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Patton Oswalt cancels shows in Florida, Utah after venues fail to comply with his Covid requests – NBC News
Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt canceled his upcoming tour dates in Florida and Salt Lake City because the venues would not comply with his request that attendees either show proof of full vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.
Oswalt told fans in an Instagram video that he made the requests to protect people coming to his "Patton Oswalt Live: Who's Ready To Laugh?" tour.
"The good news is we're keeping everyone who comes to these shows safe and healthy because the numbers are going up," he said last Wednesday. "Now the bad news, of course, is there are five venues on the tour that are not complying with this."
Oswalt said the cancelations affect four December dates in Florida and one in Salt Lake City that was scheduled for 2022.
In the video's caption, "The King of Queens" actor said he was looking forward to visiting Florida so he could take a picture beside the plaque of Travis McGee, a fictional character from author John D. MacDonald's mysteries who lived aboard his houseboat at Fort Lauderdale's marina.
He went on to say that Salt Lake City is "eerily beautiful" and has an "otherworldly glow."
"This difficult decision was made due to the rising numbers of Covid cases and also because I have an ego, but my ego is not big enough to think that people should die to hear my stupid comedy," Oswalt said in the video about the cancellations. "So hopefully, hopefully, in the future we can rebook those when sanity holds sway again. But this sucks, I was really looking forward to Florida, to Salt Lake City."
Florida is among a handful of states that have prohibited the use of so-called vaccine passports, or documentation of Covid-19 vaccinations. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an executive order that such records are private information, "which should not be shared by mandate," and that "vaccine passports reduce individual freedom and will harm patient privacy."
According to Deseret News, Oswalt's Salt Lake City show was going to be held at Kingsbury Hall, which is a part of the University of Utah. Brooke Horejsi, executive director of Kingsbury Hall's UtahPresents concert series, told the newspaper that because the school is adhering to state law, the venue has to do the same.
"The university has a vaccination requirement for students and health care university employees, but cannot extend that to patrons at campus venues for experiences presented by the University of Utah," Horejsi said.
"However, outside rentals (like Live Nation) may make their own safety protocols. Unfortunately, Oswalt's team had already made the decision to cancel the January show prior to this clarification, but we're looking forward to rescheduling with him in the future — especially after hearing how much he loves Utah's iconic scenery," Horejsi continued.
Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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Streaming media giant Netflix knows well how to keep its global audience entertained! In a bid to expand its reach further, the streamer has added yet another interesting title to its catalog. Netflix has announced that it has picked up 3-part Korean tragedy Hymn of Death. The series will start streaming on the platform from December onwards.
Hymn of Death revolves around Korea's first soprano Yun Sim-deok and her erudite boyfriend Kim Woo-jin who was a well-known playwright by profession. It will not be the first time when the tragic love story has been picked up for an adaptation. In the past, it has been recreated in various formats including films, plays, and musicals with the Kim Ho-sun-directed 1991 film Death Song considered the best of all.
Talking about the cast of the digital series, actor Lee Jong-suk, whose credits includes School 2013 (2012), I Can Hear Your Voice (2013), Doctor Stranger (2014), Pinocchio (2014), W (2016), and While You Were Sleeping (2017), has been roped in to play the role of playwright Kim Woo-jin, while Shin Hye-sun, known for playing the female lead in My Golden Life (2017), has joined the cast to play the role of soprano Yun Sim-deok.
Hymn of Death, which will be set against the backdrop of 1920s Korea under Japanese occupation, will be helmed by renowned South Korean filmmaker Park Soo-jin from a script written by Cho Soo-jin. The series will be available in Korea one hour after telecast on November 27, December 3 and December 4. Asian viewers and the audience in English speaking countries will be able to watch the series on December 14 and all other territories including Europe on December 28.
Besides Hymn of Death, Netflix is also gearing up to stream Korean period zombie thriller Kingdom in January 2019. Interestingly, the second season of the series has been given a green signal even before the premiere of the first season.


