Honor 6x powered by Huawei is to be launched on 24 January 2017 on Amazon. Honor 6x comes with two variant 3/4 GB RAM & 32/64 GB storage with a price tag of ₹12,999k, & ₹15,999k respectively. The Company has brings it in three colors that are Grey, Silver, Gold.
The amazon brings an exciting offer to everyone on honor 6x. So buy now and get the discount of ₹1,500 after exchanging your old smartphone. Offer only last for today (8th April).
The Interesting thing about the phone is that its Dual camera. It has a Dual camera on the rear, one is a 12MP camera with LED flash & another 2 MP resolution. The Dual camera equipped with a useful feature that gives ultra–fast focus in 0.3 seconds, wide aperture range for flexible focus you want, Auto Phase Detection, & SONY IMX386 Sensor. Front Camera comes with up 8MP with 1.25m Pixel size.Dynamic Camera UI features are there like Pro Camera, Pro Video, Beautify Pic & Video too that gives professional images.
It is a successor of the Honor 5X.The company will come up with new features like sunlight display that delivers clarity to see on screen even in direct sunlight, Reading mode to reduce eye fatigue, multitasking & scratch assistant glass also supports fast charging & improved battery.
The company also claiming that New Honor 6x will have latest Android v7.0 which runs on octa-core(16 nm) technology gives multi-tasking, better performance & enhanced battery life.
Other features are 4G LTE, VoLTE, 2G,3G GPS, WiFi & Bluetooth 4.1.
The Rear camera of the Honor 6x is very good in the outdoor light and artificial light. The rear camera focus at faster rate than Moto G5 Plus. Also, rear camera uses is a Sony IMX386 sensor. Its rear does well in the low light photography but not better than Moto G5 Plus.
The front camera is very good in outdoor and artificial light. The images are sharp, white-toned (for selfie lover).
Many sensors are given. Even, Hall sensor, & Pedometer sensor are given.
Hybrid Sim slot (at once- Dual sim or one sim + microSD). We have found a solution and suggest you to go through this- Solution of Hybrid Sim slot and use Dual Sim + microSD together.
Speaker loudness is not up to mark.
The Front camera suffers in low light.
Many heavy games runs well but found some lag while playing Asphalt 8.
Bad accuracy of Pedometer sensor. Also, No NFC, Infrared port given.
Second sim slot is only for 2G.
Support only 2.4GHz wifi band.
The device didn't come up with preloaded Google assistant. But you can also set Cortana as your personal assistant.
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Intervention refers to a deliberate, often professional, process that involves altering the thoughts, behaviors, and feelings of other people. The intention of the confrontation is to assist the individual involved in a friendly and non-accusatory manner so that they can realize and shun destructive behavior they are involved in that is putting their relatives, family, friends, and themselves at risk.
The interventionist informs the addict the facts in a respectful way concerning the behavior they are involved in, with intention that they change their mentality for the better. Normally, it is expected that the patients will hear the advice they are being provided with and accept medical help.
Interventions can be used on friends, family, and colleagues with destructive problems they are not willing to combat. You don't have to wait until an individual has hit the bottom, since that might be too late to provide any kind of assistance.
Intervention is normally a lengthy and tedious process that involves careful planning and deliberation to help out the patient. The people intending to conduct the intervention prepare a meeting in advance where they meet to discuss steps they will take to take care of the problem. The meeting should be held in absence of the patient and should focus on issues that are affecting the patient and their consequences.
Interventions are meant to help the patient discover they are involved in destructive behavior. Look at the source of the problem and the possible ways that you can help the patient stop abuse. You should also plan on what each person involved in the intervention process will say. Involve a professional counselor to analyze what you are intending to tell the patient, since you are looking for polite means of making the addict understand their behaviors are putting others at risk.
Develop a plan on how you will pull off the intervention. This plan involves things such as venue and time. If the patient you are intending to help is involved in drugs, look for the appropriate time when that patient will not be sober.
When at the meeting, it is imperative to ensure that there is total privacy. You don't want the patient to feel that they are being victimized or you are being harsh for no reason. Let the patient see the problem from your point without making them feel guilty. It is imperative to prepare some answers and counteractions of some common reactions that you expect from the patient so that he will not be ready.
Lastly, intervention requires coming up with conditions that the patient is showing to motivate them. Breaking a substance addition can be hectic, so you need to use any means to help the patient overcome the problem by laying down tough conditions they might follow, or suffer specific consequences that may paralyze their regular life.


