Blessed by a brilliant marriage, which resulted in an adored and adoring family he had no need, nor time, for rancour.
He was born into the world of cinema, so as the son of a fine director he knew better than most the passion and disappointment that went into the production of every movie - good and bad.
In hindsight my generation of filmmakers were incredibly fortunate to have enjoyed the understanding and support of a tough, sometimes unforgiving, but ultimately generous group of critics.
Philip French, Derek Malcolm, David Robinson, Alexander Walker, along with Barry, all went out of their way to seek out and promote the emergence of a cinema that was outward looking in both its subject matter and respect for its audience.
To me, through the best and worst of times, Barry was never less than a witty and affectionate friend.
I think I understood him best when, on a Film Night special in early 1982 we debated the future of the industry we both loved.
As I laid out my own thoughts on what I believed lay ahead his eyes grew wider and wider in almost pantomime consternation.
Like me he'd grown up in an era in which the local cinema was a smoky haven of silver imagery, drying raincoats, blue smoke haze and an almost religious silence.
I don't believe he was ever able to embrace the world of DVD's, let alone 'streaming' - and the idea of people checking their mobile phones, and popping in and out of the concession stand while the movie was playing, would have been anathema to him.
Barry enjoyed the best of cinema at a time when, for the most part, it returned his love.
Much as I and his legion of devoted friends will miss him, with cinema subsuming its cultural potential to a spasm of sequels and masked hero's, he probably chose a good time to leave.


RAWIllumination.net: Wait, Aleister Crowley was what?
The man who destroyed Iraq is allegedly a descendant of Aleister Crowley.
Io9.com, the science fiction website, has a piece called "According to the Internet, Aleister Crowley Was George W. Bush's Grandfather."
According to the piece by Charlie Jane Anders, the claim is maybe true, but probably not.
A blogger who shall remain nameless told me he made up this rumor.


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Nilton O. Renno
home_outline/People/Faculty/Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty/Nilton O. Renno
nrenno@umich.edu(734) 936-0488
1531C Climate & Space Research Building 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
2016-Present Member National Academies Space Studies Board Org Committee, Searching for Life Across Space and Time
2014-2016 Member, NRC Mars Special Regions Review Committee
2014-Present Member, Northrop Grumann's VAMP Science Advisory Board
2012-Present Master's Chair, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, U. Michigan
2012 Member, NASA Discovery 2010 Transition Team
2012 Member, NASA Discovery 2010 Downselect Panel
2009-2011 Member, CoE International Programs in Engineering
2007-2011 Member, CoE Multidisciplinary Design Minor Steering Committee
2007-2008 Member, NASA Student Collaboration Program Definition Team
2001-2007 Member, NRC Research Associateship Review Committee
2001-2003 Member, Mars Exploration Rovers Atmospheric Sciences Advisory Committee
2000-2002 Associate Director, Arizona Space Grant Consortium
2000-2002 Chair, University of Arizona Student Satellite Program Steering Committee
2001-2002 Co-Chair, NASA National Space Grant Student Satellite Program Steering Committee
Astrobiology, climate, instrument development and thermodynamics
Aerosols and climate
Instrument development
"The truth never triumphs, its opponents die" ("Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus")
– Max Planck
2015 NASA Group Achievement Award as member of the MSL Prime Mission Science and Operations Team "For exceptional technical innovations in rover surface operations leading to significantly improved Mars Science Laboratory prime mission performance and science return."
2013 NASA Group Achievement Award as member of the Curiosity Rover " for exceptional achievement defining the REMS scientific goals and requirements, developing the instrument suite and investigation, and operating REMS successfully on Mars."
2013 The Space Foundation John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration as member of the Mars Science Laboratory Team "for its aggressive and technologically advanced exploration of another planet."
2013 The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation's Award for Excellence as member of the Mars Science Laboratory Team "for significant accomplishment in space exploration, inspiring global fascination with space."
2013 The National Aeronautic Association 2012 Robert J. Collier Trophy as member of the Mars Science Laboratory Team "in recognition of the extraordinary achievements of successfully landing Curiosity on Mars, advancing the nation's technological and engineering capabilities, and significantly improving humanity's understanding of ancient Martian habitable environments."
2012 Time Tech's Best Invention of the Year as member of the Curiosity Mars Rover Team.
2011 Named Ambassador of "Município de São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil."
2011 Co-Investigator, ESA's ExoMars EDM Mission.
2010-2011 Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award "For his many accomplishments as a multidisciplinary scientist that include being the leader of the Phoenix Mars Mission's Atmospheric Science Theme Group that found liquid water on Mars; his work with dust devils that has led to his invention of miniature field sensors used in climate studies; and his outstanding work with both undergraduate and graduate students. Nilton's Mars atmospheric research has brought him international recognition in both the theoretical and experimental communities."
2009 NASA Group Achievement Award "For outstanding performance in the planning for the execution of the science for the Phoenix mission."
2009 NASA Group Achievement Award "For outstanding achievement in the development and operation of the Phoenix spacecraft leading to the first landing in the Martian arctic."
2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration as member of the Phoenix Mars Mission Team.
2008 Popular Mechanics Magazine Breakthrough Award for Innovation as member of the Phoenix Mars Mission Team.
2008 Popular Science Magazine's 2008 "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category as member of the Phoenix Mars Mission Team.
2008 National Space Club Astronautics Engineer Award as member of the Phoenix Mars Mission Team.
2008 Civil Space Award from the California Space Authority as member of the Phoenix Mars Mission Team.
Co-Investigator, NASA's Phoenix Mission to Mars.
Lead, NASA's Phoenix Mission Atmospheric Science Theme Group
Co-Investigator, NASA's MSL Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS).
Co-Investigator, MetNet Mars Missions.
Chair & Member of NASA, NRC and NSF proposal review panels.
Member, Mars Exploration Rovers EDL Advisory Board.
Member, Mars Exploration Rovers Atmospheric Science Advisory Board.
Fischer, E., G. M. Martínez, H. M. Elliott, and N. O. Rennó (2014), Experimental evidence for the formation of liquid saline water on Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL060302.
Martinez, G. and N.O. Renno, 2012. Water and Brines on Mars: Current Evidence and Implications for MSL. Space Sci. Rev.(Invited), doi:10.1007/s11214-012-9956-3.
Renno, N.O., B.J. Bos, D. Catling, B.C. Clark, L. Drube, D. Fisher, W. Goetz, S.F. Hviid, H. Keller, J.F. Kok, S.P. Kounaves, K. Leer, M. Lemmon, M. Bo Madsen, W. Markiewicz, J. Marshall, C. McKay, M. Mehta, M. Smith, M.P. Zorzano, P.H. Smith, C. Stoker, S.M.M. Young, 2009. Possible physical and Thermodynamical Evidence for Liquid Water on the Phoenix Landing Site. Geophys. Res., 114, E00E03, doi:10.1029/2009JE003362.
Zorzano, M.-P., E. Mateo-Martí, O. Prieto-Ballesteros, S. Osuna and N. Renno, 2009. The stability of liquid saline water on present day Mars. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L20201, doi:10.1029/2009GL040315.
Ruf, C., N.O. Renno, J.F. Kok, E. Bandelier, M.J. Sander, S. Gross, L. Skjerve, and B. Cantor, 2009. The Emission of Non-Thermal Microwave Radiation by a Martian Dust Storm. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13202, doi:10.1029/2009GL038715.
Wang, J., F.J.F. Chagnon, E.R. Williams, A.K. Betts, N.O. Renno, L.A.T. Machado, G. Bisht, R. Knox, R.L. Bras, 2009. Why Clouds Follow Deforestation Over the Amazon? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810156106.
Renno, N.O. and J.F. Kok, 2008. Electric activity and dust lifting on earth and beyond. Space Science Review, 137, 419-434.
Renno, N.O., 2008. A general theory for convective plumes and vortices. Tellus, 60A, 688–699.
Kok, J.F., and N.O. Renno, 2008. Electrostatics in wind-blown sand. Physical Review Letters, 100, 014501.
Koch, J. and N.O. Renno, 2005. The role of convective plumes and vortices on the global aerosol budget, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023420.
Souza, E.P, N.O. Renno, and M. A. F. Silva Dias, 2000. Convective circulations induced by surface heterogeneities. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 2915-2922.
Renno, N.O., M.L. Burkett, and M.P. Larkin, 1998. A simple theory for dust devils. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 3244-3252.
Renno, N.O., 1997. Multiple-equilibria in radiative-convective atmospheres. Tellus, 49A, 423-438.
Renno, N.O. and E.R. Williams, 1995. Quasi-Lagrangian measurements in convective boundary layer plumes. Monthly Weather Review, 123, 2733-2742.
See CV for complete list of publications.