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Ukrainian legislator toasts Adolf Hitler
Leader of Radical Party condemns President's apology for Holocaust collaboration
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Ukrainian legislator toasts Hitler
A video of a Ukrainian opposition lawmaker saluting Adolf Hitler made its way online this weekend, only days after his country's president apologized for Ukrainian collaborators' role in the Holocaust during a state visit to Israel.
In the video, Artyom Vitko, the former commander of the government backed Luhansk-1 Battalion and now a member of Oleh Lyashko's Radical Party, can be seen sitting in the back of a car wearing camouflage fatigues and singing along to a song by a Russian neo-Nazi band extolling the virtues of the Nazi dictator.
"Adolf Hitler, together with us, Adolf Hitler, in each of us, and an eagle with iron wings will help us at the right time," Vitko sang, saluting the camera with his water bottle as the car's sound system blared "Heil Hitler."
Vitko's pro-Nazi sentiments emerged immediately on the heels of party leader Lyashko's denunciation of President Petro Poroshenko for his recent apologizing for Ukrainian complicity in the Holocaust.
Speaking before the Knesset last week, Poroshenko said "we must remember the negative events in history, in which collaborators helped the Nazis with the Final Solution.
"When Ukraine was established [as an independent state in 1991], we asked for forgiveness, and I am doing it now, in the Knesset, before the children and grandchildren of the victims of the Holocaust... I am doing it before all citizens of Israel," he added.
Lyashko lashed out at the president on Facebook on Thursday.
"This kind of humiliation of Ukrainians has not been recorded in our history yet.
During a visit to Israel, President Poroshenko apologized for the 'Ukrainian participation in the Holocaust,'" Lyashko posted.
"This is exactly [the] situation if we would accuse Georgians and Jews in the Holodomor, appealing to the atrocities of Dzhugashvili, Beria, Kaganovich, etc," he said, referring to a massive famine, and those responsible for it, that resulted from the forced collectivization of farms in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.
The Holodomor, as it is known in Ukraine, killed millions and is seen by many in that country as a genocide on par with the Holocaust.
"The Knesset has not recognized the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people. That is a goal for Ukrainian authorities visiting the Holy Land rather than belittling Ukrainians [and] proclaiming inferiority of his people on the international level," Lyashko added.
Poroshenko's comments were laudable and he "acted correctly and courageously when he spoke in the Knesset about the Holocaust the Jewish people endured on Ukrainian soil," Colette Avital, chairwoman of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, told The Jerusalem Post.
"Even though we are not surprised by the comments of the radical leader, Oleh Lyashko, we are nonetheless shocked by the kind of strange and irrelevant comparisons he brings up and by his negation historical facts.
By now even leaders like Mr.
Lyashko should understand that the tragedy which befell the Jewish people in Europe in general, in Ukraine in particular, should be condemned by all, including by him."
"I would say that this is the reason Poroshenko is president and not Lyashko. Lyashko is a populist only saying what he thinks people want to hear," said Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich.
The Jewish community, Bleich said, disagrees with the populist politician's definition of humiliation, seeing disgrace as when "one cannot face up to history."
"Pride is to look back, and learn from mistakes. No one accused the Ukrainian people of causing or creating the Holocaust. However, the fact is that there were Ukrainians who participated in the murder and persecution of Jews.
They are worthy of condemnation."
"The sight of a member of the Ukrainian parliament singing a song praising Hitler, underscores the extremely deep problem in today's Ukrainian democracy regarding the ongoing efforts in that country (and elsewhere throughout post-Communist Eastern Europe, especially in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary) to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust," said Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
"The fact that the Ukrainian authorities honor groups which actively participated in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust and glorify their leaders sends a message that delegitimizes the accurate historical narrative, and paves the way for disgusting scenes like this one. The Ukrainian leadership should not feign surprise or astonishment, they're the ones at least partially responsible."
Earlier this year Ukraine's parliament has extended official recognition to a nationalist militia that collaborated with the Germans during World War II.
However, many Ukrainian Jews have appeared rather sanguine, explaining that they believe that such moves are more likely the result of a need to build up a national ethos and raise up heroes during a time of conflict rather than a celebration of such figures' anti-Semitic attitudes.
Despite that, such moves have been widely panned by Jewish organizations worried about the long term effects of the glorification of anti-Semites.
Asked about the decision to honor such groups, Poroshenko told the Post that the government was paying tribute to those who fought for national independence.
"Let's not try to find the black cat in the black room, especially if there is nothing there," he said.
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In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing.
Some of the diplomats' symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said (Photo: Pixabay/ Representational Image)
The two-year-old US diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled on Thursday by what U.S. officials say was a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.
In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the investigation into the case. Some of the diplomats' symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said.
After months of investigation, US officials concluded that the diplomats had been exposed to an advanced device that operated outside the range of audible sound and had been deployed either inside or outside their residences.
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A marketer's guide to Gen Z
They don't know a world without smartphones. They love Snapchat (just ask). And they want brands to walk the walk. Content marketers, meet your next generation of consumers and clients.
Generation Z—born between 1995 and 2012—is your youngest group of brand consumers, customers and employees. Remember when you got your first BlackBerry? Yeah, Gen Zers weren't even alive. Raised on touch screens and nonstop connectivity, they're diverse, social-savvy and open to brands that get them.
Imagination sat down with five Gen Zers in our Chicago HQ to get their take on how content marketers should—and definitely should not—try to connect with them. We asked about branding, the media and how they consume content. Our findings? They don't all hate Facebook. They're willing to read long-form content. They demand to be addressed on their terms. And they've got a lot to say.
Meet Our Gen Z 5
Ioana Chindris, 20, pre-med student at Northwestern University. Born in Chicago and grew up in Romania. Thinks Instagram Stories rolling out after Snapchat's My Story was a total copycat move.
Ellen Turner, 22, junior video project manager at Imagination. Reads The Atlantic every single day. Creator of fake vlogs on Snapchat.
Uriel Preciado, 20, sound engineering student at Tribeca Flashpoint College. Self-proclaimed sneaker head. News feed looks like this: Complex News, Sole Collector and Kicks on Fire.
DaeJae Williams, 21, sound engineering student at Tribeca Flashpoint College in Chicago. Gets her daily dose of inspiration from TED Talks. Thinks parents should stay off Facebook.
Braylan Saunders-Effort, 20, communications student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dances on his school's folk-Indian dance team. Connects with friends on Facebook Messenger and Snap Map.
They Love Authenticity
What brands do you like? Do you trust brand messaging, and is it welcome in your feeds?
DJW: "I like Vans because I'm into music, and they work with a lot of artists. So they literally email you like, 'Oh, you can do this. RSVP and you can do it for free.' I just went to the Jamila Woods video release party, and if it wasn't for Vans, then I wouldn't have known about it."
ET: "I'm going to trust (brands) little bit more if they're showing people being who they actually are. We're all trying to be the best people that we can be, so looking at people who are the best people that they already are is really inspiring, and I'm more likely to trust that brand."
UP: "I love Kanye West. Even though he does a lot of out-there stuff, his mentality has really helped shape my self-confidence. So when Kanye does something with Adidas, I'll trust Adidas fully."
ET: There's not a face to Uber that anybody trusts. Uber's on the back of my Metra pass, and I just think it's stupid. It's like, 'Uber and Metra are getting you to where you need to be,' and I'm just like, 'No, you're not.'"
"Collecting information about me never bothered me because it's more personalized. Unless I'm doing something incredibly sketch, incredibly wrong, I have nothing to worry about."
Braylan Saunders-Effort
Do you think brands have a role to play in society beyond selling products and services?
IC: "It would be nice if they would encourage different social change, different good things in the community, improvement of self or things like that. It would definitely encourage me to buy from that brand if I see, for example, Adidas helping clean out the ocean."
ET: "I think it all depends on the messaging. If you're a brand with enough money to do something and you actually want to make a change, then you should. Say you're a brand who's going to allocate part of your revenue to clean up the environment. People are going to scrutinize (you) if you're not looking at the parts of your company where you could actually be sustainable already."
UP: "I mean, a lot of brands do things without the public knowing. I know Bill Gates has billions. And you don't always hear about what he does, but he and his wife have a website for free college textbooks. Sometimes you don't always hear about what these brands are doing."
When brands ask for information about you, do you play the game or stay away?
BSE: "I'd prefer (brands) collecting as much information about me as they can because then they better target ads for me. Collecting information about me never bothered me because it's more personalized. Unless I'm doing something incredibly sketch, incredibly wrong, I have nothing to worry about."
UP: "I imagine this world where a brand knows you so well that they send you a text of a new product, and if you want it, you just say, 'Yes.' And that's that."
They're Sick of the Media Slamming Them
Where do you go for news and entertainment? What outlets do you avoid?
UP: "I get my news from the YouTube channel The Young Turks or Complex sometimes. A lot of older, traditional brands are trying to appeal to us, but they're using old tactics that are more for the older generations than for us. They're trying to marginalize us, and they just make it seem like we don't know what we're doing. If you really look at it, we're the most progressive generation of all time. We're out here trying to make the world a better place, but they're more worried about what shoes and what kind of cats we like. The reason I trust Complex is because you can see the humanity in it. They do things in a fun way. Whereas The New Yorker sometimes does it, but it just doesn't feel authentic."
ET: "I agree with what Uriel said about certain types of traditional media like The New Yorker, Time and CNN. I feel like they're trying to come after Generation Z and entice them into being more involved in news, but they are only doing that half of the time. The other half of the time they're kind of slamming the younger generation and blaming them for things that are going on. I went to journalism school, and in journalism school, they teach you to remain unbiased 100 percent, and I do not think (the traditional news media) is unbiased today."
DJW: "I could piggyback off of what Uriel said about Complex. I feel like they know that we're young. They know what we like, how we like it and what we don't like. The people who are behind it are probably our age if not a little bit older. As far as The New York Times, it's a bunch of old-generation people. We look at them as like, 'Well, you're judging us too much because you don't know us. You don't know our story or why we do what we do.'"
Gen Z's Rules for Retail
Research from Accenture reveals this generation's digital shopping habits and how retailers need to adapt.
Focus on social media and stay nimble. Gen Zers are quick to move to the newest channel and are open to new concepts: 70 percent are either willing or can't wait to try making purchases on social media.
Stores are here to stay. The majority prefer visiting stores to make purchases, and most make visits a multimedia/multichannel event. They engage with sales associates and comparison-shop on mobile devices in the store. Forty percent solicit opinions from friends and family before making a purchase.
The faster the better. Fifty-eight percent of Gen Z shoppers say they'd pay more than $5 for one-hour delivery. Coupling experience with speedy fulfillment will go a long way toward meeting expectations.
Don't let feedback fall by the wayside. Forty percent of Gen Zers provide retailers feedback often or very often, compared to about 35 percent of millennials.
They Think Social is the Center of the World
What social channels are you on and why?
DJW: "I love Snapchatting everything. And I get a lot of positive feedback. A lot of people are afraid to be outgoing and afraid to go to different places. Not all, but for some people who can express themselves through Snapchat, it's a way of getting people to see their inside world and what it's like for them."
ET: "Social media really freaks me out a lot of the time, just because there's so much pressure to have (a presence) that's successful. And I feel like if I ever wanted to have an Instagram, it would have to be built as a brand, in a way. Snapchat is the only form of social media that I use because celebrities can use it, brands use it, and it feels less curated than Instagram. Snapchat is wherever you are throughout your day. It's like an insight into a life."
IC: "I personally like Snapchat, especially after the latest updates where you get to see the stories from different areas where you are. I travel between two countries—Romania and the United States—and it's really cool to see the different events that are going on around the cities that I'm around. I can show up and participate in those things and just have that opportunity to see them through an easier thing instead of searching on the internet. At the same time, you get to talk to people. This is a more private way to communicate with people and have that kind of personal space."
BSE: "Facebook is where I get most of my news. I enjoy getting the headlines from there and then researching more. I enjoy Facebook, and content-wise, it's grown so much since its creation. And I love the added reactions and all the different ways you can post and all the customization."
DJW: "When Facebook first came out, it was great because we were young and we got to explore and express ourselves, but as time went on, they opened the platform up for people who were a generation or even generations older than us. It caused a lot of conflicts because it's a lot of things that we don't want our parents to see. That was our place of privacy and now, if you have them on the same page as you, then you have to watch what you do."
They're Cool With You Being in Their Feed
Do you recognize sponsored content? Is it reputable or a turnoff?
UP: "Brands have to make their money somehow. I mean, some ads are annoying, but what Adidas is doing to entice us to trust in their brand is—I don't know if you've seen their latest commercial, 'Original Is Never Finished'? Even though it's out-there, it's super colorful and super creative. It's using a lot of artists that we listen to. I know Nicki Minaj is in it, Young Thug. I don't listen to those artists, but a vast majority does, which entices people to trust in Adidas.
IC: "On Snapchat, the advertisements are very short. It's literally a couple of seconds between whatever stories you're watching, but those couple of seconds are very colorful, very active. And so they do grab your attention more, and that actually gets me to pay more attention to who's advertising."
"We're out here trying to make the world a better place, but they're more worried about what shoes and what kind of cats we like."
Uriel Preciado
They're Willing to Check Out Long-Form—But It Has To Rock
Some marketers believe shorter content is the best way to reach younger consumers. Is this true of how you consume media?
IC: "I do feel like we are a lot more used to having things quickly. Having smartphones now, you can search something immediately. Articles tend to be a lot shorter and they try to just have one specific point to get at your attention. Shorter things tend to connect, at least personally to me more, even talking about the advertisements that we see on social media."
DJW: "I think it depends because I like to research certain things to teach myself stuff that I don't know, and I feel like with the longer content, you may pick up things that you wouldn't normally."
BSE: "I guess I do find myself reading longer articles. If I start reading and I notice it's not coming to an end, I'll scroll down to see how long it is, and I might stop reading if it's too long and I'm not that interested. It's the same with videos. I'll look at how long the video is, and I might just cut it short halfway through."
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Mae West Plays Herself in "Go West, Young Man"
November 18, 1936 was the anniversary of the release date of the Mae West comedy Go West, Young Man.
Unthinkably this movie is not a western, the title is literally just a pun on the star's name. Sadly, this is one of Mae's worst films, not as bad as The Heat's On, but it certainly takes second place. Interestingly (and not surprisingly), while Mae was the foremost reason for the strict enforcement of the Hayes Code starting in 1934, she was also its most obvious victim. What could Mae do…if she couldn't do what she did?!
GWYM was an attempt to make the star more mainstream, to take her out of her two usual settings: the criminal 1890s and the criminal present. Here, she plays something not too far from herself: a movie star diva. The tone is screwball comedy (the genre was then at its peak), and the director is Henry Hathaway. The property was based on a stage play adapted by West. On the face of it, it sounds great. Unfortunately, Mae is working so hard to convince the audience that she is not REALLY this awful character that she gives the worst performance of her career.
The first eight minutes are a film-within-the-film, as we screen the end of one of her character's films. Then she comes out and gives a very long expository speech. You could cut out the first ten minutes of the movie without spilling a drop. Then we get the set up. Warren William (miscast) plays her studio p.r. man, whose job is to keep her out of trouble with men. (William, one of my favorite actors, is miscast here — too old, and too unselfish. He's at his best as a con man or an ambulance chaser). Mae has a romance going with a young ambitious Chicago politician (Lyle Talbot), which William tries to discourage. While they are driving across rural Pennsylvania to meet him, their car breaks down and they have to stay at an inn run by a family of women. While there, she falls for local inventor Randolph Scott, who's fixing their car…but apparently she is just toying with him and wants a piece of his invention. Then the authorities and public get the idea that she is kidnapped. Talbot and cops come rushing to the rescue. In the end she rejects both guys and goes with Warren William. The moral being that this corrupt, immoral movie star belongs with a corrupt, immoral press flack, instead of the normal, healthy, all-American tinkerer. It smacks of a message no one involved with this movie believes, least of all its star. It kind of seems like an exercise in building up Randolph Scott as a studio property at Mae's expense. But she wasn't through yet – – she had a couple of perfectly great pictures still to come.
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Thelypodium stenopetalum is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names slenderpetal thelypody, slender-petaled thelypodium and slender-petaled mustard. It is endemic to the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, where it is known from only three or four extant occurrences in moist mountain meadows near Big Bear Lake. Its remaining habitat is considered seriously threatened and the plant is a federally listed endangered species in the United States.

