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Christmas is God's time for open housePublished 8:03pm Friday, December 23, 2011
The prison warden circulated a note to inmates asking for suggestions on the kind of party they'd recommend for his 25th anniversary. The prisoners all had the same idea: open house!
Christmas is the season when many people have "open house" parties. But "open house" is misnamed, isn't it? When you plan an open house, do you invite everyone? I rather doubt it. We must be exclusive, for there isn't enough food, or space or time to invite everyone. Some folks get left out.
This is the way much of life is. Travel on an airplane is exclusive: one must purchase a ticket, come to the airport at the appointed hour and pass through security. College enrollment is exclusive: one must score well on the ACT or GRE, be accepted and pay tuition. Marriage is exclusive: one must find a willing mate, take a blood test, buy a license and locate an officiate.
And sadly, some organizations are exclusive. Only certain kinds of people are welcomed. We build walls separating us from others and erect signs reading "Members Only" or "No Trespassing."
However, on the first Christmas in Bethlehem, the Creator God gave a non-exclusive open house. The invitation went out to everybody. Note the message given the shepherds: "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to ALL people" (Luke 2:10, emphasis added).
It's significant that these shepherds received an angelic invitation. They were unclean men, both physically and religiously. Their work precluded matters of social decorum and religious ritual. Though they would be unwelcome in the temple or at the inn, they found welcome in a stable.
On the other side of the social spectrum were the wiremen whose invitation was sealed with a star! They were intelligent, revered and probably wealthy. They, too, found a warm welcome at Bethlehem's stable.
There were no walls, no barriers and no "members only" signs at the manger.
Later Jesus himself said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Here I am! I stand as the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me" (Matthew 11:28, Revelation 3:20).
To a world of exclusion where petty men build walls of restriction, the message of Christmas comes: salvation is available to all people. God is throwing a party, and everybody's welcomed.


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I know FTP is a concern, but 20% success rate based on that alone?
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Well, honestly, if your doc was supportive of your decision he wouldn't have given you such a shitty number to go home with. I mean, really, you can't say "Oh, I totally support you but you'll almost certainly fail" and be serious about it.
My c/s was for FTP with my first baby. I made it to 9 cm after about 27 hours, then off to the OR we went. I was induced (which can make a difference) but even if your labor was spontaneous there are SO MANY FACTORS that can influence how your labor progressed!!! Baby's position, if you had an epidural, if you were able to move around, whether your water was broken, what positions you labored in, how long you "stalled" before they called it FTP, whether there was any indication of maternal or fetal distress, etc. etc. etc.... Your next labor can be very, VERY different!
I've had 3 VBACs- and with my first VBAC I went from 4 cm to delivered in only an hour and a half. Yep. Even after that long nasty FTP labor the first time. It can happen!!! Don't lose hope, and don't let your OB bring you down.
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VBAC calculators are bogus, and what happened last time is not predictive of what will happen with future births. Even after my 1st VBAC, my next was totally different, as was the one after that. So, 4 births, all different.
I totally share Pam's frustration with this--but I will say that having spoken intimately to a few providers, there is a sort of pressure on OB's to "guarantee" a VBAC, and so they often come up with these percentages to cover their rear, honestly. I don't agree with it, and when I was quoted a similar percentage, I just told them I wanted a trial of labor, not a guaranteed VBAC. Be fair to me and my body, use evidence based medicine, and well, the rest is up to God, or me, or just plain luck. But I wanted a fair shot. Maybe approach it this way, to take the pressure off of both of you! GL!!
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My doc said something similar. I was induced with my first at a week late and I had an emergency c-sec due to infection with my second at ten days late. With my last, I was a week late and not dialated at ALL. He said it was likely that I won't dialate this time, either....keeping hope though! Hope you get your VBAC and show the doc he's wrong to doubt you! =)
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Ignore that number. The strongest predictor of a successful VBAC is a support provider, not your weight, previous pregnancies, etc.
And with birth, and life in general, there are never any gurantees. I mean, MDs can't even gurantee a successful RCS, even with all its supposed "controlled" risks.
Ok I did not read any of the PP. I just wanted to say that with my DD I was induced and did not progress past 3-cm. I had a successful all natural VBAC with my DS without any problems. I was in slow labor (every 8-10) for almost 30 hours when I was checked and I was at 3cm. Then DS was born about 6 hours later. At 40 and 41 weeks I was totally closed up. No dilation until labor at 41w 4 d. Each labor and birth is different.