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When traveling to and within a country or area where infection is likely, people are always encouraged to follow basic mosquito repellent advice, whilst ensuring that their arms and legs are covered in loose-fitting clothing and coated in potent insect repellent.
Zika is a disease that is mainly spread by mosquitoes and contracted by humans from mosquito bites. Quite often a mild infection, pregnant women are however well advised to be extremely cautious as there is ample evidence to suggest that infection Zika virus causes terrible birth defects if the fetus contracts the disease in the womb.
Collated here are a selection of facts to do with Zika virus, intended to shed a little light on some frequently asked questions and spread information regarding this potentially extremely dangerous virus. All information is given in good faith and obtained from a wide range of sources including the World Health Organization and several aid charities.
The first fact to mention seems like the most obvious, but it's worth highlighting to avoid any lingering confusion. The Zika virus is spread by mosquitoes, making it a mosquito-borne disease. People are infected after being bitten by a mosquito that is carrying the virus. Not all mosquitoes carry the Zika virus, however many mosquitoes carry all sorts of different viruses, depending on where they are found in the world.
Malaria is probably the most well-known mosquito-borne disease, however, in recent years, the spotlight has shone on Zika due to the devastating effects it has had upon communities, both rural and urban, in certain countries in South and Central America. Mosquitoes are creatures that love to live near water bodies, both natural and man-made, meaning that one of the first strategies for prevention is to remove any water bodies were mosquitoes may breed and spread. This is a lot easier said than done, however, as mosquitoes can make use of even tiny accumulations of rainwater.


I decided to have some fun with the HALLELUJAH CHORUS. I don't know if you know DeLasso's echo song, but much of the first part of the Hallelujah Chorus is like the Echo Song with changes in dynamics.
Handel forgive me for I know not what I do!


Thank you so much for wonderful year.
Your vision from the first day of the project until the school established, really enlightened me as a newbie.
Thank you for your knowledge.
But most of all, thank you for your trust.
I love my job, my colleagues and students because you taught me, taught us to love it, too.
I found my passion long time ago.
Under your leadership, the passion growing every day.
I won't let this passion gone.
I won't disappoint you with the decreasing passion.
You'll always be in our heart.
Thank you for everything, Sir.


For your project, you must research a famous mathematician or scientist. Below are resources you can use so that you will find it easier to create your own original work and cite your findings properly.
Biography in Context - Contains all but two of the subjects! Results include articles, images, and even suggested websites.
Check out our Online Catalog. Look in the Resource List section for a list of books about your research subjects. Books may be from East or West. See the library staff for help obtaining these books.
You'll notice that there are not many recommended websites. There is a reason for that! Most of what is out there on the web is not necessarily reputable. Keep in mind, these resources are only a suggestion of where to start. If you venture off (and you likely will), be sure to avoid Wikipedia and About.com when conducting scholarly research. If you need a refresher on Website Evaluation, check out the website we used last year in health.
To find educational videos (that are not from Youtube), check out Discovery Streaming. To login, just use your Lake Park username with @LP at the end. For example, jensmith@LP. Your password is your Lake Park computer password. You can download clips you like and bring them into your Powerpoint. Both Youtube videos and video files can be added to your Powerpoint using the "Insert" tab and then by clicking "Video" and choosing the video type.
Did you know that you can easily make a very classy, clean timeline directly in Powerpoint? While on the slide for your timeline, click the "Insert" tab, then choose "SmartArt." In the "Process" section about four rows down you can choose a "Circle Accent Timeline" or a "Basic Timeline." You can even get fancy and animate your timeline using transitions in the "Animate" tab. If you are working on your home computer and want to try a cool Powerpoint Timeline add-on (totally free), check out OfficeTimeline.com.
Here are some articles on how to know when to cite and about defining "common knowledge:"
The great thing about using databases is that the citation information is provided. However, if you use a source outside of the databases, use the resources below for help with proper MLA citation. (Click on the images to be taken to the websites). Don't forget: your project requires images, sound, and/or video-all of which must be properly cited! Be sure to pull the link to the original image when searching in Google or Bing.


Gorgeous Pam. Loving the bag and colouring. Happy Mothers day.
fantastic bag Pam also you card under.
This is a great paper bag .. perfect to give a graduation gift in! Love the image and its colored so beautifully.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using CVaS.DAL.Model;
using CVaS.BL.DTO;
using CVaS.BL.Services.ArgumentTranslator;
using CVaS.Shared.Core;
using CVaS.Shared.Core.Provider;
using CVaS.Shared.Exceptions;
using CVaS.Shared.Models;
using CVaS.Shared.Repositories;
using CVaS.Shared.Services.Argument;
using CVaS.Shared.Services.Launch;
using CVaS.BL.Providers;

namespace CVaS.BL.Facades
{
    public class RunFacade : AppFacadeBase
    {
        private readonly AlgorithmRepository _algorithmRepository;
        private readonly RunRepository _runRepository;

        private readonly IArgumentTranslator _argumentTranslator;
        private readonly ILaunchService _launchService;

        public RunFacade(IUnitOfWorkProvider unitOfWorkProvider, ICurrentUserProvider currentUserProvider,
            AlgorithmRepository algorithmRepository, RunRepository runRepository, IArgumentTranslator argumentTranslator,
            ILaunchService launchService)
            : base(unitOfWorkProvider, currentUserProvider)
        {
            _algorithmRepository = algorithmRepository;
            _runRepository = runRepository;
            _argumentTranslator = argumentTranslator;
            _launchService = launchService;
        }

        public async Task<RunResult> RunAlgorithmAsync(string codeName, IEnumerable<object> arguments, int? timeout = null)
        {
            using (UnitOfWorkProvider.Create(DbContextOptions.DisableTransactionMode))
            {
                var algorithm = await _algorithmRepository.GetByCodeNameWithArgs(codeName);

                if (algorithm == null)
                {
                    throw new NotFoundException("Given algorithm codeName doesn't exists");
                }

                var args = _argumentTranslator.Process(arguments);

                // Create Run In Db
                return await CreateRunAndLaunch(algorithm, args, timeout);
            }
        }

        public async Task<RunResult> RunHelpAsync(string codeName)
        {
            return await RunAlgorithmAsync(codeName, new List<object>() {"--help"});
        }

        public async Task<RunDTO> GetSafelyAsync(Guid runId)
        {
            using (UnitOfWorkProvider.Create())
            {
                var run = await _runRepository.GetByIdSafely(runId, r => r.Algorithm);

                if (run.UserId != CurrentUserProvider.Id)
                {
                    throw new UnauthorizedAccessException();
                }

                return new RunDTO()
                {
                    Id = run.Id,
                    CreatedAt = run.CreatedAt,
                    FinishedAt = run.FinishedAt,

                    FileId = run.FileId,
                    Status = run.Result,
                    StdOut = run.StdOut,
                    StdErr = run.StdErr,
                    AlgorithmCode = run.Algorithm.CodeName
                };
            }
        }

        private async Task<RunResult> CreateRunAndLaunch(Algorithm algorithm, List<Argument> args, int? timeout = null)
        {
            using (var uow = UnitOfWorkProvider.Create(DbContextOptions.DisableTransactionMode))
            {
                var run = new Run()
                {
                    AlgorithmId = algorithm.Id,
                    UserId = CurrentUserProvider.Id,
                    Result = RunResultType.NotFinished
                };

                _runRepository.Insert(run);
                await uow.CommitAsync();

