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FORT BEND COUNTY - A wrong-way fatal accident closed Highway 59 south of Rosenberg Thursday morning.
It happened around 3 a.m. Friday on Highway 59 near Isleib Road in Beasley.
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office says a woman was driving the wrong way in the southbound lanes when she crashed head-on with a dump truck.
Officials say the Beasley Fire Department requested assistance from the Richmond Fire Department's hazmat crews to clean up spilled hydraulic fluid.
Authorities reopened the freeway at 8:30 a.m.
The victim's name was not immediately released.
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Video: Spotlight On Black Youth and Senior Youth Theatre
An interview with Leon Phillips, a Drama Worker at the Belgrade, discussing his experiences working with young people from the Belgrade’s Youth Theatres in the run-up to this year’s July Festival. Leon is directing two upcoming shows for the July Festival, Broken and Sleeping Through the Alarm, both of which deal with issues that young people face today, and translate their concerns onto stage.
Broken, performed by the Belgrade Black Youth Theatre, explores the difficulty of expressing creativity in a education system increasingly governed by targets and rules. Sleeping Through The Alarm looks at the decisions young people are faced with when they finish school and the impact of these choices upon them.
Broken and Sleeping Through The Alarm will be performed as part of In Our Own Words – a two-week long July Festival of theatre by and for young people, in celebration of the 50th anniversary since the invention of Theatre in Education at the Belgrade Theatre.
Tickets for Broken, Sleeping Through The Alarm and all other Belgrade shows taking part in the July Festival are FREE, although we do ask that you make a donation to the Belgrade Community & Education Company. Book now by calling our friendly Box Office team on 024 7655 3055 or book online.


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Australian federal budget
An Australian federal budget is a document that sets out the estimated revenues and expenditures of the Australian Treasury in the following financial year, proposed conduct of Australian government operations in that period, and its fiscal policy for the forward years. Budgets are called by the year in which they are presented to Parliament and relate to a financial year that commences on the following 1 July and ends on 30 June of the following year, so that the 2021 budget brought down in May 2021 relates to the 2021/22 financial year (1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022, FY2022).
Revenue estimates detailed in the budget are raised through the Australian taxation system, with government spending (including transfers to the states) representing a sizeable proportion of the overall economy. Besides presenting the government's expected revenues and expenditures, the federal budget is also a political statement of the government's intentions and priorities, and has profound macroeconomic implications.
Australia follows, to a great extent, the conventions of the Westminster system. For example, the prime minister must have the support of a majority in the House of Representatives, and must in any case be able to ensure the existence of no absolute majority against the government. In relation to the budget, that requires that if the House fails to pass the government's budget, even by one dollar, then the government must either resign so that a different government can be appointed or seek a parliamentary dissolution so that new general elections may be held in order to re-confirm or deny the government's mandate.
The process of putting together the budget begins in November when the Central Budget Management System (CBMS) is updated with the latest estimates, and the senior ministers' review, where the Prime Minister, Treasurer, and Minister for Finance meet to establish the policy priorities and strategy for the coming financial year.
The outcome of the senior ministers' review determines how the different portfolios will prepare their budget submissions for cabinet. Agencies within each portfolio do not submit a request for new funding, because their potential savings within the agency are unfounded. After Finance has agreed to the costings, the submissions are circulated for coordination comments and lodged with the cabinet office by late February.
The Expenditure Review Committee (ERC), a committee of Cabinet, meets in March to consider all submissions. They decide which proposals will be funded and the level of funding each will receive. At the end of the ERC, the ad hoc revenue committee meets to make decisions on the revenue streams of the budget. A pre-budget review of the estimates is conducted after all decisions have been finalised to ensure that they are reflected in CBMS.
Budget documentation commences at the end of the ERC process. Agencies prepare two components: the portfolio budget statements and the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook.
The portfolio budget statements provide additional details and explanations of the budget and the statement of risks, which is included in Budget Paper No. 1.
The final budget is presented and tabled in Parliament by the Treasurer on budget night as part of the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill (No. 1), which "appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government".
Charter of Budget Honesty Act
The budget has to be presented within the framework that has been established by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act (1998).
The charter provides for:
- sound fiscal management of the Australian economy
- open dissemination about the status of public finances
- transparency in Australia's fiscal policy
Between 1901 and 1993, the practice was for the budget to be brought down in August, on the first Tuesday night of the Spring session.