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In World of Tanks, adapting to different tank classes and roles is the first step toward doing well in battle. Each tank class suits a certain playstyle, and knowing how these classes work together is a crucial part of understanding team balance. Some tanks excel at certain roles better than others. Knowing what role to play based on the type of tank you're using will help you and your team coordinate a strategy at the start of each match based on the team's composition, allowing you to use your tank to its full potential.
There are five tank classes in World of Tanks: Light, Medium, Heavy, Tank Destroyer, and SPG. These categories help to indicate the style of play that a given tank is suited for. Early in your World of Tanks career, you may get the urge to dive head-first into enemy territory using an SPG or another thinly-armored tank, and it's in moments like these that you'll realize why most tanks are classified the way they are.
In the list below, we've included a quick overview of each tank class, along with a few basic pointers on how they should be played.
Light Tanks
What these tanks lack in armor, they make up for in traverse speed and mobility. Light Tanks aren't weighed down by thick armor, meaning they can move quickly but have relatively low protections. Light Tanks tend to have a high view range, making them adept scouts who can spot opponents from further away. Use Light Tanks to get close enough to the enemy's frontline to light up the map with targets, but be sure to utilize cover to stay hidden while scouting.
Medium Tanks
Medium Tanks are good all-around tanks that can suit a variety of playstyles. These tanks possess some of the better attributes from the Light and Heavy Tank classes, including decent mobility and armor values. Medium Tanks can maneuver faster than Heavies, but can sustain more damage than Lights. While playing as a Medium Tank, try to travel with teammates so that you can support your allies when needed. These tanks can even take over spotting duties for their team when allied scouts are slacking. Look at your team composition each match to determine what playstyle works best in the given context.
Heavy Tanks
Heavy Tanks have thick armor plating that provides great protection, but slows them down quite a bit. Given their low traverse speeds and maneuverability, they can be vulnerable to flanking from speedier opponents. However, Heavy Tanks can take a beating, so go for this class when you're in the mood for some bruising and brawling at close range. Travel with teammates and provide them with cover fire and support when needed.
Tank Destroyers
As the name implies, Tank Destroyers are intended to obliterate enemy tanks using their massive guns. This class has some of the most powerful weapons in the game, aside from SPG's. They don't have great armor, however, so it's best to hang back and line up your targets from a distance. Tank Destroyers usually have decent penetration values, so fire from cover to ambush your opponents and maximize the impact of each shot.
SPG (Artillery)
Due to its special firing mode, the SPG class has a unique playstyle that differs from all the other tank types. SPG tanks are Artillery units that fire their shots in an upward arc, damaging opponents from above. Their special aiming capability allows SPGs to see across the whole map and fire over certain obstacles. SPGs must remain at the back of their team's base to provide artillery support for their team, and thus SPGs rely heavily on allied scouts to move forward and spot enemies for them. A team that sets up shots for their SPGs will often take the lead during battle.
These are just some basic guidelines to keep in mind when playing each tank class. Of course, there will be some variation between tanks within the classes themselves, so it's still important to practice with several different tanks within a class to get a feel for what makes each one special. When choosing a tank, think about the role that it plays in battle and how to utilize its strengths so that you can benefit your team.
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To make sure their information technology strategies adequately address the needs of physicians, many hospitals have designated a doctor to serve as chief medical informatics officer. These physicians are working closely with CIOs, CSOs and others to help select and implement I.T., including technologies to keep clinical information secure.
In this interview, William Bria, M.D., chief medical informatics officer at Shriners Hospitals for Children, describes how the organization's 22 charity care hospitals are striving to provide doctors with easy access to a wealth of clinical information while minimizing the risk of privacy violations.
Dr. Bria, founder and president of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), stresses that the security and privacy of data are essential to improving the quality of care.
The CMIO describes in detail the organization's use of:
two-factor authentication, including smart cards, at the hospitals;
an additional authentication layer (codes generated by hardware tokens) for physicians accessing systems remotely; and
new secure messaging technology that automatically encrypts e-mails detected to contain private information.
HOWARD ANDERSON: This is Howard Anderson, Managing Editor at Information Security Media Group. We are talking today with Dr. Bill Bria, chief medical information officer at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Dr. Bria also is the founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, or AMDIS. Thanks for joining us today Dr. Bria.
DR. BILL BRIA: Thank you Howard.
ANDERSON: Please briefly describe your role as CMIO for the 22 Shriners hospitals, which provide free care to children. Explain how you get involved in addressing privacy and security issues, especially as it pertains to clinical information.
DR. BRIA: My role as chief medical information officer is really a bridge between the use of information technology and the practice of medicine, to state it simply. The use of electronic medical records is now going into its sixth year in our healthcare system, and I am happy to say that they are available essentially in our entire hospital system.
One of the reasons why I took this job is because IT was done out of a central location. Tampa, Florida is the informatics hub for the entire healthcare system, and every one of our hospitals has a slice of the database that is the Shriners Hospitals for Children Information System. It is my job to continue to enhance, improve and adapt...information technology for the purposes of quality and safety of care.
Privacy and security of clinical information is an inextricable partner with the improvement in the quality and safety of care for so many reasons. For children who we care for with, for example, very severe burns, we (must make sure) that the information is given to who it needs to be given to and not to those who don't need it.	Interoperability within our system is a constant concern, as we often have patients who are cared for and given different services at different hospitals in our system, as well as transfer of that information after the child is cared for and is going to return home or to another location. It has been a key focus in this organization and my role since the beginning, and it is a job of continued and everlasting vigilance.
ANDERSON: I understand that your organization doesn't have a full-time chief security officer, but that the CIO pretty much serves in that role. Can you shed some light on that?
DR. BRIA: Inasmuch as the nervous system of Shriners Hospitals for Children is its electronic medical record, our CIO...is the effective CSO, because the electronic medical record is the most consistent element among all of our hospitals...from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Honolulu, Hawaii; from Montreal, Canada, down to Mexico City, Mexico.
Our legal department has, from the very beginning, been our close partner with regards to compliance, security standards, and (ensuring) information access (only) by those who need to know that information.
The distribution of services and care is a shared responsibility in our system, basically making each hospital in our system their own security entity. And so (our CIO) and his staff have been the architects and the maintainers of the technology for that structure from a security standpoint throughout our 22-hospital system.
ANDERSON: What steps is your organization taking now to begin preparing for compliance with the new federal security breach notification regulations? Is that a function primarily of that legal team you referred to?
DR. BRIA: It is primarily the role and responsibility of our legal team. The necessary data reporting and review of policies and procedures I certainly get involved in, but it is primarily the legal department that actually manages the review and investigation of compliance and security issues.
ANDERSON: Can you give us a flavor of some of the key data security technologies that your fellow physicians on staff there use as they are accessing clinical data systems day to day?
DR. BRIA: Strong two-factor authentication is the front end of our security environment. We use smart card technologies as well as a regular password system, but both must be available.
Newer technologies include a key fob (hardware token) for clinicians with authorization for remote access to our electronic medical record. This third level of security requires them to have the proper digital sequence, a series of numbers generated on the synchronized key fob device. The sequence is known only in the machine room in Tampa, and if those numbers don't line up you don't get access remotely to our system. We spent a good bit of time trying to get the highest level of security.
And we are always looking at other things. We have had demonstrations of everything from face recognition technologies to other strategies as we go forward in trying to strike the critical balance between necessary access and unacceptable risk of loss of data integrity and confidentiality.
ANDERSON: Are you making very extensive use of encryption so far?
DR. BRIA: All of the communications that occur through the system have encrypted communications. We have also added...a secure e-mail system. (The technology) reads the e-mail communications that are occurring throughout our system and if screens are met if, for example, a Social Security number or a patient number from our electronic medical record is included in the Outlook e-mail, it will automatically encrypt that e-mail communication.
If it is a communication between individuals within our system, that encryption is essentially transparent to the sender and receiver other than both see the word "encrypted" in the header of their e-mail.
If, however, the communication is going outside our system, then what would occur is that an automatic message without any patient identifiable information is sent to the intended recipient of that e-mail message, and they must sign on securely to a portal where that e-mail message could be obtained after we authenticate that that person is who they say they are.
ANDERSON: Finally, what advice would you give to folks who have responsibility for data security at other hospitals about how to reach out to involve physicians in the selection and adoption of security technologies and creation of security polices?
DR. BRIA: If a technology makes sense from the standpoint of protecting the relationship between the clinician and the patient or the patient's safety and privacy...then physicians can get behind those technologies even if it provides them some degree of inconvenience or change.
If, on the other hand, they perceive a security addition to their environment as inhibiting communication or somehow compromising their ability of reaching their patients and communicating with them, they strongly oppose it and they should.
ANDERSON: Thank you very much Dr. Bria. We have been talking today with Dr. Bill Bria of Shriners Hospitals for Children. This is Howard Anderson of the Information Security Media Group.
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With holidays coming up, I decided to put together three easy and cheesy bites, including this goat cheese and apple tartlet, to help alleviate the stress and prep of holiday entertaining. Click the pic to check 'em out.
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Have you ever been stuck deciding what to drink on a hot summer day? Struggling to choose from a classy cocktail or a refreshing brew? Recently, I decided I can have the best of both worlds, and tried my hand at the Beer Cocktail.
With warm weather on my mind (I'm dreaming of my Caribbean vacation), I decided to start summer early by creating signature summer cocktails. These light and bright drinks, inspired by Vita Coco Pure Coconut Water, will transport you to a sunny and warm beach even in the coldest of seasons. Warning! Tiny drink umbrellas are not included.
Mango Mimosa: This is perfect for those summer brunches on the patio in the morning sun and is officially my new brunch go-to….


