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Mary Miller Briggs
Mary Miller Briggs
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AFN: 3TM0-T3 Born 6 Jul 1826 at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana to Simeon Briggs and Katherine Garnet. Her parent's names come from the Family Data Collection (see below).
Married Lewis Trout (b 1827) on 23 Jan 1846 in Hocking County, Ohio. By Aug 1855 they are living in Henry County, Iowa (per their daughter Catherine's death certificate).
She is enumerated on the 1880 census with her husband and children in North Fork, Barton County, Missouri. She is on the 1900 census still living in North Fork, now as a widow, living with her unmarried son William. Her parents birthstates are there listed as Massachusetts for father and Pennsylvania for mother.
The death Certificate extract for Catherine (Trout) Evans names her parents as Louis Trout and Mary Briggs, and that Catherine was born 13 Aug 1855 in Henry County, Iowa.
This same Catherine's census extracts for 1880, 1900 and 1910 state that her father was born in Ohio and her mother in Indiana.
In the 1880 census, on the page just prior to the one that Catherine (Trout) Evans appears on with her husband and child, is a family with parents Lewis Trout 53 b Ohio and his wife Mary 53 b Indiana.
Two other of Mary's children, Hannah who appears here in the Family Data Collection, and Lewis again verify that her name was "Mary Miller Briggs", and add that Hannah was born 1 Dec 1863 at Coles, Illinois.
- 1880 Census of North Fork, Barton County, Missouri
- Family Data Collection "Lewis Trout"
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Work in Progress: See you at the show!
August 27th, 2010
Well, the time has come for my internship here at the AGO to draw to a close, which unfortunately means that my blog posts about the upcoming exhibition At Work: Hesse Goodwin, Martin will have to end also. But don't worry, you'll only have to wait a few short weeks before the exhibit opens, and you can see first hand everything I have been writing about!
With this blog, and with the show, we wanted to focus on the hard work that is involved in any artistic endeavour, whether it is painting, sculpting, writing, or creating an exhibit. I hope you have enjoyed hearing about the amazing work of Eva Hesse, Betty Goodwin and Agnes Martin, and about what goes on behind the scenes here at the AGO. I know I have had a great time learning about, working on, and writing about this exhibition, and I hope I have been able to communicate some of that excitement to you! I look forward to seeing you all when the exhibition opens on September 22nd.

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COLUMBUS – Federico Higuaín came to the rescue with another penalty kick but the Columbus Crew's home woes continued with a 1-1 tie against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday evening at Crew Stadium.
Higuaín's penalty kick snapped a 294-minute home goalless streak the 69th minute, the Crew's first tally since another Higuaín penalty on April 27 vs. D.C. United.
The Dynamo (6-4-4) got a goal from Warren Creavalle on a 31st-minute counterattack, are 0-2-2 in the past four games and have not beaten the Crew in nine.
It was Higuaín's cheeky nutmeg to Matías Sánchez that started the sequence leading to the Crew's equalizer. Sánchez pushed the ball to Chad Barson, making his first MLS start, and the Homegrown rookie defender went down under Andrew Driver's challenge in the box.
Higuaín converted with a powerful shot, getting his fourth goal and third in four tries from the spot this season.
He then nearly put the Crew ahead in the 74th with a bending strike from 25 yards only to see his strik smack the right post. Justin Meram was alone in front of a wide-open goal, but scuffed the rebound over the bar.
Houston absorbed six quality chances by the Crew and just past the half hour mark struck back with a dash of speed and a clinical finish.
Dynamo right back Kofi Sarkodie sped past Justin Meram's slide tackle on a blazing run down the right before whipping a low cross to the center of the box. An unmarked Creavalle timed his run through the channel perfectly and one-timed the ball past goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum for his third goal of 2013.
The goal didn't have the momentum-changing effect the Dynamo hoped it would, though, asthe Crew continued to find space and had three golden tries within four minutes near the end of the half.
First, Jairo Arrieta's volley from a seemingly impossible angle found itself rolling inside the far post, only for Hall to scramble and push it away at the last moment.
Hall was again at the ready a few minutes later, pushing away Higuaín's blast and recovering in time to deny Arrieta's follow-up shot.
The Crew played for the first time since midfielder Eddie Gaven suffered a season-ending knee injury during Wednesday's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match.
In his absence, Arrieta returned from a two-game suspension and took his usual spot at forward, meaning Dominic Oduro dropped back into a wide midfield spot formerly occupied by Gaven.
The Dynamo had issues of their own with midfielders Brad Davis (United States) and Boniek Garcia (Honduras) away on international duty. Head coach Dominic Kinnear's side also missed the center back pairing of Bobby Boswell (suspension) and Jermaine Taylor (left shoulder injury).
Columbus are back in action almost immediately, traveling to face the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday. The Dynamo, however, face a long layoff, not playing again until they travel to Montreal on June 19.
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|Federico Higuaín
|Made everything happen in the Crew attack and left no doubt on his powerful penalty kick
|Tally Hall
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As the weather turns colder, bears typically go into hibernation – real bears that is. For Wall Street bears, the colder months may be anything but sleepy time.
The S&P closed lower for the 4th day in a row with market pros hitting the sell button, worried about the upcoming earnings season and the health of the global economy.
According to a new Investors Intelligence survey, the number of bears is growing – it now totals 29% - that's up 8% from onlythree weeks ago.
According to David Tice, president at Tice Capital, the growing skepticism is warranted. He tells us to prepare for a correction – that one is coming soon.
Tice, who is a famed bear, sees the current market similar the one in 2008, right afterLehman Brothers failed. "Remember in September '08 after Lehman, it wasn't until October, November that the market started sliding."
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A Rustic Garden Wedding at Terrain in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
Textured florals in shades of green, taupe and purple embellished Marion and John's botanical-inspired celebration at a local greenhouse. Rather than walk down the aisle with an escort, Marion chose to enter the ceremony solo. "My parents played a significant role in our day and I sat them in the front row, but I've always envisioned walking down the aisle by myself," she says. "To me, that signified I'm choosing to make a commitment to marriage. It's different from what many people do, but it was right for me." In addition to seasonal flowers, the garden venue was decorated with plants, candles, lanterns, string lights and a custom moss installation created by the couple's floral designer. "We wanted to highlight the natural beauty of our venue while keeping things fun and comfortable," Marion says. –Allie Volpe


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January 23, 2013, Kennwick, (ISN) – Seattle outshot Tri-City 12-8 in the first period, but it would be Brian Williams that gave the Americans a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 13:03 of the first period. Justin Feser and Mitch Topping had the assists.
The Tri-City Americans defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-1 Tuesday night at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
Williams struck again at 4:46 of the second period to extend the Americans lead to 2-0. Feser and Jesse Mychan were credited with the assists.
Tri-City (28-17-1-2) scored less than a minute after their second goal, at 5:38 of the period, to make it a 3-0 game. Justin Gutierrez got the goal on an assist from Parker Bowles.
Danny Mumaugh replaced Brandon Glover in net after the third Tri-City goal. Glover made seven saves on 10 shots and his record falls to 17-20-2-1 with the loss.
The Americans made it 4-0 at 9:55 of the second when Wil Tomchuk scored an unassisted goal.
