sm The Return of Sophism By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:00:32 Embed from Getty Images Scottie Nell Hughes, a Trump surrogate, presented her view of truth on The Diane Rehm Show. As she sees it: Well, I think it’s also an idea of an opinion. And that’s—on one hand, I hear … Full Article
sm A small accent lamp from a most unlikely IKEA item By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:00:00 +0000 Leaky sauce bottle now leaks a soft warm glow. I used the ÖRTFYLLD as a soy sauce and vinegar bottle, but the one for soy sauce was leaking and rusting in the lid and bottle holder. That’s when I starting wondering … I had a lot of ideas on what I could do with the […] The post A small accent lamp from a most unlikely IKEA item appeared first on IKEA Hackers. Full Article Featured Table Lamps ÖRTFYLLD
sm 7 ways to organise small items in IKEA drawers By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:00:00 +0000 Are small items getting lost in your IKEA drawers? The usual advice is to get a tray or dividers for drawers to organise smaller things into neat sections. However, not all IKEA drawers come with made-to-fit trays. But fear not, IKEAhackers readers have tray and drawer divider suggestions for the more popular IKEA drawers. So, […] The post 7 ways to organise small items in IKEA drawers appeared first on IKEA Hackers. Full Article Boxes & Baskets Featured Alex Helmer Malm
sm Marconi Prize honors Andrea Goldsmith as pioneer in wireless communications By www.princeton.edu Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 10:47:21 -0400 Andrea Goldsmith, a global leader in the development of wireless systems, has been awarded the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. She is the first woman to win the prize, now in its 45th year. Full Article
sm Missouri Department of Natural Resources Receives $300,000 Grant for Brownfields Environmental Assessment and Cleanup Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm Greater Kansas City Metro Coalitions Receive $1.4 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment Projects By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm East Central Intergovernmental Association of Iowa Receives $600,000 Grant for Brownfields Environmental Assessment and Cleanup Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm Waterloo, Iowa, Receives $300,000 Grant for Brownfields Environmental Assessment and Property Reuse Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm Council Bluffs, Iowa, Receives $300,000 Grant for Brownfields Environmental Assessment and Cleanup Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm St. Louis City and County Agencies to Receive $600,000 in Grants for Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Planning By www.epa.gov Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full Article
sm EPA Selects Four Projects in Mississippi to Receive $1.4 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 JACKSON, Miss. (May 7, 2020) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced four grant recipients in Mississippi have been selected to receive awards totaling $1,464,000 to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields program. Full Article
sm EPA Selects Two Projects in Vermont to Receive $800,000 for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that two grantees in the state of Vermont have been selected to receive $800,000 to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. Full Article
sm EPA Selects Four Projects in Maine to Receive $1.4 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that three grantees in the state of Maine have been selected to receive $1.4 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. Full Article
sm EPA Selects El Paso Downtown Management District for $600,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 EPA Selects El Paso Downtown Management District for $600,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant Funds are part of $65.6 million awarded nationwide Full Article
sm EPA Selects City of Dallas, Texas, for $600,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant By www.epa.gov Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Media contacts: Jennah Durant or Joe Hubbard, R6Press@epa.gov or 214 665-2200 Full Article
sm EPA Selects City of Alexandria, La., for $300,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant By www.epa.gov Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 DALLAS – (May 8, 2020) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that the city of Alexandria, Louisiana, will receive $300,000 as a Brownfields assessment grant. Full Article
sm EPA Selects Pulaski Co., Ark., to Receive $300,000 for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment By www.epa.gov Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Media contacts: Jennah Durant or Joe Hubbard, R6Press@epa.gov or 214 665-2200 Full Article
sm Tasmania eyeing direct NZ flights By www.travelmole.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:50:01 -0400 Hobart wants to be a part of 'travel bubble' Full Article
sm Global tourism could plummet by 80 per cent this year By www.travelmole.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 13:50:01 -0400 UNWTO reveals stark predictions Full Article
sm Derbyshire 97 Chesterfield small random acts of kindness The Five tests The R word Here comes the sun E45 By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Goedemorgen to you all . We would have probably woken up in Belgium this morning having dined on waffles or frites last night . I am sure that the sun would be shining as we rose . The sun has arrived here so the chances are Belgium would have been just as Full Article
