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For Members, About Members |
March 19, 2008 |
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PICTURE OF THE
WEEK!
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Business as usual during the recent Business
After Hours at TCU Neeley School of Business. Those Horned
Frogs sure know how to host a get-together.
Above L-R: William Brewer (NAI Huff Partners) with wife
Anna Brewer and Timothy Hendren (Alliance Office Systems).
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Did you hear the one about…A few years back, son NoBGood
was driving Mr. B around town, blaring a rap tune and Dad was startled to hear
some of the foul “lyrics”. Got Mr. B to wondering if his parents were equally
startled in the ’70s to hear comedian George Carlin’s rap. So, it might be a
good opportunity to turn the dial and take your kid to hear the Grammy
Award-winning comedian, actor and author this Saturday night at Bass
Performance Hall. Magnificent Maggie May at the Bass is not joking when she
says she has
two tickets to give away.
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Mooching on MAIN ST: Be one of a cast of thousands when you volunteer to
help Main Street Arts Festival and support the Downtown Fort Worth
Inc. event April 17-20. Volunteers are needed for guest relations, beverage
service, merchandising, and an array of other duties such as artist hosting.
It’s fun, and you get an insider’s look at world-class art, food and
entertainment ranging from street performers to stars of popular music on the
national stage. For more information,
e-mail or call 817-336-2787. To make it sweeter, one volunteer will get
tickets
for two to the vaunted, coveted and award-winning MAIN ST. Skybox presented
by Sundance Square for Thursday night’s “Opening Extravaganza,” featuring
music by Wayman Tisdale, beverages by Coors and catering by Reata. Could
be the best – and only -- seats on the street.
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Stars come out at night: That phrase was
coined by Irving Berlin to celebrate Mr. B’s dating
career, long since extinguished. Fifty years later,
it better signifies some of the incredible sights
available at The Planetarium at UT-Arlington.
We’re going to be (Shelly) Frank with you, this is a
fun evening out under the stars and we’ve got
passes for four couples to enjoy.
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How to succeed in business: The only way to
get a seat at tomorrow's
Small Business of the Year luncheon at
Colonial Country Club is to sit with Mr. B. The
finalists:
- EMERGING BUSINESS
- Crypto Security Systems, LLC; Riverside
Kennel; Teneo Linguistics Co., LLC
- 1-10 EMPLOYEES
- Design Works Studio; Technology Team, LLC;
Teresa's Treasures
- 11-50 EMPLOYEES
- Innovative Developers, Inc.; Rassai
Interactive; Worthington National Bank
- 51-150 EMPLOYEES
- The Fort Worth Club; SKIHI Enterprises,
Ltd.
You don't see Mr. B on the list; in fact, Mr. B
has a table in the way, way back and looking for
seven seatmates, if you'd like to join him. If
he can find seatmates, his table position will
improve by at least two rows! Don't enter if you
can't go TOMORROW at 11:30.
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Who? What? Where? If you grew up in Miami,
you were probably one of the few Americans that had
heard of Cyprus, but only because of placekicker
Garo Yepremian of the Miami Dolphins. If you still
are in the dark about Cyprus and care about foreign
affairs, you’ll want to attend the World Affairs
Council luncheon March 26 at the Petroleum
Club. His Excellency Andreas S. Kakouris --
Ambassador of Cyprus to the U.S. -- will speak on
Cyprus: The European Union’s Lighthouse in the
Eastern Mediterranean and
two winners can also meet and greet business
leaders. How does this moniker sound? His
Excellency…Mr. B.
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Rio de fiesta! Artes de la Rosa will have its
first fundraiser March 29 at Rose Marine Theater
and the theme is a Brazilian Carnival with Mr. B as
a featured, Arthur Murray get-them-on-the-floor
dancing the salsa and rumba. If you haven’t been to
Rio for THE CARNIVAL, this will be a fabulous
opportunity to experience A Carnival. If you can
salsa, and you can rumba, then this
pair of tickets would allow you to parteeeee!
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¿Cómo se llama?: Lou
De Rosa can speak seven languages, including
Portuguese and Italian. But when he starts
talking Logix and what it does, it’s
all Greek to Mr. B.
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Christmas in March: Sherry Green, president
of Technology Team, LLC, took advantage of a
Christmas gift and drove everyone wild recently at
Texas Motor Speedway. “It was awesome,” she
said of the 10-laps gift from husband Allen. “I
drove the Interstate Battery car number 18. It took
once around the track to get the feel and then we
were off! They have governed the cars to go about
160 mph. I had it on the floor a lot of the time.