The T-Birds got the board at 14:08 of the second on a five-on-three power-play goal from Alexander Delnov. Connor Honey moved the puck from the left point to Roberts Lipsbergs at the bottom of the left circle. Lipsbergs fed the puck across the crease to Delnov at the right post. Delnov slammed the puck past Tri-City Luke Lee-Knight who was sliding across the crease to try and make the save.
Seattle (18-27-2-1) outshot Tri-City 8-7 in the second period and 20-15 through two periods.
Gutierrez scored a second goal at 16:45 of the third period to put the Americans in front 5-1. Connor Rankin and Parker Bowles had the assists.
The T-Birds outshot the Americans 7-4 in the third period and 27-19 in the game.
Mumaugh made seven saves on nine shots in 35 minutes of action.
Lee-Knight stopped 26 of 27 shots and improves his record to 7-3-0-0.
The T-Birds travel to Kelowna to face the Rockets on Thursday at 7pm at Prospera Place. This is the first of back-to-back games against the Rockets. The two teams meet Friday at ShoWare Center at 7:35pm.
T-Birds single game tickets for the 2012-13 season are available online at the T-Birds website and at the ShoWare Center box office. The ShoWare Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday game days at 10 a.m. and Sunday game days at noon.
T-Birds season tickets are currently on sale. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.
First period – 1, Tri-City, Williams 15 (Feser, Topping), 13:03. Penalties – Williams, Tri (holding), 4:34. Sanvido, Sea (closing hand on puck), 11:34. Chynoweth, Tri (slashing), 17:49.
Second period – 2, Seattle, Williams 16 (Feser, Mychan), 4:46. 3, Tri-City, Gutierrez 3 (Bowles), 5:38. 4, Tri-City, Tomchuk 1, 9:55. 5, Seattle, Delnov 15 (Lipsbergs, Honey), 14:08 (pp). Penalties – Elliot, Sea (roughing), :11. Dallman, Tri (tripping), 12:47. Yuen, Tri (interference), 13:26. Bowles, Tri (tripping), 18:51.
Third period – 6, Tri-City, Gutierrez 4 (Rankin, Bowles), 16:45. Penalties – Filbrandt, Tri (interference), 16:53. Yuen, Tri (slashing), 18:13. Honey, Sea (hooking), 19:13.
Shots on goal – Seattle 12-8-7 27, Tri-City 8-7-4 19. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 10 shots-7 saves (17-20-2-1), Mumaugh 9-7; Tri-City, Lee-Knight 27-26 (7-3-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-7; Tri-City 1-2. A – 3,449. Referees – Adam Griffiths, Curtis Marouelli. Linesmen – Jason Michelbook, Trevor Shively.


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From 'Lucille' to 'Trigger,' great guitars and the musicians who love them
When Jimi Hendrix set his Stratocaster on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival, he explained it as an act of love. "You sacrifice the things you love," he said. "I love my guitar." The world's great guitarists undoubtedly love their guitars – Stevie Ray Vaughan went so far as to call his most beloved six-string his "First Wife." Here are 20 iconic guitars forever linked to the musicians who loved them.
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A visual user interface and workflow component serve as a central hub for coordinating all technologies and processes related to risk and finance projects, including model selection, scenario specification and template design. An embedded process management capability enables you to define workflows, timelines and approval paths, as well as attach documents and track approvals and comments for each step of the process. There's no need to maintain a separate workflow engine for financial stress testing, IFRS 17 or IFRS 9/CECL, eliminating compatibility issues.
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A long time Flyers fan checking in from Baltimore, too. Wish I could say I've been following them more.
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greetings to all the new guys, hopefully you will remain active around the forums. bailz, you are welcome here anytime as well.
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I am a Huge flyers fan from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Welcome to the boards Chris, pretty cool to see how far our fanbase reaches including into Canada. Always good to see new ideas come to the forum.
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Appendix D
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- Emiquon Field Station
- Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
- Center for Geographic Information Systems Applications
- Downstate Illinois Innocence Project
- Experiential and Service Learning Institute
Emiquon Field Station and associated projects in biology, history, anthropology, and public policy
UIS will establish a field station at the Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve, near Havana, Illinois. Emiquon is one of the largest floodplain restoration projects in the world. The field station will provide a focus for faculty and students from disciplines such as biology, environmental studies, anthropology, history, and public administration to collaborate on projects related to the Illinois River floodplain restoration.
Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
Over the past decade UIS has moved to the forefront of institutions engaged in online learning and the uses of technology in instruction. UIS faculty members' responsiveness to adopting the Internet and other technologies for instruction has been followed quickly by their scholarship focused on online learning and emerging educational technologies. UIS seeks to build on this record of accomplishment by establishing a Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service. The Center will become the UIS hub for the study and application of online learning pedagogy, technology, and best practices. It will provide support for both original scholarly research and the dissemination of results. It will build synergies between discovery research and the enhancement of current online education practices. The Center will inform, empower, assist, and support the faculty of UIS in the delivery of courses, degrees, and certificate programs through the Internet. It will reach out around the globe to build exciting new online collaborations among educational institutions, government agencies, and businesses.
Center for Geographic Information Systems Applications
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a technology that allows mapping and analysis of data with both spatial and temporal components. GIS technology is a powerful tool for identifying and assessing changes in space and time. Given rapid socioeconomic, environmental, and technological changes – and the large amount of information associated with these changes – GIS has become more and more valuable in the governmental, academic, and private sectors in managing, analyzing, and synthesizing information The Center for Geographic Information Systems Applications will foster cross-disciplinary education, research, and collaboration. It will enhance teaching, learning, and research for faculty, students, and staff at UIS.
Downstate Illinois Innocence Project
The Downstate Illinois Innocence Project has a two-part mission – to provide assistance to attorneys representing downstate Illinois inmates convicted of crimes they did not commit and to prevent conviction of innocent persons in the future. The project goals are: (1) exoneration of innocent persons convicted of felony crimes in downstate Illinois, and (2) reform of the criminal justice system in Illinois and the nation through the education of students, citizens, and policy-makers about problems, causes, and possible reforms of a criminal justice system that results in conviction of the innocent. Building on its record of accomplishment, the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project is poised to achieve national recognition for its work on behalf of those who have been wrongfully convicted.
Experiential and Service Learning Institute
While many institutions have in recent years come to develop programs of experiential and service learning, UIS has a 35-year history of incorporating experiential learning into undergraduate education. In the coming years, UIS will build on that history by expanding service learning opportunities and establishing an institute to foster the scholarly investigation of experiential and service learning and to promote best practices to colleagues at other institutions.


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Abstract: This paper elucidates the spectra of influences that impact the intra‑organisational tacit and explicit knowledge sharing behaviour of the middle line, a boundary spanning layer highly capable to influence, inform and transform. The approach addresses a deficiency in research that affords an eclectic perspective across both knowledge types simultaneously and at an individual level of analysis. Advancing Ipe's (2003) conceptual work, the Multidimensional Model of Individual Knowledge Sharing Influences integrates robust and multi‑disciplinary theoretical exposition with empirical validation in four leading UK Communication Sector operators. The model encapsulates the direct influence factors of Motivation to Share, Nature of Knowledge, Opportunity to Share, Culture and the Nature of the Individual. Organisational Velocity provides an original conceptualisation of the continual, episodic and ambiguous change that reflects reality in many post‑industrial settings and is expressed as the tension between centrifugal and centripetal forces acting on the other factors. All six dimensions are shown to impact individual knowledge sharing practice, with underexplored constructs such as personality traits and aspects of demography emerging as significant. Organisational Velocity can operate in a moderating and primarily centrifugal capacity on Motivation to Share, Opportunities to Share and the Nature of the Individual. The study demonstrates that a panoptic, pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective combining human, social, technological and contextual factors must be considered to understand sharing behaviour and optimise knowledge management interventions. A particular element may not be evaluated in isolation. Further, when factor dynamics are sub‑optimum, the middle line may pragmatically orientate towards personal knowledge management mechanisms. Evidence of hoarding, hiding or disengagement from sharing is identified with some managers electing to utilise their knowledge in possession and network positional opportunity to generate rent in alignment with individual and affiliated group interests, negating its aggregation for wider organisational benefit. Implications for research and practice are fully explored.
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Legal Experience
David Bender has had an extensive career that has involved litigation, counseling, and transactional work. He retired in 2007 from White & Case LLP, where he was based in New York City and was chair of the firm's global Privacy practice. In that position he headed numerous global data protection projects, and also counseled extensively on compliance with various US data protection laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, as well as state data protection laws. Before practicing in the Privacy area, he drafted, negotiated, and advised in connection with various types of information technology transactions, including outsourcing, Internet, and many kinds of software-related projects. A founder of White & Case's Intellectual Property practice, he also handled many IP matters, ranging from patent, copyright, and trade secret litigation to due diligence inquiries and the negotiation and drafting of various types of IP-related agreements.
Mr. Bender served in-house at AT&T (mostly before its divestiture) for ten years, and during the latter half of that period was the General Attorney responsible for all IP litigation brought by or against any Bell System company. Prior to that, he litigated antitrust cases.
Mr. Bender is the author of Computer Law, a five-volume treatise published by Lexis-Nexis Matthew Bender in 1978 and updated twice annually. He writes the Privacy Law column that appears bimonthly in the New York Law Journal, and has also written several dozen law review articles and CLE papers on diverse topics in the fields of Privacy, Information Technology, IP, and Antitrust. His article "Computer Programs: Should They Be Patentable," 68 Colum. L. Rev. 241 (1968) was one of the first law review articles on that topic, and his "Trade Secret Protection of Computer Programs," 38 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 909 (1970), was the first law review article on the title topic. His NY Law Journal columns include, e.g.: "FACT Act Red Flag Rules," (Dec. 2, 1008); "Data Protection: The Importance of Choosing a Global Paradigm," (Oct. 7, 2008); "NY Freedom of Information Law: Scope of the Privacy Exception," (Aug. 5, 2008); and "Expectation of Privacy in the GPS Age," (June 9, 2009).
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...And thank you.
Now we just need someone to make FMs that tap the potential of multiplayer, as_well as creating a virtual "lab" to study the problems.
After nearly a year of development, I'm happy to announce that the first beta of the Thief 2 multiplayer patch has finally been released.
Current version download:
Build 218
Source code:
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Previous versions:
Build 210
Build 210
Build 205
Installation instructions and further information can be found in the readme.
Please keep in mind that this is a beta. Not every feature has been implemented yet, and there are still numerous problems with multiplayer games, ranging from minor cosmetic issues to game-breaking ones. All in all, multiplayer is still quite rough.
I strongly recommend that you read the list of known issues in the readme before playing. The multiplayer patch has only been tested by a limited number of people so far, so it is entirely possible that you'll run into some problems that I am not aware of yet, however. You should definitely expect the game to crash on occasion and to encounter some strange problems. Be sure to save the game often, particularly on longer missions.
Most of the original missions are playable without major issues in multiplayer. Generally, the earlier and less complex missions (such as Running Interference) work better than later ones. Workarounds for missions that have unusual problems can be found in the readme. Fan mission compatibility will vary -- some may work perfectly, and others may require modification by their author(s) to work properly in multiplayer.
If you are currently using ddfix or the widescreen patch, you will need to apply them again after installing the multiplayer patch, but they should work properly with it from that point on.
With all of that said, have fun! If you encounter any problems with the multiplayer patch that are not listed in the known issues, please do let me know.
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...And thank you.
Now we just need someone to make FMs that tap the potential of multiplayer, as_well as creating a virtual "lab" to study the problems.
Congrats indeed. This is a milestone. Looks like my weekend is gonna be busy. Thanks for all your hard work, we know its rough, we don't care, we'll play!
Congrats on a release Tos.
Mirrors: I'd be happy to mirror this on my filefront account, with your permission of course.
Sooo ... who's up for some coop?
I'm game ... got a Skype account and some holiday free-time.
Is there some protocol we should go through to get a coop game going? Just post our names ITT and expect a PM?
(I don't really play multiplayer games, so I don't really know how they typically work...)
Edit: Back from the phuture... 'kay
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I think we should follow in the footsteps of trips multiplayer list (ss2)
Name: sNeaksieGarrett (not real name obviously)
AIM: quadx17
Xfire: quadx
Modem: Wireless card
Location: Planet Earth (okay, USA)
hey tos, i suggest telling this great news in your thief 2 multiplayer thread.
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Yes, you'll have to set up games through the forum or trade IP addresses with friends for now, much like SS2.
Eventually, I hope to implement some sort of global server to display a list of running servers, but that's a ways off. I started work on it a few months back, but decided against including it in the first beta due to the amount of time it will take.
I don't think there are any matchmaking services like GameSpy that would list servers for an unofficial project like this, though if anyone knows of any, please do tell me. It'd save me a huge amount of work.
Yeah, that'd be awesome. I'd like to point out that a program called Hamachi (or I think it is now called LogMeIn) would help for those having trouble connecting with each other over the internet. So far I have only tried the beta at my house with two computers. Weird thing is that I can only host on one machine, the other one refuses to work.Originally Posted by Tos
Oh, and I should post a warning to those reading this thread. I would only give someone your IP if you trust that they will not try to hack you or something. That's the downside to having "IP connected" servers
So I've been testing out the beta with two machines at my house (playing co-op with myself, lol) and have come across a few things.
Bugs I found not listed in the readme file:
1.) The sound can sometimes not be synchronized on both computers. Like I'll whack garrett on one computer, but I won't hear him being hit.
2.) You can actually damage your player friends. I don't know whether that is intentional or not, but I thought i'd mention it anyway.
3.) On the client's side (when I was playing Ambush! (testing it real quick)) when the host (me) knocked out a guard and hid him in the shadows, it appeared to the client (also me lol) that he was actually alive and well. The guard was just standing there. The client could not interact with the guard, nor did the guard do anything but just stand there. If the host player picked up the body he would vanish in thin air, and then when dropped he would reappear, still standing up, on the client side.
4.) Widescreen patch and this mod do not work. Ddfix can be reapplied but widescreen patch is impossible. The reason is because the widescreen patch .bat file will change the thief2.exe when choosing the re-install option after trying to use the thief multiplayer patched version. I tried hex editing in thiefmp.dll in its proper place on thief2.exe, but that does not work. I ended up making two thief "installs", one for multiplayer and one for regular play where I can still use the widescreen mod. HOWEVER, I did find a workaround. I remembered that ddfix (one of the older versions, not 1.3.11) had a custom resolution patch added into it. Well, I just installed 1.3.8 for my thief 2 and now I can have custom resolution (1280 x 800), ddfix applied, and thief 2 multiplayer applied.
