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People living alone 'are more depressed'
People of working age who live alone increase their risk of depression by up to 80% compared with people living in families, says a Finnish study.
It says the main factors are poor housing conditions for women and a lack of social support for men, who are both equally affected.
The study tracked the use of anti-depressants in 3,500 Finnish people.
A mental health charity said people who lived alone must be given outlets to talk about their problems.
世銀総裁候補、米は韓国系キム氏 ナイジェリアも擁立へ
世銀の総裁職は設立以来、慣例的に米国人が占め、対立候補が出たこともなかった。韓国系のキム氏の選定には「米国人世襲」批判を和らげる狙いもありそうだ。最大出資国の推薦に加え日本なども支持する見通しで、圧倒的に有利な情勢。就任すればアジア系初の世銀総裁となる。
US nominates health expert for World Bank job
Jim Yong Kim, a physician by training, comes as surprise pick for international financial institution's top job.
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2012
Trayvon Martin: The myth of US post-racialism
The shooting of a young black man demonstrates how institutional and structural racism is still robust in the US.
Last Modified: 22 Mar 2012
Ten years without Gadamer
Santiago Zabala pays tribute to philosopher Gadamer - remembered for his contributions in the area of hermeneutics.
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2012
"Human beings, for Gadamer, are creatures who must continually interpret their world since they are not neutral, independent or objective observers..."
Nowhere to turn: Britain's sex slaves
For women trafficked to the UK and forced into prostitution, escape from their captors is no guaranteee of a happy ending
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Maria is in her early 20s, slight and dark-haired, a mother with a toddler. If you saw her on the bus, you would assume she was just like any other young mum. But you would be wrong. Until about a year ago, Maria was a sex slave. She was held prisoner in a flat somewhere in Britain for eight months and forced to have intercourse with various men: the child in the buggy is the product of one of those sessions.
Maria was trafficked to the UK by an organised criminal gang, and still lives in fear that they will find her. "I don't want to say exactly where I'm from, as that could identify me," she says. "It was somewhere in the Balkans. I was a normal girl from a normal town, but I fell in love with a boy and my family didn't approve, and I ran away with him."
When her boyfriend unexpectedly died, Maria found herself alone and vulnerable, making her easy prey for a man who seemed to want to start a relationship with her, but was really grooming her for the gang. He tricked her into going to stay at his home, forced her into having sex, then told her he was taking her to the UK.
But the Home Office rejected her claim for asylum – and she is currently appealing against that decision. "I want to make a life here for me and my child," she says.
Stepnitz believes there are around 10,000 women in Britain who have been trafficked here for sexual exploitation
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Documents show NYPD infiltrated liberal groups
By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press – 7 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.
The infiltration echoes the tactics the NYPD used in the run-up to New York's 2004 Republican National Convention, when police monitored church groups, anti-war organizations and environmental advocates nationwide. That effort was revealed by The New York Times in 2007 and in an ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit over how the NYPD treated convention protesters.
Police said the pre-convention spying was necessary to prepare for the huge, raucous crowds that were headed to the city. But documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the police department's intelligence unit continued to keep close watch on political groups in 2008, long after the convention had passed.
In April 2008, an undercover NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People's Summit, a gathering of liberal groups organized around their shared opposition to U.S. economic policy and the effect of trade agreements between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
When the undercover effort was summarized for supervisors, it identified groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor laws and racial profiling. Two activists — Jordan Flaherty, a journalist, and Marisa Franco, a labor organizer for housekeepers and nannies — were mentioned by name in one of the police intelligence reports obtained by the AP.
"One workshop was led by Jordan Flaherty, former member of the International Solidarity Movement Chapter in New York City," officers wrote in an April 25, 2008, memo to David Cohen, the NYPD's top intelligence officer. "Mr. Flaherty is an editor and journalist of the Left Turn Magazine and was one of the main organizers of the conference. Mr. Flaherty held a discussion calling for the increase of the divestment campaign of Israel and mentioned two events related to Palestine."
The document is available here: http://apne.ws/GGCBuX .
The document provides the latest example of how, in the name of fighting terrorism, law enforcement agencies around the country have scrutinized groups that legally oppose government policies. The FBI, for instance, has collected information on anti-war demonstrators. The Maryland state police infiltrated meetings of anti-death penalty groups. Missouri counterterrorism analysts suggested that support for Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, might indicate support for violent militias — an assertion for which state officials later apologized. And Texas officials urged authorities to monitor lobbying efforts by pro Muslim-groups.
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'My name is Mohamed Merah and my life is hell'
Published: 23 Mar 2012 11:29 GMT+1
Updated: 23 Mar 2012 10:35 GMT+1
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Several Frenchmen who bear the same name as gunman Mohamed Merah have been targetted and harassed after the identity of the Toulouse killer was released.
"It’s insane, completely mad," says Mohamed Merah, a Lyon resident. "My life was just turned upside down," he told the French daily Ouest France. "For thirty hours, he lived holed up in his flat. I was confined to my bed."
Merah bears the same name as the lone gunman who killed seven people, including three Jewish children, a rabbi and three paratroopers in the city of Toulouse in southwestern France.
On Wednesday morning, the media reported that the main suspect in a spate of killings in the region was called Mohamed Merah. That’s when trouble started for all those who were called Merah, a common Algerian surname, in France.
Some say they were harassed on the phone. Others say they received insults on their Facebook accounts or that their friends and employees were warned they might be in contact with a killer.
"People were publishing my photo on the internet, they said I was his spitting image," a Mohamed Merah in Lyon told Ouest France. "I'm the same age, have the same origins, so people jumped to conclusions."
On Thursday, the self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah was shot when special forces of the French police stormed the building where he was holed up. But it's unlikely his name or face will be forgotten soon.
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Sweden's 'immigrants' find Big Apple success
Published: 20 Mar 12 11:30 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Frustration with being shut out of the Swedish job market has prompted several Swedes with immigrant backgrounds to seek – and find – success in the melting pot that is New York City, contributor Rafaela Stålbalk discovers.
“Adaptable, well-educated Swedish-Ghanaian fluent in five languages seeking vacant position.”
This is how Medufia "Keke" Kulego would introduce himself in job applications that he sent to countless employers throughout Sweden.
After spending four years in New York studying business marketing and finance on a full scholarship at St. John’s University, Kulego was prepared to start his career back in Sweden.
But despite tons of skills, Kulego was unable to land a job in Sweden that matched the skills he'd acquired at university. Instead he was stuck with mediocre, entry-level gigs.
Kulego was born and raised by Ghanaian parents in Rosengård ‒ a district in central Malmö that some refer to as “the roughest ghetto in Scandinavia.”
Educated, fully fluent in Swedish, and entirely assimilated to the Swedish society, Kulego was left to assume his ethnicity was the reason he'd been shut out of the Swedish job market.
Aggravated with the situation, Kulego looked for opportunities back in the United States, hoping employees there would have more confidence in him than those in his home country did.
And in 2001, Kulego was given the chance he's been waiting for: he went from being an underrated jobseeker in Sweden to a successful investment banker on Wall Street.
“In the States, your skills and personality are what matters,” Kulego, 39, says.
“Here, it's different from Sweden, where your name is a first indication of whom you are."
Stories like Kulego's have caused concern in some quarters in Sweden, with commentators such as author Tove Lifvendahl arguing that Sweden risks losing many highly qualified workers when Swedish society makes them feel undervalued.
“We bullied them away and showed them the door,” she wrote in a recent column.
