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Sometimes the best way to escape from a productive rut is to switch up your tools. Whether it’s a simple word processor, a smarter to-do list, or a more efficient way to transcribe interviews, downloading some new apps can help manage your time and produce better work. Here are some of the best productivity apps for ph... |
NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT) announced today it will issue its second quarter 2013 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. |
NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT) announced today it will issue its second quarter 2013 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Management will then discuss the results as well as operating trends and future performance expectations on a conference call beginning at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. |
Analysts and institutional investors may listen to the conference call by dialing (888) 427-9411 (United States/Canada) or (719) 325-2361 (international) with pass code 9773902. The conference call will be simultaneously provided as a webcast through a link on the NCI website ( www.nciinc.com). |
ZIMBABWEAN golfer Benjamin Follet-Smith fired a solid 66 in yesterday’s final round to claim a two-shot victory and his maiden Sunshine Tour title at the RAM Cape Town Open. |
After starting the final round trailing overnight leader Jean Paul-Strydom by six shots, Follet-Smith shot six birdies and an eagle to blow away the competition, finishing at 13-under-par 275 at the Royal Cape Golf Club. |
“I’ve no words at the moment, its an unbelievable feeling. Practice pays off eventually. This was my week to be the winner,” an elated Follet-Smith said after the victory. |
Cup of Golf in Australia two months ago where he was with compatriot Scott Vincent. |
“It’s a great feeling. I’ve won the Big Easy Tour and on the IGT Tour and now I’ve done it and won on the Sunshine Tour. I think playing in the World Cup in Australia in November last year gave me a lot of momentum and understanding of how big it is to play at the top level like the PGA Tour. Also managing to win the s... |
Follet-Smith pocketed R317 000 and becames the first Zimbabwean to win a Sunshine Tour event since Mark Williams’ win at the Vodacom Origins of Golf Final in November 2016. |
South Africa’s Sander Lombard finished in a tie for second position with the overnight leader Strydom on 11-under-par 277 while Peter Karmis from Greece was in third on 10-under par. |
Saturday 6 of April: class is 9am till 2pm. |
Kit fee $75, brush set - materials are all included. |
Learn the basic techniques of body art and create a final piece of the Saturday. |
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Sting, former frontman of The Police and longtime solo artist, will make his long-awaited return to Dallas when he plays at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie on Monday, February 20, 2017. |
The North American leg of his upcoming 57th & 9th tour will hit 24 cities, starting with Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 1. The tour will also go to Austin on February 19 and Sugar Land on February 23, as well as 14 cities in Europe and the United Kingdom. This will be his first appearance in the Dallas area s... |
Special guests on the tour will include singer/songwriter Joe Sumner and San Antonio-based Tex Mex band, the Last Bandoleros, who provided backing vocals on the new album. |
Tickets for the tour will go on sale Monday, November 21, at 10 am on Ticketmaster.com. Every ticket purchased online includes a digital download of 57th & 9th. Members of the official Sting.com fan club will have the opportunity to purchase tickets in advance beginning Tuesday, November 15. Citi cardmembers can also t... |
Microsoft is treating Xbox One owners to more Xbox live free games to download this weekend – and it's too good an opportunity to miss if you're a fan of Borderlands or WWE wrestling. |
Microsoft knows how to spoil their fans. Despite having a brand new batch of Games with Gold freebies to download this month (more on that further down) they're also giving away even more games for free this weekend! |
Xbox Live Gold members can this weekend grab not one, not two, but THREE new games to download and access for absolutely free – and you can download them now. |
This is part of Microsoft's Free Play Days program, allowing Xbox owners to download WWE 2K19, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, and Dead by Daylight: Special Edition without paying a penny extra. |
As mentioned, this offer is already live (having started Thursday, March 7 at 8am GMT) but will last until March 11, Monday morning at 8am GMT. |
You can find and install the games here. |
The best part is that if you decide you'd like to keep any of the three games after a full weekend of play, Microsoft is also offering a discount through the Xbox store to buy them permanently. |
And, you'll also keep your Gamerscore and achievements earned in-game should you continue playing. |
