You did it! You landed a fantastic sponsorship deal that you've been after, but you had to offer more product callouts and promoted posts than you had wanted. Now you're concerned that the message isn't authentic to you or your brand.
Sponsors are a fact of life for influencers, but there is a fine balance between talking up a partner's product and looking like a corporate mouthpiece. Your audience is your biggest asset; damaging their trust with a clumsy sponsored post can have a devastating impact on your channel and compromise your credibility with your fans who trust you. To preserve your authenticity, follow these guidelines for organic promotion.
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You don't have to tag every single post where your sponsor's items appear, but always tag sponsored posts. A warm mention of a partner at the end of a video is another way to organically disclose the relationship while maintaining your authentic voice.
Use the item naturally, in your own style that your followers enjoy.
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Q: Fixing error 'slice' error to add list of elements in separate Excel cells I am trying to get the list of colours in an image to be listed in separate cells in an excel sheet along with the count and percentage
I have managed to transfer data to excel sheet but it was all combined in one cell. I have searched how to do it but now I am getting
TypeError: unhashable type: 'slice'

Here is what I have tried
import pandas as pd
from PIL import Image
from collections import Counter
import prettytable

img = Image.open("Original 2.JPG")
size = w, h = img.size
data = img.load()

colors = []
for x in range(w):
    for y in range(h):
        color = data[x, y]
        hex_color = '#'+''.join([hex(c)[2:].rjust(2, '0') for c in color])
        colors.append(hex_color)

#pt = prettytable.PrettyTable(['Color', 'Count', 'Percentage'])

total = w * h

for color, count in Counter(colors).items():
    percent = int(count/total * 100)
    if percent > 0:
        #         pt.add_row([color, count, percent])

        # print(pt, total)

        final = {'colors': [colors],
                 'count': [count],
                 'percent': [percent]
                 }

        df = pd.DataFrame()
        df['colors'] = final[0::3]   <--------------Error returning from here
        df['count'] = final[1::3]
        df['percent'] = final[2::3]

        df.to_excel(r'C:\Users\Ahmed\Desktop\Project\export_dataframe.xlsx',
                    index=False, header=True)

A: I decided to use lists over dictionary. I have not seen any particular advantage. I also removed both removed int() from:
percent = int(count/total * 100)

and
if percent > 0:

Because if you have image with many hues of colours, the condition would never be passed.
The complete code is as follows:
import pandas as pd
from PIL import Image
from collections import Counter

img = Image.open("Original 2.JPG")
size = w, h = img.size
data = img.load()

colors = []
for x in range(w):
    for y in range(h):
        color = data[x, y]
        hex_color = '#'+''.join([hex(c)[2:].rjust(2, '0') for c in color])
        colors.append(hex_color)

total = w * h

color_hex = []
color_count = []
color_percent =[]

df = pd.DataFrame()
for color, count in Counter(colors).items():
    percent = count/total * 100 # Do not make it int. Majority of colors are < 1%, unless you want >= 1%
    color_hex.append(color)
    color_count.append(count)
    color_percent.append(percent)

df['color'] = color_hex
df['count'] = color_count
df['percent'] = color_percent

df.to_excel(r'C:\Users\Ahmed\Desktop\Project\export_dataframe.xlsx',
                    index=False, header=True)

A: The code within your for loop really doesn't make sense.
This if statement is always true, which makes it redundant:
if percent > 0: Edit: Ignore this. The call to int can return 0, which would cause this if statement to be false.
Everything below that, including writing to an excel file, is executed for every colour. Presumably this is an indentation error.
df['colors'] = final[0::3]   <--------------Error returning from here

final is a dict. You need to access it using one of its 3 keys. For example: final['colors'], which would return the entire list of pixel colours, including duplicates.
What you want can be achieved with this code:
import pandas as pd
from PIL import Image
from collections import Counter
import prettytable

img = Image.open("Original 2.JPG")
size = w, h = img.size
data = img.load()

colors = []
for x in range(w):
    for y in range(h):
        color = data[x, y]
        hex_color = '#'+''.join([hex(c)[2:].rjust(2, '0') for c in color])
        colors.append(hex_color)

#pt = prettytable.PrettyTable(['Color', 'Count', 'Percentage'])

total = w * h

colors, counts = zip(*Counter(colors).items())
percentages = tuple(count / total for count in counts)

df = pd.DataFrame()
df['colors'] = colors
df['count'] = counts
df['percent'] = percentages

df.to_excel(r'C:\Users\Ahmed\Desktop\Project\export_dataframe.xlsx',
            index=False, header=True)

The 2 key lines are:
colors, counts = zip(*Counter(colors).items())
percentages = tuple(count / total for count in counts)

The first line creates 2 tuples with all the unique colours and their counts. A tuple is basically an immutable list. zip combined with the * unpacking operator is used to transform the key and value pairs from Counter(colors).items() to their own separate tuples.
The second line creates a tuple from a generator expression which gives us the percentages of all the colours.
colors, counts, and percentages are all aligned so the same index refers to the same colour.

