An excellent Scarlet Runner. Delicious and high-yielding as a fresh green bean, it also dries well. Gorgeous, very vigorous pole bean plant with bright red flowers that attract hummingbirds. The large, crisp, and juicy flat pods are string-less when young.
Packet contains 4 tablespoons or 30 seeds.


text:
import '/resources/polymer/@polymer/iron-icon/iron-icon.js';
import '/resources/polymer/@polymer/iron-icons/iron-icons.js';
import '/resources/polymer/@polymer/iron-icons/av-icons.js';
import '/resources/polymer/@polymer/iron-list/iron-list.js';

import '/resources/components/tg-tree-table-content.js';

import { mixinBehaviors } from '/resources/polymer/@polymer/polymer/lib/legacy/class.js';
import { html, PolymerElement } from '/resources/polymer/@polymer/polymer/polymer-element.js';
import { flush } from "/resources/polymer/@polymer/polymer/lib/utils/flush.js";

import { TgTreeListBehavior } from '/resources/components/tg-tree-list-behavior.js';
import { TgEgiDataRetrievalBehavior } from '/resources/egi/tg-egi-data-retrieval-behavior.js';
import { tearDownEvent, getRelativePos } from '/resources/reflection/tg-polymer-utils.js';

const template = html`

    <slot id="hierarchy_column_slot" name="hierarchy-column"></slot>
    <slot id="regular_column_slot" name="regular-column"></slot>

[[hierarchyColumn.columnTitle]]

                <template is="dom-repeat" items="[[regularColumns]]">

[[item.columnTitle]]

                </template>

                <iron-list id="treeList" items="[[_entities]]" as="entity" scroll-target="scrollableContainer">
                    <template>

                                    <iron-icon class="expand-button" icon="av:play-arrow" style="flex-grow:0;flex-shrink:0;" invisible$="[[!entity.entity.hasChildren]]" collapsed$="[[!entity.opened]]" on-tap="_toggle"></iron-icon>
                                    <tg-tree-table-content class="truncate flexible-horizontal-container part-to-highlight" entity="[[entity]]" column="[[hierarchyColumn]]" highlighted$="[[entity.highlight]]" tooltip-text$="[[_getTooltip(entity, hierarchyColumn)]]"></tg-tree-table-content>

                            <template is="dom-repeat" items="[[regularColumns]]" as="column">

                                    <tg-tree-table-content class="truncate" entity="[[entity]]" column="[[column]]"></tg-tree-table-content>

                            </template>

                    </template>
                </iron-list>

`;

function calculateColumnWidthExcept (columnIndex, columnElements, columnLength) {
    let columnWidth = 0;
    for (let i = 0; i < columnLength; i++) {
        if (columnIndex !== i) {
            columnWidth += columnElements[i].offsetWidth;
        }
    }
    return columnWidth;
};

class TgTreeTable extends mixinBehaviors([TgTreeListBehavior, TgEgiDataRetrievalBehavior], PolymerElement) {

    static get template() {
        return template;
    }

    static get properties() {
        return {
            /**
             * Column descriptor that contains information about property that should be displayed in hierarchy of entities. Also it has
             * an information about property that creates relationship between entotoes in hierarchy.
             */
            hierarchyColumn: Object,
            /**
             * Array of columns with information about additional properties that should be displayed along with hierarchy property.
             */
            regularColumns: {
                type: Array,
                value: () => []
            },

            /**
             * Indicates whether to show bottom shadow or not.
             */
            displayBottomShadow: {
                type: Boolean,
                value: false
            }
        };
    }

    ready () {
        super.ready();

        //Observe hierarchy column DOM changes
        this.$.hierarchy_column_slot.addEventListener('slotchange', (e) => {
            this.hierarchyColumn = Object.assign({isHierarchyColumn: true}, this.$.hierarchy_column_slot.assignedNodes()[0]);
            this._updateColumnsFlex();
        });

        //Observe regular column DOM changes
        this.$.regular_column_slot.addEventListener('slotchange', (e) => {
            this.regularColumns = [...this.$.regular_column_slot.assignedNodes()].map(column => Object.assign({isHierarchyColumn: false}, column));
            this._updateColumnsFlex();
        });

        this.$.treeList._isClientFull = this._isTreeClientFull.bind(this.$.treeList);
        this._firstTreeTableVisibleIndex = this._firstTreeTableVisibleIndex.bind(this.$.treeList);
        this.$.treeList.scrollToIndex = this._scrollToIndexAndCorrect();
        this._oldRender = this.$.treeList._render;
        this.$.treeList._render = this._renderAndUpdate.bind(this);

        //Initiate observer that will listen when table columns are added to the header and when they change their style.
        const observer = new MutationObserver(mutations => {
            this.$.treeList.scrollOffset = this.$.header.offsetHeight;
        });
        const config = {
            childList: true,
            subtree: true,
            attributes: true,
            attributeFilter: ["style"]
        };
        observer.observe(this.$.header, config);
    }

    resizeTree () {
        setTimeout(() =>  {
            this.$.treeList.notifyResize();
        }, 1);
    }

    isEntityRendered (index) {
        return this.$.treeList._isIndexRendered(index);
    }

    scrollToItem (treeItem, force) {
        const itemIndex = this._entities.indexOf(treeItem);
        if (itemIndex >= 0 && (force || (this._firstTreeTableVisibleIndex() >= itemIndex || this.$.treeList.lastVisibleIndex <= itemIndex))) {
            this.$.treeList.scrollToItem(treeItem);
        }
    }

    _renderAndUpdate () {
        this._oldRender.bind(this.$.treeList)();
        this._updateTableSizeAsync();
    }

    /******************************Binding functions those calculate attributes, styles and other stuf************/

    _getTooltip (entity, column) {
        try {
            let tooltip = this.getValueTooltip(entity, column);
            const columnDescPart = this.getDescTooltip(entity, column);
            tooltip += (columnDescPart && tooltip && "

") + columnDescPart;
            return tooltip;
        } catch (e) {
            return '';
        }
    }

    getValueTooltip (entity, column) {
        const value = this.getBindedValue(entity.entity, column).toString();
        return value && ("" + value + "");

    }

    getDescTooltip (entity, column) {
        if (column.columnDesc) {
            return column.columnDesc;
        }
        return "";
    }

    _calcColumnHeaderStyle (item, itemWidth, columnGrowFactor) {
        let colStyle = "min-width: " + itemWidth + "px;" + "width: " + itemWidth + "px;"
        if (columnGrowFactor === 0) {
            colStyle += "flex-grow: 0;flex-shrink: 0;";
        } else {
            colStyle += "flex-grow: " + columnGrowFactor + ";";
        }
        if (itemWidth === 0) {
            colStyle += "display: none;";
        }
        return colStyle;
    }

    _calcColumnStyle (item, itemWidth, columnGrowFactor) {
        let colStyle = this._calcColumnHeaderStyle(item, itemWidth, columnGrowFactor);
        return colStyle;
    }

    _shouldDisplayBottomShadow (displayBottomShadow, _showBottomShadow) {
        return displayBottomShadow && _showBottomShadow;
    }
    /******************************EventListeners************************/

    _mouseRowEnter (event) {
        const index = event.model.index;
        this.setOver(index, true);
    }

    _mouseRowLeave (event) {
        const index = event.model.index;
        if (this.currentMatchedItem !== this._entities[index]) {
            this.setOver(index, false);
        }
    }

    _updateTableSizeAsync () {
        this.async(function () {
            this._resizeEventListener();
        }.bind(this), 1);
    }

    _resizeEventListener () {
        this._handleScrollEvent();
    }

    _handleScrollEvent () {
        this._showLeftShadow = this.$.scrollableContainer.scrollLeft > 0;
        this._showTopShadow = this.$.scrollableContainer.scrollTop > 0;
        this._showBottomShadow = Math.ceil(this.$.scrollableContainer.clientHeight + this.$.scrollableContainer.scrollTop) < this.$.scrollableContainer.scrollHeight;
    }

    _handleTouchMove (e) {
        if (this._columnResizingObject) {
            tearDownEvent(e);
        }
    }

    _toggle (e) {
        e.stopPropagation();
        this.toggle(e.model.index);
    }

    _makeTreeTableUnselectable (e) {
        if (this.mobile) {
            e.currentTarget.classList.toggle("resizing-action", true);
            console.log("set resizing action");
        }
        this.$.baseContainer.classList.toggle("noselect", true);
        document.body.style["cursor"] = "col-resize";
    }

    _makeTreeTableSelectable (e) {
        if (this.mobile) {
            e.currentTarget.classList.toggle("resizing-action", false);
        }
        this.$.baseContainer.classList.toggle("noselect", false);
        document.body.style["cursor"] = "";
    }

    _updateColumnsFlex () {
        const hasFlexColumn = this.hierarchyColumn.growFactor > 0 || this.regularColumns.some(column => column.growFactor > 0);
        if (!hasFlexColumn) {
            const idx = this._findLastVisibleColumnIndex();
            if (idx >=0) {
                const propToSet = idx === 0 ? "hierarchyColumn.growFactor" : "regularColumns." + (idx - 1) + ".growFactor";
                this.set(propToSet, 1);
                const paramProp = idx === 0 ? this.hierarchyColumn.property : this.regularColumns[idx - 1].property;
                const eventDetail = {};
                eventDetail[paramProp] = {growFactor: 1};
                this.fire("tg-tree-table-column-change", eventDetail);
            }
        }
    }

