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LinkedIn Poster issues

Dear RSS Ground users,

Due to the recent changes in LinkedIn developers documentation and specifications, some of the remote LinkedIn account management options require a substantial update. For this reason and at this moment RSS Ground LinkedIn Poster can only make posts to your personal feed. Posting to specific company pages is not currently available.

However, our development team has undertaken all the necessary efforts and updated the functionality of the poster. Right now we are ...

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Facebook Feeds Generator Is Experiencing Problems

Some of you might have noticed that our Facebook Feeds generator can right now generate only RSS feeds of your own Facebook pages..

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

May this Christmas be a fitting ending to a successful year for you. May the New Year bring fresh hopes and bright beginnings!

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Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments -- by Scott R. Baker, R. A. Farrokhnia, Steffen Meyer, Michaela Pagel, Constantine Yannelis

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the US government brought about a collection of fiscal stimulus measures: the 2020 CARES Act. Among other provisions, this Act directed cash payments to households. We analyze households’ spending responses using high-frequency transaction data. We also explore heterogeneity by income levels, recent income declines, and liquidity. We find that households respond rapidly to receipt of stimulus payments, with spending increasing by $0.25-$0.35 per dollar of stimulus during the first 10 days. Households with lower incomes, greater income drops, and lower levels of liquidity display stronger responses. Liquidity plays the most important role, with no observed spending response for households with high levels of bank account balances. Relative to the effects of previous economic stimulus programs in 2001 and 2008, we see much smaller increases in durables spending and larger increases in spending on food, likely reflecting the impact of shelter-in-place orders and supply disruptions. We hope that our results inform the current debate about appropriate policy measures.




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Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment -- by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Wenhao Li

We develop a model of financial crises with both a financial amplification mechanism, via frictional intermediation, and a role for sentiment, via time-varying beliefs about an illiquidity state. We confront the model with data on credit spreads, equity prices, credit, and output across the financial crisis cycle. In particular, we ask the model to match data on the frothy pre-crisis behavior of asset markets and credit, the sharp transition to a crisis where asset values fall, disintermediation occurs and output falls, and the post-crisis period characterized by a slow recovery in output. We find that a pure amplification mechanism quantitatively matches the crisis and aftermath period but fails to match the pre-crisis evidence. Mixing sentiment and amplification allows the model to additionally match the pre-crisis evidence. We consider two versions of sentiment, a Bayesian belief updating process and one that overweighs recent observations. We find that both models match the crisis patterns qualitatively, generating froth pre-crisis, non-linear behavior in the crisis, and slow recovery. The non-Bayesian model improves quantitatively on the Bayesian model in matching the extent of the pre-crisis froth.




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Ahmaud Arbery supporters are running 2.23 miles on what would be his 26th birthday

Supporters for Ahmaud Arbery, the unarmed black jogger who was fatally shot by two white men on a Georgia road in broad daylight, are planning to run 2.23 miles Friday to celebrate what would be his 26th birthday and call for justice in the case. Organizers of the virtual run are asking people to go for a walk, jog or run and post a photo, video or written message on social media with the hashtag #IRunwithAhmaud.




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Amber Alert issued for missing 9-year-old boy in upstate New York: state police

Gustavo Oliveira was last seen near Tallow Wood Drive in Clifton Park around 1 a.m. with his father, 41-year-old Nivaldo Oliveira, police said.




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Trump calls video of Ahmaud Arbery killing ‘disturbing’ but trusts Georgia’s ‘very good’ law enforcement

President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.”




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2 men arrested in Michigan store shooting over mask dispute

Two men were arrested in a fatal shooting in Flint, Mich.




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California man to plead guilty to conning ‘black-ish’ star

That's plenty sketchy-ish.




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Cuomo extends moratorium on rental evictions in N.Y. through August amid coronavirus crisis

The governor did not go as far as to cancel rent outright, which progressives have increasingly called on him to do as the virus continues to curtail people’s ability to work and make ends meet.




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Justice Department drops ‘unjustified’ criminal case against ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn

The move marks a stunning renunciation of one of the most high-profile convictions secured as part of the federal investigation into President Trump’s ties to Russia.




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Tara Reade calls on Joe Biden to end his presidential bid over her sexual assault accusations

Tara Reade made the remarkable demand during an appearance on ex-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s show, her first on-camera interview about the alleged assault.




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SEE IT: Gov. Cuomo approves of Robert De Niro playing him, gives his best ‘Taxi Driver’ impression

Gov. Cuomo is down with Robert De Niro portraying him in a movie about the coronavirus pandemic, should there be one, and he also took a moment to play the role of the Manhattan-born actor.




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Gary Sanchez, Luis Severino and Dellin Betances among Dominican stars helping Pedro Martinez with coronavirus relief

Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.




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Mets slugger Pete Alonso is thinking about hitting a home run on his birthday — in December

Move over, Polar Bear. Mr. December is heading for Queens.




