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I don't usually blame schools for their products. If I did I'd have to berate my own alma mater for producing David Irving, the Holocaust denier; although he was there a few years before me, and so couldn't have been taught by the History masters who inspired me. (In fact I don't think he did History there at all.)
So it may not be entirely fair to blame Eton College for Boris. Eton of course also 'produced' George Orwell; and a handful of leading figures in British history, not all of whom were as awful as BoJo. (See https://www.thefamouspeople.com/eton-college.php.) I've personally known several 'Old Etonians', and two future headmasters, the second one of whom was a nice guy (a 'colonial'). So let's not generalise.
But…. What is it about this school that in modern times has gifted us not only Johnson, and I presume his father, but also David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Alexander Nix, the CEO of the now disgraced Cambridge Analytica whose Machiavellian 'algorithms' were (partly) responsible for getting Britain out of the EU? What unites all these characters above all is a certain public amorality that they must have picked up from somewhere; and with all of them having spent their formative years at Eton, obviously the finger of suspicion must first point there.
It really is astonishing that in this day and age Britain should still be recruiting its leaders from the 'Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore' (founded 1440), whose main distinguishing feature is the whacking great fees they charge the parents of its students to go there: over £40,000 a year when I last looked, which is more than I ever earned in a year. Apart from anything else, this must greatly diminish the pool of potential talent from which they select their pupils.
And it's not as if Eton educates these boys (is it still only boys?) to a higher level of intelligence and 'leadership' that will compensate for this. Judging by those we see in public life today very few of them seem to be of better than low-to-middling brainpower. Some – Rees-Mogg, to give the most glaring example, judging from his recent book The Victorians: 'this clichéd, lazy history that often reads like it was written by a baboon': that was the Telegraph's (no less) review of it! – are simply stupid. All they have is a little Latin and Ancient Greek to impress the impressionable with their 'superior' upbringing. That doesn't denote intelligence; only memory. None of these people has any grasp of rational thinking, or of History after the fall of the Roman Empire, and still less of 'life' as it is experienced by normal men and (especially) women today. In former times the Public schools were better than this. They were supposed to instil what was called 'character' in their pupils: virtù, to use an old Roman word for it; honesty; truthfulness; 'fair play': the attributes (apparently) of the 'Old English Gentleman'. Johnson and Co., however, show no sign of any of these qualities.
What has happened to the Public schools since that great (query) heroic age? I think I know. They've been subsumed by capitalism (those huge fees) and its ethic. The British upper classes always were good at adapting themselves and their institutions to the temper of the times. All Eton turns out now are callow young men who play at life like a game, unseriously, encouraged to think that they are entitled to this by the cloistered courts they are surrounded by (actually I don't know whether Eton has literal 'cloisters', but it works as a metaphor), self-obsessed and self-admiring, their juvenile language – those 'piled-up bodies' – and jokes learned at their school debating societies and never modified by adulthood.
Eton gives them, not a proper education, but – in the cases mentioned here – an automatic entry into the Conservative Party; which then releases them into wider society, to do their worst. Surely the School deserves some of the blame for this? (And we, of course, for putting up with it.)
Looking back, I see this isn't my first rant against the Public schools. Here's an earlier one, with some personal context: https://bernardjporter.com/2019/01/13/the-fcking-public-schools/. There are others. Sorry to be boring. But bloody hell: what a menace they are!
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Yet, the Eton-Tories appear to have the common touch when it comes to the polls. Despite everything, I see that the Conservative Party is well ahead in a recent survey. Have politics in the UK ever been so perverse?


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pin. This commit adds suppport for the 'gain' and 'filter' pin.
> pin. This commit adds suppport for the 'gain' and 'filter' pin.
from user space, but let's leave this for another commit.
Also, this could be renamed as odr.
overflow. You probably need unsigned long long.
Do you need to define a new macro?
>> pin. This commit adds suppport for the 'gain' and 'filter' pin.
Thanks for the review. Comments inline.
>I would name this array ad778x_odr_avail or something like that.
Do you mean returning 10 and 16.7 Hz?
ok to do something like that after it has left staging?
>Also, this could be renamed as odr.
>overflow. You probably need unsigned long long.
You're right, I'll fix this in v3.
>Do you need to define a new macro?
> > > pin. This commit adds suppport for the 'gain' and 'filter' pin.
> Thanks for the review. Comments inline.
> > I would name this array ad778x_odr_avail or something like that.
> Do you mean returning 10 and 16.7 Hz?
> ok to do something like that after it has left staging?
I think, we should leave it for a future commit.
> > Also, this could be renamed as odr.
> > overflow. You probably need unsigned long long.
> You're right, I'll fix this in v3.
> > Do you need to define a new macro?
the information stored in the iio_chan_spec struct.
setting the filter GPIO results in a change in sampling frequency.
>the information stored in the iio_chan_spec struct.
>setting the filter GPIO results in a change in sampling frequency.
>I hope this answers your question.


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Jeff Machat MD, FRCSC, DABO is an ophthalmologist in the United States and Canada specializing in surgical vision correction better known as refractive eye surgery.

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Machat received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1986 and his Royal College of Canada Certification in Ophthalmology in 1990 from the same alma mater. Machat is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS), the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (CRCRS), and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Machat has lectured extensively at the AAO, ASCRS, ESCRS, and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.