    _changeColumnSize (e) {
        tearDownEvent(e);
        this._cleanUnboundTreeListItems();
        switch (e.detail.state) {
        case 'start':
            this._startColumnResize(e);
            break;
        case 'track':
            e.currentTarget.hasAttribute("fixed") ? this._trackFixedColumnSize(e) : this._trackColumnSize(e);
            break;
        case 'end':
            this._endColumnResizing(e);
            break;
        }
    }

    _cleanUnboundTreeListItems () {
        [...this.$.treeList.querySelectorAll('.table-data-row[style="transform: translate3d(0px, -10000px, 0px);"]')]
                .filter(node => this.$.treeList._offscreenFocusedItem !== node && this._focusBackfillItem !== node)
                .forEach( node => this.$.treeList.removeChild(node));
    }

    _startColumnResize (e) {
        //Change the style to visualise column resizing.
        //this.style.cursor = "col-resize";
        e.currentTarget.classList.toggle("resizing-action", true);
        //Calculate all properties needed for column resizing logic and create appropriate resizing object
        const columnElements = this._getHeaderColumns();
        const isHierarchyColumn = e.currentTarget.hasAttribute("fixed");
        this._columnResizingObject = {
            oldColumnWidth: isHierarchyColumn ? this.hierarchyColumn.width : e.model.item.width,
            oldColumnGrowFactor: isHierarchyColumn ? this.hierarchyColumn.growFactor : e.model.item.growFactor,
            hierarchyContainerWidth: this.hierarchyColumn ? columnElements[0].offsetWidth : 0,
            scrollableContainerWidth: this.$.scrollableContainer.clientWidth,
            otherColumnWidth: calculateColumnWidthExcept(isHierarchyColumn ? 0 : (this.hierarchyColumn ? 1 : 0) + e.model.index, columnElements, (this.hierarchyColumn ? 1 : 0) + this.regularColumns.length),
            widthCorrection: e.currentTarget.offsetWidth - e.currentTarget.firstElementChild.offsetWidth,
            hasAnyFlex: (!isHierarchyColumn && this.hierarchyColumn.growFactor > 0)
                || this.regularColumns.some((column, index) => {
                    return (!e.model || index !== e.model.index) && column.growFactor !== 0
                })
        };
    }

    _trackFixedColumnSize (e) {
        if (this._columnResizingObject) {
            const columnWidth = e.currentTarget.firstElementChild.offsetWidth;
            let newWidth = columnWidth + e.detail.ddx;

            //Correct size if EGI is less then min width.
            if (newWidth < this.hierarchyColumn.minWidth) {
                newWidth = this.hierarchyColumn.minWidth;
            }

            //Correct width if fixed container has become bigger then scrollabel conatiner
            if (newWidth + this._columnResizingObject.widthCorrection > this.$.scrollableContainer.clientWidth
                || this._lastVisibleColumn() === this.hierarchyColumn) {
                newWidth = this.$.scrollableContainer.clientWidth - this._columnResizingObject.widthCorrection;
            } else if (!this._columnResizingObject.hasAnyFlex) {
                console.log("should set flex");
                this._setLastColumnFlex();
            }

            if (columnWidth !== newWidth) {
                this.set("hierarchyColumn.width", newWidth);
                if (this.hierarchyColumn.growFactor !== 0) {
                    this.set("hierarchyColumn.growFactor", 0);
                    const columnParameters = this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters || {};
                    columnParameters[this.hierarchyColumn.property] = {
                        growFactor: 0
                    };
                    this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters = columnParameters;
                }
                this._updateTableSizeAsync();
            }
        }
    }

    _setLastColumnFlex () {
        const idx = this._findLastVisibleColumnIndex();
        if (idx >=0) {
            const lastVisibleColumn = idx === 0 ? this.hierarchyColumn : this.regularColumns[idx - 1];
            const propToSet = idx === 0 ? "hierarchyColumn.growFactor" : "regularColumns." + (idx - 1) + ".growFactor";
            this.set(propToSet, 1);
            this._columnResizingObject.hasAnyFlex = true;
            const columnParameters = this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters || {}; // this.$.reflector.newEntity("ua.com.fielden.platform.web.centre.ColumnParameter");
            columnParameters[lastVisibleColumn.property] = {
                growFactor: 1
            };
            this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters = columnParameters;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns last visible column.
     */
    _lastVisibleColumn () {
        const idx = this._findLastVisibleColumnIndex();
        if (idx >= 0) {
            return idx === 0 ? this.hierarchyColumn : this.regularColumns[idx - 1];
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the index of the last visible columns where 0 is the index of hierarchy column and regular columns are equal
     * index + 1;
     */
    _findLastVisibleColumnIndex () {
        const idx = this.regularColumns && this.regularColumns.length;
        if (idx === 0) {
            if (this.hierarchyColumn) {
                return 0;
            }
            return -1;
        }
        return idx;

    }

    _trackColumnSize (e) {
        if (this._columnResizingObject) {
            const columnWidth = e.currentTarget.firstElementChild.offsetWidth;
            let newWidth = columnWidth + e.detail.ddx;

            //Correct size for mouse out of EGI.
            const mousePos = getRelativePos(e.detail.x, e.detail.y, this.$.scrollableContainer);
            if (mousePos.x > this._columnResizingObject.scrollableContainerWidth) {
                newWidth += mousePos.x - this._columnResizingObject.scrollableContainerWidth;
            } else if (mousePos.x < this._columnResizingObject.hierarchyContainerWidth) {
                newWidth -= this._columnResizingObject.hierarchyContainerWidth - mousePos.x;
            }

            //Correct new width when dragging last column or other column and overall width is less then width of container.
            if (this._columnResizingObject.otherColumnWidth + newWidth + this._columnResizingObject.widthCorrection < this.$.scrollableContainer.clientWidth) {
                console.log("width is less");
                if (e.model.index === this._findLastVisibleColumnIndex() - 1) {
                    newWidth = this.$.scrollableContainer.clientWidth - this._columnResizingObject.otherColumnWidth - this._columnResizingObject.widthCorrection;
                } else if (!this._columnResizingObject.hasAnyFlex) {
                    console.log("should set flex");
                    this._setLastColumnFlex();
                }
            }

            //Correct size if EGI is less then min width.
            if (newWidth < e.model.item.minWidth) {
                newWidth = e.model.item.minWidth;
            }

            //Change the column width if it is needed
            if (columnWidth !== newWidth) {
                if (e.model.item.growFactor !== 0) {
                    this.set("regularColumns." + e.model.index + ".growFactor", 0);
                    const columnParameters = this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters || {};
                    columnParameters[e.model.item.property] = {
                        growFactor: 0
                    };
                    this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters = columnParameters;
                }
                this.set("regularColumns." + e.model.index + ".width", newWidth);
                this._updateTableSizeAsync();
                //scroll if needed.
                if (mousePos.x > this._columnResizingObject.scrollableContainerWidth || mousePos.x < this._columnResizingObject.hierarchyContainerWidth) {
                    this.$.scrollableContainer.scrollLeft += newWidth - columnWidth;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    _endColumnResizing (e) {
        //this.style.cursor = "default";
        e.currentTarget.classList.toggle("resizing-action", false);
        const column = e.model ? e.model.item : this.hierarchyColumn;
        if (this._columnResizingObject && (this._columnResizingObject.oldColumnWidth !== column.width || this._columnResizingObject.oldColumnGrowFactor !== column.growFactor)) {
            const columnParameters = this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters || {};
            const columnParameter = columnParameters[column.property] || {};
            if (this._columnResizingObject.oldColumnWidth !== column.width) {
                columnParameter.width = (+(column.width.toFixed(0)));
            }
            if (this._columnResizingObject.oldColumnGrowFactor !== column.growFactor) {
                columnParameter.growFactor = column.growFactor;
            }
            columnParameters[column.property] = columnParameter;
            this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters = columnParameters;
        }
        if (this._columnResizingObject && this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters) {
            this.fire("tg-tree-table-column-change", this._columnResizingObject.columnParameters);
        }
        this._columnResizingObject = null;
    }

    _getHeaderColumns () {
        return [...this.$.header.querySelectorAll(".table-cell")];
    }

    _isTreeClientFull () {
        return this._physicalSize >= this._viewportHeight * 2;
    }

    /**
     * This method is a overriden copy of scrollToIndex method in iron-list that was made in order to correct scrolling
     * to item because of sticky table header that was counted when calculating _scrollTargetHeight property.
     */
    _scrollToIndexAndCorrect () {
        const self = this;
        return function (idx) {
            if (typeof idx !== 'number' || idx < 0 || idx > this.items.length - 1) {
                return;
            }

            flush(); // Items should have been rendered prior scrolling to an index.

            if (this._physicalCount === 0) {
                return;
            }

            idx = this._clamp(idx, 0, this._virtualCount - 1); // Update the virtual start only when needed.

            if (!this._isIndexRendered(idx) || idx >= this._maxVirtualStart) {
                this._virtualStart = this.grid ? idx - this._itemsPerRow * 2 : idx - 1;
            }

            this._manageFocus();

            this._assignModels();

            this._updateMetrics(); // Estimate new physical offset.

