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  • Scents and sensibility: the history of perfume Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:09AMUnaccommodated man," said King Lear on the blasted heath, "is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art." He might have added "rank", too; the naked hairy man (or naked hairy woman) is a malodorous creature, bad as a goat, with the difference that I suppose Goat (A) finds the terrible downwind hogo of Goat (B) alluring, all other things being equal (or unequal, depending on the ...
  • RP mourns for slain hostages Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:43PMMANILA – The Philippine flag will fly at half-staff Wednesday as President Benigno Aquino III declared a national day of mourning in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong. read more
  • GHANA- a rebellious nation? Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 11:28PMA nation once peaceful, law abiding, respected, peace loving and noted for her hospitality, is today a sinful nation. It has become a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evil doers,children given to corruption.
  • Have singing contests, not showgirls, Hungry Ghost Festival organisers told Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 10:24PMGEORGE TOWN, Aug 17 — With the on-going debate on whether scantily-clad showgirls are appropriate for the nightly stage shows during the current Hungry Ghosts Festival, the Teong Gun Association, which is the lead organiser of such celebrations in Penang, has suggested staging singing contests instead. “It is also more cost-effective to have ...
  • Have Singing Contests, Not Showgirls, Hungry Ghost Festival Organisers Told Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 9:39PMGEORGE TOWN, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- With the on-going debate whether scantily-clad showgirls are appropriate for the nightly stage shows during the current Hungry Ghosts Festival, the Teong Gun Association, which is the lead organiser of such celebrations in Penang, has suggested staging singing contests instead.
  • The new high: Spice Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 3:36AMA new substance that mimics the effects of marijuana is being sold legally in Utah as incense. It could be causing the same worries as marijuana, but most parents have no idea that it even exists.
  • The new high: spice Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 2:37AMSmoking marijuana may not destroy your life like a heroin addiction or damage your body like cocaine.
  • The Book of Revelations: End Time Prophesy or Delusional Lunacy? Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 11:13PMThe last book of the Bible is the Book of Revelations authored by one John from Patmos, an island of Greece in the Aegean Sea. The book is unique in its style of presentation and also the material involved.
  • Flash in the Pan Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 2:46AMHow and why to roast green chile by Ari LeVaux The annual green chile harvest has begun, which means the smell of roasting green chile will soon permeate the American southwest. The fragrance of chile smoke is sweet and earthy, like incense, but serious potency lurks in the pungent scent of those blackened skins. It's the smell of chemical heat. Green chile comes from the first harvest, in July ...
  • Seduced by a land of smiles Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 11:47PMI HAD died and gone to heaven. Pina colada in one hand, camera in the other, I sauntered in my high heels and little black lacy number around the narrow walkway behind the circular cocktail bar to drink in the breathtaking views.
  • Seduced by a land of smiles Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 11:39PMI HAD died and gone to heaven. This was a chic fairyland called Sky Bar on the 63rd floor of Lebua at State Tower in Bangrak, Bangkok.
  • Young overseas Vietnamese campers head home Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 5:37AMAfter a tour of 12 cities and provinces across the country, 150 young overseas Vietnamese from 30 nations and territories around the globe gathered at the Tan Trao historical site on August 1 to celebrate the end of their 2010 Vietnam Summer Camp.
  • Candlelight communion Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 10:02PMOCCASIONAL drizzle did not dampen the spirits of tens of thousands of pilgrims and officials who took part in a mammoth candlelight procession at the St Anne’s Church grounds in Bukit Mertajam on Saturday.
  • Holy Ghost | Static on the Wire Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:51PMDFA Records (2010) Did I miss the release of a "my hipstamatic dance band" app for the iPhone in the past year or so?
  • Nation remembers war dead, wounded in Ha Noi ceremony Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:46PMViet Nam's leaders placed wreaths and burned incense at the Martyrs Monument and President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum in Ha Noi yesterday as the entire country remembered its war dead and wounded.
