Advocates predict up to 2,000 city youngsters with disabilities may be unable to find an appropriate preschool this spring because of financial constraints that make it harder to hire and maintain teachers for special needs programs.

Flushing High School junior Arialis Guzman said she “just didn’t get treated right" while police held her and a friend for more than a day in the aftermath of an after school altercation. The teens spent the night of Wednesday, Feb. 12 and much of the next day, Feb. 13, handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct.

City Council Member Debi Rose (D - Staten Island) said city students shouldn’t feel obligated to march with their schools or bands in the parade while event organizers refuse to let the Staten Island Pride Center march.

The New York Board of Regents said the move will allow the state to hire more judges and ease the growing backlog of cases.

Under the policy, middle and high schools may consider attendance records when making admissions decisions — and fourth- and seventh-grade attendance records can be a factor in getting into the city’s most selective public schools.

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.

Education officials, in a Friday morning webinar, instructed all city principals to prepare for an extended shutdown by assembling materials to send home with students, reviewing how to use online teaching platforms and deciding how to communicate with families, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The News.

At Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the city’s most selective public high school, only 10 black students and 20 Latino students got admissions offers, out of nearly 800 students accepted, data shows.

The proposal comes as city officials announced that only 11% of students admitted to specialized schools this year were black or Latino, compared to 70% of all city students, a figure virtually unchanged from years past.

The small businesses, many of which already run on razor-thin margins, are struggling to make end meet amid the crisis.

The United Federation of Teachers tested security camera technology from a company affiliated with Clearview AI

City schools were originally supposed to be off April 9-17.

Dozens of students and patients are thriving through distance learning and telehealth consultation via the Blythedale Children’s Hospital.

You setup your social media accounts, maybe Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but it’s been a few weeks or even years since you’ve touched the accounts. This happens far too often with small businesses. The problem is that even when stores implement decent social strategies it’s tough to improve sales, or at least track whether sales are occurring through social media.
Around 85 percent of social/ecommerce orders come from Facebook.
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Why should you bother a lot about traffic from Social Media?
Based on Statista data, revealed in March 2015, these are the approximate numbers of active users in different social media networks:

Facebook – 1,415,000,000
LinkedIn – 347,000,000
Google+ – 300,000,000
Twitter – 288,000,000

Tremendous numbers! Just to compare: The population of USA is something like 300,000,000. And all of these social media users are there, just on the other side of your screen!
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Club Players Association chairman Micheál Briody accepts that counties will have to greatly alter the structure of club competitions if a window for playing does become available later this year.

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.

A day after a father and son were charged in the February killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia official promised a thorough probe into the case and said the man who filmed the horrific incident is also under investigation. In a news conference Friday morning, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said “every stone will be turned over" and if the facts lead agents to make another arrest “they will do that.”

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

How “change blindness” prevents you from seeing this 10 of clubs turn into an ace of spades.

The breakthrough suggests that bots can navigate complex games involving multiple stakeholders and hidden information—situations that better approximate the real world than two-player board games.

There are a heck of a lot of reasons not to.

An AI chip designed to mimic certain aspects of the human brain has given a bicycle an unprecedented level of autonomy.

The algorithm was based on the faulty assumption that health care spending is a good proxy for wellbeing. But there seems to be a quick fix.

As law enforcement agencies deploy AI-powered facial recognition systems, some communities are pushing back, insisting on having a say in how they’re used.

The film will premiere on the 12th of May.
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Does a flat-bar gravel bike appeal to you, or is this just a mountain bike with not enough tire clearance?
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A federal judge was right to order the Trump administration to move faster to release detained migrant children from conditions that put them at risk for COVID-19.

The 1918 pandemic has lessons for the 2020. Namely, we got through it. And social distancing works.

The NBA fined Clippers forward Paul George $35,000 on Thursday for publicly criticizing officials after a loss in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

En medio del brote de coronavirus, la NBA no ha decidido cuándo podría reiniciar la temporada, o si el draft y la agencia libre se llevarán a cabo según lo programado

Lee Zeidman didn't know when Kobe Bryant's memorial would be but he knew there was only one place it should be held: Staples Center.

Lakers' Anthony Davis is partnering with First Entertainment Credit Union as their first official ambassador.

A pediatrician offers tips on how to help kids understand the need for face masks due to COVID-19.

USC is expected to hire Sean Snyder as its special teams coach. Snyder, an assistant at Kansas State, is the son of Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder.

Social distancing should continue through the summer, White House advisor Deborah Birx said Sunday, and other experts warned against states' moves to lift restrictions.

Long and intense heat waves are nothing new in Southern California and the Southwest, but amid COVID-19, public health experts are warning they could become deadlier for people self-isolating in homes they can't keep cool.

Call them victory anthems. Every time a patient with COVID-19 is well enough to be discharged, hospitals in New York and elsewhere play songs of celebration over the intercom. A doctor explains.

Call them victory anthems. Every time a patient with COVID-19 is well enough to be discharged, hospitals in New York and elsewhere play songs of celebration over the intercom. A doctor explains.

Announcing a promotion and two recent additions to The Times' staff: Stacey Leasca has been named social media editor.

(MedPage Today) -- "When there is no wind, we row." What a cancer doctor-turned-cancer patient learned from his own patients. (ASCO Connection via KevinMD) Under most circumstances, fewer cancer diagnoses might be good news, but that's not necessarily...

The Bridgegate scandal was no crime, the Supreme Court ruled, tossing the convictions of two officials who caused a traffic jam as political punishment to then-Gov. Chris Christie’s enemies.

Henry Sylvain Gindt II, 34, of Long Island City lied that he had the lab capabilities to run the tests, which he sold through two web sites for $135 to $200 apiece, authorities said. The Secret Service and federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh said Thursday that they’ve charged Gindt with mail and wire fraud.

According to the NYPD, there have been 374 social distancing-related arrests since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place. Of that number, 304 of the arrests have been of African-American or Hispanic people.

As much as Mayor de Blasio wants to pretend these arrests are just a drop in the bucket, from the point of view of those being constantly dropped in the bucket, the city’s heavy-handed coronavirus crackdown is just more of the same.Same profiling. Same brutality. Same disrespect.

Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson pays tribute to Kobe Bryant and the others lost in Calabasas helicopter crash with a specially designed mask.

As the country and sports world confronted the fast spreading of COVID-19, Dodgers officials Wednesday said the organization remained unsure how it will proceed with its season.

The Dodgers and Angels haven't said how they will distribute the $1 million each MLB team pledged to pay stadium workers during the coronavirus shutdown.

A day after a father and son were charged in the February killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia official promised a thorough probe into the case and said the man who filmed the horrific incident is also under investigation. In a news conference Friday morning, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said “every stone will be turned over" and if the facts lead agents to make another arrest “they will do that.”

Conservative firebrand Dennis Prager has taken a break from pushing hydroxychloroquine and calling lockdowns “the greatest mistake” in history to rail against the loss of racist language.