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Justin Bieber sampling Martin Luther King Jr. speeches on an album about his marriage is performative nonsense
Callie Ahlgrim
Mar 20, 2021, 04:52 IST
Justin Bieber in the music video for "Peaches."Justin Bieber/YouTube
Justin Bieber's new album "Justice" begins with a famous quote from Martin Luther King Jr.
It also has a song called "MLK Interlude," which is an excerpt of a 1967 sermon delivered by King.
The album has nothing to do with civil rights. Sampling the activist is performative.
The first voice you hear on Justin Bieber's newest album does not belong to the pop star himself. Bizarrely, it belongs to Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
It's one of the late activist's most famous quotes, delivered in his immediately recognizable baritone.
It's also the only time the hefty concept of "injustice anywhere" is broached, and one of just two times the word "justice" is used on the album, which is somehow titled "Justice." Bieber himself never says it.
After King's brief intro, Bieber launches into a set of lyrics about love so grand that he doesn't even want to sleep, lest he squanders one second that could be spent staring at his wife.
The opening song, titled "2 Much," is much too representative of the 16-song tracklist.
In fact, 14 of those songs tread the same lyrical terrain. Like 2020's underwhelming "Changes," Bieber spends nearly the entire album singing about Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin), their relationship, and how he sees marriage as a balm for self-hatred.
The only exceptions include the closing track, "Lonely," which describes child stardom's toll on Bieber's psyche.
The other is "MLK Interlude," a one-minute and 44-second excerpt of one of King's lesser-known sermons from 1967.
"I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren't fit to live," King begins in the clip.
He goes on to say that if you refuse "to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause," then your spirit is already dead.
"You died when you refused to stand up for justice," he concludes - though the final word is cut off very quickly, perhaps intentionally, so it sounds like he's saying "Justin."
The very next song is called "Die For You," in which Bieber sings that he "would walk through burning fire" for "the type of girl you only dream about."
-RacismSummitBookingAgent (@KirkWrites79) March 19, 2021
Sampling King feels empty and reductive when the album has nothing to do with civil rights
Bieber told Vogue that he wanted to "amplify Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice to this generation."
"I think his message was that a lot of people can be afraid to stand up for what is right," he said, "but if you're not standing up for justice - for what is right - what are you doing with your life?"
What's baffling - and somewhat embarrassing - is that Bieber spends exactly zero seconds on this album "standing up for justice" in his own words.
"I'm sorry to get so deep, but these are the times we're living in," he added in his Vogue interview. "That's why I wanted to make this album because I think it's very timely and very necessary."
And yet, there isn't one song on "Justice" that can be described as "very timely and very necessary."
Instead of examining and engaging with King's message, much less educating himself on the radical progress that King actually fought for, Bieber isolates and bastardizes his words. He attempts to conflate them with his own personal views on romance, sex, and domesticity.
Martin Luther King delivering a speech on September 10, 1963.Santi Visalli/Getty images
In conjunction with the album, the 27-year-old singer did announce his support of several social justice organizations, including The King Center. King's daughter, Bernice King, also gave the album her stamp of approval on Twitter.
After the historic protests of 2020, Bieber is clearly trying to align himself with Black Lives Matter. But the album makes no explicit mention of racial issues like discrimination or police brutality.
There's nothing in Bieber's own words to address the inequalities that infect every corner of our society, including the music industry.
-☠B-MO☠ (@BIMMERBRYCEO) March 19, 2021
To be clear, there is no requirement for activism in pop music. Nobody asked Bieber to make a protest album.
But he invited that expectation by naming the album "Justice" in a time of great civil unrest and ever-growing inequality - and, on top of that, by evoking the specific struggle for Black liberation.
To borrow a phrase from a woman named Mariah on Twitter, it all reeks of "performative white nonsense."
-Mariah (@grammaticalerer) March 19, 2021
By using King's sermon about political action in the face of violence - made all the more poignant by King's assassination at age 39 - as a prelude to a love song about a wealthy white woman, Bieber profits from King's words without honoring his movement. He indicates that he had no intention of spotlighting any worldview beyond his own.
It recalls a "comfortable vanity" and ineffectual version of white leftism that King himself criticized.
Bieber even told Vogue that he named the album "Justice" because "there's so much injustice in this world" - before adding, "My name actually means justice, so there's that."
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Q: why does the *#uniqueID selector exist if the ID attribute is supposed to be unique? I understand that there is a *.className selector since there can be multiple html elements with class=className.
But for the ID attribute which should be unique, why does *# exist and when do we use it?
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A: The * matches any element, not all elements. It is called the universal selector
So *#myid matches any element with id equals myid. In CSS, it does not really matter and it is equivalent to #myid.
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A: Just because IDs are supposed to be unique doesn't mean they are. You can create multiple elements with the same ID, but you shouldn't. CSS doesn't care anyway, lack of uniqueness would just screw with Javascript. For example, if you have this:

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A: Combining the universal selector with the ID, class, or attribute selectors makes no difference: #foo is the same as *#foo, .bar is the same as *.bar, and [baz] is the same as *[baz]. Therefore, you don't want to be using the universal selector in these scenarios.

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Q: Элемент перерисовывается только после onResume() Есть код,
я выбрал цвет, сохранил его List colors;
дальше я говорю пяти элементам взять последние пять цветов и применить его пяти элементам на экране. То есть элементы должны перерисоваться, но по факту они перерисовываются только после onResume. Как сделать моментальные изменения?
Спасибо.

