| Hertz UAE launches last minute online deals
Car rental users can take advantage of a last minute offer on selected vehicles at www.hertzuae.com, and rather than pay over the odds, as usually happens when there is no time to book in advance, prices are attractively low. The deal changes each day, so customers are encouraged to regularly check the website. Bob Farrow, General Manager at Hertz UAE, said, 'We know that spur of the moment weekend trips are synonymous with the adventurous and spontaneous people who live in Dubai and the UAE. 'But these impulse holidays are often hindered by high last minute prices. The Deal of the Day is specifically aimed at people who only want to rent a car for between one and three days and they don't get hit with extra charges.' .
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances with SkyTeam and American Express. In 2005, the manufacturer chose to rationalise its supplier base, buying services on a global basis. As part of that strategy, it signed a deal to take travel services through SkyTeam, a global airline alliance of nine members - Aeromexico, Air France, Alitalia, Continental Airlines, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean Air and Northwest Airlines - covering travel in over 30 countries. To keep track of expenses, it opted for the travel and entertainment programme offered by American Express. You what? Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. The Amex service benchmarks each of Philips' negotiations with SkyTeam against a list of other transactions by companies of a similar size and business, made up from its own customer list.
Energy Challenges--Even for the Gulf
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Fledgling filmmakers whet zombies' appetite
To see complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.) Others try to imitate George A. Romero, but only the original master of zombie horror would think this one up: On the run from the latest zombie takeover, and in serious need of some firepower, the young film students at the center of "Diary of the Dead" find refuge on a farm ... belonging to an old bearded Amish dude. Want to guess how long it takes before his principles of nonviolence go out the window? More than any other horror director, Romero has brought irony and satire to his movies. "Diary" isn't his best work, but it's extremely vital, with a new even-lower-budget approach that seems to have invigorated the 68-year-old filmmaker.
Mamet's 'November' on Broadway hits a political funny bone all too ...
There are no solutions," declares that chief of staff whom you start to realize speaks for the author. "Only rearrangements of problems." That, I'd wager, is where Mamet currently is at. Oy.
Some will prefer to see Lane's caustic characterization as a satirical treatment of George W. Bush, but really Mamet and Lane have forged a nasty fictional president who embodies the wimpiness of George H.W. Bush, the pardoning and pandering peccadilloes of William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush's apparent disregard for the tricky little details of foreign policy ("I should have thought of that," President Smith says, "when I invaded ... .Where?").
"Everybody hates you and you're out of money," Brown screams at his boss in one of the many tosses of red comedic meat to the hungry lions in the orchestra.
The Guy's Guide To Las Vegas Bachelor Parties
Fifty years ago, with equal parts charisma and martinis, Frank Sinatra made Las Vegas. In 1996, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau introduced that Vegas cool to a new generation with their movie "Swingers."
Now, it's a losing bet to see a group of friends living it up in Vegas and not saying "Vegas, baby, Vegas!" at least three times an hour.
And remember, what happens in Vegas ... gets written about here in the guys' guide to a Las Vegas bachelor party.
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Orlando airport to spend $381M to boost main terminal's capacity
Orlando International Airport is about to embark on a nearly $400 million construction plan designed to squeeze an extra five years of life from its main terminal.
Planners say the sweeping overhaul -- which will include pushing the third-level ticket counters back 12 feet, replacing 18 luggage-claim stations and installing new self-service machines alongside the curbs and the counters -- would allow the airport to put off the far more expensive construction of a second terminal until at least 2015.
The board of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, which oversees OIA, voted Wednesday to spend an initial $5 million to engineer the initial changes and to begin soliciting bids from contractors who want a piece of the work.
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School district to separate boys, girls
GREENSBORO, Ga. - Nearly four decades after this rural Georgia county stopped segregating its schools by race, it wants to divide students again — this time by sex. Greene County is set to become the first school district in the nation to go entirely single-sex, with boys and girls in separate classrooms — a move born of desperation over years of poor test scores, soaring dropout rates and high numbers of teenage pregnancies. "At the rate we're moving, we're never going to catch up," Superintendent Shawn McCollough told parents in an impassioned speech last week. "If we're going to take some steps, let's take some big steps." .
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