p. 174.
"The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday." - The Catholic Mirror, Sept. 23, 1893.
1. "Is Saturday the 7th day according to the Bible and the 10 Commandments?
2. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the 7th day - Saturday - for Sunday, the 1st day?
3. "Did Christ change the day?"
"Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day."
"Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?"
"Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." - Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1946 ed.), p. 50. Geiermann received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius X in his labors Jan. 25, 1910.
"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify." - James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73.
"Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday. The fact is that the Church was in existence for several centuries before the Bible was given to the world. The Church made the Bible, the Bible did not make the Church.
"Now the Church . . . instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday." - Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927 ed.), p. 136.
"If we consulted the Bible only, we should still have to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is Saturday." - John Laux, Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies, vol. 1, (1936 ed.), p. 51. Quoted by permission of Benziger Brothers, Inc., proprietors of the copyright.
"Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law, that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is not entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days, as holy days." - Vincent J. Kelly (Catholic), Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations (1943 ed.), p. 2.
"3) We also say that of all Protestants, the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is the only major Protestant denomination that reasons correctly and is consistent with its teaching. It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible." - Father Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Society, Chicago, IL.
"My brethren, look about you upon the various wrangling sects and denominations. Show me one that claims or possesses the power to make laws binding on the conscience. There's but one on the face of the earth - the Catholic Church - that has the power to make laws binding upon the conscience, binding before God, binding under pain of hell fire. Take, for instance, the day we celebrate - Sunday. What right have the Protestant churches to observe that day? None whatever. You say it is to obey the commandment, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' But Sunday is not the Sabbath according to the Bible and the record of time.
"Everyone knows that Sunday is the first day of the week, while Saturday is the seventh day, and the Sabbath, the day consecrated as a day of rest. It is so recognized in all civilized nations. I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to any one who will furnish any proof from the Bible that Sunday is the day we are abound to keep, and no one has called for the money. If any person in this town will show any scripture for it, I will tomorrow evening publicly acknowledge it and thank him for it. It was the Holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week. And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the Council of Laodicea, A.D. 364, anathematized those who kept the Sabbath and urged all persons to labor on the seventh day under penalty of anathema.
"Which church does the whole civilized world obey? Protestants call us every horrible name they can think of - antichrist, the scarlet colored beast, Babylon, etc. - and at the same time profess great reverence for the Bible, and yet by their solemn act of keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the power of the Catholic Church.
"Incidentally, there is no proof in scripture that God willed the Sabbath to be changed from Saturday to Sunday, so that those non-Catholics who do not accept the value of tradition as a source of faith, should logically still observe Saturday as the Sabbath." This Is The Faith - Catholic Theology For Laymen, Francis J. Ripley, p. 176).
All of these quotations are from Catholic authors and/or published by Catholic publishing houses.
The excerpts that follow are from noted clergymen, scholars and other eminent writers, who probably kept Sunday as a matter of church custom and bear witness that there is no biblical authority for Sunday observance.
"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day . . . The reasons why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church, has enjoined it." - Isaac Williams (Anglican), Plain Sermons on the Catechism , vol. 1, pp. 334, 336.
"The Lord's day was merely of ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment." - Jeremy Taylor (Church of England), Ductor Dubitantium , part 1, book 2, chap. 2, rule 6, secs. 51,59 (1850 ed.), vol. 9, pp. 458, 464.
Mr. Morer, a learned clergyman of the Church of England, says: "The Primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent the Day in Devotion and Sermons. And 'tis not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the Apostles them- selves." - A Discourse in Six Dialogues on the Name, Notion, and Observation of the Lord's Day , p. 189.
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox (Baptist): "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but the Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will, however, be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the Seventh to the First day of the week. . . Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament - Paper read Aug. 20, 1893, at a Baptist ministers' meeting at Saratoga, New York.
"The Lord's Day is not sanctified by any specific command or by any inevitable inference. In all the New Testament there is no hint or suggestion of a legal obligation binding any man, whether saint or sinner, to observe the Day. Its sanctity arises only out of what it means to the true believer." - J. J. Taylor (Baptist), The Sabbatic Question, p. 72.
Dr. R. W. Dale (British Congregationalist): "It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath. . . The Sabbath was founded on a specific, Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligation to observe Sunday. . . There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." - The Ten Commandments, pp. 127-129.
"The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath." - Sermon 107 (1818 ed.), vol. 4, p. 49.
Alexander Campbell (founder of Disciples of Christ); "'But,' say some, 'it was changed from the seventh to the first day.' Where? when? and by whom? No man can tell. No; it never was changed, nor could it be, unless Creation was to be gone through again: for the reason assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the reason, can be changed! It is all old wives' fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws 'ex officio' - I think his name is Doctor Antichrist." - The Christian Baptist, Feb.1, 1824, vol.1, no. 7.
"The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. The Sabbath of the Bible was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Scriptures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change." - First Day Observance, pp. 17, 19.
"We have seen how gradually the impression of the Jewish Sabbath faded from the mind of the Christian Church, and how completely the newer thought underlying the observance of the first day took possession of the church. We have seen that the Christians of the first three centuries never confused one with the other, but for a time celebrated both." - The Sunday Problem (1923 ed.), a study book of the United Lutheran Churches, p. 36.
"Because it was requisite to appoint a certain day, that the people might know when they ought to come together, it appears that the [Christian] Church did for that purpose appoint the Lord's day." - Augsburg Confession, part 2, art. 7, in Philip Schaff's The Creeds of Christendom (Scribner's, 4th ed.), vol. 3, p. 69.
"The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect; far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday." - The History of the Christian Religion and Church, Dr. Augustus Neander, p. 186.
Methodist Episcopal Theological Compend, by Amos Binney: "It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism. . . Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week." -Pages 180, 181.
"The Lord's Day is not sanctified by any specific command or by any inevitable inference. In all the New Testament there is no hint or suggestion of a legal obligation binding on any man, whether saint or sinner, to observe the Day." (The Sabbath Question, p. 72).
On who's authority have Protestants decided to observed Sunday? Plainly on the authority of the very Catholic Church, which they claim to have abandoned!
Almost all religious leaders who worship on Sunday and claim to follow the teachings of the Bible know that they are going against what is written in that book when they teach and practice Sunday worship.
To refuse to change after admittedly being wrong is willful sin. To the elect of God, the writer to the Hebrews said that there is no more sacrifice for this type of sin, but a fearful looking forward to eternal death (Heb.10:26-29).
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore you shall know them by their fruits" (Matt.7:15-20 Para.).
Jesus also says, "If you love me, keep my commandments" (Jn.14:15). And the commandments of God include observing the Sabbath.
The apostle Paul also gave a strong warning concerning the apostasy that was to arise after his death (2.Thes.2:1-8). Moreover, he also indicated that there would be eternal damnation for those who follow the traditions and commandments of men in opposition to the truth of God (2.Thes.2:9-12). The standard of righteousness by which all humanity is to be judged is found in the laws of God that too many people disregard as being harsh and burdensome.
The question everyone will eventually have to answer is whether or not they will follow the truth or a lie.
Listed below are some excellent sources that are recommended as additional reading for those who are interested in the historical documentation and the progression of events that led to the change from worshiping on the Sabbath to worshiping on Sunday.
The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop.
A History of Sabbath and Sunday, by John Hiesz.
Sabbath To Sunday, by Samuele Bacchiocchi.