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England's Lincoln Cathedral Is Consecrated (1092)

Not long after William the Conqueror named Remigius de Fécamp bishop of what was then the largest diocese in the country, he decided to move the seat of the diocese to a more central location. For the next 20 years, Remigius oversaw construction of a magnificent new cathedral in Lincoln, only to die days before its consecration. Today, its architecture is considered to be priceless. When Queen Eleanor died nearby in 1290, which parts of her body were buried at the cathedral? Discuss




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On this day: Declan Kidney takes the reins

Declan Kidney had big boots to fill when he replaced the departing Eddie O'Sullivan as Ireland rugby union coach on this day in 2008.




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Five Sarries players breach social distancing rules

Five Saracens players have apologised after they were pictured breaking social distancing rules on Monday.




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Lack of support for women's rugby disappoints Murphy

Jenny Murphy believes Irish women's rugby has not developed enough in the time period since the senior team's historic Grand Slam win in 2013.




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In China, 2,500-year-old evidence of cannabis smoking

An incense burner from a century tested positive for a chemical that’s released when THC is burned.




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Declassified spy images show Earth’s ‘Third Pole’ is melting fast

Accelerating ice melt in the Himalayas may imperil up to a billion people in South Asia who rely on glacier runoff for drinking water and more.




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Humans are surprisingly honest when it comes to returning lost wallets

Altruism is alive and well. So is the desire to protect one’s self-image.




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Early humans may have shared ancient Europe with this 1,000-pound bird

A new study suggests a half-ton bird roamed Europe nearly 2 million years ago, around when our Homo predecessors were first entering the region.




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With new DNA analysis, the Neanderthal story gets even more complex

A new study reveals that some European Neanderthals might have displaced their relatives in Siberia, while others mingled with another, still mysterious, ancient human population.




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Thinking is for suckers, but if you’re an octopus, suckers are for thinking

Octopuses “think” with neurons so distributed throughout their bodies that sometimes the left hand literally doesn’t know what the…left hand is doing.




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The physics of freezing soap bubbles is cooler than you’d think

Freezing soap bubbles look like snow globes. This whimsical effect could help us improve biological freezing techniques—and is incredibly fun to watch.




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Venus flytraps’ ultra-sensitive hairs help determine if an insect is worth trapping

Good news for bugs that weigh less than a sesame seed.




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Like us, fish experience the ‘dreaming’ stage of sleep

Deep sleep and REM sleep could be universal among vertebrates, stretching 450 million years back in evolutionary time.




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This algorithm is predicting where a deadly pig virus will pop up next

A swine virus that appeared in the U.S. in 2013 has proven hard to track. But an algorithm might help researchers predict the next outbreak.




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Bring "Spooky Action at a Distance" into the Classroom with NOVA Resources

Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and What the Physics!? to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.




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This time, with feeling: Robots with emotional intelligence are on the way. Are we ready for them?

Researchers are developing robots that use AI to read emotions and social cues, making them better at interacting with humans. Are they a solution to labor shortages in fields like health care and education, a threat to human workers, or both?




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Mammals’ weird way of swallowing is at least 165 million years old

A new fossil find may help pinpoint the origins of mammals’ uber-flexible hyoid bone, which anchors the tongue and gives us our signature swallowing style.




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In a smattering of ancient stars, scientists glimpse the Milky Way’s origins

A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy—and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past.




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Scientists use radiation and bacteria to slash mosquito populations on two Chinese islands

Combining two insect-control techniques, researchers largely prevented reproduction in a mosquito species known to carry Zika, dengue, and yellow fever.




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This robotic hand can partially restore a sense of touch

Researchers have built a prosthesis that enabled a man who lost his hand to text, pluck grapes from their stems, and stuff a pillow into its case.




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This ‘Big Red Ball’ can simulate the Sun’s bizarre magnetic field

Physicists built a machine that might help explain how solar wind forms—all without leaving Earth’s atmosphere.




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There will be blood, and physics, too: The messy science of bloodstain pattern analysis

Researchers are using fluid dynamics to try to improve the study of crime scene blood spatter.




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A new form of carbon is born—on a bed of salt

The long-sought molecule could one day power high-energy electronics.




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Fossil finger points to a surprising link between humans and Denisovans

New findings suggest Neanderthals evolved their unusually broad fingers after they split from Denisovans, just 400,000 years ago.




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How Kīlauea’s lava birthed an algal bloom visible from space

Lava descending into Hawai‘i’s ocean drove an upward surge of deep sea nutrients, cultivating life at the surface.




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Intricate ‘toe maps’ exist in the brains of artists who paint with their feet

Two men born without arms showcase the brain’s extraordinary flexibility.




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Astronomers discover two giant, high-energy ‘bubbles’ at the center of the Milky Way

The gargantuan structures hint at a massive explosion in our galaxy’s past.




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Scientists are about to lock themselves into an Arctic ice floe for a year

In the largest Arctic expedition yet, researchers will gather as much data as they can on the fading ice—and climate change.




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An ancient asteroid collision fostered life on Earth

A new study suggests a plume of dust once blocked the sun’s rays from Earth, triggering an ice age some 466 million years ago.




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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in farm animals are rising in low- and middle-income countries

That spells trouble for the entire planet.




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Cooking changed human history. Did it change our microbes too?

Gut microbes react differently to raw and cooked versions of the same foods.




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Planet Nine probably isn’t a black hole. But it might be worth checking

A pair of physicists think it’s possible that a tiny black hole left over from the universe’s early days lurks in the outer solar system.