Cats keep lost boy warm
MISIONES, Argentina, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Argentine police say a destitute 1-year-old boy was kept alive by a colony of stray cats who shared food scraps and kept him warm in the city of Misiones.
The boy, who had been missing for several days, was found by Police Officer Lorean Lindgvist, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday
"The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty," Lindgvist said. "When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the boy warm while he slept."
Lindgvist said she noticed scraps of food near the boy and surmised "the cats knew he was fragile and needed protecting," the Telegraph reported, noting doctors said the warmth of the cats saved the boy during freezing nights that could have killed him.
The boy's father, who is homeless, said his son vanished several days ago and that cats had always been protective of the boy, Lindgvist said.
＊アドレス＊
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/20/Cats-keep-lost-boy-warm/UPI-27331229804833/
＊要約＊
アルゼンチンのミシオネス州で1歳の幼児が数日前から行方不明になっていた。
ある日、警官のLorean Lindgvistさんが街を巡回していると、排水溝の中にいる幼児を発見。そこは猫たちのねぐらになっており、たくさんの猫たちも一緒にいた。
Lorean Lindgvistさんが幼児を保護しようとすると、猫たちは幼児を自分たちの子どものように思っており、幼児を守ろうとして威嚇してきた。
猫たちは幼児が凍死しないよう寒い夜でも幼児を暖め続け、飢え死にしないよう餌も与えていた。
また、猫たちが幼児に付いていた汚れをなめてキレイにしていた。医者は「寒い夜も猫たちが体温で幼児を暖め続けていたことが良かった」とコメントしている。
＊感想＊
とってもやさしい猫だなぁと感動しました。
猫に冷たいイメージを持っている人も結構いると思いますが、これを読んで考えなおしてほしいです。
＊単語＊
Several………数～
Telegraph……電報
gutter………排水溝
scraps………廃材
surmised……推測
fragile………か弱い
2010年1月13日水曜日
reading dialy 4
Blood from mosquito traps Finnish suspect
thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito. Last June a car was stolen in Lapua, 380km north of Helsinki. It was soon found near a railway station in Seinaejoki, about 25km from where it was stolen."A police patrol carried out an inspection of the car and they noticed a mosquito that had sucked blood. It was sent to the laboratory for testing, which showed the blood belonged to a man who was in the police registers," inspector Sakari Palomaeki said. The suspect, who has been interrogated, has insisted he did not steal the car, saying he had hitchhiked and was given a lift by a man driving the car.Palomaeki said a prosecutor would decide if the evidence was solid enough for charges to be pressed.Finnish police said it was rare for them to use insects to solve crimes, although they are interested in everything found at a crime scene."It is not usual to use mosquitoes. In training we were not told to keep an eye on mosquitoes at crime scenes," Palomaeki said, laughing."It is not easy to find a small mosquito in a car, this just shows how thorough the crime-scene investigation was," he added. – AFP
＊アドレス＊
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-12-22-blood-from-mosquito-traps-finnish-suspect
＊要約＊
フィンランドの警察が、蚊が吸った血からDNAを解析して、容疑者を特定することに成功した。ヘルシンキから北に380km行ったところにあるラプアで自動車が盗まれる事件が起こり、車自体は盗まれた場所から25km離れたセイナヨキ駅で発見された。見つかった車を調べていた警察は、中に蚊が閉じこめられていたことに気づき、吸った血を調べるために研究所に送った。そうして警察が絞り込んだ容疑者は、尋問に対して「自分はヒッチハイクをして車に乗っただけ」と答え、容疑を否認している。フィンランドの警察が犯罪解決のため虫を使ったのは初めてであり、「トレーニング時に現場に残された蚊から目を離すなとは言われなかった」と検察官のSakari Palomaekiさんは笑いながら語っている。
＊感想＊
確かに蚊は血を吸うので捜査には重要な役割を果たしそうですが、見つけるのが大変そうです。
＊単語＊
mosquito………蚊
sucked…………吸う
laboratory………実験室
interrogated……尋問する
prosecutor………検察官
investigation……捜査
thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito. Last June a car was stolen in Lapua, 380km north of Helsinki. It was soon found near a railway station in Seinaejoki, about 25km from where it was stolen."A police patrol carried out an inspection of the car and they noticed a mosquito that had sucked blood. It was sent to the laboratory for testing, which showed the blood belonged to a man who was in the police registers," inspector Sakari Palomaeki said. The suspect, who has been interrogated, has insisted he did not steal the car, saying he had hitchhiked and was given a lift by a man driving the car.Palomaeki said a prosecutor would decide if the evidence was solid enough for charges to be pressed.Finnish police said it was rare for them to use insects to solve crimes, although they are interested in everything found at a crime scene."It is not usual to use mosquitoes. In training we were not told to keep an eye on mosquitoes at crime scenes," Palomaeki said, laughing."It is not easy to find a small mosquito in a car, this just shows how thorough the crime-scene investigation was," he added. – AFP
＊アドレス＊
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-12-22-blood-from-mosquito-traps-finnish-suspect
＊要約＊
フィンランドの警察が、蚊が吸った血からDNAを解析して、容疑者を特定することに成功した。ヘルシンキから北に380km行ったところにあるラプアで自動車が盗まれる事件が起こり、車自体は盗まれた場所から25km離れたセイナヨキ駅で発見された。見つかった車を調べていた警察は、中に蚊が閉じこめられていたことに気づき、吸った血を調べるために研究所に送った。そうして警察が絞り込んだ容疑者は、尋問に対して「自分はヒッチハイクをして車に乗っただけ」と答え、容疑を否認している。フィンランドの警察が犯罪解決のため虫を使ったのは初めてであり、「トレーニング時に現場に残された蚊から目を離すなとは言われなかった」と検察官のSakari Palomaekiさんは笑いながら語っている。
＊感想＊
確かに蚊は血を吸うので捜査には重要な役割を果たしそうですが、見つけるのが大変そうです。
＊単語＊
mosquito………蚊
sucked…………吸う
laboratory………実験室
interrogated……尋問する
prosecutor………検察官
investigation……捜査
2009年12月10日木曜日
readig dialy 3
Men 'live longer' if they marry a younger woman
A man's chances of dying early are cut by a fifth if their bride is between 15 and 17 years their junior.
The risk of premature death is reduced by 11 per cent if they marry a woman seven to nine years younger.
The study at Germany's Max Planck Institute also found that men marrying older women are more likely to die early.
The results suggest that women do not experience the same benefits of marrying a toy boy or a sugar daddy.
Wives with husbands older or younger by between seven and nine years increase their chances of dying early by 20 per cent.
This rises to 30 per cent if the age difference is close to 15 and 17 years.
Scientists say the figures for men may be the result of natural selection – that only the healthiest, most successful older men are able to attract younger mates.
"Another theory is that a younger woman will care for a man better and therefore he will live longer," said institute spokesman Sven Drefahl.
The study examined deaths between 1990 and 2005 for the entire population of Denmark.
On average in Europe, most men marry women around three years younger.
＊アドレス＊
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/men_shealth/5426895/Men-live-longer-if-they-marry-a-younger-woman.html
＊要約＊
今「年齢差カップル」が話題である。かなり年齢に差のある夫婦の話を聞くことも少なくないが、15歳から17歳ほど年齢が離れたカップルの夫は早死にする確率が大きく減少し、妻はその逆の結果が現れることが研究の結果分かった。
ドイツのマックス・プランク研究所が、1930年から2005年に死亡したデンマーク国内のすべての人口に対する調査によると、15歳から17歳若い女性と結婚した男性の死亡率は他の場合と比べて20％、7歳から9歳の場合は11％ほど低いことが明らかになった。
逆に年上の女性と結婚した男性は早死にする傾向があることもわかった。研究所のスポークスマンは「若い女性をより強く引きつけるのは体が健康でより社会的に成功した男性なので、統計的に長い寿命をもつようになるのではないか」と述べている。
また女性の場合は、7歳から9歳の年齢差のある男性と結婚することで死亡率が20％、15歳から17歳では30％も上昇するらしい。研究所による「若い女性ほど男性の世話をよく行うために、男性が長生きするのではないか」というコメントされている。
＊感想＊
年下の男性と結婚しないと、と思いました。
＊単語＊
premature……時期が早い
Institute………学会・研究所
suggest………提案する
healthiest……最も健康？
examined……検査する
A man's chances of dying early are cut by a fifth if their bride is between 15 and 17 years their junior.