In an age of essential and efficient spending how can the next Government help business manage sickness?
Although the General Election campaign has only just officially begun, the de facto campaign feels like it got underway months ago. Over that time we have heard ad nauseam how each party will cut the deficit, whose cuts are fairer and who is better for business.
The next Government, whatever its hue, will have to prove it can do all three and more. But following the abolition of the statutory sick pay 'Percentage Threshold Scheme' in 2013 one such question should be a priority: how can Government continue to support businesses in managing sickness absence after the ability to recover Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) ends next year?
In January 2013 the Government's report, 'Fitness for work: the Government response to 'Health at work - an independent review of sickness absence', concluded that the Statutory Sick Pay 'Percentage Threshold Scheme' has not encouraged employers to manage sickness absence in the workplace. As a result, employers have only one year left to recover some of the SSP paid to employees for sickness absences occurring before 2013/14.
Income Protection, or IP for short, provides an income to individuals when they are unable to perform their jobs due to severe sickness or injury.
What's the upshot? Government could wash its hands of the issue, leaving it to employers to find alternative ways to manage sickness absences in the workplace whilst looking after their staff, helping them back to work and, crucially, reducing the financial burden. Alternatively, Government could partner with insurers by encouraging the uptake of Income Protection insurance in the workplace. Income Protection, or IP for short, provides an income to individuals when they are unable to perform their jobs due to severe sickness or injury. This removes the burden from employers, provides a long term income to workers and saves the Government money by virtue of the insurer covering the cost, instead of the employer or the state.
It gets better. Insurers also help workers return to work when possible by providing various types of rehabilitation and in some cases are able to intervene to prevent employees leaving work. When an individual is unable to return to their job, insurers are able to help re-train them so they can return to work in a new capacity. If there is a discrepancy between their old and new salaries, the insurer will pay the difference. These benefits are demonstrated by the excellent charity led campaign, '7 Families', set up by the Income Protection Task Force and Disability Rights UK.
It can be argued that the cost of premiums is outweighed by the benefits: removing the financial impact of losing and replacing employees, retaining experience and supporting employees when severe illness or injury strikes.
If the new Government after May 7th wants to preach and practice fiscal responsibility whilst also supporting businesses, it needs to communicate to employers that soon they will no longer be able to reclaim SSP and they need to make other provisions. It could then partner with insurers, as they have done with pensions and flooding, to support employers and employees through periods of sickness and ill health. A greater partnership can help Government meet its aims of saving the taxpayer money whilst supporting both businesses and workers through sickness absence.
Helen White is Head of Protection and Health Insurance at the Association of British Insurers.
This article originally featured in Money Marketing.


