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Turkish maker of world's smallest knives loses most of his sight
by Daily Sabah with IHA
SIVAS Nov 10, 2021 - 1:44 pm GMT+3
Erdoğan Güzel, maker of world's smallest knives, poses for a photo in his workshop, in Sivas, Turkey, Nov. 10, 2021. (IHA Photo)
by Daily Sabah with IHA Nov 10, 2021 1:44 pm
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A Turkish artisan known for his mastery of the art of making knives and who has been a Guinness World Records nominee for his remarkable and specially made tiny knives measuring just 1.5 centimeters (0.59 inches) in length, has started to lose his vision, threatening the continuation of his unique artform.
Erdoğan Güzel, nicknamed "Şirin Baba" or "Papa Smurf" in reference to the Papa Smurf protagonist from the comic strip "The Smurfs," has been suffering a health issue that makes it hard for him to continue to his art, craft and profession.
Güzel has worked as a master knife maker in eastern Turkey's Sivas for 25 years, transforming mastery into art with the knives he crafts. The same curiosity that lead him to master the artistry of tiny knives has caused sight to deteriorate.
Erdoğan Güzel, maker of world's smallest knives, shows one his knives in his workshop, in Sivas, Turkey, Nov. 10, 2021. (IHA Photo)
He has lost 50% of his eyesight.
However, Güzel, who is in love with the art of knifemaking, does not intend to give up practicing his profession, despite the risk of losing his sight completely.
In fact, he plans to break his own record of crafting the smallest knife, at 1.5 centimeters long, by creating a 1 centimeter-long knife.
Guinness nominee
Güzel noted that he was nominated to the Guinness World Records with the small knives he made. "I've been doing this job for 25 years. I made Turkey's smallest knife. I did it on stage. I didn't do it to be a champion, to be the first or to win an award. I made tiny knives to raise awareness for the younger generation," Güzel told Ihlas News Agency (IHA).
Güzel stated that no one warned him about his eyes.
"We were not as lucky as you. We found our way through life by trail and error. We learned about the cold after shivering, and the hot after being burned. No one said that if you get closer than 30 centimeters, you'll hurt your eyes. Now, I made those tiny little knives under the lens. Currently, I have a yellow spot in my eye because of my age. I have 50% vision loss."
Erdoğan Güzel, maker of world's smallest knives, shows one his tiny knives in his workshop, in Sivas, Turkey, Nov. 10, 2021. (IHA Photo)
Güzel noted that he would continue to make tiny knives even if his eyes continued to deteriorate.
"There are people who want tiny knives a lot. My working principle is on trade anyway. I work with enthusiasts and collectors. Although I can't make small knives in millimeters, I can easily say that under the lens, I could make a 15 or 20, if I force myself a 10-milimeter one," he said.
After a certain age group, vision impairment begins. You buy a brand new car, you drive for 2 or 3 years, then you have to (take it to a mechanic) in the fourth year. I've been driving this car for 74 years. There will be troubles."
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Video shows DWI suspect doing cartwheels during sobriety test
by: Melissa Turpin
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A typical sobriety test usually requires walking in a straight line, but one Albuquerque woman took the test in a different direction, displaying her acrobatic skills instead.
"Where's this direction? Face that direction for me, with your whole body. We're not doing yoga. I don't know what you're doing, put your hands down," an officer said.
Police say Bryelle Marshall was seen sleeping in her car in New Mexico Friday night. According to a criminal complaint, police say she reeked of alcohol, but she told the officer otherwise.
"Have you consumed any alcoholic beverages today?" the Albuquerque Police officer asked.
"No, I'm fine," Marshall replied.
After having a hard time standing up straight, video shows the officer trying to have Marshall walk in a straight line. That proves to be a challenge as well.
"Turn around and face me. Your whole body, face me. With your hands down…I don't know what you're doing," the officer said.
What she ends up doing is a cartwheel, followed by another after the officer tries to show her what to do.
"OK, well I'll demonstrate it for you. Right foot in front of your left, hands down at your side, not doing somersaults," the officer said.
The officer gives her one more chance to walk in a straight line, also warning her to not do another cartwheel.
"Don't do it, because your going to hit me and I'm going to charge you with a battery," the officer said.
He shows her one last time what she needs to do, but once again, comes out unsuccessful.
"When you get to that ninth step you're going to take your rear foot out…OK, we're done," the officer said.
Video shows Marshall was then placed under arrest.
Police say when they got her downtown to do a breathalyzer, she ended up kicking the officer in the back of the leg.
Marshall was charged with battery and aggravated DWI for refusing the breathalyzer.

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I spent a fascinating day in Stratford-upon-Avon this week courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust where we were shown the early results of a massive project to revamp the 5 properties under their care. Here we're looking into the garden at New Place, the choice property in the centre of Stratford where Shakespeare lived for the last 19 years of his life and wrote many of his plays.
Sadly New Place is no more, so the project team took the opportunity to find archaeological evidence to inform a contemporary re-imagination of the property and gardens. Here we're standing on part of the house's footprint, looking towards the gardens, with the first lines of Shakespeare's sonnets at our feet, plus a modern garden to the side and artwork revealing aspects of Shakespeare's life and times.
Glyn Jones - the Trust's Head Gardener - was our guide for the day and it soon became clear why he'd been lured from Hidcote as the project is huge.
He's keen to introduce more individuality across the gardens, to create more of a sense of place for each property, aided by the use of a wider variety of plants. He has a team of 9 gardeners - including an apprentice - plus around 12 volunteers to help achieve his vision.
The photo above shows the newly restored knot garden, which lies behind the contemporary entrance area. It's in keeping with the original design by Ernest Law, who was an expert in garden history and a trustee around 100 years ago. His knot garden was based on an illustration from 1577, so was in keeping with Shakespeare's time.
An upright Euonymus 'Green Rocket' replaces box in the design to avoid issues with blight. We had a lively discussion over whether the tulips are 'Queen of Night' as bought by Glyn as some of my fellow visitors thought they were too tall.
The circle you see in the middle is an enlarged replica of a signet ring found close by, which probably was Shakespeare's. The letters are deliberately back to front, as the ring also served as a seal.
Then we were led into the Great Garden, where I had a sense of déjà vu. At first, I thought I'd been in a similar garden in Stratford with choir, then Glyn soon confirmed I was indeed in the same place as before, much to everyone's amusement. This garden was also designed by Ernest Law, with input from the redoubtable Ellen Willmott. The plan here is to introduce more seasonality into the garden, and a 'rewilding' of the wild bank, with a probable reshaping of the yews into straighter lines. The latter was met with horror by some of us as we liked the organic shapes!
Standing in this garden I realised we'd been guided through a burgage plot like the ones I saw at Helmsley last year. What I didn't know then was the cooking part of the kitchen was usually placed away from the main house because of the danger of it setting fire to the property. In the case of New Place, the archaeological investigation shows it was sited at the entrance of the Great Garden.
We then moved a couple of miles from New Place to Anne Hathaway's cottage. This garden will be redeveloped along romantic lines as it's where Shakespeare wooed Anne. The roadside approach to the cottage will be rerouted as too much is given away to visitors on the way in to the car park.
Most of us liked the colourful tulips after their shower of rain and hail, but Glyn told us they'll be replanted with a more subtle combination, and the Spanish bluebells will also go along with the more thuglike plants to allow for a wider variety of planting.
At the top of the photo you can just see the start of a small vegetable garden, and I was delighted to hear there is a connection with nearby Wellesbourne (they helped me with my A Level biology project and confirmed it was an innovative study), who are advising on the agricultural varieties grown at the time of Shakespeare.
At the orchard's entrance stands this wonderful quince tree which puts my pot grown one to shame. When the opportunity arises local varieties of apples and other top fruit will be added to this area.
Rescued hedgehogs have been set free at the cottage as part of the Hedgehog Friendly Town project led by three girls. We were shown one of the hedgehog hotels in the orchard, and how their food is hidden. They're earning their keep as the slug population has gone down noticeably.
Over time the wider property will be developed at the cottage to encourage visitors to explore the site further. I asked why most of the gardens are using the Edwardian schemes as their basis seeing the story is about Shakespeare. Glyn explained that replicating those times means every property would be a farm and Mary Arden's House performs that role for the Trust.
Plants in keeping with Shakespeare's time will be included in each garden as appropriate, and at Hall's Croft - the home of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna - there are medicinal herbs to reflect the work of her husband Dr John Hall.
We also caught a brief glimpse of the small garden at Shakespeare's birthplace, where a temporary hot border is in the pipeline whilst the long term plans for the garden are decided. You can also choose some Shakespeare on demand from the actors in the garden!
There is still much more planned over the next 5-10 years, and I'll definitely be back to see how the project progresses. Thanks to the rest of the Trust's team in addition to Glyn for such an interesting day, particularly Kerry and Alison for their organisation, plus Nic Fulcher, who was a mine of information on the project's context, Shakespeare and the social history of the time.
Non Morris' account of the same visit in her Dahlia Papers.
What a wonderful tour to have had! But I have to admit, it was the Hathaway tulips (that will be replaced) that sent me scurrying over to read your post as soon as I saw it on Facebook.
That sounds like a fascinating day VP. That quince tree is huge! I wonder whether you saw 'Countryfile' tonight which included a feature on the hedgehog rescue project. There were also other glimpses of Warwickshire.
It looks really interesting- wonderful colour already.


