By Katya Wachtel | Reuters – By Katya Wachtel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge funds took a liking to online music company Pandora Media Inc in the third quarter but soured on Apple Inc, according to regulatory filings published Thursday. Hedge funds including Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management and Patrick McCormack’s Tiger Consumer Management both opened stakes in Pandora of about 1.1 million and 2.9 million shares, respectively, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings showed. The quarterly disclosures of stock holdings are intriguing for investors trying to get a glimpse...
Project Runway All Stars Blog: Zanna Roberts Rassi Imagines Which Celebs Would Wear the Episode 4 Looks! [ BeritaTerkini ]
von Zanna Roberts Rassi| Übersetzt von Cinya Burton 14. November 2013 – 20:40 This week was one of my favorite challenges: An unconventional one. Designers were packed on to a school bus and driven to an elementary school. There they raided the classroom for anything they could get their grubby little mitts on— rulers, mats, folders, jump ropes—you name it, they used it. And to impressive results. There is something about dealing with these obscure and unusual fabrics that makes designers think outside the box and get truly crazy creative. However, because the only people we...
Corporation starts herbal canteen – The Hindu [ BeritaTerkini ]
There is now more than one reason to visit the Coimbatore Corporation main office in Town Hall – the civic body has started a herbal canteen, Amma Mooligai Unavagam. Mayor S.M. Velusamy inaugurated the canteen in the presence of Commissioner G. Latha, Deputy Commissioner S. Sivarasu, Deputy Mayor Leelavathi Unni, City Engineer K. Sugumar and Councillors on Thursday. A release the civic body issued said that the objective of the canteen was to provide healthy food to the 500-odd visitors and the Corporation staff, majority of who suffered high blood pressure, diabetes and other lifestyle diseases....
Philippine typhoon death toll jumps; U.S. helicopters boost aid effort [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Stuart Grudgings TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – The death toll from a powerful typhoon doubled overnight in one Philippine city alone, reaching 4,000, as helicopters from a U.S. aircraft carrier and other naval ships began flying food, water and medical teams to ravaged regions on Friday. President Benigno Aquino has faced mounting pressure to speed up the distribution of aid and also come under criticism over unclear estimates of casualties, especially in Tacloban, capital of hardest-hit Leyte province. A notice board in Tacloban City Hall estimated the deaths at...
Obamacare advocate poised to become next U.S. surgeon general [ BeritaTerkini ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate the head of a doctors group that promotes his signature healthcare law to be the next U.S. surgeon general, the White House said on Thursday, shortly after Obama proposed a “fix” for the latest problem with the law. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, president of Doctors for America, will succeed Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, who has been acting as the surgeon general since July, overseeing public health endeavors around the country, after Regina Benjamin completed her four-year term. Doctors for America is a group of...
Obama’s healthcare ‘fix’ strictly political move [ BeritaTerkini ]
At best, President Obama’s proposed healthcare “fix” offers political protection for vulnerable lawmakers. Because beyond giving insurance companies permission to continue offering individual healthcare plans that don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act, the president’s fix doesn’t compel anyone to do anything. So why even propose such a fix, and especially a remedy that, according insurance experts, could lead to more expensive premiums for the people the fix is supposedly supposed to help? As Kaiser Family Foundation vice president Larry Levitt explained to Yahoo News...
No apologies from House Democrats on Obamacare confusion [ BeritaTerkini ]
House Democratic leaders are refusing to apologize for the confusion caused when millions of Americans received health insurance cancellation notices as a result of the Affordable Care Act, even after President Barack Obama’s contrite press conference on the matter and a clear statement of apology last week. Shortly after Obama announced Thursday that he would unilaterally extend by one year the period in which insurers could offer insurance plans that do not meet new quality standards, Democrats moved to defend the “keep your plan” line. Speaking to reporters on...
