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For opioid addiction: Opioids are a type of powerful painkiller that includes both the illicit drug heroin and prescription medications like morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone. Addictions to these drugs can be treated with methadone, buprenorphine hydrochloride (brand name: Subutex) or buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride tablets (brand name: Suboxone). Methadone and Subutex help suppress withdrawal symptoms, including cravings, while Suboxone blocks opioids' ability to elicit a reaction from brain receptors. All of these drugs alleviate drug-seeking behavior, too. (Methadone should be used cautiously due to its risk for life-threatening breathing problems, says the National Institutes of Health). The drug naltrexone (brand names: Depade, ReVia and Vivitrol, an injectable form) is also approved for treating opioid addictions; it works by erasing the effects of opioids so that cravings eventually diminish. Your doctor may also prescribe an anti-anxiety medication if you're dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) or anxiety issues; both are fairly common in people with addiction.
For tobacco addiction: Tobacco products contain nicotine, which is addictive. Various nicotine replacement therapies — patches, sprays, gums, lozenges — are available over-the-counter to curb nicotine cravings. Bupropion (brand names: Wellbutrin, Zyban) and varenicline (brand name: Chantix) are both FDA-approved for smoking cessation.
For alcoholism: Naltrexone (brand names: ReVia, Depade and Vivitrol, an injectable form) is used to quell cravings for alcohol, while acamprosate (brand name: Campral) reduces withdrawal symptoms. Disulfiram (brand name: Antabuse), the oldest medication for alcoholism, causes unpleasant symptoms when you drink like nausea and skin-flushing to deter patients from drinking.
For video gaming addiction: The antidepressant bupropion (brand names: Aplezin, Budeprion, Buproban, Wellbutrin, Zyban) is sometimes used to treat gaming disorders; as with its use in treating some substance use disorders, it can help reduce cravings for gaming.
In addition, several medications are under investigation for the treatment of gambling disorder, but none have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. And drugs are being developed for treating addictions to stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine as well as marijuana addiction, but all are still in the pipeline, reports NIDA. People who are addicted to more than one substance (what are called "poly-drug" users) will need help for each drug they abuse.
Psychotherapy: If you seek medical help for your addiction, it's very likely that at some point your doctor or another health care professional will suggest counseling. That could mean one-on-one "talk therapy" between you and a therapist, social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist or an addiction counselor. You could also have group therapy (in which you meet and talk with a group of about six to 10 other people, often with the same addiction or issues as you have).
Your treatment plan could include other types of therapy, too, and the approach that's used could change over time. For instance, in the beginning the work you do in counseling sessions may focus on recognizing your triggers and stopping them and finding ways to soothe yourself when you feel anxious or upset. When your recovery is better established, you and your therapist may then turn to exploring your past in more depth. As with any other part of your treatment regimen, how counseling works will be unique to you and your path to recovery.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT is a very popular treatment approach for mental disorders and also for both substance and behavioral addictions. CBT focuses on questioning and changing negative and unproductive thoughts and beliefs in order to improve behavior and emotions that lead to addictive tendencies. If you do opt to use counseling as part of your treatment, it's very likely that your therapist will incorporate CBT.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Sometimes patients need more support and acceptance to overcome addiction and other problems that stem from a difficult childhood or trauma. In Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, the clinician lets a patient know when a behavior or belief is unhealthy, while always offering total acceptance. DBT follows a standard protocol: At every session, the patient reports the problems he or she faced in the previous week. The therapy attempts to teach the addict strategies and coping skills for dealing with life's difficulties while being mindful to react to situations in the present and not to layer on problems of the past.
Motivational Interviewing: In this type of psychotherapy, a counselor helps an addict to gradually feel more capable of making positive changes in his or her life.
Group Therapy: As mentioned above, therapists who hold group sessions work with people who share similar issues, such as the same type of addiction or the same co-occurring disorders, such as depression and alcoholism. In sessions the therapist poses questions or proposes a problem for members to discuss, acting primarily as a guide and keeping the conversation productive and focused. Group therapy is a lot like talk therapy except that it utilizes group dynamics to help members change behavior and thought processes.
Family & Couples Therapy: Family therapy (also sometimes called Multidimensional Family Therapy, or MDFT) is structured so that every member of the family has a voice with the goal of improving relationships, communication and the family's home life. When a family goes to therapy because one member has an addiction, it's a step toward solving ongoing problems of daily living and healing past hurts; doing so can address factors within the family that are perpetuating an addiction.
In couples therapy, the therapist works with a couple dealing with an addiction to help both partners come to terms with the ways in which the problematic drug and/or behavior has hurt their relationship and to help the couple reconnect, or, if necessary, part ways. If unresolved issues, such as childhood trauma or neglect or unmanaged mental disorders, are at play, these may need to be dealt with in individual therapy sessions.
Adventure therapy: Nature can be a big part of healing. These programs — which might include rock climbing, orienteering and zip lining, among other activities — focus on using the outdoors to learn how to overcome challenges, both in the wilderness and in ordinary life.
Art therapy: Certified art therapists use different media (watercolors, oil pastels, clay) to help patients explore their feelings. Through art, the therapist helps you to resolve inner conflicts, gain self-awareness, manage behavior, increase social skills, reduce anxiety and improve self-esteem, according to the American Art Therapy Association.
Equine therapy: When addicts work with, care for and ride horses, they develop a connection that can be powerful and healing.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): This form of psychotherapy claims to relieve anxiety, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. A specially trained EMDR therapist uses a technique in which the client follows the therapist's fingers with their eyes from side to side while recalling a negative memory. The combination of the repetitive eye movement and memory recall is said to help the client process the memory and relieve negative emotions, such as past trauma that may be contributing to a drug addiction. The process is repeated in session until the client's distress over past events is relieved.
Motivational incentives: Clinicians offer rewards, such as special privileges (like an outing, voucher or prize), as encouragement to help clients in residential treatment programs and sober living communities to stay clean.
Recreational therapy: Scrapbooking, knitting, going to a baseball game or bowling — all are examples of recreational therapy. This approach is based on the simple premise that through such experiences the addict can learn healthy ways to have fun, relieve stress and form relationships.
Wilderness therapy: Participants (usually teens and young adults) learn skills that will enable them to rely completely on themselves to survive in nature. These programs generally include treatment plans and 12-step work and can last for several weeks.


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Q: Problem installing PlayWright Chrome on Heroku using Python I'm developing a WebScraping application using PlayWright, but when deploying it on heroku it can't install the browsers using the playwright install command I got to run the command directly on the heroku console, it does the installation but also doesn't it worked out.
