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Missing Piece Photographs by Tim Guthrie will be on display through Saturday, November 25 -----------------------------------------------November 10, 11, 12 Van Gogh & Me The Rose Theater 2001 Farnam St, Omaha, 68102 WORLD PREMIERE! By Matthew Gutschick After a colorful and sometimes challenging creative career, the weary adults. We want to hear your best artist Vincent van Gogh (creator stories about breaking the rules, of such iconic works as “The Starry pushing boundaries and resisting. Night” and “Sunflowers” paintings), Hopeful storytellers should prepare a finds himself retreating to an out-of5- to 8-minute story to share with the the-way French town Auvers-Surcrowd. Oise. While the citizens and tourists “I gave up art in 2013,” said Guthrie. of the tiny town are not sure what “I did little things for a couple years; Terrified of the stage? We need to make of the strange man and his barf bags and stamping cash, and audience members to cheer on our such. Then, overnight, Beth was gone. unusual painting style, a young and storytellers. Judges will be chosen curious girl named Adeline strikes up a My world collapsed. I focused everyfrom the audience and prizes will be gentle, even fragile friendship with the awarded. Co-hosted by Omaha Public thing, 24/7/365 on Beth. I went from mysterious and misunderstood paintLibrary and Nebraska Writers Collec- caretaker to art maker, but almost er. Based on actual events, this moody by accident, certainly reluctantly. I tive. Storytellers are encouraged to atmospheric story of the power of art register prior to the event. -- http://bit. did it kicking and screaming. I hated and simple friendship will give you a calling what I was doing ‘art,’ but I did ly/2kNLnmX new appreciation of the artist and his it, anyway. In the process of healing, recalling, and grieving, she led me back beautiful post-impressionistic works. Ground Rules: -----------------------------------------------to a place I’m still not comfortable. I -Stories need to be true Saturday, November 11 thought if I would make a return to -Visual aids and artifacts allowed the art world, it would be in 2018. The Wizard of Oz Showing -Stories must be shorter than 8 minHollywood Candy truth is, she’s already led me back.” utes -Follow the theme: REBELLION -----------------------------------------------Thursday, November 9th Opening Reception Missing Piece Photographs Gallery 72, 5p 1806 Vinton St, Omaha, 68108 Gallery 72 presents a special exhibition of selected photographs from the Missing Piece project by Tim Guthrie. The special reception and subsequent opening will coincide with Film Streams’ special screening of ‘The Missing Piece’ and panel discussion at the Ruth Sokolof Theater (1340 Mike Fahey St.)
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This “sort-of adaptation” of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov tells a story in which an aspiring young director battles against the art created by his mother’s generation. A young actress competes with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist and everyone discovers just how complicated life, art and success can be. This irreverent, modern and very funny remix of a classic play will incite you to consider how art, love and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
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RNA molecule. When you let go, the molecule folds back up into its natural shape. Try dissolving a virtual salt crystal by using your body’s movement to generate heat. Molecules are too small to see, but not too small to smell! Are “One of the most ravishing things I have you up for the challenge? Explore the ever seen on a Broadway stage.” - Time shapes and structures of things in our Magazine world–at the nanoscale! https://www.ticketomaha.com ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------Through April 15, 2018 Through January 7, 2018 Forever Forest Zoom Into Nano walk followed with hot chocolate and Saturday, November 11 Omaha Children’s Museum The Durham Museum cookies from 10a - 10:30p Veteran’s Day Ceremony 500 S 20th St, Omaha, NE 68102 801 S 10th St, Omaha, NE 68108 http://www.heronhaven.org/ American Legion Post 1, 11a ----------------------------------------------- Advances in nanotechnology are likely Exploring the realities of forests Come One, Come All to Memorial through play, families will learn about to change the way we design and fabSaturday, November 11 Park. Saturday Nov. 11, 2017 at 1100 ricate almost everything –from faster sustainability, selective harvesting, Wizard of Oz Hours. Celebrate with Post #1 and transportation needs, and the evcomputers, to stain repellent clothes, Hollywood Candy, 2p - 4p All of Omaha to Honor All Veterans. ery-day products we use that are made to new medicines to treat diseases, 1209 Jackson St, Omaha, 68102 Lunch Served at the Post After the from trees. The exhibit includes a tree Bring the whole family to enjoy a FREE and technologies that are beyond our Ceremony. ----------------------------------------------- screening of the classic film, Wizard of imagination. Zoom Into Nano presents top climber, a realistic mini replica of a Union Pacific engine, a kid-sized home a variety of large-scale, immersive Oz, in the Hollywood Theater. Friday, November 10 & ----------------------------------------------- experiences in the world of nanotech- under construction for children to help Saturday, November 11 build, and so much more! nology. Zoom into tiny structures and Sunday, November 12 Van Gogh & Me Admission for Members if Free, Under devices to see the amazing beauty of 5k Walk/Run/Ruck to By Matthew Gutschick 34 