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Will Anyone Save RIM? (Update 1)
RIM announced, however, that it will delay the launch of BlackBerry 10 (formerly QNX, and BBX) phones until the "latter part of 2012", representing yet another blow for the company. RIM has been losing market share to Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating system, with U.S. revenues declining in the third quarter.
Despite its challenges, RIM's still worthy of investor attention, according to Sanford Bernstein analyst Pierre Ferragu. "As management's current denial position is getting less and less tenable and as they committed yesterday to explore multiple strategic opportunities, we see too much upside risk to recommend a short position to investors and maintain our market-perform rating," he explained, in a note released on Friday. Sanford Bernstein has a $16 price target on RIM's shares.
Ferragu's not alone in seeing some light amidst the RIM gloom.
Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors, for example, has purchased a 1.4 million share stake in the company, as he hopes "they've
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Dumpster diving as an act of faith
New York • As a musician barely scraping by, Gio Andollo looks to trash bins as a way of life.
On a recent outing, he carefully untied bags outside a supermarket next to Columbia University. He likes this market because it uses clear plastic bags, making it easier to spot bread, fruits, vegetables and other treasures.
"We can use our instincts about these things and usually they're OK," he said. "You can always clean it well and cook it. You can make sure you'll at least survive."
Digging through the trash, he found apples that were bruised and sandwiches partially eaten. But they worked for him. He has never been sick from food retrieved from the trash, he said. A vegetarian, he passed up half a chicken he came across.
Andollo's forays into the trash are more than just a budget-stretching strategy. Like plenty of other so-called Dumpster divers, he's on a quest to preserve the planet.
He says the freeganism movement, or the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded, is populated mostly by nonreligious people. But for Andollo, Dumpster diving is an act of faith, one that is motivated by a biblical mandate to care for the Earth.
As a 29-year-old Christian, Andollo seeks to eliminate waste that leads to landfills and pollution.
"The reason freeganism exists as opposed to homelessness is that there's an ethic behind it," he said. "It's rescuing food from the waste stream, and it's subverting the economic system that sees food only as product and not as food to feed people."
Dumpster diving is now a common practice among freegans and homeless people. But Andollo uses another name for the practice: food rescuing. Plus, in New York, divers aren't technically diving into any Dumpsters, the boxy metal trash containers.
The Big, Half-Eaten Apple • Most of New York City's trash is found in bags on the curbside, so trash is up for grabs until it's hauled away. Breaking into locked Dumpsters is considered trespassing.
Foraging in trash bags has taken off in some New York circles with organizations such as Food not Bombs, a group of volunteers that retrieves vegan or vegetarian food to share with the public.
One group forages for food each Wednesday night and offers it to people in Brooklyn's Bushwick Park. The Food not Bombs website lists 500 chapters. "With over a billion people going hungry each day how can we spend another dollar on war?" the group's mission statement asks.
Dumpster divers are of a particular demographic, said Sharon Cornelissen, a doctoral student at Princeton who researched divers for her master's degree in sociology. She said the movement generally attracts educated white people in their 20s and 30s; typically, they are people who do it by choice rather than need.
"It's more expressed in an anti-capitalism," she said. "It's framed more in political terms than spiritual terms."
Sojourners, a Christian magazine dedicated to social justice, featured Dumpster diving on its cover in 2006, motivating Micah Holden to begin trying it a year later. Now he lives with his wife and daughter in Wheaton, Ill., where they occasionally blog about being a Dumpster-diving family in suburbia. Holden, who is a nurse, said his motivations to go once or twice a week are mixed.
"I have a strong belief in being resourceful and not be wasteful," he said. "Part of that is being a good steward and being a Christian. But there's also a selfish motivation. I can get these things for free for myself."
He and his wife shop at the grocery and online, like any other consumer, but Dumpster diving is an added hobby.
"It's not the norm for your average evangelical suburbanite," he said. "Some people wouldn't want to do it because there's a stigma with digging through the trash. For some people, it's too much work or too much time. It's for people who don't care what other people think."

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DNS client update IP thru cron or other?
I've search here and didn't find any hit that pertains to my question. So i'm sorry if this has been covered. I know this should be posted in the proper site, but I figured this post can be useful to other n00bs like myself.