                var runSettings = new RunSettings { Arguments = args, Timeout = timeout };
                return await _launchService.LaunchAsync(algorithm, run, runSettings);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Ratings Results of Interest: Continuing a pattern we have been seeing with second season shows this year, Freeform's Cloak and Dagger returned this past Thursday with ratings down notably from its inaugural run. We have already seen significant drop-offs for shows like The Orville (FOX), American Gods (AMC), Happy! (Syfy), and Siren (Freeform), and Cloak and Dagger appears to be continuing that trend. The show had a two-hour debut on Thursday and posted 0.15 rating based on same day viewing for the 18-49 demographic with 477K total viewers for the first hour and then slipped to a 0.11 rating with 399K total viewers for the second hour. That is down from the 0.29 rating the show had for its series debut last year and also from its 0.21 first season average. It's too early to raise the red flag on this one just yet, but I will keep a close eye on how it tracks in the coming weeks.
On Sunday, A Discovery of Witches had its linear debut in the States on AMC and posted a 0.17 rating with 853K total viewers. Those are not spectacular numbers, though the total viewers are decent for a cable series. This one has already been available on the Shudder and SundanceNow streaming services and it has already been renewed through a third season by Sky One in Britain, so this is just a chance for AMC to attract more viewers to the series. Over on Starz, American Gods slipped to a 0.08 rating with 306K total viewers and it is looking like next season could be its last.
On Wednesday, FX's What We Do in the Shadows improved for its second episode by almost 30% as it posted a 0.27 rating with 658K total viewers. If it stays above the 0.20 level, I believe it has a decent chance of surviving into a second season. It was sad news for Syfy's Happy!, though, as that one slipped to a 0.09 rating with 286K total viewers. I already had that one On the Bubble and fans need to stage a Call to Action on the social nets to bring it some attention.
On Monday, The CW's Legends of Tomorrow returned from its extended hiatus but only posted a 0.2 rating with 916K total viewers. That show has already been renewed for a fifth season, but it is looking increasingly like that could be its last. Over on Freeform, Shadowhunters improved slightly to a 0.13 rating with 367K total viewers, but that will do nothing to change the network's mind about the cancellation.
Call to Action: Several sci fi and fantasy shows are struggling as we head into the final months of the season and several more have already been cancelled. But as we have seen the last few seasons, a strong outpouring of support from fans can convince the networks to change their mind about the cancellation or at least produce a series finale (i.e., Timeless and Shadowhunters) or sway other venues into picking up these shows (i.e., The Expanse and Lucifer). Among the shows currently in need of support from fans are The Orville, Deadly Class, Siren, Origin, Wynonna Earp and more. You can see the full rundown of our Call to Action shows at this link.
News Roundup: AMC's Preacher will be ending with its upcoming fourth season according to executive producer Seth Rogen. But that network has another genre entry in the works as they have announced a second spin-off to The Walking Dead which is expected to debut in 2020. The CW's The 100 could have a spin-off on the way according to that show's creator and showrunner. And Snapchat is expanding its scripted originals with multiple new show on the way which includes several genre entries.
Arrow (CW, Status – Renewed): This show has been renewed for an 8th season and that will be its last. Expect it to wrap up with next season's Crisis on Infinite Earths cross-over event which will bring major changes to the Arrow-verse.
Cloak and Dagger (Freeform, Status – Renewal Possible): This show returned for its second season with ratings notably lower that its first. It may make up some of that with delayed and digital viewing, and Disney owns both Freeform and Marvel, so it could still be okay. But a Call to Action from fans on the social nets could definitely help give it a boost.
A Discovery of Witches (AMC, Status – Renewed): The linear debut numbers for this show were not great, but it has already been available on the Shudder and SundanceNow streaming services and it has been renewed through a third season by Sky One in Britain.
Happy (Syfy, Status – On the Bubble): No happy returns for this one as its viewership is well below its first season numbers and I am starting it out On the Bubble. Fans may want to make a Call to Action on the social nets to see if they can bring more attention to the show and help it out.
Into the Badlands (AMC, Status – Cancelled): This show returned with its best ratings since the beginning of its third season with the help of a lead-in from The Walking Dead, but it did drop notably after moving to its regular Monday timeslot. If fans can stage a Call to Action on the social networks and make enough noise, perhaps they can convince AMC to change its mind about the cancellation or another venue to pick the show up.
The Orville (FOX, Status – Renewal Possible): The numbers are down for this show in its regular Thursday timeslot, but it continues to perform well in Live+7 delayed viewing like last year. As a marginal performer, though, it could get swept out with any house-cleaning that might follow from the Disney buyout unless the Mouse House recognizes the franchise potential of this property. Fans should certainly take to the social networks at this point with a Call to Action to bring the show more attention and give it a boost.
Roswell New Mexico (CW, Status – Renewal Possible): This show's numbers have been down the last few weeks but that is in part because it has been flying solo more often than not with its lead-in The Flash preempted or in repeats pretty regularly of late. If Roswell is doing well in digital viewing, that could make up the slack and help it get to a second season.
Siren (Freeform, Status – Renewal Possible): This show started its second season with decent debut numbers, but then saw those slip somewhat. I don't count it as a Bubble show just yet, but it could benefit from a Call to Action from fans on the social networks to bring it some more attention. It returns from hiatus on July 11th.
Supernatural (CW, Status – Renewed): As expected, this series has been renewed for a record-busting 15th series, but it will finally be coming to an end with that announced as its final year. More on that at this link.
The Walking Dead (AMC, Status – Renewed): The post-Rick Grimes era has been well-received by fans and critics, but it has not led to an improvement in the ratings for this show. Still TWD continues to rank as the top scripted series on cable and also outperforms most broadcast network shows. It has been renewed for a tenth season and I expect it to stick around for at least a few more years.
What We Do in the Shadows (FX, Status – Renewal Possible): This show debuted with modest ratings, but improved notably with its second episode. It's numbers look good enough for a comedy series on one of the cable networks, and if it does not slip too much in the coming weeks it could survive to a second season.
Deadly Class (Syfy, Status – Renewal Possible): This show got off to a decent start, but then saw its numbers slip in subsequent weeks. But it still did okay overall for a Syfy entry, especially with its delayed viewing numbers, and the network's parent company NBC Universal has an ownership stake in the show. It has a chance at coming back for a second season, but fans may want to make a Call to Action on the social nets to give it a boost.


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Military Expenditure in Georgia decreased to 331.52 USD Million in 2017 from 350.48 USD Million in 2016. Military Expenditure in Georgia averaged 294.83 USD Million from 1996 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 923.12 USD Million in 2007 and a record low of 33.53 USD Million in 2000.
Georgia Military Expenditure - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.


There are beaches, and then there's Tropic of Cancer Beach on Little Exuma. (Also known as Pelican Beach.) Sure, we've all been to some gorgeous beaches. To me, though, there's simply no place like this. Hold this strip of shoreline up against others and it becomes clear just how incredibly bright it really shines.
The best beaches are the ones with extreme sand colorings. That means, if the sand is going to be dark, it should be pitch black. Imagine the exotic shores of Montserrat, Dominica, and Martinique as examples. There, the sand is so black from its volcanic origins that small flecks of glitter shine against the inky blackness.
But trust me, Tropic of Cancer Beach is white. And not just white, I mean it's blindingly white.
The last time I stepped over the bordering scrub-covered sand dunes and into the photo you see above, I'd just finished marveling at the bizarre Salt Beacon. It was early afternoon. After the short drive over, all I wanted to do was peel off my clothes and dive into the cool embrace of these Bahamian waters.
But the sand stopped me dead in my tracks.
In the nearly cloudless blue sky, blazing away, the Caribbean sun flooded the scene in bright light. And somehow, bathed in all that light, the sand shone back. It dazzled like a giant flash—frozen mid blast. Yes, the sand itself radiated a blaze of light. It was stunning. My eyes simply couldn't adapt. Sunglasses helped, but the sand was so blindingly white, the light it reflected felt like it shone straight through my body.
Finally, after a few moments, I snapped out of my daze, squinted through the brilliance and pushed on.
Only to get shocked by the seas.
Listen, I'm spoiled. Growing up in St. Croix, gorgeous water was never far away. As a kid, long before any paved roads or visitor centers were constructed, we made visiting Sandy Point a weekly ritual. Here, we would run down the sloping sands and dive into blue—immersing ourselves in crystal clear water that would put most other beaches to shame.
Most other beaches, yes, but not Tropic of Cancer Beach.
Sure, The Bahamas are known for crystalline seas. And the Exumas, in particular, are famous for being home to some of the best water of all within the 700 island chain. But, as you can see in the photo above, Tropic of Cancer Beach is perhaps the very best of the best.
The water at Tropic of Cancer Beach isn't just clear. It isn't merely turquoise or any of the other often used words to describe Caribbean beaches. It's electric. Like the sand, it shines with its own stunning inner light.
This is water the likes of which you won't find in many places. It's so clear, you can easily spot any sea life that might be swimming in its depths from well up the beach.
While the sand took a while for my eyes to adjust to, the sea was different. After the initial shock of the electric blues, it began calling—begging me to dive into its impossibly clear depths.
How could I say no, right?
Shady patches are few and far between on Tropic of Cancer Beach, and that's perfect. Not that this beach is known for being busy, but with the well-spaced shade it makes it even more likely that you'll find yourself (and whoever is lucky enough to join you) in your own private paradise.
I padded through the light show under my feet to the nearest shade under an evergreen tree. Pine needles were swept across the sand. There was a very light scent of green wafting on the salty sea breeze.
Tropic of Cancer Beach, located near William Town, Little Exuma is the longest beach on the island around 30 minutes drive from George Town on Great Exuma. And it's the thing of dreams. It forms a perfect crescent of white. The translucent blue green water it hugs has to be seen to be believed. And as though that's not enough, chances are you'll have it all to yourself when you visit.
Most other beaches just don't compare.