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What Does Twitter Sell and Who Buys Their Products?
IraMichaelBlonder
On Thursday, November 7, 2013, Twitter became a publicly traded business. The opening price for the TWTR stock, set on November 6, 2013, the day before the IPO, was $26.00 per share. TWTR closed the first day of trading at $44.90, 73% above the opening price. Based on the float, meaning the number of share issued on Twitter's first trading day, the book value of the business is approx $25 Billion.
The Barrons November 11, 2013 edition includes an article written by Alexander Eule, "How Twitter Might Actually be Worth $31 Billion". Eule states "We now know what the broad market is willing to pay for a company with an unpaid workforce of 230 million people that creates (sometimes) compelling content for a global audience".
But do we know anymore about what they sell, and what their target market looks like? From Eule's article, it's safe to conclude "no, we don't". So how do we get to some useful understanding about the product marketing strategy for this business?
Eule's 230 million people, in my opinion, are consumers of Twitter's product, and not an "unpaid workforce" for the company. They buy the Twitter product, which for 99+% of them is absolutely free of charge. These 230 million "Twitterers" can build a page, at no charge, on the Twitter website. As long as they respect Twitter's publishing guidelines, they can publish as frequently as they want to their page, "retweet", reply to "tweets", etc. Twitter's product is a spot on one of the most highly trafficked websites on the Internet. The product marketing opportunity on Twitter's horizon, in my opinion, is to scale the types of space offered to these 230 million (and, hopefully, growing) people, and to build a method of monetizing their consumption of the product.
The public Eule assumes, meaning all the folks reading the content published by Twitter's unpaid 230 million employees, do not exist. In fact, the general public can't review anything on Twitter. Reading content on Twitter requires a Twitter account. So if one tries to extrapolate a Google-like click ad experience for the public on Twitter (which Eule's article suggests to be the case), one is not likely to succeed. The real comparison is with facebook, which has a very similar accessibility requirement.
In the next post to this blog I'll dig a bit deeper into Alexander Eule's article.
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Ira Michael Blonder calls on over thirty five years of experience marketing, promoting & selling tangible and intangible products and services within his consulting practice. He has first hand experience with several very early stage businesses targeted to Fortune 100 customers. The common thread between these early stage efforts is that product and/or service offerings incorporated computer technology. He is an excellent choice for a CEO in need of a trusted advisor as products, promotion and sales are planned.
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Sam Potolicchio (President) – Georgetown University
PGLF Schools: Jordan, Macedonia, Russia
B.A. Government, Georgetown; B.A. Psychology, Georgetown; M.T.S. Theology and Culture, Harvard; PRSE, Harvard; MA, Government, Georgetown; PhD, Government, Georgetown
Dr. Sam Potolicchio is Director of Global and Custom Education at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Distinguished University Professor, Department Chairman and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and the President of the Preparing Global Leaders Forum. Potolicchio was named one of "America's Best Professors" by the Princeton Review, the only one in his field, Future Leader of American Higher Education by the Association of Colleges and Universities, and winner of the OZY Educator Award as one of the six outstanding American educators.
He also serves as a columnist for Newsweek Japan, a Distinguished Global Scholar at the Canterbury School of Fort Myers, and the official lecturer on US politics at the Library of Congress for OWLC, an international leadership program of the United States Congress. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Bologna (Italy) and Mannheim Business School (Germany). Potolicchio is an adviser to prominent business, non-profit and government leaders. He created and designed the first undergraduate degree in Global Governance and Leadership in English in the Russian Federation where he serves as Academic Director.
He has been a visiting professor at New York University and joined Senator Richard Lugar as tag team senior lecturers at UIndy's Semester in Washington. Potolicchio has delivered lectures in over 85 countries, from Oxford, LSE, Cambridge and Yale to Iraq's Komar University and Donetsk State University. As a middle-school basketball coach he led his Little Hoyas to 6 league titles and previously served as a 5th grade Latin teacher, public high school teacher of Law and History and secondary school admissions officer.
Branden Thornhill-Miller (Vice President) – Oxford University
University of Oxford and Paris Descartes University (Sorbonne) B.A. Yale, Ethics, Politics & Economics; M.Div. Harvard, World Religions; Doctorate, University of Oxford, Psychology
Branden Thornhill-Miller is a researcher and a freelance consultant affiliated with the University of Oxford, where he was previously a College Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Studies for Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology for a number of years. Thornhill-Miller's speaking, consulting, and research interests include creativity, individual differences (e.g. personality, intelligence, culture, gender, psychometric tests, and test/survey development), the psychology of religion (especially fundamentalism, identity and conflict, mysticism, and meaning-making), behavioral economics (including cognitive biases and decision-making), behavioral change, well-being and "gross national happiness," leadership, and other aspects of social, political and organizational psychology.
Thornhill-Miller believes that every leader needs to be a good psychologist (and have psychologists as advisers), and that psychology, properly pursued, should be re-envisioned as a subdiscipline of many other fields with the potential for improving the full range of human processes and interactions. He is also keenly interested in the application and effects of new technologies. Given our unprecedented technological powers and the range of possibilities becoming available to us, he has argued (e.g. in his course "Psychology for Global Leaders: Understanding Ourselves and Challenges of the Modern World") that we now need to see human nature as the key to understanding human future in an evolving globalized world.
In addition to his research Thornhill-Miller works as a consultant, individual coach, and organizational advisor in his areas of interest. As vice president of Omni Art Design he has also functioned as a visual artist, creativity consultant, and advisor for large-scale community- and identity-building projects. In the past he has been employed as an innovator for business (e.g. building and programming computers to run new industrial production lines for a Fortune 500 company), as a Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill, and as Visiting Professor of Literature at Beijing University. Early in his career he was one of twenty-three scholars from different disciplines and around the world invited by the Foundation for the Future to discuss the problems and possibilities facing humanity's long-term survival.
Thornhill-Miller received his bachelor's degree in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, where he was vice president of the student government, coordinator of the Yale Club in Washington, D.C., and worked independently with Harold Bloom in literature, with Robert Dahl and Ian Shapiro in Political Science, and Jonathan Feinstein in economics. While doing his Masters of Divinity focusing on world religions at Harvard, he became Director of the Inter-religious Dialogue Program for the Boston Theological Institute (a consortium of nine schools, including Harvard, Boston University and Boston College). He was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar from the US, but went as a Harvard Knox Fellow to pursue doctoral studies in psychology at the University of Oxford.
Harry Verhoeven – Oxford, SFS Qatar
PGLF Schools: Jordan, Russia
BSc & MA, Political and Social Sciences, Gent University; MSc, Global Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science; DPhil, St Cross College and Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford
Prof Harry Verhoeven teaches at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. His research focuses on elite politics, conflict and the political economy of the environment in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region. He was founder of the the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN) in 2008-2009 and remains a Co-Convenor of OUCAN. From October 2016 onwards, he is a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.
Harry Verhoeven completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2014 and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College from 2013 to 2014. He was a founder of the Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF). Outside academia, he has worked in Northern Uganda, Sudan, India and Democratic Republic of Congo. He has provided consultancy services to and collaborated with the World Bank, UNDP Sudan, Chatham House, Small Arms Survey and several governments. His work has been funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Judith Wilcox – CEO Gwathmey Inc.; Harvard University
PGLF Schools: Jordan, Macedonia
BA, University of Pennsylvania; V.M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Ohio State University; Post-doctoral fellowship, Cardiology, Harvard Medical School
Judith Wilcox, who until recently was Judith Gwathmey, earned her BA in 1972 and her V.M.D. in 1977 from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1983, and then did a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Cardiology division from 1983-86. She taught at Harvard Medical School from 1986 through 1995, and has held appointments at a number of schools including Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Boston University. In 1996 she founded Gwathmey Preclinical Services (Gwathmey Inc.) , where she served as Chief Scientific Officer, Chief Executive Officer and later President.
Gwathmey Inc. worked closely with industry and academics to shepherd new drugs and treatments through the animal testing needed to win FDA approval. The company also conducted its own research and won tens of millions in funding from government and private organizations, and holds several patents. As scientist, Dr.Wilcox has won many awards including the Daniel D. Savage Award for Outstanding Research in Clinical Investigation of Heart Failure from the American Association of Black Cardiologists. She was the first non-MD inducted into the American College of Cardiology in 1990, and has served as charter member of many NIH study sections. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Wilcox earned a number of awards, including The Tibbets Award for Excellence in Technology Development from the Small Business Administration. She has won several Inner City Entrepreneurs Awards.
A video that Dr. Gwathmey developed to promote her institute at Harvard won the Will Solimene Award for Excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. But Dr. Wilcox's passion is mentoring young people. She has mentored students from high school through graduate and professional degrees, and young professionals throughout their careers. She has mentored men and women of all backgrounds, but has specially focused on women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She has served as a mentor for young physician-scientists at Morehouse School of Medicine, the oldest historically black medical school in America. In 2003 she won the Distinguished Alumnus for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Mentoring from the Ohio State University. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Presidential Mentoring Award in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, from the Office of the President and the National Science Foundation. An early testimonial to her mentoring style can be found here.Dr. Wilcox has also been involved in civic activism. In 2008 she founded and chaired the Citizens for King William County, a voluntary association that sought to promote the historical character and environmental stability of King William County.
Against all odds and the "wisdom" of longtime county politicians, this organization helped to block a well-funded development plan that would have damaged the environment and the tranquility of this county, and to motivate citizens to replace well-entrenched incumbent politicians in a landslide election. Dr. Wilcox's career – from a segregated school to Harvard Medical School and president of her own company, her mentoring of more than 100 young people, and her civic activism have led to some awards that she finds personally important. "Outstanding Woman of the Year" from the St. Paul's Baptist Church in Aylett V.A., and "Woman of Conviction" from the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
Clyde Wilcox – Georgetown University
B.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., The Ohio State University; M.A., The Ohio State University
Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University, where he has taught for more than 25 years. He has been an endowed lecturer at the University of Toronto and the University of Tokyo. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books on religion and politics, gender politics, money in politics, interest groups and lobbying, and science fiction and politics. He has also written hundreds of journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics. His writing has been translated into several languages, including Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Bosnian, and Hebrew.
For 25 years Wilcox has met with international visitor groups brought to the US by the U.S. State Department. He has met spoken to groups from almost every country in the world. He has also lectured in many countries to academic and citizen groups and on behalf of the U.S. State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Organization of American States, including Japan, Spain, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Italy, Costa Rica, Columbia, Germany, Beligium, Denmark Sweden, UK, Uganda, Kenya, Hungary, Poland, Canada, China, Aruba, UAE, Turkey, and Russia. He has done digital video conferences to many countries including Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Nigeria. He has participated as an invited guest in Salzburg Seminars on gender politics and on East-West values.
Wilcox has consulted with presidential candidates, as well as local candidates in the U.S., Brazil, and elsewhere. He has spearheaded an effort to replace a county board in rural Virginia, and been an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Election Commission, the state of New York, and interest groups. He has consulted for the Mini Page. For more than a dozen years Wilcox has trained American diplomats in answering difficult questions, and has trained and/or lectured to diplomats in Poland, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. He has done professional training for the U.S. Defense Department, the government of Aruba, and for citizen groups in Spain and Mexico.
Lise Morjé Howard – Georgetown University
PGLF Schools: Russia
A.B., Soviet Studies and Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Lise Morjé Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She has served as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and was the founding director of the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.B. in Soviet Studies magna cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and she has held pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University (Center for International Security and Cooperation), Harvard University (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), and the University of Maryland (Center for International Development and Conflict Management).
Dr. Howard's research and teaching interests span the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and conflict resolution. Her work focuses on civil wars, peacekeeping, U.S. foreign policy, and area studies of sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. She has published several articles and book chapters on these topics. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, and it won the 2010 Book Award from the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS) for the best book on the UN system published in the previous three years. She is currently working on several projects about U.S. foreign policy in ethnic conflict, the use of force in UN peacekeeping operations, and norms of civil war termination. She recently helped to make a documentary film about UN peacekeeping for ARTE. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal "International Peacekeeping."
Dr. Howard has received awards for her work on peacekeeping from the Soroptimist International, the Barnard College Alumnae Association, and the James D. Kline Fund. She has received support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the National Security Education Program, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Dr. Howard is fluent in French and Russian, and speaks some Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Spanish, and German. Prior to beginning graduate school, she served as Acting Director of UN Affairs for the New York City Commission for the United Nations.
Marc Morjé Howard – Georgetown University
B.A., Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale University; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Georgetown University
Marc Morjé Howard is Professor of Government and Law at Georgetown University, and he is the author of Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He is the founding Director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative, which brings together scholars, practitioners, and students to examine the problem of mass incarceration from multiple perspectives. He also teaches regularly in the Prison Scholars Program at the Jessup Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Maryland. His work addresses the deep challenges of contemporary democracy and the tragedy of criminal justice and prisons in America.