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Андреј Иванович Колганов (; Калињинград, 1955) је руски марксистички економиста. Професор је на Московском државном универзитету Ломоносов. Главни је истраживач на Институту за економију, Руске академије наука. Заједно са својим блиском сарадником Александром Бузгалином, сматра се једним од главних представника савременог марксизма у Русији.

Биографија
Андреј Колганов је рођен 22. маја 1955. године у Калињинграду. Економски факултет, Московског државног универзитета завршава 1979. када и добија запослење на истом као научни сарадник. Докторске студије започиње 1979. а звање доктора економских наука добија 1990.

Члан Централног комитета руског огранка Комунистичке партије Совјетског Савеза постаје 1990. године. У том периоду учествује у стварању платформе унутар партије која је имала за циљ окупљање промарксистички оријентисаних чланова.

Након распуштања Комунистичке партије Совјетског Савеза одбија да учествује у покушају њеног поновног обнављања, и уместо тога се окреће политичком раду са синдикалним активистима. Током Уставне кризе 1993. учествовао је у демонстрацијама подршке парламенту, а против тадашњег председника Бориса Јељцина.

Током 2005. и 2006. био је један од организатора Руског социјалног форума. Један је од уредника руског левичарског часописа "Алтернативе".

Титулу "Заслужног научног сарадника Московског универзитета" добија 2006. године.

Аутор је више од 400 научних радова, од чега 88 рецензираних чланака у научним часописима, и 28 монографија. У свом научном раду најчешће сарађује са својим блиским сарадником Александром Бузгалином.

Аутор је и више уџбеника. Учествовао је у писању првог руског уџбеника о транзиционој економији. Уџбеник "Класична политичка економија", који је Колганов написао у сарадњи са Александром Бузгалином и Олгом Барашковом, је 2018. добио награду "Економска књигa године".

Извори

Рођени 1955.
Руски економисти
Марксисти
Руски комунисти
Доктори економских наука

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I'm a vegan. I love vegan food. I like some vegan people. But most people don't.Some vegans are ruining veganism for the rest of the human population. It's time to take a stand and stop the madness!
Ever heard the joke, "How do you find a vegan at a dinner party? Don't worry they'll tell you"? WE NEED TO STOP LIVING UP TO THIS STEREOTYPE. I only bring up veganism with people if I need to reject food they've offered me that looks delicious but isn't vegan, or if people ask me about it. The people who want to know about it will ask, trust.
Falls under the umbrella of #1, but if you can't resist talking about your veganism, please please please don't be preachy. You probably wouldn't want one of your friends to try to convert you to a new religion. You CERTAINLY wouldn't want them to try to convert you to paleo, Atkins, etc. Preaching is not the way to win them over. Even the most compelling statistics that you grabbed from the PETA website won't convince anyone that isn't already interested in veganism. Giving them delicious vegan baked goods is a much better strategy.
3. Accept the cold, hard, truth: some people can't be vegan, and that's okay.
It's pointless getting frustrated with the fact that not everyone you know is vegan. Being a vegan is awesome and great for the planet, etc., but it's just not doable for most people in 2013. Even if your soy curls taste JUST LIKE chicken or your cashew-based alfredo is better than anything pushed out of a cow's udder. It's okay. Their time will come. Don't push it.
4. Beyoncé isn't vegan. Clearly, vegans aren't better than everyone. Stop acting like you are.
Just because vegans, as a group, eat more kale and tofu and whole grains (and Oreos) and care about animals and the environment doesn't mean that we are better people than non-vegans. It just doesn't.
This would probably be solved by following 1-4. Just in case you're ignoring those, though, remember that it's not worth arguing about veganism with the dude behind the counter at the butcher or your bro-y classmate who would wear a meat dress to school if given the option. It's not worth your time AND you will give vegans a bad rap.
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Aleksander Toots (born 1969 in Kohtla-Järve) is the deputy director of Estonia's counterintelligence service Estonian Internal Security Service, also known as KAPO. He started his career in Ida-Viru police precinct. Since 1993 he has held different positions in KAPO. He was the chief of Virumaa department since 2002. In March 2008, he became the deputy chief of the Estonian Security Police. He has graduated from Paikuse police school, Estonian Academy of Security Sciences in Nomme and the Police College.

Aleksander Toots is considered to be the best counterintelligence specialist in Estonia. He is the chief architect behind apprehending traitor Herman Simm. He has also orchestrated the capture of KAPO officers Aleksei Dressen and Indrek Põder.

He was made deputy chief of service by current chief Raivo Aeg. Because of many high-profile cases solved by him, he is also considered to be the actual chief of the Estonian Security Police.

Aleksander Toots has been awarded the Order of the Cross of the Eagle in 1998 and again in 2008.