Lifvendahl's argument rings true for Kulego, who says the endless rejection he experienced in Sweden is ultimately what drove him away.
“I love Sweden. It is my home. But I had to leave because it did not want me,” he says.
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「カネミ油症」座り込み、５００回目で幕
５００回目の抗議の座り込みを終え、支持者らと握手する犬養光博さん（中央）（２４日午後、北九州市小倉北区で）＝大野博昭撮影
１９６８年に起きた国内最大の食品公害・カネミ油症の悲惨さを訴えようと、原因企業のカネミ倉庫（北九州市小倉北区）前で月１回、座り込みを続けてきた市民団体「カネミ油症を告発する会」が２４日、最後となる５００回目の座り込みをした。
同会によると、７０年８月２２日に開始。会を率いる元牧師、犬養光博さん（７２）が福岡県福智町から長崎県松浦市に転居したことなどを機に、４２年近く続いた活動に終止符を打つことにした。
早朝から約２０人が集まり、午後６時５０分の終了間際には約５０人にまで増えた。最後に「油症事件は終わってないぞ」などとシュプレヒコールを上げた。
犬養さんは「問題はまだ解決していないのに、ここで終わって申し訳ない気持ち。（活動が終わっても）それぞれが公害の実態を後世に伝え続けなければ」と話した。
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猫ひろしさん五輪代表決定 マラソン、カンボジアから
関連トピックス2012年3月25日22時29分
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カンボジア国籍を取得してロンドン五輪出場を目指すタレントの猫ひろし（本名滝崎邦明〈たきざき・くにあき〉）さん（３４）が男子マラソンの同国代表に決まった。カンボジア・オリンピック委員会のワット・チョムラーン専務理事が２５日、明らかにした。他の競技の代表とともに４月に正式発表する見通しという。
五輪の陸上では、参加標準記録を突破した選手が１人もいない国・地域は、男女１人ずつがいずれかの種目に出場できる「特例」がある。カンボジアはこれに該当し、猫さんは自己ベストが２時間３０分２６秒で標準記録に届かないものの代表に選ばれた。夢が実現することになるが、国籍を変更しての出場は論議を呼びそうだ。
同専務理事によると、カンボジア・オリンピック委員会は陸上の最終候補を男子３選手と女子１選手に絞り、国際陸連による記録面の評価などを経て、代表を決めた。
猫さんは２０１０年１２月にカンボジア国内でのハーフマラソンで３位になったことが評価され、同国政府などから国籍を変更しての五輪挑戦を打診された。昨年１０月にカンボジア国籍を取り、１１月にインドネシアで開かれた東南アジア大会のマラソンに同国代表で出場。ことし２月の別府大分毎日マラソンで自己ベストを大幅に更新して５０位となった。（共同）
園部裕子「僕はハレド・ケルカル-テロ容疑者になった移民の若者のライフストーリー」j.mp/GPV8Ri
— mozuさん (@mozumozumozu) 3月 25, 2012↓1995年にフランスを震撼させたテロ事件の犯人のインタヴューの日本語訳。事件の3年前にドイツ人の社会学者がたまたまインタビューしていたもの。トゥールーズの銃撃事件の犯人像とそっくり。
— mozuさん (@mozumozumozu) 3月 25, 2012若手抜擢あり、コンバートあり！ 外国出身選手は？ エディージャパンの３０人発表
2012.3.25 18:00 （1/3ページ）
日本ラグビー協会が１９日に発表したアジア５カ国対抗の日本代表メンバー３０人は、エディー・ジョーンズ新ヘッドコーチの独自色が随所にみられる人選となった。果たしてどんなパフォーマンスをみせてくれるのか。“エディー・ジャパン”は４月２日から静岡県掛川市で行われる強化合宿で始動する。（橋本謙太郎）
３０人のうち、最年少は１８歳の藤田慶和（東福岡高３年）で、最年長は今月２９日で３４歳となる小野沢宏時（サントリー）。ジョーンズ新ヘッドコーチが事前に示唆していたように、２０１５年Ｗ杯、そして日本で開催される１９年Ｗ杯を見据え、藤田や竹中祥（筑波大１年）ら若手を抜擢する一方、これまでの日本代表を支えてきたベテランも招集し、幅広い構成となった。
そんな中、特に独自色を強く感じさせたのは、バックス陣の選考だ。ジョン・カーワン前ヘッドコーチのもとで臨んだ昨年のワールドカップ（Ｗ杯）では南半球出身選手がバックスで６人出場したが、今回はゼロ。ＳＨを除き、身長が１７０センチ台の選手が５人入ったのも目に付くが、パワーよりも俊敏性を意識した人選の表れだろう。
ジョーンズ新ヘッドコーチはまた、ＳＯ候補として立川理道（天理大４年）▽小野晃征（サニックス）▽田村優（ＮＥＣ）の３人の名を挙げ、和製司令塔を育成する方針を示している。
ＦＷを含めても、今回招集される南半球出身者はマイケル・リーチ（東芝）だけと、カーワン・ジャパンとは対照的だ。とはいえ「日本人、外国人に関係なく、ポテンシャルが高い選手を」というジョーンズ新ヘッドコーチ。「負傷のために選考対象外となった選手」として、ＦＷ４人＝マイケル・ブロードハースト（リコー）▽ジャスティン・アイブス（パナソニック）▽トンプソンルーク（近鉄）▽ホラニ龍コリニアシ（パナソニック）と、ＢＫのマレ・サウ（ヤマハ発動機）の計５人が発表されている。
明らかに格下のチームを相手にするアジア５カ国対抗との対戦はとにかく、本当のテストマッチが始まるその後は、外国出身選手の数が増える可能性は高い。
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ポジションの“変更”も顕著だ。これまでは日本代表でも右プロップでプレーしてきた畠山健介（サントリー）が左プロップとして、右フランカーでプレーしてきたマイケル・リーチが左フランカーとして招集されたのをはじめ、所属チームではフランカーの佐々木隆道（サントリー）、ロックの望月雄太（東芝）がナンバー８に。
さらにはサントリーではＷＴＢの長友泰憲はＦＢでの招集。ジョーンズ新ヘッドコーチは「長友はトップリーグで最も成長した選手の一人。これからは新たなチャレンジをしてほしい」。
４月２日からの静岡合宿は、各選手がそれぞれの可能性を再認識する場ともなりそうだ。
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日本代表３０人は次の通り。
▽ＦＷ 長江有祐（リコー）畠山健介、篠塚公史、真壁伸弥、佐々木隆道（以上サントリー）▽堀江翔太（パナソニック）▽有田隆平、桑水流裕策（以上コカ・コーラウエスト）山下裕史、伊藤鐘史、橋本大輝（以上神戸製鋼）▽坪井秀龍（中国電力）▽大野均、マイケル・リーチ、望月雄太（以上東芝）▽村田毅（ＮＥＣ）
▽バックス 田中史朗（パナソニック）小野沢宏時、平浩二、長友泰憲（以上サントリー）小野晃征（サニックス）立川理道（天理大）藤田慶和（東福岡高）田村優（ＮＥＣ）藤井淳、仙波智裕、広瀬俊朗（以上東芝）中村亮土（帝京大）竹中祥（筑波大）五郎丸歩（ヤマハ発動機）
※バックス（ＳＨ）は日和佐篤（サントリー）がフランスプロリーグ「スタッド・フランセ」に練習生として参加のため辞退。藤井を追加招集