I want to combine data from several worksheets into one worksheet.
For example, I have data in Sheet1 (Columns A,B,C), data in Sheet2 (Columns A,B,C), data in Sheet3 (Columns A,B,C) all with varying amounts of rows. (All the rows contain text data).
I need to combine all of the data from the 3 sheets into a single sheet, Sheet4 (Columns A,B,C), eliminating the empty rows.
I've been looking into this for a while, and can't find anything that really helps. Anyone got any pointers of what to look into?
Any help will be beautiful.
I have around 250 Employees Payroll and i am preparing the Payslip in Excell manully. I have all the Salary details in Sheet1 and in Sheet2 is Payslip. I request all of you to please help me so that i can take the printout of all the employees in sheet1 by at a time. Now im entering one by one employees code and then taking the prinout..
in the reference cell's sheet.
Hi was wondering if anyone can help.
I am trying to get counts of certain values.
This is in the same workbook but different sheets.
On sheet 1 is where my formula lies. In a cell, I want it to look at sheet 2 column B and look for instances of "A", then I want it to look in the same row it found "A" and look at the value in column "N" and evaluate if there is an amount. If there isn't skip it and don't count it, if there is a value count it if it falls within a given range.
An example of the formula is below...what am I missing?


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Signing Matt Duchene a complicated, unlikely scenario for Canadiens
Hockey insider Nick Kypreos joins Tim and Sid to discuss the events of the NHL Draft and the upcoming free agency.
Eric Engels | @EricEngels June 27, 2019, 2:45 PM
Eric Engels @EricEngels June 27, 2019, 2:45 PM
MONTREAL — Matt Duchene met with the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday.
Matt Duchene, the 28-year-old centre who scored 31 goals and 70 points in 73 games split between the Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets this past season. Matt Duchene, a first-line player who's in his prime. He doesn't fill Montreal's most pressing need, which is on defence, but he's almost impossible to turn away from.
The thing is, we're not convinced it's a fit for either side.
Granted, the Canadiens aren't loaded with top-end talent up front, and Duchene can help. They may have a good balance at all three forward positions, and scoring by committee, but not so much that they can just ignore a premiere scorer who might prefer them to any other team in the league as he closes in on the most important contract of his career.
And on Duchene's end of it, he's a Haliburton, Ont., native who grew up cheering for the Canadiens. We imagine he recognizes a chance to fulfill a childhood dream and do so with a team that has a young and talented core emerging in Montreal, a team anchored by one of the best goaltenders in the world in Carey Price and one of the most respected defencemen in the game in Shea Weber, and a team he sees an opportunity to win a Stanley Cup with in the near future.
Of note on free agent Matt Duchene, who met with the #habs yesterday. He's an Ontario kid with deep roots to the team. In late April, he said: "My family is all French Canadian and we grew up with the Habs. When I was a young kid, my Dad and my Grandpa loved the Habs."
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) June 27, 2019
We also know Duchene's doing his due diligence, making sure he explores every option and guaranteeing he maximizes his earning potential by showing potential suitors there's competition for his services. He's doing what anyone in his position would do, and that all makes sense.
It's the part where Duchene leaves a boatload of money on the table (taxes are considerably higher in Quebec than they are in Tennessee, where the Nashville Predators, a team that appears closer to the Stanley Cup than the Canadiens, are meeting with him on Thursday) that we can't quite reconcile.
Here's another thing we're struggling to figure out: Why would the Canadiens significantly alter their plans to bring in a player who has undeniable talent but doesn't quite push them over the edge?
Consider that just one week ago Montreal general manager Marc Bergevin said he was doubling down on the long-term reset he embarked on in the summer of 2017.
"We're going to continue to go with youth and speed," he said prior to the Vancouver draft. "We're heading in the right direction."
Adding Duchene for top dollar on a long-term contract means deviating to a degree. Signing him to a contract that we suspect would carry a $9-to-$10-million annual average value over as many as seven seasons (just based on what he's done as a player and what other pending free agents like Jeff Skinner and Kevin Hayes recently signed for) will force the Canadiens to make significant changes.
To start with, Montreal would have to free up some money to gain some breathing room under the $81.5 million upper limit of next year's salary cap. They have 24 players signed and just under $9 million in space.
You'd have to think buying out the remaining three years of Karl Alzner's $23.1 million contract is close to being a must. And that's a move that, while bringing relief over the long run, could handcuff the Canadiens next year and the year after if the cap doesn't rise much in the short term.
We're not saying Bergevin wouldn't do it, but exercising that option to sign Duchene doesn't particularly jive too well with the notion he advanced last Friday — that he's proceeding with caution.
"As far as adding (through free agency), yes I'm always looking to add, but I need to be responsible," Bergevin said. "We have some young players coming through — KK (Jesperi Kotkaniemi), Max Domi, even (Ryan) Poehling. If they progress the way we think they are, I hate to three years from now (be forced) to move one of those kids to make room for a guy that just signed a week from now that I can't move."
The thing is, signing Duchene all but guarantees Bergevin will find himself in that position. Domi's contract expires at the end of next season and he'll be due a massive raise on his $3.15-million salary if he comes close to matching his 2018-19 output of 28 goals and 72 points. And, in light of restricted free agents who are coming out of entry-level contracts and attempting to sign ground-shifting deals, Kotkaniemi and Poehling could cost a pretty penny come summer of 2021.
And those are just some of the cap implications of signing Duchene.
Summer of 2021 for #Habs: Kotkaniemi and Poehling come off entry level and Tomas Tatar, Brendan Gallagher, Phillip Danault+Jeff Petry could become ufas. That, along with a new contract for Max Domi, is what Bergevin has to think about as he explores today's market.
— Eric Engels (@EricEngels) June 27, 2019
Another big one is not having any other money available to shop for a left-side defenceman that qualifies as a top-four upgrade — forcing the Canadiens to look exclusively at trade options to address that glaring weakness.
That could mean parting with a top-nine winger — Bergevin would have to get rid of one regardless to make room for Duchene or Domi to move to the wing — and potentially losing a valued prospect or a high-end draft pick, too (assets he's adamant he doesn't want to part with for short-term gain).
It would be an exorbitant price to pay considering what P.K. Subban moved to the New Jersey Devils for and what Calvin de Haan moved to the Chicago Blackhawks for in cap-clearing trades over the past week, but it's the type of package sources informed us the Philadelphia Flyers asked for when the Canadiens checked in on the availability of 26-year-old defenceman Shayne Gostisbehere.
Maybe a 28-year-old Nick Leddy would cost less to pry away from the New York Islanders. A 29-year-old T.J. Brodie, who's played mostly on the right side but can play on the left, almost certainly wouldn't command as much in a trade with the Calgary Flames.
But Bergevin wouldn't be dealing from a position of strength with the Canadiens up against the cap and desperate to fill a need.
He'd also be at a deficit to sign a capable, experienced backup goaltender, and that would be problematic given that it's a need he said he intends on filling through free agency.
The bottom line is that signing Duchene, while enticing, complicates things for the Canadiens. That's something Duchene has to consider, too, as he weighs his options — especially assuming he wants to be paid to the full potential of his market value and that he wants to have an opportunity to compete for the Stanley Cup year after year with his new team.
Anything's possible, and Bergevin's always cautioned us to expect the unexpected, but we're not holding our breath on Duchene donning a Canadiens jersey when the market officially opens on July 1.
Matt Duchene met with Canadiens, will reportedly meet with Predators
Sportsnet Staff
Defiant Caufield determined to prove he belongs with Canadiens now
Eric Engels


