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Q: NameError: Name 'Item' is not defined took the advice and i was able to pass the original error, thank you all so much so far :) i'm almost where i want to be. seems  i still have a massive knowledge gap when it comes to indenting. you guys are truely a gem to the coding community, thank you so much so far :)
Here is the current code that has passed those errors and its down to a warning, and not extracting anything.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

url = 'https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

pipeline_items = soup.find_all('div', attrs={'class': 'pipeline-item'})
rows = []
columns = ['Listing Title', 'Listing url', 'listing image url', 'location', 'Project type', 'Status', 'Size']
for item in pipeline_items:
    # title, image url, listing url
    listing_title = item.a['title']
    listing_url = item.a['href']
    listing_image_url = item.a.img['src']
    for p_tag in item.find_all('p'):
        if not p_tag.h2:
            if p_tag.text == 'Location:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_location = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Project type:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_type = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Status:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_status = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Size:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_size = p_tag.text.strip()

    row = [listing_title, listing_url, listing_image_url, property_location, property_type, property_status, property_size]
    rows.append(row)
    df = pd.Dataframe(rows, columns=columns)
    df.to_excel('DC Pipeline Properties.xlsx', index=False)
print('File Saved')

the error that i get is the following
im using pycharm 2020.2 maybe its a bad choice?
row = [listing_title, listing_url, listing_image_url, property_location, property_type, property_status, property_size]
NameError: name 'property_location' is not defined

A: Seems to me that your second for loop for p_tag in item.find_all('p'): is outside of the scope of the 1st for loop that iterates over items... Add that to the fact there might be 0 items in 1st loop, you get a None.
Just put the for loop and its content inside the for loop that iterates over items in pipeline_items.

A: The problem is that
pipeline_items = soup.find_all('div', attrs={'class': 'pipline-item'})

returns an empty list. The result of this is that:
for item in pipeline_items:

Never actually happens. Because of this the value of item is never defined.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do. But I see two solutions:

*

*Indent for p_tag in item.find_all('p'): so that you execute it for every item. This way, if there are no items, it's not called (I think this is what you intended to do originally?)

*Add an if statement before the loop to check if item exists, and skip the loop if it doesn't. Which most closely copy what you're code is currently doing, but I don't think that's what you want it to do.

A: Line 17 and below needs to be inside the for loop for 'item' to be seen.
for item in pipeline_items:
    # title, image url, listing url
        listing_title = item.a['title']
        listing_url = item.a['href']
        listing_image_url = item.a.img['src']
for p_tag in item.find_all('p'):   <------------Indent this for loop to be inside the previous for loop.
    if not p_tag.h2:
        if p_tag.text == 'Location:':

A: Mission Accomplished thanks to everyone here, Cheers!
few things i was missing.
1 Indenting for sure.
2 i was missing a span on the first subsection -- if p_tag.span.text == 'Location:':
3 i was missing a package openpyxl which was called at the bottom to write to excel.
100% working code below,
and my promise to get better and help out when i can :)
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

url = 'https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

pipeline_items = soup.find_all('div', attrs={'class': 'pipeline-item'})

rows = []
columns = ['listing title', 'listing url', 'listing image url', 'location', 'Project type', 'Status', 'Size']

for item in pipeline_items:
    # title, image url, listing url
    listing_title = item.a['title']
    listing_url = item.a['href']
    listing_image_url = item.a.img['src']

    for p_tag in item.find_all('p'):
        if not p_tag.h2:
            if p_tag.span.text == 'Location:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_location = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Project type:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_type = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Status:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_status = p_tag.text.strip()
            elif p_tag.span.text == 'Size:':
                p_tag.span.extract()
                property_size = p_tag.text.strip()

    row = [listing_title, listing_url, listing_image_url, property_location, property_type, property_status, property_size]
    rows.append(row)
df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=columns)
df.to_excel('DC Pipeline Properties.xlsx', index=False)
print('File Saved')


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Boris Johnson warns of Brexit 'meltdown' in furious attack on 'heart of Remain' Treasury
Kevin Schofield
Boris Johnson has admitted that Brexit could lead to "meltdown" as he accused the Treasury of failing to seize the opportunities of leaving the European Union.
Boris Johnson's comments were leaked to Buzzfeed and The Times.
In incendiary comments, the Foreign Secretary said Chancellor Philip Hammond's department was the "heart of Remain" and conceded that there are "arguments" going on at the heart of the Government over the best way for Britain to quit the bloc.
He even suggested that Donald Trump would do a better job of negotiating the UK's exit than Theresa May.
Theresa May: My backstop Brexit proposal is 'unpalatable'
Referendum on final Brexit deal is 'possible', admits Government minister
Blow for Theresa May as EU Brexit chief says UK's backstop proposals 'unworkable'
Mr Johnson was secretly recorded speaking at a private dinner at the Institute of Directors in London, following a drinks reception hosted by the Thatcherite think tank Conservative Way Forward.
He said: "The fight at the moment, I won't hide it from you, the inner struggle, is very, very difficult. The Treasury, which is basically the heart of Remain, has seized the risk - what they don't want is friction at the borders. They don't want any disruption. So they're sacrificing all the medium and long-term gains amid fear of short-term disruption. Do you see what I'm saying?
"And that fear of short term disruption has become so huge in people's minds that they're turning them all wet. Project Fear is really working on them. They're terrified of this nonsense. It's all mumbo jumbo."
The Foreign Secretary added: "I'm not going to hide it from you, there is an argument going on."
Mr Johnson said he was "increasingly admiring of Donald Trump" and added: "Imagine Trump doing Brexit. He'd go in bloody hard… There'd be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It's a very, very good thought."
But he said the Prime Minister was now ready to become more "combative with Brussels".
"You've got to face the fact there may now be a meltdown. OK," he said. "I don't want anybody to panic during the meltdown. No panic. Pro bono publico, no bloody panic. It's going to be all right in the end."
A friend of Boris said: "This was a private dinner under Chatham house rules so it is sad and very disappointing that it has been covertly recorded and distributed to the media."
Labour MP Ian Murray, of the pro-EU People's Vote campaign, said: "Boris Johnson is utterly shameless. As these comments show, he knows we're going to get shafted with a bad Brexit deal, he knows how much damage it will cause to our economy, he knows it will result in a hard border re-emerging in Northern Ireland, but he couldn't care less.
"That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister. Boris Johnson cares about nothing except himself and his own ambition.
"He is right about one thing: we are heading for 'a meltdown' over Brexit. But his solution is simply to embrace the chaos.
"Rather than continuing to let this Donald Trump tribute act determine the future of our country, we should take back control by having a People's Vote on the final Brexit deal."
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Basil King
09:45 on 8th June 2018
Only a multi-millionaire can complacently say: "You've got to face the fact there may now be a meltdown. OK, I don't want anybody to panic during the meltdown." For the remaining 99.99% meltdowns are a problem.
graham669
The treasury are being realistic and are concerned about the myriad of negative effects of brexit on the UK. Johnson is of course being his idiotic and dangerous self, making stupid statements with no justification or basis in facts. The British government either do not have a clue, or are being deliberately obfuscating in the proposals they put to the EU. Let us get our facts straight, regarding UK borders, with the Republic of Ireland, or any other EU countries, either we accept being in the customs partnership, i.e. staying in the EU. Or we leave with no agreement, and normal international borders at all points take over. The idiotic proposals from the PM this week illustrate how either she is grossly inept, like Johnson the twerp, or she is procrastinating deliberately, with no intention of agreeing anything with the EU, by putting forward unworkable and useless proposals to keep the media guessing. IMHO, she is deliberately flanneling, until she is able, incorrectly blaming EU intransigence, to declare that no agreement can be concluded, and we are leaving anyway in March 2019 without a deal. She will then go down in history as the UK leader that created the UK tax haven for the wealthy, and screwed up the social, business, financial, scientific, security and environmental future of the UK. Ruining the UK for decades to come. She will have met the requirements of her billionaire backers, then will be content to resign and retire, with whatever ill gotten gains she has acquired.
We were promised that Brexit would: (1) improve our trade; (2) release EU money for the NHS, etc; (3) free us from the ECJ; and (4) allow us to regain control of our borders. The deal which is emerging looks likely to break at least three of those promises. Had Brexit been classed as goods, under the Trade Descriptions Act it would be recalled and those selling it would be summonsed for trial. When parliament comes to vote on the final deal it will almost certainly bear little resemblance to what was sold in the run-up to the referendum; A50 should be rescinded at that point and those responsible for this mess called to account for their lies. In fact, we'd prevent great damage to our economy by rescinding the act immediately.
PeterDGardner
Critics of Boris have to think carefully about what they would do in his position and about wider issues like collective government by cabinet decision making. What is most worrying is that the disagreements are not confined to the Cabinet. Since the Treasury is the heart of Remain, it has denied funds to prepare for anything except Brino. Mrs May (pro Remain and Brino) has her own un elected staff to write papers they send to Brussels by-passing the cabinet and by-passing the Minister supposed to be responsible for Brexit. All those by passing the Brexit Minister, David Davis, are pro-Remain without exception. Pro-Brexit ministers are confined to the Cabinet or its sub-committee on Brexit and in both they constitute a small minority. It is now abundantly clear that Mrs May's government has no intention of delivering a Brexit that means Brexit. It is intent upon delivering Brino. The only question is for how long will Mrs May trap UK in vassal status under the EU. At present she has secured until 2023, after she has left office. She still has 4 months up to the EU october summit in which to ensure vassaldom is extended for at least a generation. The only way to stop this is to remove the EU's Governor of the British Province sitting in No 10 Downing Street by the fastest possible means. If that results in Tory Party meltdown so be it. She has already done enough damage to ensure the party will be unelectable for decades. If Corbyn became PM it would only be months before his government collapsed. So it is essential that while this is being seen to, a new political party of patriots who believe in a self-governing sovereign UK and will commit to delivering a full clean Brexit is formed. then we need a general election to put it into power. All faith in the main parties has collapsed. there is not alternative to a new patriotic party if UK is to have an independent sovereign future.
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és una pel·lícula de terror estatunidenc dirigida per Jaume Collet-Serra, estrenada l'any 2016. Ha estat subtitulada al català.