Since 1994, the Treasurer has presented the budget on the second Tuesday in May, with the exceptions of 1996 (due to an election and a change of government in March, the budget was brought down in August), 2016 (it was held on the first Tuesday in May to allow the government to potentially call a double dissolution election following the presentation of the budget), 2019 (when an election called for 18 May caused the budget to be brought forward to 2 April) and 2020 (when it was postponed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
On budget day, but before the presentation of the budget, the Treasurer spends the day behind locked doors briefing media and interest groups on various aspects of the budget. This is known as the budget lock-up. Because of the market sensitive nature of some of the information which they are being provided, those invited to attend the briefings are not allowed access to the outside world until the budget has been presented in Parliament by the Treasurer, which normally commences at 7.30 pm.
In modern times, the budget has been broadcast live from Parliament House on the ABC and Sky News Australia. It is hosted on the ABC, without interruption from 7:30 pm to 8 pm, normally followed up with a report by a panel assessing the changes, benefits and flaws in the budget. Additional budget documents and materials are available on the government budget website for other interested parties.
A convention in Australian politics is that the Leader of the Opposition is given a "right of reply", which they deliver in Parliament two days after the government's budget speech, and which is also broadcast on television.
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- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2014–2015
- Budget Speech, 10 May 1994, Ralph Willis
- Worthington, Brett (6 October 2020). "Federal Budget 2020 reveals Australia headed to record debt of almost $1 trillion". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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Australian prefers Thai jail to home
A MELBOURNE man who has been living in shocking conditions in a crowded Bangkok immigration jail cell for more than four years is refusing to accept Australian Government help to return home.
Colin Hansch, 61, has told Thai authorities he would rather stay in jail than return to Australia, even though he has only a mat to sleep on and receives a small daily serve of rice and soup.
"I've not been back to Australia for 30 years. I don't want to go back, I've got nothing to go back to," he said.
Mr Hansch, a computer engineer who left Melbourne in 1967, is worried he will not be able to obtain a passport to travel overseas again if he accepts the offer. It is believed he wants to be able to visit Malaysia or Cambodia.
"I think they [Australia] don't want to give me a passport … they don't want to set a precedent giving a passport to somebody while they are in custody," he said.
#A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra said Mr Hansch had repeatedly rejected an offer from the embassy in Bangkok to issue a limited-validity document to let him return home immediately.
Mr Hansch has been held at the immigration centre in Bangkok, just around the corner from the Australian embassy, since September 2004. He was transferred there, supposedly pending deportation, after serving two years in a Bangkok jail for assault causing serious bodily harm, which related to a dispute with a bar girl in the beach resort of Pattaya.
He shares a large cell on the immigration centre's second floor with up to 100 illegal immigrants. Fights often erupt. He spends much of his time listening to FM radio and reading books.
The department spokesman said Australian consular officers have provided assistance to Mr Hansch while he was in jail and now at the immigration centre.
For 12 years Mr Hansch worked as a computer engineer for a US firm in Thailand. He has also worked as a computer engineer in the US and at the former Woomera defence site in South Australia.
"Thai authorities have informed the embassy that Mr Hansch is subject to deportation following completion of his criminal sentence and must travel directly to Australia," the foreign affairs spokesman said.
"The embassy is not able to issue Mr Hansch with a full-validity passport as he has been unable to satisfy documentation requirements to enable the issue of a full-validity passport."
There are about two dozen Australians among thousands of foreigners in Thai jails, most of them for drug-related offences.
There is an agreement with Thailand under which prisoners can transfer to Australian jails, but the process is very bureaucratic.
A Melbourne man, Harry Nicolaides, 41, has been in prison in Bangkok since August 31 on charges of lese majeste, which can carry up to 15 years' jail. He is scheduled to appear in court on January 19.
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Nominations for the Ivory Prize in Housing Affordability are now being accepted and self-nominations are welcome. Preliminary nominations are encouraged by Monday, Nov. 5, with the final deadline being Saturday, Dec. 15. Finalists will be announced at the Utah Winter Innovation Summit Feb. 6-8. Awardees will be announced in March 2019.
Ivory Innovations has announced a $200,000 Ivory Prize in Housing Affordability to honor innovations in design, financing and policy that seek to increase access in housing affordability.
This new prize is supported by the Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation and the Sorenson Impact Center at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. It seeks to recognize the most ambitious, adoptable and innovative solutions to address housing affordability and generate awareness and new ideas to address this national issue.
