Duffys Hope Holds Annual Celebrity Basketball Game
On August 1 and 2 Duffy’s Hope Inc. hosted their 12th Annual Duffy’s Hope Celebrity Basketball game.This year’s game was held at the University of Delaware, Bob Carpenter Center located at 631 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19716. Also, the Foundation presented a Meet & Greet for their VIP and Floor Seat ticket holders before the Celebrity game.The annual Duffy’s H.O.P.E, Inc. Celebrity Basketball Game featured well known television, movie and music stars! Those who put on their sponsored Moneyball Sportswear uniforms and Reebok sneakers to raise funds for the Duffy’s Hope Organization, as well as lend their time for personal appearances, included: Keshia Chanté (Host of BET’s 106 & Park), Romeo (Jumping The Broom and Madea’s Witness Protection), Jay Ellis (Blue from BET’s, The Game), Allie DeBerry (Paisley Disney’s Hit Show, A.N.T. Farm), McKinley Freeman (Derek VH1’s Hit the Floor), Lamman Rucker (Tyler Perry’s hit TV series Meet the Browns AND Tyler Perry’s film, Why Did I Get Married?), Tammy “T-Time” Brawner (Original Harlem Globetrotters), Christian Keyes (BET’s Let’s Stay Together), Raven Goodwin (Disney’s Good Luck Charlie), Hot Sauce the Streetballer, Manilove and Delaware’s own D.J. Mifflin (Sleepy Hollow).The weekend began with Duffy’s Hope, Inc. hosting their 2nd Annual Evening of H.O.P.E. Reception on Friday, August 1. This special occasion honored contributors and community members for their philanthropic endeavors while recognizing the youth participants who have made significant strides towards a promising future. The “Evening of H.O.P.E.” has become a tradition for kicking off the fun-filled weekend experience of quality prevention programming.Day Two of the weekend continued as Duffy’s Hope was excited to partner with Delaware Prevention Coalition as the sponsor for the Teen Summit Panel held at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware. Keynote speaker, Keshia Chanté, host of BET’s 106 & Park opened up the forum by giving personal insight on what her motivation was to succeed; how important education was to her and how not to let anyone stop the goal(s) you have set for yourself. The panel continued with a Question and Answer forum to the five hundred enthusiastic young teens who could not wait to speak with Keshia Chante as well as the other guests who joined the discussion, Allie DeBerry, McKinley Freeman, Jay Ellis, Raven Goodwin Tammy “T-Time” Brawner and Delaware’s own D.J. Mifflin.Additional sponsors included United Way of Delaware, City of Wilmington, New Castle County Government, Herr’s Foods, Delmarva Power, Hilton—Wilmington/Christiana, Erotique, Unico Vino, From Mother’s Garden, Strength of Nature House of Brands, Philadelphia 87ers; The Source and Movement magazines.The weekend grand finale was the much anticipated Celebrity Basketball Game. Fans of all ages from beginning to end experienced a special half-time performance, games and giveaways; in addition to, the opportunities to meet celebrities, get their autographs and take pictures, along with watching a thrilling game, which the Celebrities prevailed over the Local team 57- 46.Duffy’s Hope, Inc. founder and basketball enthusiast, Duffy Samuels has taken his passion and love towards the game of basketball and his community, and channeled it into an organization comprised of dedicated, hardworking volunteers who are committed to providing a helping hand to Delaware youth.The Duffy’s Hope Celebrity Events serve an average of 3,500 spectators; and in its 12th year, the annual Celebrity Basketball Game has become the major resource of promoting the importance of adult involvement and financial support of youth based prevention programs. The event also encourages youth to overcome obstacles and always strive for excellence in all areas of their lives.
OTTAWA – The government of Canada has been increasing its use of paid Facebook advertisements over the last three years, spending tens of millions of dollars on boosted posts, videos and ad campaigns, new figures tabled in Parliament show.From Jan. 1, 2016 to March 2018, federal government departments and agencies spent more than $24.4 million on Facebook and Instagram ads, promotions and sponsored posts and videos.The data, tabled earlier this month in the House of Commons, includes a breakdown of spending by each government department and agency, showcasing a growing government reliance on Facebook for promoting events and publicizing key government messages and policy initiatives.The biggest spender was Destination Canada, which expensed more than $9.2 million for promoting tourism in Canada to Facebook users during the designated time frame.The Immigration Department, meanwhile, spent more than $2 million on campaigns, including some international ads promoting visa requirements and economic immigration streams. It also spent $47,497 domestically to provide information about the Syrian refugee program “in response to the outpouring of support and interest in how to get involved from Canadians,” the department stated.In 2016-17 the federal procurement department reported that government spending on digital advertising surpassed television for the first time ever. Digital media represented 54.7 per cent of all advertising expenditures last year, with social media representing 23.3 per cent.The data tabled this month shows agencies that use Facebook for promotion have been increasing their spending on quizzes, campaigns and so-called boosted posts, saying they need to reach people where they are — and more than 20 million people in Canada are on social media.“More and more Canadians are receiving their news and information via social networks. It is important to connect with Canadians on the channels they are using,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in her written response tabled last week.“With sponsored posts and social network advertising, even small funding amounts can have a significant impact. All of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s paid posts or promoted videos performed better and received more impressions than if it was only posted organically.”But Bob Cox, chair of News Media Canada and publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press, said it doesn’t make sense for the government to be using taxpayer dollars to support foreign-owned digital companies like Facebook and Google.“It drives me crazy no one questions this, and I don’t know why because there used to be a time when government would make an effort to use Canadian-owned media,” Cox said.As a proponent of the print news media, Cox argues print publications in Canada have greater reach and trust levels among the public than social media companies, and that print advertisements are far more effective than fleeting online ads.Government spending on foreign-owned advertising also hurts not only domestic media companies already suffering from dwindling subscribers and advertising revenues, but also the Canadian economy, which is out millions of dollars that are flowing across the border.