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Code Talkers
American Code-Talkers Help Defeat the Axis
The 2002 Hollywood film "Windtalkers" publicized the efforts of the Navajo code talkers. The term most often refers to bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. But there is a lot of history behind this area of communication.
"Code talkers" was a term used to describe people who transmit secret messages using a coded language. Code talkers transmitted these messages over ordinary military telephone or radio communications nets using formal or informally developed codes built upon their native languages. This enabled them to bypass fancy encryption machines such as the German "Enigma" machine. Students of the war know that the deciphering of German Enigma machine messages was a basic reason why the Allies won World War II.
Code Talkers were necessary for several reasons. The American military by 1942 had experienced little success with encoding messages. Military experts knew that Japanese cryptographers could crack any standard code. The problem was, the military never would know when that happened, so sending coded messages that were being deciphered by the enemy could backfire badly at the very worst time. Simply speaking normally "in the clear" was impossible because the Japanese were proficient at intercepting short-distance communications, on walkie-talkies for example, and then having well-trained English-speaking soldiers either sabotage the message or send out false commands to set up an ambush. Any other form of communication, such as messengers or elaborate coding machines, was too slow. A secure way to communicate over standard radios and telephones had to be found before the Generals could commit troops to combat.
Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston, a World War I veteran and civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles, proposed the use of Navajo to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of the war. He had been raised on the Navajo reservation as the son of a missionary to the Navajos, and was one of the few non-Navajos who spoke their language fluently.
Early in 1942, Johnston met with Major General Clayton B. Vogel, the commanding general of Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet. Johnston staged tests under simulated combat conditions which demonstrated that Navajos could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line English message in 20 seconds, versus the 30 minutes required by machines at that time. This meant that orders could be passed on in "real time," a tremendous advantage under fluid battle conditions.
Vogel passed on his recommendation that the Marines recruit 200 Navajos. The first 29 Navajo recruits attended boot camp in May 1942.
Navajo Code Talker Joe Morris Sr
The rest is history. The Navajo code talkers were commended for their skill, speed and accuracy throughout the war. At the Battle of Iwo Jima, Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division signal officer, had six Navajo code talkers working around the clock during the first two days of the battle. These six sent and received over 800 messages, all without error. "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima," Connor said. Being able to send in messages "in the clear" without elaborate encryption was a huge time-saver in those days.
The Navajo Code Talkers created an unbreakable code from the ancient language of their people and changed the course of modern history. They were young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of World War II. At a time when America's best cryptographers were falling short, these modest sheepherders and farmers were able to fashion the most ingenious and successful code in military history.
The 29 original Navajo Code Talkers.
Above are Navajo Code Talkers in Maui, 1945.
Undated photo of Chester Nez
Chester Nez was one of the 29 original WWII Code Talkers who developed a code based on the Navajo language - the only code the Japanese never cracked. He finally publicized his autobiography at the age of 90. Mr. Nez was the last of 29 Navajo who were enlisted as code talkers in the Marines during World War II. He passed away on June 4, 2014 at the age of 93.
John Sells
Many people who had relatives that served in the war know that former soldiers of that generation did not talk much about their experiences. When they decided to open up, which was rare, it was a treat. John Sells (1915 - 2007) was one such Navajo Code Talker. Nearly 60 years passed between the time John Sells, of Shiprock, served as a Navajo Code Talker and the day he told his family he was one of the select group. Imagine hearing that for the first time.
Navajo code talkers in the American-held Solomon Islands.
The Navajo are justly proud of their heroic code-talking fighters.
Other Code Talkers
While they performed great service during the war, the Navajo were not the only code talkers during World War II. Comanche, for instance, was used in the European theater to great effect.
Comanche Code Talkers
While the Navajo were used in the Pacific Theater of Operations, other code talkers were used in the European Theater of Operations. Fourteen Comanche code talkers took part in the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day, June 6, 1944), and continued to serve in the 4th Infantry Division as it wheeled across France and Germany during further European operations.
Comanches of the 4th Signal Company compiled a vocabulary of over 100 code terms using words or phrases in their own language. Using a substitution method similar to the Navajo, the Comanche code word for tank was "turtle", bomber was "pregnant airplane", machine gun was "sewing machine" and Adolf Hitler became "crazy white man." It all made sense if you knew the language - but the Germans didn't know the language.
The Comanche Code Talkers were an elite group of young men who were fluent in the Comanche language and used that knowledge, along with the training they were given by the Army, to send critical messages that confused the enemy during World War II. Seventeen young men were trained in communications, but only fourteen were deployed to the European theater. Serving overseas were Roderick "Dick" Red Elk, Simmons Parker, Larry Saupitty, Melvin Permansu, Willie Yackeschi, Charles Chibitty, Willington Mihecoby, Morris Sunrise, Perry Noyebad, Haddon Codynah, Robert Holder, Clifford Otitivo, Forrest Kassanavoid and Elgin Red Elk. They were recruited from Cache, Cement, Cyril, Fletcher, Indiahoma, Lawton and Walters. Albert Nahquaddy, Anthony Tabbytite and Ralph Wahnee, who trained for the same role, did not serve overseas.
Two Comanche code-talkers were assigned to each regiment, the rest to 4th Infantry Division headquarters. Shortly after landing on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, the Comanches began transmitting messages. Some were wounded but none were killed.
Choctaw Code Talkers
In the picture above, the Choctaw Codetalkers: Native Americans Solomon Lewis, Mitchell Bobb, Ben Carterby, Robert Taylor, Jeff Nelson, Pete Maytubby, James Edwards, Calvin Wilson, Solomon Lewis.
During World War I, company commander Captain Lawrence of the U. S. Army overheard Solomon Louis and Mitchell Bobb conversing in the Choctaw language. He found eight Choctaw men in the battalion. Eventually, fourteen Choctaw men in the Army's 36th Infantry Division trained to use their language in code. They helped the American Expeditionary Force win several key battles in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign in France, during the final big German push of the war. Within 24 hours after the Choctaw language was pressed into service, the tide of the battle had turned. In less than 72 hours the Germans were retreating and the Allies were in full attack.
Adolf Hitler, a veteran of World War I, knew about the successful use of Choctaw code talkers during that conflict. Before the Second World War, he sent a team of some thirty anthropologists to learn Native American languages. However, it was too big a task, and his experts were unable to learn the many languages and dialects that existed. The effort did pay off, though: because of the anthropologists' attempts to learn the languages, the U.S. Army did not implement a large-scale code talker program in the European Theater. But other people remembered, too, and the Americans revived the idea during World War II.
Other Native Americans served as code talkers and in other roles in the US military as well. Above is Seminole Code Talker Tony Palmer, a highly decorated WWII Veteran from Seminole County, Oklahoma
Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony
On November 20, 2013, Congress held a special ceremony to honor the Native American code talkers.
For decades, the wartime service of 96-year-old Edmond Harjo and other American Indian "code talkers" was something that wasn't officially acknowledged or publicly recognized. Yes, it was known to those who cared to investigate a bit ever since the war - it wasn't a state secret or anything - but it was not widely disseminated. Several code talkers received Congressional Medals of Honor and other awards, but the effort as a whole was not properly recognized.
But on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, Harjo sat in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall enjoying an enthusiastic standing ovation from hundreds of people. House Speaker John Boehner gave the introduction.
Twenty-five Native American tribes received Congressional Gold Medals for the service of their citizens during World War II. Most of the original code talkers are gone, so members of their tribes received the medals on their and their tribe's behalf.
Code Talker Edmond Harjo of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Elleia Chapella, widow of a code talker of the Hopi tribe of Polacca, Arizona. Her husband, Frank, whose picture is on her chest, served in Europe. He passed away in 1984 at age 75
Members of the Comanche Nation in Oklahoma
Kenneth Ryan of the Fort Beck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Montana, with his tribe's gold medal
Members of the Hopi Tribe of Polacca, Arizona and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin
Wallace Coffey, Chief of the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma, with his tribe's gold medal
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Q: Airflow task not retrying properly upon failure I created an Airflow task with a retry count and it doesn't seem to actually retry when running my airflow test.
def verify_pod_initialization(deployments):
   raise ValueError("test")