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Machat is the founder and CEO of Crystal Clear Vision at which he serves since 2012. In 2015, Jeff Machat joined Nvision Eye Centers and continues to work there under leadership of Dr. Tom Tooma.

Books
Machat is primary author of the textbook Excimer Laser Refractive Surgery-Practice and Principles cited in peer-reviewed ophthalmic publications. Machat is also the co-author of The Art of LASIK.

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* We also ordered the oysters as an extra course. highly recommended.


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Les Menuires and Saint Martin de Belleville are located in the French Alps, in the Savoy. The resorts are around two hours from Geneva in Switzerland and a little less than an hour's drive from the French town of Chambery. Les Menuires and Saint Martin are two of the towns of the Three Valleys Ski Area, which is made up of eight different resorts and is the largest interlinked ski area in Europe.
Of the three valleys, the furthest west contains Les Menuires, Saint Martin de Belleville, Val Thorens and Orelle, the middle valley contains Meribel, and the third valley contains Brides Les Bains, La Tania and Courchevel.
Les Menuires is a lower key option for working in The Three Valleys as it is not as well-known as some of its neighbours and has a smaller nightlife which can nonetheless still be vibrant. Les Menuires is a family-focused resort but does have a number of steeper on-piste runs, in addition to easy access to other Three Valleys resorts.
The TGV (high-speed) train goes to Moûtiers from any major city in France and, from Moûtiers, it is possible to take the bus to Les Menuires and Saint Martin de Belleville (around 10€ one way and 17km). This is probably the simplest and cheapest way to get to the villages. www.mobisavoie.fr is the company that runs the bus transfers from Moûtiers to Les Menuires and Saint Martin de Belleville.
However, it is also possible to take the bus from the airports at Lyon (183km), Chambéry (100km) (both using www.altibus.com), Grenoble (125km) (www.bensbus.co.uk) and Geneva (143km) (www.alpski-bus.com).
Les Menuires and Saint Martin work together as a single resort even though they are two separate towns. Of the two towns, Les Menuires is much bigger and has much more of the nightlife. Saint Martin (1,450m) is lower in altitude than Les Menuires (1,850m), which is again lower than Val Thorens (2,300m).
Les Menuires was constructed in the mid-sixties and consists of nine distinct quarters linked by pistes as well as pedestrian paths or ski lifts. Each quarter was built at a different period and demonstrates the architectural development of the mountain.
La Croisette, Brelin and Preyerand were built with functionality in mind. Les Bruyères and Reberty have buildings limited to six stories in height with sloping roofs and wooden façades, giving these areas a mountain feel.
La Sapinière, Reberty 2 000, Les Balcons des Bruyères, Les Hameaux des Marmottes and Les Airelles are inspired by Savoyard buildings and integrate stone into the construction of their buildings. These latter are home to many of the modern chalets. There are around 26,000 spots for tourists to stay in Les Menuires.
Saint Martin is located at the entrance to La Vallée des Belleville. It is the more classically postcard village of the two towns but is much smaller than Les Menuires. In the early 1980s, the town council decided to limit buildings to four stories which was around the time that Saint Martin was linked to the rest of Les 3 Vallées ski area.
The village is now full of quiet chalets and it is this type of clientele that the village seeks to attract. There are around 2,600 spots for tourists in Saint Martin.
Usual nationalities found in the two towns include French, British, Dutch, Belgian, German and Russian. There are a lot of seasonal workers in the villages as 70% of beds are professionally rented. Clientele breakdown in Les Menuires is 47% foreign / 53% French and in Saint Martin it is 75% foreign / 25% French.
Les Menuires has a lot of beginner and intermediate terrain which attracts families and is good for those who like cruising. Most of the terrain is above the tree-line which means a lot of open space, although most riders tend to stay on-piste. There isn't much in the way of steeps, however, and experts will usually head off to other resorts. There are a few good mogul patches that open up each season.
Les Menuires is catching onto the back country wave that is popular in other ski resorts around the world. There are "Nature Zones" created within the ski area which are purposefully set aside as non-groomed off-piste which will nonetheless be safe.
Les Menuires has one of the best positions in the Three Valleys with direct links to Val Thorens (up in the same valley) and Meribel. Most seasonal workers will spend a good portion of their days off at other resorts in The Three Valleys, mostly the closest resorts of Meribel and Val Thorens. An eight-seater gondola takes riders from Saint Martin directly to Meribel.
The Three Valleys is an enormous ski area designed as much for seasoned skiers as it is for beginners and children. There is truly an exceptional amount of terrain to discover at Les 3 Vallées given that it combines so many resorts, and you can be discovering new terrain for the entire season.
From the glaciers of Val Thorens to the apple trees of Brides-les-Bains, taking in the pine forests of La Tania along the way, Les 3 Vallées has a diverse array of terrain backed by incredible scenery.
Les Menuires is not famed for its snow, and usually receives around 5 metres each season. The lower slopes in particular can get slushy due to their sun exposure. The snow-making machines receive a strong work-out each season to make up for patchiness.
There is one park - the BK Park. This also has a video system in partnership with the French Ski Federation in zone 1 of the park. This will film you as you take your line through the park.
The Espace Saisonnier (Seasonal workers space) in Les Menuires / Saint Martin de Belleville is probably the best and easiest way to find a job at the resort. It is run by the local municipality and has a physical office which posts a list of jobs that employers in the area have advertised. You can consult the list of jobs at their site emploi.mairie-smb.com (French only).
They will be willing to provide information on current jobs available, a list of jobs posted by employers, links to employers and job guidance.
The SMB 'Espace Saisonnier' services the resorts of St Martin de Belleville, Les Menuires and Val Thorens which means it services the entire western valley of The Three Valleys.
Pole-Emploi.fr is a French Government website which has jobs for the entire country and can be a worthwhile resource when looking for a job. Select the village of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville.
Emplois-espaces.fr is another job resource which is specialized in tourism in France and may be a way to find a job in the valley.
Jobs la Montage sometimes has job listings for the area.
Resort Representative: Taking the guests out skiing as part of the job. You show the guests around the resort and act as their liaison. You can get some decent tips as you usually spend the week with one group.
Cook: Usually you will get a good amount of ride time as a chef, although some companies will require you to have experience.
Chalet Host: You meet the guests and show them around the chalet. Chalet Hosts also get quite good tips.
Cleaner: Generally quite laid back although the tips are not as good as chalet host or resort representative.
See Jobs Available at Ski Resorts for a fuller description.
Les Menuires does not offer training for those who haven't got their instruction certificate, so it will be necessary to obtain your certificate before applying for a job.
If you are from outside the EU, you will need to get a French working visa. See Work a Snow Season in France for information on getting a visa. If you have your work permit you may turn up in town to look for a job.
Employees just need to show their work contract. For employees who are not working for SEVABEL, there are no reciprocal deals with other resorts.
With 90% of jobs at Les Menuires / Saint Martin de Belleville, employers will have staff housing available for employees. The rent will be taken out of pay. Employers usually book a number of apartments in advance of the season for their workers, so their housing can change from year to year.
Employees are able to refuse the staff housing if they wish to find their own place; however, finding your own place can be quite difficult and most employees end up accepting staff housing.
The council has built a place called 'Agibel' which is the most well-known place for seasonal workers. It is usually booked out a year in advance by employers.
It is not staff housing per se, as it can be used by anyone, but it is a well-known, fun apartment block used by employers. Each employee will have their own apartment in this block.
Often, landlords will rent out places for the season and charge a fixed price. You could find a studio apartment starting at around 5000 euros for the season.
The tourist office also keeps a list of apartments available for seasonal workers. If you contact the tourist office, they will send you the list of landlords to contact.
1 September to 5 December - 8.30am to noon and 1.30pm to 6pm (except on Friday, closed at 5pm). Closed on Sundays, Saturdays. Between 7 December to 26 April: open daily from 8.45am to 7pm.
Early January: Winegrowers' Week: Every evening in Les Menuires Sports Centre, tastings and sales are organised with winegrowers from all the French wine growing regions including Savoy, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne as well as the South of France.
Late February: The 6 Resorts Championship - Les Menuires hosts the final of this original Ski-Rugby event.
Les Menuires is also home to "Speed Mountain", the longest toboggan rail run in the French Alps. It is a toboggan run on rails landscaped from beginning to end and is well worth doing at least once during the season. Riders take on 'Boukty', Les Menuires's mascot over a 1200m long run. Riders can go up to 70km on the run and measures their speed against three check points along the route. It is 7€ per ride – or 30€ for 5 descents.


