Friday, October 10, 2014

Adobe Takes Creativity Mobile at MAX 2014
Latest Creative Cloud Release Drives Deep Connections Between New Family of Mobile Apps and Enhanced CC Desktop Tools Via All-New Creative Profile
New Delhi, India, — Oct. 7, 2014 — At Adobe MAX 2014, the world’s leading creativity conference, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is shipping a milestone release of Creative Cloud that transforms how creatives work across desktops and devices.  This major release includes significant feature updates to 13 essential CC desktop tools that link to a new family of integrated mobile apps. In addition, the latest versions of Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC includebreakthroughs in Touch support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Surface Pro 3.  Central to this release is an all-new Creative Profile that drives deep connections between CC desktop tools and 9 new mobile apps that extend the power of the Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Premiere franchises onto mobile devices.

Adobe also launched a public beta of a Creative SDK that enables the delivery of mobile apps that connect to Creative Cloud, kick-starting a new era of third party app innovation for creative developers. The company also introduced Creative Talent Search, connecting creatives around the world with job opportunities from top brands and companies.

"The pace of innovation continues to accelerate with Creative Cloud and today we are introducing a new family of mobile apps that are deeply integrated with flagship CC desktop tools, like Photoshop and Illustrator, and taking mobile devices into the creative mainstream,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media, Adobe. “Also, new capabilities, such as Creative Talent Search, show that Creative Cloud is evolving into an increasingly powerful resource for our millions of members.”

All-New Creative Profile is Member’s Creative Identity Within Creative Cloud
This Creative Cloud release includes a new Creative Profile that connects creatives to their work, to the assets they use to create, and the communities that matter to them - no matter where they are. Files, photos, colors, brushes, shapes, fonts, textstyles, graphics, and any other assets are always at their fingertips. This new Creative Profile moves with creatives from app-to-app, and device-to-device, so assets automatically appear when they need them, in the right context.

Mobile Apps Deliver New Creative Cloud Connections
This release includes radical new connections between essential CC desktop tools and a new family of mobile apps that extend the power of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Lightroom onto mobile devices.  The line-up, includes:

·         In the Photoshop family, Photoshop Sketch lets creatives draw with new built-in expressive brushes and enables an integrated workflow with Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. Updates to Photoshop Mix extend precise mobile compositing capabilities and now includes enhanced integration with Photoshop CC, as well as a new iPhone version. A new Lightroom Mobile app builds on integrated desktop and mobile workflows and includes features to allow clients, friends or family to select favorites and leave comments for photos shared online; and GPS information from iPhone photos now syncs with Lightroom desktop.
·         In the Illustrator family, Illustrator Draw (formerly Adobe Ideas) gives users access to their favorite vector drawing tools and features in a modern, streamlined interface, high-fidelity integration with Illustrator CC and enhanced support for Adobe Ink and Slide. Illustrator Line, a precision drawing app, gives creatives new features for perfectly distributing shapes as they draw, plus the ability to send sketches to Illustrator CC, where they have full access to their original vector paths for editing. 
·         In the Premiere family, the brand new Adobe Premiere Clip app easily transforms the video shot on iPhone or iPad into edited videos that are simple to share. Aspiring videographers can then send their compositions to Adobe Premiere Pro CC for advanced editing and finishing.
Adobe also introduced a new category of “capture” apps to create designs and bring them into creative workflows: 

·         Adobe Brush CC lets designers craft unique brushes, on iPad or iPhone, to use in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC or Adobe Illustrator Sketch. Any photograph can be made into a brush, so creatives can quickly and playfully design beautiful, high-quality brushes that can range from photorealistic, to organic, painterly or graphic.
·         Adobe Shape CC is a simple, unique and fun way to capture and create shapes on iPhone or iPad, wherever inspiration strikes. A high-contrast photo of anything - a chair, a pet, or a hand-drawn font - is converted into vector art that can be used immediately in Illustrator CC and Adobe Illustrator Line via Creative Cloud Libraries.  
·         Adobe Color CC (formerly Adobe Kuler) allows creatives to capture colors and save them as themes that are immediately available in other Adobe applications, including Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC.
These mobile apps work with all Creative Cloud plans, giving everyone -- from freelancers, to creatives in large organizations -- access to all the benefits of a deeply integrated mobile and desktop workflow, connected via their Creative Profile. Adobe also launched the public beta of a Creative SDK that powers the delivery of new 3rd party mobile apps that connect to Creative Cloud. Adobe Creative SDK is available at: creativesdk.adobe.com.