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How To Choose A Good Freezer?
Freezer – professional equipment for making hard or soft ice cream. In today's article, we will only talk about freezers for soft ice cream.
How does a Freezer Work?
Externally, the freezer is a square or rectangular structure with four main zones:
Hopper for receiving milk or yogurt mixture;
Refrigerated cylinder for freezing the mixture;
Compartment for issuing the finished product;
The control panel allows you to control the level of the mixture, temperature, degree of saturation with air, etc.
The milk or yogurt mixture is placed in a hopper, and from there into a cooled cylinder, where it is constantly mixed with paddles. The output is a delicate creamy ice cream, which has increased in volume due to saturation with air. The finished product is unloaded into bowls, paper cups, or waffle cones using levers.
Soft ice cream freezer mixes easily with syrups, nuts, biscuits, chocolate balls, and other toppings for endless dessert possibilities.
Types of Freezers for Ice Cream
Freezers for the production of soft ice cream are compact desktop or mobile floors. The former is chosen for indoor installation, the latter is more suitable for street trading. Floor freezers are usually designed for several flavors and have a higher capacity (up to 500 portions per hour).
When choosing an ice cream cart, first of all, decide on the performance. The desired number of servings per hour must be multiplied by the average weight of a serving of ice cream – 70 g, as a result, the productivity in kg / h will be obtained. This calculation will allow you to choose a model that can fully provide the establishment with ice cream and not overpay for excess capacity.
Also, freezers are divided into one- and three-horn (there are freezers with a large number of horns, but this is rather rare). A single-track freezer has one refrigerated mix vat and makes only one flavor of ice cream, while a three-track freezer has two hoppers and makes three types of ice cream at once – one from each hopper and a mixture of them.
How to use: options, care, and nuances
Freezers with a refrigerated hopper are better suited for the production of yogurt ice cream since, without constant cooling, the mixture can ferment. For milk mixtures, such problems are not typical.
When diluting the mixture, strictly follow the recipe. A mixture that is too liquid and highly diluted will freeze when frozen, the ice cream will turn out to be hard and interspersed with ice.
When working with three-arm freezers, use mixtures of the same consistency and fat content in both hoppers. This will ensure that the freezer works correctly and the ice cream consistency is correct in all three cones.
Freezers are often equipped with a pump, which allows you to get more ice cream from a smaller amount of mixture. In addition, ice cream from an apparatus equipped with a pump turns out to be more tender and fluffy.
Another useful option is overnight storage: the unused mixture can be left in the hopper, which will be cooled to the required temperature, and nothing will happen to the mixture during the waiting time.
Wash your freezer regularly: every day at the end of your shift, or every two days for models with overnight storage. Washing the hopper is also required when changing the taste of the mixture.
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Life and health insurance is a complicated business and before you can write your first policy, you must pass an exam. There is a lot to know when selling life and health insurance. Preparation for the exam is the key to getting your foot in the door of the insurance industry and becoming a high producing agent. Our pre-licensing program will help you meet your goal of getting a life and health insurance license.
Insurance sales are one of the most profitable businesses in the country, outside of financial services. Dedicated insurance agents can see incomes in excess of $100,000 per year. Before you start counting your money, you must get prepared, pass your exam, and you will then be on your way to a new career.
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Top 10 Reasons To Check Us Out!
10. What if church is like spinach …?
You know, like something that you hated as a kid but you love as an adult because you eat it in ways that suit you much better. Guess what? A lot of people are having the same sort of experience with church . . . In the UCC, things are often quite different and worth checking out.
UCC churches tend to tailor themselves to fit the people they feel called to serve in their local community. The result: A wide variety of musical traditions, expressions and values that have integrity and purpose. From conservative to liberal, we're not short on variety.
You are what you are…and so are we – we like ourselves just fine. Find a church where you will fit in, be nurtured and challenged to grow.
You don't have to join to be active in many UCC churches. If you want to get involved, many of our churches will find a place to help fulfill your need to give – whether or not you decide to join.
God can blow the lid off any box, unfold it and turn it into a dance floor. We tend to be the "out of the box" people. Among our many firsts, we were the first mainline church to take a stand against slavery (1700), the first to ordain an African American person (1785), the first to ordain a woman (1853), the first in foreign missions (1810), and the first to ordain openly gay lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons (1972). We value education for all people. We founded Harvard and Yale, as well as many historically black colleges, six of which remain affiliated with the UCC to this day.
We believe that No. 5 is good news!
God is having a party and we are all invited. At God's party our spiritual hungering is fed and our thirsting is satisfied. At God's party we get strength, stamina and community support that helps us through the tough times that come to everyone. Feeding our spiritual hunger helps reduce those, "I can't believe I'm so stupid" moments – but we'll never eliminate them all. That's why we need friends and companions and not judges (no offense to judges) for the journey.
It's not about commandments. It's about relationships – even with God. The most important relationship is our relationship with God. Second most important is our relationships with the rest of the human family. In balance, these relationships produce justice amid injustice, kindness in the face of meanness, and the humility of self acceptance that comes as we sense the presence of a God who knows our inmost thoughts and loves us uncontrollably – just as we are. Spiritual journeys can be like the exercise equipment we buy and leave under the bed. Without coaches and workout partners, most of us don't stick with it. We're the "Journeys Wanted" people . . . bring yours.
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package com.krosshuang.krosslib.test.controller;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.NumberPicker;

import com.krosshuang.krosslib.R;
import com.krosshuang.krosslib.toy.MyListView;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Created by krosshuang on 2016/1/22.
 */
public class TestToyMyListViewFragment extends Fragment {

    private MyListView mListView = null;

    private MyToyAdapter mAdapter = null;

    private ArrayList<String> mData = new ArrayList<>();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            mData.add(i+"");
        }

        mAdapter = new MyToyAdapter(getActivity());
        mAdapter.setData(mData);
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_test_toy_my_list_view, null);

        NumberPicker np = (NumberPicker) root.findViewById(R.id.number_picker);
        np.setMinValue(0);
        np.setMaxValue(12);
        np.setWrapSelectorWheel(false);

//        mListView = (MyListView) root.findViewById(R.id.my_list_view);
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        return root;
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by Jim Bruene | Dec 3, 2019 | Deposits, Youth & Family Banking |
Consumers love games of chance, discounts, and limited-time promos (e.g., Black Friday). Financial institutions are in an enviable position to profit from this consumer behavior by gamifying debit/credit cards and mobile app usage. While MasterCard and Visa have run year-end card purchase sweeps off and on during the past 20 years, few banks or credit unions have mounted serious long-running usage-based games.
One relatively new entrant though has embraced this strategy. BankMobile, the digital-only division of Customers Bank (see note 1 for BankMobile history) has a comprehensive loyalty program for its customers called Passport. Each quarter, one student wins up to $10k to pay down their student debt in the Student Success Sweepstakes. There are also discounts and offers built into the program so that it continuously builds engagement. For example, in the screenshot right, the orange box promotes a daily instant-win game with $5, $10 and $25 prizes.
The Passport feature is contained in BankMobile's mobile app which is the primary delivery mechanism for its Vibe and VibeUp checking accounts.
Every account with a positive balance gets a Passport "stamp" every month. Each stamp is worth one entry into the sweepstakes. More stamps can be earned as followed:
Banking & personal finance behavior
1 stamp per $100 deposited
1 stamp per bill paid
1 stamp per month with a mobile login
1 stamp for setting up a mobile alert
1 stamp for setting up a reserve/savings account
1 stamp for setting up a budget
1 to 5 stamps based on your GPA
3 stamps for "passing"
20 stamps for graduating
Besides being entered into the quarterly sweeps, reaching the 10-stamp and 20-stamp levels unlocks new discounts and bonus offers. Stamps carryover each quarter, so once a student reaches the 10- or 20-stamp level, they would not go back to the beginning.
My take: It's a solid program incenting things that are good for the bank and student. So a win-win. And the approximately $20k to $30k prize pool amounts to just 2 or 3 cents per active account per year. That's a small cost for a loyalty program, and probably is a little low (note 2).
BankMobile was launched in 2015 by Customers Bank. Many of its initial customers were acquired by the acquisition of Higher One's student checking business for $42M in mid-2016. Earlier this year BankMobile began powering T-Mobile's MyMoney. BankMobile posted its first profitable quarter in the period ending Sep 30, 2019.
Metrics: In Q3, @bankmobile (digital unit of @CustomersBank) books small profit ($900k pre-tax) despite $4M fraud loss + $1M legal bill.
1M active deposit customers with average quarterly balance just over $500. Average of $4/mo/active in fees (NII). https://t.co/drgKlaASju pic.twitter.com/nsbSKsTPU5
— Jim Bruene (@netbanker) December 2, 2019
2. Originally, the bank offered to pay off the student's entire debt. I think that's a lot more interesting than the "up to $10k" grand prize. Given the Vibe customer base of undergraduates, paying off the debt entirely shouldn't be much more than $10k on average, but to keep grand prize costs down, the bank could have just a single grand prize each year, with smaller quarterly amounts.