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He was also an actor he has been in the movie titled "16 Bars" he has also been seen in the movie "Stolen Dreams", his first Christmas CD entitled "I'll be Home for Christmas". Craig has also been interviewed and plans on returning to WFDU radio 89.1fm. He is in the process of writing his own Autobiography called "Everything Bad Don't Happen in The Hood"
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I looked at the clock and the hands had miraculously whizzed by at such a ridiculous speed, that it was suddenly time to bid my farewells and catch the last train. Whilst retrieving my coat.... and scarf.... and gloves... and woolly hat, Fiona brought out a mountain of cellophane wrapped 'going home' muffins. This went down very well with a cup of tea the following morning and was a pleasant reminder of the night before.
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Continuing the offseason theme of "out with the old, in with the new," Herman believed the next step in rebranding the Longhorns was to upgrade the team's football facilities.
"It says that we're committed to providing our student athletes the best training facilities in the country, as possible," Herman said. "We're going to make this facility as state-of-the-art, as first class as we can. There will be no reason from a facilities standpoint for a recruit to want to go somewhere else."
Despite the relatively large revenue Texas' athletic programs generate on a yearly basis, the Longhorns' facilities paled in comparison to those of other in-state programs and rivals. Texas A&M, TCU and Houston, during the final year of Herman's tenure, all recently upgraded and modernized their locker rooms to dazzle recruits and provide quality treatment for their football players.
It is essential to keep facilities up-to-date and aesthetically appealing to entice top-notch high school recruits to commit to the program. Texas finally etched its name into the ever-ongoing arms race of converting athletic revenue into extravagant football facilities. Late last week, the Longhorns posted photographs on social media platforms of the design of the incoming lockers.
"Unfortunately, guys that have seen other facilities and things like that are like, 'You know, Texas doesn't have this, another school does,'" defensive end Naashon Hughes said. "But now with the upgraded facilities, they're like, 'Texas has that too' or 'Texas is better.'"
The lockers are each worth an estimated $10,500, embellished with unique features including a 43-inch high-definition monitor at the pinnacle. The futuristic-style lockers give the locker room a stainless steel look in contrast to the traditional wooden design. After renovations, Texas' new lockers rank among the most luxurious in the nation.
"I think it's outstanding," offensive coordinator Tim Beck said. "There's no one in the country that has what we're putting together right here, both in facilities and in the energy level and enthusiasm that we're bringing into the program, the unity and the tightness within the guys. It's different here."
The underlying reason for spending about $10 million on new renovations is to improve recruiting. Herman mastered this process at Houston, where he landed the program's first five-star recruit in history, Ed Oliver. After acquiring the 31st-ranked class in 2017 according to Rivals, the upgraded facilities might convince recruits to reconsider Texas as a premier option once more.