“Housing affordability is among the most pressing challenges facing our nation and we need new ideas to tackle it,” said Clark Ivory, CEO of Ivory Homes, Utah’s No. 1 homebuilder. “I know there are thousands of entrepreneurs, advocates and problem solvers who have found impactful ideas that we can highlight and support.”
To find nominees and evaluate ideas for this new award, Ivory Innovations is working with an advisory board of housing experts and partners, including representatives from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley and the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., that represent many of our nation’s top leaders in housing. The emphasis for the prize will be on projects that provide a pathway to homeownership; however, those that address reducing rents also will be considered.
“Housing affordability in the U.S. is a longstanding problem that has worsened in recent years due to supply constraints and rising interest rates. Nearly a third of American households paid more than 30 percent of their income for housing in 2016,” said Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, and Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability Advisory Board member. “The Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability is an admirable approach to finding innovative, scalable solutions to addressing this pressing challenge.”
The prize is designed to award innovators for their efforts and provide material support to allow them to advance their projects and is open to private-sector organizations, nonprofits and public-private partnerships. Proposals must make an impact through construction and design (including rehabilitation projects), public policy and regulation reform and finance, where some of the greatest barriers to affordability, such as qualifying for a mortgage or meeting down payment or monthly payment requirements are impacted.
The issue of housing affordability is especially relevant in Utah, which has long been considered a leader in homeownership. A recent report by the Eccles School’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute highlighted that, since 1991, the increase in housing prices in Utah ranks fourth-highest in the United States. The state is not alone in the trend as rising home prices across the country are making it increasingly difficult to find reasonable accommodations, with many families facing a cost burden of more than 30 percent of their household income.
“As I learned while touring the state this summer, housing affordability is a critical issue in Utah, one directly related to economic vitality,” said University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins. “To enable the state’s continued robust growth, Utah’s workforce must have access to affordable homes. On behalf of the University of Utah, I am pleased to partner with Ivory Innovations to find creative and scalable solutions to this problem.”
Ivory Innovations believes that dedicating time, talent and funding to solving the crisis in housing affordability can create momentum for change in the housing market and improve the quality of life for millions. The hope is that no one will be priced out of reasonable housing.
“Housing affordability is an urgent, seemingly intractable problem. I’m a realist in knowing that you have to keep chipping away if you’re going to make change, but I also know we need big ideas to make that change as transformative as it needs to be,” said Carol Galante, faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, and Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability Advisory Board Member. “It’s going to take multiple solutions and a political commitment. The Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability is a real effort to find the entrepreneurs, innovators and other problem solvers who are deploying new approaches to impact millions of people by making housing more affordable.”
The prize also will give students the opportunity to become the next generation of housing affordability experts, with the creation of the Housing Affordability Innovations Lab. The class, a partnership between Ivory Innovations and the Eccles School, allows students the chance to investigate and perform due diligence on the companies nominated, giving them insights into the housing market, as well as valuable contacts in the housing industry. Students are not only from the Eccles School, but also other diverse departments across campus.


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NTMEC is following the best public health advice from Australia’s Department of Health and NT Health.
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1 lbmedium yams, peeled, diced
1 lbmedium potatoes, peeled and diced
1.5 cclam juice
1 ccorn, frozen
12 ozfresh salmon, diced
1 qtheavy cream
1 tspworcestershire sauce
1 tsphot sauce
How to Make Sea Soup
- In a large saucepan place the butter and heat it on medium high until it has melted.
- Add the leeks and saute them for 4 to 6 minutes, or until they are tender.
- Add the yams and the potatoes, and saute them for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the butter is absorbed.
- Add the clam juice and simmer the mixture for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the yams and potatoes are almost cooked.
- Add the corn and the salmon and stir them in.
- While stirring constantly, pour in the heavy cream and milk blend them in well.
- Add the worcestershire sauce and the hot sauce, and stir them in.
- Remove the soup from the heat and set it on top of a saucer so that it rapidly cools to room temperature.
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The performance of the National Anthem at any event is always a big deal, especially if a well-known artist or group is performing the patriotic song. Although the performances are typically straightforward and direct, sometimes an artist will do a rendition that we love and sometimes they will do a rendition that we don't like at all.
Fergie recently sang the National Anthem at the NBA All Star Game, a huge sporting event for basketball.
Watch her performance below.
On the topic of bad anthems, how bad (or good) do you think this rendition of the National Anthem from Fergie was?
Most of the world is tilting towards not good... at all. Especially Twitter. Head over to our Facebook page and share your thoughts on her performance + see some great reactions from Twitter below.


