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Canada Wins NAFTA Arbitration on Canadian Patent Law
A NAFTA Arbitration Panel has dismissed Eli Lilly's claim for compensation from the Canadian government for the invalidation of two of its patents by the Supreme Court of Canada. Lilly claimed that Canada's utility standard under patent law failed to meet its NAFTA obligations, and that the invalidation of its patents amounted to an expropriation that entitled it to a remedy under NAFTA's investor protection provisions.
Lilly's argument sought to leverage international trade investor protection provisions to shape the general contours of substantive intellectual property law. The Panel rejected that invitation, declining to challenge courts' supervisory role over patentability in the Canadian patent system, stating that "a NAFTA Chapter Eleven tribunal is not an appellate tier" and that it would be inappropriate for a NAFTA tribunal to assess judicial conduct against NAFTA obligations other than in "exceptional circumstances, in which there is clear evidence of egregious and shocking conduct."
Eli Lilly v Canada
Federal Court Finds Fair Dealing in Blacklock's Reporter v AG Canada
The Federal Court of Canada has found that obtaining, reading and distributing paywalled articles for the purposes of assessing and responding to the contents of those articles constituted fair dealing under the Copyright Act.
In a tightly drafted judgement, Justice Barnes found that the Finance Department employees exercised their fair dealing rights for research purposes in receiving a pair of articles from a Blacklock's subscriber, and reading and sharing those articles internally with other Department employees. Justice Barnes rejected Blacklock's arguments that its terms of use barred such dealing, noting that it was not Blacklock's practice to explicitly bring such terms to the attention of users, and, in any event, those terms contained an ambiguity permitting reproduction and distribution for non-commercial, personal or educational purposes.
Given the outcome of its fair dealing analysis, Justice Barnes saw no need to address the Government's claim that Blacklock's practices constituted copyright misuse, although he did note that there are "certainly some troubling aspects to Blacklock's business practices". The Court awarded costs to the Government.
Canada's National Security Consultation I: Digital Anonymity & Subscriber Identification Revisited… Yet Again
Last month, Public Safety Canada followed through on commitments to review and consult on Canada's national security framework. The process reviews powers that were passed into law following the passage of Bill C-51, Canada's recent controversial anti-terrorism overhaul, as well as invite a broader debate about Canada's security apparatus. While many consultation processes have explored expansions of Canada's national security framework, the current consultation constitutes the first modern day attempt to explore Canada's national security excesses and deficiencies. Unfortunately, the framing of the consultation demonstrates minimal direct regard for privacy and civil liberties because it is primarily preoccupied with defending the existing security framework while introducing a range of additional intrusive powers. Such powers include some that have been soundly rejected by the Canadian public as drawing the wrong balance between digital privacy and law enforcement objectives, and heavily criticized by legal experts as well as by all of Canada's federal and provincial privacy commissioners. The government's framing of the issues are highly deficient. Specifically, the consultation documents make little attempt to explain the privacy and civil liberties implications that can result from the contemplated powers. And while the government is open to suggestions on privacy and civil liberties-enhancing measures, few such proposals are explored in the document itself. The consultation documents also fail to provide detailed suggestions for improving government accountability and transparency surrounding state agencies' use of already-existent surveillance and investigative tools.
In light of these deficiencies, we will be discussing a number of the consultation document's problematic elements in a series of posts authored in conjunction with Christopher Parsons at the Citizen Lab, beginning with today's installment (after the jump, or in PDF format) regarding the government's reincarnation of a highly controversial telecommunication subscriber identification power.
Blacklock's Reporter v AG Canada Wraps Up
The trial in Blacklock's Reporter v Attorney-General Canada ended today with the parties' closing arguments.
Justice Barnes opened the day inviting the parties to make submissions focusing on the legal implications of what happened between the parties.
Plaintiff's counsel opened argument with a brief review of the documentary evidence, and suggested that there were four issues: (1) infringement, (2) fair dealing, (3) copyright misuse, and (4) damages.
CIPPIC Testimony Calls for Greater Transparency, Proportionality in Update of Federal Privacy Act
CIPPIC appeared today before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics (ETHI) in its ongoing review of Canada's aging Privacy Act. The Act regulates the federal government's handling of personal information, comprising a central component of Canada's privacy framework. However, it has not received any substantial updates since its introduction in the early 1980s, despite tectonic shifts in the incentives animating government data-related objectives as well as in the technological capability to achieve these objectives. In addition, the government has introduced numerous laws designed to update and expand its ability to collect, use and share private data since the 1980s, including laws specifically designed to address technological developments. In the face of this one-sided expansion of state capabilities, the Privacy Act has simply not kept pace, and is in serious need of modernization if it is to continue to effectively meet its objectives to protect individual privacy rights, facilitate government accountability and safeguard public trust.
CIPPIC's recommendations sought to address key gaps in the Privacy Act, while adding principled protections that will help the Act stay relevant in the future. This includes the addition of principled limits on how long data can be reasonably kept by the government. There is currently no such explicit obligation in the Privacy Act, despite the fact that retention limitations are a hallmark of data protection regimes. An over-riding reasonableness obligation is also necessary, as it would ensure government data practices remain proportionate and in alignment with Charter values. CIPPIC also called for addressing central shortages in the Act's transparency framework, including the incorporation of statistical reporting obligations attaching to all law enforcement electronic surveillance powers, and a general 'openness' obligation compelling the government to proactively explain its privacy practices. Additional recommendations addressed the need for mandating reasonable technical safeguards, a mandatory data breach notification regime and formalizing privacy impact assessment requirements.
UPDATE: In December 2016, ETHI released the results of its study in a report entitled "Protecting the Privacy of Canadians: Review of the Privacy Act". The Report adopts many of CIPPIC's recommendations.
Report Calls for Greater Transparency, Proactive Control of IMSI Catchers
CIPPIC and the Citizen Lab, released a report today that describes and analyzes a class of covert electronic surveillance devices called cell site simulators (typically referred to as IMSI Catchers or by brand names such as 'Stingray'). IMSI Catchers operate by impersonating cell phone towers in order to trick mobile devices within range into transmitting digital identifiers, which are then used to track mobile devices or identify the otherwise anonymous individuals associated with them. The report (Executive Summary, FR) argues that the devices are inherently invasive. The geo-location and identification they facilitate engages sensitive privacy interests and, moreover, they are inherently coarse - for each target they are deployed against, the privacy of thousands of non-targeted mobile devices within range is collaterally affected. IMSI Catchers are also intrusive for their interference with the operation of mobile devices, which cannot receive or transmit any phone, text or data communications while engaged with an IMSI Catcher. This can include interference with critical communications such as emergency 911 calls.
Exacerbating the intrusive features of this electronic surveillance tool has been the cloud of secrecy that pervades its use. The report describes significant efforts by journalists and civil society, in Canada and abroad, which sought to uncover use of this device in Canada and the heavy and unnecessary yet persistent resistance these efforts have experienced. The resulting secrecy, which appears to be encouraged by non-disclosure agreements imposed on Canadian agencies by IMSI Catcher vendors, has delayed important public policy debates regarding the appropriate use of these devices, while eroding public confidence. The report calls for the imposition of a range of transparency, proportionality and mitigation measures, modeled on regulatory frameworks adopted by other jurisdictions for IMSI Catchers, by Canadian courts and legislatures for comparably intrusive electronic surveillance tools and by international normative frameworks for digital privacy protection.
Supreme Court to Hear Online Privacy Jurisdiction Appeal
CIPPIC's application for leave to intervene has been granted in Douez v Facebook Inc, SCC File No 36616, an appeal that raises fundamental questions regarding the nature of online jurisdiction, e-consumer protection and privacy. Specifically at issue is a forum selection clause imposed by Facebook onto all of its customers, on a take it or leave it basis, mandating that all disputes be brought against it in California. On the basis of this clause, it was held that a class action launched against Facebook in BC and alleging violations of BC privacy laws cannot proceed.
Managing online jurisdiction-where services can have significant global presence and impact on a largely virtual basis-has strained digital policy since the early days of the world wide web. However, CIPPIC's proposed intervention intends to argue that forum selection clauses are ill-suited as a means of navigating the challenges posed by global online services. A mandatory, non-negotiable forum selection clause effectively opts a service provider out of Canadian standards and laws as foreign courts tend to apply their own rules and standards. As forum selection clauses are ubiquitous and non-negotiable in online services, their universal enforcement could effectively deprive Canadians from domestic protections in relation to digital activities that are increasingly critical to their daily lives. In addition, it could force any Canadian individual embroiled in a dispute with a global online platform to undertake the expense and inconvenience of suing in a foreign court.
Voltage Obtains Norwhich Order in Reverse Class Action
Voltage Pictures and its litigation partners - the applicants in a file-sharing "reverse class action" - have been granted a Norwich Order in respect of a single John Doe. The Court limited its Order to the name and address of the Rogers subscriber (the Applicants had sought additional information such as email address) and required payment to Rogers at its hourly fee for providing the subscriber data (the Applicants had argued that the new notice and notice provisions of the Copyright Act meant that Rogers had to provide this information for free). CIPPIC intervened in the motion on the narrow issue of the privacy protections and limits that might be required of any such order. It is possible that Voltage and its partners might appeal the decision on the issue of paying ISP costs. However, with the Order in hand, Voltage and its litigation partners are in place to begin discovery against the Doe with the goal of having the Doe appointed as the representative defedant and moving towards certification of its controversial reverse class proceeding.
UPDATE: On Friday, August 5, 2016, Voltage filed a Notice of Appeal, FCA File No A-278-16, with the Federal Court of Appeal, challenging the Federal Court's conclusion that it cannot pass the cost of enforcing its rights on to Rogers' customers. Voltage did not seek a stay of the Proposed Class Action Proceeding and, as a result, it appears as though the class proceeding and the appeal will proceed in parallel.
Decision: Granting Voltage's request for third party disclosure Voltage Pictures LLC v Doe, 2016 FC 881
CIPPIC's Intervention Argument
CIPPIC, CGRC Publish TK Open Licensing Proposal
CIPPIC and Carleton University's Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre have proposed the creation of a Traditional Knowledge open licensing scheme to help overcome some of the challenges associated with granting and obtaining permission for the use and sharing of traditional knowledge. The scheme envisions a series of open licenses - similar to Creative Commons licenses - responsive to the needs of granting communities that help overcome some of the obstacles parties routinely encounter in granting and obtaining permission for the use and sharing of traditional knowledge.
A Proposal: an Open Licensing scheme for Traditional Knowledge
Canada Post v Geolytica Lawsuit Settled
Canada Post has agreed to discontinue it's copyright infringement lawsuit against Geolytica. The case involved a claim that Geloytica's use of a crowd-sourced database of postal codes mapped to geographic addresses infringed intellectual property rights Canada Post alleged that it enjoyed in those postal codes.
While the terms of settlement are confidential, the parties have prepared an agreed statement:
Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012 against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to Geolytica Inc.'s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca. The parties have now settled their dispute and Canada Post will discontinue the court proceedings. The postal codes returned by various geocoder interface APIs and downloadable on geocoder.ca, are estimated via a crowdsourcing process. They are not licensed by geocoder.ca from Canada Post, the entity responsible for assigning postal codes to street addresses. Geolytica continues to offer its products and services, using the postal code data it has collected via a crowdsourcing process which it created.
While undoubtedly a good outcome for Geolytica, the settlement leaves unaddressed the legal claims advanced by Canada Post.
Geolytica announcement of resolution of Canada Post v Geolytica


