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PPC plan to split and sell 7% of clientele no sooner than November
The main power utility PPC plans to have hired a team of legal advisers by the end of this month for support in the utility's plan to carve out and sell 7 percent of its clientele – roughly 400,000 to 500,000 customers – to rival electricity suppliers.
The power utility's objective, through this initiative, is to meet bailout-required market share contraction targets on its own terms, not those specified by the bailout-required NOME auctions, and also offer needed support for the troubled corporation's sustainability.
The recently introduced NOME auctions aim to break PPC's dominance by offering other traders access to the utility's low-cost lignite and hydropower sources.
In its own words, the utility has described its split-and-sale initiative as "urgent and imperative for PPC's sustainability" and therefore a "swift procurement procedure [for the legal advisers] needs to be pursued."
The legal team will play a crucial role in the overall process as it will be charged with identifying possible legal issues and proposing legislative and regulatory revisions that could be brought forward by PPC.
In addition, the legal advisers will be expected to draft the agreements to be signed between PPC and prospective investors and also offer support to the corporation in negotiations with the energy ministry, market authorities and the European Commission. The legal team will also need to provide guidance to the utility on details concerning the stock exchange and capital market commission.
According to PPC, the split-and-sale initiative will require at least eight months to be completed, once a legal team has been appointed. PPC has budgeted 140,000 euros for the legal team's services.
Speaking just days ago at a ceremonial event for the New Year, PPC's chief executive Manolis Panagiotakis noted the utility's intention is to establish two new companies that will include clients of all categories.

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David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. David's two wives had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel. David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, "Bring me the ephod." Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," he answered. "You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue." David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind. Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit. They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat— part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. David asked him, "Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?" He said, "I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago. We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag." David asked him, "Can you lead me down to this raiding party?" He answered, "Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them." He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder." Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were. But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, "Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go." David replied, "No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us. Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike." David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this.