verify_deployments = PythonOperator(
    task_id='verify_pod_initialization',
    retries=5,
    python_callable=verify_pod_initialization,
    op_kwargs={'deployments': {'etl-pipeline': 3}},
    dag=dag

I'm testing via: airflow test hello_world verify_pod_initialization 2015-06-01.
Everything runs fine, but I'm hoping to prove to myself that running the test, I can see it run X times -> fail, then later, pass. Currently, it runs once. Just wondering best practices and also how I can get it to actually retry if it fails. Is ValueError not what I want?
I've ripped out the business logic from my task to ease my explanation.

A: The short answer is that this is exactly how you define retries. When you get Airflow up and running with its scheduler component, this will work exactly as you expect.

Airflow essentially builds models that define how to execute compute tasks, but in production it uses the scheduler to add and evaluate data to make sure those compute tasks are run at the right time. As a consequence, some of the models and features work specifically for pieces inside its own architecture.
First, Airflow has its CLI which will allow you to use a command to run a specified compute task. This is the result of your command. It essentially finds the right compute task, generates a task instance with the date value you pass to it and executes it.
However, on top of the CLI, Airflow has a system component called a scheduler. The scheduler uses the underlying data models to essentially calculate and determine which compute task has met its dependencies and requires a run.
In that context, the scheduler repeatedly scans your DAGs to see if there are Tasks that  have  all of their dependencies met. If they have, it generates a Task Instance with retries=0. An executor performs the compute. The executor takes the information from trying to execute the task and updates the model or backend database. If it failed it also gives the status field a failed status. The next time the scheduler reads the database it will see a failed task, it will then compare the retries value against the configured retries. If it deduces that it is allow to retry again retries < max_retries-1 and the state is failed, it will change its state, add 1 to retries, and pass the instruction to the executor.
Alternatively, if retries == max_retries - 1 the scheduler will set the status of the Task to failed, notify that the task has failed, and not retry the task.

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Busy diplomatic schedule continues for Erdoğan in New York
ANKARA Diplomacy
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with various world leaders on the sidelines of the 73rd U.N. General Assembly ahead of the general meeting on Monday.
Erdoğan is visiting New York to attend the assembly, which is hosting more than 140 states and their heads of government this week between Sept. 23 and 26.
Accordingly, on Monday, Erdoğan held closed-door talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) Foreign Minister Kudret Özersay, and the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.
While Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca and Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank accompanied Erdoğan in his meeting with Abe; Çavuşoğlu, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, and the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, Hakan Fidan, were also present at the meeting with Rouhani.
On Monday, Erdoğan held talks with Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel in New York. Speaking to a Belgian newspaper, Michel underlined that he and Erdoğan exchanged views on numerous issues, including Turkey's geopolitical role in Syria, the fight against terrorism, refugees, Turkey's relations with the European Union, the U.S. and Russia in "an open and sincere" environment.
Touching on the fact that meetings between ministers of the two countries halted following the failed coup attempt in Turkey, Michel said: "We've decided to revive our relatively slowed-down relations with Turkey. We plan to hold meetings between our security units soon." Michel also added that the future of EU-Turkey relations was comprehensively discussed, and both countries were on the same page to maintain cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
As part of his meetings in New York, Erdoğan was also expected to hold bilateral talks with the leaders of Greece, Mozambique, Slovenia and Venezuela.

