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| New One-Stop International Travel Options from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport |
Two new one-stop international routes were recently announced that are available from Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO). United Airlines will begin its first-ever service to Africa from Washington Dulles (IAD) to Kotoka International Airport (ACC) in June. This daily flight will be to Ghana's capital city of Accra on the western coast of Africa.Delta Airlines will offer twice-weekly service from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to Exuma International Airport (GGT) in the city of George Town on The Great Exuma island of the Bahamas, also commencing in June. Flights will be on Wednesdays and Sundays, providing access to the many resort areas of the Exuma District, a collection of over 300 islands. These two destinations join a growing list of one-stop international destinations available from CHO, offering greater convenience and more options for the Central Virginia region.Have you traveled to either of these international airports? How do they compare in size to CHO?
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danny schmidt
Danny celebrated his birthday in CHO, Austin let go of him for a day. Reunited with the King Of My Living Room bunch and Carrie Elkin at the Southern. Good to see these friends together, sweet.
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After creating the logo and website for CHO, we jumped on the opportunity to broadcast the new face of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. In a previous article I mentioned the demographic slicing we did to create a targeted marketing plan. The first stop in that plan was to create an ad series to run in [...]
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US campus gunman’s mental health records found
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Missing mental health records of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been discovered in the home of the university clinic’s former director, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Obama solidly with Israel in U.N. Rights Council
Okay, maybe I'll have to reel back all those commentaries about a growing rift between the Obama administration and Israel. This week, in the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, in two out of five of the votes on matters related to Israeli government policies in the 43-year-occupied territories, the U.S. was the only country that voted against a resolution that otherwise had the unanimous support of Council members. (Hat-tip, indirectly, to CWF.) One of these votes was about the Palestinians' oft-reconfirmed right to self-determination. That resolution (A/HRC/13/L.27),
reaffirms the inalienable, permanent and unqualified right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including their right to live in freedom, justice and dignity and to establish their sovereign, independent, democratic and viable contiguous State; also reaffirms its support for the solution of two States, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security...
The U.S. representative voted against. The other 45 members voted in favor. Then there was this very important resolution (A/HRC/13/L.28), in which the Council
condemns the new Israeli announcement on the construction of 120 new housing units in the Bitar Elite settlement, and 1,600 new housing units for new settlers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramat Shlomo, and calls upon the Government of Israel to immediately reverse its decision which would further undermine and jeopardize the ongoing efforts by the international community to reach a final settlement compliant with international legitimacy, including the relevant United Nations resolutions; urges the full implementation of the Access and Movement Agreement of 15 November 2005, particularly the urgent reopening of Rafah and Karni crossings [into Gaza], which is crucial to ensuring the passage of foodstuffs and essential supplies, as well as the access of the United Nations agencies to and within the Occupied Palestinian Territory; calls upon Israel to take and implement serious measures, including confiscation of arms and enforcement of criminal sanctions, with the aim of preventing acts of violence by Israeli settlers, and other measures to guarantee the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilians and Palestinian properties in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply fully with its legal obligations, as mentioned in the Advisory Opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice; and urges the parties to give renewed impetus to the peace process.
This time: 46 to 1, with no abstentions. On a resolution condemning Israeli actions in occupied Syrian Golan, the U.S. was also the only country to vote against, though this time there were 15 abstentions. There were also a couple of resolutions in which the U.S. was not the only country to vote against. These included, very importantly, the one calling on both Israel and the authorities in Gaza to conduct the credible, independent investigations into allegations of gross rights abuses that have been called for by both the Goldstone Report and the General Assembly. Regarding this resolution, the U.S. was joined in its opposition to it by Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, and Ukraine; and eleven states abstained from voting. But 29 members of this important council supported the resolution. In another significant resolution-- one calling on Israel to end its 43-year-old occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza-- and to immediately lift the siege imposed on Gaza, the U.S. was joined in its opposition by eight other states: Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; seven states abstained; and 31 voted for it. Why does Obama feel he has to do this? Why not just abstain?
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