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RTIs Show Opacity and Lack of Parliament Scrutiny of IT Rules 2021 Blocking Orders
The Indian government refused to provide blocking orders it has issued, and the IT Rules 2021 have not been tabled in Parliament either
By: Venkatesh Nayak
This article has been reposted, and was originally published here
A controversy of considerable magnitude that can impact upon its relations with the United Kingdom, is brewing over the Government of India's recent decision to block public access to a two-part documentary series produced by the BBC on the communal violence that ravaged Gujarat in 2002. A couple of days ago, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs reportedly dismissed BBC's documentary film as "a propaganda piece" that smacked of a "continuing colonial mindset" and questioned the agenda behind it. News of the decision to block access to the BBC documentary film was tweeted by the Senior Advisor, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoI&B) on 21 January, 2023. Till date the blocking order issued by the competent authority or even a press release about this action is not available on the website of MoI&B or that of the Press Information Bureau (PIB). Since December 2021, it was common practice for MoI&B to publish press releases with regard to the orders issued to block content on social media and digital platforms. However, in the case of the BBC's documentary film on Gujarat that good practice appears to have been given the go by.
Before this controversy hit the headlines, three interventions were made under The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) in December, 2022 to probe the degree of transparency with regard to the blocking orders issued under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (2021 Rules) notified under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act). The MoI&B Senior Advisor's tweet makes it amply clear that the order to block the BBC documentary was issued using the "emergency powers" under these 2021 Rules.
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The result of the three RTI interventions at the time of writing, is given below:
1) MoI&B has invoked the national security exemption under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act, to refuse to publish:
a) the blocking orders issued by the competent authority;
b) the materials which form the basis of the Inter-Departmental Committee's decision to block content on digital and social media platforms; and
c) the minutes of the Review Committee which confirms such blocking orders- all on the ground that they are 'confidential' and therefore exempt from disclosure under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act; and
2) Despite the publication of the 2021 Rules almost two years ago, the Union Government has not tabled them in Parliament. Such tabling is a mandatory requirement under Section 82(3) of the IT Act.
What are the 2021 Rules?
Before narrating the RTI interventions, it is important to understand the 2021 Rules which form the context in which these interventions were made.
Parliament incorporated Section 69A in the IT Act through an amendment in 2009 to empower the Union Government or any of its specially authorised officers to direct any Government agency or intermediary to block public access to content generated, transmitted, received, stored or hosted in any computer resource. the reasons for blocking access are: in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence relating to the preceding grounds. Reasons for issuing such blocking orders must be recorded in writing. In October, 2009, the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public), Rules were notified creating a mechanism and laying down procedures for the Department of Information Technology to implement Section 69A as and when required.
With the expansion of social media platforms and digital media outlets which have become a major source of news and information to the digitally literate segments of society in India. The Union Government notified the 2021 Rules under the Information Technology Act to regulate this sector. These Rules prescribe a code of ethics for, and due diligence standards and procedures to be observed by, significant social media intermediaries (SSMI). This has been done to ensure that content which is, among other things, pornograhpic, paedophilic, racially or ethnically objectionable in nature, or which violates individual privacy or causes harassment on the basis of gender, or infringes specified intellectual property rights, or peddles patently false or untrue information or is harmful to children, is not made available on such platforms for long. These Rules also establish a multi-layered self-regulatory mechanism for redressing grievances of any person regarding the content they host or store or publish or transmit. Additionally, these Rules empower MoI&B to issue orders to take down or block such content. Click here for PRS India's legislative brief about the 2021 Rules.
Under Rule 13 of the 2021 Rules, MoI&B is required to appoint an officer not below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government of India as the Authorised Officer for the purpose of issuing directions to take down or block specific content on the social and digital media platforms. Under Rule 14 the Government has set up an Inter-Departmental Committee consisting of the representatives of MoI&B, the Ministries of Women and Child Development, Law and Justice, Home Affairs, Defence and such other Ministries and organisations and domain experts. The Authorised Officer is the Chairperson of this Committee. The Committee's mandate is to receive, examine and act on complaints regarding the violation of the code of ethics prescribed by the 2021 Rules. The SSMI, if such an entity can be identified through reasonable efforts, is required to be heard before issuing any direction for blocking content. The Committee may recommend to MoI&B to issue a censure or warning to the concerned SSMI(s) or require it to issue an apology and also delete any content apart from directing other remedial measures. Rule 15 provides for the procedure by which such a direction will be communicated by the Authorised Officer to the SSMI.
Rule 16, which appears to have been invoked in the case of the BBC's documentary film, empowers the Secretary, MoI&B to issue orders to block any content on social and digital media platforms on the basis of a specific recommendation submitted by the Authorised Officer, in case of an emergency, without issuing notice to the SSMI. Within 48 hours of the issuance of such a direction, the Authorised Officer is required to bring the matter before the Inter-Departmental Committee for consideration post facto. The Committee has the power to either approve or reject the Secretary, MoI&B's interim orders. If rejected, the interim order is to be revoked and the content/information must be unblocked for public access.
Rule 17 requires all such orders– both ordinary and emergency issued by the Authorised Officer to be placed before a Review Committee established under Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951. According to the relevant Rules notified in the Gazette of India on 05 February, 2014, the Cabinet Secretary is the Chairperson of this Committee. The Secretary, in charge of Legal Affairs and the Secretary, Department of Telecommunications are the remaining members of this committee. This Committee meets once in two months to review the blocking orders issued by the Union Government to confirm them or set them aside.
The 1st RTI Intervention:
On 14th December, 2022, an RTI application was submitted to the MoI&B through the Union Government's RTI Online Facility seeking the following information:
"I. I would like to obtain access to the following information under the RTI Act, 2005 with regard to the implementation of Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in the form specified at paragraph no. (II) below:
1) The total number of directions issued by the Authorised Officer under Rule 15(2) since 25 February, 2021, till date,
2) A legible copy of every direction referred to at sub-paragraph no. (1) above,
3) The total number of directions issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting under Rule 16(2), since 25 February, 2021, till date,
5) The total number of final orders issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, under Rule 16(4), since 25 February, 2021, till date,
6) A legible copy of every final order referred to at sub-paragraph no. (5) above,
7) The exact dates on which the Review Committee specified in Rule 17 held its meeting since 25 February, 2021, till date, &
8) A legible copy of every order issued by the aforementioned Review Committee under Rule 17(2) during the aforementioned period, for unblocking of content and/or information that was blocked earlier as per directions issued by the competent authorities under Rules 15(2), 16(2) and 16(4).
Form of access: Kindly publish all the information described at paragraph no. (I) above on your official website & inform me of the respective URLs by email.
III. Kindly note, all information described above is in the nature of information that is required to be disclosed suo motu under various clauses of Section 4(1) read with Section 4(2) of the RTI Act. Whereas your Ministry has caused to be published through the Press Information Bureau, at least six press releases with regard to the blocking of various URLs to prevent the further spread of fake news, disinformation and misinformation adversely affecting the national security & foreign relations of & public order in, India, I have not been able to find on your official website, the information & official records specifically described at paragraph no. (I) above. Hence the submission of this formal request for information."
Click here to read the RTI application.
MoI&B's reply
On 10/01/2023, the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of MoI&B replied that information about the orders issued by the Authorised Officer was "Nil". The CPIO rejected access to copies of records relating to the proceedings of the Inter-Departmental Committee and the Review Committee stating that they were 'confidential' and exempted from disclosure under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act.
Click here to read the MoI&B CPIO's RTI reply.
What is wrong with this reply?
The CPIO's reply is erroneous for multiple reasons:
1) A careful perusal of the IT Act and the attendant Rules indicates that nothing in Section 69A or the 2021 Rules requires the content blocking orders or the materials, which form the basis of such actions, to be treated as confidential. Further, nothing in the 2021 Rules or the 2014 amendments to the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951 require the record of proceedings of the Review Committee to be kept confidential. Further, Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act contains at least seven grounds for refusing access to information such as sovereignty and integrity of India, security, defence, strategic, economic and scientific interests of the State, relations with foreign States and use of the information to cause incitement to commit any offence. The CPIO has not invoked any of these grounds to reject the RTI application. The only reason given for refusing access is that it they are 'confidential' information.
2) It is quite surprising that the earlier blocking orders (provisional and final) have not been issued by the Authorised Officer as per Rule 15.
3) When it is common practice for MoI&B to publish press releases giving details of the social or digital media platform which has been directed to block content, the purpose of refusing to publish the blocking orders per se and the materials which form the basis of such orders and the record of the Review Committee is difficult to gauge from the CPIO's mechanical reply.
In view of the above reply, another RTI application has been submitted recently to MoI&B seeking copies of the statute, rule or executive instructions which require information about such blocking orders to be labelled 'confidential'. The CPIO's reply is awaited.
The 2nd and 3rd RTI interventions
Section 87 of the IT Act requires the Union Government to table every Rule made to give effect to its other provisions, in both Houses of Parliament as soon as the Rule is notified. Section 87 is reproduced below:
"(3) Every notification made by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 70A and every rule made by it shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification or rule." (emphasis supplied)
In other words, every Rule made by the Union Government under the IT Act must be subjected to parliamentary scrutiny soon after it is notified in the official gazette and becomes operational. This is a common provision in all parliamentary statutes which ensure that the Government does not abuse its rule making power to transgress the letter and spirit of the principal enactment. Any MP may move a motion for modifying any Rule or simply annulling any or all of the Rules. A simple majority is required for this motion to be carried through either House. The Committees on Subordinate Legislation of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha may also take up the Rules so tabled for detailed scrutiny and submit their report to the Chair of the respective Houses. In such proceedings, the Government is required to defend the Rules before the Committees.
In December 2022, identical RTI applications were submitted to the Secretariats of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha (after the aforementioned RTI application was filed with MoI&B). Amongst others, the following information was requested:
"I would like to obtain the following information from your public authority under the RTI Act, 2005:
4) The exact date on which the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 notified by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as G.S.R. 139 (E) in the Gazette of India dated 25th February, 2021, were tabled in the Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha,
5) The exact date on which the Rules specified at paragraph no. (4) above were selected by the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha for scrutiny, and
6) A legible copy of the report of the aforementioned Committee if any, that was tabled in Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha upon completion of the scrutiny of the Rules specified at paragraph no. (4)."
As questions 1-3 pertain to another related subject matter, they are not being discussed here. The outcome of this portion of the RTI interventions will be reported later, on an appropriate occasion.
Click here to read the two RTI applications.
The RTI replies from Parliament's Secretariats
1) A few days ago, the CAPIOs of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha both confirmed that the 2021 Rules have not been tabled in the respective Houses.
2) In view of the non-tabling of the 2021 Rules, the respective Committees on Subordinate Legislation were not able to select them for detailed scrutiny.
Click here to read the Lok Sabha CAPIO's reply.
In other words, despite the lapse of almost two years since their notification, the Union Government has not found the time to table the 2021 Rules in Parliament. The replies of the CAPIOs are in the sixth and seventh attachment below. Strangely, in his covering letter, the CAPIO, Lok Sabha, copy pasted the content from a reply he seems to have issued against another RTI application. The same text of the covering letter is repeated in the second covering letter issued by him in response to the RTI application transferred to him by the CPIO, Rajya Sabha. Neither the Rajya Sabha CAPIO nor his counterpart in the Lok Sabha have bothered to sign the replies uploaded on the RTI Online Facility. I hope the hard copies of the replies will bear their signatures.
Click here to read the Rajya Sabha CAPIO's reply.
According to official figures, more than a thousand people lost their lives during the 2002 violence in Gujarat and several thousands more had to take refuge in relief camps after the communal mobs drove them out of their homes. Unprecedented levels of sexual violence against women characterised this episode of communal frenzy. What the State agencies did or failed to do to prevent the burning of the two coaches of the Sabarmati Express train and nip the subsequent communal violence in the bud is fairly well known. Commissions of Inquiry and the National Human Rights Commissions have published detailed reports pinning responsibility on various actors- both public and private. Several criminal cases are still going on to determine the guilt of the culprits who committed murder, rape, dacoity, arson and mayhem. I am not sure what new information the BBC documentary film will add to the existing public knowledge.
