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A Look Back At Penn Jillette's Thoughts on Filming The Celebrity Apprentice
January 4, 2015 by tamaratattles 18 Comments
Penn Jillette, one of the smartest men in the entertainment industry wrote about his experiences on Celebrity Apprentice in his memoir published in 2012. Check out this except to get his take on what the experience is like. I've read it several times. I love his sense of humor. I guess since Penn describes Trump's hair as " like cotton candy made of piss." We won't be seeing him return this season. 🙂
The Hawthorne effect—coined in 1950 in response to factory workers' productivity increases when they were being observed— manifests in every clinical shrink study of people's motivations. When anyone watches anyone do anything, the watched people do whatever they're being watched doing a little better for the short time while they're being watched. The key is that the behavioral improvements are temporary. If the Hawthorne effect worked for more than a few days with TV cameras, we wouldn't have "The Celebrity Apprentice."
I noticed the Hawthorne effect for the first few days of my season of "The Celebrity Apprentice," but it sure didn't last long. We celebrities are desperate pigs. I knew several of my co-stars prior to working on "TCA" together. I had hung out with them and worked with them in high-pressure situations. None were close friends, but I liked them all and thought I knew them a bit. But sixteen hours a day with TV cameras all around, doing pointless fake corporate tasks outside one's skill set with Clay Aiken, and no one worries about the whole world watching (with the exception of anyone who has a job, someone to talk to, a nice view out the window or a solitaire program). You're happy if you don't swallow your own tongue.
The secret truth of "The Celebrity Apprentice" is that it isn't very hard. The tasks are nothing. Makeup starts just after 5 a.m. and the show goes to about 10 p.m., but you spend most of that time doing nothing. Anyone who isn't in show business could accomplish everything the show called for and have time left over to do their laundry, cook their supper and post pictures of their animal companion on Facebook. "The Celebrity Apprentice" is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt hormone-raging bugnutty. Everyone is panicked, desperate, yelling, swearing, attacking, backstabbing, failing to get laid and acting crazy. With all this drama, any sane person just wants to do more algebra. "The Celebrity Apprentice" is junior high with a better brand of acne cover-up.
Like all desperate celebrities, I've been on more than one reality show. I also did "Dancing with the Stars." I was amazed to find out that "The Celebrity Apprentice" was more honest and straightforward than "DWTS." The idea of "DWTS" is pretty beautiful: half-assed show folk who aren't dancers are teamed up with great dancers, and cameras video them while they learn to dance. How well can people learn to do something outside their ken? It's a beautiful idea. Dance is a joyous celebration of humanity, so it should be an uplifting, inspiring show to watch and even more beautiful to be on.
But I hated the time that was spent with the production trying to get young ambitious Mormon women to cry. Guys behind the cameras would say mean things at attractive young men and women and washed-up celebrities about how it would ruin their lives if they didn't win.
"The Celebrity Apprentice" is more honest, in that creepy kind of way that the guy who admits he's a racist is more honest. It doesn't pretend to be about something beautiful like dance. I think business is beautiful, but "The Celebrity Apprentice" has nothing to do with business. No actual business skills are tested. It's not even a real game about fake business. I can tell you the rules of chess. I can't tell you the rules to "The Celebrity Apprentice." No one can tell you the rules of "The Celebrity Apprentice." No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can. Trump can't be manipulated, so the show isn't even fair in that way. Annie Duke, the poker genius, and "TCA" veteran, said to me, "It's a pretend game, about pretend business, where you get pretend fired." Donald Trump couldn't fire me. I work for Penn & Teller and he's never owned any part of us. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas, but we were priced out of his budget. He can't fire us from the Rio, because he doesn't own any of Caesars.
But "The Celebrity Apprentice" people are honest. They don't pretend it's about something beautiful, and they don't pretend it's fair. It's venal people clawing at stupid, soulless shit in front of the modern-day Scrooge McDuck in order to stay famous.
For one "task," Donald Trump asked us to create a Macy's store display and print ads for his new fragrance. Is there anyone who wants to smell like Donald Trump? Mr. Trump thinks so, so we were asked to create advertising. Instead of the usual twenty grand that the show would give to the winning "team leader's" charity, Donald floated the promise that if he "loved" our promotional material, he would give one hundred thousand dollars to his "loved" one's charity. Five times the amount that was arbitrarily assigned to this "task." In other words, if Trump got an ad that he could actually use for his stink-pretty juice, he would pay about twenty percent of what he would have to pay in the free market to hire a professional to do the job properly. Trump was willing to donate one-fifth of what the campaign would be worth to charity. I got fired for coming up with the slogan "You Earned It." They thought that slogan was "pompous." My slogan for a perfume with Donald's picture on it called "Success" was deemed pompous. Wow. The problem was my audience, I think. "You Earned It" isn't good for the Trumps. It should have been "You Inherited It."
"TCA" gets the coin on both sides: they get NBC to pay for the show and they get the corporations to pay for the "challenges."
Trump stays rich in real estate and stays kinda sorta famous for his "brand." Trump is obsessed with his brand and that's all you really need to know. Trump is on a game on TV where my showbiz peers, if they want to play the game, have to suck up to him, and I sucked up to him. I'd sit and smile and listen, because I promised the producers I would do my best. The boardrooms went long and I was there to spend about twenty-two hours, over six weeks listening to Trump do his monologues. He'd talk about Occupy Wall Street and global warming while he was deciding whom to pretend to fire from his pretend business. Bill Gates is fighting polio, and I don't suck up to him, but I was on TV with Donald Trump, so I did my job. I wasn't even going to say anything about Trump's hair. I live in a glass house. I've always had ugly, out-of-style hair. Trump's hair is a lot better than mine—but as I sat there for hours half listening to Donald carry on, it struck me exactly what his hair looked like. It looks like cotton candy made of piss. That revelation came to me, and I had to type it here. But my hair is worse.
One day while shooting, I'd had a heart-to-heart talk with Clay Aiken. I would have preferred waterboarding. I don't like heart-to-heart talks with anyone, but Clay Aiken? Strap me to the board, and put the wet towels over my face. Drowning sounds nice. Clay had put his arm on my shoulder, looked in my eyes and said softly something like, "You know, Penn, I really like you, I do. I think you're really smart, but I have to talk to you about some things that are bothering me." Clay told me, gently and kindly, that I was being condescending by talking over people's heads. He was accusing me of being condescending and he was being … condescending. When someone is busting you for being condescending, it takes a bigger asshole than me to say, "Are you sure you know what 'condescending' means? It means to talk down to, not talk over someone's head. So, you see, honey, I'm not condescending, I'm pompous, let me explain …"
So, I nodded, yeah, I'm condescending. Greed and clawing for fame got me to the point where I was pretending to care what Clay Aiken thought of me. What have I done? What have I done?
Clay spent over an hour and a half of his time, and wasted much more than that of mine, having a heart-to-heart with me over how he, Clay Aiken, thought I should treat Lou Ferrigno. He wasn't talking about how Clay Aiken thought I should treat Clay Aiken, about which I would have had to work hard to give a flying fuck. Clay was talking to me about how he, Clay Aiken, thought I should treat the guy who played a cartoon character painted green, decades ago.
If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself. If it weren't being documented, you could kill him quickly and bury him in a shallow grave—who's going to notice? You could go on living your happy normal life, but if there are TV cameras pointed at you while Clay is pretending to soul search, and your wife is going to find out and some of your friends from the carny might watch the show in a bar somewhere, well … you should kill yourself.
Clay explained how I should deal with Ferrigno. Clay said that he knew how to deal with Lou because Clay himself had worked for years with intellectually disabled students before he discovered himself on "American Idol." He thought I should deal with this grown man—who was our peer, who had punched me in friendship—as if I was dealing with an intellectually disabled child, so … get this … so I wouldn't come off as condescending in front of the non-groovy, but very bitchy Clay.
I should have jumped. At least some of you might have respected that. No one respects me talking to Clay Aiken about feelings. Not even Clay. He was just doing it to win a TV game so he wouldn't have to go back to condescending to mentally disabled children for a career.
What happened? Did I forget how to say "Shut the fuck up?" Or, "I'm sorry, I think I left the bathwater running in Las Vegas, and you know it's the desert, there's a water shortage." Or, "I'm sorry, I don't speak English. I learned our Vegas shows phonetically." Or, "Hey, Clay, there are more TV cameras on the other side of the room. Why don't you have a heart-to-heart with Arsenio Hall? That might get you more close-ups."
Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" introduced me to the idea of "ego depletion." I read it after my tour of duty on "The Celebrity Apprentice," and it explained some of the mysteries I experienced doing that show. Studies have shown that if you make someone very self-conscious about everything they do and say, their self-control just gets tired out. The ego can be exhausted. It's the very trying to be one's best on camera that puts one at one's worst on camera. You just can't keep it up that long. You want to be at your best, but pretty soon the internal censors are exhausted, take a break, and pretty soon sweet Arsenio is yelling things like, "I'll tell you what a fucking bitch whore she is!"
The non-sexual question I've been asked the most since "TCA" is "Were those others just faking?" It's a question I can't answer. We were all professionals, we were all aware of the camera, but we were also living our lives. It makes it very crazy. I spent a lot of time saying "It's not real." But that's not true. It's also not TV. It's really not TV. When I was having my heart-to-heart with Clay, the full endless horror of it was never broadcast. It was edited down to a minute. When I'm on Piers Morgan and he's ripping me a new asshole, that's TV, I know that every word he says is going out. But "The Celebrity Apprentice" is so long that you know the vast majority of stuff will never be seen, but cameras are still on; it could be seen. It's Schrödinger's showbiz: it's all fake and it's all real at the same time. The situation itself makes everyone crazy.
The production isn't entirely blameless. There was a lot of alcohol available at any time it could be even slightly justified, but most of us never drank a drop, and even the drinkers were moderate. But the producers didn't need anyone drunk; they got their telegenic outbursts from ego depletion. And after someone had an ego-depleted outburst, they'd reward the impropriety. In real reality, there would have been hell to pay for screaming epithets at people, but in "TCA" world, there are no repercussions. No one loves anyone on the set enough to say, "Hey listen, man, take a little break and think about this." No one cares. We're all trying to save our own sorry asses. Then the next day, Trump says something insane like, "I'm glad you showed some backbone. I like passion." He means, of course, he likes passion for his little TV show, but it feels like he's saying the outburst was a good thing. We've chosen to make this whackjob, with the cotton candy piss hair and the birther shit, into someone we want to please.
I made a deal with the producers and myself that I would pretend to care what Donald Trump thought of me. I believe, in the real world, that I care less about what Trump thinks of me than he cares what I think of him. When he was into his free-form rants in front of a captive audience, he would talk about articles written about him and defend himself against charges made, as far as I could tell, by random bloggers with a few hundred hits. Attacks that could have no impact on his life at all. It sounded like this cat was Googling himself, being bugged by what was written, and then defending himself to people who were trying to improve their careers by playing a TV game with him. He sat on this throne, and told us he'd made a good business decision by selling a house of his for much less than the asking price and these bloggers should know that. They should know he was a good businessman. The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think; it's that he desperately cares what people think and … he's doing the best he can. I don't know Donald Trump. We've crossed paths a few times, but I've never talked to him. He talked to me, but I was on a show where I wasn't supposed to talk back. I still did, but only a little. I disagree with him about a lot, but you know, I disagree with you about a lot, and we still get along. He was wicked wrong about the birther shit, but I'm wicked wrong about a lot, and we both have stupid hair.
Excerpted from "Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday" by Penn Jillette. Published by Blue Rider Press. Click the link to buy the book on Amazon. It's sort of awesome.
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Cyndy says
The "Hawthorne Affect"? Like the letter "A"? Lol . . . . will read this book.
Mrs. Muffins says
Wow that is all sorts of awesome. I was hooked when you mentioned the cotton candy made of piss. He does a good job of breaking down what the experience is like. The psychology of it all is pretty fascinating, really. Thanks for sharing.
Gia says
You'd think the housewives would have an edge on CA because they're used to the format….it must benefit them in some way from the 'real' actors and especially singers. Lord, it must be hard for them!
Microop says
Thank you for sharing! Very intere sting
sequoia says
I borrowed the book from the library after you posted this. It was a fun read though I could have done with a bit less cursing. I'm a fan of his and agree with most of his observations but I learned that he's bat shit crazy.
tamaratattles says
Most really smart people are. It's hard to live in a world of idiots. IJS. 🙂
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
Superfly says
Penn was on the next season All Star edition too. After the book came out. He is right, The Donald cares what Penn thinks of him, Penn could give a rats ass about Trump!
Suzanne D says
Penn also apologized to Trump for what he had written. He said he was angry about being fired and just let his feelings flow. Sadly, Penn came in second to Trace Adkins. Penn truly was way better, but I guess Trump didn't have the heart to stick Trace with being second best again. Trace lost to Piers Morgan.
But Penn was right about one thing, there are no clear cut rules with Trump. Sometimes, he respects when the project manager takes the responsibility for the loss, and others, he calls them quitters. Still, I can't help but love this show. Why? I can't explain it, but I just do.
Mrs Ferigno says
Honestly, I just love Penn.
Rebecca Webb says
They set up paradigms that are unreal. People have to risk their reputation to win, which is horribly unfair. Or you just go along with it because you have no morals.
redhotmama says
You had me at "cotton candy made of piss." I will be reading this soon.
Karma Grant says
I love Penn, he's just an awesome riot.
GirlFromKY says
What an interesting excerpt TT! Good read. I learned a lot, and also had many of my impressions about CA confirmed too. For such a successful businessman, I have been surprised by a lot of the egotistical battles Trump chooses to try to defend himself about. It makes him look like an insecure mean tween girl who has a deep voice from sneaking too many cigarettes.
T D says
Bugnutty perfectly decribes the behavior on Vanderpump. It could be the name of Lisa's next bar.
Lawstangel says
I met him once briefly. One of my BFF's husband was a writer on The Wanda Sykes Show (cancelled after 1 season despite good ratings) so the two or three times I went to the show we hung out in the 'green room." Penn was a guest on one of the shows, I knew he was tall but he is really, really tall! He is also pretty nice and super friendly. I liked him on TCA and felt he should have won as well. I wish him success moving forward, the "magic" in Penn& Teller's show is hard, but pretty entertaining.
Tasos826 says
It's no mystery that Trump is disliked, because he is a conservative and a vocal critic of our President. He says what he thinks with no evident filter, and he is highly PC aversive, arguably as PC aversive as he is to the President's performance.
Oddly enough Jillette and Trump are remarkably alike; they're intelligent; successful in their respective industries, and both are very vocal about very strong political views. However, I have not heard Trump call Jillette names or insult him because of his political views differ from Jillette's, or insult Jillette as a very bright two-time CA loser, though Trump has been known to stoop to insults and name-calling outside of CA's venue, but he does so typically after someone insulted and/or name called him.
I recall that Jillette surprisingly was a Trump brown nose throughout his last competition. So, his strategy, at least in part, evidently involved induging Trump's ego, to ideally enhance his chance of winning. Though after his book, Jillette appears to be a freakishly large, obnoxious and hateful Eddie Haskell.
It appears that 'CA' acted as a catalyst which altered Jillette's attitude and behavior so drastically, that he was at ease with publicly calling his competition show host a "whackjob" with "cotton candy piss hair" after he lost, and after he was so respectful to the very same person *before he was fired*. At best it was HS mean girl conduct. Would there have been a book chapter or critique so critical of the people he name-called and insulted; Aiken, Ferigno and Trump if Jillette won? His comments were little more than an ode to poor sportsmanship and egotism.
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Will Young sensationally QUITS Strictly Come Dancing over clash with Len Goodman
The 37-year-old has impressed during his brief stint on the show
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WILL Young has dramatically pulled out of Strictly, The Sun can reveal.
The singer, 37, cited "personal reasons" but gave no further explanation for his shock withdrawal from the hit BBC show.
It comes after he clashed with head judge Len Goodman on Saturday night after he complained there wasn't enough salsa in his Bollywood routine.
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It was a beautiful day in San Miguel. The sun was shining. It was neither too hot nor too cold ... it was just right. Kathleen came to de Luz and we spent the afternoon together. Kathleen arranged for an aesthetician to come to de Luz. We sat on the covered terrace while our hands and feet were soaked, snipped, rubbed and polished. It was a Bliss day. We laughed, we had tears in our eyes, we dreamed, we philosophized, and wiled away the hours in the warmth of the Mexican sun. We dined on fresh sandwiches and drank agua ... it was delicious. Our feet and our hands are happy. Our hearts are full. We deepened our friendship. Kathleen treated me to this beautiful 'spa day'. Ah yes, life does not get any better than this!
Donna, you're livin' the good life. Mail art and foot spas! Sounds like a perfect day.
ha ha ... could not agree more!