Description
Thelypodium stenopetalum is a biennial herb producing decumbent stems up to about 80 centimeters long. The branching stems are hairless, waxy in texture, and greenish to purple in color. The basal leaves have thick, oblong to lance-shaped blades up to 15 centimeters long with smooth or rippled edges. Leaves higher on the plant have much smaller blades which may clasp the stem at their bases.

The inflorescence is an erect, open raceme of widely spaced flowers. The petals are usually lavender, or occasionally white, and are narrow and linear in shape, sometimes crinkled. The fruit is a narrow, cylindrical silique up to 5 centimeters long.

Habitat
This plant is threatened by the destruction of its very limited mountain meadow habitat, which is being claimed for development and degraded by recreation, grazing, and introduced weedy plants. Changes in hydrology and soil quality impact the plant. Much of its historical habitat is thought to have disappeared when the Big Bear Dam was built over a century ago, expanding Big Bear Lake by flooding adjacent land.

Thelypodium stenopetalum can sometimes be found growing near pebble plain habitat, which contains several other rare plant species.

This mustard is a food plant for the larva of the rare endemic Andrew's marble butterfly (Euchloe hyantis andrewsi).

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment: Thelypodium stenopetalum
Thelypodium stenopetalum - U.C. Photo gallery

stenopetalum
Endemic flora of California
Butterfly food plants
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Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Natural history of San Bernardino County, California
Critically endangered flora of California

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Q: How to use the cmd "gnome-software --install=ID"? I am trying to use the command "gnome-software --install=ID" to install a gnome shell extension called "blyr". However, I don't seem to be able to get the cmd to do what I want. How do I use this cmd to install a shell extension via cmd line?
The shell extension can be found in gnome-software --> Add-ons --> Shell Extensions. Or, the cmd $ gnome-software --search blyr will cause the extension to appear in "gnome-software".
Below are the error msgs that i am getting.
$ gnome-software --install=blyr   #Nothing happens
$
$ sudo gnome-software --install=blyr
04:40:46:0158 Gs enabled plugins: systemd-updates, packagekit-offline, fwupd, packagekit, packagekit-refine-repos, os-release, desktop-categories, packagekit-upgrade, packagekit-url-to-app, packagekit-proxy, packagekit-local, packagekit-refresh, appstream, desktop-menu-path, hardcoded-blacklist, generic-updates, packagekit-refine, steam, rewrite-resource, odrs, hardcoded-featured, modalias, hardcoded-popular, packagekit-history, provenance, icons, provenance-license, key-colors, key-colors-metadata
04:40:46:0158 Gs disabled plugins: ubuntuone, dummy, dpkg, repos, shell-extensions, epiphany, snap
04:40:46:0856 Gs Need to use a valid unique-id: blyr
#Thereafter, nothing happens and I have to press Ctrl C to escape.