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I love the steak. Is there anything better than a good steak to improve your day? For those days I have neither the time nor the energy to clean up, the air fryer steak is the perfect answer.
Steak in an air fryer?
Why make a steak in an air fryer when you have a cast iron steak, seared upside down or flame broiled? While these are all great ways to cook a steak, an air fryer can take your raw steaks to less raw (i.e. perfectly done) in under 10 minutes, with almost no cleaning and everything. this cleaning takes place in a dishwasher. After a long day at work, it sounds a lot better to me than hand rubbing a cast iron skillet or preheating your grill.
How many steaks can you put in an air fryer
It depends heavily on your air fryer, but the optimal answer seems to be 2. In a pinch, with racks (more on this below) you can do 4 or even 6.
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Some people claim that an air fryer can’t get a good crust on a steak. I say: look at the photo below. Air frying with its fan and high temperatures reproduces a competent grill. The trick seems to be to get the steak as close to the heating element as possible. For these photos, I used air fryer racks to lift the steaks up to the heating element, and the resulting crust is really good for an effortless weekday steak.
Heck, it’s better than some (admittedly terrible) restaurants that I wished I ordered a steak at.
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Ideally, you want to bring your steak as close to the heating element as possible while still leaving an inch of airspace to make sure nothing spontaneously burns. Do not leave during the 7 minutes that the steaks are cooking just in case.
That said, these are steaks drizzled with butter cooked an inch from a 400 ° F heating element. Things are going to get smoky. I put our air fryer right under our overhead hood fan and it did the trick. If you want a good crust, there’s no real way around the smoke. If you don’t have a range hood fan, you may want to take out your air fryer.
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This is not a high added value steak recipe. There are better ways to cook expensive steaks. This is more of a weekday evening grocery store steak recipe.
Having said that, I tried this with a more expensive strip loin and a cheaper sirloin, for science. Both were about 1.25 ” thick and both are perfect. The oily cap on the strip loin is rendered enough that it isn’t chewy and unappetizing, which is always a risk when you make the medium strip loin scarce. The sirloin was still tender and juicy and not at all hard or tasteless, which is always a risk with the sirloin.
Preheat your air fryer
Preheating an air fryer seems like an unnecessary step, but it’s really useful for a quick cooking recipe like steak by reducing the time it takes to bring your air fryer to temperature. I tossed some oil-coated garlic cloves into the basket while preheating (and cooking the steak) and they came out roasted and gooey.
Air Fryer Steak Time
For quick and easy reference, the steaks are roughly prepared at:
Rare: 125 ° F
Medium-rare: 135 ° F
Medium: 145 ° F
Average well: 155 ° F
Well done: 🤷♂
To pre-slice or not
It is a preferential thing. Most classic American steakhouses give you a whole steak and a sharp knife and get you into town, but the fanciest places in the world like to pre-cut your steaks into 1/2 ” strips that are easier to handle. against the grain. You still get a knife and get the slicing experience, but it’s easier to work with. It is also a much prettier presentation.
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If you are wondering which fryer we have, it is this one. It’s quiet and easy to clean and quite wide, which is great for steaks.
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Rattner joined Intel way back in 1973 and rose through the ranks to become one of its first four Senior Fellows in 2001. He vacates the CTO position immediately “to deal with a pressing family matter,” but the firm expects him to return “at a later date in a role to be determined.”
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For the past month or so I’ve been trying to track down why my Particle.publish() events would sometimes trigger and run an ifttt.com applet and sometimes they would fail. I think I’ve figured out, hopefully if my analysis will save others some effort and frustration.
Background, I have several battery (3 D-cells) operated Particle Photon sensors. My desire is to send a notification to my phone when any of them detect a notable event. To do this I issue a Particle.publish() event which ifttt.com triggers on to send a notification to the ifttt process on my phone. To get the longest possible battery life the Photon is in Deep Sleep most of the time.
I could always observe on the console that the events were reaching the cloud. Sometimes the ifttt applet would trigger and send the notification to my phone, but more often the applet would start and fail with the message that the Particle API was down (which was clearly not the case).
What I finally figured out (I think) was happening was that ifttt would receive the trigger. If it ran the applet quickly everything worked. But if the applet was delayed (often for several minutes) if would fail. What APPEARS to be happening is that ifttt is checking that the Photon that sent the event is still online when ifttt finally gets around to running the applet. If the Photon has entered Deep Sleep the applet fails.
To solve this situation I added a Photon that is always powered up to receive the events from the battery operated units and then create a new event that ifttt triggers upon.
