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Hotel Fitness & Spa Expert Glenn Colarossi Unveils b spa Brand for Hotels
Hotel fitness and spa industry veteran Glenn Colarossi today announced that he has developed a new spa brand/concept, called "b spa," with a goal of selling it directly to a hotel group. Unlike many hotel spas that are leased to independent operators, the new b spa brand will allow hotels to offer a complete spa package of products and services and participate more fully in the revenues it generates. Furthermore, purchase of the new brand will provide the hotel group with complete control of the spa and the guest experience. .
Spotlight is on best everyday products
From flavorful coffee beans for a morning eye-opener to picnic plates that can stand up to mounds of fried chicken, Consumer Reports recently identified the top-performing supermarket products in five major categories -- foods, snacks, drinks, personal care and stuff for the home -- and 39 product subcategories.
All of them were judged excellent or very good by CR and are still available in their tested formulations. Most picks in each category were pitted against many competitors; some were compared with just a few products.
Highlights from CR's best everyday products include:
Barbecue sauce: KC Masterpiece Original. It's versatile, with sweet molasses flavor, some heat and just enough smoke to taste grilled.
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Don't let hazards take the spring out of your step
Spring comforts us like an electric blanket on a cold night. It lures us with its bouquet, and rejuvenates us as we crawl out from winter's cocoon. But before jumping wildly into spring's waiting arms, health and safety issues are worth considering. Spring also ushers in insects that can bite us or make us sick, a hot sun that can burn us and even lead to skin cancer, and pollen and mold that trigger allergies and aggravate asthma. Here are some reminders to help make your spring healthy and inviting. Allergy season Beginning this spring, The Weather Channel Interactive Inc. (TWCI) includes an enhanced allergies and pollen section on Weather.com. It features local and travel pollen forecasts, an allergy help center, tips and advice on common triggers and relief techniques as well as a pollen almanac.
Elegant white wines of France
Dry White Bordeaux — The wines from this appellation, Dry White Bordeaux, are produced within an area of about 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres), on a soil perfectly suited to the vine. In the heart of this privileged province which has a diameter of about 100 kilometers, two thousand stimulated wine growers, proud of their surrounding countryside which is all softness, harmony, roundness and balance, have made a decisive choice. From what they admire every day they have created the AOC Dry White Bordeaux, naturally rich and typical and always much appreciated throughout the world.To the great delight of the AOC Dry White Bordeaux, as for all the Bordeaux wines, the grape varieties blend with one another but are not alike (even, if such and such a grape variety may be the dominant one). The Sauvignon produces very aromatic and scented wines; the Muscadelle gives typical wine full of finesse.
Making up the dream
Fashion, fame, glamour - and the chance to make your own hours.
Sound like a dream job? For five Ohio State students, this is reality.
Jessica Storm, sisters Nadia and Samina Piracha, Kristiauna Mangum and Molly McDowell are campus sales managers for Mark, a beauty brand of Avon Products that sells makeup and skin-care products, clothes and accessories.
"Not only are we responsible for getting our schoolwork done well, because we want to be successful, we also have to make sure that we're delegating responsibilities, keeping in touch with our team, staying up-to-date with the newest lines of product that are coming out, throwing parties and also being responsible with money," said Storm, a junior in dietetics.
Launched in 2003, the brand targets young women and sells its products on the Internet, in catalogues and in person through sales representatives, like the five women at OSU.
Feeling Great in 2008
It was all about being healthy and feeling great in 2008 at the New York State Fairgrounds Sunday. Nature-Tyme held a health extravaganza called “Feeling Great in 2008". 2,000 people attended and learned how to be healthy, look good, and live long. There were workshops through the day. Much of the discussion was about food, not only how much to eat - but what to eat to be your best self. “People are understanding their place in the world. They're coming into consciousness of what they're eating, what they're supplementing, what they're putting on their body all has a connection, and people are really anxious to learn,: Natur-Tyme owner Wendy Meyerson says. There were also cooking demonstrations and organic clothing and skin care products for sale.
Rescued dogs, cats get TLC: Kennel's animals treated for physical, emotional ailments
Two Shih Tzus, recently named Rita and Lucy, shake and cower when people walk by their separate cages. A yellow Rottweiller mix, called Tank, suffers from eye, ear and skin infections and may require surgery for a sore on his foot likely caused from lying on cement. The eye infection that Nina, a Lhasa apso, contracted has caused blindness in her right eye. .
Care workers in neglect case
AN ELDERLY woman was neglected by care workers and died only five weeks after moving to a new nursing home, a court heard yesterday. Gladys Thomas, 84, had extensive bruising to her chest, lower back, arms and groin, and a broken rib and collar bone when she was admitted to the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, in October 2005, the city's Crown Court was told. Jurors heard that staff at Bryngwyn Nursing Home, Newbridge, Caerphilly, may have tied the schizophrenic pensioner to a chair or bed with a ligature like an electric flex in the hours before her final admission to hospital, eight days before her death. Prosecutor Gerard Elias QC said: "There's no innocent explanation for the fractured collar bone and extensive bruising to the right chest wall, the right arm, her groin or the possible ligature mark.
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