The teaser trailer to The Golden Compass, releasing in December 2007:
Christians across the country need to be made aware of the story of The Golden Compass?
The Controversies: Several key themes of the novels, the rejection of organized religion and the abuse of power in a fictionalized Catholic Church, are to be diluted in the adaptation....... Read more on.....
Amazing Craft Toy. Place the beads in a tray and spray with water and they will magically stick together.
"Date-Rape Drug in Bead Toy":
THE Australian toy of the year, Bindeez, has been withdrawn after a warning that the date-rape drug GHB may have been "deliberately" put into the product.
Two children - 10 and two - were admitted to The Children's Hospital, Westmead this month and another was treated in Queensland after swallowing the Bindeez beads.
Tests have revealed the tiny beads contain the chemical 1,4-Butanediol, which when ingested turns into liquid fantasy, also known as GHB.
An investigation has been launched into how the dangerous chemical, an adhesive, ended up in the toy but some experts believe it was deliberately swapped for one of the listed ingredients.
Bindeez are made in Hong Kong and imported through Melbourne company Moose Enterprises.
The bead crafting kits won the title of Most Popular Toy in March.
The company, which was unavailable for comment, has been forced to withdraw the toy and faces millions of dollars in losses.
The beads contain a non-toxic glue which, when sprayed with water, stick together to form shapes.
Authorities became concerned when Charlotte Lehane, 10, was the second child in a week needing hospitalisation after swallowing the beads.
Her mother Heather Lehane, of Castle Hill, said that within an hour of her daughter eating the coloured balls, she became unconscious.
"It was terrifying. I couldn't wake her and then she just started vomiting this thick glue-like substance and all these Bindeez," Mrs Lehane said. "She had wanted them for her birthday ... they are very popular."
Fair Trading Minister Linda Burney ordered the immediate removal of the toy from shops.
University of NSW toxicologist Chris Wynder said the chemical was most likely put into the toy.
"There's a possibility there's been some malice," Professor Wynder said. "Maybe the glue they use was too expensive, or wasn't available."
"Big Recall of China Bead Toys After 'Date Rape' Drug Found ":
DEADLY: The chemical coating can induce seizures or coma if ingested. WASHINGTON - THERE has been another massive global recall of Chinese-made toys, just weeks from the busy Christmas shopping season. Millions of the 'bead-based' toys have been pulled from shelves in North America, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore after scientists found they contained a chemical that converts into a powerful 'date rape' drug when ingested.
Two children in the United States and three in Australia were hospitalised after swallowing the beads.
The toys are called Bindeez in Australia, where they were named toy of the year at an industry function this year. In the United States, the toy goes by the name Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys. Both are sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises.
Moose Enterprises said Bindeez and Aqua Dots are made at the same factorylocated in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province. The company said the product is distributed in 40 countries but that it was up to the individual countries and distributors to determine if the product would be pulled.
The toy beads are sold for use in arts and crafts projects. They can be arranged into designs and fused together when sprayed with water.
Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, becomes the so-called 'date rape' drug gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB). When eaten, the compound can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and cause death.
Dr Naren Gunja from Australia's Poisons Information Centre said the drug's effect on children was 'quite serious and potentially life-threatening'.
The recall was announced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, several hours after reports were published in the US about the recall in Australia.
The news jolted the toy industry because Aqua Dots has been one of the few bright stars of the toy-selling season which, along with overall retailing, got off to a sluggish start in the US Christmas season. Toy sellers are cancelling advertising and scrambling to figure out how to replace the product.
BANGALORE - Toddler born with eight limbs, 4 arms and 4 legs, undergone life-saving operation. The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born in a tiny village in Arhariya in the central Indian state of Bihar - said to be on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu.
The toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.
The girl is joined to a 'parasitic twin' who stopped developing in the mother's womb, while the surviving foetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped foetus. The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney.
An X-ray picture shows how the two bodies are joined at the pelvis
Lakshmi Tatma had gone under the operationss at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove two of her useless arms and legs. Without the operation the little girl would never be able to walk or crawl and would be unlikely to live past her early teens. Dr Sharan Patil, who will be leading the surgery at the country's Narayana Health City, in Bangalore, said: "Fortunately, Lakshmi has one complete body with a near perfect set of organs.
"Her skeletal system involves two bodies which are fused together at the level of the pelvis. The operation itself, although presents several challenges, is not the most complex in the world. What is highly unusual in Lakshmi's case is precisely how her bodies are fused, almost mirroring each other."
Parents Poonam Devi and Shambu Das, who earn about 50p a day as casual labourers, were turned away from several hospitals before her plight was taken up by Dr Patil.
Poonam, who gave birth to Lakshmi on the celebration day of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity after whom the new born was named, said: "She is a miracle, a special blessing from God."
The operation is expected to cost more thant US$100,000. Surgeons have successfully removed the extra limbs from the two-year-old girl in a gruelling operation that lasted more than a day
In a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about.
A direct rebuttal to Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, Tufts philosophy professor Dan Dennet presents the idea of religion as a natural phenomenon -- one that has evolved over millennia to meet humanity's changing needs. While acknowledging that this idea stirs up anxiety, Dennett asserts the importance of studying religions rigorously, even proposing that children be required to study world religions along with reading and math. Dennett, who followed Warren on stage at TED2006, goes on to criticize The Purpose-Driven Life for several claims -- among them a belief that in order to be moral, one must deny evolution..........
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Part 1
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Part 2
"The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational
organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American
leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such
leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to
moral principle.
The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs,
research papers, advocacy journalism, conferences, and seminars, to explain
what American world leadership entails. It will also strive to rally
support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international
involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense
policy and America's role in the world."
-- William Kristol
"...For the devil has come down t you having great anger knowing he has a short period of time." ( Revelation 12:12 )
"....signs of how to identify that time period...( Matthew 24:3-14 )
"For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom..." (Matthew 24;7 )
" But kown this is the last days ... men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection..." ( 2 Timothy 3:1-5 )
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