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This weekend, independent video game developers and fans gathered for the international IndieCade Festival in Los Angeles.
One of the featured speakers Saturday was sound designer Ben Prunty, who integrates audio into some of the most popular independent video games. Prunty composed the soundtrack to the computer game Faster Than Light, which was nominated for IGN's Best Overall Music and Best PC Sound of 2012.
In the spaceship simulator game, players get to explore the galaxy, while acting as captain of the ship. "You're commanding your crew, you're telling your crew to go fix the engines or go put out this fire in the room," Prunty tells NPR's Arun Rath.
Prunty says he aimed to create a retro sound in the overall feel of the game. "The game itself looks retro," he says. "It looks like a PC game from the '80s."
He hunts through online sound libraries to find unusual sounds to build texture. "I found a sound library that was all just recordings of light bulbs being struck," he says. "It's really strange, but it made for unique sounding percussion, and it's giving the game a very unique sound that you won't hear ... anywhere else. "
When the crew has to take on enemy ships, special music accompanies the battle scenes.
Prunty says there are special secrets to getting all of the sounds to blend together. For example, he'll write two versions of the same track, but one has an extra element, like percussion.
"While the game is going, [the tracks are] technically both playing at the same time, but then it cross-fades between the two," he says. "So when the battle starts ... it just sounds like it's suddenly changing to a more exciting piece."
The soundtrack tune "Milky Way" has become a fan favorite, and Prunty says he's not really sure why it's caught on.
"We included it in the trailer, so it was the very first thing that everyone heard. It's very retro."
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath.
RATH: An excellent soundtrack can make any video game feel cinematic and epic, drawing you deep into a virtual world. Ben Prunty creates some of that music for a few of the popular independent video games out there, including this song, "Mantis," from last year's giant hit "Faster Than Light" or "FTL," nominated for IGN's best overall music and best PC sound of 2012.
This week, Prunty is one of the featured speakers at the IndieCade Festival in L.A., a gathering of independent game developers from around the world. And he joins me now in the studio. Ben, welcome.
BEN PRUNTY: Hi.
RATH: Tell us about this game, "Faster Than Light." How do you play?
PRUNTY: It's a spaceship simulator game. Instead of piloting the ship, you're more like the captain, kind of like in "Star Trek." So you're commanding your crew. You're telling your crew to, like, oh, go fix the engines or go put out this fire in the room or...
RATH: It's more strategy in chess game than first-person shooter, kind of.
PRUNTY: Exactly.
RATH: Let's hear a little bit of the battle sound, though, first.
PRUNTY: Sure, yeah.
RATH: All right, that's clearly a battle. Definitely something in a marshal mood. How do you make it so the music reacts to what's going on?
PRUNTY: There are two tracks. I write a piece of music, but it doesn't have percussion, let's say. And then I'll write another version of the same track that has the same musical cues, the same chords, but then I add, let's say, percussion over that. While the game is going, they're technically both playing at the same time but then it cross-fades between the two. So when the battle starts, it just cross-fades to the other track. And it just sounds like it's suddenly changing.
RATH: So they're all running simultaneously.
PRUNTY: Yeah.
RATH: Well, like an old eight-track tape player, right?
PRUNTY: Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
RATH: And you're just flipping in between them when...
PRUNTY: Yeah, except the game's doing it when you're playing, yeah.
RATH: Right. You're currently working on sound for an upcoming game called "Gravity Ghost" with Indie game designer Erin Robinson. What was her vision for the music in this new project?
PRUNTY: "Gravity Ghost," Erin was like, I want it to be kind of weird and whimsical.
RATH: What did you add to make it weird (unintelligible)?
PRUNTY: I just sort of like, didn't leave out any instruments than I thought. Maybe it was like, oh, maybe we'll put in electric guitar, maybe we'll do like a rock drums or something or any kind of instrument I could think of. And she seemed to like all of it, so...
RATH: Let's take a listen to that.
RATH: What's your setup as you're writing and deciding what kind of sounds you'll be pulling in? Like, what's your kind of bank of sounds that you're pulling from?
PRUNTY: I find libraries online. There are a lot of unusual sound libraries. I found a sound library that was all just recordings of light bulbs being struck. And it's really strange, but it made for neat-sounding percussion. And it's giving the game a very unique sound that you won't hear, like, anywhere else.
RATH: I want to play a little more music. There are some fan favorites out there. This one's called "Milky Way."
PRUNTY: Yes.
RATH: Let's hear a little bit of that.
RATH: It's one of the more retro ones, for sure.
PRUNTY: It's very retro, yeah.
RATH: I feel like I should be watching, like, a science program from 1981 or...
PRUNTY: Yeah.
RATH: But it really puts you in that space.
PRUNTY: Yeah, yeah.
RATH: What kind of stuff do you listen to? What sort of music do you listen to for inspiration or just for pleasure?
PRUNTY: I'm a huge fan of funk music, and that kind of influenced "FTL" a little because there's a lot of, like, strong baselines in "FTL."
RATH: Uh-huh. Nice. You know, I'm going to go back now and see if I can hear any traces of Bootsy Collins in those games. But, Ben, that was great. Thank you so much.
PRUNTY: Hey, thanks. Yeah.
RATH: Ben Prunty is a sound designer for Indie video games. He's one of the speakers at this weekend's IndieCade, the gathering of Indie game developers. Ben, thanks again.
PRUNTY: Thank you.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The type bars of the typewriters are in disarray, random bars clustering together or jammed in odd angles, causing the typewriter to malfunction and cease working. Though the colours of the type bars are vibrant and diverse, it could not save the visual chaos created in the painting. Vani reveals the issue of the modern society in this work; in our eagerness to have our opinions known at once, and in our stubbornness to retain individuality, it does not lead to a quicker resolution or completion, but adversely creates inactivity and passiveness instead.
Born in 1981 in Semarang, Indonesia, artist Vani Hidayatur Rahman is currently based in Jogjakarta. He has shown his works in various group exhibitions including ArtJog 2013: Maritime Culture, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta; Return to Home, International Union of Unified Ummah Cartoon Contest, Iran (2012); Manifesto, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta (2010). Vani has received a number of art awards including the Best Painting accolade at the 2012 Jakarta Art Awards and was a finalist at the 2008 Jakarta Art Awards.