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Los Arándanos is a wonderful restaurant in the Asturian countryside near Taramundi. It is about a half hours drive from the self catering accommodation at Granero del burro. If you like remote restaurants with fantastic views then this is the place to go. From Taramundi take the road to Teixois, and then take a right up the hill before you get to Teixois. Climb up the hill for several kilometres and then take a left up a track to the top of the hill. The restaurant is as high as you can go! Click here for directions.
Los Arándanos means 'Blueberry' and as the name suggests the restaurant focuses very much on this. They have 10,000 square metres of land in which they grow five different varieties of Blueberry. They also manufacture their own products from Blueberry juice to jams and pickles.
The food is fantastic and needs to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Click here to read a review of the meal experienced a few weeks ago.
Los Arándanos is closed from the middle of December until Easter but will open for large parties.


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The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters
Thu, 07/07/2016 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Host Ken Jones talks with Grant Bywaters about his debut mystery novel The Red Storm.
The Red Storm won the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition, and tells the story of a black heavyweight boxer turned private investigator in 1930's New Orleans. The New York Journal of Books said the book "has Hammett-esque qualities mixing with Elmore Leonard smart-talking bad guys with bad-ass attitudes, guns, and punch-power knockouts." How can you not want to read a book like that?
And to top it off, we just learned that The Red Storm was nominated for a Private Eye Writers of America 2016 Shamus Award, in the category of Best First Private Eye Novel.
Grant is a local author, currently finishing his degree in Psychology at Portland State University. Before that, he worked as a licensed private investigator. Tune in to find out how Grant draws on that experience, his love of boxing, and a ton of research to create a unique fictional detective and a spellbinding story.
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Pride and Prejudice Bibliography
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Tag: Jonathan Franzen
As You Like It: Rules for Writing
Back in February 2010, the Guardian posted an article titled "Ten rules for writing fiction." Celebrated authors had been invited to submit ten of their writing rules. But rules often break down under pressure, we might find writers breaking their own, or the examples held up for adulation contain so many exceptions that the rule is nullified early in the game. Take Jonathan Franzen's rule regarding using then as a conjunction, for example.
Franzen gets pretty worked up about it. Over at the FS&G "Work in Progress" blog, he expounds on his "Comma-Then" rule. Basically, Franzen frowns on the use of then to connect, particularly when the intent is to avoid using and. Fine, I thought, but unmoved, as usual, by this kind of nitpicking, then thought to check his examples.
Franzen explains why he dislikes "comma-then," and cites Dickens and the Brontes in support. Is it a rule? Should it be? The OED gives this example of the use of then as a conjunction: "The president spoke and spoke well, then sat down." The OED example would appear to violate Franzen's rule. But Franzen didn't say the "comma-then" construction was ungrammatical. His argument is stylistic and idiosyncratic. But he cited Dickens and the Brontes as examples of writers who avoided "comma-then." So l took a look at some Dickens and two of the Brontes, but what I found does not seem to support Franzen's argument:
From Dickens's "David Copperfield":
"Uriah threw the ball to Mrs. Heep, Mrs. Heep caught it and threw it back to Uriah, Uriah kept it up a little while, then sent it back to Mrs. Heep, and so they went on tossing it about until I had no idea who had got it, and was quite bewildered."
"But I looked so serious, that Dora left off shaking her curls, and laid her trembling little hand upon my shoulder, and first looked scared and anxious, then began to cry."
From Dickens's "Bleak House":
"Jo searches the floor for some time longer, then looks up for a moment, and then down again."
"My Lady turns her head inward for the moment, then looks out again as before."
From Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights":
"I listened doubtingly an instant; detected the disturber, then turned and dozed, and dreamt again."
"Pausing in her lamentations, she surveyed him with a glance of awe and horror, then burst forth anew."
"He took the book from his hand, and glanced at the open page, then returned it without any observation."
"He laid them on the table, looked eagerly towards the window, then rose and went out."
From Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre":
"I walked to the window, across the room, then close up to her."
"I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round."
"Half-an-hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed."
"He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence."
Not all of the rules in the Guardian article mentioned above are about the mechanics of writing. Some of the rules are about the behavior of the writer, rules to improve productivity or efficiency. The Guardian list opens with Elmore Leonard, whose first rule speaks to writing strategy: Don't open with the weather, Leonard says. But that's exactly how Jonathan Franzen begins his novel, "The Corrections," his first paragraph reminding me of the opening to Dickens's "Bleak House," bad weather and sentence fragments. Dickens opens with "Implacable November weather…Fog everywhere," Franzen with "an autumn prairie cold front…Gust after gust of disorder."
Implacable, too, the rules of writing. Speaking of fog, rules for writing often fog the glasses of our desire, streak the windows of our prose, our fingers go blind, then despondency.
The Seven Ages of the Writer Amid Rules
Maybe the rules of writing are like Shakespeare's seven ages of man, found in the play "As You Like It." In the first stage (of a modified Shakespeare, the seven ages of the writer), the writer is an infant, and there are no rules. In the second stage, the infant grows into grammar school, fidgeting against the rules. The third stage, he's in love with the rules, whatever he determines them to be. Then a soldier of rules, the professor, or the professional writer looking for an easy gig between novels. Then wisdom sets in for a spell. Then his time passes, and a new generation of writers watches him slip on the banana peels of his rules. And in the end, "mere oblivion" is the rule, "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
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Paul the follower of Jesus Christ and not of the customs of religions have defended himself against his false accusers and while doing that he also shared the Hope that is in Christ Jesus to King Agrippa and to all the people that were in the hearing.
Which King Agrippa having heard almost believed but because of his hardened heart, ignored the only Hope he can receive to save his soul from the burning hell.
Acts 26:13-19, 22-23, 27-28 KJV* At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.  And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:  That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.  Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.