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US population estimates of health and social outcomes 5 years after rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury
This study used pre-existing data to make U.S. population estimates of health and social outcomes for adults 5 years after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that required acute inpatient rehabilitation.
Approximately 1 in 5 (20.6%) TBI patients died within 5 years of injury. For those who survived 5 years after the injury, the rate of institutionalization was 12.2% and the rate of re-hospitalization was 49.7%. The likelihood of dying, institutionalization, and re-hospitalization increased for those injured at an older age. For functional independence outcomes, about 1 in 3 TBI survivors needed assistance or supervision from another individual. Specifically, 30.1% of patients had difficulty with daily living activities such as eating, grooming, bathing, dressing, toileting, bladder and bowel management, walking, and using stairs; 36.1% had cognitive challenges such as comprehension, verbal communication, social interaction, and problem solving, and 33.4% received supervision overnight of part of the waking hours. For social participation outcomes, about 1 in 2 TBI survivors did not drive (52.0%) or had competitive employment (54.6% of those employed before injury); and close to 2 in 3 (64.4%) of TBI survivors were unmarried. TBI survivors needed more assistance as they became older and were less likely to drive. For subjective well-being outcomes, close to 1 in 3 (28.8%) TBI survivors were dissatisfied with life and close to 1 in 10 had moderate or severe depressed mood (7.5%). TBI survivors aged 45 to 54 years were most likely to be dissatisfied with life (48.6%) and have depressed mood (15.4%). For substance abuse, close to 1 in 10 either used an illegal drug since injury (11.5%), and close to 2 in 10 (16.9%) misused alcohol since injury. Patients aged 21 to 24 years (36.8%) and 25 to 34 years (37.7%) were more like to have misused alcohol. Patients aged 21 to 24 years were more likely to have used an illegal drug since injury (31.3%). Five years after injury, over half (56.9%) of the patients were not able to resume half of their pre-injury activities, and almost 40% declined from an earlier attained level of ability. Altogether, 5 years after TBI, 50% had either died (20%) or declined (30%) since injury.
Researchers used a sample of 2,556 individuals over 16 years of age who were still living 5 years after TBI from the TBI Model Systems National Database. The study weighted the sample so that it represented the characteristics of the US TBI inpatient rehabilitation population. These people completed inpatient rehabilitation for TBI between October 1, 2001 and December 31, 2007.
Researchers used information from the TBI Model Systems National Database to create the sample. They obtained data during inpatient rehabilitation and through follow-up interviews at 1, 2 and 5 years after discharge.
Corrigan, J. D., Cuthbert, J. P., Harrison-Felix, C., Whiteneck, G. G., Bell, J. M., Miller, A. C., Coronado, V. G., &. Pretz, C. R. (2014). US population estimates of health and social outcomes 5 years after rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 29(6), E1-E9. 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000020.
The contents of this quick review were developed under a grant (number H133A110006) from the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.


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Q: How to make HTML Progress Bar Correctly I am trying to make a Progress Bar for the uploaded progress in my application. So far I have this

    Upload File

        <input type="file" name="file" class="inputfile" id="group-agent-file" accept=".csv"/>

            Choose a file

   <button type="button" id="btn-group-agent-upload" class="btn btn-primary" title="Upload">Upload</button>

and this is my javascript
var result = event.target.result;
var data = $.csv.toObjects(result);
var length = data.length;
var count = 0;
var percent;

$.each(data, function (key, val) {

    $.ajax({
        xhr: function(){
            var xhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr();
            xhr.upload.onprogress = function (evt) {
                console.log('progress', evt.loaded / evt.total * 100);
            };
        },
        type: "POST",
        url: "IROA_StoredProcedures.asmx/Insert_Bulk_Agent",
        data: JSON.stringify(val),
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function () {
            count = count + 1;
            percent = count / length * 100;

            $("#progress-bar-upload").css("width", percent + "%");
            $("#progress-bar-upload span").text(percent + "% Complete");
            console.log("Finished " + count + " of " + length + " employees.");
        },
        error: function (XMLHttpRequest) {
            alert("error in Insert_Bulk_AgentInfo()");
            console.log(XMLHttpRequest);
        }

    });

});

it works fine but I think the html can't process enough that sometimes the width percentage is delayed. How can I do this? and what may be the drawbacks when I use setInterval.

A: To get upload progress in jQuery you need to attach Event-Listener to the progress event.
You can do something like this in jQuery
$.ajax({
xhr: function() {
    var xhr = new window.XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress", function (evt) {
        if (evt.lengthComputable) {
            var percentComplete = (evt.loaded / evt.total);
            //Update the progress bar
        }
   });

   return xhr;
},
type: 'POST',
url: "/upload/path",
data: { YOUR UPLOAD DATA },
success: function (data) {
}
});

This would work the same for plain js
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', "/upload/path", true);
xhr.upload.addEventListener('progress', function (event) {
  if (evt.lengthComputable) {
    var percentComplete = (evt.loaded / evt.total);
    //Update the progress bar
  }
}
xhr.onload = function (response) {
  // handle success/error here
}
xhr.setRequestHeader(SET_HEADERS);
xhr.send(UPLOAD_DATA);

A: success function will be call when your ajax call gets completed.
You should use xhr function instead of success.
xhr: function(){
                var xhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr() ;
                xhr.upload.onprogress = function(evt){
                    console.log('progress', evt.loaded/evt.total*100);
                    var percentageCompleted = evt.loaded/evt.total*100;
                    updateUploadPercentage(parseInt(percentageCompleted));
                    if(percentageCompleted == 100){
                        $("#p_custom_message_body").html('
Storing training data
');
                    }
                } ;
                return xhr ;
            }

After that update progress bar in another function :-
    function updateUploadPercentage(progress) {
    var elem = document.getElementById("progressBar");
    elem.style.width = progress + '%';
    elem.innerHTML = progress * 1 + '%';
}