“The federal government is putting”It drives me crazy, no questions this, and I don’t know why because there used to be a time when government would make an effort to use Canadian-owned media,” Cox said. money into companies that are simply taking it out of the country and they’re not re-circulating it, they’re not paying taxes and they’re not contributing to the national economy… that’s the biggest loss from the decline in traditional media.”Meanwhile, the growth in federal spending on Facebook comes at a time when the company has come under fire over the Cambridge Analytica data breach.Canada’s ethics committee has been studying data privacy issues following the scandal that allegedly saw the personal information of some 87 million Facebook users — including more than 620,000 Canadians — improperly accessed for political-campaigning purposes ahead of U.K.’s Brexit vote and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.The company faced tough questioning by governments here, in the U.S. and abroad about privacy concerns and the spread of “fake news.”Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized Tuesday during an appearance before the European Parliament in Brussels for how his company handled issues related to fake news, foreign interference in elections and the privacy of Facebook users.Nura Jabagi, a public scholar at Concordia University specializing in business technology management, says the federal government is simply following suit with what’s happening in the private sector when it comes to jumping aboard the social media advertising train.But the fear surrounding issues like the Cambridge Analytica breach does diminish public confidence in such websites, which is where traditional media may still have the upper hand.“Trust is a key factor in communication,” Jabagi said.“In the current climate … traditional media like newspapers are trusted and reputable sources for government audience.”— Follow @ReporterTeresa on Twitter
There have been several other cases of trainers withdrawing horses from recent races due to ill health – leading to lost investment and additional costs for stables.Postponed’s trainer Roger Varian put out half the number of runners in July that he did in May and June, while Saeed Bin Suroor, another high profile trainer, withdrew all his horses during July, sending them out again only in late August.Mr Bin Suroor said: “We’ve given the horses an easy time. Most have been coughing. You can see it all over Newmarket. I’ve been here 22 years and this is the worst thing like that to happen here. You have to stop and give them time to recover.”Mr Varian added: “It’s like humans. You can feel all right with a lung infection until your lungs start burning, then you can forget it. If you run them when they’re sick they take longer to recover.”Angus Gold, racing manager at Shadwell stud in Norfolk, who manages 350 horses for Sheikh Hamdam Al Maktoum, said: “I don’t think people have realised quite what a difficult year this has been for horse-health issues and just what a tough time trainers have had. It has been the worst year in my 30 years as racing manager.”He added: “Not everyone is affected, but it is a Europe wide problem.” Postponed, who was forced to miss the King George VI stakes after going down with a respiratory infectionCredit: KARIM SAHIB/AFP They’ve remained reasonably healthy throughout the winter and it has eventually caught up with them.Jenny Hall, chief veterinary officer of the British Horseracing Authority Runners ease up after finishing at Newmarket racecourse in May 2016 Credit:Getty Images Dozens of racing thoroughbreds have been struck down by a mystery respiratory infection sweeping through some of the country’s top stables.Trainers have described the outbreak of infection, which leads to horses suffering from coughs and runny eyes, as the worst they have seen in decades.The revelations coincided with Saturday and Sunday’s Newmarket Open Weekend, when 15 stables were lined up to open their doors to members of the public, leading to fears that large numbers of people moving from one to another could lead to a further spread in infections.Stables have been advised by organisers to take a series of precautionary bio-security measures to reduce the risk.These include roping off the front of boxes so members of the public cannot get too close to the horses; providing disinfection foot baths or mats at each entrance to the yard and placing senior staff around the stables to monitor the public around the horses.Stables and estates have also been offered supplies of disinfectant sachets to help staff and visitors reduce the danger of carrying any infection from one animal to another.Newmarket, home to around 3,000 race horses, has been the worst hit, although illness has also spread to across the Channel to Chantilly, the centre of racing in France.Several trainers have reported that their horse have been “out of sorts”, leading them to carry out blood tests on their animals.These have confirmed they were suffering from some form of respiratory infection, although the precise strain has yet to be identified.The rash of infections forced trainers to pull several of their horses out of races this summer in order for them to have time to recuperate.The most high profile case was that of Postponed – one of Britain’s best older males – who was unable to defend his King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July due to respiratory problems.He went on to recover fully and win the Juddmonte International at York Racecourse, on August 17.
Mr Gold and other in the racing industry believe that one reason for the spike in infections could be the mild winter, followed by cold, wet April.Jenny Hall, the chief veterinary officer of the British Horseracing Authority, told The Telegraph: “They normally build up immunity during the winter. They get a bit of a cold and take a bit of time off, just like we do, then they get over it.“But it may be relevant that this year they’ve remained reasonably healthy throughout the winter and it has eventually caught up with them. They’ve not had the opportunity to build up that immunity ahead of a more recent colder period.”Ms Hall said that younger race horses, known as yearlings, were also likely to have spread the infection when mixing with others after being moved to trainers’ stables, just as children do when first starting school.”It’s a reminder how important hygiene is in stables and how difficult it is, as well as at the races, with horses constantly coming and going,” she said. 
Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. The Newmarket Open Weekend will see hundreds of visitors take advantage of some of the country’s top trainers, including Ed Dunlop, Luca Cumani and David Simcock, opening their yards for viewing.A spokesman for Newmarket Open Weekend said: “The option to open lies with the trainers individually, as does the enforcement of biosecurity for their yards.”The spokesman added that Jockey Club Estates have offered complimentary Virkon disinfectant sachets to the trainers, along with “a full list of biosecurity measures to enable them to put forward all the necessary precautions” for the weekend.Researchers at the Animal Health Trust laboratories are currently trying to identify the strain of the disease, though it is not thought to have any long term effect on the animal’s health.Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Prince Khalid Abdullah’s string of thoroughbreds, told The Racing Post: “It’s been a real problem this year, no question. I think it’s a Europe-wide problem. It’s been bad in Chantilly and there certainly have been spells when various Newmarket trainers have struggled.“It doesn’t seem like it’s one thing – there seems to be so many different strains of flu or rhino flu. I think it’s a perfect storm of a number of things.”