  • Think we're addicted to fame? You should have seen us 2,000 years ago Sunday, June 20, 2010 @ 2:50AMWhile we live in a celebrity culture, it's not something we say with pride. The cult of famousness seems to have crept up on us - without our intending it.
  • Statue inspires struggle hero's niece Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 3:43AMAyanda Mashinini was a year old when her uncle Tsietsi Mashinini died in 1990.
  • Pokemon SoulSilver Version - Walkthrough Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 12:27PMPokemon SoulSilver Version (DS) Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver
  • Pokemon SoulSilver Version - Walkthrough Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 3:28PMPokemon SoulSilver Version (DS) Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver
  • Pokemon HeartGold Version - Walkthrough Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 3:28PMPokemon HeartGold Version (DS) Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver
  • Chinese pupils prepare to sit the exams that will decide their fate Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 6:15PMYou can hear a pin drop, the clock is ticking down, and your future depends on the Chinese characters you are putting to paper in front of you. College entrance exam time in China, which began yesterday, brings the kind of pressures that would break most children, in Britain and elsewhere. Fail these exams and a secure place in the New China is lost.
  • Tribal chiefs slaughter cow at stadium to appease spirits Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 7:04PMJOHANNESBURG: South African tribal chiefs and healers have slaughtered a cow outside Soccer City, the biggest stadium at the World Cup, as part of rituals to appease the spirits of ancestors and welcome fans.
  • A Magnificent Pagan Altar was Exposed at the Barzilai Hospital Compound Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 9:07PMThe discovery further corroborates the assertion that we are dealing with a pagan cemetery. Photo: Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. JERUSALEM.-
  • Incense burnt to hide body smell: court Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 12:52AMA woman accused of murdering her husband burnt incense to hide the body's smell, a Brisbane court has heard.
  • 'Incense burnt to hide body smell' Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 12:40AMA woman burnt incense and put on the air-conditioner to hide the stench of her husband's decomposing body, a court has heard.
  • 'Incense burnt to hide death stench' Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 12:33AMA WOMAN burnt incense and put on the air-conditioner to hide the stench of her husband's decomposing body at their family home on the Sunshine Coast, a court has heard.
  • Harlem Churches in Fight for Survival Sunday, May 23, 2010 @ 10:40PMGentrification and the loss of longtime congregants have left some houses of worship with sparsely populated pews.
  • Activities mark President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 1:57AMA meeting to mark President Ho Chi Minh’s 120th birthday was held in his home province of Nghe An in central Vietnam Sunday.
  • South Korea bids tearful farewell to warship victims Friday, April 30, 2010 @ 3:02AMA huge South Korean national flag being carried in a procession of mourners holding portraits of the victims of the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan during a funeral ceremony at a naval base at Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometres south of Seoul, yesterday.
  • Paedophile priest dumped in SA Friday, April 30, 2010 @ 12:38AMA priest accused of molesting several boys while using drugs in Germany was simply shipped off to South Africa when the Catholic diocese was told, according to a German news service.
  • South Korea bids tearful farewell to warship victims Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 5:06AMRelatives weep after laying flowers on an altar for the sailors who died when the South Korean warship Cheonan sank during a funeral ceremony at a naval base at Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometres south of Seoul, on April 29, 2010.
  • S.Korea honours victims of sunken warship Wednesday, April 28, 2010 @ 9:15PMPYONGTAEK, South Korea: Flags flew at half-mast, a siren wailed and families wept on Thursday as South Korea honoured 46 sailors killed in a mystery warship blast, amid growing suspicion that North Korea was to blame.
  • Jesus's Morality v Church's Doctrine Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 9:43PMEditor’s Note: In a recent essay , Rev. Howard Bess observed that the deviation between Jesus’s teaching of forgiveness and the Christian Church’s emphasis on penance and punishment may have derived from the fact that apostle Paul may never have known of the Sermon on the Mount, because Jesus’s teachings were not written down until years later.
  • ‘Tour’ of Hades for departed souls Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 9:10PMPASSPORTS to the netherworld and replicas of the greenback, albeit with the face of a Chinese emperor, are among the popular offerings this Qing Ming.