Keep reading for more info on each title and a quick reminder of those new Games with Gold titles for April if you're yet to grab your latest Xbox freebies for the month. |
WrestleMania weekend is nearly underway, and you too can step inside the ring with WWE 2K19! With incredible game modes such as the return of 2K Showcase, chronicling the rise of Daniel Bryan, his retirement and eventual return to the ring! Play as some of your favourite WWE Superstars from the past and present with ou... |
To catch up on everything you’ve missed, or just relive it all over again, play the essential Borderlands compilation for free today, now in Ultra High Definition! The Handsome Collection includes the definitive versions of both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Shoot and loot your way through the entire H... |
Ever wished to play as one of the characters from your favourite horror movies? To feel the adrenaline rush of the survivors or the thrill of being the killer? Dead by Daylight is a 1 vs 4 multiplayer game that allows you to choose between playing an unstoppable Killer and one of four survivors trying to evade a grueso... |
Which other games are available for free on Xbox One with Games with Gold? |
Clemson's executive pastry chef competed on Food Network's "Halloween Baking Championship." |
Making it to a Food Network competition show is a dream for many chefs, both professional and amateur, and for Clemson University's executive pastry chef Cicely Austin, that dream came true this year when she was chosen for Food Network's "Halloween Baking Championship." |
Austin, 42, an Anderson resident originally from Maryland, made it to the third episode of the competition show and was eliminated on Monday’s episode following an alien-themed rolled cake that judges described as “moist and tasty,” but it fell short on executing the theme and the presentation. |
As executive pastry chef, Austin oversees a team of 10 pastry chefs at Clemson. Her team's work is campus-wide and they make every baked good that doesn't come prepackaged from a separate vendor, as well as the ones for any private catered event and all the desserts for Clemson Memorial Stadium on game days. |
So much of her role now is about delegation, considering how much dessert they're responsible for, but Austin says she's still hands-on and involved in baking for quality-control purposes and to make sure she keeps learning. She describes her job as one that requires her to step back and look at the big picture before ... |
Austin is preparing for Christmas, where for almost a month, her team will be making specialty cookies and gingerbread houses. She said that's her comfort zone, along with classic plated desserts. |
Austin didn't start out her professional life to become a baker. She originally got her degree in civil engineering and planned to be an engineer before 9/11 made her realize how fragile life was. |
So, she enrolled in culinary school at New York’s Culinary Institute of America. |
Austin worked in various D.C. restaurants before one of her chefs suggested she learn how to do baking and pastry to be a more well-rounded chef, to have what she called, a “niche” qualification. |
She went back to the C.I.A. for another degree and this time interned at the world-renowned New York restaurant Jean-Georges. She also was on the team when they were awarded two Michelin stars (for "excellent cooking that is worth a detour"). Having that level of prestige on her resume meant that every job she got afte... |
Austin landed at a restaurant in D.C. across from the White House. But in 2013, after former President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, she said she started to burn out. Looking for a change of pace, she began searching for jobs in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The executive pastry chef position at Clemson Un... |
The "Halloween Baking Championship" wasn’t Austin’s first time competing as a chef. In fact, she was named the 2017 American Culinary Federation Southeast Region Pastry Chef of the Year. |
The Food Network team got in touch with Austin, and she said for about a year, they tried to find the right show for her and the right timing. Some of the opportunities they suggested would’ve meant leaving to film during football season, and that just wouldn’t have worked. They settled on “Halloween Baking Championshi... |
“Halloween Baking Championship,” is a seasonal competition show that airs leading up to Halloween, features eight top chefs creating Halloween-themed desserts during rounds of different challenges and the introduction of various surprise, mandatory ingredients. Each week one is eliminated, and the last chef standing wi... |
This was Austin's first TV competition, and she said she could feel the difference in how uncomfortable she was in front of the camera versus how comfortable some of her competitors who had done TV before. She said she was always nervous and hot, but still had a lot of fun and jokes with everyone involved and hopes tha... |