            this._physicalTop = Math.floor(this._virtualStart / this._itemsPerRow) * this._physicalAverage;
            let currentTopItem = this._physicalStart;
            let currentVirtualItem = this._virtualStart;
            let targetOffsetTop = 0;
            const hiddenContentSize = this._hiddenContentSize // scroll to the item as much as we can.

            while (currentVirtualItem < idx && targetOffsetTop <= hiddenContentSize) {
                targetOffsetTop = targetOffsetTop + this._getPhysicalSizeIncrement(currentTopItem);
                currentTopItem = (currentTopItem + 1) % this._physicalCount;
                currentVirtualItem++;
            }

            this._updateScrollerSize(true);

            this._positionItems();

            this._resetScrollPosition(this._physicalTop + targetOffsetTop);

            this._increasePoolIfNeeded(0); // clear cached visible index.

            this._firstVisibleIndexVal = null;
            this._lastVisibleIndexVal = null;
        }.bind(this.$.treeList);
    }

    _firstTreeTableVisibleIndex () {
        var physicalOffset = this._physicalTop;

        return this._iterateItems(function(pidx, vidx) {
            physicalOffset += this._getPhysicalSizeIncrement(pidx);

            if (physicalOffset > this._scrollPosition) {
            return this.grid ? vidx - (vidx % this._itemsPerRow) : vidx;
            }
            // Handle a partially rendered final row in grid mode
            if (this.grid && this._virtualCount - 1 === vidx) {
            return vidx - (vidx % this._itemsPerRow);
            }
        }) ||0;
    }
}

customElements.define('tg-tree-table', TgTreeTable);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Proacidalia subvitatha är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Ruggero Verity 1935. Proacidalia subvitatha ingår i släktet Proacidalia och familjen praktfjärilar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


BOCA RATON, Fla. -- When the lunch bell rings at Boca Raton High School in Florida, 3,400 kids spill into the courtyard and split into their social groups.
But not everyone gets included. As we first reported in March, here at Boca High and at schools across the country, someone always sits alone.
"It's not a good feeling, like you're by yourself. And that's something that I don't want anybody to go through," said Denis Estimon.
Denis is a Haitian immigrant. When he came here in first grade, he says he felt isolated -- especially at lunch.
Now he's popular. But he has not forgotten that first-grade feeling.
"To me it's like, if we don't try to go make that change, who's going to do it?" Denis said.
So with some friends, Denis started a club called "We Dine Together."
Their mission is to go into the courtyard at lunchtime to make sure no one is starving for company.
For new kids especially, the club is a godsend. Since it started last year, hundreds of friendships have formed -- some very unlikely.
Jean Max Meradieu said he met kids he would never "ever" meet on the football team.
Jean actually quit the football team -- gave up all perks that come with it -- just so he could spend more time with this club.
"I don't mind not getting a football scholarship," Jean said. "This is what I really want to do."
Just imagine how different your teenage years would have been, if the coolest kids in school all of a sudden decided you mattered.
"We'll get to know each other better," Jean told one student.
It obviously takes a lot of empathy to devote your lunch period to this. Either that, or firsthand experience.
"I went from coming from a school where I always had friends, to coming to where I had nobody," said club member Allie Sealy.
Allie transferred a few ago. She says with no one to sit next to, lunch can be the most excruciating part of the day.
"It seems really unfair. It's honestly an issue," Allie said. "Meeting someone who actually cares and listens to what you have to say, really makes a difference. And that can happen at lunch, that can happen at our club."
Since we first told this story, Denis has graduated from high school -- but not from this mission.
He's now travelling the country, opening "We Dine Together" chapters at other schools -- 15 so far, with more than 100 slated for the new year.
And if we're lucky, when he's done showing kids how to make outsiders feel accepted, he can teach the rest of us.


