Telegraph publishes letter from 300 business leaders who back UK leaving EU
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
A letter from more than 300 business leaders was published on Sunday in The Telegraph in support of the United Kingdom (UK) voting to leave the European Union (EU) in the EU referendum next month.
The signators, writing in a personal capacity, are connected with businesses of small to medium size. This is in contrast to multiple, high-profile, supporters of Britain Stronger in Europe, the official campaign to stay in Europe. This support has included financial donations from companies such as JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. Those supporting a vote to leave the EU have previously claimed the campaign to remain is only supported by big business.
The Telegraph suggested the letter would be interpreted as a response to last week’s warnings from the International Monetary Fund and Bank of England that voting to leave the EU would have negative consequences for Britain’s economy. These institutions warned that the UK leaving the EU would increase uncertainty as new trade agreements were negotiated, and cause a fall in the value of the pound sterling. One of the signatories, Lord Farmer, has also stated the EU will still want to trade with the UK, and has “no reason to put up barriers.”
The letter’s publishing coincides with that of research from Vote Leave stating UK exports to the EU have performed worse over the last fifteen years than any other EU country. Vote Leave argue this shows “the ‘single market’ has failed British exporters”.
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Gatlinburg’s Top 5 Family-Friendly Hiking Trails
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The Smokey Mountains gives walkers and backpackers a wide variety of hiking opportunities all through the park. Together with 850 miles of trails obtainable ranging in varying degrees of difficulty from simple and obtainable for wheel chairs or strollers and requires a hour to an hour, to a pretty difficult trek involving steep mountaineering with water crossings, and which require a permit for back-country hiking as they take 7 days to accomplish. The Smokey Mountains Park is a hiker/backpacker/nature seeker’s dream. Gatlinburg has its benefit of sitting in this hiker’s wonderland with countless trail-heads just beyond the town.
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These kinds of main 5 family-friendly climbing trails have already been rated by many factors. The degree of complexity to transverse the path, duration of the trail, nature experience available, and also sites over the path, popularity of the trek, accessibility to parking at trails head and accessibility to restrooms have all been taken into consideration. 1. The Gatlinburg Trail holds number one location for being family-friendly. This is actually the only trail in the Great Smokey Mountains besides the Oconaluftee River Trail in North Carolina to permit pet dogs on the trek. A simple walk of 1.9 miles from Gatlinburg to the Sugarlands Visitors Centre or 3.8 miles round trip, this trail is popular with joggers, backpackers, and bicyclist. It’s a level route which winds next to the Little Pigeon River with the woodland and goes over Cataract Falls. 2. Clingman’s Dome Tower is an easy 2 mile round trip paved trail which is open to strollers and wheel chairs. Simply no dogs and cats allowed. The access from Clingman’s Dome Road parking area is approximately 22 miles away from Gatlinburg. You can find restrooms and seats obtainable along the trail route. A large paved ramp leads up to the domed tower making it easy to get at. This trail’s peak certainly is the second highest peak eastern side of the Mississippi River and provides an outstanding view from the dome. 3. Baskin Creek Falls starts with a brief and easy climb giving landscapes of Gatlinburg as you go along. A three mile round trip hike to a stunning 25 feet waterfall, this trail is not as popular as many of the others. It is a fantastic trek to leave packed areas and provides an enticingly stunning area for backpackers to stop for a refreshments or to sleep. 4. Grotto Falls around the Trillium Gap Trail is a 2.4 mile round trip hike through the hemlock woodland and an range of wild plants towards the Grotto Falls. This falls is the only 1 in the Great Smokey Mountains Park which hikers can actually stroll behind. Seeing the water and hearing it roar as it cascades in front of you is definitely an encounter that’s not soon ignored and worth the effort of hiking this trek. Having access to this trek is from the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. 5. Alum Cave also comes in at number 5 for family-friendly paths in the Gatlinburg spot. Even though this trail is a more difficult trail and is longer in length than the others on the list, it’s the one which is worth the time as well as energy to stroll it. At 4.4 miles it covers a region including the Arch Rock and Inspiration Point. The trek basically extends underneath the Arch Rock and then steps designed into the mountain lead to the the top of the arch. Past the arch the trail extend to the the Point and to the exact concaved bluff often known as Alum Cave. This cave is the location of Epsom salt mining from 1838-1854 and so the site of saltpeter mining by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In a level of 4955 ft. The spot from this vantage position pay back all who stroll into it. Whether or not a passionate walker or a sight seeing family, Gatlinburg presents trails for everyone. The spectacular sweetness of the Smokey Mountains is noticed all through each walking trail path.
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With US mid-term elections fast approaching, three prominent Democrats announce retirement
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
With this year’s November midterm elections fast approaching, three prominent United States Democrats announced their plans for retirement from public service on Wednesday.
Powerful and influential—yet controversial for his alleged close ties to the financial sector and his handling of last year’s bailout—Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut announced that he would not be seeking a sixth term this year.
In a speech to his supporters in East Haddam, Connecticut, the sixty-five-year-old senior senator—with his family at his side—said, “I have been a Connecticut senator for thirty years. I’m very proud of the job I’ve done and the results delivered. But none of us is irreplaceable. None of us is indispensable.”
He then went on to say, “Over the past twelve months, I’ve managed four major pieces of legislation through the United States Congress, served as chair and acting chair of two major Senate committees, placing me at the center of the two most important issues of our time—health care and reform of financial services.”
In addition to highlighting some personal travails, Dodd alluded to his precarious political situation, “I lost a beloved sister in July, and in August, Ted Kennedy. I battled cancer over the summer, and in the midst of all of this, found myself in the toughest political shape of my career.”
Despite this, Dodd adamantly maintained that none of the above reasons were the causes for his retirement. He said that his reasons were more “personal,” and that his retirement would hopefully give him a much-wanted opportunity to spend more time with his family.
Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota announced that he would not run for re-election this year either.
“Although I still have a passion for public service and enjoy my work in the Senate, I have other interests and I have other things I would like to pursue outside of public life,” said the sixty-seven-year-old, three-term senator who said he came to this decision after discussing his future with his immediate family over Christmas.
Governor of Colorado, Bill Ritter announced that he too would not seek a second term. The fifty-three-year-old freshman governor said that although he felt his race was “absolutely winnable,” after some deep “soul searching,” he realized that he truly wanted to retire from politics nonetheless. This due to the fact that he felt his main priority should be to be a better husband to his wife as well as a better father to their four children.
When asked to comment on Senator Dodd’s retirement on behalf of the Administration, Vice President Joseph Biden said Dodd would “be long recognized as one of the most significant senators of my generation.”
He furthermore stated, “I believe the nation will miss his wisdom, wit and compassion. I count myself lucky because I know he’s not going too far and will always be a source of advice and counsel.”
Biden gave similar comments and expressed like sentiments about the retirement of his other two Democratic colleagues as well.
