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Advance Salary Loan from south Indian Bank in Alwar
The city of Alwar in the Indian state of Rajasthan is located within Indias National Capital Region. It functions as the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district in Rajasthan. It was formerly known as Ulwar. The city is a hub of tourism as it has several forts, lakes, heritage havelis as well as nature reserves in and around the city. Alwar houses Rajasthans very first private engineering college called the Institute of Engineering and Technology. The city is fairly rich in minerals. Traces of marble, granite, feldspar, dolomite, quartz, limestone, soapstone, barites, copper clay, copper ore and pyrophyllite are found in and around the city. Tourism fuels the economy of Alwar as the city is home to exotic locations of tourist interest. The Bhangarh Fort and the Sariska Tiger Reserve are major tourist attractions. Fairy Queen, Bala Qila, City Palace, Moosi Maharani ki Chhatri, Ashokas Buddhist stupa, Hill Fort Kesroli, etc are other dynamic places that attract tourists to Alwar.
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south Indian Bank Limited is based at Thrissur in Kerala, India. It has 852 branches, four service branches,56 extension counters, and 20 Regional Offices spread across the states and union territories of India. It has a network of 42 Bulk Note Acceptor/Cash Deposit Machines and 133 ATMs all over India. Under the Companies Act of 1913, South Indian Bank was registered as a Private Limited Company and started operations on 29th January 1929 at Round South, Thrissur. The South Indian Bank Ltd. was founded by a group of 44 enterprising men of Thrissur who contributed Rs.500/ - individually to the initial paid-up capital. Their primary aim was to assist the merchant community of Thrissur by saving them from the grasp of the money lenders who charged exorbitant rates of interest. The bank received outstanding support from the public at large. The number of branches opening each year justifies popularity. On 7th August 1946, it was included in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India and became a scheduled Bank. On 17th June 1957, under section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act 1949 from RBI, SIB was the first scheduled Bank in Kerala to get the license.


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Q: How to detach a DVI port from a circuit board? Motherboard in my monitor seems to be attached to the metal case with the help of a DVI port in addition to a screw. After removing the screw it is still impossible to take the board out of the case. I need to inspect it and replace damaged capacitors if required. Can anyone explain how to disconnect the board from the port?

