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"We’re excited to introduce Pinkberry’s high quality, unique yogurt experience to Austin," CEO Ron Graves said in the company’s announcement, "and we couldn’t have picked a better partner than Lone Star Swirls."
The company has already started hiring for the Westlake store, according to Pederson. Applicants can get more information by emailing austinjobs@pinkberry.com.
Discount supermarket Aldi says it is taking on the high street with the chance to pick up this season’s key fashion pieces for less.
So . . . can you tell the difference between a £380 hat and one for £3.49?
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Legendary sports commentator Bruce McAvaney is calling time on his stylish Melbourne apartment in a converted chocolate factory, with plans to instead build south of Adelaide.
Legendary sports commentator Bruce McAvaney is calling time on his Melbourne base — a stylish apartment in a converted chocolate factory.
McAvaney has listed his two-bedroom pad occupying the top two floors of Fitzroy’s former MacRobertson’s factory for private sale, with a $1.35 million asking price.
The Channel 7 fixture told the Herald Sun he and his wife Annie Johnson bought 13/165 Rose St four years ago because they were considering moving back to Australia’s sporting capital from Adelaide.
“This would have been our home,” McAvaney said.
“But our children have now left home and our extended family are in Adelaide.
McAvaney said they now planned to “eventually build a small place down on the Fleurieu Peninsula”, south of South Australia’s capital.
CoreLogic records show they paid $1.1 million for the Fitzroy apartment.
The AFL, Olympic Games and cricket broadcaster — who called his final Melbourne Cup last year and has also hung up the microphone on his Australian Open commentary — said the property had been “a fantastic work and meeting space”.
Both he and his journalist and producer wife had used it as a base while working in Melbourne, and “done a lot of filming” in the light-filled interior.
The couple had also enjoyed the apartment’s “city views from every window”, terrace where they would “light the barbecue and watch the lights come on at dusk”, and underfloor heating.
Fitzroy also had a “different flavour” to Richmond and South Yarra, where they’d previously lived.
“There’s a much greater variety of cafes and dining, particularly the gastropubs on every second corner,” McAvaney said.
The 65-year-old Order of Australia recipient said they’d installed an “eco-friendly fireplace” in the apartment, which had “worked so well, we’ve copied it in Adelaide”.
They also updated the kitchen and two bathrooms.
Nelson Alexander selling agent Marek Olech — who has the listing with Jellis Craig’s Bev Adam — expected the property’s New York loft style and location in the “epicentre of everything that’s cool in Fitzroy” to attract a mixed bag of buyers. These would likely include empty nesters, double-income couples with no kids, and “creatives”.
Mr Olech said the apartment was one of 17 in the warehouse building — a consistently hot property type in Melbourne’s inner-north — and also came with off-street parking.
Cisco has made a bet that the future of unified communications will be in natural voice recognition and has put its money where its mouth is with an acquisition of San Francisco-based startup, MindMeld.
The terms of the deal will see Cisco acquire MindMeld for $125 million in cash and assumed equity awards. The acquisition is expected to close in Cisco's fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, following customary closing conditions and regulatory review.
Cisco’s third acquisition in two weeks brings a new conversational platform based on natural language understanding (NLU) that the vendor said it will add to its Collaboration suite, adding new conversational interfaces to our collaboration products starting with Cisco Spark.
Natural voice recognition is very much in vogue in the tech industry at present with recent pushes from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft into the space. Improved customer experience is the goal for all three, but while the two cloud giants have encouraged their partner communities to play with their platforms, Cisco will likely keep a lot of its APIs under wraps.
“We realised that to really enable our customers to have more natural, conversational interactions in our enterprise collaboration tools, we’d have to do more for them, and do more of the heavy lifting,” Cisco IoT and applications group VP, Rowan Trollope, said.
Cisco said users will be able to interact with Cisco Spark via natural language commands, providing an experience that is highly customised to the user and their work.
Founded in 2011, MindMeld developed an intelligent conversational interface for companies to interact with their customers across multiple devices or applications. The platform ingests customer data and creates a natural language model, which can be tailored to a customer's need.
MindMeld also delivers a dialog manager that enables a computer to respond to user requests through chat and voice applications in a "human-like fashion," according to a company statement. This capability can be integrated with Cisco’s chatbot technology and increase the avenues for customer engagement.
