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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.

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Women With Voices: ‘Empowerment Through Connections’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 1:00am

Women With Voices – founded by Sandy Spady (center) – celebrated their one-year anniversary last month. Women With Voices is a collective of women who gather together to uplift, network and share their true stories while showcasing local Omaha businesses as well as national businesses in the Omaha area. They strive to produce organic connections between their members and others in the community. (Courtesy of Sandy Spady)

It was one day during coffee as a woman shared her courageous story to Sandy Spady that an idea was born. “Would you share your story to other women?” Spady prompted her coffee-mate.

And so, Women with Voices began.

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How Pay Transparency May Affect Your Job Search Or Raise

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 2:00am

Knowing if you're being paid fairly for the work you do is a mystery shrouded in a lack of information. That may be changing, though, and pay transparency may be the catalyst. It's a growing trend for companies to reveal what a job opening or current position pays — whether voluntarily, or because governments mandate it.

Navigating Salary Ranges

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World Bank: Recession A Looming Threat For Global Economy

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 4:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will come "perilously close" to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies — the United States, Europe and China — the World Bank warned on Tuesday.

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Feds Propose 'Student Loan Safety Net' Alongside Forgiveness

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 1:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms.