No one can claim he/she has not stayed in a hotel at least once in life. For those traveling for business, pleasure or for that matter, any other reason, hotels have come to become home away from their homes. Why travelers prefer hotels over motels when all they provide are same? Well, motels by far differ from hotels in their functionality, additional services, and construction. Motels have their room doors opening to exteriors to their driveway while hotel rooms open to interiors.

Apart from other regular guest services that hotels provide, you can also plan your business meetings, conferences or even large conventions in some hotels, which is a far cry at motels. What is more, even the locations of hotels are also conveniently located unlike the traditional motels, which invariably cater to highway travelers who just stay by night.

The word hotel has originated from French, which referred to townhouse before being known universally as it is today.

What Is Star Classification of Hotels

The star classification of hotels indicates the type and quality of service available at any hotel. The enormous explosion of tourism in the last century has necessitated star classification for the benefit of discerning tourist public.

International and national tourism agencies along with respective governments rate and classify hotels on a scale of one to five stars. However, if you thought there is a standards body which classifies all the hotels of this world, here, you are in for a surprise. The attempts by interested industry captains have failed thus far and the standardization has been elusive till date.

What Do Star Ratings Mean

Briefly the ratings mean this:

One star: An inexpensive, low budget hotel which may not have maid or room service. Quite affordable by middle class.

Two star: Marginally expensive and may have once a day maid service.

Three star: A budget hotel which boasts of maid and room service, internet and health club service in addition to having a swimming pool.

Four star: Expensive hotels by even middle class travelers; offers many luxury services in addition to afore mentioned services.

Five star: Stands testimony to final word in luxury and are very expensive anywhere in the world. They offer countless innovative extras. Some of them boast of private airports and golf courses.

If you thought this was all, sample this. There are some unusual hotels too.

· Treehouse hotels

· Underwater hotels

· Cave hotels

· Ice hotels etc

Hotels are not far behind in records making. For example: Burj-al-Arab, Dubai, is the tallest hotel at 321 meters and the honors for being largest hotel goes to Ambassador City Jomtien with 5100 rooms at Pattaya Thailand.

Spread over an astounding 279 million square meters (3 billion square feet) and comprising 45 mega projects as well as 200 sub projects, Dubailand has rightly earned the distinction of being the biggest and most ambitious tourist destination ever developed. Created with the aim of securing Dubai as the premier tourist destination of the Middle East region; the Dubailand property development appeals to an audience of tourists that spans all age groups and all nationalities.

The various projects in the Dubailand property development are categorized into themed zones called worlds; with each world offering an entirely different Dubailand experience.

Downtown, Retail and Entertainment World

An eclectic mix of shopping, entertainment and dining facilities, the Downtown, Retail & Entertainment World is a mixed destination offering a smorgasbord of day and night activities with cross-generational appeal. In addition to themed restaurants and night clubs there are also plenty of family-focused activities including bowling, computer games centers, street entertainment and cinemas. Covering approximately 4.9 million square meters (53 million square feet), the 5 projects of the Downtown, Retail 7 Entertainment World include:

Dubai Bazaar

City of Arabia

Virtual Games World

Dubai Outlet City

Teen World

Restaurant Complex

Attractions and Experience World

Covering 13.9 million square meters (150 million square feet) the Attractions and Experience World comprises a total of 16 themed, large-scale attractions that use the latest technology for thrills as well as safety. These include:

- Aqua Dubai

- Dubailand Theme Park

- Falcon City of Wonders

- Astrolab Resort

- Great Dubai Wheel

- Space and Science World

- Aviation World

- Legends-Dubailand

- Snowdome (Dubai Sunny Mountain Ski Dome)

- Fantasia

- Kids World

- Planetarium

- Tourism Park

- The Islamic Culture and Science World

- The Global Village

Themed Leisure and Vacation World

A relaxing haven focusing on health and well-being, the Themed Leisure and Vacation World comprises appealing retreats and spas designed to respond to an ever-increasing international demand for quality vacation wellness retreats, resort hotels and village residences. Spread over 29.7 million square meters (320 million square feet) the Themed Leisure and Vacation World contains 6 projects, which include:

- Thai Express Resort

- The Indian Theme Resort

- The Silver Street Resort

- LEMNOS Women’s World

- Andalusian Resort & Spa

- The Nubian Village

Sports and Outdoor World

Spanning 32.9 million square meters, the Sports and Outdoor World comprises 5 sporting venues that are ideally positioned to become a premier warm weather training facility for professional sports teams. These include:

- The Plantation Equestrian & Polo Club

- Dubai Sports City

- Dubai Autodrome and Business Park

- Extreme Sports World

- Golf World

Eco-Tourism World

Spread over approximately 130 million square meters (1.4 billion square feet), the Eco-Tourism World comprises 7 projects that feature a series of nature and desert-based attractions integrated within their desert parkland environs. The 7 projects of the Eco-Tourism World include:

- Dubai Heritage Village

- Safari Park

- Al Barari

- Pet Land

- Tropical Village

- Life World

- Safari Park

Besides offering a panoply of activities, every world also offers unique creative concepts that provide visitors with the exciting opportunity to experience exotic, far away locales without setting foot out of the Dubailand property development.

