text:
Britannica E-Books
Britannica E-Books offers hundreds of downloadable full color and black & white non-fiction e-books for preschool through high school.
Download the mobile app at the Google Play Store or the Apple Store. All
Book Index With Reviews (EBSCOhost)
Book Index With Reviews (EBSCOhost) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and others.
Download the mobile app: Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
Watch the tutorial All
BookBrowse
BookBrowse is an online magazine for booklovers - including reviews, previews, "behind the book" backstories, author interviews, reading guides, and much more.
Watch the tutorial All, Middle School, High School
Book Collection: Nonfiction (EBSCOhost)
Offers a rich research database for schools that contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full-text entries on core subject areas as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills, and more.
Freegal Music
Freegal Music is a free music service that offers access to about 15 million songs and 40,000 music videos from over 40,000 labels with music that originates from over 100 countries. There is no software required to download and there is no digital rights management (DRM) to worry about. You get 5 weekly downloads (videos count for two) and 3 hours daily of streaming, and downloads are yours to keep.
To login, the pin number is the password to your Internet Access Username.
Download the mobile app at Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
Watch the tutorial
Gale eBooks contains a large collection of e-books on a number of non-fiction topics.
Watch the Tutorial All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Hoopla offers free access to stream or download movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows using your library card without having to wait.
Libby (previously called) OverDrive allows you to use your library card to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and more from your library's digital collection.
Louisiana Digital Library (LDL)
Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the Louisiana Digital Library are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state's history and culture.
Louisiana Library Connection Databases
Louisiana Library Connection Databases was established in 1998, it is a collection of online subscription databases chosen to cover the widest range of informational needs, and is provided to the people of Louisiana by the State Library. It also includes many prestigious academic journals for the research professional, and crucial & strategic information for the small business owner and the consumer. The vast majority of these databases are available for remote use, that is, the user can log-in in from anywhere. This is provided free of charge to all library users in the state of Louisiana, and all that is required for access is a public library card. All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books or eBooks. Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today. The Beauregard Parish Library is now a mirror site for Project Gutenberg, so when you select an eBook, please choose The Beauregard Parish Library as your mirror site so that your use will count. All, Middle School, High School
TumbleBookLibrary offers interactive storybooks, chapter books, nonfiction, language learning, puzzles, and games for kindergarten through sixth grades.
Download the mobile app at the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Teen Cloud
TeenBookCloud is an online collection of ebooks and read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, audio books, and educator resources for middle school and high school. A mobile app is available at the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Download the app at the Apple App Store All, Middle School, High School


What: Technology trends in Business Intelligence by Prasad Kulkarni of SAS R&D India.
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Register here.
This lecture will cover technological advances in BI domain. It will start with a discussion on general trends in BI and will relate them to technology. Primary focus is on different technologies used currently, their necessity and type of problem they are solving in the business intelligence domain. It will discuss areas like SOA (Service oriented architecture), SaaS (Software as a service), MDM (Master data management), Real time warehousing, Click stream data warehouses, Federated/integrated search, Web 2.0, Data visualization and so on. The participant will know how such technologies are solving problems specific to BI domain.
Prasad Kulkarni is working with SAS Research And Development India Pvt. Ltd for past 8 years as Associate Director – Platform Research and Development. He leads the core technology group at SAS R&D Pune. Prasad holds post graduation degree in computer management from University Of Pune and has 12 years of experience in the field of information technology. He has worked with product development setups in India. With SAS his focus areas are Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Data visualization and Data access.
I am liveblogging CSI Pune's lecture on Applications of Business Intelligence by Narender C.V. of SAS R&D India. These are quick and dirty notes of the lecture – not intended to be a well organized article, but hopefully it gives you enough of a flavor for the area to get you interested and excited enough to check it out on google and wikipedia.
The amount of data is doubling every 11 months. And we have easier and easier access to all this data from all over the world. The problem is making sense of all this data. The amount of time at our disposal remains the same. So we have to use sophisticated software and algorithms to figure out how to use this data to improve business and efficiency. That is Business Intelligence (BI).
First case study will focus on using BI to simply get a good picture of the situation as it exists. Seeing Reality. Last year, US based companies paid $28 billion in servicing warranties or recalls. This is money you don't really want to spend. Biggest problem in this is identifying these problems as early as possible. Seeing reality early. Typically, an issue first appears. A little while later, the issue becomes visible to the company, and it is prioritized. Later it is "defined" and decisions taken by the decision makers. Finally the issue is resolved, and money paid out. A study by SAS shows that the "detect" part of this cycle takes about 90 days, the prioritize part takes 20 days, and the define part takes 75 days. That's a total of 185 days to fix the problem.
A business intelligence system helps to reduce each phase of that sequence because of better data gathering and statistical analysis. This results in 27 days detection, 5 days, prioritization and 46 days to prioritize, for a total of 78 days. This is a huge improvement, and each day saved results in money saved.
How is this done? First simple reports: defects per thousand, per product. Dashboard with easy to see defect reports. Then a library of reports that various people in the company can use easily to see and analyze defects and warranty claims. Then a statistical analysis engine to detect "emerging issues". Use algorithms that can detect, from early trends, issues that are likely to become "big" later on. Text mining and analysis to read unstructured reports of service technicians and being able to determine, simply by looking at the keywords, which product or part or defect was the cause of that particular incident. And there are other analytics, like forecasting and trend analysis that are used. Bottomline? Shanghai GM was able to reduce detection and definition time by 70%, resulting in reduction of costs by 34%. Which is pretty cool for simply running a bunch of mathematical algorithms.
Everybody agrees that it is important for a company to have a strategy. And that everyone should understand and execute according to that strategy. Obvious?
This is a reality based on a survey: Only 5% of the workforce of a large company understand the company strategy. Only 25% of the managers were incentivized based on the strategy. 60% of organizations do not link budgets to the strategy. 86% of executive teams spend less than one hour per month discussing strategy.
How can BI help in this case?
It is possible to define objectives for each person/team in the company. Then it is possible to define how this objective can/should be measured. Then BI software can be used to capture and analyze this data, and figure out how everybody is contributing to the end objectives of the business.
The problem to be solved. Need to stock the exact quantity that people are going to buy. Stock too much and you lose money on unsold items. Order too little and you get out-of-stock situations and lose potential profits. Need to be able to forecast demand. Optimize which sizes/assortments to stock. All of you must have an experience of going to a shop, liking an item, and not having that available in your size. Sale lost. Profit lost. Can this loss be reduced?
Use BI for this. In case study, a department store sent the same mix of different sizes to all stores. SAS did clustering of stores, to create 7 different sub-groups that have different size mixes for each sub-group of stores.
Take the example of marketing. Consider a traditional marketing mail sent from a company. Customers hate that and the success rate is a pathetic 3% or so. That's just stupid, but exists when there is no alternative. Better is event based marketing. When you do something, it triggers a marketing push from the company. This is often convenient for the customer, and has a 20% success rate. But the best is customer initiated interaction which has a 40% success rate.
Note that as you go down that list, it gets more difficult to quickly, in real time, determine what marketing message exactly to push to the customer. If you call a pizza delivery place and they point out that that they have a buy-one-get-one-free offer, it might or might not be interesting for you. Better would be an offer focused specifically on your needs. Use BI to analyze individual customers and forecast their needs and then tailor the offer for you. An offer you cannot refuse.
Another example. Customer puts digital camera in online shopping cart. The online shopping software contacts the BI system for offers to push to customer. It looks at customer history. Figures out that customer is non-tech savvy customer who buys high-end products. Also, customer's demographic information is consulted, and finally some accessories are suggested. Since this is very specific recommendation, this can result in a high chance of being accepted. This significantly increases profit on this transaction.
Mobile company, simplistic view: Customer is leaving. Offer them a lower value plan. The might or might not leave. BI gives you better tools. Cost is not the only thing to play with. Understand why people are leaving, and also understand the effect of them leaving on your business. (Sometimes it might be best to let them leave.) And based on this, determine the best course of action – what / how much to offer them.
First, use predictive analysis to get an estimate of how much profit you are going to make from a customer over the course of next N years based on the data you have gathered about them so far. Use this figure, the "customer value", to drive decisions on how much effort to expend on trying to get this customer to stay. Forget the low value customers, and focus on the high value ones!
Another possibility. If you have marketing money to spend on giving offers to some customers. Let us say there are 3 different kinds of offers. Use BI analysis to figure out which offers to send to which customers, based on customer value, and also chances of customer accepting that offer. This optimizes the use of the "offer" dollars.
What: Applications of of Business Intelligence by Narendar C.V. of SAS R&D India.
This lecture will cover the various applications of Business Intelligence solutions. These include Customer Intelligence, solutions specific to Industries and also will touch upon real time BI applications. Narender will explore the value and use of advanced Business Intelligence, areas such as Performance Management, Customer Management and Analytics: forecasting, data mining and Optimization. He'll present examples of advanced business Intelligence methods and uses, and suggest ways companies can implement and incorporate these types of analysis. He will also discuss ways to measure the success and ROI.
If you've always wanted to know why, how and when you should be using advanced BI, you won't want to miss this!
For more information about other lectures in this series, and in general other tech events in Pune, see the tech events calendar at upcoming.
About the speaker – Narender C.V.
Narender is a Principal Consultant at SAS. He currently spearheads the Solution development for the Retail & Manufacturing Solution.
I am liveblogging the CSI Pune lecture on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. These are quick-n-dirty notes, so please forgive the uneven flow and typos. This page is being updated every few minutes.
There's a large turnout – over 100 people here.
Business Intelligence is an area that covers a number of different technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to data that will help an large company make better business decisions. Includes decision support systems (i.e. databases that run complex queries (as opposed to databases that run simple transactions)), online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting and data mining. This is a huge market, with major players like Microsoft, Cognos, IBM, SAS, Business Objects, SPSS in the fray.
What kind of decisions does this help you with? How to cut costs. Better understanding of customers (which ones are credit worthy? which one are at most risk of switching to a competitor's product?) Better planning of flow of goods or information in the enterprise.
This is not easy because amount of data is exploding. There's too much data. Humans can't make sense of all of them.
To manage this kind of information you need a big storage platform and a systematic way of storing all the information and being able to analyze the data (with the aforementioned complex queries). Collect together data from different sources in the enterprise. Pull from various production servers and stick it into an offline, big, fat database. This is called a data warehouse.
The data needs to be cleaned up quite a lot before it is usable. Inconsistencies between data from different data sources. Duplicates. Mis-matches. If you are combining all the data into one big database, it needs to be consistent and without duplicates. Then you start analyzing the data. Either with a human doing various reports and queries (OLAP), or the computer automatically finding interesting patterns (data mining).
Business Intelligence is an application that sits on top of the Data Warehouse.
Lots of difficult problems to be solved.
Many different data sources: flat files, CSVs, legacy systems, transactional databases. Need to pick updates from all these sources on a regular basis. How to do this incrementally and efficiently? How often – daily, weekly, monthly? Parallelized loading for speed. How to do this without slowing down the production system. Might have to do this during a small window at night. So now you have to ensure that the loading finishes in the given time window.
This is the first lecture of a 6-lecture series. Next lectures will be Business Applications of BI. This will give an idea of which industries benefit from BI – specific examples: e.g. banking for assessing credit risk, fraud, etc. Then Data Management for BI. Various issues in handling large volumes of data; data quality, transformation and loading. These are huge issues, and need to be handled very carefully, to ensure that the performance remains acceptable in spite of the huge volumes. Next lecture is technology trends in BI. Where is this technology going in the future. Then one lecture on role of statistical techniques in BI. You'll need a bit of a statistical background to appreciate this lecture. And final session on careers in BI. For detailed schedule and other info of this series, see the Pune Tech events calendar, which is the most comprehensive source of tech events info for Pune.
SAS R&D India works on Business Applications of BI (5 specific verticals like banking), on Data management, on some of the solutions. A little of the analytics – forecasting. Not working on core analytics – that is only at HQ.
We are trying to get the slides used in this talk from the speaker. Hopefully in a few days. Please check back by Monday.
What: Overview of Business Intelligence & Data warehousing by Vibhas Joshi, head of R&D at SAS R&D India.
Concepts of data warehouse, data marts, OLAP and data mining, understand relationship between transactional systems and data warehouse.
Vibhas is with SAS R&D india as Head R&D , Program Manager – Industry Intelligence solutions, Member of Management Team.
Vibhas holds a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Pune, a Diploma in Computer Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute as well as a Masters in Management Studies from University of Pune. He is certified PMP.
He has over 25 years of experience in the IT. He has special skills in General Management, Program Management, Project Management, Software Product Development, Requirement Engineering, Database Management, Software Development Methodologies, and Infrastructure set-up.
Vibhas has conducted numerous training programs covering Project Management, Requirement Management and Software Engineering.
Vibhas in the course of his assignments has worked in the following business domains: Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecom.