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Q: Как сохранить EventListener при обновлении страницы? Есть кнопка, которая динамически создает кнопки, добавляет к существующему диву, вешает на них EventListener, и сохраняет все в localStorage.
При создании все работает как нужно, созданные кнопки реагируют на нажатие, но если обновить страницу, их прослушиватель пропадает.
Как можно сохранить на них прослушиватель после обновления страницы?
Прописать onclick непосредственно в сам шаблон тега работает замечательно, но все же интересна альтернатива.
*Такая форма создания кнопки связана с тем, что в моем учебном проекте таким образом создается сразу древо тегов.

  <button class="buttonCreate">Create</button>

A: Альтернатива - вешать обработчик события на

. В localStorage можно сохранить только строки.


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Q: Smartwatch 2 Vertical Scroll Layout in Gallery View i'm developing a smartwatch2 extension and using gallery view in my layout, how can i enable vertical scroll in gallery view item ? I want to add content more than SW2 heigt and user will scroll through bottom. Also will be able to swipe left and rigth in gallery view.
Left and right swipes are OK in gallery view, but could not enable a scroll view in a gallery view item. How can user scroll in gallery view, thanks for ideas / layout sample.
Edit : I just want to a view that can be scrolled vertically. This can be done in listView for Smart Watch. But I need it in a sample layout not using a listView.
Thanks.

A: You should show (send from the phone to the smartwatch) only the extract of the image, that should currently be visible. Then manually catch swipe-up/down events and update the visible part of the image manually (by sending another image from the phone to the smartwatch).


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Ontario Snowmobiling Offers Many Unique People & Places
Story by Craig Nicholson, The Intrepid Snowmobiler Photos by Craig Nicholson Jan. 24, 2011
Friendly and knowledgeable people make all the difference
Ontario snowmobiling offers many destinations that are memorable for their unique products, outstanding locations, special people, or all three. For example, what do you think of making a reservation for snowmobiling? Thousands of riders do each winter when they book a space on the trails of the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve.
This unique 60,000 acres of wilderness is the only wholly privately owned snowmobiling operation in the world. Rated by Supertrax Magazine as one of the top-10 snowmobiling destinations in North America, Haliburton Forest attractions include snowmobiling on 300 kilometres (198 miles) of groomed trails, plus numerous events (such as a Snowarama or poker run), snowshoeing excursions, and dog sled rides. In its famous Wolf Centre, the wild pack roams freely in a 15-acre enclosure and interpretative exhibits tell their story.
The Haliburton Forest's self-contained setting is ideal for families, new riders and those who want to go snowmobiling in the relative security of a controlled location. It offers house keeping accommodations, the Cookhouse restaurant, fuel, sled rentals and lots of parking.
Located at the top of the Algonquin Dome where exceptional snow conditions abound, the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve offers snowmobilers an exceptional value proposition. To guarantee a great snowmobiling experience, admittance to their trails is limited to 100 daily users with prior reservations at a fee of $44 + $10 for a passenger (Valid 8 AM to midnight, when the trail close for grooming). Seasonal trail passes with no access restrictions are available for $350. In return, all of these riders get consistently superior trails, thanks to the Forest's fleet of groomers, aided by North America's only mobile snowmaking equipment.
Special people can also make your ride experience memorable. For instance, there's George Robbins, proprietor of Sportsman's Lodge Wilderness Resort near Sudbury in OFSC District 12. George is one of those hosts who goes out of his way to make your stay more than first rate. An avid snowmobiler, he talks the talk and knows everything about the best trails to ride and places to see. Not only are George and his family famous for their hospitality, the home cooking is to-die-for and the property itself oozes character with the rustic charm of its pine buildings and a 4-story tower that's the tallest pine structure in Ontario. With ample parking and fuel on site, George and the Sportsman's Lodge Wilderness Resort, located at the junction on OFSC TOP (Trans Ontario Provincial) C105 and C106D, are one of Ontario's many snowmobiling gems. Be sure to visit Wolf Mountain and take a ride along the stake line of the mighty Wanapitei Lake.
Another popular family operation is Pleasant Cove Resort near Point Au Baril Station in OFSC District 10, where the "trail boss" is Bruce Bishop. Known as "snowmobilers hosting snowmobilers" the Bishop family provides a premium resort experience on the shore of Georgian Bay, with a choice of deluxe and ultra deluxe housekeeping cottage chalets that boast all the comforts of home. Other services and amenities are readily available in nearby Pointe au Baril.
Beside its inimitable owner, one of the features that make Pleasant Cove special is its Adventure Package, which includes use of a 2-up new sled, trail permit and helmets, and lodgings for two for two nights. This is a great way for a family or group of friends, who may not have enough sleds of their own available, to enjoy a great winter getaway together and socialize après-sledding in their own private space.
What's more, there's no better person than avid rider Bruce Bishop to provide advice and guidance on where to ride and what to see in the region. To the north, be sure to check out the incredible Pickerel and French River bridges, while southward, you can tour around Parry Sound and loop east to Dunchurch and Ardbeg. There are plenty of TOP and club trails to ride and Bruce knows them all.
In Eastern Ontario and OFSC District 6, Spectacle Lake Lodge near Barry's Bay has a reputation for succulent cuisine and warm hospitality. The founding member and prime staging destination of the famous RAP (Round Algonquin Park), Spectacle Lake is located on club trail 159, just south of TOP B, between Madawaska and Barry's Bay. For the past two seasons, the Carter family – Norm and Leslie, with son Chris – have been your snowmobile-friendly hosts. New to the area, they jumped right in to give something back to snowmobiling by volunteering for the Opeongo Snowbirds Snowmobile Club in OFSC District 6. The Carters provide accommodations in a mix of lodge rooms and cottages, with a restaurant/lounge in the main building, on site fuel and ample parking. From Spectacle Lake, you can ride loops to the east and west or stage for your RAP tour.
Those highlighted here are just a few examples of the many people and places snowmobilers will discover among unforgettable experiences while riding in Ontario. Check it out for yourself this winter.
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WILMINGTON, MA — At a recent School Committee Meeting, Shawsheen Elementary School Principal Lisa King announced the installation of a "Buddy Bench" at her school.
Students utilize the bench during recess when they are having difficulty finding a friend or group to play with. If a child is seen sitting alone on the bench, classmates are trained to approach the child and ask him or her to play.
King introduced the three students — Julianna, Liam and Craig — who wrote letters to the school's guidance counselor, asking for such a bench. The students read their letters to the School Committee.
"Mrs. Gibbs, out Guidance Counselor, worked all summer to make this happen," King told the Committee.
King also thanked the Wilmington Educational Foundation and the Cottini Family for funding the project, and Wilmington DPW for installing the bench.
The school's Technology Integration Specialist, Kim Provensal, worked with students to create a video highlighting the five rules surrounding the use of the bench. All students watched the video during a recent school-wide assembly.
"Thank you for sharing your letters and your video," responded School Committee Chair Julie Broussard.
A Buddy Bench was also installed at the Boutwell Early Childhood Center at the end of last school year.


