An Epic iPad Rip-Off, A College Pool Party Makes Waves, and Sinead O’Connor Looking For Love on Social Media!

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A South Carolina woman thought she was buying an iPad for dirt-cheap, but ended up with a block of wood. According to a police report, two men approached 22-year-old Ashley McDowell in a McDonald's parking lot to sell her a new iPad for $300. They explained they were able to offer her a discounted price because they bought the iPad in bulk. McDowell made the purchase after negotiating the men down to $180 (a steal compared to paying at least $500 in the store). But when McDowell came home and opened her new gadget, which was in a FedEx box, she found nothing more than an iPlank: a dressed-up block of wood. The "tablet" screen had black tape around the perimeter and small square-shaped iPad icons such as Safari, mail, and photos taped to the front. After discovering the fake, McDowell called the police and filed a report. As you might imagine, social media aren't being kind to the victim or the criminals in this case. One person tweeted, "Idiots. Everyone involved." Another was surprised that the thieves created such an obvious but complex replica. One tweeter put a positive spin on the situation, saying the fake iPad is "actually kind of awesome found art." Do you think McDowell has a right to press charges? Tell me on Facebook.com/AdrianaDiazNews and Twitter @AdrianaTweeting!

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Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park's head scarf ban; 15 arrests made!

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BY CORINNE LESTCH AND BILL HUTCHINSON, DAILY NEWS WRITERS / Wednesday, August 31st 2011, 4:00 AM.

It's clear, this all happened because we're Muslim,' says Dena Meawad. (Norman  Y. Lono for News).

Rye Playland was shut down Tuesday after cops scuffled with Muslims upset that women wearing head scarves were barred from the rides, witnesses said.

Fifteen people, including three women, were charged with disorderly conduct and assault in the chaos, authorities said.

The Westchester County Park was packed with Muslims celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr - the holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

One woman, Entisai Ali, began arguing with cops over the amusement park's head scarf, or hijab rule, said Dena Meawad, 18, of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

The ban, which is not Muslim specific, was imposed about 3 years ago mostly to prevent hats from falling onto the tracks of roller coasters and other rides, park officials said.

"The cops started getting loud with her and she started getting loud, too. They pushed her on the ground and arrested her," Meawad said.

Her cousin, Kareem Meawad, 17, went to try to protect the woman and was beaten by cops and also arrested, she added. Her brother, Issam Meawad, 20, was pushed to the ground and taken into custody when he tried to help his cousin, she said.

"She just wanted to get on a ride. That was it," Dena Meawad said of the initial confrontation. "It's clear, this all happened because we're Muslim."

John Hodges, chief inspector of Westchester County Public Safety, insisted that police did not use excessive force.

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'Woman cop looked other way while colleague molested girl'!

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Two police constables, including a woman, have been accused of looking the other way when their colleague sexually abused a victim of flesh trade.

Constable Vishwavijay Digambar Parab of Mapusa police station molested the 21-year-old girl, who had escaped from a prostitution racket, on August 11. Parab was later suspended from service and arrested.

A high-powered committee, which looks into rehabilitation of victims of flesh trade, has now asked Goa State Women's Commission (GSWC) to conduct an inquiry into the role of two other constables who were present at that time.

Committee members Auda Viegas and Arun Pandey have written to GSWC in this regard. "The girl was molested in the police jeep, right in front of the woman constable, and later outside the police lock-up," the letter says.

According to the girl, she went to Mapusa police station after escaping from a prostitution hub.

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NOIDA FORCEFUL LAND ACQUISITION SCAM: 7 women raped in Bhatta-Parsaul: Scheduled Castes panel!!

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CNN-IBN / Updated Aug 22, 2011 at 11:49am IST.

New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) claims that seven women of Bhatta and Parsaul villages of Greater Noida were raped by policemen during the agitation against land acquisition in May 2011.

NCSC Chairman PL Punia says that the women have claimed in an affidavit and also in a statement to the Commission that they were raped. Punia says that all the seven women belong to the Other Backward Caste category.

"Seven women of Bhatta and Parsaul villages have in an affidavit said that they have been raped by policemen. The same was corroborated in front of the Commission. NCSC official Latha Priyakumar conducted the investigation," says Punia.

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has alleged that several women were raped and many farmers killed during the agitation in the two villagers.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had earlier ruled out rape at Bhatta-Parsaul villages.

   

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ASIAN DEMOGRAPHY: The flight from marriage!

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economist.com / Aug 20th 2011 / SEOUL AND TAIPEI / from the print edition.

WITH her filmy polka-dot dress, huge sunglasses and career as a psychologist, Yi Zoe Hou of Taiwan might seem likely to be besieged by suitors. Yet, at 35, she is well past Taiwan’s unspoken marriage deadline. “It’s a global village,” she shrugs. “If I can’t find a Taiwanese guy that accepts my age, I can find another man somewhere else.” Maybe—but since she still wants children, Ms Hou is also wondering whether to use a sperm bank or ask a male friend to be a sperm donor. She represents a new world of family life for Asians.