New Features For Essential CC Desktop Tools
This Creative Cloud release includes powerful new features for Adobe’s flagship creative desktop tools. Highlights include: Touch support on Windows 8 devices for key design applications; new 3D print features and enhanced Mercury Graphics Engine performance for Photoshop CC; a new Curvature tool in Illustrator CC; interactive EPUB support in InDesign CC; SVG and Synchronized Text support in Muse CC; GPU-optimized playback for viewing high resolution 4K and UltraHD footage in Premiere Pro CC; and HiDPI and new 3D support in After Effects CC.  Through a member’s Creative Profile Adobe is driving frictionless creative workflows, with CC desktop tools able to access powerful new mobile apps and services. Building on the success of Creative Cloud capabilities such as file sharing, Behance and TypeKit, new services, available today, include:

·         Creative Cloud Market is a collection of high-quality, curated content that’s freely accessible to Creative Cloud members. Access and use thousands of professionally crafted files, including user interfaces, patterns, icons, brushes and vector shapes, to speed through desktop and mobile projects. 
·         Creative Cloud Libraries is a powerful asset management service that lets creatives easily access and create with colors, brushes, text styles, and vector images through Creative Cloud desktop, mobile apps and services. Creative Cloud Libraries connects desktop tools like Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC to each other -- and to companion mobile apps.
·         Creative Cloud Extract is a cloud-based service that reinvents the Photoshop CC comp-to-code workflow for web designers and developers, letting them share and unlock vital design information from a PSD file (such as colors, fonts and CSS) to use when coding mobile and desktop designs.

All-New Talent Search Connects Creatives with Job Opportunities
Adobe also launched Creative Talent Search today. Talent Search connects creatives across the globe with job opportunities from top brands and companies. Hiring managers using Talent Search are able to use advanced discovery tools to find the right talent for their job – for example, finding experts in Photoshop, who live in a specific city, and have worked in automotive design is easier than ever. Custom algorithms recommend candidates for roles and get smarter the more a recruiter uses the system. Also, public postings will advertise job opportunities to the millions of creatives on Behance. More information is available at: https://www.behance.net/talentsearch.

Pricing and Availability
Today’s updates to Creative Cloud are expected to be available to Creative Cloud members by the end of the day as part of their membership at no additional cost. The new and updated mobile apps are free to everyone.  More information will be available later today at:http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/mobile.html. To join Creative Cloud, special promotional pricing is available to customers who own Adobe Creative Suite 3 or later. Membership plans are available for individuals, students, photographers, teams, educational institutions, government agencies and enterprises. For pricing details, visit: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html#buy.

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 #5: 31st Youth National Basketball Championship – Days Three and Four: Mixed luck for Chandigarh teams

(Vishnu Ravi Shankar) Chandigarh, 9th-10th October 2014: The Delhi boys continue their unbeaten streak in this year’s youth national basketball championship with a comfortable 88-50 win over the Andhra Pradesh team today morning. The Delhi boys have now topped their pool and have qualified to the quarterfinals.

Home team Chandigarh registered a win and a loss in the boys and girls categories respectively. The Chandigarh boys had no troubles beating the Jammu and Kashmir team in the last match of yesterday as they breezed to a 58-35 victory. The Chandigarh girls team, however, lost a tight game to Andhra Pradesh 68-66. Yesterday evening saw an exhilarating contest between the boys teams of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. The teams were neck and neck coming down to the final minutes of the fourth quarter, but Madhya Pradesh pulled away for a 84-77 victory, thanks to Rishab Sharma’s 35 points.

A complete list of results of the matches held after 5.30 p.m. on 9th October 2014 up to 11.30 p.m. on 10th October 2014 is as follows:

Girls:

9th October 2014 (5.30 p.m. to end of day)

1.      Haryana (Surya 29) bt Madhya Pradesh (Sakshi 38) 72-66 (15-16, 10-8, 23-19, 24-23)
2.      Andhra Pradesh (S. Biju 18) bt Jharkhand (Usma Singh 12) 42-30 (17-9, 18-6, 2-9, 5-6)
3.      Rajasthan (Asha 16) bt Odisha (Jayshree Baskey 17) 42-40 (8-13, 5-8, 15-11, 14-8)

10th October 2014 (beginning of day to 11.30 a.m.)

4.      Kerala (Nivya Raj 21) bt Punjab (Avneet Kaur 13) 61-23 (12-4, 29-3, 11-7, 9-9)
5.      Andhra Pradesh (Sharom 31) bt Chandigarh (Amrit 20) 68-66 (5-8, 14-18, 21-19, 8-21)
6.      Delhi (Mansi Tyagi 18) bt Himachal Pradesh (Sakshi Thakur 11) 50-27 (14-12, 17-3, 12-7, 7-5)
7.      Karnataka (Lopamudra T. 20) bt Maharashtra (Shruti Sherigar 15) 73-61 (24-12, 19-13, 17-17, 13-19)

Boys:

9th October 2014 (5.30 p.m. to end of day)

8.      Madhya Pradesh (Rishab Sharma 35) bt Karnataka (Guru Prasad 32) 84-77 (14-18, 16-19, 28-14, 26-16)
9.      Chandigarh (Amit 16) bt Jammu and Kashmir (Abhisar 12) 58-35 (17-7, 18-11, 12-7, 14-10)
10.  Himachal Pradesh (Ashish 15) bt West Bengal (Gopal 22) 51-42 (13-14, 18-7, 8-11, 12-10)
11.  Odisha (Vishal Bagh 16) bt Puducherry (Ishaan 10) 67-27 (11-8, 28-10, 11-8, 17-1)
12.  Mizoram (Eddie Z. 10) bt Assam (Sanju B. 13) 45-29 (17-8, 12-4, 8-8, 8-9)

10th October 2014 (beginning of day to 11.30 a.m.)