5.) This is not necessarily a bug, I think it is just my machines' fault. When I host on one computer, and the other computer joins in, the second computer actually loads faster than the first, and gets to "in-game" before the host does.... I think this is by nature because the second computer is a faster machine than the host computer. I also noticed on top of this that the second machine patched with ddfix was having text overlay issues (such as the player name being stuck on the screen) I ended up fixing this by switching to a different version of ddfix. Now, this is not to say it will happen to anyone else, maybe it's more complicated than just ddfix and this beta. Who knows.
Anyway, thanks for your hard work so far Tos.
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Holy s***! I've been waiting to play this since it was first announced. Thief LAN parties here I come Great job!
For some reason, this causes Garrett's pain sound to not be played when the host is hit by another player's sword. It is when the host hits someone else with their sword however, oddly enough. If all of the players have swords with unique object IDs, the problem goes away.
While the sound problem by itself is pretty minor, the shared object IDs are also what's causing throwable inventory items to not work too well. I tried to fix it a bit ago by having each player create new copies of the items linked to their starting point upon spawning (and thereby give them a new ID), and while this did fix the problem, it introduced some new ones that were actually worse than just leaving it unfixed.
This problem has me stumped at the moment. It can be worked around in fan missions by not linking objects to the starting point and instead allowing players to pick them up in game, but that won't solve it in the original missions and is a pretty clumsy fix. Hopefully I'll find some way to fix it eventually.
Body carrying has been intentionally disabled for clients, but I left it in for the host because disabling it entirely would render some missions impossible to complete (Kidnap, and possibly some FMs). I don't advise using it unless you absolutely have to, though.
The number of changes that need to be made to the .exe to apply the multiplayer patch are very small, so perhaps someone would be willing to create a byte-patcher for this if I don't get around to it myself.
Alternatively, I could add an option to the .ini that would patch the changes the widescreen patch makes into the game's memory at run time, but that would be up to the author of the patch.
Not sure about the text overlay issue, I haven't had that happen. I do most of my testing with an old version of ddfix that renders through DirectX9 (and also allows me to start the game in windowed mode, which has been a huge help). Player names do draw correctly for me when I'm testing in full screen with the latest version, though.
I may not be leaving this room for some time...
Might sound stupid... But is the Multiplayer patch onlt for Co-op play between two connected computers, or can you play it online?
Well... Im up for some co-op if I can get this thing working.
Name: .... Does this matter? xD Nah.. KarrasEvul at TTLG, Fozza at most game servers.
Skype: ---
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Modem: Cable.. I think xD
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Well done that man - may I suggest you add a date to the thread title to give it more oomph!..
Also who/how are we going to host a thief game..? does one person do it and then other join, or can it be done on a stand alone server that people can join..? and if the latter who is gonna offer up a server for hosting..?
Now THAT's an astonishment achievement and the proper way to celebrate the 10th anniversary. Thanks for all the great work, Tos!
Thanks for the responses Tos. That's weird about the object IDs....
Yes, I think that would be a good feature to add, as it really does not serve much purpose in a co-op game unless your playing "every man to his/her self" and the other player is only getting in your way.Originally Posted by Tos
Yes, I believe so. When you are installing the patch, a black window appears and shows "thief2.exe (266445 bytes)" or something like that and says whether the file has been patched or not. At first I thought it replaced the exe as it says something about restoring the backup when doing a reinstall. Anyway, I'm almost certain it is impossible to make this patch work with widescreen, but as I said, one can use an older ddfix that still had the unsupported resolution fix. (I used 1.3.8)Originally Posted by Tos
I should mention so I don't look like a complete idiot, have you successfully been able to use widescreen with it, Tos?
How could I have missed this???
Looking at the vids in the original thread, I have to say this is pretty exciting!
Should I post this in comm chat? You know.......just because. Yes glutton for punishment, I don't care, there are people in comm chat that do play thief. For those that might have missed this.
Congrats! Feels really good to get your first beta out the door doesn't it?
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DDfix and Widescreen patch applied without problems. I named the Multiplayer exe thief2mp.exe and I still get in game mode. However, I haven't tried "real" networking yet.


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Fox's Stuart Varney hid the fact that the relative tax burden of the richest Americans has decreased as their wealth has skyrocketed to label AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka a "turkey" for saying the wealthy need to start paying their fair share in taxes.
In recent remarks regarding the 2012 presidential election, Trumka said that the election showed that voters sent a message that "we should start making the wealthy" pay their fair share in taxes. Varney responded by saying Trumka deserved to be called a turkey because the union leader supposedly ignored the fact that "the top 1 percent pays 40 percent of all income taxes."
In fact, the wealthiest Americans have seen their wealth skyrocket in recent years while their tax burden has declined.
According to the Congressional Research Service, over the last 4 decades the share of the national income for the top fifth of income earners climbed nearly 8 percent to more than 50 percent of all income earned while the middle class received an increasingly "smaller share of the economic pie." As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has explained that this trend means that, "the rich are paying more taxes because they're much richer than they used to be," but this does not mean they are shouldering a historically high tax burden.
Indeed, at the same time that the richest Americans' are growing increasingly wealthy, their tax rates are falling. The Congressional Budget Office found that the average tax rate paid by the top fifth of income earners "reached a low point in 2009, about 4 percentage points below its 1979 level." For the top one percent of income earners, the average tax rate has been in decline for roughly a 15 year period ending in 2009.
A White House report similarly found that in 2010, the average rate of federal income and payroll taxes paid wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans had dropped to its lowest level in 50 years. Furthermore, over those 50 years, the rate had dropped by 50 percent. Meanwhile, the average tax rate for the middle 20 percent of Americans has slightly increased over the same period.
An Economic Policy Institute post depicted the decline of the tax burden on the wealthy:
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IBM didn't see it coming, but Microsoft does. They are smart. That's why we're aligned with them. 😉
What is this perfect storm? What happened to IBM? IBM got hit by the PC revolution, economies of scale. The tremendous book "The long tail" makes two superb points:
- The internet allows the long tail to operate, where brick and mortar stores truncate this natural phenomena – by restoring the long tail to your business you can add up to 35% to your revenue
- The world economy always reorganizes itself around free (or near free) resources. When we built ships, the seas were "free" to sail on and so we sailed and traded. And so on, as growth reveals more "free", the world adjusts economically around that free resource. China, India, Indonesia and Russia suddenly revealed near free (relative to US and European salaried rates) employees and the world reorganized around that.
Item one above is interesting… item two is compelling. And now we have Google. Their stuff is free. And Microsoft's stuff is not. Now hold on… before you sigh and give up and close the browser, just stick with me and see where this is going. I suggesting that like the discovery of ships led to a vast new past time (sailing and trading) this free resource will lead to things only 1 year away that we never imagined.
What is Google offering… when you swallow these facts, you might be able to see why Microsoft is plunking down $2billion per year to create their own data-centers!
I don't open MS Office any more
Google GMail was good. Google Apps for your domain is awesome. (Google Apps). I now send and receive through gmail but using my EXISTING company email addresses. NOT my gmail address. Since I moved to the Google Apps version of GMail, I only opened Outlook to export my contacts. Really. Bye bye Outlook. Google Writely is a free Ms Word, Google Spreadsheets… except that it's free. Google Calendar.
I doubt I will renew my MS Office subs… I don't need it any more! I simply do not use it. Except for the development environment, like Atlas and so on. But as my next point explains, that might not be for too long.