$ sudo gnome-software --install=blyr@yozoon.dev.gmail.com
04:48:55:0162 Gs enabled plugins: systemd-updates, packagekit-offline, fwupd, packagekit, packagekit-refine-repos, os-release, desktop-categories, packagekit-upgrade, packagekit-url-to-app, packagekit-proxy, packagekit-local, packagekit-refresh, appstream, desktop-menu-path, hardcoded-blacklist, generic-updates, packagekit-refine, steam, rewrite-resource, odrs, hardcoded-featured, modalias, hardcoded-popular, packagekit-history, provenance, icons, provenance-license, key-colors, key-colors-metadata
04:48:55:0162 Gs disabled plugins: ubuntuone, dummy, dpkg, repos, shell-extensions, epiphany, snap
04:48:55:0786 Gs Need to use a valid unique-id: blyr@yozoon.dev.gmail.com
#Thereafter, nothing happens and I have to press Ctrl C to escape.

I obtained the shell-extension uuid from here
$ gnome-software --help
Usage:
  gnome-software [OPTION…]

Help Options:
  -h, --help                    Show help options
  --help-all                    Show all help options
  --help-gapplication           Show GApplication options
  --help-gtk                    Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:
  --mode=MODE                   Start up mode: either 'updates', 'updated', 'installed' or 'overview'
  --search=SEARCH               Search for applications
  --details=ID                  Show application details (using application ID)
  --details-pkg=PKGNAME         Show application details (using package name)
  --install=ID                  Install the application (using application ID)
  --local-filename=FILENAME     Open a local package file
  --interaction                 The kind of interaction expected for this action: either 'none', 'notify', or 'full'
  --verbose                     Show verbose debugging information
  --profile                     Show profiling information for the service
  --quit                        Quit the running instance
  --prefer-local                Prefer local file sources to AppStream
  --version                     Show version number
  --display=DISPLAY             X display to use

Following --help, gnome-software --details=ID is the syntax. I tried:
$ gnome-software --details=blyr                       # This works.
$ gnome-software --details=blyr@yozoon.dev.gmail.com  # Did not works.

This result shows me the ID should have the value of blyr. Hence, I don't understand the error Need to use a valid unique-id: blyr.

A: Here is what the author of blyr recommends. Quote:
git clone git@github.com:yozoon/gnome-shell-extension-blyr.git
cd gnome-shell-extension-blyr/
make local-install

Then just restart the Shell and enable the extension.
To remove the extension just run:
make local-uninstall

Note:
Some Ubuntu users reported that the preferences dialog didn't appear after opening it from the GNOME Tweaks application. To fix the issue install the gtkclutter bindings as follows
sudo apt install gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0