The board of British Airways board is to demand an independent inquiry into the catastrophic power failure that left 75,000 passengers stranded over the bank holiday weekend.The airline is facing mounting questions over the mysterious “power surge” blamed for the chaos, which energy providers deny happened.BA chief executive Alex Cruz could be headed for a stand-off with senior board members, furious at the hammering the company’s reputation has taken and the ongoing chaos amid a lack of credible explanation.A full schedule did not resume for three days following the crisis last Saturday and many passengers are still waiting to be reunited with their luggage. The airline has been bombarded with requests for refunds and compensation. Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, BA’s parent company, said the supply went down on Saturday morning but that the problem was compounded by an “uncontrolled” reboot of the system, which then knocked out the entire IT infrastructure.The sudden return of power led to the loss of flight, baggage and customer communication information. BA’s uninterruptible power supply is supposed to use multiple power sources, including a standby generator, to maintain a constant supply to BA’s two main IT centres near Heathrow.A spokesman for National Grid said it had “no system issues on Saturday morning” and energy provider SSE, which runs the network in west London, said its systems were also “operating as normal” on Saturday.BA said: “We are undertaking an exhaustive investigation to find out the exact circumstances and most importantly ensure that this can never happen again.”But it declined to comment on boardroom plans for an independent inquiry. 
People sleep next to their luggage at Heathrow Terminal 5Credit:REUTERS/Neil Hall Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. The board is expected to demand an inquiry led by third-party investigators to establish what went wrong and why contingency plans failed to kick in.A source in the company told the BBC: “It would be impossible to pretend that it was great. We need to figure out how, and why, decisions on how to deal with it were taken.”BA was accused of greed after the GMB union suggested the chaos could have been prevented if the airline had not cut “hundreds of dedicated and loyal” IT staff and contracted the work to India last year. Mr Cruz insisted the outsourcing of jobs was not to blame for the “catastrophic” power failure.But the cause of the initial power outage and the subsequent surge remains enshrouded in mystery.
A PEST CONTROL company has said there has been an increase of 75% in calls about cockroaches in the last ten years.Rentokill said the summer is a busy season for them as visitors at hotels and restaurants are more likely to come into contact with the ‘high-risk’ pest. These creep-crawlies carry salmonella, dysentery, gastroenteritis and typhoid.They also produce an obnoxious odour, which taints food and objects they come in contact with and their droppings cause eczema and asthma.The company said many restaurant staff do not recognise when incoming stock contains a cockroach infestation and householders can also provide food supplies for them by allowing grease to build up in their kitchens.Waste packaging, especially corrugated cardboard, can help a colony of cockroaches grow rapidly by offering shelter.Dr Colm Moore, area technical manager at Rentokil Ireland advised anyone staying in a hotel this summer to check it thoroughly as soon as they arrive and store luggage on a high shelf.In your own home, keep an eye out for egg casings and cast skins as cockroaches shed their skin 5-8 times as they mature. Look for droppings and if you smell an unpleasant, musty odour, you may have some unwanted house guests.Read: Doctors remove inch-long cockroach from Australian man’s ear>Read: Americans have a higher opinion of toenail fungus and dog poop than of Congress>
“SORE, BITTER AND pissed off” was one former Cabinet colleague of Alan Shatter’s description of the ex-justice minister in the wake of his blistering criticism of the Guerin Report.The scathing 22-minute speech in the Dáil last month now appears to have been the prelude to yesterday’s launching of a High Court challenge against parts of the report which led to Shatter’s resignation in May.Shatter wants to quash some of the findings of barrister Seán Guerin’s report which criticised the Department of Justice’s and Shatter’s handling of allegations by the garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.Shatter resigned before the report was made public in May, reading just three chapters before deciding it was in the best interests of the stability of the government that he go.Guerin’s report took eight weeks to compile and runs to 336 pages but he did not take the opportunity to interview Shatter as part of his review.This decision demonstrated Guerin’s failure to “comply with basic fair procedures, constitutional justice and natural justice”, according to Shatter in a second Dáil speech he made earlier this month.While the political bubble was convulsed by the Cabinet reshuffle Shatter called for his treatment by the Guerin Report to be examined by the Human Rights and Equality Commission.In his High Court challenge, Shatter alleges that there was objective bias, absence of fair procedures and indecent haste on the part of Guerin in how he put together the report and reached the conclusions that he did.The court action demonstrated plenty of discussion around the relatively quiet halls of Leinster House yesterday. One Fine Gael colleague of Shatter’s noted: ”Alan just can’t leave anything rest…”The fact that Shatter is now seeking to quash some of Guerin’s findings demonstrates that while he may not wish to distract from the government’s work – he said as much in his resignation letter in May – he may end up doing so anyway.By his own admission on 22 May, Shatter is “going nowhere”, saying at the time: [There are] a lot of interesting things going to be happening over the next couple of years before the next election, I hope to make a positive contribution to them.”Whatever about the government, Shatter is clearly of the firm belief that his good name should be retained, even if the conclusions of the Guerin Report have ultimately affected his future career and his reputation.The government will be attempting to restore its own reputation, left battered by the various controversies of the first half of this year, over the coming months But in doing so they may have to occasionally address these old sores.After all, this has been the week where Frances Fitzgerald has had to discuss in great detail the problems in the department vacated by Shatter in May.While yesterday Foreign Affars Minister Charlie Flanagan – who benefited from Shatter’s demise with a promotion to Cabinet – said that Shatter was within his rights to take a challenge.Expect current ministers to face similar questions as the Shatter case rolls on. Whether they like it or not.Read: Alan Shatter is going nowhere, and why would he when he can put on a show like this?Alan Shatter: “I’m going nowhere”