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Q: Agreement between 'a lot of' + 2 uncountable nouns and the predicate Which of the following is correct?

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*"A lot of paper and cardboard is recycled"

*"A lot of paper and cardboard are recycled"?

It feels like the 1st sentence is correct, because we see the two materials as a whole, but I' m not sure.

A: The first sentence is correct:  "lot" is the subject of the sentence and is singular.  "Is" agrees with it.  "Paper and cardboard" are objects of the preposition "of" and modify the subject "lot."

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Judy and I traveled a lot together. Now there's going to be a nursing scholarship in our name that keeps the spirit of service alive.
The careers of Conrad Schmitt, '74 BA, '76 MA, Psychology, and his late wife, Judy, '77 BS Nursing, took them from California to Texas to Ghana to Germany to Kenya with several stops in between. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the couple felt compelled to reevaluate how and where they could best contribute to a changed world. Previously a private-practice psychiatrist, Conrad was sworn in as a U.S. State Department psychiatrist in 2004 and served overseas until he retired in 2011. Beginning in 2017, a Valley Foundation School of Nursing scholarship in their name will help single-parent nursing students obtain their degrees. Conrad shares his story here.
I grew up in a Catholic family and went to seminary at age 13 with the intention of becoming a missionary priest. But after two years, I realized I no longer had the calling to become a priest. The first time I was enrolled at SJSU, I was in the humanities program. But in my third semester, I quit going to class and in October 1966 joined the Navy. After boot camp, I served on a spy ship in Vietnam. And after Vietnam, I qualified to be part of the submarine force.
After leaving the military in 1970, I returned to college, a much more motivated student. While studying psychology at SJSU, I decided I wanted to go to med school. It was a terrible time to apply to med schools, one of the highest periods of applicants in American history. My psychology professor, Jim Hawkins, said: "Just in case you don't get into med school, apply to grad school here." Which I did. And that was when I met Judy.
Long story short, I eventually did get my medical degree from Texas A&M (after earning a PhD in science education from the University of Texas at Austin). And along the way, I concluded there are two kinds of physicians: surgeons and people who manage illness. Surgeons believe they cut it out and it's done. The rest of us manage illnesses. After my psychiatric rotation as a resident, I finally knew: this is it! I love psychiatry. It's a profession that involves a lot of nuance and art, as opposed to medicine—which is a lot of numbers.
My wife and I both came from modest backgrounds. I did work-study at San Jose State. But I've also been lucky. I've had lots of opportunities. And I want someone else to have those opportunities. People deserve to achieve all that they can. What makes your life better is the satisfaction of what you've accomplished—the toil and effort. To me, that's what is important.
What a great life Conrad. You have accomplished so much in your lifetime.


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Vibrant ads bring vacant storefronts back to life
Updated Mar 28, 2019; Posted Apr 14, 2008
By Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer
Video by WindowGain
Some shopping center owners want you to notice their vacancies.
Developers Diversified Realty, for one, is partnering with a tiny new tech company to turn empty store windows into outdoor theaters for high-definition ads.
Within 15 months, customers could see about 75 ever-changing displays wend across windows at Developers Diversified's shopping centers across the country.
It's a marketing match of contrasts.
On one end, there's Developers Diversified, a Beachwood-based real estate investment trust that owns or manages about 740 shopping centers and saw profits of $225 million last year. On the other end, there's WindowGain, a company in Boston with six employees and a balance sheet still in the red.
But the small private company could provide the huge public one with an answer to a perennial retail question: Between tenants, what's an owner to do with retail space?
WindowGain's response: Cover the windows with a film and set up a pile of projectors inside the empty store. WindowGain can create a high-quality display capable of showing still advertisements, videos and computer animations. Each store is equipped with a computer, and the company's employees can update and send ads to different locations in minutes.
This technology is running four displays in Boston and a few in the United Kingdom, but WindowGain executives say snagging a deal with Developers Diversified is the real prize.
"It completely changed the focus of our company," said Prem Hira, the company's 37-year-old chief operating officer. "It really allowed us to start thinking of a national footprint for our company much sooner than we thought we were going to."
Hira and Adam Dell, the 35-year-old chief executive at WindowGain, met executives from Developers Diversified at a New York retail conference in December. Marc Feldman immediately saw an opportunity to do something at DDR shopping centers, which collectively have a vacancy rate of about 5 percent.
"From an advertising standpoint, this is really hitting the sweet spot," said Feldman, director of strategic partnerships at Developers Diversified.
A former sales guru for the Cavaliers, Feldman believes innovative marketing is increasingly important as traditional media like newspapers, radio and even television cede ground to the Internet, cell phones and iPods. At Developers Diversified, he has worked with a number of new variations on the old outdoor advertising theme, including ads on the painted stripes in parking lots and graphics on the sidewalks in front of stores.
Those ads - and WindowGain's displays - fall into a growing category some industry types describe as "alternative media."
Last year, advertisers spent more than $73 billion to convey their messages through nontraditional sources including cell phones, video games, the Internet, Webisodes, consumer-generated media and digital displays outside of homes. Such formats could soak up nearly 27 percent of the country's total advertising dollars by 2012, according to a recent report from PQ Media, a self-described pioneer of research into alternative media.
Hira won't say how much advertisers are willing to pay for a presence in WindowGain's displays - but it's enough that he and Dell basically have stopped working their day jobs at another company they helped start in New York.
That's where the men came up with the idea of dynamic window displays, while experimenting to create an attention-grabbing sign for their office near Penn Station.
"The immediate reaction from local businesses was so positive that we turned the sign off almost immediately and applied for a patent," Hira said.
The company's Boston displays have won advertisers including Verizon Wireless, the Boston Museum of Science, the New England Aquarium and the Massachusetts State Lottery. The empty downtown store windows also host news, sports and weather reports from Boston.com, the online arm of The Boston Globe newspaper.
Feldman said advertisers at Developers Diversified properties could include other tenants in the outdoor shopping centers, whether they're chains of stores anchored by a Wal-Mart or more neighborhood-like collections of boutiques and department stores.
The first displays likely will go up around Atlanta, where Developers Diversified has a few dozen properties. Feldman does not know when shoppers at the company's Ohio properties might see the moving storefront ads.
Advertisers will pay WindowGain, which in turn will pay Developers Diversified a fee for using the space.
And if a new tenant comes along, it won't be difficult to move them in. With just a computer, a few projectors, some cords and a window-covering to move, WindowGain's technology can be taken down and shifted to a new storefront in a single day.