The risk of premature death is reduced by 11 per cent if they marry a woman seven to nine years younger.
The study at Germany's Max Planck Institute also found that men marrying older women are more likely to die early.
The results suggest that women do not experience the same benefits of marrying a toy boy or a sugar daddy.
Wives with husbands older or younger by between seven and nine years increase their chances of dying early by 20 per cent.
This rises to 30 per cent if the age difference is close to 15 and 17 years.
Scientists say the figures for men may be the result of natural selection – that only the healthiest, most successful older men are able to attract younger mates.
"Another theory is that a younger woman will care for a man better and therefore he will live longer," said institute spokesman Sven Drefahl.
The study examined deaths between 1990 and 2005 for the entire population of Denmark.
On average in Europe, most men marry women around three years younger.
＊アドレス＊
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/men_shealth/5426895/Men-live-longer-if-they-marry-a-younger-woman.html
＊要約＊
今「年齢差カップル」が話題である。かなり年齢に差のある夫婦の話を聞くことも少なくないが、15歳から17歳ほど年齢が離れたカップルの夫は早死にする確率が大きく減少し、妻はその逆の結果が現れることが研究の結果分かった。
ドイツのマックス・プランク研究所が、1930年から2005年に死亡したデンマーク国内のすべての人口に対する調査によると、15歳から17歳若い女性と結婚した男性の死亡率は他の場合と比べて20％、7歳から9歳の場合は11％ほど低いことが明らかになった。
逆に年上の女性と結婚した男性は早死にする傾向があることもわかった。研究所のスポークスマンは「若い女性をより強く引きつけるのは体が健康でより社会的に成功した男性なので、統計的に長い寿命をもつようになるのではないか」と述べている。
また女性の場合は、7歳から9歳の年齢差のある男性と結婚することで死亡率が20％、15歳から17歳では30％も上昇するらしい。研究所による「若い女性ほど男性の世話をよく行うために、男性が長生きするのではないか」というコメントされている。
＊感想＊
年下の男性と結婚しないと、と思いました。
＊単語＊
premature……時期が早い
Institute………学会・研究所
suggest………提案する
healthiest……最も健康？
examined……検査する
2009年11月12日木曜日
Today's Blog
SORAMIMI
視聴者から「日本語以外で歌われているが、あたかも日本語のように聞こえる歌詞（空耳）」の投稿を募り、制作サイドでつけたイメージ映像を交えて紹介するという『タモリ倶楽部』を代表するコーナーのひとつである。
司会者のタモリと「ソラミミスト」と呼ばれるイラストレーターの安斎肇が司会進行を行う。コーナーは番組後半に設定されタモリの「誰が言ったか知らないが、言われてみれば確かに（「たしっかに」と溜める場合が多い）聞こえる空耳アワーのお時間がやってまいりました。お相手はこちらの方です」の挨拶から始まり、安斎を紹介。そのあと視聴者から投稿された1〜3作品を紹介する。
It is one of the corners representing the "Tamori club" .
It introduced and mixed the image, collected from the televiewer the contribution of "the words (mishearing) which sounds just like Japanese although sung except Japanese".