Argument
Trobada surfer en una platja deserta, Nancy es troba acorralada en una penya a alguns metres de la riba. Un gran tauró blanc ronda als paratges.

Nancy, una jove estudiant americana, va a una platja deserta a Mèxic amb l'objectiu d'exercir la seva passió: el surf. A la platja, el nom de la qual li és desconegut però que coneix gràcies a la seva difunta mare que venia a fer surf abans de morir, Nancy troba altres dos surfistes locals, que li asseguren que els únics perills potencials a la mar són les roques, el corall de foc i les meduses.

Repartiment
 Blake Lively: Nancy Adams
 Óscar Jaenada: Carlos
 Sedona Legge: Chloé Adams
 Brett Cullen: el pare de Nancy
 Angelo José Lozano Corzo: el surfer 1.
 José Manuel Trujillo Salas: el surfer 2.
 Diego Espejel: l'home sol.
 Pablo Calva: el fill de Carlos.
 Janelle Bailey: la mare de Nancy.

Producció

Al setembre de 2014, és anunciat que Sony Pictures ha adquirit els drets d'un guió al voltant d'una història d'un tauró titulat  escrit per Anthony Jaswinski. Lynn Harris i Matti Leshem seran productors del projecte, via la societat Weimaraner Republic Pictures, el desembre de 2014 el guió és classificat a la  dels millors guions a l'espera de producció. El març de 2015, Louis Leterrier és anunciat com a director. Tanmateix, el juny de 2015 el francès abandona el projecte per discrepàncies artístiques i per la rebaixa considerable del pressupost. Alguns dies més tard, és reemplaçat per Jaume Collet-Serra.

L'agost 2015, el títol del film esdevé  i el rodatge és anunciat per a novembre de 2015 a Austràlia.

Repartiment dels papers
L'agost de 2015, Blake Lively aconsegueix el paper principal.

Rodatge
El rodatge va tenir lloc a Austràlia, a Nova-Gal·les del Sud i a Queensland (als Village Roadshow Studios de Oxenford i de la Gold Coast).

Rebuda
"Un plaer culpable perfectament estúpid (...) 'The Shallows' podria haver estat una pel·lícula de sèrie B realment divertida. I en moltes maneres, ho és (...) Una pena que estigui una miqueta massa aigualida"

"Un festí estiuenc d'esglais (...) Pot ser que Lively hagi estat contractada principalment pel seu físic, però de totes maneres demostra ser una heroïna convincent"

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Referències

Pel·lícules dirigides per Jaume Collet-Serra
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 2016
Pel·lícules de terror dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules del 2014 subtitulades al català

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Q: Pairwise comparison of dataframe column entries in r Data:
df_dat = structure(list(code = c(1L, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1986 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1987 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1988 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1989 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_1990 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_1991 = c(1L, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1992 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1993 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1994 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_1995 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_1996 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_1997 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1998 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_1999 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2000 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2001 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2002 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2003 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2004 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2005 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2006 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2007 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2008 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2009 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2010 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2011 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2012 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2013 = c(NA, 10000L, 10001L), yr_2014 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2015 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2016 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2017 = c(NA, 10000L, NA), yr_2018 = c(NA, 10000L, NA)), .Names = c("code", "yr_1986", "yr_1987", "yr_1988", "yr_1989", "yr_1990", "yr_1991", "yr_1992", "yr_1993", "yr_1994", "yr_1995", "yr_1996", "yr_1997", "yr_1998", "yr_1999", "yr_2000", "yr_2001", "yr_2002", "yr_2003", "yr_2004", "yr_2005", "yr_2006", "yr_2007", "yr_2008", "yr_2009", "yr_2010", "yr_2011", "yr_2012", "yr_2013", "yr_2014", "yr_2015", "yr_2016", "yr_2017", "yr_2018"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -3L))

Question: I am trying to perform conditional pairwise comparison across the columns in my dataframe so as to check the reoccurence of the values stored in the first column code, which are numeric codes. The remaining columns in my case are in fact a time series from 1986-2018. What you see in every year column is in fact the occurence of the codes stored in the code column over time.
Now, to the crux of the problem. The objective is to create a new dataframe in which the entries would be populated through conditional statements based on the occurence and disappearance of the values stored in the code column through time. The expected results should be as follows:
Result:
df_out = structure(list(code = c(1L, 10000L), yr_1986 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1987 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1988 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1989 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1990 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1991 = structure(c(2L, 1L), .Label = c("EXIST", "NEW"), class = "factor"), yr_1992 = structure(1:2, .Label = c("CLOSED", "EXIST"), class = "factor"), yr_1993 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1994 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1995 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1996 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1997 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1998 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_1999 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2000 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2001 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2002 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2003 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2004 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2005 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2006 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2007 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2008 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2009 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2010 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2011 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2012 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2013 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2014 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2015 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2016 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2017 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor"), yr_2018 = structure(c(NA, 1L), .Label = "EXIST", class = "factor")), .Names = c("code", "yr_1986", "yr_1987", "yr_1988", "yr_1989", "yr_1990", "yr_1991", "yr_1992", "yr_1993", "yr_1994", "yr_1995", "yr_1996", "yr_1997", "yr_1998", "yr_1999", "yr_2000", "yr_2001", "yr_2002", "yr_2003", "yr_2004", "yr_2005", "yr_2006", "yr_2007", "yr_2008", "yr_2009", "yr_2010", "yr_2011", "yr_2012", "yr_2013", "yr_2014", "yr_2015", "yr_2016", "yr_2017", "yr_2018"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -2L))

In what follows is a brief description of the mechanics of what I intend to achieve. The first column code stores the codes of interest. One code per row. The remaining columns are in fact year columns that display as their entries the occurence of the code stored in the code column through time.
Now, the aim is to check the occurence for each code in the code column through time (i.e. the year columns) and recode the entries in the output as:

*

*NEW for the first year(t) of occurrence;

*CLOSED if the code stops reoccurring at year(t+1) efter having occurred in year(t);

*EXIST if the code keeps recurring for all years.