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Workflow for defining reference chemicals for assessing performance of in vitro assays
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Richard S. Judson
US EPA, National Center for Computational Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Russell S. Thomas
Nancy Baker
Leidos, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Anita Simha
ORAU, contractor to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the National Student Services Contract, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Xia Meng Howey
Carmen Marable
Nicole C. Kleinstreuer
National Toxicology Program, Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Keith A. Houck
Instilling confidence in use of in vitro assays for predictive toxicology requires evaluation of assay performance. Performance is typically assessed using reference chemicals – compounds with defined activity against the test system target. However, developing reference chemical lists has historically been very resource-intensive. We developed a semi-automated process for selecting and annotating reference chemicals across many targets in a standardized format and demonstrate the workflow here. A series of required fields defines the potential reference chemical: the in vitro molecular target, pathway, or phenotype affected; and the chemical's mode (e.g. agonist, antagonist, inhibitor). Activity information was computationally extracted into a database from multiple public sources including non-curated scientific literature and curated chemical-biological databases, resulting in the identification of chemical activity in 2995 biological targets. Sample data from literature sources covering 54 molecular targets ranging from data-poor to data-rich was manually checked for accuracy. Precision rates were 82.7% from curated data sources and 39.5% from automated literature extraction. We applied the final reference chemical lists to evaluating performance of EPA's ToxCast program in vitro bioassays. The level of support, i.e., the number of independent reports in the database linking a chemical to a target, was found to strongly correlate with likelihood of positive results in the ToxCast assays, although individual assay performance had considerable variation. This overall approach allows rapid development of candidate reference chemical lists for a wide variety of targets that can facilitate performance evaluation of in vitro assays as a critical step in imparting confidence in alternative approaches.
Judson, R., Thomas, R., Baker, N., Simha, A., Howey, X. M., Marable, C., Kleinstreuer, N. and Houck, K. (2019) "Workflow for defining reference chemicals for assessing performance of in vitro assays", ALTEX - Alternatives to animal experimentation, 36(2), pp. 261-276. doi: 10.14573/altex.1809281.


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package de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.datamodel.search;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.contentauth.IfmapPep;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.datamodel.Publisher;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.datamodel.graph.GraphElement;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.datamodel.identifiers.Identifier;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.datamodel.meta.MetadataHolder;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.messages.SearchRequest;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.provider.LoggingProvider;
import de.hshannover.f4.trust.iron.mapserver.utils.NullCheck;

/**
 * Just some routines for initialization to abstract {@link BasicSearchHandler}
 * and {@link ContinueSearchHandler} implementations.
 *
 * @author aw
 */
abstract class AbstractSearchHandler implements SearchHandler {

	protected static Logger sLogger = LoggingProvider.getTheLogger();
	protected final Identifier mStartIdent;
	protected final Filter mMatchLinksFilter;
	protected final Filter mResultFilter;
	protected final int mMaxDepth;
	protected final TerminalIdentifiers mTermIdentTypes;
	protected final Map<GraphElement, List<MetadataHolder>> mVisitedElements;
	protected int mCurDepth;

	// Needed for authorization
	private final Publisher mPub;
	private final IfmapPep mPep;

	private long mStartTime;
	private long mEndTime;

	AbstractSearchHandler(SearchRequest sreq, Identifier start,
			Map<GraphElement, List<MetadataHolder>> visitedElements,
			int startDepth, Publisher pub, IfmapPep pep) {
		NullCheck.check(sreq, "sreq is null");

		if (start == null) {
			mStartIdent = sreq.getStartIdentifier();
		} else {
			mStartIdent = start;
		}

		NullCheck.check(mStartIdent, "start identifier is null");

		mMatchLinksFilter = sreq.getMatchLinksFilter();
		mResultFilter = sreq.getResultFilter();
		NullCheck.check(mMatchLinksFilter, "match links filter is null");
		NullCheck.check(mResultFilter, "result filter is null");

		mMaxDepth = sreq.getMaxDepth();
		mTermIdentTypes = sreq.getTerminalIdentifiers();
		NullCheck.check(mTermIdentTypes, "terminal identifiers is null");

		if (visitedElements == null) {
			mVisitedElements = new HashMap<GraphElement, List<MetadataHolder>>();
		} else {
			mVisitedElements = visitedElements;
		}

		mCurDepth = startDepth;

		NullCheck.check(pub, "client is null");
		mPub = pub;

		NullCheck.check(pep, "pep is null");
		mPep = pep;
	}

	AbstractSearchHandler(SearchRequest sreq, Publisher pub, IfmapPep pep) {
		this(sreq, null, null, 0, pub, pep);
	}

	@Override
	public void onStart() {
		mStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
	}

	@Override
	public void onEnd() {
		mEndTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
	}

	@Override
	public final Identifier getStartIdentifier() {
		return mStartIdent;
	}

	@Override
	public final void nextDepth() {
		mCurDepth++;
	}

	protected final int getCurrentDepth() {
		return mCurDepth;
	}

	protected final Filter getMatchLinksFilter() {
		return mMatchLinksFilter;
	}

	protected final Filter getResultFilter() {
		return mResultFilter;
	}

	protected final int getMaxDepth() {
		return mMaxDepth;
	}

	protected final TerminalIdentifiers getTerminalIdentifiers() {
		return mTermIdentTypes;
	}

	protected List<MetadataHolder> authorized(List<MetadataHolder> mhlist) {
		return mPep.isSearchAuthorized(mPub, mhlist);
	}

	public final Map<GraphElement, List<MetadataHolder>> getVisitedElements() {
		return mVisitedElements;
	}

	public final long getStartTime() {
		return mStartTime;
	}

	public final long getEndTime() {
		return mEndTime;
	}

	public final Set<GraphElement> getVisitedGraphElements() {
		return mVisitedElements.keySet();
	}
}

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Q: Incrementing number in file name when file exists I am still very new to Python (3).  I have a BUNCH of sensor data, but the download limit forces me to retrieve the data in chunks instead of all at once (each .zip file downloaded contains a folder of .csv files for each sensor's data during a given time period).  Thus, I have dozens of large .csv files distributed among several folders that I would eventually like to concat/merge/append into one .csv file for each sensor's full data.  To make things more complicated, .csv file names for each sensor are identical across the folders.  I have developed the following code to rename and move the files into one folder so that later I can concat/merge/append.  It works fine except for the fact that the number I am inserting into the new file name is not incrementing.
import os
path = r"C:\directory\sensordatafolders" #folders with .csv files
newPath = r"C:\directory\new" #destination for renamed files
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for name in files:
        base, extension = os.path.splitest(name)
        if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(newPath, base + extension))
             oldfile = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(root), name)
             newfile = os.path.join(newPath, base + extension)
             os.rename(oldfile, newfile)
        else:
             i = 1
             oldfile = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(root), name)
             newfile = os.path.join(newPath, base + '_' + str(i) + extension)
             i +=1
             os.rename(oldfile, newfile)

After the second loop (*.csv and *_1.csv files successfully moved), it gives me the 'cannot create a file when that file already exists' error.  This is because (I think) it keeps trying to create *_1.csv files instead of incrementing to *_2.csv, etc..

A: Your
i = 1

After else should not be there, it keeps setting i to 1 thus always making i's value in to a 2, try to have it outside of the for statements

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In light of concerns about girls feeling unsafe at fraternity events, Northwestern's Interfraternity Council has announced a competition aimed at getting frat brothers to treat women with even the bare minimum of decency. The Respect Women Challenge will span the entirety of winter quarter and each fraternity is required to participate.
At press time, the IFC came under fire after it was revealed that the winning frat would receive a selection of Russian mail-order brides.


There are endless photo retouching applications, but within this category there is a new fad that is on the rise: apps oriented to the eastern public. Young people born in the cradle of manga and anime have a rather curious aesthetic taste: they love to resemble their animated idols with huge eyes, disproportionate head and excessive makeup.
Meitu, this free application for iPhone and iPad, allows the user to modify (or disgrace as you see) all their selfies to transform them into an image worthy of the WhatsApp avatar of the new Sailor Moon or use up to 50 different filters in real time when Use the FX Camera.
It allows to eliminate small marks or the granites of the skin.
It includes an automatic retouch that improves all aspects of the photo in one touch.
Basic tools to rotate, rotate or enlarge images.
All kinds of effects, brushes, colors, wallpapers, letters and frames to add.
Delete the background of the photo.
Possibility to share the result in Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, among other networks.
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'Take Me To the River' Hits Netflix Today!
If you didn't get the opportunity to see Take Me To the River, clear your calendar. Martin Shore's 2014 award-winning documentary celebrating the music and musicians of the Mississippi Delta is debuting on Netflix today. Featuring legendary artists such as Bobby Rush, Otis Clay, Mavis Staples, Charlie Musslewhite, and Bobby 'Blue' Bland as well as contemporary performers ranging from Snoop-Dogg and Terrance Howard to L'il P-Nut, Frayser Boy, and Yo Gotti, the film chronicles the rich musical history of Memphis and its surroundings. The film is also still screening in select places around the country so subscribe to the TMTTR email list and check the TMTTR Education site.
A new installment of Take Me To the River is currently being filmed which focuses on the musical history of New Orleans. For now, keep up with TMTTR on social media and on their websites. Watch the film on Netflix and let us know what you think!