months- Free, Adults & Kids-$12 natural and manmade objects at very Break the Silence The Rose Theater and SEniors- $11 high magnification. Immerse yourself Zorinsky Lake, 8a - 11a 2001 Farnam St, Omaha, 68102 in models of atoms and molecules that ----------------------------------------------Omaha, Nebraska After a colorful and sometimes challenging creative career, the weary art- Come join us for a 5k Walk/Run/Ruck are enlarged to 100 million times their If you would like to see your event to Break the Silence! Silence is reflec- actual size. Check out the full body in- listed, email focusomaha@gmail.com ist Vincent van Gogh (creator of such teractive, where you use your hands to ----------------------------------------------iconic works as “The Starry Night” and tive of the silence that comes along grab and pull apart the ends of a virtual with PTSD. Proceeds from this event “Sunflowers” paintings), finds himwill be used for the production costs self retreating to an out-of-the-way of the locally filmed short film, Silence, French town Auvers-Sur-Oise. While which is being produced to bring PTSD the citizens and tourists of the tiny town are not sure what to make of the awareness to our communities. Join us and help us let them know that they strange man and his unusual painting are not forgotten and that people do style, a young and curious girl named care. If you register the day of the Adeline strikes up a gentle, even fragile friendship with the mysterious race, you are not guaranteed a shirt, so please don’t delay and register today! and misunderstood painter. Based on actual events, this moody atmospheric Hope to see you there! ----------------------------------------------story of the power of art and simple Through November 12 friendship will give you a new appreThe Little Mermaid ciation of the artist and his beautiful Orpheum Theater post-impressionistic works. ----------------------------------------------- 409 S. 16th St., Omaha 68102 An under-the-sea sensation! With Saturday, November 11 music by eight-time Academy Award® Military Appreciation Event, 9a - 4p winner Alan Menken, this beautiful Holstein’s Harley-davidson Broadway hit is based on your favorite 4940 S 72nd St, Omaha, 68127 Join us this Veterans Day as we honor Disney® film! Come fall in love with the magic for the first time – or all over those who serve. Thank you to those again. who defend our freedom. We will proudly be serving free chili dogs to In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, our Veterans at 11AM until they’re the beautiful young mermaid Ariel gone. We will also have Double Rider longs to leave her ocean home to live in Rewards Points for our Veterans. ----------------------------------------------- the world above. Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved Saturday, November 11 stories, it’s a hauntingly beautiful love Heron Haven Nature Center 11809 Old Maple Rd., Omaha, 68164 story for the ages. 2nd Saturday Program Hear all the classics such as “Under This weekend Heron Haven will be the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl, “Part of Your honoring our Veteran’s with a silent World” and more! Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID is produced by Pittsburgh CLO & Kansas City Starlight.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Tyler Folkerts and the Double Barrel Band, Ameristar, 7p THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Open Deck Cube Ultra Lounge, 8p FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 The 402 Ameristar, 7p ----------------------------------------------Dwarfanators The Mile Away Hall & Tavern, 8p ----------------------------------------------The Shineys The Barrel, 9p SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Chili Cook-Off Council Bluffs 100 Block, 11a -----------------------------------------------
JB Acoustic Cellar19 Wine & Deli, 6p ----------------------------------------------The 402 Ameristar, 7p ----------------------------------------------Matt Cox The Barrel, 9p ----------------------------------------------Saturday, November 11 Chili Cook-Off Council Bluffs 100 Block, 11a A fundraiser for the Kanesville Riders Honor Guard! You get to vote! Who makes the best chili... Your $10 donation will allow you to taste chili at each participating location. Drink special will be $2 domestic draw at any location. Registration 11-2 pm at Rodeo Saloon.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8 Veterans Shine On Memorial Park, 6p ----------------------------------------------The Grease Band Ozone Lounge, 6:30p ----------------------------------------------Deadset Society Lookout Lounge, 7p ----------------------------------------------Ray’s Piano Party Mr. Toad’s, 7p ----------------------------------------------Thumper and Generation One The B. Bar, 7p ----------------------------------------------Rhyme Swap poetry & lyric reading The Get Down Ultra Lounge, 7p ----------------------------------------------Spafford with Southern Avenue The Waiting Room, 7p ----------------------------------------------Carolyn Harrell and Michael Adams The Omaha Lounge, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------The National Parks with Andrea Von Kampen Reverb Lounge, 8p ----------------------------------------------Passafire & G-Nome Project Slowdown, 8p ----------------------------------------------New Humans Jambo Cat, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------Karaoke with DJ Shadow Forte Music Hall, 9p
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9 Leah Marie The B. Bar, 5p ----------------------------------------------Acoustic Thursdays Jams Midtown, 5:30p ----------------------------------------------Sailing In Soup Chrome Lounge, 6p ----------------------------------------------Passion King of Kings Church, 6p