References

People from Kohtla-Järve
1969 births
Living people
Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class IV


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Q: Laravel route showing "Not Found" I'm following the following tutorial:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/laravel/laravel_middleware.htm
I'm on Step 9, and I'm getting a "404 | Not Found" error. Here's my exact code:

app\Http\routes.php

<?php
Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('/role',[
    'middleware' => 'Role:editor',
    'uses' => 'TestController@index',
]);

app\Http\Kernel.php

<?php

namespace App\Http;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{
    /**
     * The application's global HTTP middleware stack.
     *
     * These middleware are run during every request to your application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middleware = [
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
        \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The application's route middleware groups.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            // \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
            \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
           // \App\Http\Middleware\RoleMiddleware::class,
        ],

        'api' => [
            'throttle:60,1',
            'bindings',
        ],
    ];

    /**
     * The application's route middleware.
     *
     * These middleware may be assigned to groups or used individually.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $routeMiddleware = [
        'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
        'auth.basic' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
        'bindings' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        'cache.headers' => \Illuminate\Http\Middleware\SetCacheHeaders::class,
        'can' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authorize::class,
        'guest' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
        'signed' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ValidateSignature::class,
        'throttle' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::class,
        'verified' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\EnsureEmailIsVerified::class,
        'Age' => \App\Http\Middleware\AgeMiddleware::class,
        'Role' => \App\Http\Middleware\RoleMiddleware::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The priority-sorted list of middleware.
     *
     * This forces non-global middleware to always be in the given order.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middlewarePriority = [
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
        \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authorize::class,
    ];
}

app\Http\Controllers\TestController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class TestController extends Controller {
    public function index() {
        echo "<br>Test Controller.";
    }
}

app\Http\Middleware\RoleMiddleware.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;

class RoleMiddleware {
    public function handle($request, Closure $next, $role) {
        echo "Role: ".$role;
        return $next($request);
    }
}

I'm at a loss at this point, as to why it would give me a 404. Looking up some other questions here on SO, I'd thought it was because the Route had role and not /role, but that change did nothing. I even did the following route:
Route::get('/test', function () {
    return "Hello World";
});

And received a 404 as well. I created my project in PHPStorm, and as a "Composer Project" and used the package laravel/installer.

A: My problem was that I was adding the route to app\Http\routes.php. The latest version of Laravel actually has web routes in routes/web.php. Adding my route there solved my problem.

A: Please try using php artisan then report back with the result.


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Ecgbert (died 19 November 766) was an 8th-century cleric who established the archdiocese of York in 735. In 737, Ecgbert's brother became king of Northumbria and the two siblings worked together on ecclesiastical issues. Ecgbert was a correspondent of Bede and Boniface and the author of a legal code for his clergy. Other works have been ascribed to him, although the attribution is doubted by modern scholars.

Early life and career
Ecgbert was the son of Eata, who was descended from the founder of the kingdom of Bernicia. His brother Eadberht was king of Northumbria from 737 to 758. Ecgbert went to Rome with another brother, and was ordained deacon while still there. Ecgbert has been claimed to have been a student of Bede, who much later visited with Ecgbert in 733 at York, but this statement may simply mean that Ecgbert was a student of Bede's writings, and not that he was formally taught by him.

Archbishop

Ecgbert was named to the see of York around 732 (other sources date the appointment to 734) by his cousin Ceolwulf, the king of Northumbria. Pope Gregory III gave him a pallium, the symbol of an archbishop's authority, in 735. After Eadberht became king, the brothers worked together, and were forbidden by the papacy to transfer church lands to secular control. They also worked together to deal with problems that had developed in the relationship between the church and royal government. An example of the brothers' co-operation is the fact that some of Eadberht's coins feature Ecbert's image on the opposite face.

Ecgbert's problems with the monasteries in his diocese came from the secular practice of families setting up monasteries that were totally under their control as a way of making the family lands book-land and free from secular service. Book-land was at first an exclusive right of ecclesiastical property. By transferring land to a family-controlled monastery, the family would retain the use of the land without having to perform any services to the king for the land.

Educational activities

The school Ecgbert founded at York is held by the modern historian Peter Hunter Blair to have equalled or surpassed the famous monasteries at Wearmouth and Jarrow. The school educated not just the cathedral clergy but also the offspring of nobles. Blair also calls the library that was established at York "a library whose contents were unequalled in the western Europe of its day". Among the students at the school was Alcuin, who was placed by his family with Ecgbert. Both Liudger, later the first Bishop of Munster, and Aluberht, another bishop in Germany, also studied at the school in York.

Correspondents

Bede wrote Ecgbert a letter dealing with monastic issues as well as the problems of large dioceses. The letter, written in 734, became known as the Epistola ad Ecgberhtum episcopum. Bede urged Ecgbert to study Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, and held up Aidan and Cuthbert as examples of model bishops. The main thrust of Bede's letter was to urge Ecgbert to reform his church to more closely resemble Gregory the Great's original plan for it. Bede's admonition to divide up dioceses fell on deaf ears, as Egbert did not break up his large diocese. The suffragans continued to be limited to the bishops of Hexham, Lindisfarne, and Whithorn.