UPDATE: Today I opened Frontpage to edit some HTML.
No more SQL Server licenses?
Google got my corporate mail and of everyone working on reBlogger. What else will they take?
You might not get that heading right away. Look at this. You know about Google Base where I can define my data structure and then generate pages to expose the data. The data is hosted by Google's servers.
Now entering into this picture is Google Base and the Google Database API where you can write against this "GData" and access it from your own servers. Unlimited free data hosting on a server where you don't have to worry about scalability? No more budgeting for 20 million of backend server racks. This is profound. Sayonara to SEO… look at the BASE slogan: "post it on base. find it on google".
UPDATE: I found an article about gbase being moved into the retail sector. Lookout amazon!
I know what you're thinking… the latency between your server and the Google servers would make it unworkable. But what if they hosted the application, just as they now host my company email? Enter Google Page Creator.
It's all free
I confidently said to my co-worker about 2 months ago that within 1 year I wouldn't be using MS Office any more. He doubted me. It's 2 months later. I don't use MS Office any more.
I am hesitant to say when we will stop using the .NET web developer stuff… there is far more for Google to have to build before I can use it. But the offer of not having to build an enormous backend for my online reBlogger business is just so tantalizing. Not having to write code for storing and indexing the masses of data that reBlogger collects and stores… ohhh yeaahhh.
Every blogging company (eg wordpress etc.) would just leap at free hosting of their data. You bet! And automatic inclusion into the Google results!? Of course! Woohoo!
But look a bit further down the road. Take technorati as an example. If they built for the Google "Platform" (developers! developers! developers!) then they wouldn't need to collect their own data, they simply use GData to mine the EXISTING Google data store. Now can you imagine what we could do if Google hooked GData into their existing data store?
This idea is already being explored by the Alexa crew with their APIs, but they don't appear to have the vision and based on my interaction with them during the year, they don't value interaction with mere mortals and don't want to meet the needs of these mere mortals. Hey, that's ok, Google or Microsoft will.
Why Microsoft won't be an IBM
Because Gates is smart enough to see this coming. Oh, wait. Gates is leaving. But they will see it, I have no doubt about it. Their decision to spend $2billion on server farms tells me that they are responding. But their cash cows are under threat. Someone is cow-tipping over night and we KNOW who is doing it. hehehe.
Industry organizes around near free resources
Google are inventing the "ship" (in the analogy) and the industry will begin to re-organize around the free resource that has been exposed to us: unlimited bandwidth, unlimited hosting, unlimited scalability.
The thing is that they are making money, theirs is not a bubble economy. The revenue model is usage based. It's going to be interesting!


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"Barknest" basket is an object that, in name and form, recalls a cosy nest with rounded walls for holding and safeguarding precious contents. The highly expressive design of this object enhances any room where it is displayed.
Designed by Michel Boucquillon and Donia Maaoui, the "Bark" collection was inaugurated in 2015 with the namesake centrepiece. The designers drew their inspiration from their home, Casa Boucquillon: a place for experimentation, meditation and work where they live in sync with nature. The perforated pattern of the "Bark" range recalls the bark on the trees around the house. The result is a strongly poetic collection where every individual object proves to be, either in shape or in function, in continuous and harmonious dialogue with nature.
Born in Belgium in 1962. In 1988 he won the competition of the CHAMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT in Brussels which signed the beginning of his Architectural and Design career. In '2000, he opened a new workshop dedicated to Industrial Design and experimental Architecture in Lucca - Tuscany in his "CASA BOUCQUILLON", extremely experimental place of exploration, meditation, live and work. Michel actually works for the world most famous International Design companies: Alessi, Artemide, Antoniolupi, Serralunga, Martinelliluce. His work is present in several Museums and got many of the main international Awards, recently: Menzione d'Onore Compasso d'Oro 2011, Good Design Award 2008, Design Plus 2006. Donia Maaoui, Michel's wife and an architect herself, works alongside her husband on some of the Alessi and Martinelliluce projects, although her principal occupation is cast bronze sculpture and painting.


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CoryK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 153 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Is That a Good Deal .com
A couple price conscious parents who over the years have been running a weekly newsletter are now looking to further help families save money on frequently purchased items by taking thier newsletter onto the web and plugging into various social networks.
Main audience is the shopper of the home, typically female and tech savvy who is plugged into modern social networking sites etc.
Fun yet not childish logo needed to represent a new information based site that provides weekly price indices of frequently purchased family goods, primarily groceries.
Icons should tie into logo and need to include an upward arrow indicating a rising pricing trend, a downward arrow indicated a falling pricing trend, a neutral or stable pricing icon, and then a set of 5 icons to represent how good a deal is. One example we had though of was that of a shopping cart filled to various levels, starting with a single item to one completely overfilled.
A couple more points I just made after seeing the first design.
Would be nice to visually have some reference to household / grocerie shopping as that is the primary focus of the site. Somehow without taking over the logo maybe use a shopping cart or have the words form part of a cart perhaps.
I think the trick will be to not end up with to busy of a logo yet convey what the site is about by simpling looking at the logo.
In my mind this is what makes a good logo.
We'd like the logo to have a clean and professional look at the same time not overly pretentious looking so a logo that portrays what services were offering (a weekly list and historical reference of the best prices on groceries items for price conscious families) and is as inviting and friendly as possible.
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Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (Greek: βραχύ/brachy = short, ουρά/οura = tail), or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. They are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and armed with a single pair of chelae (claws). 6,793 species are known. Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans. Additionally, there are also many freshwater and terrestrial crabs, particularly in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, only a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 m.
1. Leucosia anatum
This is certainly a pretty crab with bright colorations and intricate markings. This species of crab is named
scientifically as Leucosia anatum.
2. Harlequin Crab (Lissocarcinus orbicularis)
This beautiful crab with awesome pattern is commonly known as Harlequin Crab or Lissocarcinus orbicularis.
3. Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)
This brightly colored crab is also commonly known as Red Rock Crab and Abuete Negro. It is one of the most
common crabs along the western coast of South America
Young Grapus grapsus are black or dark brown in color and camouflage well on the black lava coasts of volcanic
islands. Adults are quite variable in color. Some are muted brownish-red, some mottled or spotted brown, pink, yellow,
orange or red stripes or spots blue and green ventrally, and sporting red claws and pink or blue eyes.
4. Halloween Hermit Crab (Ciliopagurus tricolor)
This awesomely and uniquely colored crustacean is a Halloween Hermit Crab or Ciliopagurus tricolor. It is extracted
from its cone shell to show its bright coloration. It is found in Mayotte, Indian Ocean
5. Ghost Crabs (Ocypode quadrata)
Will you consider this crab a ghost? Well, it doesn't look scary at all. For me, it looks adorable. Ghost crabs, also
called sand crabs, are common shore crabs in many countries. It is called ghosts because of its ability to disappear
from sight almost instantly, scuttling at speeds up to 10 mph, while making sharp directional changes.
6. Coconut Crab (Birgus latro)
This unique and colorful crab is called Coconut Crab, the world's largest land-living arthropod. It is known for
its ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents.
This crab is also called the Robber Crab or Palm Thief, because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny
items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents. Another name is Terrestrial Hermit Crab, due to the use
of shells. The coconut crab also has a range of local names; in Guam it is known as Ayuyu and in Cook Islands it
is Unga or Kaveu.
