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CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar: Where ‘Life’s Too Short To Be Boring’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 5:00am

CTRL is a local coffee shop, cereal bar, and place to get your retro gaming on. Located downtown at 1016 S. 10th Street, they are open Tuesday through Sunday. (Josie Charron / The Daily Record)

CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar happily welcomes all with their warm staff and ‘good-vibes’. Customers are greeted by its exciting retro design that laces the interior. A line of blue, white, red and yellow stretches across the front wall over the CTRL logo, behind the bar, before climbing onto the ceiling and disappearing behind the arabesque tiles that hang from the rafters. A wall jutting out across from the end of the counter sports a collage of spray painted “Love” in various colors.

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Female Physicists Aren’t Represented In The Media – And This Lack Of Representation Hurts The Physics Field

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 4:00am

Lise Meitner, the accomplished physicist who discovered nuclear fission. (MaterialScientist / Wikimedia Commons)

Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated movie “Oppenheimer,” set for release July 21, 2023, depicts J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. But while the Manhattan Project wouldn’t have been possible without the work of many accomplished female scientists, the only women seen in the movie’s trailer are either hanging laundry, crying or cheering the men on.

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Meta’s Threads Is Surging, But Mass Migration From Twitter Is Likely To Remain An Uphill Battle

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 2:00am

Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year.

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3 Ways Black People Say Their White Co-Workers And Managers Can Support Them And Be An Antidote To Systemic Racism

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 1:00am

“How can I be an ally?”

It’s a question a lot of white people have been asking in recent years, especially since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.

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Study Reveals The U.S. Cities With The Largest Proportion Of Independent Stores

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 3:00am

Independent retailers are an essential part of the fabric of a commercial economy. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that around 31.7 million small businesses are active, accounting for 99.9% of America’s registered companies.

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Creighton Economic Index: Nebraska Business Growth Forecast Turns Negative

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 2:00am

OMAHA — After five consecutive months of showing growth, Nebraska’s business conditions index has taken a turn for the worse, according to Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Index.

Meanwhile, the June index for the broader nine-state area that includes Nebraska shows the regional economy as growing, albeit at a slower pace.

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Wage And Hour Law– Designed For The 1920s, Applied In The 21st Century

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 5:00am

The fundamental premise of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is that all employees are covered by its base requirements. This includes being paid minimum wage for every hour worked and time and one-half for all overtime. (Shutterstock)

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a statute of inclusion, which means all employees are covered unless they fit within specific, narrowly defined exemptions. One problem is that it was designed for the Model T manufacturing plant and has grown in sometimes haphazard and inconsistent ways.

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Asian Folktales Offer Moral Lessons That Help Reduce Racial Prejudice In Children

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 12:00am

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

The moral of the tale is revealing and contains a powerful anti-racism message: What you hate becomes your fate.

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Wage Growth Remains High, Jobs Are Steady And Inflation Is Falling So Why Are People Worried?

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 5:00am

Inflation continues to drop but lingering high prices, particularly for groceries, have left consumers grumpy, says one economist. (Matt Slocum / AP Photo)

Economists have been predicting a recession for months, but the labor market has remained resilient, wage growth is higher than before the pandemic, and inflation continues to drop, now at 4% compared to 9.1% in June of last year. Despite this good news, consumers don’t feel confident about the future, according to the consumer confidence index, which is at a six-month low.

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Why US ‘Dollar Doomsayers’ Could Be Wrong About Its Imminent Demise

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 3:00am

The position of the US dollar in the global league table of foreign exchange reserves held by other countries is closely watched. Every slight fall in its share is interpreted as confirmation of its imminent demise as the preferred global currency for financial transactions.

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CTRL Coffee & Cereal Bar: Where ‘Life’s Too Short To Be Boring’

Female Physicists Aren’t Represented In The Media – And This Lack Of Representation Hurts The Physics Field

Meta’s Threads Is Surging, But Mass Migration From Twitter Is Likely To Remain An Uphill Battle

3 Ways Black People Say Their White Co-Workers And Managers Can Support Them And Be An Antidote To Systemic Racism

Study Reveals The U.S. Cities With The Largest Proportion Of Independent Stores

Creighton Economic Index: Nebraska Business Growth Forecast Turns Negative

Wage And Hour Law– Designed For The 1920s, Applied In The 21st Century

Asian Folktales Offer Moral Lessons That Help Reduce Racial Prejudice In Children

Wage Growth Remains High, Jobs Are Steady And Inflation Is Falling So Why Are People Worried?

Why US ‘Dollar Doomsayers’ Could Be Wrong About Its Imminent Demise

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