Boniface wrote to Ecgbert, asking for support against Æthelbald of Mercia. Boniface also asked the archbishop for some of Bede's books, and in return sent wine to be drunk "in a merry day with the brethern." On another occasion, Boniface sent the archbishop a cloak and towel.

Writings

Ecgbert wrote the Dialogus ecclesiasticae institutionis, which was a legal code for the clergy, setting forth the proper procedures for many clerical and ecclesiastical issues including weregild for clerics, entrance to clerical orders, deposition from the clergy, criminal monks, clerics in court, and other matters. It survives as one complete manuscript, with a few excerpts in other manuscripts. Because Ecgbert was the senior archbishop in England after the death of Nothhelm in 739, it is possible that the Dialogus was intended not just for the Northumbrian church but for the entire church in England. The Dialogus details a code of conduct for the clergy and how the clergy was to behave in society. The exact date it was composed is unclear, but it was probably after 735, based on the mention of the archiepiscopal status of Ecgbert in one title as well as the internal evidence of the work. The historian Simon Coates saw the Dialogus as not especially exalting monks above the laity.

Other works were attributed to Egbert in the Middle Ages, but they are not regarded by modern scholars as authentic. These include a collection of church canons, as well as a penitential and a pontifical. The penitential, known as the Paenitentiale Ecgberhti, was ascribed to Ecgbert by the 8th or 9th centuries, but its surviving versions have little or no content that can be reliably traced to Ecgbert. The pontifical, known as the Pontificale Egberti, is thought to owe its attribution to Ecgbert's authorship to the fact that the penitential ascribed to Ecgbert was included within its contents. Lastly, the collection of church laws known previously as the Excerptiones Ecgberhti but today as the Collectio canonum Wigorniensis, has been shown to be the work of a later archbishop of York, Wulfstan, and was not connected with Ecgbert until after the Anglo-Saxon period. Besides these Latin works, an Old English text, known variously as the Scriftboc, Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti or Confessionale Egberti, was once stated to be a translation from Latin by Ecgbert, but is now known to date from the late 9th or 10th century.

Death and legacy

Ecgbert died on 19 November 766, and was buried in his cathedral at York. Ecgbert had a reputation after his death as an expert on canon law and church legislation, both in his native England and on the mainland of Europe. Alcuin also claimed that he was known as a teacher of singing. The historian D. P. Kirby described him as a "great" archbishop. The historian Henry Mayr-Harting stated that Ecgbert "must be regarded as one of the great architects of the English church in the eighth century".

Veneration
Ecgbert is venerated in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church on 19 November.

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Ever since WhatsApp launched the feature of 'groups', our phones have been pinging non-stop. While groups are good for sharing information and updates, what annoys most of the users are the forward chains that start and never seem to end.
With WhatsApp, we landed right back into history with chain forwards and wrong information that started to spread unnecessary panic among the masses!
From July 10, 2018 onwards, WhatsApp started labelling forwarded messages so that recipients could understand if the message was originally written by the sender or was just a pass-on. This was done to promote a safer online space and to keep fake news from spreading too far and wide, too fast.
WhatsApp, therefore, took it upon itself to spread the message that one should not misuse the platform and in accordance with the same, released three short videos that reinforced the message – WhatsApp Groups should be used more productively.
These ads were released on WhatsApp's YouTube channel on December 2, 2018 with three different personas – Rajat, the college student; Kavya, the girl who created a family group and Geet, the recipe queen. The need to create these ads arose from the fact that things got out of hand in such a way, the messaging giant had to launch first-of-its-kind television ad in order to run their campaign, asking people to be vary of the messages they send and receive. The ads are available for viewing on YouTube in ten regional languages.
In this, Rajat has to talk to a fellow classmate after he sends in a message which propagated wrong information.
Similarly, Kavya has to confront a family member for sending a forward without checking the facts first. She explains to him why it is a wrong practice and tells him not to send such forwards.
Finally, there is Geeta – the Recipe Queen. In her group, there are a lot of people who were added by other group members, because they too must have had admin rights. She doesn't personally know all of the people who are on her group, benefitting from her recipes. When she receives a forward from an unknown number – she decides to delete the text and block the person.
All three scenarios are relatable and make you nod in agreement as you watch the videos progress. These ads help people explain other people why forwards (which do not have a shred of evidence to support them) should not be sent on WhatsApp Groups and how they end up spreading rumours and panic!
By popular demand, WhatsApp finally appointed Abhijit Bose as the India head, following a few important requests made by the Indian Government.
The 'Spread Joy Not Rumours' campaign definitely seems to have resonated with all the users of WhatsApp.


