A member of Google’s Trekker team mapping Venice for Street View. Photograph: Google With its winding network of canals, cobblestone alleys and streets, the car-free city of Venice always presented a challenge to the Google Street View team. But today, thanks to “superfit” Google employees who spent two months walking around the city with a camera strapped to their back, the internet giant has finally added the watery Italian town to their Street View portfolio. From today, it is possible to wander through St Mark’s Square, cross the Rialto and promenade the waterfront of Venice’s Grand...
Obama to tout U.S. economic recovery in Ohio steel mill visit [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is set to tout the U.S. economic recovery during a visit to an Ohio steel mill on Thursday even as he faces more questions about the troubled rollout of his signature healthcare law. Obama will talk about the recovery of the U.S. auto industry, the energy benefits of auto fuel-efficiency standards, and the attractiveness of the United States for foreign investment when he visits the ArcelorMittal Cleveland facility, the White House said. The company has brought back workers furloughed in 2008 during the U.S....
Discover the Benefits of Virtual Travel Events [ BeritaTerkini ]
Yesterday we held another successful online event, Virtual Vacation Agent Expo, with more than 1,500 live attendees. They spent their afternoon sipping coffee at their desks while they networked and learned how to increase their leisure travel sales. Our online event has evolved to incorporate the most powerful tool on the web today — social media – where travel agents can network and chat with hundreds of colleagues and potential vendors while knowing that everyone is a travel professional. You can’t do that with Twitter or Facebook chats. You can’t follow up either with those...
Death Grips Give Away Their New Album ‘Government Plates’ [ BeritaTerkini ]
The noise-rap group posted the 11-song set online A little over a year after noise-rap malcontents Death Grips raised a middle finger to the music industry by posting their album No Love Deep Web as a free download on their website, they’ve just posted another new record. Their third full-length, Government Plates, is now available to download here and here and stream in the Soundcloud below. The group also posted each of the LP’s 11 tracks to its YouTube channel with visuals. Photos: Death Grips and other Bands at Pitchfork Paris The record comes just a few days before No Love Deep Web will...
Aquino under pressure over typhoon aid, U.S. carrier to arrive [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Stuart Grudgings and Andrew R.C. Marshall TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a powerful typhoon and to get paralyzed local governments functioning. Widespread looting of rice stocks and other supplies broke out across the central Philippines on Wednesday despite the deployment of solders to maintain law and order. While international relief efforts have picked up, many petrol station owners whose businesses were...
Republicans seek more HealthCare.gov testimony from White House [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have asked President Barack Obama’s current and former top healthcare advisers to testify next week on the rocky rollout of Obamacare, but the White House has so far not agreed to the idea. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the committee, and Jim Jordan, who chairs one of its subcommittees, asked the White House to allow Jeanne Lambrew, a senior White House official responsible for healthcare policy, to appear at a November 20 hearing. They also invited Nancy-Ann DeParle, Obama’s former...
New Taiwan bird flu shows animal virus risk to humans [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Kate Kelland NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A woman in Taiwan has become the first person in the world with a confirmed case of a new strain of bird flu, adding to a growing body of evidence of the potential threat from animal viruses that mutate to be able to infect people. Scientists from Taiwan said the infection – with a bird flu strain called H6N1 – appeared to be one isolated human case and probably posed little threat for the moment. But it showed how this virus, like others in the past, had been able to acquire genetic changes allowing it to jump across species. Another...
Jennifer Lawrence’s Windswept Pixie: Yay or Yikes? Vote! [ BeritaTerkini ]
von Cinya Burton| Übersetzt von Cinya Burton 13. November 2013 – 15:33 Apparently Jennifer Lawrence decided to take her whirlwind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire press tour quite literally. The Oscar winner showed up to her Madrid premiere today (in a Dior Gown) with her new pixie cut extra tousled. While the back and the sides of the short crop were slightly mussed, the front pieces were dramatically flipped upward in a windswept effect. The actress has been trying out different hairstyles nearly every day while promoting the second installment of the film franchise....
The Yellow Dogs Issue Statement After Brooklyn Shooting [ BeritaTerkini ]
‘This is not the way we ever imagined the world would learn of our story’ The remaining members of the Iranian dance-punk group the Yellow Dogs have issued a statement about the triple murder that claimed two of their bandmates and a close friend early Monday morning in Brooklyn. In their statement, written jointly by guitarist Siavash ‘Obash’ Karampour and bassist Koory Mirzeai, they explain the immense grief they’re currently feeling and their association with the shooter, Ali “Rafi” Akbar Mohammadi Rafie – who had briefly played in the Iranian band Free Keys, with whom the Yellow Dogs...
Jennifer Lawrence Flaunts Figure in Crop Top and Tight Pencil Skirt for Catching Fire Photocall [ BeritaTerkini ]
von Rose Curiel| Übersetzt von Rose Curiel 13. November 2013 – 12:23 Jennifer Lawrence is giving us the blues—in a good way! The Oscar winner turned heads at the Hunger Games: Catching Fire photocall in Madrid in a brilliant cobalt blue knit top and skirt by Alexander McQueen. It was a definite departure from the Dior dresses the brand spokesperson tends to wear for high profile occasions—she’s already sported two looks by the luxury label during her Catching Fire promotional duties, and almost exclusively wore the company’s designs during awards season. And while we’re definitely...