Analysis: Humble-sounding Obama tries to climb out of healthcare hole [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Normally brimming with self-confidence, President Barack Obama showed an emotion on Thursday he rarely shares with Americans: humility. He strode to a White House podium with a jarring admission: He believes he has lost the confidence of the American people and deserves the blame for the rocky rollout of his signature healthcare law. The concession was indirect, to be sure, as he spoke of “winning back the confidence of the American people,” but nonetheless was unusual in the history of the American presidency, let...
White House leaves itself option to extend Obamacare fix beyond 2014 [ BeritaTerkini ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration could extend beyond 2014 a one-year fix in its healthcare law that allows insurance companies to renew health plans for consumers whose policies would otherwise be canceled, the White House said on Thursday. President Barack Obama announced a plan to let insurance companies extend policies that would not meet the minimum standards of the Affordable Care Act. In a fact sheet outlining the details of that plan, the White House said the Department of Health and Human Services would consider a further extension of that fix...
Olivia Wilde Talks Laid Back Approach to Wedding Dress, Maternity Style [ BeritaTerkini ]
von Rose Curiel| Übersetzt von Rose Curiel 14. November 2013 – 13:15 Olivia Wilde is one laid back lady when it comes to fashion! With an upcoming wedding—a time when many women go a little nuts figuring out every detail behind their outfits—the bride-to-be is taking a lax stance on finding the perfect dress for her big day. “I just trust my eye,” the actress, who is engaged to Jason Sudeikis, revealed to the Editorialist via People about her wedding prep. Yep, no bridezilla here! And right in keeping with her trust-my-gut approach to styling, the 29-year-old isn’t changing...
Police shoot armed man during arrest at Wisconsin hospital [ BeritaTerkini ]
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin was on lockdown Thursday after a man fired a handgun on its seventh floor, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said. The shooter was injured and taken into custody by law enforcement officers who were trying to serve him a warrant, Clarke said. He did not identify the shooter and said no other injuries were reported. In a statement, the hospital said, “The situation has been contained. The hospital building itself remains locked down until law enforcement issues a complete all-clear.” The facility describes...
Milwaukee hospital on lockdown after shooting: sheriff [ BeritaTerkini ]
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin was on lockdown Thursday after a man fired a handgun on its seventh floor, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said. The shooter was injured and taken into custody by law enforcement officers who were trying to serve him a warrant, Clarke said. He did not identify the shooter and said no other injuries were reported. In a statement, the hospital said, “The situation has been contained. The hospital building itself remains locked down until law enforcement issues a complete all-clear.” The facility describes...
Miller ‘to work with’ phone firms [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – Executives of mobile phone companies are meeting Whitehall officials to discuss consumer concerns about prices. The meeting came amid reports that Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to press communications companies for a better deal for consumers, as part of his effort to regain the initiative on cost-of-living issues from Labour following Ed Miliband’s promise of an energy price freeze. In September, the Government announced a review intended to improve the transparency of information presented to consumers about their phone bills and prevent nasty...
Obama, under political pressure, offers fix to healthcare policy [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Steve Holland and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from his fellow Democrats on Thursday announced a plan to let insurers renew for one year the health plans for Americans whose policies would be otherwise canceled due to Obamacare. The administrative fix offered by Obama would allow insurers to offer certain health plans in 2014 that do not meet the minimum requirements of the health reform law, but require the companies to spell out how the policies are substandard and what alternatives are available. “This fix...
Call for end to ‘confusing’ charges [ BeritaTerkini ]
Press Association – The watchdog Which? has called for an end to “confusing” mobile phone charges that it claims leave consumers paying more than they should. The consumer group wants simpler tariffs with handset and service charges separated, and the handset costs automatically dropped once paid off to prevent customers overpaying. It has called on mobile providers and the Government to introduce easier switching, without waiting for possible new EU regulations, and for sim cards to be unlocked for free once the handset is paid off. And it said consumers should be allowed to...