But she may never know because she refuses to watch the episodes. She said just thinking about the experience makes her nervous, and she relies on people to tell her what’s happening in the episodes as they air. |
If she had won, Austin planned to help her father who’s on dialysis with his treatments and send her parents on a cruise. |
She’s not soured on competition or competitive cooking shows. She would still love to do an episode of “Chopped” or one of the Christmas-themed specials. |
"White road" -- the words offered to travelers throughout much of Central Asia as they embark upon a journey. American Ivan Sigal, 43, was wished "white road" countless times between 1998 and 2005, as he and his camera crisscrossed the steppe. RFE/RL correspondents Richard Solash and Golnaz Esfandiari recently sat down... |
An arrest warrant has been issued for Bergei Rysqaliev, the former governor of Kazakhstan's western Atyrau Province. |
A new draft antismoking law could deprive Central Asian migrants in Russia of one of their few pleasures -- a smokeless tobacco called nasvai. |
Kazakhstan, the world leader in uranium production, is reporting a new record for uranium output. |
The non-Baltic former Soviet Union now rivals the Middle East as one of the most politically and socially repressive regions in the world, according to the latest edition of "Freedom in the World," the annual report compiled by U.S.-based rights watchdog Freedom House. |
Russian and Kazakh news agencies report another anthem mix-up for Kazakhstan before the Saryarqa hockey club from the Kazakh city of Qaraghandy faced off against a local team in Tver, Russia. |
Kazakhstan's Supreme Court has reduced the sentences of three men convicted for their roles in a high-profile violent mass protest in the western town of Shetpe in December 2011. |
Kazakhstan's leading media rights group, A Just Word, has announced its decision to stop monitoring free speech issues in the country. |
Hollyoaks's Jennifer Metcalfe says that filming her wedding teaser was "fun". |
Jennifer Metcalfe has revealed that filming the Hollyoaks 'Wedding Week' teaser was "heavy". |
The actress, whose character Mercedes McQueen is preparing to marry Riley Costello (Rob Norbury) in next week's special episodes, said that she and her co-stars managed to have a "laugh" while making the sinister, black-themed wedding clip. |
Metcalfe told Heat magazine: "To be honest it was a long day for us. I'm used to doing 12 or 13 hour days on set, but this took 15 hours. It was one, big, heavy day. But we got so much out of it and it got us out of the office, so to speak - so it was all fun! |
"I think everyone got in to the theme and feel of it. There were some right funny hairdos and stuff going on too, and people behaving really out of character. Outside of acting we all had a right laugh about it all, but at the time we all managed to hold it together and be totally serious." |
Metcalfe admitted that the girl you see walking down the aisle at the end of the trailer was a stand-in rather than her, as she had to go home after 14 hours of shooting for "insurance purposes". |
She said that the black paint that the make-up artists put in her eyes to make her cry a black tear "killed", adding: "It hurt. I have such sensitive eyes. I had my eyelashes dyed at the weekend, and even that was like the world was ending! You should have seen me. I'm just soft!" |
Metcalfe also revealed that Mercedes has a "big" and "dark" storyline coming up after the wedding, saying: "[It's] something that's never been explored before with my character. It's been intense and hard work but I've loved every minute of it - I love seeing what my character's going to get up to." |
In an age of always-connected smartphones, it might seem there is no need for apps with offline access -- but they still have several advantages, including better responsiveness and the ability to limit data charges by caching data on the device, according to Microsoft. The caching also lets applications continue to wo... |
To help developers add offline access to their Android, iOS and Windows apps, Microsoft has announced the general availability of its cloud-based SDK for offline synchronization, which is part of the company's Azure Mobile Services back-end. |
For now, the SDK works with Windows and apps developed using Xamarin's cross platform tools, which are used to develop native apps for Android, iOS, Mac OS and Windows. The SDK's support for platforms other than Windows will soon be expanded with dedicated versions for Apple's and Google's mobile OSes, Microsoft said. |
This year has seen Microsoft become even more focused on supporting other OSes, including the release of Office for Apple's iPads and iPhones. Last month, the company also released a preview version for Android-based tablets. |
When an app that uses Microsoft's SDK is in offline mode, users can still create and modify data, which will be saved locally. When the app is back online, it can synchronize local changes with the Mobile Services backend. There are also mechanisms in place to handle conflicts when two devices modify the same record wi... |