text:
The Charles Street Times
Featured Art & Writing
Humans of Lindy
January 8NHL Season Looks Bright
January 8Need help staying positive?
January 8Elon Musk makes history
Baseball's Most Prized Free Agent- Trevor Bauer
Tyler Cooney, Staff Writer
Trevor Andrew Bauer is an All-Star pitcher in Major League baseball who was born on January 17th, 1991 in Hollywood, California. From the time he was five or six years old, he had always had an infatuation with baseball. Fast forward a few years, he is pitching at UCLA, one of the best baseball schools in the entire country. Bauer would end up getting drafted out of UCLA to the Arizona Diamondbacks and after four starts, the highly touted prospect would be traded to the Cleveland Indians for mere utility players, pawns in the game of baseball.
Bauer, in his first several seasons with the Indians, would struggle to a major extent, posting an ERA of 4.32 from ages 22 to 26. He, after the 2017 season, would become more involved in the analytical and mathematical side of baseball. This is where he entered his prime, posting a 2.21 ERA in 2018 and would be selected to his first All-Star Game. Next season, in 2019, he was pitching with an injured ankle and struggled a bit, posting a 3.79 ERA with the Indians and was traded to the Reds at the July 31 deadline, where he slung a 6.39 ERA, which is atrocious.
Flash to the 2020 pandemic season, he posts a 1.73 ERA and a 2.7 WAR, winning the NL Cy Young, and rightfully so. So what happened? Well, simply, he adjusted to the Reds' stadium and threw the best baseball of his life. Currently, here after the 2020 season, he is the most highly regarded free agent in the 2020-2021 class, leaving many people, analysts and fans alike, wondering where he will go. There have been no inclinations except for some tweets from Bauer and his agent, saying that they, "like the atmosphere that X team creates". Some of the teams that he has done this to include the Mets, Angels and Yankees. Some people believe that the list is as large as eight possible teams:
The New York Mets
The Los Angeles Angels
The Cincinnati Reds (re-sign)
The Chicago White Sox
The Los Angeles Dodgers
The Toronto Blue Jays
Top sources say that Bauer, aged 29 until January 2021, is looking for more than five years and over $100 million. The Dodgers and Yankees, if they were to spend this money, would probably be making a big mistake, given how large their payrolls are. For most, the best suitors for Bauer are the Mets, who are now under a new owner who has shown he is not afraid to talk, the White Sox, who are in dire need of pitching and also are extremely young, having a very bright future, and the Angels, who would probably benefit the most from this move. On the side of the Blue Jays and Red Sox, they have no reason to pick him up, given the fact that they are very far away from contending. A sleeper / dark horse team for Bauer could possibly be the San Diego Padres, who, like the White Sox, are very young. Unlike the White Sox, they possess Bauer's best friend, Mike Clevinger, who could be another incentive for Bauer to take his talents to SD.
Personally, as an avid fan of the sport and someone who follows Bauer and his analytics on a day-to-day basis, I believe that he will go to the Mets. I am not a Met fan, rather the exact opposite, a Yankees fan; however, they were just bought out by Steve Cohen who is a fan of the team and wants to see the best for them. He is also a multi-billionaire who seems not to be afraid of casting for the big fish. Even though they recently acquired the massively overrated James McCann, that was still a large move. He is not afraid to spend big money, where the Mets also can afford it, and Bauer is looking for somewhere that he can contend for a World Series Championship. The Mets are a few pieces away from contending in a major way, as they are getting their second best starter, Noah Syndergaard back from a torn UCL and recently re-signed Marcus Stroman. 2019 acquiree, reliever Dellin Betances, is finally back from injury, and there will surely be a few odds and ends that the Mets can tie up in the matter of a few weeks.
As previously stated in other articles, 2021 and beyond looks good for the Mets.
Tyler Cooney is a senior at Lindenhurst High School, but is his first year writing for the Charles Street Times. Tyler pitches for the varsity baseball...
Thoughts on high risk sports being delayed?
I Feel as If it will prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Should not be delayed. Seniors deserve their season.
Lindenhurst High School
Feb 6 / Boys Basketball
Feb 6 / Girls Basketball
Connetquot
Mets Complete Blockbuster Deal For Francisco Lindor, Carlos Carrasco
2020 NFL End of Season Awards
Approaching the 2020-21 NHL Season
The Violent Act of Pitching
Jalen Hurts: The Spark the Eagles Needed
Get Recruited Seminar
Winners and Losers of the NBA Offseason
Derrick Henry and the Titans Keep on Rolling!
Covid Forces Section XI to Postpone Sports
POD (People of Discussion) Season Premiere: Hot NFL Debates
Leadership Honor Scholarship