Long-time readers know I got my start in the Precious Metals blogosphere on the great GATA website – and Bill Holter as well. I started writing free missives for Bill Murphy and Chris Powell circa 2004, and have since dedicated myself to becoming a global expert in the topic of Precious Metals manipulation. As I wrote last week, a major part of my interest was to understand why my net worth was periodically plunging, so as to determine if there were any flaws in my investment strategy (from 2002 through 2008, 100% mining shares – phasing into 100% bullion by 2011). And part, of course, was determining the truth.
Being a long-time Wall Street analyst – and a highly ranked one, at that – I've been blessed with the education, skill set, and resources to thoroughly dissect the situation; and after doing so, didn't just think the market was illegally, and unsustainably suppressed, but knew it. Those that read my energy research from 1996-2005 know I constantly harped on the production "treadmill" that all but ensured an oil price explosion. Yet, compared to the long-term outlook for oil prices in 1996 – when it was trading around $20/barrel – the current outlook for gold and silver prices is vastly more bullish, in my view. Aside from a supply/demand imbalance that makes the 1990s oil outlook pale in comparison, gold and silver will benefit from the implosion of a Cartel charged with covertly suppressing prices; as opposed to oil, which had – and still has -the support of a Cartel mandated with overtly supporting prices.
Over a 12-year period, I have tirelessly watched every tick of the 24/5 Precious Metals market – or more accurately, 24/5½, including countless Sunday nights and spent every day analyzing the myriad factors affecting it. Consequently, I've been able to literally "write the book" on the topic – per the five "PM manipulation primers I wrote in 2011, encompassing a total of 355 pages, accessible here under the subtitles "Ranting Andy Special." In other words, when it comes to the government-led, TBTF bank-assisted scheme to maintain the dollar's "reserve currency status" through PM manipulation, you simply cannot find better information than here, at the Miles Franklin Blog.
In recent months, the manipulation of all financial markets has become "front and center" news, with the recent LIBOR and foreign exchange scandals bursting the topic into the mainstream, no matter how hard TPTB fight to hide it. And given just how blatant PM manipulation has been since last April's "Alternative Currencies Destruction" – yielding massive physical demand whilst paper prices have been hammered – even the taboo gold and silver rigs have come into the limelight. When the Fed failed to fulfill Germany's gold repatriation request, and the banks behind the secretive London gold "fix" were sued for manipulation, the "Pandora's Box" of PM manipulation was officially opened – to never again be shut.
Obviously, the "fix" itself is not the issue when it comes to PM rigging – just as HFT traders aren't even a fly in the landscape of stock market manipulation. In both cases, the real issue is Western governments' unfettered money printing and complete disregard of securities law, capitalism, and morality – in buying "desirable" securities in unlimited quantities, and naked shorting "undesirable" ones in equally limitless amounts, with the ultimate aim of enriching "the 1%" that own them and maintaining a status quo that will inevitably destroy all else. This is exactly what the "President's Working Group on Financial Markets" is charged with in the stock markets, the Federal Reserve in the bond market, and the "Exchange Stabilization Fund" in currencies and gold. Yes, gold – per the ESF's mandate since its secretive existence came into being in 1934, funded by government confiscated gold. This failure to understand the real manipulation issue is what I spoke of yesterday, as did Bill Holter today.
As for paper markets, which are run up and down by daily government intervention, the publication of Michael Lewis' latest book – "Flash Boys" – has heightened the focus on manipulation in general, even if the bigger picture – as described above – has yet to be properly addressed. Actually, when Jon Stewart is not doing his anti-Fox News ranting, he is one of TV's most intellectual personalities and in this fantastic interview with Lewis, the topic of just how corrupt the stock market has become – outside the bigger issue of government intervention – becomes crystal clear.
Thankfully, the scandal has delayed the IPO of one of the HFT businesses' worst market manipulators – Virtu; and frankly the fact that "investors" were lining up to buy it in the first place shows just how depraved Wall Street has become. Perhaps they forgot what happened to Knight Securities and BATS, or "Better Alternative Trading Systems" – the latter of which had its own IPO destroyed two years ago by, of all things, rogue algorithms! As for BATS, which thanks to its cancerous HFT network, is responsible for 12% of all NYSE trades, I encourage you to listen to this debate between its CEO, William O'Brien, Michael Lewis and fellow HFT whistleblower Brad Katsuyama – and determine for yourself who has something to hide.
Frankly, it's just a matter of time before the mainstream realizes that not only are markets rigged for Wall Street – and against you – but that it's done so in such blatant fashion, one must either be in denial, or have a vested interest in its continuation, to say otherwise. In other words, exactly what us PM "conspiracy theorists" have had to deal with for years. For example, from my buy-side days, I learned quickly how important the end of each quarter was; as this is when the suckers – er, investors – were forced to pay performance based management fees. Illegal "tape-painting" activities like marking up prices of illiquid stocks was common practice, but paled in comparison to systemic marking up care of the TPTF banks' puppet, the Fed. Friday's "repo" activity injected the equivalent of two months of so-called "tapered" QE money in one day; which not only goosed the "Dow Jones Propaganda Average" to a new high amidst a veritable ocean of bad news, but once and for all validated our contention that "tapering," per se, is but a mirage for public consumption and propaganda circulation.
And oh yeah, paper precious metals were attacked amidst that very same sea of bad news which, of course, could not be more bullish for gold and silver. Seeing a former Assistant Treasury Secretary – Paul Craig Roberts – write about gold manipulation in such detail is quite gratifying, I must say; further validating our long-term assertion of government intervention, even if the article was clearly penned by my long-time CIGA, or Comrade in Gold Arms, "Dave from Denver" of GATA fame. Actually, the fact that Dave – along with Bill Holter, James McShirley, and myself, the "four horseman of GATA," is writing gold manipulation articles for Roberts is a great victory for our cause – on a par with "Admiral Sprott" personally thanking us for our efforts at GATA's London conference in August 2011.
As for today's enigmatic article title, it is homage to the great PM blog writer Jeff Nielson, who I first introduced to the Miles Franklin blog in last year's "Gold-Bashing Mythology." Yesterday, he wrote an equally brilliant piece titled "Is There any Gold Left for Central Banks to Sell," addressing the physical side of the market – demonstrating that no matter how hard TPTB huff and puff, they cannot hold it down forever. That is, the further they push paper prices down, and the longer they do it, the more demand they catalyze and production they eliminate. In it, he discusses the conundrum of why official (i.e., overtly reported) central bank buying has recently dried up – except for the Russians, of course, which buy their own miners' production.
The fact that some nations – particularly, China – don't report gold purchases is another story entirely – and given last year's plunge in GLD inventories, unprecedented Swiss refining activity, exploding Hong Kong imports and countless comments from Chinese government officials, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize China has been a massive gold buyer. However, regarding other Central banks, whose official buying has slowed amidst the most PM-bullish economic backdrop in generations, Nielson equates the situation to a child's lemonade stand. That is, "either the lemonade customers have no more funds to purchase lemonade, or the lemonade-makers have no more to sell." And given that Central banks under fiat currency regimes – especially during periods of widespread "quantitative easing" – have essentially unlimited money to spend, the only logical conclusion as to why Central bank purchases have slowed is there is no more bullion for sale in material size.
Simply extrapolating our experience at Miles Franklin – one of America's largest bullion dealers – it's not too difficult to come to such a conclusion; as for decades, we have generated less than 10% of revenues from customer "buybacks" – nearly always because customers need to pay for something, as opposed to a "change of heart" about bullion. Last year was no different, and this year the same. People simply don't sell gold and silver once they buy it; and from personal experience, I can confidently say the prevailing PM holders' mind set is to hold it forever – or at least, until it is properly valued under a new, gold-backed monetary system.
Thus, aside from regimes with a vested interest in maintaining the current, world-destroying status quo – particularly, the U.S. government – there is no way any Central bank would think otherwise. Simple math – and the lack of a Fort Knox audit since the 1950s – dictates the U.S. Treasury has far less gold than the 8,133 tonnes it purports and potentially, ALL of it is gone already. And thus, with global physical demand starting 2014 at a pace well above 2013's record pace – in which comically, paper prices were hit hard – the odds of "something giving" have never been higher.
To wit, what we have long discussed about U.S. Mint silver Eagle sales; which have started 2014 at a blistering pace, whilst the Cartel continues to dig in its heels at the very key round number of $20/oz. that has served as a paper battlefield for the past six years. In yet another brilliant article by one of the world's finest PM analysts, Steve St. Angelo, he discusses how 2014 U.S. Mint demand for silver Eagles is on a pace to shatter 2013's record level, despite admitted rationing (of 1.1 to 1.4 million oz./week) by U.S. Mint officials; which given our recent experience at Miles Franklin, makes me certain that said Eagles are being bought up by Chinese, Indians, and other foreigners. And by the way, the current annual sales pace of roughly 53 million silver Eagles is nearly twice as much as total U.S. silver production of roughly 33 million ounces; meaning that, while naked shorting paper silver through its agent JP Morgan, the U.S. government must be actively buying physical silver!
Moreover, as we have discussed ad nauseum, Cartel price suppression has literally destroyed the global mining industry; thus, making it essentially impossible for silver prices to be held at such ridiculous levels, relative to fundamentals, technical, and the price of gold – for much longer. Per this telling chart, the world's lowest cost mines required a price of nearly $25/oz. to make them operationally profitable in 2013's first three quarters; and more importantly, closer to $33 to actually produce positive net income. In other words, at $20/oz. silver, nearly every silver miner will continue to produce operational losses – which subsequently, will cause them to shut in production; and until prices are well above $30/oz., depletion will threaten to destroy any hope of production growth for at least a decade – if not permanently.
I just read that major oil companies no longer consider $100/bbl. viable for the expansion of oil reserves – again, in an environment manipulated by a price-supporting Cartel. And thus, with silver at just $20/oz. – and gold at $1,300/oz. – I expect that 2014's planned PM Capex reductions of 50%, across the board, are just "jacks for starters" when it comes to the abysmal long-term PM production outlook. Thanks to the Cartel, and the elimination of essentially all "low hanging fruit" in an increasingly capital intensive business, global gold production peaked a decade ago – with essentially the only material production occurring today being in China, where it is quite obviously being done at way above the current price.
With the day's "news" being all-time high channel stuffing at GM, a lower than expected ADP employment report, another 19-year low in mortgage application activity – amidst reports of the death of "buy to rent" venture capital activity and a "better than expected" factory orders number that was actually much worse than expected when "seasonal adjustments" are excluded, PM prices surged just before the COMEX open.
Sure, they were immediately stopped by prototypical "Cartel Herald" capping algorithms at the current Cartel "lines in the sand" at $1,295/oz. and $20/oz., respectively (in gold's case, at what do you know, exactly 1.0%). However, with the potential for the ECB to initiate a new QE program tomorrow morning, who knows what might happen to severely oversold PM prices in the coming days? Remember, Friday's NFP employment report is the government's ultimate market manipulation tool – which is why the BLS conveniently omits last March's "birth/death model" figure on its website. With the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield having crept back up to 2.80%, and "Whirlybird Janet" on the record worrying about labor market "slack," don't be surprised if what we wrote in "3.0%, Nuff Said" about the government publishing NFP numbers conducive to "QEing" rates back down doesn't hold true, as it always has.
Remember, the paper charade can end at any time; for any number of reasons – known or unknown. And when it does, if you haven't already protected yourself with PHYSICAL Precious Metals, it will already be too late.


Only red tags are required. APPLET tag is described in the Java Tutorial from SUN at this page.
this step can be done by the CabriWeb application which allows you to generate automatically HTML file with choose of figure, dimensions, positions, backgroud color or images, animations, traces... You have just to edit the produced HTML file to add some text around applet tag or to copy <APPLET> tag in another HTML file located in the same folder (for files access paths considerations) More explanations and access to the first beta release of CabriWeb at this page.
* these values are displayed on option or alt clic on objects or springs. Multiples springs or traces must be written in the same parameter.
Many comments or bug reports are appreciated : don't hesitate to send to us your remarks or wishes.


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Saint-Clément (okzitanisch: Sant Clamenç) ist ein französischer Ort und eine Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Cantal in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Saint-Clément gehört zur historischen Region des Carladès.

Lage
Der Ort Saint-Clément liegt in einer Höhe von ca. 1020 m ü. d. M; im Nordosten des Gemeindegebiets entspringt das Flüsschen Goul. Die Entfernung nach Aurillac beträgt ca. 28 km (Fahrtstrecke) in südwestlicher Richtung.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Der Bevölkerungsrückgang im 20. Jahrhundert resultiert im Wesentlichen aus dem Mangel an Arbeitsplätzen infolge der Mechanisierung der Landwirtschaft.

Wirtschaft
Der Ort Saint-Clément diente jahrhundertelang den ausschließlich landwirtschaftlich orientierten und sich selbstversorgenden Weilern (hameaux) und Einzelgehöften in der Umgebung als Handwerks-, Handels- und Dienstleistungszentrum. Seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts spielt der Tourismus in Form der Vermietung von Ferienwohnungen (gîtes) eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle für das Wirtschaftsleben des Ortes.

Geschichte
Im Mittelalter gehörte Saint-Clément zur Vizegrafschaft Carlat; daneben existierte wahrscheinlich ein Priorat der Abtei Saint-Géraud von Aurillac. Im Jahr 1643 erhob der französische König Ludwig XIII. das Carladès zur Grafschaft und gab es der in Monaco residierenden Familie Grimaldi zum Lehen; diese verwaltete es bis zum Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die spätromanische Pfarrkirche Saint-Férréol war möglicherweise eine Prioratskirche der Abtei Saint-Géraud von Aurillac. Die flachschließende Apsis, das Langhaus und der Glockengiebel (clocher peigne) sind mit Ausnahme der Ecksteine aus nur grob behauenen Bruchsteinen errichtet. Die breitgelagerte Westwand mit dem aufsitzenden Glockengiebel folgt dem Stil anderer Kirchen des Carladès (vgl. Thérondels u. a.). Das gotische Südportal ist eine spätere Hinzufügung; die Gewölbe stammen aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Im Jahr 1757 wurden der Dachstuhl und der Glockengiebel erneuert. Die Kirche ist seit dem Jahr 1990 als Monument historique anerkannt.
 Das Château de la Rocque und der dazugehörende Weiler (hameau) sind inzwischen vollständig verschwunden.

Persönlichkeiten
Der Hauptmann François de La Rocque (1885–1946) und seine drei Söhne sind auf dem Areal des ehemaligen Stammsitzes der Familie begraben.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes


I taught every class in school today, just like yesterday. Of course I still have days with few classes, but this new job is still much busier than my last one. Perhaps the reason is that the ALT that came before me, my wife Signe, is a really amazing ALT. Signe would always prepare activities for outside of class. Doing interesting activities IN the classroom was rare enough at my old school. So, now I am much busier, but I get to use my head a lot more.


