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Sexo, amor e imortalidade: o que explica nossa obsessão por vampiros

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:10:26 GMT

Mark Gatiss, da série da BBC 'Dracula', e Rolin Jones, de 'Entrevista com o Vampiro' opinam sobre a questão.


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Holiday Heat Reduction Program aims to save energy during winter break

By www.psu.edu
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:35:09 -0500

At the conclusion of the fall semester, Penn State will once again institute a Holiday Heat Reduction Program at University Park, aimed at lowering building temperatures during the holiday break. This annual energy savings initiative saves the University energy costs and has proven to be an important factor in helping the University pursue its energy conservation and greenhouse gas reduction goals.


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BIR reminds e-commerce platforms to pay right taxes this holiday season

By business.inquirer.net
Published On :: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:51:06 +0800

Amid the anticipated increase in revenues this coming Christmas season, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued a warning to online marketplaces to pay the right taxes, saying that they are closely monitoring them this Yuletide season. “If retail or physical stores are registered and paying their taxes, online stores should do the same. In the coming months, we are expecting an increase in revenue of online businesses due to the holiday spending spree,” BIR Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. said in a statement. The government’s tax agency said that they can block website access, similar to their “oplan kandado program” […]...

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Young holidaymakers keep Malta’s 3-star hotels in the black

By www.maltatoday.com.mt
Published On :: Thu,14 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0100

Three-star hotels have shown resilience in Malta’s hotel industry, combining lower costs and their appeal to budget-conscious tourists, as a way to remain profitable


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Chennai rains today: IMD warns of heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu districts, will there be a school holiday? | Today News - Mint

By news.google.com
Published On :: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:11:03 GMT

  1. Chennai rains today: IMD warns of heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu districts, will there be a school holiday? | Today News  Mint
  2. Tamil Nadu Weather Alert: 12 Dist Today, 21 Dists Tomorrow To Get Heavy Rains  Oneindia
  3. Tamil Nadu Rains: IMD predicts heavy rains in Chennai and other districts, will schools close? Full foreca  The Economic Times
  4. Tamil Nadu: Heavy rain lashes delta districts, schools closed  The Times of India
  5. Govt. has started acquisition of private land for flood mitigation projects in the city: Udhayanidhi  The Hindu


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The best Christmas gifts in 2024 that cover everyone on your holiday list

By www.engadget.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:39:51 +0000

This time of year has a lot of merry and bright things to be excited about, but it can be stressful if you’re stumped on what to get your mom, dad, best friend, coworker or kids’ teacher as a holiday gift. Whether you enjoy or dread buying gifts for people, it’s safe to say we all want to give our loved ones things they will enjoy and appreciate. But there’s a lot of noise, junk and bad deals disguised as good deals to sift through as we get closer and closer to the holidays.

Allow us at Engadget to help you through it. Here, you’ll find all of our holiday gift guides collected in one place, so you can more easily find the best Christmas gifts you need this year. Are you looking for white elephant gift ideas? Are you struggling to come up with a good gift for the father figure in your life? Are you just looking for a good board game to pick up for your own family? We’ve got you covered with gift ideas for all of those scenarios and more. We'll update this post as more of our gift guides hit the internet, so check back for even more gift ideas throughout the season.

According to legend, the King of Siam would give a white elephant to courtiers who had upset them. The recipient had no choice but to simply thank the king for such an opulent gift, knowing that they likely could not afford the upkeep for such an animal. It would inevitably lead them to financial ruin. This story is almost certainly untrue, but it has led to a modern holiday staple: the white elephant gift exchange. These gift ideas will not only get you a few chuckles, but will also make your recipient feel (slightly) burdened.

Read more: The best white elephant gift ideas

We could all use more time away from screens of all types and sizes, and board games are a fun way to do that and bond with friends and family. You can find plenty of unique sets out there now, from word puzzles to whodunnits to calming playthroughs that showcase the beauty of the little things in life. From games with giant monsters to those with haunted mansions, we’re sure at least one of our suggestions will be a hit with you and your loved ones.

Read more: The best board games to gift this season

We wouldn’t blame you if you try to do all of your tech shopping around the holidays. That’s when you can typically get the best sales, both on relatively affordable gear and (more importantly) on big-ticket items. But it would be wrong to think that only the most expensive tech is worth gifting. Since we at Engadget test a plethora of gadgets every year, we know that there are some hidden (and not so hidden) tech gems at lower price ranges — you just have to know where to find them.

