Mattel Voluntarily Recalled the Toys

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Mattel’s public statement of “Voluntarily Recall Some of Our Toys” in the midst of recalling 19 million Chinese-Made toys in US because of products affected by:
1) Lead Paint: – Fisher-Price and “CARS” Sarge Character
2) Magnets: – Polly Pocket Play Sets, Batman Magna Play Sets, Barbie and Tanner Accessory, Doggie Daycare Play Sets and Shonan Jump’s One Piece.

The incident is the name of safety standard. The west is increasingly seeing Chinese-made products as dangerous and customers are starting to boycott Chinese-made products. But who is at fault or liable as Mattel and the Chinese contractor are already playing damage control and shifting blame. The list goes on to it is because of outsourcing cost saving to cheap labour in China and forgetting the long supplier chains of manufacturing standards and who’s asleep at the stringent quality control requirement. Click here for Mattel website to learn more.

However, at consumer level, you can go to either to retailer or even to owner of the product to pursue the law of product safety standard. Even if a third party was totally negligent, what comes out from the store to market is all Mattel’s problem. This is because if products are in breach of standards and the more for those unsafe toys are the bane of the industry.

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Victoria Beckham Plays in Ugly Betty

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The 33-year-old Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is set to play a role in special episode of “Ugly Betty”. The skinny singer will play a fat bridesmaid in the hit comedy by shocking the audiences with a wedding in a fat suit, pretending to have gorged on calorific treats since her move to America.

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Less Sex Means More Work Commitment

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A team of German researchers discovered that people who aren’t active in sex life tends to work more as a mean to reduce stress of not having sex often.

It is a common knowledge that sex reduces stress and vice versa for no sex but sex frustration to not having sex life can makes the couples become more miserable. The adage goes like work and no play makes Dick an unhappy camper. Thus, resulted the frustrated individuals take on more work as their outlet to make up for not getting sexual satisfaction. This makes up around 30 to 40 percent who no longer having sex or once a week with their partners seek out other forms of activities compensation to salve their wanting libidos.

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World’s Oldest People Dies at 114

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The world’s oldest people Yone Minagawa, who recognized by Britain’s Guinness World Records for the title, died at the age of 114 on August 13, 2007 at Japan due to old age. Yone Minagawa was a Japanese woman who born on January 4, 1893 in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Crocodiles and Cobras Found in Luggage

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Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported that a 22-year-old Saudi passenger tried to challenge the security of Cairo International Airport for smuggling out reptiles in his luggage from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. His smuggling project was discovered and stopped at the airport.

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Photos Before and After – Hollywood Celebrities with Plastic Surgeries?

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How many of the beautiful celebrities in Hollywood are “original look”? Many of them were helped by plastic surgeries in their careers. Some of them were good looking but they were not satisfied with their own appearance; some just want to keep their look forever young. See the pictures of “before and after” of Lindsay Lohan, Fergie, Tara Reid, Victoria Beckham, Halle Berry, Courtney Love and Joan Rivers, perhaps you can tell any one of them did the plastic surgery.

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Computer Thief Caught via YouTube

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It is a good idea to catch a thief by posting the video clip of theft on YouTube. Dawson Anthony Bliss, 50, was taped slowly rounding in a store in the South Island town of Greymouth, New Zealand, later walked out of the store with a laptop computer slipping into his overcoat.

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