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Stan Van Gundy thinks new NBA flopping rule will flop
By Kurt HelinNov 6, 2012, 8:17 PM EST
Already two NBA players — J.J. Barea and Donald Sloan — have gotten warnings about flopping. Do it again and they get fined, although the real goal of the new NBA flopping rules is make it kind of a public embarrassment that has players hesitating to make a grandiose gesture to sell a foul.
But the big question has long been — will it really matter at a key point in a game? Or the playoffs? It's one thing not to sell a call in the second quarter of an early November night, it's something else entirely in the fourth quarter of a close playoff game. Will it still have an impact?
Stan Van Gundy — the former Magic coach and current partner of NBC Sports Radio and the NBC Sports Network — told Sports Illustrated he doesn't think so.
"I think the attempt to try to address it is a good thing but I don't see the rule having much effect," said Van Gundy, the former Magic coach who is transitioning this season to broadcasting with NBC …. "First of all, I think the only ones that you will see penalized are very, very egregious flops. I'd be surprise if it even got to one a game, and I think anybody who watches basketball knows that there is far more than one every game.
"And I don't even think this is the NBA's fault. I just think it's impossible the way the rule is written where they can 'crack down' on it. I think they will make sort of a cursory attempt, and make it look like they are trying to do something about it."
When you look at what Sloan and Barea got called out for, they were both pretty over the top. Sloan's in particular. And Van Gundy is right, that will be the trend.
But the question of impacts, the question of if this rule changes things late in the season and into the playoffs when not just hard-core fans are watching remains to be answered.

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Jules Marriner was a child in the 1970s, but has never let this hold her back. It was at University that she rediscovered her love of children's books and entered the Macmillan Children's Book prize. Following uni, she spent a year in London working as an illustrator and spent endless hours thinking up new and unconventional stories.
To cut a long and somewhat dull story short, it was then that she realised she really wanted to live up a tree with some orang-utans, so she moved to the Isle of Wight. Sadly, Orang-utans are not native to the south coast of England, but there are LOADS of trees to climb so she spends her days writing and drawing and being assisted by two Chihuahuas, one short, fat and hairy, and the other short, thin and hairy. Neither can climb trees.
Jules is currently writing her tenth and eleventh books, with Dogstar being published in the autumn of 2018. When she is not under the scrutiny of the dogs, Jules likes to bake inedible cakes for her teenage children and long suffering husband.
Jules previous books are Vincent and the Vampires, Royal Fleas, Wally and Bert, BFFs, Flossie Bonce, The House on Hare Hill, Bluebell's New School, Nature Calls, Fidget, and The Golden Stone.


This tree was in Kensington, Philadelphia. Most places on this block were brown, and had seen more care.
Places like this are good for resting a mobile garden to add some life and color to the neighborhood.
When you are done you can plant your bag, leave for a while or take it with you.


A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.
Find out more about CVE-2017-9775 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.


Jessica Maison, founder of Wicked Tree Press, holding their first comic, PISTIL.
WICKED TREE PRESS publishes comics, novels, children's books and anthologies that highlight strong women heroes, anti-heroes and villains. Wicked Tree Press focuses on science fiction, fantasy, superhero and horror genres, but also accepts autobiographical comic submissions. The small press company was founded by writer and editor Jessica Maison. Jessica spent many years in film and television both working in book and rights and developing film and T.V. scripts. She is a screenwriter who has produced and directed a feature film. She spent many years watching high quality and exciting projects with female leads getting passed on just because a woman was the protagonist. It was time to do it different. Jessica began turning her screenplays into comics and books. Wicked Tree Press' mission is to publish unique, female-led comics and books with a focus on optioning the properties to film, animation and T.V. production companies, so more strong women characters will make it to screen.


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Q: Laravel Relationships Trying to get property of non-object I am fighting this 2 days already. I am trying to set up a relationship and it's not working.
I have a database table "contracts" and a column "status". And for all rows status is 1
id: 1
contract_id: '0005898BC'
status: 1

I also have a contract_statuses table with one row:
id: 1
status_name: "New status"

So the relationship is that contracts table points to the contract_statuses table via "status" which is the id in the contract_statuses table.
Here is my code.
Contracts Model:
public function givemestatus()
{
   return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\ContractStatuses');
}

ContractStatuses Model:
public function contract()
{
   return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Contracts', 'status', 'id');
}

My View:
@foreach ($contracts as $contract)
   {{ $contract->givemestatus->status_name }}
@endforeach

A: Found an answer thanks to @aynber.
I was missing a foreign key:
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\ContractStatuses', 'status');

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Tag Archives: Norman Kelly
Three Basic Problems with the Plot of the 1923 version of The Hunchback Notre Dame
There are three basic problems with the plot the 1923 version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame; its strong adherence to parts that don't make any sense in the scope of the movie, the changes that had to be made to appease the almighty censors, and Lon Chaney.
Quasimodo (Lon Chaney) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
The last problem really isn't a problem but if you watch the opening scene you can see what I mean. The opening scene starts with the Feast of Fool and then it cuts away to Lon Chaney as Quasimodo basically mocking people from atop Notre Dame. I do appreciate that this is the only version to have Quasimodo that has a basic dislike for people like he does in the book which this scene shows nicely but to just an awkward way to introduce Lon Chaney as Quasimodo to the viewers and it ruins the pacing and makes the beginning boring.
Jehan Frollo (Brandon Hurst) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
The second issue has to do with censorship laws of the time. The law that pertains to Hunchback is a movie couldn't cast a priest in a negative light, meaning we can't have a Priest lusting after a women. So much like the 1939 the role of the Frollo sinner is cast on the "Jehan" character the "Claude" character is the saintly priest. Unlike the 1939 version Jehan in this version has no reason why he can't make a straight up move on Esmeralda. Nothing is stopping him; no conflict of her being a Gypsy or no implied religious morality getting in the way. He's just a coward with no real personality or motivation.
Esmeralda (Pasty Ruth Miller) and Jehan Frollo (Brandon Hurst) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
There is no confliction for this Jehan so there is no interest. The plot of the book is hinged on Frollo's obsession with Esmeralda so if there is no torment where does the interest to the plot lie? Well in this case the interest to the plot is Lon Chaney's Quasimodo, so back to that issue, remember this film started the "Quasimodo is main character" mentality that the many of the films buy in to .
Gudule (Gladya Brockwell) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
The finally issue is a weird one to be an issue because when we compare movies to book there is a part of us that wishes that the movie would follow the book perfectly and we get up annoy by what the movie misses or adds. However it is hard to make a movie follow the book perfectly as they are two different median for story telling. One aspect of the book that I wish made into more movies is the Sister Gudule sub-plot. Sister Gudule is Esmeralda's mother. The 1923 version is one of the few version to have this sub-plot however it goes no where. We get the back story of how Esmeralda was taken and we see Gudule curse her and then as Esmeralda is about to die Gudule realizes Esmeralda is her child and then I guess she dies. So Esmeralda doesn't learn this, it amounts to nothing. It was just there because it was in the book but if Esmeralda doesn't learns this and where is the emotion in the end what was the point?
Esmeralda (Pasty Ruth Miller), Phoebus (Norman Kelly) and Clopin (Ernest Torrence) Ball Scene Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
Another sub-plot that was added was this division of the nobel and the poor. Now this was a bigger point in the 1939 version here's it amount to one scene where Phoebus brings Esmeralda to a party and he dresses up and tries to pass her off as a Princess and the party is broken up by Clopin and Esmeralda sadly rejects Phoebus. Like Gudule, these scene that revolve around the classes don't add to very much to the over all plot
Esmeralda (Pasty Ruth Miller) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
It's not that entire plot and pacing of the 1923 version is bad it's just following the book too closely wrecked the pacing and the removal of Frollo's torment ruins the emotional intensity. The "Chaney being forced" to the audiences was just the opening so it wasn't a major problem but it's the reason why the film doesn't have a very strong opening scene.
Next Time- Characters starting with Quasimodo
Quasimodo (Lon Chaney), Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) and Gudule (Gladys Brockwell) Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923