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GRIDIRON GLORY: History
Professional football traces its roots to 1800s America when collegiate players incorporated elements from soccer and rugby into a new game. By the end of the century, football was played across the country and rules included the snap and forward pass, 11-player team, and the concept of downs.
Professional football history in the Twin Cities began in the 1920s when the Minneapolis Marines joined the American Professional Football Association (later the National Football League). Duluth also hosted a professional team, the Kelleys, later called the Eskimos, from 1923 to 1927 when it withdrew from the league. The film Leatherheads is partially based on the story of the Duluth Eskimos. In 1931 the Marines also withdrew from the league, leaving the state with no professional team between 1931 and 1959.
In August 1959, Minneapolis was awarded a franchise in the new American Football League, but the owners gave it up to be awarded the NFL's 14th franchise in 1960.
The Minnesota Vikings, so named to recognize Minnesota's Nordic roots, took to the field for their first regular season game on Sept. 17, 1961. After a slow start, rookie quarterback Fran Tarkenton came off the bench to throw four touchdown passes and run for another as he led the Vikes to a 37-13 victory over the Chicago Bears. Twenty five years later, in 1986, Tarkenton would become the first Vikings player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
In 1967, the Vikings brought in head coach Bud Grant who had led the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to four championships in 10 years. Hailing from Minnesota, Grant returned to the Twin Cities with the challenge of turning the struggling Vikings into instant winners. Just two years later, the Vikings began an incredible streak of 11 division titles in 13 seasons.
The Vikings have appeared in four Super Bowl games: 1970, '74, '75 and '77. Only four other NFL teams have played in more championship games. From Ahmad Rashad to Cris Carter, from Jim Marshall to Randall McDaniel and from Matt Blair to John Randle, the Vikings have been among the most exciting teams ever to strap on the pads.
V-I-K-I-N-G-S! Skol, Vikings, Let's Go!
Adapted from Minnesota Vikings team history

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Q: What is the proper syntax in MySQL for constructing multiples JOIN I am new to SQL and trying to construct a join for 6 tables together. Here is my example code:
SELECT cr.COMMUNICATIONS_ID, cr.CONSUMER_ID, cr.ACTION_LOG_ID, nc.CONSUMER_ID, cal.CONSUMER_ID, cal.TIPS_AMOUNT, cal.LAST_MOD_TIME, cirm.CONSUMER_RATING, ces.EXPERT_SCORE, cim.CONSUMER_INTEREST_EXPERT_ID, scs.SIMILARITY
FROM COMMUNICATION_RELVANCE AS cr
JOIN network_communications AS nc
ON cr.COMMUNICATIONS_ID=nc.COMMUNICATIONS_ID
JOIN consumer_action_log AS cal
ON cr.ACTION_LOG_ID=cal.ACTION_LOG_ID
JOIN communication_interest_mapping AS cim
ON cr.COMMUNICATIONS_ID=cim.COMMUNICATIONS_ID
JOIN consumer_interest_rating_mapping AS cirm
ON cr.CONSUMER_ID=cirm.CONSUMER_ID
    AND cim.CONSUMER_INTEREST_EXPERT_ID=cirm.CONSUMER_INTEREST_ID
JOIN consumer_expert_score AS ces
ON nc.CONSUMER_ID=ces.CONSUMER_ID
    AND cim.CONSUMER_INTEREST_EXPERT_ID=CONSUMER_EXPERT_ID
JOIN survey_customer_similarity AS scs
ON nc.CONSUMER_ID=scs.CONSUMER_ID
    AND cal.CONSUMER_ID=scs.CONSUMER_ID;

Before I start debugging, I want to make sure there are not any wholesale problems in my code my syntax.

A: That looks fine to me. Try running it to see if there are any errors.
A couple of points:

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*You don't have a WHERE clause so it will return all rows. Is that intentional?

*You misspelled the name of one of your tables: COMMUNICATION_RELVANCE. You probably should fix that before your write too much more code. I know it sounds pedantic but it's because fixing it now during initial development is probably quite easy to do. If you leave it too long people will write code that relies on the misspelling and it might end up being too difficult/expensive to change the name and update all the existing code. Then you'll be stuck with it and it will annoy everyone who has to maintain your code for years to come.