Andy Murray has had a magical start to the 2009 season and if he can continue the form that witnessed him smashing a number of local and international records in 2008, there is little doubt the controversial Scot will mount a grand slam podium any day now to claim the highest honour in professional tennis.

Bookmakers offering odds on Murray’s grand slam hopes

Such is the excitement of a prospective grand slam title for the long-suffering British fans, top flight sports bookmakers are offering odds on the possibility of Murray’s last lurch to unequivocal greatness!

The young man, who has the propensity of rubbing fans and foes up the wrong way, has learnt an awful lot about his chosen career in the past 12 months but it is arguably his dedication to the game that is so very impressive.

Over the years Murray’s commitment to pro tennis has been questioned with his antics on and off the courts not always endearing him to the media, or for that matter, the legions of starved British tennis fans that effectively pay him his salary.

Added commitment has him in the running for the big time

All this changed, however, at the end of the 2007 season when he recruited the aid of fitness experts and changed his coach to Miles Maclagan. The pre-season prep paid off big time with Murray claiming his 4th career title at Qatar.

He stumbled at the Australian Open, crashing out in the first round to the man who nearly caused one of the biggest upsets in grand slam history, Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

From then on in, though, Andy Murray grabbed the headlines for all the right reasons. Although he failed to claim the title in Dubai, he did raise eyebrows by beating the great Roger Federer and at his home grand slam at the All England Club, he rose to the occasion, reaching his first major quarter finals, losing out to awesome talent of ‘Raffa’ Nadal.

First Brit to reach a grand slam final since ‘77

Murray broke his Masters Series’ duck in Toronto, claiming another impressive scalp, that of the world number three, Novak Djokovic and then he loped into the annals of British tennis history by becoming the first Brit since Greg Rusedski, in 1977, to reach a grand slam final. Although he lost to Federer at Flushing Meadows, some citing his ongoing stamina problem, he did prove to himself, and the world, what he was capable of.

He had the better of Federer again in Madrid and went on to win back-to-back Masters Series titles, a feat not often emulated in professional tennis. In Russia, he again set the records tumbling by becoming the first Brit, since Mark Cox in 1975, to win consecutive titles when he claimed the St Petersburg Open for the second year in a row.

Clean sweep in Abu Dhabi – Blake, Federer and Nadal crushed

Murray’s start to the 2009 has been a fairytale, with him crushing top ranked players with impunity. In Abu Dhabi, in an exhibition match, he notched up wins against James Blake, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and in his current campaign in Doha, as defending champion, he is playing well within himself and has the look of a true champion!

If Murray can get his second serve working well and can sort out his unenviable break point conversion record, there is absolutely no doubt he will win at the highest level any day now!

Let’s start with rugby: the game they play in heaven. Descended from the Gods, incarnated by a rebellious English schoolboy, reserved for gentlemen’ with fine morals and now, tragically, increasingly frequented by know-nothing, jeans-and-thong-wearing socialites with un-detachable mobile phones. No longer is rugby the enclave of well-heeled and meticulously schooled ruck and maul officiandos. Rather, its heightened popularity has opened the door to hordes of those who go to the rugby just to say they were there’. The kind of supporters’ who take more enjoyment from running into Terrence from Sales than seeing Lote run the length of the pitch.

Am I being too harsh? Isn’t progress and recognition good for the game? Shouldn’t everyone be able to enjoy our sporting traditions? Maybe. Probably. Certainly, I’m getting old.

Still, I propose the findings of my recent case study: At the Super 14 Australian match-of-matches earlier this year (Waratahs vs. Brumbies for those with torn jeans!), when hostility and one-eyed support should have been flowing like beer from a tap, I found myself surrounded by three shouting phone bearers, two incontinent light beer drinkers, a family of hungry (2 kiosk trips), thirsty (3 trips to the bar) and programme-less (yet another voyage) patrons and a very distracting aisle butterfly sporting an easily-visible pink g-string.

Of the phone bearers, one spent the entire first half extolling his Cassanova-esque exploits to his mate in Dubai, another divided her time between phone-dumping her current boyfriend and waving her location to a new beau across the stadium. The third spent all the second half alternately standing, waving or yelling into his handset “Can you see me now? How bout now!?”

It was annoying, infuriating and, well, inconceivable for someone who pays to watch the game, not play hide-and-seek in a crowd of 35,000. Call me old-style, but wasn’t the pub invented for the express purpose of post-match catch-ups? Break-ups? Talk-ups? And, really, who honestly gives two hoots if your fluffy pink shirt and silly haircut are viewed by some office Neville on the other side of the ground?