Anzai Hazime, illustrator, called "SORAMI mist" and Tamori are presided.
a corner is set up in the second half of a program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCuNGRp35Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4-_V2qC0Q&feature=related
視聴者から「日本語以外で歌われているが、あたかも日本語のように聞こえる歌詞（空耳）」の投稿を募り、制作サイドでつけたイメージ映像を交えて紹介するという『タモリ倶楽部』を代表するコーナーのひとつである。
司会者のタモリと「ソラミミスト」と呼ばれるイラストレーターの安斎肇が司会進行を行う。コーナーは番組後半に設定されタモリの「誰が言ったか知らないが、言われてみれば確かに（「たしっかに」と溜める場合が多い）聞こえる空耳アワーのお時間がやってまいりました。お相手はこちらの方です」の挨拶から始まり、安斎を紹介。そのあと視聴者から投稿された1〜3作品を紹介する。
It is one of the corners representing the "Tamori club" .
It introduced and mixed the image, collected from the televiewer the contribution of "the words (mishearing) which sounds just like Japanese although sung except Japanese".
Anzai Hazime, illustrator, called "SORAMI mist" and Tamori are presided.
a corner is set up in the second half of a program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCuNGRp35Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4-_V2qC0Q&feature=related
2009年10月15日木曜日
reading dialy2
Man misses birth of his child after fondling nurse, police say
Police arrested a Bountiful man early Friday for allegedly groping a nurse who was helping a woman who was in labor with his baby at an Ogden hospital.
Adam Jay Manning, 30, brought a pregnant woman in labor to McKay-Dee Hospital around 3 a.m. Friday, said Ogden police Lt. Loring Draper. When a nurse came to assist the couple, Manning looked the nurse "up and down" and made an observation about her appearance, Draper said.
"He makes a comment about how cute she looks," Draper said.
The nurse ignored Manning and continued helping the woman in labor, who was in a wheelchair and waiting to be taken to a delivery room. Manning continued his pursuit of the nurse, however, by telling her something looked wrong with her neck, Draper said. He attempted to massage the nurse's neck and then reached out and grabbed her breast, Draper said.
The nurse pushed Manning away and moved to the other side of the wheelchair, Draper said. She reported the incident to police, who arrested Manning on suspicion of felony forcible sexual abuse.
He was being held in the Weber County jail.
Manning pleaded guilty in February 2008 to shoplifting, a class B misdemeanor, and was sentenced to a year of probation that included classes at New Horizons, a mental health and substance abuse treatment center. In June, Manning pleaded guilty to criminal mischief, also a class B misdemeanor. He was sentenced to fines and a year of probation, which he allegedly
violated -- a judge issued a warrant for his arrest Sept. 14, court records show.
Draper said it's unclear whether the woman in labor was married to Manning or if she was a girlfriend. She gave birth to the baby after Manning's arrest.
"Obviously, he wasn't there for the birth of the child," Draper said
わいせつ行為を行った男はソルトレイクシティー出身のアダム・ジェイ・マニング（30歳）。マニングは妊娠中の女性が深夜に陣痛が始まったため、現地時間の10月9日の午前3時に女性を連れてマッケイ・ディー病院に来院したすが、女性の出産に立ち会う看護師の女性に一目ぼれしてしまい「すごくかわいい」などと言い看護師に猛アピールし始めた。看護師はマニングを無視し妊婦の援助をしながら分べん室が空くのを待っていた、マニングは「体調が悪い」と言うなど、しつこく看護師の気を引こうとしていた。
それでも看護師の女性に無視し続けられたため、マニングは女性の首のあたりを触りはじめ、その後マニングの手が看護師の胸にさしかかったため、女性はマニングを押しのけ警察に通報した。
その後、通報で駆けつけた警官によってマニングはわいせつ罪など疑いで現行犯逮捕。マニングと運ばれた妊婦は戸籍上結婚しているのか不明。赤ん坊はマニングが逮捕された後、無事生まれた。
＊感想＊
どうしようもない人だと思いました！
＊単語＊
arrested………逮捕される
pregnant………妊娠した
pursuit…………続行
grabbed…………つかむ
suspicion…………嫌疑、疑い
felony……………重罪
forcible…………力ずくの、強制的な、暴力的な
shoplifting………万引き
misdemeanor……軽罪、非行、不品行
mischiaf…………いたずら、危害
allegedly…………申し立てによると、伝えられるところでは
Police arrested a Bountiful man early Friday for allegedly groping a nurse who was helping a woman who was in labor with his baby at an Ogden hospital.