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Yosef Abramowitz is an Israeli-American environmentalist, president and CEO of Energiya Global Capital as well as co-founder of the Arava Power Company.

Biography
Abramowitz was born in 1964 in the United States, to a Jewish family. He lived in Israel as a child from 1969 to 1972, before returning to Boston. While living in Massachusetts, he attended the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston, and graduated in 1980 from Hebrew College Prozdor and in 1982 from Brookline High School.  He received a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Public Policy from Boston University in 1986, where he studied under Elie Wiesel, Howard Zinn and Hillel Levine, and a Master of Arts in Magazine Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991, which he attended on a Wexner Graduate Fellowship. He is married to Rabbi Susan Silverman with whom he had five children. Yosef Abramowitz was President of the Arava Power Company (2006–2013) and then CEO and President of Energiya Global (2011–) founding both companies with partners David Rosenblatt of New Jersey and Ed Hofland of Kibbutz Ketura.

In 2006, he moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Kibbutz Ketura.

Energiya Global Capital
Abramowitz is the president and CEO of an investment platform Energiya Global Capital which finances green energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

References

Living people
1964 births
20th-century American Jews
American emigrants to Israel
Israeli Reform Jews
Israeli activists
Israeli chief executives
Place of birth missing (living people)
Boston University alumni
Businesspeople from Boston
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Bonei Zion Prize recipients
21st-century American Jews

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
using DynThings.Core;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using DynThings.Data.Models;
using DynThings.Data.Repositories;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;

namespace DynThings.WebPortal.Controllers
{
    public class BaseController : Controller
    {
        UnitOfWork_Repositories uof_repos = new UnitOfWork_Repositories();

        #region Properties
        public AspNetUser currentUser { get; set; }
        public string PageTitle { get; set; }
        public string PageDescription { get; set; }
        #endregion

        #region Overrides
        #region Initialize
        protected override void Initialize(RequestContext requestContext)
        {
            base.Initialize(requestContext);

            //Get the current User Info
            currentUser = uof_repos.repoDynUsers.Find(User.Identity.GetUserId());
        }

        #endregion

        #region OnActionExecuting
        protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            if (Core.Config.PlatformTitle == "")
            {
                filterContext.Result = new RedirectToRouteResult(
                    new RouteValueDictionary {{ "Controller", "Setup" },
                                      { "Action", "Index" } });
            }

            base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }
        #endregion

        #endregion

        public bool ValidateUserPermissions( bool monitorAndControlIsAllowed,bool monitorOnlyIsAllowed)
        {
            bool result = false;
            if (Core.Config.PublicAccess == false)
            {
                if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated == true)
                {
                    if (User.IsInRole(StaticMenus.UserRoles.GetAdminRoleName()))
                    {
                        result = true;
                    }
                    if ((monitorAndControlIsAllowed == true) && (User.IsInRole(StaticMenus.UserRoles.GetMonitorAndControlRoleName())))
                    {
                        result = true;
                    }
                    if ((monitorOnlyIsAllowed == true) && (User.IsInRole(StaticMenus.UserRoles.GetMonitorOnlyRoleName())))
                    {
                        result = true;
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                result = true;
            }
            return result;
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Red Shiraz is a great entertaining wine and the Monte Rosso range has been a firm customer favourite. Incredible value this Spanish Shiraz is rich and juicy with flavours of blackberry and plum. Superb wine to pair with hearty winter fare.
With its bouquet of ripe fruit and white flowers the Baron d'Arignac White Blend is an easy drinking and refreshing white. A fitting accompaniment to lighter white meats or a fresh salad.
Delicious Australian Chardonnay that's so good you won't want to share it with your accomplice! Boasting honeysuckle aromas and tropical fruit flavours this is a great wine to pair with chicken or creamy pasta dishes.
The Heist Shiraz is rich and spicy with aromas of dark berries and flavours licorice and vanilla on the palate. A great example of the Australian Shiraz style this is a wine which pairs well with food including meat dishes and burgers.
Australian Sauvignon Blancs have proved so popular with our customers that we thought we would introduce another to our lineup. The Duplicate Sauvignon Blanc is great value that is ripe and tropical in style. With its fruity and crisp profile enjoy this wine on its own or with light seafood dishes.
The Monte Rosso Brut Sparkling is superb value from Spain, with is delicate bubbles and light, clean and crisp fruity flavours this is an ideal accompaniment for toasts and Mimosas.


