
The National Hurricane Center says that Tropical Storm Harvey is barely shifting as torrential rains continue in Texas.
The center’s overdue Saturday afternoon update says the center of the hurricane is set 45 miles west-northwest of Victoria, Texas, and little movement is anticipated throughout the next few days. The middle says maximum sustained winds have decreased to near sixty-five mph. Additional weakening is expected over the following day or two. Tropical typhoon force winds amplify outward as much as a hundred and fifteen miles from the storm’s middle.
“Our largest challenge is the opportunity of among 20 and 30 inches of rain in regions starting from Corpus Christi over to Houston,”
stated Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “Because of the flooding, one of the pinnacle focal points that we are worried approximately is ongoing rescue and healing.”
Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey
The typhoon center says catastrophic, and lifestyles-threatening flooding is predicted across the center and higher Texas through Thursday, with isolated Hurricane totals as high as 40 inches.
Harvey came ashore in Texas on Friday night time as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. In more than a decade, flooding in South Carolina
Angela and Mario Manzano advised CBS News’ Manuel Bojorquez that looking at the house they currently purchased is “devastating.”
“It’s devastating because, as I stated, we’re slightly shopping the house, we’re nonetheless paying it off, to lose it now, it’ll be tough,” Angela said.
Their domestic is in a low-mendacity vicinity liable to flooding west Virginia flood zone maps.
“If it became just the 2 people, it might be special, but having our children, that why we took, we just took the maximum crucial matters — our crucial documents and images that can not get replaced and that stuff,” Angela said.
FEMA stated restoration from the hurricane could take years
Everybody is ‘on the go with little time to sit calmly and consume quality content for a while. The urge of people to go through high-quality content, including news, entertainment stories, or editorials, has led to the upsurge of news apps. They have become the new frontier for magazines to help people go through the latest news stories and stay updated.
With dozens and dozens of news channels penetrating the market, it is not everyone’s cup of tea to get into readers’ hands. Thus, it requires a well-integrated, winning strategy with efficient resources to break the ice and increase downloads and usage. Following here are some of the vital factors that signify how apps ultimately work as a boon for your business.
The New Frontier of Money Making
Magazines have various profit-making tools such as advertisements, subscriptions, sponsored events, and paid articles. However, in the mobile-first world, you need to dig out ways by which you can earn profits via your news application. A reader visits your app just and just to read useful content and not watch out for banner ads. Thus, to offer a seamless experience, you should think of intuitive ways of displaying ads. Such creative ways include displaying sponsored articles below general articles or showing videos at the bottom of the page.
Push Notifications
While talking about online or paper magazines, you can refer to the readers only when they wish to. On the contrary, you can send instant push notifications to readers for going through the latest stories with a news app. Moreover, it will help readers to stay in control whether they want to receive the notifications or not by disabling or enabling these services.
Social Media Connectivity
The people who Harvey visit your app daily are certainly flooding loyal to your business. However, it is important to find
out potential ways to reach the rest of the world and expand your reader base. Considering this issue, social media is the best place to showcase your stories. Promoting your articles via social media can help you to fetch a wider scale of audience. Moreover, you can include a feature to help readers share the news on various social networking platforms.
It is important to offer something interesting and new to the readers on their most liked topics in magazines. In a news application, you can develop a range of categories from which the reader can select his preferred topic. Thus, it works as a centralized place for them to go through all the genre’s stories. Moreover, you can highlight all the relevant articles at the bottom of the article. You can also place a segment of breaking stories, live videos to which readers can get easy access.
There are endless opportunities to explore the news industry by making it mobile-driven. All you need to do is assign talented app developers to build it right and promote it wisely.
Songs these days rarely make the headlines, even when they hit the very top of the charts. For example, you might have to dig deep into the newspaper to find the title of even the current number one single, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber.
Conversely, many classic songs owe their creations to headlines of newspaper articles, including one from an album by The Beatles that is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this summer. Much more recently, Will Butler of Arcade Fire once spent a week writing songs based on headlines from The Guardian, citing Bob Dylan as his inspiration for the idea.
Dylan once commented that some of his songs were based on headlines, compositions that probably helped him earn the honor of receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. One of those songs is listed below, and six by other artists who were inspired by newspaper articles.
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
John Lennon read the newspaper account detailing the fatal accident that claimed the life of a well-known 25-year-old, and the co-leader of the Fab Four soon had the song that would close out the legendary Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
The Ballad of Alferd Packer by Phil Ochs
Enclosed with the lyrics inside the case holding The Broadside Tapes CD is a copy of the actual news article that led the folk singer to write this song about a mountain guide who resorts to cannibalism after being stranded in a blizzard.
The Legend of Andrew McCrew by Don McLean
The Homeless Brother album features a snippet of the article that led McLean to tell the world about a legless hobo who, after being preserved until someone claimed his corpse, is picked up by a traveling carnival and labeled as the Mummy Man.
Rockin’ the Paradise by Styx
Since the band was born in the Windy City, it makes sense that they would see the article in The Chicago Star about the demolition of the historic Paradise Theater.