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Q: Why does numpy.memmap.flush() not update file in Windows? I am currently copying/reformatting data from disk into a memmapped-numpy array.
I call flush() every ~5000 elements, but the change-date in Windows does not change.
dimx = 400000
dimy = 100
dimz = 16
data_in: np.memmap = np.memmap(fname_input, dtype='float32', mode='r+', shape=(dimx, dimy, dimz))
for i in range(dimx):
    data = next(data_generator)
    data_in[i] = data

    if (i % 5000) is 0 and i is not 0:
        data_in.flush()
        print('changes flushed to disk.')

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As Gordon helps support the freshly prepared dough, Jay is tasked with feeding it through the pasta machine
When the pair compared their pasta-making efforts, Gordon was less than impressed with the chat show host's results
Gordon Ramsay takes US host back to his roots with cookery lesson
Fresh pasta was strung from one end of the studio to the other when British chef Gordon Ramsay helped Jay Leno brush up on his dough-making skills on Thursday's episode of the US chat show star's programme.
Casting his jacket to one side and rolling up his sleeves, 58-year-old Jay – who shares Gordon's Scottish heritage through his mum and can claim Italian roots on his dad's side – gamely helped support the pasta skeins before trying his hand at producing fresh dough. The result was rather less appetising than that produced by his fiery celebrity chef guest.
His appearance on the show wasn't The F-Word star's first. He's previously given Dustin Hoffman an on-camera lesson in making beef fajitas.


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"""
    RPi_Robot
    ~~~~~~

    A robot website application written with
    Flask.

    :copyright: (c) TEOTW by Jailman.
    :license: Apache 2.0.
"""

#global unicode declearation
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

'''##########Import modules##########'''
import platform
osdist = platform.platform().split('-')[0]
from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, abort, \
     render_template, flash
from flask_login import LoginManager, login_required, login_user, UserMixin, \
     logout_user
from datetime import timedelta
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from werkzeug.security import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash
#import dirvers
# from Modules import driver
# from Modules import servo

'''##########App & config setup##########'''
# create our little application :)
app = Flask(__name__)

# Load default config and override config from an environment variable
app.config.update(
    SECRET_KEY='SeriouslydevelopedbyJailman',
    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:///DB/raspberrypi.db'
)

app.permanent_session_lifetime = timedelta(hours=5)

#SQLAlchemy
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
# flask-login
login_manager = LoginManager(app)
login_manager.session_protection = 'strong'
login_manager.login_view = 'login'

'''##########DB model##########'''
class User(db.Model, UserMixin):
    __tablename__ = 'pilot'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(255), unique=True)
    fullname = db.Column(db.String(255))
    email = db.Column(db.String(255), unique=True)
    password_hash = db.Column(db.String(255))

    def __init__(self, name, fullname, email, password_hash):
        self.name = name
        self.fullname = fullname
        self.email = email
        self.password_hash = password_hash

    def verify_password(self, password):
        return check_password_hash(generate_password_hash(self.password_hash), password)

    def __repr__(self):
       return "%s/%s/%s" % (self.name, self.fullname, self.email)

# callback to reload the user object
@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
   return User.query.get(int(userid))

class Air(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'air'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
    date = db.Column(db.DateTime, nullable=True)
    temperature = db.Column(db.Float)
    humidity = db.Column(db.Float)
    infaredetector = db.Column(db.Boolean)

    def __init__(self, date, temperature, humidity, infaredetector):
        self.date = date
        self.temperature = temperature
        self.humidity = humidity
        self.infaredetector = infaredetector

class Joystick(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'joystick'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
    gpio = db.Column(db.Integer)
    function = db.Column(db.String(255))
    device = db.Column(db.String(255))

    def __init__(self, gpio, function, device):
        self.gpio = gpio
        self.function = function
        self.device = device

'''##########Init DB & Create users##########'''
db.create_all()
try:
    admin = User('root', 'root', 'jailman@sina.com', 'raspberrypi')
    db.session.add(admin)
    db.session.commit()
except:
    pass

'''##########Login & error & command pages##########'''
#error handler
@app.errorhandler(403)
def forbidden(error):
    title = 'Error 403'
    return render_template('403.html', title=title), 403