Tuesday 7 Mar 2017, 7:00 AM Sean Moncrieff https://jrnl.ie/3273117 By Sean Moncrieff Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article THE TROUBLE IS that the media doesn’t know what Donald Trump wants. Never has an American president come in for such a level of faux-psychological analysis, little of it flattering: he’s singularly driven by his wounded feelings, by the towering unfairness of the mainstream media towards him.Yet like a disobedient toddler, he can’t help dragging the media narrative back to his favourite subject: himself. Even bad attention is better than no attention.At the recent press conference in the East Room of the White House, President Trump spent hardly any time on the ostensible reason for the gathering – his new choice for the Secretary of Labour, R Alexander Acosta– before lashing into the assembled hacks over fake news, refusing questions he didn’t deem “fair” and asking an African-American reporter whether the Congressional Black Caucus were friends of hers.Mainstream media still can’t figure himThe display was more than enough to dominate the news cycle for the next twenty-four hours, and to drown out most of the reporting on why the man originally intended for the Labor secretary job, Andy Puzder, abruptly pulled out.For any other President, for any other American politician, this might have been viewed as a cunning strategy to distract from a shambolic cabinet selection process. But not with Trump. The mainstream media still can’t figure him out.And this is perhaps the problem: to an astonishing degree, the majority of the reportage on Donald Trump’s first two months in office has not been about what he has or has not done, but about the man himself: the essential mystery of the new American President.An egomaniac or master strategist?Nearly every day there’s a new pronouncement or tweet (Barack Obama bugged my phone was the latest from this weekend), which again throws up the question of why he acts the way he does.Is it simply the petulance of an egomaniac or a media strategy of continual campaigning, where he pits himself (and the plain folk he represents) against the elites and the out-of-touch media?If it is the latter, then it’s working. The mainstream media is, understandably, hostile towards him and at this stage unhealthily intrigued by how he acts: his address to Congress last week was short on detail, aspirational and rather dull – much like the speeches given by his predecessors – but the fact that Trump could act “normal” became the story.Trying to understand and define Trumpism Source: Andrew HarnikNo American president in living memory has received this level of media coverage in their first two months in office, yet he has managed to resist all attempts at analysis, psychological or political. No one really knows what he’s up to.Even his most ardent supporters have been unable to coherently explain what Trump’s political vision is. Indeed, there is now an online cottage industry of right-wing academics attempting to define Trumpism while keeping it separate from everything Trump says or does. Good luck with that.So on the Moncrieff Show we decided to embark on an experiment: to not mention Donald Trump during the period of Lent, the idea being to give the listeners some relief from Trump fatigue, but also to see how much real news we miss by not mentioning him.And by real news, I mean actions or decisions that will have a real effect in the real world.Signing executive ordersApart from attempting to select a cabinet, the main thrust of President Trump’s governance so far has been through signing executive orders: he put his signature to eighteen orders and presidential memos in his first twelve days in office.And while this may seem particularly dynamic, it is in fact tediously normal. Obama signed nineteen such orders in the same period in 2009: which Trump (via tweet) portrayed as a “major power grab”.But in Washington, signing a piece of paper and getting something done are often quite different. Famously, Obama’s first executive order was to close Guantanamo Bay. It’s still open.Similarly, a lot of Trump’s orders are procedural or instructions to come up with plans or initiate studies. He’s pulled out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, but Congress hadn’t enacted it anyway. He’s ordered building the wall with Mexico, but not specified how he’s going to pay for it.Does Trump even know himself?So apart from grabbing a lot of headlines and hurting a lot of feelings, Donald Trump hasn’t actually done that much yet: a fact he’s managed to distract us from by goading the media into constant assessments of who he really is; which in turn gives fire to his claim that the media is out to get him.This isn’t to say that Donald Trump won’t bring about change – one of his executive orders effectively allows the coal industry to pollute rivers – it’s just that Trump’s capricious nature gives no indication of what that change might look like.Because Donald Trump might not be anyone: less a rounded human being than a vessel, to contain the assorted aspirations of the disenfranchised working class, conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, homophobes, anti-Semites, protectionists, Islamophobes, the fearful and the unaccountably angry.The media may not know who Donald Trump is because Donald Trump doesn’t know himself.Sean Moncrieff is a writer and broadcaster at Newstalk.Column: ‘If Ethiopia started to develop its coffee industry, it could trade its way out of poverty’>Kate Beaufoy: ‘Who cares about the carers? 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Moncrieff: ‘We decided not to mention Trump during Lent to see how much real news we miss’ Is Trump’s behaviour the petulance of an egomaniac or a media strategy of continual campaigning, asks Sean Moncrieff. Mar 7th 2017, 7:00 AM Share923 Tweet Email Short URL 371 Views 
Nintendo à son tour victime d’une cyberattaqueL’entreprise nippone a été victime d’une cyberattaque de la part du groupe Lulzsec à la veille du lancement de son service de jeu en ligne en 3D.Avertissement sans frais pour Nintendo. Le géant du jeu vidéo a en effet été pris pour cible par des pirates informatiques, ceux du groupe Lulzsec qui avaient déjà piraté des sites Sony, explique Le Figaro. Ce sont des serveurs basés aux Etats-Unis qui ont été pris pour cible par les pirates, qui ont publié les fichiers provenant de ces derniers sur le Net.Sur son compte Twitter, le groupe Lulzsec a néanmoins affirmé qu’il ne visait pas spécialement Nintendo mais qu’il encourageait le groupe nippon à renforcer la sécurité de son réseau informatique à la veille du lancement à Los Angeles de son service de jeux en ligne en 3D. Aucune donnée personnelle n’a donc été dérobée. Le 6 juin 2011 à 11:33 • Emmanuel Perrin
The city of Vancouver’s new communications manager will start Monday.Carol Bua, who has worked in the same role for Tidewater since 2009, was hired by City Manager Eric Holmes to replace Barbara Ayers, whose last day was April 30. Ayers resigned to relocate back to the Columbia River Gorge, where she planned to pursue freelance writing and a publishing career, said Suzi Hagstrom, the city’s human resources director.Ayers was earning $101,316 a year. Bua, 50, will start at $100,008 annually, Hagstrom said. The job posting attracted 135 applicants. Five candidates were invited to participate in interviews with panels of other communication specialists in the community along with city employees. Bua and two other finalists were then interviewed by Holmes.Bua grew up in Seattle and has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in strategic communications from the University of Oregon. She started her career in Los Angeles, working for five years in marketing for MGM/United Artists and RCA Records/BMG Music then a dozen years as director of marketing and communications for an entertainment company owned by musician Henry Rollins.