Adam Jay Manning, 30, brought a pregnant woman in labor to McKay-Dee Hospital around 3 a.m. Friday, said Ogden police Lt. Loring Draper. When a nurse came to assist the couple, Manning looked the nurse "up and down" and made an observation about her appearance, Draper said.
"He makes a comment about how cute she looks," Draper said.
The nurse ignored Manning and continued helping the woman in labor, who was in a wheelchair and waiting to be taken to a delivery room. Manning continued his pursuit of the nurse, however, by telling her something looked wrong with her neck, Draper said. He attempted to massage the nurse's neck and then reached out and grabbed her breast, Draper said.
The nurse pushed Manning away and moved to the other side of the wheelchair, Draper said. She reported the incident to police, who arrested Manning on suspicion of felony forcible sexual abuse.
He was being held in the Weber County jail.
Manning pleaded guilty in February 2008 to shoplifting, a class B misdemeanor, and was sentenced to a year of probation that included classes at New Horizons, a mental health and substance abuse treatment center. In June, Manning pleaded guilty to criminal mischief, also a class B misdemeanor. He was sentenced to fines and a year of probation, which he allegedly
violated -- a judge issued a warrant for his arrest Sept. 14, court records show.
Draper said it's unclear whether the woman in labor was married to Manning or if she was a girlfriend. She gave birth to the baby after Manning's arrest.
"Obviously, he wasn't there for the birth of the child," Draper said
アドレス...http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13527317
アメリカ・ユタ州のオグデンにあるマッケイ・ディー病院で出産に立ち会うために病院に来た男が看護師の女性にわいせつ行為を行い逮捕された。わいせつ行為を行った男はソルトレイクシティー出身のアダム・ジェイ・マニング（30歳）。マニングは妊娠中の女性が深夜に陣痛が始まったため、現地時間の10月9日の午前3時に女性を連れてマッケイ・ディー病院に来院したすが、女性の出産に立ち会う看護師の女性に一目ぼれしてしまい「すごくかわいい」などと言い看護師に猛アピールし始めた。看護師はマニングを無視し妊婦の援助をしながら分べん室が空くのを待っていた、マニングは「体調が悪い」と言うなど、しつこく看護師の気を引こうとしていた。
それでも看護師の女性に無視し続けられたため、マニングは女性の首のあたりを触りはじめ、その後マニングの手が看護師の胸にさしかかったため、女性はマニングを押しのけ警察に通報した。
その後、通報で駆けつけた警官によってマニングはわいせつ罪など疑いで現行犯逮捕。マニングと運ばれた妊婦は戸籍上結婚しているのか不明。赤ん坊はマニングが逮捕された後、無事生まれた。
＊感想＊
どうしようもない人だと思いました！
＊単語＊
arrested………逮捕される
pregnant………妊娠した
pursuit…………続行
grabbed…………つかむ
suspicion…………嫌疑、疑い
felony……………重罪
forcible…………力ずくの、強制的な、暴力的な
shoplifting………万引き
misdemeanor……軽罪、非行、不品行
mischiaf…………いたずら、危害
allegedly…………申し立てによると、伝えられるところでは
2009年10月14日水曜日
homework2
Schools Cracking Down On teen Web Site MySpace
BOSTON -- Is it a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers, like a sprawling electronic shopping plaza, or a magnet for sexual predators and pornographers?
MySpace.com is a bit of both, say Rhode Island education officials who have banned the fast-growing teen social networking Web site from 80 percent of their schools out of concern is was putting children at risk.
"There's a lot of personal information and things like that on MySpace.com -- a bit more than I'm comfortable with," said James Murphy, assistant director of technology for the public schools in Coventry, Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, a nonprofit that handles Internet networks for the state's 36 public school districts, said 80 percent of the schools had requested an Internet filter to screen out MySpace.com.