How do I add the fallowing to cron every 15min?
wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password "https://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=domain.com"
Can anyone recomend a n00b friendly DNS client with gui? What about ez-ipupdate? I have the RPM version for RedHat, but will it work properly with Fedora?
You can run
crontab -e
*/15 * * * * wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password "https://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=domain.com"
Should I run this job as root?
1) Write a small shell script that contains the code for the zoneupdates, lets call it zoneupdate.sh, we store it for example in the /root folder.
Contents of /root/zoneupdate.sh
To make the script executable, run this comand:
chmod +x /root/zoneupdate.sh
crontab -e
0,15,30,45 * * * * /root/zoneupdate.sh &> /dev/null
Hmm, I had wanted to do the cron job at first. Then I read about the script but couldn't understand it until till explained it. Since I will be adding 5 of my own domains, and a handfull of hosted subdomains from dynDNS, I think the script will be the best way to go. As long as there are no errors :P. Will post back the results.
Thank you both!!
Ok, I read that running a cron job for 10 domains every 15min. on the same DNS server was not a very nice thing to do to a free DNS service, so no cron :(. I tried the script that till mentioned and when I tried to run the script manually, the script froze :(.
I looked and search for half the day. Then finally ran accross ddclient-3.6.6. It says anyone with brains can run and install it, so I guess I must lack brains because it took me another 4hrs to get it installed and running. Well, I think I have it running as I don't know if my ISP changed my IP the last 24hrs. I will now in the next 2 days though.
I feel like kicking myself in the ass for not thinking about this. I guees the exicement of running everything in linux caught me offgaurd. Anyway sorry for making this my personal blog thread :p. So here it goes.
I ran win/apache + DynSite client before I installed VMWare and Fedora as a guest OS. I removed apache for win32 but kept DynSite installed. When trying to clean the system and deciding whether or not to remove DynSite, it suddenly occured to me that I can still use DynSite to update my IP! Since Fedora and Widnows + DynSite are on the same network, the AP/Router will take care of the site requests.
So there it is! A newbie guide to updating your Dynamic IP. If you have a windows unit set up on your network, installing a DNS client on it will reduce the headaches. I would like to add that linux has 1 less thing to run every 3 minutes. :cool:
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Nebraska's Changing Face; UNO's Changing Face
I wrote the following feature and sidebar exploring some trends about the changing face of Neb. and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, my alma mater. Slowly but surely the state and some of its institutions are becoming more diverse. Some of the changes can be readily seen already, others not so much, but in a few decades they will be more obvious. It's a healthy thing that's happening, though diversity is still taking far too long to be fully felt and lived and embraced in all quarters, but that's for another story.
Nebraska's Changing Face
©by Leo Adam Biga
Nebraska's "Plain Jane" sameness has long extended to its racial makeup. Diversity hasn't held much truck here. Even when the foreign-born population was at its peak in the state's first half century, the newcomers were predominantly of European ancestry.
An African-American migration from the Deep South to Omaha in the early 1900s established the city's black base. Until a new immigration wave in the 1990s brought an influx of Africans and Latinos-Hispanics to greater Neb., the composite face of this Great Plains state was decidedly monotone.
The perception of Flyover Country as a bastion of white farmers has never been completely accurate. The state's two largest metropolitan areas, for example, have always boasted some heterogeneity. Urban areas like Omaha and urban institutions such as the University of Nebraska at Omaha express more racial-ethnic diversity because of longstanding minority settlement patterns and the university drawing heavily from the metro.
But it is true Neb.'s minority population has always been among the nation's smallest, which only supported the stereotype.
Finally, though, its minority numbers are going up and its diversity broadening.
Still, if Nebraskans posed for a group portrait as recently as 1980 more than 9 of every 10 would have beeb white. Only 6 percent identified as African-Americans, Latino-Hispanics, Native Americans or Asians.
The lack of diversity extended virtually everywhere. The largest minority group then, blacks, was highly concentrated in Omaha. Despite slow, steady gains blacks still account for only 13 percent of the city's population and 4 percent of the state's population.