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That door is opening once again...
Amid the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood at the height of its golden age, The Hollywood Tower Hotel was a star in its own right. But something happened. Something dark. Something unexplainable. Something terrifying. And it's happening once again. But this time… It's happening to you.
It may have taken almost six years and over 180 million Euros, but late 2007 finally saw The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror become the centrepiece of Walt Disney Studios Park, transforming a desolate plot reserved in the heart of the park and providing an icon, a thrill and a feeling that couldn't have been more perfectly matched to its location.
For fans, the arrival of the classic attraction, first opened in 1994 with a very different exterior style at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida, was never any secret. But, for year after year, the land lay bare as the resort's financial problems continued. The tower almost looked like it could be lost to the same Twilight Zone of Rod Serling's 1959 television series which inspires the ride's story.
And what of that tower? It is perhaps one of the greatest Disney attraction of the modern generation; heaping and piling an unbelievable level of storytelling, history and ambiance into every corner. You will simply not believe this "hotel" only opened in 2007 — from the fantastic "Bellhop" Cast Members to the cobwebs, abandoned luggage and creaking boiler room, it's steeped in history... and still alive.
Then, to truly "top" it all, the thrill of a faster-than-gravity drop of around 160ft and some bewildering, ghostly special effects. Unmissable.
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An abadoned hotel in a late 1950s downtown Hollywood is the setting for an episode of cult sci-fi series The Twilight Zone which places you as the star. Approaching along Hollywood Boulevard, you can see already that all is not well. The lettering on the façade of The Hollywood Tower Hotel hangs at an angle, its neons barely flickering back to life. Below, an almighty wound, surrounded by scorch marks and debris, marks where three wings of the glamorous Pueblo Deco hangout once stood. Closed and untouched since one fateful, stormy night in 1939, the hotel is coming back to life and a reservation has been made in your name...
Stepping inside the Lobby, you are suddenly transported back in time to a very different period, a very different moment. Coats and bags lie discarded; tea cups have been left only half-drunk; playing cards have been thrown down, mid-game; a child's rag doll lies alone on the chair. Every inch of the room, lit by yellow Art Deco lights hanging from above, is entangled in over a decade of cobwebs. Ushered past the reception desk by the somewhat disquieting bellhops in their maroon jackets and caps, you enter the Library whilst final preparations are made to your rooms.
The door closes; the mood changes. A flash of thunder shrieks through the window and an old television set bursts to life, relaying an episode of The Twilight Zone that has yet to be played out... "You unlock this door with the key of imagination, beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone."
You see The Hollywood Tower Hotel in its heyday, as host Rod Serling announces: "Hollywood, 1939. Amidst the glitz and the glitter of a bustling young movie town at the height of its golden age, the Hollywood Tower Hotel was a star in its own right. A beacon for the show business elite. Now, something is about to happen that will change all that." As guests are seen boarding the elevator, an enormous bolt of lighting hits the hotel, causing the guests to vanish as their elevator cabin is dropped into another dimension.
"The time is now on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed. Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction."
"This, as you may recognize, is a maintenance service elevator still in operation, waiting for you. We invite you, if you dare, to step aboard because in tonight's episode, you are the star. And this elevator travels directly to... The Twilight Zone."
With the beat of the infamous Twilight Zone theme room, a secret door swings open at the back of the library room, leading directly into the hotel's Boiler Room. Here you pass by a mass of piping, a furnace which appears to have a face and a wall from which you seem to hear the faint cries of a little girl. A maintenance worker desk is overflowing with paperwork, its period wireless set occasionally crackling to life. Once in a while the lights will gently dim, or flicker, as the electricity circuit is overpowered by strange activity. The bellhops guide you to your Service Elevator and assign you a row for boarding.
The fateful doors "ping" open and you're called forward to your room. You take a seat, listen to the safety advice and say your goodbyes — the bellhop declines to join us on this particular journey. Narration by Rod Serling continues, as the elevator suddenly begins to move... not upwards, but backwards...! "You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator about to take the strangest journey of your lives. Your destination: unknown; but this much is clear: a reservation has been made in your name for an extended stay."
Your elevator begins climbing through the floors only for the doors to open on a corridor scene with a mirror, where you see a reflection of yourselves which — in a spark of electricity — disappears, leaving an empty cabin! "Wave goodbye to the real world, for you have just entered, The Twilight Zone... What happened here to dim the lights of Hollywood's brightest showplace is about to unfold once again."
Moving up a floor, you see a Ghostly Corridor stretching away in front of you. Is this where we're staying? Almost... "One stormy night long ago, five people stepped through the door of an elevator and into a nightmare." Transluscent guests standing in the hallway suddenly appear to be sucked up by electrical energy. The lights fade to reveal a blacker than black space, punctuated by twinkling stars... At the end of the corridor, you see the doors of the old guest elevator open, with the guests once again standing inside, only for it — and for you — to suddenly... drop!
"That door is opening once again, but this time it's opening for you..."
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror originates from Disney's Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) at Walt Disney World in Florida, where it opened in 1994 as part of a major expansion of the park which also included a full-size Sunset Boulevard leading up to the hotel's more rural setting.
In the early 2000s, the attraction was completely redesigned by Walt Disney Imagineering with the intention of it being a major addition to Walt Disney Studios Park shortly after its grand opening year. However, financial difficulties delayed construction and the attraction ended up being built at the second gate in California first, opening in May 2004 at the back of Hollywood Pictures Backlot in Disney California Adventure park.
Rod Serling's introduction is taken from "It's a Good Life", an episode from season 3 of The Twilight Zone. His voice is actually that of a voice actor and impersonator — Mark Silverman — throughout, with the video cutting away just as Serling mouths "This, as you may recognise, is a ma–". In the original episode, Serling actually continues "map of the United States".
The attraction utilises three of the largest "vertical vehicle conveyance" motors ever built. Housed in a machine room on top of the elevator shafts (causing the "bulge" out from either side of the tower), they are three times larger than the largest high-speed elevator motors and faster than the fastest high-speed elevator in the world.
Forced perspective trickery in the Ghostly Corridor scene means the ceiling is just 4 ft high at the far end, where you see the elevator drop, compared to around 10 ft where your elevator doors open. This gives the impression of a much larger space than is actually available for the scene.
Rumour has it that parts of the ride system were delayed on their journey through customs into France as the construction team had marked them down as real "elevators", rather than pieces of a theme park ride!
The Twilight Zone ran for five years on CBS, from 1959 to 1964. Rod Serling, its creator and host, a six-time Emmy winner, wrote 92 of the original 156 episodes. He died in 1975.
The Paris Tower was also beaten by the third version, located in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea, which opened in September 2006. The 1899 New York setting here allowed the Imagineers to develop an entirely new storyline not based on The Twilight Zone, which isn't as well-known in Japan. Based around a mysterious cursed "idol" scavenged from a foreign land by the owner of the hotel, Harrison Hightower, the Hightower Hotel is a startling gothic building rising into the sky on the docks next to the S.S. Columbia cruise liner.
Although not referenced at the attraction, the ride's official French name is: La Tour de la Terreur - Un Saut dans la Quatrième Dimension; literally "a jump into the fourth dimension". Strangely, the original American television series always descripted it as the fifth dimension!
The Hollywood Tower Hotel rises to a height of 183 ft, with a further 40 ft of basement space for your fall into The Twilight Zone!
Guests are seated in three rows in the Service Elevators, with the back row containing eight seats across its full width and the front two rows split into blocks of three and four seats across an aisle. Each seat has a seatbelt for safety and a grab rail on either side. In the Boiler Room area of the pre-show, a Bellhop will assign you a number which indicates where you'll be seated, speeding up the loading process.
Want an extra-surreal experience? Just as the elevator is about to drop, hold your arms out and lift your feet slightly off the floor. This greatly enhances the zero-gravity effect, giving you a thrilling feeling of floating and falling slower than the elevator itself!
For safety, you should be in good health and free from high blood pressure, heart, back or neck problems, motion sickness or other conditions which could be aggravated by this adventure.
Expectant mothers and those wearing an orthopaedic device or surgical collar should not ride.
Transfer required. Must be accompanied in order to assist in transfer to the ride vehicles, which are reasonably easy to access.
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Macomb Mall is an enclosed shopping center located in Roseville, Michigan. Opened in 1964, it features Kohl's, Dick's Sporting Goods, Hobby Lobby, and At Home as anchor stores. The mall is managed by Lormax Stern.

History
Macomb Mall was developed in 1964 by the Schostak Brothers of Detroit, Michigan. The mall opened with Sears, Crowley's, and Kresge as its anchor stores. The next year, a two-screen movie theater opened near Sears. An expansion completed in 1986 added a third anchor store, MainStreet (sold to Kohl's in 1989) and over 40 new stores. Old Navy was added as part of a 1999 renovation as the first Old Navy store in Macomb County. In 1999 Crowley's went bankrupt and sold its store to Value City.

Schostak continued to manage the mall until 2004, when it was put on the market. Thor Equities acquired the mall that year. Value City closed its store in March 2008.

In late 2011, Macomb Mall was almost closed due to one of Thor Equities' loans defaulting. The property was sold to Cushman & Wakefield in 2011, and again to Lormax Stern in mid-2013.

In December 2013, Lormax Stern announced an $8 million renovation plan that would involve the demolition and reconstruction of the theater complex, as well as the demolition of the former Crowley's/Value City building for Dick's Sporting Goods. Ulta and Shoe Carnival were also confirmed as future tenants, followed by H&M in 2015. These changes shored up the mall and added new vitality to its operations, as the occupancy rate increased from about two-thirds to over 90%.

In April 2015, the movie theater, which had expanded to eight screens and become part of Silver Cinemas, closed, and was demolished the following year. Also in 2015, a new building was constructed near Dick's Sporting Goods, featuring new tenants, such as 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza.

In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Macomb Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties. On June 22, 2017 it was announced that the Sears in Macomb Mall will be closing. A portion of the store closed early and was converted into an At Home and the auto center was converted into DieHard. The remainder of the store closed on September 17, 2017. In April 2019, it was announced that Hobby Lobby would open in the rest of the former Sears's first floor. The store opened in October of that year.  In addition, there are plans to add a small food court next to Kohl's.

