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BizTimes Media is currently accepting submissions to update its online and print business directories. Organizations may submit a listing to any of the directories any time throughout the year, but submissions will only be featured in the print directory if completed by the deadlines as noted below. Contact sales and marketing intern Emalee Frase at emalee.frase@biztimes.com with questions about submissions.

BizTimes Milwaukee invites southeastern Wisconsin nonprofit organizations to take advantage of a year-long marketing opportunity by submitting information to be featured in the 2013 BizTimes Giving Guide, a print and digital publication to showcase nonprofit organizations seeking support from the business community.

Horizon Home Care & Hospice, headquartered in Brown Deer, is seeking nominations for the 2013 Touching Lives Award, which recognizes community members who have made a significant impact on others’ lives.

C.H. Coakley, based in Milwaukee, is encouraging area businesses to participate in the Hunger Task Force’s annual Food For Families Food Drive by offering its own food drive initiative, Dinner on the Mayflower.

BizTimes Media is accepting nominations for its annual Health Care Heroes Awards, which honor people in southeastern Wisconsin who are making a difference on the front lines of health care.

Foreclosure filings in Wisconsin were down 12 percent in the third quarter, according to a new report from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.

Stress is everywhere in the workplace. We all know that sleep, nutrition, and exercise play a role in stress reduction. But what else helps? Certainly not watching replacement refs make calls at the end of a Packer game.

*Saturday, Oct. 13, comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform a stand-up routine at the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Avenue...

*Thursday, Oct. 11, the Milwaukee Film Festival concludes. Films to be shown include Nobody Else But You, Teddy Bear,...

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