A: All lines look fine, except you probably want to add an alias to this line against CONSUMER_EXPERT_ID to be "proper"
AND cim.CONSUMER_INTEREST_EXPERT_ID=CONSUMER_EXPERT_ID

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Home town heritage.
This week a look at the cycling heritage of my home town Stockton-on-Tees, a town with a history going back to 1138 which if you have nothing better to do you can read about HERE on Wikipedia. I won't bang on too much about the town's history but before I get on to the cycling stuff I have to mention a couple of notable events from Stockton's past:
In 1827 the friction match was invented in Stockton by local chemist John Walker, unfortunately he didn't bother to take a out patent on his invention and he didn't actually make any money from it - so maybe old John wasn't such a bright spark after all - not impressed? What about the first ever rail journey by a steam engine? In 1822 George Stephenson's Locomotion Number One travelled between Stockton and nearby Shildon, an event that was to change the world for ever, now you must admit that was a biggy.
One of John Walker's giant matches and my Giant bouncey bike on Stockton-on-Tees riverside.
Before I get to Stockton's cycling heritage first a little bit of historical context just to set the scene. The earliest years of the existence of the bicycle saw not only the development and manufacture of a new machine and form of transport but also the rapid development of a brand new sport.
The first recorded bicycle race in England was held in the meadow of the Welsh Harp Inn, Hendon near London in 1869. Bicycle racing soon became a regular attraction at horticultural shows and athletic meetings which frequently also included exhibitions and sales of new bicycles.
Stockton's Clubs
The first cycling club in Stockton-on-Tees was formed in 1878 at a meeting held at the YMCA in Dovecot Street. The club badge was the Stockton emblem of the castle and anchor and the club uniform was designated as a cardinal blue blazer and a straw hat with a blue band. The joining fee was fixed at one shilling and sixpence and the Stockton Cycling Club was born.
The bikes of the time were Ordinary's, also known as Penny Farthings or High Wheelers. The cost of an Ordinary was about £4 which probably put them out of the reach of most working class people. However, the Stockton Cycling Club owned a bicycle, there is a reference in the club minutes that it was donated by a Mr H Newburn and this machine could be borrowed by members to practice on for a small charge.
The Ordinary was not easy to ride and somebody had to hold it steady to start a novice rider off. There must have been a certain amount of enthusiasm to practice riding as the club decided to acquire a wooden machine (which presumably was cheaper) which the members could use for free, and a rule was introduced that only those who had learned to ride on the wooden machine could mount the High Wheeler.
On Good Friday 1878 a trial run was organised to the nearby hamlet of High Leven to make sure that all those who intended to ride on the Easter Monday were capable. The first official 'Club Run' from Stockton-on-Tees took place on April 4th 1878 and went to Mount Grace Priory, Stokesley and Great Ayton, a route that is around thirty miles with a few lumps along the way and a fairly tough ride on an Ordinary I would imagine.
Stockton Cyclists in 1910 wearing their straw hats and blazers. There is still a thriving cycling club in the town and Stockton Wheelers which formed in 1916 currently has over 300 members. You can find out about their current activities HERE - SWCC
Stockton Wheelers members of all ages enthusiastically getting proceedings underway at the annual Stockton Cycling Festival which this year is over the weekend of 15th-18th July, full event info HERE Stockton-Festival
Stockton's Bike Brothers
Any account of Stockton's cycling heritage has to include a mention of the towns well known bike builders the Taylor brothers. Jack Taylor started making light weight racing bikes in 1936 and was later joined in the business by his two brothers, Norman and Ken. In 1942 Jack bought a plot of land in Church Road in Stockton and despite war time restrictions which meant that they were only allowed to use £100 worth of building materials the brothers managed to build their own workshop on the site.
Above the Taylor brothers outside their Stockton factory, each of the three brothers invested £20 in to the business and with it they bought as much bicycle tubing as they could afford from the Reynolds Tube Company.
In the post-war years Jack Taylor hand-built bikes were in great demand. At its peak the company employed nine people but by 1986 only the three brothers remained. Even then interest in their bikes was still high and the BBC made a short film about the brothers and their bikes called appropriately 'The Bike Brothers' - you can watch it on Youtube HERE TaylorBrothers
A classy Jack Taylor lightweight with its distinctive curved seat tube - remind you of anything?
I wonder if renowned bike designer Gerard Vroomen (definitely not from Stockton) who founded Cervelo in 1995 with his partner Phil White was inspired by a Jack Taylor in his youth ? Vroomen is now part owner and head of design at 3T and responsible for their Strada model (above) check out his blog HERE GVBlog there is some good cycling stuff on there.
Stockton's Finest.
Any blog readers who can remember the UK racing scene between the mid 70s and the 90s will know of Stockton cycling legend Paul Curran who began his career with Stockton Wheelers aged 14. Paul went on to win virtually every big race on the British calendar, not to mention the Commonwealth Games Road Race in 1986 along with the team time trial. On the continent he won stages of the Tour of Normandie and the Circuit des Mines. Paul was a genuine all-rounder who could win on the track, in time trials and on the road. You can see all Paul Curran's major results here PC-Wiki
Above - Paul Curran competing at the World Amatuer Road Race in 1985, his career came to a premature end in 1996 when he suffered serious injuries in an accident with a motorcycle at the Tour of the Pennines. Paul still lives in Stockton, still rides his bike and is still involved in the cycling scene in Stockton as Chairman of Stockton Wheelers and running a bike shop in the town PaulCurran-Cyclesport.
So, Stockton on Tees, my hometown and a pretty good place to live if you are a bike rider and I haven't even mentioned the nearby iconic training routes of the North Yorkshire Moors, the Yorkshire Dales and Upper Teesdale ? I will do a blog post sometime.
And Finally - #UTA - Up the Anchors
Another big event in Stockton's sporting heritage happened yesterday when Sockton Town FC won the second leg of their FA vase semi-final against Marske United and are off to Wembley on Sunday May 20th for the Buildbase FA Vase final.
#UTA


ASTANA. KAZINFORM A unique charitable project Music in Utter Darkness will be presented on May 16 at the Chamber Hall of Astana Opera Theater.
Artists will stage an interesting musical and poetic program in the utter darkness, official website of the Astana administration reports referring to the theater's press service.
Astana Opera principal dancers and orchestra musicians will take part in the concert. Its aim is to attract attention to problems of youth with disabilities. Concerts in darkness change habitual perception of music and the world around us, friends and themselves. Darkness promotes the power of imagination. People in darkness start both hearing and seeing music. It is a bold experiment, the press release reads.


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Over all I am a pretty easygoing, friendly person. I don't like high-pressure sales or being pushed into decisions. So I always treat my clients the way I want to be treated. I do my best to lay out all the information and choices and make a educated recommendation for your consideration.
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Crock Pot Black Bean & Pumpkin Chili - What a Crock!
Happy 2015 to you all! One of my goals for the year is to do at least 1 post per month. This may not sound like much, but I didn't even do that well last year. Oops. I'm pretty confident 2015 will be a less hectic year for me, so expect more recipes!
M and I started off the new year right with this awesome, unique chili recipe for dinner. It combines many of my favorite spices (and of course pumpkin) with black beans and onions. Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as we did!
A delicious vegan fall or winter chili that will make you happy.
Add all ingredients to Crock Pot and cook 8 hours on low or 4-5 hours on high. Stir occasionally. Serve with whatever toppings your heart desires!
Review: This turned out awesome! M and I both gave it two thumbs up. Makes enough for dinner plus a couple of lunches too! If you want more spice, add more chili powder than I did. Bell peppers and other veggies may make good additions as well.
YUM! Made this today. I added some sweet potato and it was good!