Sadly, this phenomena is not limited to rugby. Cricket: outside of the members stand who can remember a single ball bowled? League: tell me going to the game isn’t about picking a fight? Soccer: ditto.

Dispairingly, the list goes on. At the tennis, it’s all eyes on Bec, not Lleyton; TV coverage of the AFL shows the antics of the coaches box roughly 71.2% of the time and then there’s the raceslet’s not even go there!

Instead, let’s go straight to the cause. Number one culprit: popularity. Somehow, somewhere sporting events started to be more about being seen, rather than seeing. About socialising more than spectating. Sport became a place to be’ rather than watch’.

And so now every man and his dog- like the game or not- gets to the ground, invading what used to be the sacred domain of binocular-bearers and leather-patch wearers. Which brings us to mobile phones, for which there is absolutely no place.

Short of your best friend having a coronary and not being able to hail a doctor in a sea of 30,000 spectators, I really can’t think of a need for mobiles at the footy, or the cricket or the Olympic Opening Ceremony. In fact, on the back of my case study and ground-breaking findings, I propose that anyone attempting to enter a stadium with a mobile phone be banned. For good.

That should clear things up a little, leaving me and about 100 fellow die-hards to bask in the glow of the bright lights. It’ll also make it easier for our friends to spot us on the telly!

If you’re visiting Dubai, don’t miss out on Souk Madinat Jumeirah. The Souk is a slice of old world Arabia blended to perfection with the pulse of the contemporary world in every way to create a vibe that wafts gently over everyone that passes through on a walk of discovery. The buildings are low with angular definition and painted a burnt brown that matches the sands of the desert. The ATM machine at the entrance to the Souk belies the bazaar like atmosphere immediately after it where the merchants ply their goods in open shops. A detour into any shop guarantees you a princely welcome comprised of avid geniality, a thousand watt smile and a price tag the GDP of Outer Mongolia on every thing you touch. That may be why the ATM machine is the first sight.

The shops spread out in several directions which in turn spill into cafes, juice bars, restaurants and pubs that seem out of sync with the Souk but Dubai is an eclectic mix of cultures and people and every aspect of this has been taken into consideration each step on the way to creating the Souk. The cafes open onto paved walkways where one can seat in the evenings to watch the traditional abras pass by and reminiscence of good things past and yet to come.

When the day ends and the merchants shut up their shops with the thousand watt smile still in place and pockets bulging, you can cross over to the right wing of the Souk where Trilogy the biggest nightclub in Dubai slowly comes to life as the sun sets.

Clubbing ends at three in the morning and when you’re trudging out of the club, happily drunk and certifiably deaf, you can pause to take a look at the night time view of the Souk over the skyline. For a moment, maybe, just maybe, you can almost feel yourself back in Arabian times, a part of the old world.

Thoroughbred horse racing in Hong Kong is a pivotal part not only of many lives but it is vital to the economy, contributing massive taxes and being the major supporter of most charities. Thoroughbred racing in Hong Kong is therefore naturally followed far more passionately than anywhere else in the world.

Hong Kong has two race courses, the main one situated at Shatin is a first class track with facilities equal to any track in the world. A big track with both turf and dirt surfaces and a straight 1200m, statistics show that horses get every chance to win from whatever draw.

However Happy Valley where the lesser grade Wednesday night races are held has to be the most spectacular race track in existence. To understand the full impact of this place you need to make the effort to go and experience it.

Situated on the island amidst major housing and retail complexes, Happy Valley is surrounded by the lights of multi level apartment blocks. It is a relatively small track which affords spectators a close up view of the races giving an I can not believe this place feel to visitors.

Tourists can also visit the Hong Kong Racing Museum at Happy Valley, which provides a fascinating historical insight into how the sport has evolved since its mid-19th century beginnings.

Over the last 15 years or so the quality of Hong Kong thoroughbred racing has developed substantially and nowadays it is difficult to imagine a more cosmopolitan racing circuit than can be experienced here. The prize money is so substantial that the champion riders and trainers from France, England, Australia and South Africa all eagerly vie for the few invitations to ride in Hong Kong. In fact the roster of riders in Hong Kong reads like an Academy Award nomination list for the best jockeys in the world.

Fourteen Group 1 races are run in Hong Kong each season, with the Hong Kong International Race day in December being the richest and most important meeting of the year. The Hong Kong International Races are now generally recognized to be the most international event in the racing world and the main meeting point for northern and southern hemisphere thoroughbreds.

Today the international event has been transformed into a set of four races: the Hong Kong International Sprint over 1200m, the Hong Kong Mile over 1600m, the Hong Kong Cup over 2000m and the Hong Kong Vase over 2400m.