sm Derbyshire 101 Chesterfield 7000 steps by 9.30 from frost to blue skiesSkype. Risk assessments and telekits will life ever be the same again By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Surfacing this morning was difficult . It is a work day today . Last night we had a frost . Not a heavy one . Not the sort of frost you get in the Winter . Not the sort of frost that you have to scrape off the car windscreen. But a frost nevertheless . The Full Article
sm Derbyshire 104 Chesterfield Smocked cloudstodays plan is mostly about washing the car By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Morning she shouted across the road . Morning I replied . Busy isn't it I thought it was lockdown Yes seems like a lot of people still travelling in their cars was my reply. We agreed the lady on her morning walk and I that this was a lovel Full Article
sm The not so small summer cottage. By www.travelblog.org Published On :: Well this weekend has been an absolute blast for me and my family First after a long drive we arrived at this cottage that wasn39t really a cottage more of a large Cabin. Lasse39s friends were there and it was their cottage. His friend designed an Full Article
sm Dutch Exceptionalism: Will Holland's Looser Corona Policies Pay Off? By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:14:10 +0100 One EU country after the other is moving to restrict public life. The Dutch government has opted for less drastic measures, hoping for herd immunity and relying on the common sense of its people. But the country has still had to make adjustments to its policies. Full Article
sm Fighting Coronavirus: A New Infection Alarm System on Your Smartphone By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 12:44:33 +0200 European researchers have developed a new technology aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Called PEPP-PT, it has been designed to conform with EU data privacy rules. Its developers spoke with DER SPIEGEL about the app. Full Article
sm Corona: Germany Plans 40 Billion Euro in Aid for Freelancers and Small Companies By www.spiegel.de Published On :: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:21:45 +0100 Freelancers and small companies are getting hit especially hard by the corona crisis. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the federal government is planning a massive financial aid package. It would mark the end of Germany’s balanced budget policy. Full Article
sm Thomas Toland Smart: Don’t ‘open up’ without seat belts and guardrails By www.sltrib.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:00:57 +0000 Full Article
sm Dad throws 1-year-old daughter off ‘steep cliff’ into ravine, killing baby whose ‘smile was contagious’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 21:44:50 +0000 A California dad allegedly tossed his baby daughter off a “steep cliff” to her death after he stabbed the child’s mom and a bystander who tried to help, relatives and police said. Full Article
sm Mark Hatten, ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, shot and killed in South Carolina By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 22:18:03 +0000 Mark Hatten, an ex-boyfriend of deceased model Anna Nicole Smith, was shot and killed Sunday after an incident with another man in South Carolina. Full Article
sm Coronavirus may linger in semen of infected men, poses small risk for COVID-19 infection via sex: study By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 16:12:01 +0000 The semen of men infected with coronavirus revealed that the disease lingered in only a few patients, suggesting there is a small chance COVID-19 can be transmitted sexually, researchers said. Full Article
sm Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy -- by Manuel Adelino, Miguel A. Ferreira, Mariassunta Giannetti, Pedro Pires By www.nber.org Published On :: We show that trade credit in production networks is important for the transmission of unconventional monetary policy. We find that firms with bonds eligible for purchase under the European Central Bank’s Corporate Sector Purchase Program act as financial intermediaries and extend more trade credit to their customers. The increase in trade credit flows is more pronounced from core countries to periphery countries and towards financially constrained customers. Customers increase investment and employment in response to the additional financing, while suppliers with eligible bonds increase their customer base, potentially favoring upstream industry concentration. Our findings suggest that the trade credit channel of monetary policy produces heterogeneous effects on regions, industries, and firms. Full Article
sm Bring on the e-scooters: A Bird executive explains how New York City can smartly and safely welcome the micromobility devices By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:08:58 +0000 Electric scooters are coming to New York and, with a little planning and preparation, they can safely thrive here. To understand how, it helps to start with some context. Full Article
sm Readers sound off on struggling small businesses, social distancing policing and solving homelessness By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000 Lynbrook, L.I.: The news outlets have not covered the way that the smallest small businesses have been overlooked during the pandemic. As a Schedule C tax filer, I am eligible to collect Pandemic Unemployment Assistance under the CARES Act. I applied for PUA on March 16. I have been certifying for benefits every week. This entire time, my online account with the state Department of Labor says that my case is still pending. Full Article
sm All in on Flynn: Trump’s cronyism on full display By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:00:00 +0000 The nation lurches toward November as a weakened giant. When Americans decide whether to end or extend the tenure of a reckless president, they will also be voting up or down on whether the rule of law and official accountability remain hallmarks of a great republic. Full Article