But as recently announced by UNO researchers, Neb. is changing and with it the face of the state. A group picture taken today would reveal a noticeable difference compared to a quarter century ago, with whites now accounting for 8 of every 10 residents. Indeed, the state's minority population has more than doubled the past four decades, with by far the largest increase among Latinos-Hispanics, who now comprise the largest minority segment. Latinos-Hispanics are on a linear growth trajectory. They tend to be young and their women of childbearing age.
Minority growth has been even greater in select communities, such as Lexington, where meat processing attracted newcomers.
Celebrated native son filmmaker Alexander Payne's new movie "Nebraska" – set and shot primarily in the northeast part of the state – accurately portrays a slice of Neb.'s past and present through a large ensemble of characters, all of whom but two are white. The exceptions are both Hispanic. The Oscar-winning writer-director may next make a partly Spanish-language feature about the impact of the immigrant population on Neb.'s towns and cities.
New UNO Center for Public Affairs Research projections posit that by 2050 the state's portrait will dramatically change as a result of major demographic trends well under way. Within four decades minorities will account for about 40 percent of the entire population. Nearly a quarter of the projected 2050 population of 2.2 million, or some 500,000, will be Latino-Hispanic.
It's a sea change for a state whose diversity was traditionally confined to a few enclaves of color. Immigration, migration and natural causes are driving this new minority surge.
Everything is relative though. So while CPAR Research Coordinator David Drzod says, "Our diversity will increase," he adds, "Neb. is one of the less diverse places countrywide and other states are going to become more diverse as well."
Still, the snapshot of Neb. is changing due to real demographic shifts with significant longterm consequences. Just as the majority white base is holding static or declining, non-whites are proliferating. The results can be seen in the ever more diverse profiles of some communities, neighborhoods, schools and other settings.
Thus, for the first time in Neb. diversity is becoming more lived reality than aspirational goal.
Economic conditions were the main driver for the sharp rise in Latinos-Hispanics migrating here. Plentiful jobs, a low cost of living, coupled with aggressive industry recruitment, lured people to move here from places with comparatively weak economies, high cost of living and job shortages. Neb. grew its Latino-Hispanic base from points of origin in California, Texas. Mexico, Central America and South America, The state also saw its African and Asian populations increase as refugees from Sudan and Bhutan, for example, resettled here.
Drozd says, "People are not coming as directly for new jobs like in the '90s when the meat processors were expanding and recruiting. We expect to see some regional migration that Neb. has typically seen from smaller locations to more urban locations that tend to have a diverse pool of job opportunities within various industries."
While migration has slowed from its peak waves it's expected to continue in fits and starts. Migration, researchers agree is "a wildcard" that can't be accurately forecast, but Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Research Associate Lissette Aliaga Linares notes an uptick in Latinos-Hispanics from Arizona, which OLLAS Director Lourdes Gouvia attributes to that state's anti-immigrant policies.
Drozd says Neb.'s minority experience is consistent with some surrounding states and inconsistent with others.
"We are typical of the Great Plains in that we tend to suffer from outmigration especially of young college-aged whites, which is counteracted by in-migration and increase in the minority population groups. On the other hand Neb. is unique in that we are growing faster in some of our metropolitan areas and not holding our population as well as some of the more rural areas."
The emergence of more minorities is perhaps most visible in urban inner city public schools, where student enrollment naturally reflects the heavily minority communities these schools serve. Minority enrollment in the Omaha Public Schools stands at 68 percent.
"The diversity of UNO will continue to grow and one only has to look at the demographics in the metro area to understand that traditional middle school and high school students will increasingly be students of color," says UNO Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs B.J. Reed.
Some outstate school districts are now majority Latino-Hispanic.
The impact of diversity in this small population state that suffers from brain drain cannot be overstated.
"There's a large part of Neb. that would be having population decline if it were not for minority growth," says Drozd. "There's all sorts of implications with respect to aging, the workforce, health care, education. From a gerontology standpoint you have the possibility of seeing a younger, more diverse working-age population caring for a predominantly white non-Hispanic aging population and will there be any issues associated there. With programs like Social Security you're going to be relying more and more on an immigrant population to support payments for predominantly white people collecting from the program. So there are potentials for tension there and of course political ramifications and all sorts of factors."