However, the reluctance of the Union Government to be more transparent about its actions while and after blocking content on social and digital media platforms, including the latest action against the BBC documentary film only gives rise to suspicion about its intentions. If the Government believes it has an iron-clad case to invoke its powers under the 2021 Rules to block such content, it must make such orders and all materials that form the basis of such orders public. To deny access to such orders when its press releases on the subject contain significant amounts of information such as: the core subject matter of the blocked content, the viewership and subscriber statistics of each platform which hosted the blocked content, can amount to abuse of administrative discretion. If on the other hand, the Government believes that disclosure of such information will be detrimental to the public interest, the reasons for arriving at such a belief must be publicised.
Even more worrisome is the negligence evidenced by the delay in tabling the 2021 Rules in Parliament. This tabling mechanism is an important statutory measure to ensure that the Government always exercises its rule making power within the four corners of the principal enactment. As a delegatee of Parliament, the Government is answerable to both Houses for the manner of exercise of this power of delegated legislation.
I hope Parliamentarians will raise these public interest issues during the upcoming Budget Session and impress upon the Government about the transparency imperative. A closed fist raises more suspicion than a palm which is wide open.
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Great book about developing the skills that are valuable to your career.
The narratives in this book are bound by a common thread: the importance of ability.
The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return.
In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.
Perhaps the only thing it does make clear is that, at least for Jobs, "follow your passion" was not particularly useful advice.
Glass emphasizes that it takes time to get good at anything, recounting the many years it took him to master radio to the point where he had interesting options.
Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.
A job, in Wrzesniewski's formulation, is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path toward increasingly better work, and a calling is work that's an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.
it seems that the type of work alone does not necessarily predict how much people enjoy it.
the more experience an assistant had, the more likely she was to love her work.
the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do.
Competence and autonomy, for example, are achievable by most people in a wide variety of jobs- assuming they're willing to put in the hard work required for mastery.
In other words, working right trumps finding the right work.
passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there's a magic "right" job waiting for them, and that if they find it, they'll immediately recognize that this is the work they were meant to do.
The problem, of course, is when they fail to find this certainty, bad things follow, such as chronic job-hopping and crippling self-doubt.
The more we focused on loving what we do, the less we ended up loving it.
two different approaches to thinking about work: the craftsman mindset, a focus on what value you're producing in your job, and the passion mindset, a focus on what value your job offers you.
It took Martin, by his own estimation, ten years for his new act to cohere, but when it did, he became a monster success.
Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love.
the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you.
I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can't ignore you.
regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer.
regardless of how you feel about your job right now, adopting the craftsman mindset will be the foundation on which you'll build a compelling career.
Most jobs don't offer their employees great creativity, impact, or control over what they do and how they do it.
Basic economic theory tells us that if you want something that's both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return" this is Supply and Demand 101. It follows that if you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.
Glass began to break away from the pack when he turned his focus on making his skills more rare and more valuable.
The traits that define great work are rare and valuable.
Supply and demand says that if you want these traits you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return.
Think of these rare and valuable skills you can offer as your career capital.
The craftsman mindset, with its relentless focus on becoming "so good they can't ignore you," is a strategy well suited for acquiring career capital. This is why it trumps the passion mindset if your goal is to create work you love.
The traits that define great work require that you have something rare and valuable to offer in return- skills I call career capital.
You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life, and the craftsman mindset is focused on achieving exactly this goal.
it became clear to me that certain jobs are better suited for applying career capital theory than others.
1. The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable.
2. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world.
3. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.
During the eight months he spent as an assistant he dedicated his nights to working on a trio of different writing projects.
Mike literally tracks every hour of his day, down to quarter-hour increments, on a spreadsheet. He wants to ensure that his attention is focused on the activities that matter.
seriously for the same amount of time, did I end up an average high school strummer while Jordan became a star?
my discomfort playing anything I didn't know real well.
Not only did Jordan's early practice require him to constantly stretch himself beyond what was comfortable, but it was also accompanied by instant feedback.
This, then, explains why Jordan left me in the dust. I played. But he practiced.
Hours spent in serious study of the game was not just the most important factor in predicting chess skill, it dominated the other factors.
The "serious study" employed by top chess players sounds similar to Jordan Tice's approach to music: They're both focused on difficult activities, carefully chosen to stretch your abilities where they most need stretching and that provide immediate feedback.
It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.
"Most individuals who start as active professionals" change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level.
if you just show up and work hard, you'll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better.
most types of work- that is, work that doesn't have a clear training philosophy- most people are stuck.
If you can figure out how to integrate deliberate practice into your own life, you have the possibility of blowing past your peers in your value, as you'll likely be alone in your dedication to systematically getting better.
That is, deliberate practice might provide the key to quickly becoming so good they can't ignore you.
There are two types of these markets: winner-take-all and auction.
In a winner-take-all market, there is only one type of career capital available, and lots of different people competing for it.
An auction market, by contrast, is less structured: There are many different types of career capital, and each person might generate a unique collection.
If you want a career in television writing, as Alex discovered, only one thing matters: the quality of your scripts.
The problem, however, is that blogging in the advice space- where his site existed- is not an auction market, it's winner-take-all. The only capital that matters is whether or not your posts compel the reader.
Some top blogs in this space have notoriously clunky designs, but they all accomplish the same baseline goal: They inspire their readers.
If you're in a winner-take-all market, this is trivial: By definition, there's only one type of capital that matters.
For an auction market, however, you have flexibility. A useful heuristic in this situation is to seek open gates- opportunities to build capital that are already open to you.
The advantage of open gates is that they get you farther faster, in terms of career capital acquisition, than starting from scratch.
it's hard to start from scratch in a new field.
once you've identified exactly what skill to build, that you can, for guidance, begin to draw from the research on deliberate practice.
you need clear goals. If you don't know where you're trying to get to, then it's hard to take effective action.
Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands"¦. Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it "deliberate," as distinct from the mindless playing of scales or hitting of tennis balls that most people engage in.
The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.
The bad news is that the reason so few people accomplish this feat is exactly because of the trait Colvin warned us about: Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.
Pushing past what's comfortable, however, is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback- even if it destroys what you thought was good.
You have to get good before you can expect good work.
The appeal of control, however, is not limited to farmers. Decades of scientific research have identified this trait as one of the most important you can pursue in the quest for a happier, more successful, and more meaningful life.
As Pink summarizes the literature, more control leads to better grades, better sports performance, better productivity, and more happiness.
To summarize, if your goal is to love what you do, your first step is to acquire career capital. Your next step is to invest this capital in the traits that define great work. Control is one of the most important targets you can choose for this investment.
skipped over the part where they build a stable means to support their unconventional lifestyle. They assume that generating the courage to pursue control is what matters, while everything else is just a detail that is easily worked out.
enthusiasm alone is not rare and valuable and is therefore not worth much in terms of career capital.
The key, it seems, is to know when the time is right to become courageous in your career decisions. Get this timing right, and a fantastic working life awaits you, but get it wrong by tripping the first control trap in a premature bid for autonomy, and disaster lurks. The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way.
Derek thought for a moment.
Unless people are willing to pay you, it's not an idea you're ready to go after.
Her goal, put simply, is to rid the world of its most ancient and deadly diseases.
How do you make mission a reality in your working life?
just because you really want to organize your work around a mission doesn't mean that you can easily make it happen.
Scientific breakthroughs, as we just learned, require that you first get to the cutting edge of your field. Only then can you see the adjacent possible beyond, the space where innovative ideas are almost always discovered.
A good career mission is similar to a scientific breakthrough- it's an innovation waiting to be discovered in the adjacent possible of your field.
If you want to identify a mission for your working life, therefore, you must first get to the cutting edge- the only place where these missions become visible.
as a new graduate student, she was much too far from the cutting edge to have any hope of surveying the adjacent possible, and if she can't see the adjacent possible, she's not likely to identify a compelling new direction for her work.
Sarah would have been better served by first mastering a promising niche- a task that may take years- and only then turning her attention to seeking a mission.
If you want a mission, you need to first acquire capital.
Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is an act of "small" thinking, requiring you to focus on a narrow collection of subjects for a potentially long time. Once you get to the cutting edge, however, and discover a mission in the adjacent possible, you must go after it with zeal: a "big" action.
had notebooks filled with potential missions, yet I had resisted devoting myself to any one in particular.
Once you have the capital required to identify a mission, you must still figure out how to put the mission into practice.
titled Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.
The important thing about little bets is that they're bite-sized. You try one. It takes a few months at most. It either succeeds or fails, but either way you get important feedback to guide your next steps.
To maximize your chances of success, you should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.
These bets allow you to tentatively explore the specific avenues surrounding your general mission, looking for those with the highest likelihood of leading to outstanding results.
"You're either remarkable or invisible," says Seth Godin in his 2002 bestseller, Purple Cow.
For his mission to build a sustainable career, it had to produce purple cows, the type of remarkable projects that compel people to spread the word.
In the world of computer programming, where does one launch remarkable projects?
Featured among Fowler's fifty-two strategies is the idea that the job seeker should leverage the open-source software movement.
a good mission-driven project must be remarkable in two different ways.
First, it should be remarkable in the literal sense of compelling people to remark about it.
There's also, however, a second type of remarkability at play. Giles didn't just find a project that compels remarks, but he also spread the word about the project in a venue that supports these remarks.
In his case, this venue was the open-source software community.
Without this conduciveness to chatter, a purple cow, though striking, may never be seen.
To construct work you love, you must first build career capital by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the type of traits that define compelling careers. Mission is one of those traits.
become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great.
I decided that focusing my attention on a bottom-up understanding of my own field's most difficult results would be a good first step toward revitalizing my career capital stores.
I faced immediate internal resistance.
To combat this resistance, I deployed two types of structure.
The second type of structure I deployed was information structure- a way of capturing the results of my hard focus in a useful form.
document I keep on my computer. Here's the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my "bible" a paper I think might be relevant to my research.
The sheet has a row for each month on which I keep a tally of the total number of hours I've spent that month in a state of deliberate practice.
I use this notebook when brainstorming new theory results. At the end of each of these brainstorming sessions I require myself to formally record the results, by hand, on a dated page.
According to Johnson, access to new ideas and to the "liquid networks" that facilitate their mixing and matching often provides the catalyst for breakthrough new ideas.
1. It's a project small enough to be completed in less than a month.
2. It forces you to create new value (e.g., master a new skill and produce new results that didn't exist before).
3. It produces a concrete result that you can use to gather concrete feedback.
When a little bet finishes, I use the concrete feedback it generates to guide my research efforts going forward. This feedback tells me, for example, whether a given project should be aborted and, if not, what direction is most promising to explore next.
In other words, the system as a whole is a closed feedback loop- constantly evolving toward a clearer and better supported vision for my work.
His experience at the monastery had freed him from the escapist thoughts of fantasy jobs that had once dominated his mind.
He was able instead to focus on the tasks he was given and on accomplishing them well. He was free from the constant, draining comparisons he used to make between his current work and some magical future occupation waiting to be discovered.
Thomas acquired these traits not by matching his work to his passion, but instead by doing his work well and then strategically cashing in the capital it generated.
Working right trumps finding the right work.
Don't obsess over discovering your true calling. Instead, master rare and valuable skills.