Display information of technology and innovation system ideas and an understanding of their software in several technological, spatial, national and international contexts. 7. Dedicated Strategic Science and Technology websites have been set up throughout the North West, and Manchester is aiming to turn out to be one of many UK's first six Science Cities by 2015.


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Tech Startup Endless Team Seeks $100,000 For Tailor-Made Computers on Kickstarter
April 14, 2015 @ 2:03 pm By Samantha Hurst
California tech startup, Endless, announced today it has launched a crowdfunding campaign for their self-titled flagship computer. The company has created its own hardware and operating system, Endless OS, tailored to the unique challenges of the developing world.
The hardware is designed on the premise that affordable devices can be delightful. The software has been designed with the simplicity of modern mobile operating systems, but with the power of a full desktop OS, and an app ecosystem that includes an office suite, games, a photo editor, and more. Beyond the traditional desktop apps, Endless has developed a suite of applications tailored to emerging market users.
Sharing details about the project, Camila Soares, Director of Ground Research at Endless, stated:
"Over the last three years, the Endless team has conducted exhaustive research on the ground in order to understand its users; that research has informed every choice in the design and development of the product. We went into the field and into people's homes, sat on their couches and floors and asked them every question we could in order to understand how technology can change their lives. The more time we spent with them, the more we realized that existing software is broken for emerging market users. So we started from the ground up, designing an operating system, applications, and content with and for our users."
CEO and Chief of Product at Endless, Matt Dalio, explained:
"While the concept of building computers for the developing world may not seem new, it comes down to two fundamental differences: product and business model. We are not a nonprofit. We are a business based on one belief. A computer can change a life. If you can make that affordable to more people, people will buy it. We believe that there are many who will."
The company has made thousands of adjustments that make a computer useful for people in these communities, from the way that software updates and app installations are handled to the creation of the apps themselves.
Soares shared:
"When Endless encountered a man struggling with profound debt, we built a simple budget App that helped turn his life around. This is now a featured Endless application."
For those without internet access, there are over 100 apps ranging from health to recipes that work without internet. Users consistently speak to the power of education, so Endless includes pre-installed Wikipedia, Khan Academy, curricula, and educational games. Family businesses have a suite of applications from spreadsheets to training in micro-entrepreneurship.
Endless' initial markets are Mexico and Guatemala, with much of Latin America to follow shortly. Additional international expansion is planned, and the company expects to be operational in Asia, the Middle East and Africa in the coming years.
Since its launch, Endless' Kickstarter has raised nearly $20,000 from close to 100 backers. It is set to close on May 15th.
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Israel / Palestine."Terra Sancta sive Promissionis, olim Palestina". Copper-engraving published by N. Visscher, 1659. Original hand colouring. With ornamental title-cartouche held by cherubs in a garland of fruits. A plan of the desert camp of the Isrealites in the lower part of the map. There are Moses and Aaron with the Golden Altar on the left and the Golden Table on the right side of the map. 46:56 cm (18.1 x 22 inch.).


The National Republican Congressional Committee has identified the ten House GOP incumbents it thinks are the most vulnerable in 2018.
Three of the members are from California, including former House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, who narrowly won re-election in November.
"Our Patriots are a group of battle-tested members who won hard-fought races in 2016 and are ready to win once again," NRCC Chairman Steve Stivers stated in identifying them. "Each of those announced is not only an effective member in Congress, but an integral advocate for the communities they serve.
"The NRCC stands squarely behind each of them and will work tirelessly on their behalf to ensure their important voices continue to represent their constituents," the Ohioan concluded.
Members in the NRCC's "patriot program," get additional financial and strategic support for their campaigns from the NRCC.
The other nine members are: Steve Knight and David Valadao, both from California; Brian Mast of Florida; Jason Lewis of Minnesota; New York's John Faso and Claudia Tenney; Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania; Will Hurd of Texas; and Barbara Comstock of Virginia.
Fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder officially withdrew his nomination after issues with his bid.
Our Patriots are a group of battle-tested members who won hard-fought races in 2016 and are ready to win once again, NRCC Chairman Steve Stivers stated in identifying them. Each of those announced is not only an effective member in Congress, but an integral advocate for the communities they serve.
The NRCC stands squarely behind each of them and will work tirelessly on their behalf to ensure their important voices continue to represent their constituents, the Ohioan concluded.
Members in the NRCC's patriot program, get additional financial and strategic support for their campaigns from the NRCC.


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La Columna "Carles Marx" estava formada per uns 2.000 civils o milicians catalans, els primers dies de la Guerra Civil. Va ser dirigida per Manuel Trueba Mirones (com a assessor militar) i José Del Barrio Navarro (com a responsable del Sindicat de la UGT), i va també ser anomenada Columna "Trueba-Del Barrio".

Història
La majoria eren membres de la UGT i el PSUC, tot i que també hi havia força estrangers que es trobaven a Barcelona amb motiu de l'Olimpíada Popular que s'hi estava celebrant, arribant a haver-hi diferents nacionalitats tals com alemanys, austríacs, escandinaus, belgues, polonesos, etc.

El Juliol de 1936
Va ser creada i va partir de Barcelona el 25 de juliol de 1936, després de la Columna Durruti i de la Columna Ortiz en direcció al Front d'Aragó i ben aviat es va apoderar de Tardienta, Sarinyena, Leciñena i Grañén, que estaven en mans rebels, i de les quals Tardienta n'era un punt neuràlgic, doncs entre d'altres connectava les carreteres de Saragossa amb Osca. El mes d'Agost repel·lien atacs franquistes sobre Tardienta, i a finals d'aquest, ja es trobaven al Sector Alcubierre-Almudévar per acte seguit intentar ocupar Osca, situant-se només a 600 metres de la ciutat, però que no van aconseguir ocupar.

El setembre de 1936 es va acabar d'ubicar entre les localitats de Tardienta i Torralba d'Aragó., i entre l'octubre i desembre de 1936, aquest Front d'Aragó tendia a estabilitzar-se i definir-se. Així la zona d'acció de la Columna se situava als voltants de Tardienta-Robres-Alcubierre i l'àrea central del Front de la Columna incloïa les Serres de Robres i Torralba, de la mateixa manera com Almudévar i l'Ermita de Santa Quitèria eren un punt essencial de comunicacions entre Osca i Saragossa. A finals de Novembre i principis de Desembre de 1936 els 4 punts més crítics del Front d'Aragó eren: Osca, la Serra d'Alcubierre, Belchite i Terol.

A finals de 1936 i principis de 1937 les tropes franquistes van intentar apoderar-se d'Almudévar i de l'Ermita de Santa Quitèria, que juntament amb Tardienta eren aquest punt clau de comunicacions entre Saragossa i Osca. Almudévar i Santa Quitèria van canviar de mans diverses vegades i són mítics els cruents atacs i contraatacs que hi van haver per dominar-les, quedant definitivament l'Ermita de Santa Quitèria en mans franquistes.

El 1937
El 10 de gener de 1937 les antigues columnes del PSUC, que ja s'havien rebatejat com a 27a Divisió "Carles Marx" de l'Exèrcit Popular, continuaven amb el Quarter General a Tardienta, i ja el 20 de febrer, després de creat l'Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya per part de la Generalitat de Catalunya, aquesta Divisió en va passar a formar part amb 3 Regiments d'Infanteria, i es va acabar d'organitzar definitivament el Front d'Aragó. Dels 3 Regiments d'Infanteria:

En aquestes dates, els batallons d'infanteria de la Divisió Carles Marx tenien una força d'entre 470 i 640 homes cadascun. La mateixa Divisió Carles Marx disposava, a més, d'un Grup de Reconeixement Divisionari de 155 homes a Barbués; una Companyia de Transmissions de 139 homes a Almuniente; un Batalló d'Enginyers de 823 homes a la serra de Torralba de Aragón; un Centre d'Instrucció a Almuniente; un Grup d'Intendència de 75 homes a Poleñino, el famós Batalló Roig de Xoc, que s'estava formant a Grañén i a Torralba de Aragón, etc. A la vegada la columna també comptava amb tres bateries d'artilleria.