----------------------------------------------Merrymakers Toast to Hal Daub Omaha Design Center, 6p ----------------------------------------------Prairie Cats Ozone Lounge, 6:30p ----------------------------------------------Come Together Vino Mas, 6:30p ----------------------------------------------Starving Artist Discovery Night Forte Music Hall, 7p ----------------------------------------------Big Canvas Improv | A Comedy Show Hotel RL, 7p ----------------------------------------------Alexis Arai The Well, 7p ----------------------------------------------Adrian Legg Reverb Lounge, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------Tyi Hakeem, Michael Adams and Ed Archibald The Omaha Lounge, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------DJ Wild Wes Kozee Lounge, 8p ----------------------------------------------Iron Chic, Company Retreat, Hand Painted Police Car and Heat Waves Lookout Lounge, 8p ----------------------------------------------Crystal Bowersox, Belles & Whistles Slowdown, 8p ----------------------------------------------Liar Wire and The Ramparts Barley Street, 9p ----------------------------------------------Pissed On, Falter and Downtrod Brothers Lounge, 9p ----------------------------------------------Coral Creek Growler USA, 9p ----------------------------------------------Skyside 6 and About Face The Down Under, 9p ----------------------------------------------KrashKarma Live Wired Pub, 9p ----------------------------------------------Dicey Riley Dubliner Pub, 9:30p
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----------------------------------------------Motograter Dr. Jack’s Drinkery, 8p Nate Emsick ----------------------------------------------Growler USA, 5p Your Memorial, Earth Groans, In ----------------------------------------------- Search of Solace, and Servant’s Plea Lines Forming, Angie Seykora + Ying Lookout Lounge, 8p Zhu ----------------------------------------------Darger H, 6p Nothin But Love ----------------------------------------------- On the Q St Bar , 8p Wicked Fun ----------------------------------------------Bogies West, 7p Shawn Fredieu ----------------------------------------------- Stoli’s Lounge, 8p Van Gogh & Me ----------------------------------------------The Rose Theater, 7p Dad Jokes (Improv) ----------------------------------------------- The Backline, 8p 89.7 The River presents Hollywood ----------------------------------------------Undead, Butcher Babies and Demerick Crybaby & Armful of Tiger Lilies Sokol Auditorium, 7p Barley Street, 9p ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------Warren Barfield with Kirk Cameron John Doe Westside Church, 7p Chrome Lounge, 9p
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 Veteran’s Day Ceremony Memorial Park, 11a ----------------------------------------------The Kerwins Therapy Bar, 7p -----------------------------------------------
Pineapple Karaoke American Legion Post 1, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------Amy Grant & Michael W. Smith CenturyLink Center, 7:30p ----------------------------------------------Traitors Lookout Lounge, 8p ----------------------------------------------Big Canvas The Backline, 8p ----------------------------------------------Belles & Whistles The Waiting Room, 8p ----------------------------------------------The Sole Pursuit Wired Pub, 8p ----------------------------------------------Circle of Fifths American Dream, 9p ----------------------------------------------Sinners N Saints Forte Music Hall, 9p ----------------------------------------------Emily Ward Growler USA, 9p ----------------------------------------------Avaricious Ozone Lounge, 9p ----------------------------------------------Bathtub Maria, The Shineys and Kristen Taylor The Down Under, 9p ----------------------------------------------The Sole Pursuit Wired Pub, 9p ----------------------------------------------Monkey Knife Fight Live Chrome Lounge, 9:30p ----------------------------------------------Dicey Riley Dubliner Pub, 9:30p ----------------------------------------------Eckophonic Two Fine Irishmen, 9:30p ----------------------------------------------Bud Bronson & The Good Timers O’Leaver’s Pub, 10p ----------------------------------------------Missing Kitten (Standup) The Backline, 10p ----------------------------------------------Bazile Mills The Blackstone Meatball, 10p ----------------------------------------------Huskinopolis & Sanam The Tavern, 10p
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 13 Open Acoustic Jam Forte Music Hall, 6p ----------------------------------------------Gooch & His Big Las Vegas Big Band Ozone Lounge, 6:30p ----------------------------------------------Dead Country Gentlemen and Electric Quest, Lookout Lounge, 7p
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14 Denise Howe Ozone Lounge, 6:30p ----------------------------------------------Sissy Brown & JonEmery Dodds Hotel RL, 7p ----------------------------------------------Tuesday Night Poker Kozee Lounge, 7p ----------------------------------------------America’s Pub Trivia Scriptown Brewing Company, 7p ----------------------------------------------Science Cafe Slowdown, 7p ----------------------------------------------Open Mic & Jam Therapy Bar & Grill, 7p ----------------------------------------------Turbo Tuesdays featuring DJ Vic Nasty Bar 415, 9p ----------------------------------------------Braniac Trivia O’Leaver’s Pub, 9p ----------------------------------------------Three the Hard Way Reverb Lounge, 9p
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A New Omaha Label is Born!