RAF-1 antibody recognizes RAF proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase, also known as oncogene RAF1, proto-oncogene c-RAF or v-raf-1 murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1. This antibody has been extensively validated for western blotting using whole cell lysates.
Mouse anti Human RAF-1 antibody recognizes RAF-1, also known as C-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase, Oncogene RAF1, RAF proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase, proto-oncogene c-RAF, raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine protein kinase or v-raf-1 murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1.
RAF-1 is the cellular homolog of viral raf gene (v-raf). The encoded protein is a MAP kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K), which functions downstream of the Ras family of membrane associated GTPases to which it binds directly. Once activated, the cellular RAF-1 protein can phosphorylate to activate the dual specificity protein kinases MEK1 and MEK2, which in turn phosphorylate to activate the serine/threonine specific protein kinases, ERK1 and ERK2. Activated ERKs are pleiotropic effectors of cell physiology and play an important role in the control of gene expression involved in the cell division cycle, apoptosis, cell differentiation and cell migration. Mutations in RAF-1 are associated with Noonan syndrome 5 and LEOPARD syndrome 2 (provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008).
Mouse anti Human RAF-1 antibody detects a band of 73 kDa. The antibody has been extensively validated for western blotting using whole cell lysates.
Anti RAF-1 detects a band of approximately 73 kDa in HEK293 cell lysates.