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Thanks for all your support and words of wisdom. It's hard not to get a little down about it because I went into my first birth with the mindset that I can handle the pain and I'll do whatever it takes to bring my baby into this world (of course, never imagining it would end in an emergency c-section). And then to think about how things turned out and how I could barely handle getting to 3 or 4 cm...it's hard not to mentally beat myself up over this!
I am going to push back any elective c-section date until 42 weeks. Until then, I think I'm going to try reading about hypnobirth. Perhaps just finding ways to calm my mind so it doesn't effect my body so much.
Nofar333 - I acutally read "Ina May's guide to childbirth" for my DD and went into labor thinking I had everything under control. Looking back, I think I had some trust and fear issues I needed to sort out before even assuming I could do it.
Mama to son, Cole born 6/23/10 by C/S, baby girl, Bray arrived by NUVBAC 12/28/12!!
If your water was broken that can also make a difference IME. Contractions with my first vbac were much easier to cope with before my water broke, and with my last vbac my waters were intact until I was pushing- even during transition that time, I would've rated my pain a 7-8. It required focus, but was definitely manageable.
Do take heart, each labor really is different!
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The idea that drones can make war better is part of a longstanding myth about air power.
Yet, contrary to the dreams of air power advocates, Germany's will to resist remained unbroken. The vaunted second front of aerial battle became yet another bloody attritional brawl, with hundreds of thousands of civilians joining scores of thousands of aircrews in death.
Similarly mauled but unbroken by bombing was Japan, despite an air campaign of relentless intensity that killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians. Planned and directed by Major General Curtis LeMay, new B-29 bombers loaded with incendiaries struck Tokyo, a city made largely of wood, in March 1945, creating a firestorm that in his words "scorched and boiled and baked [the Japanese] to death." As many as 100,000 Japanese died in this attack.
Subsequently, 60 more cities were firebombed until the apotheosis of destruction came that August as atomic bombs incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing another 200,000 people. It quickly became an article of faith among American air power enthusiasts that these bombs had driven Japan to surrender; together with this, the "decisive" air campaign against Germany became reason enough to justify an independent US Air Force, which was created by the National Security Act of 1947.
In the total war against Nazi and Japanese terror, moral concerns, when expressed, came privately. General Ira Eaker worried that future generations might condemn the Allied bombing campaign against Germany for its targeting of "the man in the street." Even LeMay, not known for introspective doubts, worried in 1945 that he and his team would likely be tried as war criminals if the US failed to defeat Japan. (So Robert McNamara, then an Army Air Force officer working for LeMay, recalled in the documentary The Fog of War.)
But moral qualms were put aside in the post-war glow of victory and as the fear rose of future battles with communism. The Korean War (1950-1953) may have ushered in the jet age, as symbolized by the dogfights of American Sabre Jets and Soviet MiGs over the Yalu River, but it also witnessed the devastation by bombing of North Korea, even as the enemy took cover underground and refused to do what air power strategists had always assumed they would: give up.
Still, for the US Air Force, the real action of that era lay largely in the realm of dystopian fantasies as it created the Strategic Air Command (SAC), which coordinated two legs of the nuclear triad, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in silos and nuclear-armed long-range bombers. (The third was nuclear-missile-armed submarines.) SAC kept some of those bombers carrying thermonuclear weapons in the air 24/7 as a "deterrent" to a Soviet nuclear first strike (and as a constant first strike threat of our own). "Thinking about the unthinkable"—that is, nuclear Armageddon—became all the rage, with "massive retaliation" serving as the byword for air power enthusiasts. In this way, dreams of clean victories morphed into nightmares of global thermonuclear annihilation, leaving the 1930s air power ideal of "clean" and "surgical" strikes in the dust—for the time being.
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By the 1990s, laser- and GPS-guided bombs (known collectively as PGMs, for precision guided munitions) were relegating unguided, "dumb" bombs largely to the past. Yet like their predecessors, PGMs proved no panacea. In the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, for example, 50 precision "decapitation strikes" targeting dictator Saddam Hussein's top leadership failed to hit any of their intended targets, while causing "dozens" of civilian deaths. That same year, air power's inability to produce decisive results on the ground after Iraq's descent into chaos, insurrection, and civil war served as a reminder that the vaunted success of the US air campaign in the First Gulf War (1991) was a fluke, not a flowering of air power's maturity. (Saddam Hussein made his traditionally organized military, defenseless against air power, occupy static positions after his invasion of Kuwait.)