Vani Hidayatur Rahman has made a name for himself with his distinctive and realistic style. With his highly complex paintings that are adorned with detailed embellishments, Vani imbues a strong concept and story into each piece and addresses pertinent political, social and environmental issues that span war to pollution. In his artwork entitled "Unity," Vani depicts a large ark - a motif that has been reiterated by other Indonesian painters such as Widayat and Amrus Natalya. However, Vani presents his own interpretation of the timber vessel by painting it in an unfinished stage of construction and glory - a group of workers on deck are still sawing, carrying wooden beams and measuring for dimensions. The flurry of activity is painted from a birds-eye view and aerial perspective, with the entire structure and frame visible - allowing the viewer to feel as if he or she is an omniscient being looking down from above.
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DEAR ABBY: I am very concerned for my henpecked son who is expecting his first child. He works long hours (50-plus a week) at a low-paying job with an hour commute. His wife works part-time (10 hours a week). The problem is, their tiny apartment is a pigsty, and she doesn�t clean or pick up. She expects him to do it all, and he tries to, while she reads and makes baby quilts.
How do I tactfully get her to do her share now, before the baby comes and she expects my son to �help her� even more? He is totally overburdened, stressed out, but seemingly happy. Until I saw the condition of their apartment I had suspected it was bad, but had no idea how bad the situation really was. � DESPAIRING MOM IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR DESPAIRING MOM: Not knowing your daughter-in-law, I can�t judge whether she is lazy, or whether the reason she isn�t doing more around the apartment is pregnancy-related. You say your son is happy. Be GRATEFUL for that. Rather than �tactfully getting her to do her share,� why not volunteer to help them until your grandchild is on a regular sleep schedule? It would make you appear to be an angel instead of critical, and bring the three of you a lot closer than you appear to be. However, if your offer is refused, then accept that this is how your son and daughter-in-law prefer to live.
DEAR ABBY: I spent tonight in a parking lot, knowing I had no options. My husband of 25 years is an alcoholic and abusive. I have two teenage children at home. I�m in bad health and haven�t worked in decades. I�m trapped.
I have the typical arguments with my daughter. My son is a gem who stays home because he doesn�t want to leave us with his father. It�s a sad situation.
While catching up on reading Dear Abby tonight, I saw a number for an abuse hotline where they will help me with a plan to leave. I have no money, no chance of getting a job. But that number gave me a glimmer of hope. It seems too good to be true, but I�ll make that call. Thank you, Abby. � BEATEN DOWN IN TEXAS
DEAR BEATEN DOWN: I�m glad you are making that call to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Part of the reason you feel so hopeless and �beaten down� is that for so many years your abuser chipped away at your self-esteem.
For any other reader who may have missed that column and needs the toll-free phone number, it is 800-799-7233.
DEAR ABBY: My good friend �Claire� has two daughters, 8 and 10. Her younger daughter is the same age as my daughter and they are very close. We spend a lot of time with them and have the girls at our house often.
After the last sleepover, my daughter commented that the sisters argue all the time and it�s not fun having them over anymore. She would like to invite only the younger daughter for a sleepover, but we have put off asking as we are afraid of hurting the older daughter�s feelings by not including her. Actually, I�m afraid it might hurt the mother�s feelings, too. What�s the best way to invite only one sibling? � SLEEPOVER NIGHTMARE
DEAR S.N.: If the girls are arguing when they�re at your house, you can bet it�s happening at home, too. Talk to Claire and explain what happened and your daughter�s reaction. The older girl should be interacting/socializing with friends of her own.
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Art For Art's Sake?
A few years ago, the University of Auckland changed the name of its Department of Fine Arts to The National Institute for the Creative Arts and Industries. The Institute includes things like music, art, dance and architecture.
I remember talking to some people at the time and being the only person who didn't think that this was a Good Idea. I was politely vilified for being old-fashioned, reactionary and out of step with reality.
My theory, then and now, is that although artists and creative types need to have some sort of financial support, they should not be organized around a profit motive, and the term "creative industries" sounds a little too entrepreneurial to me.
I welcome discussion on the topic, but I remain firmly convinced that "fine arts" are things like chamber music and Syd Barrett, while reality TV and Lady Gaga are Creative Industries. Or maybe just industries in themselves.
But it turns out that there is an even darker side to the welding of fine art and industry, and that is the blurring of the line between industrial waste and art.
Consider two recent offerings from artists down under.
Back in May, a group of artists who call themselves "Greatest Hits" put together an exhibition called "De Facto Standard." It was displayed at a Melbourne gallery whose "programming foregrounds engaged artistic practice which is challenging, experimental, exploratory, and diverse."
It turns out that the exhibit is the air. Well, actually, the scent in the air which will be "the uniquely appealing scent of a freshly unwrapped MacBook, iPad or Apple TV."
Yes. You go into an art gallery and instead of looking at a painting or sculpture you smell the air. And you are transported because the smell reminds you of the time you took your last Apple product out of the box.
Yes, but is it art?
According to the article I read, the artists engaged the services of a company called Air Aroma "to scientifically recreate the smell of an Apple unboxing." Unboxing!
It was a big challenge and French perfume chemists were enlisted to create "the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China."
The way they did it was the artists shipped a previously unopened Apple Macbook Pro computer to the "fragrance lab." There it was "unboxed," and the odor that emanated from the box was sniffed by the "professional perfume makers" and they drew on their experience to pull together the component scents and voila, Eau de Unboxed Apple was created. The perfume makers didn't get to keep the computer and the artists brag that it travelled 55,000 kilometers around the world as part of the project.
If, like me, you are a philistine and think that art is painting a picture or making a sculpture or writing a poem, you will be disinclined to include in the art category the act of sending a piece of equipment to a perfumer and having them replicate the smell. It all just seems a little too, well, industrial.
According to my dictionary, "art" is defined as "the conscious use of skills and creative imagination in the production of aesthetic objects." And this seems to fail on every point.
But I have an even bigger objection.
Think about it. Human effort (and fossil fuels to fly the thing 55,000 kilometers) are being expended to blow into the air the concatenated smell of a bunch of arguably carcinogenic chemical smells. And why? Because it is a smell that some people find particularly appealing.
And that is the key issue. Who are "some people?" It's impossible to tell for sure, but based on the number of Macbooks sold, less than 1% of the population of the world have one. So this smell isn't exactly as known and loved as something like freshly baked bread.
Not only that, doesn't the whole idea of capturing the smell of a trophy purchase when you open the box seem a little bit materialistic? I mean, why did you buy the computer? Presumably to do something, ideally, productive. Maybe even artistic.
But I must be wrong, because in the world of Creative Industries, Apple products appear to be as inspiring as the Last Supper was to Leonardo.