A blizzard of news headlines in national media have raised alarm with parents and school authorities -- from "Man arrested in MySpace.com teen-sex case" to "Sex predators are stalking MySpace; is your teenager a target?" and "Space Invaders."
School districts in Florida and several other states and private universities have also installed filters on their Internet networks that block the site, which media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought for $580 million in July.
MySpace.com, which boasts 56 million members, allows teenagers and young adults to find friends and express themselves by posting profiles and blogs, or Web journals covering everything from their favorite singers to schoolwork and their sexual preferences and other intimate details.
In Connecticut, which borders Rhode Island, the state's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, is investigating a number of sexual assaults with links to MySpace.
'EVERYBODY'S NIGHTMARE'
Authorities in Santa Cruz, California, arrested a 26-year-old in February for felony child molestation after he met a 14-year-old on MySpace. In other cases, MySpace.com has been used to threaten classmates.
"What could have been probably an innocent place for kids to meet has turned almost to be everybody's nightmare," said Monique Nelson, executive director of Web Wise Kids, a nonprofit Internet safety organization based in California.
"I'm glad to see Rhode Island taking a stand. It's unfortunate because I don't think the Web site was obviously originally designed to have things like this happen," she said.
Elliot Krieger, a spokesman for the Rhode Island Department if Education, said each school district can decide for itself whether to filter out MySpace.com or other web sites that have adult or inappropriate content for children.
The Rhode Island ban affects about 130,000 students while they are using computers at school. But students were always one step ahead and finding new ways to use the Internet or surfing sites like MySpace.com from home, Murphy said.
"There is no filtering service that is going to be foolproof," he said. "We try to keep on top of this and stay ahead but it's a challenge."
Pam Christman, director of technology programs and network services at the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, said about 40 percent of the state's schools had also sought bans on a long list of Web blogging sites.
MySpace has said that its users have to be at least 14 years old and are required to fill out an online form that includes their date of birth.
アドレス....http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/410315/schools_cracking_down_on_teen_web_site_myspace/index.html
MySpace.comが若者の仮想的なたまり場状態になっており、実質的に性犯罪者などにとってたまらなく魅力的な場になっている。その結果、MySpace.comは年頃の子を持つ親にとって、「悪夢の場」になっている。
教育担当官によると、担当する36の学区の約8割（約13万人の学生がいる）が、子どもたちを危険にさらすとの理由でMySpace.comの利用をフィルタリングして禁止している。
そもそもMySpace.comには多くの個人情報やそれに類するものが存在しており、実際に米国では性犯罪者が若者をターゲットにして狙うためにMySpace.comを利用していたケースが多かった。
現在のMySpace.comの利用者数は5600万人という莫大な数。友だちを招待して小さな輪で使用するSNSではなく、友達をたくさん作る種類のSNSなので、友だちを探す機能、自分の意見や考えを表明する各種機能、プロフィール、ブログ、ウェブジャーナルなどの機能も充実。自分の好みの歌手や学校のこと、好みのタイプやその他の親密になるための詳細な情報を出すと言うことになる。
事例として、今年の2月にカリフォルニア州サンタクルーズで26歳の男が、14歳の少女への性的な犯罪の容疑で逮捕された。これはMySpace.comが出会いのきっかけであった。MySpace.comでは14歳以上でないと利用できないように生年月日を記入させていますが、どれだけの効果があるのかはまだ不明。
BOSTON -- Is it a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers, like a sprawling electronic shopping plaza, or a magnet for sexual predators and pornographers?
MySpace.com is a bit of both, say Rhode Island education officials who have banned the fast-growing teen social networking Web site from 80 percent of their schools out of concern is was putting children at risk.
"There's a lot of personal information and things like that on MySpace.com -- a bit more than I'm comfortable with," said James Murphy, assistant director of technology for the public schools in Coventry, Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, a nonprofit that handles Internet networks for the state's 36 public school districts, said 80 percent of the schools had requested an Internet filter to screen out MySpace.com.