sm Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence From the Flint Water Switch -- by Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel S. Grossman, David Slusky By www.nber.org Published On :: Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, the city of Flint issued a lead advisory to its residents, alerting them of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch in water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees who had lead tests performed by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock and led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary-care-treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our analysis suggest that children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic following lead tests and that establishing care reduced the likelihood parents would take their children to emergency rooms for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting. Full Article
sm Small home living: not ‘downsizing’ but ‘right-sizing’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:35:35 +0000 With the current trend toward de-cluttering and downsizing, there are plenty of books about how to winnow down possessions to the few that are truly necessary and loved. This book shows how you can live well once that's done. Full Article
sm Smells impacting sales, rules against growing: How the real estate market is influenced by legal marijuana By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:03:14 +0000 A new National Association of Realtors report revealed the ways that legalizing marijuana has impacted real estate. Full Article
sm Smart Moves: Tips to avoid being house-poor By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:00:18 +0000 Demand for first-time homeownership is surging as many late-blooming millennials are finally seeking to settle down. But in some ways, their timing couldn’t be worse. That’s because entry-level homes are in severely short supply, and prices are still ascending. Full Article
sm Shocking claims of racism, other misonduct by high-ranking NYPD cops emerge in ‘collar quotas’ case By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:26:09 +0000 The city withheld explosive allegations of racism against two high-ranking NYPD cops accused of demanding arrests of black and Hispanic people, an attorney charged Friday. Full Article
sm Patients denied take-home doses at packed Brooklyn methadone clinic, sparking fears of coronavirus transmission By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:18:07 +0000 Patient Jessica Ellision recalled how she broke down and sobbed Monday when she finally received her medication after a three-hour wait — much of it in the crowded hallway where she feared the other patients might be infected. “It was so intense and so stressful, and you feel like you worked so hard not to be sick, but this is it now — this is how it happens,” said Ellison, 39, of the Bronx. Full Article
sm Feds move to drop car theft charges against slain rapper Pop Smoke By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:55:18 +0000 Federal prosecutors filed the motion in Brooklyn Federal Court in the case against the “Welcome to the Party” rapper, Bashar Jackson, 20, who was shot dead in Los Angeles in a Hollywood Hills home invasion in February. Full Article
sm Teacher pushes for resolution in long-standing lawsuit on school racism By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:38:27 +0000 Former principal Minerva Zanca of Pan American High School in Queens allegedly targeted black staffers from 2012-13, calling one a “gorilla” and “nappy-haired," according to a lawsuit filed in 2016 by the federal Justice Department. Full Article
sm NYC pays out more than $1 million in settlements to employees who accused Queens high school principal of racism By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:15:16 +0000 The hefty payout comes after the federal Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the city Education Department in 2016 for allowing a “pattern and practice of discrimination” to flourish at Pan American High School during the 2012-13 school year. Full Article
sm Parents fight to keep key autism therapy when kids enter NYC schools By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:01:23 +0000 Applied Behavior Analysis is administered frequently to 0-3-year-olds in the state’s Early Intervention system. Full Article
sm NYC’s remote learning amid coronavirus shutdown brings smiles, a few tears, on first day By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:43:34 +0000 Students cracked open laptops or homework packets Monday morning, while parents wrangled restless kids and teachers reconnected with pupils longing for some structure after a week of aimlessness spent mostly indoors. Full Article
sm 'There is no altruism in the Premier League' By www.rte.ie Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:47:31 +0000 Watford are the latest club to rail against plans to end the season at neutral venues, with chairman Scott Duxbury saying the Premier League has a "duty of care" to address concerns about a "distorted nine-game mini-league". Full Article Soccer
sm Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment -- by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Wenhao Li By www.nber.org Published On :: 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. Full Article
sm In China, 2,500-year-old evidence of cannabis smoking By www.pbs.org Published On :: An incense burner from a century tested positive for a chemical that’s released when THC is burned. Full Article
sm In a smattering of ancient stars, scientists glimpse the Milky Way’s origins By www.pbs.org Published On :: A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy—and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past. Full Article
sm Rabbit study hints at the origins of the female orgasm By www.pbs.org Published On :: Researchers used rabbits and antidepressants to search for a link between orgasm and ovulation in female mammals. Full Article