I hope I have managed to describe the problem as clearly as possible.
EDIT:
I have managed to find a suboptimal way to solve the problem. This was achieved through splitting the data into two types: 1) type 1 would be to collect all the data for which the codes stored in the code show up some years; 2) type 2 is to collect all the codes that reoccur every year for the period. In what follows is the code and output based on the sample data I provided. But again, this is not optimal.
#Load packages
require(tidyverse)

#Select only the year columns in the input data
df_dat_year = df_dat %>%
select(-code)

#Select only the code column for later use
df_dat_code = df_dat %>%
select(code)

#Dataframe including all observations for code=1
df_dat1 = df_dat_year[1:1,]

#Dataframe including all observations for code=10000
df_dat2 = df_dat_year[2:2,]

#Create output dataframes
df_out1 = as.data.frame(matrix(nrow = nrow(df_dat1), ncol = ncol(df_dat1)))
df_out2 = as.data.frame(matrix(nrow = nrow(df_dat2), ncol = ncol(df_dat2)))

#Loop code for each output dataframe

##For output 1
for(i in 1:nrow(df_dat1)) {
for(j in 1:ncol(df_dat1)) {
if((!is.na(df_dat1[i,j])) & (is.na(lead(df_dat1[i,j],1)))) {
df_out1[i,j] = "new"
df_out1[i,j+1] = "closed"
}
}
}
print(df_out1)

##For output 1
for(i in 1:nrow(df_dat2)) {
for(j in 1:ncol(df_dat2)) {
if((!is.na(df_dat2[i,j]))) {
df_out2[i,j] = "exists"
}
}
}
print(df_out2)

Once I have filled out the entries in the output, I just join the dataframes with rbind(). Subsequently, I add the code column with a cbind(). Final output looks as follows:
#Row-binding the output dataframes
df_out = rbind(df_out1,df_out2)

#Adding the code column to the final output dataframe
df_out_fin = cbind(code,df_out)

But again, this is a much messier and convoluted way of solving the problem. Does anyone have a better solution that do not necessitate the multitude of steps I have added?

A: Here's a tidyverse approach:
library(tidyverse)
df_dat %>%
  pivot_longer(-code) %>%
  group_by(code) %>%
  mutate(value = case_when(
    sum(!is.na(value)) == n() ~ "exists",
    !is.na(value) & is.na(lag(value)) ~ "new",
    is.na(value) & !is.na(lag(value)) ~ "closed",
    TRUE ~ NA_character_
  )) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = name, values_from = value)

Result
# A tibble: 2 x 34
   code yr_1986 yr_1987 yr_1988 yr_1989 yr_1990 yr_1991 yr_1992 yr_1993 yr_1994 yr_1995 yr_1996 yr_1997 yr_1998 yr_1999 yr_2000 yr_2001 yr_2002 yr_2003 yr_2004 yr_2005 yr_2006 yr_2007 yr_2008 yr_2009 yr_2010 yr_2011 yr_2012 yr_2013 yr_2014 yr_2015 yr_2016 yr_2017 yr_2018
  <int> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>
1     1 NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      new     closed  NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA
2 10000 exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists  exists

A: If it is by row, an option is also possible with pmap
library(dplyr)
library(purrr)
pmap_dfr(df_dat[-1], ~ {
    tibble(v1 = c(...), v2 = lag(v1)) %>%
    transmute(out = case_when(all(!is.na(v1))  ~ 'EXISTS',
            !is.na(v1) & is.na(v2) ~ "NEW",
            is.na(v1) & !is.na(v2) ~ "CLOSED")) %>%
    pull(out) %>%
    set_names(names(df_dat)[-1])  }) %>%
    bind_cols(df_dat[1],.)
#   code yr_1986 yr_1987 yr_1988 yr_1989 yr_1990 yr_1991 yr_1992 yr_1993 yr_1994 yr_1995 yr_1996 yr_1997 yr_1998 yr_1999
#1     1    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>     NEW  CLOSED    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>
#2 10000  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS
#  yr_2000 yr_2001 yr_2002 yr_2003 yr_2004 yr_2005 yr_2006 yr_2007 yr_2008 yr_2009 yr_2010 yr_2011 yr_2012 yr_2013 yr_2014
#1    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>
#2  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS
#  yr_2015 yr_2016 yr_2017 yr_2018
#1    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>    <NA>
#2  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS  EXISTS

A: A simple solution would be to create vectors storing the preceding and following values of your time series:
x <- !is.na(df_dat[1,-1])
x.prec <- c(NA, x[-length(x)])
x.foll <- c(x[-1], NA)

Then you can find, e.g, all NEW flags (values set, but with unset predecessor) with
x.new <- x & !x.prec

Similar with CLOSED (last set value) and so on.

A: Here is a base R approach:
mat = is.na(df_dat[, -1L])
res = matrix(NA_character_, ncol = ncol(mat), nrow = nrow(mat))

#code = 1 logic:
x = mat[1L, ]
ind_new = which(!x & c(x[-1L], FALSE))
ind_closed = ind_new + 1L
res[1L, c(ind_new, ind_closed)] = rep(c("new", 'closed'), each = length(ind_new))

#code = 10000 logic:
x = mat[2L, ]
res[2L, !x] = "exists"

res
cbind(df_dat[1L], res)

Basically, we are using is.na(df_dat[, -1L]) to evaluate the your logic.