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From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Allie Marini
Blair Fraser
"From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" - This piece has gotten a lot of legwork, having been published in Static Movement Press's Modern Lovecraft Anthology, Danse Macabre's AnthologE Monsters of the Rue Macabre, Xxx Zombieboy xxX's collection Tentacles, Carpe Nocturne Magazine, and Danse Macabremagazine.
It's the end of the world as we know it. Delphine knows it. The radio is an ocean of static. When the blackout started, there had been an orchestra of insanity on the roads—car crashes, smoking and belching out clouds of oil and fire. Now, nothing. Police cars, ambulances: wrecked, deserted. They are scared out of their civic responsibilities with the nauseous wave of fear that drove the others like army ants, racing towards or away from something on the squirming roadsnakes of asphalt. After 36 hours, the roads cleared, and then emptied. They had pulled off on roadsides, knocked on the doors of strangers, broken into abandoned motels, found their families, or turned around. The desperation to escape liquefied, boiled, became steam, cooled and reformed as resignation or fear: mothers made fruit punch sweetened with cyanide, sat down with their families for one last meal of grilled cheese and tomato soup; women who thought they'd surely be married by now drew hot baths and broke their Daisy razors apart: down the street and not across it. Men walked into pawn shops, mostly deserted, but if not, assisted by other men who actually knew how to help them. Those men would hold out until they couldn't any more. Then, and only then, would they go back around the side of the house to the shed and sit down at the workbench. As it turns out, they are the brave ones. The rest of them huddle in storm cellars, panic rooms or apocalypse bunkers, waiting for a bomb to drop, fire to rain down from the skies, or some sign to confirm what they all know in the deepest, sickest part of their gutless hearts: this is how the world ends.
Delphine left the Atchafalaya Basin thirty hours ago. No one has slept since the blackout, no one has needed to. The greasy sheen swept down like a veil over them. Escape, then resignation; the brave ones finishing out their business to avoid whatever comes next. clustered in places designed to protect them from the worst, suspecting the monster was already in the room with them and that nothing could keep them safe anymore. Because it was. Nothing could. Delphine had already read the end of the book. Once she knew that the roads were empty, she started driving. There were other drivers, of course, but only a few. They were all driving west, on their own schedules. The dead has waited, dreaming. It is waking up now.
Stars flare in the sky, and then drop from sight, every burst sending more whispers of darkness into the aether of the atmosphere. The horizon has been a dawnless void for three days. A study in emerald, a miasma of deep green and black, swarming up hiveminded and stifling like the anxious paranoia the sunless skies and disappearing stars brought with it. Delphine's grandmother had sung her lullabies in a native tongue, nearly forgotten; not the usual bayou dialect, nor anything like it, but familiar to some swamp families like her own. They, perhaps, had packed up sooner than she, or later, maybe, ahead of her or behind, driving towards the ocean that would be brackish and on fire with tsunami crests by the time they arrived. Cool air, welcoming like strong hands to a willing victim, a breath of nights, lost sparks of sky. She rolls her tongue over the abyss of the language, unexplained couplets forming songs passed down over time, prayers to the depths consecrated in goat's blood, snake heads, swamp waters, hurricanes, the hissing songs of alligators and broken levees. They have waited patiently for this.
Brownout, blackout, nothingness. Food spoils in the contained environs of sealed refrigerators, like unpowered coffins for sustenance. No one eats, no one sleeps, no one fucks, no one cries anymore. They wait. There is only fear, like a fever, a building pressure inside. They are falling without a chute or an altimeter: the ground is rushing up towards them so quickly it is almost as though they are standing still. There is less comfort for those who have been smart enough to store batteries, or buy generators: every television and radio station broadcasts only static. The internet has been swallowed and buried; it is Po, nothingness, a chaotic void without form or motion; air, light or heat. There is a moving face on the waters, but it is not the God you think that it is. The monad, the beginning and end of all things, he waits under the Avalon, bodiless and many-bodied; all-bodied. Delphine, like the others who remember the lullabies, is driving towards the Los Angeles breakwater. There will be boats and dories waiting. They have been waiting and preparing. From La Paz to The Port of Vancouver, the coasts will quiver and rumble; the tectonic plates shifting, earthquakes: the tossing and turning of the sleeping dead beneath.
It wakes.
Delphine will be there, she will navigate the twenty-two miles across the surging of the ocean to land on the shores of the Channel Island. The sewage and pollution of the beach, full of poisons and slime, century-old clay and the rust of metal pipes: this is why they could never clean it, the beast beneath the crust of the sands. State health standards mean nothing now, the filth of the water will be lost in the swirl of blackness and cavernous jade, yawning toothy and soundless as it is restored to the way it was in the time before there were gods: nothingness, void, chaos. Tohu wa bohu; ex nihilo. Look towards the heaven, the light will be gone.
The magnitude of this shadow, chaos, has always existed. The raw, undivided mass of fear, like a fog, settles down and they breathe it in. She stands on a cliff, sings the lullaby of a long-forgotten tongue. From the edge of the deep green sea: This is how the world ends.
Allie Marini holds degrees from Antioch University of Los Angeles & New College of Florida, meaning she can explain deconstructionism, but cannot perform simple math. Her work has been a finalist for Best of the Net & nominated for the Pushcart Prize, not that those distinctions mean anything. She co-edits for Lucky Bastard Press [currently on hiatus] with her man, performance poet Brennan DeFrisco. She has previously served on the masthead for Zoetic Press, NonBinary Review, Unbound Octavo, Lunch Ticket, Spry Literary Journal, The Weekenders Magazine, Mojave River Review & Press, & The Bookshelf Bombshells. Allie is the author of You Might Curse Before You Bless (ELJ Publications), Unmade & Other Poems (Beautysleep Press), wingless, scorched & beautiful (Imaginary Friend Press), Before Fire (ELJ Publications), This Is How It Ends (Bitterzoet), Pictures From The Center Of The Universe (Paper Nautilus, winner of the Vella Prize), Cliffdiving (Nomadic Press), And When She Tasted of Knowledge (Nomadic Press), Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide To Beasts Of The Southern Wild (Hyacinth Girl Press), Here Comes Hell {dancing girl press}, Heart Radicals, a collaborative collection with Les Kay, Janeen Pergrin Rastall & Sandra Marchetti (ELJ Publications) & Exquisite Duet, a collaborative collection co-authored with Brennan DeFrisco (Hermeneutic Chaos Press). Allie rarely sleeps, & her mother has hypothesized that she is actually a robot fueled by Diet Coke & Sri Racha. She does not Facebook, but she would love to see your pictures on Instagram, Pinterest, or Twitter: @kiddeternity.
Here Comes Hell
with her balding bedsheets,
August's bitch, strung up on the line
her feet are bleached roots
azalea eyes, blue from the acidic dirt of Panhandle drought
The Beast of Bladenboro
A whole town: armed to the teeth,
arming themselves against my teeth.
She-cat of Bladenboro,
I'm here for your dogs,
your sheep, your sons, your blood.
You know who I am, boys.
your candle burns too brightly
never to find another flame to stoke it:
your kindling is out there.
The Southern Girl's Guide to Getting Your MRS Degree
first of all, let's talk sweet tea. Yankees joke about the secret being sugar—& it is, partly—but the real secret's in the baking soda. it takes the bitterness out of the tea & makes the sweet taste sweeter. just like you should be to your husband. neutralize all the bitterness & just be sweet as Southern tea. & don't squeeze them teabags. you know what I mean, girl.
Another Side of the Sun
people care
more about video games
on their cell phones
than cultivating empathy
Grace is Gone
and the old hatreds
have risen up from under their rocks
where they've been hiding
taking a new form
they ooze like stale bile
flowing out of sewers
To the Guy With the Donald Trump Bumper Sticker on I-90 East
i can feel your populism from here
in the cool confines of the passenger seat
your window is up too
we both got the a/c blasting, bro
because they sure make america hot these days
caliente or kalinatuh i'd say, much to your chagrin
The Ex-Pat
everywhere i turn
the orange-faced bloviating billionaire
with bad hair and a small penis
tells me that he wants to make america great again
for its dying minority
Imagine Paul Ryan
in his d.c. office cum apartment
three miller lights into it
spit shinning his portrait of reagan for the third time
making the sign of the cross
a chunk of wisconsin cheese in his hand
after a hard day of obstructive legislative work
A Sticky Situation
Deanna Paul
We caught her
100 Acres from the Woods
wearing white, a cotton dress
with porridge stains, raisins
and honey on her breath,
goose feathers almost disguised
by her long golden locks.
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Q: Cannot create an instance of ViewModel class (Unable to start activity ComponentInfo) I am using MVVM, Retrofit, LiveData in my project but I get this error before that I saw these links

*

*Cannot create an instance of custom ViewModel

*Cannot create an instance of class ViewModel
Error
java.lang.RuntimeException:
Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{ir.orangehat.movieinfo/ir.orangehat.movieinfo.application.home.HomeActivity}: java.lang.RuntimeException:

Cannot create an instance of class ir.orangehat.movieinfo.application.home.HomeViewModel

ViewModel
I think the problem is in my constructor
public class HomeViewModel extends AndroidViewModel {

private MovieRepository movieRepository;

public HomeViewModel(@NonNull Application application, Context context, LifecycleOwner lifecycleOwner) {
    super(application);
    movieRepository = new MovieRepository(lifecycleOwner, context);
}

LiveData<List<Movie>> getMovies() {
    return movieRepository.getMovies();
}}

Repository
public class MovieRepository extends BaseRepository {

private LifecycleOwner lifecycleOwner;
private MovieApi movieApi;
private MovieDatabaseHelper movieDatabaseHelper;

public MovieRepository(LifecycleOwner lifecycleOwner, Context context) {
    this.lifecycleOwner = lifecycleOwner;
    movieApi = getRetrofitHelper().getService(MovieApi.class);
    movieDatabaseHelper = new MovieDatabaseHelper(context);
}

public LiveData<List<Movie>> getMovies() {
    LiveData<List<Movie>> moviesLiveData = movieApi.getMovieList();
    moviesLiveData.observe(lifecycleOwner, new Observer<List<Movie>>() {
        @Override
        public void onChanged(@Nullable List<Movie> movieArrayList) {
            movieDatabaseHelper.Save(movieArrayList);
        }
    });

    return movieDatabaseHelper.getAll();
} }

Activity class
public class HomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // the error is here
        HomeViewModel homeViewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(HomeViewModel.class);

        homeViewModel.getMovies().observe(HomeActivity.this, new Observer<List<Movie>>() {
            @Override
            public void onChanged(@Nullable List<Movie> movieArrayList) {
                String str = null;
                if (movieArrayList != null) {
                    str = Arrays.toString(movieArrayList.toArray());
                }
                Log.e("movies", str);
            }
        });
    }
}

Should I use Dagger in my project and custom factory?