For a person who has suffered a soft tissue injury, the effects are all too real. Pain, lack of mobility, the inability to work — these can change your life in countless ways. However, insurance companies often do not provide adequate compensation for people who suffer whiplash, nerve damage and other soft tissue injuries. Getting the compensation you deserve may require the services of an experienced personal injury lawyer.
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On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, I was shoveling snow on my back deck. I turned around and fell down my back stairs and landed on my arm, against the stairs. Immediately, I knew I broke my forearm, as I could barely lift it up.
I called into the house to my wife and asked her to pray for me, and ask The Lord to manifest healing in my arm. At that point, I received my blessing as a gift from God and rejoiced in my spirit, and purposed by the grace of God to walk in this faith until The Lord manifested this healing, which He has promised to me in His Word that He would do (Mark 11:24; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Peter 2:24; Psalm 103:1-5; Proverbs 4:20-23; etc.).
My wife and I are raising our five children and I work a physical job, so I knew I had an opportunity to walk this trial out and that The Lord would bring this to pass quickly. I finished shoveling and snowblowing my driveway by the hardest, making every effort to use the broken arm as much I could because I asked and received by faith this healing because of his precious grace.
When I came in the house, I took my sweatshirt off and looked at my forearm and we could see the bone popped up under my flesh about 3/4 of an inch, and could actually feel the bone separation by running our fingers over the "bump".
That evening was difficult, however, as I tried to bring a laundry basket downstairs and bathed my one- and two-yearold children, and had to rely heavily on my left arm, as a very sharp pain ran through my right arm every time I attempted to use it, even to pick up something as light as a dinner plate. Nevertheless, I continued by faith to use it, praising and thanking God every time I used it, regardless of the pain that I felt because I had a promise from God, and through encouragement from the saints and strength through their testimonies, I knew I had a reason to rejoice.
Later that evening, I called the BenYsraels and asked them to agree in faith with me regarding this matter, and I also had Brother Frank Thornton and Brother Rob Stanley agree in faith for this healing, along with the brethren. The next day at work, I purposely opted to do the majority of the heavy work and this is when The Lord really blessed me.
My healing had come forth about 50% immediately that morning while doing the shoveling at work and the more I used my arm in faith, the more usage The Lord gave me. By the time the third day had come, I had about 85% usage back, The only thing I had trouble doing at this point was flipping my hand over so my palm was up and picking something up that way.
Well, because I still felt a slight pain when I lifted things like that, I began to pick things up that way more. By the seventh day (Tuesday, February 8th), my healing was completely manifested. I asked The Lord to allow the bruise to remain for a short time so that I could show people what The Lord had done for me, considering that the Lord gave me much grace not to disfigure my face before men to show any sign of pain while walking this trial out, and the Lord honored that request, as I do have a large bruise from the top of my wrist all the way to my elbow. I do trust that The Lord will completely remove this bruise as well.
I praise The Father through my Lord Jesus Christ for this miracle and greatly give thanks to Him for such undeserved grace bestowed upon me. We are a VERY blessed people in the earth and have a great reason to rejoice, especially in our trials, because that is where we overcome the devil and allow God to bring forth the precious fruit of Jesus Christ unto His glory.
"And they overcame him BECAUSE of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death" Revelation 12:11.
ALL of the praise and glory goes to The Lord for this wonderful testimony; I am truly blessed of God to have been able to endure this trial to see the end of my faith, which God has dealt to every one of us as a gift of grace. Amen.


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Ро́берт А́ндерсон (): Андерсон, Роберт (1750—1830) — шотландский писатель.
 Андерсон, Роберт (1805—1871) — американский военный деятель.
 Андерсон, Роберт Бернард (1910—1989) — американский политик.
  (1917—2009) — американский драматург и сценарист, автор сценария к фильму «История монахини».
 Андерсон, Роберт Чарли (род. 1947) — английский чемпион мира по дартсу.

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Toyota TS010
The Toyota TS010 was a prototype, which was developed in 1991 by Toyota for sports car racing.
Development history and technology
When the TS010 was constructed, Toyota had already several years in Rennsportwagenbau behind. With the Toyota 90C - V 1990 had Geoff Lees, Hitoshi Ogawa, Masanori Sekiya and achieved sixth place in the overall standings in the 24- hour race at Le Mans. When the FIA 1992 approved a new technical regulations for the race of the World Sportscar Championship, Toyota was the last car manufacturer who built a racing car for this new racing concept. Under the influence of the Formula 1 organizer Bernie Ecclestone, the FIA wanted to move the automobile manufacturers Toyota, Mercedes -Benz, Peugeot, Jaguar and Porsche to switch from the World Sportscar Championship in Formula 1. That this would lead to the end of the great sports car racing, has been taken into account. Therefore, the new technical rules corresponded almost to the rules of Formula 1 critic described the new prototypes as Formula 1 cars with bodywork. Toyota works driver Andy Wallace was at test drive the TS010 end of 1991 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza faster than Ayrton Senna with the McLaren MP4 / 6 at the Grand Prix of Italy 1991. Andy Wallace reported after the test drives that the contact pressure in the high gears enormously had.
In developing the TS010 Toyota took a different way than previous prototypes. So far, always Japanese technicians had the cars designed for the construction of the TS010 but the Briton Tony Southgate was committed. Southgate had gained considerable experience in the construction of Formula 1 racing cars and developed in recent years, the Jaguar XJR prototypes. Toyota built a new 3.5-liter V10 engine and took this inspiration from the Renault and Ferrari Formula 1 engines. As these engines had the Toyota aggregate five valves per cylinder and an inclination angle of 72 degrees.
Southgate built a car at the weight limit of 750 kg, with a nearly 700 -hp engine, a power to weight ratio of 0.8 hp per 1 kg resulted. The monocoque was clad in carbon fiber and the rear wheels to improve aerodynamics by covers. The g - force was very high in fast corners with 5 g.
His racing debut in the TS010 in the 430 - km race at Auto Polis 1991. The race was the eighth championship round and the final event of the World Sportscar Championship in 1991. The race was so far well chosen, since the World Cup was indeed long been decided, with the factory team from Jaguar, Peugeot, Clean and Mazdaspeed but the main group C teams were at the start. For this, the customer Porsche 962 came this strong competition made it possible Toyota to pull a first comparison with the own prototypes. Dangers was the car of the two experienced British sports car drivers Geoff Lees and Andy Wallace. After the race, followed by disillusionment. It was obvious that against major competitors considerably development work was to be paid. Although Geoff Lees and Andy Wallace reached the sixth place in the standings, had the goal but only three laps behind the Mercedes -Benz C291 by Michael Schumacher and Karl Wendlinger. Even Jaguar and Peugeot placed their cars in the Toyota factory. Leave behind you could see the two Mazda 787B and some Porsche 962
At the first race of the World Sportscar Championship in 1992 followed by extensive testing of the first race win. Jaguar and Sauber had finished their sports car programs. Jaguar had withdrawn completely from motorsport and Sauber prepared to enter the Formula 1 World Championship in 1993. As an opponent Peugeot remained a further stage of development of the Peugeot 905 and Mazdaspeed. In the 500 - km race at Monza won Geoff Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa Japanese before the Peugeot of Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and. However, in this race only two vehicles came in the standings. The second TS010, driven by Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace, failed after an accident. How close the Group C cars were already approached the speed of the Formula 1 single-seater, one could refer to the fact that driven by Derek Warwick pole position time of 1.26,019 minutes was faster than the fastest race lap by Nigel Mansell in the Williams FW14B the Grand Prix of Italy in the late summer of the year. Mansell drove a time of 1.26,119 minutes. In the qualification of the Italian Grand Prix Mansell drove though a significantly faster time of 1.22,221 minutes, but had Warwick 's enough time to qualify for the 23 starting position in the F1 field!
In the second race of the season, the 500 - km race at Silverstone, there was no finish line for both reported Trailer. The car of Jan Lamb and Andy Wallace had already after nine rounds an engine failure, and the vehicle by Geoff Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa stopped after 55 laps damage to the electrical system.
The highlight of the season was the 24 - hour race at Le Mans, where Toyota was with three cars at the start. The car with the start number 7 drove Geoff Lees, David Brabham and Ukyo Katayama. In the TS010 with the number 8 sat with Jan Lamb and Andy Wallace, the Italian Teo Fabi. The third car with the number 9 drove Pierre -Henri Raphanel, Kenny Acheson and Masanori Sekiya. While the number 7 failed with engine damage and the car overall came up with the number 8 after a few unplanned pit stops in eighth place finish, the car reached the number 9 second overall, beaten only by the Peugeot 905 of Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell.
This was followed by a third place at the 500 - km race at Donington and a second place overall at the 1000 km race at Suzuka. The second win of the season there was the 1000- km race at Fuji, a race of the Japanese Sports Car Championship. In so far last race of the World Sportscar Championship, the 500 - km race at Magny -Cours, Geoff Lees and Jan Lamb occupied the third place. Andy Wallace and David Brabham were fourth.
After the end of World Sportscar Championship in 1993, the commitment was limited to the 24 - hour race at Le Mans. Again there were three works cars at the start. The car with the number 36 piloted by Eddie Irvine, Toshio Suzuki and Masanori Sekiya to the fourth place overall. The car of Pierre -Henri Raphanel, Andy Wallace and Kenny Acheson retired with gearbox failure and Geoff Lees Jan Lamb, Juan Manuel Fangio II classified at the eighth position of the final score. With this race the TS010 project ended. Toyota did not return until 1998 with the GT -One to Le Mans.
Car classification Curb weight Toyota GT-One Sports prototype 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans Jaguar Cars Andy Wallace (racing driver) 1991 World Sportscar Championship season 1992 500 km of Monza 1993 Formula One season 1992 500 km of Silverstone 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans Pierre-Henri Raphanel 1992 500 km of Donington 1992 1000 km of Suzuka 1992 500 km of Magny-Cours 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans Toshio Suzuki (racing driver) 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans


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Human rights news and case law roundup
12 July 2010 by Adam Wagner
We recently started adding links to interesting new articles and case-law the sidebar under the heading "Recent selected sources (del.icio.us)". Below is a quick rundown of the most recent links. The full list of links can be found here.
11 July | Legal aid cuts are inevitable in renegotiation of the social contract: Afua Hirsch in the Guardian discusses the likely effects of the coming legal aid reforms.
9 July | Liberal in name only: Conner Gearty criticises the Liberal Democrats for failing to live up to their party's name.
9 July | UK government plans major review of libel law: We have posted a number of times (see here) on the upcoming libel reforms, which may have significant impact on freedom of speech as well as the right to privacy.
9 July 2010 | Case Law: AP (No.2) – Supreme Court on Anonymity: A case comment from INFORRM on AP (No. 2), a recent Supreme Court ruling on control orders and anonymity orders (see our post)
8 July | A humane nation is a safer nation: The Foreign Secretary has said human rights are the "irreducible core" of foreign policy, along with poverty prevention. See his speech here.
8 July | Does the UK need a comprehensive constitutional framework?: Joshua Rozenberg reignites this debate, which we have discussed recently.
6 July | Scotland allows collection of children's DNA: Police in Scotland will be able to collect and store the DNA of children as young as eight. The Coalition have promised to scale back DNA laws in England and Wales.


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WC Winners
Brazil and the World Cup
About the World Cup
Airports and Ports
Tourism/Culture
Map of Opportunities
Volunteering Program
Federal Government, FIFA and CBF present legacy of the 2014 World Cup
Only 0.2% of fans needed medical care during the World Cup
Security during the World Cup: integrated work by 177 thousand people
Brazilian airports saw a flow of 16.7 million passengers during the World Cup
Open Media Centre
World Cup of Inclusion: 50,000 tickets donated to students beneficiaries of social programs and indigenous populations
The majority of students at selected schools live in socially vulnerable situations, and are part of the Mais Educação ("More Education") program
For the first time in World Cup history, beneficiaries of social programs and indigenous populations are receiving 50,000 tickets to watch World Cup matches. The Brazilian federal government has distributed 48,000 tickets donated by FIFA to students of full-time public schools and beneficiaries of social programs in the 12 host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, with 2,000 others to be distributed amongst the country's indigenous population.
In the 12 host cities, 901 public schools were selected by a random draw based on the national lottery. Selected students in each school received two tickets to watch the match accompanied by an adult.
The majority of students at selected schools live in socially vulnerable situations, and are part of the Mais Educação ("More Education") program. The program, coordinated by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, aims to increase the number of hours in the standard school day to up to seven.
"We are making a big bet in full-time schooling in Brazil", said Tereza Campello, Brazil's Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, during a press conference at the João Saldanha Open Media Centre at the Forte de Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro). "Education is one of the biggest drivers of transformation in people's lives."
The Ministry of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger works in conjunction with the Ministry of Education to ensure that the program gives priority to schools with students in the most vulnerable situations. The federal government uses the registry of the Bolsa Família program to detect schools with a majority of beneficiaries and encourages students to join full-time schooling.
As a result, the number of schools with a majority of Bolsa Família beneficiary students who adhered to the "More Education" program increased by a factor of six between 2011 and 2013: in 2013, of the 48,500 schools that adhered to the More Education program, 31,700 had Bolsa Família beneficiary students as the majority.
Campello added that one important indicator is the rate of students at the age of 15 in the correct grade of their school journey: it has increased from 30% to more than 50% since 2002. "These youngsters being in the classroom is what guarantees Brazil will be another country in 10 years. These young men and women being in the classroom is what will prove that there has been a structural reduction of inequality. Inequality is not just an income and poverty phenomenon.
The structural transformations we are creating in Brazil are much deeper-rooted, and will allow us to see our country in a completely different manner," she said.
Two Brazilian students who won free World Cup tickets
São Paulo - The Ulysses Guimarães Municipal Elementary School in Parelheiros, on the outskirts of São Paulo (SP), was one of the schools selected by the draw. A total of eleven of its students received free tickets to watch the World Cup opening game (Brazil vs. Croatia). Henrique Eduardo da Silva, 16, is a Bolsa Família beneficiary and was one of the winners. His family has five people, all living on the R$ 800 per month that his father, Antonio da Silva, earns at a car wash. Their income is supplemented by R$ 112 in monthly transfers from the Bolsa Família program.
Brasilia - Tayhane Rodrigues da Silva (picture), 9, was also selected in the draw. She is crazy about football, and one of the few girls who plays football in her school. Tayhane lives in Águas Lindas (GO), in the vicinity of the national capital, and practices football at the 407 Norte Elementary School in Brasília (DF), both during recess and as part of physical education classes under the More Education Program. The daughter of a waste picker and a cleaning lady, she chose her father to accompany her to the Mané Garrincha National Stadium to watch the match between Brazil and Cameroon today (23 June) in Brasília.
The 48,000 tickets were distributed to students in the twelve host cities as follows
Belo Horizonte - 43 schools, 2,228 tickets to students
Brasília - 27 schools, 1,344 tickets to students
Cuiabá - 109 schools, 7,016 tickets to students
Curitiba - 124 schools, 7,556 tickets to students
Fortaleza - 146 schools, 7,282 tickets to students
Manaus - 36 schools, 1,782 tickets to students
Natal - 57 schools, 2,812 tickets to students
Porto Alegre - 116 schools, 5,824 tickets to students
Recife - 113 schools, 5,674 tickets to students
Rio de Janeiro - 11 schools, 524 tickets for students
Salvador - 76 schools, 3,836 tickets to students
São Paulo - 43 schools, 2,122 tickets to students
Source: Open Media Centre
Ministry of Sport
Mais Educação
Ministry of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger
The organisation of the World Cup in Brazil got the seal of approval by foreign journalists
Airports, public security and tourist sites reached more than 80% approval rate among media professionals
Data published by the Ministry of Health show that 97.3% of cases that occurred at the grounds were solved on site
Assessment shows that during the World Cup period airports had an average of five landings or take-offs per minute
Data traffic during World Cup breaks records and takes place with no interruptions
Infrastructure enabled 166 terabytes of information to be transmitted. The areas of energy and urban mobility were also assessed positively
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Traveling Back: 100 years ago, private deer hunt a flop on Rock Island
Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
For the past two weeks, the cast and crew of the low-budget film "Feed the Fish" have been shooting scenes in a variety of locations across the county, especially in Northern Door. Tony Shalhoub, who is best known for his portrayal of an obsessive-compulsive detective in the TV series "Monk" and the film's lead actor, was in the area during the filming. It was discovered that Door County is a frequent vacation destination for him.
Economic times may be tough, but business owners and entrepreneurs in Door County are not without a support system. For the past 20 years, the Door County Economic Development Corp. has been dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its businesses.
RELATED:Traveling Back: 125 years ago, barn fire kills collection of fine horses
RELATED:Traveling Back: Frozen body clad only in underwear presents mystery to law enforcement
Greg Meissner asked the Sevastopol Town Board on Monday to consider limiting the use of motorized boats on Geisel Creek and Dunes Lake due to their concerns that some boats are disrupting vegetation and the lake bottom in shallow water.
At the movies: "Pink Panther 2" with Steve Martin and "Gran Torino" starring Clint Eastwood.
Targeted by the state Department of Natural Resources after 33 percent of its wells tested positive for coliform bacteria last fall, the village of Ephraim has hired an environmental consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study on its water problem.
Eight members of the Door Drifters snowmobile club encountered many predictable and some unpredictable obstacles during their annual marathon ride for multiple sclerosis. The Drifters covered 1,855 miles on trails in northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan in 11 days, raising more than $28,000 worth of pledges for MS research.
Fifth-grader Angela Brusky of St. Joseph Catholic School will head to Florida for NASA Space Camp in May. She won the five-day camp opportunity through a promotion at Rocky Rococco Pizza in Green Bay.
At the movies: "My Girl 2" with Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis and "Grumpy Old Men" starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
Sgt. Kenneth Pollock of the U.S. Marine Corps was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with the Combat "V" in recognition of heroic achievement in connection with operations against insurgent Viet Cong forces in Vietnam. The award was made March 27, 1968, by General James G. Olsen, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division. The citation reads: "For heroic achievement in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam while serving as a tank crewman with Company C First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division. Feb. 6, 1968, a section of tanks in support of a Marine infantry platoon conducting an operation in Quang Nam Province, when the Marines suddenly came under intense small arms, automatic weapons and antitank rocket fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army force."
The Sturgeon Bay school board and a faculty committee have negotiated a salary schedule for 1969-70 calling for a base of $6,600.
Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture D.N. McDowell has announced receipt of a petition for the establishment of a state apple marketing order.
Linda Mraz of Southern Door and Mary Smith, of Sevastopol, were selected for Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Awards.
The Gospel Tabernacle has received a trophy for having the largest numerical increase in Sunday school enrollment of 145 churches in the Wisconsin and Northern Michigan district. The Rev. Allen Lehmann received the trophy at Appleton last Sunday.
Mark Sheets received his Eagle badge, the highest rank in Scouting, at a county court of honor at Sturgeon Bay High School Sunday.
A branch of Rawhide Inc. may be established in Door County. Green Bay Packer quarterback Bart Starr will be in Sturgeon Bay Tuesday at noon for a luncheon at Andre's to explain the program for disadvantaged boys.
At the movies: Winner of 10 Academy awards "Gone with The Wind" starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
Sturgeon Bay's worst fire since the Prange-Washburn fire swept through the large Brandeis dock and warehouse on the Sawyer waterfront Wednesday night. Only the valiant work on the part of Chief George Jensen's firemen and a contingent of Coast Guardsmen from the Captain of the Port barracks made it possible to save the adjoining grain elevator.
With an increase of one-sixth since 1940, Door County leads the state in rate of population gain.
Marguerite Schumann has been awarded one of the highest honors given on Lawrence College campus: the Spector Cup. This award is given each year to the outstanding senior on the basis of leadership, scholarship and extracurricular activities.
Charles L. Erskine has been appointed health officer of the town of Jacksonport, He succeeds the late Charles W. Hein and has already begun to perform his duties.
Lawrence Squier has purchased the H.F. Wiesner building in Sawyer.
Ernie Halliday, Smith shipyard employee, has battled his way to the state 122-pound championship in the Golden Glove tournament at Milwaukee.
Hugh Maclean has retained his Sturgeon Bay chess championship.
At the movies: At the Door Theater, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland are featured in "Girl Crazy."
After having in the course of a year and a half a series of adventures that could ordinarily hardly be crowded into a typical lifetime, Corporal Lester "Butch" Leitl arrived home Thursday of last week with an honorable discharge from the Army. As souvenirs of the part he took in the Great War, he carries several wounds caused by the fragments of a high explosive shell.
A telegram received Wednesday from Walter Herzog, an Egg Harbor member of Co. F who had been reported killed in action, stated that he is alive and has arrived back in this country.
Word has been received here of how a former Door County boy received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in action at the battle of Chateau Thierry. He is Donald Palmer, a former resident of Sturgeon Bay and nephew of Mrs. Frank Knuth of Sawyer. Don, 20 years of age, enlisted from his home in West Allis in the Signal Corps and was with the 32nd Division.
The private deer hunt on Rock Island last week was a failure with only two deer being killed. The hunt had been permitted by the state conservation commission to exterminate the deer. The hunt was strongly resented by the residents of Washington Island and the party was given a frigid reception by the Islanders, who are noted for their hospitality. They volunteered to go to Rock Island, and although granted permission by the commission, E.A. Tborlarson, owner of the island, objected on the grounds they would be trespassing.
Vacancies on the fire and police commission and the board of education caused by the death of Edward Reynolds were filled when Mayor Minor appointed Dr. T.C. Proctor to the school board and the Rev. S. Groenfeldt to the fire and police commission.
S.R. Stradling has announced he will install a new alley within the next week. Started a few years ago with three pool tables, his facility now has five pool tables, a billiard table and two bowling alleys, making it one of the best equipped and finest pool rooms and bowling alleys in this section of the state.
Fred Warner, who recently returned from an eastern Army camp, has purchased the H.H. Kelly's barber shop in Sawyer and will continue in the existing place of the business.
A general charter was adopted by the Sturgeon Bay city council at the meeting held on Wednesday.
A most successful "stag" party was held at the home of Adam Dier at the canal on Saturday evening and 40 of his gentlemen friends had a most delightful time.
Joseph Mardin of Shivering Sands, Sevastopol, has succeeded in trapping two live wildcats and expects to use them for exhibition purposes at the county fairs in this state.
The cheese factory owned by Richard Haasch in Nasewaupee was destroyed by fire on the night of last Friday. The family, who resided in part of the building, barely escaped in their night clothes.
The spelling contest held at the Clay Banks school on Saturday night between Districts Nos. 1 and 2 of Clay Banks and Dist. No. 4 of Sturgeon Bay town resulted in a victory for District, No. 1, Ellen Olson having won on the word "weevil."
David E. Graham, of Egg Harbor, has 175 Cotswold sheep on his land in that township and they are wintering in fine shape.
A.B. Stevenson is still mining for valuable minerals on his land in the town of Gardner.
Solomon Berry of Baileys Harbor has been appointed deputy U.S. Marshal for that place.
Jerry Harry, who was severely injured at Jacksonport by a tree falling on him a week ago Friday, died Wednesday.
The two Norwegians who were carried off by the ice breaking up at the "Door" were saved when their ice raft floated to Plum Island. From there they made their escape to the mainland on a raft. It was rather a ticklish position and a lucky escape.
From the pages of the Door County Advocate of years gone by.


