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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Chiranjeevi to inaugurate incredible India exhibition at Cannes today

    To promote India as a " Filming Destination", Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi will inaugurate incredible India exhibition at the 66th Cannes film festival in France today. The joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at the festival is consequent to their entering into a Memorandum of Understanding to promote Cinema of India as a sub ...

  • United Airlines restarting Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights

    Boeing 787s back in the air.The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane and a fire on another.The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding ...

  • How space tourism could open our eyes help save Earth

    A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ...

  • Gas prices in Charlotte declining but national costs are on the rise

    Gas prices in the Charlotte area have declined in the past week. The cost of gasoline in the Charlotte market and the Carolinas has declined in the past week, even as the national average crept upward ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, according to the latest data from AAA Carolinas. The average local price today is $3.44 per gallon for regular unleaded, down from $3.46 a week ago. The average ...


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Written on the Wind [DVD]

Written on the Wind [DVD]

Written on the Wind is by far the most sordid of director Douglas Sirk's 1950s social dramas. The debauched tale of an uberwealthy, but deeply troubled Texas oil family, it reaches near hysterical melodramatic proportions, dealing as it does with alcoholism, nymphomania, sterility, adultery, and murder. Audiences in 1956 ate it up as a lurid, but straightforward soap opera of familial ... ...

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  • Accor Group Launches Android App

    The Android app's new design, rethought Interface and simplified navigation let users perform searches geared to each situation, even if they momentarily lose signal. The Apps goal: to offer an enhanced experience allowing them to easily find and book rooms at one of the Group's hotels any ...

  • Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg Sold For €113m

    As part of its asset management strategy, Accor announces the sale of the Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg in Paris, under a sale and management-back agreement, for a total value of €113m (€769,000 per room), including a €13m renovation program. Open in 1979 at the heart of Paris, a few steps away from the Champs-Elysees, the Louvre Museum and the Opera Garnier, this 147 rooms & suites ...

  • 426 Room Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta Opens

    Sonestas second hotel in this market, this full service hotel is located in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, and was formerly known as the Atlanta Marriott Gwinnett Place. Sonesta International Hotels Corporation announced the opening of its newest hotel in the Atlanta area, the 426-room Sonesta Gwinnett Place. Its second hotel in this market, this full service hotel is located in the Atlanta ...

  • Wyndham Hotel Group’s Terry Sanders Appointed to LHRA Board of Directors

    LHRA is non-profit association dedicated to increasing Latino participation in the hospitality industry, to include ownership, leadership and commerce. The organization provides education, international and regional conferences and networking opportunities with leading hotel and restaurant companies in the world. Terry Sanders, senior vice president of development ...

  • Austin firefighter seeks niche in online vaca home listing industry

    Matt Thomson founded Wavecation LLC in 2011 to reach vacationers looking for homes to rent where the surf is up. An Austin firefighter is building a business on the hope that people looking for vacation rentals where they can surf or at least enjoy beaches where others do will surf the Internet to his online listing service. So far things are trending positively for Matt Thomson, who founded ...

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