A: If you are working with Kotlin and you need to inject a dependency inside your ViewModel constructor to work with like a Repository to get data (the same way we use to do with the Presenter layer) you will need to do the following.
Lets say we have a ViewModel that needs a UseCase/Interactor to be injected in the constructor to get data from.
class MainViewModel(private val itemList:ItemListUseCase):ViewModel() {
...
}

When we try to instantiate this ViewModel in our Activity/Fragment, we tend to do this
Fragment example
   class MainFragment : Fragment() {
    private lateinit var mainViewModel: MainViewModel

      override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

            mainViewModel = requireActivity().run {
                ViewModelProvider(this).get(MainViewModel::class.java)
            }
          ...
        }
}

When we try to run our code, it will crash with a RuntimeException

java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot create an instance of class
com.gaston.example.viewmodel.MainViewModel ... Caused by:
java.lang.InstantiationException:
java.lang.Class<com.gaston.example.viewmodel.MainViewModel>
has no zero argument constructor

This is because we are not injecting the ItemListUseCase when we instantiate our ViewModel
The first thing that comes up is to try to inject it directly from the .get() method of ViewModelProvider
ViewModelProvider(this).get(MainViewModel(ItemListUseCase()))

But if we do this, we will be getting the same error too.
Solution
What we need to understand is that
ViewModelProvider(this).get(MainViewModel::class.java)

ViewModelProvider() is trying to do an instance of the MainViewModel without knowing that it needs a dependency inside its constructor.
To fix this issue, we will need to let ViewModelProvier() know about which dependency we want to inject.
To do this, we need to create a class that will ensure that the instance of that ViewModel needs a dependency to be instantiated.
This class is called a Factory ViewModel class, since it will construct our ViewModel with the dependency it needs to work and then it will let the ViewModelProvier() know which dependency we need to pass to .get(MainViewModel::class.java)
class ViewModelFactory(val requestItemData: ItemListUseCase):ViewModelProvider.Factory {

    override fun <T : ViewModel?> create(modelClass: Class<T>): T {
        return modelClass.getConstructor(ItemListUseCase::class.java).newInstance(requestItemData)
    }
}

Now, we can tell to ViewModelProviers.of() that it needs an instance of ItemListUseCase::class.java to instantiate MainViewModel(ItemListuseCase())
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

        mainViewModel = requireActivity().run {
            ViewModelProvider(this,ViewModelFactory(ItemListUseCase())).get(MainViewModel::class.java)
        }

    }

Note that I do not pass any arguments to .get(MainViewModel::class.java) because our Factory will take care of injecting those arguments into our constructor.
At the end, if you want to avoid the Factory class, you can always use Dagger to inject your dependencies without worrying about the ViewModel Factory class.

A: Quoting the documentation for AndroidViewModel:

Subclasses must have a constructor which accepts Application as the only parameter.

Your constructor does not meet that requirement.
Either:

*

*Remove the Context context and LifecycleOwner lifecycleOwner constructor parameters from your HomeViewModel, or

*Create a ViewModelProvider.Factory that can build your HomeViewModel instances, and use that factory with ViewModelProviders.of()

A: Try adding this:
private LiveData<Section[]> movies;

And then, change this:
LiveData<List<Movie>> getMovies() {
    if(movies==null)
        movies= movieRepository.getMovies();
    return movies;
}

It worked for me.

A: If it helps someone. In my case everything CommonsWare told was right, however, I forgot to inject the AppComponennt.
@Override
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // this line was missing
        ((BaseApplication) getApplication()).getAppComponent().inject(this);
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}

A:     In HomeViewModel class need to extend ViewModel class.

public class MovieListViewModel extends ViewModel {
        private MutableLiveData<MovieModel> data;
        private MovieRepository movieModel;

        public MovieListViewModel() {
            movieModel = new MovieRepository();
        }

        public void init() {
            if (this.data != null) {
                // ViewModel is created per Fragment so
                // we know the userId won't change
                return;
            }
            data = movieModel.getMovies();
        }

        public MutableLiveData<MovieModel> getMovies() {
            return this.data;
        }
    }

https://github.com/kamydeep00178/androidMvvm can aslo check full example

A: As it was mentioned in other answers, ViewModelProviders cannot inject objects that you require in ViewModel constructor.
If you need to set up ViewModel quick and ugly without any factories, then you can use Dagger2 that would create getYourViewModel() method in the generated DaggerActivityComponent, while putting those objects into your constructor that you made available with @Provides annotation. Then just add this field to your activity:
@Inject
lateinit var viewmodel: YourViewModel

and inject it in OnCreate() and that's it. NB: Be careful with this approach with heavy and slow ViewModels.

A: Based on this answer, you can do this
class MvpApp : Application(){

    companion object {
        lateinit var application: Application
    }

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        application = this
    }
}