Not to be outdone, a NZ artist has, according to the article I read "stunned the New York art world with his series of photographs depicting 'Deep Fried Gadgets'."
Yes. iPods, iPhones and laptops that really look like they have been deep fried and placed on plates in order to look as if they are being served for dinner have been photographed and the photos are on display. Yum yum.
I'm not saying that we have the term "Creative Industries" to blame, and I don't want to appear snobbish, but I sort of wish that artists drew their inspiration from more human experiences than the latest Apple product. It's one thing if an artist makes something interesting out of old car parts or junk. That's creative. Buying something and opening the box is just industry. What do you think?


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MPM Earns Prestigious Spot on Inc. 5000 List December 4, 2012
mem property management corporation, a full-service condominium management firm headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with a mem property management Somerset and Galloway office has achieved the esteemed position of 556 on the Inc. 5000 List, a renowned recognition of the top 5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States.
For more than 30 years, the Inc. 5000 List has illustrated and celebrated companies that have experienced flourishing financial success, showcasing their ability to grow and adapt no matter the economic climate. Achieving a spot on the 2012 Inc. 5000 List is an especially notable designation, due in part to the economic turmoil experienced by the country over the last several years.
Ranked 556 of 5000 on the list, mem property management stands as a testament to positive growth, both fiscally and economically. From 2008 to 2011, the Jersey City management firm experienced a spectacular financial boom as it jumped an unprecedented 672% in revenue over just a three-year span. mem property management also expanded its workforce to add 16 additional employees in order to support the organization's positive growth.
"To be honored with a spot on the Inc. 5000 list is something that we're extremely proud of and something that we feel truly showcases the dedication that we've put into growing mem property management," said Martin H. Laderman, Owner of the full-service management firm. "I've always felt that our organization has had great tenacity—a characteristic that's been proven by our ability to keep driving forward and growing positively."
As a recognized Inc. 5000 company, mem property management will share the stage with a number of other nationally recognized businesses, including notable past honorees Microsoft, Facebook, Zappos and Under Armour. Peaking in the 500's of the list, the company also received recognition from Inc. as number 14 in the list's top real estate companies, as well as number 25 in the New Jersey profiles and number 44 in the New York metro standings.
"Our rank and designations within the Inc. 5000 list are an incredible complement to our firm, simply because we're immortalized beside some of the greatest companies in history," said Laderman. "Looking forward, we're motivated to keep growing our bottom line, while retaining the superior business model that has given way to such intense growth over the past few years. We're also expanding the number of mem property management jobs available for people planning a career in New Jersey."
For over 20 years, mem property management Corporation has been serving New Jersey and its surrounding areas. The company prides itself on management services that focus on protecting investments and maximizing returns. Under the direction of dedicated team leaders, mem property management professionals focus on problem prevention rather than problem resolution, which has resulted in the maximization of asset value and increased levels of comfort, service and resident retention in its properties.


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Today marked another day that folks around the Big Island came together to help clean up some illegal dump sites.
Today's target was 9 dumping sites of MANY illegal dumping sites in the Hawaii Ocean View Estates area.
I'd like to personally thank the more then 70 volunteers that showed up and participated in this clean up that was partially funded by the County of Hawaii.
I'd like to say thanks to the following businesses, groups and agencies that were here this morning: Office of the County Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii Police Department, Office of the Mayor, Prevent Illegal Dumping Task Force, Goodfellow Brothers Inc., Pacific Waste Inc., Superior Sanitation, Ocean View Auto Parts, Big Island Scrap Metal, Junk Yard Dog Towing, Arrow Hawaiian, Precision Construction, The Opala in Paradise Facebook Group, Kolohe Auto Repair and Big Island Gear.
A very special mahalo to Cynthia "Starsha" Young of Keep Hawaii Beautiful and to Mark Dubois of Atlas Recycling Centers for really stepping forward and getting this coordinated.
Also, to all those kind folks that showed up from The Kau Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You folks really came out in numbers and the support was certainly appreciated.
I'd also like to personally thank Kevin Dayton of the Mayors office for taking video of it and submitting it to some of his contacts.
It's not over… this was just the first step of several community clean-ups down there. Dubois then showed us this HUGE Lava Pit that is quickly getting used as an illegal dumpsite that will need to be taken care of with some heavy machinery.
As I was leaving… I noticed many more illegal dump sites in the area. I'm not sure what is going on in that area… it is good to hear that they finally got a "Temporary" transfer station put in there a year ago so maybe this will stop a bit.
Feel free to click on any of the pictures below for larger images… if your eyes dare:
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STOCKTON - Brookside Christian is adjusting after baseball coach Gregg Marsh abruptly resigned following the Knights' 4-3 loss to Lathrop on Wednesday at Billy Hebert Field.
STOCKTON - Brookside Christian is adjusting after baseball coach Gregg Marsh abruptly resigned following the Knights' 4-3 loss to Lathrop on Wednesday at Billy Hebert Field.
The Knights won 10 of 12 games it played under Marsh, who was in his third season coaching at Brookside Christian.
Knights athletic director Ron Ayers said Marsh's resignation, which he received in a text message following Wednesday's game, caught him by surprise and that he hasn't yet spoken with Marsh.
"It left us with short notice," said Ayers, who assumed the athletic director's post in August. The Knights played their first Central California Athletic Alliance game Thursday and beat Modesto-Big Valley Christian, 10-2.
"I'm real proud how the players handled themselves," Ayers said.
A parent of a Brookside Christian player, who asked not to be identified, said Marsh didn't listen to parents' concerns regarding playing time, and that he was unorganized and "didn't bring anything to the team" as a coach.
"It's just him not liking anyone else's opinion," the parent said. "He's very unorganized. He never had meetings with the parents, never wanted to face anybody who had an issue. Instead of getting everybody in a group and stand up as a man and a manager, he would take it in the corner and of course, that just kept the bleeding going, kind of self-exploding."
Marsh said he never has experienced such a level of poor parental behavior in his coaching career, which includes two years at McNair and eight at Franklin. He said parents sometimes took to the field during practices and games to confront players and coaches, and some shouted obscenities at umpires and coaches from the stands.
"And this is a Christian school," Marsh said.
"The last year and a half, a group of parents that have come in that are travel-ball types of parents, they're very confrontational," said Marsh, a security supervisor at St. Joseph's Medical Center. "They're very vocal, whether they come to practice or try to coach from the stands."
This season, parents were banned from attending practices, though the school allowed them to watch from inside their cars in the parking lot at Grupe Park, where the team works out. The Knights play their home games at Billy Hebert Field.