text:
Tag: influencers
Singer/Actor Lizzy Borden discusses his role in the new film "Die Influencers Die"
Lizzy Borden burst on to the Los Angeles heavy metal scene in the early 1980's with their debut EP "Give 'Em the Axe" and subsequent full-length release "Love You to Pieces". The band also appeared in Penelope Spheeris rockumentary "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years". Media Mikes had the chance recently to talk with Lizzy about his newest movie titled "Die Influencers Die" where he plays a dark and sinister character known only as Otherworld-Coyote.
Adam Lawton: Can you tell us how you got involved with the film "Die Influencers Die"?
Lizzy Borden: I was good friends with the director Gary Orona. We both were moving to Las Vegas around the same time and he mentioned he was thinking of doing a move. He had asked if I would be in it and I said yes but, I was heading out on touring. While I was out on the road, they contacted me about the part and said that they were going to be doing table reads. I missed all of those and only had gotten the script about a day and a half before I was set to film. Everything just sort of happened while I was out with the band.
AL: What can you tell us about your character?
LB: It's kind of weird because when I first got the script was trying to figure out how this character was involved with everything. There was no backstory for him, so I tried to figure out what his motives are. This character literally has no name and appears out of nowhere. I had to try and figure out how to really play this character. I thought of things like "Othello" and made this guy a real instigator. We have actually talked about doing another film that would explore this guy's back story. There is just this unexplained nature about this guy that made it a lot of fun.
AL: Being there wasn't a lot that was known about the character were given creative freedom or did the director have you stay within certain parameters?
LB: We knew this was going to be a supernatural character so I kind of knew where to take things, but I still didn't know even what he was going to look like. On the first day of shooting, I had about five or six different looks we could go with for this character. Gary came in and the one you see is what he picked. When I then went into hair and makeup, they suggested I should just put a ton of gel in my hair. They put probably a half gallon of gel in there and it really sold the character and took it in another direction. We were kind of improvising. As far as the acting went when I looked at the lines it always seemed to me that he was screaming and very angry. I thought back to all of the great scenes where someone has portrayed being angry and those were usually done in a very calm way. I wanted to bring his presentation down to a whisper and if he did get angry, I wanted whoever else was in the scene to feel his intensity without me having to scream at the top of my lungs. I remember the first thing we shot with everyone there Gary asked to do a practice. We did the scene and he ended up getting really mad. I asked what was wrong and he was mad that he didn't film it because it was so good. From then on, he filmed everything.
AL: At what point did the option to have a song in the film come up?
LB: That was an afterthought. The film was finished however it was taking awhile to release. It was originally supposed to go to either Netflix or Amazon Prime but there were some paperwork problems. We couldn't even promote the film. Then Covid-19 hit. We had planned to do a red-carpet event in Las Vegas where we showed the movie and then my band would play. We had it booked and set up but then COVID-19 happened. We had done a soundtrack video for the film "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years" that turned out really good and a lot of people got to see clips of the movie through that video, so we started with that same idea. It came down to a matter of picking the song and the scenes and we landed on "My Midnight Things" which is the title track from our last album.
AL: Can you tell us a little bit about the video for the song?
LB: The whole point of the video was to make a commercial for the movie. I really wanted to do something interesting and asked how could we do some new shots of me singing the song while also incorporating the scenes from the film. We talked about a lot of things and a bunch of those were unrelated to the movie. I wanted for the video to look like it was another part of the movie. We ended up using the same studio we filmed in and we also brought in green screens which was a lot of fun. Ultimately, we needed something to promote the film and help tap into people who might not normally go see a movie like this. Through the video they can get a good representation of the film through the four-minute video.
AL: When you perform with the band it is very theatrical. Did you notice any similarities in how you prepare for a live show and how you prepared for the film?
LB: It was almost identical. Other than memorizing lines that was the only thing. I had the lines, but it was all about the delivery. That is where my focus was. I do the same thing backstage when I am working on the show. I think about the previous night's performances and what I liked or didn't like and how I can make those things better. I do a lot of pacing. (Laughs) They gave me my own spot at the studio and I just wandered around between shots until they were ready for me.
AL: Having now done the movie do you think you will take what you learned from there and apply it to your live performances?
LB: I think so. There is a subtlety to it as my live shows are pretty over the top. What I got out this character is that there was nothing flamboyant about him in any way. I tend to try and pull out all of the stops with my shows but, maybe if I am in a support slot where I am not able to do that by having played this character, I know I can go out there in a stripped-down format and still deliver a highly theatrical and interesting show.
AL: In 2020 you released "Best of Lizzy Borden" Pt. 2 which included two newly recorded cover songs. (Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' for You" and The Ramones "Pet Sematary") How did you go about selecting those songs being they are quite different from one another?
LB: Almost all of my influences are set in the 1970's. They are all established, big bands which I saw when I was a kid, so they are just imbedded in my brain. I could have chosen two hundred songs! There are just so many good songs. Blue Oyster Cult is one of my favorites and definitely one of the top ten best song writers that I love. On an earlier record we recorded a cover of their song "This Ain't the Summer of Love" as we had been playing it at our live shows. I originally wanted to do "Burnin' for You" for the album but was out voted by the producer so that was a song I have been wanting to do. I am a huge Ramones fan and love all their work. I thought about all of their songs and a majority of them have to be done in a punk a style. "Pet Sematary" is one that you really don't have to do that. We did a Halloween show at the Whiskey in Los Angeles and I had the band learn the song prior to the show and people loved it. That's ultimately how it ended up getting chosen.
AL: With the uncertainty of 2021 are there any other projects that you are currently working on or have coming up?
LB: I am almost halfway completed with a new album. It is coming along but it is very slow. I can imagine this being one of the most favorite albums I have ever done. I still see myself doing four or five more but this one is coming together in a really fun way. I have never had more fun putting a record together. I am not sure how that will translate over to people responding to it but as far as making it I am really enjoying it. I have been doing one song at a time and am about halfway done. I have been getting show offers as well but it doesn't make sense to me to book shows only to have them cancelled. I see others starting to get out there, so we have to just wait and see. Everyone is ready to go we just don't want to book something and have to cancel.
AL: When you are writing do you do that all your self or is it a more collective effort?
LB: I do it differently for every record. I have done records in the past where I record everything myself. On this new album I am having the musicians replace what I have already put down with their performances. I will play all the parts then have Joey Scott add in drums and then we build from there. Usually, my vocals are done as well so we kind of work backwards. I like to hear how it sounds in my head rather than putting just a scratch track out there for everyone. A lot of time when you do that a song can change quite a bit and when you are all done its not what you had envisioned. This way I get my idea out there the way I want it and if someone adds something really great to what I have already played we will keep. So far with this record things have stayed pretty much the same as I wrote it.
For more info on Lizzy Borden, you can check out www.Lizzyborden.com
Filed Under: Film Interviews, Interviews, Movies, Music, Music Interviews Tagged With: borden, die, discusses, film, influencers, lizzy, ...


text:
Don't Feed Da Killaz Vol. 3
L.E.P Bogus Boys
DJ Drama, Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes
Added: 10/31/2010 by coast2coastmixtapes
Infa Red Music & Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes Presents: L.E.P Bogus Boys - Don't Feed Da Killaz Vol. 3 - Hosted By DJ Drama - A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition. TO PROMOTE YOUR MIXTAPE THROUGH THE COAST 2 COAST NETWORK VISIT WWW.COAST2COASTPROMO.COM
1.DFK3 Intro (Produced By Maestro & Team Green)
2.Chicago Nigga (Produced By Black Metaphor)
3.FTW (Produced By Chase N. Cashe for Surf Club)
4.Darkness (Produced By Maestro)
5.Going In For The Kill (Produced By Megaman)
6.We Ain't Playing feat. Fabolous (Produced By By Fly Boyz)
7.Frontline feat. Dion Primo (Produced By Royce Music Group)
8.Heavens Door (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E League)
9.Kush And Leather feat. Freddie Gibbs & Dion Primo (Produced By Da Honorable C.N.O.T.E)
10.Ginger (Produced By Nascent & QB)
11.Buried Me Alive feat. Gucci Mane (Produced By Da Honorable C.N.O.T.E)
12.1 Plug (Produced By DJ Toomp)
13.Lust For Life (Prod. By Roc & Mayne)
14.Shooter (Produced By Da Honorable C.N.O.T.E)
15.Slow It Down feat. Jerimiah (Produced By Drummaboy)
16.So Long (Produced By Shawty Redd & D-Rich)
17.Beast Over East (R.I.P Pacmac)
18.R.I.P Outro (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E League)
POPULAR: jojo, project pat, foogiano, 3000, kanye west, beyonce, migos, drake, jr writer, 2015, a1, young nudy, bone thugs


text:
Q: Benefits of using pointer in this example? I'm beginning with C++ , and really don't see the advantage of pointer.
I see many people say pointer helps to save memory or good in memory management.
Like bellow examples, they return the same result, what different if i use pointer in this case?
Without pointer
typedef struct
{
   int   book_id;
} Books;

 void printbookinf( Books book );

int main( )
{
    Books bno1;
    Books bno2;

   bno1.book_id = 1225;
   bno2.book_id = 3214;

   printbookinf( bno1 );
   printbookinf( bno2 );

   return 0;
}
void printbookinf( Books book )
{
   printf("abc %d",book.book_id);
}

with pointer
typedef struct
{
   int   book_id;
} Books;

 void printbookinf( Books *book );

int main( )
{
    Books bno1;
    Books bno2;

   bno1.book_id = 1225;
   bno2.book_id = 3214;

   printbookinf( &bno1 );
   printbookinf( &bno2 );

   return 0;
}
void printbookinf( Books *book )
{
   printf("abc %d",book->book_id);
}

or this
typedef struct
    {
       int   book_id;
    } Books;

 void printbookinf( Books *book );

int main( )
{
    Books *bno1;
    Books *bno2;

   bno1->book_id = 1225;
   bno2->book_id = 3214;

   printbookinf( bno1 );
   printbookinf( bno2 );

   return 0;
}
void printbookinf( Books *book )
{
   printf("abc %d",book->book_id);
}

A:
I see many people say pointer helps to save memory or good in memory management.

That's not what pointers are for in general. In your example the pointers would have helped you save memory and transfer of data, had the struct been larger than a pointer.
The first example copies the struct when passing parameter. This means two things:

*

*The whole structure, even a large one, would be copied, and the copy would be passed to the function

*Any modifications inside the function would be invisible to the caller.

