UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Got this list from the web and newspapers.

Books and multimedia.

That means there must be huge underground demand for these!

Books
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Kod 19 - Kassim Ahmad
Bacaan - Othman Ali [Al-Quran translated into Malay. However, it is available for download. Banned in July 1995.]
Hadis: Satu Penilaian Semula - Dr. Kassim Ahmad [anti-hadith movement; banned Sept 1995]
Iban Bible (2003)

Tujuh buah buku Kristian yang diterbit oleh Persekutuan Pembaca Alkitab (Bible Readers Federation ) juga telah diharamkan:
- Metode Penelaahan Alkitab yang ditulis oleh Dick & Tinem Maitimoe;
- Seri Pemahaman Doktrin Alkitabiah: Dunia Kepunyaan Allah oleh JI Parker MA.D.Phill;
- Seri Pemahaman Doktrin Alkitabiah: Dunia Kepunyaan Allah oleh Arthur E.Cundall BA. BD;
- Belajar Berjalan Dengan Allah oleh Charlie Riggs;
- Memahami Isi Alkitah oleh John R.W.Scott;
- Seri Pemahaman Doktrin Kebenaran oleh William L.Lane Th.D;
- Alkitab: Buku Untuk Masa Kini oleh John R.W.Scott;
[Buku-buku ini telah diterjemahkan dari Bahasa inggeris ke dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Buku-buku dalam versi Inggeris dibenarkan dijual di seluruh negara.]

Penerbit Kanisius:
- Mengenal Tulisan Perjanjian Baru oleh L Subaryo Pr;
- Sejarah Singkal Liturgi Barat oleh Theodor Klauser;
- Surat-surat Paulus 2 oleh Lembaga Biblika Indonesia;
- Doa Santap oleh Sr Bernadette PMY.

American publications:
Forbidden Flowers - Nancy Friday
Women on Top - Nancy Friday
My Secret Garden - Nancy Friday [Pocket Books of New York]
The Gay Guy’s Guide To Love
The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica
101 Nights of Great Sex
The Art of Sensual Aromatherapy

Magazines
- Maxim
- Loaded

Films
Anak Pontianak
Sleeping with Strangers
Lethal Weapon
Prince of Egypt

sources:
http://dbp.gov.my/dbp98/majalah/saster21/okt/ds10fok1.html
http://www.nurhidayah.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=2
http://www.dapmalaysia.org/malaynet/ps0766.html
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11525458%255E1702,00.html

By CHRIS NEWMARKER, Associated Press Writer

TRENTON, N.J. - Production of candy shaped like roadkill has come to a screeching halt. The decision, announced Friday by Kraft Foods Inc., was the result of an outcry by New Jersey animal rights activists who said the candy encouraged children to be cruel to animals.

“We take comments from our consumers really seriously and, in hindsight, we understand that this product could be misunderstood,” said Kraft spokesman Larry Baumann.

Kraft plans to stop production as soon as possible and then sell off remaining inventory, Baumann said.

The fruity-flavored Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy ? shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels, complete with tire treads ? hit store shelves across the United States last summer and was supposed to be another offbeat and unusual addition to Kraft’s Gummi candy line.

But the nonprofit New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought differently. Earlier this week, it threatened petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns.

Stuart Rhodes, the organization’s president, said he never thought his group’s efforts would be so successful.

“Did I think it would happen as fast as I did? No. I guess like most people I’ve become very cynical. All too often it seems that profit rules all. This was refreshing,” Rhodes said.

The state of New Jersey designates the NJSPCA the enforcer of its animal cruelty laws. Law enforcement takes up a large part of the group’s efforts, but Rhodes has stressed more public advocacy since he took over a year ago.

This is the first time the organization has complained to a company about a product, Rhodes said.

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. is in the process of acquiring the Trolli brand along with other Kraft candy lines as part of a $1.48 billion deal.

http://www.candystand.com/trolli  

According to candywarehouse.com website entry on roadkill:

New, cool shape from Trolli! Gummi Trolli brings back the fun of Gummi Candy with an off beat twist on animal shapes. Trolli Road Kill is three animals; a Snake, a Chicken and a Squirrel, each with a tire track down the middle of the piece!

Case contains 12 Trolli Road Kill Gummy peg bags, each with a net weight of 5 ounces.

Unit Price = $1.65/bag.

Shipping Weight ~ 4 lbs.

As reported on CNN/Associated Press Friday February 25, 2005 and protested by animal rights activists everywhere!

ATTENTION: Due to the huge demand for this amazing product, orders will be shipped after March 11, 2005 when we receive a new truckload delivery from the factory.

Customer Quotes, Friday February 25, 2005:

“I recently read an article about your Road Kill candy and how some people are against it. I say KEEP it coming. I have 2 children and I’ll buy it for them, as long as I can teach my kids right from wrong I don’t need some rights group to tell me what kind of candy to buy. I plan on buying a whole bunch of it just to show them I still have a choice. Thank You” Robert

“I have just read where the animal lovers are up in arms about the “Road Kill” gummy candy. I like animals too, but they are taking it to far. I think that this idea is cute, and don’t pull it from the shelves. Thanks….. B.B.”

“Keep the Road Kill candy! It is funny, cute, and the PETA folks just needed something to whine about. It’s a shrewd business decision, and it not offensive to 98% of the public. Don’t let the 2% fool you. Peace.” PLM

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems

A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers’ passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned.

And on 21st Feb, Hollywood socialite paris Hilton’s cellphone address book was also revealed for all the world to see. Names on Hilton’s contact list include Christina Aguilera, Anna Kournikova, Ashlee Simpson, Fred Durst, Eminem, Usher, Avril Lavigne, Lil’ John, Ashley Olsen, Vin Diesel and the charity Feed the Children, according to e-mails from people who captured some of the posted listings.