Generally, a child's parents have sole authority to determine who the child does and does not spend time with. Grandparents, other relatives, stepparents, family friends, have no right to spend time with the child if the parents object. Section 767.43 provides an exception to that principle, setting out specific circumstances in which these third parties may ask a court to grant them visitation with a child over the objections of the parents.
The problematic language arises in subsection (1) of the statute: Under certain circumstances a court may grant reasonable visitation rights "upon petition by a grandparent, great grandparent, stepparent or person who has maintained a relationship similar to a parent-child relationship with the child." The issue is one of statutory interpretation: under this language, does anyone who wants visitation under this statute have to have maintained a "relationship similar to a parent-child relationship" with the child? Or is it only a person other than a "grandparent, great grandparent, or stepparent" who has to have maintained a parent-like relationship with the child in order to request visitation?
In an opinion authored by the soon-to-be-retired Justice David Prosser, the Supreme Court adopted what in our view is the only reasonable reading of the statute: "A grandparent, great grandparent, or stepparent need not prove a parent-child relationship to succeed on a petition for visitation." ¶ 22. Stating that this subsection "is not wholly unambiguous," ¶ 23, the court based its conclusion on the statutory language in context and the legislative history.
We sometimes find ourselves in disagreement with Justice Ziegler's decisions and opinions. In this case, however, her concurring opinion expresses our view exactly: "[T]he plain text of [the statute] is unambiguous. The court's further analysis of [the statute] simply confirms that the obvious interpretation of the statute is the correct one." ¶ 80.


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Commissioner Gale Hickman (Ret.) and CFLS Marc Tovstein provide a focused analysis of the cases and legislative changes that will have the biggest impact on your practice.
Commissioner Gale Hickman (Ret.) and CFLS Marc Tovstein provide a focused analysis of the cases and legislative changes that will have the biggest impact on your practice. Always an engaging and interesting program, our family law review has moved to January. Our new 90-minute format focuses on the most important family law developments of the past year.


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Q: How to efficiently manage files on a filesystem in Java? I am creating a few JAX-WS endpoints, for which I want to save the received and sent messages for later inspection.  To do this, I am planning to save the messages (XML files) into filesystem, in some sensible hierarchy.  There will be hundreds, even thousands of files per day.  I also need to store metadata for each file.
I am considering to put the metadata (just a couple of fields) into database table, but the XML file content itself into files in a filesystem in order not to bloat the database with content data (that is seldomly read).
Is there some simple library that helps me in saving, loading, deleting etc. the files?  It's not that tricky to implement it myself, but I wonder if there are existing solutions?  Just a simple library that already provides easy access to filesystem (preferrably over different operating systems).
Or do I even need that, should I just go with raw/custom Java?

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Is there some simple library that
  helps me in saving, loading, deleting
  etc. the files? It's not that tricky
  to implement it myself, but I wonder
  if there are existing solutions? Just
  a simple library that already provides
  easy access to filesystem (preferrably
  over different operating systems).

Java API
Well, if what you need to do is really simple, you should be able to achieve your goal with java.io.File (delete, check existence, read, write, etc.) and a few stream manipulations with FileInputStream and FileOutputStream.
You can also throw in Apache commons-io and its handy FileUtils for a few more utility functions.
Java is independent of the OS. You just need to make sure you use File.pathSeparator, or use the constructor File(File parent, String child) so that you don't need to explicitly mention the separator.
The Java file API is relatively high-level to abstract the differences of the many OS. Most of the time it's sufficient. It has some shortcomings only if you need some relatively OS-specific feature which is not in the API, e.g. check the physical size of a file on the disk (not the the logical size), security rights on *nix, free space/quota of the hard drive, etc.
Most OS have an internal buffer for file writing/reading. Using FileOutputStream.write and FileOutputStream.flush ensure the data have been sent to the OS, but not necessary written on the disk. The Java API support also this low-level integration to manage these buffering issue (example here) for system such as database.
Also both file and directory are abstracted with  File and you need to check with isDirectory. This can be confusing, for instance if you have one file x, and one directory /x (I don't remember exactly how to handle this issue, but there is a way).
Web service
The web service can use either xs:base64Binary to pass the data, or use MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) if files are large.
Transactions
Note that the database is transactional and the file system not. So you might have to add a few checks if operations fails and are re-tried.
You could go with a complicated design involving some form of distributed transaction (see this answer), or try to go with a simpler design that provides the level of robustness that you need. A possible design could be:

*

*Update. If the user wants to overwrite a file, you actually create a new one. The level of indirection between the logical file name and the physical file is stored in database. This way you never overwrite a physical file once written, to ensure rollback is consistent.