Marsh said he and his assistant coaches were confronted numerous times by parents in the parking lot after practices and games, and discipline issues surfaced among the players, including the throwing of helmets.
Marsh said he voiced his concerns with Ayers, but Ayers, "doesn't know how to deal with these types of parents."
"The main thing was the constant confrontation with three or four parents that got up in your face," Marsh said. "It just got to the point where it was unhealthy for the kids."
Ayers managed the team Thursday and is looking for a permanent replacement.
Contact sports editor Bob Highfill at (209) 546-8282 or email@example.com.


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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Keep voting!
Reminder! Keep voting for the Bison! Tell everyone! Use twitter, tell your Facebook/Myspace buddies, post it everywhere. Vote Kemp!
Click here to vote.
4 comments:
- Falling LEAVes said...
lol is it me, or does Matt Kemp's bobble head look like he's flipping people off? I'm heading out to Dodger Stadium now to get my tickets. I'm either getting two in the lower reserve or loge box. Top Deck is already sold out. I checked online last night. Hopefully they'll still have some in either of those two sections when I get there. You never know. I wanted to wait till Thursday to get them when I go for the movie night, but I don't want to risk them selling out. I've had that happen before.
- July 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- aLex said...
lol i bought all of top deck tickets
i have like 10 left...
- July 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM
- Roberto Baly said...
Matt Kemp does that after hitting a Home Run. He is pointing toward the sky. Good luck in buying tickets. :)
- July 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Falling LEAVes said...
are you serious Alex? man, I could've gotten two from you instead of buying lower reserve?
- July 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM


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Software distribution on modern smartphones tends to be centralised in markets. Just as iPhone has iTunes, Android has the Android Market, but also allows other markets such as F-Droid.
The Android Market application is not Free Software, and is only available for hardware that passes compatibility testing and whose manufacturer agrees a licence with Google[1]. Since Linaro has done neither, Linaro builds are in the same boat as Cyanogenmod[2] when it comes to installing Google apps.
One app market we can use though is F-Droid[3], but installing it revealed an interesting bug[4]: Google's latest hardware requirements require devices to have a touchscreen and Android causes all apps to implicitly require it. There's a reasonable argument for doing so, but since development boards don't have any built-in screen, it means most apps are marked as incompatible. Fortunately, Linaro images are typically installed to an µSD card, and it's simple enough to edit the permissions files on the device
cp frameworks/base/data/etc/* /media/system/etc/permissions
On next boot the device reports up all permissions to F-Droid and we're able to install everything.
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This week comedian and Philly native Todd Glass appeared on What the Fuck with Marc Maron and publicly announced that he was gay. In the interview with Maron, Glass admits one of the main reasons he decided to come out was the sense of guilt he was feeling after hearing stories about gay teens committing suicide over their sexuality. Philly native and friend of Todd Glass Blake Wexler wrote this reaction on Laughspin after Glass' interview on WTF.
This week comedian Eddie Brill was fired from his job as talent booker for Late Night with David Letterman after a backlash over a profile on him in the New York Times in which he made comments about why he rarely booked female comics for the show. Then, in the comments of this Mirth Magazine article Brill defends himself, saying some of his quotes were taken out of context and gets responses from both Jason Zinoman (the writer of the NY Times profile) and comedian Amy Schumer.
Multiple comedians were openly critical of Dane Cook after a drop in set he had this week at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. Comedian TJ Miller wrote that Cook took the stage and was "vicious, misogynistic, cruel and arrogant" along with being disrespectful to the audience, and comedy in general. Cook responded via Laughspin with his thoughts that comedians can't be critics, and offering to take Miller, along with member of the A.V. Club to a spa.
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Further good news arrived from HTC and it seems that this is indeed the week of Ice Cream Sandwich-love. First Google announced that it's rolling-out Android 4.0 to a couple of Gingerbread and Honeycomb devices, then HTC announced to have its first series of dedicated Android 4.0 devices on sale early next week, today HTC has also started to roll-out its promised Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades for the HTC Sensation and Sensation XE - to customers across Europe. Unfortunately, HTC is "only" rolling-out Android 4.0.3, not 4.0.4, and the new HTC Sense version isn't 4.0 but 3.6 "only". Nevertheless, like Sense 4.0, Sense 3.6 also comes with plenty of improvements, it's much "lighter" as well as it is cleaner and therefore faster.
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UPDATE 30.03.12: In a recent blog posting, HTC has confirmed that it has started the Android 4.0 roll-out for its Sensation and Sensation XE: "Most European carriers will start rolling-out ICS for these devices this week. For carriers outside of Europe, we will be pushing updates over the next few weeks and will have specifics soon."
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OK everyone, the Social Security Blogger Award Voting is now open! You can vote for the winners at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TMRP8Z5
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- A huge thanks to our judges for nominating the finalists. Ericka Chickowski, George Hulme, Dan Raywood, Kelly Jackson-Higgins and Rich Mogull.
- We hope to see you all at RSA this where the winners will be announced at the Security Bloggers Meetup.
- If you are going to RSA be sure to register for the Rugged DevOps event on Monday at the Moscone Center. Free to anyone with any type of RSA ticket (even just expo pass holders). You can register for the event on the RSA Conference website
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Graham Cluley https://www.grahamcluley.com/
J4vv4d http://www.j4vv4d.com/
Liquid Matrix http://www.liquidmatrix.org/
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Erratasec http://blog.erratasec.com/
Emergent Chaos http://www.emergentchaos.com/
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Errata Security/Rob Graham
Trend Micro Security Intelligence blog http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence
Graham Cluley https://www.grahamcluley.com/
Cryptography Engineering http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/
Troy Hunt http://troyhunt.com/
Journey into IR http://journeyintoir.blogspot.com/
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TechNet JE Payne http://blogs.technet.com/b/jepayne/
Digital Shadows Blog https://www.digitalshadows.com/blog-and-research/
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The Irari Report http://www.irarireport.com/
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Troy Hunt - It's 2016 already, how are websites still screwing up these user experiences? (http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/01/its-2016-already-how-are-websites-still.html)
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Haha! When I am rehearsing for a show, I will do all my rehearsing when I am alone so no one hears me getting all the notes wrong and messing up them Cs LOL. Besides, I am shy. XD
While I am a bit of a metal head, well power/symphonic metal mostly, I have a love for 80's rock music and I might be caught singing along to BonJovi or something. haha!
Hanging out on anime forums and playing MMOs.
