Death toll in triple Baghdad bombings jumps to 34 (AP)

BAGHDAD ? Iraqi officials say the death toll from a string of blasts in a Shiite neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad has jumped to 34.

Two police officials said the bombs targeted a Shiite mosque as well as a market Thursday evening.

The officials said that 82 people were also injured in the explosions.

Officials from the hospitals where the dead and injured were taken confirmed the casualty figures.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Sunni extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq generally tend to target Shiite mosques and neighborhoods.

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BAGHDAD (AP) ? Three bombs ripped through a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad Thursday evening, killing 21 people, while an American civilian contractor was killed in another attack, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.

The violence underscored the fragile nature of the security gains in Iraq at a time when American forces are preparing to withdraw by the end of this year and the challenges facing the State Department personnel and American contractors who would continue on after the U.S. military is gone.

The bombs in southwestern Baghdad went off shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday in quick succession. One targeted a Shiite mosque, another exploded just outside a popular market, while the third went off inside the market where people were doing their evening shopping ahead of the Muslim weekend, Iraqi police officials said.

The officials said 42 people were injured in the blasts. An official from Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital confirmed the casualty figures.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Sunni extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq generally tend to target Shiite mosques and neighborhoods.

The American civilian killed earlier Thursday was working for an agency working with the U.S. government, said David J. Ranz, the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

"An American civilian working with an implementing partner of the United States Agency for International Development in Iraq was killed in a terrorist attack today in Baghdad. Three additional civilians were wounded in the attack, including one American citizen," he said.

The name of the victim was being withheld until relatives are notified, Ranz said.

He gave no information about where or when the attack took place.

Iraqi police officials in eastern Baghdad said a bomb exploded near foreign security company vehicles traveling through eastern Baghdad early Thursday afternoon, killing one foreigner in the convoy and injuring three other people.

Earlier this week, a convoy carrying French Embassy staff was targeted by a roadside bomb in the Karradah neighborhood. No one was killed in that incident.

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Indian Domestic Violence Act ? A Brief Overview | Free Articles

Domestic violence also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse or intimate partner violence(IPV),can be broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behavior by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, friends or cohabitation.

In simple words it is, ?violence between inmates living together or who has previously co-habited.?

The main causes of this kind of violence are personality disorders, low ?selfesteem, lack of assertiveness, stress, violent atmosphere during childhood, dependency etc.

Some of the methods by which females get abused are:

? Forced to perform any sexual acts which she does not want to.

? Threatened or attacked by knife,gun or any other weapon

? Tried to choke

? Slapping the woman

Slapping is one of the most common methods to abuse the females.

The cycle of domestic violence is repeated across generations. Women whose mothers were beaten by their fathers are twice likely to face domestic violence.

PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT ,2005

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 was brought into force by the Indian Government from October 26, 2006. The Act was passed by the parliament in August, 2005 and assented to by the President of India on 13th September,2005. As on November,2005 it has been ratified by four out of twenty eight state-government in India. Namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu , Orissa and Uttar Pradesh.

Of about 8,000 criminal cases registered all over India under this Act, Rajasthan had 3440 cases, Kerela had 1028, while Punjab had 172 cases registered.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The passing of Domestic Violence Act is an important marker in the history of the women movement in India. Prior to this Act, domestic violence survivors were hampered by reluctance to enforce domestic violence as a criminal offence. Although criminal proceedings and injunctions were available under the Indian Penal Code and existing legislation, domestic violence was regarded as a private family matter and police and courts were generally unwilling to take action against the offenders.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ACT

This law has been primarily enacted to provide protection to the wife or female live-in partners from violence at the hands of husband or male live in partners or his relatives, the law also extends protection to women who are sisters, widows or mothers.

The Sailent features of this Act are:

? The Act seeks to protect women who are or have been in relationship with the abuser where both parties have lived together in a shared household and are related by consanguinity, marriage or relationship in the nature of marriage or adoption: in addition relationship with family members living together as a joint family are also included.

? Domestic violence includes actual abuse or threat of abuse that is physical , sexual, verbal ,emotional and economic. ? One of the most important feature of the Act is woman?s right to secure housing.

? The other important relief under the Act is the power of the court to pass protection orders that prevent abusers from aiding or committing an act of domestic violence.

? The draft Act provides for appointment of protection officers.

The Act defines domestic abuse as physical , sexual, emotional, verbal , psychological and economic abuse and threats of the same.

PRIMARY BENEFICIARIES OF THE ACT

Women and children are the primary beneficiaries under the Act. The provision for protection of women is given under section 2(a) of the Act. It will help any woman who is or has been in a domestic relationship with the respondent. This section empowers the woman to file a case against a person with whom she is having a domestic relationship in a shared household, and who has subjected her to domestic violence.