a family man, the best father of five, the best dad ever, he was an amazing musician. “He and Marty were in a band called Fifth of May and many other bands when they were young . . . Over the years he became a great engineer and A Little Brazil history goes into this producer.” one. Dan Maxwell, of that well-established The cassette features “Someday” backed with “Leverage” and is issued local outfit, and his brother Marty, under the name Junkyard Dan. It have set up a new label that initially features Dan Maxwell with the name will focus on local acts. Many of those involve bands in which Dan Maxwell is coming from his childhood fondness for the pro wrestler, Junkyard Dog. playing, but Marty emphasizes that is The cassette is available at Homer’s, only for starters. Almost Music, and on Bandcamp. For the moment, the creative operaMarty and Dan make no secret that tions are based in Omaha with Dan, Max Trax was their brother’s idea. The while Marty handles other duties in concept is living on as studio opporTexas. tunities are created in Omaha while “Marty moved to Texas after many Marty continues to live in Texas. moons,” Dan Maxwell said. “That’s where he’s based “His (Frank’s) idea of Max Trax was out of, but we’re all Omaha boys.” kind of like a home studio that he had The seeds of the new label were sown built on his own over the years,” Dan Maxwell said. Frank recorded Danny’s in years past by Frank Maxwell who first single and helped other bands. passed away last year. His Sioux Falls studio was called Max Trax and the The timing was right for Marty to new label is named in his honor. Dan Maxwell’s Sept. 1 release was record- take action after the passing of Frank Maxwell. ed in South Dakota with Frank at the controls. It also served as an official Danny Maxwell and Frank were worklaunch for the label. ing on an album when he passed. With Dan and Frank Maxwell were working the album far from finished, they went with the single on the anniversary of on an album when the elder MaxFrank’s birthday, Sept. 1. well unexpectedly passed. Of Frank Maxwell, Dan said: “Other than being
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“I didn’t think the label thing was going to be ready,” Danny Maxwell said. It was and it happened, but: “It’s still a lot of work.” With Danny involved in each band on the label as it launches, Max Trax Records will be looking in the future to sign new artists to the label. So who is on the label? The Max Trax roster includes Little Brazil, Wrong Pets, New Lungs, and Leafblower. Danny Maxwell attempted to sort it out. New Lungs is a band that has taken a break. It features Corey Broman, a drummer who has switched to keys and is basically Leafblower plus Broman and Danny Maxwell writing songs. Leafblower is Craig Fort on bass and Tab Tworek writing songs and playing drums, playing their songs with Danny on guitar. “Tab just locked in right away,” Maxwell said, after Tworek, from Columbus. was brought in as Broman pursues other interests. So boys have to play, and that means we have Leafblower on the local scene. It could be called post-punk or, “who knows?” “People started calling us heavy metal,” Dan Maxwell said. “We have just been
happy with how people are accepting the Leafblower thing.” The band released two cassettes before Max Trax formed but future releases will be on the label which is selling the earlier releases. The first one was recorded with Mike Friedman at his house and the second is “Live at O’Leaver’s.” Friedman plays with multiple local artists. “He’s so talented,” Maxwell said. The bands are getting ready for releases the rest of this year and in 2018. Some recording has taken place in homes while there are live recordings from O’Leaver’s. Some are not yet on Max Trax, but Dan Maxwell suggested those interested try Bandcamp, and he has copies. “All of the bands that are available on Bandcamp . . . I’ll mail them to you with a stamp and a kiss,” Danny Maxwell said. “And I will put on the lipstick.” While the roster and support staff remain small, everyone is really working together, he said. All the guys involved have wives and jobs. Some are on tour and most play in multiple bands. They are looking to support Omaha artists, providing the recordings to young audiences and older fans who have kids. Max Trax is looking to provide material to online sources, including Apple and Spotify, even if
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that means getting on the phone to those sources. Marty Maxwell said in some ways it can be called a “back to the roots” project. He recently read an article and surprised friends by telling them that people are buying records and cassettes again. He pointed to his own teenage daughter who recently acquired a turntable and now has 50 albums. It was enough to cause him to make a career change. “I kind of got out of the business I was in and said, ‘Screw it, let’s do it’”, he recalled. Marty called Dan and they are learning on the fly, but there is no shortage of talent and material. “Little Brazil has a record coming out and it’ll be out in the spring,” Marty Maxwell said. “I’m taking care of all the business side of it. “As soon as we release the Little Brazil and Wrong Pets record we’ll begin looking at other bands.”