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on site is working perfectly, but when you play on heroku this problem, I've tried several solutions but none worked.
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from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as playwright:
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A: Heroku's filesystem is both ephemeral and dyno-local. Any changes made to it are lost when the dyno restarts. More importantly at the moment, when you run something like heroku run bash you don't connect to a running dyno. Instead, you get a separate one-off dyno.
Installing Chromium (or making any other filesystem changes) in such an environment will never affect what is available in your other dynos.
It looks like Playwright really wants to manage its own browser binaries. Your best bet might be to run playwright install near the beginning of your script, e.g. something like this:
import subprocess
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

subprocess.run(["playwright", "install"])

with sync_playwright() as playwright:
    # ...

This should make sure that the required binaries are always available at runtime.

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While DeMarco's musical performance had barely any flaws, the crowd for this concert was more out of place than the looks of the cartoonish pickle.
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Boston United set to respond to alleged Football Association probe
Boston United are set to responded to suggestions that the Football Association are investigating their final game of the National League North season - a 5-0 win at Stalybridge Celtic.
Wednesday, 25th May 2016, 9:35 am
Updated Wednesday, 25th May 2016, 11:03 am
Dayle Southwell.
The Pilgrims needed victory to ensure their place in the top five, which would secure a play-off spot at the expense of Nuneaton Town.
They did so in emphatic style at Bower Fold.
The Daily Mail have reported that part of the probe will focus on whether any illegal betting patterns can be identified.
Boston dominated the match against their mid-table opponents and won 5-0 following a hat-trick from Dayle Southwell, plus goals from Jay Rollins and Grant Roberts.
In-form United went into the contest on the back of four wins and a draw.
The story in the Mail also suggests that Stalybridge played three academy players in that contest.
The four changes to the Celtic side which beat Corby Town 3-0 in their previous match were Amour Lingouba, Dale Wright, Aaron Chalmers and John Shaw, who replaced Jack Higgins, Charlie Joyce, Steve Tames and Adam Farrell.
Higgins has since been sold to York City and it has been suggested that Joyce's loan spell from Southport has already ended.
Lingouba, who came through the club's academy, was making his 11th appearance for Celtic, while Wright, Chalmers and Shaw were all established first teamers.
Both Stalybridge and Boston are reported to refute the allegations.
A Boston United statement is expected shortly.
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Operation Come-To-School – is in line with the Kenya Ministry of Education's 2014-2018 National Education Sector Programme that seeks to accelerate access to education for the most marginalized children. EAC has been a strong partner of UNICEF's since 2012.
Kenya has nearly 1.5 million children, aged 6-13 years old, who are out of school due to poverty, child marriage and gender-related cultural practices.
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Educate A Child is one of the programmes run by Education Above All Foundation, the global initiative founded in 2012 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. Worldwide there are 59 million children out of school and this is now a critical time to ensure those hard to reach children who remain out of school are not forgotten. A final push is needed by the global community, both financial and political, to ensure universal primary education for all is an essential element of sustainable development.
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Frank's Story
What we have so far
The Tire Mystery...
FRANK LOCKHART AND THE LAND SPEED RECORD
© John R. Bayer
Of all the racing careers there have been in America, among the brightest has always been Frank Stallworth Lockhart. His career packed, death came too soon, his goal in reach. Frank's story is also the story of the Stutz Black Hawk Special.
Born in 1903 in Dayton, Ohio, Frank's family moved to the Los Angeles area in his childhood. As a teen, Frank decided he must have a racing car. Gathering a free chassis and parts from his work at Ray McDowell's garage, Frank had the car running shortly, driving so hard in his first race that he literally melted the exhaust manifold! Obtaining a better engine, the wins then began. By 1925 Frank's success earned him finer mounts and he found himself on top the Pacific Coast circuit. He traveled to Indy the following spring, to watch the race and maybe bum a couple of practice laps…
AT INDY
Frank, having been a part of the Miller team, travelled to Indy for the first time. He had the chance to drive Bennett Hill's Miller in practice. He set a one-lap qualifying record at 115.448 mph with a car not at the top of the pole, his first time on the track! Frank was assured they'd call on him if Hill needed relief.
CHANCE AND TRIUMPH
Memorial Day dawned, rain predicted. Driver Pete Kreis had pneumonia and Frank the rookie got the nod to sit in. The record crowd was about to see an upset from the 7th row - by lap three, he was in 5th place; one more, he was fourth! The leaders, signaled of Frank's approach, increased the pace. By lap 50, Lockhart was second. Then the rains came; most took to the pits, but not Frank. The #15 Miller was 1st after 9 more laps! Frank led 12 laps later when a downpour suspended racing. Fast forward 75 minutes and a restart. Then on lap 93, Frank finally pits. Harry Hartz then leads, but only for five laps, when he also pits; Lockhart's back in front. The rain returns at 400 miles, but this time it's over. Frank, leading by two laps, is declared the winner!
KEEP ON ROLLING
Frank continued winning that summer, putting him in contention for the AAA National Championship. Car troubles for Frank saw Harry Hartz number one, with Lockhart second. The team picked up Ernie Olson as mechanic as a result of the successful season.
TINKERER
When Frank's car held up he was almost unbeatable, but he always pushed, his engines eventually pulling 285 hp at 8,000 rpm, vs. 154hp/7,000 from the factory. This output cost, breaking or bending valves. Sensing the supercharger was the problem, Lockhart rigged a power take-off on the transmission of his street Buick so he could experiment, finding that the air exiting the supercharger was red hot – this was the intake air!
ENTER THE WEISELS
Frank contacted John Weisel, whom he knew from Harry Miller's. Zenas and brother John were engineers and the trained help Frank needed.
The intercooler was the big solution - invented by Frank, refined by the team. Still in use today, the design is substantially unchanged. In the first test, the car went more than 8.5 mph faster! In March at Culver City, the device had its first competition, setting a track record of 142.2 mph. Frank was now poised to attempt more at a "whistle stop" in the high desert of California named after the Corum brothers.
MUROC DRY LAKE
A small white single-seater veered around an oval on the hard lakebed. Through the mile, a speed of 171.02 mph was recorded - within the last 12 months, the absolute world speed record had stood at 170.6 mph – from a purpose-built car driven by 443 c.i., vs. Lockhart's 91.5 c.i. Miller, modified only by a gearing change, wheel discs, and removal of the tiny windshield!