Now, of course, my analysis, could be completely wrong. Comments? Suggestions?
I’m not sure what is causing the problem you are experiencing, however I will mention Stringify as a possible alternative. It’s especially good when you want your Particle devices to interact with a mobile device, and the latency is a few seconds instead of the occasional minutes with IFTTT.
I think you have might have found the root of the problem. The Applet recipe does call for the EventContents and CreatedAt from the event to be sent as part of the notification.
PERHAPS this information is not being sent in the initial message to ifttt.
As a result when ifttt runs the Applet, it calls back to Particle to get this additional information but as the Photon is now offline the information is no longer available.
I need to do some testing w/o these in the recipe and see if it clears the issue.
Thanks for the idea.
I am having the same exact problem - did you ever figure out the exact cause? I am trying to publish an event to IFTTT, then I have 2 applets, the first sends an email, and the second publishes an event back to my Photon. The sequence is:
Photon publishes the even to indicate a condition
IFTTT receives the event sends an email
IFTTT also publishes back to the photon
When the Photon receives the event from IFTTT, it goes back to sleep
In testing when there are just a few minutes between events, this works great. I have been having issues getting IFTTT to recognize the triggers after my photon has been asleep for 6 hours or more.
The issue I have is that if the originating Photon goes to sleep before IFTTT runs its script, then the script fails. It seems that IFTTT is asking if the originating Photon is still alive. Not unreasonable as I could see endless loops actions biased on long offline originators (zombies).
Sounds like we are seeing similar but not identical issues. How long is your Deep_Sleep timer? Mine works fine at 7200s, but when I bump it up to 6hrs (21600s) it stops connecting to ifttt.
If your issue is because the Photon is shutting down too fast, have you tried simply setting a Delay(60000) to make it wait a minute before shutting down?
I changed the sequence on my system but it still doesn’t work. Now I have ifttt listening for photon power (connected), then iff publishes an event back to my photon. Once my Photon receives the call back, it check a sensor and publishes the result. Then it waits 60s then shuts down. It may be time to test Stringify
Since there is usually no activity at night, my battery powered photon is in deep sleep for at least 12 hours overnight. I also set the deep sleep to wake up and send an “I’m alive” event after 24 hours of no other activity. More about this later.
I tried keeping it awake for a period of time after it sent an event to IFTTT. However, it is not unusual for IFTTT to not run for 5 to 10 minutes. As I’m on battery power (3 AA batteries), keeping it awake for 10 minutes after each event would greatly reduce the time between battery replacements.
What works well for me is to have 2nd photon that is AC powered receive the event from the 1st (battery powered) photon. This 2nd unit then sends an event to IFTTT. This is very inexpensive (one photon and a USB power plug). A single AC powered photon can support a huge number of battery powered photons anywhere on the Internet. As an additional feature, this 2nd photon reports to me if it did not receive an event from the battery powered photon in the last day (likely battery dead or other problem).
As events sometimes get lost, the AC powered photon sends an acknowledgment of the event back to the battery powered photon which causes the battery powered photon to go back into deep sleep. If it fails to get the acknowledgement in a few seconds, it will resend the event until it does, or gives up after a minute.
I had considered using 3 D batteries. This would have changed the battery replacement interval from every 6 months or so, to several years but the addition weight was a problem in my application.


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A new deal between Korean electronics giant Samsung and display maker Universal Display could bring advanced screens to a much broader swathe of mobile devices, including Apple’s iPhone, says analyst Jamie Townsend of TownHall Investment Research.
The technology in question is called OLED, short for organic light emitting diode. Compared to other display technologies, OLED was designed to be thinner, lighter and more energy-efficient and deliver brighter colors and sharper images.
Due to some unique advantages, including ownership of its own display manufacturing unit and access to stockpiles of necessary materials, Samsung has largely monopolized mobile OLED displays for more than two years. The company’s enormous appetite for the displays – Samsung is the largest provider of cellphones in the U.S. and the second-largest globally – has meant other gadget makers had to do without. HTC was reportedly forced to switch from Samsung-supplied OLED screens to Sony displays in 2010 after a Samsung OLED shortage threatened HTC phone production and sales.
Townsend says Samsung’s August 23rd deal with New Jersey-based Universal Display should make OLED technology easier to obtain. The agreement, which involves Samsung’s Mobile Display company, calls for the licensing of Universal Display’s technologies and the sale of its proprietary materials to Samsung through the end of 2017. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Samsung and Universal Display are not new partners. The companies say they have collaborated for 11 years. But their relationship has recently been on tenuous terms as Samsung built a new display-making facility and subjected some of Universal Display’s materials to rigorous tests, writes Townsend in a research note.