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Q: URL routing in the Django framework So I'm building a fairly simple website that allows users to create and edit profiles. I'm in the process of creating the URLs for the site, which follow the following "rules":

*

*www.website.com should redirect to home.

*www.website.com/profile/person should redirect to person's profile.

*www.website.com/profile/person/extra/useless/info should redirect to person's profile, as the URL should be "trimmed" after profile/person/.

*www.website.com/profile should redirect back to www.website.com which will redirect to home.

My code so far is as follows.
# my_site/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', include('my_app.urls')),
    url(r'^profile/', include('my_app.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]

Part 2:
# my_app/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.http import HttpResponse

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
   url(r'^(?P<username>[\w-]*)/$', views.profile, name='profile'),
   url(r'^(?P<username>[^\w-])/$', views.profile, name='profile'), # still link to the profile
   url(r'^$', views.home, name="home"),
]

With this code, when the user enters www.mysite.com/profile, the user is redirected to the home page, but the address bar still reads www.mysite.com/profile, which I do not want. I want it to read www.mysite.com. Also, the 3rd rule in the rule list I gave above is not obeyed. I was thinking of having a URL "cleaning" function, which trims unwanted parts of the URL, but I have no idea how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.

A: To get the path in the browser to change you need to use an actual http redirect, not just a fallback in Django url matching.
# my_site/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', include('my_app.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]

# my_app/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
   url(r'^profile/(?P<username>[^/]+)/$', views.profile, name='profile'),
   url(r'^profile/(?P<username>[^/]+)/(.*)?', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='profile')),
   url(r'^profile/$', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='home')),
   url(r'^$', views.profile, name="home"),
]

to explain:

*

*^profile/(?P<username>[^/]+)/$ matches mysite.com/profile/my-user-name/ with no junk at the end

*'^profile/(?P<username>[^/]+)/(.*)?' matches the case with junk at the end (after a valid username and /) ...you want to require the slash before looking for junk portion otherwise if you have two users john and johnsmith you would always match johnsmith in url as the john user (treating the smith as extra junk). We then do a real http redirect to the canonical profile url

*'^profile/$' matches just mysite.com/profile/ and does a real http redirect to home page

for more about redirecting see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15706497/202168
also of course the docs:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/class-based-views/base/#redirectview
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/http/shortcuts/#redirect