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Guardian expected to ink deal with Facebook within days
Guardian Australia is set to sign a long-form deal in the coming days to secure payment from Facebook for its journalism, reports AFR's Miranda Ward.
It is the latest publisher to secure a deal with Facebook after the Silicon Valley company was forced to the negotiating table by the Morrison government's media bargaining code.
It is understood the deal is a licensing agreement for a yet-to-launch special section of the platform, called Facebook News, to be dedicated to quality news.
Allegations 'destroyed' him, Ben Roberts-Smith's parents say
On the eve of Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation trial against Nine, the parents of the former special forces soldier have said the allegations that he committed war crimes have destroyed their son's life, reports AFR's Max Mason.
In a joint statement on Sunday afternoon, Len and Sue Roberts-Smith said the allegations against their son were false and had been distressing for the whole family.
"The allegations have not only destroyed Ben's life, but have affected us every day for the last several years."
Shock at some media outlets' take on Porter victory claim
The AFR's legal affairs writer Michael Pelly was not wrong when he wrote that the media is "still reeling from the spin" following Christian Porter's announcement on Monday, reports Guardian Australia's Amanda Meade.
We couldn't agree more. The former attorney general's attempts to portray the end of the defamation suit as a "humiliating backdown" for the ABC actually worked with some outlets.
Despite failing to secure an apology or retraction from the public broadcaster, Porter sought to claim victory in a bullish press conference outside the court. He looked, Pelly wrote, "more like a politician arguing black was white than a litigant claiming victory".
The Australian reported numerous negative stories about the ABC, all of them denied by the broadcaster, including that the managing director David Anderson apologised to Porter outside the mediation room. Earlier the Oz claimed that ABC lawyers had been forced to apologise for a "an ill-timed — and inaccurate" tweet by Four Corners executive producer Sally Neighbour.
ABC on track to broaden its reach to mainstream Australians
The ABC says it's on track to have most of its content-makers working outside of the broadcaster's Sydney headquarters by 2025, reports News Corp's Sophie Elsworth.
It comes after ABC board member Joe Gersh conceded the public broadcaster needed a better representation of mainstream Australia.
The ABC confirmed it was following its plan – released last year – to work towards broadening its base of reporters and producers to ensure 75 per cent were based outside of its head office in Ultimo, in inner-city Sydney.
Leigh Sales versus the trolls: The 7.30 host in the COVID hot seat
Leigh Sales is used to criticism. As host of the ABC's flagship current affairs program 7.30, she grills prime ministers, premiers and chief executives on a nightly basis, and her work is broadcast for the whole country to watch and evaluate, reports The Sydney Morning Herald's Michael Koziol.
But even she has been taken aback by the criticism – and outright trolling – she receives about her coverage of the coronavirus pandemic when it involves holding the Andrews Labor government to account in Victoria.
Sales declined to comment for this story. But her executive producer Justin Stevens said the abuse she is subjected to online was "unacceptable [and] sometimes truly disgusting" – as it is for many journalists, especially women. The Australian's Rachel Baxendale has probably copped the most abusive trolling.
"As anchor of the program Leigh does much of the heavy lifting … her job is to question and challenge decisions taken by people. Asking questions isn't expressing a point of view, it's doing her job as a journalist," Stevens said.
Media fined a combined $1.1m for contempt of court in Pell reporting
Some of Australia's biggest media companies have been fined a combined $1.1 million for breaching contempt of court laws over the way they first reported George Pell's conviction on sex abuse charges, reports The Age's Adam Cooper.
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are among the news outlets to have pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaching a suppression order over news reports they published in December 2018, in the days after a County Court jury found Cardinal Pell guilty.
The media companies, which also include Sydney's The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Channel Nine's Today program and radio station 2GB, pleaded guilty in February to a combined 21 charges as part of a plea deal that brought to an end a trial that began last year.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors withdrew other charges against the news outlets and against 15 individual journalists, which included the editors of some of the nation's biggest newspapers.
Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine puts us all in the box
At 7.35pm on August 10, 2018, Sydney Morning Herald investigative reporter Kate McClymont is running late. She's meant to be going to the Kennedy Awards for journalism when she learns her newspaper is being taken to court over a story about how war hero Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly committed war crimes, reports AFR's Max Mason.
For years Roberts-Smith had been lauded as the model Australian soldier, given the country's highest military honour and even named father of the year.
But that day, investigative reporters Nick McKenzie, Chris Masters and David Wroe had published a story naming Roberts-Smith, accusing him of committing murder on deployments to Afghanistan.
Seven well-placed to take ratings crown from Nine: James Warburton
Seven's long-running push to grab a bigger slice of younger audiences appears to be finally paying off ahead of next month's Olympics, with the network winning the ratings race for the past six weeks, reports News Corp's James Madden.
In an exclusive interview with The Australian, Seven West Media chief executive James Warburton said the company was well-placed in 2021 to prise the annual ratings crown from Nine for the first time since 2018.
Despite starting the year with two major on-air disappointments – Ultimate Tag was a ratings disaster and Holey Moley fell away badly after a strong launch – Warburton said Seven's slate of second quarter shows, most notably Big Brother, had clawed back lost ground and had put the network in a strong position.
PMO's call to ABC boss Gaven Morris on QAnon story
The ABC's proposed Four Corners story, which has been attempting to explore Scott Morrison's alleged links to a QAnon supporter, led to some very high-level dialogue between the PM's office and the ABC last week, reports News Corp's Nick Tabakoff.
Diary can reveal a phone call was made by the Prime Minister's chief media adviser, Andrew Carswell, to the ABC's head of news and current affairs, Gaven Morris, last Tuesday about 3pm. The dialogue was brief and to the point.
It is understood the call began with a question from Carswell. "Is the story going to air?" we're told he asked of the program, being pursued by Four Corners investigative reporter Louise Milligan.
Four Corners pushes to air QAnon episode within weeks
Four Corners will push for its episode linking Scott Morrison to a QAnon conspiracy theorist to air within the next fortnight, despite the Prime Minister's office rebuffing the broadcaster's attempts for a detailed response to its questions, reports SMH's Lisa Visentin and Zoe Samios.
The controversy over the episode will be a key focus of a Senate estimates hearing on Monday, when ABC managing director David Anderson will face questions over his decision to delay the program days out from scheduled airing, deeming it "not ready".
ABC sources familiar with the internal dynamics of the controversy who were not authorised to speak publicly said Four Corners was working to address Anderson's concerns with the aim of having it broadcast-ready in the next two weeks. One of the concerns was that the Prime Minister had not responded to detailed questions from the broadcaster.
Nova's Joel Creasey gets ripped in Men's Health makeover
Comedian Joel Creasey has shown off a dramatic fitness transformation, reports News Corp's Amy Harris.
Reaching the milestone birthday of 30 inspired the television host and Nova radio presenter to shed 12kg of body fat and put on 4kg of muscle, sharing the results as the latest cover model of Men's Health magazine.
Creasey joins the likes of Larry Emdur, Guy Sebastian, Hugh Sheridan and Osher Gunsberg who have all committed to body transformations for the magazine.
In the interview, Creasey revealed he suffered from scoliosis and arthritis, which meant he needed to seek physiotherapy and chiropractor support, as well as regular massage.
Harper's Bazaar returning to Australia at indie publishing house
Hearst Magazines International has announced that Harper's Bazaar will relaunch its fashion magazine in Australia, in partnership with Switzer Media & Publishing. The debut issue of Harper's Bazaar Australia, a special collector's edition, will hit newsstands in September 2021.
Most-recently launched in 1998 and published for nearly two decades, Harper's Bazaar was formerly part of ACP Magazines which became Bauer Media. The title ceased publishing here before the company rebranded again as Are Media.
Maureen Jordan, Switzer Media Publisher, will lead sales, marketing and brand strategy for Harper's Bazaar Australia. She will also conduct the search for a number of key creative positions, including editor-in-chief of the brand.
"To be appointed publisher of this 154-year-old iconic fashion bible is a great honour," said Maureen Jordan. "Bazaar has been missed by its loyal following in Australia in recent times and not only are we excited about its relaunch, we are passionate about collaborating with Hearst Magazines as we understand and redefine our readers' expectations."
For more than 150 years, Harper's Bazaar has been the style resource for women. The magazine was first published in Australia in the 1980s by Fairfax Magazines. The magazine brand currently has 30 editions published in 22 languages.
"We could not be more excited to have Harper's Bazaar re-enter the Australian market with such an esteemed publisher, Switzer Media & Publishing," stated Kim St. Clair Bodden, senior vice president, editorial and brand director of Hearst Magazines International. "This alliance, headed by Maureen Jordan, underscores our desire and commitment to return this venerable brand to new heights of acclaim."
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Established in 1990 under the leadership of Maureen Jordan, the company has published diverse content for IBM, Commonwealth Bank, Optus, and Telstra. In 2010, Switzer brought under its umbrella niche fashion bible, RUSSH which in 2018 was listed by StyleCaster as one of the "21 International Fashion Magazines". Russh Media Pty Ltd publishes RUSSH magazine under a joint venture.
See also: Russh editor-in-chief Jess Blanch on the title's international intentions
Time moves on, technology changes, and we all look at television with fresh eyes
Launching the Morrison government's Green Paper on modernising media regulation late last year, my message was clear: technology is changing the media sector rapidly, and our regulatory framework needs to catch up, writes minister for communications Paul Fletcher.
Many provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act have remained largely unchanged for almost thirty years. They were written at a time when the only way to consume television was to watch one of the five channels broadcast by the handful of licensed broadcasters.
By contrast, today, in most Aussie homes the flat screen television is supplied by a high speed broadband connection, giving an abundance of choices.
TV watchdog to probe controversial MAFS season
The sensational 2021 series of Married At First Sight is being investigated by the Australian broadcasting watchdog, reports News Corp's Fiona Byrne.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has started looking into certain episodes of the top rating series following viewer complaints.
"The ACMA has commenced an investigation into episodes of the 2021 season of Married At First Sight and is currently assessing the scope of the investigation noting the range of issues raised in complaints over several episodes," AMCA said in a statement.
The move comes after the ACMA received at least 54 complaints from viewers about the show.
Dannii Minogue and Courtney Act Australia's most prolific reality stars
News Corp's Cameron Adams has run the numbers on Australia's most prolific reality TV stars. He has calculated that Danni Minogue is Australia's busiest reality TV star, followed by Courtney Act.
If you think you're seeing the same faces on the celebrity reality TV circuit it's because you are, reports Adams.
Famous Australians are now jumping from celebrity reality TV show to celebrity reality TV show as a way to build their profile, sell a product, get more followers on social media and get a pay cheque – especially when work dried up in 2020.
Some wind up on multiple reality TV shows on the network they're signed to, even if they're an unlikely fit, as a way to keep them in work and justify their expensive contracts.
Cameron ranked the busiest reality stars:
Star and number of shows
Dannii Minogue 12
Courtney Act 9
Manu Feildel 8
Sophie Monk 7
Ricki-Lee 7
Julia Morris 7
Rob Mills 6
Paulini 5
Kate Ceberano 5
Anthony Callea 5
Angie Kent 4
Byron Baes: Influencers say no to forthcoming Netflix reality show
Some of Byron Bay's original Instagram influencers have joined the chorus of protest against the upcoming Netflix docudrama Byron Baes, reports News Corp's Jane Hansen.
Byron Bay artists Mitch Gobel and his wife Sally Mustang have more than 500,000 followers between them and feature content that showcases their idyllic lifestyle in the hinterland.
Mustang, along with her friend and fellow Instagram influencer Montana Lower, were both approached by the Netflix producers about starring in the show.
"Sal and Montana actually auditioned for the show — before they told us in depth what it was all about," Gobel said.
Sydney house hunt no joke for 2Day FM breakfast host Dave Hughes
Comedian Dave Hughes has called in a dynamic buyers' agency duo to find a Sydney home for his family, reports News Corp's Jonathan Chancellor.
Hughesy had been forlornly looking since he moved to Sydney in January following his appointment to headline the new 2DayFM breakfast radio show with Channel 9 sports news personality Erin Molan and fellow comic Ed Kavalee.
His Box Hill-born wife Holly Ife and their three children under 12 — Tess, Sadie, and Rafferty — had expected to make the move by Easter, but the bumper autumn sales season has come and gone without any acquisition.
Hughes' latest house-hunting exploits in the eastern coastal suburbs was posted this week on the Instagram account of Sydney buyers' agents Jack Henderson and Sam Black, from Henderson Advocacy.
Hughes, who reckons he's met every real estate agent in Sydney, appointed Henderson four weeks ago to assist his search.
Morale on Four Corners 'is at an all-time low'
Right now, Inside the Four Corners Bubble is not a happy place to be, reports News Corp's James Madden.
The two most senior journalists on the ABC's flagship current affairs show, Louise Milligan and Sally Neighbour (the program's executive producer), are said to be "at war" with the national broadcaster's managing director David Anderson and the organisation's news director Gaven Morris over the decision to delay the airing of a Four Corners episode about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's alleged links to a known supporter of the QAnon far-right conspiracy theory.
Nine's Origin shock: Gus and Fatty set to be overlooked for Townsville clash
Phil Gould and Paul Vautin have been mainstays of Channel 9's State of Origin commentary team but it appears that they may be missing for Wednesday night's opener, reports News Corp's Phil Rothfield.
Channel 9 is refusing to confirm if State Origin legends Phil Gould and Paul Vautin will be part of their big game coverage on Wednesday night in Townsville.
Rumours emerged on Saturday night that Gus and Fatty had been sidelined from the showpiece for the first time since they started commentating for the network.
Channel Nine's rugby league boss Simon Fordham told The Sunday Telegraph: "I can't confirm or deny that."
Nine has confirmed veteran caller Ray Warren will be commentating, most likely from television monitors out of Nine's North Sydney studios.
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TV Review: DEATH VALLEY – Season 1 – "Zombie Fights"
Stars: Texas Battle, Bryan Callen, Bryce Johnson, Caity Lotz, Tania Raymonde, Charlie Sanders Writers: Matt Lawton based on DEATH VALLEY conceived by Spider One, developed by Eric Weinberg and created by Curtis Gwinn Director: Drew Daywalt Network: MTV, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: September 26, 2011 I think DEATH VALLEY has finally found itself. It's taken a couple of weeks, but "Zombie Fights" is a step in the right direction. It's still not laugh out loud funny, but the mixture of funny, serious and super-sized gore is starting to gel. It's also revealing that this first season has more of […]Read On »
TV Review: DEATH VALLEY – Season 1 – "Blood Vessels"
Stars: Texas Battle, Bryan Callen, Bryce Johnson, Caity Lotz, Tania Raymonde, Charlie Sanders Writers: Kristofor Brown based on DEATH VALLEY conceived by Spider One, developed by Eric Weinberg and created by Curtis Gwinn Director: Drew Daywalt Network: MTV, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: September 12, 2011 Maybe it's time for an intervention with MTV's promising new series DEATH VALLEY. After the first two episodes that were wildly uneven, Episode Three dubbed "Blood Vessels" finds the series almost finding the right balance between the horror and the comedy elements of the series. It even, potentially has a story happening that sort […]Read On »
TV Review: DEATH VALLEY – Season 1 – "Pilot" – Series Premiere
Stars: Texas Battle, Bryan Callen, Bryce Johnson, Caity Lotz, Tania Raymonde, Charlie Sanders Writers: Curtis Gwinn and Eric Weinberg from a story by Curtis Gwinn and based on DEATH VALLEY conceived by Spider One, developed by Eric Weinberg and created by Curtis Gwinn Director: Eric Appel Network: MTV, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: August 29 2011 After MTV's successful first season of TEEN WOLF, which expertly blended horror and dry comedy, the network takes a second crack at the genre with their new faux documentary series DEATH VALLEY. The results aren't as promising. More comedy than horror, DEATH VALLEY is […]Read On »
TV Review: WILFRED – Season 1 – "Fear"
Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Ethan Suplee Writer: Eric Weinberg Director: Randall Einhorn Network: FX, Thursdays @ 10 PM Airdate: July 7, 2011 In WILFRED's third episode "Fear," Elijah Wood remains reliably engaging as protagonist Ryan but, strangely, his relationship with Wilfred (Jason Gann) – a dog that Ryan and only Ryan sees as a man in a dog suit – is beginning to wear out its welcome. This isn't because Gann is any less committed in his weirdly immersive performance as the anthropomorphic canine, but rather because Wilfred is objectionable. If Wilfred is just a projection of Ryan's subconscious, […]Read On »