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Tolar: Open source, community governed crypto-currency
Featuring scalable, fast, secure, and fair transactions
Josip Maricevic
Founder and CTO
He has been researching blockchain and related consensus algorithms, atomic cross-chain swaps and of- chain settlement protocols for the past 2 years. Also, Josip worked on development of a few significant blockchain products. He is interested in general algorithm research and development. He worked for Shazam on application that implements Shazam song recognition technology to identify songs in your iPod library and play them with synchronized lyrics and visualizations. Also, he is an owner of software development agency Moon Code, which is offering services of developing custom Blockchain based projects, alternative cryptocurrencies and Ethereum smart contracts.
Drazen Kapusta
Founder / Principal
Drazen Kapusta is the Founder and Principal of TOLAR.io. He's an entrepreneur with 30 years of business experience. Drazen also serves as Principal of COTRUGLI Business School, the leading business school in SE Europe where he has successfully helped develop the world's first Blockchain MBA program and Certified Blockchain Developers Program.
Drazen is the President of Blockchain Adria, the most prominent blockchain conference and association in SE Europe. He serves as the President of the COTRUGLI Fund which is focused on organizing and leading numerous humanitarian projects.
Zoran Dordevic
He has more than 15 years of experience in education and consulting as well as passion for blockchain technology and its educational and business implementation. Zoran is one of the pioneers in introducing blockchain technology into regular MBA curriculums that set the foundations of the world's first Blockchain MBA program at COTRUGLI Business School. Besides his involvement in the educational business, he is very much involved in fostering entrepreneurial culture in the CEE region as consultant for large corporations, startups and ICO's.
Zoran received his Master's degree from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, Croatia and his MBA from COTRUGLI Business School in Zagreb, Croatia.
Terence Tse
Terence is the co-founder and CEO of Nexus FrontierTech, an artificial intelligence studio with years of experience in building and deploying AI for businesses. With more than 20 years of experience in financial corporate consulting, he continues to work closely with organizations like the EU and UN as well as commenting regularly on the latest current affairs, market and blockchain developments in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Economist, CNBC, the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Business Review blogs.
He obtained his PhD from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK.
Sasa Pekec
Sasa Pekec is an Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences Area at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. With more than 25 years of experience, he is currently teaching the core statistics course in the daytime MBA and the Cross Continent MBA programs. His work on combinatorial auctions had been widely cited and had influenced design of a new generation of now standard procurement auction procedures in a variety of industries. His consulting experience includes banking, internet, pharmaceutical, retail, and telecommunications industries. Sasa serves on the Supervisory Board of Atlantic Group, one of the leading FMCG companies in SE Europe. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President of Croatia.
He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Rutgers University.
Alan Kuresevic
Alan is the Vice President, Engineering at SES TechCom, world-leading satellite operator and the first to deliver a differentiated and scalable GEO-MEO offering worldwide, with more than 50 satellites in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 12 in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions. With more than 20 years of experience he successfully led a number of projects and technology development that provided foundation for the company's new service developments.
Jeffrey Treichel
Jeffrey is an entrepreneurial leader with 20+ years of experience and expertise in developing and rapidly operationalizing business models and brand strategies. He currently serves as Interim CEO of PaperKarma, one of Apple's top disruptive apps.
He also founded and led Kolektiva, the first and largest daily deal site in the CEE region, raising $10+ million in VC and eventually building a $35 million business.
Later on he worked with Shoutem, a leading mobile app development platform for SMEs, where he successfully doubled revenues in his first year by securing new Enterprise deals with Fortune 500 media and communication companies.
He earned his MBA degree from Harvard Business School and his BA from Tufts University.
Marko Kucic
Over 15 years of experience in business education and consultancy, his last position as Managing Partner at COTRUGLI Business School, the leading business school in SE Europe. Besides his strong experience in business education, he has a strong passion for blockchain technology. In this area, he has successfully helped jumpstart Blockchain Adria, the most prominent blockchain conference and association in SE Europe.
Also, he helped develop the world's first Blockchain MBA program and Certified Blockchain Developers Program. Marko received his Master's degree from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, Croatia and his MBA from COTRUGLI Business School in Zagreb, Croatia.
Manuel Alonso Coto
Manuel Alonso Coto, PhD is visiting professor at COTRUGLI Business School. He has received PhD in Economics (Thesis about digital business in Spain), King Juan Carlos University, Top Management Program (AMP), and Chicago Graduate School of Business &IE Business School. He graduated Executive MBA at IE Business School and Master in Foreign Trade, EOI Business School. He completed the Postgrad in Business Administration (with a focus on Finance), UNED University, Postgrad in Psychology (with a focus on Advertising), and UNED University.
During his career he has worked as a Director of Marketing, Executive Education, IE Business School, Director of Digital Marketing, Executive Education, IE Business School, Director of Customer Oriented Services, IE Business School, Director of Operations, ielearning.net, Director of IT/IS, US Department of Spain, Spain & Portugal and Director of Manufacturing, Agrapisa.
He is an author of the Books: "Political Marketing", "Direct Marketing 2.0", "Blended Marketing. The Digital Marketing Plan as an integrator of on and offline actions", "Conversational Capital" (Spanish version), "From Second Life to Metaverses Marketing: Business in 3D", "I have 30,000 fans; so now what?", "Social Media Marketing Plan", "s-Internationalization
Peter Merc
A sharing economy and blockchain enthusiast, Peter is a co-founder of Lemur Legal, a legal consultancy and digital transformation advocacy company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is lead coordinator of Blockchain Think Tank Slovenia, an NGO with the main goal to serve as a platform for blockchain knowledge in Slovenia and as a link between the private and public sector. The American Chamber of Commerce in Slovenia established The Circular and Sharing Economy Committee, where Peter acts as a co-chair. Before moving to the startup and fintech world, he worked in the banking sector where he's still active as a member of the supervisory board of Slovenian systemic bank. Along with TOLAR.io, Peter also advises several ICO projects.
He received his Master's degree in Corporate law and his PhD in Banking law from the University of Ljubljana.
Petko Karamotchev
As one of the founders of the enterprise blockchain/DLT consultancy and development company INDUSTRIA.tech, Petko Karamotchev has 20 years of experience in the financial services and the enterprise IT. Holds degrees from University of Portsmouth, UK and COTRUGLI Business School, Croatia. Free market advocate and part-time social theorist.
Naviin Kapoor
Naviin Kapoor, a blockchain consultant and a business transformation leader with more than 12 years of experience in project management and business analysis and more than one year of experience in ethereum, bitcoin, hyperledger, EOS, consensus protocol and distributed/shared ledger technology. He has also attained various industry certifications such as PMP, CBAP, ITIL & Professional Scrum Master Level 1. He had worked on various banking transformation projects – "sustainable and disruption", which were initiated in various domains such as Retail Banking, Cash Management, Integrated Liquidity Management (ILM), Corporate Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Financial Messaging, Regulatory Sanctions Filtering and Local and International Payment Systems. His proficiency in handling Project Life-Cycle Management, requirement elicitation, feasibility study, planning, scheduling, tracking, assessment/design, testing, change management and implementation support in both Waterfall and Agile environment is outstanding.
Nicholas Ang
Nicolas is a co-founder of ANGFUND LIMITED, a crypto investment fund. He is an ICO influencer and is writing threads for ICO projects that his fund is investing in to raise hype. He is also a founder of OLD COUPLES CAFE which now has 12 outlets in China.
Lester Lim
Lester is an active advisor for ICOs, including projects like Cardstack, HybridBlock, Dock.io, Ink Protocol, CoinFi and Banca. He advises token projects on marketing strategy and tokenomics, in addition to fund raising activity. He is also a cryptocurrency investor and founder of a global private syndicate investing in top ICOs, and an online business owner, digital marketing strategist and Facebook Ads specialist – having sold information & software products to customers from all over the world.
Lingya Gong
Lingya Gong started bitcoin mining relatively early, in 2013. At the moment, he has two large mines that are exceeding 20000 KW, mainly operating as a custody business. His main community is Galaxy Community, the company registered in BVI (http://www.gccapital.pro/).
Galaxy community is a blockchain investment community and members are mainly from Canada, Australia and China. Today, Galaxy Community has thousands of active members. In the year of 2017, they have invested in many popular ICO projects, such as EOS, OmiseGo, Status, Bytom, Achain, Loopring, Binance Coin, Tron, Qash, etc. For 2018, their main investment projects include: Fair.game, Mobius.network, Robin8put.org, Neuromation.io, Fusion.org, Gbx.gi, Hybridblock.io, Bitun.io, Merculet.io, Gonetwork.co, Egretia.co, Essentia.one, hubtoken.org, www.chiliz.io, tolar.io and coinsuper.co. Galaxy Community has great impact on the blockchain community of China. Not only that they create propaganda poster for every project invested in, but are also making short advertising videos to help with promotion.
Hsiung Yen-Hsiang
Gabor Kiss
Gabor is the Co-Founder & COO of BitTraffic Ltd., one of the leading ICO marketing and advisory firms.
Nick Ng
Family office fund manager responsible for managing assets over USD Billions in Hong Kong for up to 10 years. He specialises in different financial investments, including different countries' stocks, bonds and financial derivatives. He is extremely experienced in asset/portfolio management, with rich experience in trading with many top rated investment banks,e.g Goldman Sachs, UBS. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with Degree in Information Engineering and Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Logistic Management. Founder of crypto fund BlackCastle Capital. Portfolio includes ICON,WANCHAIN,etc.
Daniel Kochan
Daniel is both an investor and advisor for many different ICOs. With a background in private equity investment analysis and online marketing, typical investments are at the early stage with the aim of providing both capital and ongoing guidance particularly with a marketing focus. As the co-founder of the crypto company Pod Capital, he plays an active role throughout the ICO process leveraging his early stage investment experience along with strong connections within the crypto community in Australia and globally.
Faisal Shehzad khan
IT Professional with 16 years of diversified experience in the field of Alternate delivery channels with sound knowledge of Enterprise system, Architect and Project Management with a blend of technical and business skill set. Extensive experience of middleware, internet banking, ATM, SMS banking, dot coms and enterprise application where his key involvements have been in the roles of project management, analysis, planning, system architecture designing, systems Implementation, solution evaluation, vendor coordination, administration and technical resource.
Valerio Opacic
Access and Security Services
Valerio, as a member of the Tolar team, is in charge for the Security of the Hashnet protocol. He has more than 26 years of working experience mostly dealing with Global Identity, Access and Security Services Manager at McDonald's Corporation.
He is experienced in building globally scoped enterprise systems, with prime focus to computing platforms and underlying systems such as compliance, directories, security, platforms and applications. Besides technical expertise and historical development, he is managing complex IT systems from business perspective is also a strong asset. Integral part of engagement in his profession was always linked to non-technical aspects of primarily technical function, such as procurement, service buying or selling, consulting and alike. His recent education and interest is focused toward general management, with emphasis to implementation and alignment of technology and business, crowned by completion of MBA at COTRUGLI Business School.
Goran Miko
A 21st century entrepreneur. Began his first business at the age of 16, with success in multiple industry verticals.
Has quickly become an established and well respected advisor and cryptocurrency enthusiast. Personally believes blockchain technology can empower people and change the world for the better. Keen to assist projects that have an alignment with his philosophy of do great things with good intentions for the benefit of mankind.
An early blockchain adopter and experienced investor with 70+ ICO investments. Drawing on his extensive experience he advises several ICOs on subjects of tokenomics, marketing, running a succesful project from conception, listing through to delivery.
Founding partner of 08 Capital, a company created with the intention of supporting Blockchain projects to achieve their maximum potential and transform the future technology landscape.
Founders (20%)
Tolar Development Fund (32%)
Proof of Stake Network Start Nodes (8%)
Developers (2.5%)
Advisors (2.5%)
Carrying out operations (55%)
Research and development team (30%)
Marketing campaigns (10%)
Conducting legal compliance (5%)
Token Symbol TOL
Full Token Name Tolar
Crowdsale Start September 15th, 00:00 GMT+03:00
Crowdsale End Hard cap is reached or September 20th, 00:00 GMT+03:00
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1 token for 0.0418 $
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Thanks to Kelly for sending from 38th Street in North Cleveland Park.
Chicken, smicken this is one gorgeous bird.
Thanks to Melissa for sending our friend from 24th and N St, NW around 9am this morning.
Your captions in the comments and winner(s) gets a free PoPville t-shirt.
I can't resist. I won't resist. Keep 'em coming!!