The recent marriage of PGMs to drones, hailed as the newest "perfect weapon" in the air arsenal, has once again led to the usual fantasies about the arrival—finally, almost 100 years late—of clean, precise, and decisive war. Using drones, a military need not risk even a pilot's life in its attacks. Yet the nature of war—its horrors, its unpredictability, its tendency to outlive its original causes—remains fundamentally unaltered by "precision" drone strikes. War's inherent fog and friction persist. In the case of drones, that fog is often generated by faulty intelligence, the friction by malfunctioning weaponry or innocent civilians appearing just as the Hellfire missiles are unleashed. Rather than clean wars of decision, drone strikes decide nothing. Instead, they produce their share of "collateral damage" that only spawns new enemies seeking revenge.
The fantasy of air war as a realm of technical decision, as an exercise in decisively finding, fixing, and dispatching the enemy, appeals to a country like the United States that idolizes technology as a way to quick fixes. As a result, it's hardly surprising that two administrations in Washington have ever more zealously pursued drone wars and aerial global assassination campaigns, already killing 4,700 "terrorists" and bystanders. And this has been just part of our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president's campaign of 20,000 air strikes (only 10% of which were drone strikes) in his first term of office. Yet despite—or perhaps because of—these attacks, our global war against al-Qaeda, its affiliates, and other groups like the Taliban appears no closer to ending.
And that is, in part, because the dream of air power remains just that: a fantasy, a capricious and destructive will-o'-the-wisp. It's a fantasy because it denies agency to enemies (and others) who invariably find ways to react, adapt, and strike back. It's a fantasy because, however much such attacks seem both alluringly low-risk and high-reward to the US military, they become a rallying cause for those on the other end of the bombs and missiles.
A much-quoted line from the movie Apocalypse Now captured the insanity of the American air war in Vietnam. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," says an Air Cav commander played by Robert Duvall. "Smelled like... victory." Updated for drone warfare, this line might read: "I love the sound of drones in the morning. Sounds like... victory." But will we say the same when armed drones are hovering, not only above our enemies' heads but above ours, too, in fortress America, enforcing security and conformity while smiting citizens judged to be rebellious?
Something tells me this is not the dream that airpower enthusiasts had in mind.
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This review is from: Rosewill RDIA-12001 Digital Camera Starter Kit
Pros: Decent quality. Case has extra pocket on flap and a second one on the front under the velcro. They are small, but will hold an extra SD card.
Cons: tripod is very small. Not sure what I would use it for. The case is also small. It barely holds a Panasonic DMC-ZS15 camera. The camera fits, but then it takes too much effort to zip the case up.
Other Thoughts: For ultra compact cameras, the case is not bad. There are likely other options that are provide easier access.
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This review is from: Rosewill RDIA-12001 Digital Camera Starter Kit
Pros: Comes with alot of high quality stuff
Cons: none so far, anyone with a digital camera should buy this. They deserve your money .
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This review is from: Rosewill RDIA-12001 Digital Camera Starter Kit
Pros: I got this on a deal when I bought a rosewill Firewaire PCI card.
Cons: It doesn't do anything for me. My old point and shoot camera is a Sony, and it is pretty little, and even it didn't fit in the cool little nylon case. Honestly, I can't imagine a camera that would fit in this thing. ANy camera that is thin enough, would be too tall and too wide. Any camera that fits H and W, is too long. Like my Sony.
Other Thoughts: I think they are unloading these kits now that ipods are the pocket camera of choice.
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Pros: Kit and components were fine, and generally a good deal... BUT:
Cons: Camera did NOT fit into the case !! Found out after it was too late to get back to newegg before the 30 day policy. My bad on the lack of timeliness on return. The case is VERY small... I would call it STINGY. Couple of pockets are good idea, but even if I could cram the camera into the case... which I can't... the pockets are barely enough to hold 2 AA batteries !!
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Google CEO talks up potential of mobile
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Tuesday to talk up the Android OS for tablets and phones, in addition to giving nods to Chrome, search and YouTube.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Tuesday to talk up the Android OS for tablets and phones, in addition to giving nods to Chrome, search and YouTube.
LG Electronics expects to sell more than 30 million smartphones this year, a fourfold increase over 2010, when it stumbled by being late to catch on to the smartphone trend.
Google, which has been sharply focused on strengthening its Apps suite for large enterprises, has introduced a set-up wizard that seems aimed primarily at small organizations with limited IT resources.
