Bloom

Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She has written four novels and five collections of short stories, including Love Invents Us, Lucky Us and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You. Her memoir, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , is a searing account of her journey with her husband, Brian Ameche, to Dignitas in Switzerland to end his life after he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.Alongside the heartbreak, your book is mordantly funny. How did you locate the humour in what you were going…

Can a custom tailor made stateful mapping function based on bloom filters outperform the generic Spark stream-stream join?Photo by Kalpaj on Unsplash, Peggys Cove, NS, CanadaSpark’s flatMapGroupsWithState function allows users to apply custom code on grouped data and provides support to persist user defined states.In this article, we will implement a stateful function that retrieves the tags (features) of a parent process. The crux of the the solution is to create a composite key made of the process ID (e_key in the…

When Selena Gomez’s Cozy Pictures With Orlando Bloom In A Las Vegas Nightclub Broke The Internet & Left Katy Perry Fans Furious!(Pic Credit: Instagram, Youtube) Selena Gomez has been quite unlucky when it comes to love. She’s been linked to several Hollywood hunks like Nick Jonas, Justin Bieber, Charlie Puth in the past. But none of them turned out to be the endgame. While those relationships are all known, eyeballs were grabbed when the pop star was caught hooking up with Orlando Bloom in Las Vegas. Scroll below…

Image: Jordan Strauss/Invision (AP)Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings movies are acclaimed to this day for many reasons, with its cast chief among them. It’s the series that helped introduce audiences to longtime actors such as the late Christopher Lee or Ian McKellan, and greatly boosted the profile of relative unknowns like Orlando Bloom or Elijah Wood. Now imagine that cast is largely the same, except instead of Sean Astin in the role of Frodo Baggins’ longtime BFF Samwise Gamgee, it’s current late night talk…

My earliest reading memoryLearning how to read with Superman comic books on the floor of the barber’s shop my Dad went to every Saturday morning, when I was three. That same year, I branched out to Supergirl, Superdog and Superboy.My favourite book growing upThe more appropriate was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Like so many other girls, I identified with Jo and her temper and her unappreciated talent, despised Amy, grieved for Beth and was utterly indifferent to Meg and whatever conventional visions of happiness she…

Your Google Pixel smartphone is getting a new set of wallpapers, the so-called ‘Live Bloom’ wallpapers. These are rolling out via a Google Play Store update that recently started going out.‘Live Bloom’ wallpapers are now rolling out to Pixel phonesThese wallpapers are a part of December’s Pixel Feature Drop, which started rolling out yesterday. You’ll get four wallpapers in this pack, and they bring “your Pixel screen to life with images that shift and sway when your phone moves”.The photos are provided by Andrew…

No one could have predicted that a movie based on a theme park attraction could attract multiple theme parks-worth of movie-goers into theaters around the world and spawn a massively successful, long-running franchise. However, that accurately describes the success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies -- starring Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow, Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom as William Turner, and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann.The trio would reunite with the main antagonist of…

Large summer phytoplankton bloom near the North Pole (eastern Eurasian Basin) in summer 2014. Satellite-derived mean chlorophyll a concentration within the region of the bloom (28–155°E, 80–85°N) during the summer of 2014 (a). Dot color represents which satellite sensor (MODIS Aqua, Terra, or VIIRS) is used. Dot size is relative to the number of observations obtained (i.e., pixels). The blue line is the climatological daily average of surface…

If you’re looking for a new live wallpaper app, give Hexa Bloom a go. This app allows you to create a truly stunning live wallpaper that can fit basically any setup, mainly due to the sheer amount of options you have.Hexa Bloom is a minimalist live wallpaper app with great functionalityThis is a minimalist live wallpaper app that also happens to be interactive. It puts an animated 3D honeycomb / hexagon / hex patterns (four in total) on your homepage, but there’s a ton of customization available here.Not only can you…

The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl was a massive hit, even if some of the movie's co-stars, like Kiera Knightly, did not expect the success.  That first Pirates movie birthed a billion dollar franchise for Disney. There are a number of iconic characters and scenes in the film, but one of the best, without question, is the first meeting of Orlando Bloom's Will Turner and Johnny Depp's super popular Captain Jack Sparrow. It's an epic swordfight, but a professional fencing master as a big…