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Lockheed Gets NASA Funding for the SR-72 Hypersonic Spy Drone
Attempts to make hypersonic scramjets have so far ended in failure, but that's not going to stop Lockheed from working on a 4,500-mph drone meant to be the SR-72.
By Erik Schechter
NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a modest $892,292 earlier this month to study the feasibility of developing an unmanned hypersonic spy plane called the SR-72. This superfast recon drone, first teased in November 2013, would fly at speeds of Mach 6.0, or 4,500 mph. That's almost double the speed of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, which made its first flight 50 years ago.
Neither Lockheed Martin Skunk Works nor NASA Glenn Research Center officials are talking about the recent award. But a Lockheed Martin website notes that the company has been working with Aerojet Rocketdyne to find a way to integrate a turbine engine, which would get the plane up to Mach 3, with a supersonic ramjet engine, or scramjet, to push it to Mach 6.
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Scramjets are, structurally at least, pretty simple. There are no moving parts—just an inlet, fuel injector, flame holder, and nozzle. One the vehicle reaches a sufficiently high speed, the scramjet compresses the supersonic air flow entering the inlet, mixing it with propellant and igniting everything within a few milliseconds. Most of the hot exhaust leaving the nozzle comes from the surrounding air and not the fuel carried on board the plane, which is why these engines are called air-breathers.
The military has been experimenting with such designs for years now. Between 2010 and 2013, the U.S. Air Force tested a hypersonic scramjet concept called the X-51A WaveRider. Mounted on a rocket that was fired from the wing of a B-52, the cruise missile-shaped Waverider would separate from the rocket and accelerate up to Mach 5.1. Because such great speeds generate a lot of heat, the Waverider had a tungsten nose and an Inconel nickel-chromium alloy engine.
Unfortunately, the Waverider did not perform well during a series of three flight tests over the Pacific Ocean, the last one resulting in the aircraft spinning out of control and disintegrating 15 seconds after separating from the rocket. Still, the Air Force intends to take what it can from that experience to develop the new High Speed Strike Weapon program.
According to the Lockheed website, the SR-72's design will take into account lessons from other attempts at supersonic flight, namely the rocket-launched Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) program. Developed by DARPA, the HTV-2 was part of what it called the Conventional Prompt Global Strike effort—a mission to build something that could deliver a conventional weapon on any target on Earth within an hour.
Like the Waverider, the HTV-2 didn't fare well in its test launches. In the last one, in August 2011, the HTV-2 hit Mach 20 (13,000 mph), generating a surface temperature of 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit that pulled apart the skin of the unmanned plane and forced the onboard fight safety system to detonate it over the Pacific Ocean.
Remarking on the 2011 test, U.S. Air Force Major Chris Schulz, the DARPA HTV-2 program manager, said, "We know how to insert the aircraft into atmospheric hypersonic flight. We do not yet know how to achieve the desired control during the aerodynamic phase of flight." But he expressed confidence the issue would be overcome.
Lockheed believes it can develop its SR-72 by 2030.
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Why Time Goes By Faster As We Age
Written by Christian Yates, University of Bath
When we were children, the summer holidays seemed to last forever, and the wait between Christmases felt like an eternity. So why is that when we get older, the time just seems to zip by, with weeks, months and entire seasons disappearing from a blurred calendar at dizzying speed?
This apparently accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities and worries. Research does in fact seem to show that perceived time moves more quickly for older people making our lives feel busy and rushed.
There are several theories which attempt to explain why our perception of time speeds up as we get older. One idea is a gradual alteration of our internal biological clocks. The slowing of our metabolism as we get older matches the slowing of our heartbeat and our breathing. Children's biological pacemakers beat more quickly, meaning that they experience more biological markers (heartbeats, breaths) in a fixed period of time, making it feel like more time has passed.
Another theory suggests that the passage of time we perceive is related to the amount of new perceptual information we absorb. With lots of new stimuli our brains take longer to process the information so that the period of time feels longer. This would help to explain the "slow motion perception" often reported in the moments before an accident. The unfamiliar circumstances mean there is so much new information to take in.
In fact, it may be that when faced with new situations our brains record more richly detailed memories, so that it is our recollection of the event that appears slower rather than the event itself. This has been shown to be the case experimentally for subjects experiencing free fall.
But how does this explain the continuing shortening of perceived time as we age? The theory goes that the older we get, the more familiar we become with our surroundings. We don't notice the detailed environments of our homes and workplaces. For children, however, the world is an often unfamiliar place filled with new experiences to engage with. This means children must dedicate significantly more brain power re-configuring their mental ideas of the outside world. The theory suggests that this appears to make time run more slowly for children than for adults stuck in a routine.
So the more familiar we become with the day-to-day experiences of life, the faster time seems to run, and generally, this familiarity increases with age. The biochemical mechanism behind this theory has been suggested to be the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine upon the perception of novel stimuli helping us to learn to measure time. Beyond the age of 20 and continuing into old age, dopamine levels drop making time appear to run faster.
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But neither of these theories seem to tie in precisely with the almost mathematical and continual rate of acceleration of time.
The apparent reduction of the length of a fixed period as we age suggests a "logarithmic scale" to time. Logarithmic scales are used instead of traditional linear scales when measuring earthquakes or sound. Because the quantities we measure can vary to such huge degrees, we need a wider ranging measurement scale to really make sense of what is happening. The same is true of time.
On the logarithmic Richter Scale (for earthquakes) an increase from a magnitude ten to 11 doesn't correspond to an increase in ground movement of 10% as it would do in a linear scale. Each increment on the Richter scale corresponds to a ten-fold increase in movement.
But why should our perception of time also follow a logarithmic scaling? The idea is that we perceive a period of time as the proportion of time we have already lived through. To a two-year-old, a year is half of their life, which is why it seems such an extraordinary long period of time to wait between birthdays when you are young.
To a ten-year-old, a year is only 10% of their life, (making for a slightly more tolerable wait), and to a 20-year-old it is only 5%. On the logarithmic scale, for a 20-year-old to experience the same proportional increase in age that a two-year-old experiences between birthdays, they would have to wait until they turned 30. Given this view point it's not surprising that time appears to accelerate as we grow older.
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We commonly think of our lives in terms of decades – our 20s, our 30s and so on – which suggests an equal weight to each period. However, on the logarithmic scale, we perceive different periods of time as the same length. The following differences in age would be perceived the same under this theory: five to ten, ten to 20, 20 to 40 and 40 to 80.
I don't wish to end on a depressing note, but the five-year period you experienced between the ages of five and ten could feel just as long as the period between the ages of 40 and 80.
So get busy. Time flies, whether you're having fun or not. And it's flying faster and faster every day.
Christian Yates, Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Acende a Chama é o álbum de estreia do cantor brasileiro Deco Rodrigues, baixista da banda Trazendo a Arca. O disco foi lançado em abril de 2018 de forma independente.