Hey guys! Just a friendly reminder that we are doing the "Ask Lindsey" feature on the TJ Maxx facebook page** again this week! I'm dying to hear your questions and even more excited to provide some insight and answers. I love hearing from all of you and I'm still sorting through some of the amazing emails you've sent (I promise I'll get back to you soon if you've reached out!) but in the meantime, this is the best way to get some of your pressing style questions answered.


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Q: extern and the XC8 C compiler Perhaps I don't fully understand extern. With the XC8 C compiler, it seems like I can get away without using it.
In the file keypad.c I have a function signed char keypadGetPressedKeyLabel(void). In the header file keypad.h I have:
signed char keypadGetPressedKeyLabel(void);
I thought I would have to use extern, ie:
extern signed char keypadGetPressedKeyLabel(void);
The project builds without extern. And it works. Might this due to the fact that keypad.c and keypad.h are all part of the project? I'm using MPLABX.

A: extern is not strictly necessary for function prototypes in .h files - whether or not the function is actually used in one or many different .c files in your project.
Whether you have extern int foo(void);   or just   int foo(void);   in your .h your compiler will read is as a function prototype either way.
Its necessary for global variables though since unlike functions they don't have prototypes.
So if you have an  int thing;  in one .c file and you want to use it in another .c file then you'll need an  extern int thing;  to tell the compiler that it does exist 'somewhere' in your project.

A: Functions are extern by default in C; that's why it works without the keyword.

A: extern is really a sign to the linker, that the symbol is defined in a different object file. As you only seem to have one object file, it doesn't make any difference whether it's there or not.

A: extern is largely obsolete for functions in other CUs in many of the smaller simpler compilers.  If a symbol isn't found locally it will be searched for in other CUs and libraries.  You provide a function prototype, but not the actual function, in the CU where you want to use it.
However, extern is required for variables that are shared between CUs.  You can't define a prototype for a variable, so the extern keyword in this situation has to be used to create the variable equivalent of a function prototype.


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Sri Lanka to increase cinnamon exports
Sept 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka plans to increase the cinnamon exports to a target of one billion US dollars by 2015, the Sri Lanka Economic Development Board (EDB) says.
Addressing a function to introduce a new brand name for Sri Lankan cinnamon products, the Chairman of EDB Janaka Ratnayake has revealed that Sri Lanka earned 85 million US dollars from cinnamon exports in 2010.
According to the Chairman Sri Lanka produces 70 percent of cinnamon demand at the world market and exports 85 percent of country's annual cinnamon production, mostly to the USA and Mexico.
The 'Pure Ceylon cinnamon' brand similar to the 'Pure Ceylon tea' brand name will be registered in key markets in North America and Europe. The newly introduced brand name is expected to enhance the market demand for Sri Lankan cinnamon products.
Cinnamon is currently the dominant spice in Sri Lanka in terms of the foreign exchange earnings.
Sri Lanka annually produces 16,000 metric tons of cinnamon in about 31,000 hectares of land. Cinnamon trade is the livelihood for 260,000 families in the country.
More about this:
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Sri Lanka March exports surge 54-pct Textile and apparel, the country's key industrial export rose 68.3 percent to 473 million US dollars, rubber products...
Crisis in the Middle East affects Sri Lanka, tea exports, production drops in July Aug 24, Colombo: Plantation Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Samarasinghe says that the current crisis in the Middle...
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Thwarted in the engine bay, Porsche saves its traditional incremental enhancement for the Boxster's marvellous handling compromise.
Four years ago, we said the car's sporting brio was so effortless that it almost qualified as uncanny.
It is possible now to be even less equivocal: with the optional PASM system (£971) and mechanical locking rear diff (£890) fitted, the Boxster combines transparent sporting pedigree with the kind of wonderfully tied-down comfort levels that make the model not only endlessly absorbing but also inexhaustibly good company. Fundamentally, of course, the temperament has not changed.
The Boxster still makes a palpable virtue of its mid-engine balance, still changes direction very sweetly and still provides a volume manufacturer benchmark for how a two-seat sports car ought to feel once you've removed the roof.
The chief differences between the 718 and its predecessor are the breadth and depth of its adaptive ride quality and the prescribed sharpening of its chassis.
Polishing both seems counter-intuitive, but Porsche's engineers have done their job at the margins with typical effectiveness.
In the PASM's most forgiving mode, the Boxster makes short work of even the most ramshackle UK road. The stated loss of 10mm of spring travel barely seems credible when the wheel control (even with 20in Carrera S wheels shoehorned under every corner) is so consistently supple.
So adroit is the suspension's tuning that – as before – there's no immediate need to abandon the default setting when pushing on.
Instead, the Boxster's stiffened chassis lets you lean ever more enthusiastically into it, delivering apparently endless grip and poise even as it continues to benevolently tidy up the road surface.
The modestly quicker (and exceptionally good) electric steering plays its part, but we'd wager that Porsche's upgrading of the PASM's vertical sensors is at least as important in this respect. As a generator of composure, and the playful confidence that comes with it, the Boxster remains unparalleled and a handy nose ahead of the previous model.
The 718 Boxster's trustworthiness and mid-engined poise transfer well to circuit driving. The car's ability to deploy its performance has only been magnified by the engineers' efforts to firm up the fundamentals.
The concept of it being yet more rigid at the back and shod in wider rubber is not difficult to grasp on a dry track.
So elemental is the traction that it would take an extraordinarily keen driver to make the traction control light flutter on a public road.
Its performance on its Pirelli P Zero tyres was redolent of the Cayman GT4, another car acutely reluctant to become unstuck yet savagely and brilliantly driveable with it.
The 718 reduces that savagery but deserves some of the same praise. Its sharper steering has introduced no ill-effect snappiness, much as the broader lateral grip has yielded none of the intransigence we tend to associate with very high adhesiveness.
Instead, the car provides the kind of sensory platform that encourages extraordinary speed to be carried.


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Dorothy Leong Dunn Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund
Support research to inform and advance new treatments
CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCE
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease and the number is expected to significantly increase as our population ages. With no cure, Alzheimer's disease robs individuals of their most precious assets - their thoughts, memories, relationships, and personality traits that define who they are.
In memory of Dorothy Leong Dunn and in honor of individuals and families touched by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, the Scott-Dunn Family invites you to join in the race for new and more effective treatments and cures for this devasting disease.
The Dorothy Leong Dunn Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund is a fund building toward endowment administered by the Center for Neuroscience. Once fully funded, this endowment will support basic and translational neuroscience research to inform and advance new treatments for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.


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Q: facebook graph Api: Posting on page: permission issue I am trying to develop a app which will post on user's Facebook page.
Steps I followed are:
1.Created a fb App, with permission : manage_pages and publish_actions

2.Redirected user to 'https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth
With parameters:
client_id=FACEBOOK_APP_ID
redirect_uri=FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL
scope=manage_pages,publish_actions

Where user allowed app against each permissions

3.On call back url (FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL), cought CODE sent by facebook api
4.Now I sent get request to url = https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token with parameters:
'client_id':FACEBOOK_APP_ID
'redirect_uri':FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL
'client_secret':FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY,
'code':CODE

from respose sent by facebook, I filtered TOKEN
5.sent get request to url = https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts. with parameters:
'access_token':TOKEN

from response I received, I saved page id as PAGE_ID, page_token as PAGE_TOKEN
6.I tried to post something on user's facebook page, I sent post request to url = https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/feed , with parameters:
'access_token':TOKEN'
'message': MESSAGE_TEXT,

Snap! in response I received:
{
  "error": {
    "message": "(#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action",
    "type": "OAuthException",
    "code": 200
  }
}

I couldn't figure out What mistake I am committing, Do I need to get my app reviewed before posting ? If yes, How can I test my app?
I also tried this by creating a test user. I got the same error.

