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An investigation continues into what has caused hundreds of visitors to a Tennessee zipline destination to suddenly develop gastrointestinal illness. |
More than 500 people have reported symptoms including stomachache, nausea and vomiting after visiting the CLIMB Works Zipline Canopy Tour in Gatlinburg. The Tennessee Department of Health announced Thursday that officials are continuing to look for the cause of the illnesses. |
“At this time, we cannot point to one simple cause of this outbreak,” John Dunn, the department’s deputy state epidemiologist, said in the news release about the investigation. |
Since June, several visitors to the CLIMB Works facility tested positive for the common stomach bug norovirus, according to the department. Norovirus causes acute gastroenteritis, or inflammation of the stomach or intestines. Symptoms, which typically last one to three days, include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stoma... |
One patient tested positive for both norovirus and enteropathogenic E. coli, a diarrheal pathogen, according to the department. Symptoms of E. coli infection may last several days. |
“Preliminary testing and environmental health assessments indicate the water system at the zipline facility may have contributed to the outbreak; however, there are likely other sources involved in the spread of the illnesses, including contaminated surfaces and person-to-person transmission,” Dunn said. |
The Department of Health said CLIMB Works, which uses well water, has been cooperating fully with the public health investigation. |
“We have implemented every recommendation from the Health Department and are currently only using complimentary bottled water for our drinking water and added an additional chlorination system for our non-potable water,” owner Nick Thompson wrote in an email. |
“We feel awful for anyone that got sick and are asking anyone affected to contact us directly so we can help make the situation right for our guests,” he said. |
While the investigation into the cause of the outbreak remains ongoing, Thompson added that the situation has been contained for the safety of future visitors. |
Katie Griffin, a woman who visited the facility, wrote in a public review that her 9-year-old daughter suffered a stomachache and vomiting. The girl couldn’t get out of bed for days, causing her to miss a softball tournament, the review said. |
“She had it the worst out of our family of 5 but we soon found out that the other family that had ziplined with us all fell ill just as bad as her. No one else on the team was sick or ever got sick,” Griffin wrote. |
The CLIMB Works management team responded to each of the reviews related to reports of illness, including Griffin’s post, noting that the team is working the public health investigation and requesting that visitors who got sick call the facility. |
Former Offaly dual star Seán Ryan has called time on his inter-county career after 13 seasons of service to the Faithful which saw him accumulate 95 competitive appearances between league and championship in both codes. |
The diminutive Birr clubman debuted for the footballers under Kevin Kilmurray in 2006 when Offaly were plying their trade in Division 1A and featured off the bench against Cork, Mayo, Tyrone, Kerry and Monaghan. |
Ryan tried both codes the following year with great success and made his senior hurling debut at midfield under John McIntyre in their four-point Qualifier defeat to Tipperary, finishing with an impressive tally of 1-2. |
Despite Offaly's fortunes wavering, Ryan stayed loyal to the hurlers for the last six years and was captain in 2017 with his last appearance coming in their disappointing Leinster SHC round-robin defeat to Dublin in June. |
Johnny McCaffrey came on as a substitute for Dublin that day and the Lucan Sarsfields clubman also hung up his inter-county boots yesterday after skippering the Dubs to historic league (2011) and Leinster (2013) successes. |
He was a mainstay under Anthony Daly but fell out of favour under Ger Cunningham before finishing out his career under Pat Gilroy. |
"I would like to thank Pat Gilroy and his management team for the work they did over the last 12 months in getting Dublin back on track," McCaffrey said in his retirement statement. |
"I was very lucky to have played with some of the best hurlers Dublin has ever produced. I made some great friends, won some silverware and created memories that will last us a lifetime." |
Derry's footballers have been hit with a big departure ahead of 2019 as the inter-county career of outstanding attacker Mark Lynch has come to the end of the road. |
While Derry have fallen from grace in recent years and will operate in Division 4, Lynch is adamant that they can bounce back under Damian McErlain. |