O álbum foi produzido por Wagner Derek, que produziu os álbuns Salmos e Cânticos Espirituais (2009) e Español (2014), do Trazendo a Arca. Também trouxe as participações de músicos como Isaac Ramos, André Cavalcante e Ana Nóbrega. Foi a primeira vez em que Deco apareceu como cantor e como compositor único de todas as músicas.

Lançamento e recepção

Acende a Chama foi lançado de forma independente em abril de 2018 e teve uma recepção favorável. Uma crítica, publicada pelo Super Gospel, classificou o álbum como "um típico álbum do Trazendo a Arca" que "dá a Deco a oportunidade de mostrar sua capacidade criativa".

Foi eleito o 96º melhor álbum da década de 2010 pelo Super Gospel.

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A seguir estão listados os músicos envolvidos na produção de Acende a Chama:
Deco Rodrigues – vocais, baixo
Wagner Derek – teclado, produção musical, arranjos
Isaac Ramos – guitarra, violão
André Cavalcante – guitarra, violão
Renan Martins – bateria
Adiel Ferr – vocal de apoio
Márcia Ferr – vocal de apoio
Clayde Jane – vocal de apoio
Equipe técnica
Wagner Derek – mixagem
André Cavalcante – masterização

Álbuns de 2018
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The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a divine being coming up out of the earth."
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George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
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Nave's Topical Bible - Clairvoyance; En-Dor; Familiar Spirits; Miracles; Necromancy; Samuel; Saul; Sorcery; Witchcraft; Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles through Evil Agents;
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Endor; Soul; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Samuel; Saul, king of israel; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon; Descent into Hell (Hades); Magic; Sheol; Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer; Easton Bible Dictionary - Magic; Saul; Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination; Saul; Holman Bible Dictionary - Divination and Magic; Medium; Samuel, Books of; Urim and Thummim; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship; Death; En-Dor; Eschatology; God; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Descent into Hades; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Magic; Saul; Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Endor;
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I saw gods ascending out of the earth - The word אלהום elohim, which we translate gods, is the word which is used for the Supreme Being throughout the Bible; but all the versions, the Chaldee excepted, translate it in the plural number, as we do. The Chaldee has, I see דיי מלאכא malacha dayeya, an angel of the Lord, ascending from the earth. This sight alarmed the woman; it was what she did not expect; in this she could not recognise her familiar, and she was terrified at the appearance.
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/1-samuel-28.html. 1832.
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Gods - אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym is here used in a general sense of a supernatural appearance, either angel or spirit. Hell, or the place of the departed (compare 1 Samuel 28:19; 2 Samuel 12:23) is represented as under the earth Isaiah 14:9-10; Ezekiel 32:18.
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/1-samuel-28.html. 1870.
And the king said unto her, be not afraid,.... Meaning not of the apparition, but of him; since he had sworn no punishment should come upon her, and he should inviolably observe his oath: for what sawest thou? for as yet Saul himself saw not anything, the woman being between him and the apparition; or she might be in another room with her familiar spirit performing the operations when Samuel appeared:
and the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth; a great personage, one of a majestic form, like the gods, or judges and civil magistrates, sometimes so called, as Kimchi and R. Isaiah rightly interpret it; and so the Targum,"I saw an angel of the Lord;'a person that looked like one; for not many came up with him, and particularly Moses, as say some Jewish writersF4T. Bab. Chagigah, fol. 4. 8. Pirke Eliezer, c. 33. .
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Gill, John. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/1-samuel-28.html. 1999.
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
Gods — That is, a god, and divine person, glorious, and full of majesty and splendor, exceeding not only mortal men, but common ghosts. She used the plural number, gods, either after the manner of the Hebrew language, which commonly uses that word of one person: or, after the language and custom of the heathens.
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Wesley, John. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/1-samuel-28.html. 1765.