Samsung SDS and SAP have created BI (business intelligence) software for Android mobile devices, the companies announced Monday in conjunction with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Developers interested in coding projects for public cloud services have a new avenue to find work in the form of CloudSpokes, a community marketplace announced Monday by Appirio.
Just months after dismissing the importance of mobile apps, Research in Motion could be jumping aboard the app bandwagon.
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like good news for both companies because of their struggles in the smartphone arena.
A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday would create a do-not-track tool giving Internet users the power to prohibit online advertising networks and social media sites from tracking their Web behavior and sharing their personal ...
It would be hard to imagine a world completely devoid of PCs. But as smartphones continue to skyrocket in popularity and some people have already abandoned their desktops in favor of their do-it-all handsets, rumblings of a PC-free future abound.
Despite efforts by Google, HP, Dell and others to grab center stage in recent weeks with tablet computer announcements, Apple and its market leading iPads remain the chief attention getters.
Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should aid in better securing Java programs against buffer overflow attacks.
Google will offer its hundreds of millions of users the option of adding a second verification step when signing into their accounts, to complement the existing password-only authentication mechanism.
Executives from Facebook, Google and other companies have held talks with Twitter over a possible acquisition of the micro-blogging service, pushing its estimated value as high as $US10 billion, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Android Market's instant-download feature for applications that customers buy has a flaw: It could open up Android devices to malicious downloads from attackers, according to security firm Sophos.
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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The fights from Clint City become more bloodiest .Sentinel and Rescue barely can face the battles against G.H.E.I.S.T. ,Nightmare and others villains teams even they have powerful allies.But from nowhere,over the night,
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This looks like it will be packed with all the tightly-wound spy drama we can handle. ...
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- By Emily Estep
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- March 26, 2015
Editor's note: Our review of Serena originally ran during last year's London Film Festival, but we're re-posting it now as the film opens in limited release. Serena is one of two films from director Susanne Bier screening at the 2014 London Film Festival, and the other is a Danish-language film...
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- By Nathan Adams
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- May 16, 2013
Probably the first thing you need to know about Love is All You Need is that it doesn't include any Beatles songs on its soundtrack. It's original title is Den skaldede frisør, which seems to roughly translate to "The Bald Hairdresser," and Love is All You Need is the arbitrary...
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- By Scott Beggs
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- February 26, 2013
Here's the deal. Love is All You Need looks a bit too easy, a bit too happy and a bit too formulaic, but Susanne Bier is not your typical director. That alone is enough to make me question this trailer featuring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm having a meet cute and...
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming moving the city's election date to May 20.
The city says they didn't need to approve moving the election. They believe the three Georgia state lawmakers and a handful of others' case should be dismissed.
In 2012, the department of justice found in a report that moving the election could decrease the minority vote.
The federal judge decided not to give the case to a three-judge panel and dismissed it.
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Infants' Expectations about Object Label Reference
Graham, Susan A, Baker, Rachel K, Poulin-Dubois, Diane, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
Abstract The aim of this research was to examine whether infants at the early stages of lexical development were sensitive to the word-category linkage. In Experiment 1, 16-to 19-month-old infants were requested to match a target with either a basic-level or a thematic match, with or without a novel label. Stimuli were presented using the preferential looking paradigm. Infants in the Novel Label condition looked significantly longer at the basic-level match than infants in the No Label condition. In Experiment 2, infants were presented with a target, followed by a basic-level match and a superordinate-level match with or without a novel label. Again, infants in the Novel Label condition looked significantly longer at the basic-level match than infants in the No Label condition. Taken together, these findings indicate that infants initially assume that novel words label basic-level categories and thereby do honour the word-category linkage.
Young children are amazingly adept word learners. Anglin (1993) recently estimated that between the ages of 18 months and 6 years, children acquire five to six new words a day. A large number of the words acquired during the infancy period refer to object categories (Benedict, 1979; Nelson, 1973). Most of these early object words refer to basic-level (e.g., dog) as opposed to superordinate-level (e.g., animal) or subordinate-level (e.g., collie) categories (Anglin, 1977; PoulinDubois & Graham, 1994). For the majority of infants, first words are acquired slowly, over the course of several months. Then around 18 months of age, many infants experience an accelerated period of lexical acquisition termed the vocabulary spurt (Goldfield & Reznick, 1990; Nelson, 1973; Reznick & Goldfield, 1992).