Phiroz Vandrevala is clearly pleased with himself.

The days are over when India’s information technology (IT) services firms were seen as the sweatshops of the computer world. Today they provide the full range of IT services, from call centres to software development to consulting.

With growth consistently in the double-digits, TCS is starting to play in the same league as the big boys, competing with well-known IT giants like US-based EDS and France’s Cap Gemini.

The firm’s global reach gets bigger and bigger with every new contract rolling in, like a �900m ($1.73bn) deal earlier this year to provide IT infrastructure for the UK’s National Health Service in a Fujitsu-led consortium.

In the global charts, TCS currently lie 14th with a turnover of USD1.5 billion. At the top is IBM with USD89 bil, followed by HP with USD73 bil, then EDS with USD21 bil.

By 2010 this company wants to be in the top 10 of IT services firms. With six years to go, TCS is nearly there.

They are optimistic: “We are number 14 in terms of revenue, ranked 6 in profits, and are number 9 in people employed.”

The roots of TCS go back to 1968 when, in what would later become known as outsourcing, the company started to provide software services for US insurance firm Sun Life.

TCS had a comparatively easy start, backed as it was by parent firm Tata, the giant tea to telecoms conglomerate.

Today the firm operates in 33 countries, has more than 35,000 employees worldwide, boasts an annual turnover of $1.56bn (�803m), and a whopping return on investment of about 25%.

Made in India

But with big Western firms still ruling the roost, how far up the value chain can Indian companies go?

There are plenty of critics who are dismissive of the challenge. Indian IT services firms, they argue, are mere body shops, churning through young graduates that do repetitive, boring and ultimately not very demanding work, and just about good enough for the outsourcing of some basic jobs.

Not so, argues Mr Vandrevala, TCS VP. “We are active in all six ‘boxes’ of the IT services industry - application development, IT engineering, IT products, infrastructure support, business process outsourcing, and consulting - which allows us to compete at the same levels as IBM.”

Ultimately, though, for most jobs firms like TCS are mere vendors and service providers, helping other companies to efficiently implement and run software written by firms like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.

It’s “Processed”, not “Made in India”.

And so far only a few Indian software houses have had much success taking a different route.

I-flex Solutions is one of them. The company emerged 12 years ago from a Citicorp outsourcing outfit and has now grown to more than 4,000 employees.

Two skulls originally found in 1967 have been shown to be about 195,000 years old, making them the oldest modern human remains known to science.

The age estimate comes from a re-dating of Ethiopian rock layers close to those that yielded the remarkable fossils.

The skulls, known as Omo I and II, push back the known presence of Homo sapiens in Africa by 40,000 years.

The latest dating work is reported in the science journal Nature.

It puts the specimens close to the time expected for the evolutionary emergence of our species. Genetic studies have indicated Homo sapiens arose in East Africa - possibly Ethiopia or Tanzania - just over 200,000 years ago.

Forget The Exorcist the movie, the Vatican is offering exorcism lessons.

The Vatican university is launching a new course for exorcists - Roman Catholic priests who cast out evil spirits from the possessed.

Lessons at the prestigious Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum will include the history of Satanism and its context in the Bible.

Practical lessons in psychology and the law will also feature.

Concern is high in Italy about the influence of Satanic cults - especially among the young and impressionable.

And there will also be seminars at the Athenaeum, or Upra as it is known, on the spiritual, liturgical and pastoral work involved in being an exorcist.

Father Giulio Savoldi has been Milan’s official exorcist for more than 20 years.

He did not have the benefit of training but is in no doubt about what he would include in any course for candidates to take on the task of fighting evil in the raw - and the qualities needed of any would-be exorcist.

“I would include the supernatural force - the presence of God - and then suggest that the man picked to do this kind of work be wise and that he should know how to gather strength not just from within himself but from God,” he says.

“Because each case of possession is different, each person possessed is different. Those studying to become exorcists should also study psychology and know how to distinguish between a mental illness and a possession.

“And - finally - they need to be very patient.”

Next week - in a case that has captured the public imagination - a court outside Milan is due to consider murder charges against a group of young people accused of killing two teenagers as part of a Satanic rite.

For Father Savoldi, the case just confirms his belief in the power of evil to make the most of human weakness.

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By David Willey - BBC News, Rome

A senior Vatican cardinal has joined the growing number of influential Catholic Church figures questioning the official Vatican ban on condom use.

Cardinal Georges Cottier is one of Pope John Paul II’s preferred theologians.

So eyebrows were raised this week when he was quoted as saying the use of condoms may be legitimate to stop the spread of Aids in poor countries.

The cardinal said there was moral justification for condom use under certain circumstances to counter Aids.

Churchmen are arguing with increasing frequency that the traditional blanket ban on the use of condoms is no longer valid.

Cardinal Cottier said it was no longer a question only of allowing the transmission of life, but of actively preventing the transmission of death to a sexual partner.

This argument - of adopting the lesser of two evils - has also been proposed by bishops in France and Spain.

Spanish bishops however were forced by the Vatican to row back on a statement similar to that now made by Cardinal Cottier that they issued in Madrid last month.

The point is that the Vatican is slowly being forced to admit by some of its most authoritative churchmen that this is a complex moral argument which does not allow for a simple overall ban on the use of condoms.

In a nuanced Vatican statement to be put out later this month on the World Day of the Sick, the Pope himself has not ruled out the adoption of less desirable strategies in fighting Aids than those that the Church traditionally teaches.