1 Samuel 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
Ver. 13. For what sawest thou?] He then was not an eye-witness at first, the witch being in secretario, saith the Gloss, in a secret place by herself, working her feats.
saw gods ascending out of the earth,] i.e., Some goodly apparitions sent by Satan, as his apparitors and forerunners. Or, I saw a judge, or an excellent person, ascending, &c. (a)
Trapp, John. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/1-samuel-28.html. 1865-1868.
i.e. A god, a divine person, glorious, and full of majesty and splendour, exceeding not only mortal men, but common ghosts. She useth the plural number,
gods, either after the manner of the Hebrew language, which commonly useth that word of one person; or after the language and custom of the heathens. But the whole coherence shows that it was but one. For Saul desired but one, 1 Samuel 28:11, and he inquires and the woman answers only of one, 1 Samuel 28:14. Ascending out of the earth, as if it came from the place of the dead.
Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/1-samuel-28.html. 1685.
13.Be not afraid: for what sawest thou — She probably, at first, after returning from her clairvoyant state, refused, in her fear, to hold any more intercourse with the king; but after he had allayed her fears, perhaps by further oaths, (compare 1 Samuel 28:10,) she answered:
I saw gods ascending out of the earth — Neither the sacred historian nor his interpreter is responsible for the truth or falsehood of these words of the witch. But whatsoever of truth they may contain, we regard them as a part of those devices by which she sought to awe, and impose upon, both Saul and his servants. She probably alluded to the ghostly pictures which she saw passing, like so many shadows, over his excited imagination. What she saw in that one vision of Saul's soul was a sufficient basis for her to devise and utter the responses that follow.
Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/1-samuel-28.html. 1874-1909.
1 Samuel 28:13. The woman said, I saw gods ascending — The original word here used is elohim; and is with equal propriety rendered God, a god, or gods; when spoken of Jehovah it is translated God in the Scriptures; but when meant of the false gods of the heathen, of angels or of magistrates, which it sometimes is, it is generally rendered in the plural number. As it is plain the woman saw and spoke only of one person, it should evidently be translated a god here, that is, a divine or glorious person, full of majesty and splendour, exceeding not only mortal men, but common ghosts. Dr. Waterland renders it, a venerable person, and Mr. Locke says, it here signifies an angel or a judge, and that in the singular number. The same word certainly means magistrates, Psalms 82:1-6.
Benson, Joseph. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". Joseph Benson's Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rbc/1-samuel-28.html. 1857.
Gods, or one venerable and divine personage. (Worthington) --- Elohim, is applied to Samuel for greater honour. It is a title given to the true God, to idols, and people in dignity. (Calmet)
Haydock, George Leo. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/1-samuel-28.html. 1859.
gods. Plural of Elohim. Either "a god "or a spirit manifestation.
out of the earth. Not down, or forth, as in John 11:43, John 11:44.
Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/1-samuel-28.html. 1909-1922.
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. I saw gods ascending out of the earth, [ '
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/1-samuel-28.html. 1871-8.
(13) I saw gods ascending out of the earth.—The king at once calms the witch's fears for her life, and impatiently, as it would seem, asks what she saw which called forth the cry of fear and terror. "Gods"—this is the rendering of the Hebrew word Elohim. The English Version, however, follows the majority of the Versions here. The Chaldee translates the word by "angels." Corn, à Lapide and the best modern scholars, however, reasoning from Saul's words which immediately follow—"What is his form?"—suppose the Elohim to signify, not a plurality of appearances, but one God-like form: something majestic and august. The feeling, however, of antiquity seems to have been in favour of more than one supernatural form entering into the En-dor dwelling on that awful night. Besides the testimony of the Versions above referred to, the passage in the Babylonian Talmud treatise Chaggigah, quoted below, speaks of two positively spirit forms-Samuel and another.
Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/1-samuel-28.html. 1905.
gods ascending
Exodus 4:16; 22:28; Psalms 82:6,7; John 10:34,35
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:28 - fear not; Luke 24:37 - General
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 1 Samuel 28:13". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/1-samuel-28.html.