The Champions Mile is on April 29, run at 1600 meters over the Shatin turf course and is already part of an international racing series, the Asian Mile Challenge, which comprises the Futurity in Australia, the Dubai Duty Free, the Champions Mile, and the Yasuda Kinen in Japan, all Group 1 races.

The standard of local thoroughbreds has also risen dramatically as can be seen by the number of hotly contested international races now taken out by locals even in the presence of top echelon European, American, Japanese and Australian thoroughbreds.

With a population of around 1,100 thoroughbreds from around the globe, Hong Kong racing works under an easy to understand handicap system, where gallopers gain or lose rating points from their performance on the racecourse, resulting in close and competitive racing.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has a monopoly on racing and betting in the territory, a holdover from colonial days, and the HKJC is the territories largest taxpayer and charity. Massive betting pools are involved and Hong Kong racing officials understand that it is imperative to share every piece of information there is with the betting public.

The racing club website has easily the best information I have ever seen with full videos and extensive reporting of every race held. Trackwork data, performance history, weights carried, times, everything is easily found and exhaustively detailed.

To summarise, for any thoroughbred racing enthusiast Hong Kong racing is an absolute must see experience. The city is situated on one of the most spectacular harbors imaginable, hotels are plentiful and first class and the shopping and gastronomic delights are legendary.

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The Lords of Gas on YouTube

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bUm9pzhpLGA

Interview and introduction to the making of ‘The Lords of Gas’.

Anouska Bolton Lee, Jack Lomax and Tim Burke with Andy Isaac, Director of The Notting Hill Film Festival and The British Film Party.

NF: There has been a huge increase in user generated film material and reality footage with the emergence of You Tube and Myspace does ‘The Lords of Gas’ somehow mirror this phenomenon.

TB: That absolutely right Andy, we try to pay homage to this new dawn of film making, we now live in an era where we have seen stars rise from this new medium. I mean take the Star Wars Kid for example; he has been watched more than any film star in history. We make reference to this in the movie, as we try to portray that anyone with a video camera can now make, in the words of Borat, ‘Great Success’. I mean look at; ’Borat’ this was a huge commercial success playing on the lives of real people. There is definitely a thirst for this type of material; people love reality TV so why not make a reality feature film. People love the idea that they too can now go out, create some film clips, which could be viewed by millions. It gives back the power of entertainment to the people watching it. We have also secured rights to screen a montage of clips from producers uploading to YouTube.

NF: What gave you the idea?

JL: We knew a life existed where each night you could drink free cocktails and mince with the high society, it was just thinking of the way to do it and finding out where to go. We had originally been given access to the industry PR diary via an online event’s website. We now had a list of high profile events, film premieres and after show parties in the showbiz calendar to infiltrate. Now it was simply, or not so simply, a matter of sitting around a table and coming up with a number of blag! Techniques we could use to get around the security guarding these places. We went around creating a Blagger’s lifestyle guide and instruction manual of tried and tested blag techniques…some failed some succeeded…we still run at about a 93% success rate. And so it became a lifestyle…which we started to document.

NH: You have managed to create the best film cast and most number of cameos of any film in history, was it easy getting all these stars as cameos.

ABL: Well it’s amazing really, everyone we met has treated us very well. We aren’t there to slag anyone off but we wanted to show what these celebrities were really like, as people, away from formal TV interviews and managed media conversations. They warmed to us because we weren’t their usual media questions, we were always ourselves asking random questions that they enjoyed talking about; like how best to sneak into parties and what they themselves have blagged before.

NF: Why did you decide to target celebrities?

TB: Good question. Target is the right word. First and foremost a lot of the time; to get into these places we did it through use of having the camera and microphone on display as you approach the door or vip room being guarded. It is amazing the access we have been given by just having a camera in hand and saying we are from a fake television programme. From filming these mind control techniques it was just a natural progression to target celebrities as it provided us with another line of security, clipboard nazis and PR shadows to engage our new found skills upon. Afterall, we all know the power of ‘celebrity’ we do unfortunately live in a celebrity obsessed society, like it or not ‘celebrity sells’ and to make our film bankable and sellable, we needed A-list names. We have probably assembled the best ever movie cast on a budget of just under half a million. But, the point of the film is that we are trying to show that anyone can enjoy the lifestyle of the rich and famous for nothing!

JL: There is also alot of non celebrity stuff like when we go ‘Ghost-Busting’ and make the national papers in Holland by pretending to find a ghost in a Dutch Castle or infiltrating the weird world of Live Action Role-play or sneaking into the erotic fetish scene. We wanted to shoot as much of the film in different locations around the world, which was mostly non celeb blags like the scenes in Miami, Tel Aviv and New York!

NF: The film is a double feature thriller and split into two parts. Why did you choose to do this and how does it follow on from your cult MTV series?