It’s not going to be just bands his brother’s in, Marty said, as he goes to South by Southwest every year. “It’s going to be a full-fledged record label where we’re bringing in new artists all the time,” Marty emphasized. In addition to having a band’s music on multiple mediums, the label will be producing and distributing merchandise for them. “If you’re going to sign someone, give them every avenue to be successful,” he stressed. For more on Max Trax Records: Bandcamp: https://MaxTraxRecords. bandcamp.com Instagram: https://www.instagram. com/MaxTraxRecords/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ MaxTraxRecords/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxTraxRecords
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Diary of a Changing World
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Wintertime’s first frost is arriving in the United States roughly one month later than it did a century ago. NOAA meteorologist Ken Kunkel said the trend toward later and later first freezes appears to have set in about 1980, as revealed in records going back to 1895. He said the average first freeze over the past decade is a week later than it was between 1971 and 1980, adding that this spring’s last frost occurred nine days earlier than normal. Kunkel and other scientists say global warming is causing the shrinking winter.
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record. “It means for the Magaguadavic River, whatever wild salmon that existed there are now extinct,” said Neville Crabbe, spokesman for the Atlantic Salmon Federation. The federation says the decline in the once-abundant wild salmon from Atlantic Canada to Maine is partly due to an increase in salmon farming in the region.
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Greenhouse Record Global concentrations of carbon dioxide accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere increased at a record rate during 2016, prompting a pointed warning of the resulting climate change from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
Biologist Elizabeth Howard, director of Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 Other factors include the construction reached 403.3 parts per million — a the monarch tracking group Journey North, says the colourful insects have of dams, loss of habitat, pollution, level not seen for millions of years, been seen from far southern Ontario to near Cape May, New Jersey. Monarchs typically arrive in their central Mexican winter home about Nov. 1.
Experts say some of the consequences of the shrinking American winter will be “really negative.” Photo: Tim Green-CC Earthquakes A sharp temblor damaged buildings on Indonesia’s Ambon Island.
Howard points out that many of the stragglers are a sort of “bonus generation” that was able to emerge late in the season because of the delayed chill. Salmon Crisis Not a single wild salmon returned to a key breeding river in New Brunswick, Canada, to spawn for the first time on
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While average global emissions have been flat recently, U.N. meteorologists say sharp cuts are needed now to avert disastrous climate change. Photo: U.S. Dept. of Justice
the UN agency said. The surge came despite global CO2 emissions remaining relatively flat for past three consecutive years — albeit at record amounts. “Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. Volcanic Respite More than 180,000 evacuees from near Bali’s Mount Agung were told they could go home after weeks of volcanic swarms during which geologists warned of an imminent eruption. Indonesian authorities lowered the alert status following a significant decrease in activity over several days. The volcanic alert since August has resulted in huge losses for the resort area as tourists went elsewhere or canceled their visits.
Bali’s Mount Agung volcano has resumed its slumber. Photo: Sean Hamlin-CC Tropical Cyclones Tropical Storm Selma became the first named storm in recorded history to strike El Salvador from the Pacific. It toppled trees and triggered floods. • Parts of Cuba and South Florida were drenched by Tropical Storm Philippe. • Category-1 Typhoon Saola passed just offshore from eastern Japan.
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Bowl Hopes Dwindling By Focus Omaha If anyone was thinking the Cornhuskers might be losing heart after a tough 31-24 overtime loss to Northwestern, they didn’t have to look far after QB Tanner Lee made some of his more memorable comments during the postgame interview sessions. When asked about drowning out speculations regarding the program he said, “You know, it is tough and I think that it has been all right because of the team we have. I think I have been able to rally behind my teammates and I think we’ve all been able to help each other when things like that are going on because it is tough when you’re having a tough season. “You know, I always rely on those guys in every situation. Those are the guys I hang out with all week, I hang out with after games. The guys I love crying with, playing games with and the only thing that really matters to me is wanting to play well for my
It also may be prudent to keep in mind that many top tier coaches may not be banging down the door to coach a program that, if what the critics say will come to pass, will have fired four coaches that have posted nine-win seasons at the school, including two Character seems to be one area where right after a nine-win season. We also may want to re-evaluate just exactly this team isn’t lacking. Even when the what our expectations are for this chips are down, the jury seems to be program. out. As the tough losses and mistakes keep happening, these Huskers On a lighter note, JD Spielman continue to move forward and keep needs only 105 yards to surpass trying to get better. There has been the Nebraska freshman all-purpose progress from week to week, but the yardage record of 1,259 set by Ahman big question is - will it be enough? It Green in 1995. seems that most have already given up and are counting Riley and his staff out, but not so for the players and the Senior LB Chris Weber has been a team. The future seems bright moving terror on opposing offenses and now has three games with double-digit forward, but they still need to get through this season. Regarding the coaching situation, there are as many cases for this coach and staff as there are against them. But, consider the factor that character is hard to find today. In an era of 129 schools in the NCAA’s FBS, as recently as 2012 (the latest numbers we could find) there are only 17 programs that never have been found guilty of a violation. coaches and wanting to play well for my teammates. Because those are the guys that put in the endless hours of work with me and for me and we do it together. So just having that always in the back of my mind really drives me.”