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No recovery plan? Game over.
When your business-critical servers go down, it can devastate the business. Every minute of downtime translates into losses in productivity and profits. Idle workers alone can be extremely costly.
Consider a threat like ransomware, which encrypts the data on your servers and demands ransom money in exchange for the key to restore your files. By targeting vulnerable businesses, government agencies and healthcare facilities, ransomware is already extorting over a $1 billion a year from its victims.
Experts say the downtime after such an attack is where costs really start to rack up. They estimate that each hour of inactivity costs small businesses an average of $8,581 per hour in lost productivity and expenses. These costs can be crippling for many companies, which is why some businesses ultimately decide to pay the ransomware attackers, rather than risk a painfully slow recovery.
But other types of disasters, like a fire or flooding in your server, don't come with such an easy out. If your IT infrastructure is destroyed, and you don't have a backup plan, it's game over.
40 percent of businesses never reopen after a disaster, according to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Without a sound recovery plan in place, your company could become another statistic.
Let's look at the fundamental sections you need to include in your continuity planning documents.
Regardless of whether your document is specific to server continuity, or part of your larger business continuity plan, you should open with a statement of intent. This provides key stakeholders and other recovery team personnel with a clear purpose for the plan, why it's important and what objectives it should achieve.
If you're creating your own server disaster recovery plan template from scratch, the "Plan Objectives" also serves as a useful guide for what the plan needs to accomplish.
You will also want to include an additional section that lists the personnel on your recovery team. These are the individuals who will be tasked with updating the plan, activating it during a disaster and ultimately overseeing the recovery. In addition to their contact information, consider adding their specific roles and responsibilities on the team.
Some businesses should also include a calling tree in this section. A calling tree is a flowchart that identifies who should contact whom in an emergency incident. This tree is essential for maintaining effective communications after a major event. It ensures that all personnel are notified of the incident and know what to do.
Here, you will specify who is responsible for periodically reviewing and updating your disaster recovery plan, and how often. This will likely include a primary plan manager, in addition to others on your recovery team who will need to make sure that various elements of the plan are up to date and fully tested. Also, identify where and how the plan is stored, so that there's never any confusion on where the documents can be found.
Following this high-level overview, you'll want to include more information on each of the backup strategies identified. For example, if there is a backup location for the business, specify where it is and who has access. For data backups, specify how those backups occur and with what systems. If you're using third-party services or managed services providers, include that information along with points of contact.
Now, it's time to identify all the "what ifs" that pose risks for the company. In this section, you'll include various types of disaster scenarios and their impact on the business.
Chances are your business is more at risk of certain incidents than others, so you'll want to assess the probability of each. For example, if the company is located right on the coast, it could be more at risk of flooding, rather than a tornado. If you store sensitive and valuable data, your risks may be greater for a cyberattack.
Here, you will define what a ransomware attack is and what it would look like. While events like "fire" and "flooding" would be obvious to personnel, a specific form of cyberattack may not always be so clear. Describing what such an attack looks like is important for both your recovery teams and training of personnel.
Be as specific as possible. Remember to include steps for contacting the appropriate authorities. In a natural disaster, for example, your protocols will likely include dozens of steps, identifying locations for employee safety, evacuation procedures, assembly points and so on.
Identify the systems, technologies and other tools that are already in place to help mitigate the risks of the event or resolve it. This is where you will include more details on your data backup and recovery systems, anti-malware software, training programs or even things like server-room fire suppression systems.
You should also include any recommended action steps for resolving weaknesses that you've discovered during planning. Update the plan again once those systems have been implemented.
This section should identify the primary points of contact for each of those parties and the scenarios or rules for communicating with them. For media communication, some companies include pre-written press release drafts (with blank areas for the specifics) in their business continuity plans. This helps save precious time after a disaster and also ensures the communication is pre-approved and consistent with company policies.
Depending on the scope of your plan (company-wide or IT-specific), you'll also want to include a list of physical assets. This will probably be similar to versions that you've already provided to your insurance company. The list can include everything from the components of your IT infrastructure to your office furniture and valuable paper files.
Keep in mind: no two recovery plans are exactly the same. While this server disaster recovery plan template provides the basic structure for creating your own plan, we strongly suggest customizing your plan according to your business's specific needs.
Use the template above only as a starting point for identifying your unique risks, emergency protocols and technology solutions. You may find that the nature of your business, and the threats unique to your industry, require a different approach. As long as you're carefully considering your disaster scenarios and creating the appropriate response plans, you can significantly reduce the risks of a prolonged server outage.


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Well I'll be darned. The cows came home and they are mooing in my kitchen.
Well, if you do like cows like me, I'm going to tell you how you can get both of these cow themed decor items in your kitchen pronto. My post today is all part of the "Thrifty Style Team" so don't forget to scroll all the way to the bottom for all of the Thrifty Team members articles. All 8 of them are there waiting for you.
So, lets start off with the "Market Milk Cream Ye' Olde Dairy Farm" rustic sign that I created myself. It was incredibly easy and took minutes (I am not joking). I used my friend Debbie Doo's Farmhouse Cow stencil to paint it on a piece of left over wood from our DIY Sidelight Wood Shutters.
After you figure out what you are going to paint your stencil on (think doors, stools, floors, cabinets, tables, or a spare stained piece of wood like me), tape the stencil in place using tape. I used painters tape because it doesn't stick to surfaces. Then it's ready to paint.
The best brush to use is a stencil brush because they are stiff and thick so you are able to "dab" the paint on. Go easy with the paint and be sure to dab the excess off the brush onto a paper towel before you apply it over the stencil.
Go slow and light and apply from above not to the sides. Don't be scared, just do it. Let it dry, or peak and show everyone in the house like I did. It's actually really exciting after you see it finished.
Debbie has several stencils available…which one is your favorite?
Last but not least, I found my little pink ceramic cow creamer at a vintage market in Northern Michigan while on vacation this Summer. I'm collecting vintage "pink" decor and she fits in perfectly. If you want a cow creamer you can find several varieties here: COW CREAMER.
Thanks for explaining about the stencil! I am drawn to them and there are so many good ones, but have never done it before. Your cow is too cute!
Hot diggity cow is that cute! You did an awesome Julie. Love it and the cow creamer is the perfect compliment. Thanks so much for sharing.
Diggity Cow? LOL!!!!! I love my new rustic sign, Debbie!
Love that sign and love Debbie too!
I love the sign and LOVE that you used one of Debbie's stencils! It looks so perfect on that dark wood and that pink cow creamer is darling. Happy fall friend!
This is so so great, using a stencil makes it easy, the result is perfect. Your sign looks amazing in your kitchen!
I love, love, love your stenciled sign and that cow creamer is so cute. I have never seen one in that color before.
Hi Mary Beth, I think the pink ones are rare. I love the turquoise ones, too. Obsessed with cows! Have a great weekend friend!
Super duper cute, Julie!! I'm just loving all of Debbie's fun stencils. Loving how your sign turned out, friend!
Thank you, Kristi! Hope you are having fun at the conference this weekend!
Your sign turned out great. I want to stencil on Mason Jars. I have never stenciled before. You make it sound so easy.
The pink cow creamer is adorable.
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Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus of the History of Art
Craig Clunas
I am a former Fellow and Member of Governing Body from 2007-2018.
I was the fourth Oxford Professor of Art History since the foundation of the chair in the 1950s – all have been Fellows of Trinity.
I am an art historian of China, and the first scholar of art from outside Europe to hold the Oxford chair.
I am the author of a number of books on Chinese art, including the textbook Art in China, published by Oxford University Press.
I began as a student of Chinese language and literature at Cambridge, and my doctoral research was in this area, but in 1979 I began to work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where I spent fifteen years as a curator of Chinese art. I wrote my first books there, about Chinese furniture, Chinese carving, and about 'export painting', made in the port cities of 19th century China for foreign customers. Then in the early 90s I moved to the University of Sussex, and I taught there and at SOAS, University of London, as Professor of Art History, until I came to Oxford (and Trinity) in 2007.
I have published up to now mostly on the art of the Ming period (1368-1644), as well as co-curating a major British Museum exhibition on the early Ming in 2014. But I've always taught courses to students on modern and contemporary Chinese art, so since retiring I've been spending more time on this area of my interests, and my next book deals with the circulation of artistic ideas between China and Europe in the early twentieth century. This book will be published in Beijing, joining my other books which have all been translated into Chinese in recent years.
Since retiring from the Oxford chair of art history in 2018 I've continued to research and write on the art of China, and I'm currently working on a number of linked writing and exhibition projects which relate to the art of the early twentieth century.