LOL. Also my friends don't have a clue that I am a mod on a anime forum. They wouldn't hate me for it, just realise my weirdness goes deeper than they know and tease me. I don't fancy giving them the ammo. XDD My nerdiness is a wee bit of a secret, although, they do think that I am a computer nerd. I don't talk about my gaming either. They don't have the same interests, so I don't bore them with that stuff. XD.
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I suppose some things are just not worth bringing up to some people xD not that I think he'd flip out if I told him, but it's not really worth the effort. My xbox buddies know I'm a furry though, but I had to explain it only because they wanted to know where the name 'Ranshiin' came from.
Also one of them's a brony so >__>
Also there's nothing wrong with Bon Jovi. Blew out two sets of headphones with the intro to 'it's my life' over the course of my years. When you don't realise what volume the headphones are on and then that intro comes through, you count yourself lucky you don't go deaf >_>
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GEEK OUT like I'll sing vocaliod freak out over the last anime episode XD
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I practice singing opera. I've been trying to teach myself for years but so far it's not working too well. x3
I also talk to my doll collection and fix their outfits and hair. They're mostly porcelain ones so they just sit pretty most of the time and even the one non-porcelain one does the same since she's a Living Dead Doll. They all even have names. Elizabeth is actually a lamp, but you could never tell by looking at her until you noticed the chord falling out of her dress. I know they're not real, but when you're alone as often as I am and you've had these dolls for so long, you kind of become attached.
Sometimes I play with my Harry Potter Legos. I have the dark forest set and Bellatrix. The tree part of it has a thing where you can flick the people off of it so I try and see how far I can shoot Harry. xD I may be 18 but I don't think I'm ever going to grow up...
She has no shadows, and she radiates beauty.
Slender body, and two eyes like ebony.
Her spirit's golden, and her mind's a mystery.
I do the air Death Note.
I pretend to write in a non existing Death Note...
I do a lot, but I guess something I could share is that I act out scenes from movies.
I sing loudly and dunno why I march until the footsteps can be heard downstairs.
I imagine I'm in a movie and then act out the roles...... =3=
I just sit and stare blankedly into space
Anyways ... ontopic for once:
I usually do one of two things.
I either talk to myself. because I'm COMPLETELY INSANE
I sing music to myself. Or ... more ordinarily I terrible repeat hip-hop lyrics or sit in the corner of the bathtub when I'm taking a shower so I can a-capella bass lines that get a good reverberation off of the corner and the water.
... yeah. I'm insane.
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I'm a hardcore wrasslin' fan so now my embarrassing thing is I can't be near a ladder without pretending im in a ladder match, and its not just when I'm alone. aha
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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Stan Musial already has a statue in St. Louis named after him. If federal and state lawmakers get their way, a new Mississippi River bridge will also carry the name of the St. Louis Cardinals great.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and fellow Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois were proposing legislation Wednesday that would dub the new bridge the Stan Musial Memorial Bridge. The bridge carrying Interstate 70 traffic opens in 2014.
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We have our family Christmas tree downstairs in our basement where there is lots of room.
But I hated not having a tree on our main level, so I decided to buy a 4 foot tree for my entryway table. I didn't want to get to fancy with the decorations for it. I had 2 strands of felt balls strung on twine that I bought at Home Goods a while ago, so I put those on and then I had an idea to hang up my Instagram pictures that I had printed out in the summer. I just used mini clothes pins to put them on. I love the meaning behind it and also anyone that comes over loves to look at the photos on the tree.


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Mon, 25 October 2010
Story by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Julie Hoverson
In one of the longer Lovecraft stories, a dedicated skeptic is slowly brought round to an uncomfortable truth...
(Keep in mind, these stories were recorded when Julie was still learning how to mix and work with audio - so the sound quality may be a little ... patchy.)
Direct download: Whisperer_in_Darkness_8.mp3
Category:HPLovecraft_readings -- posted at: 8:14pm PDT


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Prior to 1980, Mount St. Helens had the shape of a conical, youthful volcano sometimes referred to as the Mount Fuji of America. During the 1980 eruption the upper 400 m (1,300 ft) of the summit was removed by a huge debris avalanche, leaving a 2 x 3.5 km (1.2 x 2.2 mi) horseshoe-shaped crater now partially filled by a lava dome and a glacier. It is primarily an explosive dacite volcano with a complex magmatic system.
Mount St. Helens was formed during four eruptive stages beginning about 275,000 years ago and has been the most active volcano in the Cascade Range during the Holocene. Prior to about 12,800 years ago, tephra, lava domes, and pyroclastic flows were erupted, forming the older St. Helens edifice, but a few lava flows extended beyond the base of the volcano. The bulk of the modern edifice (above the 1980 crater floor) was constructed during the last 3,000 years, when the volcano erupted a wide variety of products from summit and flank vents. Historical eruptions in the 19th century originated from the Goat Rocks area on the north flank, and were witnessed by early settlers. New unpublished data on the timing for Mount St. Helens eruptive activity have been analyzed, which improves some of the eruption dates cited in published literature. This website contains the most up to date information.
Since its 1980 eruption, the summit elevation has decreased. A survey in 1982 gave a measurement of 2549.7 m (8365 ft). However, a lidar survey done in 2009 found the maximum elevation to be 2539 m (8330 ft). The difference in elevation is likely due to erosion and loss of rimrock by crater-wall collapses.


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This week, Apple Computer announced that it sold a staggering 14 million iPod music players over the recently ended holiday quarter — more than 100 every minute. But as popular and well-designed as the iPod is, it's not perfect. There are a couple of aspects of the way it works, or doesn't work, that are becoming increasingly annoying as people acquire both more iPods and more computers.
First, you cannot use an iPod, out of the box, to copy your music collection to multiple computers you may own. Millions of iPod owners have more than one computer, and it's perfectly legal to copy the music you own to more than one computer. But the iPod won't help you do this.
Second, in families with multiple iPods sharing a single computer, the iPod's companion software, iTunes, doesn't allow you to have multiple music libraries. With multiple libraries, each user could see only his or her own music, and could synchronize his or her iPod with that personal music library.
Apple is aware of these shortcomings, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it solve the second one, multiple libraries, this year. But the first, the inability to use the iPod to copy music to multiple computers, is tougher. Apple was forced to cripple the iPod in this manner at the insistence of the record labels, which feared that it might be used to copy music too widely. So a fix probably requires negotiations with the labels, whose obsession with piracy has caused them to treat their own customers like criminals.