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According to a new report, Asia Pacific Surgical Microscopes Market (2016-2022), published by KBV Research, the Asia Pacific Surgical Microscopes Market is expected to reach $257.8 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 14.4% during 2016 -2022.
The Ophthalmology market dominated the Asia Pacific Surgical Microscopes Market in 2015, and would grow at a CAGR of 12.1% during the forecast period. The Oncology market is anticipated to reach a market size of $45.9 million by 2022.
The Low Range market dominated the Asia Pacific Surgical Microscopes Market in 2015, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.6% during the forecast period. However, Premium Range market is expected to grow at CAGR of 15% during 2016-2022.
The Hospitals market registered the highest share in the Asia Pacific Surgical Microscopes Market in 2015 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period.
The report highlights the adoption of Surgical Microscopes in Asia Pacific.Based on Application, the market is segmented into Dentistry, ENT, Gynecology& Urology, Neurosurgery & Spine Surgery, Oncology, Ophthalmology, and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeries. Based on Price Range, the market is segmented into Low Range, Mid-Range, and Premium Range. Based on End-User, the market is segmented into hospitals and out patients. The report also covers geographical segmentation of Surgical Microscopes market.The countries included in the report are China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Rest of Asia Pacific.
The major players operating the market for surgical/operating microscopes market are Danaher Corporation, Topcon Corporation, Novartis AG, Carl Zeiss AG, Haag-Striet, Accu-Scope Inc., Alltion Co. Ltd. Takagi Seiko Co. Ltd., Arri Medical (Arri Group) and Karl Kaps GmbH & Co.
The market is segmented based on Application, Price Range, End-User, and Country.
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An Overview of ADSL – What It Is and How It Works
ADSL has several similarities to ISDN. Both technologies require that copper phone lines be electrically clean and both can operate only a limited distance away from the phone company's local exchange. In most cases, ADSL can operate over existing voice-grade, twisted-pair phone cables without disturbing the existing telephone connections – meaning that local phone companies don't have to run additional lines to provide ADSL service.
ADSL works on the principle that since voice does not use anything like all of the bandwidth available from a standard copper twisted pair line, it's possible to maintain a high-speed data connection at the same time. To do this, ADSL splits the 1MHz maximum bandwidth of a copper wire connection into 4KHz channels only the bottom 4KHz channel for plain old telephone system (POTS) conversations, fax and analogue modem data. The other 256 available channels are used for parallel digital communication. Being asymmetric, 192 4KHz channels are used for the downlink and only 64 for the uplink.
In this way ADSL can be viewed as simply taking a serial string of digital data and converting it into a parallel string, thereby increasing data throughput. The modulation technique is known as Discrete Multitone (DMT), the encoding and decoding is performed at the exchange and at the user end respectively, in the same way as it is by a conventional dial-up modem.
An earlier system, called Carrierless Amplitude Phase (CAP), was able to use all the bandwidth above 4KHz as a single transmission channel, had the advantage of being closely related to the Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) technique used by high-speed modems at rates above 9.6 Kbit/s and was also cheaper to implement. However, DMT is a more reliable, sophisticated and flexible technology, and has succeeded in becoming the universally adopted standard.
When the service first became commercially available, the only additional equipment subscribers needed to use ADSL was a suitable modem. While these devices were still being developed, prototypes had three connectors on the back of the unit: one going to the wall jack and then out to the phone company; one was a standard RJ11 phone jack for analogue phone service; and one was an Ethernet twisted-pair connector that connected the ADSL modem to a PC.
At the user end, the ADSL modem collects high-frequency digital data and assembles it for transmission to the PC or network. At the exchange end, a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) connects the ADSL user to the wider Internet, aggregating incoming ADSL lines into a single data connection for transmission onto voice and data networks. The phone signals are sent to the switched telephone network and the digital data routed data to the Internet via a high-speed backbone (implemented as T1, fibre, ATM, or DSL).
ADSL modems have evolved over the years and are now available in a number of forms. Some connect to a PC via a USB port, others via Ethernet. Most devices allow an Internet connection to be shared across several PCs. Integrated modem/routers support a network of PCs, some coming with an integrated firewall to provide varying levels of protection against unauthorised access.
192 4KHz uplink channels provide for a maximum bandwidth of 8 Mbit/s. The reason commercial ADSL services are limited to a maximum of only 2 Mbit/s is explained by a combination of the fact that bandwidth is being artificially throttled and that actual performance levels depend on a number of external factors. These include the length of the copper line, its wire gauge, the presence of bridged taps and cross-coupled interference. Line attenuation increases with line length and frequency, and decreases as wire diameter increases. A bridged tap is an unterminated wire pair that sits in parallel to the main wire pair. In the local loop they appear when the local phone company taps off an existing pair to provision a new service to a new subscriber. Typically, they do not remove the unused cable segment and a bridged tap is created. In the home, every unused phone jack also represents a bridged tap.
Ignoring bridged taps, ADSL will perform as follows:
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1.5/2 Mbit/s 24 AWG 0.5mm 5.5 km
6.1 Mbit/s 24 AWG 0.5mm 3.7 km
In the UK all ADSL services installed since the summer of 2001 have been of the RADSL variety, which has a maximum range of around 5.5km.
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L&T Finance Q3 Results: PAT rises 39% to Rs 454 crore
The lender's interest income rose 15.6% year-on-year to Rs 3,322 crore against Rs 2,874 crore in the same quarter last fiscal
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Kolkata: L&T Finance Holdings on Friday reported a 39% rise in net profit for the December quarter at Rs 454 crore against Rs 326 crore in the year ago period.
The lender's interest income rose 15.6% year-on-year to Rs 3,322 crore against Rs 2,874 crore in the same quarter last fiscal. Net interest margin for the lender improved to 7.41% for the quarter against 6.9% in the preceding three-month period.
Its retail assets grew 34% year-on-year to Rs 57,000 crore at the end of December while the planned wholesale book reduced 24% to Rs 31,000 crore following a planned sell-down. Retail portfolio mix now is at 64% compared to 58% in the quarter ended September 30, 2022
The company said it recorded the highest-ever quarterly retail disbursements at Rs 11,607 crore in the December quarter, up 53% against what it was in the year ago period.
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CIS is delighted to share that MA student Huzaifa Shahbaz has been a lead researcher on the project, The Global Rise of Ethno-Nationalism and Demagoguery, at the Haas Institute, UC Berkeley. The research findings are intended to be released in a publication this semester. Congratulations Huzaifa!
Congratulations to PhD student and Presidential Scholar Mahjabeen Dhala (right), who has been invited to India to present public lectures on Women in the Quran, Feb 5-9.
Congratulations to CIS Research Scholar Carol Bier for her book review of Dr. Gulru Necipoglu's The Arts of Ornamental Geometry in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.
CIS will be partnering on several events and classes during Black History Month and beyond. Please see the CIS webpage for details.