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Body found in search for missing woman
Kirsty Moyles has been missing from her home for five weeks
LP Reporter
Police looking for a woman who has been missing from home for five weeks have found a body.
Kirsty Moyles, 47, was last seen leaving her home in Cow Hill, Haighton, on a blue mountain bike, on Friday, April 6.
Following extensive searches, a woman's body was found on Sunday night in a wooded area of Wolf Fell, in the Trough of Bowland.
Formal identification is yet to take place but sadly the body is thought to be Kirsty.
Sgt James Hesketh, of Lancashire Constabulary's South Division, said: "Our thoughts remain with Kirsty's family and friends at this sad and difficult time.
"Kirsty's family have been notified and a file has been passed to the coroner.
"We would like to thank everyone who has helped to look for Kirsty, or shared our appeals."
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
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Sex, Money, and Muhammad Ali: How 'The King' Conquered Manila
by MLC | Oct 29, 2019 | Martial Law Stories | 0 comments
Source: Rogue.ph
Forty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Ferdinand Marcos struck a million-dollar deal in New York to mount the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila," which went down in history as one of the greatest heavyweight fights of the 20th century. Using declassified WikiLeaks cables, new interviews, and recently digitized journals, PAOLO R. REYES asks: Was it also a skillfully engineered political cover-up to camouflage a nation tearing itself apart?
A Savage Business: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Photo by Dieter Ludwig/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
"You don't need the money, Mr. President." Muhammad Ali, slumped in his corner stool like a lifeless corpse, mumbled in reply to Ferdinand Marcos.
"I placed my bet on you, champ! Two-to-one!" the Philippine strongman, like an emperor bearing a laurel wreath for his gladiator, had whispered to the world heavyweight champion after climbing into the ring.
Inside the airconditionless Araneta Coliseum, a wall-to-wall sweep of 27,000 sweating bodies were chanting the warrior's name like a Roman mob: "Ali! Ali! Ali!"
From her ringside seat, Imelda Marcos, wearing a green silk dress she had worn in Havana to meet Fidel Castro two months earlier, winced at the carnage from behind dark sunglasses.
Her daughter Imee, who had just flown in from Princeton University, vigorously wielded a Chinese fan of white duck feathers to cool herself from the 100-degree heat.
Seated nearby were Hong Kong shipping tycoon Sir Y.K. Pao, the "Onassis of the Orient"; Japanese mogul Akio Morita, the silver-maned founder of Sony; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer.
All stood stupefied by the torrent of a thousand punches they had just been witness to.
Minutes earlier, a technical knockout by Ali in the 14th round had finally stopped the bloodletting—ending an hour of epic, unrelenting brutality that was "Thrilla in Manila," the electrifying final chapter of the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight trilogy.
It was also, history would later judge unanimously, one of the greatest boxing matches of the 20th century.
Telecast live at 10:45 A.M. (primetime in the US) from Philcomsat's Tanay station to over 770 million viewers in 68 countries, the eyes of the entire world were on the Philippines that muggy Wednesday morning of October 1, 1975.
But the 33-year-old pugilist formerly known as Cassius Clay, with his princely fight purse of $4.5 million ($18 million in today's money), wasn't the only winner that day.
As he silently marked his third anniversary of martial rule amidst mounting political unrest, President Marcos—with the charismatic Ali as his one-man propaganda machine and weapon of mass distraction—was the other triumphant victor, for whom the spoils were much greater.
"Marcos knew, from the history of Rome, that the emperor needed to humor the crowd with a circus and distract them from seething problems," shared the exiled Leftist leader Jose Maria "Joma" Sison from The Netherlands.
"He also learned from a fellow dictator, Mobutu—who had staged the Ali-Foreman fight in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30, 1974— that the modern gladiators from the US could be hired at the right price to bring the big show to the Philippines." A Savage Business: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. Photo by Dieter Ludwig/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Photo from Getty Images.
"No, no, no—that's bribery," answered Imelda Marcos, seated against a wall displaying her private collection of Pissaros and Picassos, when asked if she and her late husband coughed up $10 million to bring the "big show" to the Philippines back in 1975.
Her interrogator that afternoon was the British filmmaker John Dower, director of the recent Sundance-selected documentary Thrilla in Manila, who had filmed the aging Iron Butterfly in her 34th floor Pacific Plaza apartment in 2007.
The late dictator's widow, now 86, had played a pivotal role in organizing the fight 40 years ago. At a 1973 international boxing convention in the US, an emissary of Don King, then dubbed "the Ferrari of fight promoters," approached Louie Tabuena, chairman of the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) and general manager of Manila International Airport.
"Would President Marcos be interested to stage the third Ali-Frazier duel in Manila?" the emissary inquired on behalf of King, who had just recently closed a $10 million deal with Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko for "The Rumble in the Jungle." (Before approaching Tabuena, King had already sent feelers to Anwar Sadat, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president of Egypt, about the possibility of staging the Ali-Frazier finale in Cairo's Nasr Stadium, but King was apparently more keen on finding "another dictator in need of divertissement.")
"So [Tabuena] did what any smart salesman would do—he approached the wife first," revealed sports journalist Ted Lerner of boxing bible Ring magazine. "[Since] she had a flair for such things."
Imelda, who was with Tabuena in New York at the time, immediately saw the potential of hosting the boxing spectacle, according to Lerner.
After Tabuena was "surprised to learn that all they needed was a total of $2 million (a figure that was said to be nearer $5 million)" for the purse of the world's two richest fighters, he arranged a meeting between King and Mrs. Marcos, who subsequently rang up her husband in Malacañang Palace and convinced him that it was worth undertaking.
"The Philippine government put $1 million up front, with Ali guaranteed $4.5 million against 43% of all revenue. Frazier was promised $2.5 million against 22%. The American promoters, Don King and Bob Arum, took guarantees of all foreign television," wrote Enrique Gonzalez, sports editor of the now-defunct Philippine Journal.
A declassified WikiLeaks cable from 1975 offered a different valuation from the US State Department:"The $3 million dollars put up by the government of the Philippines for the [Ali-Frazier] fight exceeds the $2.5 million the US government paid Spain for the Philippine Islands [in 1898]."
Even today, the figures are inconsistent, and people continue to speculate as to how much it really cost the Philippines to mount "Thrilla."
But the Marcoses, seeking to legitimize their 10-year regime, had good reason for their enthusiasm over the superfight: it was, whatever the actual price, a multi-million dollar public relations investment to win the favor of the Filipino people and the world.
"That was the whole purpose of the fight," explained Mark Kram, who covered the match for Sports Illustrated, "to show [the world] that Manila was no longer an outlaw city, that foreign investment was secure, that martial rule, for all its connotations, was a cleansing instrument: Martial Law with a smile."
"The fight gave Imelda Marcos the opportunity to show that [the Philippines] was a major nation in the New World Order," Dower narrated in his documentary. "Her husband's regime had both the money and the motivation to showcase Muhammad Ali—the dictator's best hope for world attention."
"A fight is done where a dictator needs a fight," weighed in Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's ring physician. "To get the nation's mind off the revolution that's going on—and how nobody's eating. As soon as we got to [Manila] people quit fighting and put their rifles down. Everybody came to watch Ali."
Ali and promoter Don King in Ermita, Manila, posing with Filipino children inside a jeepney.
At around 6 A.M. on the morning of September 15, 1975, Muhammad Ali peered through the window of his Philippine Airlines plane as it hovered over the green fringes of greater Manila.
"Beautiful, beautiful country!" he exclaimed as the Douglas DC-10 jet made its descent on the Manila International Airport, where hordes of newsmen and photographers, hundreds of fans, and a huge Muslim delegation awaited his arrival on the tarmac. "Look at all those beautiful people down there. I gotta see more of this."
The timing of Ali's arrival could not have been more strategic.
By September 15, when he arrived two weeks before the October 1 fight to train at the Folk Arts Theater, the people of the Philippines were suffering under their third year of military rule under Marcos—and their patience for his glowing promise of a "New Society" was wearing dangerously thin.
Once a robust Southeast Asian nation in the 1960s, the country was now handicapped by a sagging economy, rampant corruption, and political insurgency.
A brewing revolution was underway. "[By 1975,] the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People's Army, and the National Democratic Front had already succeeded in expanding to all regions of the country and in creating guerrilla bases and zones," says Jose Maria Sison.
There was widespread unrest among workers, who were seething with anger because of unemployment and the soaring prices of basic goods.
Weeks after the fight, a massive labor strike erupted at the La Tondeña liquor factory of beverage king Carlos Palanca Sr., which spread to more than 300 major workplaces until the first quarter of 1976.
"Following the anniversary festivities [of Martial Law], Marcos began a large-scale purge of several government departments," wrote Thomas Quinn in When 'Malakas' met The Greatest: Marcos' Philippines and the Thrilla in Manila.
"More than 2,000 officials were sacked on Sept. 19; 100 judges resigned on Sept. 21; on Sept. 23 more than 70 Customs officials were fired. Days before the fight, another 1,100 government employees were terminated.
"As the purges thinned the ranks," Quinn continued, "the visiting athletes provided Marcos with numerous ringing endorsements.
"For several weeks leading up to the match, the Marcos propaganda machine had [Muhammad Ali] at its service. Grand pronouncements about the skill and wisdom of Marcos, the greatness of his regime, and the glory of the Philippines filled airwaves and newspaper columns."
A WikiLeaks cable, which originated from the US State Department's Information and Privacy Office on September 23, also confirms this: the telegram divulged that Ali spends the same amount of time "working out" for the fight as he does "praising Marcos" in the press.
"Marcos is a great man. He is humble. He is peaceful. He is loving. I am sure he will lead his people always with the best decisions," a barong-clad Ali gushed to reporters during his courtesy call to the First Couple on September 19.
(During the press conference, where the international media "ooh'd and ahh'd" at the sight of Ali and Frazier dressed in the national attire, Imelda also effused how the two African-Americans would fit in well into Filipino life. "We have provinces here [called] Negros . . . There is no racial discrimination in the Philippines. We Filipinos think black is beautiful!" she was quoted as saying.)
"President Marcos knows how to solve the problems here better than we could. I'm sure he's doing something to help his people . . . He really is the right man for the country," Ali said in the September 21 edition of the Daily Express, sounding like a well-coached ambassador of the administration."If I were a citizen of this country, he'd be my leader for sure."
The front-page Express article, published on the same day as Martial Law's anniversary, carried a magnanimous headline: "Marcos: Ali says I'm a Miracle Man."
Seven hundred miles from Manila, in the southern island of Mindanao, Muslim insurgents were also gaining ground.
The rebel group Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was waging armed struggle against the Armed Forces of the Philippines, who were mired in violent conflict.
Ali, the loquacious media darling who had vocally embraced Islam since 1964, was of particular importance to Marcos in quelling the Muslim insurgency.
"White people told me Filipinos ain't no good . . . they said Filipinos hate me because I am Muslim and Filipinos are killing Muslims," a visibly impassioned Ali told reporters when he arrived. "They were all lies. Lies! I see Muslims and Christians together huggin' and kissin'."
A few days later, on September 24, Ali was bestowed an award by the first Christian-Muslim Brotherhood Congress, a hastily arranged affair at the Ortanez University auditorium, whose politically opportune theme was "friendship and understanding between Christians and Muslims."
At another ceremony in a downtown Manila mosque, where Ali was nearly mobbed to death, the Paramount Sultan of the 10 royal houses of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan conferred the decorated champion with an honorary title he would treasure above all else: Datu, which—in the native Muslim hierarchy—was a single tier below the noble rank of Sultan.
The newly minted Datu Muhammad Ali, however, defied Muslim and Martial law when he engaged in psychological warfare— "to frighten Frazier to death"—using a replica firing-cap pistol.
"During one of Ali's pre-dawn training sessions in Roxas Boulevard, he stopped by the Hyatt Hotel and started shouting at Frazier's window, "Come out, come out, Gorilla!" narrated veteran boxing commentator Ronnie Nathanielsz, who was Ali's "shadow" and official liaison officer in Manila.
"As the rudely awakened Frazier stepped out into his hotel room's balcony, Ali pointed the gun at him, fired some blanks, and started screaming, 'I'm gonna shoot you, Gorilla! I'm gonna kill you, Gorilla!'"
"That was crazy. It was Martial rule, he was firing a 'gun,' and it was still curfew," added Nathanielsz, who kept the pistol in a flannel pouch for Ali. "I still have a picture with him showing that toy gun and having a good laugh about it. 'I scared him, didn't I?' he said. But that was the kind of guy he was."
The September 23 WikiLeaks cable commented: "Ali's aiming of empty gun at Frazier, snapping off some 'shots,' caused great consternation in official circles, since having a gun is [illegal in] Martial Law. Official investigation resulted. Ali will confine assaults to a more deadly weapon: his tongue."
Ali at the Araneta family's Bahay na Puti in Cubao with, from left to right, Judy Araneta-Roxas, Jorge Araneta (standing), Gerry Roxas, and Stella Marquez-Araneta.
The womanizing of Ali, whose wife Belinda "Khalilah Ali" Boyd stayed home in Chicago, provided equal distraction—sometimes of soap opera proportions.
"Ali was on a secret honeymoon . . . he viewed his visit to Manila as an all-expenses paid, four-week vacation [with his mistress]," explained The Independent's Ken Jones, who was a member of the press corps that covered both the Manila and Zaire fights.
"In Zaire, he had been introduced to a stunning model named Veronica Porsche, with whom he began an affair. On the assumption that it would be a fairly easy encounter [with Frazier], Ali spent much of his time in Manila with his new girlfriend."
The 19-year-old Porsche, a ravishing Creole dancer who was one of the "poster girls" of the Ali-Foreman bout in Kinshasa, acted as the "baby sitter" to Ali's four children with Belinda during their stay in Manila. She was also sometimes referred to by Ali's entourage as "Belinda's cousin" to avoid suspicion.
Ali made a terrible faux pas, however, when he brought Porsche along as his date to the Marcoses' welcome reception in Malacañang Palace. It was swamped by the international press.
"The highpoint was when Ali introduced the statuesque Veronica to President Marcos," remembers Nathanielsz. "Marcos took one look at her and said, 'Your wife is very beautiful,' to which Ali—with a twinkle in his eye—looked at Imelda Marcos and said, 'You haven't done too badly yourself, Mr. President."
Ali did not bother to correct his flattered host, foolishly allowing Marcos to believe that he was
married to Porsche.
Their conversation was overheard by an eavesdropping Newsweek reporter, who dutifully wrote about the incident in the next issue.
In Chicago, Ali's real wife, Belinda, eventually got wind of the Newsweek story and its accompanying photographs and was suitably enraged.
Although she was aware of Ali's infidelities, she was furious at being publicly humiliated by her husband. Belinda immediately hopped on the first flight to the Philippines.
Upon arriving at the Manila Hilton on United Nations Avenue, she violently bolted into Ali's presidential suite on the 19th floor, where he was being interviewed by American broadcaster Dick Schaap for The Today Show.
Six-feet tall and with a black belt in karate, Mrs. Khalilah Ali, in her ankle-length abaya dress, "tore down drapes, smashed mirrors, and left scratches on her errant husband's face," narrated Jones.
"Belinda told him, 'Either [Veronica] goes home on the next plane, or I go home on the next plane,'" recounted Ferdie Pacheco.
All Ali said, according to Pacheco, was "goodbye."
"I can still see her now as she swept, imperiously stony-faced, into the [Hilton lobby] behind her mountain of luggage," an observer recalled. "A couple of hours later, having not even opened a single suitcase, she was on her way back to the airport and home."
The press had a field day the following morning when Ali gathered them to explain the situation. "It was the first time," The Observer noted, "that a major celebrity called a press conference to announce his marital infidelity."
"Ali is a sex symbol, everybody loves him, and you cannot stop him," a disgruntled Belinda, who landed herself on the cover of Chicago-based newsweekly Jet a few weeks later, disclosed in the magazine's interview.
Little did Mrs. Ali know that Veronica Porsche wasn't the only woman the visiting champion had his eyes on.
Two days after the historic fight, Ali was invited to a special luncheon hosted by the family of J. Amado Araneta, the owner of the Araneta Coliseum, at their Bahay na Puti residence in Cubao.
He was there ostensibly to sign a contract drafted by Jorge "Nene" Araneta and his sister, Judy Araneta-Roxas, who were going to construct the Ali Mall, the country's first enclosed shopping complex to be named in the fighter's honor. ("We didn't pay him a thing [for the use of his name]," says Joe Fores, a grandson of J. Amado Araneta, "Ali said he was just grateful to be honored.")
But the afternoon affair also gave the philandering athlete a chance to get better acquainted with a Filipina fashion model by the name of Rosemarie "Chiqui" Brosas, whom the US newswires claimed he had "fallen hard" for.
"Muhammad Ali may have been able to outpunch Joe Frazier . . . but word is getting around that the champ has been 'knocked out' by an 18-year-old beauty queen from the Philippines," divulged one daily.
An incoming student at the American University of Paris, Brosas was a fourth runner-up at the 1975 Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador earlier that year. She was also one of "Thrilla" ring girls, handpicked by pageant director Stella Marquez-Araneta herself.
"She is beautiful, beautiful, I love her," Ali was quoted as saying when he first met the Assumption Convent-educated Brosas before the bout.
A social columnist, who wrote about the Bahay na Puti function, described Brosas as "charmingly reserved under Ali's amorous attention, causing Ali to say, 'How come you don't say you love me? Why don't you say nice things to me? I'm not so bad looking."
Ali even invited Brosas, "who comported herself in the best traditions of a Filipina in the face of his verbal advances," to watch the concert of popular Motown group The Temptations with him at the CCP that evening.
"But she declined," the gossipy article continued, "because she already had a date to the same show. Ali reportedly told her, 'So you're going with somebody else huh? You're not going with me? You break it, you break it!"
"There were quite a few pretty ladies there, but he really fell in love with Chiqui Brosas," says Nathanielsz, who accompanied Ali and his entourage (which purposely did not include Porsche) to the lunch. "That was crazy, because here he was with Veronica Porsche—the girl he was later going to marry—and yet he was still trying to flirt with Chiqui and take her home with him to the US!"
A few days later, Brosas was asked by a TV reporter as to why she refused the smooth-talking celebrity's invitation and "flowery expressions of love."
"He is the best—witty, intelligent, good-looking," she remarked, before pausing, "but Belinda might get mad."
"There was another funny incident," recalls Nathanielsz. "At one of the dinner parties in Jorge Araneta's home, these five beautiful British models were so star-struck by Ali from the moment he walked in.
"So Ali and the girls talked. They made arrangements. He told them he would go to their room at the Hilton, where he was also staying, after the party.
"He called me to the side and said, 'Hey, brother, I'm gonna get rid of all my people, all my security [when we get back to the Hilton]. I'm gonna tell them I'm gonna sleep. Will you come to my suite after about 10-15 minutes and we go see those girls?'
"[So later that night] we went together to the girls' hotel room. He drank orange juice and sat on the couch, surrounded by these beautiful models.
"Do you know what he did the entire night? He preached to them about Islam! I think those girls were particularly disappointed.
"When we left the room, he pulled me aside and quipped, 'I fooled them, didn't I?'"
When Ali departed Manila on October 4, a front-page article in the Sunday Express described the scene at the Manila International Airport:
"Ali thanked Pres. Marcos, telling him, 'I love you,' and promised to return on Christmas Day. 'The Philippines—never a place so nice, the best place I've been to in the whole world,' he sighed before moving through a mob of well-wishers, kissing every woman in his way. 'What a fine place to come back to, to find me my next wife.'"
Brosas, who was also on the tarmac according to the New York Times, sent off her persistent suitor with gifts and leis. The 220-pound fighter "reciprocated with hearty kisses," before professing to her, "Ali is a lover of beauty."
The champion, the New York Times claimed, not only left the Philippines with a "shower of kisses" from women, but also "about $60 million in business deals."
Photo by Dan Farrell/NY Daily News ArchIve vIa Getty Images.
"The fight took place there for one reason: Money," observed Ken Jones.
Ali was promised "$3 million from the government of a country where the annual salary of 70% of the work force was less than the price of an upper box seat—then $133," offered Oliver Teves of the Associated Press. (The ring alone, which was flown in from the US, cost $12,000.)
It was mutually beneficial.
Ali, through his New Jersey-based export firm Impro Inc., promised to act as a broker between the Philippines and the oil-exporting Arab countries in the "two-way trade of sugar and crude oil."
The day before the fight, Ali met with Trade Secretary Troadio Quiazon and Agriculture Secretary Arturo Tanco to sign a memorandum of agreement.
Assuring the two men of his "personal assistance," Ali said he would speak to the heads of state in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait. He even joked that he might just "quit boxing . . . and concentrate on his business" given the export potential of Philippine sugar and cement.
Ali was also the guest of honor at the ground- breaking ceremony of the Sports Center of the Philippines, a sprawling Olympic-standard sports complex that was to rise in 45 hectares of land in Bicutan in time for the 8th Asian Games in 1978.
"All money, after expenses, from the Philippines' share of the Ali-Frazier promotion will go to the Center," GAB chairman Tabuena announced to the press on October 2, adding that the projected income from the championship bout would be "at least $10 million."(Forty years have passed since "Thrilla in Manila" and no such sports complex has ever been built.)
"Everybody gained from the event—the fighters, the promoters, the fans (who got their money's worth), the Philippines itself," read the October 5 edition of the Sunday Express, which estimated the event's total revenue—including ticket sales, advertising, and TV income—to be in the range of $20 to $30 million, plus a media value of $50 million for the host country.
"No regime has more blatantly used tourism for political leverage than that of ex-President Marcos of the Philippines," wrote Dr. Linda Richter in her 1989 book The Politics of Tourism. "Although
contributed to many of the regime's political and economic objectives, it achieved those gains at enormous cost to the Filipino economy."
"Boxing abolitionists would wag their fingers at such questionable venues," shared London-based political journalist Michael Klimes, comparing Mobutu's "Rumble" with Marcos's "Thrilla."
"But a cynic with a wry sense of humor may ask what is the difference between a shrewd, self-interested boxing promoter and a bloodthirsty dictator? Not much is the answer."
Reign Supreme: Richard and Pat Nixon (center) at the Manila International Airport with Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos and their children Irene, Bongbong, and Imee.
It was a swinging Wednesday night scene at Malacañang Palace and the heavyweight champion of the world had just rebuffed the First Lady's request to get it down on the dance floor.
"Sorry lady, I can't dance," the fighter, famous for his in-ring shuffle, told Imelda Marcos, who was wearing a king's ransom in jewels on her ears and wrists as she boogied the night away.
Only nine hours had passed since one of the most brutal fights in boxing history and Muhammad Ali, now contemplating retirement after the toughest fight of his 15-year career, was feeling melancholic.
"Death is so near . . . and time for friendly action is so limited," he scribbled, almost cryptically, in the Palace guest book.
Hunched in soreness because of the hematomas on his hips, he sat alone in the candle-lit presidential table, looking more like the vanquished than the victor.
But this, it seemed, was not his victory alone.
Standing a few feet away was the most euphoric figure in the room, the true winner of this primal collision of corporate sport and despotic government.
Reveling in the bacchanalia as he led his Iron Butterfly by the hand to the center of the dance floor was Ferdinand Marcos, smiling and laughing and dancing like a man who had just won a multi-million-dollar bet.
Earlier that evening, a top US auditing firm appraised the fight to be worth more than $100 million ($420 million today) for the Philippines.
"Look at the President, look at him dancing like a little boy!" said an amused Ali, his dark brown eyes flickering under the disco lights. "You can't do this in the White House in America. You can't do this anywhere else in the world."
This special report, written by Rogue editor-in-chief Paolo Reyes, first appeared in Rogue's June 2013 issue. Download the digital edition at Zinio.com/Rogue or through the new Rogue App at iTunes: http://apple.co/1TOqldG.