Children too can file a case against parent or parents who are torturing and tormenting them.

WHO ARE THE REAL VICTIMS

The real victims of domestic violence are the rural women who are illiterate and who are hardly aware of their rights. The Act should be implemented effectively in the rural areas

SURVEY

- Nearly two out of five women have experienced physical or sexual violence by husbands than by anyone else.

- One in four married women have experienced physical or sexual violence by their husband in twelve months preceeding the husband.

LOOPHOLES IN THE ACT

The Act plays a stellar role in protection of women?s rights and guarding them from domestic violence.

But on the other hand this Act brushes aside the right of the males.

Aggrieved person is only a woman . The Act assumes that a man can never be victim of domestic violence which is clearly a wrong assumption.

Under this Act , a woman can lodge a complaint even of past co-habitation. This gives her ample opportunity to take revenge on her husband, incase he is innocent. Even the male children are excluded form the purview of the Act.

This Act is a gender-biased Act.

Basically the Act is misused by qualified educated woman who are well aware of the rights conferred by the Act. These women file cases with false allegations against the male person and his relatives and till the respondent?s innocence is proved , she gains a lot financially .

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST HUSBAND

When a man says that he is tortured or harassed at his home, no one really listens to him instead everyone laughs at him. Many men are ashamed to confess the truth about their lives that they are beaten or harassed by their wives. It is because Indian mentality is like that, no one will really believe such men.

An online based foundation called ? Save Family? conducted a study on Indian Husbands in collaboration with My Nation.

From all over India 98% males had suffered domestic violence once in their lives.

Poll conducted by a site

? 99% men said that they are verbally abused.

? 91% men said that they are mentally tortured.

? 73% men said that they are denied physical relations for no reason

CONCLUSION

Inspite of globalization, prosperity and education, we have failed to eliminate violence against women. Who are to be blamed for such a situation? As charity begins at home, it is we the people of the nation who should take a collective initiative to eradicate this evil.

As India has male dominated culture, women empowerment does not seem the effective solution. Reservation in jobs and education seems to be more effective solution and gradually direct participation should be encouraged.

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How comfort foods work like Prozac

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When London-based ice cream maker Matt O'Connor launched "Baby Gaga," a flavor made with human breast milk, he was hoping to start a conversation.

"I come from a family of Irish dairy farmers," he said. "We used to milk the cows every morning at 5 a.m., and keep impregnating them every five months so they would keep producing milk. That was floating around in my head -- why are human breasts sexualized, rather than being seen as biological feeding instruments?"

After he nearly sold out his first batch in a single day in late February, he found himself having a conversation with a Westminster Council health inspection team, who whisked the last few scoops off the shelves for safety testing (it was since deemed safe and will be back on sale shortly). Now he's conversing with Lady Gaga's lawyers, who have threatened an injunction for copyright infringement, an action he compared to the behavior of a "playground bully or despotic dictators like Colonel Gaddafi or Robert Mugabe [rather] than an artist celebrating artistic freedom."

On the Web, the conversation had already sped off in different directions: Was this about the treatment of animals? About bodily fluids? ("What about semen gelato?" someone asked.) But is this really about new frontiers in frozen confections? Or could it possibly be about something else, such as women's bodies?

It's no surprise that ice cream made from human milk causes discomfort, says Penny Van Esterik, a professor of anthropology at York University who has written extensively on lactation and is an activist with the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. An ice cream cone is sensual to eat, but inherently childlike. "It demands the linkages between the sexual and the maternal," she says.

O'Connor wasn't the first person to put breasts in cones -- Jean Paul Gaultier scooped Madonna's into a pointy bustier back in 1990, turning a woman's softest parts into sharp, repellent weapons. But visually consuming an image of a breast is qualitatively different than eating its product, says Amy Bentley, associate professor of food studies at New York University.

"There's a sexual kinkiness to it, almost a kind of cannibalism," she says. "It's like consuming part of someone's body -- yet eating human flesh is almost universally condemned." says Bentley.

It's easy to see how cultural taboos against cannibalism evolved. Eat too many of your own kind, and there goes your species. Barbara Wilson-Clay, a private lactation consultant and a founding board member of the nonprofit Mothers' Milk Bank in Austin, Texas, shared a similar hypothesis on the breast milk taboo from a late colleague of hers.

"So long as there were taboos, they protected babies from the misappropriation of milk by people who were bigger and stronger," and who, being adults, could procure and process other foods independently.