L'abril de 1937 la Divisió Carles Marx mira de recuperar altre cop l'enclavament de l'Ermita de Santa Quitèria, tot i que acaba constituint un fracàs militar i una enorme pèrdua de vides humanes.

Fets de Maig i dissolució
A la vegada el 6 de maig esclata als carrers de Barcelona el que històricament es va acabar anomenant com els Fets de Maig, els enfrontamenst armats entre diferents forces anarquistes i sindicals (part de la CNT, POUM) amb els partits polítics majoritaris en aquell moment a la Generalitat de Catalunya (ERC, PSUC) i les forces d'ordre, fet que provoca que el govern republicà de Madrid intervingui definitivament la Generalitat de Catalunya en tots els seus àmbits.

El resultat de la intervenció del govern republicà de Madrid sobre la Generalitat de Catalunya té conseqüències immediates en els soldats i els milicians que lluiten al front d'Aragó i que formen part de les divisions del fins ara Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya. Pel que fa a l'ordre militar, l'estructura de l'Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya i les seves divisions es dissolia i passava a integrar-se directament al nou Exèrcit Popular Republicà, el qual havia nascut a Madrid uns mesos abans. Així doncs, i a partir més o menys d'aquesta data, els tres regiments que formaven la Divisió Carles Marx desapareixen i comencen a constituir-se en tres Brigades Mixtes, que alhora també formen una divisió, però amb l'organització de l'Exèrcit Popular Republicà. La Divisió Carles Marx passava a ser la 27a Divisió de l'Exèrcit Popular de la República, i els seus tres regiments es converteixen en la 122a, 123a i 124a Brigades Mixtes de l'Exèrcit Popular Republicà.

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Strategy, Threats, Cybercrime
Young hackers: Criminal or innovator?
SC Staff September 3, 2015
As cybersecurity pros scramble to respond to one mega-breach after another, industry forums are full of opinions, proposals and pitches for new products and services. But ask whether young hackers who run afoul of the law for the first time should get a break from legal consequences, and an uncomfortable silence may follow.
While some industry leaders may privately agree that young offenders deserve a second chance, few are willing to publicly challenge the overall push for prosecution lest they be seen as tolerating illegal acts that, whatever the motivation, can create havoc for business and government. While initiatives such as the U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC) seek to draw young IT enthusiasts into information security careers, the teenage temptation to show off or respond to a dare are seemingly inevitable.
"Kids need to be able to screw up," says a Silicon Valley cybersecurity scientist who asked not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic. "They're under this enormous pressure to perform, in a society that sometimes seems like it's looking for ways to reject them."
As a society, he adds, we really don't know how to deal with all the hacking that's going on. "Everybody's getting hit – and the only thing scarier than an expensive problem is a problem that no amount of money seems to solve. The kids sometimes get punished just because they're the few who you can actually catch."
But just who qualifies as a kid and a hacker is itself disputed. The most high-profile prosecution of a young person under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was that of Aaron Swartz, the pioneering internet technologist who took his own life in 2013 at age 26 while facing trial on felony charges. Swartz was charged after being caught two years earlier downloading data from the JSTOR academic journal database at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to distribute the materials free of charge. Unlike a teenage vandal who violates the law by rogue penetration testing operation, Swartz, by then a Silicon Valley veteran and an activist for internet privacy and the democratic sharing of information, was making a political statement.
Prosecutorial overreach
Whether or not Swartz should be considered a hacker, there are many computer-savvy youths who use data breaches to make a political point, says Joe Gallop, head of the hacktivism intelligence practice at iSIGHT Partners, a Dallas-based global intelligence firm. "If one of the hacktivists really feels that they have a responsibility to do civil disobedience in a certain area to achieve a goal, that is their right, and they may actually achieve some good in some cases," says Gallop, who has studied the hacktivist group Anonymous. He adds that as practitioners of civil disobedience, activists have long argued they "have to be willing to accept consequences."
The Swartz case became a rallying point for those opposed to prosecutorial overreach in hacking cases, pointing to the fact that the prosecutor who pursued Swartz, assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann, was involved in the prosecution of Jonathan James in the TJX credit card scandal when James committed suicide in 2008. James had achieved notoriety a decade earlier when he became the first minor detained in the federal prosecution of a hacking case involving the penetration of NASA and other U.S. government targets.
In another high-profile case, federal prosecutors sought sentences of 440 years for David Hidalgo, a 28-year-old hacker accused of clogging an individual's website with junk text and running unauthorized penetration tests of local government websites. In a deal with prosecutors, Hidalgo agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a fine of $10,000 toward restitution.
Hidalgo's attorney, New York-based Tor Ekeland, sees the case as example of what he called "draconian" federal prosecutorial agenda toward hackers. "The abysmal state of computer law in the U.S. has a chilling effect on innovation," he says. "If the government had prosecuted the way it does now in the 1970s, you would not have Apple computer, you would not have Microsoft," he adds. He, of course, is referring to the "phone phreaking" exploits at the beginning of their illustrious careers by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to a request for an interview for this subject. But Marcus Christian, a one-time federal prosecutor in computer fraud cases, says that his former colleagues do, in fact, consider the youthfulness and intentions of young hackers before bringing charges against them.
"Some of the things you look at considering are the history of the person, including criminal history, and the severity of the offense," says Christian (left), who is now an attorney with the international law firm Mayer Brown. There is an issue of deterrence and an issue for young folks in terms of talent that could be developed by the cybersecurity community, Christian says. Look closer at federal handling of youth hacking cases, he adds, and you will find discretion being used.
However, given the breadth of anti-hacking legislation, discretion under the law may not be sufficient, says Glenn Chisholm, chief technology officer at Cylance, the Irvine, Calif.-based provider of anti-malware products. "The bundling of all crimes involving a computer leads to the inevitable demand that severe punishment be applied in some attempt at creating a deterrent," Chilsholm says. "Of course, no minor seeking to satiate their intellectual curiosity, without intent, damage or seeking to make a financial gain should be punished as we would an adult. It should be a teachable moment that allows the individual to develop and contribute to society rather than face extended jail time, a damaged future and a massive real cost to society."
In any event, young hackers do often intentionally break the law for financial gain, sometimes causing significant financial damage. Yet even in those cases, the authorities shouldn't come down on these youthful offenders as if they were adults, says Misha Glenny, a British journalist who specializes in cybersecurit and author of DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia.
Young hackers hone their skills before their moral compass is fully formed, Glenny says. "They are often very impressionable at this age and the target of criminals, intelligence agencies and other state and non-state actors who are only too willing to offer them incentives to use their hacking and social engineering capabilities for subversive ends."
Law enforcement should prioritize rehabilitation of young hackers over prosecution, says Glenny. "Locking them up in severe regimes, which happens regularly in the United States, for example, is simply going to deepen their hostility to the state and push them in the direction of a masters [degree] from the university of crime."
The most prominent effort to keep young cybersecurity enthusiasts away from online misdeeds is the USCC, a nonprofit organization backed by business and government that seeks to recruit 10,000 young people to cyberdefense jobs. At the USCC camp, young people participate in an ethics panel with the FBI, the Secret Service, (ISC)2 and industry executives. "The campers discuss their motivations and why they are doing what they do," says Karen Evans (right), USCC national director. Participants get to hear from the cybersecurity community on how their actions may be interpreted.
But the lack of criminal intent by young hackers is no guarantee of escaping prosecution. That's because the CFAA, along with similar state statutes, are written too broadly, says Hanni Fakhoury, a senior staff attorney on the civil liberties team of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization which advocates for civil liberties.
"Bad people are doing bad things, and they should be prosecuted," Fakhoury says. "We don't have a problem with that." The issue, he says, is that people are being charged under CFAA for things such as violating a website's terms of service – as when Missouri native Lori Drew was unsuccessfully prosecuted for using a fake MySpace account in a cyberbullying case that involved the suicide of a 13-year-old. Another controversial CFAA case – United States vs. Nosal, currently before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – was brought because of an alleged violation of employer-dictated computer policy.
With such broad interpretation of CFAA and similarly written state statutes, young pranksters can find their futures threatened by aggressive prosecutors, Fakhoury says, pointing to the case of Domanik Green, a 14-year-old middle school student in Holiday, Fla., who faced a state felony charge for hacking his teachers' computer and placing a photo on its home screen.
And from the EFF's perspective, those problems could soon get worse, given proposed changes to CFAA that Fakhoury calls "terrible."
"People are talking about criminal law reform," he says. "When it comes to the CFAA, the tendency is the opposite – to make it broader and make the penalties harsher."
Headstart: USCC to the rescue
U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC) announced the winners of its sixth Annual Delaware Cyber Camp competition. Following a week of intensive classroom instruction on a variety of cybersecurity topics, more than 60 participants competed in a "Capture the Flag" competition on July 24 at Delaware Technical Community College in Dover. Those who came out on top and won the competition include Alyssia Bates, Jon Butler, Rauni Kangas and Tim Plimpton.
"Given events in both the public and private sectors, it is undoubtedly clear to all that we have a long way to go to properly secure our networks and protect the private information of individuals," said Federal Communications Commission CIO David Bray. "Seeing these individuals competing in the U.S. Cyber Challenge CTF gives me hope that we have the talent and it's just a matter of working with them to get them into the right jobs to help protect our nation and reduce vulnerabilities."
USCC photo by Prudy Pierson
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Q: django error : NoReverseMatch at /watchlist/ Reverse for 'viewList' with arguments '('',)' I am working on my project and the main idea is to add some items to the watchlist or "bookmark" some items:
when I render the page to see the watchlist that I add them by clicking on the "Add to watchlist button " Django give me this error:
NoReverseMatch at /watchlist/
Reverse for 'viewList' with arguments '('',)' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['Post/(?P[0-9]+)$']
my code:
Model.py file
class Post(models.Model):
     #data fields
     title = models.CharField(max_length=64)
     textarea = models.TextField()
     #bid
     price = models.FloatField(default=0)
     currentBid = models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)
     imageurl = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True)
     category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default="No Category Yet!", null=True,  blank=True)
     creator = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.PROTECT)
     date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
     # for activated the Category
     activate = models.BooleanField(default=True)
     buyer = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="auctions_Post_creator")
      ############################### this is the watchers
      watchers = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name='favorite')
      def __str__(self):
              return f"{self.title} | {self.textarea} |  {self.date.strftime('%B %d %Y')}"