For those of you who are interested in astronomy, this next week will be especially exciting for you. For the first time in over a decade, the five planets that are visible from Earth (Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury) will align.
The best part is that after they line up this week, you'll be able to observe the phenomenon until February 20. This is the first time that it's occurred since 2005, so you might want to break out your telescope and have a look!
The best time to view these planets is just before dawn.
And if you're confused about which spots are planets and which ones are stars, stars appear to twinkle and planets don't.
If you want to see these aligned planets in all their glory, find a place with very little light pollution, wake up an hour before dawn, and whip out that telescope that you never use. You have about a month to see it happen, so take advantage of this rare moment!


One of the factors that seems to drive people to consider moving to a new home or undergoing a major renovating project is when the kitchen is just too small. The kitchen is one of the most active and important parts of the home. So, if it is just physically too small of a space and the confining nature of the kitchen is creating stress in the family, it is time to act to implement some renovating plans to open up the kitchen and make it a space that is more workable for the cook and everybody that depends on him or her.
The obvious solution to a small kitchen is to turn it into a large kitchen. Of course, increasing the floor space of the kitchen is a major renovating undertaking. You must analyse the structure of the house to determine how you would relocate the walls to give more space to the kitchen. There are electrical and plumbing issues to consider. If the stove will move, that might entail relocating a gas line. Then you have the flooring to be redone once the expansion is done.
While expanding the size of the kitchen is a major renovation involving significant time and money, it could improve the home so significantly that it will justify the cost. With the kitchen expanded, the house is more attractive when you put it on the market. Moreover, your family will enjoy the kitchen space more, so you may not want to move out at all now that you have a good-sized kitchen that fits the needs of the people that live in your home.
If a kitchen expansion is not feasible, there are things you can do to make the most of the space you have and to make the kitchen seem more open and spacious. If you cannot go sideways, go up! If you expand the kitchen upwards by annexing attic space, you could add additional cabinets higher up in the kitchen where seldom used items are kept. If that approach to kitchen renovating takes the kitchen air space to the roof, you can add a sunroof to allow sunlight into the kitchen, which will make the kitchen seem much more open and cheerful.
Then you can look at how the kitchen is organized. There may be a lot you can do with the space you have to make the kitchen easier to navigate and reduce clutter. Often entire cabinets are used for cooking items that may only see action once a year. Those items can be removed to auxiliary storage space outside of the kitchen. If your pantry is inside the kitchen space, you can convert a closet near the kitchen to a pantry and then use that space for other forms of storage. You can add taller or deeper cabinets and appliances that mount under cabinets to open work space on your existing cabinets. Then by renovating the counter tops, the tiling and the wallpaper, that kitchen can open and become a spacious and cheerful space all by just using the space you already have more wisely. That is smart renovating.