Microsoft's Azure Mobile Services can also be used to store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications to an application. Developers can choose between three versions: Free, Basic and Standard. Basic costs from US$14.99 for 1.5 million API calls per month, while Standard costs from $139.99 for 1... |
Azure Mobile Services is far from the only option developers have. Competing offerings include Google's Play Services and the Mobile SDKs from Amazon Web Services. |
Welcome to the launch of The Royal Gazette’s Drive for Change road safety campaign. |
Today, we pledge to push for the solutions that have been identified to reduce the risk of death and injury on our roads. |
We will advocate for quick and effective legislative amendments to our traffic-related laws that have proven successful in other jurisdictions while keeping you abreast of all developments in road safety in Bermuda. |
In the past ten years alone, we have lost 118 people on our roads and for every life lost there were close to 200 road-related injuries. |
Impaired driving, speeding and inadequate driver training are among the main causes of death and injury on our roads. These are the main focus of the campaign. |
We will push for the same objectives that have been identified by the Bermuda Road Safety Council after extensive research looking into international best practice: the introduction of non-selective roadside sobriety testing, speed cameras and a graduated licensing programme. |
We will raise awareness about general issues surrounding road safety, talk to those touched by tragedy and provide you with the data and statistics to help you to make informed decisions. We encourage you to be a part of the change and let your politicians know that making our roads safe should be a priority. |
Dexter Smith, Editor of The Royal Gazette, believes the timing is right for the newspaper to champion such an important cause. “To have lost the number of residents and visitors to road deaths that we have over a ten-year span, not to mention those who have gone before, is outright criminal. Unconscionable. |
Last year, the powerful documentary and campaign A Piece of the Rock sparked an unprecedented surge in the will to address road safety on the island. |
The Royal Gazette’s Drive for Change campaign is partnering with that team to build on that momentum and push for the necessary changes to be effected. The film is based on interviews with the Bermuda Police Service, the Road Safety Council, the Department of Justice, fire and rescue crews, hospital EMTs, nurses and do... |
The tragedy of road deaths is striking at the heart of our young people: the riders most at risk of injury are aged 16, while those most at risk of dying in a crash are aged between 21 and 25. Three quarters of all fatalities involve alcohol or drugs. |
Anthony Santucci, the executive director for Cada, formerly the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, said: “Non-selective sobriety checkpoints, speed cameras and graduated licence programme are an integral part of changing our culture on the roads, and our culture as it relates to drinking and driving. |
“We have been calling for sobriety checkpoints for about a decade now, so we are really excited about the campaign and look forward to facilitating and assisting in changing that relationship that we have with speed and alcohol, and other challenges. |
“We are supportive of graduated licensing and the fact that young riders are going to have on-the-road experience, which is not currently available with a trained instructor. We believe it will create a baseline standard of road usage from now into the future so that young drivers are going to have some really good ski... |
“We were excited to partner with the team at A Piece of the Rock and we support the Drive for Change campaign wholeheartedly. |
Ali Bardgett, the former chairwoman of the Bermuda Road Safety Council, has been working with the Government. “As chair of the BRSC, I have had long conversations with previous chairs and council members including ex officio representatives, and the call for speed-calming measures, sobriety testing, graduated licensing... |
“[Surgeon and leading roads expert] Joseph Froncioni first proposed graduated licensing and sobriety testing in 1995 (there is an article in the Bermuda Police Service magazine of that year outlining all of these proposals). |
The campaign also has the full backing of the BPS. |
Bermuda, we want you to be part of the Drive for Change campaign. |
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. technology giant Amazon (AMZN.O) has acquired cloud computing firm CloudEndure, the Israeli company said on Thursday. |
CloudEndure said on Twitter it was acquired by Amazon’s cloud computing company, Amazon Web Services (AWS). It did not provide any financial details. |
“CloudEndure is now an AWS company. This acquisition expands our ability to deliver innovative and flexible migration, disaster recovery and backup solutions,” it said. |
Officials at Amazon and AWS were not available for immediate comment. |
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