For Trek Fans: Scents of the Future-Star Trek Perfumes & Colognes (Vanity)
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| Taking a break from all the screaming, yelling, and gnashing of teeth that the Obamacare Health Illusion has generated, I chanced upon this while I was looking at an article on another site. It seems some 'enterprising' business (pun very intended) has manufactured not one but THREE perfumes and colognes for fans of the "Star Trek" universe. |
China uses perfume to sweeten landfill
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| Beijing officials hope spraying perfume from 100 high-pressure nozzles around a major landfill can temporarily end complaints about the stink. City officials also promise to cover the Asuwei dump with more layers of plastic, The Guardian reports. People living near the landfill say the smell is almost unbearable when the wind is blowing from the dump. Getting rid of the trash generated by China's growing economy and prosperity is a difficult problem, especially in Beijing, where 17 million people live. Photographer Wang Jiuliang has spent a year taking pictures of the 200 landfills circling the city in what he calls... |
Perfume Ban Enacted In Detroit Ban Comes From Federal Lawsuit In Detroit
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| In 2008, a city planner filed a lawsuit claiming a co-worker's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. Susan McBride filed her lawsuit under the American with Disabilities Act, because she said he co-workers' fragrances made it hard for her to breath. She was awarded $100,000. "One of the things the city is going to have to figure out is how they enforce the policy they've agreed to," said attorney John Holmquist. "The city is going to have to get involved in hygiene, I'd guess you'd say, which no employer wants to get involved in." A notice... |
Customer destroys perfume display
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| An angry customer destroyed more than $1,000 worth of perfume Saturday afternoon after a clerk at Joy Joy Beauty, 224 Hawthorne Ave., told her she could not return several items without a receipt, according to an Athens-Clarke police report. The customer tried to return the items about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and pushed over a large plastic display stand holding several hundred sample-size bottles of perfume that cost $3.50 each, police said. The display stand broke, and every bottle of perfume smashed against the floor as the woman stormed out of the store and drove away in a green van, according... |
Is Perfume the New Cigarette? 150 Fall Ill to Sprayed Perfume
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| We've all been there, a restaurant, church, classroom, shopping aisle and yes a bar, when someone will walk in and the place turns to weeping eyes and sneezing. How well do you think people take it when asked to "remove" their perfume? But due to stories like the people above who fell ill due to someone's perfume I believe people are starting to look at perfume as the next cigarette. |
Perfume thief nets nearly $10,000 by hitting eight different Walgreens
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| SAN ANTONIO - One popular drug store chain needs your help catching a crook who's hit their stores all over town. His actions could mean higher prices for you at the register! The perfume thief has hit eight different Walgreens, including one this past Saturday night. He's stolen nearly $10,000 worth of perfume. The News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooters got a hold of security video from one of the stores. In it, you can actually see one of San Antonio's most wanted shoplifters in action. Cameras catch him quickly popping the lock, or breaking the glass, on the perfume case.... |
FBI reportedly interested in former state engineer Farid Adlouni
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| PORTLAND A former Washington state Transportation Department engineer yesterday has found himself, his imam and his mosque swept into an unfolding investigation by Portland's joint terrorism force led by the FBI. Farid Adlouni, a civil engineer and U.S. citizen who once worked out of the Vancouver office, was profiled in The Oregonian newspaper yesterday as a man with business ties to a top Osama bin Laden aide and who has attracted FBI scrutiny. Adlouni, 38, yesterday said he had "done nothing wrong." The imam, Mohammad Abdirahman Kariye, also a U.S. citizen, was recently charged with two felony counts of... |
Star Trek enterprise to market 3 new fragrances
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| The world of fragrance is about to boldly go where few have ventured before: the Trekosphere. Hoping to profit from the May 8 release of J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek film, chronicling the beginnings of Capt. James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise, Maryland-based Genki Wear will release three Star Trek-themed scents on April 24. John McGonigle, president of Genki, said the two men's colognes and one women's perfume will retail for about $30. |
Vase discovery linked to Mary Magdalene
Saturday 4th of September 2010 04:12:07 PM
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| Archaeologists have discovered vases of perfumed ointment which may have been used by Mary Magdalene to anoint the feet of Jesus. The Italian team have been digging for several months at the ancient Palestinian town of Magdala from where Mary gets her name. The archaeologists of the Franciscan academic society Studium Biblicum Franciscanum found the unopened vases dating to the first century AD conserved in mud at the bottom of a swimming pool in Magdala's thermal complex. The town is on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee and Mary Magdalene is mentioned several times throughout the Bible.... |