The resolution of these issues with the companies’ August 23rd agreement increases the likelihood that Samsung will be able to attract other mobile device manufacturers to its display business, says Townsend. He expects Samsung to soon produce 30 million small OLED displays per month, up from its 2010 rate of 3 million displays per month.
The additional capacity could enable Apple to put OLED displays in the iPhone, according to Townsend. “We believe that Apple has seriously considered using OLEDs in its iPhone but declined over manufacturing concerns,” writes Townsend. The first generations of the iPhone had LCD screens. The latest iPhone, iPhone 4, boasts a “Retina Display” that utilizes an LCD technology called IPS-LCD. (The term IPS stands for "in-plane switching", which refers to the position of the LCD's liquid crystals.)
Samsung's manufacturing ramp won’t happen soon enough to affect the iPhone 5, which is rumored to be debuting in October. But an OLED iPhone is possible in 2012, says Townsend.
OLED displays could also come to other phones. LG Electronics, which also owns a display business – and makes the iPhone’s Retina Display – just announced its first smartphone with an OLED screen, the Optimus Sol. Townsend says the news indicates that LG will adopt OLEDs for more phones and be a “solid customer” of Universal Display.


Most people think of physical violence when they think of relationship abuse, but emotional and verbal abuse can be just as harmful. To drive this point home, activist Zahira Kelly started a social media campaign called #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou last week. The hashtag quickly gained traction and went viral.
The One Love Foundation, an organization dedicated to ending relationship violence, is also bringing awareness to this issue. They recently released a short film titled "Love Labyrinth" to show what emotional and verbal abuse can look like. The film is just one chapter of their #ThatsNotLove campaign, which aims to explain the fine line between love and control within relationships and educate people on the early signs of relationship abuse.
"The inspiration behind 'Love Labyrinth' stems from the fact that when a victim is in an abusive relationship, they often feel trapped or don't recognize abusive behavior, but know something is off. Feeling trapped in a relationship is a very real and frightening symptom of relationship abuse, and many people don't know where to turn to for help," Serena Sidawi, marketing and communications manager at One Love, told A Plus.
In the film, a young woman is verbally abused by her boyfriend for hours because she did not answer her phone while out with her friend. She repeatedly apologizes and explains herself, but he just gets angrier and angrier.
"Most people understand that when a partner hits you or gets physical, that's abuse. But what they don't understand are the steps that lead up to abusive relationships, how a seemingly normal and healthy relationship slowly escalates to abuse, and the modern day forms that emotional and verbal abuse can take," Sidawi explains.
You can watch the short film below:
Sidawi hopes the short film will help people recognize some of the symptoms of relationship abuse and seek help.
"Once people see what the early stages of abuse look like, they begin to understand whether or not their relationship is unhealthy. People have a pre-conceived notion about abuse as something that happens to older, married couples and families," she said. "But that is not always the case. Young adults, both male and female, ages 18-24 are at the highest risk for relationship abuse, and we want people to understand the different forms that abuse can take, whether it's physical, verbal, or emotional. All forms of abuse are detrimental to a person's well-being."
If you or someone you know is experiencing relationship abuse, do not be silent. Speak up, seek help, and don't let the situation escalate any further than it already has.
You can also help stop abuse by joining the conversation. Educate your family and friends on the signs of relationship abuse and help bring awareness to the issue.
"Abuse affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men throughout their lifetimes, so chances are that someone you know is or has been affected by an abusive relationship, and that is not okay," Sidawi said. "Whether it's sharing aspects of our #ThatsNotLove campaign, attending or holding awareness initiatives, or talking to those around you about the warning signs, we want everyone to know that they have a role to play in this."


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In his new memoir, "Fortune Son," music legend John Fogerty details the highest and lowest points of his career, from fulfilling his "musical dream" to the "long, dark period" in his life as the frontman of Creedence Clearwater Revival, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
The hit song "Proud Mary" transformed Fogerty and his bandmates from struggling musicians to superstars almost overnight.
"I just absolutely knew that it was a great song. And usually I'm a kind of modest person and I would probably be wanting to say, 'Well, it was kinda good,' you know? 'It was okay.' No--at the moment, it was great."