and then:
class ProfileViewModel: AndroidViewModel(MvpApp.application) {}


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Despite a 1991 lawsuit settlement in which the State of California promised to ensure blood testing and treatment for lower-income children threatened by lead poisoning, since 1992 the state has failed to identify or provide care for an estimated 200,000 lead-poisoned children ages 1 to 5. About 212,000 one-to-five-year-olds in California had harmful blood lead levels between 1992 and 1998, but the state identified only 14,900.
More than 43,700 California children ages 1 to 5 live in critical lead risk "hot spots" with the highest percentage of older housing, poverty and people of color. These hot spots are found in San Francisco, Alameda County, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, Sacramento and Fresno. An additional 239,000 children live in very high risk areas. Our analysis has produced a searchable database of lead poisoning risk in all California neighborhoods, available online at www.ewg.org/california.
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The Winners of the Inaugural Global SinoPhoto Awards announced
26 Feb, 21
By Jian Sun
Times cultures
The world's first Global SinoPhoto Awards Competition results have been announced. Du Baoxian from Australia has become the overall winner of the inaugural Global SinoPhoto Awards (GSPA) and winner of the ACE UK Group Award, 'Us, Now' category with Me: A composite image of 10 self-portrait photographs shot during the lockdown in the spring of 2020, winning a prize of $2500.
Du said "Back in spring 2020 when we were all at home during the lockdown. I was contemplating what to photograph. Our lives have changed a lot over the decades, but no one can live without food and clothing. Whilst sorting out the wardrobe, I realised our generation of women have bought, used, and worn many clothes. We all have a different mixture of tastes, from the simple to the luxurious. Observe our clothes and we can observe our society. I decided to make this the theme of my photography project."
"Winning this contest will give me more motivation, confidence, and a sense of responsibility to continue with my efforts and pursue my love of photography. I am grateful to the judges for selecting my photographs and I look forward to more photographic opportunities with like-minded friends in the future." Du added
The Global SinoPhoto Awards was created by Yintong Betser, Managing Director of ACTIVE Anglo Chinese Communications and Lynne Bryant, founder of The Architectural Photography Awards. They were aiming to strengthen the international understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture and heritage around the world. Since inventing the compass more than 2000 years ago, the Chinese people have travelled and traded widely. Wherever in the world they settle, they retain an innate sense of family, tradition and culture.
Nearly 700 entries from 29 countries were assessed by a panel of judges consisting of photography experts and artists, including Yao Lu, a Beijing-based artist, and Professor of Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China who commented: "I am pleased to see that the Global SinoPhoto Awards covers all key cultural features, inviting the world to share the glimpses of Chinese people and their lives through a lens. These reflections are not only through the eyes of Chinese people in China, but also people from all corners of the world; be they of Chinese origin or people of other countries who love the Chinese culture".
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Monday: A CBS News exclusive report over alleged U.S. air marshall mistreatment and corruption; Also, the anniversary of a historic civil rights achievement; And, Steve Hartman learns in Latvia that "Everyone Has A Story."
In the former Soviet State of Latvia, a 50-year-old man has always had aspirations to be a bodybuilder. As Steve Hartman tells us, a debilitating illness made his dream almost unachievable.
Fifty years ago, four black college students held the first of a series of sit-ins across the South. As Michelle Miller reports, the place where it started has been a landmark for the struggle for equality.
As the U.S. budget has surged upward, the deficit has also soared. As Chip Reid reports, President Obama's new budget is expected to get the economy moving by increasing education and defense funding.
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Environmentalists have opposed the oil sands for many reasons — air and water pollution, health risks to people living downstream, and the loss of wetlands and forest. Another key objection is that the oil sands expansion results in an increase of heat-trapping emissions at a time when the world is trying to reduce them.
"It's really a decision that runs counter to the U.S. building any trust here," said National Wildlife Federation attorney Joe Mendelson in Cancun. The negotiations among 193 nations end Friday.
Nations agreed last year to try to keep average global temperature from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists say that beyond this amount of warming, the risk of catastrophic results is too high. The U.S. last year pledged to cut emissions by 17 percent by 2020 to get on the path of steeper cuts the world will need by 2050. Negotiator Todd Stern reaffirmed the pledge last week.
Still, the legislation that promised to get that level of reductions has died in the Senate. Attention has turned to what the executive branch can do. Environmental groups say the Obama administration shouldn't take any actions that would undermine efforts to reduce emissions.
The National Wildlife Federation, in a report last week, noted that the EPA calculated that if the Keystone XL pipeline is built and carries its maximum volume of 900,000 barrels per day, the result would be an increase of 27 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year. That increase is the extra emissions compared with U.S. average crude oil.
It's a sizeable amount — the equivalent of seven coal-fired power plants.
It's also more than the amount of emissions reductions the EPA expects it would get per year if its newly proposed rule for light and medium trucks goes into effect.
"If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, the U.S. will be moving simultaneously to reduce the direct emissions from its vehicle sector only to wipe out much of those gains by locking the country into the use of higher carbon fuels in the same vehicles," the NWF report said.
Other environmental groups said approval would send the wrong message to China and other countries about the U.S. commitment to cutting emissions.
TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha said the company is ready to start construction as soon as it gets the permit. The State Department has told the company it should make the decision before the middle of next year, he said.
Canada is America's No. 1 source of imported oil. The Department of Energy's data show that the oil sands account for about half of Canada's oil production and are expected to grow as conventional production declines.
The EPA, in a letter last summer to the State Department about Keystone XL, urged the State Department to take other possible future trends into account when it decides whether the pipeline is needed, including the use of fuel-efficient technologies, advanced biofuels and electric vehicles.
The American Petroleum Institute announced Wednesday that it would launch an ad campaign in January in support of oil sands development.
"We want people to encourage their policymakers to make the right decisions on Canadian oil sands," said Cindy Schild, the refining issues manager at the oil industry group. She said Keystone XL is "a huge, huge deal for what this country needs right now."
Schild also noted that some members of Congress raised objections to Keystone XL. Eleven senators wrote to Clinton in October, asking her to carefully examine the needs for the oil and its impact on U.S. climate and environmental goals.
Schild and many analysts predict that Americans will continue to use oil for decades, because it's cheaper than alternatives are.
"Americans will continue to consume a lot of oil, and oil sands have the potential to supply much of what we will need while also creating many new U.S. jobs," Schild said. "Renewables cannot and will not replace oil or oil imports for decades, if ever."
Environmentalists argue that electric vehicles and sustainable biofuels aren't so far off, and that greater fuel efficiency and less driving would reduce demand for oil.
Canada has so much oil in sands that it ranks second to Saudi Arabia in proven reserves. Pipelines already in place bring oil sands crude into the U.S. Some Midwest refineries run entirely on oil sands crude.
Keystone started operating the first phase of its pipeline system in June. That segment brings crude oil to the Midwest from Canada. A second segment, from Nebraska to Oklahoma, is under construction.
API also argued in a press conference that Canada would ship the oil to Asia if the U.S. doesn't buy it. So far, however, there's no pipeline to Canada's west coast ports. The U.S. is the main customer.
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Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza are all set to solemnise their love story. The lovebirds who met on the set of their 2003 film Tujhe Meri Kasam and fell in love, will get married in 2010.
It's been over four years since his older brother Amit got married, and there was pressure for Riteish to get married. He made it clear that his choice was Genelia who he calls Genes lovingly. Both sets of parents met and now the wheels have been set in motion.
The couple has also purchased property at Pali Hill where they plan to shift post-wedding. "Riteish being an architect has been busy hunting property for the last few months. In fact, he and Genelia have sat down and designed the interiors. Some of their close friends have even seen the blueprint and it looks very impressive." Giving details about the wedding the source adds, "The Deshmukhs have many relatives from Latur and they've all have been informed."
The shaadi was even a hot topic of discussion Sunday night when Riteish invited Shah Rukh, Gauri, Karan, Sajid Khan along with some friends over for dinner. "Whenever his friends are over, they all keep teasing and prodding him about tying the knot. Now he's finally told them that he is taking the plunge this year."


Brand new build coming to you. This boat will be for sale at Riverview Marina in Lewiston, Idaho once finished.
Is the stick going to be for the left hand? What motor?
Where are the pics? Road trip time!
Any new pictures of this build? And is the stick going to be for the left hand?
wooldridge1 wrote: Any new pictures of this build? And is the stick going to be for the left hand?
There are pics up on their Facebook page of the finished product, also a small video walk-around interior spot.
Jetdaddy77, Thank you I will check it out.
I really like how that boats turning out. It's looks to have a ton of room for a 21'somebody is gonna be happy with it!
The motor sure sounds nice on there facebook clip.
I checked out the 21' WW Bush at the Sportsman show today. Gongrats to the new owner again nice boat. Brice and Rick were both great guys to talk to.


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So you think you can lead?
Sport Hockey So you think you can lead?
3:34pm, Jul 20, 2015 Updated: 7:30pm, Jul 20
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes.
Some lead with words, some lead with actions. On and off the field, they're the ones we turn to in times of trial.
I was seeking some leadership guidance so I went straight to the top: Kookaburras captain Mark Knowles.
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The 31-year-old has captained "75 to 100 games", leading our best players into battle against the rest of the world.
Being named captain
After a period where the role was rotated, Knowles was named sole captain in January 2014.
The first words he received from coach Ric Charlesworth?
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"He said: "Everyone will follow someone who is being exceptional on the field. So the biggest challenge for you is to play well," Knowles said.
"I really took that talk seriously.
Knowles in action for Australia. Photo: Getty
"Everyone can talk and everyone can yell in the huddle before a match.
"But, to be a really good captain, you have to be able to play consistently and play at a high level."
Does it affect your performance?
As Knowles discusses his career trajectory, his role as a leader, at all levels, becomes apparent.
Even when asked if there was any extra pressure in his first game as sole captain, with the world watching, he seems nonplussed.
"Not really [any extra pressure] to tell you the truth. The biggest difference I felt was that I was doing it on my own which was a weird kind of feeling," he said.
"I was playing really well at the time and I was really confident in my own ability that I would be able to do it."
Knowles felt he was not leading to his full potential when the captaincy was being rotated through the leadership group.
"I was always doubting how I was leading. I'm not a control freak but I certainly like to be leading and take charge," he said.
"I just thought to myself this [sole captaincy] was perfect for me because I have kind of been let loose a little bit.
"Some people might have felt it was a bit more of a burden, I thought this was perfect. I could lead how I would like and how I think the team needed to be led."
It wasn't all smooth sailing though.
Knowles faces constant challenges at the helm of the team.
"You've got 30 guys in our national squad and every single one of those people want to be led differently," he said.
Rolemodels are important – Bevan George was one of Knowles'. Photo: Getty
"That's the hardest thing I've found now…making my message count to the largest amount of people."
Part of the solution was to delegate.
"I have allowed some other people to take charge.
"I really want my point, when I think it is required, to hit home, so I've allowed the co-captains a little bit more freedom to speak in meetings," he said.
But the real key to addressing challenges in your leadership is to never stop learning.
"I'm really open about it. I don't know anywhere near enough about leadership," he added.
"I like to get feedback from different guys in the squad from different experience levels. I'm by no means a 'know-it-all'."
It was a refreshing statement from our nation's hockey figurehead and a reminder that elite athletes are just like you and I…except they have six-packs.
Knowles' five ways to become a great leader
1. Never think you have all the answers
"I'm at a stage of my life where I don't have five to 10 years left in the sport and I need to pick up things as quick as I can. I love hearing other people in other sports and career paths and how they're learning and how they're leading and for me that's all about the growth that I need to keep having."
2. A strong work ethic/will is a must
"I've always wanted to do it. There are some people who don't like being a leader, some people who don't like having people looking up at them all the time. I've always had that personality."
3. Have role models and learn from them
"I think you've got to have role models. When I was growing up, I had people who I was looking up to."
4. Be honest and approachable
Liam Brown has done his fair share of travelling. Photo: Husted Images
"I think for me it's about being real, just to not chop and change your message all the time for different people. I am very clear in what I like players to do and how I like them to act and behave on and off the field.
"That doesn't vary whether you're a rookie first gamer or someone like Jamie Dwyer. You have to be real with yourself and real with your team-mates."
5. Time your message
"That's the hardest part… I always feel that I could do more or the players could do more but it's not necessarily required or needed at that time.
"That's been the hardest thing for me, to put things into perspective and put them to the side if they need to be or up front if they do need to be."
Walking a mile in his shoes
Talk about doing the hard yards.
Toowoomba hockey player Liam Brown has reached a sporting milestone 66,000km in the making.
The 28-year-old played his 200th top-grade game in the Brisbane Hockey League on July 18.
For 13 seasons, Brown has travelled from his home town of Toowoomba to Brisbane to play and train.
He has racked up about 66,000km along the way, spending roughly 770 hours or 32 full days travelling in the car.
Congrats, Liam!
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Q: Visual Studio 2012 - "Error Access is denied" message box - no other information I occasionally get an error when I am using Visual Studio 2012. The error (below) gives me almost no information about what has gone wrong. It seems that the error is related to source control in some way as I usually get the error when alter a file (and the file gets auto-checked out) or add something new.
Other than the error message, nothing appears to be going wrong - source control checks out files for me and I can write to the checked out file.
I have checked in the output window and there is nothing obvious to show what is going wrong. Is there anything I can do to get a better idea of what is going wrong? Or has anyone else had the same problem and knows how to fix it?