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Celebrating hands-on learning, inventing and fun!
S.T.E.A.M. may mean different things to different people – here's what it means to the Rocky Mountain STEAM Fest. This isn't written in stone – in fact, it's changing all the time – that's part of the fun – we're inventing the STEAM Fest as we go. What do YOU want it to be?
Organic, earth, human, beast, chemical, biological. If it grows, morphs, is a liquid or a solid, it's probably science. Science is so cool. Have you seen what happens when … that's the idea. You want to see it, touch it, listen and watch. The more you know about science, the more you understand the world around you – and the more you can imagine things you've never seen before.
Robots, drones, Scratch, game, design. It's the internet of things. It's 3d. Software, hardware and all the realms in between. See cutting edge robotic capabilities, program your own code, ignite the possibilities through game learning. Bleeding edge, and old school – the tech will make your smile hurt.
Whether you're building a new business or building a bridge – E = invention, creativity, and thoughtful design. Show off your new products, or interact with someone else's exciting new idea.
Flutes, knitting needles, pots and pans, dulcimers and toy trains. The arts capture our emotions and bring our personalities to life in our invention. You can hear it, taste it, smell it, experience it – every sense is on high alert!
The focus here is on doing. When you make something, rather than reading about it, or watching it on TV or YouTube, you create a fundamentally different experience of that thing, and you commit the entire experience to your bank of memories. This is what transforms a regular event to a STEAM Fest – every exhibitor will be DOING something and they want you to do it too!