ANOTHER WINNING SEASON AND INNOVATIONS
At Indy this year, Lockhart sat on the first row, as the race laps ticked off, no one came close. Unfortunately, a connecting rod gave. Ernie and Frank set about redesigning the rods. The team was also first to field the locked differential, radius rods, and modern type wheel bearings.
1927 victories were topped at Cleveland with more records, winning the 100-miler, breaking all international records from 1-100 miles, and averaging 80 mph for the day – 101 records in a day!
LOCKHART THE MAN
Though immersed in cars, Frank courted and married Ella, the only woman he ever dated. She was a kindred spirit often found helping out in the garage. Frank, who stood only 5'3" and weighed but 135 pounds still looked more like a teenager than his 24 years.
ENTER MOSCOVICS AND STUTZ
Frank was prospering at last, but set that aside to wager it all on this new venture. Ernie Olson believed Frank should focus on the champ circuit, and left the team. Jimmy Lee and Jean Marcenac replaced Olson.
Frank had gone to Harry Miller for backing; the answer was a definite "NO". Timing is everything; the reconstituted Stutz Company headed by Fred Moscovics was looking to again make a name for itself. Moscovics' acquaintances fronted $20,000, Fred put up $15K of his own, plus use of Stutz shops. The one condition was the machine bear the moniker "Stutz Black Hawk Special – Made in Indianapolis". Fred said of Frank, "…that kid is by far the most extraordinary person I have ever met; he is without doubt the greatest mixture of driver and mechanic in the world today".
THE BLACK HAWK
In early 1928, an idea Frank had been working on since Muroc appeared, in the slippery form of the "Stutz Black Hawk Special" record-breaker. Looking like something out of Buck Rogers, it was revolutionary.
Team Lockhart was way ahead in their obsession with power-to-weight ratio. Typically, designers had to apply huge power increases by adding cubic inches, meaning added weight, needing even more power, a classic vicious circle, to gain a few mph. Frank had prophetically seen the future at Muroc; if you kept your frontal area and your weight down, much less power was required. That was it – almost miraculously simple.
The team, aware of wind tunnels, designed the car with tightly cloaked bodywork. Wheel spats were needed because air pressure would wobble open wheels. The front spats turned with the wheels, with the center of pressure aft of the kingpins, causing sluggishness in steering, but lending stability. Models of the Muroc car and the proposed beach car were constructed and compared, with Curtiss Co. tunnel test revealing a top end of 283 mph for the beach car, with similar results at the Army's McCook Field! The existing LSR stood at a mere 203 mph; the team shot for 225 mph. Frank thought he'd run two 91 engines in tandem, for no more frontal area than a standard Miller. Zenas convinced him to run the two blocks parallel on a common crankcase; the car was still very narrow, the center body scaled to the width of Frank's shoulders.
The Black Hawk would be heavier than a standard 91, but featherweight compared to Seagrave's Sunbeam. The British contender was 8,000 lbs, carrying a 2,745 c.i. engine producing 1,000 hp. Lockhart's was only 2,800 lbs and 183 c.i., but produced 570 hp at 8,100 rpm. The Stutz had a 6:1 advantage.
A big question was tires; no one had much knowledge of dynamics. They set up a test machine to see the effects of a blow-out at 225, fired a shotgun at the tire, and vibration tore the machine to pieces. Frank intended to use proven Firestones, but a newcomer, Mason, put up $20,000 in sponsorship and free tires - or a third manufacturer, Dickinson, may have provided them (see the "Tire Mystery").
There were other challenges: the suspension needed to be very rigid; to help keep Frank from loss of control due to gusting winds or shifting sands, the steering wheel would also travel very narrowly. Intercoolers were in the plans from the start, flush with the hood and cooled by airflow. New was an ice tank, replacing the usual radiator/grille and associated drag caused by it. Another recent innovation was the full belly pan.
DAYTONA – AND A CLOSE SHAVE
The crew was pushed; on the drawing boards for ten months, the car was constructed in three! Three months can be eternal when making, testing, and remaking parts. Moscovics said often the crew would have to be ordered home, or they'd work all night. In February, 1928, they were ready.
It was almost over before it started; the car wouldn't run above 180. Were they all wrong? In the Stutz shops, the engines ran great; now they were starving. Days went by. The intakes had been made flush with the skin, and this was thought to be the issue. It has been widely reported small scoops were made to solve this problem, but in photos (including one of the last run) they are absent, so this piece remains a mystery.
The weather then kicked up, rain and wind so heavy the timing crew only gave Frank until the 22nd. The day of 22 February dawned with squalls passing through the Ormond area, putting ripples in the beach that could throw a car at speed. Visibility was down to a half-mile or less.
The day was waning, with little improvement. Soon, however, a whine was heard from two superchargers. The Black Hawk was reported at over 225 mph when without warning it veered and flipped into the surf, remarkably landing upright but with Lockhart trapped in the wreckage.
One of Frank's hands was seen moving; Moscovics, first on scene, saved him by holding his head above water. A crowd materialized with a rope and pulled the car ashore. Frank's injuries were minor for a flip into the surf at 200+ mph – cut tendons, small cut on chin, mild concussion. The car was little damaged; Moscovics ordered it back on the train to Indy immediately. Frank returned to Indy as hero. The car was soon repaired, but Moscovics wanted Frank to wait until the next year; he was back on the beach in two months.
DAYTONA FINALE
Frank appeared calm as he posed for photos that sunny April day in front of the Sheraton Plaza Hotel on Daytona. The beach was smooth and hard. Lockhart began warm-ups, seeing a time of 198.29 mph, a class record, on his final practice. Frank got on the brakes a little at the end of the run, skidding 100 feet. He lined up for the first record attempt. Observers saw him coming estimated at over 220 mph approaching the measured mile and still accelerating.
Suddenly, there was a roostertail of sand from a rear tire, a flash of metal, a 'pop' heard by some. The car skidded, Frank fighting; it seemed for a moment he would pull it out. Then the Black Hawk skidded even more radically and literally leapt into the air. Coming down sharply, the car buried its nose, and Lockhart was thrown down the beach, mortally injured.
When officials examined the course and the marks the car made, they found a clam shell in the skid left at the end of his last practice, evidence the shell had sliced the tire.
The editorial staff of the New York Herald said, as others did, that Frank was "… the latest sacrifice on the altar of speed', but Frank had achieved his goal, even if it wasn't official, that last run.