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Belichick Won't Get Presidential Medal of Freedom After All
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said on Monday night that he will not receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a statement, Belichick said "remaining true to the people, team and country I love outweigh the benefits of any individual award." The six-time Super Bowl winning coach did not say explicitly that he had turned down the offer from President Donald Trump. But he said "the decision has been made not to move forward with the award." Although he describes himself as apolitical, Belichick wrote Trump a letter of support during the 2016 presidential campaign that the candidate read aloud at a rally in the days before the election.
Filed Under: Bill Belichick, new england patriots, President Donald Trump, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Categories: Featured, Football, Sports


… Sound like a pipe dream? Not with Melissa Ambrosini by your side!
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By all indications, America is in the midst of a mystical revolution. Inundated with tales of extraordinary phenomena and claims of strange psychic powers, people in increasing numbers are turning to belief in rationally unexplainable—paranormal—phenomena. Reincarnation, mind reading, visitations from outer space and other marvels, once considered the exclusive province of science fiction, have gained popular acceptance as fact.
A good illustration of the trend is the growth of interest in astrology. A Gallup Poll last year indicated that 32 million adults in the United States believed in astrological predictions. Whereas a generation ago only 100 daily newspapers published horoscopes, today some 1,250 do. But those figures may tell only a part of the story. Further evidence suggests that many Americans are apparently willing to embrace a great variety of beliefs dismissed by science and most Western religions as pure superstition.


Crisis Text Line uses technology to help adolescents struggling with issues like bullying and anxiety. Now, researchers are using data compiled through this effort to better understand and address patterns of adolescent mental health needs within communities.
Despite the complete absence of marketing to promote the new effort, it grew at lightning fast speed as recipients spread the word across their own networks. Within four months, Crisis Text Line was in all 295 area codes of the United States yielding faster geographic growth than when Facebook launched.
Within four months, Crisis Text Line was in all 295 area codes of the United States yielding faster geographic growth than when Facebook launched.
Now an independent nonprofit, Crisis Text Line provides free, text-based support to people in crisis anywhere in the United States, 24/7. Their average texter is 18 years old and Lublin notes that text has proven to be an ideal way to counsel young people. It offers anonymity, privacy, and access to a team of trained professionals who can work together to provide support that's tailored to the crisis at hand. According to Lublin, almost two thirds of all texters are sharing something for the very first time that they never felt comfortable confiding in friends or family. This underscores just how trusted the service and medium are.
We at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recognize the incredible impact that Crisis Text Line is having on social and emotional development of adolescents across the country. That's why we recently funded a major expansion of Crisis Text Line's data infrastructure and analytics program. Our goal is to help stakeholders use local, anonymized data to examine patterns of adolescent crises. This will inform interventions that can promote the health and well-being of our future generations.
We believe that whatever your geographic, ethnic, socioeconomic, or physical circumstances, you deserve an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life possible. That's the essence of a Culture of Health, the Northstar that guides our work at RWJF.
Finally, if you or a loved one are experiencing a crisis, please text 741741 from anywhere in the United States. Trained Crisis Counselors are always available, and the service is free and confidential.
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Let's use a brief debate on why picking a real est career surpasses corporate career.
Compared to be able to any company job, real-estate advisors have an overabundance freedom to be effective. No make a difference whether you benefit 12 hrs or a couple of hours, you might be the boss to your company. You'll have a fantastic work ethics to generate your very own ideas, targets and lots of other what to work being a realtor. This appears simple for many individuals, but that is more tough job.
In the corporate job, you can find more chances to produce six figures and in addition additionally they will get rewards like medical insurance, travel allowance and others. But there exists a lot regarding problem inside the corporate world and you also to function as best regarding best throughout you will ever have. Also you come across the issues from younger cheaper skills replacing an individual. There will probably be no economic security.
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In the true estate enterprise, you can easily hire a lot more people as your organization grows as huge as you need. In order to cut back the workload it is possible to hire the particular employees depending on your specifications. Only thing in real est business, it calls for for work and you should have a fantastic plan to ensure success. If that is possible coming from you, then there's no limitation to your growth.