Can you believe Pop Evil knows about my book?
As fate would have it, while on vacation in WI, I was presented with a rare opportunity to attend a POP EVIL show. I hurried to get my ticket the night before to guarantee I'd get in and boy was I surprised the next night. I not only got to see POP EVIL but I was among the first few fans to get a meet and greet with the band. The guys were wonderful as they greeted the row of fans that were awaiting them. They each signed our CD's, posters, shook hands, gave hugs and made an effort to say something to each fan but the most memorable part for me was having my picture taken with the band. This was something we'd all have as a special memory forever.
And even more so for me since I was also able to hand them my information about a book I wrote that has a music theme. They were very supportive and showed interest. It meant the world to me that finally musicians would know about it. After all that is who I dedicated the book to. I hope that POP EVIL finds the time in their busy schedule to read it. But as you can see when I saw the picture up close I realized that Matt was holding my card. That small gesture made this experience even more exciting and personal for me.
POP EVIL put on a great, high energy show that evening giving the fans a mix of new and older material. And the smaller venue made the show more intimate. The band was super cool and told the fans to stick around after the show cause they were going to hang out. They really are a nice group of young men and IF they are in your area by all means go check them out. You won't be disappointed.


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Octavia Nasr
Founder, Bridges Media Consulting
About Octavia Nasr
Octavia Nasr is a multiple award-winning journalist who specializes in Middle East affairs and Islamic fundamentalism. She began her career as a war correspondent in Lebanon before moving to CNN where she rose through the ranks and became the networks ultimate authority on the Middle East affairs. During her 20-year tenure at CNN, she held several leadership roles coordinating the Arab Desk coverage of all major news stories and providing guidance across the network. At CNN, Nasr also served as an on-air and off-air analyst across all platforms of CNN Worldwide. Her weekly Mideast Voices segment and her blogs offered a glimpse into the region rarely discussed on U.S. television. Her work has also brought her many prestigious awards including the Edward R. Murrow for Continuing Coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon, the Golden Cable ACE Award in 1993 for CNN's coverage of the Gulf War; and the Overseas Press Club Award in 2002 for CNN's post 9-11 coverage. To have Octavia speak at your event, reach out at www.wwsg.com/speakers/octavia-nasr.
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A psychic with an enemy
From the book jacket
The Vanishers
By Heidi Julavits
Doubleday. 284 pp. $26.95
Reviewed by Katie Haegele
Have you ever had a professional enemy?
Not a competitor, necessarily (or merely), more like a villain whose hate for you is inexplicable and partly obscured, who sends dirty looks and undermining jabs your way. If so, you know that bad intentions can have a power of their own. In Heidi Julavits' anticipated new novel The Vanishers, which she will discuss Tuesday night at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the bad vibes are so bad, they're supernatural.
Julia Severn is a twentysomething psychic enrolled in the Institute for Integrated Parapsychology, a prestigious workshop tucked away in the White Mountains where astral travelers hone their skills. Her mentor is the formidable Madame Ackerman, a comically self-absorbed "genius" with whom everyone at the Workshop, as it's called, is a bit in love - and who bears more than a passing resemblance to Julia's mother, who committed suicide when her daughter was one month old.
Ackerman employs Julia as her stenographer, responsible for writing down every word she utters as she regresses across space and time. The older woman is currently on assignment, hired to "visit" an office in Paris during the 1980s to locate a film reel made by Dominique Varga, a feminist performance artist and filmmaker known, slyly, as "the Leni Riefenstahl of France."
Julia soon discovers that her mentor is blocked, unable to do anything in these sessions but fall sound asleep. It's Julia who makes the regression, surprising even herself with the extent of her psychic abilities, and when Madame discovers that she's about to be eclipsed by a young rival, she launches an "attack" that devastates Julia with illness. The student is forced to drop out of the workshop and spend her time visiting doctors and getting drugs that not only don't make her better, but also deaden her psychic sense.
But before any of this happens, Julavits writes - in a short prologue so incisive and relevant it will seem to have been written for you alone - about the idea of psychic attack. She makes it seem a totally plausible, everyday occurrence, with unexplained physical ailments as the chief symptoms: a rash, acid reflux, bleeding gums. ("In the beginning, an attack can look just like real life," she practically whispers, giving us the chills.) This few-page teaser might be the strongest part of the novel, actually, or at least the most pleasing - this and the final section with its moving, satisfying moment at the very end. It's what's in the middle that can be harder to negotiate.
While she's convalescing, Julia gets back in the psychic game, hired by the same people who hired Madame Ackerman to try to find Varga. As she bounces around the world, from New York to a psychic healing center in Vienna to another one in Breganz-Belken, she ends up searching not only for the artist but also for a cure, for her attacker, and maybe for her mother, too. Julavits pulls one rabbit after another out of her metaphysical hat, introducing the dead to the living and confounding Julia, and us, with identities that shift and eventually dovetail, like an old-fashioned mystery story.
So what kind of novel is this? It's a satire, to an extent, and a pretty effective one; the workshop looks a lot like an academic enclave, that hothouse environment where pettiness and ambition flourish to a comical degree. Julavits also sends up the "healthcare industry," with thrilling, subversive insights about wellness and illness and the faulty assumptions we can make about both. We learn that the medications that were supposed to make Julia healthy again killed off "the best part of [her]," whereas her supernatural ability - a kind of affliction in itself, something she didn't choose and can't always control - made her feel "fiery" and "alive."
The novel is powerful in many ways. The language is scattershot with jokes - archly amusing, absurd, and ironically elitist humor reminiscent of one of those spoof pieces in the New Yorker: "I could sense their knowing most forcefully in the lobby, a space unwisely constructed of palissandro bluette marble, a stone touted for its properties of thought amplification." Just as often, her characters produce Confucian-style bits of wisdom. "The past is not past if it is always present" goes one such pithy remark. (And ain't that the truth.) On the subject of loss in particular, Julavits is an expert, writing with eloquence and poetry about Julia's confusing grief over a mother she never had. "It was like missing a missing," the young woman explains, and " . . . it scrambled my emotional compass, this magnetic craving toward norths that didn't exist."
Yet the novel's sturdy intellectualism, or maybe something else, keeps us at a slight but constant and frustrating remove. There's heady stuff here - about feminism, about mothers and daughters, and ultimately about life and death - but channeled as it is through Julia's chilly perception of it, interpreting it comes at a cost: The emotional content of much of the novel is confoundingly empty. We learn about the suffering of these folks we're reading about - in fact, that's the only thing the book is about - yet we don't really feel it.
Interestingly, Julavits' story eventually opens up to this fact, seeming to allude to a certain blankness in her main character. "If there's one person you're less interested in than me, it's you," an acquaintance (Julia has no friends) tells her bitterly. A few minutes later, Julia asks an attending doctor if she has a pulse and he answers, "I'm not sure." Maybe this deadness is intentional; to be a conduit for past experiences and other lives, you might need to be little more than a vessel.
Regardless, if you tough it out to the end, you'll get your reward. In bringing Julia to a place of triumph and healing, Julavits achieves a deepening of the novel's wisdom and insight and, finally, delivers a thunderclap of real feeling.
Katie Haegele's first book, "White Elephants," a memoir, will be published on June 1 by Microcosm Publishing.


