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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) recently handed Kenya the rights to host the 2020 IAAF World Athletics Under-20 Championships, the good news has been met with a rather usual but unfortunate one. Half of the money (Sh1.7 billion out of an allocation of Sh3.5 billion) the government pumped into the IAAF Under-18 World Youth Championships in Nairobi last year was stolen in yet another plunder of public funds.
The July 10 report of the Auditor-General, tabled in the National Assembly by Leader of Majority Leader Aden Duale, shows that the State Department for Sports and Development was allocated Sh1.7 billion, Sports Kenya Sh1.1 billion and Kenyatta University Sh689.6 million in preparation for the championship.
The rampant theft of public funds is nothing new and just like in the NYS case, companies in the ministry supplied air, bloated bills, single sourcing.
About Sh66 million was controversially set aside for the procurement of taxi services, and Pewin Cabs Ltd owned by Justus Muriithi was paid Sh23.8 million above the market rate, the report says. This company was also given a dry cleaning and laundry services contract valued at Sh30.8 million.
Which then brings to the question as to why young entrepreneurs can’t engage in genuine business. This rush for quick money is not only crippling the economy but also ruining lives. Look at it this way, the Sh24m above market rates that was paid to Pewin cabs, could’ve been alternatively used to cover the welfare of athletes and other suppliers who’ve missed on payments. The greed for power and money is the reason many Kenyans languish in poverty as few flourish in bloody wealth.
Protel Studio was paid Sh67.5 million for the procurement of media agency services and Sh70.5 million to Inter Management Group for marketing of the games. These contracts were subtle sourced and not even evaluation reports has been filed to proof their work.
If nothing is done to stop public theft then we will continue receiving news of stolen money and move on. If the DPP can tighten the noose enough to ban and jail dishonest businessmen like Justus Muriithi in this instance then Kenya will continue to count losses. The time for court appearances and bail approvals should cease.
Like in the NYS cases, this theft of Sh1.7 billion, must be taken seriously and we’re looking forward to see arrests and prosecutions and more importantly, recovering the stolen wealth.
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This Lion is the host of the North East’s premier Play Centre, the Fun Shack in Stockton. Dressed in his best swashbuckling outfit, this Lion sails the sixteen play areas looking for adventure and high jinxs with the children playing in the various sectors.
This cuddly character comprises of a half fur suit, covered with a regal pirate jacket and hooped underbody to give him his jolly shape. The lightweight ABS head also has a removable eye patch to make a themed costume change possible if required.Please Note: This specific costume is not for sale or hire. It is subject to copyright and is here for your inspiration only.

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London woman arrested after mini-mart robbery
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LONDON, ONT. -- A London woman has been arrested in relation to a robbery in the northeast end of the city.
At about 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, London police say a woman exited a taxi and entered a mini-mart located at 149 Boullee Street.
The woman was wearing a mask, and approached an employee working in the store.
Police say she advised that she had a gun, and demanded money.
When the employee did not immediately comply with the demands, the female suspect allegedly walked behind the counter and removed cash from the register, before re-entering the taxi waiting outside.
Officers say the suspect produced a knife, made threats towards the taxi driver, and demanded the driver bring her to the 900 block of Cheapside Avenue.
Police were contacted, and searched the area.
There were no reported injuries.
Video surveillance was viewed and a suspect description was provided to officers in the area.
At approximately 6:20 p.m., police located and arrested a suspect in the 400 block of Boullee Street.
As a result of the investigation, a 36-year-old London woman has been charged with the following offences:
- Armed robbery;
- Uttering threats of death or bodily harm;
- Assault with a weapon; and
- Disguise with intent.
The accused is scheduled to appear in London court today in relation to the charges.
Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to www.londoncrimestoppers.com.

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iPad's Goldilocks paradigm
The influencial watchdog Consumer Report can't make up its mind about the new iPad and is happy to keep jumping the fence until its gets its review just right.
The new iPad seems to be going through a Goldilocks paradigm with the Consumer Reports.
First the industry watchdog said that the tablet gets too hot when running graphically intensive games. Then it complained about the battery life going dead cold when the device was kept on the maximum brightness setting for too long.
But after all the criticism, the influential watchdog has now found the tablet to be just right, by putting it at the top of its tablet list.
But as today's infographic demonstrates, Consumer Reports finally appears to be in line with consumer sentiment around Apple's new tablet. Savvy shoppers are more concerned about how much they are paying for the new tablet and its data packages than they are about the product's little quirks.
Today's infographic was sourced from and created by Business Insider.


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Thumbs up for Diving Judge school in Singapore
A FINA school for diving judged was organised at Singapore's Toa Payoh Swimming Complex from May 5-6, 2012. TDC member Mathz Lindberg (SWE), former diver and father of still-competitive Anna Lindberg, conducted the course, which was attended by 22 beginner-level participants.
The course focused on the fundamentals and duties of officials. Practical aspects such as how to run a diving competition, equipment for judging and judging practice were addressed during poolside sessions.
Post-course, Lindberg said: "Singapore Swimming Association is relatively new in diving, they have done a fantastic work in the short time they have been involved in the sport."
On how diving is developing in the country, he added: "Hosting a FINA Development school for the second time shows their interest in developing diving in the country. The FINA school is one way to get people involved in the sport and develop new clubs."
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1). Lighter suppressors are usually less durable and always more comfortable.
2). 7.62 suppressors usually work just as well as 5.56 suppressors on 5.56 rifles.
3). 7.62 suppressors are almost always significantly heavier than 5.56 suppressors.
4). For the most part, precision shooters prefer direct thread suppressors.
5). Stainless steel is more durable than titanium for rapid fire, etc.
All this really means is that there's no one suppressor that's best for everything. You must decide what's most important to you. Light weight, durability, convenient use on multiple firearms, convenient use on multiple calibers, muzzle brake support, etc.
If you're unsure of exactly what you want, the Liberty Mystic X is a Swiss Army knife suppressor, that you can use on .22 RF, 9mm pistol, .300 BO rifle and 5.56 rifle. A direct thread YHM Phantom 7.62 is heavy and a previous generation design; it's also comparatively inexpensive and virtually indestructible.
I have, and greatly like a SilencerCo Specwar 7.62, but I also subsequently ordered the lightweight Specwar K for my 5.56 carbines, as the 7.62 unit is simply too much of a good thing. Many like the SilencerCo Saker and others find the Omega preferable for use on bolt action hunting rifles; I've got a direct thread Griffin Sportsman on the way for that use.
You might want to watch some of the demo videos on the Silencer Shop web site or on YouTube. My only suggestion is that you avoid companies known to have mediocre customer service and/or poor quality.
A final suggestion: everyone says that a .22 suppressor is a must-have. Guess what? They're right. It will put a grin on your face like few other things, so strongly consider ordering a .22 suppressor in addition to the larger unit.
NRA Endowment & DSC Lifer


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Orgonite is a substance made of resin, metals and quartz that balances and harmonises bio-energy, otherwise known as orgone, chi or prana.
"Orgone is the light, universal energy that is present in everything, it's what stops decay and creates healing".
ORGONE is known as prana, life force, ki, chi, mana, universal energy...etc
Orgonite is based on these two principles. It is a 50-50 mix of resin (organic, due to the fact that it is based on
petrochemicals), and metal shavings (inorganic). A quartz crystal is also added inside the orgonite matrix. Energy which is out of balance is absorbed into the orgonite by the metal-resin mix, and brought back to a healthy, vibrant state by the embedded crystal.
What does Orgone do?
1. Improve and restore vitality to improve physical health
2. Sleep peacefully
3. Provide a harmonious energy field for the synchronized energy of the home and office
4. Expand the user's intention
5. Bring optimism and clarity of thinking
6. Enhance the growth of spiritual ability and spiritual consciousness
7. Create a calm energy field and heal trauma
8. Improve energy levels
9. Increase patience and perseverance

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Craft Goddess Naomi Torres has a perfect homemade gift for Mom just in time for Mother's Day.
- Mix dry ingredients very well until no longer chunky
- Mix wet ingredients well in a separate bowl.
- Add wet ingredient mixture to dry ingredient mixture one teaspon at a time mixing vigorously with a metal wisk or in a food processor. Continue mixing until the mixture resembles wet sand.
- Press firmly into a mold. You can use a candy mold.
- Pop the bath bombs out of the mold and put them in a dry area on parchment paper to set. Let is dry for 24 hours.