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Baseball's Seven Wonders: Mike Trout's Age-20 Season
Sam Miller
This is the third in an unknown-part series. Previously: Mariano Rivera's postseason career, and Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game.
Most of us maintain two seemingly contradictory attitudes toward our favorite sport. One is that baseball is unknowable, impossibly unpredictable, that it is a swirl of flukes and mysteries ever producing Matt Carpenters and Brandon Woods for us to puzzle over. The other is that baseball is exceptionally knowable, that it is one of the world's largest datasets, that we are getting smarter with each trial and that, in the long run, we know that the game is predictable—beatable, even. That is why you/I/we are all here at a paywalled site dedicated to distributing baseball knowledge. If we do that, then we must believe baseball knowledge exists.
Which viewpoint does Mike Trout's rookie season support? Consider: While he was still just a boy, skilled talent evaluators had identified him as one of the teenagers most likely to be a great major-league baseball player 10 years or so in the future. When he was 17, the Angels' internal report on him forecast him to be the "best player in the world—period." When he was just 18, years before he would reach full maturity, scouts were suggesting similarities to some of the greatest players ever, players whose entire careers—indeed, entire lives—had been played to conclusion already. When he was 19, in A-Ball, well-designed projection systems identified him as a hitter on the cusp of league average, and by the winter before his age-20 season ZIPS saw him as the best player on the Angels. PECOTA, in a delightful bit of found humor, threw a Mickey Mantle comp on him. Everybody agreed he was an elite prospect. Baseball, as it turned out, was predictable.
Except! Did anybody really get it right? Here's that prescient ZiPS line for Trout in 2012:
· .267/.338/.414, 15 HR
What he actually did: .326/.399/.564, 30. Which means that the bullish projection on Trout missed by as much as if Trout had hit .208/.277/.264, with no home runs. It might actually have been the single worst projection that ZiPS made that year. This is not to pick on ZiPS—I chose it because it got closer than PECOTA did, and was at least as close as the player comment I wrote about Trout for that year's BP Annual, which noted both that he was a future superstar in nearly every simulation of this universe and that "his spray chart suggests he might have had trouble catching up to big league fastballs." Oh brother.
The ZiPS example is just to note that, for all the back-patting you might think is merited for us all seeing Trout for what he was, we actually missed on him by a lot! All of us. The Angels sent him to Triple-A to start the season, left him there until they were already nine games out of first. The prospect gurus debated whether to put him ahead of Matt Moore or not. (We ultimately put Trout third here at BP, behind Moore and Bryce Harper.) And if any scout saw him as being a 10-win player right then and there before his age-20 season, you'd figure his team could have put together something to steal the four- or five-win asset that the Angels probably thought they controlled.
As much as any of the amazing things about Trout's age-20 season—and there are plenty of amazing—that's probably what makes it stand out the most to me. In March, Trout was one of the three best minor leaguers alive. By April, he was arguably the best minor leaguer alive. By June, he was probably the best major leaguer. And by July, just three months after he was considered worse than Matt Moore, I walked into Ron Washington's office, asked him to compare Mike Trout to Willie Mays, and didn't feel the least bit bad about it.
One of the greatest seasons we've ever seen basically came out of relatively nowhere. We got Mike Trout so right, and we simultaneously got him so, so wrong.
Trout's career will certainly go down as a wonder, either because he keeps doing this—he already has more career WARP than Steve Garvey—or because he doesn't, and we find ourselves once again surprised. But even if he finishes out his career as a 130-WARP player, nothing he does will quite be the wonder that his age-20 season was. And nothing in his age-20 season was quite the wonder of his month of July.
Trout entered the month hitting .336/.391/.526. He had eight homers, three triples, 20.4 RE24. In that month—which, incidentally, including a four-day All-Star break, during which he was limited to just a frivolous single against the first knuckleball pitcher he'd ever seen—he hit .392/.455/.804, with 10 homers, two triples, 20.4 RE24. He stole nine bases without getting caught. His WARP that month, at 2.8, was the best month of anybody in baseball that year. He had the best baserunning month of any player in any month that season, and the second highest VORP of any player in any month that season.
Here's his spray chart:
You might see any of a number of clusters or constellations there. Here's what I notice:
1. The ring of home runs—10 home runs and no two of them the same, ranging from this kind of absurd
To this kind of absurd
2. Random doubles just hanging out in the middle of the field, like an undercover cop wearing loafers to a radicals meeting.
3. The two fly balls to deep center. Trout had a .412 BABIP that month. If you were to rewatch a couple dozen of his batted balls from that month (as I just did), you would actually start to wonder whether he got a little bit unlucky.
That was in New York. Before the series began, the YES network promos showed highlights of Trout while a thick voice growled, "You're in our town, now." When Trout came to bat early in the series, some fans booed him. He had become the biggest profile on a team that had Albert Pujols. Three months earlier, he was playing in Triple-A, where he had been demoted, and where his parents still bought his laundry detergent. Just the craziest year.
Hypothetically, let's say there's a ballplayer who is worth 20 runs on defense (which makes him, hypothetically, the best in baseball that year); and 10 runs on baserunning, which is also tops; and 60 runs at the plate, which is, yes, also the league's best. That's 90 runs of value, and that's the best player in baseball.
Now flash ahead five years. He's now only half the defender he was, so 10 runs. And he's only half the baserunner, so five runs. But he's grown into a much more powerful hitter, a home run hitter with a good eye and bat-to-ball skills and, because of all this, he also draws more walks from cowed defenses. He's now 33 percent better as a hitter, producing 80 runs at the plate. Add it up, and it's 95 runs of value, and the best player in baseball.
Which guy is the better baseball player? We know (well, we basically know) which guy is more valuable. Ninety-five is bigger than 90, is more valuable than 90, and does more to help a team win than 90. But is that the same as better? Can you be better at baseball if you've gotten worse at two-thirds of it? Do WAR and WARP really tell us who the best player is, or can they take us no further than most valuable, skewed as they are by scale and irrelevant to matters of poetry and beauty?
I think Mike Trout was the most valuable 20-year-old ever, and I think this because of his total WAR(P). I think he was also the best 20-year-old ever, and this, to me, is a separate question. What made that year special was only partly the total value, but was largely how completely he dominated the game. I mean, I'm watching him cut this ball off, and it's an absolutely nothing play and yet I can't stop watching him run:
Remember, that was the year that Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown, which is history's arbitrarily selected trio of mostly overlapping offensive statistics. What Trout nearly did was almost unthinkable: He almost won the Offense/Defense/Baserunning Triple Crown. I'm pretty sure I remember a day in August (though I can't prove it) when Trout led the American League in WAR runs batting, WAR runs fielding, and WAR runs baserunning. If I'm making this memory up, I'm not far off, considering his final placement that year:
Batting: 1st
Baserunning: 1st
Fielding: 3rd
So he didn't quite win this version of a Triple Crown, but if you set some thresholds for a season—let's say, 40 WAR batting runs, 10 WAR fielding runs, and 5 WAR baserunning runs, all of which Trout (53, 21, 10) cleared by plenty—you narrow your results down to just nine other players: Willie Mays, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Mickey Mantle, Rickey Henderson, Joe Morgan, Craig Biggio, Jackie Robinson, and Ellis Burks. Henderson was 21 when he did it; no other player was younger than 23.
"There have been very few bad days in his life," his dad, Jeff, told me back then. "That has served him well in a sport that's so up and down." But wait, Trout hadn't been down hardly at all. "Relax, the 1-for-30s are coming. It's a tough game for everybody."
Of course they do. We know they do. Baseball is predictable, and eventually the 1-for-30s are coming. Trout has not had any 1-for-30s. He has had a 1-for-25, once.
Many thanks to Rob McQuown and the Baseball-Reference Play Index for research assistance.
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Just about anytime Mike Trout's name comes up I can't help but think of this player comment from one of the BP annuals (paraphrased here):
"Very few players burst on the majors as fully-formed Hall of Famers...it was clear almost right away what kind of player he was, which is why so many people expressed disbelief: They were seeing a player who, if he never grew, if he never peaked, if he just stayed right where he was, was going to be an annual MVP candidate."
The reader can probably guess which player the comment is about.
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apbadogs
Pujols?
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That's a bingo!
frankopy
the fawning over trout is ridiculous...the game has had dozens of players christened with the "can't-miss" soubriquet over the years; it's just that the names were penciled in...not virally displayed
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You must be a very hard person to shop for. The kid has a career line of .305/.395/.545 line through age 22 (three full seasons), 98 HRs, 102 SBs, two second place MVP finishes, one 10 win season and two nine win seasons. It's not fawning, it's recognition.
I bet you're fun at parties.
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riverz
This was a fun read and I enjoyed it.
I do want to point out that Trout got sent to AAA partly because he had a really nasty case of the flu during Spring Training and it put his preparation for the season back a couple weeks.
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If I'm reading BB-ref's stats correctly, here is the 1987 WAR triple slash line for the constantly overlooked Eric Davis: 40/11/8.
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lyricalkiller
He went 40/8/11, not 40/11/8--the defensive component didn't clear 10, so that's why he was filtered out.
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Thanks Sam. Glad my caveat accounted for (anticipated?) my brain fart.
JPinPhilly
Good stuff Sam.
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I created an ext3 partition and monted /var/lib/mysql there, but it didn't solve the problem.
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Linux 3.5.0-27-generic (lobiancoOfficeLinux)    09/04/2013  _x86_64_    (8 CPU)