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Phytomyza wahlgreni Rydén, 1944
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]
Phytomyza wahlgreni Rydén, 1944. Opusc. ent. 9: 49
Phytomyza taraxacocoecis Hering, 1949d. Notul. ent. 29: 29. [Synonymised by Spencer, 1976: 527]
Phytomyza taraxacocoecis Hering, 1949d; Spencer, 1972b. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 71, 85 (fig. 283), 87, 88, 115
Phytomyza wahlgreni Rydén, 1944; Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 527-8, figs 921-2.
Phytomyza wahlgreni Rydén, 1944; Spencer, 1990. Host specialization in the World Agromyzidae (Diptera) : 259, 267, 268 (figs 1011-2).
Leaf-miner/ Galler: Larva feeding in the mid-rib or flower stalk where a gall-like swelling is produced (see also Redfern et al., 2002: 453, fig. 914). Pupation at base of leaf, near exit hole prepared by larva prior to pupation (see also Redfern et al., 2002: 453, figs 915).
The larva lives in a corridor of just a few cm long within the midrib. The leaf is stunted and the midrib is strongy swollen, gall-like. In the end the mine turns red. Pupation within the mine, near a previously made exit in the upper surface of the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Larva: The larvae of flies are leg-less maggots without a head capsule (see examples). They never have thoracic or abdominal legs. They do not have chewing mouthparts, although they do have a characteristic cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton (see examples), usually visible internally through the body wall.
Puparium: The puparia of flies are formed within the hardened last larval skin or puparium and as a result sheaths enclosing head appendages, wings and legs are not visible externally (see examples).
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Taraxacum officinale Dandelion Spencer, 1972b; 115
Hosts elsewhere:
Taraxacum Spencer, 1976: 527
Taraxacum officinale Dandelion Bladmineerders van Europa
Time of year - mines: Currently unknown.
Time of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread, at least in south. London (Hampstead), Hertfordshire (New Barnet), Hampshire (New Forest), Dorset (Studland), Suffolk (Newmarket) (Spencer, 1972b: 87, as taraxacocoecis); Breconshire,. Cambridgeshire, East Cornwall, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, South-west Yorkshire, West Glocestershire and Westmorland (NBN Atlas).
Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Fauna Europaea).
Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe from Swiss Alps to Faroe Is., including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 527), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 582), Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, French mainland, Italian mainland, Lithuania and Poland (Fauna Europaea).
Also recorded from the East Palaearctic and Nearctic Region (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
Taraxacum officinale
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
Ichneumonoidea - Links to species no longer available
Chorebus merion (Nixon, 1945) Braconidae: Alysiinae
Dacnusa pubescens (Curtis, 1926) Braconidae: Alysiinae


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std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> Query::merge(std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> a,
                                                    std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> b) {
    assert(a->get_doc_ptr() == b->get_doc_ptr());

    std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> merged(new Query::DocumentResult());

    merged->set_doc_ptr(a->get_doc_ptr());
    merged->set_freq(a->get_freq() + b->get_freq());
    merged->set_partial_freq(a->get_partial_freq() + b->get_partial_freq());

    // merged.tf = (a.tf + b.tf);
    // merged.idf = (a.idf + b.idf);

    merged->set_score(a->get_score() + b->get_score());

    return merged;
}

// Constructor
Query::DocumentResult::DocumentResult() {
}

// Destructor
Query::DocumentResult::~DocumentResult() {
}

// Set the document pointer
void Query::DocumentResult::set_doc_ptr(std::shared_ptr<Document> doc_ptr) {
    this->doc_ptr = doc_ptr;
}

// Return the document pointer
std::shared_ptr<Document> Query::DocumentResult::get_doc_ptr() const {
    return this->doc_ptr;
}

// Set the value of the frequency of exact matches in document
void Query::DocumentResult::set_freq(unsigned long freq) {
    this->freq = freq;
}

// Return the value of the frequency of exact matches in document
unsigned long Query::DocumentResult::get_freq() const {
    return this->freq;
}

// Set the value of the frequency of partial matches in document
void Query::DocumentResult::set_partial_freq(unsigned long freq) {
    this->partial_freq = freq;
}

// Return value of the frequency of partial matches in document
unsigned long Query::DocumentResult::get_partial_freq() const {
    return this->partial_freq;
}

// Return value of the TF
double Query::DocumentResult::get_tf() {
    return this->tf;
}

// Return value of the IDF
double Query::DocumentResult::get_idf() {
    return this->idf;
}

// Return value of the score.
double Query::DocumentResult::get_score() {
    return this->score;
}

// Calculate the TF (Term Frequency)
//
// TF = sqrt(f)
//
// Only considers local document frequency
//
// Return the tf.
double Query::DocumentResult::calculate_tf() {
    this->tf = sqrt(this->freq - (PARTIAL_WEIGHT * this->partial_freq));
    return this->tf;
}

// Calculate the IDF (Inverse Document Frequency)
//
// IDF = 1 + ln( |docs|/f_g )
//
// Return the idf.
double Query::DocumentResult::calculate_idf(unsigned long global_freq, unsigned long doc_count) {
    this->idf = (1 + log((double)doc_count / global_freq));
    return this->idf;
}

// Calculate the score using TF-IDF
//
// score = TF * IDF
//
// Return the score.
double Query::DocumentResult::calculate_tf_idf() {
    this->score = (this->tf * this->idf);
    return this->score;
}

// Calculate score of result using BM-25+
//
//   tf = sqrt(total_term_frequency)
//   idf = 1 + log( doc_count / (term_doc_freq + 1) )
//   score = idf * ((k + 1) * tf) / (k * (1.0 - b + b * (|d|/avgDl)) + tf)
//
//   k - coefficient for weight of tf
//   |d| - document length
//   b - coefficient for weight of document length
//   avgDl - average document length
//   delta - normalize document length
//
// Return the score.
double Query::DocumentResult::calculate_bm25_plus(unsigned long avg_doc_length) {
    double doc_weight = ((double)this->doc_ptr->get_corpus().size() / avg_doc_length);

    double tf = ((this->k + 1) * this->tf);
    double doc_w = (this->k * (1.0 - this->b + this->b * doc_weight) + this->tf);

    this->score = this->idf * (tf / doc_w + delta);

    return this->score;
}

//
//
//
bool Query::DocumentResult::less_than(const Query::DocumentResult &rhs) const {
    return this->score < rhs.score;
}

void Query::DocumentResult::set_score(double score) {
    this->score = score;
}

//
//
//
// bool Query::DocumentResult::operator<(Query::DocumentResult a,
// Query::DocumentResult b) {
//    return a.less_than(b);
//}

bool Query::operator<(const std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> a,
                      const std::shared_ptr<Query::DocumentResult> b) {
    return a->less_than(*b);
}