ABL: We wanted to show our side of the MTV series, the more gritty and edgy side. The MTV show was brilliantly made in post but we wanted to tell the story of our life’s during this time, an unpolished real take on how we went about infiltrating these showbiz parties. After all, it was an amazing opportunity that most people would never experience. When the idea came about to make, ‘The Lords of Gas’, this was in May 2007, we must have had over 200 hours of footage from the MTV series shot in 2004, but we now needed to film ourselves making the film a reality. So we went about filming conversations with sales and distribution agents, doing the editing competition, talking to studios. Like ‘Borat’ and most successful films we wanted to keep the film short at 1hr 24mins, we had so much material though and including the present day footage it just made sense to split the film into two. The first showing making MTV Blag! in 2004 and the second, present day, making the film a reality at Sundance and Cannes.
NF: The tools you are using to promote; ‘The Lords of Gas : Part I’ and the online presences and social networking communities you are building on You Tube, Myspace and Facebook will undoubtedly be very effective for marketing the film. Do you feel traditional advertising is under threat.

TB: No. But, we first saw the power of the internet for film distribution, first come into play with; ’The Blair Witch Project’. It has now become an essential part of life so why not use it as a means and route to market? It’s more organic, interactive and less static than traditional print and ambient media. Studios take a huge cut of a film’s profits as millions is spent with media buying and outdoor advertising. With the rise of Google Video and You Tube, Facebook/Myspace; with a successful viral campaign and online strategy you are given direct access to the same numbers of people traditional advertising focuses on without paying huge marketing budgets.
Not only that but it’s interactive for the viewer, people can become a member of; ‘The Lords of Gas’ on Facebook our will be able to join the channel on You Tube or Myspace and share their own blag stories or learn more techniques. We are confident with our pending partnerships with these sites that we can create a massive number of trailer views and visitors that would justify any studio marketing spend on a blockbuster using traditional outdoor media.
We decided if we can create all this for free it would give us some weight when selling the film to distribution agents and ofcourse, create a great buzz about the movie. Having run my own company in this media for several years, I have a personal affinity to the creativeness and intelligence the internet can bring, so it was a nature choice for us to make.

NH: At present you have Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures interested in the first film, have you had anymore thought about who you will partner with?

TB: Both, companies have asked us to contact them on completing the film. However, at present we are focusing on creating as much of an industry buzz as possible and waiting to see what deals will come from our WRAP party and screening in Cannes this summer, on a 40m boat. Paul Oakenfold, who appears in the second film, has confirmed to play. Working with Tony Hickcok (Director: Hell Raiser III) for; ‘The Lords of Gas: Part II’ has also opened many potential deals within the international DVD distribution market. After an interview with Morgan Spurlock at Sundance, we hope to get Cinetic as our sales agent. We are very impressed with their track record.

NH: You use a lot of high impact motion image editing, time-lapse, cityscapes and overhead stock. As a result the film is fast paced and plays like an action thriller in places. Could you shed some light on this?

JL: ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ has just come out and we were very impressed by the pace and energy in the film. Basically, we just wanted to see if we could copy it. Our narrative and plot is also based around espionage, infiltration, undercover surveillance and covert intelligence so why not help the pace of the film by adding those styles of motion capture, titles and editing. The other reason is that the stock footage libraries we used gave us access to these brilliant clips, which helps the film make an impact.

NH: There are many hidden secrets in the film in which you can lookout for; can you discuss this in more detail?

TB: Well, we wanted to add a twist at the end, which I think we achieve quite nicely. It’s a blag on the viewer which being the very subject matter of the film, we thought would be quite fun. We have also hidden some things within certain scenes and these will be linked back to the website and online marketing, like live phone numbers that work in the real world as well as the film. We can’t really tell you much about this at present but we like the idea of keeping the viewer on their toes. The films also have a much deeper subject matter than just sneaking into parties…we raise some serious points about life and existence; which we also thought was important for the youth generation, ‘The Lords of Gas’ is aimed at…..

Where Jackass, Dirty Sanchez and MTV’s Bam say;
‘DONT TRY This At Home”.

The Lords of Gas’, say; ‘DO TRY this at Home.”

The Bigger Picture Film’s, ‘The Lords of Gas’ film trilogy begins with the film team blagging their way into the world famous Monaco Gran Prix in 2004. The film sees the covert film squad travel the globe trying our their Array of covert Blag! techniques filming in locations such as The Cannes Film Festival, Ghostbusting in Doorwerth Castle, Holland; an Array of London Film Premieres including: The Casino Royal – After Show Party; Las Vegas Porn Conference; James Bond Miami Model Castings and Gun Range, Jesus in the Holyland, Israel, The Pantomime Cow blag! and film financing with Laughing Gas Balloon stands at ‘Bestival’. The Lords of Gas

Also included; London VIP Parties, Leicester Square Film Premieres, Charlie Angels Film Premiere, The Hulk Film Premiere, Gumball 3000, Starsky and Hutch Film Premiere, The Island Film Premiere, Casino Royal – After Show Party, Cannes Film and Porn Festival, Miami Model Castings and Gun Range, Jesus on the Dead Sea, Las Vegas Roulette and Adult Video Nasty Awards, Sicilian Mafia, Laughing Gas Balloon stand at ‘Bestival’, Dubai and Middle East Movie Distribution Deal….