Although no precise figures exist, there is a small but growing consumer market for human breast milk. Bob Muscarella, who founded Mother's Milk Ice Cream Co. 10 years ago, told me that every time there's something in the news about it, like Baby Gaga or PETA's invitation to Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk in their products, he gets a windfall, and several cheese makers have worked with it. While he does compensate women for their donations, he does not solicit online, and women approach him through word of mouth. The gastronomic demand is supplemented by fetishists, and women who need milk for their babies but can't afford the prices at licensed milk banks, where it costs around $3 an ounce (or $93 a day for sufficient milk for one infant, according to a 2007 article).

Search Sell.com and you'll find offers from "MilkyMomma1," as well as additional results in the "Adult & Erotic category." A thriving online market for human milk raises regulatory and ethical questions that plague other industries whose raw material is the human body: the not-quite-transparent transnational organ trade, for example, or the burgeoning market for surrogate mothers, or the trafficking of entire humans for labor or sex.

The potted history of breast-feeding on the website of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America claims 13th century women in Europe "made more money working as wet nurses than any other occupation open to women." But the relationship between birth mothers and wet nurses, women hired to breast-feed other women's children, was deeply embedded in economic and often racial inequality, as illustrated in Sarah Ruhl's 2009 "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)."

"We want pleasure to be unhooked from privilege," says Carol J. Adams, author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" and a vocal advocate of veganism. "Eating meat and ice cream is a privilege of being a human being who can oppress other animals. It comes as no surprise to me that we take something oppressive -- the extraction of milk from a cow -- and extend it to women," she continues. "Now we are hiring women to sell their 'feminized protein,'" a term she coined to describe protein products, such as milk or eggs, which pass through the reproductive organs of a female.

While an expression like "feminized protein" may grate on the ears, it's impossible not to consider this and other flesh trades in gendered terms. Women still earn an average of 83 cents to every male dollar, and 70 percent of the world's poor are women. A scoop of human milk ice cream, benign or curious as it may appear, should be viewed in the context of structural inequalities that force some people to sell their intimate parts or services out of desperation, while allowing others to buy them freely, either for a medically necessary procedure (a kidney transplant, say) or for pleasure (bachelor party in Vegas). This isn't the first time that someone slapped a sticker price on an intimate biological function.

"Whenever the inducement is 'Because I can earn some extra cash,' we have to ask why we live in a world where some women find this necessary and preferable. Are the choices for women so restricted?" says Adams. When one advertiser on Sell.com writes, "I'm a newly single mom looking to sell my breastmilk in order to buy diapers and clothes for my six week old daughter," one has to ask what other earning opportunities are or are not available to her, and why.

So if human milk is a product, then what is it worth? Prices on the Web generally range from $1.50 to $2 an ounce. In an attempt to acknowledge the work -- the time, thought and effort -- that goes into breast-feeding, Norway includes breast milk production on its national balance sheet, and in recognition of their contribution, new mothers receive extensive maternal leave and financial support. It's tempting to think that if breast milk was a valuable commodity traded on an exchange, women might be eligible for some of the same tax breaks and subsidies that Republicans are so eager to bestow on energy companies.

Instead, the week before Mr. O'Connor launched his ice cream, Michelle Obama voiced her support for a new tax break on breast pumps, implying that women should race back to work and still give their children breast milk. She was quickly pounced on by Sarah Palin ("Yeah, you better [breast feed] because the price of milk is so high right now") and Michele Bachmann ("I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies"), both of whose understanding of and sympathy for single or low-income mothers remain chimerical. And the Republican Party as a whole declared a "war" on Planned Parenthood.

As Adams observes, "The minute you turn breast-feeding into a product, you're creating less of a culture that's supporting the process. Once it's a product and it's sellable, how do we protect the process?"

"Should a fad, presumably one that makes money for someone, take precedence in the allocation of a scarce donor tissue that provides lifesaving therapy for medically fragile babies?" asks Wilson-Clay.

"Breast-feeding creates a relationship between two people," says Adams. "Eating human milk ice cream doesn't create that relationship. It's just treating it as an ingredient." Citing a familiar vegan principle, she calls drinking any species' milk "symbolically infantilizing."

"Maybe we're all just Baby Gagas worshiping at the feet of Lady Gaga."

Source: http://www.salon.com/food/feature/2011/06/23/comfort_food_psychology/index.html

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'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon': Sight-Seeing In Moscow

MTV Movies Managing Editor Josh Horowitz is currently traveling in Moscow, but this isn't any ordinary excursion?it's more than meets the eye, as he braves cultural confusion and borscht by the bowlful in an effort to cover the world premiere of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" in Russia. These are his stories.
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