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Entertainment Calendar - Northwest Herald
ARTISTIC BITS ARTS CENTER & GALLERY, 316 N. River St., East Dundee, 847-844-8140 or www.artisticbits.org . Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday
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First we’ll completely destroy western Canada’s oil and gas, mining - Globe and Mail
They really put the conserve in conservative oh, uh, I mean they really put the con in conservative - as in con their sheep followers into believing everything they say - yeah, that’s more like it. What a great contribution to the debate!!! Did
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Dollar, travelers don’t go as far - Philadelphia Inquirer
If you’re annoyed at paying $2 for a small bottle of water at an airport before taking off to Europe, think of Philadelphia native George Terhanian. At the Barcelona, Spain, airport last week, he paid $3.50. That’s just one example of rising costs
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Air China launches European & North American seat sales - e-Travel Blackboard
Air China, the official flag carrier of the Peoples Republic of China and official airline partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, has launched a major European & North American seat sale as it aims to increase its market share from Australia over
Source: www.etravelblackboard.com

No Air Malta plans to fly to US - Malta Independent Daily
The airline said this when asked by The Malta Independent whether it had an interest to fly to the US following the Open Skies agreement which came into effect last week. The agreement European and American airlines to fly any route between any city
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Air France talks to Veolia about rail venture - Financial Times
Air France is holding talks about a joint venture that could see some of its short-haul flights switched to rail and increase competition for continental Europe’s mainly state-owned high-speed train operators. The move could mark the beginning of a
Source: www.ft.com

Flights canceled, delayed across Germany as Lufthansa employees walk - International Herald Tribune
FRANKFURT, Germany : Thousands of Lufthansa employees walked off their jobs for several hours early Tuesday, disrupting flights from airports across Germany in an effort to win more pay, union organizers said. Ground personnel at Frankfurt, Munich
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Jazz jettisons 270 jobs - Edmonton Sun
An unidentified man heads past the Air Canada Jazz offices at the Halifax airport yesterday. (ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS) HALIFAX — Travellers will find job and service cuts at Jazz Air results in fewer direct flights between the country’s
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Jazz makes more cuts - Ottawa Sun
HALIFAX — Jazz Air (TSX:JAZ.UN) is cutting 270 employees as the regional airline operator reduces capacity by five per cent. The Jazz reduction announced Thursday follows the mid-June move by Air Canada, from which Jazz was spun off and which buys
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UNESCO keeps Dresden as World Heritage Site - Salon
Jul 3rd, 2008 | QUEBEC CITY — U.N. officials decided Thursday to retain the eastern German city of Dresden as a World Heritage Site for now despite earlier warnings that the construction of a bridge endangered its status. In 2006, the UNESCO World
Source: www.salon.com

Young offenders in SF illegally get no more break - Salon
Jul 3rd, 2008 | SAN FRANCISCO — Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. Under a
Source: www.salon.com

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Gatwick improves punctuality in first quarter - Fhr-Net
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has released figures covering its members’ punctuality in the first quarter of 2008, showing improving performance at Gatwick Airport . Some 19.5 per cent of departures from Gatwick suffered delays of 15
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Industry News & People - Business Travel Executive
North Central BTA has awarded scholarships to Wanda Payne, travel manager at Freight Handlers Inc.; Diane Lovett, national account manager at Choice Hotels; and Cheryl Wingert, sourcing specialist for travel and wireless at Sonoco. The scholarships
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Air China launches European & North American seat sales - e-Travel Blackboard
Air China, the official flag carrier of the Peoples Republic of China and official airline partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, has launched a major European & North American seat sale as it aims to increase its market share from Australia over
Source: www.etravelblackboard.com

Lufthansa launches Pune-Frankfurt flight - Business Standard
German air carrier Lufthansa on Wednesday launched a direct Pune-Frankfurt flight that provides excellent connectivity to 97 European and 23 US desitnations. Lufthansa will operate Airbus A319 carrier with 48 all business class seats. Announcing the
Source: www.business-standard.com

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Interior Minister Advocates Preventative Custody for G8 Rowdies - Deutsche Welle
Extremists planning to disrupt next month’s Group of Eight summit of the world’s richest nations could be placed in preventative custody ahead of the meeting, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Friday. Schäuble said in a series of
Source: www.dw-world.de