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Honeysticks Beeswax Crayons Set is a fantastic set of high quality, non-toxic beeswax crayons that are perfect for little toddler hands. Drawing and creating just got easier for little ones and Mums and Dads alike, with the original style crayons a shape that can't be snapped in half. These are 100% beeswax crayons that are non-toxic and a great choice for young artists.
Honeysticks are made in New Zealand and packaged with recycled, eco-friendly and sustainable packaging. The original style eco crayon set includes 12 chubby crayons in colours purple, blue, black, ocher, pink, white, red, light green, dark green, orange, brown and yellow. The long style is a pack of 6 in colours blue, black, white red, dark green and yellow and are ideal for older children who have grown out of crayon snapping.
Children of course do require supervision at some times to prevent consumption of any art and craft materials.
Original: 5.5 x 2cms
Long: 10 x 2cms


In an effort to drive some badly needed interest in his fighter Manny Pacquiao’s November 22nd fight against Chris Algieri, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum will be having a 6-city promotional tour for them starting on August 25th in Macao, China. Pacquiao and Algieri will then travel to Shanghai, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York.
With this fight, Arum probably should have thought of making it an 11-city press tour because it’s going to need an awful lot of buildup in order to get boxing fans excited about it, especially if Arum fails to add a quality undercard.
Right now the talk is that flyweight Zou Shiming will be on the undercard. That’ll obviously help make the fight a big deal in China, but for the fight to do well in the U.S, Arum is going to need to somehow convince the casual boxing fans in America that Algieri is an exciting fighter with a good chance of winning. Of course, Arum could also open up his piggy bank and put together a good undercard with some of his best Top Rank fighters appearing like Terence Crawford, Julio Cesar Chavez, Brandon Rios, Mike Alvarado, Miguel Cotto, Mikey Garcia and/or Nonito Donaire.
If Arum stacked the Pacquiao-Algieri undercard with good fights instead of with obscure guys, he might be able to get a lot of pay-per-view buys in the United States. But other than that, it’s not looking like the Pacquiao vs. Algieri fight card is going to generate a lot of PPV buys in the U.S.
Arum picked out Algieri for Pacquiao because he liked the storyline that it would bring in. Algieri has a Master’s degree and he’s talked about wanting to go to medical school in the future. Arum believes the casual boxing fans will be interested in seeing a fighter like this fighting for a world title against Pacquiao.
Just how much mileage Arum can get out of Algieri’s educational background is hard to tell. I’m not sure that fans will care much about how many degrees that Algieri has. If all they have to go by is his fight against Ruslan Provodnikov last June, a fight where Algieri was in high gear running for his life the last 11 rounds of the fight, then Arum could be very unhappy when the PPV results are less than what he’d hoped for.


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Sticking true to their commitment to community and goal of consistent giving, festival organizers Rootfire, Ineffable Live, and Deuterman Productions have announced that 100% of ticket proceeds from the upcoming Rootfire at the Park will be donated to Hurricane Irma relief efforts.
On Saturday December 9th, PT Events brings a spectacular American Mardi Gras show to Rotterdam’s Maassilo for what is the 8th edition of Grotesque Indoor Festival. The courage to keep renewing and the willpower to continuously improve are key for the organization and the success of Grotesque events. “Often magic is created through small, simple acts. Those little striking moments make it all a night to remember”.
The 7th annual John Hartford Memorial Festival is in the books. We thought year 6 was great, well folks, you outdid yourselves. You brought friends that you love, and we grew. The general feeling was one of family and safety, and always, "laid back". Factor in the reason why you came and the reason why we do this. Music. The music of our namesake John Hartford, the music of our performers, our contestants, and your music.
The three day music festival and carnival wrapped up Sunday night headlining a 90's punk band reunion performance with The Jawbreaker. This being the first time they have played together in 21 years. Seemingly an unimaginable feat, festival organizers have been able to tap into their deep connections again. Last year they got The Misfits to reunite. This speaks to the raw dedication and deep ties that the partnering organizers have forged over the years.
Trey Anastasio Band closed out Grace Potter’s Grand Point North festival in Burlington, Vermont last night. In years past, Potter has headlined both Saturday and Sunday night at the Festival. This year, Potter headlined Saturday night while turning over that spot to Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) on Sunday. (Grace performed a full set immediately before Trey.) This was the first show for TAB in Burlington since in October, 2011. Potter has performed on several bills with Anastasio over the years.
Today, SnowGlobe Music Festival released its highly anticipated artist lineup for the festival’s 7th annual New Year’s Eve celebration in South Lake Tahoe, California on December 29-31, 2017. The premiere 3-night outdoor festival returns to its home in the sublime Sierra Nevada Mountains hosting over 50 artists performing on 3 stages, culminating with a breathtaking fireworks display to ring in 2018 with style.
Whither Grace Potter? After more than a decade of constant touring, the Vermont-based rock n’ roller has been all but absent from the stage for the last year. She returned this weekend to host Grand Point North, the annual mini-festival on the waterfront in Burlington, VT, that was started in 2011 when her calling card read Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Like Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing, I have emerged from my Labor Day cocoon called North Coast Music Festival. In its 8th year, NCMF returned to Union Park Chicago for a real good time. Union Park is far from the commercial grade Grant Park of Lollapalooza. It’s more like the park that Will Smith sings about in Summertime, the 1996 classic Fresh Prince tune. It’s the kind with the basketball courts and girls playing double dutch and the smells of the grill sparking up nostalgia.
On the weekend of September 23 and 24, Williamsburg will be the place to be for jamband fans. Brooklyn Comes Alive, the multi-venue music festival that began in 2015, is returning this year with an expanded production that’s sure to make for a whole lot of incredible music and more than a few tough decisions. A wealth of supergroups, unique collaborations, and tribute sets throughout the lineup have left us without a clue of what to expect and all the more excited for it.