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Albany's new flag: The latest
Written August 26th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 6 responses.
The flag design symbolizes and represents "Confluence and Crossroads."
In case you're wondering what's happening as the result of this month's Albany flag decision, stick around and with the help of Marilyn Smith, the public information officer at City Hall, you're about to find out.
As you will recall, the city council sponsored a design contest after a club at West Albany High School suggested the city should have its own flag. A bunch of entries were submitted and five semifinalists were put out to the public for a survey. The flag club's design ranked highest in the survey — a flag poll, actually, as my friend Jeff McMahon adroitly pointed out on KGAL — and the city council agreed that this should be the city flag design.
So what happened since? Smith updated the council this week, and I asked her to summarize the situation for me. Here's what she wrote:
"We will order three flags from Elmer's Flag and Banner in Portland. Total cost is $389. Councilor Kopczynski's $100 prize to the winner is being turned back by the WAHS students to go toward that expense. The rest of the cost will be paid from the City Council's budget. The West Albany students plan to march with the new flag in the Veterans Day parade. We plan to fly the flag at City Hall beginning Monday, Nov. 14."
She added: "Cole Pouliot, the West math teacher and flag group adviser, has ordered five flags from a source in China for less than $100. He plans to fly one at his house and have another one in his classroom, at least. He was hoping we could have small hand-held flags to hand out to people at the parade and has considered a gofundme account to raise money for them."
There was mention at Wednesday's council meeting that there are nine flag poles at city buildings, and should the council get enough flags for all? No, the consensus had it, nobody needs the chore of hauling extra flags up and down that many poles. (hh)
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany city flag, Confluence and Crossroads
6 responses to "Albany's new flag: The latest"
Jackson Cauter says:
The flags should have been sourced locally. Tin-eared politicos give lip service to area business, but when push comes to shove, political will gives way to the fear of a few bad headlines.
Hasso Hering says:
Know any local flag makers? (hh)
No Dinx could knock that outta the park.
hj.anony1 says:
Standing the test of time! Well a couple months … great flag!! But …
CHINA!?!??! Arriving on the same shipping container as tRump's ties and tRump's "make 'merica great again" hats?
On the flipside, a small-handheld flag would be nice. A suggestion: one for every Albany resident as WE begin to pay that rain tax.
Hazel Siebrecht says:
I like this flag and will be looking for it at City Hall!
Shawn Dawson says:
Every thing is a lesson, especially for teachers. Ordering flags from China is teaching that the primary thing that matters is cost. Cost over jobs and over social responsibility. Teacher salaries are paid by taxes. It takes jobs to create taxes. When one chooses not to support jobs as close to home as possible, it has social consequences — less jobs for those in the U.S, and more poverty.
Many folks say that things are not made in the U.S. But this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I make it a habit of reading the origin of every single thing I buy, from my shoes to my salmon, and supporting U.S. jobs as much as possible. While this does not mean that everything I buy is from the U.S, it does mean that most of it is. Something as simple to find as a flag made in the U.S. would be a slam dunk if one cared about giving jobs to the families who send their kids to public schools.
A quick google for 'american made flag companies' found sites which could do this in the United States, including a company at valleyforgeflag.com in addition to Elmer's chosen by the city.
The Elmer's Flag and Banner web site states the their flags are mostly made in America, so kudos to the city for supporting this business.


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Q: How to access/modify variable inside struct with a pointer to struct? I have this code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

typedef struct vector_{
    int x;
    double y;
    double z;
} *vector;

void modi(vector a);

int main() {
  vector var;
  var->x = 2;
  modi(var);
  return 0;
}

void modi(vector a){
  printf("avant modif %d",a->x);
  a->x = 5;
  printf("avant modif %d",a->x);
}

I tried to run it but I got a segmentation fault.
The problem is simple: the access/modify with a struct pointer variable.
I look on Stack Overflow but I got an incomplete answer for my problem: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1544134
What is the right way to access/modify in this case (a struct pointer variable)?

A: Please try this, it works, I expanded a bit. Please read the comments in the code.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct vector_
{
  int x;
  double y;
  double z;
};

typedef struct vector_ *vector;
void modi( vector a );

int main(  )
{
  struct vector_ av;    // we have a structure av
  vector var = &av;     // pointer var points to av
  var->x = 2;

  printf( "\ndans main() avant call to modi() %d", var->x );

  modi( var );

  printf( "\ndans main() apres call to modi() %d", var->x );
  return 0;
}

void modi( vector a )
{
  printf( "\ndans modi() avant modif %d", a->x );
  a->x = 5;
  printf( "\ndans modi() apres modif %d", a->x );
}