Lockhart left a legacy not to be forgotten. The first designer of the Tucker, before Alex Tremulis, paid tribute over 20 years later, with the front skirted fenders on the Tucker '48. Frank's intercoolers revolutionized championship racing. Connecting rods and other features with Lockhart mods saw reliability edge higher. Lockhart's 91 engines were unbeatable in other hands until the end of the formula.
The remnants of Frank's beach car also lived on; the engine was salvaged, and, when the larger formula reigned at Indy once again, set new records. It qualified at the front as long as 18 years later, and still exists in the museum at Indianapolis, where anyone familiar with Frank Lockhart and the Stutz Black Hawk Special may ponder what might have been.


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Farmers to sponsor LA tournament
LOS ANGELES — For the second straight year Farmers Insurance Group of Companies will serve as the title sponsor for the annual Olympus US Open Series and ATP World Tour 250 professional tennis tournament in Los Angeles.
The 2011 Farmers Classic, presented by Mercedes-Benz, will be held July 25-31 at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on the campus of UCLA.
Farmers Insurance and the Farmers Classic share more than just a name. Both have deep roots in Southern California, with the company celebrating its 83rd birthday this year while the tournament is in its 85th year, making it the longest running professional sporting event in LA.
The company and tournament also share firm commitments to the community through various charitable efforts. In 2010, the Farmers Classic raised more than $500,000 through the tournament and other special events for several charities, including the tournament beneficiary, the Southern California Tennis Association.
Farmers Insurance is proud to "Serve Communities" in Los Angeles and across the United States. Farmers' is committed to improving the communities where our customers, agents and employees live and work. Farmers provides vital funding to 100 programs in Los Angeles area and 1,000 programs nationwide adding up to more than $8 million dollars annually. Giving back is part of Farmers business philosophy, and has been for 83 years.
"For us giving back is not just a corporate motto, it's a way of life for all of us at Farmers," said Chuck Browning, Vice President of Community Branding for Farmers Insurance. "To borrow a tennis term, combining charity and world class tennis brings 'top spin' to some worthy causes."
The tennis tournament is just one of Farmers' sports sponsorships. Earlier this year, Farmers announced a landmark naming rights deal for "Farmers Field," a proposed NFL stadium in downtown LA. The company also sponsors the PGA's Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, has its logo on the uniform of the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks, will sponsor Mark Martin for five NASCAR Sprint Cup races this year, and partners with 17 state high school athletic associations nationwide.
"Farmers has become a very important player in the sport sponsorship business," said David Simon, President of the Los Angeles Sports Council. "They are engaging in the marketplace at a time when many other businesses are shying away from it. That commitment is very apparent in their home base of Los Angeles, and it shows their interest in keeping LA a vibrant sports city."
This will also be the second year for Mercedes-Benz to serve as presenting sponsor of the tournament. The 2011 tournament marks the 10th year that Mercedes-Benz has been a major sponsor of the event.
"Mercedes-Benz is thrilled to once again be presenting sponsor of the Farmers Classic, presented by Mercedes-Benz," said Jill Martinette, Mercedes-Benz USA Regional Marketing Manager, Western Region. "With some of the leading tennis players in the world competing on UCLA's unique and invigorating campus, it's proven to be an ideal place to showcase our innovative luxury automobile line. After nearly a decade of support, we're looking forward to another great week at UCLA this summer."
"This successful and charitable fundraising event would not be possible without tremendous support from Farmers Insurance, Mercedes-Benz and all our sponsors and partners," said tournament director Bob Kramer. "We're very proud of our history of giving back to the community through our event. It definitely makes a difference when you share that priority with your closest partners."
The singles final of the 2010 Farmers Classic presented by Mercedes-Benz featured two Top 20 players as Santa Monica's Sam Querrey won his second straight title by defeating three-time Grand Slam finalist Andy Murray. In doubles, Camarillo natives Bob and Mike Bryan won their record sixth Los Angeles title and record-breaking 60th championship on Tour.
Season tickets and mini-plan tickets for the 85th annual Farmers Classic presented by Mercedes-Benz are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit FarmersClassic.com/Tickets or call (310) 824 -1010 ext. 251.
ABOUT THE FARMERS CLASSIC PRESENTED BY MERCEDES-BENZ
The Farmers Classic, presented by Mercedes-Benz, has been played every year since 1927, making it the longest-running annual professional sporting event in Los Angeles. Played since 1984 at the LA Tennis Center on the campus of UCLA, the tournament is part of the Olympus US Open Series, the six-week summer tennis season linking 10 ATP World Tour and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour events to the US Open, culminating each week with back-to-back men's and women's finals every Sunday afternoon. Players battle for $40 million, including a chance for bonus prize money at the US Open. Proceeds from the Farmers Classic Presented by Mercedes-Benz benefit the grassroots programs of the non-profit Southern California Tennis Association (SCTA) and UCLA. The SCTA offers programs, leagues, and tournaments involving 300,000 juniors and 50,000 adults and seniors. The tournament is proud to participate in the Farmers Serves Communities initiative. Information on tickets and the tournament can be found at FarmersClassic.com or by calling 310-824-1010.
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Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is the country's third-largest insurer of both private Personal Lines passenger automobile and homeowners insurance, and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers is proud to serve 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees.
Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be. Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Financial Services Group. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit our Web site at farmers.com or at Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.


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In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern. It is a figure that can be used with any scale. It is used primarily for solos because, when practiced enough, it can be extremely useful when improvising. "Sequence" refers to the repetition of a part at a higher or lower pitch, and melodic sequence is differentiated from harmonic sequence. One example of melodic motive and sequence are the pitches of the first line, "Send her victorious," repeated, a step lower, in the second line, "Happy and glorious," from "God Save the Queen".
Melodic pattern in C major.
"A melodic pattern is just what the name implies: a melody with some sort of fixed pattern to it." "The strong theme or motive is stated. It is repeated more or less exactly, but at a different pitch level."
^ Berg, Shelly (2005). Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory, p.83. Alfred Music. ISBN 9780739030899. "Melodic sequence is the repetition of an idea transposed by some interval."
^ Briggs (2011). The Language and Materials of Music, p.202. Third Edition. Highland Heritage. ISBN 9781257996148. "Melodic sequences are patterns that repeat at different pitches."
^ Randel, Don Michael; ed. (2003). The Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.768. Harvard. ISBN 9780674011632. "Sequence: The repetition of a phrase of melody (melodic sequence)...at different pitch levels, the succession of pitch levels rising or falling by the same or similar succession of intervals."