*Create. Same story when user want to create a file

*Delete. If the user want to delete a file, you do it only in database first. A periodic job polls the file system to identify files which are not listed in database, and removes them. This two-phase deletes ensures that the delete operation can be rolled back.

This is not as robust as writting BLOB in real transactional database, but provide some robustness. You could otherwise have a look at commons-transaction, but I feel like the project is dead (2007).

A: There is DataNucleus, a Java persistence provider. It is little too heavy for this case, but it supports JPA and JDO java standards with different datastores (RDBMS, object storage, XML, JSON, Excel, etc.). If the product is already using JPA or JDO, it might be worth considering using NataNucleus, as saving data into different datastores should be transparent. I suppose DataNucleus supports splitting the data into several files, creating the sensible directory/file structure I wanted (in my question), but this is just a guess.
Support for XML and JSON seems to be experimental.


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Transport Minister On Bus Service Interruptions
The Department of Public Transport has 10 bus operators out on long term sick leave and has implemented a ban on overtime, so the combination is impacting the scheduling of bus runs, Minister of Tourism Development & Transport Shawn Crockwell said today [Feb 27] in the House of Assembly.
The Minister was providing an update on the recent schedule interruptions with the public bus service, which saw some 40 runs cancelled yesterday alone.
Minister Crockwell said, "The Department of Public Transport currently has 10 bus operators who are out on long term sick leave and the service has been further impacted by operators out sick during this cold and flu season. In addition, the department has implemented a ban on overtime and the combination of these factors is impacting the scheduling of bus runs.
"For clarity there are 196 scheduled bus runs each week day until noon, and the same in the afternoon for a total of 392 bus runs per week day. Saturdays and Sundays have less bus runs. Yesterday there were 10 operators out sick in addition to the 10 that are out on long term sickness, that resulted in approximately 40 cancelled runs which equates to roughly 10% of the total runs.
"Admittedly this is not ideal but I am pleased to say that the DPT staff and bus operators are working together to ensure that the core commuter routes and services are provided to minimize the impact of disruptions to the travelling public that rely on the bus service," the Minister added.
"Representatives from the Ministry of Tourism Development and Transportation and the Bermuda Industrial Union have met with the primary objective of the meeting to collectively address the current shortage of bus-operators, due to illnesses and the impact the shortage is having on the bus service. The attendees included myself, the Permanent Secretary, the BIU President who initiated the meeting along with other senior ministry and BIU officers.
"I am pleased to report that the meeting was very productive and some very good practical solutions were presented and discussed and we are confident that this issue will be resolved soonest, as the Ministry and the BIU continue to work through this process together."
The Minister's full statement follows below:
Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to advise and update this Honorable House and members of the Public on the recent schedule interruptions with the public bus services.
Mr. Speaker, the Department of Public Transport currently has ten [10] bus operators who are out on long term sick leave and the service has been further impacted by operators out sick during this cold and flu season. In addition, the department has implemented a ban on overtime and the combination of these factors is impacting the scheduling of bus runs.
Mr. Speaker, there has been some delays of certain bus runs as well as some cancellations as a result of the current situation at the Department of Public Transportation, however, I must commend the DPT staff and especially the bus operators for performing very well under these circumstances. The department has worked diligently to keep service disruptions to a minimum.
Mr. Speaker, admittedly this is not ideal but I am pleased to say that the DPT staff and bus operators are working together to ensure that the core commuter routes and services are provided to minimize the impact of disruptions to the travelling public that rely on the bus service. Additionally, the DPT is advising the public daily of bus cancellations via the media as well as on the Government of Bermuda web-site home page.
Mr. Speaker, representatives from the Ministry of Tourism Development and Transportation and the Bermuda Industrial Union have met with the primary objective of the meeting to collectively address the current shortage of bus-operators, due to illnesses and the impact the shortage is having on the bus service. The attendees included myself, the Permanent Secretary, the BIU President who initiated the meeting along with other senior ministry and BIU officers.
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that the meeting was very productive and some very good practical solutions were presented and discussed and we are confident that this issue will be resolved soonest, as the Ministry and the BIU continue to work through this process together.
Mr. Speaker, the DPT will continue to keep the public updated on service levels and they sincerely appreciate the public's patience and understanding at this time. I will continue to keep members fully apprised of this situation.
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BDA Friend says:
Anyone know how many days you are out before it's called "long term" sick leave? Also this number of ill people in one workplace must be investigated. There might be implications for public health and safety?
I hope PTB have received the flu outs certified sick certificates
San George says:
Donate this entire service to the BIU – buses, revenue, staffing, etc. Definite benefits will acrue to the government.
somuchless says:
The only ones loosing out are the commuters. Tripple sad.
Big Fail says:
"admittedly this is not ideal"??? This is unacceptable. You think 10 people out on long-term sick leave is ok? 10 people calling in sick on the same day?
Civil Servant and Bus commuter. says:
Long-term sickness is something that is harder to fabricate.
Let's focus on the real issue here. For several years the bus schedule hasn't been modified despite the change in the demand. There are still areas that are serviced by the last bus at 6p. It's time for DPT to require shift work. The impact of 10 missing operators would be much less noticeable. Its a better use of the government's buses and makes Bermuda's public transport part of the 21st century for the business world.
Here – Here! I agree 100% with "Civil Servant and Bus commuter." There has to be changes made this year so as this doesn't occur when people worldwide have their eyes on us / Bermuda.
Over 90% of these 'sicky's' are PLP/BIU.
The term "We had to deceive you" comes to mind.
You know the old saying/s it starts at the top and the other 'it rolls down hill'.
Hope I did not commit plagiarism…………..
Truth is a beach with no water.