A blizzard of news headlines in national media have raised alarm with parents and school authorities -- from "Man arrested in MySpace.com teen-sex case" to "Sex predators are stalking MySpace; is your teenager a target?" and "Space Invaders."
School districts in Florida and several other states and private universities have also installed filters on their Internet networks that block the site, which media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought for $580 million in July.
MySpace.com, which boasts 56 million members, allows teenagers and young adults to find friends and express themselves by posting profiles and blogs, or Web journals covering everything from their favorite singers to schoolwork and their sexual preferences and other intimate details.
In Connecticut, which borders Rhode Island, the state's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, is investigating a number of sexual assaults with links to MySpace.
'EVERYBODY'S NIGHTMARE'
Authorities in Santa Cruz, California, arrested a 26-year-old in February for felony child molestation after he met a 14-year-old on MySpace. In other cases, MySpace.com has been used to threaten classmates.
"What could have been probably an innocent place for kids to meet has turned almost to be everybody's nightmare," said Monique Nelson, executive director of Web Wise Kids, a nonprofit Internet safety organization based in California.
"I'm glad to see Rhode Island taking a stand. It's unfortunate because I don't think the Web site was obviously originally designed to have things like this happen," she said.
Elliot Krieger, a spokesman for the Rhode Island Department if Education, said each school district can decide for itself whether to filter out MySpace.com or other web sites that have adult or inappropriate content for children.
The Rhode Island ban affects about 130,000 students while they are using computers at school. But students were always one step ahead and finding new ways to use the Internet or surfing sites like MySpace.com from home, Murphy said.
"There is no filtering service that is going to be foolproof," he said. "We try to keep on top of this and stay ahead but it's a challenge."
Pam Christman, director of technology programs and network services at the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, said about 40 percent of the state's schools had also sought bans on a long list of Web blogging sites.
MySpace has said that its users have to be at least 14 years old and are required to fill out an online form that includes their date of birth.
アドレス....http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/410315/schools_cracking_down_on_teen_web_site_myspace/index.html
MySpace.comが若者の仮想的なたまり場状態になっており、実質的に性犯罪者などにとってたまらなく魅力的な場になっている。その結果、MySpace.comは年頃の子を持つ親にとって、「悪夢の場」になっている。
教育担当官によると、担当する36の学区の約8割（約13万人の学生がいる）が、子どもたちを危険にさらすとの理由でMySpace.comの利用をフィルタリングして禁止している。
そもそもMySpace.comには多くの個人情報やそれに類するものが存在しており、実際に米国では性犯罪者が若者をターゲットにして狙うためにMySpace.comを利用していたケースが多かった。
現在のMySpace.comの利用者数は5600万人という莫大な数。友だちを招待して小さな輪で使用するSNSではなく、友達をたくさん作る種類のSNSなので、友だちを探す機能、自分の意見や考えを表明する各種機能、プロフィール、ブログ、ウェブジャーナルなどの機能も充実。自分の好みの歌手や学校のこと、好みのタイプやその他の親密になるための詳細な情報を出すと言うことになる。
事例として、今年の2月にカリフォルニア州サンタクルーズで26歳の男が、14歳の少女への性的な犯罪の容疑で逮捕された。これはMySpace.comが出会いのきっかけであった。MySpace.comでは14歳以上でないと利用できないように生年月日を記入させていますが、どれだけの効果があるのかはまだ不明。
2009年10月1日木曜日
homework 1
homework
Why did alan commit suicide?
He was a gay.
The gay was a crime in those days.
He was injected female hormone as hormon therapy.
And he couldn't continue work for the UK Government Communications Headquarters.
And he committed suicide because he couldn't bear it.
Why did alan commit suicide?
He was a gay.
The gay was a crime in those days.
He was injected female hormone as hormon therapy.
And he couldn't continue work for the UK Government Communications Headquarters.
And he committed suicide because he couldn't bear it.
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