^ Giffe, William Thomas (1906). A Practical Course in Harmony and Musical Composition, p.107. T. Presser. [ISBN unspecified] "A melodic sequence may consist of a melodic design, or phrase, repeated in a symmetrical manner."
^ Berle, Arnie (1997). Mel Bay Encyclopedia of Scales, Modes and Melodic Patterns, p.9. ISBN 0-7866-1791-8.
^ Greene, Ted (1985). Ted Greene -- Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, p.42. Alfred Music. ISBN 9780739053843.
^ Haerle, Dan (1993). Jazz Improvisation for Keyyboard Players, p.2-7. Alfred. ISBN 9781457493874.
Hanon, C.L. (2000) The Virtuoso Pianist. ISBN 9781569221440. Cited in Baerman, Noah (2003). Big Book of Jazz Piano Improvisation, p.33. ISBN 9780739031711.
Lateef, Yusef (1981). Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Fana Music. Cited in Baerman (2003), p.33.
Slonimsky, Nicolas (2000). Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. ISBN 9780825672408. Cited in Baerman (2003), p.33.
"Beautiful Dreamer" is a parlor song by American songwriter Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published posthumously in March 1864, by Wm. A. Pond & Co. of New York. The first edition states on its title page that it is "the last song ever written by Stephen C. Foster. Composed but a few days prior to his death." However, Carol Kimball, the author of Song, points out that the first edition's copyright is dated 1862, which suggests, she writes, that the song was composed and readied for publication two years before Foster's death. There are at least 20 songs, she observes, that claim to be Foster's last, and it is unknown which is indeed his last. The song is set in 98 time with a broken chord accompaniment.The song tells of a lover serenading a "Beautiful Dreamer" who is oblivious to worldly cares and may actually be dead. Foster's works feature many dead young women, including his sister Charlotte and "Jeanie". Helen Lightner writes, "This sentimental ballad is folk-like in character with its repetitious but lovely melody and its basic harmonic accompaniment ... The quiet and calm of this mood is portrayed by the monotony of the arpeggiated accompaniment, by the repetitiveness of the melodic pattern, and by the strophic form itself."
Dastgāh-e Māhur or Dastgaah-e Maahur (Persian: دستگاه ماهور) is one of the seven Dastgāhs of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven Dastgāhs and five Āvāzes, however from a merely technical point of view, one can consider them as an ensemble of 12 Dastgāhs).
The gendèr is similar to the Balinese gangsa, which also has an individual resonator under each key, and the saron, which, although trough-resonated, does have a set of tuned metal bars or keys. It is also similar to the Javanese slenthem, which is pitched lower and has fewer notes.
In some types of gamelan, two gendèrs are used, both spanning approximately two and a half octaves, the gendèr barung and the gendèr panerus, pitched an octave higher than the other. In Gamelan Surakarta, the gendèr panerus plays a single line of melodic pattern, following a pattern similar to the siter. The gendèr barung plays a slower, but more complex melodic pattern that includes more separate right and left hand melodic lines that come together in kempyung (approximately a fifth) and gembyang (octave) intervals. The melodies of the two hands sometimes move in parallel motion, but often play contrapuntally. When playing gendèr barung with two mallets, the technique of dampening, important to most gamelan instruments, becomes more challenging, and the previously hit notes must be dampened by the same hand immediately after the new ones are hit. This is sometimes possible by playing with the mallet at an angle (to dampen one key and play the other), but may require a small pause.
Both types of gendèr play semi-improvised patterns called cengkok, which generally elaborate upon the seleh. These are relatively fixed patterns, but can be varied in a number of ways to suit the style, pathet, irama, and mood of the piece, as well as the skill of the performer. The cengkok repertoire for gendèr are more developed and specific than those for most other elaborating instruments. Similarly, the gendèr barung is likely to give cues for changing parts or irama, especially in the absence of a rebab, which usually leads the ensemble. It may also play the buka of a piece.
Imbal (Javanese for literally: "to repeat") or imbalan (imbal-imbalan, demung imbal) is a technique used in Javanese gamelan. It refers to a rapid alternation of a melodic line between instruments, in a way similar to hocket in medieval music or kotekan in Balinese gamelan. "A style of playing in which two identical or similar instruments play interlocking parts forming a single repetitive melodic pattern."
This imbal is a method of playing in which the nuclear theme is played by one of the nyaga's 'broken up' into half-values (say, two crotchets [quarter notes] for every minim [half note]), what time another player beats alternately with the first, but in such a way that his tones, each of which comes between two of his colleague's, are always one step lower than the nuclear theme tone immediately preceding it. From practical considerations this imbal is, if possible, divided over two demungs; if only one such instrument is available, the two players sit facing each other. The player who beats the nuclear theme tones is said to play the gawé (...); the other one, the nginţil (= inseparable, following like a shadow) (...).
In Javanese gamelan, it is used especially for the sarons and the bonangs. On the bonangs, an imbal pattern is divided between the bonang panerus and bonang barung, in the octave or so of range that both instruments have. When played on sarons, generally two of the same instrument are used. Both bonang and saron patterns generally are made of scalar passages that end on the seleh at the end of the gatra. Each key is dampened as soon as the other instrument plays, and it allows the melody to be played faster or more smoothly than is possible by a single performer. "Basically, there are two bonang-playing techniques: imbal-imbalan and pipilan. Imbal-imbalan (interlocking) refers to the playing technique in which bonang barung and bonang panerus play interlocking patterns."
One of the hallmarks of Yogyanese style, especially suited to the performance of loud-playing pieces, is the interlocking alternation of two demung parts, known as imbal demung. ... Imbal is a widely practiced technique, popular in some Solonese genres and throughout Java.
On the bonangs, an imbal passage is usually followed by a sekaran.
In music, imitation is the repetition of a melody in a polyphonic texture shortly after its first appearance in a different voice. The melody may vary through transposition, inversion, or otherwise, but retain its original character. The intervals and rhythms of an imitation may be exact or modified; imitation occurs at varying distances relative to the first occurrence, and phrases may begin with voices in imitation before they freely go their own ways.
Imitation helps provide unity to a composition and is used in forms such as the fugue and canon.
The near universality of imitation in polyphonic styles in Western music (and its frequency in homorhythmic, homophonic, and other textures) is evidence enough of its paradoxical value in asserting the individuality of voices.
The term comes from the Greek verb "to tie, link" meaning that it poetically connects the Biblical ode to the subject of the canon.Because the irmos presents a rhythmic and melodic pattern for the troparia which follow, "irmos" gives its name to the irmologic forms of Byzantine chant.