Luckily, there are solutions to both problems available today, through third-party software or workarounds. Here's a guide to those solutions.
First, here's how to use an iPod to copy music to multiple computers. You just have to download and install one of a number of small utility programs designed specifically to let you copy the music on the iPod to a computer. There are lots of these, for both Windows and Macintosh computers.
For Windows users, I suggest CopyPod, available for $20 with a two-week free trial, at www.copypod.net. For Mac users, I like PodWorks, available for $8 with a limited-function 30-day free trial at www.scifihifi.com/podworks. Another, similar program, which comes in versions for both Windows and Mac, is PodUtil, available for £10 ($17.66), with an unlimited free trial, at www.kennettnet.co.uk.
Once you have installed one of these utilities on your second computer, just plug in your iPod, filled with the music from the first computer. When iTunes pops up, be sure to decline when the program asks if you want to synchronize your iPod to the second computer. If you don't decline, iTunes will wipe out your iPod's contents and replace it with any music on the second computer.
Next, quit iTunes and launch the music-copying utility, if it didn't launch automatically when you plugged in your iPod. It will scan your iPod, displaying all the music stored there, and allow you to copy some or all of the music onto the second computer. If you have a lot of music on the iPod, this could take awhile.
When you're done, just quit the utility program, disconnect the iPod, and relaunch iTunes. In some cases, the utility will already have populated iTunes with the copied music. In other cases, you'll have to use the "Add to Library" command in the iTunes File menu to bring in the music you have just copied.
How about the multiple-libraries problem? This one can be solved with some workarounds, as well as third-party software.
Suppose you want to synchronize only part of a library to a particular iPod, say mom's iPod, in a family with several iPods. You can place the songs mom wants into a playlist called, for instance, "Mom's iPod Songs." Then, when mom's iPod is connected, you can go into the Preferences settings in iTunes to designate that mom's iPod will automatically be synchronized only with the songs in that playlist, rather than all the songs in the library.
Or, you can go into Preferences to designate that mom's iPod won't be automatically filled at all, but will be filled manually. Then, you could manually drag all the songs she likes onto the icon representing her iPod within iTunes.
A better approach is to download a utility program called Libra, which comes in versions for both Windows and Mac. Libra, which costs $10 with an unlimited free trial period, is available at homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra. It allows you to create multiple libraries, and to switch among them.
You just run Libra, create a library — for instance, Mom's Library — and then select it. Next, you launch iTunes, and it comes up with only that library displayed. The first time you set up a new library, it will be empty. But you can just use the iTunes "Add to Library" command to fill it up with songs from your hard disk. You can then set up playlists that will be displayed only in that library. And you can synchronize the whole library to an iPod of your choice.
Multiple libraries can use the same songs without the need to store multiple copies of the songs.
Let's hope Apple can build these features into the iPod and iTunes soon. Until then, the utility programs are your best bet.
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The Real Housewives of History
March 27th, 2013
Being a housewife has never come easily to the women in my family. Whether its an issue with the soil or some undiscovered mutation, our family tree seems to propagate only non-conformist women. From my flapper great-grandmother who came north to work in the factories, leaving her husband and son behind, to my farm wife grandmother who never milked a cow, but taught school instead, our genetic disposition might kindly be called strong willed, but at other times obstinate and unwomanly.
Nowadays, thanks to The Real Housewives of (Fill in the Blank), my headstrong, sometimes shrewish self, could easily be camouflaged in sequins and heels, continue to do no housework and still be considered a model of femininity. Somehow I think the real housewives of history, revealed in the books below, would be appalled.
The Aviators WifeMelanie Benjamin
Anne Morrow, the first female glider pilot to be licensed in the U.S., marries the overbearing aviator Charles Lindbergh and finds herself at odds with his beliefs and her inability to assert her independence.
Eight Girls Taking PicturesWhitney Otto
Is it possible to balance ambition and the needs of a husband and children? For many of the pioneering women photographers in this novel, self-sacrifice proves their undoing.
The Ravens BrideLenore Hart
Engaged at thirteen, Sally Clemm puts aside her dreams of being a singer to support and ultimately inspire her self-destructive fiancé, Edgar Allan Poe.
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom ThumbMelanie Benjamin
With ambitions that outsize her height, Vinnie Bump joins P.T. Barnums freak revue, finds love and fame and inspires Victorian women to new heights.
Claude and CamilleStephanie Cowell
Troubled by poverty, her husbands affairs and loneliness, the first wife of Claude Monet appeared to have suffered greatly for love, but, in reality, harbored secrets of her own.
WinteringKate Moses
Was Sylvia Plaths suicide caused by bitterness over her husbands betrayal or the inability to balance being a muse, mother and creative poet in her own right?
I also find housewifely duties uninspiring. Oh, I do what needs to be done and thoroughly enjoy the company of my children, but the joys of cooking, gardening, sewing, baking and so on are lost on me. I fear the day one of my sons brings home a wife. Will it be a Martha Stewart clone chosen to make up for my past deficiencies or an equally opinionated woman? I better figure out how that biting your tongue thing works
Who's your favorite headstrong woman from the past?
Tags: cecil county public library, historical fiction, reading recommendations, women's history month


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Chuck Tanner from Baseball Almanac
Charles "Chuck" William Tanner was born on July 4, 1929 in New Castle, and he is a true Pittsburgh bred Yankee Doodle Dandy if ever there was one.
A left-handed batter and thrower, Tanner played eight seasons (1955 - 1962) for four different teams - the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels, Milwaukee Braves and Cleveland Indians.
In 1955, he broke in with the Braves and captured the club's top rookie award. Tanner became the third pinch hitter in history to homer on the first major league pitch he saw, tagging the Reds' Gerry Staley. He played in 396 games during his injury cursed career and batted .261 with 21 home runs.
In 1963 he began managing in the Angels' minor league system. After eight years in the bushes and a AAA championship, he received his first major league managing job in 1970 with the Chicago White Sox.
His most successful season with the Sox came in 1972, when he they were runner ups in the AL West to the eventual World Series champion Oakland Athletics. Tanner managed the Sox until 1975, when he was axed and replaced by Paul Richards.
In 1976, Charley O. Finley hired Tanner to manage the Oakland A's. With burners like Bert "Campy" Campaneris, Bill North, and Don Baylor, Tanner made the Athletics into a running team, stealing a major league record 341 bases. The A's, however, lost out in the division race to the Kansas City Royals. It went downhill from there.