In addition to his work on prison reform, Howard is the author of two prize-winning books, along with numerous academic articles in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, and the Journal of Democracy, as well as op-eds in the New York Times and Newsday. He has also written several pieces about the life lessons of sports in Tennis Magazine and Sports Illustrated, including one about being Ivan Lendl's practice partner and another about playing tennis with the San Quentin prison tennis team.
Howard received his B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from Georgetown University.
Grigore Pop-Eleches – Princeton University
B.A. Social Studies, Harvard; PhD, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Grigore Pop-Eleches is Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Pop-Eleches was born and raised in communist Romania, where he graduated from high school a few months after the fall of the Ceausescu dictatorship. Shortly afterwards he received a scholarship to attend Philips Academy Andover for a year and then attended Harvard College, from where he graduated in 1995 with a B.A. in Social Studies (summa cum laude). After working for two years in New York City as a business analyst for McKinsey and Company, he pursued a PhD in Political Science at University of California, Berkeley, which he received in 2003 shortly before moving to Princeton University.
His teaching and research interests lie at the intersection between political economy, democratization and comparative political behavior, with a particular interest in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Over the past decade he has worked and published on a number of different topics, including: the politics of IMF programs in Eastern Europe and Latin America; the role of historical legacies in post-communist regime change and political attitudes; the rise of unorthodox political parties in East Europe; the role of structural conditions, elections and foreign aid in post-Cold War political liberalization; and the drivers of ethnic and regional identity and conflict in post-Soviet countries (especially Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine).
His first book, entitled From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe was published by Princeton University Press in February 2009 and won the 2010 Best Book Award from the European Politics & Society Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), as well as an honorable mention for the 2010 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). His second book, co-authored with Joshua Tucker (NYU), entitled Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Political Attitudes, is forthcoming at Princeton University Press. His work has also appeared in a variety of academic journals, including The Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, and in mass media outlets, including The Washington Post and Al Jazeera English. His research has been supported grants from a variety of organizations, including the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), the Smith Richardson Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research.
Pop-Eleches has served as an Academic Expert for the Club of Madrid meeting held in Prague in November 2005 on the topic "Democracy in the Post-Communist World: Unfinished Business. What has been learned and how can it be applied?" and as a Country Expert for Romania for the 2014 and 2015 Sustainable Governance Indicators Report of the Bertelsmann Foundation.
Abdul El-Sayed – Columbia University
PGLF Schools: Russia, Jordan
BS, Biology and Political Science, University of Michigan; MD, Colubmia University; DPhil, Population Health, Oxford University
Professor Abdulrahman M El-Sayed is a Population Health Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University, where he directs the Columbia University Systems Science Program and co-directs the Global Research Analytics in Population Health initiative. His research considers the intersections between society and health, health disparities, and the uses of simulation modeling in epidemiology.
Dr El-Sayed is also Fellow at Dēmos, a non-partisan public policy center. His commentary has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Al-Jazeera, The Guardian, Project Syndicate, and Huffington Post. He is also a regular commentator on public health and medical issues at Al Jazeera America.
Dr El-Sayed earned a doctorate in Population Health from Oxford University, and an MD from Columbia University. He is a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan with Highest Distinction in Biology and Political Science. He was named a Rhodes Scholar, a Soros Fellow for New Americans, a Global Policy Innovator by the Carnegie Council, Global Governance Futures Fellow, University of Michigan Student of the Year, and University of Michigan Commencement Speaker. His awards include the University of Michigan William Jennings Bryan Prize in Political Science, Phi Beta Kappa, and numerous research excellence awards.
Stefano Bianchini – University of Bologna
PGLF Schools: Jordan
BA, Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia; MA, Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia; PhD, Economics, University of Strasbourg jointly with Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Stefano Bianchini is Professor of East European Politics and History at the School of Political Science, University of Bologna and the co-director of the European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights in SEE (Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna).
He is currently Vice-Rector's delegate for the relations with East European Countries and the Director of the Unit of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Forlì Campus.
As an expert of Balkan issues, particularly on Yugoslavia and its successor states in politics, contemporary history and international relations, he published several books and articles in Italian, French, English and other languages.He was an advisor of the ICTY, in the Hague. Editor in Chief of the English Series on the Balkan and East-Central Europe (Longo Publ., Ravenna), he is the Executive Editor of «Southeastern Europe», Brill, Leiden. His last book is Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity 1800-2000, Abington-New York: Routledge, 2015. Others publications: Partitions. Reshaping States and Minds, written with S. Chaturvedi, R. Ivekovic e R. Samaddar (Frank Cass, 2005 e 2015; Indian Reprint, 2007); Sarajevo, Le Radici dell'odio. (Edizioni Associate, three editions in Italy 1996-2003), and La Questione jugoslava, Giunti, Firenze (again three editions in Italy and translations in France and Romania). In Russian: Shodnyje čerty i protivorečivost' kulturno-istoričeskogo razvitija IN: Alla A. Jaz'kova (ed.), Jugo-Vostočnaja Evropa v Epohu Kardinaljnyh Peremen, Ves' Mir, Moskva, 2007, pp. 89-113. Professor Bianchini was a professional actor before he became an academic.
Colleen Harris – Former Press Secretary to their Royal Highnesses: Prince Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry
PGLF Schools: Macedonia
BA, English, Sussex University; Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching, Bristol Business School
Colleen Harris is an expert in personal brand development and communication with a distinguished career in the British Civil Service that included senior positions in the Royal Household, the office of Deputy Prime Minister, and Cabinet office. Harris served as Press Secretary for his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales and helped to manage the emergence of Prince William and Prince Harry into the international media spotlight. Prior to becoming the Press Secretary for the Prince of Wales, Harris enjoyed a long career in the British Civil Service. She was the first Black press officer in the office of the Prime Minister under Margaret Thatcher and the first Black member of the Royal Household.
Harris founded and has led Colleen Harris Associates for the past seven years, consulting on media relations, communications, personal branding, and diversity. She also serves as a public relations advisor to the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis. Harris has worked across the world as a consultant with numerous companies, non-profit organizations, and UN Agencies such as the World Health Organization. In addition to her extensive and diverse professional experience, Harris also holds many trusteeships and board positions at various organizations in the arts, education, and health.
Prior to entering the Civil Service, Harris studied English at Sussex University and she also holds a Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching from Bristol Business School. Harris's many years of experience in a wide variety of organizations that have equipped her to understand the management of individual reputations, as well as how to use brand-development techniques to help clients identify and take full advantage of their strengths and skills – equipping them to define their own public profiles, and achieve personal and business success. Harris's board-level and executive experience has given her insight into how to inspire and lead teams, as well as insight into the qualities that CEOs and boards look for in high-level executives.
Justin Gest – Harvard, LSE
BA, Government, Harvard; PhD, Government, London School of Economics
Justin Gest is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, minority political behavior, and immigration policy.
In the field of minority political behavior, his earlier research focused on Muslim political behavior in Western democracies. This work was collected in Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2010). He recently published a follow-up study that applies his conclusions to white working class people. This work is entitled The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2016).
In the field of comparative immigration politics, his research compares immigration regimes across dozens of countries worldwide. This work is being collected in a forthcoming monograph entitled Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2017). He is pursuing related work on immigration policy as part of the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) Database.
His research has been published or is forthcoming in journals including Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Governance, Global Policy, the International Migration Review, Migration Studies, and the Review of Middle Eastern Studies. He has also published commentary, analysis or contributed reporting to a number of newspapers including The Boston Globe, The Guardian, the Houston Chronicle, The Hill, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Times, and The Washington Post.
From 2010 to 2014, Professor Gest was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in Harvard University's Department of Government. In 2014, he received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard's highest award for teaching. In 2013, he received the 2013 Star Family Prize for Student Advising, Harvard's highest award for student advising. From 2007 to 2010, while a doctoral student, he co-founded and served as the co-director of the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He is a product of Los Angeles Unified School District's University High School in West Los Angeles, where he grew up. He later earned his bachelor's degree in Government at Harvard University and his PhD in Government from the LSE.
Hans Noel – Georgetown University
BSJ, Journalism, Northwestern; PhD, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Hans Noel is a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of "Political Parties and Political Ideologies in America" (Cambridge University Press) and a co-author of "The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform" (University of Chicago Press).
His research has received several awards, including the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article in Perspectives on Politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Political Organizations and Parties "Emerging Scholar Award" one of the highest distinctions in the field. He has received fellowships with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.
Prof. Noel's research has appeared in the top academic publications in the field including the Journal of Politics, Party Politics, American Politics Research, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and the British Journal of of Political Science. He blogs at Mischiefs of Faction and for The Washington Post. Prof. Noel has given lectures on the American political system around the world.Before going into academia, Prof. Noel worked as an editor at The Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star, a daily newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the co-director and co-producer of an award-winning feature film, The Rest of Your Life, released in 2001.
Garrett M. Graff – POLITICO Magazine and Georgetown University
Garrett M. Graff was an editor of POLITICO Magazine and the former Editor of The Washingtonian magazine. He is widely recognized both as one of the nation's leading experts on technology and politics as well as a rising star in the media industry. Of his first book, "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House" (FSG, 2007), which examined the role of technology in the 2008 presidential race, The New York Times' literary critic Michiko Kakutani wrote, "The astonishingly young Mr. Graff (who was born in 1981) proves in these pages that he is a cogent writer, willing to tackle large-scale issues and problems."
Graff joined POLITICO Magazine as a senior staff writer in July 2014 and became editor in January 2015. As editor Graff leads the magazine portion of one of the most popular political journalism outlets in America. Prior to joining POLITICO Magazine, Graff spent nine years at The Washingtonian including five years as editor-in-chief. After four years with The Washingtonian covering politics and Washington life, Graff became in September 2009 only the third editor in the magazine's 44-year history. The Washingtonian, which calls itself "the magazine Washington lives by," has a monthly print readership of about 300,000 and a million monthly readers online. He's been named by PR Week as one of four "new media" journalists to watch and one of ten "rising stars" by the magazine industry trade magazine, Folio. When Graff was appointed editor, Gawker.com wrote he was "an up and coming whippersnapper if we have ever seen one." During his time as editor, the magazine won many of the industry's most prestigious recognitions—including the Gerald R. Ford Prize for National Defense Reporting, a James Beard nomination for its food coverage, and the Livingston Award for National Reporting, and the City/Regional Magazine Association's awards for Online Excellence and General Excellence.
His second book, "The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror," was published in Spring 2011 by Little, Brown. It traced the history of the FBI's counterterrorism program since the death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972, its rise as a global police force, and profiles Robert Mueller, the current and longest-serving FBI Director since Hoover himself. The book, which hit #5 on the Washington Post's list of political bestsellers, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, which called it an "action-filled, richly detailed portrait of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" and said, "There's solid storytelling at work here—and quite a story to tell, too." Kirkus later named "The Threat Matrix" one of the best nonfiction books of 2011. The CIA, in its in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence,said, the book is "a well-told story and a reading pleasure." Graff also teaches internet and social media at Georgetown University in the school's master's in journalism and communications program. Previously, he was the founding editor of mediaBistro.com's Fishbowl D.C. (www.FishbowlDC.com), a popular blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington, and co-founder of EchoDitto, Inc., a multi-million-dollar Washington, D.C.-based internet strategy consulting firm.
A Vermont native and graduate of Harvard, he served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean's first webmaster. As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing in 2005, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology, and his reporter's notebook from that first day in the White House hangs in the Newseum in Washington, DC. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the media representative on the Harvard Kennedy School's Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century, where he authored a white paper, "Courts are Conversations: An Argument for Increased Engagement by Court Leaders." He also currently sits on the corporate advisory board of So Others Might Eat(SOME) in Washington, DC, and on the board of the congressionally-chartered National Conference on Citizenship.
He is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow in the British-American Project. His writing and commentary has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired, New York, 5280, the Politico, and the Huffington Post, and he has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNBC, MSNBC, CBC, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and various NPR programs, as well as local and regional television and radio channels, and been quoted in publications ranging from US Weekly to the Miami Herald. He contributed to the National Magazine Award-winning "9/11 Encyclopedia" issue of New York magazine. He annually gives more than a score of speeches on the internet, new media, politics, counterterrorism, and the FBI at places like the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Press Club, Harvard Business School, the Defense Department, U.S. Southern Command, the International Spy Museum, and the Google headquarters, as well as universities from Duke and Princeton to the University of Florida and Rice University, as well as to companies, trade groups, and to many international audiences—including Germany's Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the BBC's NewsXChange, Spain's International Seminar of Political Communication, Austria's University of Vienna, and Israel's IDC Herzliya.