I don't know why but Desert Queen Baths just draws me back every time. I found myself once again sitting beside the still waters of 3 Goannas Pool at 4.00 p.m. scotch in hand enjoying the warmth and changing hues of the red rocky walls. The tranquility was enhanced by being the only people here, a pleasant surprise after last year. It's a warm night as I sit here at 7.30, the inclemency of past days weather a distant memory.
Rocky Ramparts emerging from the sand.
I had a lousy nights sleep, the exertions of the day taking their toll on the old war wounds. It's not often I have to down a tablet with breakfast but even they barely took the edge off it this morning. Sunrise bought a spectacular tinge of pink to the clouds remaining in the north eastern sky. Breakfast was a simple affair of yoghurt, fruit and tea, packing away at a leisurely pace and then started the hike to the east in search of the Hanging Rock Native Well.
The co-ordinates from the Natmap 250K maps for the Rudall area gave an 'approximate' position for the well as being some 770 metres to our east, our walk taking us immediately into thickets of acacia and spinifex. Fortunately this gave way to more open country of gums and wattle in relatively short order. The land here slopes downwards to the east and exhibited a firm surface that showed obvious pooling of water at various stages.
We could find nothing resembling the well or soak so began a search pattern outwards eventually reaching the large dune that ran east and climbed to meet the face of the surrounding range. It was from this monstrous hill of sand that the range seemed to emerge like the ramparts of a lost city.
The climb to the top in the soft sand had the calves burning but the views to the north and east were spectacular and well worth the effort. The colours were incredible. Reds, greens and then the blue and purples blending as you peered across the distance. I could make out the outline of the Three Sisters Hills far to the north east. To the west and south, the ragged edge of the range ran in a semi circle to the south and then curved around to the south west forming a bowl with Hanging Rock sitting in the middle. We were able to clearly identify the different varieties of flora forming bands across the floor but nothing seemed to indicate an obvious spring or soak.
The Eco-Billy puffing away for morning tea at Curran Curran.
Reluctantly we climbed down to the floor of the valley, following the tracks of wandering animals, camel and dingo being the most prevalent.
Roo and Dingo prints all to clearly pointing the direction to water.
Our search continued more to the south and as luck would have it, we located a depression in the ground that appeared to have held water. It was certainly a meter of so lower than the surrounding countryside and was presided over by the skeletal remains of a long dead gum. Kicking away some of the top soil down to a depth of 15 cm or so revealed dark, damp earth and I have no doubt that had we bought the shovel, a good dig would have yielded results. The site is about 250 metres south of the approximate position given on the map so it is well within the bounds of possibility. We'll chalk that one up as "found".
On return to Hanging Rock at 9.00 a.m., we took a few more photos, the reds of the rock a lot brighter now the skies were clear. Then it was all aboard and off towards our double river crossing and Curran Curran water hole.
The track was still distinctive and as loose as I remember it from previous occasions. The tracks left by my ill-fated attempt to drive along the sandy course some two years ago were still visible indicating that no water had flowed here since that time. Into the crazy, jumbled dunes we headed. It was great driving and Al's first real experience of tightly packed dunes and sand driving. The 20 kilometres sped by and we were soon onto the open plains heading towards the three sisters veering south east and striking the range and and jagged cleft that holds Curran Curran. The area is still recovering from the bushfires of the past years, the lack of rain making for for a slow recovery. Many of the newly burnt shrubs and trees that were such a nuisance two years previously are now falling over their root systems no longer supporting them forcing us to stop several times to clear the track.
The quartz and ironstone country south of Tjarra.
still present inn the gorge and on negotiating the short distance, we found a small scummy pool of green water in the bottom corner of the rock hole. It will soon be gone if the rains don't materialise. Cuppa and biscuits taken, we were on the road again near 11:00 a.m. and made our way through the rocky ranges towards Tjarra Pool. I'd forgotten just how nice this drive is as you heads east, paralleling the ranges. They are only small but rugged and impressive in their own right. It's always such an interesting scenario when rocky ranges and sand dunes intermingle, the sand swallowing the rocks only to relinquish their hold in other places. I took the flick turn at the tri-peaked "Saw Tooth" Ridge and had stopped atop a quartz rise a little to the south to take in the view and a few photos when I heard my name being called across the UHF. Peter and Sandy were sitting atop a similar quartz mound about 10 km away so we arranged to meet at Tjarra Pool.
Taking the rocky, quartz laden track in our stride (and frightening a mob of camels on the way), we arriving at Tjarra Pool to find it stunningly empty! I was dumbstruck! The beautiful pool where I had camped the past three years was now bone dry!
The rocks I had stood on to collect water only this time last year were now over a metre above a sandy floor. A confronting example of the ephemeral nature of existence in the desert environment. Peter and sandy arrived in due course and we sat down to lunch discussing the events of the past week over a bite to eat. It seems they endured the worst of the weather at DQB where it blew a gale for the past three days. They are heading south west to Newman. We on the other hand are headed from Tjarra to the main road north and then in to DQB. We saw two mobs of camels on the way in which is about standard for the route. The land seems to be making a slow recovery from the disastrous fires with a lot of the gums now shooting and the soft green fronds of spinifex making its way back.
The area within 5 km of DQB is still devastated though. It's barren and rocky with only the bush tomato's appearing to have a hold in the gullies.
The gums at the DQB camp area have sprouted and are providing welcome shade. We were thrilled to find ourselves the only vehicle here on our arrival at 3:00 p.m. and crossed our fingers that it would remain that way. A quick scavenging exercise for firewood and then it was down to enjoy the dying light of the day at the Goanna Pool.The Pool level had dropped a good 30 cm since last year and over a metre since my first visit in 2006. The waters are dark and still and formed a perfect mirror reflecting the surrounding cliffs in the dying light of day. I reckon the water is actually darker, possibly the tannin's becoming more concentrated as the water levels diminish. Still good for showering in though.
A shower and then dinner of steak and veg followed by pudding, custard and cream. A big carb load for tomorrows hike. A magnificent day in all.
A great way to end a magnificent day.


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Sports Scholarships USA (SSUSA), a Swiss-registered agency. Its representative office in Croatia is located adjacent to the American School in Zagreb. We are seeking student-athletes who would like to study in the United States.
The registration period opens in November and closes in March, but SSUSA student-athletes have already found six athletic scholarships, and by the closing of registration for study in the US, we are planning to send about 30 others from Croatia and the region.
Maja Šaša, who has a Master's Degree in Kinesiology and is the recruiting manager for SSUSA, herself went through the US educational system. "SSUSA has had excellent experience with young athletes from this area and they are frequently among the best students at their universities. Because of their notable athletic and academic results, we have acquired a reputation and the trust of American coaches in all three student-athlete associations, the NCAA, the NAIA, and the NJCAA," Šaša said.
During the preparation process and the search for the most suitable conditions for our student-athletes, SSUSA closely cooperates with experts from Croatia and the region so that our athletes are presented to US college coaches in the best possible way. This approach makes it possible for young athletes to contact their future coaches in the simplest, quickest, and most transparent way possible and to obtain a free education at a US university.
SSUSA offers assistance in obtaining scholarships in about 20 sports, with most US coaches seeking athletes in track and field, tennis, volleyball, and basketball. "We promote the achievements of our athletes with potential coaches in a variety of sports. We are engaged in the entire process, from obtaining a scholarship to signing the letter of intent itself with a university," says Šaša.
If a student does not immediately obtain an opportunity at a university, they will remain in the SSUSA database. "University coaches know about our database, so depending on their needs for international athletes in a specific sport, they frequently contact us," Šaša concluded.
Registration is now underway, and all high school students, high school graduates and university students in Croatia who participate in a sport and want to study in the US can register at info@ssusa.eu.
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There are more than 4,600 institutions in the higher education system of the United States. More than 50 of them are ranked in the top 100 universities according to the Academic Rankings of World universities. More than 800,000 international students, including about 600 from Croatia, were attending US universities in the last academic year. Sports


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Q: How can I trigger an action to draw on a canvas immediately after the template loaded? I want to draw on a canvas in a template immediately after the template loaded, so I think I need a suitable hook (event) to do it but I could not find one.
I read the answer for How can I trigger an action, when a template is loaded in ember? and I tried to use "setupController" event to do it but it did not work.
template.hbs
<canvas id="lyric-editor" width="200" height="200"/>

route.js
import Ember from 'ember';
export default Ember.Route.extend({
  setupController: function() {
    var canvas = document.getElementById('lyric-editor');
    console.log(canvas:" + canvas);
    // the result is null, it means the template is not loaded at this time.
    var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    ctx.fillStyle = 'white'; // Color of the bars
    ctx.fillRect(50, 50, 40, 40);
  }

There are beforeModel method and afterModel method in the Ember.route class so I expected something like afterTempalteLoad method.
Any hints are appreciated, Thanks in advance!