Gouveia, a sociology professor, reminds that "Latinos are going to imitate some trends of the larger population the more urban and educated they become," adding. "The more women are able to work outside the home fertility rates will drop and the population will begin to age. It's the life cycle."
As minorities grow they become a larger sector of the tax and voting base that elected officials and prospective candidates must recognize.
Drozd says communities must adapt, whether offering English-as-a-Second Language programs or multicultural competency classes, in order to best serve minorities and their particular needs.
As more minorities graduate high school educators and employers hope that many of these college-bound grads and working-age young adults will attend school and find jobs in-state.
"As people have become upwardly mobile in Neb.'s past that has led to outmigration out of the state," says Drozd. "It's going to be a very policy relevant factor because people born in the early '90s are now hitting age 18. Even if they choose a Neb. college where are they going to go to work? Will there be jobs and associated positions for them here in the state or will they go out of state?"
Just as preparing students to succeed in school is critical, so is preparing a workforce for today's service and skilled jobs.
"Let's make no mistake about this, without immigration Nebraskans may have to rethink how they are going to have a viable economy that produces not only jobs but payrolls that produce taxes from which an aging population will benefit greatly," says Gouveia. "Without this population there won't be services this Boomer population and this aspiring mini-global city of Omaha depends on. These are increasingly service economies and that means it's very important for the economy to increasingly be based on higher pay jobs likely to grow, such as information technology or biotechnology.
"That also means educational institutions need to be able to truly know how to train this generation of children of immigrants. The children may not be immigrants themselves but a large number have immigrant parents who endured very poor, disadvantageous conditions that tend to disadvantage the educational achievement of their children. We have to have multidimensional. multidisciplinary perspectives to understand who this population is. And that goes to our research also."
She believes minorities will succeed to the extent opportunities allow.
"We haven't addressed the serious barriers to education that would guarantee that new face of America and of Neb. becomes a face with equal opportunities to participate in the prosperity all of us will want to share." She says if barriers to upward mobility aren't removed "it may prevent Neb. from truly harnessing what we call this demographic bonus that's been gifted to this state. A state that was losing population were it not for minority growth and international migration would be in serious trouble today to have a viable economy and future."
Daniel J. Shipp, UNO associate vice chancellor for student affairs, says schools must find ways to support minority students.
"When combined with the typical struggles of new college students the demographics of race-ethnicity will create even more difficult challenges in both access to and success in college. Not only must we continue to open our doors wider to traditionally under-served student populations but once on campus it is critical for all of us to see their success as a top institutional and community priority."
UNO Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs Pelema Morrice urges educators and employers to appreciate diversity's many forms.
"We always focus on racial-ethnic diversity but I think intellectual diversity, geographic diversity, cultural diversity, all those different forms of diversity, really add a lot of value to everyone's experience. There's plenty of evidence that the more diverse environment we're in the more we all have opportunities to learn from each other.
"So I think it's incredibly important for an institution to be a welcoming and diverse environment where folks can learn from each other at a higher level. I think that adds to the educational experience and it provides students with really good training to go out and be productive citizens and to be successful in the workplace."
Diversity is also the way of this flatter, interconnected world.
Reed from UNO's Academic and Student Affairs office, says "Our students will grow up in a much more global environment requiring exposure to difference cultures and different experiences."
Where diversity often must be programmed, Gouveia is heartened by students' inherent embrace of it. "About this new Neb. mosaic, one thing I'm particularly hopeful about is the younger generation. I love our new students. From any background they are so much more prepared and so much more ahead of where we are as professors or department chairs or deans in terms of knowing how to do diversity. We are the ones who are often behind them."
As Neb. becomes more multi-hued, UNO's Morrice says representative stakeholders should discuss what diversity holds for the state.
"With these new demographics coming forward it means our student base will obviously be more diverse than it is now and that means the outcomes will be more diverse and so we'll see more diverse workplaces and communities within the state. We're just a piece of that puzzle but I think it's a good collective conversation for everyone to have as the state continues to grow and it becomes clear that there will be different faces at the table."