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Magic Carpet Software – The History & Lore of Katharine Higby
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In the early 80s, the industry was quite populated by women game developers, while not as many as their male counterparts, there were probably more than one might think today. Her names can be easily found in several of the magazines that, in the early 80s, would publish games sent in by programmers. Most of these names seem to have disappeared for good, but there is one in particular that seemed to stick around, that of Katharine Higby and her company, Magic Carpet Software. Today, the company is unfortunately mostly remembered for Stroker, that infamous "masturbation" game. But before that, let us take a look at the history of Magic Carpet software.
This is an effort in piercing together all of the clues I have been able to find about a very specific moment of gaming history, so the history will be mostly fractured and incomplete.
NSFW warning: some pixelated nudity towards the end of the article.
Look up to the sky: it's Magic Carpet
The name "Magic Carpet software" identifies a company in Phoenix, Arizona, which was developing and selling games for the Commodore PET, the VIC-20 and the 64. We know for sure that it employed only two programmers, Bob Carr and Katharine Higby. Unfortunately, those are pretty much the few facts about the company: the actual history of the software house itself is shrouded in mystery. This is the case also for several others American companies that were releasing software, in the early 80s, for the home computer. While I used the term companies, let us keep in mind that those were hardly professional endeavors. Most of them were minuscule companies with one person, or two, developing games in their homes and selling them around the country on tapes or floppies sent in zip-loc bags, not unlike what On-line systems (later, Sierra) was doing in those same years.
Early On-Line systems AD from 1981
Robert Carr [who would sometimes credit himself as "Crab Terror", anagram of his name] is the developer of 1982's Weather War II, probably among the very first turn based deathmatch title to be released on the Commodore 64. It is a battle where two players take turns against one another, with the sole objective that of destroying the other player's fortress, attacking with several weather related powers: thunder, snow, hail, etc. Wind, which is calculated for each turn, has to be factored in, since all attacks come from a single cloud randomly positioned in the sky for each turn. Every once in a while, a random act of nature shall also strike which will give an unfair advantage to one of the players. The first player to topple the other's fortress wins.
So, while we may be pretty confident that Bob Carr developed Weather War II, what about its predecessor?
The origins of Magic Carpet Software: Ouranos!
The predecessor to Carr's game was never released under the name "Weather War". The sequel is a more advanced version (or Commodore 64 remake, if you will) of Ouranos!, a title which came out in 1980 for the Commodore Pet, originally published in the July issue of Cursor magazine. The magazine would feature games, that were sent in by developers, on cassette, while basically playing the role of a publisher. They would even go as far as change names of the programs, if they did not fit their needs.
Indeed, that is what happened in this case: Cursor had already published in a previous issue a software called Weather, so they explained to the readers that the original name Weather War had to be changed, as it might have been confusing. After they did "a bit of research", they apparently ended up choosing the name of the ancient Greek god of the Heavens, Ouranos. Which can be easily translated to "Uranus", but I'm sure they were completely unaware of that rather obvious joke when they made that choice. The game is credited to Kate Higby.
While Weather War II might have been midly impressive for a Commodore 64 user in 1982, two years before on the PET Ouranos! was quite the notable title. Entirely programmed in BASIC, except for an assembly routine which makes the screen flash when a lightning bolt is summoned. The name of Katie Higby, as mentioned, is one that is very closely linked to the history of the company Magic Carpet Sofware. In fact, all evidence points to Katharine actually creating the company herself, probably before Bob Carr even started working with her. That is if we accept the fact that she would have created it around 1981 but anyway, even after married, she was still the main point of contact for the company. So, I guess it would be safe to say that Magic Carpet software might be among the first software houses created and managed by a woman, at least in its early years.
Unfortunately, as it happens, history favored the version of Weather War II on the Commodore 64, obscuring Kate's original PET creation which has mostly been forgotten. Both games are mentioned by Matt Barton in his study on weather in games, as one of the very first games to use it as an actual gameplay feature. Make no mistake here, Carr did little except porting the game to Commodore 64, thus adapting its graphics to the PETSCII on the more powerful computer, which makes the "II" in title quite pointless. The two games are so similar that the 64 version even keeps a slight wind calculation bug in the code.
Advertisement from February 1982
Magic Carpet software appears regularly on the pages of COMPUTE! magazines throughout 1982, advertising different games, with Frog being a particularly prominent one. A simple game – with Aerosol being basically a clone – where the player catches flies using the frog's tongue and adding to the "calories" count which slowly goes down while standing still. The game had originally appeared in 1980 on Cursor magazine for the Commodore PET. But, this time, the game was credited to Bob Carr. Among the few other games available by Magic Carpet, Vortex was a simple Commodore 64 shooter: try to defeat the ufo hiding in the barriers, before you get shot down. Little more than a simplified Space Invaders clone.
Carr & Higby: the union of two developers
Here Katherine is shown using her married name in reference to Magic Carpet Software. Date unknown.
Indeed from 1980 both Bob Carr and Katie Higby would appear several times in Cursor, with their games and software for the Commodore Pet. The two were credited on 40 column PET games the likes of Dance, Lawn and Frog. But what was the relationship between the two developers? Well, taking a look at the REM in his programs in 1980 Bob Carr was apparently still living in California, while Kathy Higby lived in Arizona, in Phoenix where Magic Carpet software seems to be based around that time.
While there is indeed evidence that the two married, I have no further clues as to when it happened, one would surely think after 1980. But this does coincide with the two developers' habit of converting Commodore PET games to the 64 and VIC-20 and, then, swapping the credits around. So, a PET title previously credited to Katie would be released on the Commodore 64 credited to Bob and viceversa. Unfortunately, while the ads did indeed mention VIC-20 games by Magic Carpet, I was unable to find any clues that they were ever physically released. Still, it is safe to think they would be the same games as the PET and 64 ones.
If there is some sort of common ground to be found for most Magic Carpet releases of the time, well, it would have to be humour. For example, let us look at Commodore 64 title The Medicine Man from 1982, which appeared in its original form on the PET, again published in Cursor magazine issue 21 as "Dance". Credited again to Bob Carr, the game sees the player controlling the god of Energy (a human version of the god Ouranos…?), Copecoee [sic], invoked by a Native American tribe to solve the problem with the heavy rains that threaten to drown all of the wise ancients. While the controls seem to work quite at random, the mechanics are again pretty simple: catch the rain falling down and try to not get hit by the snake on the ground.
So, why did Midnite Software Gazette describe the game, titled Rain Dance (it is most likely the same game as The Medicine Man), referencing mostly its "cartoon"? Well, at the start of the game, the player gets a choice of watching a short animated sequence before starting. Today we'd refer to it as the intro video or a cutscene, but back in 1982 those were, indeed, "cartoons". The sequence sees a Native American doing a rain dance (for what feels like an eternity), only to be struck by lightning and clapped by the other members of the tribe as he lies there, dead.
Magic Carpet AD from July 1982
Some of the games developed by Magic Carpet software, among them surely Weather War II and The Medicine Man, were also published in Australia by a company called South Pacific Software from Chippendale, New South Wales. How did the games by a small company from Phoenix, Arizona reach so far across the world, while still missing Europe entirely, is a question I was unfortunately unable to answer.
Auf Wiedersehen, Bob Carr
But, there are indeed other games released by Carr for the Commodore 64 that also feature humorous cartoons as the "intro". Beyond those, another feature that is quite common in Magic Carpet' games seem to be pages of instructions. I guess this choice should makes us conclude that they, apparently, did not send any kind of manual with the games they were selling. Anyway, we will find both humour and pages of instructions in another Commodore 64 game often credited to Bob Carr. This is probably his most famous commercial title, or probably infamous, as it is often referred to as one of the worst games ever published on the computer: Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
This was one of those weird licensed game ideas from the early 80s, based on the ITV network comedy-drama series about British bricklayers trying to find work in Germany. The gameplay is spread around three simple minigames, vaguely inspired by scenes from the series, that the player does not even need to complete, since they are just played for highscores. Also, in order to skip from one minigame to the other, the player actually needs to lose. Very simple gameplay mechanics and also graphics: still, as far as I know, this is the one Bob Carr game that doesn't only use PETSCII characters as graphics.
But, let us backtrack a minute.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a strictly British series and Tynesoft was an English company, based in Newcastle. So, if we assume that they were doing the logical thing, namely looking for programmers in the UK, why did they go out of their way to work with someone that, at the time, was living in Arizona? We can be sure that Robert Carr was not a particularly talented programmer or, well, that he was famous in the UK. Magic Carpet software surely did never advertise their games outside the US. Perhaps Carr was originally from the UK? Or maybe, he was living abroad in 1984?
It is fairly easy to speculate, but there is one more important fact to consider. All the other versions of the game, the ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron and BBC Micro, of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet are credited to Bob Carr on several websites, as well as on the games themselves. That is indeed very strange, since it would mean that Carr by 1984 had suddenly developed such incredible skills to be able to program on three different computers. All of these weird facts lead me to conclude that the Bob Carr who developed Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is not the same person from Magic Carpet Software. Despite the level of graphical skills and the year somehow matching up with our story.
There is also one big difference in the game compared to the Magic Carpet released we have observed so far: the "BREAK" button is disabled. We'll get to this later.
Mowing the lawn with Kate
While quite active on the Commodore PET, there do not seem to be a whole lot of Commodore 64 games developed by Magic Carpet Software and credited to Katie Higby. Lawn is the one exception that I was able to track down: another very simple game from the days of the Commodore PET (the original version was credited to Bob Carr and published by The Code Works), developed in BASIC with PETSCII graphics. The player just mows the lawn, with no real obstacles of any kind, trying to use fuel as efficiently as possible before it runs out, with random events like "caught a stone!" that interrupt the gameplay. Still, the game was published by The Code Works, with the REM dating June of 1983, so it never appeared in Magic Software's catalogue, even though its original form was – again – on the PET, appearing in Cursor issue 26.
Kate seemed to be more at home with the PET, so much so that when Robert Carr decided to re-release Ouranos! in its sort of updated version, he made no references whatsoever to the previous game (well, except for the II in the title) nor to the work of Higby as the original developer. But we can be sure that the game is very much the same since, as mentioned, it also includes that wind calculation bug. Still, seeing how the two developers were husband and wife, working on the same games and having an habit of swapping the credits around, it is easy to think that Kate would work together with her husband on games with no credits that mention her name.
After 1984, news on both the company and the two programmers start becoming quite scarce, with the last reference appearing in Midnite Software Gazette issue 31, with the company apparently still active in 1986. With the Magic Carpet story ending in 1984, it is not a wild speculation to assume that Kate Higby was the one in charge. Granted, until Higby or Carr decide to come back and tell the whole story, we will never be completely sure. Still, if we assume – as all evidence seems to point out – that Magic Carpet was created and managed by Katharine Higby, then it is also reasonable to think she – at the very least – was well aware of their 1983 infamous title: Stroker for the Commodore 64.
This is quite the interesting chapter in the history of Magic Carpet, but even before describing how the game works the first thing that needs to be clarified about Stroker (or Stroker64 as the code identifies it) is that its origins seems to be, at this point, completely lost to time. While most online databases attribute the game to Magic Carpet, it does not seem to fit together with the rest of its software library. As we have seen, the company mostly released serious titles, a couple of its humorous "cartoon" games were even clearly aimed at a young audience.
Stroker: Magic Carpet final hurrah
Considering how we have seen how most Magic Carpet software releases were the result of Bob & Kate working together, it would be easy to assume that Stroker could be the first ever sex simulation game, at least, co-developed by a woman. But again, that's little more than the result of putting together the few news I was able to find, plus that tiny pinch of speculation. Stroker might be indeed defined as a "sex" game, even though the more correct definition would be a "simulation of a sex act". Its inherent gameplay mechanics seems to, somehow, balance the strictly simulatory aspect and that of the challenge typical of an early 80s game.
Still, Stroker makes little sense for a company that was very much intent on selling their games as much as possible. The early 80s scene for home computers was quite wild at the time, especially in the US, but there did not seem to be a whole lot of sexual games outside of the usual pretty safe Strip Poker variants, which were clearly aimed at men. And even in that tiny niche, there were very few Commodore programmers actually brave enough to try and develop a naked woman in BASIC with PETSCII graphics, for sure.
Magic Carpet 1982 AD
Stroker is not really aimed at men, or well, women for that matter. It is not aimed at anyone in particular, I think. It is a game where the player moves a hand up and down a penis, trying to not go too fast or too slow, before the time runs out. Another title entirely written in BASIC, using only PETSCII graphics, which – again – does tie-in with what both developers had been doing up to that point. But, there is something peculiar about it: as opposed to all other Magic Carpet releases, instead of displaying the name of the developer – Bob Carr – on the front screen, it is hidden in the code. The screen just references the copyright to Magic Carpet Software.
What today would be a potentially effective measure of concealing one's name, at the time it was not. Carr was apparently not aware of the POKE command that disabled the BREAK key on the Commodore 64: all of his games can be easily hacked into. Seeing the code is just a matter of pressing a button and inputing a LIST command. I am sure he was aware of this. Still, considering this is his only game where his name does not appear on the title screen, we might deduce that either he was ashamed of having worked on Stroker – even though I cannot imagine a scenario where someone forced him to put his name on it – or the game was not actually developed by him, but perhaps by someone else trying to imitate Magic Carpet' style. Which was rather easy to do, I should add.
This might lead us to a different alternate universe scenario altogether: perhaps someone was trying get back at Robert Carr by slapping his name on a product which was somewhat shameful? An interesting theory, especially because there does not seem to be any clues that the company ever actually sold or promote that game. Maybe it was developed by Kate and she was ashamed to put her name on it? Enough speculation, if we want to recognize Bob Carr's paternity of Stroker, which almost forty years later seems like the most important of things to confirm, let us look at the clues contained within the code itself.
All of the Magic Carpet software titles I had the "pleasure" of playing for the sake of researching this article, were developed in BASIC and use PETSCII characters, so this checks out. The title screens are quite different though. Stroker has an enticing red title, developed with simple graphics, and also comes with a rather weird self-rating of "R". Instead, all of the other Magic Carpet games display simple titles on the main screen, no graphics of any kind. But still, Stroker features a whole page of vaguely humorous instructions, which does tie-in with Magic Carpet's love for the feature.
The REM features in the Magic Carpet software games are all over the place, while all of them in Bob Carr's games seem to feature his name in the first three lines, there really is no overall consistency. One thing is sure: Stroker, if it was really developed by Carr, then we can easily define it as his most accomplished game overall. Unfortunately, all of these clues don't really add up to much, but they don't really disprove that Stroker might be indeed a joke game, credited to Carr just to mess with him.
Stroker, for 1983 sex games standards (i.e none), is actually mildly impressive for what it tries to simulate. While most sex games of the time were barely content in aping simple (and often much better) games, slapping some kind of naked sprites or rude content into the mix (as Mystique were doing for their Atari porn library), Stroker does its own thing, really. The player's attention is drawn to the hand and penis on the screen, encouraged to "manipulate the organ to ejaculation.". But careful, because satisfaction is never easy: stroke too hard and it might be a quick inefficient orgasm, go too slow and risk losing "the patient" entirely.
On screen there is a face, entirely made with PETSCII symbols, which might be used as a way of controlling the level of excitement. The face seems to be quite similiar to those used in a 1980 title called Bets, probably a sign of "quick coding" which does tie-in with the whole "credited to Carr" narrative. The more the player is able to work the stroking in the right way and the more the organ will grow in length and the end result (or "Peter Meter") will be satisfactory. All of this does not really mean much in terms of the gameplay, but I guess it speaks to that virile pride of an average Commodore 64 user in 1983. A terrible SID tune plays while the player tries to find satisfaction, or rather, try to maintain their composure while playing such a steamy piece of virtual simulation. This was also a first, as previous Magic Carpet games did not feature any kind of soundtrack during gameplay (or at all).
The man in Stroker is also apparently dressed in a shirt, which makes me all the more suspect about the whole masturbation bit taking place in an office. Some have even speculated that the act is actually being performed on someone else, because of the different colors of the skin between the face and the "peter". All of this does paint an incredibly sad picture of this puffy middle-aged man, closed in the bathroom of his office, just jacking (off) away the hours, not even looking at anything remotely interesting sexually.
Was Stroker ever commercially released? My conclusion is no. It never appeared in any of the Magic Carpet software ads, it was never reviewed by any magazines and its origins on the internet seem to also be shrouded in mystery. Where did the game come from? Was it Carr himself who uploaded it on the internet? Still, even if Carr himself developed it as a joke, for a quick laugh among friends, why would he go to the trouble of putting the "Magic Carpet" name in it? Whoever dumped it must have at least some answers to these questions, since I do not really believe it comes from Bob Carr selling out his old tapes or someone finding it in the trash. For all intents and purpose, I think the answer is that Stroker was made by someone else other than him. A developer made a quick terrible masturbation joke in PETSCII and slapped the Magic Carpet credits on there. But, again, mere speculation.
The story of Magic Carpet Software – despite all of the theories and speculation – reminds us of a simpler time, where programmers were selling their simple games out of their garages, tiny zip-loc bags with simple games for all Commodore users to enjoy. While this article began in trying to find the origins of Stroker, it evolved into trying to clarify and reveal the history of Katharine Higby. While hers might not be a name as recognized as Roberta Williams or Anne Westfall, and perhaps not as talented, she was one of the pioneers among women game developers. But sadly, her story is so obscure that she might not ever be mentioned alongside Carole Shaw in the "Forgotten Women" column on Stylist.
Ouranos! released more than forty years ago, remains quite the accomplished title: the very interesting result of very early bedroom coding. Kate was working in a time when she had no easy access to any kind of information on programming and there was no real home computer gaming industry to speak of. Also, despite few clues, she also was running (or co-managing either way) a company in the early 80s, releasing titles for VIC-20, Commodore 64 and PET. Her story will, sadly, not ever be completely made clear, but her accomplishments are still worthy of being remembered.
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Special thanks to Andrea Pachetti, Anders Calrsson and David Youd for helping with the research for the article.
By Damiano Gerli March 8, 2022 2 Comments
Tags: Commodore 64Magic Carpet Software
vermont7 says:
Just for some further information. I remember playing Stroker back in 1986-1987? on my friends Commodore 64. We lived in El Cajon, Ca. and I saw some other place that this mysterious Bob Carr may have lived in El Cajon. This game was not on a cassette but on a 5.25″ floppy disk. Now that I think about it it may not have even been a Commodore 64 but just a "computer".
Hm interesting, the more I get information the more I'm convinced Stroker did not have anything to do with Magic Carpet, but until someone has some hard proof, it's difficult to say for sure.