“You have bills, loose bills, flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping, people getting out of their cars,” Indiana state trooper Brock McCooe said.Brinks said they are not sure if human error or a malfunction caused the doors on the truck to open.Anyone who stopped to pick up money is asked to return it or face theft charges if caught, according to police.Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. INDIANAPOLIS (WSVN) — Up to $600,000 was left littered across a major highway in Indiana on Wednesday when several bags of money flew out of the back of a Brinks truck, state police said.Motorists on Interstate 70 scrambled to stuff their pockets with the money, including a school bus driver who police said stopped to grab a handful of cash, WGN-TV News reports.Authorities compared the “chaotic” incident to a scene out of a movie.
Developing content for multiple devices “takes place as far upstream as possible,” according to Jerry Beilinson, deputy editor of Hearst’s Popular Mechanics. “One of the things we try to do is not look at our content in terms of reusing or reworking but using it in multiple ways,” he adds. “With the earthquake in Japan last year, we had 20 articles online and in print we ran a ‘best of the Web.’ With the tablet, we have all those assets to work with. We put links to Web content in the app. Since we program the iPad app ourselves, we have the capability to say ‘we want to do this.” With illustrations, Popular Mechanics often has assignments that encompass print and tablet formats. “We will assign the art as a 3D illustration that can be created as a 3D object in the app that can be looked at from all sides but also use one frame of that for our print illustration,” says Beilinson. “It’s important to not come into this process saying, ‘OK, we’ve done print, we’ve done web, now we have to do this other project and repurpose it, we want to look at it at the beginning.”The iPad app, which Hearst codes in-house, is Popular Mechanics‘ most high value app, says Beilinson. “That’s a monthly edition of magazine. We also do one for Android that’s optimized for a seven-inch screen. That doesn’t have all the capabilities of the iPad app but is similarly designed specially for that device.” All Hearst magazines are on Zinio and the Nook, offering “multiple versions depending on the technology you are using,” says Beilinson. “In addition to the story-specific enhancements, the iPad app has a news feed–not quite an RSS feed–but a news feed from the website. In addition, we are developing a number of standalone apps. We’ll have a couple out in the next month or two, and a number launching in 2012. One of the benefits of doing a monthly app is being able to develop things that help us to develop standalone apps later on.”More on this topic Browser, Not Apps, Still Biggest News Channel on Tablets David Carey: Bullish On Magazines, Prospects for E-Subs and E-Commerce Amazon Tablet Revealed: Kindle Fire Zinio Digital Newsstand Now Available on Android Technology Chris Wilkes Hearst Claims More Than 300,000 Paid Circ. On Tablets and E-ReadersJust In BabyCenter Sold to Ziff Davis Parent J2 Media | News & Notes TIME Names New Sales, Marketing Leads | People on the Move Four More Execs Depart SourceMedia in Latest Restructuring Editor & Publisher Magazine Sold to Digital Media Consultant Bonnier Corp. Terminates Editor-in-Chief for Ethics Breach This Just In: Magazines Are Not TV NetworksPowered by Last month Hearst claimed more than 300,000 paid circ on tablets and e-readers across all its magazine brands (and those it acquired earlier this year from Hachette). Hearst also claims it’s the only magazine publisher to have its titles for sale on every device currently in the market.Creating digital editions for different devices requires dedicated infrastructure. Hearst announced it would convert all of its magazine websites to HTML5 through the fourth quarter and into 2012, starting with GoodHousekeeping.com. The newly revamped site is now compatible with the majority of all commonly used devices.”We sell all of our titles through the Zinio and Nook stores and soon on the Kindle Fire as well,” says Chris Wilkes, vice president, digital editions and audience development with Hearst Magazines Digital Media. “We sell nearly half our titles in the Apple Newsstand today and will have our complete roster there by February 2012 at the latest and I will welcome Amazon’s sales in November.”Zinio, Nook and Amazon all share a similar unified approach, says Wilkes. ” Their storefronts are unified and their reading experience is unified. This makes it somewhat simpler for a publisher like Hearst to work with because we can focus 100 percent on our content,” he adds. “It can also be simpler for a consumer. With Apple, there’s a unified storefront but the reading experiences are completely independent by magazine. There’s an additional investment by publishers to create and maintain those experiences and on the positive side, there are certain marketing flexibilities and experience customizations we can execute to make our digital magazines as enjoyable for our consumers as possible.”