@app.errorhandler(404)
def page_not_found(error):
    title = 'Error 404'
    return render_template('404.html', title=title), 404

@app.errorhandler(500)
def server_error(error):
    title = 'Error 503'
    return render_template('503.html', title=title), 500

#command page
@app.route('/command', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
@login_required
def command():
    from os import popen as p
    title = 'Command'
    if request.method == 'POST':
        cmd = request.form['command']
        if cmd.strip() != "":
            try:
                if osdist == 'Windows':
                    #windows cmd result needs to be transformed
                    result = p(cmd).read().decode('gbk').encode('utf8')
                else:
                    result = p(cmd).read()
                for line in result.split('\n'):
                    flash(line)
                return render_template('command.html', title=title)
            except:
                flash("Execution Error!")
                return render_template('command.html', title=title)
        flash("Input error!")
        return render_template('command.html', title=title)
    else:
        flash("Here shows the result!")
        return render_template('command.html', title=title)

#login page
@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
    title = 'Login'
    if request.method == 'POST':
        username = request.form['username']
        password = request.form['password']
        user = User.query.filter_by(name=username).first()
        if user is not None and user.verify_password(password):
            login_user(user)
            session['logged_in'] = True
            # return redirect(request.args.get("next"))
            return redirect(url_for('index'))
        else:
            abort(403)
    return render_template('login.html', title=title)

#logout page
@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
    session.pop('logged_in', None)
    logout_user()
    flash('Warning: You were logged out!')
    return redirect(url_for('login'))

'''##########Pi Pages##########'''
#raspberrypi pages
@app.route('/')
@app.route('/index')
@login_required
def index():
    return render_template('index.html')

@app.route('/Patrol_Monitor')
@login_required
def Patrol_Monitor():
    return render_template('Patrol_Monitor.html')

@app.route('/Sensor_Graph')
@login_required
def Sensor_Graph():
    return render_template('Sensor_Graph.html')

@app.route('/Home_Automation')
@login_required
def Home_Automation():
    return render_template('Home_Automation.html')

@app.route('/Amaze_Me')
@login_required
def Amaze_Me():
    return render_template('Amaze_Me.html')

'''##########Charts Demo##########'''
@app.route('/get_temperature')
@login_required
def get_temperature():
    return '[30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1, 30.1]'

@app.route('/get_humidity')
@login_required
def get_humidity():
    return '[32.3, 32.5, 32.1, 32.6, 30.8, 30.9, 31.1, 31.5, 32.1, 31.9, 31.7, 31.5]'

@app.route('/get_time')
@login_required
def get_time():
    return "['2:00', '2:05', '2:10', '2:15', '2:20', '2:25', '2:30', '2:35', '2:40', '2:45', '2:50', '2:55']"

'''##########Pi Power Control##########'''
# from Modules.gpiostat import gpio_status

@app.route('/power')
@login_required
def query():
    # querystatus
    return "on"
    # GPIO_PIN = 12
    # return gpio_status(GPIO_PIN)

@app.route('/power/<control>')
@login_required
def switch(control):
    if control == "on":
        # switchon
        return "on"
    if control == "off":
        # switchoff
        return "off"

'''##########Robot drivers##########'''

@app.route('/driver/<control>')
@login_required
def robot_driver(control):
    from Modules import driver as d
    d.init_driver()
    if control == "forward":
        d.forward()
    if control == "backward":
        d.backward()
    if control == "stop":
        d.stop()
    if control == "left":
        d.left()
    if control == "right":
        d.right()

'''##########Servo drivers##########'''
# @app.route('/servo/<float:post_value>')
# def servo_ctrl(post_value):
#     servo.somefunc(post_value)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(
        threaded = True,
        debug = True,
        host='0.0.0.0',
        port=80
        )


Luther alumnus Adam Bohach led the way for team Runablaze Iowa at the USA Track and Field Club Cross Country Championships Dec. 8 in Spokane, Wash. Bohach, a 2006 graduate, was 91st out of 425 participants in 31:44.
Campus News maintained by Catherine Dyer. Page last updated on 21 December 2018.


