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The above image is a proposed hotel, conference and exhibition complex that will be the gateway to the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. A Norwegian architect firm named Snohetta will be designing the futuristic looking gateway. The gateway will act as the entrance to the city and will form a landmark to the city entrance. Ras Al-Khaimah is located in the desert about 150 kilometers east of Dubai. PBS has a documentary about the city in the desert called The Sand Castle. You can see more photographs on De Zeen and at snoarc.no.
Paris Hilton Launches New Line of Headband Hair Extensions Paris Hilton has been a busy, busy girl. She just launched a line of hair extensions that are attached to a headband. They will be sold at Sally's Beauty Supply. In this video she talks about the launch, her political satire video she did for FunnyorDie.com and he upcoming dance album.
Find Your Way With Bushnell's BackTrack In the video below, Barron's Jay Palmer says the BackTrack from Bushnell is the perfect gadget for those who frequently get lost. The gadget helps you find the way back to any location recorded within 1,000 miles. You could use it to locate your car in a huge crowded parking lot or you could find your way back to your hotel room. You can find it at Eagle Optics for $69.99. The product page from Bushnell can be found here.
When you need to find your car in a crowded mall or stadium parking lot, use the BackTrack to save time and avoid frustration. The BackTrack lets you mark a location, keeps track of the distance traveled, and guides you on the return trip. The basic GPS technology and user-friendly programming makes this a great tool for family, scouts, and school groups. The BackTrack personal location finder:
Stores and locates up to three locations.
Uses a high-sensitivity SiRF star III GPS receiver.
You may not recognize your local CVS store soon: the pharmacy line is launching
an upscale beauty center to compete with Sephora. The stores will be called 360 and will feature 32 upscale brands, the names of which haven't been revealed.
The first concept store is slated to open by year's end in a major East Coast city, Mike Bloom, CVS' senior vice president of merchandising, told WWD exclusively. Another will open weeks later on the West Coast, he added.
Bloom would not elaborate on the rollout strategy, but sources briefed on the initiative said the initial concept stores are planned for Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, Calif., and long-term plans call for 500 to 1,000 stores, with about 100 slated to open in the next year.
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A glance at the concept's renderings- which call for brushed steel accents, white-tiled floors and a wall of sea-foam-colored, hand-cut glass tile - seems to indicate CVS has invested heavily in paving the way for its move upmarket.
The Beauty 360 units will range between 2,500 and 4,000 square feet in size, and will either be housed in an adjacent store, accessible to CVS shoppers via a breezeway, or a separate store within a CVS store.
CVS may also add manicures and hand massages to the stores. It's a very interesting idea that we're looking forward to checking out.
Italian Priest Cancels Nun Beauty Contest The BBC reports that Father Rungi, an Italian priest, has cancelled the Internet nun beauty contest he was planning. Local religious authorities did not approve and spoiled his fun. Reports of the contest caused howls of outrage from Catholics and from women who thought the whole thing was demeaning.
Antonio Rungi said he had never intended to put sisters on the catwalk, but had wanted to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour.
He had wanted to hold the contest online on his internet blog.
Father Rungi said he changed his mind after the local religious authorities expressed their displeasure.
"My superiors were not happy. The local bishop was not happy, but they did not understand me either," Father Rungi told Reuters news agency from the town of Mondragone, near Naples.
"It was interpreted as more of a physical thing," he said. "Now, no one is saying that nuns can't be beautiful, but I was thinking about something more complete."
He said he had intended to showcase the good works that nuns do, especially in education and health care, so as to boost interest in religious vocations.
Father Rungi maintains that the nuns were all for the idea and that he just can't understand why the idea would be controversial. It's too bad, because we were ready to cast our vote for Sister Bertrille.