Probably the hardest thing was to go across the
lanes. It was like playing a video game in that you
watch the road so intently. You do not realize how
fast you are going because others are going fast,
too. It felt really great having all that power in
your hands. I already have trouble staying within
the speed limit; now it is going to be even harder!”
The
Chamber’s Day at the Speedway is April 3.
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Taxing times: She’s not taxed at all, but
Jean Davis, SWTC, has seen her business jump
76.6 percent year over year. By March 1, she already
had done more tax returns than all of last year.
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New roosting home: The Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth is erecting
a monumental sculpture -- Conjoined by
New York-based artist Roxy Paine – on
its grounds outside the museum.
Conjoined is 40-feet tall by 45-feet
wide, and the stainless-steel sculpture
is of two trees whose branches
“cantilever in space to connect in
midair.” We're gonna need signage: NO
GRACKLES ALLOWED.
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Kudos: The Chamber
has been named by the Texas
Association of Partners in
Education as a Gold Star
Award winner for its
partnership with the Fort
Worth Independent School
District. “The
relationship between the
Fort Worth Chamber and the
FWISD is solidly rooted in a
deep mutual understanding
that together, public
education and commerce form
the foundation of a vibrant
and growing city,” said
TAPE.
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4 sale: Bethany Tyler of
Burnett’s Staffing says she “sells
people.” Daughter MisBehavin
was on eBay, but we moved the listing to
Burnett’s.
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Jokes are wild: It’s one thing
when the Aggies come to town and it’s
one thing when the Hogs come to town,
but it’s going to be a crazy four or
five things when the Aggies and the Hogs
are in town Oct. 3, 2009 for the first
college football game at JerryWorld, the
new Dallas Cowboys stadium in
Arlington.
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Here’s a title for you: Amanda
Hawkins is Director of Selection
for Northwestern Mutual. She’s
the recruiting ace.
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Freese frame it: Judy
Burgess of Freese and Nichols
has a new “SNAZZY with a
capital S”, metallic blue Nissan
Altima coupe that has everything
on it. “The salesman told me
there was no other one in the
country like mine,” she said.
For safety, she’s parking in the
boonies.
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A billion reasons: Forbes’ list
of billionaires included 29 Texans and
Mr. B can’t remember one ever trying to
win a Newz-E-Letter giveaway.
These are good prizes, too! It appears
that six of them have some kind of Kevin
Bacon Six Degrees of Separation
alignment with the Chamber. If just one
were an active member (you go, Teresa
Pearson!), the bet is there would be
free lunches aplenty and Mr. B would get
a raise from his current 39 cents an
hour.
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Bidding war? AllianceTexas is
hosting a job fair April 16 at The
Speedway Club at Texas Motor Speedway
and one of the jobs open is newsletter
writer. Ya think…more than 39 cents an
hour? The event is free for job seekers
and last year there were 48
AllianceTexas-based companies
participating and 1,036 job seekers.
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Fast pitch: Speedy recovery to
Maggie Withroder, a former City of
Fort Worth recreation guru, an
Easter Seals North Texas board
member and Texas Amateur Athletic
Federation Hall of Famer for softball.
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A favor for B? Hey,
Am-Bass-Adores, when you go
ribbon cutting at Ashton Wood
Homes next week, could you please
ask Lisa (not related to Gertrude) Stein
if she would give away that gorgeous
model home in Newz-E-Letter?
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Eggs-travagant: How come
chocolate Easter eggs are 69
cents a dozen, but eggs are
about $2 a dozen? Editor #1
answers: Price of feed is up.
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Murder, She Wrote: There’s a
really cool opportunity March 20
from 5:30 to 7:30 to see
Stonegate Mansion when the
Women Influencing Business
group networks with cocktails,
hors d’oeuvres and
jazz.
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Unethical ethics: A Junior
Achievement survey found 75 percent of
teenagers who claimed they were ready to
make ethical decisions. Forty percent
said lying, cheating and/or violence are
necessary to succeed. You feel comforted
now?
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Scramblet: Marvin Branch, one of
the head pop tops for Coors
Distributing Fort Worth, was the
owner of Marvin’s Pizza at I-30 and
Oakland in the late ’80s. The parlor
wasn’t really named after him, but was
selected because he would only have to
add two letters to the name on the sign
already in place—Avanti’s
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Coming Up: Big Boss Bill,
the Chamber CEO, actually looked
down and spoke to Mr. B and said
he had to be serious on this
one. You see, there's this
massive luncheon and
Barnett
Shale Expo March 28-29 that is
very informative and very
business oriented that you
should consider attending. The
luncheon is Friday and the free
Expo is Saturday. Go here for
more info. An 8-minute promo of
Chris Quinn’s CQ Production
of The History & Making of
the Barnett Shale
documentary will be ready for
preview at the Expo.
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