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Max group looks to list three cos

The Max group is looking at listing three of its companies, Max India, Max New York Life and Max Healthcare.




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Sensex, Nifty start on a flat note; Thomas Cook jumps 4% on Quess stake sale

Dr Reddy's fell 1.8 per cent to Rs 2,319.45 on BSE while Asian Paints dropped 0.77 per cent.




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National Traveling Exhibition Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School

Date: 
11-10-2010

11-10-10

New-York Historical Society Shares the Treasure of Its Unsurpassed Collection of Hudson River School Paintings In the National Traveling Exhibition Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School




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Personal Finance Expert Suze Orman To Be Honored at the New-York Historical Society’s Annual Strawberry Festival

Date: 
4-11-2011

4-11-11

Personal Finance Expert Suze Orman To Be Honored at the New-York Historical Society’s Annual Strawberry Festival

New York, NY, April 7, 2011 – The New-York Historical Society will present Suze Orman with a distinguished service award on Thursday, April 14, as it holds its annual Strawberry Festival benefit luncheon. The event, celebrating women in philanthropy, will take place from noon to 2:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan Club, Fifth Avenue and 60th Street.




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Rethinking the Formative Years of American Art, the New-York Historical Society Presents the Exhibition Making American Taste

Date: 
6-24-2011

 

 

RETHINKING THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF AMERICAN ART, THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION MAKING AMERICAN TASTE: NARRATIVE ART FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY

Pathbreaking Exhibition Will Highlight the Superb Collection, as theTransformed Historical Society Reopens on November 11, 2011




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5 exercises to level up your design skills

My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children’s sleep clinic to become a designer. I would read books about UX on my commutes to and from work. Every evening, I would spend 6 to 7 hours taking web development courses and learning what it meant to design. Everything […]




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Everything I learned about min(), max(), clamp() in CSS

CSS Comparison Functions (min(), max(), clamp()) become supported in Firefox on 8 April 2020, which means that they are now supported in all major browsers. Those CSS functions will provide us with ways to have dynamic layouts and more flexible design components. They can be used for container sizes, font-size, padding. and a lot more. […]



  • HTML & CSS

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UI cheat sheet: radio buttons, checkboxes, and other selectors

In today’s cheat sheet we will be looking at selectors and how they differ. Unlike most of my other cheat sheets, this will focus on two components (radio buttons and checkboxes) side by side for easier comparison — while also comparing them to a few others.




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When bad UX is good

A close friend of mine, Dennis, is one of the editors and contributors to Headache Comix, an underground magazine for comics, so far only available in print. He asked me to do a website for Headache Comix , and I said yes – why not? Visit headachecomix.com to see the result. Headache Comix had quite […]




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A case study of complex table design

I just released a new version of Actual and a big change is a rewrite of the budget table. It might not look like much, but it pays down a lot of technical debt and is a big improvement in many ways. The previous design resulted in a poor user experience despite good intentions. This […]




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Crawford creations : what would we have done without Crawfords? : an exploration of Crawford Productions' contribution to the development of an 'Australian consciousness' / Philip Roy Davey

Davey, Philip Roy, author




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How to cheat in 3ds Max 2015 : how to get spectacular results fast / Michael McCarthy

McCarthy, Michael, 1977-




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Seven layers of social media analytics : mining business insights from social media text, actions, networks, hyperlinks, apps, search engine, and location data / Gohar F. Khan

Khan, Gohar F., author




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Pax technica : how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up / Philip N. Howard

Howard, Philip N




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Virtual, augmented and mixed reality : 6th International Conference, VAMR 2014, held as part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014 : proceedings / Randall Shumaker, Stephanie Lackey (eds.)

VAMR (Conference) (6th : 2014 : Ērakleion, Greece)




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Transactions on large-scale data- and knowledge-centered systems. XXVI : special issue on data warehousing and knowledge discovery / Abdelkader Hameurlain, Josef Küng, Roland Wagner, Ladjel Bellatreche, Mukesh Mohania (Eds.)

DaWaK (Conference) (16th : 2014 : Munich, Germany),




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The Oxford handbook of organizational identity / edited by Michael G. Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake E. Ashforth and Davide Ravasi




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The power of networks : six principles that connect our lives / Christopher G. Brinton and Mung Chiang

Brinton, Christopher G., author




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Mastering blockchain : distributed ledger technology, decentralization and smart contracts explained / Imran Bashir

Bashir, Imran, author




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Fundamentals of database systems / Ramez Elmasri (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington), Shamkant B. Navathe (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Elmasri, Ramez, author




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Companies expected to outsource more work due to Covid-19 pandemic: NTT

In this environment, the delivery of platform-enabled solutions at speed across the entire technology stack becomes even more important, it said. From cloud to networking, data centre to security and more, breadth and depth of capability are essential to recover and restore operations and position organisations strongly for the coming years.




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PeopleLink, an Indian company's Game Changing approach to Video Conferencing, set to disrupt the Flexi Workplace

PeopleLink is the first, Indian Video Conference Company to disrupt the market by its approach of offering Secure, custom video applications for each Industr...




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Appliances, consumer electronics industry seeks tax relief, incentives in upcoming Budget

Manufacturers of appliances and consumer electronics are seeking lower taxes on eco-friendly and energy-efficient products, more incentives for domestic manufacturing and waiving of customs duty on inputs imported to make the components in the upcoming Union Budget.




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Companies stare at Rs 30,000 crore sales loss for summer products due to extended lockdown

Summer sales of air-conditioners, refrigerators, soft drinks and ice creams will take a massive hit this year.




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Airlines, OTAs battle fraud alerts, hoax calls to customers seeking refunds

India's biggest OTA MakeMyTrip has issued alerts to its customers stating there are attempts being made by fraudsters to seek bank account details and other personal information from customers who are seeking refunds for booking cancellations.