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tackles and leads the team in total tackles with 77 on the season. If the Huskers want to have any chance for postseason play, a win at Minnesota is a must. Both teams are currently 4-5 and the Gophers are led by first- year head coach P.J. Fleck who guided Western Michigan to an unbeaten regular season in 2016. Being on the road won’t be easy and the Minnesota defense ranks second in the Big Ten against the pass and fifth overall. This will be the 58th meeting between the schools, making the Gophers the team the Huskers have faced more times than any other Big Ten opponent. NU 20 Golden Gophers 17
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DIABETES– A Brutal Disease Continues Its March
Here’s how diabetes works, according to the CDC. Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar (also called glucose) and released into your bloodstream. Your pancreas makes a hormone called insulin, which acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body’s cells for use as energy. If you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use the insulin it makes as well as it should. When there isn’t enough It kills, it cripples, and even when it doesn’t, diabetes changes lives forever. insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream, which over time can Never for the better. cause serious health problems, such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney Diabetes, a chronic (long-lasting) disease. disease that affects how your body turns food into energy, is among the So here are some factors to keep in ugliest of diseases Americans face. mind, according to Desouza. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says 84 million “The most important factor is weight, Americans have prediabetes. You can so, they should make sure their check to see if you are at risk during National Diabetes Month in November weight is as close to an ideal weight as possible,” he said. That means eating at www.doihavediabetes.org. a proper diet and getting enough Dr. Cyrus V. Desouza of the University exercise, preferably on a daily basis. of Nebraska Medical Center is an “At least five times a week,” Desouza endocrinologist who treats diabetes stressed regarding exercise. As for patients and does research on the diet, the first concern is how much a disease. He is one of the Midwest’s leading experts on type 2 diabetes, the person eats. most serious kind and the subject of “Most of the problem is everybody this article. eats too much,” he said. “The second point is eating a balanced diet.” “I think the most important thing to know is that it (diabetes) is That means lots of fruit and preventable, most of the time,” vegetables, protein, complex Desouza said. If not preventable, he carbohydrates (whole grains), fish and pointed out, you can delay it, “If you meat, and limiting the amount of sugar. are able to follow a proper, healthy lifestyle.”
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Desouza said the CDC recently suggested that probably 30 million people have diabetes. Add to that the 84 million with prediabetes and you have the makings of a public health crisis and enormous financial costs. “Almost one in three people (in the U.S.) either has diabetes or prediabetes,” Desouza emphasized. “It is costing a lot of money if people who have diabetes do not control their diabetes well.” The lesson is to Focus on prevention. With all that unpleasant news, there is some good news to be found, even for “It is easier to deal with prediabetes than (deal with it) after it has become people who have diabetes. diabetes,” Desouza said. “They can easily live with it and control He emphasized that everyone needs to it,” Desouza said. Again, the main factors are diet and exercise, but there make a concentrated effort to address diabetes now. is more. “Of course, we do have lots “Otherwise we will pay for it down the of medications, especially that have come out in the last ten years that are line.” very helpful for people to control their For more about Dr. Cyrus Desouza: diabetes.” https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/ divisions/dem/bio.cfm?MyID=1181 On the other hand, there is more than one type of diabetes, and type 2 diabetes, the most serious type, makes For more on Diabetes: https://www. cdc.gov/diabetes/home/index.html up 95 percent of the cases. “We don’t say to diet. It’s the normal balanced food you should be having each day,” Desouza said. “It’s not a diet. Diets don’t last. . . . It’s something you should do everyday of your life.” A second point he wanted to emphasize is that type 2 diabetes is detectable many years before a person has diabetes. Desouza said people who are at risk for the disease, based on family history or being overweight, should be screened by their primary care doctor.
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friends from Doane University decoded to put some other life experiences behind them and jump start a new life with a brighter outlook. Tica Felise and Carrie Ann Buchanan had both gone through divorces, Felise explained. “And you know, we kind of need(ed) to find that shine again,” she said. “Good girl friends get together and we commiserate . . . the way we choose to commiserate is we make music.” So, The Shineys were born. Farmers’ markets around Omaha saw their first performances followed by a move to open mic nights.