"There are a lot of talented young footballers with bright futures coming through in Derry," the Banagher forward said. "I remember the step up from minor to senior and how it forced me to develop my game. We need to give this latest crop the same space, opportunity and encouragement." |
London, 27 Aug 2018: Four pro-Khalistan protesters have managed to evade heavy security to enter Rahul Gandhi’s event at the Ramada Hotel conference centre in South Ruislip in West London and spent hours alongside more than 1,500 Person Of Indian Origin (PIO) Congress supporters and British Indian MPs. |
The protesters — three men and one woman — were escorted out of the hotel by the police on Saturday night. They later told TOI that they were protesting against Gandhi’s Friday’s remarks on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The incident is seen as a major security breach. |
Sudhakar Goud, an IOC UK spokesman, said: “We are investigating the matter. |
(Reuters) - A consistent set of results lifted Swedish boat Artemis Racing to the top in the Chicago leg of the America’s Cup World Series (ACWS) that finished on Sunday. In front of a large crowd at Chicago's Navy Pier, Artemis finished second in the first race on Friday, and then second, first and fourth on Sunday on... |
"We feel that we have very good boat handling now, and very good speed,” said Nathan Outteridge, the Australian skipper of Artemis. |
"Today was all about nailing those gybes ... That made us strong." British boat Land Rover BAR, which won the first race on Sunday, finished the weekend in second place with 58 points, two better than SoftBank Team Japan, which won the first race on Friday and final race on Sunday, but finished last in the second race ... |
Columbia Spectator Editor: How are we going to top the Times’ story about the UPENN kids who lost the jobs Bear promised they could have before, you know. |
Columbia Spectator Staff Writer: Hmm…I mean, there’ve got to be some Columbia kids in the same situation, no? I could interview a bunch of them? |
CS E: It's poss…tell me more. |
CS SW: Well my roommate’s friend had his offer from Bear taken back and now he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to afford to live in Murray Hill this summer…there’s a chance his parents might pay his rent, but there’s also a chance they might make him move home, which I think is sort of crazy, and would make for a good st... |
CS E: Well, it’s worse than the Penn girl who’ll merely have to be subsidized by mom and dad for a spell, that’s for sure, but we can do better. |
CS E: There’s go to be more pain. More heartbreak. Ya dig? |
CS E: We need to give voice to those who cannot speak. |
CS SW: I know. But I've got nothing. |
CS E: Same…damn, this is harder than I thought it'd be. |
CS SW: You’re telling me. |
CS E: Oh, oh wait, here it is, here comes the money shot—I just got an email about a girl who got the bad news about Bear WHILE ON SPRING BREAK. And get this—she didn’t line up another job at a hedge fund for almost a month after that. |
CS SW: God, that is perfect. |
CS E: More where that came from, coming at ya. Some chick from the class of ’10—are you sitting down? Are you ready for this? Do you have a paper bag to blow into, because you’re going to need oxygen in a second—got her Bear internship taken away. |
CS SW: Then what happened? |
CS E: She got one with JPMorgan. |
CS SW: Christ, that was touch and go for a while. |
CS SW: You see? This is why they pay you the big bucks. |
Jimmy Cayne: "My office door was always open to any employee who had concerns about violations of our risk or compliance policies, or any other inappropriate conduct." |
Boaters at Gloucester Docks are unhappy that dredging is being carried out to allow tall ships access so a Hollywood movie can be filmed. |
Work began on Monday and is due to last for three weeks, before filming of the movie, believed to be Through the Looking Glass, begins on 18 August. |
Concerned boaters said they were not given enough notice and the work would cause disruption on the waterway. |
The Canal and River Trust denied boat movements would be restricted. |
We're concerned about the lack of consultation. |
Martin Turner, chairman of the Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Branch of the Inland Waterways Association, said: "We have no objection to dredging as such, the issue is when it's being done and the lack of notice." |
He said it was a "serious issue" because the docks were busy with holidaymakers and usage restrictions were being put on locks linking them with the River Severn. |
"The boaters are paying their fees and can't use the facilities," he said. |
Mr Turner said many boaters had been given no warning because they did not have internet access. |
Nick Worthington from the Canal and River Trust, which looks after waterways, said: "This a fantastic opportunity to bring some wonderful ships into Gloucester Docks. |