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F07353 (Tax Detail) records written by R07200 (Pre-Payroll) for Pennsylvania (PA) employees do not contain the expected Work/Remit tax area record. When a PA employee works in a different PA geocode than they reside in there should be a work/remit 'M' city tax record written that contains the residence tax amount (F07353.RTAX) and remit tax area (F07353.JOBN). However, this zero-tax record with just the RTAX populated is not created when PA employees work in certain tax areas that do not have a non-resident tax rate such as 390492949, 390133290, and 391290057. Employees who work in other tax areas such as 390133091 properly receive a work area 'M' record to remit the residence taxes successfully. In all three of these tax areas the work 'K' head tax is calculated properly and residence taxes are correct as well.


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Colquitt ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Alfred H. Colquitt (1824–1894), US-amerikanischer Politiker und General der Konföderierten im Sezessionskrieg
 Britton Colquitt (* 1986), US-amerikanischer Footballspieler
 Craig Colquitt (* 1954), US-amerikanischer Footballspieler
 Dustin Colquitt (* 1982), US-amerikanischer Footballspieler
 Jimmy Colquitt (* 1963), US-amerikanischer Footballspieler
 Oscar Branch Colquitt (1861–1940), US-amerikanischer Politiker
 Walter T. Colquitt (1799–1855), US-amerikanischer Politiker

Orte in den Vereinigten Staaten:
 Colquitt (Georgia)
 Colquitt (Louisiana)
 Colquitt County, Verwaltungseinheit in Georgia

im NRHP gelistete Objekte:
 Colquitt County Courthouse, in Moultrie, Georgia, ID-Nr. 80001003
 Colquitt County Jail, in Moultrie, Georgia, ID-Nr. 80001004
 Colquitt Town Square Historic District, in Colquitt, Georgia, ID-Nr. 83000237

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This is the second in a series of annual reports based on data collected from the Survey of User Needs (SUN), an ongoing survey conducted by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies (Wireless RERC).
The original Survey of User Needs (SUN1.0) was conducted from 2001-2006, with more than 1200 people responding to that survey. In 2007, the SUN was revised and data collection began with version 2.0 in April 2007.
By December 2007, over 1200 participants had completed SUN 2.0. A year later, another 348 respondents had completed the survey for a total of 1556. 1406 respondents reported one or more functional limitations such as difficulty in learning or remembering, difficulty in doing manual tasks, or difficulty in seeing or hearing. Download the report for survey findings.