A: I would create a component (by using ember g component canvas-component in the terminal) and in the component use the didInsertElement hook.
So in canvas-component (or whatever you choose to call it)
didInsertElement() {
   this._super(...arguments);

   const canvas = this.$();
   console.log(canvas:" + canvas);
}

I definitely recommend reading through the ember docs about components


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I liked the story being set in a school context. The cast wearing school uniform connected immediately with an audience of young people. The introduction set the tone really well providing the audience with some clear given boundaries. At the start they were restless to get going but I would say they were pretty well drawn to the story by scene 2. They were held by that story – because they didn't fidget and they were leaning forward in their seats. The mix of content between the scientific facts about the brain and how that manifests itself is a really good basis for a piece of educational work. It was clear all the way through that making responsible decisions is the key message here, but it was never preached. At times there were teachers moving in and out that was the only break in concentration. The young people were engaged to the level that they made quiet polite audience jeers which were totally in keeping with the narrative & characters! The length of the play and the pace was key to keeping the action flowing and the actors did well to rise above the difficult acoustics of the theatre. The presentation board with the text / app communication provided a vehicle that later one of the student participants explored for himself.
The forum dialogue was quickly taken up. Suggestions came slowly from the floor but once the first person had stood and arrived on stage surviving comfortably, others were able to bring their perspectives. More male volunteers than female and all covered themselves with credit demonstrating independent courage in doing so. The actors were particularly sensitive to their needs and quickly established their trust. It became an interesting feature that the guys were happy to take the part of a female. The ideas presented by the students were all of value and worth considering. The facilitation of such an improvised situation takes great skills and we were given a master demonstration about how to develop that role and relationship with a large audience.
The adults in the room can also be learners and "we the adults" probably could have gone further in our offers or suggestions. There's always a line about when to step in and for what reason? Teachers did not appear to see it as their role to be involved in the dialogue or discussion and that's maybe an opportunity missed.
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The Egerton family's collection of paintings is diverse, with works from the 14th through to the 20th centuries. Amongst them are works by Canaletto, Van Dyck, Chardin and Guercino. With the majority of important works on display in the Mansion's State Rooms, visitors can see at first hand the development of the collecting tastes of the Egerton family.
Commissioned from the artist by Joseph Smith for Samuel Egerton's uncle, Samuel Hill in 1730, this and the companion painting, 'The Doges Palace and Riva Degli Schiavoni, Looking East, Venice', can be seen in the Drawing Room.
Dominating the Entrance Hall, this vast painting depicts a meeting of the Cheshire Hunt in the countryside between Tarporley Church and Beeston Castle.
Three generations of Egertons are depicted: Wilbraham Egerton 1781-1856, his son William Tatton Egerton, later 1st Baron, 1806-1883, and his grandson Wilbraham Egerton, later 2nd Baron and Earl Egerton 1832-1909.
Wilbraham, Earl Egerton of Tatton, was Chairman of the Board of the Manchester Ship Canal Company from 1887 – 1894. Leader's elder brother, Sir Edward Leader Williams was its designer and chief engineer.
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Q: Increasing number of CPUs decreases performance, with cpu load constant and no communications I encountered an interesting phenomenon that I fail to explain. I haven't found an answer online, as most of the posts deal with weak scaling and thus communication overhead.
Here is a small piece of code to illustrate the problem. This was tested in different languages with similar results, hence the multiple tags.
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main() {

    MPI_Init(NULL,NULL);

    int wsize;
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &wsize);

    int wrank;
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &wrank);

    clock_t t;

    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);

    t=clock();

    int imax = 10000000;
    int jmax = 1000;
    for (int i=0; i<imax; i++) {
        for (int j=0; j<jmax; j++) {
            //nothing
        }
    }

    t=clock()-t;

    printf( " proc %d took %f seconds.\n", wrank,(float)t/CLOCKS_PER_SEC );

    MPI_Finalize();

    return 0;

}

Now as you can see, the only part that is timed here is the loop. Therefore, with similar CPUs, no hyperthreading, and sufficient RAM, increasing the number of CPUs should produce exactly the same time.
However, on my machine which is 32 cores with 15GiB RAM,
mpirun -np 1 ./test

gives
 proc 0 took 22.262777 seconds.

but
mpirun -np 20 ./test

gives
 proc 18 took 24.440767 seconds.
 proc 0 took 24.454365 seconds.
 proc 4 took 24.461191 seconds.
 proc 15 took 24.467632 seconds.
 proc 14 took 24.469728 seconds.
 proc 7 took 24.469809 seconds.
 proc 5 took 24.461639 seconds.
 proc 11 took 24.484224 seconds.
 proc 9 took 24.491638 seconds.
 proc 2 took 24.484953 seconds.
 proc 17 took 24.490984 seconds.
 proc 16 took 24.502146 seconds.
 proc 3 took 24.513380 seconds.
 proc 1 took 24.541555 seconds.
 proc 8 took 24.539808 seconds.
 proc 13 took 24.540005 seconds.
 proc 12 took 24.556068 seconds.
 proc 10 took 24.528328 seconds.
 proc 19 took 24.585297 seconds.
 proc 6 took 24.611254 seconds.

and values ranging in between for varying numbers of CPUs.
htop also shows an increase in RAM consumption (VIRT is ~100M for 1 core, and ~300M for 20). Although that might be related to the size of the mpi communicator?
Finally, it is definitely related to the size of the problem (and thus  not a communication overhead causing a constant delay regardless of the size of the loop ). Indeed, decreasing imax to say 10 000 makes the walltimes similar.
1 core :
 proc 0 took 0.028439 seconds.

20 cores :
 proc 1 took 0.027880 seconds.
 proc 12 took 0.027880 seconds.
 proc 8 took 0.028024 seconds.
 proc 16 took 0.028135 seconds.
 proc 17 took 0.028094 seconds.
 proc 19 took 0.028098 seconds.
 proc 7 took 0.028265 seconds.
 proc 9 took 0.028051 seconds.
 proc 13 took 0.028259 seconds.
 proc 18 took 0.028274 seconds.
 proc 5 took 0.028087 seconds.
 proc 6 took 0.028032 seconds.
 proc 14 took 0.028385 seconds.
 proc 15 took 0.028429 seconds.
 proc 0 took 0.028379 seconds.
 proc 2 took 0.028367 seconds.
 proc 3 took 0.028291 seconds.
 proc 4 took 0.028419 seconds.
 proc 10 took 0.028419 seconds.
 proc 11 took 0.028404 seconds.

It's been tried on several machines with similar results.
Maybe we're missing something very simple.
Thanks for the help !

A: processor with turbo frequencies bound by temperature.
Modern processors are limited by thermal design power (TDP). Whenever the processor is cold, single cores may speed up to the turbo frequency multipliers. When hot, or multiple non-idling cores, the cores are slowed down to the guaranteed base speed. Difference between base and turbo speeds are often around 400MHz. AVX or FMA3 may slowdown even below base speed.


This clock is known as an Ansonia Porcelain Crystal Regulator No. 3 Mantle Clock. This piece is different than many other clocks. This clock is made of porcelain and wood as well as glass, where many other clocks are made of some type of wood or porcelain. Most clocks do not have a mixture of porcelain and wood. This clock was recently not used for the past forty years; however, the clock has been wiped of the dust and has since been started by moving the pendulum.
The clock after being idle for forty years has been keeping constant accurate time since December 16, 2017. The clock even still chimes on the hour. Not only does the clock appear to be in working condition there seems to be no visible chips or cracks in the clock or any crazing in the porcelain. The clock appears to be in perfect condition. This Porcelain Crystal Mantle Clock is a decent sized clock, not too big, not too small. It has a width of nine inches, a depth of eight inches, and a height of seventeen and a half inches.
This clock has many details that make it so unique. The clock itself has pieces of porcelain and wood along with glass. The face of the clock or the dial really makes the rest of the clock pop. It is white with black letters and hands accented with a beautiful gold color. The pendulum as well as the outside of the clock is accented with a beautiful gold. The gold really accents the beautiful angelic green that is applied to the border of this clock.
The porcelain portion of the clock includes intricate detailed paintings that are beautifully hand painted. This would include painting of an angel with grapes and vines surrounding the whole clock. This beautiful painting is on a baby blue backdrop making it appears angelic. This clock adds an angelic feel to the room where it is placed. It adds a sense of peace and serenity with its angelic features.


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