  • Quake-flattened Beichuan County opens for Tomb Sweeping festival Sunday, April 4, 2010 @ 5:54AMAlmost two years after the May 12 quake, mourners entered the devastated Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province to mark the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Chinese day for honoring ancestors and the deceased, which falls on Monday. From Saturday, bereaved families brought flowers, incense and candles and set off firecrackers among the ruins of the shattered concrete buildings and ...
  • Weird but true Saturday, April 3, 2010 @ 1:56AMHe really stepped in it. A Norfolk, Va., man filed a $1 million lawsuit against a pet-store chain, claiming he slipped on dog feces in one of their stores and knocked out his teeth when he hit the ground. PetSmart argues it's not negligent because dog feces is a...
  • Easter, when a Kindle surprise turns into a curate's egg Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 11:24AMIt's Easter and I'm cross again. What's that? No. God no, not that sort of cross. Look around.
  • Christian Living Resources, Bible Study Tools, Jesus Christ Monday, March 29, 2010 @ 9:42AMS. Michael Craven is the President of the Center for Christ & Culture and the author of Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity (Navpress, 2009) . Michael's ministry is dedicated to equipping the church to engage the culture with the redemptive mission of Christ.
  • Gerald Warner: It's the Pope's turn to retaliate in Catholic civil war Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 7:09PM'NEVER let a good crisis go to waste" was the political maxim formulated by Hillary Clinton. It has been adopted by the fading trendies in the Catholic Church who still carry the burnt-out torch of the Second Vatican Catastrophe, in their Intifada against Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Therapists seek to heal devastated children Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 10:04PMClasses resumed on Wednesday at a local primary school where a man stabbed eight children to death on Tuesday, but some shocked students remained at home, while psychologists try to help traumatized students process their pain. At 7 am, many students arrived, escorted by family members, and began to enter the Nanping Experimental Primary School. Previously, the gate opened at 7:30 am sharp and ...
  • Therapists seek to heal devastated children Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 6:50PMNANPING, Fujian - Classes resumed on Wednesday at a local primary school where a man stabbed eight children to death on Tuesday, but some shocked students remained at home, while psychologists try to help traumatized students process their pain.
  • Department of Health Talk K2 Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 9:45PMArkansas Department of Health Send Advisory About Fake Weed
  • 504 roses for My Lai Massacre’s victims Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 7:11AMVietNamNet Bridge – The sound from the violin of American veteran Roy Mike Boehm was moved the heart of the people who attended the 42 nd commemoration of the My Lai Massacre at the food of the Son My monument in the central province of Quang Ngai in the morning of March 16.
  • Incense burnt in church services 'causing illness in congregation' Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:48AMAn environmental health investigation is underway into claims that incense burnt during church services is making members of the congregation ill.
  • Spice up your life Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:16PMMUSCAT, OMAN
  • One of Hanoi’s oldest homes damaged in fire Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 4:10AMVietNamNet Bridge – A fire broke out at 9.45pm on February 21 destroying the main room of one of Hanoi’s oldest houses on 47 Hang Bac Street.
  • Teen asks "Why does Kishenji hide like a woman?" Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 8:43AMTwenty-four families are grieving in the aftermath of the massacre at Silda, but in the family of the cook at the Eastern Rifle Frontier Camp there is also enormous anger. Anger at the Maoist specially Kishenji, who has left so many widows and fatherless in what he has called Operation Peace Hunt.
  • Catherine in China - part seven Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 7:02AMUntil October, Prestwich teenager and former Bury Youth MP Catherine Rawsthorne will be teaching English to children in Gansu Province in China.
  • Geomancer loses in battle of the wills Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 4:27AMHONG KONG - Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday rejected a fung shui master's claim for the estimated US$4.2 billion fortune of late property tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum after a court case featuring a heady mix of sex, secrets and geomancy.
  • Building a life in Iraq Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 1:12AMI'm back in Iraq.