The Lords of Gas, Part I has already been reviewed as “A must see” by The Times, “Five Stars” by Nuts, “Brilliant” by The Evening Standard, “Unmissible” by Zoo and with feature articles in the The News of the World, The Sun and four page stories in Maxim and Loaded.

The official website of The Lords of Gas is http://www.thelordsofgas.com

Paradise Pictures Movies, under the umbrella company of The Bigger Picture Films
is stationed at http://www.paradisepicturesmovies.com

The Bigger Picture Films and Paradise Pictures Entertainment, in association with The Wellington Nightclub, premieres its first feature documentary; ‘The Lords of Gas’ Part I, at The Cannes Film Festival this year aboard; Signora del Vento, 90m Yatch, with Paul Oakenfold as guest DJ and a host of A-list Movie stars. – Thursday, 22th May, 2008.

The Bigger Picture Films
Founded in 2000, The Bigger Picture Films is a small independent film company with compelling productions in observational reality documentaries, shockumentaries, mockumentaries and real-life comedy. Cutting edge film-making with compelling story telling is its our core business having produced a number of 5 Star documentaries such as; ‘How to Pull a Pornstar’, ‘Welcome to the Holyland’, ‘Real-life Ghostbusters’ and ‘MTV Blag!’ The MTV series was a cult success and out-rated The Osbournes in the UK being sold to Channel Five with 5 Star reviews in National Press and Tabloids.

Through its sister company Paradise Pictures Entertainment, The Bigger Picture Films licenses its films and TV shows to film studios, international braodcasters and ancillary markets including cable and broadcast channels. TBPF has also produced film content for Vodafone Live, 02 and Mobile Entertainment Channels in over 80 countries. You can also find TBPF on You Tube, My Space and Facebook. The Bigger Picture Films also runs and manages a casting studio and agency for actors and actresses wanting to break into the film and showbiziness. The Bigger Picture Films deals exclusively with ‘The Lords of Gas’ franchises.

Press / PR Film Contact: Malcolm Giovanni
Email Contact: films@thebiggerpicture.tv
Web Address: http://www.thebiggerpicture.tv

Paradise Pictures Entertainment
Paradise Pictures Entertainment distributes, markets and licenses The Bigger Picture’s feature films, television series and online programming for independent broadcasters and studios. Paradise is the online production outfit for TBPF, distributing and licensing
film content to online media houses and major online entertainment networks and social networking sites. Paradise also works on format development for original programming to youth brands such as MTV Networks Europe and Comedy Channels. Paradise distributed TBPF’s cult 6×23min part series for mobile and online deployment. Paradise Pictures Entertainment deals with all marketing collateral and online content for ‘The Lords of Gas’ franchises.

Business Contact: Tim Burke / Jack Lomax
Email Contact: films@paradisepicturesmovies.com
Web Address: http://www.paradisepicturesmovies.com

Malcolm, Giovanni, Exec. Producer. International Contact: +44 (0) 7853751759.

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This 12 day training course is designed for CCIE Service Provider Bootcamp exam candidates who have some confidence to pass the lab exam but are lacking in, or are desiring; some real testing experience. This course helps you become familiar with each lab question and its solution. This training is also good for the CCIE Service Provider lab exam candidates who have failed the lab exam more than once. Our statistics show that over 95% of them will pass the lab exam after they finish this course. http://www.cathayschool.com/
You will study with your instructor one-on-one during the duration of training. Step by step, our highly skilled instructors will show you the best way to configure each full-scale lab and strengthen your weaknesses as they are identified.
Before you finish this course, you will be provided a full set of our full-scale lab materials which are almost identical to the most current lab exam. The materials contain CCIE Service Provider Boot Camp questions, and requirements and solutions, which can be comfortably studied and practiced during the period between your course finishing date and the lab exam date.
Schedule of events:
Student instruction is conducted privately with one-on-one tuition, so you have the freedom to begin from almost any date of the year.
Location: Guangzhou, China
Price: $9,000.00 USD
What is included:
12 days’ one-on-one classroom study
Day 1 ~ Day 6:
During the first 6 days you will be required to complete all the full-scale labs, step-by-step, together with your instructor. You will be given the best solutions and detailed explanations on each lab question. Also, your instructor will show you how to avoid some common errors based on the testing experience of hundreds of our previous students.
Day 7 ~ Day 12:
During the remaining days of your training you will be required to go over, and complete all the labs once again by yourself. Your instructor will sit next to you and provide assistance only when necessary. At the end of each day, he or she will grade and correct your configurations and summarize your daily work – giving you helpful suggestions for future exam preparations.
1 month after class support (could be upgraded to 3 months)
On the last date of your course, you will be provided with the study materials which contain the most updated full-scale labs which have not been practiced during the course. These materials reflect the latest update of the real lab exam and come with complete solutions.
Along with this, we will update your study materials free of charge and provide email support (48 hour response guarantee) for 1 month. Not enough? You can buy our Material update and technical support extension service (E-MUTS) at an affordable price. For detailed information, please check with your training advisor.
FREE 100 hours remote rack access
After the course, you will be provided FREE 100 hours remote access time so that you can practice the labs by connecting to our rack. Simply drop an email to rackschedule@cathayschool.com to reserve your rack and we will make necessary arrangement.