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London's amazing hidden treasures
London has some of the most famous sights in the world from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. However, there are hundreds of less well known, hidden treasures in London so this blog starts an occasional series which will bring these gems to you.
This week I'm featuring: The Museum of Brands, Dalston House and 19 Princelet Street.
The Museum of Brands may not be the most exciting name but it is a treasure trove of memorabilia. It has grown from one man's passion for collecting to a museum with 12,000 original items housed in a Notting Hill mews. You follow a chronological path through the decades of consumer culture from the 1890s to the point where every visitor will exclaim 'I don't believe it – I had one of those'!
The cabinets are arranged by decade so it's a bit of a history lesson as well as chance to see hundreds of brands, the ones that have come and gone and the ones that have stood the test of time with only a few changes.They have a fun shop where you can take home all kinds of retro souvenirs. I must admit to having taken a few sneaky photos so here's are a few – through glass cabinets unfortunately!
Some recognisable tin brands
Disney have always been good as film/toy tie ins
Familiar names, different look
Choolate!
Memorabilia mugs started a long time ago…
Charles and Di stuff – doesn't she look grumpy on the tea towel!
Showing how packaging subtly changes over the years….
Some hidden treasures are short lived and Dalston House is one of those which is sadly now closed but was so amazing it's worth a mention and shows the rich fun to be had in London! This art installation was by Leandro Erlich, an Argentinian artist famous for his 3-D visual illusions. This work was the front of a Victorian house, a bit like a theatre set, with windows and window sills, built on the ground with a huge curved mirror overhead. Visitors crawled all over the horizontal house and then saw, up in the mirror, a reflection which looked like they were hanging off the windows – amazing and really hard to describe so here are some photos of yours truly, and others, in action:
Laying at ground level – mirror to the left
Laying in the foreground – mirror in background
3 friends hanging on
There's a toddler being hung from the door! Or not….
My last hidden treasure for today is a very important building in Spitalfiels – 19 Princelet Street. This historic house is a time capsule which takes you through 4 centuries through the fabric of the building. It is rarely open and I was lucky enough to have a guided tour by the curator and her dedicated band of volunteers who speak with such passion that you get swept along with it all. They put their energies into the preservation of this fragile grade 11 listed building but have very little funding so the building defined as being 'at risk' and is shored up with areas inaccessible because of the danger.
19 Princelet Street
Behind its shabby front door you enter a lost world from 1719, when it was first built, through the changes the building has undergone from its first residents who were Huguenot silk weavers escaping persecution in France, through Irish families to the Jewish residents who moved in and built a synagogue in the back garden in 1869! In its time it was a haven for Jews escaping the Nazis and was used as a place of worship until the 1960s.
It is Europe's first Museum of Diversity and Immigration and traces the journeys and experiences of those who have come to this area over the centuries from many lands and in different circumstances. You are encouraged to quietly immerse yourself into the lives of the previous occupants and other immigrants.
No photos are allowed inside but you can read more about this amazing places here –19 Princelet Street
More hidden gems in a few weeks but next week I'll be bringing you the Mayor's Thames Festival….
Posted in: London Museums & Galleries | Tagged: 19 Princelet Street, Dalston House, Museum of Brands
3 more great London bars!
How much can you squeeze into a day and a half in London?