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Transrapid Technology Headed for China? - Der Spiegel
The Transrapid is history. Here, a model of the maglev train with Munich’s Frauenkirche in the background. It was supposed to be a prestige project, elevating Munich into the technological elite. A magnetic levitation train line connecting the city’s
Source: www.spiegel.de

Lift off for A380 tickets; BA upgrades - The Australian
Taking flight: Seats on Qantas’s new flagship, the Airbus A380, have hit the market with the plane’s first flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles on October 20. The first A380 will operate two return services a week between Australia and Los Angeles
Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

The Republican Candidate - Adelante Digital
One of the most hostile U.S. newspapers when it comes to Cuba , headquartered in Florida, offers the following report: “Taking advantage of the negotiations to free the Bay of Pigs’ prisoners, the CIA tried to use a key person in the talks
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The Weedpatch Gazette - Tehechapi News
Real Name: Samuel Heath Member Since: February 03, 2007 Last Signed In: June 29, 2008 Profile Views: 4561 Blog Views: 50834 “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Harper Lee certainly put this in proper perspective, but why do politicians and
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INDUSTRY NEWS & PEOPLE April 2008 - Business Travel Executive
Dallas / Fort Worth BTA has recognized Carol Devine, who is retiring and relocating to Kansas City, for her many years in the travel industry and as an active member of DFWBTA for 15 years. Devine served as DFWBTA president for four years, as well as
Source: www.askbte.com

US Airways signs codeshare deal with Swiss Int’l Airlines - Boston Globe
NEW YORK— US Airways Group Inc. said Friday it signed a codeshare agreement with Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. that will allow passengers to transfer between the two airlines in Zurich and connect to 10 European destinations. Tickets for
Source: www.boston.com

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German Airliner Makes Emergency Landing At JIA - First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL — An LTU Airlines Airbus A-330-300 flight from Germany to Miami was forced to make an emergency landing at JIA Monday afternoon after the jumbo plane’s right engine failed. The flight from Dusseldorf carried 239 passengers and a
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INDUSTRY NEWS & PEOPLE April 2008 - Business Travel Executive
Dallas / Fort Worth BTA has recognized Carol Devine, who is retiring and relocating to Kansas City, for her many years in the travel industry and as an active member of DFWBTA for 15 years. Devine served as DFWBTA president for four years, as well as
Source: www.askbte.com

Air Canada expands Canada-Germany services with Lufthansa; Introduces - CNW Group
- Non-stop Ottawa-Frankfurt daily beginning June 1, 2008 - Non-stop Toronto-Dusseldorf six times weekly beginning May 1, 2008 - Second daily non-stop Calgary-Frankfurt beginning April 14, 2008 MONTREAL, Nov. 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada today
Source: www.newswire.ca

TheStar.com | Travel | A class above - Toronto Star
LUFTHANSA is spending more than $130 million U.S. on improvements to its business-class and first-class lounges worldwide and plans to significantly boost first-class check-in services at Dusseldorf over the next year. For more on its flights and
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INDUSTRY NEWS & PEOPLE August 2006 - Business Travel Executive
All Nippon Airways has opened a separate security lane for first-class passengers and top-tier members of its frequent-flyer program in the new South Wing of Narita Airport’s Terminal 1 in Tokyo. The new priority lane will allow eligible customers
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Bomb Threat Reignites German Debate on Video Surveillance - Deutsche Welle
Hardly anyone disputes the importance of video surveillance cameras in arresting one of the two railway bombers in the German town of Kiel. But increased reliance on big brother technology is not without its critics. The use of video surveillance
Source: www.dw-world.de

Europe on High Alert After British Terror Scare - Deutsche Welle
The thwarting of a plot in Britain to blow up aircraft in mid-flight has underlined the need for Europe to stay both tough and vigilant when it comes to fighting terrorism, according to security experts in Germany. The thought of having narrowly
Source: www.dw-world.de

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US: It flew 3,600 flights looking for hostages - FOX News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003. In the end, it was a daring operation by Colombian military intelligence
Source: www.foxnews.com

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