Location
This boot camp is held in Guangzhou, which is the biggest，and most developed city in southern China.
Traval & Transportation
It is very convenient to travel to Guangzhou.
You can either fly into Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) or Hong Kong International Airport (HKG). There are direct flights from the following major cities to Guangzhou every week: Europe: Frankfurt, Helsinki, Paris North America: Los Angles, San Francisco, New York, Toronto Australia: Sydney, Melbourne Asia: Tokyo, Seoul, Dubai, Singapore
Also, there are over a hundred international flights to Hong Kong. You can fly to Hong Kong first and then transfer to Guangzhou by train (duration: 2 hours and the expense is covered by CathaySchool).
Our friendly staff will meet you at the airport or train station when you arrive and then transfer you to the hotel. This is free of charge.
Hotels
Students will be accommodated at a 4-star luxury hotel (the President Hotel or another of equal standard), which is located across the road from our training center. Each hotel room is fitted with a king-size bed, air conditioning, internet access (free of charge), western style bathroom, flat screen television, 24-hour room service and more. You also have the option to upgrade to a 5-star hotel (Royal Mediterranean Hotel, The Westin Guangzhou or Shangri-La Hotel GuangZhou). All these hotels are within 10 minutes driving distance from the school.
Meals
All meals are included.
Breakfast is provided in the hotel restaurant. For lunch and dinner, you will receive cash to be used at the wide variety of sit-down restaurants, cafes and buffets. MacDonald, KFC, PizzaHut and StarBucks are all within walking distance.
Drinks and snacks through out the training are also included.
After class activites
You will never feel bored in Guangzhou. After class, we can arrange the following activities at a reasonable cost:
Culture tour, Shopping tour, Zoo, Fun park, Hot springs, Disco bar, Show bar, B.Y.O party, Chinese traditional massage, etc.
You can choose all these options when you are signing up with us.
Advanced Upgrade Package
Training PLUS:
6 hours (per day) one-on- one guaranteed
Two months after training support (Materials update + Email support by instructor)
Accommodation & Meals PLUS:
Hotel accommodation (5 stars premium room)
Lunch and Dinner standard – 150 RMB / per day
Free unlimited laundry service
Unlimited access to the gym in the hotel
Add-on Service (complimentary) PLUS:
Chinese traditional massage/spa at one of the biggest spas in Asia (1 time)
A big entertainment show, including Chinese dancing, magic show and acrobatics (3 hours)
Car hire with driver (4 hours)
Price: $2,700.00 USD
Deluxe Upgrade Package
Training PLUS:
8 hours (per day) one-on- one guaranteed
Three month after training support (Materials update + Email support by instructor)
Accommodation & Meals PLUS:
Hotel accommodation (5 stars executive room)
Lunch and Dinner standard – 200 RMB / per day
Free unlimited laundry service
Unlimited access to the gym in the hotel
Add-on Service (complimentary) PLUS:
Airport pick up and drop off by Mercedes-Benz
Chinese traditional massage/spa at one of the biggest spa in Asia (2 times)
A big entertainment show, including Chinese dancing, magic show and acrobatics (3 hours)
Car hire with driver (8 hours)
ice: $5,200.00 USD
I. Bridging and Switching
A. Frame relay
B. Catalyst configuration: VLANs, VTP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, Trunk, Etherchannel, management, features, advanced configuration, Layer 3
C. Tunneling
II. IP IGP Routing
A. OSPF
B. EIGRP
C. RIPv2
D. IPv6: Addressing, RIPng, OSPFv3
E. GRE
F. ODR
G. Filtering, redistribution, summarization and other advanced features
III. BGP
A. IBGP
B. EBGP
C. Filtering, redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes and other advanced features
IV. IP and IOS Features
A. IP addressing
B. DHCP
C. HSRP
D. IP services
E. IOS user interfaces
F. System management
G. NAT
H. NTP
I. SNMP
J. RMON
K. Accounting
L. SLA
V. IP Multicast
A. PIM-SM, bi-directional PIM
B. MSDP
C. Multicast tools, source specific multicast
D. DVMRP
E. Anycast
VI. QoS
A. Quality of service solutions
B. Classification
C. Congestion management, congestion avoidance
D. Policing and shaping
E. Signaling
F. Link efficiency mechanisms
G. Modular QoS command line
VII. Security
A. AAA
B. Security server protocols
C. Traffic filtering and firewalls
D. Access lists
E. Routing protocols security, catalyst security
F. CBAC
G. Other security features
R&S Equipment List: and IOS Version:
The lab exam tests any feature that can be configured on the equipment and the IOS versions indicated below. You may see more recent IOS versions installed in the lab, but you will not be tested on the new features of a release unless indicated below.
3725 series routers – IOS 12.4 mainline – Advanced Enterprise Services
3825 series routers – IOS 12.4 mainline – Advanced Enterprise Services
Catalyst 3550 series switches running IOS version 12.2 – IP Services
Catalyst 3560 Series switches running IOS version 12.2 – Advanced IP Services