Put on your goggles, don your gloves, and become a junior scientist as you engage in activities to learn about states of matter and the properties of these different states, all while making witches brew, slime and gak!
To sign up for this event, contact Dedra Roman at (678) 398-5828. Parents need only register for their child (children), not themselves. Free parking is available at the library. Sessions start at 3:30, 4:30 and 5:30.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 5 has been, so far, excellent. Although I do wish they'd allow plot to continue for more than two episodes at once ;)
Check out the Eagle Awards Nominations! The Eagle Awards are "the comics industry's longest established awards" (to quote from their site). There are a number of familiar names in the various lists, such as sweatdrop.com for the favourite comic-related site, or our book Draw Manga for the favourite comics-related book. I am a little confused but honoured to have been nominated for favourite editor and for Artifaxis to have been nominated as favourite web-based comic. I have no idea who did that, but it's rather cool *^^*
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Herschel 131, also known as NGC 6823, is an open cluster containing ~30 stars in the constellation of Vulpecula. It lies at a distance of ~8,800 light-years and is ~2 million years old. This image comprises 10 x Luminance (12 seconds each) and 5 x Red, Green and Blue (15, 15 and 12 seconds each), 0.5m f/2.9 ASA Astrograph with FLI ML3200 camera at an altitude of 80 degrees on 24 August 2017. The field of view is 29' by 19'.


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2. For the purposes of the 2017 Regulations, the competent authority is the relevant planning authority or Scottish Ministers, as the case may be.
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Dr. Eliada Wosu Griffin-EL is an Associate Professor of Management at Robert Morris University's School of Business, where she teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and International Business. She serves as the Director of RMU's Massey Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, purposed to promote interdisciplinary and innovative thinking and action across campus. Dr. Griffin-EL received her PhD in Global Political Economics and Masters in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh, and Bachelor Degree in Sociology from Yale University.
Having rich experience in creating ecosystems for entrepreneurial learning, Dr. Griffin-EL has led the development of signature co-curricular and academic programs for promoting the entrepreneurial mindset and student-led venture creation at Robert Morris University. She sphere heads high-profile community engagement with headlining organizations, such as with the Office of the Mayor of Pittsburgh; she oversees the design the construction of the new Massey Center space on RMU's campus; and she is the driver of the university's first credit-bearing certificate committed solely to entrepreneurship education. For her work she has recently been recognized as the New Pittsburgh Courier Fab 40 under 40 Honoree of 2018 and has honored several keynote speaking invitations.
Prior to RMU, Dr. Griffin-EL served as the Senior Lecturer of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business (GSB) in Cape Town, South Africa for more than 5 years. She was the Founding Academic Lead of the GSB's Bertha Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Africa's first international center of excellence for social innovation practice, teaching, and research. Prof Griffin-EL has vast experience in designing academic programs that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the GSB's signature Social Innovation Lab. In relation to policy work, she served as Lead Academic on the Working Committee of the Social Entrepreneurship Policy and Strategy for the Western Cape Provincial Government.
As an economic sociologist, Dr. Griffin-EL's research explores how entrepreneurial networks enable innovative activity and venture creation for social change, paricularly within fragmented, developing, or hostile environments. Geographically, her work has focused on entrepreneurship within African emerging markets and more recently, in the Pittsburgh region. As an international scholar, her work includes leading an international research collaboration sponsored by the UK to explore the social entrepreneurial ecosystem of Kenya to serving as the Lead Academic of the UCT team for a global research project entitled Social Innovation: Drive for Change sponsored by the European Union. She has presented her work across Europe, Africa, and the United States, engaging in both policy work and producing academic publications, and is co-editor of the book, The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation: New Frontiers in Africa (Springer Publishers, 2015).
Prof. Griffin-EL has worked with many entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial start-ups during her time in South Africa, Europe, and now in the United States. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the international social enterprise, Amandla Development (Cape Town, SA), on the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh-based social entrepreneurial accelerator, New Sun Rising, and on the Advisory Board of the Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education (RISE) Center of the School of Nursing and Health Science at Robert Morris University. Dr. Griffin-EL is married to her wonderful husband, Dr. Nosakhere Griffin-EL. Together, they are the proud parents of two energetic boys, Nosakhere Jr. (age 5) and Onyemachi (age 3).


is Senior lecturer at the Graduate Institute and Director of the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP).
Dr. Dormeier Freire is Senior lecturer at the Graduate Institute and Director of the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP). Dr Dormeier Freire earned a PhD in Development Studies at the University of Geneva. As a sociologist, he is mainly working on educational transformations with a special focus on skills development, internationalization of education, social inequalities, education employment relations, educational choices and dropouts in emerging countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia.
He is currently working on family role in educational and training choices in Southeast Asia and on dropouts school returnees. His fields of expertise are: Methods in social sciences; Governance, decentralization, state-society relations (Indonesia, Vietnam); Knowledge society, internationalization of higher education, skills development and social inequalities (Vietnam, Indonesia). He teaches mainly on Methods, Research Design, Governance and Internationalization of education. Dr. Dormeier Freire is a member and former scientific collaborator of the Working Group for International Cooperation in Skills Development and NORRAG (Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training). He is a scientific board member of IRED (Institute for Research on Educational Development, Vietnam).


