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Source: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/04/food-writer-mark-bittman-to-speak-at-brooklyn-benefit/
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Food Writer Mark Bittman to Speak at Brooklyn Benefit - Brownstoner
Take a Toxic Tour of Baltimore's Scariest Environmental Problems
Lead in the soil, brownfields, illegal dumping sites, rat infestations ? these aren?t the sorts of thing you?d see on your average city tour, but they?re the highlights of ?urban environmentalist? Glenn Ross?s Toxic Tour of Baltimore. And he makes sure the windows are open. ?I put it right up in their face ? they?ve got to smell it, taste it, the whole nine yards,? he told Andrea Appleton, writing for Grist. ?And at the end of the tour, they get it.?
Believe it or not, we have rats to thank for Ross?s current environmental justice activism:?? ?I started organizing around the rat problem in the area,? he told an interviewer in 2006. ?I joined the neighborhood association, got very active, joined a number of different boards, and I realized that there was a lot going on in this area that residents weren?t aware of. As a new homeowner and a single parent for twenty-six years, I?m the type of guy who needs to know what?s going on in my community. And this is what really started me and got me involved in becoming a community advocate. So when people ask me how I got started I can honestly tell them a rat.?
After taking one of Ross?s bus rides through Baltimore?s urban public health disasters, it?s impossible not to realize that they are concentrated in poor, primarily black neighborhoods ? what amounts to environmental racism, according to Ross. Living in toxic environments often leads to health issues, and the neighborhoods his tour travels through have higher rates of asthma, cancer, and lead poisoning.
Ross?s tours are primarily conducted for local college students, school groups, and churces, with the intent of showing them how environmental destruction wreaks havoc on a very local, very personal level. See that stormwater runoff gushing off roofs and feeding into the Harbor? See that pile of toxic construction scraps? How about that black sludge dripping down storm drains? All these things help contribute to the fact that Baltimoreans in some neighborhood have life expectancies that are up to twenty years longer than their neighbors, Appleton points out.
You can get a sense of Ross?s tours in the YouTube clip below ? toxic smells not included:
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Psychology of War Helps to Explain Atrocities (preview)
See Inside The peculiar psychology of war likely holds answers for avoiding future atrocities
In Brief
For the Love of Battle
- Appetitive aggression, in which violent excesses are experienced as sensually pleasurable, may occur in war.
- Humans may have evolved an instinct to hunt that arises in combat situations, leading to this apparently pathological behavior.
- The traumas of war change the psyche of soldiers. A deeper understanding of the psychology of violence can help civilians and fighters process such challenging experiences together.
?I really tortured others. At night we went out and raided villages. We killed whomever we saw. If we happened to see a woman, we raped her.... Fighting is all there is in the life of a man. Whenever I hear guns go off, I want nothing more than to fight. This thirst lies deep within me.?
The young man who is describing these unbelievable horrors has a gaunt but friendly face. We are in Goma, a bleak city at the eastern edge of the civil war taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our team of German researchers from the University of Konstanz and an aid organization, called vivo international, sits shivering in our encampment.
This article was originally published with the title An Appetite for Aggression.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c008e25a5f58927f8b8c5a8068930964
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
ECB poised to cut rates to help recession-hit euro zone
By Paul Carrel and Andreas Framke
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is closer to lowering interest rates than at any time since it last cut them in July 2012 and is likely to shave a quarter-point off at its policy meeting next week.
Senior sources involved in the deliberations say momentum is building for action to help a euro zone economy which has slipped back into recession, a move that some policymakers wanted to take earlier this year.
Inflation sliding well below target gives the bank scope to act and a senior ECB official said even Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann, the most hawkish member of the 23-man Governing Council, had an open mind.
After the bank's last monetary policy meeting on April 4, ECB President Mario Draghi signaled that a cut could come soon when he said that the bank stood "ready to act" to boost the recession-hit euro zone economy.
"Now we are free," one senior ECB official said. "For the next meeting in Bratislava, I would look at rates, certainly."
The ECB's Governing Council meets in Bratislava next Thursday - one of two annual policy meetings outside Frankfurt. The 23-man body rarely moves rates when it meets off-base, but the bleak economic picture strengthens the case for action.
Any decision on whether to act in May will depend on the economic data. Benoit Coeure, a dovish member of the ECB's core group of policymakers, said on Monday the bank had not seen data pick up since its last rate decision.
The ECB expects a gradual recovery in the euro zone in the second half of this year, "subject to downside risks".
Figures indicating the economy's performance will be weaker than that scenario would strengthen the case for a rate cut.
"If they confirm (the scenario), does that mean we don't cut the rate? Not necessarily," the senior official said.
Policymakers believe a rate cut would have limited impact on the economy but would at least show they are supporting it. A decision to cut could well not be unanimously supported.
The case for easier policy was boosted by Tuesday's purchasing managers' indexes, which the ECB watches closely, which showed a sharp drop in German business activity in April.
That marked the fourth time the German Composite PMI has fallen below 50, into contractionary territory, since September 2008. On the previous three occasions, an ECB rate cut has followed immediately after publication of the final data, or the month after.