The Shineys– Musical Breakout Waiting to Happen By Andy Roberts For now there are just two of them. Most of the time. But maybe not forever. And they feature a ukulele. The Shineys have been around for a couple years, ever since two old
Buchanan, from Alliance, moved to Houston after college for a costume design internship and became part of that city’s music scene for nearly two decades. In 2004 she formed Carrie Ann and The Apocalyptics, releasing an album called Strong Wind through Montrose Records in 2008. Buchanan plays guitar, sings, and writes. On Nov. 4 she released an EP Bones! that she recorded two years ago in Austin, Texas. Denver native Felise, who sings, plays ukulele, and writes, had an online release Tuesday of an EP she recorded with her old Colorado band Proprio. They have yet to record together – something that is expected to change in the next 12 months, but The Shineys were nominated in the “Best Singer-Songwriter” category for the 2015-16 Omaha Arts & Entertainment Awards.
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Felise hinted that their lineup may not be set in stone. “Just us right now,” she said. “But we have had other people join, but they’re not in the fold.” Those others include Emily Ward who recently was profiled in these pages. Their music, as their lineup, seems subject to change. “It does have some Americana in it,” Felise said. “We also do blues and pop. “Our style is kind of indie rock with those influences. Country, pop, and blues . . . and folk.” She paused before adding: “I don’t know there’s not anything (that isn’t) in there,” A song they are working on, “War Pigs,” was described as punk in flavor. Felise said: “A nice big winery,” would be the ideal venue for The Shineys. “Wineries kind of tend to want music you can listen to that sounds pleasing.” People can listen to the music or not, she said, but most of the time audiences do. “They put their little conversations down and listen to it,” Felise said. Bars, she added, do not always provide the most attentive audience. “Mostly
like the staff and the bar owners.” The Shineys are not a dance band, Felise agreed. “No, no.” she said. “Not to say that we’ve never had any dancers.” The Shineys have been playing “A lot of places” including in Benson at the Barley Street Tavern, downtown at the Harney Street Tavern, and on Leavenworth at the Down Under. They also play in Southwest Iowa, including a “pretty regular” gig at Waubonsie Station, a Tabor, Iowa, restaurant, plus The Barrel in Council Bluffs. Felise said she and Buchanan are looking forward to increased visibility during the coming year. “We’re definitely starting to dial in a marketing effort,” she said. They have had a logo designed (by Emily Ward) and a website is going up for the duo. Their recent releases, albeit of older material, are just the beginning. “We both have these projects that we’re hanging out over our head,” Felise said. “Now we can concentrate on being The Shineys.” The plan is for 2018 to include, not only some recording, but also videos, and those may not be the only changes in the works. “I think (we would like) to add more depth to the band as we can find
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appropriate players, ourselves included,” Felise said. Both ladies know how to play piano and mandolin in addition to their primary instruments. Felise and Buchanan have day jobs but are interested in performing outside the Omaha area and have been asked to play in Kansas City and once traveled to Arizona. A Colorado homecoming for Felise also may be in the future for The Shineys. It seems a promising start, as Felise pointed out the two are great friends and trust each other so much, making music together is easy. Their voices also harmonize well, and often that surprises the audience. “We have pretty loud power-house voices,” Felise said. “People are not expecting that.”
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Flow Tribe Brings the Funk to Ralston Arena’s Side Room By Focus Staff All of us can use a little funk in our lives, and with Flow Tribe about to make its local debut, John Michael Early wants you do know the band is ready to meet your needs. He says you can look forward to some “Backbone-Cracking Music” when the New Orleans-based funk outfit hits the Ralston Arena’s Side Room on Thursday, November 16. There is no more musical city than New Orleans, and with Flow Tribe’s mix of second line brass and CubanCaribbean rhythms, melded with R&B, soul, rock, and hip-hop beats – the show is almost guaranteed to turn into a celebration. “New Orleans has a tradition for professional musicians and that’s what we wanted,” Early said. Now they are taking it to the next level with showmanship and professionalism, wearing what the call “funk suits” in true New Orleans style. Flow Tribe is Early on harmonica, washboard, vocals and keyboards; K.C. O’Rorke on vocals and trumpet; drummer Russell Olschner; Chad Penot on bass and vocals; Bryan
Santos playing timbales and guitar; and guitarist Mario Palmisano. It’s a band of New Orleans natives and high school pals who’ve been writing music and playing live shows since the band’s inception in 2004. (Flow Tribe considers 2006 their official launch.) They went their separate ways after high school, but following Hurricane Katrina they returned to their hometown and fell into the work of rebuilding a community that’s stronger than ever. “We all graduated a year before Katrina. Our drummer signed up for the National Guard right away after high school and was activated,” Early recalled. “We wanted to be a part of rebuilding the city after Katrina. There’s too much magic going on to not rebuild it so we wanted to be a part of it.” Flow Tribe may well be New Orleans’ next music ambassadors. With two full-length albums and several EPs under their belts, Flow Tribe currently is building Downman Sounds and expect to cut their next record in that studio. The Tribe (as they are known) can be found crisscrossing the US just about every week of the year, from Key West to California, including regular performances at the notable New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Voodoo Fest. While funk is the key ingredient, their sound could be called a musical gumbo. “We have a lot of different styles and people in the band, but it’s all rhythm based and upbeat,” Early said. “We’ll do three or four Latin songs and then one that sounds like Rage Against the Machine. It’s hard for us to pick one genre.”