urls.py
urlpatterns =[
        # Watchlist
         path('Post/<int:id>/watchlist_post/change/<str:reverse_method>',
         views.watchlist_post, name='watchlist_post'),
         path('watchlist/', views.watchlist_list, name='watchlist_list')
         path('Post/<int:id>', views.viewList, name='viewList'),

]

views.py
#start watchlist
 def viewList(request, id):
     # check for the watchlist
     listing = Post.objects.get(id=id)
     if listing.watchers.filter(id=request.user.id).exists():
             is_watched = True
     else:
             is_watched = False
     context = {
             'listing': listing,
             'comment_form': CommentForm(),
             'comments': listing.get_comments.all(),
             'Bidform': BidForm(),
              # IS_WATCHED method
             'is_watched': is_watched
     }
    return render(request, 'auctions/item.html', context)

 @login_required
 def watchlist_post(requset, id, reverse_method):
          listing = get_object_or_404(Post, id=id)
          if listing.watchers.filter(id=requset.user.id).exists():
                  listing.watchers.remove(requset.user)
          else:
                  listing.watchers.add(requset.user)
          if reverse_method == "viewList":
                  return viewList(requset, id)
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(reverse_method))

 @login_required
 def watchlist_list(request):
         user = requset.user
         watchers_items = user.favorite.all()
         context = {
                 'watchers_items': watchers_items
         }
         return render(requset, 'auctions/watchlist.html', context)

HTML FILE: (item.html) this file for showing the post for exapmple : (title/ description/ date etc..)

    {% if is_watched %}
    Remove To Watchlist

    {% else %}
        Add To Watchlist
    {% endif %}

HTML FILE (layout.html) for adding a link to the navbar for the page

                Watchlist

HTML FILE(whitchlsit page)
        {% for post in watchers_items %}

{{post.title}}

{{post.textarea}}

category: {{post.category.name}}

Price: {{post.price}}$

Created by: {{post.creator}}

                            View

                    Created since:{{post.date}}

            {% endfor %}

A: The culprit of this problem is that you are calling "{% url 'viewList' listing.id %}" even though viewList does not exist in your urls.py.
So, you can create one like this:
path("some/path", views.some_func, name="viewList")

EDIT
As the error says, listing.id is empty ({% url 'viewList' listing.id %}). So, you might want to do post.id instead because you are looping with the name of post.