Hazyview sits to the west of many Mpumalanga game reserves. Greened by the broad fans of banana plants and warmed in summer by a glimmering haze that gives the small farming town its name, Hazyview is a small tropical oasis that offers a superb stopover and recharge before continuing on to one of the region's safari lodges. Check in at Perry's Bridge Hollow, a stylishly comfy boutique hotel amid baobab, fig and acacia trees. Here, you'll be virtually on the doorstep of the Kruger National Park, and a short drive to the central Sabi Sand game reserves and the glorious Panorama Route. The hotel is set in the Perry's Bridge Trading Post, where you can eat out in Afro-chic style and enjoy locally brewed lager at Perry's Bridge Brewery.
View special offer at Perry's Bridge Hollow: R750 per person/ night, sharing.
Be sure to do an elephantback safari in Hazyview, and visit the local reptile park, the Blyde River Canyon, Bourke's Luck Potholes and the Gustav Klinbiel Nature Reserve.
Another attractive little farming town, White River is situated just north of Nelspruit. It's a region of forests and dams, not far from the Kruger National Park and 84km from the Sabi Sand Game Reserve. Stop for a revitalising night or two at Casterbridge Hollow Boutique Hotel, basking amid mango trees next to the Casterbridge Centre – an appealing hub of eateries, art galleries and boutique shops.
View special offer at Casterbridge Hollow: R750 per person / night, sharing.
Visit the Lowveld National Botanical Garden in Nelspruit, the Sudwala Caves, and the Panorama Route.
Another fabulous stay in the White River area is the beautiful Highgrove House, a five-star country house set in a quiet leafy poolgarden. View special offer at Highrove House: R950 per person / night sharing.
Mpumalanga has so many different tourist attractions that it's almost essential to stop off for a couple of nights before enjoying the Bush.


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Q: Mysql Pivot with Max Clause I have a table named table_one as shown below:

fk_tbl_id
types
values

10
type_a
value_a

10
type_b
value_b

20
type_a
value_c

20
type_b
value_d

Expected output as shown below:

fk_tbl_id
type_a
type_b

10
value_a
value_b

20
value_c
value_d

Attempt #1:
SELECT
    fk_tbl_id,
    CASE types WHEN 'type_a' THEN values END AS type_a,
    CASE types WHEN 'type_b' THEN values END AS type_b
FROM table_one
GROUP BY fk_tbl_id;

I got the result from attempt #1 as shown below which is not what I want

fk_tbl_id
type_a
type_b

10
value_a
null

20
value_c
null

Attempt #2:
SELECT
    fk_tbl_id,
    MAX(CASE types WHEN 'type_a' THEN values END) AS type_a,
    MAX(CASE types WHEN 'type_b' THEN values END) AS type_b
FROM table_one
GROUP BY fk_tbl_id;

I got my expected result from attempt #2 but I don't understand why adding the max clause will do the work.
Appreciate if anyone could describe this to me.


Experience the slow-paced and gentle life on North Caicos, its peaceful silence broken only by the voice of nature… a splash of wave on a deserted beach, the wind's whisper through a pine, and the gobble of a Cuban crow.
Freshwater ponds dot the landscape and flamingos and other rare birds make their nests in the protected wetlands. A tour around the Island's settlements of Sandy Point, Kew, Whitby, Major Hill and Bottle Creek can be taken on the smooth paved traffic-free roads. Besides a trip to the exotic flocks at Flamingo Pond, you can tour the haunting and well preserved Loyalist plantations ruins at Wade's Green or gaze into the depths of Cottage Pond, a submerged sinkhole that connects to the ocean local cave divers have mapped to a depth of 255 feet. At Bottle Creek, a center of fishing, local boat building and hand craft work you can see ancestral homes made of "tabby wall" some are still occupied.
South to Ready Money you can view miles of virgin forest including the tallest Caribbean pines in the Islands. A tour around Ready Money Garden a field plot of tropical fruits including bananas, papayas, sapodillas, sugar apples and sugar canes is a step back into the joy of natural beauty and tranquility to the first time visitors.
During your FUN day on NORTH CAICOS, STOP IN and Visit the following for your local souvenirs.


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 Why so dead - Q.B.I.
Abdul Raj was one of those legendary sultans straight from 'The Arabian Nights', armed with a bevy of beautiful wives, loaded down with priceless gems - and one of the richest men alive- until he was discovered to be very, very dead - in the worst way. All the exotic characters gathered in the opulent hotel suite were eyeing each other most suspiciously - ant they all looked equally guilty, but only one among the fairytale entourage of luscious wives, paunchy ambassadors and turbaned sycophants had violently dispatched the Sultan to paradise and made off with a certain priceless ruby... and it was up to Captain Tim Corrigan. The eye-patched detective with the knack for murderous situations plunges into the wildest, farthest-out caper of his career. His assignment leads him to a splendid but terrified harem of veiled beauties, a millionaire sultan with a roving eye, a gang of turbaned mystery men with a lust for violence. Corrigan's job: protect a priceless ruby as red as the color of murder.
Ghost-written by Richard Deming, this story was published in Man's Magazine in November 1966 as The Killer Who Made 22 Widows.
Italian: Occhio al sultano, Corrigan!