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Bengal investors in a fix as Covid pushes tourism to a brink in Sikkim

Lockdown has pushed hotel business in tourism hotspot Sikkim to the brink where investors from Bengal and other states are the first tire victims. Equal sufferer is over 70% of Sikkim's population dependent on hospitality industry that generates around Rs 1.5 k croer business there in a year.




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Do payment wallets have a business case for India? If not, what's next for them?

High mortality and fast-changing fortunes are a given when it comes to payments ecosystem, much like food-ordering and ecommerce marketplaces.




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By Diwali we will be back with a bang, says Micromax's Rahul Sharma

The Micromax chief is not unnerved with the over-the-top aggression of Chinese rivals who have been 'burning' money on a marketing blitzkrieg.




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China shares edge higher on strong July exports, Hong Kong trims losses

The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong fell 0.6 per cent. They are now down 0.8 and 1.5 per cent this week, respectively.




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Government hikes excise duty on petrol price by Rs 10, diesel price by Rs 13

The increase in excise comes amid crude oil prices still remaining at relatively lower levels of $23.86 a barrel, compared to peak level prices.




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Excise duty raised on petrol and diesel: What it means for you

On Tuesday, Centre hiked excise duties on petrol by Rs 10 per litre and on diesel by Rs 13 per litre.




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Numaligarh Refinery awards Rs 300 cr expansion project to thyssenkrupp

According to the company, thyssenkrupp will provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for various units of the refinery located in Numaligarh




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Taxes now make up 70 per cent of fuel retail prices

Centre and states are resorting to fuel tax hikes to capture gains from a global oil crash.




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India exports 33.5 lakh tonnes sugar so far in 2019-20 marketing year

The government has allowed export of 60 lakh tonnes of sugar under Maximum Admissible Export Quota (MAEQ) during 2019-20 marketing year to liquidate surplus sugar in global markets. The country had exported 38 lakh tonnes of sugar during 2018-19 marketing year.




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As China stumbles, India plans big exports push in bulk drugs

The government is mulling incentives for reviving old pharmaceutical ingredient units.




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Govt may extend interest equalisation scheme for export sector

"We are ensuring that exports come back on the track. The export data for March is an indicator; the impact of the present crisis could be seen from the export data of March and that for April would also be similar," a Ficci statement said.




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Export sops likely to continue till March 2021

The commerce and industry ministry is considering a plan to extend the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) till March 31, 2021. The proposal was mentioned in a letter to development commissioners of special economic zones from the Department of Commerce. ET has reviewed the letter.




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Brazil’s coffee harvest brews trouble for Indian exporters

Italy, the largest buyer of Indian coffee, started relaxing the restrictions from Monday much to the relief of the Indian coffee industry. However, the exporters fear intense price pressure from Brazil which is expecting a normal crop.




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SEZ units want customs duty waiver for domestic sale as exports plummet

At present, SEZs are also not able to sell their products in the domestic market, as payment of customs duty as per Section 30 of SEZ Act, 2005, is making their products uncompetitive, the Export Promotion Council for EOUs and SEZs (EPCES) said in a letter to commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal.




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Rice exports to Bangladesh via West Bengal likely to commence soon

Rice exports to Bangladesh through West Bengal will likely begin soon as the ministry of home affairs (MHA) has taken a tough stand against the state government for not allowing border trade with India's eastern neighbour.




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BOI AXA Credit Risk Fund NAV drops 50% in a day

The fund house wrote down its entire holding in Dewan Housing Finance and Avantha holdings from earlier levels of 75%.




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RBI extends regulatory benefits under SLF-MF to all banks

The banks claiming the regulatory benefits would be required to submit a weekly statement, the central bank said in its release.




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The joy of pixeling and building pixel tools with HTML5 canvas and JavaScript

Some people knit, others do puzzles, and yet others find calm by colouring. Me, I love pixeling. My computer career started with a super basic computer. It didn’t even have a way to store what I programmed. So, every day, I would write myself a small program that allows me to paint on the screen […]




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CSS3 transitions and z-index

You can apply CSS3 transitions to the z-index property, but it may work in a way you don't expect.




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Putting Flexbox into Practice presentation at Blend Conference

Download the slides and view the demo page for my presentation on Putting Flexbox into Practice for Blend Conference 2013, as well as get links to related articles, tutorials, and tools on Flexible Box Layout.




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Leveling Up With Flexbox presentation at Smashing Conference

Download the slides and view the demos for my presentation on practical flexbox progressive enhancement, "Leveling Up With Flexbox" for Smashing Conference in Oxford, as well as get links to related articles, tutorials, and tools on Flexible Box Layout.




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Full-width pinned layouts with flexbox

Learn how to use flexbox to pin two things to opposite ends of the viewport with a heading centered in between. Using media queries and flexbox's re-ordering capabilities, we can make this layout pattern even more responsive.




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Enhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox presentation at RWD Summit

Download the slides and view the demos for my presentation on practical flexbox progressive enhancement for RWD, "Enhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox" for the RWD Summit, as well as get links to related articles, tutorials, and tools on Flexible Box Layout.




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Using Modernizr with Flexbox

The Modernizr feature-detection script now includes four tests for flexbox support, which you can use to target browsers with varying levels of support more precisely.




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Hex Opacity Table

We’ve used hex colors for years but 8-digit hexadecimal is still relatively new. While rgba is simple to understand, 8-digit hex is more difficult, as you need to provide a hex representation of a numeric value. The following is a hexadecimal chart of opacity! Opacity Value Hex Code 100 FF 99 FC 98 FA 97 […]

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