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Murphy Offers to Protect Immigrants as ICE Prepares Weekend Raids
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Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday released a statement — in English and Spanish — pledging to provide unspecified help to immigrant communities after federal authorities revealed that a nationwide operation this weekend would target people who are in the country illegally.
The raids in as many as 10 major cities had been planned for June but President Donald Trump postponed it as Congress worked on a deal to pass a $4.6 billion border aid bill.
Administration officials told The Associated Press that the operation remains in flux and it's possible it could begin later. The officials aren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and are speaking on condition of anonymity.
Activists have been circulating information about how to access legal aid for families and individuals caught in the stings. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday to protect asylum seekers from deportation.
Among those offering help is New Jersey's progressive Democratic governor.
"In anticipation of the Trump Administration's threatened ICE raids, we are proactively reaching out to our immigrant communities to make sure they know we stand with them and are prepared to do whatever we can to protect them," Murphy's statement said.
Let's be clear: The Trump Administration's fear-mongering is un-American and dangerous. These raids do not make us safer; they will only make the work of local law enforcement more challenging and increase fears in our hardworking immigrant communities.
Any family who needs legal representation should know there are many pro bono legal services available to them. We will be doing everything we can to highlight these resources and to make sure our immigrant communities know their rights and feel at home.
Murphy's message comes in a week that Ocean County officials announced that they planned to sue the state over the immigration directives that limit jail cooperation with ICE, as well as a week in which Attorney General Gurbir Grewal sparred with the elected sheriffs of Monmouth and Cape May counties over their behind-the-scenes renewal of cooperation agreements with ICE.
Mayors of some New Jersey cities with large immigrant populations also shared information about legal rights.
Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz posted on her Facebook page an infographic titled "If ICE Agents Show Up At Your Door."
Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh told News 12 New Jersey the raids are "unfair" and that his city would follow New Jersey's directive that limits law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration officials. Sayegh said that he would make an exception if a criminal case is involved.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who had condemned the planned action by calling it "racist, bigoted, and inhumane," told the N.J. Urban Mayors Association that his city's police would not cooperate with ICE and encouraged residents to report any officer they see doing so.
Santiago Melli-Huber, a spokesman for Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora, said that the mayor doubts ICE would give city officials a heads up about any operation.
"Trenton police is not in a position to detain someone for federal charges," Melli-Huber told the Townsquare News Network.
Source: Murphy Offers to Protect Immigrants as ICE Prepares Weekend Raids
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in: Planets, Homeworlds
Barzan II
Barzanian Planetary Republic
United Federation of Planets (25th century onward)
Inhabited (3189)
Native Species:
Barzan II was the inhabited second planet in its star system. This system was located in the Alpha Quadrant.
The planet possessed few, if any, natural resources and was inhospitable to most lifeforms except its indigenous Barzans, a humanoid species. The planet was governed by the Barzanian Planetary Republic.
In 2366, the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D hosted the negotiations in orbit of Barzan II for the right to control the newly-discovered Barzan wormhole. It soon became clear that the other end of the wormhole was not stable, and its possible use as a resource vanished, although the Chrysalians had already purchased the rights by that time. (TNG: "The Price"; VOY: "False Profits")
In the 25th century, Barzan II joined the United Federation of Planets.
Since the 27th century, Federation members rotated responsibility for crewing the Federation seed vault. In 3189, Barzan held responsibility for the USS Tikhov, crewed by Dr. Attis and his family. Commander Nhan would later take on the responsibility, with the intention of returning Attis' family to Barzan II for burial. (DIS: "Die Trying")
"BAR-zan" was the pronunciation for this planet from the script pronunciation guide for "The Price".
The planet model for Barzan II was first used for 'aucdet IX. (TNG: "The Child"). It was used again for Gagarin IV and Galorndon Core. (TNG: "Unnatural Selection", "The Enemy") It was used later for Jouret IV and Bilana III. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds", "New Ground") For its use as Barzan II, the model had a green color.
According to StarTrek.com, Barzan II was not a class M planet. [1]
It was stated by Harry Kim in the episode "False Profits" that one terminus of the Barzan wormhole was fixed in the Alpha Quadrant.
Barzan II at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Re-Used Planets in TNG at Ex Astris Scientia
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The Jews of Stühlingen
A Rural Jewish Community in Early Modern Germany
Rise and Fall of a Rural Jewish Community in Early Modern Germany
1. Finding Our Way
2. Collecting, Sifting, Sorting, and Matching
3. The Neighborhood
4. In the Beginning
5. Protection, Restriction, Taxation
6. Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War
7. Princes and Lords May Flourish or May Fade
8. I Will Buy With You, Sell With You, Talk With You …
9. Ceremonies
10. Le-Dor va-Dor
11 For a Man's Home Is His Castle
12. When the Music Stops
13. Them and Us
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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 In keeping with the philosophy of evidence-based storytelling, every attempt is made to support any apparently declarative statement with references to the sources of such information; shortened citations are provided in footnotes, with a bibliography provided at the end of each chapter. In addition, a comprehensive bibliography of all sources consulted is provided in the "List of References." Such documentation may render the prose a bit more bulky but may easily be ignored by the reader not beset by questions or doubts. This is not a textbook on "Stühlingen 101"; there will not be a test at the end. But I would like to provide sufficient information to slake any lingering curiosity. Readers are free to ignore any material considered irrelevant.
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 The attribute "evidence-based" implies that every effort was made to make this complex reasoning process transparent through the structure of the report, so the reader can trace the deductive and inferential steps of the author. Every reference to a historical record is linked to the accompanying database. The interested reader can pursue further research by searching for specific dates and text by means of the database search engine.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The research strategy employed was "bottom up," that is, reconstructing first the actors mentioned in the records, then their actions and attributes, their relationships, and from there progressing gradually to the community they formed. The writing strategy reflects exactly the opposite method: from the most general to the most specific. The description of individuals in the context of their families comes towards the end of the book.
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 And what do we get for all these efforts?
At the most superficial level, a descriptive list of ancestors, distant cousins, their friends, neighbours, and enemies
A potential source book for Jewish genealogists
At the next level, an impression of what life was like in a seventeeth- and eighteenth-century rural Jewish community in southern Germany
At yet a deeper level, a contribution towards our understanding of Jewish history in the early modern age in rural southern Germany
An opportunity for the general reader to observe historical research in action
At the deepest level, a promise and a warning of what the "Big Data" approach has yet to bring: an invasion of our private lives, in intimate detail, by systematically harvesting a collection of apparently trivial and innocuous pieces of information, gathered automatically any time we buy, sell, travel, email, make a phone call, walk by a security camera, or trigger a sensor in some other way.3
3O'Neil, "Weapons of Math Destruction."
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opening an account, in both cases the IB receives a commission. While most of the traders are MT4 users, there are people who have started using other trading platforms as they are more user-friendly. The Primary broker is always ready to supply a White Label with everything needed for starting the business, even make a new website if needed. NFA Glossary: "Introducing Broker (IB) A firm or individual that solicits and accepts futures orders from customers but does not accept money, securities or property from the customer. All the clients introduced by you should have at least a 5000 deposit size.
On the other hand, if you opt for cTrader white Label : Setup cost: zero Maintenance fee: 750 to 1000 You save on the setup fees which can help you get things started. This fee is can vary from 50 to 400 at times. Think of it in this way: if you can walk, slowly and gradually you will learn to run. MT4 it is most logical to have MT4 for your white label. As the broking industry is volume driven it is important to know your strengths. The benefits of White Label brokerage programs include: - fast start of the online business with extensive continuous support from the Primary broker - avoiding the costs of setting up and running a full dealing business model, which requires licensing - getting first-hand experience. The key here is to monitor your expenses, the less you spend in the beginning more likely you are to move forward. What a White Label cannot control is: - currency symbols available for trading - the opening and closing of the market trading hours - everything regarding the security of the system, which is controlled by the Primary broker.
Running a White Label brokerage is pretty much the same as running a regular brokerage business. A, forex, white label can be simply described as rebranding of products and services offered by the main broker under your own brand name. But whats the point of all that when you are doing it for another brand. In this case, a platform like cTrader by Spotware is the perfect choice. High Risk Warning: Please note that foreign exchange and other leveraged trading involves significant risk of loss. An IB must be registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and must carry all of its accounts through a futures commission merchant on a fully disclosed basis.". YES, there are many other good trading platforms that you can get for your white label. In addition, the trading platform will be branded with your company name and logo, protecting your privacy with the Primary broker, so that traders may actually never know who is the real owner of the platform. The bigger the account size, the greater the chances of it having good volume and the clients will be active longer. Why not to be white label: Lack of funds and the cost associated. You can contact me on following details. We constantly try to seek attention for our business.


The confetti has settled, music has been stopped and the feasting is done. Everyone's heading back home. The most awaited wedding is over. And life has started to feel a little pointless already and I am wondering what to do. Today, there is an overwhelming sadness that it's all over..Why can't there be weddings to plan every month? I want to wake up every day and still feel that there is a wedding just a few weeks away because there is a certain happiness in planning and getting lost in all the madness. But despite all the stress,personally I think the last few months have been rather amazing.
While we are all relieved in many ways that its over, I think it is the closeness of family and friends that I miss the most. Because, even after years, one may not remember the details of your dress but one will surely remember how nicely you treated them. And the little things that you remember of them. We were so happy to have almost all of the family around. Some of those I haven't seen in years were around too. So you can imagine what an emotional ride we have had over the last few weeks. At the end of it all, I am thankful to everyone who joined us and helped us in their own way. And I only wish for a wonderful life ahead to my dearest brother and sister-in-law.