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Exchange Texas Hold'em is the fast, furious and new way to play Poker Texas Hold'em.
In this game you can see all four hands on the table, and bet on any of them to win or lose at any stage of the game; pre-deal, after the deal, after the flop and after the turn. There are no betting limits, and the minimum stake is just £1.
Remember, you're not actually playing the card game, you're betting on the outcome of other people playing the market.
The commission applied by Betfair on this game is 2.5%.
The commission charged by Betfair is applied only to the profit (i.e. net winnings) which you obtain in the game market so you only pay commission if you are successful in a given game market.
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There are a number options available to you for customising your Texas Hold'Em experience.
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Each game of Texas Hold 'em may have up to four rounds of betting. Use your skill and judgment to recognise the best or worst hands and place your bets to Back or Lay a hand. You can BACK a hand to win or LAY one to lose.
In this game, you are betting against other players by either Backing one or more opened Lay bets (place by another/other player(s)) or by Laying one or more opened Back bets (placed by other players).
The bets which are matched with other bets are called "matched" bets and the bets which are not yet matched with other bets are called unmatched bets. A bet needs to be matched in order to be eligible to be won or lost.
The bets which remain unmatched at the end of a betting round will be automatically deleted when the next round begins.
The Back bets are those placed by clicking one of the Blue odds buttons. By Backing a hand, you are betting that that hand will win. You can also ask for better odds, by specifying your own odds when you place the bet. If there will be no bet(s) to be matched against your bet, then your bet will remain unmatched until the system will be able to automatically match it or until your unmatched bet will be deleted.
The Back bets are matched against the Lay bets.
The Lay bets are those placed by clicking one of the Pink odds buttons. By Laying a hand, you are betting that that hand will not win. You can also ask for better odds, by specifying your own odds when you place the bet. If there will be no bet(s) to be matched against your bet, then your bet will remain unmatched until the system will be able to automatically match it or until your unmatched bet will be deleted.
The Lay bets are matched against the Back bets.
The liquidity is the amount of money available for you to bet (back/lay) at the corresponding odds on the corresponding selection. You can bet all or part of that amount. If you bet more than the amount shown, the system will place the remaining stake as an unmatched bet available for others to take.
You will see the liquidity in the currency of your account if you are logged in and in GBP (£) if you are logged out.
The liquidity is displayed on the odds buttons of each selection on which you can bet.
Choose the hand that you wish to back/lay and click on on a corresponding Back/Lay odds button.
[Optional] Choose your Odds if you are not happy with the default odds.
Select your stake by clicking on a chip or typing the amount you wish to bet into the stake field.
Your bet and its status (matched/unmatched) will be shown on your Betslip, under My Bets.
Before the end of each round you will be able to place as many bets as you want to and you will be able to change or cancel your unmatched bets from that round as well.
At the end of the game the bets will be automatically settled and the winnings bets will be paid.
This game is based on the poker game commonly known as 'Texas Hold'em'.
Each game begins with 13 cards being dealt face down from a shuffled pack. 8 of the cards are paired to form 4 separate hands (these cards in the pairs are known as hole cards). The remaining 5 cards form a pool of community cards.
A first round of betting takes place whilst all cards are face down (the deal). Players bet on which individual hand they think will win the game. Bets can be placed to Back or Lay each hand.
At the end of the first round of betting, unmatched bets are cancelled and the pairs of cards forming the individual hands are simultaneously turned face up. There is then a second round of betting. Again, bets can Back or Lay each individual hand within the game (Pre-flop).
Each round of betting lasts for a set period of time. This period is indicated by the counter in the center of the screen. (Please note the counter is indicative only).
At the end of the second round of betting unmatched bets are cancelled and the first three of the community cards are turned face up ('the flop'). Another round of betting begins.
The end of the third round of betting unmatched bets are cancelled before the fourth card from the community cards is turned face up. (This card is sometimes known as the 'turn'.) Another round of betting then commences.
The fourth and final round of betting finishes with unmatched bets cancelled before the fifth and final of the community cards is turned face up (this is sometimes known as the 'river').
The result of the game is determined by which hand is best within the predetermined rank system. Should two hands be of equal standing then Dead Heat rules will apply.
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten of the same suit.
Three cards of one number or face value and two cards of another number or face value. If more than one player has a full house, the full house with the highest ranking three of a kind ('trips') wins.
Five cards of the same suit. If there is more than one flush, the hand with the highest card(s) wins.
Five cards in sequence. Cards can be in any suit. An Ace can be used in the highest straight (10, J, Q, K, A) and the lowest straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5). If there is more than one straight, the hand with the highest card in the straight wins.
If two players have two pair, the hand with the highest pair wins. If they have the same high pair, whoever has the second highest pair wins. If they have the same two pair, whoever has the highest fifth card ('kicker') wins.
Two cards of the same number or face value. If two players have the same pair, the highest outside card(s) wins.
Should two or more hands have cards or combinations of cards with equal standing and value then the value of the remaining cards in that hand is used to determine the winner (sometimes know as the kicker). Should one or more hands still be of equal values then dead heat rules will apply to the winning hands (sometimes known as 'splitting the pot').
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On Texas Hold'em, using a single click/tap you can cash out of all your bets placed and matched in the game.
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A Cash Out possibility will be offered only in the rounds in which no bets are placed. If you are placing a bet in a round, no Cash Out will be offered afterwards in that round.
The Cash Out will be offered at the beginning of a round and you will have the possibility to choose to take it or to choose not to take it.
If you have placed bets on more than one selection, you will receive in the next round(s) a Cash Out offer calculated based on all your bets placed and matched in the game.
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