"We're working with a third party filming company and we don't have control over their deadlines." |
He said timings had been agreed, and notification given two weeks ago. |
"In an ideal world we would have had more notice and would do the dredging out of the main boating season," he said. |
The lock would be open for three hours each day, allowing "three or four locks per hour" and "at least half a dozen boats per lock", he added. |
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government should set new rules to govern appointments to Crown corporations to ensure that people are chosen on the basis of merit, not patronage, says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. |
“The appropriate approach is that there are merit-based appointments to Crown corporations that come through a body that is not open to partisan pressures and paying somebody off for their service to a party,” May said. |
May’s call comes after iPolitics revealed that a former top political advisor for Conservative Industry Minister James Moore landed a lucrative job with a federal Crown corporation in the final days of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government – hired by a board of directors dominated by Conservative party dono... |
Colin Metcalfe, who worked for several years as an advisor to Moore — the Conservatives’ political minister for British Columbia — was appointed in August to the brand new position of vice-president corporate affairs for Ridley Terminals (RTI), a coal export terminal that the government has been sole owner of since 199... |
While the president of a federal Crown corporation would normally appoint a vice-president, former president George Dorsey confirms that Metcalfe was hired by Ridley Terminals’ board of directors. He said the position did not exist previously and he said he played no role in the decision. |
Metcalfe has denied his new job is the result of political patronage and says he was cleared by Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson’s office to take the job. |
May said it was “unusual and inappropriate” for the board of a Crown corporation, rather than the president, to hire a vice-president. |
Marc Roy, director of communications for Transport Minister Marc Garneau, who oversees Ridley, said the government does not plan to intervene in the Ridley board’s decision to hire Metcalfe. |
Roy’s comments come despite the fact that under schedule III of the Financial Administration Act, which governs Ridley, the Crown corporation is “ultimately accountable through the appropriate Minister, to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs” and cabinet has the power to issue directives to a Crown corporation th... |
Metcalfe had long been known in political circles as the go-to guy for the Conservatives when it came to British Columbia. Former Conservative aide Joseph Soares learned that firsthand when he worked for former Conservative Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon. |
Among Soares’ jobs was the task of filling vacancies on several Crown corporations that fell under Cannon. When it came to British Columbia, that meant a call to Metcalfe. |
Metcalfe, however, was more concerned with rewarding those who had helped the party, said Soares. |
Even after he left the transport minister’s office and joined the prime minister’s office, Soares continued to be interested in Ridley Terminals. At one point, just before the government fired Daniel Veniez, the chairman of the board who Soares had helped hire, Soares had a talk with his successor in the transport mini... |
Soares says he is concerned about Ridley’s direction and the way it has treated two people who turned around what Soares says was a “white elephant” and made it profitable – Dorsey and Veniez. |
“I can’t see the rationale of the current board leadership in reverting to a governance model that has proven unsuccessful. The numbers speak for themselves. I don’t know what they are thinking. |
"HEAD OVER HEELS," Joan Micklin Silver's screen adaptation of Ann Beattie's novel "Chilly Scenes of Winter," is a tantalizing movie, seeming to be on the verge of some revelation of profound feeling that, at long last, never comes.By the time we reach the end, we realize that everything we were to learn about its chara... |
It seems you can't move in today's world without leaving a digital footprint. The good news is that escaping the panopticon doesn't have to mean living in a cave in Tora Bora. Frank Ahearn, a former skip-tracer and the author of How To Disappear, reveals how to pull off the ultimate vanishing act. |
"The beauty of corporations, whether in the US, Canada, Caribbean, UK, Guernsey or Jersey, is that they offer privacy," says Ahearn. A corporation lets you conduct business affairs anonymously. Utilities, property and other essentials can be leased in the company's name. |