At the end of an ode, the irmos may be repeated, or another irmos may be prescribed to be sung to return to the original biblical theme this is called the katavasia.
A Landini cadence (Landini sixth or Landini sixth cadence), or under-third cadence, is a type of cadence, a technique in music composition, named after Francesco Landini (1325–1397), a blind Florentine organist, in honor of his extensive use of the technique. The technique was used extensively in the 14th and early 15th century.
In a typical Medieval cadence, a major sixth musical interval is expanded to an octave by having each note move outwards one step. In Landini's version, an escape tone in the upper voice narrows the interval briefly to a perfect fifth before the octave. There could also be an inner voice; in the example the inner voice would move from F♯ to G, in the same rhythm as the lower voice.
Landini was not the first to use the cadence (Gherardello da Firenze appears to be the first, at least whose works have survived), and was not the last: the cadence was still in use well into the 15th century, appearing particularly frequently in the songs of Gilles Binchois and in the music of Johannes Wreede. However Landini seems to have been the first to use it consistently. The term was coined in the late 19th century by German writer A.G. Ritter (1884), in his Zur Geschichte des Orgelspiels, Leipzig.
"Livin' the Dream" is a song written by Tom Douglas, Jaren Johnston and Luke Laird and recorded by American country music artist Drake White. It was released to radio on December 7, 2015 as the second single to his debut studio album, Spark, which was released on August 19, 2016.
The millennial whoop is a melodic pattern alternating between the fifth and third notes in a major scale, typically starting on the fifth, in the rhythm of straight 8th-notes, and often using the "wa" and "oh" syllables. It has been used extensively in 2010s pop music.
In music, an ostinato [ostiˈnaːto] (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch. Well-known ostinato-based pieces include both classical compositions such as Ravel's Boléro and the Carol of the Bells, and popular songs such as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's "I Feel Love" (1977), Henry Mancini's theme from Peter Gunn (1959), The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (1997), and April Ivy's "Be Ok" (1997).In RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music), a level 8 theory definition for the term "ostinato" would be referred to as "a recurring rhythmic or melodic pattern". The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in itself. Both ostinatos and ostinati are accepted English plural forms, the latter reflecting the word's Italian etymology. Strictly speaking, ostinati should have exact repetition, but in common usage, the term covers repetition with variation and development, such as the alteration of an ostinato line to fit changing harmonies or keys.
Within the context of film music, Claudia Gorbman defines an ostinato as a repeated melodic or rhythmic figure that propels scenes that lack dynamic visual action.Ostinato plays an important part in improvised music (rock and jazz), in which it is often referred to as a riff or a vamp. A "favorite technique of contemporary jazz writers", ostinati are often used in modal and Latin jazz and traditional African music including Gnawa music.The term ostinato essentially has the same meaning as the medieval Latin word pes, the word ground as applied to classical music, and the word riff in contemporary popular music.
Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. Bartók composed the piece in 1945 during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. It consists of three movements.
The Prelude in F-sharp minor, Op. 23, No. 1 is a composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff completed and premiered in 1903. It is one of ten preludes composed by Rachmaninoff in 1901 and 1903.
Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated. It may be called restatement, such as the restatement of a theme. While it plays a role in all music, with noise and musical tones lying along a spectrum from irregular to periodic sounds,(Moravcsik, 114)(Rajagopal,) it is especially prominent in specific styles.
Thiruda Thiruda (lit. Thief! Thief!) is a 1993 Tamil language caper film directed by Mani Ratnam written along with Ram Gopal Varma. The film features Prashanth, Anand, Heera Rajgopal, and Anu Aggarwal in the lead roles while S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Salim Ghouse play supporting roles. The film's soundtrack and background score were composed by A. R. Rahman while the cinematography was handled by P. C. Sriram. The film opened to positive critical reception. In 1994, the film premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival. It also won the National Film Award for Best Special Effects. The Hindi dubbed version of the movie was called Chor Chor.
Tihai (pronounced ti-'ha-yi) is a polyrhythmic technique found in Indian classical music, and often used to conclude a piece. Tihais can be either sung or played on an instrument.Tihais are sometimes used to distort the listeners' perception of time, only to reveal the consistent underlying cycle at the sam.


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Underwater anthropogenic noise threatens the life in our seas – what to do about it?
Marine wildlife has faced a new threat in the last decades: underwater anthropogenic noise. This noise is result of various human activities such as maritime traffic, military exercises, seismic surveys or coastal and offshore projects.
Where is a problem?
The sound travels in the sea more than 4 times faster than in the air. This feature is used by many marine organisms. Hence, the sound represents a mean of communication, foraging, exploring environment and other life activities. However, the noise produced by man has similar frequencies as sound produced by animals. As a consequence, the anthropogenic noise may have negative effects on marine wildlife such as causing physical damage, behavioral changes, chronic/cumulative impacts and stress. Anthropogenic noise has also economic implications: it has been recorded that fish catch is decreased up to 50%. More recently, negative effects on zooplankton have been proved.
In recent years, the south-eastern European part of the Mediterranean Sea - SEE Med Region has been an area of intensive seismic surveys for oil and gas. At the same time, this region, as well as the entire Mediterranean Sea, represents one of the biodiversity hotspots. For example, this SEE Med Region contains critical habitats of monk seal, sea turtles and certain dolphin species. A special workshop on Mitigating the impact of underwater noise on marine biodiversity with specific focus on seismic surveys in the south eastern European waters in the Mediterranean Sea took place November 22-23, 2017 in Split, Croatia. This event was organised and hosted by OceanCare and NRDC, international nature conservation organisations, and was technically and financially supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU). The workshop was attended by 65 participants from 15 countries, representing various stakeholder groups; governmental institutions, such as ministries, nature protection, conservation, and energy agencies; international organizations, including multilateral, regional, environmental agreements and regional fisheries bodies; European Commission; scientists and civil society organisations. This was an opportunity to present and discuss various aspects of the underwater anthropogenic noise issue.
Regional situation has been analysed and compiled in the Overview of underwater anthropogenic noise, impacts on marine biodiversity and mitigation measures in the south-eastern European part of the Mediterranean, focusing on seismic surveys. This report also includes overview of future seismic activities.
Figure. Planned seismic surveys (licensed, under the application) in the wider SEE Med Region, presumably until 2020. Extracted from Štrbenac, 2017. for OceanCare
One of the most relevant recent contribution to the anthropogenic noise mitigation are the CMS Family Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Noise-generating Activities, adopted by CMS parties as a part of the specific resolution at the 12th Conference of Parties (COP 12) in October 2017. The Guidelines provide advice to decision-makers to assess negative impacts of anthropogenic noise from various sources before approvals to proceed are granted. The emphasis has been put on expert arguments and transparent consultation process.