Conservatives in the West are fond of saying that the traditional family is the bedrock of society. That view is held even more widely in Asia. The family is the focus of Confucian ethics, which holds that a basic moral principle, xiushen (self-improvement), can be pursued only within the confines of the family. In an interview in 1994 Lee Kuan Yew, a former prime minister of Singapore, argued that after thousands of years of dynastic upheaval, the family is the only institution left to sustain Chinese culture. It embodies a set of virtues—“learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain”—which, he said, underpins Asia’s economic success. He feared that the collapse of the family, if it ever happened, would be the main threat to Singapore’s success.

His Malaysian contemporary, Mahathir Mohamad, went further. In a book written in 1995 with a Japanese politician, Shintaro Ishihara, Dr Mahathir contrasted Asians’ respect for marriage with “the breakdown of established institutions and diminished respect for marriage, family values, elders, and important customs” in the West. “Western societies”, Dr Mahathir claimed, “are riddled with single-parent families… with homosexuality, with cohabitation.” He might well have concluded that the absence of traditional family virtues from the streets of London recently showed the continued superiority of Asia.

Asians, in fact, have several distinct family systems. To simplify: in South Asia it is traditional to have arranged, early marriages, in which men are dominant and the extended family is important. East Asia also has a male-dominated system, but one that stresses the nuclear family more; nowadays it has abandoned arranged marriages. In South-East Asia, women have somewhat more autonomy. But all three systems have escaped many of the social changes that have buffeted family life in the West since the 1960s.

In South Asia and China marriage remains near-universal, with 98% of men and women tying the knot. In contrast, in some Western countries, a quarter of people in their 30s are cohabiting or have never been married, while half of new marriages end in divorce. Marriage continues to be the almost universal setting for child-bearing in Asia: only about 2% of births took place outside wedlock in Japan in 2007. Contrast that with Europe: in Sweden in 2008 55% of births were to unmarried women, while in Iceland the share was 66%.

Most East and South-East Asian countries report little or no cohabitation. The exception is Japan where, among women born in the 1970s, about 20% say they have cohabited with a sexual partner. For Japan, that is a big change. In surveys between 1987 and 2002, just 1-7% of single women said they had lived with a partner. But it is not much compared with America where, according to a 2002 Gallup poll, over half of married Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 lived together before their wedding day. In many Western societies, more cohabitation has offset a trend towards later marriage or higher rates of divorce. That has not happened in Asia.

Traditional attitudes live on in other ways. Compared with Westerners, Asians are more likely to agree that “women’s happiness lies in marriage”. They are more likely to say women should give up work when they get married or have children, and more likely to disapprove of pre-marital sex. Surveys by Pew Global Research, a social-research outfit in Washington, DC, show that Muslims in South and South-East Asia are more likely than Muslims elsewhere to say that families should choose a woman’s husband for her.

   

Over the hill

Yet, as Ms Hou shows, Asia is changing. Although attitudes to sex and marriage are different from those in the West, the pressures of wealth and modernisation upon family life have been just as relentless. They have simply manifested themselves in different ways. In the West the upshot has been divorce and illegitimacy. In Asia the results include later marriage, less marriage and (to some extent) more divorce. The changes in the West may be more dramatic. But both East and West are seeing big changes in the role of women and traditional family life.

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GENDER WOES INDIA: An unequal journey but dreams roll on!

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zeenews.india.com / Last Updated: Sunday, August 14, 2011, 16:45.

The status of women in India has undergone many great changes over the past six decades but the status of women in modern India is a sort of a paradox. If on one hand she is at the peak of ladder of success, on the other hand she is mutely suffering the violence afflicted on her by her own family members. As compared with the past they have really achieved a lot and are at par with the men but still there is a long way to go. Their worth is still not understood. Their path is full of hindrances and blocks. Looking at both highs and lows in the political, economic and social front in the past sixty four years of independence, the figures suggest that there is still a long way for the women to go.

Looking at both highs and lows in the political, economic and social front in the past sixty four years of independence, the figures suggest that there is still a long way for the women to go.

On the political front, the percentage share of women members in Parliament has increased from 4.4 percent in 1952 to 10.7 percent in 2009. Women have occupied high offices in India including that of the President, Prime minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition and others. Indian women like Indira Gandhi, Pratibha Patil, Meira Kumar, Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit, Mayawati and many others have excelled in politics despite being in a man’s field. However, there is lack of intent with respect to Women’s Reservation Bill. The bill was passed by the upper house on 9Th March 2010, but it has not been tabled in the Lok Sabha.

At the time of Independence, women in senior management roles or as entrepreneurs were unthinkable. Now, we have several women entrepreneurs/high profile executives in the country. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Biocon), Ekta Kapoor (Balaji Telefilms), Chanda Kochhar (MD and CEO of ICICI bank), Indra Nooyi (Chairman and CEO of Pepsico) are among the top women entrepreneurs/executives in India and abroad. But the low is that only five percent of women in India hold board seats in all BSE listed companies.

More and more female in India are successfully seeking literacy. Female literacy rate in 1951 was 8.86 percent, the current figure of 2011 stands at 65.46 percent. Maternal Mortality Ratio has also declined from 580in 1982-86 to 212 in 2007-09. However, the sex ratio has declined leading to rise in female foeticide. The sex ratio has declined from 946 in 1951 to 940 in 2011. India records a whopping 5.7 million illegal abortions every year.

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