VS about box info:
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Microsoft .NET Framework
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Command for aligning assignments.
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Allows you to turn all caps in menu titles on and off in the Visual Studio options dialog.
ASP.NET and Web Tools   2012.3.41009
Microsoft Web Developer Tools contains the following components:
Support for creating and opening ASP.NET web projects
Browser Link: A communication channel between Visual Studio and browsers
Editor extensions for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Page Inspector: Inspection tool for ASP.NET web projects
Scaffolding: A framework for building and running code generators
Server Explorer extensions for Windows Azure Web Sites
Web publishing: Extensions for publishing ASP.NET web projects to hosting providers, on-premises servers, or Windows Azure
AutoBraceComplete   1.0
auto brace complete
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Provides configurable behavior for the document well in Visual Studio 2012.
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NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/.
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A set of power commands for Visual Studio 2010
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Microsoft Visual Studio extension to visualize aggregated summaries from the PreEmptive Analytics product.
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Microsoft Quick LaunchTasks package adds accessibility and settings tasks to the Quick Launch tool.
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A: The solution that seems to have worked for me is to update the security settings on this folder:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Team Foundation Local Workspaces
I made sure my user had full control over all files and made myself the owner for good measure.


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Chris Gardner in Variety reports today that producer Michael London has launched a new financing and production company, Groundswell Productions. Starting with a capitalization of $55 million, the company plans to raise a total of $100 million and produce five films a year with budgets under $20 million. From the piece: "Groundswell's business strategy will be a mix of foreign pre-sales for projects with established stars or pure equity investments in filmmaker-driven projects. The company's slate will mix films from established directors and emerging talent alongside comedies and genre films. London said with Groundswell he will be looking for projects […]
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The 2005 Independent Spirit Awards were announced this afternoon at the IFP Los Angeles's annual ceremony on the beach in Santa Monica. For the major awards, it was a virtual sweep by Sideways — Alexander Payne's smart comedy won six prizes. Other winners, listed below, include Garden State, The Motorcycle Diaries, Mean Creek, the filmmaker Jem Cohen, the producer Gina Kwon, and doc filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. Here are the winners: Best PictureSideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Producer: Michael London Best Director Alexander Payne Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Best Screenplay Alexander Payne & Jim TaylorSideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Best […]
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Organization is also one of the factors of production like land, labour, and capital. Organization is the process of bringing together physical, financial and human resources and establishing productive relations among them for the achievement of specific objectives. Business organizations have to use land, labour, capital, etc for the production and it pays rent, interest, wages, etc in return from the factors of production. Therefore, the task of allocating the others factors of production is also known as the organization.
According to L.A. Allen, "Organization is the process of identifying and grouping the work to be done, defining and delegating responsibility and authority and establishing the relationship for the purpose of enabling t work most efficiently to obtain the objectives."
There are various types of business organization. Sole proprietorship, Partnership, Joint Stock Company, Co-operatives, Multinationals, etc. are the main types.
Capital is a man-made means of production which is used in a further production of goods and services. It is taken as a stock of financial assets which can be used to provide an income.
Capital is a man-made factor: Capital is the man-made factor of production. It is not naturally invented but it is created by man with the help of means of production such as vehicles, plants, tools, furniture, etc. which helps to produce both the agricultural and industrial goods and services.
Capital is a mobile factor: Capital is one of the most mobile factors which can be transferred from one and place to another place easily because it holds the quality divisibility, durability, and portability.
Capital is the passive factor of production: Capital is a passive factor of production. It is produced by human beings which cannot be produced by itself. It remains unproductive, unless there is involvement of labour, a machine does not give production.
Capital is depreciable: It is not permanent . Capital is likely to depreciate after its purchase or use. The wear and tear cost is one of the parts of depreciation. The value of machinery items diminishes every year. So, capital is depreciable.
It depends on upon technology: The amount of capital depends upon the level of technology employed by a nation. The more progress is in a country's technology, the more capital is produced in that nation.
Economic development depends on capital formation.
The process of capital formation entirely depends on how to save more moey and how to utilize them in best ways. The objective of saving and investment is to formulate more capital, more employment opportunities, increasing per capita income and national income to meet the goal of economic development of a nation.
a. Ability to save: The income level of the people or nation determines the power to save if their unnecessary consumption is controlled by themselves. Therefore, higher the income, higher will be the capacity to save and lower the income, lower will be the saving capacity.
b. Willingness to save: It is determined by several factors. Some major factors are social status, culture, tradition, consumption habits ,government policy, a position of law and order, security of life and wealth ,existing banking facility, etc. which helps to increase the rate of capital formation. On the contrary, if their willingness to save decrease, it reduces the rate of capital formation.
c. Government Saving: Budget surplus, expenses of government, export promotion, etc. determines the saving capacity of a public and individual as well.
Mobilization of savings: It is the next step in the process of capital formation. The saving of the people must be mobilized and transferred to business or entrepreneurs who require them for investment. If saving is idle, it will not be helpful to capital formation.
Investment of savings: An economy requires numbers of business organizations in the fields of agriculture, manufacturing industries, education, health , transport, communication, banking, foreign trade, tourism. etc. to create opportunities for the investment and greater the investment greater will be the motivation of savings and vice-versa.
Capital is a man-made means of production which is used in a further production of goods and services.
Capital formation means the increase in the stock of real capital in the country.
Organization is also a factor of production like land, labour, and capital.
The process of capital formation entirely depends on how to save more and how to utilize them in best ways.
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