Goldbug100 - InterContinental Hotels Group H1 profits up 23% Sales + 10% & dividend up 25%

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The hotelier, which runs over 4,400 hotels, posted first-half operating profits up 23%t at $269 million (164 million pounds) beating a company compiled consensus of $256 million, while half-year sales rose 10% to $850 million.

The half-year dividend rose 25% to 16.0 US cents.

The group said first-half global revenue per available room (RevPAR), a key industry measure, grew 6.7 percent, with an 8.2 percent rise in the United States and a 12.7 percent rise in China. In July, global RevPAR rose a slightly less 5.6 percent.

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Intercontinental Hotels Group PLC Broadwater Park Denham, UB9 5HR United Kingdom - Map Phone: 44 18 9551 2000 Fax: 44 18 9551 2101 Website: http://www.ihgplc.com

Business Summary

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC owns, manages, franchises, and leases hotels and resorts. The company owns a portfolio of various brands, including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, and Hotel Indigo. As of July 26, 2011, it owned, managed, franchised, and leased a portfolio of approximately 4,400 hotels and 652,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Denham, the United Kingdom.

Zac Brown Band Featuring Jimmy Buffett "Knee Deep" music video and Lyrics

Knee Deep Zac Brown Band Featuring Jimmy Buffett From the album: You Get What You Give

Uploaded by zacbrownband on Jun 29, 2011

It's trouble in tropical paradise for Flody Boatwood and his siblings Brody and Jody as they maneuver the perils of Careyes, Mexico. Funny... some of these villains look kind of familiar...

Zac Brown Band Lyrics - Knee Deep

(feat. Jimmy Buffett)

Gonna put the world away for a minute
Pretend I don't live in it
Sunshine gonna wash my blues away
Had sweet love but I lost it
She Got too close so I fought it
Now I'm lost in the world tryin to find me a better way

Wishin' I was
Knee deep in the water somewhere
got the blue sky, breeze and it don't seem fair
the only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might've found me my own kind of paradise

Wrote a note, said "Be back in a minute"
Bought a boat and I sailed off in it
Don't think anybody's gonna miss me anyway
Mind on a permenant vacation
The ocean is my only medication
Wishin' my condition ain't ever gonna go away

Now I'm knee deep in the water somewhere
Got the blue sky breeze blowin' wind thru my hair
Only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might've found me my own kind of paradise

This champagne shore watchin' over me
It's a sweet sweet life livin' by the salty sea
One day you can be as lost as me
Change your geography and maybe you might be

Knee deep in the water somewhere
got the blue sky breeze blowin' wind thru my hair
only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might've found me my own kind of paradise

Come on in
the waters nice
find yourself a little slice
grab a bag
pack it ligth you'll never know until you try
when you lose yourself
you find a key to paradise

Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks" music video and Lyrics

Pumped Up Kicks Foster The People From the album: Torches

Uploaded by fosterthepeopleVEVO on Feb 4, 2011

Official music video for Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People. Directed By Josef Geiger (c) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment

Foster The People Lyrics - Pumped Up Kicks

Robert's got a quick hand. He'll look around the room, he won't tell you his plan. He's got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he's a cowboy kid. Yeah he found a six shooter gun. In his dads closet hidden in a box of fun things, and I don't even know what. But he's coming for you, yeah he's coming for you.

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[Chorus x2:] 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.
Daddy works a long day. He be coming home late, yeah he's coming home late. And he's bringing me a surprise. 'Cause dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice. I've waited for a long time. Yeah the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger, I reason with my cigarette, And say your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah.

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[Chorus x2:] 

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

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[Whistling]
[Chorus x3:] 

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

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Kelly Rowland Featuring Lil Wayne "Motivation" music video and Lyrics

Motivation Kelly Rowland Featuring Lil Wayne From the album: Here I Am

Uploaded by kellyrowlandVEVO on Apr 5, 2011

Music video by Kelly Rowland performing Motivation. (C) 2011 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Kelly Rowland Lyrics - Motivation

Oh lover, don't you dare slow down Go longer, you can last more rounds Push harder, you're almost there now So go lover, make mama proud

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And when we're done I don't wanna feel my legs And when we're done I just wanna feel your hands all over me, baby

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You can't stop there Music still playing in the background And you're almost there You can do it, I believe in you, baby So close from here

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Baby, I'ma be your motivation Go, go, go, go Motivation Go, go, go, go

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Uh, girl I turn that thing into a rain-forest Rain on my head, call that brainstorming Yeah this is deep, oh, but I go deeper Make you lose yourself and finders keepers

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It go green light, go Weezy go I like to taste that sugar, that Sweet and Low But hold up wait, new position I put her on my plate then I do the dishes

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She my motivation, I'm her transportation 'Cause I let her ride while I drive her crazy Then I just keep going, going, like I'm racing When I'm done she hold me like a conversation Weezy, baby

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And when we're done I don't wanna feel my legs And when we're done I just wanna feel your hands all over me, baby

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You can't stop there Music still playin' in the background And you're almost there You can do it, I believe in you baby So close from here

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Baby, I'ma be your motivation

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Oh lover, when you call my name No other can do that the same, no I won't let ya get up out that game, no So go lover, don't it make me rain?

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And when we're done I don't wanna feel my legs And when we're done I just wanna feel your hands all over me, baby

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You can't stop there Music still playin' in the background And you're almost there You can do it, I believe in you baby So close from here

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Baby, I'ma be your motivation