The second example passes a pointer, so

*

*Only the pointer gets copied, and

*Changes, if any, are performed on the original parameter passed to the function.

Your third example has undefined behavior, because pointers that you pass are unassigned.
Note: Your question does not ask about references, but there is a construct that is closely related to pointers that lets you save space on argument copying, and it lets the function make modifications to the original value. All that happens while keeping the dot . syntax for accessing members, as if it were a struct, not a pointer.

A: If you want to use C++, it will be better to use standard libraries. These libraries are efficient, hide the complexity (and troubles) of pointers and sometimes easier to debug the codes. However in some case, it has shown using std::vector array and pointer array produce the same Assembly code.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
HomeSeptember 24, 2010
100 Years Ago in the forward
Residents of Brooklyn?s East New York area have taken sides in the marriage drama of 70-year-old Marcus Ulman and 50-year-old Leah Fleisher. A mutual friend recently introduced the couple, a widower and widow, after Ulman took a shine to Fleisher. Ulman proposed marriage and even offered to throw in $500. Thinking this was a good deal, Fleisher accepted. The two went to the Marriage Bureau and got a license, but then Ulman decided that he wouldn?t give her the money until after the wedding. ?Let?s live together for a week, see how it goes, and then I?ll give you the money,? he said. Fleisher would have none of it. She wanted the money right then and there. The issue has split East New York in two ? one half supporting Fleisher, the other, Ulman. Meanwhile, no wedding has taken place. Let?s just hope the story ends happily.
75 Years Ago in the forward
In Silesia, rock-throwing Nazis beat a Jewish soccer player to death after pummeling him during a match. The athlete, Edmund Boymgartner, was part of a Polish team that was participating in a match with a German team. In the middle of the game, the German fans began screaming and throwing rocks at Boymgartner, bringing the game to a halt. At that point, the German fans broke out of the stands and rushed Boymgartner, attacking him with sticks, rocks and fists and kicking him. Boymgartner was beaten to death by this lynch mob. With horrible events like this taking place by the hands of German fans, people are beginning to wonder what the atmosphere will be like at next year?s Olympic games, which are scheduled to take place in Berlin.
From the desk of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, White House:
?It is always a pleasure to greet my Jewish co-citizens during the Jewish High Holidays. I know this is a deeply meaningful time for them. According to their ancient tradition, they are required to repent and to thank and to praise God. Strengthened by the moral power of the God of their fathers, they securely enter the New Year. This is my last Rosh Hashanah greeting as President. But as a private citizen I will always remember these holy days with warmth and respect.?
Looking back on September 24
The Forward welcomes reader comments in order to promote thoughtful discussion on issues of importance to the Jewish community. All readers can browse the comments, and all Forward subscribers can add to the conversation. In the interest of maintaining a civil forum, The Forward requires that all commenters be appropriately respectful toward our writers, other commenters and the subjects of the articles. Vigorous debate and reasoned critique are welcome; name-calling and personal invective are not and will be deleted. Egregious commenters or repeat offenders will be banned from commenting. While we generally do not seek to edit or actively moderate comments, our spam filter prevents most links and certain key words from being posted and the Forward reserves the right to remove comments for any reason.


text:
Cameony
We have discussed the original series Star Trek episodes "Let That Be Your Last
We have discussed the original series Star Trek episodes "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" and "The Cloud Minders" as cultural artifacts or "social documents" that illustrate social and cultural issues related to race and status during the 1960's. Your paper will analyze one of these episodes -paying particular attention to symbolic content- and show how Star Trek takes a position on these issues. Use dialogue from the episode (quotes) to support your analysis. You will also research Star Trek and its contributions to social commentary and work what you find into the paper in support of your analysis. You should use the library databases, though you might also find some good material on the internet. Connect scenes and dialogue to the historical people and events of the time. Whose voice or voices represent the teachings of Dr. King? How are Malcolm X's viewpoints represented? Who represents the voice of racism? Be specific. Quote sources.The fine print: The paper is to be a minimum of five pages. The paper is to be presented in MLA format and have a works cited page. Use the 12 pt. Times roman font. This draft will be graded. Reach out to me through email if you want to discuss the assignment and I will schedule a Zoom conference or we can chat on FaceTime.


Electric Eel—San Diego's tallest and fastest roller coaster with astounding loops, twists and airtime—opens to the public on May 12! Electric Eel features multiple- launch experiences that propel riders forward and backward as they speed through the ride's station house accelerating to more than 60 mph in seconds. Riders then rocket skyward nearly 150 feet where they brave an inverted "heartline" roll and a twisting loop for an exciting feeling of airtime as they crest the top before breathlessly returning to the station. Plus, Electric Eel will offer riders the only upside-down view of Mission Bay! With the purchase of a SeaWorld Annual Pass between now and May 12, members can be among the first to ride Electric Eel, and enjoy unlimited SeaWorld admission for a year, all for less than $10 a month.
nearly 900 feet of undulating track." Complementing the coaster are a hypnotic live eel habitat featuring a collection of California moray eels, and an interactive educational experience called Mission: Deep Discovery, which will allow a team of one to four players to embark on a virtual deep sea adventure aboard a manned-vehicle while they encounter the marvels of the deep ocean.
ocean, returns June 16 and runs on select dates through Sept. 3.
The Japanese company Sansei Technologies has completely taken over the Limburg roller coaster manufacturer Vekoma Rides. Little will change for the staff of the rollercoasters, let the company know. Vekoma is an important roller coaster who develops, manufactures and installs attractions. The builder has attractions in over forty countries. Examples include the Python, Vogel Rok and Villa Volta in the Efteling, the Condor and Robin Hood in Walibi and the Mine Train in the Slagharen amusement park.
Vekoma has 250 permanent employees and 100 temporary employees. "Nothing changes for them," says a spokesman for the company. "The name remains, the logo remains, the works council remains." Also the number of jobs does not change. However, Makoto Nakagawa, CEO of Sansei, will sit on the Supervisory Board of Vekoma. Vekoma will continue the current activities under the same name and will operate as an independent company, is the promise . The companies do not report a takeover amount.
The opening ceremony is up first!
We are all registered and ready to ride!
Second Set of Coaster Art Prints Now on Sale!
Our second set of coaster art prints are now on sale featuring the winners of the Thrilling 32! For a limited time you can purchase this set in conjunction with the previous set to save on shipping! For more detailed information visit our store in the toolbar above and watch this video!
Dave Bautista, who plays Drax in Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and will be featured in Avengers: Infinity War, stopped by Give Kids The World Village to meet with special fans and celebrate Hasbro's donation of $1 million US worth of cash and products. The surprise is part of Marvel: The Universe Unites, an epic charity campaign combining the super powers of the cast of Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War to help support children's charities and count down to the launch of movie-related products on March 3.
During his visit Bautista interacted with numerous children and delivered new toys from Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War—including his new film-inspired action figure. Give Kids The World fulfills the wishes of children with critical illnesses and their families by providing them with an unforgettable trip that includes a visit to their village in Central Florida and access to Walt Disney World Resort.