Before the 1977 season, the A's began dismantling their core of stars from the great team that won three straight World Series championships from 1972-74. Part of that salary dump was the trading of Tanner to the Pirates for an over the hill Manny Sanguillen and $100,000. Technically, this is the only instance in MLB history where a manager has been part of a baseball trade. (The others were player-managers.)
He reached the pinnacle of his managerial career in 1979 as the skipper of the World Champion "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates. Tanner was famous for always looking for the silver lining, and it rubbed off on his teams. The Pirates won in 1979 after falling behind three games to one in the World Series and despite the death of Tanner's greatest supporter, his mom.
He told The Baseball Digest that after talking to his dad, he decided to remain in the dugout. "My dad said, 'You're going to stay and manage. That's what your mom would have wanted.'" Tanner recounted.
There was a lot of emotion flowing through the Pirate skipper's veins. "Mom had promised me she would be there for every game," said Tanner.
"Now Dave Parker was her favorite player and I remember saying to myself 'If you're so hot, let Parker hit one over that Cardinals' sign," Tanner recalled. Parker then proceeded to smash an RBI double in the seventh inning, right at the spot where the St. Louis logo was painted on the outfield wall at Three Rivers Stadium.
Tanner then began to feel that a special force was at work. "I got goose-bumps all over my body after that one," he confessed. And the goose bumps would remain as his Buc's roared back to stun the Orioles. It was obvious Mama Tanner was still in the house.
Tanner left Pittsburgh after nine years at the helm in 1985 and finished his managing days with the Atlanta Braves. They were terrible, and he was done coaching in 1988. He ended his field boss career with a 1,352 - 1,381 record. Tanner's only pennant winner was the '79 Bucs.
"I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given," he says. And Tanner did get to work for a pair of baseball's more colorful owners, Charley Finley and Ted Turner.
He surely never used the same book that other managers swear by. Tanner was never afraid to use unorthodox moves to shake things up, like pinch-hitting left-handed hitting John Milner (for righty Steve Nicosia) against southpaw screwballer Tug McGraw. He hit a grand slam. He let Ed Ott hit against him, too. Same result.
After spending five seasons as a special assistant of the Cleveland Indians, Tanner, 78 years young, was named a senior advisor to new Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington in the autumn of 2007. It was a great move by the Pirates, dipping into their tradition and coming out with a great guy to work with the troops. Tanner's seen the best and worst of times and knows how to deal with them.
Tanner was invited to be a coach in Pittsburgh's 2006 All Star game by NL manager Phil Garner, who played for the Pirates during Tanner's tenure. It was a classy and appreciated move by Scrap Iron. The icing on the cake was when Tanner got the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.
He is the father of former major league pitcher and coach Bruce Tanner (he's with Jim Leyland at Detroit now.) He lost his wife of 56 years, Babs, in 2006 after she fought a decade-long battle with a variety of health issues. Their house on E. Maitland Lane, where Tanner has lived since 1959, is a lot quieter than it used to be. But he's coping, putting all his energy into baseball.
"I've had the greatest life in the world," he told the Post Gazette. "How many guys can say they won a World Series in their back yard? How can that happen to a kid from Shenango?" But that's as it should be. Chuck Tanner has always been a star in Pittsburgh's book.
"The greatest thing in the world is winning a major league game. The second greatest thing in the world is to lose a major league game." - Chuck Tanner
(Our contribution to spring training will be highlighting the careers of the old Bucs in camp who are trying to pass on the torch to today's squad. Up next - Number Nine.)


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Canadian first-time Olympian Justine Dufour-Lapointe clinched the Olympic gold medal in women's freestyle skiing moguls in Sochi on Saturday, while her older sister Chloe took silver, in a testament to the sisters' flawless ski technique.
The Dufour-Lapointe sisters' dominance meant that Team USA's Hannah Kearney, the reigning Olympic moguls champ and gold medal favorite, won the bronze medal. It also meant that her teammate Eliza Outtrim, 28, of Hamden, Conn., failed to medal.
Kearney, 27, had been the gold-medal favorite heading into the moguls competition, but she was given stiff competition by the trio of Canadian sisters on skis. (The oldest, Maxime, was eliminated before the third finals.)
U.S. & World
In the third set of finals, Justine Dufour-Lapointe, at 19 the youngest contestant in her family, vaulted into first place with a score of 22.44 on the strength of her flawlessly executed 360-degree twist and a back layout.
Her sister Chloe, 22, who had finished fifth in Vancouver, scored a 21.66 just after her, thanks to more complex jumps but not quite as clean a run.
Skiing the final run of the competition, Kearney struggled briefly with her technique. Despite recovering, the three-time Olympian's final jump with a tough grab of her ski wasn't enough to make up for the earlier wobble — and her score of 21.49 wasn't enough to best the young Dufour-Lapointe sisters.
The eldest Dufour-Lapointe sister, Maxime, who finished 12th, was ecstatic for her sisters who medaled.
"The path we walked, we did this side-by-side," she said. "These tears I'm crying, these tears are not of disappointment. They're tears of joy."


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Two Los Angeles police officers have been under internal affairs investigation for "criminal sexual misconduct" since 2010, LAPD acknowledged Friday.
The allegations came to light Thursday with the filing of a civil lawsuit against narcotics officers Bill Nichols and Luis Valenzuela, who had worked together in Hollywood division. The plaintiff, a woman in her 30's, alleges she was recruited to serve as an informant, then coerced into having sexual relations with the officers, according to the filing.
"She was afraid she would go back to jail if she didn't give these guys what they wanted," said Dennis Chang, the woman's attorney. As a matter of policy, NBCLA does not report the names of alleged sex crime victims.
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The internal affairs investigation had remained confidential until the lawsuit became public record. A search warrant obtained by the Los Angeles Times , revealed the department was aware of three other women with similar complaints against the two officers.
The officers had been separated and re-assigned to other stations some time ago, and continued working even as the investigation continued. Internal Affairs had planned an operation next week, according to the Times, but that was precluded by the revelation of the lawsuit.
The two suspect officers have now been assigned to home duty, according to LAPD Commander Andrew Smith.
Police Chief Charlie Beck emphasized that the matter was still under investigation, but said he was "saddened by the allegations."
"If they are true, it would be horrific," the chief said in a statement released by Commander Smith.
"This investigation has been lengthy and challenging to complete because of the difficulty in locating the witnesses, and the fact the alleged incidents took place several years ago," Smith said.
Speaking on NBC4's News Conference, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he, Chief Beck and the LAPD as a whole take the allegations "very seriously."