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Thanks to its varied ecosystems and generous portfolio of national parks and protected areas, Chile lays claim to an abundant selection of native animals. For wildlife fanatics, a wealth of marine animals and thriving bird and mammal populations await. Here are the five most magnificent Chile animals to look out for on your next trip.
The South American puma, a subspecies of the puma concolor or cougar, is a predator native to Chile and Argentina. Their habitat ranges from Coquimbo, north of Santiago, to the Magallanes Region of Patagonia. Known to weigh between 77 and 88lb (35 to 40 kg) in the Central Chile zone, the pumas residing in the Aysén and Magallanes regions can reach up to an incredible 220lb (100 kg). A symbol of Patagonia, the puma is top of many traveler's lists of Chile animals that they hope to encounter on their trip.
Pumas are most commonly sighted in Torres del Paine National Park, where puma tracking tours can help you catch a glimpse of this spectacular creature.
Given Chile's extensive coastline, it's not unusual to encounter some of the ocean's most captivating marine animals on a trip here. If you're lucky, you'll see the distinctive breaching behaviour of the humpback whale; one of the largest of the rorqual group of baleen whales and which has been observed migrating up to 16,000 miles (25,000 km) per year. The blue whale is also found off the coast of Chile and is the largest animal to have ever existed.
Humpbacks breaching above the water can be observed from a cruise ship tour in the pristine, rarely-visited water of the fjords and the Strait of Magellan.
Blue whales are commonly spotted off the coast of Chiloé – an archipelago close to Puerto Montt, or in the Strait of Magellan near Punta Arenas.
Chile is the location of one of the largest colonies of Magellanic penguins in South America – a species named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan who was the first European to encounter this type of penguin. Tierra del Fuego has the unique accolade of being the only place in the continent where you can visit a small colony of king penguins – a species not normally encountered outside of Antarctica or the South Georgia Islands, but which has made a stretch of private coast their home since 2011.
Magellanic penguins are prolific between September and March in Magdalena and Tucker Islands located in the Strait of Magellan.
The king penguin colony at Bahía Inútil is open to visitors throughout the year.
Travelling through the mountainous regions of Chile or the altiplano close to the border with Bolivia and Peru, you're likely to spot grazing guanacos. These animals tend to live in small herds of females with their young and one dominant male, while bachelor males form distinct groups, sometimes containing up to 50 animals.
These masters of survival have the unique capacity to withstand the extreme climes of even the most inhospitable places, so spotting a herd of guanacos is almost guaranteed on a trip Chile.
Guanacos are amongst the most abundant of all the Chile animals, and inhabit the arid grasslands and mountains of Chilean Patagonia and the altiplano in the north of the country.
These three species of flamingo are spotted throughout the altiplano Andean areas of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. The Andean flamingo is one of the rarest species of flamingos in the world, having been marked as vulnerable on the list of global endangered species. Elegant and remarkable in colour, all three types of flamingos live in colonies and are sympatric, that is, they frequently inhabit the same nesting grounds.


Especially fans of the BOTN (Battle of the Nations) refer to us asking to produce a weapon that complies the HMB (Historical Medieval Battle) / HRMA (Historical Reenactment of the Middle Ages) rules. To orient in these rules better, we compiled this simplified extract. Except such specifications we pick several other rules we find interesting.


Eviction laws vary from state to state but, in most cases, a landlord is required to issue a notice giving the renter time to clear up the problem or ultimately vacate the property. As with anything, there are right and wrong ways for a landlord to conduct the eviction process if eviction cannot be avoided. After all, no-one wants to lose their home. You can find out how to properly evict a tenant by visiting https://www.appfolio.com/blog/2017/09/evict-tenant-the-right-way-step-by-step-guide/.
An eviction can be avoided if the tenant simply follows the terms of the lease agreement. A lease agreement is the legal contractual agreement between a landlord and a tenant that states when and how each payment should be made, the start and end date if the tenant can have pets at the home, and a number of other possible terms.
If you receive an eviction notice – often a five-day notice – you have options. These include paying the rent if it's past due, fixing whatever the problem may be, or moving out before the end of the notice. If you don't, the legal process of eviction can begin. This can have devastating effects on your credit if a judgment in court has to be filed. Judgments remain on your credit report for at least seven years and, after seven years, it may be re-filed.
It is important to remember that the property manager or landlord does not want to evict a tenant. It's a complicated process that costs time and money. If faced with an eviction, communication, and respect are the keys to working towards a solution and a mutually beneficial relationship between the two parties.
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Further tales about the risen Jesus during His 40 days after the resurrection. This week we meet Rocky The Blurter—it's never too late to start again.
What really happened on the first Easter? Why do we believe Jesus rose from the dead?
Singing from the cross—a short reflection on Psalm 22. This was part of a joint worship service of NewChurch and Oikos Church.
How to get a black-belt in Christianity. They devoted themselves to fellowship and breaking bread. This is the fourth and final episode in the Kung Fu series on spiritual disciplines.