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University School of the Lowcountry will have its open house Nov. 11 starting at 6 p.m.
The school off Coleman Boulevard in Mount Pleasant will have a formal presentation from 6:15 p.m. until 7 p.m., and prospective parents and students will be able to talk to current students, teachers and parents.
University School of the Lowcountry has openings in grades 3-10, and the school emphasizes experiential learning through field trips and instruction in Mandarin, Spanish and Latin.
For more information, go to: www.uslowcountry.org.
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Ginger Nuts of Horror
A single chord of music, and suddenly, I'm fourteen again, stood at the highest point in an immense and unlikely temple, seeking out the vest vantage from which to swan-dive and have my polyganal avatar break her neck several floors down.
There's very little that evokes the tumultuous period of adolescence quite as forcibly as video game soundtracks for me, and this one...well, it was one of the first PS1 games I ever owned and finished, the others being Final Fantasy VII and the Resident Evil (both of which will come up in this series).
To have gone from two dimensional, side-scrolling Megadrive and SNES titles to this was a quantum leap: we'd never seen or played anything like it before.
As for the soundtrack, Tomb Raider was amongst the very first video games to boast a fully orchestral score: sound often used to evoke atmosphere when the environments and the monsters that inhabited them might have otherwise looked ridiculous.
And, hard as it may be for present day gamers to believe, this game had moments of genuine, genuine horror: arguably moreso than any we'd been exposed to in Western markets up to that point.
Whilst games such as Super Metroid, Contra et al, not to mention certain UK works such as those produced by Horrorsoft, had attempted to present moments of horror within the technical and graphical limitations of the era, none of them quite succeeded to the same degree as those that exploded onto the market in the early days of the PS1.
Much of that was due to the shifting culture of gaming itself: whereas video games had, up until that point, been the remit of children and adolescents exclusively, the markets tailored to cater to those demographics, the advent of more powerful and sophisticated systems pushed not only the content of video games, but also the cultures in which they operated into new and previously unexplored territories:
To have grown up through the eras of the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore Amiga, SNES and Megadrive provided a unique perspective on the shift to “32-bit:” it allowed us to chart the evolution of video games in a way that, arguably, no other generation has been privy to: the format has grown up as we have; it has experienced its infancy and its childhood alongside us.
As a result, most of us were adolescents when the likes of the PS1, Sega Saturn and N64 made their debuts: an era which can be legitimately regarded as the adolescence of video gaming itself:
Whereas before, graphical limitations and cultural restrictions meant that any moments of horror within video games were often diluted, cushioned or massively censored (Super Metroid is an exception to the rule, especially on Nintendo systems), the efflorescence into 3 dimensions allowed developers to evoke a sense of place, scale, mood and atmosphere in ways they'd never before dreamed, not to mention present aesthetics and design, story and mythology, in a manner far closer to the medium of cinema, which is arguably one of video game's closest relatives (and certainly most significant influences).
Tomb Raider was the gateway for many; the point at which video game systems no longer relied on cute, animal or cartoon mascotts to snare their audience: when the material presented to us became notably more “adult” (both in terms of the game's protagonist, Lara Croft, and the world in which she operated).
Whilst the game made waves at the time owing to the peculiarly provocative design of its lead, it also stood as something of a technical marvel: a shift from classic, two dimensional “cinematic platformers” such as Prince of Persia (the game originally designed to be a 3D rendering of that very franchise), Another World and Flashback (all revolutionary titles in their day, not only owing to their graphics and design, but also the noticably more adult tone they evoked) into immense three dimensional arenas whose scale and scope often stole our breaths, whose ambition and architecture was genuinely unlike anything we'd ever seen before.
Being a launch title for the then-fledgling PS1, the game still operated under certain graphical limitations, and therefore made cunning use of vast, empty spaces and shadows to evoke atmosphere, often utilising environment itself to awe the player in absence of anything else, alongside chords of revelatory music or isolated effects to suggest threat, intrigue or mystery.
The minimalist nature of the score is utilised to fantastic degree to make what would otherwise be less impressive arenas threatening and atmospheric:
Emerging from a series of underwater tunnels unto a vast, partially collapsed cavern, the player might pause at a sudden, hollow rustling, a sound like bones rattling or an isolated violin string. Wandering down an ostensibly inoccuous corridor, the player might draw to a halt as faint music begins to play, suggesting the traps and treasures that lie ahead.
Whilst some more sophisticated examples of earlier titles and generations certainly made use of sound in their game design -as more than mere background noise-, technical limitations meant that there'd never been a time when environmental cues and soundtrack were so much a part of immersion; of how players engage with their gaming environments.
And it was in the game's numerous moments of outright horror that it became most overt:
Earlier “tombs” ease the player into the basic mechanics and ethos, with very little in the way of “instant death” traps or elaborate puzzles, the enemies primarily consisting of bats, wolves etc, which are all fairly frightening in and of themselves, owing to their framing and the music that often accompanies them.
It arguably isn't until The Lost Valley that the game ramps up in terms of tension: emerging from a tunnel into an immense, subterranean realm that looks to have been preserved from the world above since prehistoric times, the player encounters some surprising lesser enemies in the form of velociraptors; the first creatures that suggest there might be fantasy and science fiction elements at work within the game, as opposed to the more conventional animals that have been encountered up until that point.
There incongruity makes them more distressing than they have any right to be: the sprites themselves boxy, angular and unconvincing, phenomenally crude by the standards of tiday's fluid and realistic renderings, but unutterably terrifying to those of us who'd grown up with the likes of Super Mario World's koopa-troopers and Sonic the Hedgehog's cutesy “badnik” robots.
Following those encounters, Lara descends into the valley proper, a deep, rhythmic rumbling in the distance, something approaching from the subterranean shadows that are a convenient camouflage for the game's limited draw-distance:
The biggest sprite the game has thus far presented: an immense Tyrannosaurus Rex, the creature roaring, the orchestral score kicking in as it stampedes towards Lara across the valley.
A genuinely heart-pounding moment, and one that few of my generation will forget: we'd rarely seen anything so vast in a video game before, certainly not in three dimensions, and certainly not as beautifully pitched and framed as the monster is:
In an of itself, it may not have been terribly threatening: simply another gigantic “boss” style monster to deal with, but because the moments preceding it are so quiescent, because the valley itself is so lush and vast and beautiful, the player is lulled into a false sense of serenity, as well as a degree of awe at the environment itself.
Until they hear the beast approaching, until it begins to emerge from the darkness.
Then, everything becomes blind panic, not helped by the score, which escalates and escalates to terrifying, orchestral horror as the beast pursues the player through the valley, pausing to roar or to stamp its immense feet, causing the entire level to shudder.
Whilst to present day eyes, the beast and its environment may seem incredibly crude (the dinosaur itself looks to be constructed from successive boxes woven together), at the time, we as players had never seen anything like it, nor had we experienced the sophisticated framing that makes it so much more than a ropey computer effect.
One must also bear in mind that, in these earliest days of 3D gaming, developers were largely flying blind: certain templates and industry standards hadn't yet been established, meaning that experiment and invention were the orders of the day, any success therefore doubly noteworthy.
Later, the game presents more subtle, sophisticated scares: in what is arguably my favourite level of the game, the aforementioned St. Francis's Folly, a number of rooms lead to puzzles and traps based on various myths of the ancient world: entering a particular chamber, a hollow sound rushes through, the camera slowly panning up to reveal the numerous swords suspended from the ceiling. Based on the legend of Damocles, any sound here will cause the swords to fall, requiring the player to tread with stealth and lightness to avoid being impaled. The tension as the player attempts to softly, gently navigate the chamber, without accidentally spuring Lara into a run, without treading on items or debris that might trigger the blades, is palpable, heart-pounding, the eventual release that comes with either success or failure part of the genuine pleasure of the game.
Later rooms contain traps based on Neptune, Thor and Atlas, all of them framed in such a manner as to suggest what might happen without having characters outright state it or the need for laborious, on-screen instruction. The experimental nature of the rooms and their solutions means that the player is in an almost constant state of tension, not quite knowing how to approach the situation without triggering this trap or releasing some caged enemy. The “trial by error” style that this enforces has long since fell out of fashion, but also elicits an incredible tension, as each step becomes a tightrope walk of nervous focus and concentration.
Later, the game even plays with aesthetic and body horror; when the arena of play becomes far more alien with a descent into none other than Atlantis itself, the tone and aesthetic shifts from one of -albeit impressive- man made architecture to alien temples and palaces, many of which are partially formed from organic matter: walls and ceilings of flesh, pillars of twisted bone and muscle...the enemies likewise becoming bizarre, bio-mechanical creations, the entirety of the city some hideous, bio-mechanoid factory purportedly utilised by the game's antagonist, Natla, to cultivate an army of monstrosities.
At this point, the game takes a quantum leap in tone and subject, the more classic, mythological elements giving way to bizarre science fiction; a factor that, in context with the previous areas of the game, comes as a significant surprise to the player, and certainly did to us, given that we'd rarely seen this kind of horror imagery in video games before, and certainly not in titles that Tomb Raider is redolent of.
In this manner, Tomb Raider prepared us for what would come shortly after: the efflorescence of a genre that would mark the shift of video gaming from a children's pastime to a truly adult medium of storytelling and subject matter:

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What can I expect at trial?
The trial is relatively informal compared to a normal trial. In fact, the judge in small claims court is charged with developing facts of the case and may question or summon witnesses. Additionally, the judge is allowed to ask questions of the parties and witnesses, and generally takes a more proactive role in determining the facts of a case. It will likely be pretty quick. If a jury trial is required, the trial could last a few hours.
Can I appeal my case?
Yes, but only if the amount in controversy is in excess of $250.
Small claims cases in Hill County are heard in front of the justice of the peace for Hill County.
Can I file my small claims case in Hill County?
In order to follow correct procedure, a small claims case needs to be filed in the proper county and precinct. In Texas, the action is filed in the County and Precinct where the defendants reside or where a contract was to be performed. (Government Code Section 28.011).
Limit (or Jurisdiction) of Small Claims Court
The plaintiff’s demand for money cannot exceed $10,000. (Texas Government Code 28.093). Another restriction of small claims court is that a plaintiff can only seek monetary relief (an award of money). You are unable to seek injunctive or equitable relief. For example, you could sue a dry cleaner for ruining your clothes and ask for money to replace the clothes, but you cannot ask the judge for an order for the dry cleaner to repair your clothes. This would be called injunctive relief.
Types of Cases
Most cases for the recovery of money can be heard in small claims court. From a security deposit on a rental to a motor vehicle accident. Under Texas law, collections cases and claim assignments cannot be heard in small claims court. Hill County Small Claims Court cases are heard in 4 courthouses in Hill County.
Can I hire an attorney?
In Texas, small claims parties generally represent themselves without an attorney. This is largely because the amount at issue in the case is not large enough to justify the hiring of an attorney. Nevertheless, you are allowed to retain one if you desire. (Texas Government Code Section 28.003).
Hill County Court Clerk
We recommend contacting the Hill County court clerk before proceeding down to the courthouse to file your action. This will ensure the courthouse is open and someone is available to assist with the filing of your claim. Also, while the clerk can answer questions about procedures, the clerk cannot give legal advice.
Hill County Court Locations
Precinct 2 Place 1 Courthouse in the City of Hillsboro
This courthouse is located at:
Precinct 4 Place 1 Courthouse in the City of Itasca
This courthouse is located at:P O Box 206 Itasca, TX 76055-0561
Precinct 3 Place 1 Courthouse in the City of Malone
This courthouse is located at:P O Box 193 Malone, TX 76660
Precinct 1 Place 1 Courthouse in the City of Whitney
This courthouse is located at:P O Box 1853 Whitney, TX 76692-1853

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Physical Pollution Control, Life Science and Human Civilization.
C/ N transformation in soil and soil structure; Pollution chemistry and bioremediation of heavy metals in soils.
1. Hongyan Yu, Weixin Ding, Zengming Chen, Huanjun Zhang, Jiafa Luo, Nanthi Bolan. 2015. Accumulation of organic C components in soil and aggregates. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep13804
2. Hongyan Yu, Weixin Ding, Jiafa Luo, Ruiling Geng, Anwar Ghani, Zucong Cai. 2012. Effects of long-term compost and fertilizer application on stability of aggregate-associated organic carbon in an intensively cultivated sandy loam soil. Biol Fertil Soils. 48, 325-336.
3. Hongyan Yu, Weixin Ding, Jiafa Luo, Donnison A, Jiabao Zhang. 2012. Long-term effect of compost and inorganic fertilizer on activities of carbon-cycle enzymes in aggregates of an intensively cultivated sandy loam. Soil Use and Management. 28, 347-360.
4. Hongyan Yu, Weixin Ding, Jiafa Luo, Ruiling Geng, Zucong Cai. 2012. Long-term application of organic manure and mineral fertilizers on aggregation and aggregate-associated carbon in a sandy loam soil. Soil & Tillage Research. 124, 170-177.
5. Hong Yan Yu, Guang Ming Zeng, Hong Li Huang, Dan Lian Huang, Xing Mei Xi, Fu Rong Chen, Guo He Huang, Jian Bing Li. 2007. Microbial community succession and lignocellulose degradation during agricultural waste composting. Biodegradation, 18, 793-802.
6. Weixin Ding, Hongyan Yu, Zucong Cai. 2011. Impact of urease and nitrification inhibitors on nitrous oxide emissions from fluvo-aquic soil in the North China Plain. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 47, 91-99.
7. Weixin Ding, Hongyan Yu, Zucong Cai, Fengxiang Han, Zhihong Xu. 2010. Responses of soil respiration to N fertilization in a loamy soil under maize cultivation. Geoderma, 155, 381-389.
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10. Weixin Ding, Zengming Chen, Hongyan Yu, Jiafa Luo, Gayoung Yoo, Jian Xiang, Huanjun Zhang, Junji Yuan. 2014. Nitrous oxide emission and nitrogen use efficiency in response to nitrophosphate, N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide and dicyandiamide of a wheat cultivated soil under sub-humid monsoon conditions. Biogeosciences Discussions, 11(9), 13571-13603.
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The skeletal stays of three antiquated mutts found covered in Illinois currently speak to the soonest proof for the nearness of tamed pooches in the Americas. It’s additionally the most seasoned known purposeful internment of individual canines in the worldwide archeological record.
Tamed mutts have been in North America for no less than 10,000 years, as indicated by new research distributed in American Antiquity. This finding depends on the re-investigation of three puppy skeletons found in Illinois during the 1970s by the self-trained American paleontologist Gregory Perino. The remaining parts, which had been put away at the Illinois State Museum, hadn’t been appropriately dated utilizing present day methods, prompting the new examination, driven by Angela Perri from Durham University in the United Kingdom.
Two of the pooches were found at the Koster site in the Lower Illinois River Valley and one was found at the adjacent Stillwell II site. Coordinate cell based dating of the Koster and Stillwell remains yielded a date somewhere in the range of 9,630 and 10,190 years prior, which is around 1,000 years sooner than traditional assessments; beforehand, the most seasoned affirmed stays of a North American pooch originated from a 9,300-year-old site in Texas. Together, the Koster and Stillwell examples speak to the “most punctual affirmed archeological canine record in the Americas,” and the “most seasoned independently covered mutts known in the worldwide archeological record,” the creators wrote in the examination.
The new dates are predictable with hereditary proof distributed a year ago, recommending trained puppies were in the Americas around 10,000 years prior.
That sounds like quite a while prior—and it is—however the principal individuals touched base in North America around 15,000 years back, if not prior, as the last Ice Age was closure, and they did as such by embracing the coastline or going through Beringia by means of a hole in the gigantic ice sheets, or a mix of the two. The main tamed canines showed up in Eurasia no later than 16,000 years back, and potentially as long prior as 40,000 years prior. It’s a decent wagered, in this manner, that America’s first human transients carried their canine friends alongside them, however archeological proof to that impact is distressfully inadequate.
That they would do as such bodes well.
“Mutts may have helped relocating bunches by transporting merchandise and individuals, filling in as chasing helps, filling in as bed-warmers, going about as alerts, averting predators, and as a nourishment and hide source,” composed the creators in the new investigation.
In any case, as the new research appears, there’s around a 5,000-year archeological hole between the nearness of people in the Americas and the nearness of tamed puppies. This perception proposes one of two potential outcomes: Either hounds made a trip to North America close by people and the archeological proof is missing, or hounds arrived later amid resulting human relocations. Given the proof (or scarcity in that department), the two situations are conceivable. A third situation, that the most punctual puppies in North America were trained from indigenous wolves, was viably disproven by a hereditary examination directed a year ago, demonstrating that the genomes of the soonest American pooches were firmly identified with Arctic breeds, for example, Siberian Huskies.
As officially noticed, the canines found at Koster and Stillwell II were purposefully covered. A year ago, archeologists in Germany revealed a 14,200-year-old pooch internment, but since the canine was covered close by people, it’s not viewed as an individual entombment. The Koster hounds were discovered covered in individual, shallow, very much outlined pits, while the solitary Stillwell hound was discovered covered underneath the floor of a living region with its front legs tucked under its body. These purposeful entombments, it appears to me, may have spoken to another human conduct, prompting the improved protection of pooch remains, and a conceivable clarification with respect to why prior puppies are so rare in the archeological record.
All things considered, old puppy remains have been revealed crosswise over Beringia and southern Siberia going back to somewhere in the range of 17,200 and 12,800 years prior, and various tempting hopefuls have been found in North America, yet the dating of those remaining parts has demonstrated uncertain and dubious. The new examination, then again, is the first to utilize present day sequential and physical assessment strategies to indisputably date and recognize old canine stays in the Americas.
Leiden University PhD hopeful and veterinarian Luc Janssens, who was associated with the revelation of the 14,200-year-old puppy grave in Germany, was amped up for the new research, revealing to Archaeologys it was “astounding.”
A refreshed skeletal examination of the three canine remains was directed by Perri and her partners at Illinois State Museum’s Research and Collections Center. Since no proof of butchering or cleaning was found on the bones, the scientists are certain that the puppies were treated as pets and not sustenance. Isotope examination demonstrated the pooches lived on a consistent eating regimen of waterway sourced angle.
Preceding this examination, an alternate group of specialists could remove DNA tests from the Koster hounds, however not the Stillwell test. Hereditary investigation demonstrated that the Koster hounds likely originated from Siberian stock. In the event that there’s a shortcoming to this examination, it’s around there.
“The examination has no hereditary information and is only a dating venture,” Bridgett vonHoldt, a geneticist and master on early puppies at Princeton’s branch of Molecular Biology who wasn’t subsidiary with the new research, told Archaeologys. “It just implies that hound remains are more established than thought and may have landed here sooner than we thought.”
To be reasonable, the analysts performed a refreshed skeletal examination of the mutts. Regarding size, the Stillwell hound, likely a female, highlighted a mass and manufacture like a little present day English Setter, remaining around 20 inches tall at the shoulders and gauging somewhere close to 37 and 70 pounds. The puppies from the Koster site were somewhat littler and shorter.
Curiously, the Stillwell hound hinted at periodontal malady and serious tooth wear; its first and second molars were incredibly worn out, and its correct lower canine was for all intents and purposes gruff. This mileage was likely an amazing consequence of biting on bones, the scientists said.