Joonya says:
That is a complete pile of B****** and you know it.
Unions run Bermuda, period!
Time to privatise! We have had enough of being inconvenienced by this circus. We need reliable service! Tourist season around the corner.
They cant rent cars, taxis too d*mn expensive, so get your sh*t in order before attempting to rejuvinate tourism!
Help Me with My Math says:
"Yesterday there were 10 operators out sick in addition to the 10 that are out on long term sickness, that resulted in approximately 40 cancelled runs which equates to roughly 10% of the total runs."
Help me with my math…
10+10 = 20
40 cancelled runs
40 divided by 20 = 2
So each driver only drivers 2 runs per shift?
Or 4 runs if you take the 10 long term sick drivers out of the equation?
3-4 runs a shift sounds about right, doesn't it?
Somerset Girl says:
Is this mystery illness contagious? Are passengers at risk?
Believe me, nobody else is at any risk at all of catching anything.
Now that the weekend is here I'm sure the bus drivers all feel miraculously much better.
NOT ACCEPTABLE!…time for the Buses to be made PRIVATE…
Fire the lazy lot of these non workers.
What a total dis-connect in Bermuda today – a ban on overtime and a "sick-out" by unionized bus drivers, Civil Servants occupy Cabinet for 3 days, Thousands Bermudians without jobs, empty hotels & office buildings, crumbling Airport, roads & bridges, a massive budget deficit & Govt. debt, mortgages underwater, bloated Public Sector, lunatic(s) going around painting "ISIS is comin watch out" on Hamilton buildings, possible public school consolidations,….
North rock says:
Good decision …..no overtime…this is just the beginning of 'time to pay the piper'….Crockwell, keep your head high…
Hey says:
I'm sure they're not that sick to where they can't get out of bed. They just being lazy and don't feel like going to work.
It's extremely "strange" that it's a disease that only affects the drivers and NOT them that travel by bus 5 to 7 days per week
Hmmm says:
Have you ever thought about how many sick people the drivers come in contact with on a daily basis? This would explain why so many could be out sick at the same time.
So why doesn't the same thing happen among shop assistants? Or receptionists on doctor's offices? Or anyone that walks through the street, or gets on a ferry, or gets on a bus, or walks through an airport, or deals with customers? How do all those people survive with 2 weeks sick leave a year?
Lone Wolf says:
Long term sickness doesn't always mean physical sickness.
Some of the 10 people out for the long term could be experiencing some form of mental illness. We don't know what is going on in their lives.
It's the people who are out for the short term sick leave that should be visited (or investigated) by their supervisors, just to check on their welfare ….
If they have a legitimate illness then fine, it happens. If not, then they should be punished.
Those out for the long term have to be 'checked out' on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis (one would assume) by the Doctors who keep signing their sick certificates so I wouldn't accuse them of faking it.
I'm just saying ………
Full moon in Paradise says:
This lack of ability to consistently accommodate the transportation needs of the public is totally unacceptable. Time to privatize. Too much excuse making Mr. Minister…let's begin with swapping out the management at DPT. Without public intervention, The 'powers that be' would have not have had the decency to inform the public. There have been several times when I've waited for a bus or two that failed to arrive……and no announcement was made beforehand. Unimpressed.
Rick Olson says:
Crabs in a bucket
Scoalsy says:
Like before a bunch of B.S.
bluebird says:
The bus operators are out on there (14) weeks sick leave trying to force the Government to pay overtime,especialy on a Sunday at $90.00 and hour as a driver.
Legal Eagle says:
Crockwell–youre talking as much B.S now as the Union+DPT!! The only answer is to privatise (at least part of) the BPT-+ you+the OBA know it–but just don't have the fortitude to do it!!! Oh, BTW,thanks (NOT!)for the taxi drivers 25pct increase so they're a too expensive alternative!! Wouldn't want to return to the PLP-but the OBA's no saviour either!! Arrghh–a pox on both political houses-+the Unions!
M Mellie says:
I just feel sorry for all these sick bus drivers – and how unfortunate it is that they all got sick de same time. They are in my prayers for a speedy recovery.
unus sed leo says:
Ok…i think it is high time to train more drivers…contingincies of good health and or regiment emergancy replacements ready to keep the island on tack…
roger lambert says:
WILL THERE BE TRAINING & HIRING OF MORE BUS OPERATORS??? TAXI DRIVERS COULD USE THIS SLOWDOWN IN THE BUSES RUNNING AT THIS TIME.
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Cryptocurrencies and blockchain are still the focus of European regulators' attention. Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President of the European Commission, admits that the cryptocurrency market has become global and blockchain technology has a huge potential.
"Crypto asset markets are global, with worldwide transactions between investors, consumers, and intermediaries. And blockchain technology holds strong promise for financial markets. To remain competitive, Europe must embrace this innovation," Valdis Dombrovskis says.
The popularity of digital assets are proved by the reports. Coindesk, one of the largest news portals dedicated to the cryptocurrency industry, conducted the global research of funds raised using venture financing and ICOs in the past six years. It appeared that ICO projects all together collected more than $5.5 billion (the majority of them were launched in 2017), while venture investment projects attracted a bit more than $2 billion.
Despite the popularity of digital assets, Europe still has no approach to their regulation. Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, said in February that the regulation of cryptocurrencies was beyond the ECB activity.
Therefore, the German authorities have signed the act in March, equating digital assets to payment methods in the tax context. Now, purchases for cryptocurrencies won't be imposed to capital outflow tax; only VAT will affect them.
Lex Sokolin — Global Director Fintech Strategy, Partner at Autonomous Research, UK.
They will also discuss development trends in blockchain technologies and share their experience of launching high-tech businesses.
The exhibition is free-to-enter. It will engage 140 companies: mining equipment providers, blockchain developers, ICO projects, investment funds, cryptocurrency wallets, trading platforms, and law firms. All participants are ready to cooperate: they are potential business partners or investors.
They will show the latest novelties: developers will be interested in software solutions, miners in powerful hardware for farms, and entrepreneurs in financial, technological, and consulting services for all types of businesses.
Exhibition guests will examine crypto industry trends as well as discover how and where one should store cryptocurrencies, which of them is the most appropriate for mining, how to earn on cryptocurrency trading, and what crypto project is worth investing.
Follow the news of Europe's largest blockchain event on the official website of Blockchain International Show.