Germany's closely-watched Ifo business climate index tallied with the PMI on Wednesday, falling more than expected in April. An ECB survey also showed demand for corporate and household loans in the euro zone plummeted in the first three months of the year.
Any interest rate move is likely to focus on the ECB's main refinancing rate, with a cut in the deposit rate the ECB pays banks for holding their cash overnight far less likely.
The main refinancing rate already stands at a record low of 0.75 percent, though this is higher than the policy rates of the other major global central banks.
"The German slowdown, the very low inflation rates we have in Germany, the latest decline in the oil price - all these factors are weighing on inflation and should make even the Bundesbank a little less opposed to a rate cut," said Berenberg Bank economist Christian Schulz, though he expected the ECB to hold off for now.
LIQUIDITY GUIDANCE
Cutting the refinancing rate would help banks in the euro zone periphery that borrow sizeable amounts from the ECB, though the impact this would have on their lending activity is unclear.
"It's not clear whether banks would use the full 25 basis points to lower their lending rates, or take it as profit and use that to build up their capital," said one expert familiar with the ECB's operations. "I think either would be positive."
Draghi said after the ECB's April 4 meeting it was essential that the "resilience of banks (be) strengthened where needed".
While a rate cut would show the ECB is ready to support the economy, the bank believes it would have only limited impact because its ultra-low interest rates are not reaching all euro zone economies evenly, with lenders in crisis-hit countries passing on higher funding costs to their customers.
Related to this, ECB policymakers are looking at their liquidity provision to banks. The ECB flooded banks with more than 1 trillion euros in two long-term refinancing operations (LTROs) in late 2011 and early 2012 to avert a credit crunch.
Banks have already repaid early more than a quarter of the funds - a development the ECB sees as positive as it shows they are ready to stand on their own feet.
Repayment of these LTROs has driven down excess liquidity in the euro zone - the level of cash beyond what banks need to cover their day-to-day operations - to some 330 billion euros from above 600 billion at the start of this year.
But in the event of another shock to the financial system it is unclear exactly what the ECB would do.
Draghi said on April 4 "our monetary policy stance will remain accommodative for as long as needed" and that banks would be provided with unlimited liquidity "for as long as necessary".
Though the ECB is unlikely to follow the U.S. Federal Reserve's example and give guidance on rates -- the Fed expects to keep them near zero until unemployment drops to 6.5 percent or so -- it could flesh out its commitment on providing liquidity to try to boost banks' confidence.
"Maybe we could be a little more specific on 'as long as needed'," the senior ECB official said.
(Additional reporting by John O'Donnell, editing by Mike Peacock)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-ecb-poised-cut-rates-help-recession-hit-083130459--business.html
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RI gas prices down another 9 cents
SYDNEY, April 24 (Reuters) - Australia named the following squad for the Ashes test series against England in July and August. Squad: Michael Clarke (captain), Brad Haddin (vice captain), Ed Cowan, David Warner, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Usman Khawaja, Chris Rogers, Matthew Wade, Nathan Lyon, James Faulkner, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Jackson Bird (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ri-gas-prices-down-another-165941375.html
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Artist ?Nanofactures? Paintings Using a 3D Printer and Molecular Modelling Software
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Reddit publicly apologizes 'for the pain' caused to family of falsely accused student
The family of Sunil Tripathi endured much emotional pain as speculation swirled that the still-missing Brown University student was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Users of the Reddit social news site fanned the flames ? and now they, along with the site's leadership, are apologizing to Tripathi's family.
"We have apologized privately to the family of missing college student Sunil Tripathi, as have various users and moderators," Erik Martin, Reddit's general manager, wrote in a blog post on Monday. He continued:
We want to take this opportunity to apologize publicly for the pain they have had to endure. We hope that this painful event will be channeled into something positive and the increased awareness will lead to Sunil's quick and safe return home. We encourage everyone to join and show your support to the Tripathi family and their search.
Martin noted that while "some of the activity on Reddit fueled online witch hunts and dangerous speculation which spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties," the crowd-sleuthing began "with noble intentions."
He also pointed out that the importance of Reddit's long-standing policy "to not allow personal information on [the] site" was emphasized in this situation. "We hoped that the crowdsourced search for new information would not spark exactly this type of witch hunt," Martin writes. "We were wrong. The search for the bombers bore less resemblance to the types of vindictive Internet witch hunts our no-personal-information rule was originally written for, but the outcome was no different."
Reddit users weren't alone in spreading false accusations about Tripathi. On Twitter, various high-followeraccountstweeted that police scanners identified Tripathi as a suspect. Around the same time, Facebook users posted accusations on a page set up to help locate the missing student.
Shortly after 2 a.m. ET on Friday, NBC News, via correspondent Pete Williams, reported on Twitter that "speculation that one of the bombing suspects is a missing student is not correct," citing law enforcement sources. By Friday afternoon, Martin quietly sent an initial apology to the Tripathi family via email. The family shared this email with NBC News at the time.
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