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As I promised I am sharing Linkyn's cake smash pictures! For his first birthday we decided to do a shoot of him eating his cake. This cake was made by Karen Crabtree with Karen's Cake Creations in Kokomo. Photographer is Miranda Fennig with Miranda Fennig Photography. We started off doing a few photos with him in his "I'm 1" shirt which were super cute and I am so happy I got it for him to wear for this! We also did a few family picture with mommy and daddy and also with Grammi!
If anyone is debating on getting one year pictures I HIGHLY suggest you do it! I will always cherish these pictures we took and the memories we made taking them!
Here are his cake smash pictures! For his first birthday party we did an Under The Sea theme so I wanted his cake smash photos to match. We bought most of these decorations off of Amazon, and some from the dollar store.


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Meet The 5 Up-and-Coming Writers of the AT&T Mentorship Program for 2019!
The AT&T Hello Lab Mentorship Program is seriously changing the game when it comes to diversity and inclusion within Hollywood. The program came into existence in order to spotlight Hollywood voices from underrepresented groups, including people of color, women, and the LGBTQ+ community. Led by Emmy® award-winning actress, writer and producer Lena Waithe, the program pairs five promising screenwriters with five up-and-coming directors to bring their creative visions and projects to life. Starting in June, the mentees attended workshops, table reads, learned how to pitch their projects, and launch into production in August. After six months the program culminates with a premiere night on November 7, held at Neuehouse in Hollywood, which has become an industry hub in the last several years. After the premiere, the program provides additional support on a person-by-person basis as well as distribution support for the projects, ensuring that the world will get to see what these hardworking mentees have been able to bring into existence.
To be picked as a mentee is a huge accomplishment. As the program leader, Waithe is extremely hands on. In an interview with Complex magazine, Waithe spoke about the process in selecting the 10 mentees:
“What we really try to do is [get] people who are great, who we don’t have to babysit. I think there’s this sort of weird misconception that just because someone is new, they usually don’t know what they’re doing. It just means they haven’t gotten an opportunity yet to show their stuff.”
Let’s take a look at the five writers that Waithe knew had to show their stuff to the world!
Mechi Parada Lakatos – “Spilt Milk”
The Argentinean-American writer and filmmaker as well as Los Angeles native earned her BFA in screenwriting from Emerson College. She’s also currently pursuing her master’s in divinity at Harvard University. Mechi uses her work to explore the complexities and flaws in women, and focuses on themes such as sexual assault, feminist politics, gender, socioeconomic and cultural intersectionality, and sexuality. Mechi’s project for the program is bringing queer brown women and their children to the screen.
Her project, “Spilt Milk,” centers around a single mother who must move back in with her parents while caring for her infant son, as well as re-connecting with her ex partner and the child she’s raising that the former couple conceived via sperm donor.
Brittany Menjivar – “Fragile.com”
Currently a junior at Yale University studying English and Film, Brittany is also a music journalist for the pop culture website, The Young Folks, where she interviews and photographs rock bands. In 2018, she directed, wrote, and performed in “McDeath: An American Play.” It was an original Macbeth adaptation that centered around high schoolers in the ‘90s, and premiered at Yale’s Lighten Theatre in November.
Her project, “Fragile.com,” follows a broke teen girl who dreams of being an actress and the charming man who promises her fame and fortune if she agrees to livestream herself crying for his website, Fragile.com.
Jasmine Johnson – “The Fat Friend”
Writer Jasmine Johnson earned her BFA from New York University as well as her law degree from Georgetown University. Jasmine’s resume includes interning for both Saturday Night Live and at the ACLU. She has taken comedy classes and has also represented juveniles in court. Currently based in Los Angeles, Jasmine works in law firms during the day and spends her nights and weekends writing and creating.
Her dramedy, “The Fat Friend,” follows a boarding school student who must question her commitment to activism when she realizes she has no friends, a ton of enemies, and faces serious accusations that could get her expelled.
Malik Aziz – “1/30”
The award-winning actor, writer, producer, and director is a Kansas City, Kansas native who currently lives in Los Angeles. His projects have garnered critical and audience acclaim. His short film, “Lady In My Life,” (which he wrote, directed, and starred in), was featured on BET’s “Lens on Talent,” “African American Short Films,” and Aspire/ABFF Independent’s Short Film Showcase. He also had two scripts selected as a semifinalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2011 and 2012.
His romantic comedy, “1/30,” follows a young architect on the first day of Ramadan as he tries to fast with his fiancée while also attempting to win a major contract for his firm.
Angela Wong Carbone – “Postmarked”
The native New Yorker’s work seeks to explore and dive into topics surrounding cultural identity, diversity, inclusion, and the female experience. Angela serves as a contributing writer for the blog of activist Eileen Kelly, and her stories have been featured in Lulu Yao Gioiello’s Far Near, a curated cross-cultural book series which broadens perspectives of Asia. She’s currently developing a radio play centering on the Asian American lens with comedian Brian Park (CollegeHumor), as well as a pilot with Camrus Johnson (The Sun is Also a Star, Batwoman) and Evan Shapiro (former Sundance TV, NBC, and IFC executive).
Her drama and magical realism project, “Postmarked,” follows a 10-year-old boy who discovers a bunch of long-lost letters, and goes on an adventure to find the person who sent them.
The 2019 class for the AT&T Mentorship Program is bursting with talent and diverse voices. It’s clear from not only their experience but the current projects that they’re developing that these are the folks who are going to change the entertainment industry. They’re changing the game and they each have a unique story to tell. They’re all trailblazers, and we can’t wait to see where they go!
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As there were step already taken towards facilitating the affordable smart city project, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) under the MPD 2021 bring to you the side of the area where grasses are always greener on the side. People can now get the dream house as they wanted it to be.
Smart City Awas Yojna as a part of the most reputed Dwarka Smart City is located in Dwarka L Zone and is spread across 22,840 hectares of land, which is expected to double the growth rate of the country.
Attraction Points of Smart City Awas Yojna:
There are various attraction points of Smart City Awas Yojna and is listed down below:
• Second Diplomatic Enclave
• International Football Stadium
• Biggest Metro Corridor
• Upcoming AIIMS 2
• Upcoming Financial Hub
Apart from these, the project follows the implementation of Land Pooling Policy, but its strategic location is under the advantage that it is closely located to IGI Airport and is positioned between Gurgaon and Dwarka. Furthermore, Dwarka Smart City in itself is acting as a miracle in the lives of people.
Why Should You Choose Smart City Awas Yojna?
Smart City Awas Yojna take care of the people and offers all types of premium services to various organisation and people. We are a team of professional experts who offers custom designed services so as to take a right decision in response to affordable smart city project and forms relationship with you. By choosing us, you are not choosing us as the property providers, instead you will choose to be a part of our family.