Smartphone is it worth the price tag?
Is the Smartphone a smart purchase?
This week I had to stop, pause, and ask myself was I really being smart when it comes to my wireless smartphone? Was the smartphone smarter than me? Yes, it is true, my smartphone delivers on all the promises that are advertised. Yes, I have a seamless interface with all my other devices. Yes, I can connect to my social media, pay my bills and surf the net in a matter of seconds. After reviewing my bill, I asked myself do I really need all the bells and whistles. I began to think, I was so connected and available, I had unknowingly given away my life by becoming 100% accessible.
I have been waiting all summer for the new release of the smartphone model that I have wanted. Now the questions is "what will the new smartphone cost me?" So off to the phone store I went. I arrived 10 minutes after the store opened and still had to wait 20 minutes before a Rep could talk to me. That should have been a sign.
When it was, finally, my turn to talk to a Sales Rep, I asked him to first break down my bill and tell me what I was currently paying. This was an eye opening experience. It was one that caused me to question if I really needed a new smartphone.
The Plan cost me $50 per month (I should have periodically checked my plan, as you should to ensure you are getting the most for your money). By asking the Sales Rep to check my plan I went from $80 per month for 4G to $50 per month for 5G plan. Yes, I got a better plan and saved myself $30.
The cost of the data package was $15 out of contract compared to $40 in contract. Again, just for asking the question, I went from $55/month to $30/month because both my smartphones were now past the contract period.
The insurance for our smartphones was $7 per phone, however there is a $150 deductible. When I asked the Sales Rep what was the trade-in value for my smartphone he said $30. It did not register, until I was driving home that the deductible cost was more than the smartphone was worth. I went right in the house, and called the Sales Rep. I cancelled the insurance policy on my phones. It is no longer necessary since my phones are older making it an unnecessary cost!
Let's review. My monthly bill was $150. Now my monthly bills is $80–not including tax.
Plan cost went down from $80 to $50.
Data cost went down from $55 to $30.
Insurance cost went down from $14 to $0.
Now that I understand what I was paying for my service, what was the cost of the new smartphone? If I get the latest and greatest phone of my choice that would be $35 per month for two years. That is $840 over two years.
This odyssey started because I wanted to upgrade to a new smartphone. After reviewing my bill, I must say that I am not convinced that I really need the latest bells and whistles. Can I really justify spending $840 for features that I may never use? I know I will use them because I am a gadget person; but, do I really need them is the question.
I am still on the fence, however, I promised myself I would wait at least until I received the new bill. Then I would review all my changes before I would purchase a smartphone. I am going to shop around for the best deal. There maybe a better option available than on the proposed purchase of my new smartphone.
This exercise taught me a lesson. I must review my plans.
For all auto-pay bills that I am paying blindly, watch out Cable Rep, Insurance Rep and all the other Reps, I will be calling to review my bill.
I am smarter now–thanks to my smartphone adventure. I going to review my plans. I want the best bargain. Who knows, maybe I can find an extra $840.


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Q: Typescript - Generic type extending itself I recently came across something that looked like this:
interface Test<T extends Test<T>> {
  a: number;
  b: T;
}

function foo <T extends Test<T>>(el: T): T {
  ...
}

I have to say I am a bit perplexed as to what exactly this is, and why something like this would be required. I've been through the Generics section of the Typescript handbook but couldn't find anything similar.
What does that interface achieve that can't be done with something like the following?
interface Test<T>

Can anyone shed some light on this?

A: public static foo<TType extends number | string, T extends Tree<TType>>(data: T[]): T[] {
    console.log(data[0].key);
    return
}

export interface Tree<T> {
    label?: string;
    data?: any;
    parent?: Tree<T>;
    parentId?: T;
    key?: T;
}

A: Without the actual example, I can only speak in generalities.  That sort of syntax is what you need in a language like Java that doesn't have polymorphic this types, which I'll get to shortly.

The idea is that you want a generic type that refers to other objects of the same type as its containing class or interface. Let's look at your Test interface:
interface Test<T extends Test<T>> {
  a: number;
  b: T;
}

This describes a linked-list-like structure where the b property of a Test<T> must also be a Test<T>, since T extends Test<T>.  But additionally, it must be (a subtype of) the same type as the parent object.  Here's an example of two implementations:
interface ChocolateTest extends Test<ChocolateTest> {
  flavor: "chocolate";
}
const choc = {a: 0, b: {a: 1, flavor: "chocolate"}, flavor: "chocolate"} as ChocolateTest;
choc.b.b = choc;

interface VanillaTest extends Test<VanillaTest> {
  flavor: "vanilla";
}
const vani = {a: 0, b: {a: 1, flavor: "vanilla"}, flavor: "vanilla"} as VanillaTest;
vani.b.b = vani;

Both ChocolateTest and VanillaTest are implementations of Test, but they are not interchangable.  The b property of a ChocolateTest is a ChocolateTest, while the b property of a VanillaTest is a VanillaTest.  So the following error occurs, which is desirable:
choc.b = vani; // error!

Now you know when you have a ChocolateTest that the entire list is full of other ChocolateTest instances without worrying about some other Test showing up:
choc.b.b.b.b.b.b.b.b.b // <-- still a ChocolateTest

Compare this behavior to the following interface:
interface RelaxedTest {
  a: number;
  b: RelaxedTest;
}

interface RelaxedChocolateTest extends RelaxedTest {
  flavor: "chocolate";
}
const relaxedChoc: RelaxedChocolateTest = choc;

interface RelaxedVanillaTest extends RelaxedTest {
  flavor: "vanilla";
}
const relaxedVani: RelaxedVanillaTest = vani;

You can see that RelaxedTest doesn't constrain the b property to be the same type as the parent, just to some implementation of RelaxedTest.  So far, it looks the same, but the following behavior is different:
relaxedChoc.b = relaxedVani; // no error

This is allowed because relaxedChoc.b is of type RelaxedTest, which relaxedVani is compatible with.  Whereas choc.b is of type Test<ChocolateTest>, which vani is not compatible with.

That ability of a type to constrain another type to be the same as the original type is useful.  It's so useful, in fact, that TypeScript has something called polymorphic this for just this purpose.  You can use this as a type to mean "the same type as the containing class/interface", and do away with the generic stuff above:
interface BetterTest {
  a: number;
  b: this; // <-- same as the implementing subtype
}

interface BetterChocolateTest extends BetterTest {
  flavor: "chocolate";
}
const betterChoc: BetterChocolateTest = choc;

interface BetterVanillaTest extends BetterTest {
  flavor: "vanilla";
}
const betterVani: BetterVanillaTest = vani;

betterChoc.b = betterVani; // error!

This acts nearly the same as the original Test<T extends Test<T>> without the possibly mind-bending circularity.  So, yeah, I'd recommend using polymorphic this instead, unless you have some compelling reason to do it the other way.
Since you said you came across this code, I wonder if it was some code from before the introduction of polymorphic this, or by someone who didn't know about it, or if there is some compelling reason I don't know about. Not sure.

Hope that makes sense and helps you.  Good luck!


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Q: How to add a .png as a repeating fill for a SVG element I am trying to add a repeating .png as the filler for a SVG polygon element that does not scale with the svg responsive width.
I have the .png added as a Pattern and that is now applied to the svg element but the repeated images scale down to a smaller size on mobile. I need the repeated .png images not to scale.
Suggestions?
Thanks!

A: If the pattern is part of the SVG, it will scale with the SVG.  You cannot avoid that.  SVG2 will probably support non-scaling patterns, but that doesn' help you now.
What you could do is apply the pattern as a background to a <div> and use the SVG as a CSS mask applied to that <div>.


One of the dilemmas facing trainers, coaches, professional organizers and consultants in time management is that they try hard to be experts, only offering simple or basic training in the field. It's often a wholehearted attempt to simplify things for their learners.
Here's the article which was first published in the Jamaica Gleaner.