Unilever thinks like a start-up and looks at the finer details to build the new Love Beauty and Planet line.
To launch its newest brand, Unilever unleashed a team that thought more like a start-up than just another cog in the wheels of a multibillion-dollar global corporation. That small group was able to zero in on the finer details of formulation and packaging to roll out Love Beauty and Planet, Unilever's new personal care range that debuts in mass market retailers next month.
In fact, if there was a checklist for how to launch a brand that would be attractive to millennials, Unilever has marked a lot of boxes. Soliciting ambassadors doing good things for the people and planet—check. Sourcing eco packaging materials (including an adhesive that would make labels durable, yet easily removable) to increase recycling rates—check. Using scents infused with ethically-sourced extracts—yes. Skipping parabens—of course! What about a look that's IG-worthy? Love Beauty and Planet has that too.
With a small team dedicated to the launch, Unilever went from concept to shelf quickly too—in less than a year—about half of what it normally takes, and a feat that's not easy to do at company of Unilever's size, insisted Piyush Jain, vice president of haircare at Unilever, who showcased the brand to Happi and other editors in New York City in early December.
The pitch to consumers is that Love Beauty and Planet is out to make them more beautiful and give a little love to the planet at the same time. The product line includes shampoos and conditioners, hair masks and oils, body washes and scrubs, and a new concept—a showerless cleansing mist, a product that takes its cue from the dry shampoo category.
With more consumers skipping shampooing on a daily basis, Unilever saw opportunity for a product that could be used on the go and in similar fashion as dry shampoo—think post gym work out or waking up late for that big meeting. Paraben-free, it contains coconut water and hand-picked Moroccan mimosa flower for a delicate fresh scent. The formulation is designed to be sprayed and spread evenly on the skin and it needs no rinsing. The spray dries in about 30 seconds, allowing users to skip the shower and get out the door sooner.
There's additional Love Beauty and Planet formulation technology with an eye on water conservation too; new patent pending Fast-Rinse conditioner technology that makes it possible for users to cut down on shower time, according to Unilever.
Products in the Love Beauty and Planet range have price tags around $9, which jives with the mass market category Unilever is targeting.
Making the Love Beauty and Planetproducts accessible to as many consumers as possible was critical to the team, and it clearly fits with Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan.
When the line debuts next month, all eyes will be on millennial reaction—not to mention their purchasing action—to see how far Love Beauty and Planet can go in the mainstream.
Named after the well-known 1980s TV show, Evo's MacGyver is a new multi-use mousse that's ready for anything.
Subscription services continue to show promise in the beauty category.
Catch up on the top news stories your customers and competitors were reading last month on Happi.com.


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Now, though the physique will get nutritional vitamins from the meals that one eats, it's a widespread state of affairs that sufficient quantities of those nutritional vitamins are usually not reached. This can be primarily because of the trendy life-style and weight-reduction plan. Some research have proven that individuals getting dietary worth from greens and fruits have alarmingly decreased over the past three or 4 a long time; thus, vitamin dietary supplements consumption have grow to be extra broadly advisable.
They support in overcoming deficiencies-As already talked about, trendy type of dwelling has made individuals extra liable to having dietary deficiencies. These deficiencies could be solved by taking vitamin dietary supplements so you possibly can get pleasure from optimum . No matter trendy weight-reduction plan cannot give your physique, the dietary supplements make up for them.
They enhance immunity- You probably have a robust immune system, your physique could be extra immune to infections and all types of ailments. As they are saying, prevention is so significantly better than remedy. As an illustration, you need to already concentrate on how taking vitamin C and zinc tablets might help struggle colds. That is mainly how dietary supplements might help. In case you work on strengthening your immune system now, then you might be saving your self from quite a lot of pains within the futurephysically and financially.
They assist do away with toxins-Vitamin dietary supplements are additionally very useful in terms of eliminating dangerous toxins in your physique. The setting we reside in, the approach to life that we've got, and the chemical compounds we ingestintentionally or in any other case, are all very dangerous for the . Their accumulation by means of time could cause severe issues. Vitamin dietary supplements, particularly those wealthy in anti-oxidants, might help in stopping these issues.
These are simply a number of the nice advantages that wholesome options like vitamin dietary supplements can present. If you wish to get pleasure from them and easily be in one of the best tip prime form potential, maybe you need to attempt investing in them now and keep away from the pitfalls which entail with out them.
Store wholesome options in your physique for optimum . Utilizing different therapies for ailments and circumstances might show to be helpful.


Raj is originally from Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, a state in south India. He immigrated in 1987 and lived in Chicago until 1997 while completing masters/PhD in chemical engineering at UIC.
Immigration experience: Confronting a new food culture, new health issues, and learning to cook with roommates from diverse backgrounds on a tight budget.
Diet and nutrition: Knowledge and awareness of nutrition grew after emigrating to Chicago, blending Indian spices sent by parents with American produce.


What's the Best Black Friday Deal on an iPad?
What's the Best Black Friday Deal on an iPad?
If an iPad is on your Black Friday "watch list", this post ought to make your deal-sleuthing a little bit easier.
Walmart will have the lowest price on the Apple iPad Air 2 Gold 16GB with Wi-Fi. It will be on sale for $399 in-store only. This sale will go live at 6pm on Thursday (Thanksgiving) and the $399 price will be guaranteed for one-hour.
The iPad Mini 2 will be $199, a $69 savings, also with a one-hour guarantee.
With the guarantee, even if Walmart sells out before 7 pm, you will be able to pay for the item at the reduced price and register your receipt on Walmart.com/1HourGuarantee. Your item should arrive in store by 12/25.
You must be in line by 7 pm to take advantage of this deal.
If you want an iPad with more memory, your best bet this Black Friday is probably Best Buy.
All capacity iPads will be discounted about $100 each.
You can buy in store, starting at 5 pm on Thursday (Thanksgiving). The same deals will be available online,, perhaps as early as Sunday.
Target's iPad deals will rival those at Best Buy — with one added bonus: A Target gift card to use on a future purchase.
The iPad Aid 16GB will be $399.99 (like at Best Buy), but you'll also get a $100 Target GiftCard, dropping your effective price down to $299.99. The Apple iPad Air 2 will be $499, but will come with a $150 Target GiftCard. Target has warned that quantities will be limited and no rain checks will be issued.
They will also have the iPad Mini 2 for $269 – $70 more than Walmart. However, at Target, you will earn an $80 gift card with your purchase, making your effective price $10 less.
If you prefer to shop online for your iPad deal, Target has said that all Black Friday deals will be available online, starting at 12:01 am on Thursday (Thanksgiving).
Last year, Target ended up releasing most of their deals at 3 in the morning, so by the time people woke up on the East Coast, nearly everything was sold out. What will happen this year remains to be seen!
What about iPad Deals at Amazon?
Amazon's Black Friday sneak peak said nothing about iPad deals, unfortunately. And, based on past experience, Amazon is actually not usually a very good source for discounted Apple products.
The only exception in year's past has been Apple laptops – so if you are in the market for a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro, stay tuned: You might be in luck. For a iPad deal, however, I suggest checking out one of the three options above.


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Хуан Непомусено Альварес Уртадо (; 27 січня 1790, Атояк-де-Альварес, Герреро, Мексика — 21 серпня 1867, Акапулько, Герреро, Мексика) — мексиканський військовий і політичний діяч, тимчасовий президент Мексики в 1855 році.

Був активним членом ліберальної партії. Брав участь у війні за незалежність, брав участь у відбитті французької інтервенції в 1838 році, а також нападу озброєних сил США в 1847 році. Він приєднався до змови з метою повалення президента генерала Санта-Анни. Він був призначений головнокомандувачем армії опозиції. Спочатку зазнав поразки від урядових військ (квітень 1854), після чого почалися партизанські дії.

4 жовтня 1855 року обраний тимчасовим президентом країни. Представляв ліве крило лібералів — «пурос» (крайніх). Їх метою були економічний розвиток, справедливий розподіл землі і багатств, секуляризація майна, ліквідація привілеїв церкви і армії. Під час його перебування при владі були прийняті рішення про ліквідацію традиційних привілеїв католицької церкви і вищих чинів армії, скликаний Конституційний конгрес. У листопаді 1855 року незадоволені законом консерватори і частина правого крила лібералів — «модерадос» (помірних), вчинили переворот і Альварес 11 грудня 1855 був змушений піти у відставку, хоча влада залишилася в руках його соратників.

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