A: Thanks to @dhana,
In order to Post on a facebook page, App need manage_pages and publish_action app centre permission, and  manage_pages , publish_action and status_update scope while requesting
url = https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?\
    client_id='+FACEBOOK_APP_ID+'&\
    redirect_uri=' +FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL+'&\
    scope=manage_pages,publish_actions,status_update


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		this.type 		= type || 'stretch'; // fill , fit , stretch , tile , center

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				this.$container.css('background-image' , 'url('+ this.$img.attr('src') +')');
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				this.$container.css('background-image' , 'url('+ this.$img.attr('src') +')');
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					backgroundPosition 	: 'center center',
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					width	: 	'100%',
					height	: 	'100%'
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The Route One Stripey Jack Beanie has a great look with its oversized design, unique grey detailing and R1 branding.
It's okay. Just needed a relatively cheap beanie and it is good for the money.
These items were gifts but the quality was really good.
A nice cheap beanie. A little tight but that's my fault for having a big head.
Both beanies seem good quality, although the Route One beanie is a little snug for a 'slouch' style.
My son did nt like it.


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Movie Quiz: Cookies on film, or that's the way the quiz crumbles
Preview // Movies + TV
Sunday is National Cookie Day, a sweet time for this bite-sized test of your film knowledge
C.J. Lais Jr.
SPOILER ALERT! The Gingerbread Man, AKA Gingy, survives the torture inflicted on him by Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) in 2001's "Shrek," but not without some major physical and emotional damage. Tough stuff for a cookie in a kids' movie. (At least he kept his gumdrop buttons)
Dreamworks Animation
Not only is Sunday National Cookie Day, but starting today we embark on the seven-day celebration of National Cookie Cutter Week. Sweet, right?
This week we'll test your knowledge of movies where the diminutive desserts treats make a major impact (And we don't mean the kind of cookies filmmakers slip into the end credits). Get every question correct in this quiz and you'll prove yourself to be … one smart cookie.
1. In the 2003 remake of "Freaky Friday," what kind of cookie is the reason for the body switch between mom Jamie Lee Curtis and daughter Lindsay Lohan?
2. Name the Woody Allen movie with this plot: "A career criminal and his gang lease a closed pizzeria to rob a nearby bank from below, but the plot is a failure. At the same time, the criminal's wife sells cookies out of the restaurant as a cover, and it ends up blooming into multimillion dollar business."
3. In less enlightened times, the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" casts Barbra Streisand as the lead singer of a trio with two Black female singers. What cookie is the group named after?
4. What do Gingy the Gingerbread Man from "Shrek" and the magical cookies Alice consumes in 1951's "Alice in Wonderland" have in common?
5. "The Odd Couple" wasn't the first time Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau teamed up. Two years earlier in 1966 they starred together in what comedy that nabbed an Oscar for Matthau?
6. In what 1996 movie does one character say of John Travolta's title character: "It's cookies, he smells like cookies, and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat"?
7. Three actresses – Gracie Allen, Emily Lloyd and Patricia Neal – have all played characters named Cookie. Which one was in which film – "Cookie," "Cookie's Fortune" and "Here Comes Cookie"?
8. What 2003 comedy-fantasy begins with a Buffalo TV reporter doing a segment on the city's biggest-ever cookie created by a Polish bakery trying to get customers back after the health department closed them down?
9. True or false: In 2010's "Despicable Me," supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) sends a trio of orphan girls into the fortress of his nemesis to deliver cookies that are actually cookie robots.
10. "And tell Jimmy I want 10 chocolate chip cookies. All right? Medium chips, none too close to the outside. Got it?" In what five-time Oscar-winning 2004 biopic does the main character place that telephone order?
1. A fortune cookie
2. "Small Time Crooks" (2000)
3. Oreo. They were known as the Oreos
4. They both say "eat me"
5. "The Fortune Cookie"
6. "Michael"
7. Gracie Allen – "Here Comes Cookie"; Emily Lloyd – "Cookie"; Patricia Neal – "Cookie's Fortune"
8. "Bruce Almighty"
9. True
10. "The Aviator," with Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes
Reach C.J. on
C.J. Lais Jr. is a News & Information Services associate at the Times Union, where he has worked since 2001. He handles many of the calendars and features in Preview, the Friday Scene section and the Sunday Unwind section. He is also a staff writer and cinephile. A lifelong Capital Region resident, he was born and raised in Troy, but now lives in Albany. He majored in English at the University at Albany. You can reach him at clais@timesunion.com or 518-454-5562.


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Tyler Perry's Net Worth: The Millionaire Filmmaker Who Cares!
Tyler Perry overcame a traumatic childhood of being physically and sexually abused by the people who were supposed to take care of him. He learned how to write and slowly and steadily staged plays, made TV shows and films, and established himself as one of the most creative artists in Hollywood today. By announcing his decision to donate $1.0 million towards helping the victims of Hurricane Harvey, Perry is making good use of his $600.0 million net worth. He is putting his money where his heart is!
Hurricane Harvey battered southeastern Texas, and the damage is catastrophic. Even by conservative estimates, it will require billions of dollars to rebuild what has been damaged and destroyed. Every helping hand and dollar counts, so with Tyler Perry's donation of $1.0 million to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, a little for the actor will go a long way for residents. How rich is Tyler Perry? While some people may scoff at his donation, saying that it is not much considering Tyler Perry's net worth of $600.0 million, they are missing the point. Perry decided to help, unlike many who only paid lip service, despite being very financially well off.
Tyler Perry is an actor, comedian, filmmaker, writer, and gospel songwriter. Even though he did not graduate from high school he eventually went for his GED, and was inspired to write after watching an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. In it, someone described how therapeutic writing was, and how much it could help work out the author's problems. He then wrote himself a series of letters, which was the idea behind his play, I Know I've Been Changed.
Perry wrote and produced many plays in the 1990s and the early 2000s, several of which have been turned into films. He is best known for creating the fictional character Madea, a tough, strong, elderly woman he portrays. Perry created several films, some of which are live recordings of his stage plays, while others are bigger productions. Tyler Perry's TV shows have been particularly successful including Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Meet the Browns, Tyler Perry's for Better or Worse, Love Thy Neighbor, and the soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots which aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network as part of an exclusive multi-year partnership between the network and Perry.
Ok! It's temptation Tuesday. The Haves is on tonight. Here's where it turns!! Only on OWN.
On September 9, 2014, OWN premiered another If Loving You Is Wrong, also created by Tyler Perry, which proved to be just as popular as his other shows. Perry's TV shows have since reached a nationwide audience, and his fanbase only continues to grow. A measure of his success is his recent deal with Viacom of 90 episodes per year of original drama and comedy shows. The TV deal begins May 2019 as Perry is still under contract with OWN.
Tyler Perry's movies have also been very successful and have established him as a creative filmmaker with the rare ability to laugh at himself and his communities' follies. Perry's first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, was made with a $5.5 million budget which he raised in part from his stage productions. He hit the big time with Madea's Family Reunion which opened at the number one spot in the U.S. box office. The film grossed more than $65.0 million and started a successful franchise for Perry. Subsequent movies like Daddy's Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, and The Family That Preys which all earned modestly at the box-office, but established Perry as a force to reckon with in Hollywood.
On set in rehearsal for @thepassionlive. Tomorrow will be epic!!!
It was Perry's Madea films that have made him a household name. Films like Madea Goes to Jail, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Madea's Big Happy Family, Madea's Witness Protection, A Madea Christmas, and Boo! A Madea Halloween all struck gold at the box office, and the franchise proved to be an enduring one. In all, Perry's films have grossed more than $500.0 million at the box office while his own net worth has crossed $600.0 million. The lucky woman who gets to share this fortune is Perry's partner, Gelila Bekele, who is the mother of their son, Aman Tyler Perry. The filmmaker is taking his responsibilities as a father very seriously as he knows what it is like to have a bad one. Perry had a traumatic childhood where he was sexually abused, and had a stepfather who would regularly hit him. He once said that his father's "answer to everything was to beat it out of you." Perry turned to church looking for refuge and peace of mind, a decision that positively affected him.
What an amazing night last night!!! I was at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors!! Congrats to all the honorees and my darling Cicely Tyson!!
Perry used his enormous wealth to deal in real estate for himself. In 2007, he bought a 17-acre estate in Buckhead, Atlanta which he reportedly sold for $17.5 million in May 2016. Currently, Tyler Perry's house is Dean Gardens, a 58-acre estate in an Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek. According to reports, he tore down the existing 32,000-square-feet property and built a new, eco-friendly home in its place. Despite having a massive fortune of his own, Perry did not forget his childhood of deprivation and abuse. So when he decided to give a million dollars for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, Perry did it because he felt their pain. It was his way of sharing their helplessness and sense of homelessness. Under all that wealth and achievement beats a heart that understands how important it is to lend a helping hand!