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Q: Calling a method in Watch ExtensionDelegate How do you call a method in the Watch ExtensionDelegate from an interface controller?
For the life of me I cannot get it to work?
So, ExtensionDelegate.mymethod(string:param)
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A: Here is how you get an instance of your watchkit delegate:
let myDelegate = WKExtension.sharedExtension().delegate as! ExtensionDelegate

You can call your methods on this object.

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An atmospheric water generator (AWG), is a device that extracts water from humid ambient air. Water vapor in the air is condensed by cooling the air below its dew point, exposing the air to desiccants, or pressurizing the air. Unlike a dehumidifier, an AWG is designed to render the water potable. AWGs are useful where pure drinking water is difficult or impossible to obtain, because there is almost always a small amount of water in the air that can be extracted. The two primary techniques in use are cooling and desiccants.
The extraction of atmospheric water may not be completely free of cost, because significant input of energy is required to drive some AWG processes, sometimes called "trading oil for water". Certain traditional AWG methods are completely passive, relying on natural temperature differences, and requiring no external energy source. Research has also developed AWG technologies to produce useful yields of water at a reduced (but non-zero) energy cost. Our IntelliTrees™ will easily surpass this, setting a new industry standard and a new level of sustainable smart technology.
USES AND BENEFITS – The AWG technology allows water to be produced at any location in the world. It is independent of stationary water resources. The economic benefit is enhanced by the fact that cold air generated in the condensation process can be used for air-conditioning buildings. Through the decentralized water production, diseases borne by contaminated water are unable to spread. The process has the advantage of having no negative impact on the environment. There is no need to transport and store water at great expense as the water is produced when and where it is needed. We are going to utilize existing AWG technology and modify it to fit and work with our IntelliTrees™ more efficiently and effectively. Acoustic Refrigeration, along with other proprietary methods to be used, will enhance AWG technology substantially.
Amount of water produced from the air depends on local humidity levels. In average conditions (48-78% relative humidity), each full-size IntelliTrees™ can produce up to 100 gallons, or more, of water per 24 hour period. In less optimum conditions, (25-48% relative humidity) around 15-45 gpd. Food production is not based on those amounts of water production, as all of our IntelliTrees™ packaged systems will include a complete AquaPhonics© system that uses up to 90% less water, or AeroFarms which uses up to 95% less water than field farming. This will dramatically increase food production yield capabilities, as well as sustainability factors. Estimated yield of fresh water fish, mussels, clams, shrimp and various organic plant/foods that can be grown, can supply an estimated 2-3 families of four, per IntelliTree™. Once the IntelliTrees™ technology is fully optimized, more families can easily be accommodated for. Atmospheric condensation technologies are not new, but we will take it to another level of efficiency and effectiveness.
The first Smart Tree technology that goes beyond Smart Technology into the realm of the IntelliTrees™.


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Helena Zengel (Berlijn, 10 juni 2008) is een Duitse jeugdactrice.

Levensloop
Helena Zengel is geboren en getogen in Berlijn en begon haar acteercarrière op vijfjarige leeftijd in een videoclip voor de Berlijnse alternatieve rockband Abby. Haar eerste hoofdrol in een film, op achtjarige leeftijd, was in een dramafilm, Die Tochter, die werd geschreven en geregisseerd door Mascha Schilinski en vertoond op het Berlin Film Festival 2017. Ze had ook kleine rollen in twee afleveringen van een Duitse tv-serie, Die Spezialisten - Im Namen der Opfer. In de dramafilm Systemsprenger, geschreven en geregisseerd door Nora Fingscheidt, die in februari 2019 in première ging op het filmfestival, speelt Zengel de hoofdrol van "Benni", een agressieve en getraumatiseerde negenjarige. In april 2020 won ze de Duitse filmprijs voor beste actrice. In 2020 speelt ze naast Tom Hanks in News of the World. Hierin speelt Tom Hanks, in de nasleep van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, een rondtrekkende nieuwslezer, die in aanraking komt met een jong weesmeisje (Helena Zengel), wier ouders werden vermoord door een Indiaanse stam. Hij tracht vervolgens het meisje naar haar familie in San Antonio te brengen. Hanks noemde Zengel het grootste natuurtalent met wie hij ooit gespeeld heeft. De film News of the World was op Netflix meteen een wereldsucces.

