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Sheikh Hamad, the foreign minister of the Gulf State of Qatar, has just made an amazing purchase. He has just bought a penthouse home in the exclusive and super-luxurious area of One Hyde Park Development in London for an astounding £100 million (around $196 million).

The penthouse apartment of the Sheikh is one of 86 luxury flats being built on the edge of Hyde Park opposite Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge.

Some features of the new ultra-luxurious apartments are:
- 24-hour room service
-bulletproof windows
-iris recognition scanners in the elevators
-panic rooms
-license plate recognition software

The complex has been designed by architect Richard Rogers is being developed by brothers Christian and Nicholas Candy. This project is also sponsored and backed by the Sheikh himself from his personal fortune.

The penthouse should be ready in two years and two other penthouses have also been sold.

I wonder why the Sheikh would have invested and sponsored such as luxurious and top-level project in London... maybe the investment will be paid off and the value of the appartment will be multiplied itselt many times in a short period of time...

I was doing a research on the internet, and I found this cool and brilliant idea that I have never seen before. The base of the business is simple but smart, and the potential is unlimited.

If you want to promote your business name, your website, your company logo or whatever messsage you want to show to the world, there is no better way to do it. You can have your website or business name printed in a silver or golden car plate that you can stick to the back of your car, and it will stay there as long as you keep the car. When you change your car, you can always remove the little plate and stick it to your new car.

This ID plate is not a cheap sticker. It is a hard molded plate, with a chrome or golden finishing.

The math is very simple: Any day you drive your car, around 3,000 people at least will read the ID plate you have in the back of your car. This means 3,000 “impressions” of your website per day. In a year this means 1,095,000 impressions of your website or your business name, contact details, etc… Imagine this amazing promotion of your business wherever you drive your car… and the cost of these ID plates is ridiculous: At the full retail price of $39.95 (chromed plate) or $44.95 (golden plate).

In my opinion this is one of the simplest but most effective ways of marketing I have seen. The best part is that shipping is free WORLDWIDE.

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YatchPlus is a fractional luxury yatch service created by a group of rich men. They are setting themselves apart from their competitors by offering The YachtPlus Signature Series boats. These series are 131 foot powerboats designed and created by famous architect Sir Norman Foster (from Foster and Partners).

YachtPlus owners are planning to have eight owners per yacht. There is an agreement that includes an option for eight more of these yachts to be made.

The ultra modern yachts will be made in aluminum alloy with a composite superstructure. Each one of the yachts have four decks and with four guest cabins and a full beam owner’s cabin. There is a submersible beach deck and the large glassed-in saloon area offers 180-degree views.

As per reports from other companies interested in the yatches multi-ownership (8 owners per yatch), a one-eighth share (12.5% of the whole) is priced at 1.5 million euros, with each yacht selling for a total of 12 million euros.

The first yacht should be ready in 2008, and YatchPlus is alreay having a lot of millionaire potential buyers interested in the shared ownership of these yatches from another world.

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This must be one of the most expensive cognacs in the world. At the same time, the bottle itself is a masterpiece, in my opinion. The bottle is made of crystal with a polished hematite finishing look. The fleur-de-lys designs in the outside of the bottle are made of platinum, giving a more luxurious look to the bottle.

The inside of the bottle is the candy of the whole piece: the spirit inside the bottle has been created from 1,200 eaux-de-vie wine aged 40 – 100 years... so imagine the price of this cognac that could easily be shown in a museum as a piece of the most delicate art.

The price of this luxurious cognac is around $1,500 each bottle, of a numbered series of 786 bottles. The exact number of 786 bottles comes from the number of decanters (bottles) that can be filled from one tiercon, the type of oak barrel used by Rémy Martin to age Louis XIII. Now you can have an idea about why is this Louis XIII Black Pearl Cognac so unique, so exquisite and so expensive...

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