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A: Can you give some more details about your MySQL instance. Which version do you use? You can see the exact version when starting the mysql client. Next question, what storage engine do you use? And finally what are the settings in /etc/mysql/my.cnf? Usually with the default settings the server is not configured for serious use. You need to configure the server according to the needs of your application to have it running fast. BTW I have a similar machine i7, 8 Gb RAM, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and it works perfectly.
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While Mativ isn't a startup by any means, it is a "new kid" on the manufacturing block, having been created earlier this year out of a merger of Neenah and Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. ("SWM").
But the Alpharetta-based company is one of those companies that you interact with every day even if you don't know its name just yet. From hospital-grade air filtration systems to smart glass coatings to retail packaging, it is producing some of the most important global materials for healthcare, industrial, and retail settings.
And at the helm is CEO Julie Schertell, a veteran leader in the manufacturing arena.
After receiving her master's degree from the University of Georgia, she started her career in the paper industry at Georgia Pacific. She said it was the place where she "fell in love" with "science and the art" of manufacturing.
"I just loved being around the products, learning what levers really drive value, and learning from people that had been on the shop floor for 30 years," she told Hypepotamus.
Georgia Pacific opened up much more than just the manufacturing world to Schertell. During her sixteen-year tenure at the company, she also took on roles in supply chain, process engineering, sales and marketing sides of the business.
She ultimately jumped from Georgia Pacific to Neenah, another Georgia-based powerhouse in the manufacturing space. She took over Neenah's CEO seat at the very start of Covid, which she described as a " trial by fire" for the entire manufacturing space.
Now in 2022, she's CEO of the latest name in Georgia's manufacturing scene, Mativ.
Mativ is a $3 billion leader in specialty materials, producing healthcare, filtration, paper, and protective solutions materials. With customers in 100 countries, Mativ has manufacturing facilities on four continents and 7,500 employees while running the company from its Alpharetta headquarters.
"We're not just a product supplier," she said. "We really have the opportunity to bring unique solutions because of the breadth of the technologies that we have in our portfolio."
Leading Through A Merger
Navigating a manufacturing company through Covid and supply chain disruptions was a feat for any CEO. Add in a merger, and you've got a business case that would be complicated for many of the most seasoned leaders.
But Schertell saw an opportunity to build on the solid foundation brought by both Neenah and SWM.
"This [merger] was many years in the making," Schertell added. "Both companies had been asking about the other one….because we had so many similarities from a technology standpoint, how we go to market, and [our] customer share. So it's a pretty natural combination and a lot of natural synergies. We announced to the market $65 million of synergies by bringing the two companies together. So that's a significant improvement for both Neenah and for SWM."
There is a lot on the horizon for Mativ, as the newly expanded team looks to bring key products to market at a time of intense uncertainty.
"We're merging during a fairly challenging economic year, including supply chain disruptions, rising costs of materials, global headwinds, and pretty significant inflation," she added. "It's important that we keep growing our top line. There are some fantastic macro trends that support what we are doing. Think about filtration and the expectations of cleaner air and water. And think about new technologies like smart glass and paint protection…and in healthcare, the advancements in personal wellness."
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GIVEAWAY! New Faith-Based Documentary Highlights Challenges of Dating in Today's Culture
By Guest on	 April 17, 2018 Articles from Our Contributors, Movies and TV
Courtesy of TheDatingProjectMovie.com. All rights reserved.
Do you want to date differently? Singles of all ages wonder why it's so hard to meet, date and marry today. In fact, 50 percent of America is single and fewer people are committing to marriage, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014. Dating has been replaced by "hooking up" and "hanging out," making the traditional days of "courtship" obsolete. Or, has it?
A new documentary film focuses on the importance of dating with traditional Christian values. THE DATING PROJECT, which will be shown in theaters nationwide for a one-night event on April 17, demonstrates how a faith-based approach to courtship can lead to more meaningful and lasting relationships.
Courtesy of Alexis Walkenstein. All rights reserved.
A few years ago, one of the most popular professors of Philosophy at Boston College, Kerry Cronin, noticed this decreased dating trend among her undergrad students. "And I thought, 'Well, this is crazy.' So I started asking students to go on what I refer to as 'traditional dates' as part of an extra-credit assignment." However, the act of going on a date was more complicated than she thought. A combination of the prevalent "hook up" culture, as well as the preferred method of social interaction (texting) had all but obliterated skills of basic social interaction. And, so THE DATING PROJECT began, and her class quickly became one of the most popular courses at Boston College.
THE DATING PROJECT film documentary comes to cinemas nationwide on April 17, 2018, through Fathom Events, as a special one-night event featuring an exclusive deep-dive discussion with Professor Cronin. Tickets can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices.
THE DATING PROJECT film follows Professor Cronin and five modern-day singles (ages 20 to 40) in their own quest to find authentic love and meaningful relationships. By engaging in Cronin's dating philosophy – which is based on traditional faith-based beliefs and customs – her mentees find more fulfilling and lasting relationships. Response to this inspiring documentary has been overwhelming:
"There is a huge gulf between single life and relationships in the United States. This powerful documentary is a reflection of today's culture with a surprising look at how one woman is shifting it, one single person at a time. The Dating Project is a must-see, no matter what your relationship status," said Michael Scott, CEO and co-founder of Pure Flix.
The film also received critical acclaim from the Heartland Film Festival, the USA Film Festival, and the Downtown LA Film Festival, which awarded it the Audience Favorite Award.
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THE DATING PROJECT was created in partnership with Paulist Productions, Mpower Pictures and Family Theater Productions, and is distributed by Pure Flix and Fathom Events.
Here's CatholicMom.com founder Lisa Hendey's endorsement of the movie:
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ABOUT PAULIST PRODUCTIONS
Paulist Productions was founded over 50 years ago to create thought provoking entertainment that explores the human condition, and has produced award-winning documentaries, feature films, television, and TV movies addressing pressing social issues and important moral questions. Paulist has provided programming for Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, ABC, A&E, the History Channel, Hallmark Hall of Fame, and UPtv. In a time of rapid change and declining options for family viewing, Paulist is dedicated to developing positive programming with meaningful content. The HUMANITAS Prize, one of screenwriting's most prestigious awards, was founded by Paulist Productions.
Former Paulist Productions President and Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Donohue discuss the documentary on "Good Morning Texas": http://bit.ly/2Av9tKX.
ABOUT MPOWER PICTURES
Mpower Pictures is a film production company dedicated to "empowering" both the artist and the audience by telling stories that are compelling, bold, and uncompromising. Steve McEveety, CEO (The Passion of the Christ, Braveheart), John Shepherd (Bobby Jones, The Ultimate Gift), Todd Burns and David Segel launched Mpower in 2007 to make movies that profoundly impact culture, while inspiring and entertaining audiences. The company was awarded Heartland Film Festival's "Truly Moving Picture" award for its feature films Snowmen and The Stoning of Soraya M.
ABOUT FAMILY THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Family Theater Productions creates family faith-based media that inspires, entertains and informs. Founded in 1947 by Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., and headquartered on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Family Theater Productions is an award-winning producer of family media, including films, television, radio and short format video for all the major social platforms. The Head of Production is Father David Guffey, C.S.C. Learn more at FamilyTheater.org, or on Facebook, at facebook.com/familytheaterHCFM.
Misty on April 17, 2018 21:16
Would love to see this. With 7 kids the more knowledgeable I can be the better I can help them.
Jessica Gipson on April 17, 2018 23:14
The biggest dating challenge is trust.