Filmografie
Abby: Streets (2013) - Klein meisje (videoclip)
Looping (2016) - Lilly
Der Gute Bulle (2017) - Fabienne (tv-film)
Die Tochter (2017) - Luca
Systemsprenger (System Crasher) (2019) - Bernadette 'Benni' Klaaß
News of the World (2020) - Johanna Leonberger (Cicade)

Duits filmacteur
Jeugdacteur

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import chai from 'chai';
import dirtyChai from 'dirty-chai';
import DateTimeOffset from '../DateTimeOffset';

chai.use(dirtyChai);
const expect = chai.expect;

const ct = '2017-04-10T00:00:00Z';
const ctForm = '2017-04-10 00:00:00';
const ctKST = '2017-04-10 09:00:00';
const ctNow = new Date();
const dateCustom = new Date('2017-04-10');

describe('Constructor Tests', () => {
  it(`new DateTimeOffset(${ct}) expect instaceof DateTimeOffset`, () => {
    const t = new DateTimeOffset(ct);
    expect(t).to.be.an.instanceof(DateTimeOffset);
  });
  it(`new DateTimeOffset(${ct}) expect toString 2017-04-10 00:00:00`, () => {
    const t = new DateTimeOffset(ct);
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  });
  it(`new DateTimeOffset(${ctNow}) expect instaceof DateTimeOffset`, () => {
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    expect(t).to.be.an.instanceof(DateTimeOffset);
  });
  it(`new DateTimeOffset(${dateCustom}) expect instaceof DateTimeOffset`, () => {
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    expect(t).to.be.an.instanceof(DateTimeOffset);
  });
  it(`new DateTimeOffset(${dateCustom}) expect toString(undefined, 'UTC') 2017-04-10 00:00:00`, () => {
    const t = new DateTimeOffset(dateCustom);
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  });
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    const form = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss';
    const t = new DateTimeOffset(ctForm, {
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      timezone: 'KST',
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});

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The StarBird Bamboolie is a fantastic, multi-purpose product that is made of natural bamboo trunks that have been filled with various fibers. The trunk is wrapped with abaca rope so that you can hang the Bamboolie horizontally for good footing or hang it vertically as a climbing post. Each bamboo segment has one hole. The piece in the photo is 2 segments long and has two holes. The second hole is on the other side. Your bird will love the challenge of climbing and pulling out the different fibers that you can easily refill with our packs of sea grass, abaca, or coconut fibers, or even paper if that's what your bird loves to chew. The Bamboolie is a beautiful, intriguing and extraordinary enrichment toy for your bird to enjoy for years to come. The trunks vary in diameter from about 4 to 6 inches.
Made of natural bamboo trunks & filled with various fibers. Wrapped with abaca rope so that you can hang it horizontally for good footing or vertically as a climbing post.


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James Chase Sanchez, Ph.D. // Cultural Rhetorician
Welcome to my personal website.
My name is Dr. James Chase Sanchez, and I am an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Middlebury College. My research explores cultural rhetorics, public memory, and writing assessment.
My interests in cultural rhetorics and public memory intertwine in my book project, tentatively titled The Salt of the Earth: The Rhetoric of White Supremacy, which investigates the various rhetorical strategies of white supremacy in my hometown of Grand Saline, TX. This work stems from my dissertation that analyzes why a white preacher, Charles Moore, self-immolated to protest racism in my hometown on June 23, 2014. In my dissertation, I examine Moore's exigencies and arguments, connecting the global narrative of self-immolation to the local constraints that influenced his decision, and investigate the interpretations of his death from local residents, interpretations that I claim ultimately define his memory. Overall, my dissertation claims that to understand protest acts of extremism, we must do more mixed-methods research, combining the global with the local (such as combing global narratives of self-immolation to local, public memory exigencies that persuaded Moore to die) to develop new working theories on how extremism exists on both stages. However, the book project looks more concretely at white supremacy in Grand Saline and labels three rhetorical acts of white supremacy (identity creation, storytelling, and silencing) as they relate to an overarching rhetorical act, what I call "a rhetoric of preservation."
My research afforded me the opportunity to produce a feature documentary, titled Man on Fire, which has screened at the Slamdance Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Film Festival, and more festivals. The film won an International Documentary Association Award in 2017 and will air on PBS, as a part of Independent Lens, on December 17, 2018.
A still image from Man on Fire
As a researcher, I have published articles in CCC, WPA, Present Tense, and Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. I am also currently finishing a co-authored book manuscript titled Race, Rhetoric, and Research Ethics (which has an advanced contract with WAC Clearinghouse).
As a teacher, I have taught courses ranging from introductions to composition to more detailed subjects, such as "Race, Rhetoric, and Protest," "Traditions of Rhetoric," and "Cultural Rhetorics." I love the various experiences of teaching–the constant ebbs and flows of students and their writing–and these guide me to be innovative in the classroom space.
On the rest of my website, you will find my CV, my research profile, a more detailed section about the film and encompassing interviews, and my blog. If you would like to contact me or have any questions, please feel free to email me at jcsanchez @ middlebury.edu.
The poster for Man on Fire


Welcome to the the first stop on the blog hop for Stitch Savvy by Deborah Moebes!
I love reading sewing books - especially when they are written by my friends!
Deborah (from Whipstitch) has come out with a truly unique sewing book that has projects for every area of your life.
I love Deborah's voice in this book - it comes through in all the little tips and hints (even the introductions of projects) that are scattered throughout the book - it's like she's just talking to you as a friend, telling you her ideas in such a fun, easy-going way. Makes a sewing book so enjoyable to use and read.
And the projects themselves are fantastic!
Want to make an adorable Pea Coat for your little guy?
How about a jersey top for yourself?
My favorite is this adorable shoulder bag that I plan on making for Bela.
I'm thinking a Quilt As You Go method would look adorable in this pattern.
Plus once you conquer the Everyday Shoulder bag, Deborah gives you lots of options for where to go next - you can pick and choose your journey through the book, mastering new techniques as you go!
The best part is the patterns are all on a CD in PDF format so you can just pop it in your computer and print them out - no hassling with trying to photocopy patterns out of the back of a book or anything like that.
So go check out Stitch Savvy and start taking your sewing to the next level!!


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Maple leaf 1977
Maple and bronze | 11.0 x 56.0 x 46.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 92776
The Queen made a Silver Jubilee tour of Canada in 1977, visiting Ontario and the Ottawa area. On this occasion Her Majesty was presented with this bronze maple leaf mounted on a block of bird's-eye maple by the Royal Canadian Legion.
Presented to Queen Elizabeth II by the Royal Canadian Legion for the occasion of her Silver Jubilee during the commonwealth tour of Ottawa and the Caribbean 14th October - 2nd November (Ottawa: 14th-19th Oct) 1977
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Maple and bronze
11.0 x 56.0 x 46.0 cm (whole object)
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Queen and Commonwealth: The Royal Tour: Buckingham Palace
Gifts received by The Queen from the Commonwealth


A typical room thermostat just lets you change the temperature in your home using a dial or control panel. A smart thermostat gives you more efficient, more user friendly and more accessible control over your home's heating using three basic components.
The first component plugs directly into your boiler and can wirelessly talk to the second comonent, the in-home device that is the thermostat and main control.
The third component is an app that is downloaded to a smartphone (or tablet). Users remotely control the thermostat/main control device via the app, allowing them to adjust their heating from wherever they may be.
This is the basic makeup of most smart thermostats. Some smart thermostats offer more, such as 'learning' your schedule by detecting when your smartphone is in the house, or even taking it step further by detecting when you're on your usual route home, and preparing your home to the desired tempature.


