The Rolling Stones in the Channel Islands: August 18th – 22nd 1964 – Video

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The Rolling Stones played the Channel Islands during August 1964. In Guernsey they played for three nights in St George #39;s Hall (August 18th -20th) and two nights in Springfield stadium, Jersey...

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20 destinations for 2015: Ryukyu islands, Japan

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Made up of some 6,850 islands, it was only a matter of time before Japan threw its hat into the cruising ring. With that comes the opportunity to visit an island archipelago flung 1,000km across the South Pacific, known as the Ryukyu islands.

Located in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, Japans sunshine isles are in more ways than one its subtropical alter ego. The capital Naha, located midway down the island chain is closer to the tip of the Philippines than it is to Tokyo and from the chains southernmost island (weather permitting), its possible to see Taiwan.

Less conservative than their mainland counterparts the Okinawans swap salaryman attire for kariyushi a local take of the Hawaiian shirt and rice for the purple potato. Pack an appetite its worth a visit for the food experience alone. Longevity rates in Okinawa are among the highest in the world diet, martial arts (this is the home of karate), climate and spirituality are all said to play a part.

Invest a little time and effort and youll find a Japan just as timeless as the more traditional iconic favourites. A visit to one of the prefectures outer islands is to glimpse a rural idyll. Buffalo carts cross the shallow channel separating Iriomote and Yufujima; Ishigaki and its islands are home to a rare breed of beef cattle, while Kuroshima is home to more cows than people. Miyakojimas mineral-laden salt 18 at last count has landed it a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Whales migrate to the stunning Kerama Islands, just west of Naha and croissant-shaped Minna, looped by white sand, is a two-mile paddle away by kayak or a 15-minute ferry ride from the Naras Motobu port. Others including Miyako, popular with divers, are best reached via a short flight.

Although ships itineraries barely scratch the surface of the destination, cruising might just put Okinawa on the map.

How to go: Royal Caribbean (royalcaribbean.co.uk) calls at Okinawa on its eight-night Okinawa, Fukuoka and Jeju Cruise. From 714 per person (based on two people sharing) departing in July. Excludes flights.

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Douglas Todd: No holiday cheer for Metro ferry travellers to Gulf Islands

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BC Ferries cut the fuel surtax on fares in December and announced its jumping into the holiday spirit by offering great deals on hotel-travel packages between Victoria and Metro Vancouver.

But BC Ferries is still acting like Scrooge in regards to the unusually exorbitant fares it charges Metro Vancouver and Southern Gulf Island residents who travel back and forth.

Residents of Metro Vancouver pay about three times more than Victoria residents for a return trip to the Gulf Islands.

The startling inequality in the cost of travel to the Gulf Islands is yet another puzzling piece of what some are calling the community-harming behaviour of BC Ferries, which the Vancouver Suns Stephen Hume has been recounting in a series of 2014 columns.

The increasingly imbalanced ferry costs, which greatly reduce the likelihood that many of Metros 2.4 million residents will make their way to the Gulf Islands, help explain why restaurants, stores and bed and breakfasts on Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna islands are suffering.

This is how the payment disparity hits the people who would travel back and forth between Metro Vancouver and these four Gulf Islands:

The cost of a typical peak return trip, with car and driver, from Tsawwassen terminal to any of these four Gulf Islands is about $135.

The cost of a typical peak weekend return trip from the Swartz Bay terminal on Vancouver Island to these same Gulf Islands is just $52.

Whats more, with Experience Card discounts, Victoria residents who take the Swartz Bay route to any of these Gulf Islands can do the return trip for as low as $32. Students can often travel for free.

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Hey White Southerners, Youre Blacker Than You Think: New Genetic Study

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Get the conniption meds ready because many a white southerner may be getting ready to have one!

A new study published inThe AmericanJournal of Human Geneticshadresearchers using ancestry data that was compiled by 23and Me, a commercial genetic testing company,to measure the percentage of African ancestry of people who self-identified as white.

Got those meds ready?

As it turns out, self-identified white people who live in the South have the highest concentrations of African DNA.

In South Carolina and Louisiana the states shaded the darkest green on the mapbelow researchers found 2 percent African ancestry inoneout of every20 people who called themselves white. Add to this, in a lot of the South, about 10 percent of people who identified as white turned out to have African DNA.

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America: What Went Wrong? Finance, Wall Street, Taxes, Health Care, Pensions (2013) – Video

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Donald L. Barlett (born July 17, 1936) is an American investigative journalist and author who often collaborates with James B. Steele. According to The Washington Journalism Review (Magazine)...

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British Health Care Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

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A health care worker who returned to the U.K. from West Africa is being treated for Ebola in Glasgow, Scotland, after testing positive for the virus.

NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff tells our Newscast unit this is the first Ebola case diagnosed in the U.K. Doucleff reports:

"The patient started to feel sick Monday morning, immediately went to the hospital and was isolated. The patient will be transferred to a high-level treatment unit in London as soon as possible. Meanwhile health officials are tracking down all people who may have come into contact with the patient."

The patient, who had worked in an Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone, arrived in Glasgow late Sunday via London's Heathrow airport and Casablanca, Morocco. Health officials say the risk to others is low as Ebola isn't contagious until a person shows symptoms. And in this case, the disease was caught early.

The World Health Organization, in its latest numbers on the disease, says more than 20,000 people have been diagnosed with Ebola; 7,842 have died.

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How Employers Effectively Manage Health Care Cost and Quality [SLIDESHOW]

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Companies Search for More Effective Ways to Manage Health Care Costs

Change is in the air, as companies face continued health care insurance cost increases, uncertainty about some provisions of health care reform and an economy that is slow to recover, according to results of the 2014 Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health (NBGH) Employer survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care.

To find more effective ways to manage health care cost increases, most survey respondents are recalibrating their health care benefit strategy.

Click through the slideshow to learn the some of the strategies and tactics leading companies are implementing.

Only 4% of respondents do NOT plan to change their company's healthcare strategy for 2015 and beyond.

Meanwhile, a full three-quarters of respondents already have or are in the process of developing a new strategy.

Leading the list of focus areas, as it did last year, is building a supportive workforce culture, which includes the physical environment, leadership support and education, and information to support more informed health care decisions.

A close second focus area is developing and expanding healthy lifestyle programs and activities; more than twice as many employers as last year are doing so.

Twenty-nine percent of respondent companies say they are adopting or expanding the use of financial incentives to encourage health acitvities, use of higher-quality providers and other behavior changes.

Finally, about one in three employers (up significantly from one in five last year) are making changes to avoid the upcoming excise tax in 2018.

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Medical leaders to discuss state of health care

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Three of Broward County's top health care leaders will discuss how to improve medical care for the poor and whether there's an end to increasing health care costs.

The chiefs of Broward's largest hospital systems will speak on the state of the county's medical care at 7:45 a.m. Jan. 8 at the Tower Club, 28th floor, One Financial Plaza, 100 SE 3rd Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.

The panelists are:

Dr. Patrick Taylor, president and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale-based Holy Cross Hospital, a nonprofit Catholic 559-bed hospital. Holy Cross has expanded into Palm Beach County, opening an urgent care and imaging center in Boca Raton. The hospital plans to open three more urgent care and imaging centers in the next couple of years.

Frank V. Sacco, president and CEO of the South Broward Hospital District, also known as the Memorial Healthcare System. He runs a 2,020-bed operation that includes Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, four community hospitals, a nursing home, two surgery centers, a home health agency and an urgent care center. It's the third-largest public health care system in the nation.

Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, the new president and CEO of Broward Health. Like Sacco, he leads one of the largest U.S. public health care systems. Broward Health, also known as the North Broward Hospital District, encompasses more than 30 health care facilities. El Sanadi also is chairman of the Florida Board of Medicine and serves as emergency medical services medical director for several municipalities.

The panel's moderator will be Michael De Lucca, president and CEO of Broward Regional Health Planning Council, a nonprofit involved in health planning and system coordination.

Doors open at 7 a.m. Admission is free for members of the Tower Forum. It will be $35 for non-members, including breakfast

and parking. Checks can be sent to Tower Forum, P.O. Box 5041, Plantation 33318. For more information go to towerforum.org.

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Health officials confirm Ebola case in Scotland

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Scottish officials say a health care worker who returned from Sierra Leone to Glasgow was diagnosed with Ebola on Dec. 29, 2014. The patient traveled through London's Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in the United Kingdom, the day before. Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

Last Updated Dec 29, 2014 5:23 PM EST

Scottish authorities say a female health care worker who just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called it the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed inside the United Kingdom.

The patient flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London's Heathrow Airport, arriving late Sunday, the Scottish government said. The health care worker was admitted to a hospital on Monday morning.

Sturgeon said the patient, who is not being identified, had traveled on an internal British Airways flight from London to Glasgow on Sunday night and that passengers on that flight will be contacted.

But she said the patient was not yet showing symptoms at the time. People with Ebola are not believed to be contagious until they start exhibiting symptoms, which include a high fever, diarrhea and vomiting. The patient had been screened for symptoms before leaving at Sierra Leone and again at London Heathrow Airport, Sturgeon said.

She called the risk to the public "extremely low." "We have been preparing for this and have robust procedures in place," she said, adding that the patient would soon be transferred to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The case bore some similarities to that of Dallas nurse Amber Vinson, who took a flight from Cleveland to Dallas the day before she was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of Ebola in October. Vinson recovered, and no one aboard the flight got sick.

The only previous case of Ebola in Britain was William Pooley, a nurse who contracted the disease while treating patients in Sierra Leone. He recovered after treatment in London and returned to West Africa.

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