In addition, new technology has been presented, so called Marine vibroseis. This is a quieter option to seismic airguns, sparing particularly the high-frequency hearing cetaceans such as beaked whales and dolphins.
What can be done to mitigate underwater anthropogenic noise as much as possible in the SEE Med Region and beyond?
The workshop's participants have agreed on 16 recommendations, which will be further shared with the international community and all stakeholders who may contribute to their actual implementation.
These recommendation emphasise in particular:
Need for precautionary principle:
Exploration of the concept of the noise budget /threshold ;
Addressing the cumulative effects;
Improvement of quality of environmental impact assessments through implementation of the CMS Guidelines;
Definition and implementation of Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices to mitigate impacts of anthropogenic noise;
Further development and mandate the use of best-available quieting technologies;
Removing subsidies for the oil and gas industry and spend public money in line with the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change;
Improvement of knowledge about most sensitive species;
Exchange of knowledge and experience and improvement of cooperation between various stakeholders.
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H.K. Porter, Inc. was once the third largest manufacturer of locomotives in the U.S. and the principal builder of small train engines for industrial use. Every railroad engine that bears the H.K. Porter was built with parts made from asbestos. This exposed many people to asbestos fibers, leading the company into a string of lawsuits. Eventually, the asbestos-related cases mounted so high that Porter filed for bankruptcy and set up a trust fund to compensate claimants.
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Founded in 1866 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, H.K. Porter, Inc. began when two businessmen opened a small shop and started repairing industrial equipment. Within a year, the two founders, Henry K. Porter and John Y. Smith, built their first industrial locomotive for the New Castle Railroad & Mining Company. Porter specialized in small light duty and steam switchers rather than large passenger or freight locomotives, starting with a 42-inch, narrow gauge, 0-4-0T design.
From 1867 to 1950, the company built 8,000 locomotives for customers in various industries, including small railroad lines and mining enterprises. Because its trains were geared for specialized industrial tasks, the company was successful for its first 70 years of operation yet is almost unknown to the general public.
Initially, Porter was technologically innovative; it made compressed air-powered engines for mining companies because steam engines caused explosions in coal mines. Later, Porter pioneered fire-less locomotives that used pressurized hot water and steam to power pistons and rods. Porter also tested gasoline-powered locomotives, but to the company's detriment, its leadership did not invest substantial amounts of money or time in research and development.
Though Porter's small engines were versatile and used all over the world by miners, sugar growers, and canal builders, the company started to lose its market share after World War I. Other technologies, including diesel engines, slowly displaced older ones . By the 1930s, the company's reluctance to adopt new forms of locomotion eroded its appeal to potential customers, and in 1950 Porter closed its production line of small trains but continued to make other industrial products.
Throughout H.K. Porter's seven decades as a locomotive maker, the company used large amounts of asbestos products to protect machinery and moving parts from the effects of heat and friction. After 1950, when the company shifted its attention to the manufacture of other products, primarily for the shipbuilding industry, Porter continued using massive amounts of asbestos-containing materials.
This was standard practice in many industries during much of the 19th and 20th Centuries, but it exposed many people to asbestos fibers and caused a myriad of health issues, including thousands of cases of mesothelioma, asbestosis, and other life-threatening diseases.
Around 1984, Porter first became embroiled in a growing series of asbestos-related lawsuits. Over the next seven years, the company faced close to 2,000 individual asbestos-related cases a month.
In an attempt to recoup at least a portion of the $30 million it had paid to fight and settle so many lawsuits, Porter sued its own insurer, Pennsylvania Insurance Guaranty Association (PIGA) in 1993. PIGA had refused to become involved in Porter's asbestos litigation and did not want to pay $15 million that the company was asking for. PIGA won the original case in district court, However, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third District overruled that decision in 1996 and ordered PIGA to pay Porter part of the $15 million.
Also in 1993, H.K. Porter was on a list of six co-defendants in Adams Public School District v Asbestos Corporation, Inc. In this case, a school district in North Dakota alleged that Porter and other asbestos product manufacturers were responsible for the presence of the dangerous mineral in various schools built in the 1960s. The asbestos companies won the case in a Pennsylvania district court, but lost on appeal.
As with many large companies that made, distributed, or sold asbestos products in the U.S., Porter set up a trust fund to pay compensation to victims of asbestos exposure or their survivors. The trust fund was set up in 2008, after the company emerged from bankruptcy. Porter's trust fund is worth an estimated $104 million.
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Even though H.K. Porter stopped manufacturing its small industrial locomotives over 60 years ago, there are still several hundred of these sturdy vehicles operating in various countries, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Europe.
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VIZIO Testing Jump Ads Feature to Improve Viewing Experience
2022 M03 31 11:10 GMT-3 – Lauren Forristal
VIZIO has a beta program for a new cross-platform viewing solution dubbed "Jump Ads" which aims to drive viewers from linear TV to streaming platforms without having to close out of an app or search for more content.
According to research by Accenture, 60% of viewers are frustrated with the process of navigating between different streaming services and apps. This new ad format gives content providers the ability to present an interactive overlay that directs viewers into a supporting app on VIZIO's SmartCast operating system. This gives its users the ability to easily continue watching content and eliminate the hassle of having to find something else to watch afterward.
Fox was the first content partner to try the new feature and it debuted Jump Ads at the end of the premiere episode for its new docu-comedy, "Welcome to Flatch," which aired on March 17.
The Jump Ads feature prompts viewers to continue watching additional episodes of the series on the FOX Now App, where the first seven episodes of the season will be exclusively available for on-demand streaming. This enhances the viewing experience, allowing users to seamlessly transition from one platform to another with a single click of a button.
A 2021 report from Morning Consult showed that 44% of respondents believed that there is an excessive amount of ads on ad-supported television streaming.
Fortunately, VIZIO has a solution for ad haters. The company said that Jump Ads gives content providers a new opportunity to engage viewers beyond a single linear session allowing control and customization of the user journey between platforms. For instance, this includes the function to choose at what point of the show the ads will appear, how often they appear, and so on. Currently, VIZIO is teaming up with more content providers and brands to work on various integrations.