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ACGC Boys Close out Home Schedule with 70-39 Win
Last night's Charger boys' win over West Central Valley was expected, so it was no surprise that ACGC won going away, 70-39. As this was the final regular season home game for the seniors, Charger coach Lance Kading started the five seniors on the roster--Eli Kading, Lucas Marsh, Clayton Wardyn, Newell Rogers, and Carter Hanson. The seniors responded by taking a 16-2 lead after the first quarter which included four successful three pointers.
The Wildcats have struggled throughout the season and came into the game with three wins for the year. The Chargers, on the other hand, have had a break out season and picked up their fourteenth win last night against just four losses.
It was appropriate that on senior night that the seniors should provide most of the scoring. And they did, as three of them hit double figures. Clayton Wardyn had a career best 15 points, while Eli Kading netted 14 and Lucas Marsh tallied 11. Rogers came close to hitting double figures, finishing with 8 points.
The Chargers steadily increased their lead throughout the game, with quarter scores of 16-2, 36-14, 54-27, and finally 70-39. As dominant as ACGC was, the game was lacking very much drama.
Lucas Marsh came up with a double double as he grabbed 13 rebounds in addition to his 11 points. Eli Kading led the team in assists with 5, while brother Miles had 7 steals.
ACGC put up 75 shots on the night, making 28 for 37% accuracy. The made 21% of attempted three pointers as they hit 7 of 34 tries. At the free throw line the team made all seven of its attempts.
The boys will close the regular season with three road games at Pleasantville, Woodward-Granger, and Earlham--all during the second week of February. It is likely that the Chargers will host a game or two in the district tournament, but assignments had not been determined as of this writing.
Coach Kading's comments will be added when available.
WCV 2 12 13 12--39
Individual statistics: (TP-REB-ASTS-STLS) EKading (14-8-5-3) LMarsh (11-13-1-1) Wardun (15-3-0-2) Rogers (8-4-4-2) Hanson (0-2-0-0) BMarsh (8-5-1-1) Crawford (7-3-1-1) MKading (7-4-4-7)


It is fundamental that all departments have access to real-time Financial information, allowing them to make instant and informed decisions.
The teqcontrol Financial Accounting Module allows controlled access for designated users to up to the minute financial information, without having to wait for other departments to get back to them or checking in a separate system for answers.
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Q: Android Layout Theme Styling My question is as follows:
I have some layouts that are by default light themed meaning that they are with a white  background. My Ripple effects look fine and my Widgets look fine.

The issue arises when I use my dark theme or black theme. My Widgets become less visible as does my Ripple which is supposed to be white for darker themes. The Ripple looks like this using the dark theme.

On the dark theme, the Ripple is only partly visible since the color of the background is #303030, lighter than the ripple which is #000000. Ideally, the Ripple should be white. On the black themed Layout, the ripple is invisible since both the background and the ripple are black.
I have actually fixed this issue by using
android:theme="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"

in my Layout. If I use this the ripple is white and the Widgets are also more visible. The issue is that when I click on a widget like the first switch, the app crashes and leaves me with a nonsensical error.
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The error is as follows:
12-29 23:57:39.801 13055-13055/com.company.app E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                           Process: com.company.app, PID: 13055
                                                           java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Expected receiver of type com.company.app.SettingsActivity, but got android.view.ContextThemeWrapper
                                                               at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                               at android.view.View$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(View.java:4453)
                                                               at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5204)
                                                               at android.widget.CompoundButton.performClick(CompoundButton.java:122)
                                                               at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:21153)
                                                               at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
                                                               at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
                                                               at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
                                                               at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
                                                               at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                               at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
                                                               at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

How can I theme my Widgets and my Ripple in such a way to display them properly (as described above) on darker themed layouts without error?
Thanks!

A: I had this problem with my AppCompat subclassed activity. I searched diligently and found the following issue posted in Android's issue tracker: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=174871
There seems to be some issues recently with AppCompat's inflater, it appears that OnClick handlers generated from OnClick attributes in layout xml are not handling ContextWrappers properly. The work-around is to remove the OnClick attributes from your xml and register OnClick listeners programmatically in your code. I went around diligently registering all my click events explicitly in the code and removing all the onClick attributes from the widgets in my layout's xml file. That did fix it.
Today I discovered for my own application which uses AppCompat DayNight themes that a much easier fix was to remove "android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.DayNight" from the root layout. I can now go back to using onClick attributes in the widget's xml. I don't know whether other AppCompat themes cause the same problem, but would not be surprised. My main activity sets the app's theme using AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode. Hope this helps, I was beside myself when I ran into this, my code worked great until I tested in Marshmallow, and there's scant help to be found as you can see with your question going unanswered for 6 months.