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Badaracco case finds new life
Oct. 2, 2013 Updated: Oct. 2, 2013 7:35 p.m.
1of3Dominic Badaracco Sr. listens as Judge Robert Devlin hands down his sentence Sept. 13, 2013 in Superior Court in Bridgeport. Badaracco was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for attempting to bribe another judge to influence a grand jury investigation into the 1984 disappearance of his wife. Photo by Autumn DriscollContributed PhotoShow MoreShow Less
2of3Sherrie Passaro of Danbury holds a poster of photographs in memory of her mother, Mary Badaracco, who disappeared from her Sherman home years ago.Carol KaliffShow MoreShow Less
3of3In this file photo from 2010, Beth Profeta, 46, puts up a poster remembering her mother Mary Badaracco. She and her sister, Sherrie Passaro, held a memorial to remember their mother and other people also missing.Carol KaliffShow MoreShow Less
State Police are expected to begin re-interviewing witnesses in the Mary Badaracco case in the wake of the recent sentencing of the man long considered a chief suspect in her disappearance and presumed murder.
Sherrie Passaro, daughter of the 38-year-old Sherman housewife who vanished without a trace 29 years ago, said investigators told her a new round of interviews will take place.
Passaro's information was confirmed by a law enforcement official familiar with the long-running mystery.
The case had been stalled since early in 2012, when a Superior Court judge acting as a one-man grand jury wrapped up the investigation without finding probable cause to charge anyone with her death.
The probe did, however, lead to the arrest and conviction of Badaracco's husband, Dominic, on a charge of attempting to bribe another judge to influence the grand jury.
The 77-year-old former contractor began serving a seven-year prison sentence Sept. 13.
While his attorney is appealing the conviction, authorities apparently are hoping, with Badaracco behind bars, people who may have been reluctant to provide information now may be willing to do so.
"There are no set rules," said John Pudlinski, a retired state police major crime squad detective now working as a private investigator in Litchfield.
"Extended time usually works against you because memories wane," he said, "but there are times when it does benefit police because relationships may deteriorate over time and people may provide you with information that they didn't before."
When the person being investigated is in prison, Pudlinski said, witnesses who previously thought they would be in danger if they talked to police could open up.
Also working in investigators' favor, he said, is, as some people age, they could "feel they are closer to meeting their maker and want to do it with a clear conscience."
Mary Badaracco's disappearance, which was reclassified as a homicide in 1990, remains an active case under the jurisdiction of the department's Major Crime Squad and missing persons unit, said Lt. J. Paul Vance, spokesman for the Connecticut State Police.
"In any type of cold-case investigation, anytime there is a lead, it is always followed up," he said.
But no usable leads have been developed in the nearly 20 months since the grand jury ended, although a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case remains to be claimed, Vance said.
Retired Danbury State's Attorney Walter Flanagan said the chances of developing enough evidence to bring the person responsible for Mary Badaracco's disappearance to trial are slim.
"Before I left as state's attorney eight years ago, they had done a lot of work, and none of it has borne fruit," he said. "Even with the reward and all the publicity, I don't think this (Badaracco's conviction) would move it forward."
Vance said state police hope someone who knows something will eventually decide to talk.
"The family needs and deserves closure," he said.
jpirro@newstimes.com; 203-731-3342


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If you are a traditional Irish music enthusiast, you won't be disappointed with Sixmilebridge. Located in the village are seven pubs and you are almost guaranteed to find a traditional Irish music session with local musicians in one of these pubs every weekend.
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Q: Send binary file over serial with pyserial and python 3.4 I am trying to use python to send a binary file over serial COM port in windows and then write that same stream to a file. In essence, I am trying to make a copy of the file, but since that is not my ultimate goal, I don't want to use shutil or other copy functions. I have one script that I intend to send the file over the COM port, and one script that is acting as the listener and file writer. The sender script seems to send the file as binary without issue, but I'm having trouble with the listener script, specifically, getting it to output the file correctly. I have posted my scripts below. Is the binary stream I'm sending from "sender" correct, and how can I alter my "listener" to correctly write the file?
Listener:
from serial import Serial

def bytes_from_file(filename, chunksize=8192):
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
        while True:
            chunk = f.read(chunksize)
            if chunk:
                for b in chunk:
                    yield b
            else:
                break

def sendfile():
    ser = Serial("COM5", 115200, timeout=30, writeTimeout=0)
    filename = "c:\\temp\\savetestfile.txt"
    # wait for the "Sendfile" command over serial
    h = b''
    while h == b'':
        h = ser.read(ser.inWaiting())
    h = h.decode("utf-8")

    #respond with "y" if "sendfile" recieved to start data stream
    if h == "sendfile":
        ser.write(b'y')
    with open(filename, "wb") as f:
        while True:
            b=ser.read(1)
            print (b)
            if b:
                n=f.write(b)
            else: break

if __name__ =="__main__":

    sendfile()

Sender:
from serial import Serial

def bytes_from_file(filename, chunksize=8192):
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
        while True:
            chunk = f.read(chunksize)
            if chunk:
                for b in chunk:
                    yield b
            else:
                break

def sendfile():
    #com = getCOMPortInfo()
    ser = Serial("COM2", 115200, timeout=10, writeTimeout=0)
    filename = askopenfilename(title="Stuff", initialdir="C:\\")
    #if filename is "":
    #   exit()
    ser.write(b"sendfile")
    ok = ""
    #while True:te

    h = ser.read()
    ok = ok + h.decode("utf-8")
    if ok is "y":
        print("yes!")
        for b in bytes_from_file(filename):
            #b = str(b).encode()
            print(b)
            ser.write(b)
    else:
        print ("Failure")
    ser.close()

# example:

if __name__ =="__main__":

    print(sendfile())

A: I translated binary file to \xYY format, and use "printf" command to write the cascaded strings to target file. It introdued overhead, but since I am working on small files, it is OK.
content = f.read().hex()
content = "".join(["\\x" + content[x:x + 2] for x in range(0, len(content), 2)])
write_cmds.append("printf \"" + tx_str + "\" >> " + target_file_name + "\r\n")