Adam Bergman, VP of Sales at VIZIO Ads said, "As the provider of both the TV hardware and software, VIZIO is in a unique position to create an environment that reduces friction and increases usability. Jump Ads represent yet another step in VIZIO's ongoing mission to unify the smart TV experience with features that benefit viewers, content providers, and advertisers."
"Clearly, the viewing experience has changed, with both linear and streaming playing an integral role for the foreseeable future. Innovations like Jump Ads that integrate these formats for viewers create a better live, tune-in experience that caters to the on-demand expectation that the binge-watching cultural phenomenon has created," added Natalie Park, SVP, Marketing Strategy, and Media at FOX Entertainment.


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Bid farewell to the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis
For more than a century, the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis has served as a symbol of God's unity of the various expressions of Christian faith in the city of Indianapolis and surrounding areas. Its guiding principle was based on Jesus' words in John 17, "I pray…that all of them may be one…that they may be one as we are one…May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me…" -John 17:20-23
CFGI has worked hard to continue that mandate as the churches have directed; however, in the last few years the landscape has changed. Individual churches, denominational fellowships, and even individual believers have chosen other ways to express their missional directives. As a result, the financial support that has sustained the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis has dwindled to the point that they can no longer continue their mission. Thus, on September 8, 2015 the Board of Directors of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis voted to initiate a plan of eventual dissolution. This decision was not reached lightly. In fact many hours of discussion and prayer have gone into exploring ways to continue its mission. In the end, however, they were forced to come to this conclusion by the realities of their financial situation.
Says the CFGI board:
We do want to celebrate the work that has been the Church Federation through a Celebration of Thanksgiving on Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Krannert Room on the second floor of the Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W. 42nd St,Indianapolis, IN 46208. We would invite you as a past supporter of the Church Federation to be with us as we celebrate together what God has done through this organization in its 103-year history. We will invite past leaders to take part so we may honor them for their work and vision.
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My mother, Natalie Coffin, worked for the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis in the 1920s and early 1930s. It was while she was working there that she met my father, Ernest Sims, who came in one day on some church related business.
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Temporal covariation of epibacterial community and surface metabolome in the Mediterranean seaweed holobiont Taonia atomaria.
Paix B1, Othmani A1, Debroas D2, Culioli G1, Briand JF1.
Université de Toulon, Laboratoire MAPIEM, EA 4323, Toulon, France.
Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, UMR 6023, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
An integrative multi-omics approach allowed monthly variations for a year of the surface metabolome and the epibacterial community of the Mediterranean Phaeophyceae Taonia atomaria to be investigated. The LC-MS-based metabolomics and 16S rDNA metabarcoding datasets were integrated in a multivariate meta-omics analysis (multi-block PLS-DA from the MixOmic DIABLO analysis) showing a strong seasonal co-variation (Mantel test: p < 0.01). A network based on positive and negative correlations between the two datasets revealed two clusters of variables, one relative to the "spring period" and a second to the "summer period". The "spring period" cluster was mainly characterised by dipeptides positively correlated with a single bacterial taxon of the Alteromonadaceae family (BD1-7 clade). Moreover, "summer" dominant epibacterial taxa from the second cluster (including Erythrobacteraceae, Rhodospirillaceae, Oceanospirillaceae and Flammeovirgaceae) showed positive correlations with few metabolites known as macroalgal antifouling defences [e.g. dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) and proline] which exhibited a key role within the correlation network. Despite a core community that represents a significant part of the total epibacteria, changes in the microbiota structure associated with surface metabolome variations suggested that both environment and algal host shape the bacterial surface microbiota. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


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Commatica parmulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana and Brazil.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are dark violet fuscous, suffused in the disc with light glossy blue and with an oblique blackish mark beneath the fold at one-fourth. The stigmata are large, elongate and blackish, with the plical obliquely before the first discal, some white irroration (sprinkles) above and below the second discal and a very oblique white strigula from the costa before two-thirds, where a very strongly curved fine whitish line runs to the tornus. There is a leaden-grey terminal patch extending to the second discal stigma and cut by this line, marked before the apex by a white spot cut by two black dashes and surrounded by some white irroration. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

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Almost 1 Billion Emails With Personal Information Left Unsecured
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Huge amounts of leaked customer related data have been showing up all over the place.
First there were the Collection series, where something like 700 million identities were up for sale on a site on the dark web. But the latest in the series of leaking data may be the largest ever seen.
Bob Diachenko, a researcher at Security Discovery, found an unsecured MongoDB database belonging to a so-called email validation service provider, verifications.io. The database was totally unprotected, and was easily accessed by anyone.
The database is a collection of emails (808,539,939 in total) combined with additional information. The additional stuff includes phone numbers, dates of birth, physical addresses, gender, IP addresses and employer details.
In his blog, the researcher said that not all the emails contain personally identifiable information, but that a majority do.
DynaRisk also took a look at the database. They said that, "The original analysis (carried out by a number of other researchers) is correct and these sources appear to have analyzed the 'mainEmailDatabase' file that was leaked and found 808 million records. DynaRisk analyzed the three more databases from the same leak, namely 'EmailScrub, PyEmail, VerifiedEmails' which were to be found on the same server. […] Having now had a chance to clean all of the combined data, there are an additional 191 million bringing the total of email addresses to 982,864,972."
A billion email addresses. Just wow.
Diachenko then teamed up with Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to see if the data was an entirely new unique set.
He concluded that this leak wasn't a aggregation of previous breaches, as has been the case with recent leaks reported by Hunt. Hunt has gone on to add the addresses to the HIBP data set.
Verifications.io seems to be just that, a way for spammers and other of their ilk to try out any lists of addresses they may have to see if they connect to anyone. In using a third party, the spammers will bypass any checkpoints that may built into the mail systems and not be identified by them.
The verifying service will have its own list of valid emails which may be cross-referenced against the spammer's list, and results given to the spammer. The service may try other means to assure validity, such as doing their own trial spamming.
When Diachenko tried to tell them about the database, he was told the data exposed was public data. He was then met with silence and finally the website for the company disappeared from the net. Sounds like a totes legit enterprise, right?
Adam Laub, SVP Product Management of Stealthbits Technologies, told Security Now that, "Given the frequency of data breach events and the quantity of information that is already available on the dark web and elsewhere for billions of people around the world, this really is nothing more than a reminder that your information is out there for those that want it for good or for bad.
"As we work towards making the keepers of our information more accountable for its security," he went on, "we need to acknowledge and remind ourselves that the security of our data and our identities is really on each of us individually. This is not a pessimistic viewpoint, but rather a realistic viewpoint based on the world we live in."


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