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FriendlyARM NanoPC T3 is a an64-bit Octa-Core A53 Single Board Computer alternative for the Raspberry Pi 3 for DIY hobbies, developers, education and self learning. The board features a Samsung S5P6818 SoC, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 8GB eMMC Flash, SD Card Slot and a wide selection of on-board interfaces.
Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized computer and the pride of the British persons, has a robust challenger from some other coastline – the pride of the Taiwanese persons, Tinker Board. Although it has equivalent improvements near to Raspberry Pi, it'll be released with significantly better technical specs but at a much steeper price in comparison to Pi. In spite of this, the Tinker Board is not the only competitor for the popular mini computer amongst hobbyists; turns out, you can find at least seven more.
Raspberry Pi is the usual go-to single board computer for entertaining programming and practical projects. Nonetheless , prior to buying one, it's high-time to give some thought to its opponents, which are speedier, better, or maybe even more affordable, ZD Net mentioned.
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The Tinker Board has specs that put it face to face against the reigning Raspberry Pi, The Verge mentioned. It possesses a great quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU and 2GB LPDDR3 RAM. Further, it comes with 4 USB 2.0 ports and it supplies support for gigabit LAN and Wireless bluetooth 4.0.
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UFO research institute opens in Fukushima, Japan
UFO research institute opens in Fuk...
FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A research institute dedicated to studying unidentified flying objects has opened in Fukushima, with the hope of uncovering the mysteries surrounding UFOs.
The facility, known as the UFO research institute, plans to collect and analyze information on UFO sightings.
Members will be recruited from Japan and abroad. The institute is expected to contribute to the revitalization of the area as the only institution in Japan that specializes in UFOs, observers said.
Interest in UFOs is growing, and the U.S. Defense Department recently announced the launch of an investigation on UFO sightings.
The institute is housed in the UFO Fureaikan hall, which was built in 1992 by the Fukushima municipal government and Iino town, which merged with the city of Fukushima in 2008.
Takeharu Mikami, editor in chief of the monthly magazine Mu that features supernatural phenomenon, is the first director of the institute.
The institute is located near Mt. Senganmori, a mountain 462 meters above sea level and an area where there have been many reports of UFO sightings.
The institute plans to conduct a web-based survey on UFO sightings, first collecting information from the Mt. Senganmori area and then expanding to cover the entire country by the summer.
The institute plans to recruit members by appealing to those interested in UFOs and offering special privileges by classifying members into the "Earth System," "Solar System" and "Galactic System" according to their membership fees.
The now-defunct town of Iino had been trying to revitalize itself through projects based on UFO sightings.
The Fukushima municipal government is supporting the institute in a bid to brighten up the world during the troubling times of the coronavirus pandemic, when people are feeling stagnant.
June 24, the day the institute opened, is called "UFO Day" by people interested in UFOs.
"With people feeling down, I want them to look up at the sky and search for UFOs," Mikami said. "I'd be happy if that cheers them up."
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Q: How to upload a value to ESPAsyncWebServer? I am trying to upload a variable called 'data' from my ESP32 to a web page hosted on async web server, but I can't find a way to do so.
String data = "text";
const char index_html[] PROGMEM = R"rawliteral(
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

%data%

)rawliteral";

server.on("/", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest *request){
    request->send(200, "text/html", index_html);
});
server.on("/data", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest *request){
    request->send(200, "text/plain", data);
});

The variable is not being displayed correctly on the webpage, and just says %data%.
Any help is appreciated.

A: So I've figured it out by myself, here is the correct code in case anybody else is interested in this very specific task:
    String data = "text";
    const char index_html[] PROGMEM = R"rawliteral(
    <!DOCTYPE HTML>

      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

%DATA%

    )rawliteral";

    String processor(const String& var){
      if (var == "DATA"){
        return String(data);
      }
      return String();
    }

    server.on("/", HTTP_GET, [](AsyncWebServerRequest * request) {
        request->send_P(200, "text/html", index_html,processor);
      });


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Cherie Priest (ur. 30 lipca 1975 w Tampie w stanie Floryda) – amerykańska pisarka, autorka literatury science fiction (steampunk) i fantasy oraz horrorów.

