Few people have better inside knowledge of a city than taxi drivers. In his quest for authentic tango culture in Buenos Aires, Kevin Rushby enlists the help of Miguel the singing cabbie, who takes him to a traditional milonga – a dancehall where you can catch a glimpse of Argentina’s passionate past //...
Google in paid-for advice stream [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Google is launching an online advice clinic in the US where users will be charged fees for watching live video session from experts offering help on everything from cosmetics to the cosmos. The service, called Helpouts, will offer to make connections between users and more than 1,000 merchants, websites and health care specialists who have cleared Google’s background checks. Users will be able to watch advice streamed onto their computers and smart. For the initial stage of the launch, Helpouts is offering to connect people with experts in eight different...
With AmaWaterways on the Mekong: Seeing Vietnam for the First Time [ BeritaTerkini ]
When I first set foot in Vietnam, emerging from a small landing craft and surrounded by a greeting party of joyful, friendly children in a small fishing village, it felt as if the power of the soil galvanized me and instantly realigned my inner fibers. A flood of associations with the word “Vietnam” from my whole life rushed over and overwhelmed me. I found myself breaking into tears. Forty or fifty years ago, the parents and grandparents of these radiantly beautiful children would have been the children living there as the Vietnam War ravaged the country. But today here they were...
Study: Herbal supplements missing herbs – 14 News WFIE Evansville [ BeritaTerkini ]
Gaps in smoke-free workplace laws may leave many exposed Gaps in smoke-free workplace laws may leave many exposed State laws have reduced the overall rates of secondhand-smoke exposure for many workers, but people in certain occupations are still vulnerable, according to a new study.More >> State laws have reduced the overall rates of secondhand-smoke exposure for many workers, but people in certain occupations are still vulnerable, according to a new study.More >> Romance can sour when only one partner slims down Romance can sour when only one partner...
More list to Pandora internet radio [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Music fans listened to Pandora’s internet radio service for a collective 1.47 billion hours in October, up 18 percent from a year ago, in the face of the launch iTunes Radio. The figure, released by Pandora Media chief financial officer Michael Herring at an investor conference in the US on Monday, is Pandora’s second-highest monthly level. It had 1.49 billion hours in March, the last month before it imposed a 40-hour-per-month cap on free listening on mobile devices. Pandora lifted the cap on September 1, two weeks before Apple launched iTunes Radio. Pandora’s...
Jeff Bezos’s wife and Amazon slam new book about company [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Liana B. Baker | Reuters – By Liana B. Baker (Reuters) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s wife MacKenzie on Monday used the online retail giant’s own website to criticize a new high-profile book about her husband as a “lopsided and misleading portrait of the people and culture at Amazon.” In an online review posted on Amazon’s page for the new book “The Everything Store,” which is about Bezos and the online retailer, MacKenzie Bezos criticizes the account by author Brad Stone as having “way too many inaccuracies.” An Amazon spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the online review....
In wake of website woes, Obama eyes federal IT procurement rules [ BeritaTerkini ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told a small group of supporters on Monday that he wants to address federal procurement rules for information technology in the wake of a problematic launch of the website for his signature healthcare insurance program. “There are a whole range of things that we’re going to need to do once we get this fixed to talk about federal procurement when it comes to IT and how that’s organized,” Obama told an invitation-only group of activists, community organizers at donors at an Organizing for Action meeting. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and...
JetBlue Claims First to Flight with PDA Service ? But Not Wi-Fi Access! [ BeritaTerkini ]
When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Oct.31 that it was ending its ban on personal digital assistants (PDAs) in flight, several airlines rushed to become the first to get FAA approval to offer that option to passengers. Indeed, JetBlue Airways over the weekend said it had received approval for gate-to-gate PDA service from the FAA at 4:15 p.m. EDT on Nov. 1, and claimed to be the first to implement that policy immediately. JetBlue said the first commercial flight of any U.S. airline to allow gate-to-gate PDA use was its own Flight 2302 from New York’s JFK to Buffalo,...
Scorpion Venom: Can It Really Cure What Ails You? [ BeritaTerkini ]
A blue scorpion is shown here under UV light at Medolife’s scorpion reservation in the Dominican Republic. ABC News A Dominican Republic-based company is making the controversial claim that its scorpion venom drug can help fight cancer, but some oncologists in the United States warn it may provide nothing more than a stiff dose of false hope. Russian émigré Dr. Arthur Mikaelian and his company, Medolife, produce a drug called Escozine, whose sole active ingredient is blue scorpion venom. Medolife said Escozine is an effective cancer treatment because a peptide...
Doctor demand will grow by up to a third by 2025 – study [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Driven by an aging population and increased access to health insurance, the U.S. will need more doctors by 2025, says a new study. The expected rise in demand varies by state and medical specialty, according to the study’s lead author. “What’s happening at the state level can be very different than what’s happening at the national level,” Timothy Dall told Reuters Health. He is a managing director at the research and information service firm IHS in Washington, D.C. The new study, published in Health Affairs, looks at future demands...
Save Up To 65% In Swim-Up Suites At Sandals Royal Caribbean Resort & Private Island [ BeritaTerkini ]
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Science Just Determined a Sad Truth About Herbal Supplements – PolicyMic [ BeritaTerkini ]
Science Just Determined a Sad Truth About Herbal Supplements Image Credit: APEvery year, Americans spend roughly $ 5 billion thinking that unproven herbal supplements will heal them in some magical way that traditional medicine cannot. But the truth is, they are being had. A group of Canadian researchers recently conducted DNA barcoding tests on 44 bottles of popular supplements from 12 anonymous companies. They found that many bottles contained very diluted versions of the advertised herb, or were replaced entirely by cheap fillers. Even more disturbing is that...
Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.2 billion to end US drug probes [ BeritaTerkini ]
By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In one of the largest health care fraud settlements in U.S. history, Johnson & Johnson will pay $ 2.2 billion to end civil and criminal investigations into kickbacks to pharmacists and the marketing of pharmaceuticals for off-label uses, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday. The resolution of the long-running case with the company and its subsidiaries covers the marketing of the anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega and the heart drug Natrecor over several years. From 1999 through 2005, J&J and its subsidiary Janssen...
Kindle line goes on sale in US: Amazon celebrates FAA’s electronics policy with discount [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Elyse Betters | Pocket-lint – The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration approved gate-to-gate use of portable electronic devices last week, and now Amazon is celebrating the new policy with a one-day only sale in the US for its Kindle e-reader line. The online retailer has publicly thanked the US FAA, and it reduced the price tag of its Kindle, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX 7-inch. Specifically, all three tablets received a 15 per cent discount on 4 November. With Amazon’s special discount, the Kindle is now $ 59 (£37), and the Kindle...
James Murphy on ‘Little Duck’ and Producing Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’ [ BeritaTerkini ]
‘I’m not excited about it for being different. I’m just excited about it for being a good record,’ he says Three years after since saying goodbye to LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy is busier than ever. He just released Little Duck – a short film he directed for Canon’s Project Imaginat1on. Mentored by Ron Howard, Murphy picked ten photos out of thousands submitted on the internet to inspire scenes from the film, filming with three actors over about a month in Japan. In this exclusive Q&A, Murphy discusses making the film while co-producing Arcade Fire’s Reflektor. “I was writing the script...
Microsoft to buy wind power for data center in Texas [ BeritaTerkini ]
Reuters – (Reuters) – U.S. computer software company Microsoft Corp said on Monday it signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for wind energy in Texas. The company said in a blog the agreement was part of its commitment last year to become carbon neutral. Microsoft said it will buy all of the energy from RES Americas’ 110-megawatt Keechi wind project, which is under development near Jacksboro, about 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Fort Worth. RES Americas is a unit of privately held, UK-based renewable energy developer RES Ltd. Microsoft said the wind farm is on the same electric...
Lung Cancer Fliers Outraged Over Oxygen Tank Dispute [ BeritaTerkini ]
Don Stranathan and Penny Blume at the third annual LUNGevity HOPE Summit in Washington, D.C. Lungevity Don Stranathan and Penny Blume, both battling terminal lung cancer, found love in an online support group and now that community is rallying around them after the couple was not allowed to board a US Airways flight as they were headed for a clinical trial for a new medication that could save Blume’s life. The couple set out from New York on Oct. 24, but with multiple airline delays and a dispute over the oxygen tanks they were carrying, it took them three days to...
Pet Custody: There Is Life After A Breakup [ BeritaTerkini ]
Breaking up is hard to do – throw a pet into the mix, and it's even tougher. Whether married, living together or just dating, it's easy for both parties to get attached to a mutual pet. One of the best options after a breakup is to discuss a fair way to split custody of the pet with your ex. Jennifer Keene, author of the book, We Can't Stay Together for the Dogs: A Dog-Friendly Divorce and Break-up Guide, notes that there are several ways to split the time – but says that one of the best ways is to do a week-on/week-off or even a month-on/month-off schedule, which "usually gives each parent...
Tomorrow’s Tube: what next for London’s underground railways? [ BeritaTerkini ]
A man reads a paper on a London Underground train. Photograph: Peter Johns/Other Not long after the first journey beneath the capital by rail, on January 9, 1863, the Underground began expanding rapidly. People wanted more. In its first year of existence 11.8 million journeys were taken on the Metropolitan Railway’s revolutionary new service, despite the steam and smoke and smell of sulphur. Things moved very fast. The first section of what became the District Line opened in 1868 and by 1884 the Circle Line was complete. Demand was vast. Entrepreneurs jostled to supply. An appetite for...
Travel news round-up: Peru’s coast, Norway made easy, a [ BeritaTerkini ]
Just beachy … a sea view from a room at the Arennas Mancora hotel, Peru Escapism New tour operator Miraviva is tipping Máncora, a small fishing village in northern Peru, as a hotspot. Surfers and backpackers dominate the centre, but Las Pocitas, 10 minutes’ drive away, has sophisticated hotels such as honeymoon-friendly Arennas Mancora. • From £1,125pp (based on two sharing) for four nights including flights from London, internal flights, transfers and breakfast with miravivatravel.com What’s new? A bubble tent at Cabanes de la Romaningue Accommodation Sleep among the trees at Cabanes...
Ryanair blames lower fares for latest profit warning [ BeritaTerkini ]
CEO of Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, during a media conference in Germany. The airline has cut its profit forecast for the full year. Photograph: Thomas Frey/EPA Ryanair is on course for its first fall in profits in five years, saying that increased competition and a weak economic backdrop will force it to cut fares by up to 10% for the winter months. The budget airline issued its second profit warning in as many months after average fares fell 2% during the first half of the financial year. It said fares were likely to fall by up to 10% by the end of the financial year...
https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=herbal [ BeritaTerkini ]
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