Senate’s Reid expects healthcare website will be fixed [ BeritaTerkini ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he feels “very comfortable” that HealthCare.gov, the troubled Obamacare website, will be fixed after he had a long telephone conversation with President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening. The website creates online marketplaces for people to sign up for healthcare insurance, but has had many problems since launching on October 1. (Reporting By Susan Cornwell; Editing by Sandra Maler) Barack Obama //...
El Salvador – The Land of Jewels is a Tropical Paradise Filled With Adventure! [ BeritaTerkini ]
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Toronto mayor admits he bought illegal drugs; council urges him to step aside [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto’s embattled mayor, Rob Ford, professed a zero-tolerance policy for drugs and gangs on Wednesday, but he also admitted he had bought crack cocaine in the past two years. Speaking after Toronto City Council almost unanimously urged Ford to take a break from his duties, Ford said he could not change the past and would continue his efforts as mayor to save Toronto money. Asked if he had bought crack in the past two years, he replied somberly: “Yes, I have.” Ford last week admitted that he smoked crack cocaine “while in a drunken...
Can Obama fix Obamacare? [ BeritaTerkini ]
Former President Bill Clinton made headlines when he suggested President Barack Obama “fix” the Affordable Care Act so that Americans who are losing their health care plans could keep their coverage. But at this stage, is a fix even possible? Yahoo News canvassed a number of healthcare and legal experts to find out how such a fix would work and if it’s feasible for the more than 3 million Americans and counting who have lost their plans to have their cancellations reversed. • Is an across-the-board fix to the cancellations even possible? Probably not, according to multiple...
Rome overwhelmed by faeces of migrating birds [ BeritaTerkini ]
Plastic sheeting protects a Fiat from starling droppings while parked near the Tiber river in Rome. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images Romans are staying at home or shielding themselves with umbrellas before venturing out this autumn as the city is bombarded with tonnes of slippery and foul-smelling excrement by millions of migrating starlings. The problem is annual, but this year the cash-struck city has failed to muster the 40,000 euros it usually spends on hiring 20 people to walk under plane trees lining the Tiber – where the birds roost en route to Africa – with loudspeakers...
Motorola Moto G official: An affordable phone designed to perform [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Britta O’Boyle | Pocket-lint – Motorola has officially announced the much-rumoured Moto G smartphone at a launch event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a parellel events in London, Mexico City and Toronto. Introduced on stage by Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, the Moto G looks to solve a problem that Motorola’s Woodside says affects hundreds of millions of people globally. The Moto G is pitched at those looking for something affordable, without having to sacrifice the experience that it offers. The design of the Moto G brings design elements seen in the Moto X, like a edge-to-edge...
BarChick.com: a website for finding good bars around the world [ BeritaTerkini ]
Milk: one of BarChick’s picks in Barcelona Who is BarChick? A glamorous bikini model from the 1940s is what the logo seems to imply. For an old-school pin-up, she seems to have a finger on the pulse of the modern bar scene. BarChick.com launched in 2010 to cover the London bar scene, but soon expanded to cover a range of other cities (it now covers 56 destinations in all), including Berlin, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh and Rio de Janeiro. Other UK cities have also been added: Oxford, Bath, Birmingham, Worcester, Manchester and more. The site stands out for putting in the plenty of groundwork,...
How your company is watching your waistline [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Kathleen Kingsbury (Reuters) – Employers tried the carrot, then a small stick. Now they are turning to bigger cudgels. For years they encouraged workers to improve their health and productivity with free screenings, discounted gym memberships and gift cards to lose weight. More recently, a small number charged smokers slightly higher premiums to get them to quit. Results for these plans were lackluster, and healthcare costs continued to soar. So companies are taking advantage of new rules under President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul in 2014 to punish smokers and...
Smithsonian in 3D printing drive [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – With most of its 137 million objects kept behind the scenes or in a faraway museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex, is launching a new 3D scanning and printing initiative to make more of its massive collection accessible to schools, researchers and the public worldwide. A small team has begun creating 3D models of some key objects that represent the breadth of the collection at the Smithsonian. Some of the first 3D scans include the Wright brothers’ first airplane, Amelia Earhart’s flight suit, and casts of President Abraham...
Twitter launches timelines feature [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Social networking site Twitter is allowing users to create their own custom timelines, saying it will reshape the way people share news. Twitter project manager Brian Ellis said the new feature, which draws on Twitter’s strength of sharing real-time events, makes it easier to control how tweets are organised and delivered on the multimedia platform. “Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline – one that you create,” Mr Ellis posted to a Twitter blog. “You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically....
Skiing on icebergs in Antarctica – in pictures [ BeritaTerkini ]
Daredevil Chris Davenport climbed a 60ft iceberg in the Antarctic – and then skied down it, coming perilously close to taking a dip in the icy waters below. Photographer Greg Von Doersten captured the moment from a nearby zodiac. The team also took on giant peaks and mountains in the remote area //...
Samsung aims to double its smartphone sales in Africa in 2014 [ BeritaTerkini ]
Reuters – CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics expects to supply half of the smartphones sold in Africa this year and aims to double these sales on the continent in 2014, an executive said. Africa has a growing young population that is increasingly tech savvy and urbanised. This is attracting foreign sellers of consumer products like smartphones, especially as markets stagnate or shrink in more developed nations. Although smartphones are gaining popularity across the continent, they are still a novelty. At the end of 2012, sub-Saharan smartphone penetration was 4 percent,...
