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A Centuries-Old Cemetery For People Who Were Enslaved Is Reclaimed In New York

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 8:35am

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried there centuries ago.

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Nuclear Energy Gets Reboot As Electricity Demands Surge

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 8:31am

PITTSBURGH -- What if we began looking at nuclear energy in a different way? What if those new perspectives worked and brought people from all sides of the energy equation together for the first time in a generation?

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Student-Run Market Made From Straw Bales Still Serving Cody Amid Grocery Store Crisis In Rural Nebraska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 8:30am

Fresh produce inside the Circle C Market in Cody. The market, which is run by students from Cody-Kilgore high school, has become a critical part of the community since opening in 2013.
(Heidi Beguin / Flatwater Free Press)

The group of teachers had a straightforward but daunting assignment before them: How could Cody-Kilgore, a small district nestled in the Nebraska Sandhills, buck the trend of rural decline and revitalize the school?

Teachers Stacey Adamson and Tracee Ford latched onto an unusual idea that started as a joke – one that grew more unusual as it progressed.

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US National Parks Are Receiving Record-High Gift Of $100M

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 7:00am

Divers cement coral fragments from a coral nursery into the reef, Aug. 4, 2023, near Key Biscayne, Fla. In Florida, ocean researchers with the federal government said coral reefs were losing their color weeks earlier than normal because of record temperatures.
(Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo)

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the country's national parks.

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Spectacular Games For A Team That Looked Like Us

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 6:00am

I already miss the Olympics. The daily dose of world’s best vs. world’s best shined as never before.

The Winter Games are a couple years out and obviously still the Olympics, but my lack of experience in luging, skiing and figure skating usually moderates my interest in athletes toiling in the snow and on the ice.

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Spectacular Games For A Team That Looked Like Us

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 6:00am

I already miss the Olympics. The daily dose of world’s best vs. world’s best shined as never before.

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Family Fights For Continued Awareness Of Dyslexia, Grateful For Eight Years Of Nebraska Legislation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 5:00am

Heather Schmidt of Lincoln (left) looks toward her daughter Norah, who has dyslexia and has fought for her education throughout her time in Lincoln Public Schools, June 11, 2024. The mother-daughter duo have frequently testified at the Nebraska Legislature to urge lawmakers to provide more and better support for students with dyslexia.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Norah Schmidt loves reading, particularly dystopia and romance novels, but the high school senior recalls when that wasn’t always the case because of a learning disability: dyslexia.

Norah, 17, remembers being pulled out of class for timed readings where staff would hold a stopwatch and track how quickly she could read and if she was close to her peers.

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The Polaris Dawn Mission To Earth’s Orbit Will Test SpaceX’s Capabilities For A Commercial Space Program

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 4:00am

SpaceX’s upcoming Polaris Dawn mission aims to be historic in more ways than one. Polaris Dawn plans to not only orbit Earth higher than any astronauts have in more than 50 years but to also feature the first private spacewalk.

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A Third Of The World’s Population Lacks Internet Connectivity − Airborne Communications Stations Could Change That

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/28/2024 - 3:00am

About one-third of the global population, around 3 billion people, don’t have access to the internet or have poor connections because of infrastructure limitations, economic disparities and geographic isolation.

Today’s satellites and ground-based networks leave communications gaps where, because of geography, setting up traditional ground-based communications equipment would be too expensive.

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A Lincoln Studio Helps Artists With Developmental Disabilities Find Their Voice. It Was Almost Shuttered.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 08/21/2024 - 7:00am

Joey Dowding gets a helping hand from studio program manager Samantha Wieland as he throws a pot at Lincoln’s Live Yes Studios on June 11, 2024. Dowding, who also plays guitar and hosts a racing podcast, said he has been coming to Live Yes since 2018.
(Eric Gregory / Flatwater Free Press)

Joey Dowding sits at the ceramics wheel on a Wednesday morning in June. He’s sporting a flower-print apron and a hesitant look directed at the hunk of brown clay before him.

“Faster,” instructor Samantha Weiland says reassuringly as Dowding eases his foot on the wheel’s pedal. She guides his hands around the spinning clay. Dowding’s classmates chime in with encouragement.

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Non-Profit News

A Centuries-Old Cemetery For People Who Were Enslaved Is Reclaimed In New York

Nuclear Energy Gets Reboot As Electricity Demands Surge

Student-Run Market Made From Straw Bales Still Serving Cody Amid Grocery Store Crisis In Rural Nebraska

US National Parks Are Receiving Record-High Gift Of $100M

Spectacular Games For A Team That Looked Like Us

Spectacular Games For A Team That Looked Like Us

Family Fights For Continued Awareness Of Dyslexia, Grateful For Eight Years Of Nebraska Legislation

The Polaris Dawn Mission To Earth’s Orbit Will Test SpaceX’s Capabilities For A Commercial Space Program

A Third Of The World’s Population Lacks Internet Connectivity − Airborne Communications Stations Could Change That

A Lincoln Studio Helps Artists With Developmental Disabilities Find Their Voice. It Was Almost Shuttered.

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