2013年3月18日星期一

For those traveling to New York

Amtrak forced to reroute after train derailment

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A freight train derailment in Connecticut has suspended Amtrak service along the busy New York-to-Boston corridor, and the railroad is providing transportation on alternate routes.

Trains north from New York's Penn Station will run to New Haven, Conn., then detour to Springfield, Mass., before traveling to Boston's South Station. Passengers should allow several hours of extra time.

For those traveling to New York, Amtrak will pick up passengers at Kingston, R.I, Providence, R.I., and Route 128 and return to Boston to board a special train to New York.

The rail service says crews were working Sunday to clear the tracks.

Amtrak service between New York and Washington is not affected and the Springfield, Mass., shuttle will operate as scheduled.

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who took over the PKK's command after Ocalan's capture and imprisonment in 1999

Kurdish legislators meet jailed rebel chief

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of Kurdish legislators traveled to a prison island off Istanbul on Monday to confer with rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is widely expected to call a cease-fire ordering his rebels to stop fighting as part of efforts to end a bitter three-decade-old conflict with Turkey.

The pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party officials have said Ocalan — who is serving a life sentence for leading the Kurdish insurgency — is expected to call for a truce and maybe even ask several thousand fighters to withdraw from Turkey to coincide with a spring festival celebrated by Kurds on Thursday.

Three legislators from the Peace and Democracy Party were allowed to travel to Imrali island to meet with Ocalan and were expected to relay a message from him.

The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has declared cease-fires in the past but these were largely ignored by Turkey which refused to talk to the rebels and vowed to continue to fight the group they until lay down arms. This time, the government has acknowledged that is it holding talks with Ocalan with the aim of persuading the PKK to disarm and the cease-fire declaration and the rebels' retreat would constitute a major step toward ending the conflict.

The government has yet to reveal details of the peace talks, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has indicated the rebels would withdraw fighters from Turkey and disarm as part of the peace efforts.

Reports indicate that, in return, Turkey is expected to enact reforms to boost the rights of Kurds, including a new constitution that would amend the way all citizens are defined as "Turks" and grant more powers to local authorities. Turkey is also expected to change its legislation to allow the release of hundreds of Kurdish activists jailed for alleged links to the PKK.

In an important symbolic gesture, the rebels last week released eight captive Turkish soldiers and officials they had been holding in bases in northern Iraq.

Kurds make up an estimated 20 percent of Turkey's population of around 75 million. The rebels took up arms in 1984 for self-rule; Turkey and the West label the PKK a terrorist organization.

Murat Karayilan, who took over the PKK's command after Ocalan's capture and imprisonment in 1999, said in an interview with Firat News, a website close to the rebels, that his group has decided to support the peace initiative although the PKK has some unspecified reservations and concerns about the process.

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Relieved your kids aren't posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They're probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead.

    The number of popular social media sites available on kids' mobile devices has exploded in recent years. The smartest apps now enable kids to chat informally with select groups of friends without bumping up against texting limits and without being monitored by parents, coaches and college admissions officers, who are frequent Facebook posters themselves.

    Many of the new mobile apps don't require a cellphone or a credit card. They're free and can be used on popular portable devices such as the iPod Touch and Kindle Fire, as long as there's a wireless Internet connection.

    According to the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, more than three-fourths of teenagers have a cellphone and use online social networking sites such as Facebook. But educators and kids say there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that Facebook for teenagers has become a bit like a school-sanctioned prom — a necessary rite of passage with plenty of adult onlookers — while apps such as Snapchat and Kik Messenger are the much cooler after-party.

    Educators say they have seen everything from kids using their mobile devices to circulate online videos of school drug searches to male students sharing nude pictures of their girlfriends. Most parents, they say, have no idea.

    "What sex education used to be — it's now the 'technology talk' we have to have with our kids," said Rebecca Levey, a mother of 10-year-old twin daughters who runs a tween video review site called KidzVuz.com and blogs about technology and educations issues.

    Eileen Patterson, a stay-at-home mom of eight kids in Burke, Va., said she used to consider herself fairly tech savvy and is frequently on Facebook, but was shocked to learn her kids could message their friends with just an iPod Touch. She counts nine wireless devices in her home and has taken to shutting off her home's Wi-Fi after 9 p.m., but Patterson calls her attempt to keep tabs on her kids' online activity "a war I'm slowly losing every day."