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Most Wind Instruments Proved Safe In Concert Amid Pandemic
After experts in Berlin indicated appropriate social distance in classical music concert as 1.5 meters space between individual stringed instrument players, and 2 meters space between individual wind instrument players last May, classical music concert was only held in Japan under strict control of the guidance until September. Japanese Government recently lifted the restriction, and classical music concert is now held under the equivalent conditions to the days before the coronavirus started to...
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Dave Mustaine: "Drugs? Why would I want to glorify something like that?"
By Clay Marshall (Metal Hammer) 24 September 2020
Dave Mustaine looks back on Megadeth's Rust In Peace album – "a masterpiece created in the darkness of heroin"
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The word "heroin" appears 62 times over the course of Rust In Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece, the newly released memoir about the making of the thrash stalwarts' landmark 1990 album. While the book's authorship is credited to founder Dave Mustaine, its format mirrors the multi-voice, oral history structure of another famous rock biography by a band who battled addiction – and each other – on their way to the top of the charts.
But while The Dirt glamorized the debauchery and hedonistic spoils of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, Rust In Peace… paints a far more callous – and, in turn, honest – portrait of substance abuse. Readers learn that bassist David Ellefson getting "dope sick" was the true reason Megadeth canceled its 1988 stadium tour with Iron Maiden; that the only lessons learned from multiple trips to rehab were creative ways to smuggle smack inside; and that Mustaine wasn't even present for "almost half" of the recording sessions for Rust In Peace after checking into a detox facility. It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but 30 years later, the album is rightfully revered as one of the genre's all-time classics.
Mustaine calls Hammer from his home in Nashville to talk about the book and the legacy of the album. As he starts to talk, he coughs. "Sorry," he says. "Little after-effects from the radiation and chemo."
Is he still undergoing treatment for https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-dave-mustaine-took-on-cancer-and-won?
"No, no, no – it's just everything's healing so rapidly," he replies. "The doctor said that some people heal quick; some people heal slower. He told me that my healing has been absolutely amazing. He goes, 'The only thing is you're healing so fast, people will start making fun of you.'"
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Between beating cancer and conquering the demons that you detail in the new book, it's clear that you're a survivor. What made you decide to tell the album's story in an oral history format?
In The Bible, they talk about the gospel and the four perspectives of the same story. There's a lot of other really cool books in history that have the same thing, where several people watch the same car crash and they all tell the police what happened, and it's up to him to make up his mind who's telling the truth. That was one of the things with [our] book I thought was great. I also knew that it was going to be cathartic that the band guys and any of the crew members who may have gotten caught under the steamroller would have a chance to tell their side of the story. If it was true, then I would learn something from it because it was different from my understanding. If it was not true and they were making stuff up, hey, it's OK. If you say that's how it happened, who am I to argue?
The book begins with a foreword by Slash, who at one point was invited to join Megadeth. It's hard to imagine your technical precision meshing with his loose fluidity.
I think you have that backwards, and that Slash is actually a little more technical than I am. What we were playing, it was a very punkish/metal kind of vibe. For me, I love the way I can pick up the guitar and say 'Fuck you' to anybody with it. It's an art. A lot of people can't do that (laughs). A lot of people don't even know what that means. You have to completely command your guitar. There's great, powerful, beautiful players like Eric Johnson, and they kind of just adoringly caress their guitar. Me? I like to punch it in the stomach.
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At one point in the book, David Ellefson describes Rust In Peace as "a masterpiece created in the darkness of heroin." How crucial to making the album was getting high? Did you need to do one to do the other?
That's a really good question. I think it's putting a little too much merit on the euphoria from the drugs, because they had worn off long after we'd started (the album). It's like the old saying – first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. The sad thing was, I was so out in the open with my debauchery and the fact that if you didn't like it, I would fight you. That didn't end up very good for me in Metallica, but that's how I was. It was just a way of life. We were street urchins, and nobody told me what to do – not now, not ever. As I started to get healthier, I started to realize that I could play guitar (sober), and there's a lot more to life than smuggling stuff and trying to always have something on you.
To your credit, the book paints the throes of addiction bluntly, and not with a colored lens.
If you're talking about drugs, you're going to need a specimen who's had experience with said substance and the cerebral aftermath, if you will. That's who you're talking to. Drugs make the guy cheat on his wife, make the wife cheat on her husband, make young kids suck dicks in an alleyway to get their fix. It's just crazy. Why would I want to glorify something like that?
You open the book with a bang, as the band is "strung out" at the 1988 Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donington – the biggest show of your career to that point.
We wanted to start off with the Castle Donington plane crash. We needed to have the reader jump in right into it – here we are, 110,000 people, the biggest PA ever. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records. Look at all these guys – Kiss, David Lee Roth, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden. And then, that happens. That enormous event was the first time that David had come out and shared some really scandalous information about what he had been doing. Right after that, we went home and lost six stadiums' worth of shows. It was tragic.
At one point, Ellefson writes that "if a lot of drug use didn't fuck up our friendship, a little bit of sobriety did." You later admit that reading those words hurt you.
I care an awful lot about David, but we've had strong disagreements over the years. For me to give a homogenized version of whatever David said, that's not real. Some of the stuff that he discloses in the book is going to rock some people's worlds.
One of those disagreements was the unsuccessful lawsuit he filed against you while he was out of the band.
I was flying home from Dallas one time, and I had a layover in Phoenix (where Ellefson lives), and I called him and said, 'Hey, do you want to go get some food?' As soon as I saw him, he said, 'I want to apologize – suing you was the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life.' I looked at him, and I saw this guy who I had met so many years ago when he was young and curious and eager, and I just said, 'You know what? I forgive you.' I love the guy. He made a really terrible mistake – we all do – so we put that behind us, and now we're in the process of making one of the baddest records we've ever made.
Thanks for the segue! A few months ago, you mentioned that your new album would include 18 songs. Is that still the plan?
No. At the very beginning, I had 200 songs in my folder, but I've just been whittling it down and down and down. We're going to finish what we feel confident about. When you put out a record and you've got more songs than you need to, that's a waste, and if you put out songs that aren't finished because you don't have good enough songs, that's cheating the fans. Songs that are ready will be released; songs that are not will be worked on (later) or thrown out.
Considering the state of the world, you'll surely have no shortage of inspiration for lyrics.
I don't think I'm going to write about the virus, because it's so obvious. There's going to be a lot of stuff that comes out very shortly, and I guarantee you it will all be about this. I've already seen songs with 'Quarantine' in the title. For me, that's a timely event. I've always tried to make our lyrics be timeless.
A story recently made the rounds about you connecting with fellow throat cancer survivor Bruce Dickinson. When you revealed your diagnosis, did you receive any other unexpected shows of support?
Paul Stanley reached out to me, which was really cool. There were a lot of people who were sending their best wishes and love and good vibes and prayers and stuff, but the majority of them were all friends of mine, so I wasn't really too surprised that they had reached out – I was just happy that they did.
Last question – we know what Rust In Peace means to your fans, but what does it mean to you?
That's kind of a shitty question to answer with any real honesty, because it's 100 percent like asking a parent to pick their favorite kid. Even the fat kids, we parents love.
"Rust In Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece" will be released in the UK on Oct. 1 via Hachette Books.
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Pokémon GO will soon let you change teams for about $8
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Early on in Pokémon GO, you're asked to make a decision: Which team do you want to be on? Instinct (Yellow)? Valor (Red)? Mystic (Blue)?
The question comes a bit out of the blue. Especially amongst those who started early and have stuck with the game, it's not uncommon to hear people grumble about how they wish they'd chosen differently. But once you choose, it's final; changing teams means making a whole new account and starting the grind from Level 1. Well, until now.
Pokémon GO will soon let you change your team by way of an in-game "Team Medallion" item. Realizing that there are too many Mystic in your area and want to mix it up a bit? You can switch to Valor. Are most of your friends Instinct and you want to help them hold gyms? You can.
But there are catches: It'll cost money, and you can only do it once a year. It'll cost you 1,000 Pokécoins — that's the in-game currency, (slowly) obtainable by holding in-game locations or in exchange for real money via in-app purchase. A pack of 1,200 coins currently goes for $10, so 1,000 coins works out to a little over $8.
As for why there's a once-per-year cap? It helps make sure people have some degree of loyalty to their chosen teams… but it also helps maintain the game's mechanics. There are some advantages to playing alongside members of your team — stat boosts in the big group boss battles (or "Raids"), a few extra Pokéballs when your team does the most damage in said raids, etc. — and letting people change too much might screw that up a bit.
This is the latest in a streak of recent additions meant to fulfill longstanding requests from the playerbase, and perhaps respark the interest of some players who moved on. They added trading (a staple of the main series) in June of last year, and player-vs-player battles (another staple) in December. App Annie says the game is currently the 67th most popular title in the iOS app store.
Niantic says the team medallion should roll out on February 26th.