Infants' rapid acquisition of novel words is a remarkable feat considering the formidable demands of the word-learning task. Upon hearing a new word, infants must link the word to the appropriate referent and then generalize that word to other instances of the referent. This task is extremely complex when one considers the highly inductive nature of the word mapping task - even in ostensive labelling situations, there is a multitude of possible referents for any new word. Given children's success at word learning, many researchers have argued that lexical development is guided by biases or constraints that facilitate word learning (e.g., Golinkoff, Mervis, & Hirsh-Pasek, 1994; Markman, 1989,1992). These biases are proposed to simplify the process of word learning by limiting the number of possible referents a child must consider when confronted with a new word.
One word-learning bias that has received a great deal of empirical scrutiny in recent years is the taxonomic assumption or the word-category linkage (Markman, 1989; Waxman & Hall, 1993). According to this bias, children assume that a novel word refers to members of the same kind or taxonomic category, and not to objects that are related spatially or thematically (Markman,1992). That is, when taught a new label for an object (e.g., a dog), children will extend that new label to another object in the same taxonomic category (e.g., another dog or animal) rather than to an object that is spatio-temporally related to the original object (e.g., a doghouse). In the present experiments, we examined the nature of the word-category linkage at the early stages of lexical development. Specifically, we examined whether infants who are provided with a novel label will attend longer to basic-level matches than infants who do not hear a novel label. A second goal was to examine infants' initial assumptions about the categorical level of a novel word when faced with a choice between superordinate- and basic-level matches.
The notion of a linkage between nouns and taxonomic categories was first proposed by Markman and Hutchinson (1984). They presented 3- and 4-year-old children with a series of target objects (e. …


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TheStreet) -- US Concrete (Nasdaq: USCR) has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from sell to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself. Highlights from the ratings report include:NEW YORK (
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- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 12.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 17.4%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.53, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.07, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- U S CONCRETE INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, U S CONCRETE INC swung to a loss, reporting -$1.12 versus $3.77 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings (-$0.88 versus -$1.12).
- Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Construction Materials industry and the overall market, U S CONCRETE INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for U S CONCRETE INC is currently extremely low, coming in at 11.80%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 0.60% trails that of the industry average.
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Air China is expanding its codeshare agreement with Air Canada. Both the airlines were currently into codeshare arrangement on trans-Pacific flights between Vancouver and Toronto, and Beijing and Shanghai.
The codeshare expansion now will see the two Star Alliance partners adding six new destinations in Canada and six destinations in China, via both the airlines' Vancouver and Beijing hubs. The expanded codeshare agreement will now allow Air China to place its marketing code on Air Canada-operated flights from Vancouver to Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton.
The codeshare agreement, which has been expanded, will similarly allow Air Canada to place its marketing code on Air China-operated flights from Beijing to Shenyang, Xi'an, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu and Guangzhou. Cai Jianjiang, President and CEO of Air China, said that the Chinese outbound travel market has witnessed a rapid growth over the past few years. Working in association with Canada's flagship carrier Air Canada would provide more travel options, and more seamless and convenient travel for customers of both the carriers.
Calin Rovinescu, President and CEO of Air Canada, said that the airline is delighted to strengthen its relationship with Air China. He said that the expanded agreement with China's flagship carrier Air China would provide the customers with seamless connections on a single itinerary for travel to six of the most important commercial, transportation and communication center in Western China. He said that China is the second largest trading partner of Canada. The airline is looking forward towards providing customers with more convenient travel options to Chinese destinations.
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Dr. Malgorzata Beckman graduated from the SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine in 2002. She works in Brooklyn, NY and 1 other location and specializes in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism and Diabetes. Dr. Beckman is affiliated with Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Maimonides Medical Center, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn Medical Center, New York Methodist Hospital and The Brooklyn Hospital Center.View More
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Here is an eclectic & controversial radio interview from Wolf Spirit Radio. Also involved in this interview interviewing me was Thomas Hughes Sasquatch Experiencer. I wanted to add that to the title but well it just wouldn't fit and let me whore the TV show connection at the same time! Grin. Just a unique interview from middle 2012 of me being interviewed that I enjoyed. Thought I would put it in the archives for free listening. Definitely a highlight for me from 2012. I need to relisten to it myself soon just to see what a coyote of a mess I was during it all. I did the interview but never actually relistened to it yet. So pulled it from their archives to share with you as well. Thanks Jeffery Pritchett
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