Newsletter
October 2010
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Reasonable Attendance for Omaha's Rally for Sanity A relatively small group of friendly, rational people stood along Dodge street in front of Memorial Park with signs encouraging drivers, joggers and passers-by to "Please, Stop Screaming" because "God Loves Us All the Same."... |
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So Long 49’r Lounge When I was single and living in Dundee in the 1980s and 1990s, schlepping to the 49’r Lounge with my best friend every Friday evening became a ritual for us like eating pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. No matter what the weather, my friend would... |
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Pug-O-Ween 2010! Omaha's Largest Pug Gathering! Pug-O-Ween was recently held on October 24th from 12-4pm at the National Guard Armory in Omaha. The event was a fundraiser for the group Pug Partners of Nebraska, a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing and re-homing pugs in need.... |
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Omaha Lit Fest and Literary Bibliophilia If you’ve lived in Nebraska for very long, you know that there aren’t very many days here that are “perfect.” The second day of the Omaha Lit Fest was one of those very rare days. It was also a Nebraska football game day. Both of... |
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Sanity Shouldn’t Need a Rally I live in a house divided, not by football teams or faiths, but by something much more sinister. The depth of the chasm grows with each news cycle, and rare common ground continues to crumble. My husband, like the largest portion of news consumers,... |
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Creating a Vaccination Schedule for Your Pet So much has been said lately about the (very real) risks associated with vaccinations, that I wanted to take a minute (or a month) and remind us all, myself included, of the amazing things that vaccines, when used wisely and appropriately, are capable of... |
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Omaha Zombie Walk The Omaha Zombie Walk is a growing Omaha Halloween tradition and a night for the undead to officially take over the city. The FREE Zombie Walk is a truly unique event, beginning in downtown Benson in late afternoon and wrapping around the Benson... |
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Omaha Zombie Walk 2010 Benson came alive Saturday, October 23—alive with the undead. The Omaha Zombie Walk returned for its third annual installment, easily surpassing the attendance set by the previous two years. While its unclear if zombies can feel the cold, the... |
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Designing Your Career Plan You have done the research, dug deep into what interests you, and have discovered what is exciting, challenging, and geared in a direction that you would like to go in. Now comes the hard part, how do I put my plan into action? The usual steps in... |
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Mutual of Omaha employees escape the office to give something back Last month, Mutual of Omaha held its National Month of Caring, a nationwide effort that allowed its employees and vendors to take four hours of paid time off during a work day to volunteer in the month of September. Landscaping and construction... |
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TEDxOmaha: Julian Adair of Adair Dance Academy Julian Adair is a Director, Choreographer, and owner of Adair Dance Studio. She is the fifth in our series of speaker profiles from TEDxOmaha 2010. To see more speaker interviews, visit our TEDxOmaha Event page. For a chance to win 2 FREE ... |
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Dealing with Mental Illness in the Workplace Matilda the Star retreats to the bathroom where she silently cries. As you enter, she brushes the tears away and mumbles something about allergies as she rushes out. She is already a few days late on the sales proposal you are working on with her... |
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TEDxOmaha: Q&A with Rita Paskowitz, Storyteller Rita Paskowitz is a Professional Storyteller, PICTURE THIS! Facilitator at the Joslyn Art Museum, and Adjunct Faculty member at UNO. She is the fourth in our series of speaker profiles from TEDxOmaha 2010. To see more speaker interviews, visit our... |
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TEDxOmaha: Interview with Rebecca Lowry This is the third in our series of interviews with 2010 TEDxOmaha speakers, following Nancy Kirk of the Tri-Faith Initiative and Lamarr Womble of Passion for Leadership. Rebecca Lowry is a musician who performs under the name All Young Girl Are Machine... |
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TEDxOmaha: Interview with Lamarr Womble This is the second in our series of interviews with 2010 TEDxOmaha speakers. The first was with Nancy Kirk of the Tri-Faith Initiative. Today’s Q&A is with Lamarr Womble - founder of Passion for Leadership and admissions counselor at UNO.... |
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TEDxOmaha: Q&A with Nancy Kirk, Tri-Faith Initiative TED conferences are organized around an elegantly simple principal: "Ideas worth spreading." Speakers get no more than 18 minutes on a usually bare stage to "give the talk of their lives." Who in Omaha is up to the task? |
