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NYC starts voter registration push for 16- and 17-year-olds

A new state law allows teens to register as soon as they turn 16, and city officials are holding voter registration drives at city high schools and colleges this week to spread the word.




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Three NYC teachers tested for coronavirus after returning from Italy

One of the educators, who works at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, tested negative despite showing symptoms, and the other two are awaiting test results, the mayor said




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Harlem charter school principal arrested for assaulting 7-year-old boy

Jason Epting, 43, the principal of Harlem Hebrew Language Academy, left the boy gushing blood from his forehead and concussed during a January encounter Epting first tried to brush off as an accident, the boy’s horrified mother told the Daily News.




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NYC foster care groups plead for school bus guarantee for kids who can’t get to class

Nearly 20 groups representing New York City foster kids pleaded with officials to finally guarantee school buses to students in foster care so they no longer have to switch schools because they can’t get to class.




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Possible coronavirus closure prompts Queens charter school to buy bulk food for students

VOICE Charter School in Long Island City — where 80% of students are low-income — is distributing bags full of pasta, rice and beans, granola bars and other non-perishables to hundreds of families Wednesday afternoon in case the school is eventually forced to close and kids miss out on school meals.




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CUNY, SUNY systems to cancel in-person classes for remainder of semester due to coronavirus

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.




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NYC schools shut down after coronavirus scare

The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology and South Bronx Preparatory: A College Board School, two co-located high schools in the South Bronx, will be closed for a day after a student tested positive for the coronavirus.




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Two Staten Island public schools close after student tests positive for coronavirus

New Dorp High School and the Richard H. Hungerford School were being shut down out of “an abundance of caution,” the DOE said on Twitter early Friday.




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Success Academy shuts down all NYC charter schools amid coronavirus spread

Success Academy Charter Schools, which teaches 18,000 students across 45 schools in the city, will move to online learning starting Mar. 19, though officials didn’t specify how long the shutdown will last.




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New York suspends state exams after coronavirus closures

The annual math and English exams administered annually to New York 3rd-8th graders, as well as exams for English Language Learners, will no longer be given this school year, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and interim state Education Commissioner Shannon Tahoe.




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Advocacy groups urge NYC Education Dept. to include homeless students in childcare at ‘resource centers’

But the centers, slated to open Monday, are currently limited to children of healthcare and transit workers and first-responders - and advocates worry homeless students will be left behind.




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‘Like Uber Computer': How a Brooklyn middle school delivered hundreds of laptops amid the coronavirus school shutdown

A Brooklyn middle school took a novel approach to remote learning: A computer drop-off service to students.




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'Back to square one’: Coronavirus dorm closures at CUNY sends some students back to their foster homes

Many of the city's foster youth were thrust into uncertainty last week when CUNY ordered them out of their dorms due to coronavirus. Unlike their peers, these students have no childhood bedrooms to return to, and often no families who can help them through the shutdown of the economy or the closing of their colleges.




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Late-life literary success makes Brooklyn College teacher one of three CUNY profs to win Guggenheim Fellowships

Sigrid Nunez, 69, authored the National Book Award-winning novel “The Friend," which depicts a woman’s grief over the death of a close friend as she cares for his dog. She’s among 175 recipients of this year’s grants, which aim to give awardees the financial freedom to pursue their creative work.




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Thousands of NYC school bus workers furloughed after city declines to renew bus company contracts because of coronavirus shutdown

Union officials say school bus workers will be hit hard by the cuts.




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NYC Education Dept. reinstates Zoom after security and privacy upgrades

Schools chancellor Richard Carranza put the kibosh on the app in early April, several weeks into the city’s seismic shift to remote learning, citing concerns about Zoom’s privacy and security features.




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12 Trends Search Marketers Can’t Ignore in Content Marketing

These days having an online presence is a necessity for businesses. Ninety-three percent 93% of online research begins with search engines, and 68 percent of potential customers research businesses using social media before making a purchasing decision.
Content marketing is a critical part of this online presence, as 93 percent of B2B companies use it to build their brand and create demand. In fact, B2B companies that blog regularly generate 67 percent more leads.
Here are 12 trends search marketers ...

