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FDA Proposes Individual Risk Assessment For Blood Donations, While Continuing To Safeguard U.S. Blood Supply

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 02/01/2023 - 1:00am

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced January 27, 2023, that it is proposing a change from time-based deferrals to assessing blood donor eligibility using gender-inclusive, individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV. This proposal is in line with policies in place in countries like the United Kingdom and Canada.

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In Your Debt: How Couples Can Team Up On Debt Repayment

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 3:00am

Between financially helping his parents and losing income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Mazza landed into serious credit card debt. Relief came from a source he wasn't expecting: his partner, Ginna Lambert, who had come into a small inheritance. She suggested "investing" part of her bounty in their shared future by lending small amounts to Mazza that he could apply toward his debt.

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Nebraska Unemployment Rate Ticks Upward As National Rate Drops Slightly

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 4:00am

OMAHA — Of Nebraska’s private industries, job growth was greatest in the past year for construction and hospitality fields, according to an update from the State Department of Labor.

Labor Commissioner John Albin said Tuesday that Nebraska, overall, has seen about 30,000 non-farm jobs added in a year’s time.

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How Classified Documents Became A Schoolgirl's Show-And-Tell

Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 3:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.

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Cheap Sewer Pipe Repairs Can Push Toxic Fumes Into Homes And Schools – Here’s How To Lower The Risk

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:00am

Fumes generated during sewer line repair, on the right, can enter nearby homes, schools and other buildings. (Andrew Whelton / Purdue University)

Across the U.S., children and adults are increasingly exposed to harmful chemicals from a source few people are even aware of.

It begins on a street outside a home or school, where a worker in a manhole is repairing a sewer pipe. The contractor inserts a resin-soaked sleeve into the buried pipe, then heats it, transforming the resin into a hard plastic pipe.

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World War II-Era Map Sparks Treasure Hunt In Dutch Village

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 2:00am

OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later.

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Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center Opens To Public Feb. 4

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 01/25/2023 - 2:00am

Samuel Bak, world-renowned artist and Holocaust survivor. The Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center will feature 99 works by Bak. (Courtesy of University of Nebraska Omaha)

The Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center will hold a grand opening to the public on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. in Aksarben Village at 2289 S. 67th Street, Omaha, NE 68106, near the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Scott Campus.

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Shooting By 6-Year-Old Raises Complex Cultural Questions

Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 01/20/2023 - 3:00am

He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger. And across the nation, people ... didn't quite know how to react.

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What To Know About Cellphone Radiation

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 4:00am

To many people, the notion that cellphones or cell towers might present a health risk long ago receded into a realm somewhere between trivial concern and conspiracy theory. For decades, the wireless industry has dismissed such ideas as fearmongering, and federal regulators have maintained that cellphones pose no danger. But a growing body of scientific research is raising questions, with the stakes heightened by the ongoing deployment of hundreds of thousands of new transmitters in neighborhoods across America.

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How A Data Nerd Approaches DIY Home Improvement Projects

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 3:00am

I started 2021 by buying an 1885 hulk of a home, sight unseen, with visions of restoring its earlier grandeur. In almost two years, I've restored three of many rooms and tackled multiple smaller projects, by myself.