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“I’m excited for the potential represented by the MindMeld team and their technology, coupled with Cisco’s market-leading collaboration portfolio, to enable us to create a user experience that is unlike anything that exists in the market today,” Salvagno added. “Together, we will work to create the next generation collaboration experience.
Police are investigating reports claiming that a mother allowed her 3-month-old baby to die from pneumonia when she refused to call a doctor. Instead, she allegedly consulted members of an online community who promote alternative forms of medicine.
The story has been burning up the Russian blogosphere for several days. It started off with a collection of screenshots from a discussion at a closed online community, which brings together people afraid of receiving treating in hospitals.
The mother, who consulted with other members on how to treat her daughter, was advised to use herbal decoctions and inhaler remedies to treat what was in fact acute respiratory disease. It was not until a week later, when the baby’s condition had already became critical, that the woman called a certified doctor. Nevertheless, the girl died.
The discussion, apparently, leaked out through one of the members disturbed by the reported death and has been widely publicized on the web.
On Friday, Russia’s Investigative Committee announced that it has launched a probe to establish how much truth there is behind the story. The woman, identified as Yulia Mikova, 32, is suspected of criminal negligence, which can result in up to tree years in jail, the statement says. A court may also strip her of custody of her other two underage children.
“I believe her guilt is apparent. The question is whether everything happened the way it was reported,” commented Russian children ombudsman Pavel Astakhov.
Meanwhile, activists are calling for the prosecution of the moderators of the community, where Mikova reportedly sought medical advice, though they deny any responsibility for the baby’s death. As some bloggers report, the rules of the forum explicitly forbid advising people from turning to “official” medicine, although the wording was changed from “not allowed” to “not recommended” after the scandal.
Attempting to treat any disease or ailment without first consulting a qualified doctor is extremely dangerous, medicial experts say. Alternative remedies are often much less effective than modern, scientifically tested drugs.
Moreover, many practitioners, who lack any formal medical training, are likely to misdiagnose the disease, especially if they don’t even see the patient in person, as apparently was the case with Mikova’s baby.
Valentina Shirokova, Head of the Health Ministry’s Department for Children’s Healthcare Development and Maternity Obstetric Services, warns that one should never completely trust web sites, especially in cases where there is any doubt as to the doctor’s authenticity.
“It may be that in some emergencies, when no one is around, a mother could ask for advice from an online doctor, but they must make sure it is a real doctor,” she said as quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
Gennady Sukhikh, Director of the Kulakov Center for Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, calls it a medieval approach when mothers chose to consult social networks to treat their babies rather than seeking treatment from a qualified doctor.
“It is ok to ask for advice from your social network on the Internet – but only in addition to seeing a doctor,” says Sukhikh, pointing out that with doctors, one can always ask for a second opinion.
“It’s not often that a political book hyped as a ‘tell-all’ actually delivers the dirt, but that’s certainly not the story in Robert Novak’s fast-paced bio ‘The Prince of Darkness, 50 Years Reporting in Washington,’ ” U.S. News & World Report’s Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column at www.usnews.com.
“Let’s get right to the point: Did the administration leak former CIA officer Valerie Plame’s name to him to punish her hubby, Joe Wilson, who had blasted the president’s claim that Iraq was shopping for uranium in Niger? Nope. He says that it was just an afterthought from his source, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. In fact, it wasn’t even a leak. Armitage was just asking a question about Wilson, whom Novak met two days before, July 6, 2003, in the ‘Meet the Press’ green room.
“If the open-borders advocates would actually read American history instead of revising it, they would see that the founding fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration,” she wrote.
The conservative Club for Growth accuses Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat, and Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, of trying to shred the First Amendment.
Their Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act would publicly fund all general election House races with taxpayer dollars, the group said. Taxpayers would have the option of making a donation on their tax forms to the Grassroots Good Citizenship Fund, which would distribute up to $2 million to each congressional district to be divided among the general election candidates of the major parties.
The legislation prohibits all independent expenditures by political groups, allowing only state and national parties to provide assistance to candidates, so long as the value of the assistance does not exceed 5 percent of the maximum expenditure applicable. In what the Club for Growth called “a deathblow” to independent candidates, the legislation would distribute money to third-party candidates based on demonstrated public support in the past three elections.
Perhaps the only positive feature of the legislation, the group said, is a sunset provision in case it ends up being, according to Mr. Obey, a “harebrained” idea.
Al Gore’s son was arrested early yesterday on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs after deputies pulled him over for speeding, authorities said.
Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius at about 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over at about 2:15 a.m., Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said. The deputies said they smelled marijuana, searched the car and found less than an ounce, Mr. Amormino said.
They also found Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, and he “does not have a prescription for any of those drugs,” Mr. Amormino said, according to the Associated Press.
Mr. Gore was held in the men’s central jail in Santa Ana and released around 2 p.m. on $20,000 bail. He will receive notice of a court date within 30 days. The son of the former vice president has had several previous brushes with the law, including a 2003 arrest in Bethesda on marijuana-possession charges.
A spokesman for the elder Mr. Gore told Reuters news agency that he was traveling and could not immediately be reached for comment.
In all our hours of conversation, I can’t remember much about politics, either British or American — or European or African or whatever. It was just talk about . . . life, and its riches. And John had taste.
Saul Bellow, too, was called a conservative, by some. I think of him as an ordinary Chicago liberal, who nevertheless believed in standards. He thought that Shakespeare and the other “dead white males” weren’t bad at all. Furthermore, he thought that maybe, just maybe, the aftermath in Indochina — all that mass murder, all those boat people, all that tyranny — was . . . you know: kinda bad. When liberals moved left, Bellow stayed where he was. And that made him, in many eyes, a conservative — if not a reactionary or fascist.
Bernard Lewis is called a conservative — because he has the audacity to think that Arabs, too, deserve a decent life, and are not congenitally disposed to tyranny.
Such a weird, weird age, the one we’re living in. I’ve said it a thousand times: It takes amazingly little to be considered a conservative. Think Paradise Lost is better than I, Rigoberta Menchú? Think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ought to be guided by science, instead of political emotions and desires? Think Cubans ought to be able to read a book of their choosing, or open a store, or leave the country on a raft without being shot to death in the water? Welcome to the “fascist” fold, my friend.
P.S. I have written the above in exaggerated style — just slightly exaggerated! I appreciate your taking the central point nonetheless . . .
Find out which of these stocks got a buyout bid.
Monday gave investors another roller-coaster ride in the stock market, as major indexes traded on either side of unchanged and eventually recovered from huge declines to end in the green. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a 500-point drop at one point during the session but still managed to close up slightly. Moreover, the Nasdaq Composite finished up three-quarters of a percent, buoyed by positive sentiment toward big technology names. Some stocks also rose on good news of their own, and Nutrisystem (NASDAQ:NTRI), Xperi (NASDAQ:XPER), and Ra Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RARX) were among the best performers on the day. Here's why they did so well.
Nutrisystem stock rocketed higher by 28% after the nutrition and weight-loss specialist became an acquisition target. Tivity Health agreed to purchase Nutrisystem for a total of $1.4 billion, using a combination of cash and stock for the buyout. Under the terms of the deal, Tivity will pay $38.75 per share in cash along with 0.2141 Tivity shares for every share owned by Nutrisystem shareholders, for a total of $47 per share based on Tivity's average price over a recent 10-day period. Tivity looks forward to broadening its health and fitness offerings to address weight management more directly, but given Tivity stock's decline, Nutrisystem investors clearly think they got the better end of the deal.
Shares of Xperi soared 44% in the wake of two pieces of good news. First and foremost, the semiconductor company settled a patent dispute with Samsung, agreeing instead to enter into a new patent license agreement. Although the companies didn't disclose the terms of the settlement, Xperi followed up by increasing its fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 outlook, including a $20 million to $30 million boost to projected fourth-quarter billings and a roughly $20 million increase in expected operating cash flow. Investors put two and two together and concluded that the deal would be favorable for Xperi, and shareholders are glad to have the uncertainty of the litigation behind them.
Finally, Ra Pharmaceuticals saw its shares finish higher by 7%. The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company announced the latest results of phase 2 clinical trials for its zilucoplan treatment for generalized myasthenia gravis, with positive findings including meeting both primary and key secondary endpoints. Zilucoplan had statistically significantly impacts on the Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis and MG Activities of Daily Living scores. Based on the data, Ra intends to look at a potential phase 3 trial in the first half of 2019, and CEO Doug Treco is hopeful that it will achieve "the ultimate goal of transforming the lives of thousands of patients with [myasthenia gravis]." The news is welcome for Ra given some of its challenges with past treatment candidates.
The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' hitmaker was spotted mouthing "shut the f**k up" while her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles was on stage with his One Direction band mates, but the 'Lego House' singer has claimed she was actually swearing at her best friend.