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How to Cut Your Bounce Rate in Half with Interactive Content

You can grow your blog in two ways:

1. Get more traffic.
2. Do more with the traffic you have.
In my opinion, you should do both even though most people focus on the first option.
Those bloggers don’t realize they’re losing a large chunk of their traffic before it even has a chance to convert.
One of the best ways to see how well you’re using your traffic is to look at your bounce rate.
The average bounce ...

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No green light for Premier League return, says minister

The UK's Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has warned that the Premier League does not yet have the "green light" to resume but restated the government's hope that the season can be completed.




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GAA rules out any inter-county games before October

GAA officials are still planning to hold club and inter-county championships in 2020, but have ruled out any inter-county games before October and say there is a lack of appetite for matches with no spectators.




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Hurling on hold just another challenge for veteran Cody

Michael Glennon chats to Kilkenny legend Tommy Walsh about the motivation of boss Brian Cody, whose side were due to take on Dublin in the first round of the Leinster SHC round-robin on Sunday.




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Tony Kelly relishes winter championship prospect

Clare hurler Tony Kelly tells RTÉ2fm's Game On that he is open to the idea of an All-Ireland Championship in the winter months.




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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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Vimeo, Pinterest and iTunes Content Sources Just Added

Now you can generate self-updating content feeds with recent pins of any Pinterest user or Pinterest board, with fresh videos of any Vimeo user or Vimeo channel, and with recent media from iTunes USA.

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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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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time -- by Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with particular attention to heterogeneity in their impacts. First, using daily state-level social distancing data from SafeGraph and a difference-in-differences approach, we document that adoption of a SIPO was associated with a 5 to 10 percent increase in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we find that approximately three weeks following the adoption of a SIPO, cumulative COVID-19 cases fell by 44 percent. Event-study analyses confirm common COVID-19 case trends in the week prior to SIPO adoption and show that SIPO-induced case reductions grew larger over time. However, this average effect masks important heterogeneity across states — early adopters and high population density states appear to reap larger benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated.




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‘I learned a lot from Richard Nixon,’ Trump during interview on Fox & Friends

During a rambling interview on FOX & Friends, President Trump did a victory lap following DOJ's decision to drop charges against Michae Flynn and how he learned from Nixon as not firing people during an investigation.




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Best XV of professional era: Ulster front row

We're picking the ultimate Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster teams of the professional era, position by position, province by province, and we want your help. Today, it's Ulster's front three.




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Best XV of professional era: Ulster second row

The six candidates to fill the second row positions in Ulster's greatest side of the professional era come to mind fairly readily




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Best XV of professional era: Ulster back row

We're picking the ultimate Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster teams of the professional era, position by position, province by province, and we want your help. Today, it's Ulster's back row.




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Thirsty for solutions, water managers are putting AI-powered tools to work

Around the world, aging and inadequate water systems are a huge public health problem. Now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to help conserve and monitor the quality of drinking water.




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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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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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Meet <i>Cambroraster falcatus</i>, the sediment-sifting ‘Roomba’ of the Cambrian

This crustacean-like critter stalked the seas half a billion years ago.




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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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Jupiter’s ravenous past might help explain its diffuse, hazy core

A computer simulation suggests that a massive collision may have caused Jupiter’s core to shatter into a gassy, borderless cloud.




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Cheeseburgers give urban crows higher cholesterol—just like us

But it’s not clear whether elevated cholesterol is bad for birds.




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Moonlight turns white barn owls into terrifying ‘ghosts’

The feathery glint startles their rodent prey, making them easier to catch.




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Squirrels eavesdrop on bird chatter to tell when a threat has passed

These nosy rodents may not speak bird-ese, per se, but they can still use avian chatter as a safety cue.




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Water vapor found on an ‘Earth-sized’ exoplanet 110 light-years from home

Scientists say the planet, called K2-18b, is “the best candidate for habitability” beyond our solar system.




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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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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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Salts in Gale Crater suggest Mars lost its water through drastic climate fluctuations

New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests that water vacated Mars in fits and starts.




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Saturn unseats Jupiter as planet with the most moons in our solar system

Astronomers discovered 20 new moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 82.