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Games For The Family Spot It Jr Animals By Blue Orange Games Review
Games For The Family
I am always looking for games for the family to play together. I remember playing games with my parents and siblings when I was little and its a fond memory I want to pass onto my kids. Luckily for me, both of my girls love to play games…more often than not in fact! We schedule game time each day because Mommy needs to get stuff done around the house and can't play 24/7. I love to find new exciting games so when I was asked to review Spot It Jr. Animals by Blue Orange Games I was all for it. Typically, when I receive a review item I put it in my office and set aside time to review it. In this case, my daughter wanted it right away so game time came early that day. It was tons of fun and very easy for her to pick up, she's 4.5 years old. This became her new favorite game, each day we would play and it went back on the shelf (it never ended up in my review pile and I never checked it in that I received it..eeek), we were too busy playing with it and having fun I had forgotten I had to review it. Better late than never, right? At least the game has been thoroughly played and I have a lot to say about it.
Matching Games For Kids
I have found most matching games for kids a little boring. You have a bunch of cards and you take turns flipping them over to see if you find a match, although it is good for the young memory its a little taxing for the adult. Spot It Jr. Animals brings the matching game to a whole new level, it keeps your attention, its exciting and gets your blood pumping. Each card has 6 different colorful animals on it. There are 5 different games to play: Twins, The Tower, The Well, Hot Potato and Triplet. The games are for ages 4 and up and for 2-6 players. The game comes in a cute little tin that protects the cards and keeps them all together, its a great size to take on trips because you don't have to deal with a bulky box. The cards themselves are laminated and are a nice weight, very sturdy and are holding up well for all the play they are seeing. The games for my daughter's age range are Twins (two cards are flipped over, both players need to find the match and call it out, whoever does that first wins the cards, whoever has the most cards wins), The Tower (each person gets a card and the rest of the pile goes in the middle, flip over your card and whoever calls out their match first wins the card in the center pile, they place it face up and create a tower, whoever has the most cards wins) and The Well (one center card in the middle and remaining cards dealt to each player, everyone flips over the card at the same time whoever gets a match and calls it out gets to put their card in the center pile, whoever runs out of cards first wins). We started off playing Twins over and over until she really got the hang of it and then moved on to the harder games. She had a blast and was screaming the names of her animals to make sure she was first! When I asked her what her favorite game was she said "twins mommy because I beat you every time"! It's a great family game that we all enjoyed playing. Even though her sister is a little young she loved looking at the cards and pointing to the animals. You can purchase this game for $9.99.
Blue Orange Games carries a great variety of family games including: Tell Tale, Chef Cuckoo and Shrimp Cocktail. You can purchase these games on Amazon, the Blue Orange Games website or at local retailers that carry Blue Orange. Check them out on Facebook for more information!
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Concerntrak, Inc., a food safety solutions company, announces the formation of a strategic partnership with Alpha Systems, a leader in the distribution and implementation of bar code and data capture technology. The partnership promises to make food safety compliance easier and more cost effective.
With the rising demand from legislators and retailers for improved food safety protocol, food manufacturers are required to have comprehensive record keeping systems to monitor their daily food safety compliance. At present, most manufacturers still use paper-based systems to log the required data. In the event of a food safety incident, many discover that their paper systems are prone to errors and incomplete information that put businesses, jobs and consumers at risk.
Concerntrak and Alpha Systems, both headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area, provide solutions and services to customers nationwide. "Having a partner like Alpha Systems so close by is an added benefit for us. There's no substitute for meeting face-to-face over a cup of coffee to perfect the integration of our services. That enhances the comfort level for both our companies," said David Rosenthal, CEO and founder of Concerntrak, Inc.
ConcernTrak's C-Shield and C-Trace technologies automate the record-keeping and lot tracking processes, significantly reducing potential for errors, eliminating redundant data entry. "C-Shield also allows for real-time monitoring to compliance information. As a result, a company using our technology can take corrective actions if and when violations to protocol are identified. C-Trace, Concerntrak's lot tracking technology, focuses on tracking raw materials within the manufacturer's four walls and maintains lot traceability during the manufacturing process," continued David Rosenthal.
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Together, Concerntrak, Inc. and Alpha Systems will partner with food companies to make their businesses more efficient and more responsive to new compliance requirements. A cost-effective food safety compliance solution will make food manufacturers more profitable, will protect their brands and reputations and will enhance food safety for their customers.


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A Deep-Value Coal Play
By Elliott H. Gue, on Jun. 13, 2013
Shares of coal producers have languished this year and remain out of favor with investors. But our favorite coal miner's stock trades at a deep discount and stands to benefit from several upside catalysts in the back half of 2013.
In the US, prices for thermal coal have benefited from the rising price of natural gas.
The no-show winter of 2011-12, coupled with robust production, sent natural-gas prices spiraling to $2.00 per million British thermal units, prompting a wave of coal-to-gas switching among utilities.
Depressed natural-gas prices hit coal producers in Central Appalachia (CAPP) the hardest; production costs in the region are higher than in the Illinois and Powder River Basins.
This situation has reversed in 2013: On an energy-equivalent basis, thermal coal from all the major producing areas in the US is less expensive than natural gas.
Coal from the Powder River Basin (PRB), an area in Wyoming and neighboring states, boasts the lowest production costs in the US market because the resource is extracted primarily from surface mines rather than the underground facilities that predominate in Appalachia. In the intermediate term, PRB coal will continue to gain market share in the US thermal coal market at the expense of Appalachian coals.
Demand for coal produced in the Illinois Basin will also increase. Although output from this area tends to contain higher levels of sulfur, the advanced scrubbers installed at an increasing proportion of US power plants make it possible to burn Illinois Basin coal without violating air-quality regulations.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE: BTU), which boasts core operations in both these regions, will benefit from utilities switching back to coal from natural gas.
Source: Energy Information Administration
Gregory Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, acknowledged as much during a conference call to discuss the company's first-quarter results:
Now turning to the U.S. markets, we've seen a dramatic improvement in coal fundamentals from this time last year. We now project 60 million to 80 million tons of increased coal demand in 2013, as the industry reclaims the majority of demand lost in 2012 to natural gas. Within the U.S. markets, winter was 17% colder than last year.
And natural gas prices have more than doubled from last April, driving a 15 million ton increase in the first quarter coal burn at the same time that gas generation dropped 11%. Coal now accounts for approximately 40% of total generation, while gas has fallen to 24%. The supply side of the equation was also favorable in the first quarter, as U.S. coal shipments fell 10%.
The end result is that PRB and Illinois Basin stockpiles have improved 20% over the last year. And over the next five years, we expect the low-cost PRB and Illinois Basin demand to grow more than 125 million tons through greater capacity utilization and regional switching. And this is after taking into account an estimated 60 gigawatts of retirements during that time.
You see, U.S. generation only ran at 55% of full capacity in 2012. These plants can run much harder, and utilities have invested more than $30 billion in new equipment over recent years to allow them to do just that.
Some pundits have incorrectly suggested that utilities opted to burn more gas and less coal last year because of environmental regulations. But coal-to-gas switching was primarily driven by economics; ultralow natural-gas prices incentivized this shift in feedstock. With the price of natural gas on the rise, Peabody Energy expects coal to eventually regain much of its lost market share.
Boyce's comments about the retirement of coal-fired power plants are also instructive. As we explained at length in Coal: Down But Not Out, new environmental regulations proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency will primarily affect the construction of new coal-fired plants and older, smaller facilities where it's simply uneconomic to install emissions-control equipment.
Some of these power plants will shut down in coming years, but the impact of these closures will be limited; many of these older facilities already run at a fraction of their nameplate capacity. With the US fleet of coal-fired plants running at slightly more than half its nameplate capacity, higher utilization rates at newer facilities should be sufficient to make up for future plant closures.
Outside the US, seaborne thermal-coal prices have languished because of a persistent oversupply and moderating economic growth in China, the world's largest coal consumer.
Thermal-coal inventories at China's power plants remained elevated in the second half of 2012 but had started to decline by December 2012, the last month for which we have data. Nevertheless, these stockpiles likely remain above historical norms, putting pressure on prices.
One of the most important developments to watch in coming months is the fate of a Chinese government proposal to ban imports of low-quality coal that has a heating value less than 4,540 kilocalories per kilogram.
This controversial move faces tough opposition from power producers that claim such a decision would raise costs and reduce competitiveness.
On the other hand, China's domestic coal producers would likely support such a measure. About 10 percent of China's coal mines have shut down over the past year because of declining price realizations on their output–a challenge that's been exacerbated by competition from imports. Under the proposed law, Chinese coal production would also be subject to quality standards, though the contemplated limits would not be as stringent as the rules imposed on imports.
The biggest loser if China goes ahead with the ban would be Indonesia, the world's leading producer of low-quality thermal coal for seaborne export.
Shipments of low-quality "brown coal" to China account for almost 17 percent of the Indonesia's coal exports, equivalent to as much as 50 million metric tons of coal per year.
If China were to move forward with these quality standards for domestically produced and imported coal, Indonesia would need to find an alternative end-market for its brown coal, causing major disruptions to seaborne trade in the near term. But such move would ultimately be welcome news for Peabody Energy and other names with coal-mining concerns in Australia, which primarily exports higher-quality varietals.
The price of metallurgical coal (also called coking coal) has tumbled over the past two years. Metallurgical coal from Australia is usually sold under agreements that reprice on a quarterly basis. The current contract price for hard coking coal stands at US$172 per metric ton, compared to a high of about US$330 per metric ton in mid-2011. Prices in the spot market, where volumes of coal are sold on an ad hoc basis, have hovered between US$140 and US$150 per metric ton, suggesting further downside could be in store for the third-quarter contract price.
A confluence of factors has depressed the price of seaborne metallurgical coal. For one, weaker-than-expected economic growth in China will reduce demand for steel and the coal used to fire the production process. Moreover, Tavan Tolgoi, a state-owned entity in Mongolia, has resumed exports of met coal to China after briefly suspending exports late last year, adding to short-term oversupply concerns.
But conditions in the seaborne market for metallurgical coal should improve. Depressed prices have prompted producers to curtail about 30 million metric tons of output, equivalent to about 10 percent of global seaborne trade in the commodity.
Peabody Energy's management team has emphasized repeatedly that the industry will likely shut in more mines in coming months. One reason that more mines haven't closed despite weak pricing is that some miners still have longer-term, take-or-pay contracts in place that guarantee superior price realizations. As these agreements expire, producers will further reduce their output.
Peabody Energy's exposure to pulverized coal injection (PCI) is another advantage. With steel producers looking to reduce costs, they've experimented with using more PCI and less metallurgical coal in their furnaces. In 2012 the price of a metric ton of PCI averaged about 69 percent of the cost of a metric ton of hard coking coal; today, this ratio has increased to 80 percent, thanks to robust demand for PCI.
Moreover, Peabody Energy's operational performance continues to improve. The company made good on management's promise to reduce its first-quarter Australian mining costs by 10 percent from year-ago levels. The company also lowered its full-year guidance for production costs Down Under to US$80 per metric ton from the low US$80s per metric ton.
Peabody Energy paid down US$100 million of debt in the first quarter of 2013 and another US$100 million at the end of May, making progress toward its stated goal of repaying US$600 million in debt this year. The stock has suffered in recent years because of concerns about the leverage that the firm took on to finance its late 2011 acquisition of MacArthur Coal.
With a dividend yield of 2 percent and a stock price that's roughly on par with book value, Peabody Energy represents a deep-value play on an eventual recovery in US and global coal markets. Although potential downside appears limited at these levels, prospective investors should note that this trade entails higher risk and could take time to play out.
Elliott H. Gue is founder and chief editor of Capitalist Times Premium and Energy & Income Advisor.
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Adding to the anxiety is Miami's lack of full-time game experience at outside linebacker. As long as Taylor was around, lack of depth was the problem, the kind of problem that a little time and drilling by coach Tony Sparano and his assistants can address.
With the draft finally here, though, and with six of last year's playoff teams showing up on the first half of the Dolphins' freshly released 2010 NFL schedule, it's starting to feel like time is up.
All the alarms are ringing. All the red lights are blinking, and one of them is nose tackle, where Parcells' old bulwark, Jason Ferguson, is simultaneously coming off an injury and shut down by an eight-game league suspension.
If the Dolphins take Tennessee's massive Dan Williams with the 12th pick overall, Miami fans will fret over not getting any of the linebackers or defensive ends available to approximate what JT used to bring.
Switch the previous sentence around and read it the other way to arrive at another panicky fan and media reaction, the one that will result if Parcells passes on Williams and takes an outside pass rusher instead in the opening round.
Uh...there are 7 rounds in the draft for a reason.
Could not agree with you more. Don't see where the media see's that you can only get a starter within the first three rounds. Even if we don't go NT in round 1. I believe that we can get a quality starter in round three or four.
Mt. Cody in the 3rd.
And I think this year is specifically most important to utilize all seven rounds. 7 rounds are usless when we draft Pat Whites and Pat Turners in the first half them. We need to find 3-4 guys this draft who need to be legitimate starters.
He won't even sniff the third round, he'll be gone way before that.