Read more: The best gifts under $50 that make great stocking stuffers

This year may not go down as one of the best years in gaming like 2023 did, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a lot of great new releases. Between titles like Astro Bot and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, there were plenty of games to keep even the most dedicated of gamers busy in 2024. And if you’re shopping for one, especially as a non-gamer, it can be tricky to navigate what’s worth buying. We've got you covered with these recommendations.

Read more: The best gifts for gamers

A million new video games seem to come out every week, but for some of us, nothing beats the classics. If you know someone who is way into retro gaming but don’t feel like hunting through eBay and local shops for gear to add to their collection, we’re here to help. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite gift ideas for the nostalgic gamer in your life, from video upscalers for old consoles to retro-themed books and artwork.

Read more: The best retro gaming gifts for the holidays

When it comes to making a great cup at home, coffee nerds are constantly learning and love to try new things. Whether the person you’re shopping for is a newly indoctrinated pour over lover or obsessive over every brewing parameter, we’ve compiled a list of the best gear for coffee geeks that you can get this holiday season.

Read more: The best gifts for coffee lovers

There are few things more rewarding than making good food for your friends and family. But after a while, it’s easy to get bored with the same tried and true recipes. And what better way to inject some fun into your favorite home chef’s routine than with a brand-new kitchen gadget? To help you find the right gift for the cook in your life, we’ve put together a list of our favorite kitchen gadgets across a wide range of prices and categories.

Read more: The best cooking gifts

We’re all having a bit of a budget crunch this year, but the good news is that when it’s time to bestow presents on the young ones (or young at heart), you don’t have to break the bank. Our list of our favorite tech, science and design toys is stacked with items under $100, with plenty of reuse packed in so the fun can extend far beyond the holiday season.

Read more: The best tech toys for kids

In Engadget’s Slack rooms, our pets are high on the list of stuff we chat about — just behind work-adjacent tech stuff, insane current events, video games and food. We’ve bought plenty of high- and low-tech stuff to keep our furry friends fed, occupied, safe and happy and we’ve put together the best of what we tried here. Perhaps you’re shopping for your own very good boy or girl, or maybe you have a dutiful pet parent on your list — either way, the gadgets gathered here will make great gifts, according to the enthusiastic tail wags (or aloof meows) of our own fur babies.

Read more: The best gadgets for your pets

Since the dawn of humanity, we have traveled. We’ve come a long way from on-foot journeys laden with animal hide satchels. But the goal of good travel gear is the same: Get you and your necessities to a destination in the highest level of comfort available. If you know someone who is always catching a flight, rides the train to work or is bravely embarking on a cruise, some new tech may just help them out.

Read more: The best travel gifts

There's a pretty good chance you know at least one person who works remotely in some fashion. While the WFH life has its perks — nobody likes a long commute — it comes with its own set of challenges, from lacking pro-level equipment to dealing with household disturbances. If you’re looking to give a gift to someone who spends much of their time in their home office, we’ve rounded up a few techy gift ideas that should make their days a little more delightful, or at least easier to manage.

Read more: The 19 best gift ideas for the remote worker in your life

Check out the rest of our gift ideas here.

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A Hissterical Helping of Cool Cat Snaps Creating Christmas Morning Meowgic With Huggable Holiday Hilariousness

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:00:00 -0800

Ah, the meowliday season. The smell of turkeys in the oven, the cozy warmth of the fireplace, and our cats actually wanting to snuggle with us because there's a chill in the air (little do they know that we keep the thermostat low for this very specific purrrpose). These last two months of the year are filled with feline festivities, purrfect presents, and meowliday cheer. Even though we're still more than a month away from Christmas, we wanted to give you an early present, one that keeps on giving no matter what state you're reading this in: hissterical cat snaps.

These silly snaps may remind you of the meowgic you feel when opening up presents on Christmas morning. But who needs Christmas to enjoy huggable holiday hilariousness? At I Can Has Cheezburger, we think that you should be feline pawsitively pleasant every day, so get on your comfiest jammies and run downstairs faster than a cat with zoomies to open up these cool cat snaps (giggle all meowrning long).


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Indian stock market opens in red as consolidation phase continues

By www.ibtimes.co.in
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:33:09 +0530

Sensex was trading at 78,260 after slipping 414 points and Nifty was trading at 23,706 after dropping 167 points.


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Businesses Are Reviving This 1800s Holiday Tradition With a 'Surprise and Delight' Factor That Drives Sales — Here's How One Buzzy Brand Is Making It Work

By www.entrepreneur.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:30:00 GMT

Brands like Straightaway Cocktails are putting their own spin on a practice you might remember from childhood.