Benny Benassi’s Danceable Earworm ‘Back to the Pump’ – Song Premiere [ BeritaTerkini ]
Electro master goes back to basics with a catchy club rocker Electro master Benny Benassi is back with a danceable new earworm called “Back to the Pump.” The Milan-born producer-DJ has been at the forefront of EDM culture for over a decade, since his 2002 hit “Satisfaction.” The 25 DJs That Rule the Earth “‘Back to the Pump’ is the kind of back-to-basics club rocker for the core fans who’ve been supporting since ‘Satisfaction,’ and anyone else who enjoys it, of course!” Benassi tells Rolling Stone. Full of perfectly timed build-ups, a head-banging beat, heavy drops and a catchy melody,...
Insight: Profit bonanza eludes companies chasing obesity business [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Ben Hirschler and Martinne Geller KALUNDBORG, Denmark (Reuters) – Steam rises from pipes at a giant industrial complex on the edge of the Baltic Sea whose success is a testament to the world’s diabetes and obesity epidemic. Novo Nordisk’s Kalundborg factory, 100 km west of Copenhagen, makes half the planet’s insulin for diabetics, putting it on a list of global sites the United States sees as vital to its interests, according to a WikiLeaks cable in 2010. Soaring diabetes rates, driven by increasing obesity, have fuelled profits at the Danish company for two decades....
Lilly to pump in $700 million to boost insulin making capacity [ BeritaTerkini ]
(Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co said it will invest more than $ 700 million to boost its insulin manufacturing capacity in Puerto Rico, France, China and the United States. The company’s traditional stronghold has been its diabetes treatments, but the sales of its drugs have been suffering due to increasing competition from companies including Denmark’s Novo Nordisk. Diabetes is increasingly becoming a hard-to-win battle globally and, according to the International Diabetes Federation, the number of people estimated to be living with the disease soared to a new record...
Some spent fuel rods at Fukushima were damaged before 2011 disaster [ BeritaTerkini ]
By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) – Three of the spent fuel assemblies due to be carefully plucked from the crippled Japanese nuclear plant at Fukushima in a hazardous year-long operation were damaged even before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out the facility. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said the damaged assemblies – 4.5 meter high racks containing 50-70 thin rods of highly irradiated used fuel – can’t be removed from Fukushima’s Reactor No. 4 using the large cask assigned to taking out more than 1,500 of the assemblies. One...
Bird flu strain infects human for 1st time [ BeritaTerkini ]
LONDON (AP) — A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman, a nasty surprise that shows scientists must do more to spot worrisome flu strains before they ignite a global outbreak, doctors say. On a more hopeful front, two pharmaceuticals separately reported encouraging results from human tests of a possible vaccine against a different type of bird flu that has been spreading in China since first being identified last spring, which is feared to have pandemic potential. The woman, 20, was hospitalized in May with a...
China says people sympathetic about Philippines, online bile unrepresentative [ BeritaTerkini ]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Thursday that online comments calling on the government not to help the typhoon-struck Philippines did not reflect most Chinese people’s view, as it announced a further $ 1.64 million in aid. China, the world’s second-largest economy, initially announced it was giving just $ 200,000 to the Philippines, which was dwarfed by far larger contributions from countries like Japan, Britain and New Zealand. Many Chinese took to Sina Weibo, the country’s answer to Twitter, to say that the government should give nothing to a country with which...
Telefonica says not aiming for full control of Telco -paper [ BeritaTerkini ]
Reuters – MILAN (Reuters) – Telefonica will not exercise a call option to increase to 100 percent its stake in Telco, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia, the chairman of the Spanish telecoms group told an Italian daily on Thursday. “The structure of the new accords is very clear: Telefonica cannot own more than 49 percent of Telco,” Cesar Alierta was quoted as saying in financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore. “We have no intention of exercising the call (option).” Telefonica reached a deal in September with other shareholders in Telco allowing it to gradually take over...
