WINNING TIP: The Verulam Arms, St Albans St Albans has a lot of pubs to choose from but this place is different: no Stella. Where else can you get a hogweed and bloete martini? The food and drink are brought in from the Hertfordshire countryside by a group of local hunter-gatherers called The Foragers is surprisingly bountiful. Add a friendly atmosphere, cosy interior, approachable bar staff and a great choice of craft beers, and this is the place for a pint and good food, all in the shadow of the cathedral.the-foragers.com/the-verulam-arms cand82 The Eagle, Cambridge The highlight...
Could concentrated HIV epidemics make AIDS unbeatable? [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – HIV epidemics are becoming more concentrated in marginalized groups such as sex workers, drug users and gay men, and could defy global attempts to combat AIDS without a change in attitudes, according to a U.N. special envoy. Michel Sidibe, formerly head of UNAIDS and now tackling HIV and AIDS in Eastern Europe, says he would like to be able to celebrate without reservation vast global progress made in the past decade, but stubborn infection rates and alarming growth of outbreaks in hard-to-reach populations make...
‘Homeland’ Recap: Great Expectations [ BeritaTerkini ]
Tonight’s episode was bloody unpredictable, but did it take things a twist too far? You know that moment in this week’s installment of Homeland where Carrie Mathison takes off the polygraph equipment and ends her big “job interview” with terrorist mastermind Majid Javadi, and Javadi’s all “What. Are. You. Doing?” That’s kind of a familiar sensation after watching this episode, isn’t it? For both good and bad, “Still Positive,” directed by Lesli Linka Glatter from a script by Alexander Cary and Barbara Hall, threw curveballs left and right. Some of them landed right in the strike zone, but others...
Herbal tea company JDB pays 250 million yuan to be the main sponsor of ‘The … – Global Times [ BeritaTerkini ]
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Kickstarter raises £17m in a year [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – More than £22 million has been pledged to hundreds of different projects including films, computer games and albums on the i nternet funding platform Kickstarter since it launched in the UK a year ago. The website runs on an all-or-nothing basis with projects given deadlines to raise certain amounts. If a project succeeds in reaching its funding goal, all backers’ credit cards are charged when the time expires, but if it falls short no one is charged. More than 1,500 projects have hit their funding targets, with £17 million handed over since the UK version...
Travellers booking trips on tablets [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Travellers are taking to tablets to book their holidays, according to a travel trends report. Smartphone bookings are also becoming fashionable, the report from World Travel Market (WTM) and market research company Euromonitor showed. The report is published as the WTM four-day travel trade show opens in London. Euromonitor is forecasting global smartphone volume sales and sales of tablets will soar over the next few years. Euromonitor international head of travel and tourism research Caroline Bremner said: “By 2017, the mobile channel is expected to account...
Britons turn to junk food after financial crisis – study [ BeritaTerkini ]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britons hurt by lower incomes and rising food prices after the financial crisis have cut back on fruit and vegetables and turned instead to fatty, sugary, processed food, an academic study showed on Monday. Britain has seen food prices rise much more sharply than most other developed economies between 2005 and 2012, while wage growth has been low and unemployment has risen. The net effect has been that Britons are spending 8.5 percent less in real terms on food purchased at home than before the recession – with the trend even greater for pensioners and families...
Morgans Hotel Group Gets Unsolicited $261 Million Bid From Yucaipa [ BeritaTerkini ]
Morgans Hotel Group Gets Unsolicited $ 261 Million Bid From Yucaipa The Yucaipa Companies, an investment firm controlled by billionaire Ron Burkle, made an unsolicited and conditional proposal to Morgans Hotel Group for $ 8 per share, or roughly $ 261 million. Earlier this year Morgans had signed agreements with the Yucaipa Companies to cancel Yucaipa’s interests in the company’s convertible notes, preferred stock and stock warrants in exchange for its ownership interests in Delano South Beach and The Light Group, a Las Vegas nightclub operator that it acquired in 2011. A proxy...
Dorchester Group reports 5% rise in revenue to a record [ BeritaTerkini ]
The group’s UK properties include the Dorchester, Coworth Park and most recently 45 Park Lane. Photograph: Nikos Vinieratos/Rex Features London’s economy is booming and nowhere more so than in the glitzy hotels of Mayfair and Belgravia if profits at the Dorchester group are any guide. The hotel group, a collection of ten of the world’s most luxurious hotels including the London landmark it is named after, has reported a 5% rise in revenue to a record £304.5m in 2012. Over the past five years revenue has surged 17.4% as its ultimate owner, the Sultan of Brunei – who is worth an estimated...
‘Ender’s Game’ Leads Film Newcomers [ BeritaTerkini ]
Plus: ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ opens strong in limited release WINNER OF THE WEEK: Old men. That includes Thor – who, being a Norse god and all, is a lot older than Chris Hemsworth looks. This weekend, Thor: The Dark World opened in most major box office markets around the globe and earned an estimated $ 109.4 million, upstaging whatever little ticket raffles were going on here in the States. That’s the fourth-biggest box office weekend worldwide this year; three of those top four now belong to Disney/Marvel (two others belong to Iron Man 3 and the third to Universal’s Fast and Furious 6.) Most...
Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem – New York Times [ BeritaTerkini ]
Americans spend an estimated $ 5 billion a year on unproven herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes and boosting memory. But now there is a new reason for supplement buyers to beware: DNA tests show that many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds. Using a test called DNA barcoding, a kind of genetic fingerprinting that has also been used to help uncover labeling fraud in the commercial seafood industry, Canadian researchers tested 44 bottles of popular supplements sold by 12...
Toronto mayor urges police to release video, apologizes for ‘mistakes’ [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Jeffrey Hodgson TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday urged his police chief to release a video that media reports say show him smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and issued an apology for unspecified “mistakes” in his past. But Ford, who has previously said he does not use crack, and who did not discuss the content of the video, also said he would not step down and planned to run in the next election. “Chief, I’m asking you to release this video now,” Ford said on his weekly radio show, referring to Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair. “Whatever this video...
Herbal tea company JDB pays 250 million yuan to be the main sponsor of ‘The … – Global Times [ BeritaTerkini ]
JDB products are seen with a sales promotion poster featuring the judges of popular music talent show “The Voice of China” in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, July 20. Photo: CFP China’s leading herbal tea company, JDB Group paid 250 million yuan ($ 40.99 million) to be the title sponsor for the third season of popular domestic music talent show “The Voice of China,” news portal sina.com reported Saturday, the latest in a number of large sponsorship deals that companies have signed with domestic shows. Experts told the Global Times Sunday that timing is crucial for the effectiveness...
Merck experimental vaccine shows promise in cancer trial: WSJ [ BeritaTerkini ]
(Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc’s experimental cancer vaccine appeared to provide broader protection against a cancer-causing virus than the company’s Gardasil shot did in clinical trials, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. The U.S. pharmaceutical company said the study results support its plan to submit the new vaccine, code-named V503, for U.S. regulatory approval by year’s end, which could lead to market launch next year at the soonest, the paper said. Officials at Merck were not immediately available to comment. The article said Merck expects health-care providers to eventually...
Belize Invites You To A Wild Animal Escape! [ BeritaTerkini ]
Escape to the private and remote paradise, Belize! Located in the heart of Central America, and is bordered by Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south. Breathtaking Belize consists of a land area of 8,867 square miles and is known for having the longest living Barrier Reef in the world that stretches out along the Eastern Coast of Belize. One of Belize's main must-see attractions is The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary dedicated to the preservation of the native Jaguar. This spectacular sanctuary consists of forests, fauna and watersheds approximately 400 square kilometers...
In Honor Of The NYC Marathon! Best Dogs For Lazy People And Couch Potatoes! [ BeritaTerkini ]
Often times, people come across a huge problem: they love dogs, but don't want the responsibility or time commitment of actually taking care of an animal. However, with the abundance of dog breeds in the world today, there are canines that suit lazy people quite well, giving those less active individuals a fitting companion. Here are some of the best dogs that are suitable for lazy people! The Toy or Miniature Poodle is one of the best dogs for dog parents who have little experience, or do not want the big burden that comes with welcoming a new dog into the family. Not only are they small and...
No seating room from eDreams [ BeritaTerkini ]
Marooned in Venice: flying back to London cost €879. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images I booked two flights through eDreams, flying to Venice with Ryanair and returning to London with BA. I received a booking confirmation by email, including confirmation numbers. The first flight proceeded without hitch, but when I arrived for the return leg I found that my seat had not been confirmed. EDreams told me my card payment had failed despite both flights having been paid for in the same transaction, but I never received any prior warning. BA staff at the airport told me they’d had this problem...
Brussels’ vibrant Matonge quarter [ BeritaTerkini ]
“Smile” reads the sign over the ramshackle shopping centre, where racks of highly flammable vest tops rub shoulders with vats of hair relaxer. “You’re in Matonge.” Tucked incongruously between the plate-glass and concrete of European Union institutions on one side and the high-end boutiques of the Avenue Louise on the other, the African quarter of Brussels hasn’t always had the best reputation. Scruffy and anarchic, it has been a frequent flashpoint for conflict, particularly in 2011 following the Congolese elections, but it’s emerging as one of the most exciting, creative parts of the city....
Our Post Office Travel Money Card was in credit, but was not accepted [ BeritaTerkini ]
Dining in Manhattan: most of us spend more on holiday. Photograph: Ambient Images Inc./Alamy We purchased a Post Office Travel Money Card to avoid taking large amounts of cash on holiday in the US. Unfortunately, we had quite a few embarrassing moments when the card was declined in stores and restaurants. After a balance check, we established that we had plenty of funds, but still the transactions were declined. It was also costly as I had to use a credit card to make the payments, which in turn incurred a charge along with a poor exchange rate. As a result, we returned with in excess...
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To continue, please type the characters below: About this page Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it’s really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen? IP address: 2a01:4f8:d16:16e0::2 Time: 2013-11-03T07:31:43Z URL: https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=herbal //...
Zest at JW3: restaurant review | Jay Rayner [ BeritaTerkini ]
Clean lines: the open and light interior at JW3. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer Zest at JW3: 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 (020 7433 8955). Meal for two, with drinks and service: £70-£90 Something terrible has happened to my people. They have lost their way. It’s worse even than that whole 40-years-in-the-desert thing which, in any case, was just a map reading issue. This is about sense of identity. It’s about the very essence of what it is to be a Jew; or at least a north west London Jew like me whose forebears came from that bit of Eastern Europe, where a pogrom was...