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PBA explains why it’s drastically hiking minimum hardness for urethane and ‘urethane-like’ balls in 2024
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:10 pm
A hand-held durometer use to check bowling balls in the field for years. A reader sent it to me after reading my series of stories on urethane ball hardness. Photo by Jeff Richgels.
The PBA Tour may look very different in 2024 thanks to new rules governing urethane and “urethane-like” balls that were announced Tuesday in this PBA news release.
If it does look very different, fans who consider watching urethane balls being used on the PBA Tour “boring” may find a more exciting PBA in 2024.
The key change is hiking the minimum hardness at manufacturing from 73D to 78D, which may make balls like the PURPLE HAMMER and Storm PITCH BLACK not nearly...

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People: Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N)
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Mr. James C. Zelter is Managing Director - Credit Business of Apollo Global Management LLC. Mr. Zelter joined Apollo in 2006. He is Chief Executive Officer and director of AINV. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Zelter was with Citigroup Inc. and its predecessor companies from 1994 to 2006. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Zelter was Chief Investment Officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments, and prior to that he was responsible for the firm’s Global High Yield franchise. Prior to joining Citigroup in 1994, Mr. Zelter was a High Yield Trader at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Zelter has experience in global credit markets and has overseen the broad expansion of Apollo’s credit platform. Mr. Zelter is a board member of DUMAC, the investment management company that oversees the Duke Endowment and Duke Foundation, and is on the board of the Dalton School. Mr. Zelter has a degree in Economics from Duke University.
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WAKEFIELD — Like many young couples, Adrian and Maria Ruiz wanted to own their own house.
Renting a home eight miles away in Emerson, they searched for a home in Wakefield, where Adrian works, but with no luck.
"Nothing was available in Wakefield. We wanted to live here and wanted our children to go to school here. Ever since we had our son, we really knew we wanted a house. My goal was to provide that for my family," said Adrian Ruiz, a production supervisor at Michael Foods.
They were looking into buying a home about 10 miles away in Wayne, but fortunately for them, they were able to take advantage of a new Nebraska program created to help families such as theirs find affordable homes and also help rural communities such as Wakefield increase housing opportunities for people who live and work there.
Last week, Adrian and Maria hosted about 100 people at their home, where local leaders celebrated the completion of the house, the first in the state to be finished utilizing Nebraska's Rural Workforce Housing Fund. Among the guests for the ceremonial ribbon-cutting ceremony was Gov. Pete Ricketts, who came to see the results of the Nebraska Rural Workforce Housing Investment Act, which he signed into law in 2017.
"I'm pleased with all the great work being done here," Ricketts said before Adrian and Maria gave the governor and other dignitaries a tour.
It's the first of many new homes that leaders in Wakefield and nearby Wayne hope to build through a revolving loan fund of more than $1.6 million they established using the Rural Workforce Housing Fund, a $7 million state fund that provides matching grants to nonprofit development organizations to create housing options for workers.
Wakefield and Wayne both are short on housing in the $80,000-$150,000 range. As a result, workers commute from as far away as Norfolk and West Point. Eventually, some find jobs closer to their homes after tiring of the long drive to work, leaving employers constantly in the hiring mode.
"We've had employers tell us that the retention rate would be higher if there was more housing here," said Megan Weaver, executive director of the Wayne Community Housing Development Corp., which applied for the housing grant and administers it. "In these small communities, if you don't have some kind of incentive for people to live here, they're going to go live somewhere else."
Wayne and Wakefield raised $750,000 in local matching funds, including $370,000 from the Wakefield City Council, $237,500 from the Wayne City Council and $25,000 from Wayne County. Michael Foods, Enel Green Power, which developed the Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in the area, and a number of banks and other local employers also contributed. On May 1, Weaver was notified that Wayne Community Housing would receive $639,000 from the Rural Workforce Housing Fund and a $250,000 grant from the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority.
The program was perfect for the Ruiz family. Developed for middle-income families, its aim is to help people who don't qualify for housing assistance but lack $20,000-$40,000 for a down payment. The couple received a no-interest loan for a down payment through the program and secured private financing for the remainder of the $185,000, three-bedroom home.
The blue-and-white home was built on a lot that had been the site of a dilapidated house that the city of Wakefield had bought and demolished. The program will lead to both new and refurbished homes in Wakefield, city administrator Jim Litchfield said.
The Ruiz house is just the start. Utilizing the program funds, three other houses are or will soon be under construction in Wakefield and four other homes are being rehabilitated. In Wayne, the program has led to the construction of a triplex, and two single-family homes are planned.
The revolving-fund program will ensure that both towns will be able to add housing in the future.
Anyone who lives in a small town will tell you how big a deal that is. Jobs draw people to a community, but those workers need a place to live, too. Available quality housing helps employers attract and retain workers, Weaver said.
This program will help keep families such as Adrian and Maria Ruiz in Wakefield. They'll shop here. Their children, Adrian and Isabella, will go to school here. When they moved into their new house Dec. 20, Adrian Ruiz said, it felt like they were home.
"It's just a great feeling now being part of the community of Wakefield," he said. "Now maybe we can give something back."