The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.
The inspiration for Emilie Loring's Across the Years was a visit to her friend Louise Hallett in the nation's capital. Louise had returned to the United States after many years in Europe, and she rented an apartment at the Mayflower Hotel.
Four blocks from the White House, the Mayflower Hotel truly was the "Grand Dame of Washington, D.C." with more 24K gold leaf decoration than any building except the Library of Congress. The Mayflower's newsletter claimed that its daily register of guests "has always reflected the national and international scene." Franklin D. Roosevelt stayed at the Mayflower the night before his inauguration in 1933 and wrote his famous first inaugural there–"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Every inaugural ball since Coolidge had been held in its Grand Ballroom, and when Charles Lindbergh flew around the world, his 1000-guest, celebration breakfast was held at the Mayflower.
She detoured to Constitution Avenue, and entered the Smithsonian for a glimpse of the Spirit of St. Louis. The sight of the small plane always fired her with the determination to make good. If a man could fly across the Atlantic in that toy why should she fear to attempt any difficult thing? Answer: She shouldn't.
The Lincoln Memorial, Smithsonian, White House and National Mall provided the story's realistic backdrop. Duke Tremaine's Argyle House, which "makes even the most blasé cave-dweller sigh with envy," was real. So, too, were Emilie's forty silver boxes that she mentions not once, not twice, but five times in the story.
"Open it." "O-o-oh," she breathed ecstatically.
In one fanciful scene, the Teeles' duck, Jemima, escapes the house and runs around Dupont Circle.
What was that white thing ahead? It couldn't be! It was! Jemima waddling toward her in the middle of the sidewalk…"Jemima. Nice Jemima!" she cajoled… She was angrily aware that she was making a spectacle of herself as the duck squatted, flew, pranced on tiptoes and she raced, clutched, raced and clutched with no success to the accompaniment of chuckles, cheers, guffaws, shouts of good-natured derision from persons passing. Duke had said that the world needed laughter. Thanks to the act that silly duck was putting on, it was getting it this morning–plus.
Surprisingly, this was true, too. The real duck's name was Osgood, and it lived at 1826 Massachusetts Avenue, the pet of a Mr. Thomas Henson. In the heaviest of traffic, the duck would waddle out and splash in puddles, amazing passers-by and disrupting traffic until its fun was over.
Madame Carr and Duke Tremaine recognize that Faith is incorruptible.
I think this is an important point to make about Emilie Loring's central characters. They are neither oblivious nor perfect, but they strive for high ideals, and when they falter, they pick themselves up and do better. Emilie was criticized for this, as though, in a work of fiction, a person of good character was too unrealistic–not the treachery, bigamy, espionage plot, or kidnapping that are also part of the story.
By October 1939, when Across the Years was published, war in Europe had begun. Emilie had time for two more novels, There is Always Love and Where Beauty Dwells before Pearl Harbor brought the United States out of peace and into the second World War of her lifetime.


At first glance, veterans and cannabis advocacy might seem to be an unlikely pairing, but service members have become increasingly outspoken champions for weed. Hayley sits down with Steven Passmore, a veteran and cannabis entrepreneur, to talk about his decision to join the military, how cannabis saved him from alcoholism, and what it's like to be African-American in this industry. Also, a sneak peek at his new venture, The Legion Noire.


text:
All About Wildlife
FACTS ON CHIMPANZEES
The Chimpanzee Is One Of The Most Intelligent Of Non-Human Animals. Photo:Thomas Lersch
Facts About Chimps
Chimps are not monkeys; they are apes, a group of advanced primates that also includes gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Scientists still have not decided whether bonobos constitute a distinct fifth species of ape, or are a subspecies of chimpanzee.
This page is a summary of our facts on chimpanzees; follow the link to our more detailed chimpanzee facts pages.
Many people think of chimpanzees as being small and cute, but this is largely a misconception. Most chimps that people see on television are very young animals; adult chimps, however, are as heavy as many full-grown humans—and about three times stronger than a man. In fact, they can be very dangerous, which is why adult chimps rarely appear on television shows.
Chimps and bonobos live in the rain forests of sub-Saharan Africa. Their numbers are diminishing due to habitat loss—the rain forests are being cut down—as well as to hunting by humans. People in Africa eat chimpanzees and bonobos in spite of the fact that these apes are our closet living relatives in the animal kingdom—a fact that has been proven through genetic analysis.
Both chimpanzees and bonobos live in groups that travel along the forest floor, foraging for fruit and other plant foods. Chimps occasionally also eat the meat of smaller animals they catch, and they defend their territory against male chimpanzees from other groups.
For more facts on chimpanzees, including maps of where they live, follow the link above.
Endangered Species List: What Animals Are On It?
Each Month, More Than
Visitors From Around The World Use All About Wildlife!
Ways You Can Help Wildlife
FROM STUDENTS & READERS: TOP 10 ENDANGERED SPECIES QUESTIONS
How Many Tigers Are Left In The Wild?
Which Animals Live In Rainforests?
What's The Difference Between A Monkey And An Ape?
How Does The Rain Forest Food Web Work?
What Do Chimps Eat?
What Is A Definition For Zoology?
What Do Pink Dolphins Eat?
Are Pink Dolphins Endangered?
What Is The Right Whale's Population?
Where Do Chimps Live?
What Are The 10 Most Dangerous Sharks?
How Long Do Elephants Live?
Are Flamingos Pink Because They Eat Shrimp?
What Are The Chimpanzee's Enemies?
Which Endangered Species Live In Rainforests?
How Do Pink Dolphins Protect Themselves?
Do You Have A List Of Jungle Animals?
How Many Types Of Dolphins Are There?
What Eats Tadpoles?
What Eats A Bottlenose Dolphin?
Where Do Bottlenose Dolphins Live?
Can You Name Some Types Of Endangered Rainforest Animals?
What Is The World's Largest Snake?
What Can You Tell Me About Lemurs?
Do Alligators Live In The Rainforest?
What's The Difference Between A Chimpanzee And A Bonobo?
What Is A Gibbon?
How Many Subspecies Of Gorillas Are There?
Where Do Orangutans Live?
What Is A 'Prehensile Tail'?
Are you a fan of
as well as wildlife? To have a look at our spooky new sister publication, click here on
THE GHOST STORY.com
The Weirdness of Wildlife
Abandoned Baby Bat Gets Human Care
This video of a baby short-tailed fruit bat and his human caretaker will make you see bats in a whole different light. Who knew a bat could be as cute as a kitten . . . ?
Hairy Frogfish Hunts. Watch!
The hairy frogfish lives in tropical and subtropical waters of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It hunts shallow, sandy areas by disguising itself as a weed-covered rock. As you will see from the video, the hairy frogfish is a voracious predator capable of swallowing prey as large as itself.
Baby Gorilla Gets Tough
Adult male mountain gorillas drum their chests with their open hands in order to make a popping noise that resounds through the forest. This drumroll warns other male gorillas to stay off their territory and away from their families. Young gorillas also drum in an attempt to show how tough they are. In this video, a baby mountain gorilla in Rwanda fails hilariously when he tries to prove himself to a group of tourists. There are fewer than 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild.
World's Weirdest Creature?
Nto only are naked mole rats naked, but even though they are mammals, their family structure more closely resembles that of bees, ants, wasps, and other social insects. All the mole rats living in each underground mole rat colony serve the needs of their giant mole rat queen—who, like a queen bee or a queen ant does all the reproducing and is therefore the mother of all her subjects. Naked mole rats are native to the grasslands of East Africa.
Honeybees: Bugs That Give Directions
We all know that insects can't talk. However, some species can communicate nonetheless. Ants for instance lay down a trail of chemical markers called pheromones to tell other members of their colony where to find a food source. Because bees fly to and from their food, a chemical trail is not an option for them. Instead, honeybees are able to give their hive mates precise directions to a distant patch of flowers using an amazing form of dance. In this video, scientists tell us exactly how the bees accomplishing this incredible feat of nonverbal communication.
Shape-Shifting Octopus
Ooctopi are widely know to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates. They can learn such relatively complex tasks as undoing latches and opening jars—and they are infamous for their ability to escape from tanks and other enclosures. But the recently discovered mimic octopus of the South Pacific adds a strange, new twist to octopus intelligence with its ability to disguise itself as any number of other sea creatures in order to scare off would-be predators.
Baby Kangaroos: Born Twice
A baby kangaroo first leaves its mother's body while it is still an embryo. It doesn't even have fully developed hind legs at this stage. The hairless, jellybean-sized creature makes its way to its mother's pouch, where it develops into a real kangaroo—and the first time it jumps from the pouch is almost like a second birth.
Deadly Aim With A Stream Of Water
The archer fish, which is native to southern Asia, Polynesia, and Australia, employs one of the world's most unique methods of hunting. The fish knocks bugs off of overhanging vegetation by blasting them with a powerful stream of water from its mouth. Once the insect falls into the water it's helpless, and the archer fish can eat it at its leisure. These amazing fish can spit water up to two meters (six feet), and they almost always hit their mark.
Ants That Make Slaves Of Other Ants
It's one of the weirdest things that happens in nature: One species of ant making slaves of another. The slave-makers are known as Polyergus ants, and they are native to North America. Periodically, Polyergus will raid the colonies of another species, where they use an array of deceptive chemical signals to overcome the other ants. They then carry eggs of the conquered species back to their own colony, where they they raise them and put them to work. One of the most interesting aspects of this slaving behavior is that, not only does the Polyegus queen participate in the raid, but she is key to its success. The queens of all other species of ants never leave the nest. . . .
Deep Sea Anglerfish: DON'T Go Into The Light!
Deep sea anglerfish live so far down in the ocean that there is very little light in their environment. Creatures at that depth are drawn to any illumination, and the anglerfish takes advantage of that fact by using its natural headlamp to attract prey. But that's not the weirdest thing about the anglerfish: Wait till you see how they mate!
Blood Lust And The Vampire Bat
Vampires are real—but they're only as big as your thumb. In Central and South America, vampire bats emerge at night to sneak up on mammals such as cattle, shave a little skin off of them while they sleep, and drink their blood. In fact, vampire bats at the only mammal species that subsists entirely on a blood diet. Although few vampire victims die of blood loss, some do get rabies from these furry parasites.
The Interior Decorator Of The Bird World
Some animals go to great lengths to attract a mate. But no creature puts more effort or artistry into courtship than the male bowerbird of New Guinea. Not only does this amazing avian acquire hundreds of objects of art in order to impress the female of his species, but he builds an entire structure in which to house his collection.
The Father That Gives Birth
In most animal species, it is the female that carries and gives birth to the young. Seahorses, however, are different. The male seahorse sports a pouch like a kangaroo's, and during mating the female deposits her eggs in it. The male carries the eggs until they hatch, after which he gives "birth" to a brood of young seashores.
A Spider That Fishes
Most species of spiders are insectivorous, meaning that they survive by catching and eating insects. The European fishing spider, however, is piscivorous, which, as its name implies, means that it prefers prey with scales and fins. Watch as this spider detects and then attacks an unwitting stickleback that's unlucky enough to swim by.
Gibbons: The Apes That Swing
Although they might remind us of monkeys, the 16 species of gibbon are apes—a family of higher primates that also includes chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas, and humans. Gibbons are entirely arboreal, which means that they live in trees. Because they seldom descend to the ground, gibbons travel through the rainforest treetops of Southeast Asia and Indonesia using their incredibly long arms rather than their legs, swinging from branch to branch in a form of locomotion called brachiation. As jungle acrobats, gibbons put most kinds of monkeys to shame.
Almost Unbelievable: The Bird of Paradise
Like the bower bird, most of the 42 bird-of-paradise species are found on the Island of New Guinea. Compared to male bower birds, male birds of paradise employ an equally elaborate, though completely different, strategy for attracting mates. They rely not only on their spectacular plumage, but also on their dancing ability in their attempts to convince females to mate with them. In fact, you wouldn't be wrong to call birds of paradise the exotic dancers of the animal world.