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Palladium-catalyzed [4 + 4] cycloaddition of 2-pyrones with 2-alkylidenetrimethylene carbonates: access to bridged eight-membered oxygen heterocycles

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00329B, Research Article
Huawei Lin, Biming Mao, Bing Han, Jiayi Luo, Yanqing Ge, Xuerui Zhang, Chang Wang, Hongchao Guo, Chunhao Yuan
A novel palladium-catalyzed [4 + 4] cycloaddition of 2-pyrones with 2-alkylidenetrimethylene carbonates has been developed for the synthesis of bridged eight-membered oxygen heterocycles in good yields and with excellent stereoselectivities.
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Metal-Free Cascade O-H Double Insertion Between I(III)/S(VI)-Ylides, Carboxylic Acids, and Alcohols: Modular Access to Unsymmetrical α,α-O,O-Substituted Ketones

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00453A, Research Article
Shang-Shi Zhang, Jiaohang Wei, Wen-Xuan Zou, Qiong Hu, Mei-Zhu Bao, Dan-Ting Shen, Lin Xiao, Jia-Lin Song, Xiang Liu
The synthesis of unsymmetrical α,α-O,O-substituted ketones via O-H double insertion is appealing but remains constrained due to the lack of compatible coupling partners or uncontrollable selectivity. Herein, we present a...
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Synthesis of enantiopure 1,2,3-triazolylidene-type mesoionic carbene (MIC) conjugate acids featuring a rigid bicyclic scaffold

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,2178-2181
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00269E, Research Article
Vojtěch Dočekal, Mohand Melaimi, Simona Petrželová, Jan Veselý, Xiaoyu Yan, Guy Bertrand
Chiral NHCs have found numerous applications as ligands for transition metals and in their own right for asymmetric catalysis. We report a synthetic route from L-malic acid to enantiopure 1,2,3-triazoliums with the chiral center in a fused ring.
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Iridium-catalyzed reductive γ-lactonization of ortho-acylbenzoic acids in water: sustainable access to phthalides

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,2220-2230
DOI: 10.1039/D3QO02019C, Research Article
Yang Chen, Jingyu Zhang, Hongguang Du, Renshi Luo, Jiaxi Xu, Zhanhui Yang
Iridium-catalyzed reductive γ-lactonization of ortho-acylbenzoic acids in water provides a practical and sustainable route to phthalides.
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Nickel/photoredox-catalyzed carbonylative transformations of α-phosphorus-, α-sulfur-, and α-boron-substituted alkyl halides

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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,2297-2305
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00167B, Research Article
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Le-Cheng Wang, Xiao-Feng Wu
A novel dual nickel/photoredox catalyzed direct amino- and alkoxycarbonylation of α-heteroatom substituted organohalides has been developed.
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Synthesis of oxindole fused 1,3-oxazepanes via hydride transfer initiated ring expansion of pyrrolidine

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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00474D, Research Article
Peng He, Zongkang Wang, Qiongwen Kang, Nana Fei, Chengyu Wang, Yanzhong Li
An efficient B(C6F5)3 catalyzed protocol for the synthesis of oxindole fused 1,3-oxazepanes from pyrrolidine substituted aryl alkynones has been developed.
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Palladium-catalyzed and ligand-controlled divergent cycloadditions of vinylidenecyclopropane-diesters with para-quinone methides enabled by zwitterionic π-propargyl palladium species

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00368C, Research Article
Jia-Hao Shen, Yong-Jie Long, Min Shi, Yin Wei
A palladium-catalyzed and ligand-controlled divergent synthesis of spiro-cyclohexadienones from p-quinone methides and VDCP-diesters was realized via zwitterionic π-propargyl palladium species and the mechanism was clarified by DFT calculations.
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Selective nickel-catalyzed disulfuration of alkyl halides with di/trithiosulfonates

By pubs.rsc.org
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Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO00411F, Research Article
Lulu Liu, Jiaqi Hou, Yingying Ma, Hongwei Wang, Yu Zhong, Fangcan Liang, Luyao Wang, Qingling Wang, Ji-Quan Liu, Wen-Hua Xu, Dianhu Zhu
Selective reductive disulfuration of alkyl halides with di/trithiosulfonate reagents was developed through ligand regulation, with key features of broad substrate scope, good tolerance and excellent selectivity to disulfides over trisulfides.
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Wayanad bypoll turns out to be a reunion for landslides survivors