Today is my birthday, and in celebration of the day of my birth, I will be talking about the top ten things most people don't know about me. This should be 33 things you don't know about me, but unfortunately, I am just not that interesting.
I have an 11-month-old German Shepherd/Australian Shepherd puppy that I affectionately call "The Pupster" online. He has been the best thing to happen to me, and while other people may get annoyed at his hyper antics, I completely love him.
I can read quickly and accurately upside down, backward, upside down and backward as I do the standard way. For some reason, my brain doesn't need to transpose the text before I understand it.
I love a good notebook with amazing paper. I have reached the point where I have to physically stop myself from buying them because I have so many and several are blank.
I have a mini mug collection. I have about 20 different mugs and recently had to slow myself down to only special occasions or those I can live without. I am stalking a Ravenclaw mug right now. I won't purchases on until I find the perfect one.
I have been running and writing for A Curly Transition since 2003. I was originally hosted on LiveJournal, moved to Xanga, then Tumblr, where I finally landed on WordPress which has been my home since 2010. It started as a private blog where I journaled about my struggles with depression, social anxiety, and college.
While I deeply believe that God gave everyone one person to love and be with forever, I don't think I am going to find mine within this lifetime and I have largely given up on the whole institution (dating, love, and marriage). I always thought I would find my love in high school or college and I am so deeply away from that now (unless I find him during the Ph.D. program) and jaded by the dating scene that I have given up.
I gave myself to God in 2015 at 29 years old after being an atheist from ages 8-26 and attempting to convert to Judaism. Judaism and its traditions still hold a deep place in my soul, but I was baptized in a Christian church which healed my soul.
I have been attempting to envision my life without marriage and kids, and it has been a deeply troubling and difficult. I have been envisioning my life married and with kids since I was 20 years old so the contrast is emotional for me.
I am an emotional creature, but I keep my emotions within and rarely project them for the world to see. As a result, I have been told I am cold, but I don't see any reason to operate under emotional control at all times.
It is my utmost hope that A Curly Transition grows to reach the masses and help women of color around the world.


Beautiful villa with private pool situated in Tuscany, a short distance away from the town of Castiglion Fiorentino. This vacation villa is on a hill top and offers beautiful, extensive vies over the surrounding landscape and the castle of Montecchio. Outside, guests can enjoy use of a well-groomed garden, of furnished areas ideal for al-fresco dining and of a nice private, very panoramic pool set on a higher level in respect to the villa. This villa has been completely restored and turned into a charming country accommodation offering tastefully furnished interiors.
The villa comprises a main building for 8 persons and an outbuilding situated by the pool for 2 persons (with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, changing room for the pool and bathroom with shower).
The house's central location is convenient for visiting Tuscany's most important places of interest such as Siena, Florence, Arezzo, Perugia San Gimignano, the entire Chianti Classico area and the Val d'Orcia region.
Distances Castiglion Fiorentino with shops of all kinds and railway station (trains to Rome, Perugia, Orvieto, Florence, Siena) 3 km away, the lovely town of Cortona 10 km, Arezzo 20 km away, Montepulciano 40 km, Rapolano Terme (spas) 50 km, Perugia 60 km away, Siena 80 km, Florence 95 km, Orvieto 100 km away, San Gimignano 120 km.
At guests' disposal: large, fenced-in garden with private swimming-pool (12 x 5,5 m – min. depth 1,2 m – max. depth 1,9 m), furnished outdoor area ideal for al-fresco dining, barbecue.
Additional Services: Baby bed and high-chair available upon request.
Ground floor: living-room (TV) with non-working fireplace, dining area and large kitchen (oven, freezer, dishwasher, slicer, American coffee maker, Espresso maker), toilet, storeroom with fridge, passage-way room with piano (out of tune), large living-room with fireplace, toilet (washing-machine).
1st floor (accessible via 2 different staircases): 2 double bedrooms with ensuite bathroom with shower, 2 double bedrooms with ensuite bathroom with bathtub.
Access on to the outside also from the first floor.
Ground floor: living-room with dining area and kitchen corner, double bedroom with bathroom with shower.


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Victoria is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. Its ZIP code is 38679.

In 1925, the Sunnyland passenger train derailed and tumbled down an embankment as it approached Victoria, killing 20.

It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 1,066.

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

References

Unincorporated communities in Marshall County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Census-designated places in Marshall County, Mississippi

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"This report adds to the growing evidence that there is safety in numbers when it comes to caring for patients. Earlier this year UNISON's own survey of nurses and healthcare assistants found that nearly 60% did not have enough time to deliver safe, dignified and compassionate patient care.
The NHS is facing serious threats. Services and jobs are threatened with some employers using the economy as an excuse to attack staff pay, terms and conditions. We believe patients come before money. Find out how UNISON is campaigning to make sure the NHS is safe for patients and staff.