And it wasn't just a one-hit wonder. Fogerty quickly followed up with a remarkable string of hits that would become music classics--like "Bad Moon Rising," "Down on the Corner," and "Fortunate Son"--and resonate across generations. The band produced three hit albums in 1969 alone.
But the band's prolific career was cut short, and it became infamous for having one of the most acrimonious breakups in music history.
Creedence disintegrated almost as fast as its rise to success. Lead vocalist Tom Fogerty left to pursue a solo career out from under his younger brother John's shadow, while bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford demanded more creative control.
"They now wanted to write songs and sing the songs they wrote and arrange the songs," Fogerty recalled. "Either it was going to be this way or we were going to fall apart right here. So I agreed."
Cook and Clifford went on to say Fogerty sabotaged the album, forcing them to write. When "Mardi Gras" was released, a Rolling Stone reviewed called it "the worst album I have ever heard from a major rock band." Creedence never made another record.
In addition to a string of lawsuits with his bandmates, Fogarty also spent decades battling the record company that signed him as a teenager and claimed ownership of his iconic songs.
"The fact that I don't own these, you know, wonderful songs certainly has gnawed at me," he said. "The whole world knows those are your songs."
Today, Fogerty says he is at a much happier time and at age 70, still hasn't lost a beat. At his home in Los Angeles, Fogerty and his sons Shane and Tyler have built their own recording studio for family jam sessions.
"Shane is a wonderful guitar player. And those are amazing moments in life when you get to share that closeness," Fogerty said. "After all, it's in his DNA."

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- This is a fun project to do with your kids! Go into your yard and gather a handful of large, interesting branches. (The more gnarly ones also have a great Halloween effect!) Then place branches in a tall, cylindrical glass vase—or whatever vase fits your décor. I like placing these in front of a window. Branches are a hot decorating trend and are free! (Keep them into the Christmas season—then spray paint them silver or white for a wintry look!)
- Gather colorful leaves from your yard, and hot glue them onto a plain grapevine wreath found in hobby or discount stores. Add a plaid bow with fall colors, and voila! Instant autumn door wreath!
- Don’t forget the importance of SCENT in the overall ambiance of your home! When having guests over, place a large dutch oven on your stovetop and fill with apple cider. Toss in 10-12 cinnamon sticks, and simmer on very low heat. This makes your house smell warm and inviting, like apple pies are baking in the oven—and you can serve your guests a cup when they arrive!
Enjoy! And remember to be thankful for your many blessings during this Thanksgiving season…


Armenia: Paying Millions to Legally Avoid Military Service
995 citizens of Armenia who evaded the military service have paid a total of 2.290 billion ADM (US$4.8 million) in 2019 to avoid criminal persecution.
A law passed last year allows those over the age of 27 who never did their compulsory military service to pay a fee and thus avoid prosecution.
The amount of the fee, according to Armenia’s ministry of Defense, differs and is based on the number of years said person has evaded military service.
For example, if a citizen has been “on the run” for nine years, then he has to pay a minimum of 200 times the monthly minimum wage (in this case it is calculated at 1,000 AMD) - 3 million 600 thousand AMD (1000x200x18).
The ministry says these funds are deposited by citizens in a special account opened for this purpose by the state authorized defense body and used to meet military needs in the manner prescribed by the government.


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This article gives an overview of the DBCC INPUTBUFFER and its replacement sys.dm_exec_input_buffer system dynamic management function .
Suppose you connect to a SQL instance and identify current running sessions and their query texts. Usually, DBAs use a system stored procedure called sp_who2 to list all sessions along with little diagnostic information such as CPU, memory, etc. It is rare to find any DBA that does not know the sp_who2 command. We get a row corresponding to each SPID. Here SPID belongs to Server Process ID.
Here is the output of the sp_who2 command in an idle instance:
SPID values of 1 to 50 belong to system processes such as log writer, lock monitor, checkpoint, and resource monitor.
Status: It gives the status of the particular SPID such as Sleeping, Background, Running and Runnable:
- CPU time: It is the total time of CPU time for that particular process
- Disk IO: It is the total disk read/write time for that particular process
- Last batch: It gives the timestamp of the last statement from the process
- DB Name: The SPID is executing a query in the database name
- Program Name: It shows the Program name such as SSMS, SQL Agent from where the connection is coming to SQL Server
Now let’s execute a query in SQL Server instance to fetch records from a table. In the screenshot, we can see the query is executing in SPID 62:
Let’s say we do not know the query and its source. We can use the sp_who2 procedure to find out what is running under this SPID.