    "I find myself throwing up my hands every now and again," Patterson said. "Then I'll see something on TV or read an article in the paper about some horrible thing that happened to some poor child and their family, and then I try to be more vigilant. But the reality is, I'm ...stupid" when it comes to social media.

    Mobile apps refer to the software applications that can be downloaded to a mobile device through an online store such as Apple's iTunes. According to the Federal Trade Commission, there are some 800,000 apps available through Apple and 700,000 apps on Google Play.

    Among the most popular mobile apps among kids is Instagram, free software that digitally enhances photos and posts them to your account online. The photos can be shared on other social media sites such as Facebook, which bought Instagram last year.

    Then there's Snapchat, among the top 10 free iPhone apps available. Coined by the media as the "sexting" app, Snapchat lets you send a text, photo or video that self-destructs within 10 seconds of being opened.

    Kik Messenger also allows unlimited texting for free and offers anonymity to its users. Able to run on an iPod Touch or Kindle Fire, Kik allows vague user names — for example, a nickname or a string of random digits — that won't reveal a person's real name or phone number.

    But as with anything online, each of these apps comes with serious caveats.

    Snapchat, for example, acknowledges on its Web page that its messages aren't guaranteed to disappear: Anyone receiving a text or photo can use their 10 seconds to capture a "screenshot," or photo of their device's screen, and save that image to their phone. Video also can be downloaded, although Snapchat says it alerts senders when their data is saved.

    Instagram is generally considered pretty tame as long as kids adjust their privacy settings to limit who can see their photos and don't post nudity, which could subject them to child pornography laws. But Levey points out that many parents don't know their kids are on Instagram until there's trouble — usually when kids post photos at parties, and other kids who aren't invited see them.

    Dale Harkness, a technology director at Richmond-Burton Community High School in Richmond, Ill., said parents often will hand their kids a mobile device without understanding exactly what it can do. He estimates that even without the latest social media app, the average high school student probably transmits some 150 texts a day.

    "It's not anything that every parent and grandparent hasn't already seen," Harkness said. The problem, he adds, is the actions "get documented, replayed and sent around," and kids "forget how fast it moves and how far it goes."

    That was the case at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, N.J., where a male student allegedly took a screenshot of nude pictures sent to him by female classmates via Snapchat, then posted the pictures on Instagram. According to a letter to parents by the school district's superintendent that was later posted online, police were warning students to delete any downloaded pictures by Monday or face criminal charges under child pornography laws.

    There are general security concerns too. A recent report by a cyberthreat research company, called F-Secure, found that some of the new social networking sites have become ripe targets for spreading malware and propagating scams.

    In January, the FBI arrested a 27-year-old man in Los Angeles who allegedly hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts, including Facebook and Skype, and found naked photos and personal passwords that women had stored online. He used the naked photos to try to coerce women into disrobing for him via Skype and threatened to post their private photos to their Facebook accounts if they refused to comply, according to the indictment.

    Also worth noting is that almost every mobile app available collects some kind of personal data, such as a person's birthdate or the location of their phone, and shares that information with third parties for marketing purposes. While a new regulation by the Federal Trade Commission this year is aimed at keeping advertisers from tracking kids younger than 13, most social media apps require that a person promise to be at least 13 when they sign up, thereby exempting themselves from the tougher privacy restrictions.

    Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is co-chairman of a House caucus that examines privacy issues, said he'd like to see legislation that would give kids under 15 the right to delete photos or texts that wind up elsewhere online. The prospect, however, is unlikely in a Congress dominated by debates on federal spending and gun control, and raises practical questions about how such a law could be enforced.

    "I believe that our children have a right to develop, to grow up and to make mistakes," Markey said. "Nobody should be penalized for something they posted when they were 9 years old."

    Several consumer advocates actually recommend exposing their kids to social media sites earlier than age 12, when they're more receptive to hearing lessons about online etiquette and safety.

    For example, Levey links her kids' devices to her iTunes account so she's aware of any program they download. She also requires that her kids "friend" her on every program and follow certain ground rules: protect your passwords, set your privacy controls and never transmit inappropriate pictures or words.

    Levey thinks a big hurdle for parents is getting over the idea that they are invading their kids' privacy by monitoring online activity. In fact, she said, it can be the kid's first lesson that nothing online is truly private anyway.