According to Cosmopolitan magazine, at a recent press conference Ed insisted Taylor was directing the jibe at Selena - who was sat next to her - after she expressed doubt at her ability to pick up a prize at the ceremony.
He said: "Selena said, 'I think Miley's gonna win [over me]'. And Taylor was like, 'Shut the f**k up!' That's all that was!"
And the 23-year-old star apparently knew her comments would be misinterpreted to be directed at Harry.
Ed added: "Taylor was like, 'I think I messed up.' "
Following the incident, Taylor was spotted with Harry and the 'A Team' singer was forced to keep the peace - a role he is said to frequently adopt when he's around his two friends.
It was previously claimed: "Ed made sure to keep them separate."
Aug. 1, 2018, 11:40 a.m.
The AMD Ryzen Embedded v1000 processor family has been making waves in various industries due to its ability to deliver twice the processing performance whilst increasing efficiency by reducing the design footprint and thermals.
It couples a high-performance CPU and GPU on a single die, which vastly improves performance and graphical capability. UDOO BOLT and SMACH Z are two customers currently taking advantage of the v1000 to improve the gaming and maker industries. The BOLT is a maker board that bolsters customers' creative endeavours. UDOO product manager Maurizio Caporali said the BOLT "represents the highest level of graphics, processing power, and flexibility in the field of maker boards"
SMACH Z is a handheld console that lets users play PC games portably, giving them the ability to play their favourite games on the go. Using AMD Ryzen Embedded v1000 processors and Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, the SMACH Z delivers desktop-quality power and graphics on a handheld device.
Peeved at Russia’s Security Council veto derailing a Western-sponsored resolution against Syria last week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice implicitly accused the Russians of protecting the beleaguered government of President Bashar al-Assad primarily to safeguard their lucrative arms market in the Middle Eastern country.
But around the same time, the United States was evaluating a $53 million weapons contract with Bahrain, where political unrest has claimed the lives of 34 people, mostly civilians, at least 1,400 others have been arrested, and more than 3,600 dismissed from their jobs for participating in street demonstrations demanding a democratic government.
“The U.S. government appears hypocritical when it condemns the use of force against Syrian protestors but condones similar behavior in Bahrain,” Dr. Natalie J. Goldring, a senior fellow with the Center for Peace and Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, told IPS.
Sadly, she said, the administration of President Barack Obama is on shaky ground when it lectures other countries about their arms transfers.
“Its recent announcement of proposed weapons sales to Bahrain signals business as usual, at a time when we should be doing the opposite,” she said.
The proposed arms contract, which has triggered strong protests from human rights groups, includes 44 armored high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs), wire-guided and other missiles and launchers, along with related equipment and training.
Goldring pointed out that Ambassador Rice said the opponents of the U.N. resolution would rather sell arms to the Syrian regime than stand with the Syrian people.
“Transferring weapons to Bahrain leaves the U.S. government vulnerable to the same accusation that we would rather sell arms to the Bahrain regime than to stand with the people of Bahrain,” she added.
The Obama administration would be in a much stronger position to influence other countries’ behavior if it stopped selling weapons to countries that abuse their citizens’ human rights, Goldring said.
Although a majority of the Security Council members — nine out of 15 — voted in favor of last week’s resolution, qualifying it to be adopted, the two vetoes by Russia and China negated the positive result.
The draft resolution, which strongly condemned the continued grave and systematic human rights violations by Syrian authorities, drew positive votes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, France, Gabon, Germany, Nigeria, Portugal, the UK, and the United States.
The countries abstaining were India, Brazil, South Africa (collectively known as IBSA), and Lebanon.
The resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Germany, Portugal, and the UK, also called on Syria to immediately cease the use of force against civilians.
If Syria failed to do so within 30 days, the Security Council would consider “other options,” a euphemism for economic and military sanctions.
Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher in the Arms Transfers Program of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told IPS Russia is Syria’s most important arms supplier.
In the past five years, he said, Russia delivered an estimated 36 Pantsyr-S1 mobile air defense systems and a quantity of Igla-S man portable surface-to-air missiles.
All indications are that more is on order and to be delivered, including reportedly 24 MiG-29SMT combat aircraft, a Bastion coast defense system with Yakhont missiles, several Buk longer range surface-to-air missile systems, and an unknown number of YAK-130 combat trainer aircraft.