By www.thehindu.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:19:26 +0530

Their tearful reunion touches many, as they witness the heartbreak of lost connections. We celebrated the previous election, but many who participated then are no longer with us, says a survivor. District administration designated three polling stations for the survivors, two at Neelicappu and one at Meppadi


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Initial SEI formation in LiBOB-, LiDFOB- and LiBF4-containing PEO electrolytes

By pubs.rsc.org
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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,9184-9199
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07175H, Paper
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Edvin K. W. Andersson, Liang-Ting Wu, Luca Bertoli, Yi-Chen Weng, Daniel Friesen, Kenza Elbouazzaoui, Sophia Bloch, Ruslan Ovsyannikov, Erika Giangrisostomi, Daniel Brandell, Jonas Mindemark, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Maria Hahlin
A limiting factor for solid polymer electrolyte (SPE)-based Li-batteries is the functionality of the electrolyte decomposition layer that is formed at the Li metal anode during battery operation.
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Mussel-mimetic thermal conductive films with solid–solid phase change and shape-adaptive performance

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00031E, Paper
Donglei Li, Canxia Ding, Sicong Shen, Jun Wang, Limin Wu, Bo You, Guibao Tao
Inspired by mussel structure, a novel thermally conductive phase change film is made using hot pressing, layer-by-layer stacking, cutting, and splicing. It has high thermal conductivity, low thermal resistance, high latent heat, and electrical insulation, suitable as a thermal interface material.
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Accurate description of ion migration in solid-state ion conductors from machine-learning molecular dynamics

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00452C, Paper
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Takeru Miyagawa, Namita Krishnan, Manuel Grumet, Christian Reverón Baecker, Waldemar Kaiser, David A. Egger
Machine-learning molecular dynamics provides predictions of structural and anharmonic vibrational properties of solid-state ionic conductors with ab initio accuracy. This opens a path towards rapid design of novel battery materials.
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In situ construction of a double perovskite heterostructure with exsolved FeNi3 alloy nanoparticles for CO2 electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cells

By pubs.rsc.org
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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA07820E, Paper
Xiaoyu Wang, Haibo Hu, Caiyue Xie, Yifei Wang, Haowei Li, Xifeng Ding
FeNi3 nanoparticles anchored on the (PrBa)0.95Fe1.6Ni0.4O6−δ double perovskite enhance the electrochemical performance and durability in direct CO2 electrolysis.
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Enhancing CO2 gasification-reforming of municipal solid waste with Ni/CeO2 and Ni/ZrO2 catalysts

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00665H, Paper
Shiyu Zhang, Yibing Peng, Mengna Wu, Qinghai Li, Yanguo Zhang, Hui Zhou
CO2 gasification-reforming facilitates CO2 utilization and yields CO-rich syngas for municipal waste management. Catalysts are essential for enhancing syngas production via catalytic tar reforming.
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Cubic-to-hexagonal Structural Phase Transition in Metal Halide Compounds: A DFT Study

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06604E, Paper
Iván Ornelas-Cruz, Ramiro M. dos Santos, José E. González, Matheus Paes Lima, Juarez L. F. Da Silva
Phase transitions into photo-inactive structural phases have impacted the use of metal halide perovskites as photovoltaic materials. However, the chemical composition has been found to mitigate this issue. This study...
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The Role of Mn in Boosting Wide Potential Window on Solid Solution Derived Electrodes for Aqueous Supercapacitors

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA00979G, Paper
Ziying Shi, Enzuo Liu, Biao Chen, Junwei Sha, Lihua Qian, Zhijia Zhang, Xiaopeng Han, Wenbin Hu, Chunnian He, Naiqin Zhao, Jianli Kang
The interaction mechanism of the multi-element oxide electrodes remains a challenge, despite the fact that their synergy can not only improve the electronic structure, but also broaden the working potential...
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Pyridinyl 4-(2-oxoalkylimidazolidin-1-yl)benzenesulfonates and their hydrochloride salts as novel water soluble antimitotic prodrugs bioactivated by cytochrome P450 1A1 in breast cancer cells

By pubs.rsc.org
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RSC Med. Chem., 2024, 15,3728-3745
DOI: 10.1039/D4MD00476K, Research Article
Vincent Ouellette, Chahrazed Bouzriba, Atziri Corin Chavez Alvarez, Quentin Bruxelles, Geneviève Hamel-Côté, Sébastien Fortin
New water soluble antimitotic CYP1A1-activated prodrugs named PYRAIB-SOs and their hydrochlorides targeting breast cancers.
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Incessant rains cause landslides on Tirumala ghat road