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The Home of the Creative Mind
Welcome to PooBahSpiel, the online voice and home of the creative mind of Mark Monlux, Illustrator Extraordinaire. Prepare yourself for an endless regaling of art directly from the hand of this stellar artist. And brace yourself against his mighty wind of pontification. Updates are kinda weekly and show daily sketches, current projects, and other really nifty stuff.
The Comic Critic Reviews "Poppy"
Poppy was brought the screen after a successful run as a three-part stage musical. W.C. Fields played the role of a colorful carnival barker, con man, and father to "Poppy." Poppy was a "revue," containing elements of songs, skits, and comedy routines. The production ran in New York and then moved over to England. Perhaps it was there that Fields was inspired by a cartoon character named Ally Sloper; a red-nosed, blustery, lazy schemer constantly dodging creditors. Fields' attire certainly resembles Sloper's: a tall white top hat with a wide band, an upturned white collar, tailcoat, and spats. Much of the ensemble would come to create what we now consider to be the iconic image of W.C. Fields. Considered one of the world's best jugglers at an early age, his ability to manipulate the objects about him is as gracefully choreographed as a ballet dancer, all the while looking like he's bumbling in the attempt. His role as Prof. Eustace P. McGargle in Poppy would take him from the stage to the movies, where he would become one of the world's best-known comedians. His trademark raspy drawl with a flowery vocabulary would make him instantly recognizable. Fields' characters in films would often show him as a drunk, con-man, and henpecked. Field's ability to play the downtrodden everyday man seeking to find a moment of solace or a sip of drink endeared him to audiences. His self-talking mutterings were imbued with wit and guile. Several of these mutterings have been added to the long lexicon of lines attributed to Fields. One of the most famous of his lines came near the end of Poppy when he advises his daughter, "Never give a sucker an even break."
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Labels: 1936, comedy, Movie Review, W.C. Fields
The Comic Critic Reviews "Charlie Chan Carries On"
Charlie Chan Carries On is not the first movie in which Charlie Chan appears. There was a ten-part serial and a couple of other movies where Chan was a secondary character. Charlie Chan Carries On is the first film where he played the main role and audiences responded well to the film. Warner Oland, a Swedish actor, was brought in to play Chan. Whitewashing was a film industry practice, casting white actors in non-white roles. Oland would be one of a series of non-Asian actors to play Chan. This is more than a little ironic as Earl Derr Biggers, the writer who created Charlie Chan, had a great dislike for the prevalent Yellow Peril stereotype. He was inspired to create Chan after reading about two detectives of Chinese heritage working on the Honolulu police force. He wanted to create a character opposite the Yellow Terror stereotype, an honorable Asian working on the side of the law, not against it. The irony of whitewashing would become nearly embedded in the Charlie Chan character as the overly prolific use of ancient proverbs. Chan became a stereotype of the slow acceptance of the Asians by the hypocritical practice of social representation. It wasn't a perfect process, but it did prove to be highly successful. There are over forty Charlie Chan movies. There was a prolific period when comics, radio, and television shows featured this popular detective. There were even other Asian detective movies that resulted. Mr. Moto and Mr. Wong each supplied a series of mystery movies. And while the implementation of these movies, featuring clever heroes from Asian countries, was far from perfect, they did broaden the American psyche, even through and after WWII that the only true threatening peril is that of racism. As to Charlie Chan Carries On, it is sadly a lost film: well, sort of. Studios would often create a Spanish version of the same movie using the same sets and many of the same leads, but instead of dubbing, they would cast Spanish-speaking actors. Irony rears its head again—the only way you can watch one of the earliest whitewashed Charlie Chan films is via the Spanish version, reading English subtitles.
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Labels: 1931, Charlie Chan, pop culture, stereotype, Warner Oland, Yellow Terror
The Comic Critic's Movie Review "The Stranger" (1946)
The crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis during WWII were so heinous that some Americans didn't believe the reports. That is why it was so important that the Allied War Crimes Commission collected and presented as much audio and visual documentation as possible. The reels of footage showing the horror of the Final Solution at concentration camps were instrumental in pulling back the veil of disbelief. The Stranger was the first commercial movie to show it. The Stranger was a success at the box office, pulling in over double its production costs. Film historians in the know decry the heavy editing at the beginning of the film. Gone is most of the footage establishing the ruthlessness of a lead Nazi as he escapes the continent and embeds himself in the heart of America. Some say that after such hacking, The Stranger was reduced to a small town murder movie and that it was less of a movie as a result. I like to see the editing as having left a clearer message for the audience of the time: That your preconceived notions of how things were—were wrong. That any person with an understanding of what is right and just would have to admit —by the horrific evidence before them—that truly evil people exist in the world. And that, as difficult as it must be to admit, you need to acknowledge such evil and stand against it. Yes, I would have loved to have seen the additional footage. It would have made The Stranger a truly grand Nazi-hunting movie. But its role in opening the eyes of 1940s America should not be disregarded.
Labels: #moviereview, MarkMonlux, Orsen Wells, The Stranger, War Crimes
The Comic Critic's Review of "The French Connection"
The French Connection has one of the most famous car chases in movie history. Featuring a 1971 Pontiac LeMans, it was carefully choreographed stunt. Part of the reason for this choreography was because the chase was being conducted without the proper permits. That means the streets in which the scene was shot was not cleared of normal traffic. Off duty police and stunt cars were poised to stop traffic, and other stunt cars were arrange to provide the near misses. Some of the shots were angle was set low with a bumper mounted camera capturing all the trash and dirt of the street and as the car raced along. Even with precautions in place some of the near misses became crashes. An one crash was completely unpredicted as a fellow leaving his house didn't realize that a car chase was being filmed. His vehicle was paid for and all of these lucky accidents went into the final cut of the movie. What you get is a true to life reckless car race lasting five minutes and leaving you shaky at the end of it. The French Connection is also ground zero for numerous cop show tropes used so heavily since then they are considered trite. It was also the first movie that did an excellent job showing the city's true gritty underbelly and the real nature of police work. All of which have become a genre of entertainment in itself.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards it won five including Best Picture.
Labels: #moviereview, 1971, action, cop drama, Gene Hackman, Mark Monlux, The French Connection
The Comic Critic's Movie Review of "Harry In Your Pocket"