Karachi: Here is the updated currency rate in Pakistan as 22 May 2018. Euro buying and selling rates are 138.25 and 139.45. US Dollar buying and selling rates are 117.5 and 118.05. British Pound buying and selling rates are 158.25 and 160. Saudi Riyal buying and selling rates are 31.25 and 31.45. UAE Dirham buying and selling rates are 31.95 and 32.2 Australian Dollar buying and selling rates are 87.5 and 88.3. Kuwaiti Dinar buying and selling rates are 380.5 and 383. Canadian Dollar buying and selling rates are 91 and 91.85. Chinese Yuan buying and selling rates are 18.1 and 18.25. Indian Rupee buying and selling rates are 1.65 and 1.72.
We collect currency rates from local exchanges and local forex market of different cities including Lahore, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Islamabad, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Sialkot, and Multan.
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BRUMMIES 40 PLYMOUTH 50
BIRMINGHAM skipper Tom Bacon has pleaded with the club's supporters to stick by them following a second successive home defeat.
The Edwards Plumbing Brummies had been beaten at Perry Barr last week by title favourites Mildenhall, but their 50-40 loss to Plymouth this time around was much more disappointing.
Birmingham managed just four heat advantages and again struggled without the firepower of injured heat-leader Danyon Hume.
And while No.1 Bacon was untouchable, romping to a 15-point max, it wasn't enough to stop the Brummies falling to their fifth defeat in six in all competitions.
"It was a real tough night for the team," Bacon admitted.
"We know we couldn't underestimate Plymouth and what they could do and bringing in Alfie (Bowtell) as a guest probably made them even stronger.
"We're having it tough at the minute but we still need to give more as a team.
"Dan (Greenwood) is just lacking race fitness at the moment and that will come; we know what he's capable of and we know he'll do a job for us while he's here.
"On a positive note though I thought Sheldon (Davies) rode well again tonight and he deserved more points than he actually got.
"He's already shown some real glimpses of what he can do and he always gives it 100 per cent effort which is always good to see.
"Everyone's just working so hard to get a team out there to challenge again.
"Laurence (Rogers - team manager), David and Peter (Mason - co-owners) have been working non-stop behind the scenes to try and get things back on track.
"But it's so hard and no-one should underestimate them for what they're trying to do for this club.
"We need the fans to stick with us and really get behind us though; it's easy when you're winning meetings for fun and everything is going well.
"But it's through these tougher times where you need everyone to stick together and I know it's been a frustrating couple of weeks, but we're giving it everything we've got."
The Brummies have a chance to make amends for their latest defeat when they travel to Stoke this Saturday (July 28, 7pm).
BIRMINGHAM 40: Tom Bacon 15, James Shanes 10+1, Leon Flint 5, Dan Greenwood 5, Sheldon Davies 3, Callum Walker 2, Jamie Sealey 0.
PLYMOUTH 50: Henry Akins 10, Alfie Bowtell 10, Ryan Terry-Daley 8+2, Ellis Perks 8, Macauley Leek 7+3, Richard Andrews 7+2, Bradley Andrews R/R.


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Review & Outlook
The Western Land Revolt
The Bundy siege is wrong, but so is government abuse.
Jan. 5, 2016 7:36 pm ET
Ammon Bundy on January 5 near Burns, Oregon.
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
As the FBI seeks to end the citizen takeover of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, it's worth reflecting on what is behind the rising civil disobedience in the American West. The armed occupation of federal buildings is inexcusable, but so are federal land-management abuses and prosecutorial overreach.
Activists on Saturday broke into an unoccupied building on the 187,000-acre federal refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers. The group's spokesman is Ammon Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, a Nevadan who in 2014 came to national attention over his standoff with the Bureau of Land Management. The younger Bundy is a political grandstander, and many in Oregon oppose his illegal siege.
The drama is bringing attention to legitimate grievances, especially the appalling federal treatment of the Hammond family. The Hammonds' problems trace to 1908, when Theodore Roosevelt set aside 89,000 acres around Malheur Lake as a bird refuge. The government has since been on a voracious land-and-water grab, coercing the area's once-thriving ranchers to sell.
The feds have revoked dozens of grazing permits and raised the price of the few it issues. It has mismanaged the area's water, allowing ranchlands to flood. It has harassed landowners with regulatory actions that raise the cost of ranching, then has bought out private landowners to more than double the refuge's size.
The Hammonds are one of the last private owners in the Harney Basin, and they have endured federal harassment over their water rights, the revocation of their grazing permits, restricted access to their property, and prosecutorial abuse.
In 2001 the family told authorities it planned to set a managed fire on its land to fight invasive species. The fire accidently spread over 139 acres of public land before the Hammonds extinguished it. In 2006 the family tried to save its winter feed from a lightning fire by setting "back fires" on its property (a common practice), which burnt an acre of public land.
Years later, in 2011, the feds charged Dwight Hammond and his son Steven with nine counts under the elastic Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. A federal jury found them guilty only of setting the two fires they had admitted to starting, and federal Judge Michael Hogan sentenced the father to three months and the son to a year in prison. He said the federal minimum of five years would not meet "any idea I have of justice, proportionality" and would "shock the conscience." The feds appealed the sentence and another judge ordered both Hammonds to serve the full five years. They also owe $400,000 in supposed fire-related costs.
Many in rural Oregon view this as a government vendetta. Rusty Inglis, who worked for the Forest Service for 34 years and now runs a local Oregon farm bureau, recently told a trade magazine that it's "obvious" that "the BLM and the wildlife refuge want that ranch." The Oregon Farm Bureau called the sentences "gross government overreach." The ideology of "national" land has become the club to punish private landowners who are the best source of economic stability and conservation.
The Bundy occupation of federal land can't be tolerated, but the growing Western opposition to government harassment of private landowners ought to be a source of political concern. Ted Cruz and others are right to caution the occupiers against their sit-in, but the federal bureaucracy also needs to be reined in.
Appeared in the January 6, 2016, print edition.
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I just wanted to know if you had kept the above files and also the class-files ..... Thanks for the interest ..
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Kim Clijsters gives birth to third child
Kim Clijsters is now a mother of three!
The Belgian gave birth to a baby boy and shared the news on Twitter on October 30th. The retired tennis pro has daughter Jada Elle, or better said Mini Kim, who is already a school kid, toddler Jack Leon Lynch, and now a newborn son Blake Richard Lynch.
Doesn't Kim have it all? I think the timeline of her life and career are the best case scenario. The former world No.1 player and Grand Slam champion got married to Brian Lynch in 2007, had her first child a year later, then returned to tennis to casually win three more Grand Slam titles (US Open 2009 & 2010, Australian Open 2011), then retired in 2012, gave birth to her second child in 2013, and now at the age of just 33 the tennis legend has welcomed her third child.
Congratulations to Kim and her happy family!
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liz cole January 14, 2017 At 5:34 am
comgratulations kim liz sydney x
Thomas February 13, 2017 At 7:29 pm
I am really touched. Kim Clijsters is my true inspiration. The world needs more women like that!
Emman Damian February 14, 2017 At 10:18 am
Congratulations Kim!
Lyn Roylance-Hosking February 18, 2017 At 1:51 pm
What a great tennis player Kim was, and such a great person now mother of three beautiful children and a great husband. Congratulations Kim we all miss you in Australia. xo


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