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We review Beautiful Creatures – There's nothing magical about this sloppy collection of cliches
By Kervyn Cloete
Now that we've seen the sparkly end of the Twilight franchise (hopefully), every film studio and their dog is scrambling about trying to find the next YA phenomenon that will get them that tweeny Twilight money. So next up to the dollar-green plate is Beautiful Creatures, a Romeo and Juliet tale with a magical twist, that's been specifically cooked up for the Twi-hard crowd. But this Southern fried mess left a bad taste in my mouth.
Our star-crossed lovers come in the form of 17-year old Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) – who dreams of escaping his South Carolina, small town trappings as well as a mysterious dark haired beauty every night – and the clearly not 15-year old but let's just go with it anyway Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) – the mysterious new girl in town who gets bullied for being a "devil worshipping witch" just because she lives with resident town boogeyman, Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons).
Everybody says that the Ravenwoods are into some bad magic but Ethan is hearing none of that due to the fact that Lena bears a creepy strong resemblance to his dream lady.
Now if you don't know where this story is going, then I'd like to congratulate you on successfully making it through the first day since your birth yesterday. Have a celebratory cupcake, as I explain for your benefit: Lena is a witch, or "caster" as she and her whole family of witches prefer, and spooky old Uncle Macon doesn't want her having anything to do with "mortal" country boy Ethan. Yeah, like that's going to happen.
Admittedly Beautiful Creatures doesn't get off to a bad start, and as the wool gathering Ethan starts showing an increasing romantic interest in the enigmatic Lena, unexplained phenomenon that keep happening around her be damned, you almost get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, this will actually be decent. That opinion is reinforced by the fact that Richard LaGravenese, the guy who wrote The Fisher King and adapted The Bridges of Madison County and should therefore know his way around a romantic tale or two, directed and penned this adaptation of the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's book series. I mean it starts off decently and has even got Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson in it! What could go wrong, right? RIGHT?!
Lets kick off with the few meager ticks in the plus column. Newcomers Ehrenreich and Englert are clearly both talented young actors who do a decent job with their roles. If he can lay off the poor man's Buster Keaton comedy act a bit, Ehrenreich has a bright future ahead adorning the wall of some hormonal teenage girl. And while it's inevitable that Englert will face the Kristen Stewart comparisons, she certainly has nothing to worry about on that front. Then again, either of the two baked potatoes I had for supper last night could probably out-act ol' Scowly McOneFace, but lets not take that away from Englert.
The problem is that while they do a decent enough job individually, when Ethan and Lena inevitably do hook up, there's about as much sexual chemistry between them as there was between the aforementioned spuds on my plate last night.
Certainly not helping matters along at all is… well, I'm very hesitant to call it dialogue, per se. You see, nobody in this movie actually talks like a real life person. It's more like a collection of cheesy Southern colloquialisms and metaphors that don't just border on parody, they've already hopped the fence and are busy stealing parody's jobs. Now having never read the original book, I can't say if this was an affectation that survived the adaptation process or whether LaGravenese has just been watching way too much "Beverly Hillbillies" reruns, but based on how he adapted the rest of the book, my money is on the former.
To put it lightly, the script is overly long, convoluted bovine excrement. What begins as just a simple supernatural, forbidden teen romance, soon unravels spectacularly as it's revealed that on Lena's 16 birthday her caster powers and true nature will manifest, either as good or bad. This is something that only happens to female casters, like Lena's now bad girl cousin, Ridley (Emmy Rossum). Now that doesn't sound too bad until you also throw in Civil War curses involving Lena and Ethan's ancestors, Lena's presumed dead mother back as a spirit to possess bible bashing Mrs Lincoln (Emma Thompson) the mother of Ethan's best friend, Lena's crazy family showing up and going all Dark Shadows to celebrate the drabbest family holiday in the history of ever, etcetera, etcetera.
But the worst part is that peel back this twisting, turning, unnecessarily complex plot and you'll find that underneath it all, the story is still very much following just about every cliche in the book, they've just dressed it up all frilly is all. But a turd covered in Hundreds and Thousands still smells like a turd.
Not even the usually reliable thespian skills of Irons or Thompson can save it, he doing an uncanny Foghorn Leghorn impersonation while she gets the rare opportunity to overact as two separate characters in the same film. Even Oscar winner Viola Davis dropping by as Ethan's minder Amma doesn't helps matters much. At least she proves that as a black lady acting in a movie set in the South, you're not just restricted to playing white folks' housekeepers, or mediums that communicate with spirits. No, you can play both!
In the end, I realize that I might not have been the target audience of this movie, but I honestly can't tell you who that target audience actually is. By insisting on cramming in all this unnecessary flotsam, and with a plodding directing style, LaGravenese doesn't just make it messy, he also makes it too long. And if I really felt the film's 124 minute running time, you can be damn sure that that 15-year old girl who can't live without checking BBM every 3 minutes and who would probably have overlooked some of the film's other glaring faults in favour of some cute boy face sucking action, certainly will as well.
For all it's use of magic, Beautiful Creatures is anything but.
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When I arrived at 9:00am for this session, sweet little Leah was sleeping with her hands behind her head, in these adorable little yellow giraffe jammies. My first few frames were taken during this sleepy state, just before she woke up and showed me her smiley face, ready for her closeup.
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This is the first year Microsoft has issued the VAR Channel Rising Star Award, which is intended to acknowledge exceptional achievement by new members of the U.S. Partner Group. The Rising Star Award crosses all regions and is given to only one company annually. MSI became a Microsoft Certified Partner just one year ago.
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I know how to perform PCA (principal component analysis), but I would like to know steps that should be used for factor analysis.
General idea behind the PCA is to choose significant components, form new matrix which have columns eigenvectors, then we need to project original matrix (in PCA it is zero centered). But in factor analysis, for instance we should choose components that have higher that $1$ singular value, also then we are using rotation of factors, please tell me how it is done? For instance in this case.
Please help me understand factor analysis steps, as compared to the PCA steps.
This answer is to show concrete computational similarities and differences between PCA and Factor analysis. For general theoretical differences between them, see questions/answers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Below I will do, step by step, Principal Component analysis (PCA) of iris data ("setosa" species only) and then will do Factor analysis of the same data. Factor analysis (FA) will be done by Iterative principal axis (PAF) method which is based on PCA approach and thus makes one able to compare PCA and FA step-by-step.
We have 4 numeric variables to include in our analyses: SLength SWidth PLength PWidth, and the analyses will be based on covariances, which is the same as to say that we analyse centered variables. (If we chose to analyse correlations that would be analysing standardized variables. Analysis based on correlations produce different results than analysis based on covariances.) I will not display the centered data. Let's call these data matrix X.
Step 0. Compute centered variables X and covariance matrix S.
Step 1.1. Decompose data X or matrix S to get eigenvalues and right eigenvectors.
Step 1.2. Decide on the number M of first PCs you want to retain.
You may decide it now or later on - no difference, because in PCA values of components do not depend on M.
Let's M=2. So, leave only 2 first eigenvalues and 2 first eigenvector columns.
Step 2. Compute loadings A. May skip if you don't need to interpret PCs anyhow.
Loadings are the covariances between variables and components.
(if you analyse correlations, A are already standardized).
Step 3. Compute component scores (values of PCs).
Raw component scores (having variances = eigenvalues) can of course be computed from standardized ones.
Step 0.1. Compute centered variables X and covariance matrix S.
Step 0.2. Decide on the number of factors M to extract.
Note that you have to select M before you proceed further because, unlike in PCA, in FA loadings and factor values depend on M.
Step 0.3. Set initial communalities on the diagonal of S.
Most often quantities called "images" are used as initial communalities (see https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/43224/3277).
Images are diagonal elements of matrix S-D, where D is diagonal matrix with diagonal = 1 / diagonal of inv(S).
With covariance matrix, image is the squared multiple correlation multiplied by the variable variance.
Step 1. Decompose that modified S to get eigenvalues and right eigenvectors.
Leave the first M=2 values in L and columns in V.
Step 2.1. Compute loadings A.
Step 2.2. Compute row sums of squared loadings. These are updated communalities.
Extraction of factors is done.
Final loadings A and communalities (row sums of squares in A).
Loadings are the covariances between variables and factors.