Welcome to the Newport Beach and Surrounding Areas home improvement information section where you will find outstanding Newport Beach and nearby area home improvement resources.
Do you need some additional ideas for improving your Newport Beach or nearby area home? Please fill out the following short home sellers real estate request form. I will be happy to provide you with some outstanding ideas as to how you can best prepare your home to sell.


text:
Northern Virginia Art Beat
June 24, 2009 5:33 PM by Dean Edwards
On Monday, June 22, 2009, Kodak announced the unthinkable. They've killed Kodachrome, the color film of the 20th century.
R.I.P. Kodachrome
On Monday, June 22, 2009, Kodak announced the unthinkable. They've killed Kodachrome, the color film of the 20th century. This 74-year workhorse will be gone by the end of the year.
While this will no doubt be little more than a footnote in the week's news stream, it's unthinkable in the expansive view of photographic history. Kodachrome was not only the first commercially available color film, it's arguably the best color film ever made. More than anything, what killed Kodachrome was today's "gotta have it now" mentality, with digital photography being the ultimate manifestation.
Kodachrome required the user to do the unthinkable: wait. The film itself lacks the final dyes seen in the finished product. They have to be added during the development process, and were available through Kodak and only Kodak. Kodak was the only facility that possessed the complex processors that ran the film through assorted dye tanks. This was quite different from the later day E-6 processed slide film that simply needed to be developed at any photo lab in the country.
Modern E-6 films can be processed in an hour if need be. Kodachrome, however, required at least a week to be shipped off to one of its processing plants around the country. In the 1990s, Kodak attempted to give Kodachrome a shot in the arm and offered rush service in the D.C. area. Eventually, Kodak gave up the effort and dropped the rush service. Now, the lone surviving processing plant is in Kansas. Sometime in 2010 it won't be in Kansas anymore either.
Armed with a pair of all manual cameras, and two films – Kodachrome 64, and Kodak's Tri-X 400 black and white film – a photojournalist could shoot virtually anything, anytime, anywhere. Kodachrome still had its uses even after the 1970s advent of the ubiquitous E-6 color films.
E-6 films were notoriously sensitive to color temperature of assorted light sources. Shoot a nocturnal street scene with E-6 and the resulting image would come out in a psychedelic swirl of colors. Sodium vapor street lights come out red, mercury vapor florescent light comes out green and incandescent tungsten lighting comes out yellow. Mix all those light sources together, and you've got a color-correction nightmare on your hands. Ignoring the results, the time-pressed shooter would use E-6 anyway.
When the going got tough, the tough reached for Kodachrome. You couldn't force Kodachrome to color shift. It was impervious to anything but impatience. Kodachrome would take anything you asked it to do in stride without fuss or muss.
Alongside its legendary warm, saturated look, Kodachrome remains one of the most archival color films of all time. To my knowledge, no other color film has surpassed its dark storage life span. E-6 images would live longer under repeated viewing in a slide projector, but its dark storage life span is a good bit shorter.
The average color film materials survive 20 years or so, if you're lucky, depending on printing paper, films, etc., and of course storage conditions. Kodachrome would just keep on going. I have photos of my parents taken in the 1950s that are as color-saturated today as the day they were shot.
Kodak without Kodachrome. It's like Coca-Cola without Coke. McDonald's without fries. GM without the Corvette. What's the world coming to? Shoot a brick of Kodachrome 64 for old time's sake. Underexpose it a third of a stop for extra color saturation, get them developed by next year… and 50 years from now, show your grandchildren what real film looked like back in the day.
Kodachrome b.1935 d. 2009. It served us well.
Silver Screen Shows
The 19th Annual Rosebud Film Festival – Nominee Showcase, in the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (1611 N. Kent St., Arlington) from 12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 27. The entire 20 film (five-hour) slate of nominees will be screened beginning at 12:30 p.m. Admission is $8. For more details, call 703-524-2388.
The Rosebud Awards Ceremony, in the Clarendon Ballroom (3185 Wilson Blvd, Arlington), runs from 7 – 10 p.m. Clips from the winning films will be shown, with free admission.
More @ Artomatic
Artomatic, at 55 M St. SE,Washington, D.C. It runs through July 5, and is open Friday and Saturday, noon – 1 a.m.; Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, noon – 10 p.m.
Only two more weekends remain for this year's Artomatic. We're flagging but two special events in a jam-packed schedule. See www.artomatic.org for complete listings.
Philippa Hughes's Pink Line Project sponsors the Pink Panel: the passionate collector and how to you can begin to collect art. As Washington Glass School principal and artist Tim Tate recently suggested in a TV interview, there is no better place to start collecting art than Artomatic. A full spectrum of price points and wide variety of work available, it's guaranteed that there's something for everyone here. The Pink Panel wants to help you along in the process by talking about young artists they've discovered and give you tips on how to start collecting art, as well as how to participate in the art world as a supporter and patron.
The discussion runs from 8 – 10 p.m. in the fourth floor education room.
The 2008 Rosebud Film Festival Screenings takes place in the third floor screening room, on Friday June 26, 7 – 9 p.m. Like all Artomatic events admission here, this should be free. Random screenings of some Rosebud entries from last year will be played. See the Artomatic schedule for additional times. For more details, call 703-524-2388.
Author: Dean Edwards