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Morocco 80th in the 2022 world passport ranking
April 7, 2022 Tourism Leave a comment 451 Views
Morocco will host the World Amateur Team Championships in 2027
Morocco ranked 80th globally in the "Henley" Passport Index for the first quarter of 2022, as the Moroccan passport allows its holder access to 64 countries around the world without a visa, declining by one place compared to the ranking achieved in the first quarter of the year current.
Morocco ranked 8th in the Middle East and North Africa region, behind the United Arab Emirates (15th globally), Qatar (55th), Kuwait (56th), Bahrain (63rd), Oman (65th), Saudi Arabia (66th) and Tunisia (73rd).
Morocco also ranked 17th on the African continent, behind Seychelles, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia, Gambia, Uganda, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe and Ghana.
While Japan maintained its lead in the world, where the Japanese can enter 192 countries without having a travel visa, and the same applies to Singapore, whose passport allows entry to 192 countries. Germany, whose citizens can visit 190 countries in the world, in addition to South Korea, which shared the same rank (190 countries).
Previous reports published by Henley & Partners, which specializes in the areas of residency, immigration and passport classification, show that Morocco ranked 78th in 2017, before falling to eighty rank during the 2018, 2019 and 2020 seasons.
The "Henley" index monitors all passports in the world according to the number of countries that holders can travel to without a visa, as the ranking is based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which maintains the world's largest and most comprehensive database of travel information.
The global index is enhanced by conducting extensive internal research, according to what the corporation reported on its official website, given that the index has been issued for more than 12 years in cooperation with the International Air Transport Association. Families rely on this classification to make decisions about immigration and residency matters.
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There's going to be LGBTQ plot in "Beauty and the Beast," and YES PLEASE
Alim Kheraj
Updated Mar 01, 2017 @ 1:01 pm
It's been revealed that the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast will feature an LGBTQ subplot and YES PLEASE.
Given that we're officially only 16 days away from the premiere of Beauty and the Beast, it's safe to say that we're pretty darn excited for the movie. And, it seems, we're not the only ones, with fans queuing hours to get their hands on exclusive merch such as this cup, and we absolutely *heart* this vintage inspired Beauty and the Beast clothing line.
Of course, we're really looking forward to the movie, too (and not just merch), and we can't wait to see how Emma Watson has updated the character of Belle, and how the film avoids some of the more ~problematic moments of the original.
Now it's been announced that Beauty and the Beast will feature an historic Disney first with an "exclusively gay moment."
Speaking to British LGBTQ magazine Attitude, the movie's director Bill Condon spoke about how he was inspired by the moving story behind the music of the 1991 original, to incorporate an LGBTQ storyline into the remake.
Condon revealed that Gaston's (Luke Evans) sidekick, LeFou, played by Josh Gad, would be involved in a small but significant subplot that sees him address his sexuality.
"LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston," the director revealed. "He's confused about what he wants. It's somebody who's just realizing that he has these feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that's what has its pay-off at the end, which I don't want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie."
Speaking about the exclusive news and its importance, the editor of Attitude, Matt Cain, called it a "watershed moment for Disney."
"It's only a first step towards creating a cinematic world that reflects the one in which many of us are now proud to live," he added. "But it's a step in the right direction and I applaud Disney for being brave enough to make it – and in doing so hopefully helping to change attitudes and bring about real social progress."
This weeks seems to be a week of firsts for Disney when it comes to same-sex representation. Yesterday (February 28th), Disney aired its first same-sex kiss on a cartoon on Disney XD's Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Meanwhile, the Disney channel has previously featured same-sex relationships.
It's so fantastic to see a company as ubiquitous as Disney making positive moves for more inclusivity in their movies and shows. It's a step in the right direction, and we're not even MORE excited to see Beauty and the Beast when it hits theaters on March 17th.
Meanwhile, you can pick up the April edition of Attitude magazine, which also features interviews with both Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, now.


Clara was born in Mountain, Ontario in 1941. She was raised on a dairy farm, and she soon learned a strong work ethic, dedication to family and most importantly, integrity. In her younger years, Clara was an avid bowler and a championship ball player. She married Don and had a family of 3 boys. While raising her own three children in almost every sport imaginable, she still found energy to help or assist every other child in the community.
Clara converted her athleticism into leadership roles or organizational positions. She always started at the bottom of any committee or organization and rose to the top, thus making her a knowledgeable and respected leader. Whether it was her numerous years in 4H as a Leader, an Executive member of the United Church Women's Group (UCW), the Registrar of the Kemptville Minor Ball, her countless years as a KDMHA Executive, or on the UCMHL Executive, Clara's interests became her passions.
She served her community to the best of her ability for over 40 years. Before the era of computers and smart phones she answered every call, no matter the hour of the day. Her dedication went far above the call of duty. Clara was a very vocal executive member and parent who stood for what was right. She took great pride and cherished the success of any team or individual in her community, but never wanted to be in the spotlight herself. Recognition for Clara's hard work came in many forms: Long Service Award (UCMHL), Citizen of the Year (Oxford-On-Rideau), and the 'Clara Thompson Memorial' – the Hardest Working Player Award, (Rideau St. Lawrence Kings Organization) and the Kemptville 73's Clara Thompson Memorial Award.
Clara's goal was to mentor and promote an organization that provided a fair and safe environment for children to develop and play. Most importantly she wanted to instill her passion for sports and community in others and was a huge success in getting people involved.
Clara is being awarded posthumously this award in recognition of her strength of character and dedication to building quality community sports programs.


Berlin captured the heart of the twelve-year-old me on a school trip. I was dragged around an icy city that soaked through my collapsing trainers to learn about a history teenage me wasn't really interested in. I've never really been into history, I could have quite easily wished I was back home in England with a cup of tea. But I didn't, beyond my frozen feet I saw a city with quirks and humor. The unapologetically weird city resonated with my misfit teenage persona. The Christmas lights and crowded markets gave a sense of something magical, different and separate from everyday life.
Since that first trip to Berlin, I've always been planning to go back, and have done so three times since. Whether in the middle of winter or the middle of summer, it never managed to disappoint. This is a city whose way of life is shown through its streets. I arrived the other year to step out of a U-Bahn to see someone painting an image of a woman fading into a sketch of a city skyline on the side of a building. By the time of the last day of my trip, four days later I walked back to the U-Bahn and the painting had transformed into an incredible piece of art- that was an advert.
Things are done differently here. That advert in the UK would have probably just been a cheap image printed out and stuck on a billboard or bus shelter, but no, in Berlin it is painted onto the side of a building by an artist. You just need to walk along East Side Gallery to understand that the art runs deeply within this unsuspecting European capital. Take a walk down any side street to see the murals and street art decorating walls. Or find something a little weirder: I found myself in a basement surrounded by a mechanical robotic production of artists' work. But then again if you don't fancy wandering into a basement, the city has plenty of legitimate galleries to have a wander through.
If the weirdly wonderful street art wasn't enough, the flea markets that line the parks in summer, and Christmas markets overtaking squares in winter tops it off. Muer Park hosts a market full of creations and vintage finds, not to mention some incredible street food from some random corners of the world. After doing a little bit of shopping, you can head along the abandoned runway to the open air amphitheater – catch the right day and watch the karaoke performances with the crowds, or be brave enough to sign up for a song.
Whether it's the currywurst or the beer, Berlin's food and drink scene is also not to be missed. Ranging from a world famous kebab van to a revolving restaurant looking over the city at the top of the TV tower, there is plenty on offer for any palette or wallet.
I get tired of hearing Berlin is great for people who love history. Yes, there are some incredible displays and museums and places where people once stood. Yes, it is sobering, yes it is interesting. But, there is so much more. Berlin is not a city of history, Berlin is a city of weird and wonderful. It's a place for everyone, and if you haven't gone yet book a ticket and let me give you a tour.


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