Communality is the degree to what the factors load a variable, it is the "common variance" in the variable.
Sums of squares in columns of A are factors' variances.
Standardized (rescaled) loadings and communalities.
Step 3. Compute factor scores (values of Fs).
Unlike component scores in PCA, factor scores are not exact, they are reasonable approximations.
Several methods of computation exist (https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/126885/3277).
Here is regressional method which is the same as the one used in PCA.
These "Standardized factor scores" have variance not 1; the variance of a factor is SSregression of the factor by variables / (n-1).
Factors are extracted as orthogonal. And they are.
However, regressionally computed factor scores are not fully uncorrelated.
Covariance matrix between computed factor scores.
Factor variances are their squared loadings.
raw score = st. score * sqrt(factor variance / st. scores variance).
After the extraction (shown above), optional rotation may take place. Rotation is frequently done in FA. Sometimes it is done in PCA exactly the same way. Rotation rotates loading matrix A into some form of "simple structure" which facilitates interpretation of factors greatly (then rotated scores can be recomputed). Since rotation is not what differentiates FA from PCA mathematically and because it is a separate large topic, I won't touch it.
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Researchers have cured mice with a genetic blood disease by correcting mutated genes in blood cell-producing stem cells. The method offers a new therapeutic approach for treating blood disorders, such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
The gene-editing technique can be administered easily into living animals and notably decreases off-target effects (side effects), unlike the CRISPR technique, which displays problems in those regards.
The study, "In vivo correction of anaemia in β-thalassemic mice by γPNA-mediated gene editing with nanoparticle delivery," was published in Nature Communications.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) give rise to all blood cells and are located in the red bone marrow. Gene editing of HSC provide a strategy for treatment of inherited blood disorders, such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
Typical gene-editing techniques like CRISPR use DNA-cutting enzymes to open the DNA at a target site to correct a specific gene. The problem is that researchers have to remove the cells from the body to treat them, and then reinsert them. There also is a risk that DNA is mistakenly cutted (off-target effects) by the enzymes at sites other than the target.
The new technique, developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University, avoids these issues. In this instance, small synthetic peptide nucleic acid (PNA) can be injected directly into the body, and is designed to bind near the target site of the DNA and correct the gene by engaging the cell's own DNA repair mechanism.
"We have developed a system that uses FDA-approved nanoparticles to deliver our PNA molecule to repair a malfunctioning gene in living mice. This has not been achieved with CRISPR," Danith Ly, PhD, co-author, professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and an expert in PNA chemistry, said in a news article.
The team used a mice model for thalassemia and injected the PNA together with a stem cell factor (SCF), which enhances gene editing. The mice received four treatments with two days interval at the beginning of the experiment. Complete blood count analyses were continuously performed on blood samples for several months after last treatment.
Analyzes showed sustained elevation of hemoglobin levels into the normal range and corrected anemia in the thalassemia mice. In addition, 7% of the mutated genes were corrected in HSCs, with notably low off-target effects. This could be compared to typical gene-editing method, which corrects only 0.1% of the genes.
"The effect may only be 7 percent, but that's curative," Ly said. "In the case of this particular disease model, you don't need a lot of correction. You don't need 100 percent to see the phenotype return to normal."
There is still room for improvements of the PNA method through certain chemical adjustments. However, it is very promising that the technique shows improved gene-editing potency combined with "extremely low" off-target effects, according to the study.
"This next generation PNAs and SCF treatment may offer a minimally invasive treatment for genetic disorders of the blood, that can be achieved safely and simply by intravenous administration," researchers wrote.
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So this BlogAdda came up with this novel idea of writing a novel as teamwork. Pretty usual for them to harp on unusual ideas and throw them at us, bloggers. This is definitely a challenge to the blogging community, co-writing a whole novel with 8-9 strangers. But it is indeed a great idea to bring the community together, let bloggers from all over the country know each other, support and co-work as teams.
They have provided us with five core characters to build our story upon. We can and will add three more to spice up the story. They will be judged by a jury panel every week and they will keep eliminating teams. At the end of three weeks, three teams will survive. The best one will be published as a book by BlogAdda. Isn't it great?
Our team is 'Bards of the Blogosphere', comprising Divyakshi, Priyanka Victor, Arpita, Datta, Nupur, Sulekha, Maria, Roshan and Priyanka Roy Banerjee.
Though we have come together by sheer luck and BlogAdda's permutation, we have gelled so well as a team that I don't recall not knowing these people a week ago. We have brainstormed, argued politely, given each other space, stood by when any of us is busy and working, helped each other with blogging technicalities as well as nitty-gritties of writing.
I believe we can make it to the top, so does my team. Do read all our chapters, follow our Facebook page and show us some love!
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Known as the world cheapest Michelin-Starred eatery, the Singaporean food stall Hawker Chan opened in Melbourne, December 2017. Providing Melbourne with the tastes of barbeque dishes; namely its signature soy chicken and rice that really impressed critics.
Australia's first spin off of the original, which started in 2009 and earned Chef Chan Hong Meng his first Michelin star in 2016. This 92-seater restaurant was built for function and efficiency; there is no table service, and often lines that snake out the door. Diners will queue at the counter to place orders or use the self-ordering system (EFTPOS only), collecting their tray when their number flashes up on the wall mounted screens before finding their tables.
Hawker Chans signature dish, Chicken and Rice is a Budget-Busting $6.80, with a portion that will delight, and leave room for more. The chook is locally sourced, then chopped to order, crisp skinned and succulent having been basted in Chans sweet soy marinade; made in Singapore and dispatched to his outposts in Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan and Australia. In addition to the soya chicken, there's also roast pork, char siew (barbeque pork) and pork rib, which come with a choice of rice and noodles. Side dishes are also available of Thai-style tofu, a wonton soup, soy bean sprouts and seasonal vegetables.
With 1000-plus diners every day, it can be loud and hectic, but the service is swift, and while portions aren't huge, nor are the prices. So if you haven't already, get in early experience Hawker Chans on Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, before the queue starts.
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Crowned the best literary festival in the world in 2018, the George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) returns this November with "The State of Freedom".
This year, GTLF was awarded The International Excellence Awards 2018 for Literary Festival at The London Book Fair. "In a strong field, George Town Literary Festival stands out as a vibrant, diverse and brave festival that engages with a wide community of voices, speaking to the world from a complex region, said the judges of the International Excellence Awards 2018. GTLF is the only literary festival in Southeast Asia to be conferred this award.
Since the growth of the festival over the past editions and with a record 4,500 festival goers in GTLF 2017, the producer of GTLF, the Penang Convention & Exhibition Bureau (PCEB) has seen it fit to expand this year's edition to four days from 22 to 25 November. Heading the curatorial team is GTLF Festival Director Bernice Chauly. Bernice Chauly is assisted by Curating this year's festival is the Bernice Chauly Joining her in shaping up the co-curators Gareth Richards, Melizarani T. Selva and Pang Khee Teik.
"The State of Freedom is significant as 2018 marks many milestones in contemporary history. Seventy years ago in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in the recognition of fundamental human rights for all. A hundred years ago in 1918, women got to vote in the UK, after years of struggle and strife by the suffragette movement, and in 1968, Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated and the civil rights movement in America reached an ugly head. Ten years ago, Kevin Rudd said Sorry to the aboriginal peoples of Australia. And on May 9th this year, Malaysia peacefully and democratically exercised its right as a nation. The George Town Literary Festival 2018 celebrates our most diverse voices in world literature and the many states of freedoms we continue to live, write and struggle in," states Festival Director Bernice Chauly.
Additionally, GTLF is proud introduce the first ever Malaysian National Poetry Slam. The slam will be an annual spoken word poetry competition focus on poems written and performed in English and Bahasa Malaysia, where 12 Malaysian poets, ages 15 years and above, will compete to become the National Slam Champion.
The festival is thankful to have a great amount of support by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Embassy of Belgium in Malaysia, British High Commission Kuala Lumpur, Creative Scotland, Goethe Institut, Icelandic Literature Center, Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, Royale Chulan Penang, Writers SA and many more. GTLF is free and open to public with the exception of the paid workshops.


It was too overcast for the pool today so we walked up into the village. Tourtour is known as "the village in the sky" because of its stunning views from the top. We meandered through the streets climbing our way up to the the square.
We passed by the Moulin a Huile, where the villagers bring their olives to be weighed and pressed into olive oil. Tourtour has a cooperative system where the oil is distributed on a pro-rata basis depending on how many kilos of olives each villager contributes.
Making olive oil is a two-step process of grinding and pressing. First, the olives are placed under the stones and squashed to make a paste. The olive miller then collects the paste and puts it into jute baskets.
For the pressing, two piles of about 20 jute baskets are placed, one on top of the other, under the press. The first pressing is "cold," then the baskets are soaked in hot water before the second pressing.
Olive oil features a lot in Provençal cooking, including many of the restaurants and cafés in the leafy town square. Tourtour also boasts a few galleries and boutiques.
I wanted to take this dapper little furball home but he was 320 euros!
Instead, I splurged on this little black number (to wear to the beach this week) from the prêt à porter boutique, Florence.
We stopped at a café by the fountain to revive ourselves with a cold citron pressé – freshly squeezed lemon juice, which you can water down a little bit, add a teensy pinch of sugar to sweeten it up, stir and enjoy!
This handsome pup kept cool as a cucumber under our café table and begged me to throw him his slobbery pinecone – which he kept retrieving and laying at my sandals again and again. I think I finally wore him out!
Our final ascent was up to the village chapel perched on the hilltop where we could look down on the gorgeous Var landscape below.
Good thing the way home is all downhill!
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Summering in the south of France is one of the highlights of my year. It isn't long after New Year's Day I begin fantasizing about my escape from dreary England – lounging poolside, propped up on a chaise under the canopy of a parasol, its canvas tips flapping in the Provençal breeze. I am finally here! After a few days though, I was keen for a day trip. So we rented a little Fiat with no air-conditioning, cranked down all the windows, and sputtered into nearby Aix-En-Provence.
Aix is well-known for its fountains, scattered around the old town; it's also home to modern painter Paul Cézanne. It was a foregone conclusion that my first stop would be his studio. Atelier Cézanne is nestled amongst the trees on Lauves hill overlooking Mount Sainte-Victoire, where Cézanne practiced from 1902 – 1906. The upstairs room is still cluttered with furniture, ceramics and other items which long ago posed for his still life masterpieces.
Back in town we settled in for lunch on the terrace of Les Deux Garçons, a lively brasserie on the humming Cours Mirabeau. The food was basic and the service was terribly French (slow) – but which could almost be forgiven as standards have understandably slipped a bit since opening day in 1792!
After polishing off my gelato and larking around the shops for a bit, we toured the Cloisters of Saint-Sauveur Cathedral, and spied the Burning Bush Triptych by Nicolas Froment.
Dinner was at Le Formal – inside the former wine cellars of Henry IV. The chef there is obsessed with truffles; they were in nearly every dish of our seven-course "Emotions" tasting menu. Maybe the emotions were about how much he loves cooking with truffles.
A throughly indulgent supper in a modest historical setting – made for an effortless end to a lovely day in Aix.
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Gimlets, Bukowski & Day Drinking Missing LA's Dive Bars
Los Angeles is a city built on contradictions. While it's famous for its international stars, miles of beaches, and dedication to exaggerated opulence, it also boasts an equally impressive network of gritty dive bars.
These aren't the places you'll find glitterati or Insta-fluencers – the parade of people who try to look like they've never tried in their lives. No craft cocktails or elegant decor here; no stage, no dress code. These water holes are almost as old as Los Angeles and attract a range of regulars.
With California now in the midst of a severe lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19, these establishments are now closed and are the ones I miss the most and look forward to returning to.
When I was writing my novel, The lady upstairs, a feminist noir thriller about women blackmailing the richest and most morally bankrupt men in Los Angeles, I spent a lot of time in dive bars. Mainly as research. (Most.) Where can the anti-heroes of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, among others, find respite from all this optimistic sun? Slip into one of these joints and you can practically smell the ghosts of the private investigators wearing fedora and the fast talking femme fatales. The cool, dark dive bars provide the chiaroscuro that makes Los Angeles a breeding ground for the genre.
Although it will take a while before I can go out for a drink, these are the waterholes I plan to visit first.
There is a plethora of kitsch-cool tiki bars in Los Angeles. All of these elements take a scenic turn on mid-century tropes and update them for the 21st century. It's like the bartenders wink at you isn't that ridiculous trick that lets customers know they're in for the joke, so everyone can just relax and enjoy their not-too-sweet Mai Tai.
Not so with the purple orchid.
Located in El Segundo, a western Los Angeles suburb just south of LAX that reads like the child in love between Andy Griffith's Mayberry and the well-appointed business parks of Silicon Valley, the Purple Orchid is within walking distance of a cinema. which plays 1950s sci-fi classics on Sundays and the headquarters of Raytheon Defense Contracting.
With specialty cocktails like the Curious George, which is heavy on both rum and banana (imagine an eight-ounce-deep liquid sugar hangover), and a range of 'bowl' style and flamboyant drinks. , the purple orchid is refreshingly unpretentious in its love for all things typically tiki. It is also the setting for more than one crucial scene in The lady upstairs. I chose it because the tiki cocktail history is littered with blackish nuggets and because I think you can argue that tiki bars are a lot like femme fatales themselves – gorgeous to look at and likely to you. leave a lot of regrets in the morning.
The Prince of Whales, located a few blocks from the ocean and only a few miles from LAX, smells like the inside of an aquarium that hasn't been cleaned regularly. The clientele is almost evenly split between daytime patrons who start the hard work of stripping themselves at 10 a.m. and students at Loyola Marymount University who test their freshly minted ID cards. It's a tall, beautiful blue whale of a building, home to a karaoke stage, a quadrangle of sports televisions, and an expansive back patio that sees a variety of table tennis experts who have spent a number of hours. unlikely to perfect their backhand.
You might have heard of other bars on this list, but I'm pretty sure the Prince of Whales never made a list of bars to visit in Los Angeles and that's where its charm lies. It is located in my neighborhood (and the neighborhood where the main character The lady upstairs also lives), Playa del Rey, the forgotten seaside town of Los Angeles. It's a corner of town where mom-and-pop restaurants can still afford beachfront property and feature a charming little cluster of neon lights and beach bums resembling Thomas Pynchon characters.
At Prince of Whales the drinks are cheap and strong. If you're starting your night out at the Prince of Whales, you're in trouble. If you end the night there, you're doing it right.
The woodwork at HMS Bounty, not updated since the bar opened in 1962, now looks a bit out of place in Koreatown, a chic and diverse neighborhood in the heart of Los Angeles.
HMS Bounty is attached to the Gaylord Apartments, once dubbed "one of the tallest and most pretentious buildings in the country" by The Los Angeles Times. He made a cameo appearance Mad Men, but this high level advertisement did nothing to change the unpretentious charm of the place, which offers "food & grog" as on the banner outside.
I don't remember any special cocktails from HMS Bounty; I barely remember the double Gin & Tonics under $ 10; but I remember the sweaty brown carpet swaying under my feet like a real boat as I stumbled over to the bar to pay my insanely cheap bill on an adventurous evening.
The ghost of Raymond Chandler welcomes you at the door of this legendary Hollywood establishment. Although not a dive bar per se, but truly a historic restaurant with an amazing, darkish bar, I felt I should always include it on this list
Musso & Frank opened in 1919 and is the oldest restaurant in Los Angeles. Along with Chandler, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker and many more ate and drank here. From the cocktail menu springs lucrative inspiration – or that's what writers like Charles Bukowski seemed to hope for, as he is credited with the tradition of looking for just the right opening hook to a novel deep in a Musso & Frank. Gimlet.
