Woman complains to police about marijuana quality

LUFKIN: Police in East Texas have arrested a woman after she called them to complain about the quality of the marijuana she had purchased from a dealer.

Lufkin police Sgt. David Casper said Monday that an officer went to the home of 37-year-old Evelyn Hamilton to hear her complaint that the dealer refused to return her money after she objected that the drug was substandard.

She was arrested Friday on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hamilton said Monday that she spent $40 on "seeds and residue." She says she called police when she got no satisfaction from the dealer's family.

US company working on iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy S4 cases that improve audio quality

AudioCase will work with iPhone 5s, 5c

To put it mildly, smartphone audio quality is horrible. Even as companies bring in Full HD screens and start thinking about 4K, they have not really been able to improve sound quality.
There seems to be a solution in sight. US-based Prescient Audio is planning to launch an audio-enhancing smartphone case through Kickstarter. The Illinois-based company is the developer of the ThinDriver TD-12, the world’s thinnest, lightest, coolest-running 12″ subwoofer. Its Prescient AudioCase will be a sleek new audio-enhanced smartphone case for iPhone 5/5s and Samsung Galaxy S4.
“Crowdfunding is the perfect way for a cutting-edge company like ours to launch this newest product,” said Prescient founder and CEO Paul Niedermann in a release. He said the AudioCase will bring the highest quality audio possible to “people who care about smartphone sound – without awkward external speakers”.
A $99 Kickstarter Campaign pledge allows individuals to be among the first to own the AudioCase, a smartphone case featuring both TrueVoice and ThinDriver technology to enable high quality, high-volume, two-way audio. Kickstarter backing affords a significant discount to the planned retail price of $149.

Provision of quality education is a bigger challenge: Governor

ABBOTABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah has said providing quality education is a bigger challenge and the government is trying its level best to make the opportunities of learning available to the youngsters.
He expressed these views while speaking as chief guest at ground breaking ceremony of the New Campus of University of Haripur Friday. The Vice chancellor of the University, Dr. Nasir Ali Khan also spoke on the occasion and highlighted activities, achievements and future plans of the institution.
Engr. Shaukatullah said that provision of quality education following the guidelines set by the father of the nation, all available resources were being mobilized in an organized manner to address the grave issues confronting us.
The Governor said that since acquisition of knowledge always enables the students, researchers and scholars to explore the magnificent and vast treasures of nature, therefore, they must harness their own potentials and abilities to make other human beings a productive and beneficial asset of the society.
The Governor observed that the University of Haripur has achieved big milestones from academic development point of view in a very short span of time.
Praising the management for its contribution for making the university a success, he added that provision of scholarship facilities to undergraduate and PhD scholars was indeed an impressive achievement.
On this occasion, he announced grant of 25 split air conditioners for the university and asked the management to ensure completion of the building of the New Campus within one year instead of earlier stipulated time of one and a half year.
In his address welcome, the Vice Chancellor Dr. Nasir Ali Khan told that the KP government has disbursed an amount of 1.2 billion rupees during the last one year for infrastructure and faculty development program of the university.
He further said that under this program construction of the New Campus building would commence very soon while 150 PhD scholarships would be granted to deserving and eligible faculty members.
He further informed that Rs. 30 million financial aid initiatives were taken for the students while NBP students' loan scheme has also been extended to the University of Haripur.