An NGO official was shot to death by unidentified assailants in the Nuton Uposhohor area of Jessore town on Saturday night.The deceased is Golam Kuddus Viku, 50, son of Yasin Ali of the area. He is an executive director of non-government organisation (NGO) Prottasha Samaj Kalyan Sangstha.A gang of five-six men shot Viku to death from a close range while he was standing at the door of his house around 9:30pm, said officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali police station AKM Azmul Huda.Viku was rushed to Jessore General Hospital where physicians declared him dead.Police is investigating the incident, OC added.
Arguable the most anticipated game so far this year, Titanfall is a mere hours away for some. With a digital version available for every platform the game is going to exist on at launch, there’s a good chance you could be stuck waiting for your game to download instead of playing when the servers go live. Unless of course, you preload your game.If you’re not planning to wait in line at your local game store at midnight to pick up the small person-sized Collector’s Edition box for PC, digital folks will be seated comfortably at home when Titanfall launches for the US. Whether you’ve purchased the game directly from the Origin store or are waiting for it to become available for purchase on Xbox Live, we’re only a few hours away from the launch.PC owners will have the ability to preload Titanfall, meaning if you purchase the game now you can have everything ready to go the second it goes live in your timezone. According to Respawn, the launch of Titanfall will be staggered like this:United States: 3/11/14 – 12:00 AM PDTCanada: 3/11/14 – 12:00 AM PDTMexico: 3/11/14 – 12:00 AM PSTBrazil: 3/11/14 – 4:00 AM BRTAustria: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM CETFrance: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM CETGermany: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM CETIreland: 3/14/14 – 12:00 AM GMTItaly: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM CETSpain: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM CETUnited Kingdom: 3/14/14 – 12:00 AM GMTAustralia: 3/13/14 – 12:00 AM AEDTNew Zealand: 3/14/14 – 12:00 AM NZDTPreloading the game is easy. If you’ve already purchased Titanfall for your PC, you’ll see a preload option available to you in the Origin app on your computer. If you haven’t made the purchase yet, you’ll see the preload option appear as soon as the transaction is complete and Titanfall has been added to your Library. If you pre-ordered the game at a retail outlet, you’ll be provided with a code that will add the game to your Library, which means you can’t preload without that code.If you’re planning to purchase the game digitally on the Xbox One, you’ll need to wait until it is available on Xbox Live to do so. The game will then need to download and install, and neither Microsoft nor Respawn has announced a preload function for the console version yet.There will be no “Day One” update for Titanfall on the Xbox One to address the resolution of the game, which was suggested when the Beta rolled out last month. Just like the Beta, Titanfall on the Xbox One will run at 792p. There may be an update later on that addresses this (and gets it nearer to 900p), but at launch the game will likely look almost exactly like the Beta.
by NPR News Eric Deggans, Glen Weldon, Linda Holmes 8.28.19 5:00am It’s an old tradition that endures, even amid the year-round deluge of programming brought to us by the age of streaming. It is the fall TV preview.Turns out fall is the perfect time to refocus on television after a summer filled with vacations and outdoor distractions. So our pop culture team collected the coolest TV shows coming your way over the next few months as a guide through the madness. We haven’t seen all of these programs yet, but we’ve learned enough to know they’re worth checking out.Whether you’re excited by an updated Jim Henson classic, the backstory behind a legendary rap group or a continuation of the most beloved graphic novel in comics history, there’s something here for you. Here’s our list of the most interesting shows coming this fall. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) Friday, Aug. 30Perhaps the most notable thing about this 10-episode series, a prequel to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 fantasy film, is what it isn’t. It isn’t a digitally animated CGI spectacular; it relies instead on practical, painstakingly constructed animatronics and old-school hand-puppetry. (Director Louis Leterrier notes that there will be some green-screen work, but the series aesthetic is definitively one of puppets over pixels.) Artist Brian Froud is once again on the production design, so the Skeksis species, and its scuttling crablike enforcers, will be back to supply a new generation with the same nightmare-fuel mixture that kept their parents and grandparents up. — Glen WeldonWu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu) Wednesday, Sept. 4This 10-episode limited series unfolds as a taut, suspenseful take on the formation of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, as the members choose music over a life in competing drug gangs in New York during the 1990s crack epidemic. One reason it’s so dramatic: The story is fictionalized for maximum effect. Viewers see The RZA (aka Bobby Diggs, played by Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders), inspired by the murder of a friend, gathering compatriots like Method Man, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA and Ghostface Killah into a group that stacks beats instead of bodies — revolutionizing the rap world in the process. — Eric DeggansUndone (Amazon) Friday, Sept. 13BoJack Horseman alums Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg have created one of the most ambitious new series on TV, exploring the thin line between mental illness and mysticism in a visually stunning story. Using rotoscope animation, filmed performances by flesh-and-blood actors are traced over and transformed into textured visuals. (Think movies like A Scanner Darkly or Tower.) Rosa Salazar shines as Alma, a depressed, sardonic 20-something who begins seeing visions of her late father (Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk) after a near-fatal car accident. Purdy says she based Alma’s circumstances on her own struggles with mental illness; her series explores race, culture, gender, family and sanity in a singular way. — Eric DeggansCountry Music (PBS) Sunday, Sept. 15It’s surprising that Ken Burns — a master of the authoritative American documentary — has taken this long to chronicle the rise of country music, after shaking the world with gigantic projects on jazz, baseball