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In a study published in journal Nature Communications, scientists have published a new technique using which they are able to pinpoint nanoscale chemical reactions inside batteries.
The ability to pinpoint these chemical reactions inside lithium-ion batteries will enable scientists to identify how a battery operates and uncover how the battery might be optimized to make it work even better. This technique will help scientists understand at nano-scale the charging and discharging of batteries and the effect of these events on the components of the batteries.
Tools available to study these reactions can only provide information on the average composition of electrodes at any given point in time giving researchers the information about what percentage of the electrode has become permanently oxidized. But these tools cannot provide information on the location of oxidized portions in the electrode. Because of these limitations, it is not possible to tell if reactions are confined to a certain area of the electrode, such as the surface of the material, or if reactions are taking place uniformly throughout the electrode.
The new technique, called X-ray ptychographic tomography, came about through a partnership between chemists at UIC and scientists at the Advanced Light Source, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Advanced Light Source scientists developed the instrumentation and measurement algorithms, which were used to help answer fundamental questions about battery materials and behavior identified by the UIC team.
Together, the two teams used the tomographic technique to look at tens of nanoparticles of lithium-iron phosphate recovered from a battery electrode that had been partially charged. The researchers used a coherent, nanoscale beam of X-rays generated by the high-flux synchrotron accelerator at the Advanced Light Source to interrogate each nanoparticle. The pattern of absorption of the beam by the material gave the researchers information about the oxidation state of iron in the nanoparticles in the X-ray beam. Because they were able to move the beam just a few nanometers over and run their interrogation again, the team could reconstruct chemical maps of the nanoparticles with a resolution of about 11 nanometers. By rotating the material in space, they could create a three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of the oxidation states of each nanoparticle. In other words, they could tell the extent to which an individual nanoparticle of lithium iron phosphate had reacted.


Japan is arguably the investment world's most overlooked developed market. It is the world's third-largest economy after the United States and China, and accounts for over 8% by value of the benchmark MSCI World index of developed markets' largest listed companies.
Yet investors often ignore Japan's investment potential. After all, economic growth has remained weak since 1990 and forecasts for future growth are typically tempered by the country's ageing population and shrinking workforce.
However, as a long-time observer, I believe that Japan today has little in common with the usual cliché depicting it as a sleepy ex-economic powerhouse in decline.
To many critics, the results of 'Abenomics' – a package of economic policies that have aimed to stimulate the Japanese economy since 2012 – have been underwhelming.
Yet there has been meaningful progress made towards tackling the twin challenges of economic stagnation and falling prices, known as deflation. While below target, consumer prices have at least been rising, as have wages. And until the start of 2018, the economy enjoyed its longest continuous growth streak since the 1980s – eight consecutive quarters.
Unsurprisingly, and pertinently for investors, there has been a corresponding growth in the profits of Japanese companies.
While a shrinking population is leading to a labour shortage, the government has taken measures to increase female work participation and is allowing more foreign workers in Japan. Low productivity – another issue that has plagued the economy – is also being tackled, in part, through investments in technology and automation. But there is a long way to go yet, and this means there are significant opportunities to increase the economy's productivity.
In addition, corporate Japan has become more shareholder-friendly. A new corporate governance code took effect in 2015, requiring a minimum of two independent directors and encouraging boards to be at least one-third independent. This represents significant progress.
Moreover, under pressure from the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's largest pension fund, many Japanese companies are shedding the excess cash they have traditionally hoarded, in favour of increasing dividends and buying back their shares. Indeed, dividends paid out to shareholders by Japanese companies rose from US$50 billion in 2014 to US$70 billion in 2017.
We are seeing increased merger and acquisition activity as well, both domestically and overseas. More Japanese companies are expanding overseas or acquiring foreign competitors to gain access to growing markets. I envisage this trend continuing, at a time when many Chinese companies are limiting their outward investment due to currency constraints and their US counterparts are focusing more of their investment domestically.
There will always be some investors who are inevitably pessimistic about the Japanese market, and there's enough data they can highlight to confirm such negative bias.
However, I believe there are important long-term structural changes that are taking place, bringing Japan back to the big league of investment opportunities globally.
Please remember that past performance is not a guide to future performance. The value of investments goes up and down and will fluctuate over time, and you may not get back the original amount you invested.
The views expressed in this document should not be taken as a recommendation, advice or forecast. We are not able to give any financial advice. If you're at all unsure about the suitability of your investment, please speak to a financial adviser.


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Demaryius Thomas dies at 33, Super Bowl champion
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The NFL announced this Thursday night that the former Denver Broncos player, Demaryius Thomas, died aged 33. The wide wing had announced in 2021 (after a year of inactivity) that it was retiring from professional football.
"NFL family mourns tragic loss of Demaryius Thomas and we express our condolences to his family and loved ones, "wrote the National Football League on its official Twitter account.
So far it has been reported that the police still investigating the case has not identified the causes of the death of Thomas, who was found dead in his home in Rosswell, Georgia. Some media such as AS USA assure that his death was the result of a medical condition that Thomas had been dealing with since 2019.
Like open wing Thomas had represented to the Denver Broncos -with whom he won the Super bowl fifty-, Houston Texans, New England Patriots and New York Jets. In his career he had 724 receptions for 9,763 yards and 63 touchdowns.
Owen Daniels, former partner of Thomas in the Denver Broncos, sent his condolences through his Twitter account: "I'm heartbroken. I love you DT".
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