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02/12 - 02/15: 2023 NARUC Winter Policy Summit
03/16: Advances in Resource Adequacy
04/16 - 04/19: Current Issues 2023
04/24 - 04/26: RTO Fundamentals 2023
05/02 - 05/04: FRI Advanced Water Seminar on Utility Rates and Pricing for the Future
05/15 - 05/19: New Mexico State Center for Public Utilities "The Basics"
07/16 - 07/19: 2023 NARUC Summer Policy Summit
10/09 - 10/13: Energy Utility Basics 2023 Wisconsin Public Utility Institute
11/12 - 11/15: 2023 NARUC Annual Meeting
11/11 - 11/13: 2024 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference


MORE than 50 local, national and international female artists will descend upon Newcastle next week during the annual HOWLFEST celebrations.
Among the performers will be Canadian artist EMBER SW T , a regular visitor to Newcastle whose strong-minded lyrics have landed her comparisons to US contemporary ANI DI FRANCO .
``I think it's important to sing about what we believe in, from an honest place, and communicate that to an audience in an effort to break down barriers between strangers,'' Sw t said .
``Our songs are topical, yes, but there are certainly personal politics within the repertoire, where I sing about healing from heartbreak or being open to loved ones or being comfortable in our skin.
'' Like her lyrics, her music also touches on a variety on ideas which mix up everything from jazz and funk to doo-wop and reggae.
``I don't choose the styles in the music, the styles choose me, I think! ``I have always felt comfortable experimenting with d ferent genres and have been open to many types of music, which helps me to learn from many types of music.
'' Sw t will perform during HOWLfest at MORROW PARK BOWLING CLUB on January 31 at 11.
45pm and again on February 1 at 9pm.
HOWLfest will continue across five days from January 28 to February 1 and feature live music, workshops, films and art at venues around the city.
The bill includes JACQUELINE AMIDY, JODI MARTIN, SOPHIE RAYMOND, KATE FAGAN, PEGGY VAN ZALM, REMAKE REMODEL, AMAZONS, RAZEL, AMY VEE, ANOUSHA VICTOIRE, BITCHCRAFT and AMATHYST .
Visit angelfire.com/oz/howlfest for more details.


Take an in-depth look at church apps and why they continue to grow in popularity. Learn about the features, pricing, and support to gain a better understanding if an app is right for your church.
If you're considering adding MinistryOne—the powerful church app—to your Kindrid plan, you're on the right track to better connect with your community. People spend an average of 4 hours a day on their phone, and 3 hours and 25 minutes of that is in-app. That's because apps provide a user-experience that's simply more enjoyable. In fact, 8 in 10 people prefer using apps over mobile websites.
As you make your decision, the question shouldn't be whether your community will use a church app—it should focus on the features, pricing, and support to ensure you get the best church app.
Here we break down those essential components, so you have everything you need to decide if MinistryOne is right for your church.
Features are key for a successful church app that cultivates generosity and encourages engagement. When you're reviewing the different features, think about how they'll equip your church to connect on a deeper level.
Push notifications boost engagement up to 88% because they rise above the noise online and on social media. When a push notification is enabled, 65% of users return to the app. This allows you to mobilize your church quickly for natural disaster fundraisers, outreach event invitations, and more.
Audio, video, podcasts, and other forms of media are easy to add to MinistryOne and ideal if you want to engage 100% of your church. Roughly 28% of people that want to attend church can't go due to poor health, lack of time, or living too far away. With media options, your church meets people where they are.
On-the-go giving is an essential feature because generosity can happen at any moment. Within seconds, people can give, whether they're listening to a sermon at home or they're sitting in Sunday's service.
Calendars, events registrations, sign up boards for classes, and more are convenient to manage. A church app keeps all connections in one place, so admins and members stay organized and informed.
Your app needs to reflect your church's brand because creating a sense of familiarity leads to even more engagement (and giving!). MinistryOne is fully customizable and makes it simple to add your logo, colors, and more.
If you love the idea of adding an app to your giving plan but worry about the cost, we hear you! MinistryOne is a full-featured church app that's incredibly affordable. It only costs $39/month with any Kindrid plan, and there are no set up fees.
Other giving providers offer church apps, but prices range from $59/month up to $299/month (not to mention the additional set up fees). If you get a custom app built from scratch, it can cost thousands.
Launching an app may feel a little overwhelming at first, but our church success coaches are with you every step of the way. We guide you through the live launch and help your church keep the momentum going for years. We work with churches of all sizes and provide a customer support experience that goes above and beyond.
Even if you're confident with new software, it's important you have access to fast and knowledgeable support. This way, you empower church leaders and admins to easily manage the app. Plus, when you join Kindrid, you get free resources and launch material, so you engage 100% of your people (and save time in the process).
Ready to connect with your community beyond the walls of the church? Add MinistryOne to your Kindrid account!
If your church doesn't currently use Kindrid, don't hesitate to join today or schedule a live demo to learn more.


"Handsome New Town Hall at Todmorden Opened - Munificent Gift of Fielden Brothers"
Photography had yet to makes its appearance in the press in the 1870s - a lithograph was the next best thing. This amazing scene captured by the "London Illustrated News" shows that virtually the whole of Todmorden turned out for the opening of the new Town Hall and unveiling of a statue of John Fielden MP. Far from a click of the camera it must have taken the artist hours to draw! For many years the statue stood in front of a portico on North Street before being moved to a site near the Golden Lion, afterwards named Fielden Square.
The handsome new Townhall at Todmorden, which is the munificent gift of three brothers - Messrs Samuel and John Fielden, and Mr Joshua Fielden MP - to their native town was opened on Saturday, the 3rd inst, when Foley's bronze statue of their honoured father, the late Mr John Fielden MP, was also unveiled.
The statue stands in front of a portico on the North-street side of the Townhall; the pedestal is of granite and rises to a height of about six feet.
The appointed Saturday was observed as a holiday in the district.
Unfortunately, after the procession had started rain began to fall; but it marched to a large open space in front of the hall.


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using System;
using Skybrud.Social.Http;
using Skybrud.Social.Interfaces;

namespace Skybrud.Social.Twitter.Options {

    public class TwitterUserTimelineOptions : IGetOptions {

        #region Properties

        ///
        /// Gets or sets the ID of the user for whom to return results for.
        ///
        public long UserId { get; set; }

        ///
        /// Gets or sets the screen name of the user for whom to return results for.
        ///
        public string ScreenName { get; set; }

        ///
        /// Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID. There are limits to
        /// the number of Tweets which can be accessed  through the API. If the limit of Tweets has occured since the
        /// since_id, the since_id will be forced to the oldest ID available.
        ///
        public long SinceId { get; set; }

        ///
        /// Specifies the number of tweets to try and retrieve, up to a maximum of 200 per distinct request. The value
        /// of count is best thought of as a limit to the number of tweets to return because suspended or deleted
        /// content is removed after the count has been applied.
        ///
        public int Count { get; set; }

        ///
        /// Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID.
        ///
        public long MaxId { get; set; }

        ///
        /// When set to true, each tweet returned in a timeline will include a user object including only the status
        /// authors numerical ID. Omit this parameter to receive the complete user object.
        ///
        public bool TrimUser { get; set; }

        ///
        /// This parameter will prevent replies from appearing in the returned timeline. Using
        /// exclude_replies with the count parameter will mean you will receive up-to count
        /// tweets — this is because the count parameter retrieves that many tweets before filtering out
        /// retweets and replies.
        ///
        public bool ExcludeReplies { get; set; }

        ///
        /// This parameter enhances the contributors element of the status response to include the screen_name of the
        /// contributor. By default only the user_id of the contributor is included.
        ///
        public bool ContributorDetails { get; set; }

        ///
        /// When set to false, the timeline will strip any native retweets  (though they will still count
        /// toward both the maximal length of the timeline and the slice selected by the count parameter).
        ///
        /// Note: If you're using the trim_user parameter in conjunction with include_rts,
        /// the retweets will still contain a full user object.
        ///
        public bool IncludeRetweets { get; set; }

        #endregion

        #region Constructors

        public TwitterUserTimelineOptions() {
            IncludeRetweets = true;
        }

        public TwitterUserTimelineOptions(long userId) {
            UserId = userId;
            IncludeRetweets = true;
        }

        public TwitterUserTimelineOptions(long userId, int count) {
            UserId = userId;
            Count = count;
            IncludeRetweets = true;
        }

        public TwitterUserTimelineOptions(string screenName) {
            ScreenName = screenName;
            IncludeRetweets = true;
        }

        public TwitterUserTimelineOptions(string screenName, int count) {
            ScreenName = screenName;
            Count = count;
            IncludeRetweets = true;
        }

        #endregion

        #region Member methods

        public SocialQueryString GetQueryString() {

            // Define the query string
            SocialQueryString qs = new SocialQueryString();

            // Add optional parameters
            if (UserId > 0) qs.Set("user_id", UserId);
            if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ScreenName)) qs.Set("screen_name", ScreenName);
            if (SinceId > 0) qs.Set("since_id", SinceId);
            if (Count > 0) qs.Set("count", Count);
            if (MaxId > 0) qs.Set("max_id", MaxId);
            if (TrimUser) qs.Set("trim_user", "true");
            if (ExcludeReplies) qs.Set("exclude_replies", "true");
            if (ContributorDetails) qs.Set("contributor_details", "true");
            if (!IncludeRetweets) qs.Set("include_rts", "false");

            return qs;

        }

        #endregion

    }

}

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date: 2008-03-30 19:12:52+00:00
slug: vista-offline-files-and-smb-opportunistic-locks
title: Vista Offline Files and SMB Opportunistic Locks
tags:
- file management
- troubleshooting
- vista
- windows
---

One of our techs recently ran across a problem with a new Windows Vista Business laptop trying to synchronize offline files to a Windows Server 2000 file server. Synchronization would start, but the Sync Center in Vista would show failures for every single file that was attempted to be sync'd. The error message read something to the extent of "_The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process_".