Ukończyła studia licencjackie na Southern Adventist University (1998) i magisterskie na University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2002). Otrzymała nagrody literackieː Lulu Blooker Prize (za powieść Four and Twenty Blackbirds), Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award i Nagrodę Locusa (za powieść Kościotrzep), Nagrodę Endeavour (za powieść Dreadnought), Airship Award (za powieść Ganymede)  oraz  Northbrook Junior High Book Award i Westchester Fiction Award (obie za powieść I Am Princess X).

Jest mężatką. Mieszka w Chattanoodze w stanie Tennessee.

Dzieła

Powieści
seria Eden Moore
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003)
Wings to the Kingdom (2006)
Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007)
 Dreadful Skin (2007)
 Fathom (2008)
 Those Who Went Remain There Still (2008)
seria Stulecie machin
Boneshaker (2009; wydanie polskie Kościotrzep 2012)
Dreadnought (2010)
Ganymede (2011)
The Inexplicables (2012)
Fiddlehead (2013)
Jacaranda (2014)
seria Cheshire Red Reports
Bloodshot (2011)
Hellbent (2011)
seria Borden Dispatches
Maplecroft (2014)
Chapelwood (2015)
seria Princess X
I Am Princess X  (2015)
 The Family Plot (2016)
 Brimstone (2017)
 Indigo (2017; wraz z dziewięciorgiem innych autorów)

Opowiadania
 Horror at Snodgrass Hill (2003)
 The October Devotion (2006)
 10 Archetypes in 2000 Words (2006)
 The Immigrant (2006)
 Engels Unaware (1992)
 Wishbones (2006)
 Following Piper (2007)
 The Heavy (2008)
 Catastrophe Box (2009)
 Hell's Bells (2009)
 Reluctance (2010)
 The Rat Race (2011)
 Addison Howell and the Clockroach (2011)
 Heavy Metal (2014; wydanie polskie Ciężki metal 2015)
 The Mermaid Aquarium: Weeki Wachee Springs, 1951 (2016)

Nowele
 The Wreck of the Mary Byrd (2006)
 Bad Sushi (2007)
 Clementine (z serii Stulecie machin 2010)
 Tanglefoot (z serii Stulecie machin 2011 – wydanie polskie w czasopiśmie Fantasy & Science Fiction 2011 Plątonogi)

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Oficjalna strona pisarki
 goodreads
 Profil w ISFDB
 Profil w Lubimy Czytać
 Profil w Fantastic Fiction
 Profil w Bazie Fantasta.pl

Amerykańscy autorzy fantastyki naukowej
Amerykańscy autorzy fantasy
Amerykańscy autorzy horrorów
Urodzeni w 1975
Ludzie urodzeni w Tampie

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By Melanie Austria Farmer -- "Oracle and European telecommunications firm Telia today announced plans to form a new company focused on providing mobile Internet services in the international marketplace. "The new company, not yet named, will be based in Sweden and will focus on the further development of wireless communications based on Oracle Portal-to-Go, which was announced last October. Portal-to-go is a set of technologies aimed at allowing telecommunications companies to provide Internet content and transactions to wireless customers, primarily via Web-enabled cell phones.
"Telia, which has an existing partnership with Oracle, is one of several European telecommunications companies partnering with Oracle to test mobile services delivered via Portal-to-Go.


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Ленва — река в России, протекает в Юсьвинском и Ильинском районах Пермского края. Устье реки находится в 91 км по левому берегу реки Чёрмоз. Длина реки составляет 14 км.

Исток реки в лесах Верхнекамской возвышенности в 14 км к юго-востоку от села Юсьва. Река течёт на юго-восток, всё течение проходит по ненаселённому лесному массиву. Верхнее и среднее течение проходят по Юсьвинскому району, нижнее — по Ильинскому. Впадает в Чёрмоз выше деревни Нифонтово.

Данные водного реестра

По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Камскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Кама от города Березники до Камского гидроузла, без реки Косьва (от истока до Широковского гидроузла), Чусовая и Сылва, речной подбассейн реки — бассейны притоков Камы до впадения Белой. Речной бассейн реки — Кама.

По данным геоинформационной системы водохозяйственного районирования территории РФ, подготовленной Федеральным агентством водных ресурсов:
 Код водного объекта в государственном водном реестре — 10010100912111100009110
 Код по гидрологической изученности (ГИ) — 111100911
 Код бассейна — 10.01.01.009
 Номер тома по ГИ — 11
 Выпуск по ГИ — 1

Примечания

Реки Юсьвинского района
Реки Ильинского района Пермского края
Притоки Чёрмоза


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Biografia
Jakob Gujer proveniva da una famiglia numerosa di contadini. Aveva un totale di sette fratelli, alcuni dei quali morirono da piccoli. Suo padre morì quando Jakob aveva sei anni. Gujer si distinse per i suoi metodi di coltivazione intelligenti e innovativi. Nel 1761, il medico Hans (Johann) Caspar Hirzel pubblicò il famoso libro Die Wirthschaft einer philosophischen Bauer, facendolo così conoscere ben oltre i confini della confederazione.

Nel 1769 la città di Zurigo gli affidò la gestione del feudo abbandonato di Katzenrüti a Rümlang ed egli creò una fattoria modello. In particolare, sostenne una razionalizzazione del lavoro agricolo e la connessa intensificazione della produzione. Raggiunse questo obiettivo attraverso una migliore fertilizzazione aggiungendo cenere di torba e compost al letame agricolo. Migliorò anche le colture foraggere. Coltivava il trifoglio, che poteva essere usato per nutrire più mucche, lasciando più letame e letame liquido per la fertilizzazione. Gujer riconobbe anche l'importanza della patata come alimento popolare. La rotazione delle colture e il drenaggio furono altri temi affrontati dall'agricoltore innovativo.

Jakob Gujer è considerato un pioniere dell'agricoltura moderna. Attraverso i colloqui contadini, che avviò tra cittadini e contadini, entrò in contatto con numerose personalità famose. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gli rese visita due volte, la prima nel 1775 e la seconda nel 1779 insieme al duca Carlo Augusto di Sassonia-Weimar-Eisenach. Oltre che dll'agricoltura, Gujer si occupò anche dell'educazione dei bambini e della creazione della casa. Heinrich Pestalozzi, ad esempio, si riferiva spesso a Gujer.

Jakob Gujer sposò per la prima volta Susanna Gujer di Pfäffikon. Insieme ebbero otto figli, tre dei quali morirono in tenera età. Nel 1775 sposò Anna Frey-Bader, vedova di Rümlang, dopo la morte della prima moglie. Anna Frey-Bader portò con sé tre figli ed ebbe altri due maschi con Jakob Gujer. Morì il 29 settembre 1785. La ragione della sua morte fu probabilmente l'idropisia. Una targa commemorativa all'Hof Katzenrüti ricorda il pioniere svizzero dell'agricoltura moderna. A Wermatswil si trova la piccola fontana creata dall'artista Walter Anton Hürlimann nel 1941. La scultura in bronzo mostra Gujer nel gesto di seminare.

Citazioni su Kleinjogg
Jakob Gujer fece una tale impressione sui suoi contemporanei che è citato più volte nelle loro opere.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Ho ricevuto una lettera da Leon Usteri che non mi stancherò mai di leggere, e che parla di un contadino che è più saggio, più virtuoso e più assennato di tutti i filosofi dell'universo. Mi dispiace che non abbia menzionato il nome di quest'uomo straordinario. (24 dicembre 1761)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Felice è la terra dove i "Kleinjogg" coltivano i campi e gli "Hirzel" coltivano le scienze. (11 novembre 1764)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Vengo da "Kleinjogg", dove ero con  Lavater, gli Stolberg, Haugwitz e altri bravi ragazzi. (...) Ci sono andato senza idee sul suo conto, e sono tornato ricco e soddisfatto.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Non ho incontrato un idealista caduto dalle nuvole, Dio sia lodato, ma una delle creature più gloriose che questa terra produce, da cui anche noi siamo scaturiti (Lettera del 12 giugno 1775 a Sophie von La Roche)

Hans Caspar Hirzel (politico): "Con lui, pensare, parlare e agire sono sempre la più grande armonia. Quando ha scoperto i suoi pensieri sui doveri di ogni classe (...) ero spesso completamente fuori di me. Lo ascoltavo con stupore, le lacrime mi rigavano le guance, e pensavo di essere in compagnia di un antico saggio greco".

Hans Caspar Hirzel: "Fa intendere che una persona, finché non lavora e non crea alcun beneficio alla società, deve essere considerata un animale..".

Johann Kaspar Lavater: "Poche persone ho esaminato così da vicino, da così tante angolazioni, in situazioni così diverse e nessuna, nessuna assolutamente è così simile, così ferma, così affidabile, così forte, così pura, così incorruttibile, così autosufficiente, così semplicemente, solo quello che vuole essere, ho trovato unico quest'uomo incomparabile ai miei occhi".