and the Vietnam War. But now he’s on the case with a 16-hour opus, weaving talks with 80 musicians into a surprisingly emotional and myth-busting look at a core American art form. Sure, you’ll see Dolly and Merle and Willie. But you’ll also hear about the music’s early days in southern Appalachia, its life in the honky-tonks of California and why Nashville became the industry’s epicenter. — Eric DeggansAmerican Horror Story: 1984 (FX) Wednesday, Sept. 18Anthology series are by nature uneven, season to season, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story is no exception. Frankly, even individual AHS seasons have a tendency to fly off the rails in their back halves, but for some of us, that’s a feature, not a bug. This time out, the setting/genre is 1980s slasher flick, as teen summer campers are terrorized physically by a knife-wielding maniac and aesthetically by headbands and hair volumizer. AHS alums Billie Lourd, Emma Roberts, Cody Fern and John Carroll Lynch will be joined by fresh blood in the form of freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, Glee’s Matthew Morrison and Pose’s Angelica Ross. This season, camp isn’t just the show’s sensibility: It’s the setting. — Glen WeldonBetween Two Ferns: The Movie (Netflix) Friday, Sept. 20Not a lot of details have been forthcoming about this feature-length adaptation of a Web series that features a tetchy, bored Zach Galifianakis interviewing A-list celebrities on a D-list talk show set. But that’s fine. The formula is simple, and the reported guests — including Keanu Reeves, Peter Dinklage and David Letterman — are solid. Plus, the film will be written and directed (with Galifianakis) by Scott Aukerman, who co-created the viral Web series. — Glen WeldonMixed-ish (ABC) Tuesday, Sept. 24Kudos to Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and star Tracee Ellis Ross for finally realizing there is a sitcom’s worth of entertainment in the backstory of Ross’ character, matriarch Rainbow Johnson. Mixed-ish picks up in the 1980s, when ‘Bow was a tween and federal authorities shut down the commune where she, her siblings, her white father and her black mother were living. The result is a sidesplitting fish-out-of-water story narrated by Ross, Wonder Years-style — a look back at her struggle to fit into a mainstream school at a time when biracial children weren’t particularly common or understood. — Eric DeggansEmergence (ABC) Tuesday, Sept. 24Fargo TV series alum Allison Tolman shines as another plucky police officer; this time, she’s Jo Evans, a recently-divorced police chief who shelters a mysterious young girl who survives a plane crash without injury. As a succession of strange types show up trying to grab the kid (who can’t remember her past or the accident, of course), I’m more interested in Clancy Brown, who plays Evans’ crusty dad, and Scrubs alum Donald Faison, who impresses as her sympathetic ex-husband. Can this ragtag group figure out what’s going on before it’s too late? — Eric DeggansCarol’s Second Act (CBS) Thursday, Sept. 26Patricia Heaton (The Middle) stars as Carol, a woman who decides to become a doctor after she has raised her kids. Heaton is a sitcom staple, but what will also sell the show to keen-eyed comedy enthusiasts is that it comes from creators Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern, who also made the wonderful short-lived series Trophy Wife and co-wrote the film Booksmart. They’re about as good as it gets at writing warm, funny, unusual comedy about women, and seeing them with a show on-air again is a heartening sign. — Linda HolmesPerfect Harmony (NBC) Thursday, Sept. 26By now, TV fans are used to seeing West Wing alum Bradley Whitford play smart, self-involved know-it-alls with hearts of gold. But he’s still affecting here as Arthur Cochran, a former Princeton University music professor who decides to help a small-town choir pull together more than their vocal harmonies. Think Pitch Perfect meets Mr. Chips, as Cochran impatiently coaches these singers — including Pitch Perfect alum Anna Camp — to better performances onstage and in life. — Eric DeggansThe Politician (Netflix) Friday, Sept. 27The first series to emerge from superstar executive producer Ryan Murphy’s megadeal with Netflix centers on a high school kid who is pathologically focused on getting elected class president — because he sees it as the first step in getting elected president of the United States. Along the way, he joins forces with a sickly kid who may not be what she seems and has a secret affair with a hunky, popular guy — who is running against him for class president. Murphy sets this all in an opulent, upper-middle-class environment that feels less like a typical high schooler’s world and more like the setting of a high-end soap opera. — Eric DeggansGodfather of Harlem (Epix) Sunday, Sept. 29Forest Whitaker is alternatingly empathetic and super-scary as New York gangster Bumpy Johnson, who was determined to free his operations from domination by the Italian mob after he returned from a stint in prison. This is basically an old-fashioned organized crime story but told from the perspective of black gangsters — with the added appeal of Vincent D’Onofrio as Italian boss Vincent Gigante and Nigel Thatch’s spot-on performance as Malcolm X. — Eric DeggansWatchmen (HBO) October TBAThe latest from Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers, is a visually stunning show based on the legendary 1986-87 comic books about borderline psychotics in superhero garb, Watchmen. (This show isn’t related to the 2009 movie adaptation, which had a different ending.) HBO’s show picks up in an alternate 2019; liberal President Robert Redford has been in office since the 1990s, prompting a group of white supremacists to target police in Tulsa, Okla., in the same way black people were victimized in 1921. To troll earnest liberalism in today’s Trumpian times, while also continuing one of the most beloved stories in comics history, is a serious gamble. But if anyone can carve out a new story while confusing culture warriors and avoiding the ire of fanboys (and girls), my money’s on Lindelof. — Eric DeggansBatwoman (The CW) Sunday, Oct. 6With Arrow wrapping up with a brief eighth and final season this fall, a dark and broody space will open up in The CW’s superhero schedule. Enter: Ruby Rose’s Batwoman, who first burst into the network’s so-called Arrowverse in a series of crossover episodes in 2018. The premise: Batman has abandoned Gotham, leaving Rose’s Kate Kane to protect its people as Batwoman. The fact that Rose identifies as gender fluid, and the character of Kate Kane is a lesbian, seems a significant step forward in making the various Arrowverse Earths look a bit more like our own. — Glen