By www.thehindu.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:56:12 +0530


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Fifty years ago | Tamil Nadu omnibus tax increase held valid

By www.thehindu.com
Published On :: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 04:35:00 +0530


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Geomorphology of a late Wisconsin hard-bedded ice stream landsystem, Ontario, Canada revealed by high resolution LiDAR mapping

By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca
Published On :: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 EDT

Bukhari, S S A; Sookhan, S; Eyles, N; Shi, Y; Mulligan, R P M; Paulen, R C. GSA 2020 Connects Online - Geological Society of America Annual Meeting; Geological Society of America, Abstracts With Programs vol. 52, no. 6, 2020 p. 1, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020AM-357973
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LiDAR-based quantitative assessment of drumlin to mega-scale glacial lineation continuums and flow of the paleo Seneca-Cayuga paleo-ice stream

By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca
Published On :: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 EDT

Sookhan, S; Eyles, N; Bukhari, S; Paulen, R C. GAC®-MAC 2021, London, Canada: Exploring Geosciences Through Time and Space/GAC®-MAC 2021, London, Canada : Explorer les géosciences à travers le temps et l'espace; Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada, Joint Annual Meeting, Abstracts Volume vol. 44, 2021 p. 289
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LiDAR-based quantitative assessment of drumlin to mega-scale glacial lineation continuums and flow of the paleo Seneca-Cayuga paleo-ice stream

By geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca
Published On :: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 EDT

Sookhan, S; Eyles, N; Bukhari, S; Paulen, R C. Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 263, 107003, 2021 p. 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107003


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Poste Italiane Q3: solid performance across all segments

By postandparcel.info
Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:57:55 +0000

Today, Poste Italiane has approved the results for the third quarter of 2024, revealing another set of strong results.


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There Was No Trump 'Landslide.' There Is No Mandate.

By crooksandliars.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:08:00 +0000

It's important that Democrats understand that Trump's winning margin was as tiny as his hands, because he will simply keep repeating the word "mandate" until Congress and the media are hypnotized into submission. Don't let him get away with it.

Joan Walsh in The Nation:

As blue Western states and cities finish counting votes, it looks like the popular vote “landslide” projected for Donald Trump last week turned out to be a trickle. When all the votes are counted, he will end up with a margin of roughly two points over Vice President Kamala Harris. Presidents Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972 won more than 60 percent of the popular vote; Ronald Reagan in 1984 won 58 percent. Those were landslides.

Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine:

Upon learning that he had won a clear election victory, Donald Trump responded, as is his custom, with a transparent lie. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he gloated.

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Boss gets fed up with neighboring store's customers parking in his lot, he places boulders between the stores to block them, leading to a dispute with next-door owner: ‘A solid solution’

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:00:00 -0800

Even though cars are one of the most valuable inventions humans have ever come up with, they are also one of the things that enrage people the most. Gas prices, traffic, and parking are just broad examples of the kinds of rage that sitting in a car can cause a person. With that rage, a lot of feuds between people arise.

If you think that parking pettiness is only an issue where one lives, then you will be surprised by this story. OP (original poster) is working in a store, and their boss has been feuding with the next-door store owner for years. Their latest feud was about, you guessed it, parking. The stores' adjacent parking lots caused the two to fight about who gets to park where, until OP's boss decided to take action and put a stop to people parking where they should. He installed cameras, put up boulders, and even hired a parking management company to get his neighbor to stop parking in his lot. 

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of an employee who refused to respond to their entitled boss after resigning. 


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10 best winter hiking holidays in Europe for snowshoeing, winter sun and mountain climbs

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T15:42:50+00:00

From trekking the foothills of Mont Blanc to snowshoeing in Oulanka National Park, here are some of the best European trails to tread this winter


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Is it safe to travel to Spain and should I cancel my holiday after flooding disaster?

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T17:48:20+00:00

Extreme weather in Spain is back over Malaga as flights and train travel are disrupted due to wind and rain


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Frontpage SlideShow

By www.joomlaworks.net
Published On :: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:04:59 +0200

Now fully responsive & Joomla 1.5 - 3.x compatible!

Frontpage SlideShow is the easiest & most eye-catching way to display your featured articles or products in your Joomla website.




It creates an uber cool slideshow with text snippets laying on top of images, in a variety of templates and combined effects.