7. Halloween Crab (Gecarcinus quadrates)
A Halloween Crab is also known as the Moon Crab, Mouthless Crab or Harlequin Land Crab. It is a colorful crab
found in mangrove sand dunes and rainforest along the Pacific coast from Mexico south to Peru. It is a nocturnal
crab that digs burrows as long as 1.5 m or 5 ft. It lives in the forest at least some of its adult life, but needs to return
to the ocean to breed. It has gills that need to be moist all the time. If not, they die and have a life span of 10-15 years.
8. Chilean Centolla (Lithodes santolla)
This large and brightly colored crab species is also known as the Southern King Crab. It is found off the
Pacific coasts of South America. It lives in the benthic zone at depths up to 150 m to 600 m.
9. Lemon-yellow Clawed Fiddler (Uca perplexa)
Yellow flowers are beautiful and so with yellow crabs. This yellow colored species is also sometimes known
as a Calling Crab. It is found along sea beaches and brackish inter-tidal mud flats, lagoons and swamps. If this
crab has lost legs or claws, a new one will be present when they molt.
10. Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister)
The Dungeness crab is a species that inhabits eelgrass beds and water bottoms from the Aleutians Islands
in Alaska to California. Its binomial name simply means "master crab" in Latin. It is a popular delicacy, and is
the most commercially important crab in the Pacific Northwest.
11. Rainbow Crab (Cardisoma armatum)
Rainbow Crab, as its name implies, is definitely one of the most beautifully colored species of crab. It originated
in Africa' western coastal areas but it also occurs inland along some deltas and on Cape Verde.
This crab has a bluish/violet carapace, red-colored legs, and whitish claws when it is young. This coloration
usually fades as the animal grows older. While juvenile and adult crabs spend most of their time on dry land,
the females must return to the ocean to release their eggs. If the young do not make landfall by the time they are
fully developed they will drown.
12. Bermuda Land Crab (Gecarcinus lateralis)
This colorful crab is also known by several common names like Blackback Land Crab, Bermuda Land Crab and
Red Land. While it is a land crab and adults mainly occur in burrows in fields, marshes, mangroves and sandy
beaches, they need to return to the ocean to breed and its gills need to be moist all the time, or it will die.
13. Christmas Island Red Crab (Gecarcoidea natalis)
This pretty Christmas Island Red Crab is a terrestrial crab found in Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
Although restricted to a relatively small area, it is estimated that up to 120 million red crabs may live there,
making it the most abundant of the 14 terrestrial crab species on Christmas Island.
14. Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)
The Blue Crab's binomial name simply means "beautiful swimmer" and "savory". It is found in the waters
of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It is the State Crustacean of Maryland and the subject of an
extensive fishery. They can deliver an extremely painful pinch and are noted for being particularly aggressive
and difficult to handle safely.
Blue crabs are blue because their shell contains a number of pigments, including Alpha-crustacyanin, which
interacts with a red pigment, astaxanthin, to form a greenish-blue coloration.
15. Purple Rock Crab (Leptograpsus variegates)
This handsome-looking crab, Purple Rock Crab, is a marine large-eyed crab found in southern subtropical
Indo-Pacific. It grows to around 50 mm shell width.
This nocturnal crab is capable of remaining out of water for days, but can also stay submerged. A fast runner,
it can be very aggressive with its nippers.
16. Common Rock Crab (Hemigrapsus sexdentatus)
Crab's color when cooked is usually red. The Common Rock Crab is always red even if it's alive. It is a marine
large-eyed crab native to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Coloration is a reddish purple, mottled with dirty white
patches, with pale green antennules with dark red spots. Rock Crabs are known to feed on snails by crushing
their shells that's why they are regarded as "the meanest organisms".
17. Blue Porcelain Crab
This species of crab is one of the most beautiful and colorful crabs. Commonly known as Blue Porcelain Crab,
it is reef safe and harmless and makes a great addition for the beginner to the advanced aquarist.
18. Porcelain Anemone Crab
Porcelain crabs are not true crabs although they superficially resemble true crabs. Only a specialist would know
that it is not a true crab. They live in all the world's oceans, except the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic.
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What a weekend for Jackie Harmony! She won the Air Downhill, the unchained downhill and the UCI C1 downhill! She was definitely the queen of the event!
Brian Buell had a great week, second in slalom, third in the Air Downhill, fourth in the UCI C1 downhill!
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Sweet video with interviews and racing! Jackie is #4 in white and purple, Brian is the big guy in red and black!
Christian Wright won the Jr. expert air downhill and these pros finished top 15, Michael Buell 4th, Trevor Trinkino 10th, Lear Miller 12, John Keep 14th in the Air Downhill.
Adrienne Schneider 3d in Air Downhill, 3rd in the UCI Downhill
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Some 2,000 people, led by Yoko Ono, gathered in New York's Central Park this week to form a human peace sign as part of celebrations leading up to what would have been John Lennon's 75th birthday Friday.
It's a safe bet Lennon would have relished the spectacle, knowing from his Bed-in days the value of a gimmick to draw attention to a worthy cause ("Yoko and I are quite willing to be the world's clowns, if by doing it we do some good," he once said). There's also little doubt that the man who asked the world in song to give peace a chance and imagine life without war, would have loved the tribute – not to him, but to those ideals, which remain as powerful and elusive as they did all those years ago.
The bittersweet commemoration of a landmark rock-and-roll birthday underscores the enduring pull not just of a long-gone pop culture icon, but of the very real voice coursing through our ear buds with every play of "Revolution" or "Power to the People." John Lennon lives on more as a man, with flaws and talent, than as a symbol – even if nearly 35 years after his death his ongoing impact is a sign of our times.
It's tempting to imagine a world with John Lennon. It's also a somewhat selfish exercise – fans' initial thoughts inevitably race to the music he would have produced, the concert tours he might have launched, the tweets he would have fired off as a soldier in the digital revolution, the causes to which he would have brought a voice acerbic, humorous and unfailingly honest. No what-if daydream, of course, would be complete without envisioning the Beatles coming together again to unleash a latter-day wave of joy.
We're left to be grateful for the time Lennon gave us, a gift that keeps giving as new generations embrace the man, the music and the message – all as relevant as ever.
The Lennon legacy lives on through the lips of youngsters singing "All You Need is Love" as much as through Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr producing new music and playing the Beatles' timeless songs in concert, honoring Lennon and George Harrison. Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, who shares a birthday with his father and turns 40 Friday, work with equal determination to keep his spirit alive.
The human peace sign that formed in Central Park represents hopes for a better future, as well as the power of memory, unity and possibility – all thanks to a working class hero, born 75 years ago Friday in war-torn Liverpool, who formed a band that dared to dream of being bigger than Elvis and wound up shaking the world. Imagine that...
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Bulgaria i/bʌlˈɡɛəriə/ (Bulgarian: България, Balgariya, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, transliterated: Republika Balgariya, IPA: [rɛˈpublikɐ bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometers (42,855 sq mi), it ranks as the 15th-largest country in Europe.