We tried the usual: checking permissions on the folders being offline'd (I know that's probably not a word, but you get what I mean); deleting his local cache of Offline Files; disabling and then re-enabling Offline Files. But we just kept on banging our heads against the same error. At first, just about any web search for the error resulted in either something about Windows Home Server or databases or something of the like.  Eventually, though, we struck gold:

[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296264/en-us](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296264/en-us): Configuring opportunistic locking in Windows

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According to MS, opportunistic locking "_lets clients lock 		  files and locally cache information without the risk of another user changing 		  the file_". Opportunistic Locking is a feature of SMB. It is enabled by default, and is configurable from the client side (i.e. request opportunistic locking or not) and on the server side (i.e. allow opportunistic locking on local files or not).

Also note: "_If you disable opportunistic locking, the offline files feature in Windows 		  Vista fails_"

So, apparently, "_The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" _actually means_ "Opportunistic locking is not enabled on the file server_". Nice...

Be aware that this setting is changed through the registry, so the regular warnings about messing about in REGEDIT apply (read [Disclaimer](http://bamboo.slabnet.com/~hslabbert/blog/disclaimer/)). That stuff is already listed in the KB, so I won't bother to repeat it.

To enable opportunistic locking on the file server, open REGEDIT to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters, and change the value of the REG_DWORD
**EnableOplocks** from 0 to 1.

The server does need to be rebooted in order for the registry change to take effect. After rebooting, retry your offline files synchronization. If the opportunistic locking was your problem, you should be good to go!

UPDATE:

I must also thank Rainier Day for [his post](http://blog.rainiernetworks.com/2008/06/25/vista-synchronization-errors/) on his struggles with Opportunistic Locking. He was hit from the other side: The server-side opslock settings were good, but his Vista clients were configured to _not_ request opportunistic locks, and this caused the clients to also experience offline files synchronization errors. Thanks Ranier: I noticed that component in the MS KB, but had never actually come across a Vista workstation that was configured out-of-the-box to have OpsLocks disabled!

Cheers,

JaS


Hey, sometimes I just wanna enjoy a movie without worrying about writing a review for it. In this mindset, however, I always feel bad because each of these movies does deserve a full feature. However, time is not on my side, and so, if it's a snapshot of a movie that intrigues you and makes you want to see it, I've done my job. Feel free to e-mail me suggestions of films I should look into for my foreign/independent columns (Icarus.mcneely@gmail.com).
So, four recent independent/foreign films you may be interested in watching on the theme of coping with stress, often unusual (TROLL!).
From the director's 1970s youth in Glasgow, we enter a world of neighbourhood gang violence and incompetent/unfeeling schooling that potentially turns youth into psychopaths just to survive. John McGill (Conor McCarron) is a stocky fellow who doesn't look like much – until you witness him taking joy into bashing another boy's brains out on the ground. At school, the obsession with rankings is paramount. John is trying to get into the A class (he's in the B one, and everyone knows his dissatisfaction, including the annoyed teacher who thinks John should be happy where he is). His friends are in the F class – the special ed one as everyone calls it – and the teacher there does not care what his students do. A critique of how we treat our youth which may be over-long, but does have striking scenes and set-pieces of tension and violence (including a metaphorical trip to the zoo at the end).
Two of J's uncles – looking pretty tough here.
When J's mother dies, her brothers and mother decide to take him in and raise him as one of their own. Problem? They're all criminals. Second problem? The cops hate them all, indiscriminately. J (a wonderful James Frecheville) has to literally choose between his family's interests and working with Guy Pearce's character, a honest detective, to turn them all in. Meanwhile, his uncles television with him, remind him to wash his hands after going to the washroom, support him with pursuing a girlfriend, and remind him that he can talk to them anytime he needs to. They're good role models, up until they shoot two cops in point-blank range – and he's their alibi. Very gripping drama, watch out for the grandmother who just might be the scariest of them all.
I remember having to try very hard not to laugh when people came up to me at my job as a box office volunteer and asked for "two for the beaver." Mel Gibson (love him or hate him, he can act) plays Walter Black, the head of a toy company, who is in a very depressive/suicidal state at the beginning of the film (separated from his family) when he is saved by a talking beaver puppet. I could identify with Walter's depression, especially the part where he has to write down what he needs to accomplish during the day so that he can sluggishly go about it. Gibson does a good job of doing the voice of both his character and the beaver – there is no ventriloquism here, but it helps you realize that the beaver is an extension of Walter's personality – something that he desperately wants to be. At some point, the beaver becomes hazardous to his health, and it is interesting to try and figure out why this change occurs. Kudos to Jodie Foster (Walter's wife, and also director) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Fright Night) for their emotional responses to Walter's mania.
TRIVIA: Based on a screenplay no one ever thought could be made into a movie.
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BPP will not create anti-corruption courts for the project from BP
Deputy head of the faction "Block of Petro Poroshenko" Sergei Berezenko considers that registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on anti-corruption courts may not be adopted in the session hall.
He said this to Interfax-Ukraine, answering the question whether Parliament a bill on anti-corruption courts at the current session of Parliament.
"This (bill No. 6011 – ed), in my opinion, should be withdrawn and should be paid another bill," said Berezenko
According to the MP, it raises questions, in particular, the provisions of the bill, according to which the Higher anti-corruption court to adjudicate as first instance and also consider appeals.
Berezenko noted that members of the BPP were proposed to send the bill to the Venice Commission to give its assessment.
The MP added that the "block of Petro Poroshenko" has his own vision of the initiative on anti-corruption courts.
Currently, the Verkhovna Rada registered the draft law No. 6011 authorship of the Vice-speaker of the Parliament Oksana Syroid, MPs Yegor Sobolev, Mustafa Nayem, Sergey Leshchenko and other parliamentarians. He was introduced in the Parliament on 1 February 2017, but the relevant Committee on legal policy and justice, while it is not considered.
As previously reported, the Committee on rules of the Verkhovna Rada pointed out that the legislative initiative was registered in Parliament in violation in particular of article 125 of the Constitution, which provides that the laws relating to creation, reorganization of liquidation of the courts, introduces the President of Ukraine in coordination with the Higher Council of justice.
According to "Interfax – Ukraine", the presidential administration prepared a bill.
As reported, VSP, having considered the draft law "On anti-corruption courts" (No. 6011), came to the conclusion on inexpediency of adoption of this law as contradicting the Constitution of Ukraine.
According to the text of the Memorandum between Ukraine and the International monetary Fund, the law on anti-corruption courts should be adopted by Parliament until mid-June of 2017, and the work of such courts must begin before the end of March 2018.
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Peel the cucumbers and holding the cucumber over a bowl, cut them into thin strips. Dice the strips finely. Mix in the garlic ground with some coarse salt and add the yoghurt. Sprinkle with finely chopped dill and chill for a couple of hours in the fridge. Serve with crushed walnuts in deep bowls with a drizzle of oil and some freshly ground black pepper.


Tá 'Glossary, Irish Topog[raphical] Dict[ionary]' scríofa ar dhroim an chlúdaigh cheangailte agus ar idirshliocht scríofa le dúch atá greamaithe ar cheann de na leathanaigh bhána ag tús an tsaothair. Tá 'Ordnance Survey of Ireland' clóite freisin ar dhroim an chlúdaigh. De réir dealraimh scríobh Seán Ó Donnabháin an lámhscríbhinn ina hiomláine fad is a bhí sé fostaithe ag an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis.
Gluais in ord aibítre de mhíreanna logainmneacha Béarlaithe éagsúla, a leaganacha Gaeilge agus a n-aistriúcháin.
Bunús na logainmneacha ar fad atá in Ecclesiastical History of Ireland le Lanigan [ceithre imleabhar, 1822] tugtha ag Lanigan é féin, ag Vallancey agus eile, le nótaí suntasacha ag Seán Ó Donnabháin. Nollaig 23, 1830.
Liosta focal Gaeilge a bhíonn mar chuid de go leor logainmneacha in Éirinn. Tá aistriúcháin i ndiaidh na bhfocal Gaeilge agus de ghnáth samplaí ábhartha de logainmneacha. Tá roinnt ainmneacha pearsanta agus sloinnte san áireamh freisin.
Liosta ainmneacha naomh ar tiomnaíodh séipéil Éireannacha dóibh. Tá an liosta gearr seo ar an leathanach verso deireanach agus tá logainmneacha samplacha de ainmneacha na naomh san áireamh ann.