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Mr. Stephen S. Yoder joined Pieris as Chief Executive Officer in January 2010. Prior to joining Pieris, from July 2003 to December 2009 he led the intellectual property and legal departments at MorphoSys AG, a biotechnology company involved in the development and research of antibodies, as General Counsel. Prior to MorphoSys AG, from September 1999 to June 2003 he worked in several Washington, D.C. law firms, specializing in a life sciences intellectual property practice. Mr. Yoder holds degrees in molecular biology and Spanish from Grove City College and a Juris Doctorate, with honors, from The George Washington University Law School.
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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Thomas Bures joined Pieris Pharmaceuticals as the Vice President of Finance in December 2017. He has more than 20 years of finance experience and has spent the last several years managing finance organizations within the healthcare and life sciences industry. Mr. Bures joins the Company from Genocea Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GNCA) where he served as the VP Corporate Controller since 2015 and was responsible for the financial reporting, accounting, tax, treasury and insurance functions. Before joining Genocea, Mr. Bures worked for five years at PAREXEL International Corporation (formerly listed on NASDAQ: PRXL), most recently as the VP Assistant Controller. He was responsible for financial reporting, internal controls, and GAAP and statutory accounting for all legal entities. He started his career in Ernst and Young's audit practice in 1996 and served multinational clients in the retail, manufacturing and banking industries. Mr. Bures received his B.S. in Accountancy from the College of the Holy Cross.
Mary Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Vice President, Project Leader PRS-060/AZD1402
Dr. Mary Fitzgerald has over thirty years of respiratory drug development experience. At Pieris, she has been responsible for spearheading the advancement of PRS-060/AZD1402 through IND-enabling activities and phase 1 studies. She continues to work closely with Pieris collaboration partner, AstraZeneca, as PRS-060/AZD1402 progresses through clinical development. Prior to joining Pieris, Dr. Fitzgerald served as Executive Vice President of Respiratory at Pulmagen Therapeutics where she was responsible for clinical development of inhaled and oral drug candidates for both COPD and asthma. Dr. Fitzgerald's previous experience also includes various positions at Etiologics, Ltd., Argenta Discovery, most recently as Executive Vice President of Respiratory, and at Bayer Healthcare. Dr. Fitzgerald received her PhD from Sunderland University / Wellcome Laboratories and received her BSc Pharmacology from Bath University.
Hitto Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Hitto Kaufmann is a biopharma leader with over 20 years of experience in research, development and manufacturing with a track record in development of about 100 biological therapeutic entities. Prior to joining Pieris, Dr. Kaufmann spent five years at Sanofi, where he held several executive positions in Industrial Affairs and R&D. During his time there, he led efforts to build a strong cross-divisional end-to-end technology platform for Sanofi Biologics that included several strategic deals. He also went on to head Global Biopharmaceutics Development, managing over 700 employees across three sites tasked with drug substance and drug product technical development, analytics, clinical supply and release. Finally, he oversaw key strategic projects on digitalization and data sciences, as well as the integration of the Ablynx platform into the Sanofi network. Before his tenure at Sanofi, Dr. Kaufmann spent more than a decade at Boehringer Ingelheim, most recently in the Biopharmaceuticals division as Vice President, Process Science. He began his career as a Research Scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. Dr. Kaufmann received his Ph.D. in Natural Science, focusing on cell culture technology, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and a Master of Science degree in biotechnology from the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Scripps Research Institute. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the European Society of Animal Cell Technology and has authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications.
Ahmed Mousa, J.D.
Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer, and General Counsel
Ahmed joined Pieris in January 2016 and currently serves as Chief Business Officer and General Counsel, acting as site head for the company's Boston office, overseeing the business development, commercial, portfolio and quality assurance functions, and leading Pieris' intellectual property, corporate secretary, and legal activities, including licensing and corporate legal as well as the company's global patent portfolio. Prior to joining Pieris, Ahmed was an attorney with the law firm Covington & Burling LLP, where he represented pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in a range of matters. Ahmed was also previously a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and an IP Associate at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Ahmed obtained undergraduate degrees in Molecular Biology and Government from Cornell University and a master's degree in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University with research experience prior to his legal career focused on tumor biology and angiogenesis. Ahmed graduated from Georgetown Law with honors, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Law.
Shane Olwill, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Dr. Shane Olwill has spent over a decade in oncology focused drug discovery with a specific interest in the development of novel biologics. Prior to joining Pieris, Dr. Olwill was Director of Research at Fusion Antibodies plc where he was responsible for the discovery and development of multiple drug candidates. He is a named inventor on 16 patents and has published his research in many international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Olwill received his PhD in Molecular Hematology/Oncology from the University of Ulster, following which he worked as an industrial postdoc in conjunction with University College Cork. Dr. Olwill has a PgDip in Management Practice from DIT Business School and is a state qualified Medical Scientist.
Christine Rothe, Ph.D.
Vice President, Head of Early Stage Project Leadership & Data Science
Dr. Christine Rothe has more than 20 years of experience in drug discovery, characterization, and optimization of therapeutic protein drug candidates in various positions. She currently serves as VP Early-Stage Project Leadership & Data Science at Pieris. Previously, she served as VP, Discovery and Alliance Management at Pieris, overseeing technology development as well as the discovery process of selecting and profiling of Anticalin® proteins for Pieris' proprietary and partnered programs, as well as holding responsibility for the Alliance Management team. Dr. Rothe joined Pieris in 2010 as Senior Director, Alliance Management. Prior to joining Pieris, she spent 13 years at MorphoSys AG in various positions in R&D and Alliance Management, where she was responsible for technology development as well as therapeutic antibody project teams. She received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Regensburg, Germany. Before joining industry, she held a research position at the University of Regensburg.
Frank Vollmering
Vice President, Human Resources
Mr. Frank Vollmering is Pieris Pharmaceuticals' Vice President of Human Resources. Mr. Vollmering has more than 25 years of experience in international Human Resources across a diverse set of industries, such as biotech, semiconductors, software and consulting. He has held leadership positions at Intel Corporation, Veritas Software, and Analog Devices. Frank holds an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.


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CONESVILLE - A West Lafayette woman suffered complaint type injuries in a one-vehicle rollover crash Monday afternoon, according to the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office.
The incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. Monday on Ohio 16 near Township Road 347. Sharon Adkins Gildow, 66, was eastbound in a black Ford F-150 pickup truck when she swerved to miss a deer. The sheriff's office said the truck went off the side of the road to land on its side in a ditch.
Gildow was transported by Coshocton County EMS to Coshocton Regional Medical Center with complaint type injuries. The sheriff's office said a passenger in the truck, Gildow's 3-year-old granddaughter, was also transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure only.
Assisting on scene were REACT, Prince's Wrecker Service, Coshocton Fire Department and Franklin-Conesville-Virginia Volunteer Fire Department. Traffic was slowed in both directions for a little more than an hour while emergency crews were on scene.