Prehistoric cultures began living on Bulgarian lands starting in the Neolithic period. Its ancient history has been marked by the presence of various civilizations. The emergence of a unified Bulgarian ethnicity and state date back to the 7th century AD. Subsequent political entities that emerged preserved the traditions of the First Bulgarian Empire, at times covering most of the Balkans, becoming a cultural hub for Slavic peoples in the Middle Ages. With the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1396, its territories came under Ottoman rule for nearly five hundred years. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 resulted in the third Bulgarian state, recognized in 1908. Shortly afterwards, Bulgaria had a series of major conflicts with its neighbours and allied with Germany for both World Wars. After World War II it became a people's republic and was a part of the Warsaw Pact until 1989, when the Communist Party allowed multi-party elections. At this time Bulgaria transitioned to democracy and free market capitalism was introduced. Bulgaria is a member of the European Union, NATO, the Council of Europe, a founding state of the OSCE, and has taken a seat in the UN Security Council three times.
Bulgaria's population of 7.36 million people is predominantly urban and is concentrated mainly in the administrative centers of its 28 provinces. With 1.2 million people Sofia is the largest city, where most economic and political activities are concentrated. The economy relies on local natural resources with the strongest sectors being heavy industry and agriculture. Bulgaria is home to some of the most ancient cultural artifacts in the world and is a historical crossroad of various civilizations.
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Lawsuits by U.S. workers contesting wages and hours, including demands for overtime pay, reached a 20-year high this year as unemployment remained above 8 percent.
There were 7,064 federal wage-and-hour cases filed during the 12 months ending March 31, a number that has grown almost every year since 2000, when the total was 1,854, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which plans to release the data publicly later this year.
The recession and the unemployment rate contributed to the rise, said Richard Alfred, chairman of the national wage and hour litigation practice at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, who represents companies in lawsuits brought by groups of workers. His firm reported the 2012 data in July.
"When employees are laid off, that may be an opportunity for them to seek legal counsel either to see if there's any basis for contesting their termination or to make sure that what they're receiving in severance or other benefits is proper," Alfred said in a telephone interview.
Jason Rozger, a partner at Beranbaum Menken LLP in New York, which represents employees, said high unemployment gives companies leverage to compel work off the clock because people are worried about losing their jobs. That changes once they get fired, he said.
"As unemployment goes up, people get laid off and they're no longer worried about retaliation," Rozger said in a phone interview.
Fired Workers
Attorneys for terminated employees seeking advice may be prompted to look into wage-and-hour lawsuits, Alfred said.
"I don't suggest these cases are brought in such a cavalier way, but they're complicated," he said.
Different courts have reached different conclusions on the same questions, such as which employees are entitled to overtime pay, he said.
Ambiguities in the Fair Labor Standards Act, which establishes standards for overtime pay, also contribute to the volume of cases, the lawyers said. The law, enacted in 1938 and amended in 2004, defines which workers are entitled to extra pay for working more than 40 hours a week.
It exempts executive, professional and outside sales workers, among others, laying down rules for each category. Someone exempted as an administrator, for example, must do office or "non-manual" work related to "the management or general business operations" of the company.
The worker's primary duty must include "the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance."
Programmer Exemption
Computer programmers, defined as those who analyze and design computer systems, are exempt from the overtime requirement. Some employers try to classify workers performing rote computer tasks under the exception, Rozger said.
"The fact that you're using a computer doesn't mean you're not entitled to overtime," he said.
Alfred said the labor law is outdated.
"It is complicated, confusing, difficult for employers to apply laws that were written and adopted in a very different industrial setting to today's far more technological workplace," Alfred said. "Proper application of the exemption depends on many unclear concepts -- concepts that can be interpreted differently by very well-intentioned people."
Lawsuits arise over which workers exercise "discretion and independent judgment." In one such case, information technology workers at Amdocs Inc., a software company, sued for overtime pay in federal court in San Francisco in September 2010.
The employees claimed they "primarily performed non-exempt duties including providing computer support, trouble shooting, testing related to repairs and problem-solving and/or other technical services," according to a December 2011 court order certifying the case as a class action, or group lawsuit.
"Plaintiffs have submitted evidence showing that they used procedures and manuals to perform their jobs, and that they did not have the discretion to deviate from prescribed guidelines," U.S. District Judge Susan Illston wrote.
She said the question of whether the employees' primary duty "includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment" should go to trial. The case is pending.
Amdocs argued in a court filing that the workers "fall squarely within this exemption from minimum wage and overtime." While arguing that the plaintiffs fell within the computer- programmer exception, Amdocs said they would be exempt under other provisions of the law anyway.
Class Size
Amdocs told the court the class as certified might include more than 700 people.
Similar issues arose in cases filed last year against Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) by home-mortgage consultants. The consultants were paid commissions and didn't get overtime. They sued Wells Fargo and the Wachovia Mortgage Corp. unit it acquired in 2008, alleging the companies misclassified them and owed them overtime pay. A judge in Houston certified two classes on Aug. 10.
Wells Fargo said in a court filing that it changed its classification system because of "legislative and regulatory changes affecting the industry" and "to remain competitive with other mortgage lenders."
The San Francisco-based bank estimated the proposed class would include 21,000 people. Alfred said cases have also turned on disputes over tracking hours for employees who can work from home or who spend five minutes on a work-related phone call while technically off the clock.
Independent Contractors
The use of independent contractors has prompted legal actions ranging from mass litigation on behalf of FedEx Ground drivers, now before a federal appeals court in Chicago, to individual disputes.
A U.S. Labor Department-commissioned study in 2000 found that 10 percent to 30 percent of companies in nine states misclassified workers.
Sometimes growth leads to violations because a company is unprepared to handle employee classification, said Jahan Sagafi, a partner with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, in San Francisco, which represents plaintiffs.
Growing companies should be careful to get "adequate HR protections" in place to comply with the law, Sagafi said.
Greater awareness of the law is fueling the litigation, the three lawyers said. As Congress debated Fair Labor Standards Act amendments in 2003, filings under the law almost doubled, to 4,055 from 2,035 in 2002, according to the Federal Judicial Center, the research arm of the federal courts.
Sagafi said he has worked on cases involving information technology workers and the computer-professional exemption. He said he has also seen cases in the drug and retail industries. Alfred cited retailing as a frequent source of wage-and- hour litigation, along with hospitals and hospitality.
"The fact that they continue to be brought in record numbers is something that corporate America is paying attention to," he said.
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When it comes to celebrity clothing and accessories line, Jessica Simpson has emerged as the somewhat surprise chart-topper.
It feels like not a week passes without the news of an emerging celebrity fashion brand, ranging from mass bargain chain tween lines to one-time collaborations, and everything in between. At the same time, each week brings the public another celebrity gossip weekly with Jessica Simpson somewhere in its pages, most often the target of some sort of criticism.
It may seem like a shock, then, that Simpson would come out on top, grossing around $1 billion for her namesake brand over the years, and expanding from shoes to swimwear to jeans and beyond. Apparently, an entirely different set of metrics applies to celebrity lifestyle brands. Simpson, in this arena, has beat out the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Madonna—both mega-watt stars that generally outshine the rest, but not when their names are on tags of items shoppers want to buy.
Simpson's retail success makes sense, really. She doesn't always say the brightest things, like everybody else, and gets unfairly scrutinized for her weight. She's beautiful, talented and highly imperfect—stars, they are just like us. And she has channeled that relatable nature into her shoes, clothing and accessories, which are affordable, unfussy and generally cute—just like her. It's an extremely winning combination after all.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Jay Harrison scored the go-ahead goal with 4:50 left, helping the Carolina Hurricanes to a 3-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night.