Apple, Inc. Might Be Prepping a Large-Screen OLED iTV
Ever since Apple, CEO Tim Cook teased of new products in the pipeline earlier this year, the market has gone wild with speculation for what they could be.
To be sure, with everything from rumors of an iWatch and a low-cost iMac, to confirmation Apple wants the iPhone 6 to have a bigger screen, we've seen plenty of intriguing chatter over the past few months.
But if a recent report from The Korea Herald is any indication, Apple might have its sights set on something much, much larger. -- well, physically larger, anyway.
Enter the OLED iTV
Specifically, the report cites analyst Lee Seung-woo of Seoul-based IBK Securities as stating an "unnamed" South Korean company is "making 65-inch organic light-emitting diode sample panels for Apple's iTV in collaboration with Apple."
But there's a catch: Seung-woo noted Apple is "still running tests," so it's unclear whether these particular OLED iTV units will be used for mass production.
According other sources familiar with the situation, Apple's original plan was to bring roughly 2 million iTVs to market with 65- and 77-inch LCD panels in the second half of 2014. However, Apple visited the unnamed company in October to delay the project launch until 2015 -- partly because Apple hadn't secured adequate digital content, but also because it was unsatisfied with the LCD display quality. As a result, Apple has apparently shifted in favor of embracing the superior color reproduction and unique form factors afforded by OLED technology.
And that makes perfect sense, especially considering in December, Apple applied for a patent aimed at using integrated thermal sensors to fine-tune the colors emitted by OLED displays.
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So who's this mystery display maker? Seung-woo is likely referring to LG Display , which coincidentally unveiled its own 65- and 77-inch OLED televisions just three months ago at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Also in January, LG Display was rumored to have signed an exclusive agreement with Apple to provide 1.52-inch, flexible OLED displays for a presumed late-2014 iWatch launch.
Of course, this is arguably even better for Universal Display Corporation , which maintains OLED material supply and IP license agreements agreements not only with LG Display, but also with virtually every other OLED device manufacturer. In short, I'm convinced Universal Display the single greatest beneficiary in the OLED space as its flagship technology is embraced on a broader scale.
Aren't OLED TV's really expensive?
In a word: Yep. And that's primarily because they're notoriously tricky to build, with early manufacturing yields rumored to be as low as 30%.
In fact, LG's curved 55-inch model currently retails for a borderline-ridiculous $6000 online, so it's unsurprising this news has already brought out several skeptics who've used the "expensive" talking point to rationalize an Apple OLED iTV simply won't ever exist.
But there's a problem with this train of thought: As of last week, LG Display had reportedly improved its yields to 70%. If that's true -- and keeping in mind it still leaves plenty of room for improvement -- it means LG could be on pace to lower the price of its OLED TVs to between $2800 and $3800 by the end of 2014. That's still expensive, but the midpoint of that range represents an amazing 78% drop from the same television's $15,000 price tag when it hit stores last August.
What's more, as Universal Display management reminded investors in February, LG Display is set to ramp production later this year at its new $650 million Gen 8 production facility, which will be capable of producing roughly 1.8 million 55-inch units per year at a 100% yield. Even so, if Apple's aforementioned two million unit goal holds true, that means LG Display would need to dedicate nearly all its capacity to meeting Apple's demands.
But that wouldn't preclude Apple from helping LG Display build out its existing infrastructure, and/or recruiting other OLED panel makers to supplement supply -- all of whom, by the way, would also need to have agreements in place with Universal Display to partake in the Apple supplier bonanza. Then again, something tells me LG Display won't be too anxious to share its OLED manufacturing secrets with the competition, so I'm betting the former situation is more likely to pan out.
In any case, I'm a shareholder of both Apple and Universal Display who has long maintained the gap between the two companies is rapidly closing. As a result, I'm partial to believing an OLED iTV is not only possible, but probable over the long-term. That's why I'd love to hear what you think in the comments below. Is an OLED Apple iTV on its way, or is this just another rumor to sweep under the rug?
Bigger than TVs: Here's the biggest thing to come out of Silicon Valley in years
In the meantime, don't for a second think this mean's an OLED iTV is the only promising new product on which Apple is working. If you thought the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad were amazing, just wait until you see this. One hundred of Apple's top engineers are busy building one in a secret lab. And an ABI Research report predicts 485 million of them could be sold over the next decade. But you can invest in it right now... for just a fraction of the price of AAPL stock. Click here to get the full story in this eye-opening new report.
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Prepare for Classic Bitch to gore your ox or slaughter your sacred cow. Catch-22 is not a good read. At 478 pages of nonstop absurdist literature, it is unrelenting, nonsubtle, unnuanced, & mordant. Some scenes are so ridiculous that they read like the blocking of a Marx Brothers script. I either never made it through the first time, when it was assigned in a college English class, or I suffered as I did this time & then promptly forgot it. I don't remember.
My dad was visiting when I was reading it this time around, so he asked how it was. I told him how dated and unfunny I was finding it. Dad recounted that when he was in the Navy in the 1960s, and they docked in the Port of Hong Kong, all the sailors had suits of clothing made by tailors. Influenced by the recently published copy of Catch-22 that was being passed around on cruise, my father had "Washington Irving" and "Irving Washington" sewed into his suits. (Inside joke for readers of Catch-22.)
Whether or not you remember that name from the book, everybody remembers Major Major Major Major. But how about Colonel Korn? Lieutenant Scheisskopf? Do you remember General P.P. Peckem and A. Fortiori? You laughing yet? (Dad was.) For this reader though, the writing is so ridiculous that I'm afraid I must report that it just comes off as fatuous. It also doesn't help that this is yet another book given the nod by the Modern Library in which every single female character is a whore; the ones who aren't are treated like whores. Thanks, guys. For a book set in wartime, the longest physically violent fight scene within its covers is between a man & woman (a prostitute, of course). It lasts half a chapter and turns sexual. Another reason, doubtlessly, this book was such a hit amongst enlisted men aboard a destroyer tender half a century ago.
Catch-22 is a dinosaur.