13.  Delhi (S. Singha 16, V.K. Gupta 16) bt Andhra Pradesh (Neeraj Kumar B. 20, Salman S.M.A. 12) 88-50 (20-9, 17-20, 28-6, 23-15)


Date: 10-10-2014  (FRIDAY)

Court – 1

No
Team “A”
Vs
Team “B”
Group
Timing
67
HARYANA
Vs
MAHARASHTRA
BA
11.30 AM
68
TAMIL NADU
Vs
MADHYA PRADESH
GB
01.00 PM
69
RAJASTHAN
Vs
KARNATAKA
BB
02.30 PM
70
CHATTISGARH
Vs
HARYANA
GB
04.00 PM
71
CHANDIGARH (D1)
Vs
TAMIL NADU (E1)
BOYS
05.30 PM
71
PUNJAB
Vs
MADHYA PRADESH
BB
07.00 PM

Court – 2

No
Team “A”
Vs
Team “B”
Group
Timing
QUALIFYING MATCHES
72
CHHATTISGARH (C1)
Vs
ODISHA (F1)
BOYS
11.30 AM
LOSERS KNOCKOUT (QUARTER-FINALS)
74
GUJARAT (C2)
Vs
BIHAR (E3)
BOYS
1.00 PM
75
UTTARAKHAND (E2)
Vs
GOA (C3)
BOYS
04.00 PM
76
W/O ASSAM V. MIZORAM (F2)
Vs
WEST BENGAL (D3)
BOYS
05.30 PM
77
L/O ASSAM V. MIZORAM (F3)
Vs
HIMACHAL PRADESH (D2)
BOYS
07.00 PM

Court – 3


No
Team “A”
Vs
Team “B”
Group
Timing
LOSERS  KNOCKOUT (QUARTER-FINALS)
80
GUJARAT (C2)
Vs
ASSAM (E3)
GIRLS
03.00 PM
81
JAMMU AND KASHMIR (E2)
Vs
GOA (C3)
GIRLS
04.30 PM
82
RAJASTHAN (F2)
Vs
BIHAR (D3)
GIRLS
06.00 PM
83
ODISHA (F3)
Vs
UTTARAKHAND (D2)
GIRLS
07.30 PM


About the 31st Youth National Basketball Championship
The Youth National Basketball Championship is an annual basketball tournament for the U-17 teams of boys and girls from various states of the country. This year’s tournament, being the 31st version, is taking place in Chandigarh from the 7th to the 14th of October, 2014. The tournament is being held under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India and IMG-Reliance and is being conducted by the Chandigarh Basketball Association. The venue for the tournament is the recently constructed multi-facility sports complex in Sector 42, Chandigarh along with two other basketball courts located in the Government College for Women, Sector 42, Chandigarh and the Gurunanak Dev Public School, Sector 36, Chandigarh. There are 25 boys teams and 24 girls teams taking part in this year’s championship, which will witness 130 matches in all. Last year’s tournament, in the boys category, was won by team Delhi, with Rajasthan finishing runners up. In the girls category, team Kerala were last year’s winners and Tamil Nadu finished in second place.
About Basketball Federation of India
The Basketball Federation of India or BFI is the governing and controlling body of basketball in India, and is responsible for the development and promotion of the sport at all levels. BFI has been involved in conducting camps, clinics, events, and training sessions at its academies for the development of basketball. BFI came into being in 1935 and took complete control over Indian basketball in 1950. Prior to that time, the Indian Olympic Association handled the conduct of Indian basketball championships. Since 1950, the BFI has been conducting various such championships, from the grassroots to senior team participation in international tournaments. In addition, the BFI has been responsible for the establishment of strong sub-junior and junior level programs. The BFI has to its credit produced several international players of repute, among them 17 have been bestowed with the honor of Arjuna Award. More information atwww.indiabasketball.org
About IMG Reliance

IMG Reliance Pvt Ltd., is an equal joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s largest and most recognized private sector company, and IMG Worldwide (IMG), the world’s leading sports marketing and management company. The joint venture company will develop market and manage sports and entertainment in India. Its current assets include India’s premier fashion event, Lakmé Fashion Week and South Asia’s only ATP World Tour event, the Aircel Chennai Open. IMG Reliance has entered agreements with the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) to create a new professional basketball league and manage all aspects of the commercial rights to the game in India and the All India Football Federation (AIFF), to improve, popularize and promote the game of football throughout India, from the grassroots to the professional level. IMG Reliance has also created a scholarship program to identify and train talented young Indians from sports including – basketball, soccer and tennis at IMG’s world-class sports training facilities at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida.

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 Dear Sir/Madam,
                            
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari will release the “International Edition of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism” at a function organized by India Heritage Research Foundation as per the programme given below:

 

                   Date:            10th October, 2014 (Friday)      
                  
                   Time:           6.45 P.M.

Venue:         Vigyan Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road , New Delhi-11.
                             
You are cordially invited to cover the event.

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