Harrison fired a slap shot from the right point after Eric Staal won the faceoff, and the puck beat Buffalo's Ryan Miller on the short side.
Alexander Semin tied it for the Hurricanes early in the third period, and Jeff Skinner scored an empty-net goal for Carolina, which has won two straight games. Dan Ellis made 40 saves in his first start for the Hurricanes.
Thomas Vanek scored for Buffalo (2-1-0), losers of two in a row. Miller stopped 39 shots in his first loss of the season.


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ITM Cup - Round 13
Waikato book final against Canterbury
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August 26, 2011
Wellington's Apoua Stewart and North Harbour's Solomon King vie for a high ball © Getty Images
Waikato will play host to Canterbury in Saturday's ITM Cup final after defeating Auckland 26-19 at Hamilton.
It was a commanding performance from Waikato, who entered the match needing to win and collect a bonus point to ensure their presence in next weekend's final. They did precisely that but left it until the 84th minute when former All Blacks first five-eighth Stephen Donald scored his second try and his team's fourth after a withering burst from All Blacks' Liam Messam.
Auckland scored 10 points while Donald was in the sin-bin in the second-half including a fine try to wing George Moala, to lead 19-14 after 55 minutes. But Donald found redemption when he returned to the field because it was his converted try which lifted Waikato back into the lead with one quarter remaining. And it was he who applied the icing to their finals cake after Messam burst 40m up the middle of the field after Waikato forced a turnover.
Earlier, Waikato were well worth their 14-9 half-time lead and should have been ahead by more. Messam was in the thick of the action and had a leading hand in both of his team's two tries before the interval. He made a half beak in the 18th minute before turning the ball inside to centre Save Tokula, who offloaded for fullback Trent Renata to score. Eleven minutes later Messam made a clean break over 30m and featured again in the same move as he provided the final pass which set second five-eighth Jackson Willison en route to the line.
Canterbury beat Otago 29-16 in Dunedin on Saturday to claim the honour of facing Waikato in next week's final.
Despite needing four tries to secure a home final - Canterbury managed just three in Dunedin's new Forsyth Barr Stadium. However it was Otago who went into the break in front. Canterbury's 20-year-old Tyler Bleyendaal put the away side in front with a penalty before Ben Smith opened the try scoring for the home side after he crashed into the corner. They soon extended their lead through a Glen Dickson penalty for Otago, but Bleyendaal dotted down for Canterbury to reduce the deficit. And following a missed conversion both sides traded penalties with the home side going into the break in front.
With a 13-11 lead at the interval, Dickson stepped up to rack up his third penalty of the night in the 43rd minute. But Tom Taylor profited from good work from Buxton Popoali'i to put the away side in front. And despite Bleyendaal's erratic form from the tee, Canterbury closed out the win when Robbie Fruean intercepted an Otago pass and sprinted 60 metres to score under the posts. Try as they might, Canterbury were unable to stretch their lead and secure the all important four try bonus but they will be pleased with the win.
And on Thursday, fly-half Aaron Cruden gave another masterful display as leaders Manawatu secured a championship final against Hawke's Bay with a 27-23 win over bottom-placed Tasman in their clash in Nelson.
Cruden scored 22 points for the home team, picking up two tries as well as setting up a third, but the victory wasn't assured until his decisive try with five minutes to go. Tasman opened the scoring through Joe Wheeler in the sixth minute who then doubled his tally soon after. The second half turned into a battle of attrition until the 63rd minute when flanker Doug Tietjens crashed over. Another Andrew Goodman penalty put Tasman back in front, but Manawatu continued to pound the Tasman line, and eventually the pressure told as Manawatu shifted the ball wide to find Cruden with space and time to dot down.
Manawatu faced another match just three days later on Tuesday against Otago due to a previous postponement with Otago taking the spoils 28-20. Tony Brown proved to be the difference between the two sides coming on in the second-half and steering the side to victory. Doug Tietjens put Manawatu in front in the first-half but Paul Grant struck back for Otago. Going into the second-half 13-8 down, Otago had much to do and Scott Mason crashed over to draw the game. Gareth Evans then put Otago in front with Buxton Popoalii stretching the lead soon after. Aaron Cruden entered the field later on but it was not enough to prevent the defeat although they did score a late try through Waisea Qiokata.
Other headlines from the round included Taranaki keeping the Ranfurly Shield after overcoming Hawke's Bay 29-11 at New Plymouth four days after lifting the shield off Southland.
Young first-five-eighth Beauden Barrett ensured good work from his forwards was not squandered by producing a flawless goal kicking display as he landed seven from seven for an individual haul of 19 points. The breakthrough came in the 34th minute when a strong surge into the 22 by the Taranaki forwards ended with left wing Frazier Climo scoring to put them 16-3 up at half-time. Taranaki opened the scoring in the second-half through second five-eighth Jayden Hayward. They approached the three-quarter mark seemingly safe at 23-6 although Hawke's Bay raised their hopes with a try from wing Richard Buckman but it proved to be in vain.
On Sunday - Bay of Plenty ran in four tries against Southland winning 29-17 at Invercargill on Sunday. The game was effectively a dead-rubber as Southland were already confirmed for relegation while Canterbury and Waikato had secured the finals berth. The visitors led 15-7 at halftime following two tries through Phil Burleigh and Ben Smith. The second half was more of the same, with Burleigh collecting his second try. There was no cooling off period though as Southland collected further five-pointers to flanker John Hardie and Cardiff Vaeaga but the best of the lot was an individual effort from Bay of Plenty replacement flanker Sam Cane, who collected a loose lineout throw on the halfway line and sped off to outpace the defence.
On Saturday, Counties-Manukau surged into third spot after a 34-19 win over Northland in Pukekohe. International sevens star Sherwin Stowers starred for Counties Manukau with a hat-trick of tries. Stowers' pace saw him open the scoring in just the third minute and three minutes later Counties scored again through second five Bundee Aki but Northland broke back through Bryce Heem. A solo try by powerful halfback Augustine Pulu followed quickly before Stowers scored his second of the night. An intercept try by wing Ahsee Tuala gave Counties a stranglehold on the game but Northland finally broke a tiring Counties defence twice through halfback Rhyan Cain and substitute Jack McPhee but surrendered another try to Stowers in the final minute.
On Friday night Wellington secured their spot in next year's Premiership division by bumbling their way to a 29-28 win over North Harbour in Albany. North Harbour outscored their rivals four tries to two with David Raikuna crossing the line twice alongside Chris Smylie and James Parsons. However, Wellington had the boot of Lima Sopoaga to thank with the fly-half contributing 19 points to the total. The away side's tries came through discarded All Blacks wing Hosea Gear and Faifili Levave.
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Date of Incident: Monday, December 12, 1927
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: excuted in 1928
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Sergeant Teague succumbed to gunshot wounds received two weeks earlier when he and several other officers raided a home on Oak Street while searching for a suspect wanted for murdering a security guard.
The suspect was apprehended; convicted of two counts of first degree murder; and sentenced to death. He was executed in the electric chair on April 27, 1928.
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text: Even though I have a little over a month to go, my 30th birthday (eek!) is fast approaching! Taking a cue from Elizabeth's tip to plan ahead for parties, I've already gotten a head start on some of my party decor. That's right, with the help of my boyfriend, I'm […] Read More »