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Q: Displaying proportional circles with different colors in QGIS? I am new to GIS and just loaded QGIS this morning.
I would like to display data on a map of Arizona showing power generation type (depicted by color; e.g. coal-black, oil/gas - brown...) and capacity (depicted by a proportionally sized circle).  I have the latitude and longitudinal coordinates of the stations.  I'd also like to have a label for each circle showing the name of the station.
Agua Fria   33.5542 -112.2161   oil/gas 614 MW
Coolidge    32.9175 -111.5041   gas 575 MW
Coronado    34.5778 -109.2717   coal    785 MW
Craig   40.4627 -107.5912   coal    250 MW
Desert Basin    32.9042 -111.7889   gas 581 MW
Four Corners    36.69   -108.4814   coal    154 MW
Gila River  32.9761 -112.694    gas 1650    MW
Hayden  40.4856 -107.185    coal    130 MW
Kyrene  33.3544 -111.9364   oil/gas 410 MW
Mesquite    33.344  -112.8535   gas 625 MW
Navajo  36.9047 -111.3886   coal    969 MW
Palo Verde  33.3869 -112.8626   nuclear 688 MW
Santan  33.3333 -111.751    gas 1219    MW
Springerville   34.3186 -109.1636   coal    417 MW
For the map of Arizona, I would like an outline Arizona.  An added feature would be rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.  In QGIS, I looked at the maps under the web tab and really like Stamen Terrain-USA/OSM map.
Is there a way to control the size of the labels and the visibility of certain labels on the baseline map?
I know nothing about QGIS and it's been ages since I've done any programming.

A: first, you should import as comma separated values "csv" your file with the coordinates, (there's an option, a comma sign, which asks you for lat/long x/y fields on your csv; you want two different symbol levels, one is categoric (coal, gas, pv...), the other is numeric (gwh).
For your categorized variable: right click on your layer>properties>style select categorized, select your field and click classify and apply;
For point size (numeric variable), choose symbol - change option (in the same properties screen), there's a "size" option, click the little window next to it, choose size assistant


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Q: Nagell-Lutz Theorem applied to non-Weierstrass form curves Could someone please explain how to apply the Nagell-Lutz theorem to non-Weierstrass normal form elliptic curves in order to find all the torsion points / points of finite order.
If the answer to this is to simply convert to Weierstrass form, could this transformation please be explained in simple terms?
Thanks
Jamal


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Sweet success for seasonal chocolate
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Seasonal launches accounted for one quarter of global chocolate new product launches in 2016, the biggest area of chocolate new product development, new research suggests.
According to Mintel's Global New Products Database (GNPD), 28% of seasonal launches globally were positioned for Easter in 2016, highlighting the ongoing popularity of eggs, bunnies and other chocolate products.
Those countries accounting for the most Easter chocolate innovation include Brazil, which accounted for 14% of global Easter chocolate product launches, France with an 11% share and South Africa with a 10% share.
Marcia Mogelonsky, director of insight of Mintel Food and Drink, says, "Our research shows that seasonal chocolate tops all chocolate new product development, a testament to the popularity of seasonal treats among consumers across the globe.
"This reflects the fact that these products are typically bought to help celebrate holidays or special occasions. With this in mind, seasonal chocolate is somewhat immune to recessionary pressures as these products are bought on an occasional basis."
"In countries where Easter is celebrated, there has been a broad range of new chocolate products coming to market. Easter egg innovation is especially interesting as manufacturers experiment with a range of products, from sweet to savoury."
Last year, Brits spent £374 million on Easter confectionery. According to Mintel's research, confectionery continues to drive Easter purchases in the UK with 49% of Easter shoppers buying chocolate gifts in 2016. What's more, expenditure on confectionery accounted for approximately 68% of all Easter product spending.
As for this year, I certainly contributed to Easter sales after buying – and eating – rather a lot of chocolate over the weekend.


Kids and parents will "flip out" over Butterfly Flip Top Bottles. Right sized for little hands with an easy to use flip top spout, this bottle is perfect for the transition away from sippy cups, but can also be used as an everyday bottle for school and play. Fits in all mesh side pockets on any Stephen Joseph backpacks, luggage and bags. Don't have a side pocket or bottle holder? No problem, the lid is designed so that it can be easily attached to bags, strollers, or belt loops with a clip or carabineer. Body, lid and straw come apart for easy wash and cleaning.


This Sofia the First Stationary is the key you have waited for to unlock a magical Disney Junior door. Now your child can write a personal letter to Sofia the First so she can send them one back! Print out this beautiful Sofia the First Stationary for your child to write on and decorate. Have your child write their letter, and be sure that your child's first name is legible! Fold it and place it in a standard-sized envelope and address it to: Dear Sofia, 244 Madison Avenue, Box #411, New York, NY 10016; don't forget to add a stamp to make sure it gets to Enchancia! Be sure to clearly write your return address on the envelope so that Sofia can respond and knows where to mail your letter. All letters must be received by 12/31/15 for your child's opportunity to hear back from Sofia.
Use this unique Sofia the First Stationary to send Princess Sofia of Enchancia a personal letter telling her something exciting about you and don't forget to draw her a picture. My girls told her all about their favorite colors, food and even their birthdays! Love Disney? Be sure to check out of all my Disney related posts. For more letter writing stationary or templates you can visit the Dear Sofia page on Disney Junior.
Disclosure: I recently hosted a sponsored #DearSofia letter writing party in my home. The assets above were provided to me for the purposes of hosting the party. I have not been compensated for sharing these templates.
thank you! these are too cute!
Thank you for sharing these and this is so cute and a great idea.
I want to play more with my cousins Morgan,Mckinley and Carson but since they moved I don't see them too much anymore. I could visit them but we think they are always busy.Now I barely have people to play with.My sister doesn't play with me anymore.