Frontpage SlideShow allows you to create multiple slideshows within your Joomla website (in different pages or even on the same page), comes with 8 uniquely styled templates, a powerful jQuery based slideshow engine with crossfade & carousel based transitions, text effects, statistics and can retrieve content automatically from Joomla articles/menus, K2 items and Virtuemart/HikaShop products!

Frontpage SlideShow is a pure CSS & JavaScript based slideshow system, which means it's dead simple to customize and it's both SEO and tablet/mobile friendly (in iOS, Android or Windows 8 smartphones & tablets).

And don't worry about how you'll manage your slideshows. Unlike other expensive/copycat implementations, Frontpage Slideshow has a dedicated Joomla backend component which you use to effortlessly manage your slideshows. Easy and fast.

Moreover, it now natively supports content fetching from K2 and the most popular e-commerce components for Joomla: Virtuemart (versions 2.x & 3.x) and HikaShop. That means you quickly make up your slides just by selecting the source (e.g. a K2 item) and Frontpage Slideshow will fetch in a snap the title, description text and associated image!

 

FEATURES

  • Fully compatible with Joomla 1.5 - 3.x
  • Lightweight & frontend optimized slideshow engine, based on jQuery, offering crossfade & carousel transition effects between slides, lava-lamp style navigation, progress bar and text transition effects. That means you have 24 different effect combinations to use!
  • 9 slideshow templates to get you started. Customizing them is very easy as all fonts, font-sizes, colors etc. are controlled by CSS. Building your own is a joy if you know your way around with MVC templating in Joomla.
  • Responsive as of v3.10.
  • The slide creation process is dead simple to use through guided steps.
  • Drag and drop slide re-ordering (per category) in the backend.
  • Integration with Joomla articles and the most popular Joomla content extensions like K2, Virtuemart (2.x & 3.x) & HikaShop. That means Frontpage Slideshow can import the title, text, link and associated image from such components with a single clicks. For example, if you want to create a slide from a K2 item, all you have to do is select that K2 item and Frontpage Slideshow will automatically populate all slide fields, which you are free of course to edit as you wish!
  • You can now display your slideshows either via the module (or multiple module copies) or via the new component view. That means you can create a direct menu link to a specific slideshow, so you can e.g. assign a slideshow to your homepage, without messing with module positions and funky module display conditions. This option is ideal for portfolio based websites that want to assign slideshows directly to Joomla menu items.
  • Multiple slideshows in your Joomla website, even on the same page (thanks to new slideshow engine) - so you can have a slideshow fetched in the component region and an other in a module or in combinations you define.
  • Better slide image uploading using ajax (which means better previewing) and better slide image management (similar to K2's), with multiple copies of your original image created for better performance. And we got some cool new templates to show in the near future using these different size images...
  • Statistics! Frontpage Slideshow will now track (by default) all slideshow clicks and create beautiful statistics graphs in the backend, so you can visually see which are your most popular slides in various timeframes. Using Frontpage Slideshow to promote products? Now you can now which products draw your customers attention more! Statistics can of course be disabled at any time if you prefer SEO over click tracking.
  • Better server-side performance compared to version 2.x. A new caching layer for the module and the new slideshow content prefetching mechanism, which reduces the queries needed to retrieve slide content from third-party extensions (K2, Virtuemart & HikaShop). In high traffic or high content volume Joomla websites, this translates to significantly better performance.
  • Better image compression on both desktop and mobile browsers with the integration of a 3rd party web service. This can lead to up to 50% image size reduction and mobile optimized serving of images when your site is viewed in mobile browsers on iPhone/iPad/Android etc.
  • Full ACL integration with Joomla 2.5+.
  • New version/update notification in Joomla 2.5+.

The component's user interface is very clean and easy to learn. It consists of only 2 areas to edit: your slides and your categories (slideshows).

Additionally, the styling/customization of each slideshow is entirely HTML/CSS based. You have full control over the layout of the slideshow and you can easily style it to suit your needs. No other website will ever share the same looks as yours!

As with all our Joomla extensions, Frontpage Slideshow uses MVC template overrides - so you can modify existing templates or create your own from scratch without a) hacking core extension code and b) worrying about future updates breaking up your changes.

Frontpage Slideshow has been successfully tested in all major browsers. The prebundled slideshow templates are fully compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Edge and Internet Explorer version 7 and above.

SCREENSHOTS

Backend interface screenshots taken from Joomla 1.5 (which is nearly identical to Joomla 2.5) & Joomla 3.x. Frontpage Slideshow uses the Joomla backend design guidelines so it will match the design of all these Joomla versions, from 1.5 to 3.x.

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