We can filter the records for the SPID 62 using the following query:
We can see login, database and program name for this SPID, but it does not show the query running under this SPID:
We use another DBCC INPUTBUFFER command for getting the last statement executed in a particular SPID. We need to pass the SPID number in the argument:
Is it a good way to identify query text for the SPID? Let’s explore a few drawbacks of using sp_who2 and DBCC INPUTBUFFER command:
- We cannot use this command to retrieve query text for all sessions
- For multiple sessions, we need to run the DBCC INPUBUFFER command for each session. For example, if we want to check the query text for 60, 61, 62 SPID’s, we need to run the command as shown below
We get individual output for each command along with event type and event info (query). By default, it shows only 4000 characters of the query for the language event type:
Permissions required for DBCC INPUTBUFFER command
We need one of the following permissions for executing this command:
- A user must be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role
- A user must have VIEW SERVER STATE permission
Alternatives of DBCC INPUTBUFFER command
SQL Server provides useful dynamic management views and functions. We usually use the following acronyms for these views and functions:
- DMV: Dynamic Management View
- DMF: Dynamic Management Function
These DMV and DMF provide server state information and useful in monitoring SQL Server instance, performance issues, internal query behavior, waits, etc.
SQL Server 2014 SP2 introduced a new DMF sys.dm_exec_input_buffer as a replacement of the DBCC INPUTBUFFER command. We can use this DMF to retrieve the last query executed similar to the DBCC command. The benefit of it is that you can retrieve information for two or more sessions at the same time. It also allows you to join it with other DMV/DMF for fetching useful information.
Syntax of sys.dm_exec_input_buffer
sys.dm_exec_input_buffer ( session_id , request_id )
It requires two arguments:
- Session_ID: We use the SPID for which we want to retrieve the information. We use the same SPID
in DBCC INPUTBUFFER. We can use other DMV’s for fetching the SPID automatically for all sessions
- Request_ID: It is the unique ID of the session. We can retrieve it from sys.dm_exec_requests DMV. It also allows NULL value for this argument
Previously we use the DBCC command for retrieving query text for SPID 60, 61, and 62. Let’s use the sys.dm_exec_input_buffer command for retrieving the same information:
FROM sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(60, NULL);
FROM sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(61, NULL);
FROM sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(62, NULL);
It returns a similar output using the DMF as well in comparison with the DBCC INPUTBUFFER command:
Why should we use this sys.dm_exec_input_buffer DMF if it is returning the similar output as of DBCC INPUTBUFFR command?
The benefits of using the DMF are:
- You can join it with other DMV\DMF for providing input for session-id automatically
- We can retrieve extra information with the join of multiple DMV, DMF’s
- You can filter results for specific session id or exclude system session-id’s from the output
The following query combines sys.dm_exec_input_buffer DMF and sys.dm_exec_sessions DMV. We use the CROSS APPLY join operator between these for retrieving T-SQL statements of all connected user sessions (SPID>50).
You can notice that DMF takes the value of the argument session_id from the session id of sys.dm_exec_sessions DMV. It does not require you to specify session_id manually which is a drawback of the DBCC command.
In the output, you can see additional columns such as CPU_time, logical_reads, writes, total_elapsed time, program name in the same window. You do not need to execute separate queries and combine outputs. We also get an output of multiple session id’s in a single output:
FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions AS dmes
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(dmes.session_id, NULL) AS ib
WHERE dmes.session_id > 50
Similarly, the following query combines DMF sys.dm_exec_requsts with the DMV sys.dm_exec_requests DMV using the CROSS APPLY join operator:
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests AS Req
JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions AS Ses ON Ses.session_id = Req.session_id
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_input_buffer(Req.session_id, Req.request_id) AS InBuf
WHERE Ses.session_id > 50
AND Ses.is_user_process = 1;
Permissions required for sys.dm_exec_input_buffer DMF
- It requires a VIEW SERVER STATE permission to view all executing sessions on the instance. User can see only the current session without this permission
- If a user is a database owner, it sees all executing sessions on the database. User can see only the current session without this permission
It is always better to use the latest query, commands to enhance productivity and flexibility. We can still use the old way DBCC INPUTBUFFER, but I would recommend using sys.dm_exec_input_buffer dynamic management function instead. If you have not tried it before, use it and become familiar with it. It will give more useful information and saves time for you in executing multiple statements and combine results.
While working as a Senior consultant DBA for big customers and having certified with MCSA SQL 2012, he likes to share knowledge on various blogs.
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