WeldonBack to Life (Showtime) Sunday, Oct. 6Got a Fleabag-shaped hole in your heart? Find yourself hankering for a funny/uncomfortable/quietly devastating tale of a woman attempting to get her life together and failing consistently, albeit with verve and elan? In Back to Life, Daisy Haggard plays a middle-aged, middle-class woman who returns to her sleepy English coastal town after 18 years in prison for — well, that’s something the series doles out gradually. Her parents put on a brave face, but the local townsfolk aren’t the forgive-and-forget types. Haggard sparkles as a woman striving to ensure that her past choices can be put behind her for good, even as she struggles with how much everything she knew has changed. — Glen WeldonNancy Drew (The CW) Wednesday, Oct. 9The network that brought back the Archie comics as the moody, soapy teen drama Riverdale does the most logical thing imaginable, turning next to that most famous literary girl detective, Nancy Drew. Creator Josh Schwartz has a long pedigree in angsty teen TV, going all the way back to his creation of The O.C. in 2003. And in Nancy Drew, he has an iconic character who solves mysteries and whose streak of independence and sharp mind have always been part of her appeal. It’s a natural fit for TV — you could say she was Veronica Mars before Veronica Mars was. — Linda HolmesModern Love (Amazon) Friday, Oct. 18This anthology adaptation of The New York Times column that often inspires both swooning sighs and exasperated ones boasts an enormously impressive cast: Anne Hathaway, Cristin Milioti, Brandon Victor Dixon, John Slattery, Tina Fey, Dev Patel … it’s a stacked show on-screen. It’s got a solid pedigree off-screen, too: It’s led by John Carney, who made Once and Sing Street, both of which are fine examples of translating joy and love to film without shutting out melancholy. Almost all anthology series are uneven, but that means they almost always have high points worth seeking out. — Linda HolmesSid & Judy (Showtime) Friday, Oct. 18The biopic Judy, which stars Renée Zellweger as legendary performer Judy Garland, hits theaters three weeks before this documentary airs on Showtime. But where the Zellweger film focuses on the last year of the singer’s life, Stephen Kijak’s documentary examines Garland’s turbulent relationship with her third husband, Sid Luft, who helped engineer the comeback that led to A Star Is Born. — Glen WeldonSlow Burn (Epix) Sunday, Nov. 24Slate’s Slow Burn is by no means the first podcast to get turned into a television series, and it won’t be the last. But this six-episode TV adaptation of an eight-episode podcast series will document something specific that we tend to collectively forget about historical events: namely, how haltingly, slowly and frustratingly they play out. This season will tackle the Watergate scandal, which stretched on for two years, only very, very gradually building up enough momentum to topple a president. The best parts of the podcast series focused on colorful if too-little-remembered figures like Martha Mitchell and Sam Ervin; here’s hoping there’s room to squeeze them in. — Glen WeldonCopyright 2019 NPR. 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Sahara Welfare Foundation has been awarded the ‘Corporate Foundation with Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practices’ in a glittering Asian Leadership Awards ceremony held at Dubai. Sahara Welfare Foundation was presented with this prestigious award on the basis of CSR work undertaken by the Sahara Group in uplifting the lives of underprivileged in the country and for the humanitarian work being done under the VEDAS (Village Esteem Development Adoption by Sahara) project. Also Read – ‘Playing Jojo was emotionally exhausting’This is the first international award that Sahara Welfare Foundation has received as an organisation.Speaking on the occasion, Kumkum Roy Choudhury, Executive Director Worker, Sahara India Pariwar, said ‘Sahara India Pariwar has always been committed in extending support under the aegis of Sahara Welfare Foundation to the needy and underprivileged in the country. This award is the recognition of our incessant efforts towards mainstreaming the lives of the helpless and underprivileged people. In fact, it’s the firm conviction of ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar that every organization, along with its own development and progress should also contribute towards the cause of the society and the nation at large. Also Read – Leslie doing new comedy special with NetflixThis international award will surely act as a catalyst in boosting us with even more confidence to continue our endeavours for the betterment of mankind. The Asian Leadership Awards happens to be a leading industry event, recognizing and rewarding outstanding achievements in sustainability in the built environment and are a key benchmark for achieving best practices in the sector. These Awards are endorsed by the Asian Confederation of Business as well as World CSR Day. Over 20 categories under the Asian Leadership Awards recognize the achievements made by selected high profile corporate business leaders in Asia and honour their great contributions towards the country’s post-recession economic development.
Former child actor, and current global hip-hop icon, Drake is renowned for being the biggest celebrity sports groupie around.Aside from seemingly showing up every time any sports team anywhere wins anything, he’s also the Toronto Raptors’ resident celebrity super fan. He famously has a penchant for inserting himself into in-game situations by taunting opposing players. The most famous example of this came during last year’s NBA Eastern Conference Finals when he pissed off LeBron James with his unique brand of overly aggressive fandom.Last night was Drake Night in Toronto, a Raptors celebration of all things Drake. Toronto lost to the Warriors 127-121 to spoil the affair. To be fair to the Raptors, it was their second game of a brutal Cavs/Warriors back-to-back.After the game, Kevin Durant, who had 30 points on the night, was pulled aside for a post game interview after the win.The interview was interrupted when Drake snuck up from behind and bumped KD in a joking manner. Durant was clearly not amused by the gesture and briefly shot a Vladimir Putin-like death stare at Drake.Following the bump he was asked what he thought about Drake Night. Durant responded, “I don’t give a damn about no damn Drake Night.”Durant then abruptly walked away from the interview. Ouch. KD and Drake are apparently friends, but this little exchange was priceless.KD real life looked like he might have taken off of Drake for a sec ? pic.twitter.com/j3DRXEvWuq— Warriors Talk (@JaeAzizi) November 17, 2016 Advertisement