Chang's client was facing criminal charges in 2009 when Officer Nichols said he could arrange for the case to be dropped if she agreed to serve as an informant. She did so, but that working relationship changed within a few months, Chang said..
"It got to the point where these detectives were demanding sex from her, theoretically under the threat of putting her back into jail," Chang said. "Telling her you haven't given me enough, what are you going to do about it, what else can you give me, you promised me this many people, you promised me this many arrests."
In April of 2011, Chang's client was arrested by another police agency. She pleaded no contest to drug and identity theft counts, and remains jailed serving her sentence.
Chang revealed that she did not tell him of her complaints against the officers until only recently, after she had been interviewed by internal affairs. Chang put together the civil suit quickly because the statute of limitations would have run out next week, he said.
"I know [she] is going to feel much better knowing that other similarly situated women have now come forward, and it certainly makes [her] much more credible," Chang said.
The first woman to come forward in 2010 had also served as an informant for the officers. According to the affidavit quoted by the Times, she told a narcotics division supervisor that the pair had appeared in a Volkswagen Jetta wearing plain clothes, telling her they'd take her to jail unless she got in the car. She said one of the officers got into the back seat, exposed himself and told her to touch him.
The detective assigned to the case could not find the woman, and the case was dropped until a year later when another woman came forward with a similar story after being arrested.
Chang's client also referred to the Jetta.
The officers could not be reached for comment.
NBC4's Janet Kwak contributed to this report.


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Donald here again... I have some close up pics of juts two hummels that I own. I took pics of the bottoms and the hummel trademarks. This is in reguard to the eariler post I made of the "hummels and hutch". I hope this is enough info. let me know if you need more. Thanks,
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#2 Mackenzie Tucker
|Puyallup, Wash./John R. Rogers HS
2010:Played in 59 games, starting 57 in the outfield … Hit .266 with 5 doubles, 12 RBI and 27 runs scored … Recorded nine multi-hit games … Tied for fourth on the team in stolen bases with six … Went 2-for-2 with a run scored vs. Binghamton (Feb. 19) … Went 2-for-3 with an RBI and run scored in game one of Lady Bison Classic against Murray State (Mar. 6) … Recorded back-to-back multi-hit games in March in games against Hawaii and ETSU … Started all 20 Atlantic Sun Conference games … Hit .221 with 5 RBI and 9 runs scored in conference play … Went 2-for-4 with a run scored in game one of doubleheader at Mercer (Apr. 9) … Hit .429 (6-for-14) with two RBI and five runs scored in five-games at the A-Sun Conference Tournament (May 13-15) … Raised batting average nearly 20 points after posting strong performances in nine postseason games … Tallied a season-high three hits in four at-bats vs. UAB in opening game of NCAA Regional (May 21) … Led team to 4-1 victory over UAB in NCAA Tournament opener, contributing three hits, including an RBI-double and run scored … Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2009:Played in 49 games, starting 41. …Played 39 games in left field. …Six multi-hit games with two hits in each game. …One multiple-RBI game (two vs UNC-Wilmington, 3/7). …Longest hitting streak was five games (4/10-4/14). …Fielding percentage of .948. …A-Sun All-Academic Team.
2008:Third on team in stolen bases (four). ...Third in stolen base attempts (five). ...Played in 44 games, starting 35. ...One double. at Middle Tennessee St. (Feb. 28). ...One RBI vs Bowling Green (Mar. 7). ...Season high two hits at Middle Tennessee St. (Feb. 28). ...Season high five putouts at North Florida (Mar. 14).
High School:Lettered three seasons as the starting center fielder at Gov. John R. Rogers High School. …Named to 2007 South Puget Sound League's Senior All-Star Tea 67 her senior season with a .618 on-base percentage and a .622 slugging percentage. … Also a First Team selection on the All-South Puget Sound League Team. ...In 2006 Tucker was Second Team All-South Puget Sound League Team. …Also named the "Most Inspirational" player on her team. …In 2005 she was also a second team pick for the All-South Puget Sound League Team. …Won the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Academic Award in 2005, 2006 and 2007. …Also active as a club team player. …Played in 2007 for the Washington Heat 18A. …In 2006 she played for the Washington LadyHawks 18A, which won the Seattle/Tacoma Metro Championship which qualified the team for the ASA-18A Nationals in Owensboro, Ky. …In 2004 and 2005 Tucker played for the MsStix 16A. …Served as co-captain in 2005.
Personal:Daughter of Kim Kennedy-Tucker and Mark Tucker. ...She has one brother, Eric, 22.


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Fringed leather jacket: Topshop x Kate Moss (or Nordstorm and here) || Harley Davidson tee: Vintage via Urban Outfitters (similar on eBay) || Squash Blossom Navajo Necklace: Vintage from Mum (similar on eBay) Distressed grey shorts: Pimkie || Boots: Ash
I'm sure everyone has a typical "signature look" which combo you wear very often and feel totally comfortable with. That is my signature look for the colder days. Everytime I go to town or when I'm on the road I grab one of my leather jackets, a band- or biker tee, my favorite jewelry, cut-offs + tights and my beloved biker boots by ASH (I wear them at least four times in the week haha). This leather jacket is probably the most expensive one I own, but as I already mentioned in one of my previous posts the Kate Moss collaboration with Topshop has totally got me and this babe was the second piece I simply needed to have. It's so edgy and it will last for a lifetime or at least I hope so. It's actually a re-creation of a "gig jacket" which was worn and loved by Kate herself during concerts she visited, so it is probably one of her favorites in her wardrobe, too. The jacket is perfect for colder summer days, because you don't sweat in it and its material is so soft. My harley davidson shirts are probably not new to you, I already wore many of them in my outfit posts, so you can imagine that I actually collect them haha. The other day when I visited eBay I found some cool tees with amazing prints, too. You need a bit luck to find cool prints, it's always the same when it comes to vintage shopping (I'm still searching for a beautiful vintage tooled, dark tan 70s bag… grr I can't find the one I imagine at this time!). And yes, I'm wearing a lot of navajo jewelry, it's my favorite one. The squash blossom necklace belonged to my Mum, she bought it from some native americans when she was in the US - she know how much I love their artwork, so she gifted it to me. One day when I manage to be in the US, I will definitely buy jewelry haha. The bracelets are vintage, too btw! I found this stunning silver cuff with hamsa hands, dome shaped details and camels when I went to the local flea market three weeks ago. Even if I usually come home without any shopping success, this time there was an awesome jewelry seller where I finally found it. So you really must have a bit of luck when searching for secondhand - or vintage pieces. :-)