When you upload info to social networks, you grant them rights to share that data. "If you want to remain anonymous you can't rely on third-party entities," he says. Share images on your own password-protected website, and use Skype or email to stay in touch with friends. |
To throw stalkers off the scent, Ahearn buys 30 different domains containing variations of his client's name and creates an individual social network for each one. He then splices real information about each client with misinformation about their location and activities. |
Open a bank account and deposit a few hundred pounds. |
Send the card to a friend in a different city and have them spend in small increments. If your bank statements fall into the wrong hands, says Ahearn, "They'll find those supermarkets and search in the wrong place". |
Choose where you can lead a normal life. "If you're a small-town English girl, you might find it difficult to disappear in London. Everyone wants the palm trees and beachfront life-style, but they can't always have it." Forget the beach hut in Goa: think two-bedroom flat in Oldham. |
Two years ago Michael Tieso, now 25, was working in a windowless cubicle at UPS , plotting his escape. Inspired by travel blogs, he decided that he would save up enough money to travel for a year. He brought his lunch to work, sold his possessions on Craigslist, and downgraded from a $1,400 apartment to a $200 bedroom ... |
Considering that the prospect of taking just a week off can throw many people into a task-delegating, calendar-clearing frenzy, taking a prolonged break--by quitting a job, or taking a paid or unpaid leave--can seem downright insane. But a sabbatical (a word derived from the word "sabbath," for rest) can have enormous ... |
People often have to overcome countless mental hurdles to taking a sabbatical, especially the fear of giving up job and financial security. "Many people believe that a down economy is the worst time to take a sabbatical," says Dan Clements, the author of Escape 101: Sabbaticals Made Simple. "I think the opposite is tru... |
After you've mentally committed to taking time off, think about what you really want to do, and why. Do you want to volunteer in Haiti? Learn Italian? Climb Mt. Everest? "The most fundamental question is why you are doing it," says Clive Prout, a Washington state life coach who helps people plan sabbaticals. "Some peop... |
Once you know why you want to take time off--and have mentally committed to doing so--begin putting your plan into action. Clements advocates three steps: Start an automatic savings plan, and sock away anything from $10 to $1,000 a month. Choose a departure date and a length of time, and book it on all of your calendar... |
Next, figure out your employment situation. If you want to return to your current job after you leave, make sure your company values you highly. Don't complain about being burnt out; instead, spell out the reasons why a sabbatical will benefit both you and your employer. Maybe it will help your company cut costs, give ... |
Start saving as soon as possible. "Money is the first big hurdle for most people," says Clements. "But the cost of taking a really great sabbatical can be a fraction of that of your regular life." People on sabbatical tend to go to places where the cost of living is lower. Traveling requires less infrastructure: Gone a... |
Don't let the uncertainty of a sabbatical stop you from taking one. "The best sabbaticals are taken with a dose of faith," says Clements. "Learn to trust that things will work out. They almost always do, and there's no return on thinking otherwise." |
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The British Museum in London is to complete its series of exhibitions on power and empire with an examination of the rule and legacy of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II. |
Reigning from 1502 to 1520, Moctezuma was the last great emperor to ascend to power over Mexico’s native Aztec civilization before the invasion of the Spanish Conquistadors under Hernan Cortes. |
He is remembered for consolidating an empire stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico at a time of flourishing culture, and oversaw the building of a new palace. |
Paradoxically, though, he is also associated with the foreign conquest by Cortes. |
“Moctezuma is ... perhaps one of the most fascinating examples of implosion of power and the clash of civilizations,” said Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. |
The world of Moctezuma will be portrayed through objects drawn from Mexican, European and U.S. collections, ranging from sculptures, gold and mosaic ornaments by artisans employed in the Aztec court to European colonial portraits. |
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