text:
Displaying 1 to 9 of 9 results for nutrition
Amita Gupta Lab
The Amita Gupta Lab focuses on drug trials to prevent and treat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and other co-morbidities in adults, including pregnant women and children who reside in low-income settings. We also conduct cohort studies assessing HIV, inflammation and nutrition in international settings; TB in pregnancy; and risk factors for TB in India (CTRIUMPH). We collaborate with several faculty in the Center for TB Research, Division of Infectious Diseases and the School of Public Health.
Research Areas: global health, nutrition, infectious disease, HIV, inflammation, tuberculosis
Amita Gupta, M.D.
Colleen Christmas Lab
The Colleen Christmas Lab studies geriatric medicine, with a focus on geriatric education, interventions to reduce inappropriate nursing home citations by state surveyors, nutrition and fall prevention for geriatric patients, and perioperative geriatric care.
Research Areas: medical education, nutrition, perioperative geriatric care, fall prevention, gerontology
Colleen Christmas, M.D.
Cullman Chemoprotection Center
Research in the Cullman Chemoprotection Center focuses on developing nutritional strategies for chronic disease prevention in humans. Our work draws from natural product chemistry, enzymology, nutritional epidemiology and clinical research. A number of our studies look at the glucosinolates and isothiocyanates found in cruciferous vegetables and in Moringa oleifera, also known as the "drumstick tree." Our team has found that broccoli sprouts are a rich source of the enzyme inducers that detoxify carcinogens and that two of the inducers — sulforaphane in broccoli and isothiocyanate in Moringa oleifera — act as strong antibiotics against Helicobacter pylori, which can cause peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer.
Research Areas: nutrition, chemoprotection, cancer, disease prevention, chemistry
Jed Fahey, M.S., Sc.D.
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Edgar Miller Lab
Research in the Edgar Miller Lab focuses on nutrition, hypertension and kidney disease. Current projects include a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute study on dietary carbohydrate and glycemic index effects on markers of oxidative stress, inflammation and kidney function; and a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases randomized controlled trial that examines the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on urine protein excretion in diabetic kidney disease.
Research Areas: nutrition, kidney diseases, diabetes, inflammation
Edgar Miller, M.D., Ph.D.
Joanna Peloquin Lab
The Joanna Peloquin Lab focuses on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We're working on individualized care for IBD patients through functional genomic studies, specifically those related to diet, host and microbiota interactions.
Research Areas: inflammatory bowel disease, gastroenterology, nutrition, microbiota, genomics
Joanna Melia, M.D.
Meredith McCormack Lab
Research in the Meredith McCormack Lab deals primarily with pulmonary diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the role of environmental exposures in lung diseases. We have researched the factors that contribute to inner-city asthma, with a focus on how particulate matter air pollution impacts pulmonary function. We are also part of the LIBERATE clinical study, which is focused on patients who experience difficulty breathing and have been diagnosed with severe emphysema. We also have a longstanding interest in the effects of race/ethnicity, poverty and urbanization on nutrition and food allergies.
Research Areas: emphysema, environmental exposure, asthma, lung disease, COPD, health disparities
Meredith McCormack, M.D., M.H.S.
Nadia Hansel Lab
Research in the Nadia Hansel Lab investigates the clinical, pathophysiologic and public health aspects of pulmonary diseases, with a focus on asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We have explored how environmental exposures, nutrition and diet, comorbidity and other factors influence the outcomes of diseases such as asthma and COPD.
Research Areas: airway diseases, immunology, asthma, allergies, lung disease, COPD
Nadia Hansel, M.D., M.P.H.
William Checkley Lab
Research in the William Checkley Lab explores the field of lung health, with an emphasis on the epidemiology of obstructive lung diseases as well as acute lung injury and mechanical ventilation. We also explore the interactions between nutrition and infection, and the impact of environmental exposures to health.
Research Areas: critical care medicine, epidemiology, international lung health, mechanical ventilation, acute lung injury, lung disease
William Checkley, M.D., Ph.D.


text:
Mads Mikkelsen in talks to replace Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts 3
Petition to remove Amber Heard from 'Aquaman 2' receives 1.5 million signatures
Johnny Depp denied appeal in 'wife beater' libel case
Denmark's Mads Mikkelsen to replace Depp in next 'Fantastic Beasts' movie
Inside Johnny Depp's firing from Fantastic Beasts: Actor will earn $10 million despite firing
Depp dropped from 'Fantastic Beasts' after losing 'wife beater' case
Hannibal and Doctor Strange actor Mads Mikkelsen is in early talks with Warner Bros to become the new Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise of movies.
Mads Mikkelsen and Johnny Depp. Photo: Collected
Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, known for films Casino Royale and Doctor Strange, is in early negotiations to play the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3 after Johnny Depp's exit from the fantasy film series. Last week, Depp revealed that he will no longer play Grindelwald in the Warner Bros' franchise after he lost his libel case relating to abuse allegations by former wife, actor Amber Heard against a UK newspaper.
The studio had also confirmed that Depp's role will be recast before the film opens in theatres.
The third film spin-off in JK Rowling's Harry Potter universe, which shut down shooting in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, is currently in production in the UK. A source close to the production told Variety, Depp had shot just one scene as Grindelwald before leaving the film, so Mikkelsen would not need to replicate much footage.
Mikkelsen is known for playing memorable antagonists like Le Chiffre, a banker to terrorist organisations in Casino Royale, which was Daniel Craig's first outing as the iconic British spy James Bond, supervillain Kaecilius opposite Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter in the NBC series Hannibal.
If the deal is finalised, the actor will join franchise stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol and Ezra Miller. David Yates is directing the film from a screenplay by Rowling and Steve Kloves. Rowling, Kloves, David Heyman, and Lionel Wigram are producing.
Depp first played Grindelwald in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, taking over from Colin Farrell in the final scene. He reprised the part in 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and was set to start shooting for the third part next year.
Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently scheduled to be released on July 15, 2022.
Mads Mikkelsen / Johnny Depp / Fantastic Beasts 3
Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates Covid-19 vaccine with 'Terminator' quote


text:
package com.coderwjq.shop.network;

import com.coderwjq.shop.module.movie_star.model.MovieStarHonor;
import com.coderwjq.shop.module.movie_star.model.MovieStarInfoBean;
import com.coderwjq.shop.module.movie_star.model.RelatedInformationBean;
import com.coderwjq.shop.module.movie_star.model.StarMoviesBean;
import com.coderwjq.shop.module.movie_star.model.StarRelatedPeople;

import io.reactivex.Observable;
import retrofit2.http.GET;
import retrofit2.http.Path;
import retrofit2.http.Query;

/**
 * Created by coderwjq on 2017/9/4 9:14.
 */

public interface ApiMovieStarService {

    /**
     * @param starId
     * @return 明星资料
     */
    @GET("mmdb/v6/celebrity/{starId}.json")
    Observable<MovieStarInfoBean> getMovieStarInfoBean(@Path("starId") int starId);

    /**
     * @param starId
     * @return 明星荣誉
     */
    @GET("mmdb/celebrity/{starId}/honors.json")
    Observable<MovieStarHonor> getMovieStarHonors(@Path("starId") int starId);

    /**
     * @param starId
     * @param limit
     * @param offset
     * @return 参演电影
     */
    @GET("mmdb/celebrity/{starId}/rank/movies.json")
    Observable<StarMoviesBean> getStarMovies(@Path("starId") int starId,
                                             @Query("limit") int limit,
                                             @Query("offset") int offset);

    /**
     * @param starId
     * @return 相关资讯
     */
    @GET("sns/news/v3/type/1/target/{starId}/top.json")
    Observable<RelatedInformationBean> getRelatedInformation(@Path("starId") int starId);

    /**
     * @param starId
     * @return 相关明星
     */
    @GET("mmdb/celebrity/{starId}/relationship.json")
    Observable<StarRelatedPeople> getStarRelatedPeople(@Path("starId") int starId);

}