UNO's Changing Face
©by Leo Adam Biga
The same demographic trends on pace to make the United States a minority majority population by 2050 and making Neb. a more racially-ethnically diverse place in the second decade of the new millennium, are increasingly being expressed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Roughly a quarter of UNO's 2013-2014 freshman class is minority and just under 20 percent of the school's entire undergraduate enrollment is minority. Both are record marks for the school. In 2000, for example, UNO's minority enrollment stood at 9 percent. The minority numbers are even greater among graduate students.
The 11 percent rise in UNO minority enrollment from 2000 until now reflects in large measure the Latino-Hispanic boom that happened in-state from 1980 to 2010, when that segment increased from about 37,000 to 167,000. The Latino-Hispanic population is expected to add another 370,000 residents by 2050, according to UNO's Center for Public Affairs Research.
As a public institution with a state-wide reach, UNO's a model for the changing face of Neb. Drawing principally from the Omaha metropolitan area, which as the state's largest urban center has always been Neb.'s most racially-ethnically diverse spot, UNO is, as expected, one of the most diverse campuses in the University of Nebraska system.
At the University of Nebraska-Kearney minority undergraduate enrollment has nearly doubled since 1995. Today, nearly a quarter of its students are non-white or non-resident alien. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports the most diverse student body in its history. UNL's 2,328 minority undergrads are about 12 percent of the undergraduate total, a 9 percent increase just from last year. Just as at UNO, the largest minority gains at each school are in the Latino-Hispanic and international students categories,
As minorities comprise a growing segment of the state's mainstream and of its public schools' enrollment, institutions are tasked with incorporating these populations and responding to their needs.
"The good news for Omaha is that UNO has a proud tradition of supporting minority students through various educational equity and learning community investments such as Goodrich, Project Achieve and the newer Thompson Learning Community," says UNO Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Daniel J. Shipp. "These programs provide student participants with a network of caring and concerned faculty, staff and peer mentors that help students to succeed and thrive in college. Moving forward, I expect we will continue to build on our national reputation for attracting and supporting the growing numbers of minority students and their families in the Omaha area and beyond."
"Minority students are an important population but they are only one of an increasing mosaic of diversity at UNO, whether they are military, first generation, students of color or adult learners or transfer students," says UNO Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs B.J. Reed. "We are working every day to ensure that these students feel welcome at UNO and have the type of support services and environment that will make them want to be want to be here and to be successful. We do this for all our special populations of students. We have programs and learning communities as well as staff specifically directed at helping ease their transition to UNO and success in their academic goals."
Reed says hiring faculty and staff who reflect the changing face of UNO "is a top priority," adding, "We have made important strides in diversifying our staff but we lag behind where we want to be here and also with recruiting and retaining a more diverse faculty. We are working on reviewing existing policies and procedures and looking at incentives and support efforts to increase the diversity of faculty and staff to reflect the changing demographics of our student body."
There's wide agreement that diversity is a net sum experience for all involved.
"The benefits are substantial," Reed says. "The workplace is becoming increasingly diverse and employers need and want an increasingly diverse group of employees. We cannot underestimate the shift occurring here. We need to provide a strong educational workforce for employers and UNO must be positioned to do that effectively."
Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Director and Sociology Professor Lourdes Gouveia agrees that educators at UNO and elsewhere must increasingly consider diversity and its impact.
"We have to educate our professionals and student populations in ways that allow them to be skilled about global issues and diversity and to have multicultural competencies as the world is very connected," she says. "But also we need to address structural barriers that may prevent Neb. from truly harnessing what we call this demographic bonus that has been gifted to this state. A state that was losing population if not for minority growth and international migration would be in serious trouble today to have a viable economy and a future."
Never Give Up: The Budge Porter Story Comes Home
Here is what I hope you find to be a touching and inspiring piece about Budge Porter, a one-time Husker football player left paralyzed after tackling a teammate in a spring practice but despite overwhelming physical challenges his friendly demeanor and positive outlook on life have never left him. Recently, Budge, his wife, and their two children were the beneficiaries of a campaign to raise funds for a totally barrier-free home that will accommodate Budge and his special needs without looking in the least institutional. That customized adaptive, accesssible home is nearly complete and the Porters are very close to moving in and enjoying it. Led by local builder Brad Brown, the Budge Porter Project is entirely dependent on donations, of which there have been many, and now Budge hopes he can help others similarly afflicted like him find the resources they need to ease the burdens in their lives. My story is in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Omaha Magazine.