    "If they want privacy, they should write in a journal and hide it under their mattress," Levey said.

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    2013年3月13日星期三

    3DS対応マジコン 」

    桂文枝の演芸図鑑が4月スタート「大先輩との対談楽しみ」「桂文枝の演芸図鑑」(NHK総合)が来月4月7日(日)より全10回にわたって放送される。昨日3月11日、東京・NHKにて番組収録の合間に記者取材会が行われ、桂文枝が出席した。

    【その他の写真を見る】

    演芸界のベテラン達が3カ月ずつ司会を務めているこの番組。文枝は桂三枝時代の昨年2012年1月~3月にも司会を担当している。番組の前半にはネタコーナー、後半には文枝と個性豊かなゲストとのスペシャル対談を実施。初回放送にはケーシー高峰、古今亭菊之丞が出演するほか、対談には講談師の一龍斎貞水が登場する予定だ。

    取材会で文枝は「この番組がありがたいのは、自分自身が勉強になるような方とお話したい、という希望を叶えていただけること」とコメント。さらに「石原裕次郎さんの創作落語を書きたいと思っている。奥様の石原まき子さんにも出ていただく予定で、いろいろなエピソードを聞きたい」と語った。

    放送時間は毎週日曜日の午前5時15分からと早朝。「私はけっこう起きてる時間」という文枝は「人生や芸能の大先輩にどんな言葉をいただけるか楽しみにしている」と期待を寄せた。

    桂文枝の演芸図鑑

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    5歳500万

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    との見方もある

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     唐氏は今回の訪日で、沖縄県・尖閣諸島(中国名・釣魚島)を巡る問題などで冷え込む日中関係の改善を模索する考えだ。

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     委員会は日中関係を一層発展させるため、双方の有識者が政治や文化、科学技術などの分野で議論し、両国の政府首脳に提言・報告する,【拡大画像や他の画像】。昨年11月の開催を予定していたが、日本政府の尖閣諸島国有化や反日デモの激化などによる日中関係の悪化を受けて延期されていた,11日・ボディメーカーコロシアム。唐氏は一連の日程で、安倍首相と、14日に国家主席に就任する中国共産党の習近平(しゅう・きんぺい)総書記との首脳会談実現に向けても調整するとみられる。

     唐氏は外相経験者で日本勤務が長く、現在北京で開催中の全国人民代表大会(全人代=国会)での外相就任が固まっている王毅(おうき)国務院台湾事務弁公室主任(59)=元日本大使=との関係も深い。「王氏が外相に就任すれば、同じ知日派の先輩格である唐氏の存在感も高まる」(日中関係筋)との見方もある。

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    長崎県・五島列島の椛島沖にある国内初の浮体式洋上風力発電の試験機を視察した後、記者団に語った

    洋上風力発電「20年に40倍」 環境相が新目標 石原伸晃環境相は9日、「2020年に洋上風力発電の能力を100万キロワット以上にしたい」と述べ、現在の発電能力の40倍以上にする新目標を明らかにした,r4i sdhc に出場する日本代表チーム「侍ジャパン」の候補33選手の背番号を発表した。長崎県・五島列島の椛島沖にある国内初の浮体式洋上風力発電の試験機を視察した後、記者団に語った。


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    2013年3月11日星期一

    UGG クラシックミニ which would cap rises in welfare payments until 2016

    Archbishop of Canterbury condemns welfare changes

    LONDON (AP) -- The new archbishop of Canterbury has joined other bishops in criticizing the British government's plans to change the welfare system,UGG クラシックミニ.

    Justin Welby backed an open letter from some 40 Church of England bishops that said the proposed changes would drive children and families into poverty,http://www.r4ikarter4.org,フェンディ バッグ.

    Sunday's statement marked Welby's first political statement since he was named in his new role as the head of the Church of England,セリーヌ 店舗 indeed 実". Welby is due to be formally enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on Mar,iEDGE. 21,グッチ 店舗 14854.

    The planned changes, which would cap rises in welfare payments until 2016, aim to cut government spending,moncler ダウン. The archbishop said a "civilized society" has a duty to support the vulnerable amid rising living costs.

    The welfare bill will be debated in the House of Lords next week,R4i GOLD 3DS.