Bibliografia
 Albert Hauser: War Kleinjogg ein Musterbauer? In: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, Jg. 9, 1961, S. 211–217.
 Hans Caspar Hirzel: Die Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers. Neue, vermehrte Auflage. Orell, Geßner, Füeßlin, Zürich 1774. (Neudruck, mit einem Nachwort von Holger Böning. Verlag Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1998, ISBN 978-3-7728-1403-7.)
 Otto Schmid, Daniel Wiedenkeller, Florentina Gartmann. Kleinjogg: Wegbereiter der modernen Landwirtschaft. Gedenkschrift zum 300. Geburtstag von Jakob Gujer. Wermatswil 2016. ISBN 978-3-033-05843-9.
 Otto Sigg: «Lob der Tüchtigkeit». Kleinjogg und die Zürcher Landwirtschaft am Vorabend des Industriezeitalters. Zum zweihundertsten Todesjahr Kleinjogg Gujers (1716–1785). Mit Texten von Otto Sigg, Hans-Ulrich Pfister, Thomas Schärli, Bildern von Werner Reich. Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich, Zürich 1985.
 Theophil Gerber: Persönlichkeiten aus Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Gartenbau und Veterinärmedizin – Biographisches Lexikon - , 4. erweiterte Auflage, Verlag NoRa Berlin, 2014, S. 262.

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PHARR – If nobody was sure through the first part of the soccer season who the top boys team in the Valley is this year, there's not much doubt.
The Tigers have earned that credential as the Tigers have rolled through competition this year, most recently beating two of the toughest teams in their district – Brownsville Porter (6-2) and Brownsville Lopez (6-1) in back-to-back matches.
Against Porter, the Tigers fell behind 1-0. While the goal had visions of an upset going through Porters's eyes, all it did to Valley View was stoke a fire inside the Tigers, who scored the next six goals and left no question regarding who the next team to possibly with a state title could be.


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Le drapeau berbère, aussi appelé le drapeau amazigh, est un drapeau culturel et identitaire proposé pour les peuples berbères. Il a été créé par un kabyle, Youcef Medkour.

Histoire
C'est dans les années 1970 que l'Académie berbère présente le premier drapeau berbère. En 1997, le Congrès mondial amazigh officialise le drapeau à Tafira (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), dans les Îles Canaries, peuplées autrefois par les Guanches, ancien peuple berbère.

Le drapeau arbore les couleurs panberbères, il est composé de trois bandes horizontales de même largeur (bleu, vert, et jaune), et au centre, en rouge, de la lettre Yaz,  lettre de l'alphabet berbère (ⵣ), qui symbolise l'.

En juin 2019, le général algérien Ahmed Gaïd Salah a fait savoir que le drapeau berbère ne serait désormais pas toléré dans les défilés lors des manifestations en Algérie.

Description
Les trois couleurs de haut en bas peuvent être lues comme une carte du Tamazgha, le bleu représentant la mer, le vert les montagnes, et le jaune le Sahara (appelé Tiniri/ⵜⵉⵏⵉⵔⵉ en langues berberes).

Le "ⵣ" est une lettre de l'alphabet tifinagh, l'équivalent du "Z" en alphabet latin.

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Drapeau ethnique
 Amazighs
 Tamazgha
 Tamazight

Berbères
Berbere
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Oregon Inlet Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina.  It was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service and remodeled in 1933 and 1970.  It is a 1 1/2-story, Shingle Style rectangular frame building with a lookout tower.  It has a porch that surrounds the building.  It was one of seven lifesaving stations established on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1874, to serve the ships that were lost in the treacherous waters off the North Carolina coast.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Shingle Style architecture in North Carolina
Government buildings completed in 1897
Buildings and structures in Dare County, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Dare County, North Carolina
1897 establishments in North Carolina


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"Tighten Up Your Pants" is a song released by Australian country-techno act Audio Murphy Inc. featuring vocals by Melinda in November 1994. The song mixed electronic beats and yodelling peaked at number 39 on the ARIA Charts and number 3 on the Australian dance charts.

"Tighten Up Your Pants" was inspired by the chart success of "Cotton-Eye Joe" by Swedish group Rednex.

Track listings
 Australian CD single/Cassingle (D 11877)
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Scotland Medley) (7" Version) - 3:48
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Scotland Medley) (12" Version) - 7:04
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Scotland Medley) (7" Original Version) - 3:25

 European Maxi single
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Little And Large 7" Mix) - 3:26
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (7" Remix) - 3:38
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Little And Large 12" Mix) - 5:53
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (12" Mix Original) - 6:56
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (Little And Large Instrumental Mix) - 4:33
 "Tighten Up Your Pants" (7" Original Mix) - 3:23

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The Buffalo Sabres and Anaheim Ducks meet Sunday in NHL action at the Honda Center.
The Buffalo Sabres look to build on their 4-4-0 record when they end what has been a five-game road trip. The Buffalo Sabres are averaging 1.9 goals per game and are scoring on 13.8 percent of their power play opportunities. Jack Eichel leads Buffalo with three goals, Rasmus Ristolainen has three assists and Conor Sheary has 15 shots on goal. Defensively, the Buffalo Sabres are allowing 3.1 goals per game and are killing 69.6 percent of their opponents power plays. Linus Ullmark has given up zero goals on 36 shots faced and Carter Hutton has allowed 19 goals on 202 shots. The Buffalo Sabres have allowed two or less goals in four of their last seven games.
The Anaheim Ducks look for a bounce back victory here after splitting their last six games. The Anaheim Ducks are averaging 2.9 goals per game and are scoring on 27.8 percent of their power play opportunities. Jakob Silfverberg leads Anaheim with three goals, Hampus Lindholm has five assists and Max Comtois has eight shots on goal. Defensively, the Anaheim Ducks are allowing two goals per game and are killing 81.8 percent of their opponents power plays. John Gibson has given up 11 goals on 213 shots faced and Ryan Miller has allowed two goals on 37 shots. The Anaheim Ducks have allowed three or less goals in seven of their first eight games.
The Sabres are 8-21 in their last 29 Sunday games, 28-78 in their last 106 games playing on 0 days rest and 62-139 in their last 201 road games. The Ducks are 6-0 in their last 6 vs. Eastern Conference, 20-7 in their last 27 home games and 54-23 in their last 77 Sunday games. The Sabres are 3-7 in the last 10 meetings, the road team is 4-0 in the last 4 meetings and the under is 5-2 in the last 7 meetings.
Both of these teams are playing on the end of a back to back, but it's the Anaheim Ducks who have been the most impressive out of the gate and have been consistent on the defensive end. The Buffalo Sabres have been better than expected through eight games, but they have yet to put together two straight games of solid defense and teams usually struggle when playing their last leg of a lengthy road trip. I'll take the Ducks and the puck line here.


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I love custom ribbons and I've been using them for some time. I'm hoping someone can share with me how to create custom dropdown menues on a ribbon. For example, Page Layout/Page Setup has Orientation as a dropdown menu with subcategories Portait and Landscape.
On my custom ribbon, I want to create a dropdown menu called Intro with my macros subcategorized underneath it (Log In, UserID).
MS did release a pre-configured "Favourites" for Excel 2010 and some of the other applications. I've a copy, yet can't find a link on the MS website anymore.
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Q: Is someone who drives a car a rider? I know the common usage of the word rider is for motorcycles and bicycles, but I would like to know if you can call a person who drives a car a rider?

A: In a car, a rider is usually a passenger, not the driver.
Rider — Vocabulary

n. 1.a. a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
n. 1.b. a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)
n. 1.c. a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

A: I have to say that I have never come across rider when driver or passenger would be the accepted and common usage to cover a car. However, your question is interesting as I consider it perfectly correct to say, "He [neighbour] gave me a ride to work in his new car". To my way of thinking I remain a passenger in my neighbour's car and not a rider in this situation or context. . I wonder if we have a clash of American English versus British English here? In the UK it is common to ask someone if they would like a lift to work and this would be readily understood whether the mode of transport is a car or a motorcycle. However, I don't think lift would be understood in American English in this context whereas ride to work would be. But then the situation becomes even more complicated because we talk about a pillion passenger (BE) in the context of a person who sits behind the rider (the person in control) of a motorcycle.
Pillion passenger: A pillion is a mostly British English term for a...seat behind the main seat...[of a] motorcycle...A passenger (my emphasis) in this seat is said to "ride pillion"... (Wikipedia)

A: Definitely not! The person who drives the car is the "driver". Any other people travelling in the car are "passengers". Neither would be referred to as "rider" in UK or US English.
US English would possibly use "rider" in the context of a passenger in a train or bus, but these would remain "passenger" in the UK.


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