Newsletter
November 2010
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An Open Heart Through An Open Mouth inCOMMON Community Development has a unique take on what it means to serve their city. They feed the homeless, but if that was all there was to it, it would not be anything new. It is how they do it that makes them a force to be noticed. During the... |
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Your Go-To Gift Guide for Holiday Shopping Nothing gives me a rush quite like the holiday season. For me, it is the culmination of a year of product testing and ventures around the city and the World Wide Web to discover new cravings and must have items for gift shopping. I couldn... |
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Are Those Kids All Yours? I have six children. Yes, really. On purpose. They range in age from 2 years to 15 years, from toddler to teenager. Two stay at home with me and the oldest four are in school. No, I don’t homeschool. I am not part of some weird cult, I... |
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Seeking Shangri-La Inside My Cubicle My last day at my place of former employment was September 30. I, like many other folks in Omaha and around the country, entered into the realms of unemployment. I found a placement with a temporary agency and was making phone calls for a local non-... |
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Brighten up the Holidays by Volunteering As the holiday season approaches, Omahans will be looking for a way to give back to their community. Two of the largest volunteer organizations in our city—United Way of the Midlands and the Salvation Army—offer a wealth of holiday... |
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Wuzzy Rat and Blogathon 2010 Dr. V and her veterinary website Pawcurious headed a huge fundraiser over this past weekend (Blogathon 2010) in which bloggers from eight different blogs (half veterinarians’ blogs and half other pet lovers’ blogs) posted one blog post... |
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Opening Pandora's Box with Tim Westergren Even though Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Internet Radio, did his time touring in a beat up van as part of a rock band, he is now on a tour of a different kind. Tim now travels the country hosting town hall meetings, discussing everything from... |
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Bemis' Annual Art Auction Inches Toward $500k in Sales For the first time ever, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts spread their largest annual fundraiser over three days, including a special Preview day, leading to a 17% increase in attendance from 2009. Below are impressions about the two nights that... |
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Kellom Elementary Gets a Taste of the Farm Food deserts are areas within a city that have limited access to nutritious foods—areas where corner stores, gas stations, and fast food joints are the most convenient sources of calories, and many people in the area lack the physical or financial... |
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Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite...at Work? You are proud of the clean facilities you provide to your employees. They are engaged in picking up after themselves, even in the employee cafeteria; microwaves are spotless, tables are wiped up, and waste is removed daily to avoid pesky pests... |
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O!maha Visionary I had the amazing pleasure of talking with Leslie Bruning on the phone recently. I am amazed at the number of ‘hats’ he wears as an artist. The Sculptor If you don’t know Les Bruning, you have met his work. He has over 30... |
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Omaha Nighthawks take on Las Vegas Locos Though I have never, in all my years of high school, collegiate, and professional sports spectating ever seen a stadium empty faster than it did following Jeff Garcia’s final pick-6 interception, I got the feeling that most fans left Rosenblatt... |
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The Career Change Dance Dancing with the Stars has become an addiction. I have friends who can’t wait to discuss who was voted off and why and “did you see the outfit she had on last night. OMG!” When I think about all of the hard work and hours the dancers... |
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Students Learn and Serve in the Big O The Corporation for National & Community Service announced the start of the National Learn and Serve Challenge last week, a nationwide push to engage youth in volunteerism and service learning. But what exactly is service learning, and how... |
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Online Sometimes things happen exclusively online, somewhere on the Internet. This is a place for things like that to happen… |
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Interview with Bemis Curator about Annual Art Auction The Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts will hold its 12th Annual Art Auction across two nights, beginning with the Underground Auction on November 4th and concluding with the Gala Auction on November 6th. This first ever two night auction will allow the... |