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But consider they did work with Mannie Fresh on their latest album, the Grammy nominated producer responsible for creating hits for UGK, Lil Wayne, Big Tymers, Juvenile, Gucci Mane, Jeezy, 2 Chainz, The Notorious B.I.G., T.I., and more. “Mannie’s a trip. He’s everything you would ever expect from his public persona,” Early said. “We knew it was a risk going into it, but we did our first track with him and our questions were over.” Having listened to him growing up, the band was, at first, in awe. “But once we got in the studio it was all business. He said he was down for the whole album so we decided to go for it,” Early said. “Mannie added a lot of electronic production on some tracks, but then other ones were more us, like “Boss” was more influenced by us. We were down for listening to what he had to say and we learned a lot.” The result was the outstanding recent release Boss. Not all the band’s experiences have been as positive, and Early pointed out that life on the road has its ups and downs. While on the road recently in North Carolina, someone noticed a piece on their trailer was glowing red because there wasn’t enough grease
on the bearings. Flow Tribe learned not only must you try to keep your bearings while on tour, it may be wise to pack some bearings as well. “We learned how closely you must pay attention to maintenance,” Early said. Funk can only help with that, as it is a music that tends to set the listener free. “We have a couple of tunes that are based around issues, but mostly our songs . . . We try to write about real life and about good life,” Early said. “It’s not about what you have, but who you have with you.” While the Ralston show will be the band’s first area performance, it will bring back some memories. Early used to date an Omaha girl, and calls Mother India and Lo Solo Mio his favorite local restaurants. But getting back to the funk – which is what it’s all about - Early wants everyone celebrate the Omaha and New Orleans connection. So come out and get your “Backbone Cracked” on a Thursday night. Everyone needs that. To learn more about Flow Tribe: https://www.flowtribe.com/
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IRA and Retirement Plan Limits for 2018 IRA contribution limits The maximum amount you can contribute to a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA in 2018 is $5,500 (or 100% of your earned income, if less), unchanged from 2017. The maximum catch-up contribution for those age 50 or older remains at $1,000. You can contribute to both a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA in 2018, but your total contributions can’t exceed these annual limits.
joint return, your deduction is limited if your MAGI is $189,000 to $199,000 (up from $186,000 to $196,000 in 2017), and eliminated if your MAGI exceeds $199,000. Single filers, head-of-household filers, and married joint filers who are not covered by an employer plan can deduct the full amount of their contributions.
or less (up from $186,000 in 2017). (Again, contributions can’t exceed 100% of your earned income.)
Employer retirement plans Most of the significant employer retirement plan limits for 2018 have also increased. The maximum amount you can contribute (your “elective deferrals”) to a 401(k) plan is $18,500, up from $18,000 in 2017. This limit Roth IRA income limits The income limits for determining how also applies to 403(b) and 457(b) plans, as well as the Federal Thrift Plan. If much you can contribute to a Roth Traditional IRA income limits you’re age 50 or older, you can also IRA have also increased for 2018. If The income limits for determining make catch-up contributions of up to your filing status is single or head of the deductibility of traditional IRA household, you can contribute the full $6,000 to these plans in 2018. (Special contributions in 2018 have increased. catch-up limits apply to certain $5,500 to a Roth IRA if your MAGI is If your filing status is single or head of $120,000 or less (up from $118,000 participants in 403(b) and 457(b) household, you can fully deduct your plans.) in 2017). And if you’re married and IRA contribution up to $5,500 in 2018 if your modified adjusted gross income filing a joint return, you can make a full contribution if your MAGI is $189,000 (MAGI) is $63,000 or less (up from $62,000 in 2017). If you’re married and filing a joint return, you can fully deduct up to $5,500 in 2018 if your MAGI is $101,000 or less (up from $99,000 in 2017). Note that these figures assume you are covered by a retirement plan at work. If you’re not covered by an employer plan but your spouse is, and you file a
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If you participate in more than one retirement plan, your total elective deferrals can’t exceed the annual limit ($18,500 in 2018 plus any applicable catch-up contributions). Deferrals to 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, and SIMPLE plans are included in this aggregate limit, but deferrals to Section 457(b) plans are not. For example, if you participate in both a 403(b) plan and a 457(b) plan, you can defer the full dollar limit to each plan — a total of $37,000 in 2018 (plus any catch-up contributions). The amount you can contribute to a SIMPLE IRA or SIMPLE 401(k) plan remains unchanged at $12,500, and the catch-up limit for those age 50 or older remains at $3,000.
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