Our one-on-one CCIE boot camp produces a No.1 one time passing rate in the industry. In the last 3 years, 90% of our international students pass the lab exam at the first attempt. At CathaySchool, We help you secure your investment by providing each student with the following unbeatable and practical triple insurance:
First guarantee – What happens if I am not satisfied with your training?
Each student has 2 days to evaluate our course. If you find after 2 days that you dont believe our boot camp will definitely help you pass your lab exam at first attempt, simply notify your instructor before the 3rd day to withdraw from the course and get your money back.
* For more information, please refer to our course cancellation policy.
Second guarantee – What happens if I failed the lab exam at the 1st attempt?
You will be provided an extended 2 months material update (including the lab questions, requirements and solutions), 2 months technical email support (guarantee 48 hours response) and 150 hours rack access time.
Third guarantee – What happens if I fail the lab exam again?
Come back and re-attend our one-on-one course again. This is free of charge, including 4-star hotel accommodation and meals (this definitely beats all our competitors again!!!). At CathaySchool, we believe that there is no reason to have students pay for anything when they need to re-take the course.
We are dedicated to helping you pass… so we are committed more than others.
Comparing training vendors? Nobody is committed to your success like CathaySchool. Ask the other companies…..
Do they have a similar pass guarantee program?
How long are you covered by it?
When you retake their class, do you get full access to a dedicated rack of equipment again?
Are the material updates offered at no charge?
Do you have to pay for your meals, hotel and rack access when you re-take the course?
Do they provide one-on-one training?
1. We accept bank wire transfer, Western Union and major credit cards(1) .
2. To make a reservation, you are required to send a $1,000 USD deposit (2) (3).
3. The balance needs to be paid in full one week before your course starting date (4).
(1) Credit card payment will incur a surcharge of 8%.
(2) Deposit amount may be subject to change without notice.
(3) Your deposit is refundable. Cancel the course 60 days prior to the starting date will receive 100% of your deposit; A $500 administration fee will apply if you cancel the course within 30 – 59 days before the course starting date; Deposit is non-refundable if you cancel the course within 30 days before the course starting date. (4) Preferred method of payment is bank wire transfer. For credit card payment, 8% processing fee and all necessary proof as required by card processing company on request – which will include scanned copies of both sides of your credit card, passport photo page and hotel bill with signature.
Early bird – Save 5% by registering and funding full payment 30 days ahead.
Multi-student – Save 10% for 2 participants; 15% for 3 participants.
Group training – For four or more participants, please contact us for a substantial discount..
* Only one discount per account is accepted.

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TGR contact : Anthony Franklin Partner, Marketing Director.
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TGR
TGR Group develops and markets award winning luxury hotels and resorts. The management team has over 100 years combined experience working with leading, global construction companies and a successful track record across three continents.

Jumeirah

Jumeirah properties are regarded as amongst the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. The rapidly growing Dubai-based luxury international hospitality management group encompasses the world renowned Burj Al Arab, the worlds most luxurious hotel, the multi-award winning Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Madinat Jumeirah and Jumeirah Bab Al Shams Desert Resort & Spa in Dubai, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower and Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in London and the Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South in New York.

The Jumeirah Group portfolio also includes Wild Wadi, regarded as one of the premier water parks outside of North America and The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, the regions only third level academic institution specializing in the hospitality and tourism sectors.

Building on this success, Jumeirah Group became a member of Dubai Holding in 2004, a collection of leading Dubai based businesses and projects, in a step that aims to initiate a new phase of growth and development for the group.

Jumeirahs ambitious expansion plans to grow its portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts worldwide to 57 by 2011 are well underway with projects currently under development in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Aqaba, Doha, Phuket, Shanghai, Bermuda, Mallorca and London.

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