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Ruling party to pick new floor leader, parliamentary speaker candidate next month
SEOUL, The ruling Democratic Party will hold internal elections next month to pick its new floor leader and its candidate for parliamentary speaker, party officials said Friday.
The party's election management panel reported to its decision-making Supreme Council that polls for the floor leader and National Assembly chief posts are set to occur on May 11 and May 16, respectively.
The new floor leader will replace Woo Won-shik, whose one-year term ends next month. Possible candidates being mentioned for the whip post include Reps. Cho Jeong-sik, Hong Young-pyo, Kim Tae-nyeon and Noh Woong-rae.
Six-term lawmakers Moon Hee-sang and Lee Seok-hyun and five-term lawmakers Park Byeong-seug and Won Hye-young are being bandied about as possible candidates to replace current Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun.
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Katie MacFarlane & Pablo Lafuente
Inverness Acoustic Music Club is delighted to announce the upcoming performance featuring Katie MacFarlane and Pablo Lafuente. This duo's combination of Gaelic and Spanish influences, as well as their impressive individual accolades, promise to make for an unforgettable night of music.
Katie MacFarlane, a Gaelic singer from Airdrie, has been drawn to traditional music her entire life, and her passion for the genre shines through in her performances. She has been recognized as a semi-finalist in both BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician and BBC Radio 2's Young Folk Award competitions, and her debut EP - Ciùine Na Mara - showcases her unique blend of Gaelic and Catalan styles.
Pablo Lafuente, an award-winning guitarist originally from Spain but now based in Glasgow, has established himself as a sought-after musician in the traditional music scene. His expertise on guitar and fiddle, combined with his collaborations with notable artists such as Project Smok, Assynt, and Ross Ainslie, have made him a standout talent in the industry.
Together, Katie and Pablo are a dynamic duo, blending their individual styles and influences to create a truly unique sound. Don't miss your chance to experience their live performance at the Wee Bar in Inverness on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 7:30pm.
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Wednesday 03 May 2023
The Wee Bar, Ness Walk, Inverness
Tickets are available on Eventbrite or pay at the door. £10/£7.50 (concession)
Inverness band Dorec-a-belle returns to its roots for a pared-down three-piece set at Inverness’s new Acoustic Music Club on Wednesday 3rd May. Formed in 2011 with three local musicians Maryann Frew, Bev Fraser and Liza Mulholland, the band comprising vocals, piano, sax, accordion and guitar, has grown over the last twelve years to include double bass and drums and performing at venues and festivals all over Scotland.
TV and radio appearances have included playing on Clive Anderson’s Loose Ends show on BBC Radio 4 live from the Edinburgh Fringe, and the band has also supported major touring artistes including The Magic Numbers, Squeeze and The Staves.
For their debut performance at the Club, however, the ladies - likened to the Be Good Tanyas and The Staves - are going back to what they love best – stripped-back acoustic playing with 3-part harmonies and singing their own original songs (with a few choice covers!). The warm intimate ambience of the Acoustic Music Club in the Wee Bar is the perfect setting and Maryann, Bev and Liza look forward to seeing you there!
Don't miss your chance to experience their live performance at the Wee Bar in Inverness on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 7:30pm.
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Unique Perennial Bulbs
The first pop of green, working its way through the soil or even remaining snow is one of our most cherished harbingers of spring. The classic yellow daffodil is a sign of spring as All American as apple pie. However, there is so much more to perennial bulbs than red tulips and yellow daffodils. Bulbs come in a seemingly limitless variety which makes them perfectly suitable for any garden design you can dream up. Planting just a few perennial bulbs can easily provide beautiful color in your garden for several months, year after year.
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A PINK daffodil! Well, as pink as daffodils get anyway. This very unusual variety has large white outer petals but the “trumpet” in the center is peachy-pink, ruffly, and split so it is more open. A rare beauty! Deer and rabbit resistant.
These tall perennial bloomers have simple leaves but their gorgeous pink blooms make them showstoppers. Really unusual trumpet shaped pink blooms; these perennial bulbs are real head turners. Their nick name is "Naked Ladies" because of how they bloom on long, leaf-less stalks.
This bulb has a cone with bell shaped flowers at the top. Their interesting shape is a sculpture like addition to your landscape. Beautiful deep purple color stands out when combined with white or yellow tulips.
Nectaroscordum siculum bulgaricum
Greenish white flowers with plum colored stripes on long 2-3' stalks. The flower cluster is about the size of a baseball and shaped like an umbrella. This unusual bulb draws lots of attention, an exotic addition to the late spring garden. The strong garlic scent of the bulb repels pests!
Unique Tulips Bulbs
Margarita - A unique double flowering tulip with blossoms that look like peonies. They bloom Early-Mid season and last longer than single tulips. Plant a few extra for cutting, they look lovely in arrangements!
Black Parrot – A very late season tulip with dark purple (almost black) fringed petals.
Fantasy – Fringed dark pink blossoms with green streaks. A very late season bloomer.
Hemisphere – A mid-season bloomer with dark pink and white streaked flowers.
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8.550599 - SCHUMANN, R.: Works for Oboe and Piano (Jandó, Kiss)
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Five Folk-Song Pieces, Op. 102
Robert Schumann must seem in many ways typical of the age in which he lived, combining a number of the principal characteristics of Romanticism in his music and in his life. Born in Zwickau in 1810, the son of a bookseller, publisher and writer, he showed an early interest in literature and later made a name for himself as a writer and editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, a journal launched in 1834. After a period at university to satisfy the ambitions of his widowed mother, but still showing the wide interests of a dilettante, Schumann was able to turn more fully to music under the tuition of Friedrich Wieck, a famous teacher, whose energies had been largely directed towards the training of his beloved daughter Clara, a pianist of prodigious early talent.
Schumann's own ambitions as a pianist were to be frustrated by a weakness of the fingers, the result, it is supposed, of mercury treatment for syphilis, which he perhaps had contracted from a servant-girl in Wieck's employment. Nevertheless he wrote a great deal of music for the piano during the 1830s, much of it in the form of shorter genre pieces, often enough with some extra- musical, literary or autobiographical association. The end of the decade brought a prolonged quarrel with Wieck, who did his utmost, through the courts, to prevent his daughter from marrying Schumann, bringing in support evidence of the latter's allegedly dissolute way of life. He might have considered, too, a certain mental instability, perhaps in part inherited, which brought periods of intense depression.
In 1840 Schumann and Clara married, with the permission of the court. The year brought the composition of a large number of songs and was followed by a period during which Clara encouraged her husband to tackle larger forms of orchestral music, while both of them had to make adjustments in their own lives to accommodate their differing professional requirements and the birth of children. A relatively short period in Leipzig was followed, in 1844, by residence in Dresden, where Wagner was now installed at the Court Theatre, his conversation causing Schumann to retire early to bed with a headache. In 1850 the couple moved to Düsseldorf, where Schumann had been appointed director of music, a fact that contributed to his suicidal depression and final break-down in 1854, leading to his death in the asylum at Endenich two years later.
The Five Pieces in Folk-Song Style, Opus 102, were written in 1849 for cello or violin and piano and were published two years later. Strangely the disturbing political events in that year in Dresden, which had forced Wagner to make his escape in disguise, seem to have brought Schumann a surge of inspiration, leading him to describe the year as his most productive. The pieces are true to their title, the first of them, Vanitas vanitatum, making in its title a whimsical reference to scripture. The gentle second piece leads to a pastoral third and a forthright fourth. The group ends with an element of drama, The Fantasiestücke, Opus 73, originally Soiréestücke, were written in the same year, for clarinet and piano, with the option of violin or cello. The evocative and expressive opening piece, a song in all but name, is followed by the busy piano accompaniment of the second and the energetic third.
Schumann wrote the three Romances, Opus 94, specifically for oboe and piano, but again allowed alternative instrumentation, for violin or clarinet and piano. They show once again remarkable master of small forms of this kind, of the handling of piano and solo instrument and of the projection of a moving and inimitable lyrical quality. As so often it is not difficult to imagine some literary or narrative basis for these pieces. The Romances represent Schumann's further experiment with various tone-colours, exemplified in the Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70, originally for French horn and piano and once more written in 1849. Again the composer offers alternative instrumentation, suggesting the use of violin or cello, implying yet again the absolute nature of these compositions as far as instrumentation is concerned.
In 1851 Schumann wrote two of his three violin sonatas. The first of these, the Sonata in A minor, Opus 105, was written in the space of four days in September, when, as he confided to a former student, he was very angry with some people. Düsseldorf had brought him considerable dissatisfaction, echoed by his employers on the city council and the musicians of the orchestra. He himself declared himself unhappy with the first of the violin sonatas, giving this as his reason for writing a second shortly afterwards, and tackling a third, to be completed in 1853. With the necessary changes of register and occasionally of lay-out, the sonata makes an interesting addition to possible oboe repertoire. The expressive first movement leads to an Allegretto second movement in F major, very much in the style of vignettes of the shorter pieces of the period. The principal material of the movement consists of two contrasted elements, with an intervening episode in the minor. The energetic final movement returns to the original key, ominously at first, but leading to a relaxation into the key of E major and briefly again into A major, before a dramatic reference to the opening of the first movement and a strong conclusion.
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What on earth is that princess up to now?
Hammer in hand, Princess Mia embarks on an epic adventure for one so admittedly unhandy: Along with her cohorts from school, she's off to build houses for the less fortunate. It doesn't take Mia long to realize that helping others -- while an unimpeachably noble pastime -- is very hard work. Will her giving spirit prevail? Will the house collapse due to royally clumsy construction? And most importantly, will Michael stop working long enough to kiss her?
What comes between Volumes IV and V of The Princess Diaries? Volume IV and a Half, of course!...Continua
It was a very short read. This is about Princess Mia doing something else for a change and that is by taking part in a House-making project. Actually, I can really relate to what she have felt--feeling icky and sweaty after all that work plus no nice bedrooms and bathrooms. I would also feel like dying if I were in her shoes. But like her, I will tell myself to get used to it. I guess the moral of this book is that we will learn how to appreciate all the things we have when we experienced living a life of someone else's (though Princess Mia didn't really do that but she saw what was in that place)....Continua


Kia Soul concepts and eco cars
* New cars unveiled * Every major car launch * Your next new car could be here...
Its teaser time at Kia. Three concept cars give strong clues to the final look of the Soul, the small off-roader look-alike that the company plans to introduce at the start of 2009.
Kia is also previewing the high-economy, low-emissions versions of the European-built Ceed, which are scheduled for production next year.
The three Soul concepts are called Searcher, Burner and Diva.
Searcher has ruggedly outdoorsy looks, with a raised body, extended wheelarches and a fabric sunroof.
Burner is the sporty, urban-cool version and has a lowered body, aerodynamic add-ons and dragon tattoos on a satin-black paint finish.
Diva is the more feminine option, finished in white with 19-inch wheels, patterned tyres, unique lamps and grille, and a different interior capped with a panoramic sunroof.
The production Soul will be built on Kias next-generation supermini platform and is expected to be available with 1.6-litre petrol and diesel engines. Despite the 4x4 looks, it will be front-wheel drive only.
Aimed at fashionable younger buyers, it will be a different-looking rival for the Mini, Fiat 500 and Renault Twingo, with lots of options for buyers to personalise it. Prices are expected to start as low as 10,000.
The clean Ceed models on display follow on from the earlier Eco-ceed concept. Three- and five-door Ceed models are expected to get a package of measures to improve aerodynamics, cut friction between the tyres and road, and improve engine efficiency of Kias 1.6-litre diesel engine. The aim is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to below 120g/km.