Spark 4G (LTE) official/recommended MTU Size?
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Designer Kelly Van Patter uses a fearless combination of vintage finds, television-show props, and high-end pieces in her Los Angeles home.
The dining room of her Los Angeles house is a tribute to interior designer Kelly Van Patter's first career as a TV production designer. Crate & Barrel's Big Sur table and bench are mementos from The Apprentice; the ostrich eggs and bowl were props on Survivor. Vintage chrome chairs temper organic elements like thrift-store antlers. The wainscoting was painted Benjamin Moore's Nocturnal Gray to complement light reflecting off the swimming pool.
A Tacchini sofa from ABC Carpet & Home separates the living room from the entry hall.
The living room's horn chair and ottoman belonged to Van Patter's great-grandfather. In the dining room, the vintage orange seats are from New York's 26th Street flea market.
An Anthropologie throw pillow plays off citron pillowcases in the guest room.
Glossy black Verner Panton chairs from Design Within Reach are juxtaposed with found objects like twigs and tumbleweed.
A narrow closet became a cozy makeup area.
Van Patter customized stock kitchen cabinets and an Ikea island, which she paired with Magis's Deja Vu stools.
Summer breezes waft through the bucolic sleeping porch adjoining Van Patter's bedroom. An Angela Adams reversible quilt and vintage Navajo rug top the bed, along with African throw pillows crafted from woven grass. Van Patter appreciates line and form more than pedigree, freely mixing a collectible Paul McCobb console table with rustic pieces picked up at flea markets and thrift stores.


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California condors to return to Northwest skies after 100-year absence
By Bradley W. Parks (OPB)
Bend, Ore. March 25, 2021 1 p.m.
The Yurok Tribe of Northern California has worked for decades to return California condors to the Pacific Northwest. They hope to release their first birds this fall.
A California condor named Kaweah is pictured at the Oregon Zoo in this file photo from 2018.
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The endangered California condor is ready to return to the skies of the Pacific Northwest after a century's absence.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Yurok Tribe and the National Park Service announced Tuesday they will establish an experimental population of California condors in the Yurok ancestral territory. A final rule published by the Fish and Wildlife Service will allow the tribe to build a condor release facility in Redwood National Park.
The announcement marks a monumental step forward for a bird once on the brink of extinction and for the Yurok Tribe's broader cultural restoration effort that includes language revitalization, removal of dams along the Klamath River and more.
"As soon as I heard the news, I started crying," said Tiana Williams-Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe's wildlife department. "This is something that I've been working for literally my entire adult career."
The wild California condor population once dipped as low as 23 birds worldwide. Condors are scavengers. One of the primary threats to their survival is lead ammunition. If the birds eat animal remains laced with lead, it can poison and kill them.
Another common threat is the insecticide DDT, which, though long banned in the U.S., persists in the environment. It thins condor eggshells causing them to break before the babies are ready to emerge.
All wild condors were put in captive breeding programs by 1987 to try to save the species, including one at the Oregon Zoo.
Now, after decades of recovery efforts, more than 300 wild California condors are flying the skies of Arizona, Utah, California and Baja California. The global population of wild and captive condors is more than 500.
"The California condor is a shining example of how a species can be brought back from the brink of extinction through the power of partnerships," said Paul Souza, regional director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California-Great Basin Region, in a press release.
The Yurok Tribe has worked for decades to return the condor — called pregoneesh in the Yurok language — to the Pacific Northwest alongside many federal, state and private entities. The bird's recovery plays a large role in healing Yurok people, Williams-Claussen said.
"Bringing a species like California condor, pregoneesh, back to our ancestral territory … that's a huge reparation in the wound that the Yurok people and all tribes in this area have suffered since contact and the disruption to our eco-region," Williams-Claussen said.
The Yurok Tribe and Redwood National Park will operate the condor release facility in tandem. The Yurok will become the first tribal nation to reintroduce condors in the wild, Audubon Magazine reported last year.
"When I see condors flying in the sky, it's really representative of everything that we as Yurok people are as world renewal people, as people who are working hard to restore their hearts and their spirits and their lands," Williams-Claussen said.
The facility will hold small groups of condors that will form cohorts before they're released into the wild — some alone, some in pairs. All of the birds will be outfitted with satellite and radio transmitters to monitor their behavior and for wildlife managers to intervene where necessary.
They're hoping to release their first condors this fall.
Listen to Tiana Williams-Claussen's conversation with OPB "Weekend Edition" Host John Notarianni using the audio player above
Tags: Science & Environment, Wildlife, Oregon, California, Native Americans