Harry in Your Pocket is an action comedy with an antihero, something new and very popular in the Seventies. While the gathering of this interesting crew is cordial, tension builds between the characters because despite all their smiles and camaraderie, they are all thieves at heart. The tension has us carefully watching to see if it will disrupt their movements. The action in Harry in Your Pocket comes from the audience actively following the "poke.'' There are few staged gags to induce laughter. The comedy comes from us chuckling as they get away with it with the finely tuned choreography of a ballet. If both the action and the humor are subdued, we don't care. The charisma of James Coburn has us smirking every time he flashes his teeth. Coburn built his career playing the stylish rogue in the Sixties. This film is smooth sailing for him and veteran actor Walter Pidgeon. Pidgeon's role as mentor is great fun to watch. His character reflects an illusion of an older, more elegant era in crime. The timing of his career with this movie is perfect and he very nearly steals the show from Coburn. Harry in Your Pocket is not holding up very well with age. The chaotic fashions and lifestyle of the Seventies are pervasive on the screen and look a bit dated. It's rather fun for me as I grew up near Seattle, and most of the movie is set in that locale. I recognized buildings and restaurants that have long since have been torn down and replaced with high-rises. Harry in Your Pocket is a movie of the Seventies, when the studios were experimenting with what makes movie relevant. It both hits and misses the mark. But if you're looking for a movie with some hustle and a dash of time capsule, you will find it a good time.
Labels: 1973, action, capper, comedy, Harry In Your Pocket, I Watch Dead People, James Coburn, The Comic Critic, Walter Pidgeon
The Comic Critic Reviews "Woman in the Window"
The Woman in the Window is a classic Noir film. You have the hero, who is also the anti-hero because his actions press against the rules of society. You have the femme fatale, whose appearance apparently dooms the hero. You have no-nonsense dialogue that's sometimes slangy but always has an edge of flirtation. And lastly, you have cinematography that is consistently clever in its use of stark, contrasting lighting and shadows. The Woman in the Window meets all of those qualifications. It also delves into a premise, set forth at the beginning of the film, on the moral selection that defines a killing as murder. From that point on, it's easy for the story to bring down a wrath-from-god judgment on the offender of the commandment: Thou shall not kill. The femme fatale can be seen as the alluring Eve offering the forbidden fruit that would lead to the breaking of yet more commandments. Our would-be-innocent hero is stepping along the edge of propriety and suddenly finds himself entangled in more than an academic exercise. Now, all that he is is at stake. The actors and actresses in this film provide all that is desired. The in-the-know audience sees beneath the poker face of Edward G. Robinson's character, and gets to enjoy the superb micro-gestures of his eyes and breath showing the stress his character is under. The Woman in the Window was directed by Fritz Lang, and he masterfully provides a double ending to the film. Lang admits the old trick. He argued that it was a compromise to the studio to comply with the Hayes Code, and still have a way for him to show one of the endings he wanted. He was proud that its construction was not just palatable, but entertaining, too. Certainly a laugh is generated when another potential femme fatale is introduced. Such an occurrence is highly unusual in Noir.
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Labels: #moviereview, Edward G. Robinson, Fritz Lang, I Watch Dead People, Movie Review, noir
The Comic Critic Reviews "The Comedians"
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was the president of Haiti when this movie came out. His was an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. The Comedians had to be filmed in The Republic of Benin, then known as Dahomey, because filming it on Haiti would have been impossible. The Comedians is a political drama meant to illuminate the ever-increasing desperate conditions imposed upon the Haitian people. It was also meant to poke at the inadequacies of embassy relationships with a dictatorship. And it also has a rocky love story woven into its tapestry. The movie was filled out with an all-star cast, including the legendary Lillian Gish. Amongst the cast were several African-American actors whose careers would only get larger. The title The Comedians comes from the concept that everybody is on a world stage where lines are being crossed not so much for the humor of those involved but for the gods. The theme of everybody's life as a dark and ridiculous joke is a harsh sentiment that makes for a great novel, but it might have made it a challenge for a wider film audience. Critics might have found mild grievances with the story, but nearly everyone agrees the performances were superb. A short documentary titled The Comedians in Africa, chronicles the difficulties the cast and crew faced shooting a politically charged film in an alternative location. Watching both the movie and the documentary on DVD made up for my original experience, years before, of watching a heavily edited television version.
Labels: #moviereview, 1967, drama, Elizabeth Taylor, François Duvalier, Haiti, James Earl Jones, Papa Doc, Peter Ustinov, Richard Buron
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Today Web applications are the most popular way of creating programs at an accelerated rate. These applications come with a variety of security intimation. But there are many flaws in these systems. One of them is SQL Injection. A backend database is connected to the web application where all the information is stored about the users. SQL statements are used to store this information in Database. Similarly, you can use SQL commands to retrieve data from the database. But sometimes the input is not filtered properly and an attacker uses different SQL commands to retrieve data from the database. This process is called SQL injection. This means that attacker injects malicious code and tries to compromise the security.
This attack allows stealing important data of any person. Attacker can also modify and delete the data from database by the use of SQL commands. Input fields, Login forms, Search boxes and text boxes are used to inject malicious commands in the database. In this guide we will look at an example of SQL injection using burp suite.
Burp suit us an automated vulnerability testing tool for web applications and is preinstalled in Kali. Now we will setup the vulnerable web application.
We will use DVWA as our vulnerable web application. If you don't know how to install DVWA in Kali you can check that here.
Now we will configure our browser to work with burp suit so that each request should pass through burp suite. Burp suite will act as a proxy and we will be able to intercept the requests. We will use firefox as our browser.
First of all go to "Preferences" and click on "Advance" and then select the "Network" tab and select settings and check the Manual Proxy Configuration button then put HTTP Proxy as 127.0.0.1 and Port to 8080 and leave rest of the setting as the following picture.
Open the burp suite in Kali and go to Proxy tab and turn on the intercept. Make sure that 'Intercept In On' is pressed, So that we can modify the requests that will be sent by the browser and check for our SQL Injection. Now get back to the DVWA page and select SQL Injection and enter anything in the User ID field and click submit. Now you can see that the request in intercepted properly and you can check the raw ,parameters and headers information.
Now we only need to modify the id field so we will will send this request to the intruder by right clicking and selecting Send to Intruder Option.
Now move to the intruder tab and click on positions. Burp suite will indicate the position where payload needs to be inserted. We just need to insert payload in the id field so we will clear all positions by clicking the clear button on the right. Now select the value for id and click on Add button to select this position.
The single quote will make the first part as a blank string and 1=1 will evaluate the value to true and database will return the value.
Now everything is setup just click on the Start Attack button, a new window will open and show you the attack progress. It will take sometime to complete depending on the size of the payloads list.
You can analyze the result by clicking on the request. Click on the response tab and then click on render, you can see the SQL injection result that we have the first name and surname of the database users.
We saw that today in the world of a web application that security is everything. Many web applications are still vulnerable to these types of attack that may risk the data of users. We saw that how an attacker could get the credentials of users just by putting malicious code in the text fields to steal data. If you have any site then you should test SQL injection on all the fields of your site.


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