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Reacting to the EA Play Press Conference (Roundtable)
Now that we are getting EA Play 2017 in our rear view mirrors a bit, lets take a step back and gather some reactions and responses from our writers about what they saw this past weekend out of Los Angeles.
Josh Houtz
Lots of positive things emerged from EA Play. The most positive appears to be NBA Live, which on the surface seems to have significant potential. Time will tell if it's able to compete with the 2K franchise, but the potential is definitely there.
FIFA 18 looks to take a big leap in its second year utilizing the Frostbite engine. "The Journey" will pick up where it left off, and give users more options in '18. Although it won't run on Frostbite, FIFA 18 will debut on Nintendo Switch.
Lastly, Madden 18 showed off its breathtaking story mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there will be much actual gameplay. Instead it looks to be more decision based, and more like a movie than anything else. Dan Marino makes an appearance, which makes the story mode a must play for any Dolphins fan. Weekend leagues are now a thing and should pay huge dividends for the MUT community. The overall impressions of Madden appear to be positive, and I can't wait to get my chance to play this year's game.
Joel Smith
NBA Live is looking to return to its glory days of many years past — from what we've seen at EA Play thus far, it looks like the decision to pull the game again last year to fully focus on Live 18 might actually pay off in reviving the franchise. Footage looks nothing less than spectacular, and The One looks to be very interesting to say the least. This is the game that's got me most excited; competition from developers leads to better product, and EA is really looking to blow the lid off of the basketball sim genre this year.
In the FIFA realm, my boy Cristiano Ronaldo is FINALLY getting some well deserved love being on the cover, and EA has ensured that he looks pretty dang near real life as possible right down to his open-handed sprinting motion. The team is focusing on both sides of the ball this year, which looks to be a first for current (and maybe even last-gen) FIFA games. This could pay off big time. It also appears they're really trying to escape the clutches of pace play, which has plagued the game for several years and taken away from the realism of the beautiful game. "The Journey" returns, and it looks like although the story will probably be linear like its first iteration, this time around you can have Alex Hunter be the same young, grounded lad trying to make his granddad proud, or turn him into a football rockstar a la Pogba. More customization will lead to some interesting Hunters out there. FIFA is my love of all the EA Sports games, and the pace and realism play they're trying to achieve — which has recently belonged to the PES series in my mind — is going to be an important way they can potentially dominate the soccer battle in 2017-18. If they can get away from the pure speed dynamic that the game tends to lean on, we may really be in for a treat this year.
Lastly, Madden is giving us a Journey-esque story mode with Longshot. The mode looks to have a Hollywood storytelling feel and will carry Devin Wade through a tough ride trying to make it pro. As said by Houtz, gameplay looks to be at a minimum here. For all the eSports guys, MUT is looking to shape up to be, yet again, a good run of gameplay with way more opportunities for good players having a chance to play with the big boys. That's very exciting to say the least.
Overall so far, EA has surprised me at EA Play by really looking to address things that fans have been asking for, while giving us more polish on the titles we love to play.
Kevin Scott
I'm certainly intrigued by this Longshot career mode that EA is introducing with Madden, as it looks as if they are at least trying to do something a little innovative. I do have some reservations about it being essentially a playable movie and only an origin story where you don't even play a game in the NFL, but if it's good, it could serve as the foundation for the mode for years to come.
I'm probably even more excited about some of the small but vital tweaks to the Madden gameplay. The WR-DB mechanics look as if they could add a more dynamic engine in a component of the game that was somewhat lacking in that department — and even the fact that you can now choose how you want to use your DBs to match up against the opponent's WRs is pretty encouraging.
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Being the Best sales professional you can be takes discipline. The problem is most of us get us to doing business a certain way and that certain way determines our income. If you want to make $100,000 then work just like someone who makes $100,000. If you want to make $1,000,000 then work just like someone who makes $1,000,000. This sounds simple, but it really is the truth. Watch the habits and spend time with someone who makes more money than you, and be a selfish listener...meaning take what you can use...make changes and measure results. When you hit a new plateau you will need to continue to innovate, change and be willing to look good and hard at everything you do. Do not be afraid of change as it is the only thing that can lead you to new heights.
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Regardless, such cases are isolated to be honest.
Homestays and B&Bs in Kuching are considered alternatives to budget hotels as they provide shared amenities and tend to be more personal in nature.
Backpackers are known to be the main guest to homestays and B&b's in Kuching.
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Court convicts Internews staffers, rejects office closure
August 5, 2005 12:00 PM EDT
New York, August 5, 2005—A judge in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, convicted two staffers of Internews Network, a U.S.-based media training and advocacy organization, on Thursday of producing television programming without a license and publishing information illegally. Former Internews director Khalida Anarbayeva and accountant Olga Narmuradova will not have to serve the prescribed six-month jail sentences under terms of a presidential amnesty covering women, but they will have criminal records, according to press reports and CPJ sources.
The judge rejected the prosecution's motion to close the local office of Internews, saying the request should be made in civil court. The prosecution hasn't announced its intentions, but Internews Network's country director, Catherine Eldridge, said she expects the matter will go to civil court, The Associated Press reported.
The trial of the two Internews staffers began on July 18. Proceedings were supposed to be open to the public, but the judge ordered journalists, representatives of media and human rights organizations, and international diplomats out of the courtroom, according to Masha Rasner, Internews Network's Washington, D.C., representative.
When delivering the verdict yesterday, the presiding judge said that Internews Network had "started meddling in the politics of Uzbekistan and in the politics of the president and that's why the proceedings were instituted," Internews said in a prepared statement.
Internews Network said it had not produced any information without a license; instead the group had trained Uzbek television stations to produce their own reports on topics such as human rights, the AP reported. "Internews does not hold the production rights in any of the stations it has trained; the rights and license belong to the stations," Rasner told CPJ.
"This was a politicized trial designed to quash efforts to train local journalists to report important news," CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper said. "We call on Uzbek authorities to halt their harassment of Internews Network, and to expunge these specious charges from the records of these two staffers."
Regardless of the potential closure, the Tashkent office of Internews is unable to operate. Its bank account was frozen by the Central Bank in Tashkent in August 2004 without official explanation, Internews told CPJ.
Internews has long been at odds with Uzbek authorities. In September last year, three months ahead of parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan, a Tashkent court shut Internews Network's local affiliate, Internews-Uzbekistan, for six months, for technical violations such as failure to register a logo.
The criminal proceedings against Internews Network staffers come amid Uzbekistan authorities' broad campaign of harassment of independent journalists and media whose reporting diverges from official government views. Authorities stepped up their crackdown on independent news after the May 13 unrest in the northeast city of Andijan, during which security forces fired at antigovernment demonstrators, killing between 500 and 1,000 civilians, according to local and international human rights organizations and eyewitness accounts.
Read CPJ's letter to President Islam Karimov, protesting the crackdown.
Islam Karimov


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Note: Students will be asked for ID on the evening.
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The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXX
As stated earlier the predominant medieval view of the cosmos was an uneasy bundle of Aristotle's cosmology, Ptolemaic astronomy, Aristotelian terrestrial mechanics, which was not Aristotle's but had evolved out of it, and Aristotle's celestial mechanics, which we will look at in a moment. As also pointed out earlier this was not a static view but one that was constantly being challenged from various other models. In the early seventeenth century the central problem was, having demolished nearly all of Aristotle's cosmology and shown Ptolemaic astronomy to be defective, without however yet having found a totally convincing successor, to now find replacements for the terrestrial and celestial mechanics. We have looked at the development of the foundations for a new terrestrial mechanics and it is now time to turn to the problem of a new celestial mechanics. The first question we need to answer is what did Aristotle's celestial mechanics look like and why was it no longer viable?
The homocentric astronomy in which everything in the heavens revolve around a single central point, the earth, in spheres was created by the mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390–c. 337 BCE), a contemporary and student of Plato (c. 428/27–348/47 BCE), who assigned a total of twenty-seven spheres to his system. Callippus (c. 370–c. 300 BCE) a student of Eudoxus added another seven spheres. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) took this model and added another twenty-two spheres. Whereas Eudoxus and Callippus both probably viewed this model as a purely mathematical construction to help determine planetary position, Aristotle seems to have viewed it as reality. To explain the movement of the planets Aristotle thought of his system being driven by friction. The outermost sphere, that of the fixed stars drove the outer most sphere of Saturn, which in turn drove the next sphere down in the system and so on all the way down to the Moon. According to Aristotle the outermost sphere was set in motion by the unmoved mover. This last aspect was what most appealed to the churchmen of the medieval universities, who identified the unmoved mover with the Christian God.
During the Middle Ages an aspect of vitalism was added to this model, with some believing that the planets had souls, which animated them. Another theory claimed that each planet had its own angel, who pushed it round its orbit. Not exactly my idea of heaven, pushing a planet around its orbit for all of eternity. Aristotelian cosmology said that the spheres were real and made of crystal. When, in the sixteenth century astronomers came to accept that comets were supralunar celestial phenomena, and not as Aristotle had thought sublunar meteorological ones, it effectively killed off Aristotle's crystalline spheres, as a supralunar comet would crash right through them. If fact, the existence or non-existence of the crystalline spheres was a major cosmological debate in the sixteenth century. By the early seventeenth century almost nobody still believed in them.
An alternative theory that had its origins in the Middle Ages but, which was revived in the sixteenth century was that the heavens were fluid and the planets swam through them like a fish or flew threw them like a bird. This theory, of course, has again a strong element of vitalism. However, with the definitive collapse of the crystalline spheres it became quite popular and was subscribed to be some important and influential thinkers at the end of the sixteenth beginning of the seventeenth centuries, for example Roberto Bellarmino (1542–1621) the most important Jesuit theologian, who had lectured on astronomy at the University of Leuven in his younger days.
Robert Bellarmine artist unknown Source: Wikimedia Commons
It should come as no surprise that the first astronomer to suggest a halfway scientific explanation for the motion of the planets was Johannes Kepler. In fact he devoted quite a lot of space to his theories in his Astronomia nova (1609).
Astronomia Nova title page Source: Wikimedia Commons
That the periods between the equinoxes and the solstices were of unequal length had been known to astronomers since at least the time of Hipparchus in the second century BCE. This seemed to imply that the speed of either the Sun orbiting the Earth, in a geocentric model, or the Earth orbiting the Sun, in a heliocentric model, varied through out the year. Kepler calculated a table for his elliptical, heliocentric model of the distances of the Sun from the Earth and deduced from this that the Earth moved fastest when it was closest to the Sun and slowest when it was furthest away. From this he deduced or rather speculated that the Sun controlled the motion of the Earth and by analogy of all the planets. The thirty-third chapter of Astronomia nova is headed, The power that moves the planets resides in the body of the sun.
His next question is, of course, what is this power and how does it operate? He found his answer in William Gilbert's (1544–1603) De Magnete, which had been published in 1600.
William Gilbert Source: Wikimedia Commons
Kepler speculated that the Sun was in fact a magnet, as Gilbert had demonstrated the Earth to be, and that it rotated on its axis in the same way that Gilbert believed, falsely, that a freely suspended terrella (a globe shaped magnet) did. Gilbert had used this false belief to explain the Earth's diurnal rotation.
It should be pointed out that Kepler was hypothesising a diurnal rotation for the Sun in 1609 that is a couple of years before Galileo had demonstrated the Sun's rotation in his dispute over the nature of sunspots with Christoph Scheiner (c. 1574–1650). He then argues that there is power that goes out from the rotating Sun that drives the planets around there orbits. This power diminishes with its distance from the Sun, which explains why the speed of the planetary orbits also diminishes the further the respective planets are from the Sun. In different sections of the Astronomia nova Kepler argues both for and against this power being magnetic in nature. It should also be noted that although Kepler is moving in the right direction with his convoluted and at times opaque ideas on planetary motion there is still an element of vitalism present in his thoughts.
Kepler conceived the relationship between his planetary motive force and distance as a simple inverse ratio but it inspired the idea of an inverse squared force. The French mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Boulliau (1605–1694) was a convinced Keplerian and played a central roll in spreading Kepler's ideas throughout Europe.
Ismaël Boulliau portrait by Pieter van Schuppen Source: Wikimedia Commons
His most important and influential work was his Astronomia philolaica (1645). In this work Boulliau hypothesised by analogy to Kepler's own law on the propagation of light that if a force existed going out from the Sun driving the planets then it would decrease in inverse squared ratio and not a simple one as hypothesised by Kepler. Interestingly Boulliau himself did not believe that such a motive force for the planet existed.
Another mathematician and astronomer, who looked for a scientific explanation of planetary motion was the Italian, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1697) a student of Benedetto Castelli (1578–1643) and thus a second-generation student of Galileo.
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Source: Wikimedia Commons
Borelli developed a force-based theory of planetary motion in his Theoricae Mediceorum Planatarum ex Causius Physicis Deductae (Theory [of the motion] of the Medicean planets [i.e. moons of Jupiter] deduced from physical causes) published in 1666. He hypothesised three forces that acted on a planet. Firstly a natural attraction of the planet towards the sun, secondly a force emanating from the rotating Sun that swept the planet sideway and kept it in its orbit and thirdly the same force emanating from the sun pushed the planet outwards balancing the inwards attraction.
The ideas of both Kepler and Borelli laid the foundations for a celestial mechanics that would eventually in the work of Isaac Newton, who knew of both theories, produced a purely force-based mathematical explanation of planetary motion.
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2 responses to "The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXX"
Todd Timberlake
Regarding Kepler's vitalism, I feel like he considers vitalism in Astronomia Nova but ultimately rejects it. He talks about how hard it would be for the intelligence that moves a planet to keep the planet in an eccentric orbit around the Sun. A Sun-centered orbit is easy – just maintain a fixed distance from the Sun which could be done by keeping the Sun's angular size fixed. But an eccentric orbit would be amazingly difficult and so, as I read it, Kepler abandons vitalism and instead seeks for a physical power to move the planets.
I think "This seemed to imply that the speed of either the Sun orbiting the Earth, in a geocentric model, or the Earth orbiting the Sun, in a heliocentric model, varied through out the year." undersells Kepler's accomplishment in that area. Nobody had given the Sun/Earth an equant before. The differences in the seasons were accomplished entirely with an eccentric. And my impression from the Mysterium is that Kepler believes the Earth should have an equant on philosophical grounds (because Earth is a planet and the other planets have equants) rather than because the data suggest it. Of course, when he actually tries it out in the Astronomia Nova he finds that it works extremely well to match Tycho's data.
Yesterday I taught my class about Eudoxus' model and gave them a brief introduction to Aristotle's cosmology. It struck me bit then, and even more so on reading this post, that that was the last time physics and astronomy were truly unified until Newton. I wonder how much of the divorce between physics and astronomy (that the purpose of astronomy was only to "save the appearances" not to discern the true nature of the heavens) was motivated by the fact that they just couldn't get the Eudoxan model to work very well. Then the Apollonian (and eventually Ptolemaic) model comes along and works very well, but really doesn't fit with Aristotle's physics.
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Ямок — деревня в Дедовичском районе Псковской области России. Входит в состав Пожеревицкой волости Дедовичского района.

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Q: Subtract value in sql I have two table,as per requirement we need to subtract the values as given below. kindly assist me how to solve this puzzle....
Table1
MONTH   Fee(Advance)
APRIL   5000

Table2
MONTH   Fee
MAY     2000
JUNE    300
JULY    1800
AUG     1200
Sep     1500

Expecting Result
ROW 1   MAY     5000(TABLE1.ADVANCE)-2000(TABLE2.FEE)=   3000
ROW 2   JUNE    3000-300                             =   2700
ROW 3   JULY    2700-1800                            =   900
ROW 4   AUG     900-1200                             =   -300
ROW 5   Sep     -300-1500                            =   -1800

A: I am not sure if this is the right way of doing this. Instead of SQL statement, maybe stored procedure will help?
DECLARE @AdvanceFee INT;
DECLARE @cnt INT = 1;
DECLARE @cnt_total INT = (Select Count(MONTH) From Table2);

SET @AdvanceFee = (Select Fee(Advance) from Table1)

WHILE @cnt <= @cnt_total
BEGIN

    Select MONTH, @AdvanceFee = @AdvanceFee - Fee
    FROM Table2
    WHERE ROW_NUMBER = @cnt

    SET @cnt = @cnt + 1;

END

A: You need a table containing month names and numbers ('MAY' = 5, 'Sep' = 9, ...). Then use SUM OVER to get a running total:
select
  t.month,
  (select fee from table1 where month = 'APRIL') - sum(t.fee) over (order by m.monthnum)
    as balance
from table2 t
join months m on m.name = t.month
order by m.monthnum;


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Tavener Memorial Sculpture Unveiled
It was an immense pleasure and no small privilege to attend the unveiling ceremony of the newly commissioned sculpture to commemorate the life and work of Sir John Tavener. On Friday 11th November, a packed Winchester Cathedral listened to extracts from the Veil of the Temple, sung by Patricia Rozario. Sir John's Evensong settings were performed by the Cathedral Choir under Andy Lumsden and the congregation participated in chants and responses throughout the service.
A smaller gathering continued after the service to the act of dedication including prayers led by Metropolitan Kalistos at the Federov icons before the sculpture itself was unveiled. Created by Angela Conner, the sculpture is fashioned in glass and represents the fluidity of art and life. If you want to find it, walk past the chancel on the south side and look to the wall on your right.
Lady Tavener gave a moving dedication as the sculpture was unveiled. Several composers were present including Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music and John Rutter, an alumnus with Tavener of Highgate School and a lifelong friend.
The evening concluded with a sublime performance by Andrew Watts and Fretwork of Tavener's Nipson, commissioned by the BBC in 1998.
The evening celebrations had been preceded by a Symposium on Sir John's music at Winchester University, led by ISM member Professor June Boyce-Tillman.
As a line from the Veil of the Temple says, 'You struck fire in my heart and I have been consumed!' Such is the power of music.
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DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Jan. 27 (PIA) -- The Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative (NORECO-1), one of the two electric cooperatives in Negros Oriental, is seeking the electrification of 24 sitios in its coverage area this year.
The cooperative has already submitted its request to the National Electrification Administration (NEA) for the installment of electricity in those sitios which do not have access to electricity due to its remote locations.
Around P12.6 million is needed to light up households in those areas, according to Aristarco Samontañes, operation and maintenance chief officer-in-charge of NORECO 1.
Samontañes said they expect NEA to release the funds sometime within the first quarter of this year.
NORECO 1 covers 11 towns and cities in the northern side of the island province such as Mabinay, Manjuyod, Bindoy, Ayungon, Tayasan, Jimalalud, La Libertad, Guihulngan City, Vallehermoso, Bais City and Canlaon City.
As of December 2007, all barangays in its coverage area have been fully energized.