Never Give Up: The Budge Porter Story Comes Home
©by Leo Adam Biga
In the Nov/Dec issue of Omaha Magazine
Budge Porter lost many physical capabilities when he broke his neck tackling a teammate in a 1976 Husker football practice. The catastrophic injury left him a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair.
What he's never lost is determination and, remarkably, a positive outlook. It's what helped him build a successful stockbroker career, woo and marry his college sweetheart and start a family when many doubted he could do those things. He and his wife Diane are parents to three children.
His will has continued carrying him through recent setbacks.
"Every step of our lives we've been told this can't be done," says Budge. "We have the character between the two of us, working together with great friends and family, to beat all those odds…"
"Disappointments are not foreign to us," Diane says. "There were many hopeless feelings and times of despair through all this, but I think so often what's saved us is that you get to the point where you're either going to laugh or cry and we've chosen always to laugh. You kind of know in your heart of hearts it's always going to work out and it always does. It's like you've got to throw it up to God or whatever and just say, 'Whatever happens, it's going to work out and we will survive.'"
That indefatigable spirit is what's motivated friends and well-wishers to build a completely barrier-free home for this never-say-die warrior and his family. The non-profit Budge Porter Project is a volunteer, donation-fueled effort led by Omaha home designer-builder Brad Brown, whose Archistructure has supervised construction of the pottery barn or rustic ranch style home at 13522 Corby Street.
"Budge has got this captivating spirit about him," says Brown. "You look at a person who's been dealt what some feel is a bad hand and you might expect they'd get bitter. If anything Budge has turned it around and looks at life as every day is a blessing and an opportunity. I don"t think it started off that way but it's led him to a sense of inner peace.
"He's a very open and caring person. When you're around him you feel like a breath of fresh air."
The 1,900-plus square foot home includes an elevator, a therapy pool, a tracking-lift system, ramps and various features built at wheelchair level and wherever possible, subtle and aesthetically pleasing. Those are big-ticket items the Porters could never afford themselves, but donations in excess of $120,000 have purchased them.
Subcontractors and suppliers have given time and materials. Consolidated Kitchens and Fireplaces owner Sam Marchese donated all the cabinets and countertops. He also co-signed Porter's home loan and hosted an August 15 fundraiser.
Steve Reeder gifted the lot.
Accepting help doesn't come easy for Porter, who hails from a long line of orchard and farm owners. They're a tough, independent lot. His father and grandfather both played at Nebraska. When Budge and brother Scott carried on the football legacy there, the school had its first and only three generation athletic family.
"He feels somewhat embarrassed and undeserving," says Brown, "because he's always made it on his own. I told him, 'This is a hand-up, not a hand-out and it's something these guys are tickled to give back.' It makes us all feel so good."
To customize the home to Budge's specific needs Brown had to ask personal questions and view Budge in intimate situations. Diane says Kent Pavelka's public relations company made a video documenting what Budge contends with daily.
"I looked at Kent and Sam and Brad and they were all crying," says Diane. "They didn't realize what the simple act of getting in and out of bed is for Budge. He's so good about downplaying all the stuff that goes with his injury and he doesn't want people feeling sorry for him. But I've often said if people really knew what it takes to be him every day it'd be very hard to keep positive because it's exhausting. A lesser man would not handle it as well as he has."
The experience gave Brown a deeper appreciation for Budge's "courage" and bonded the two men even more.
"We were really good friends but we're definitely brothers now," says Budge.
The Porters have always managed dealing with the challenges of paralysis but then Budge lost big in the 2000 stock market crash, which also cost him many clients similarly hard hit. Osteoporosis forced him to retire in his mid-50s and go on disability.
A stretch of the Papio Creek behind the family's previous home eroded, causing such severe damage to the property the home's value plummeted. Health scares resulted in long, expensive hospitalizations. Finally, Budge swallowed his pride and filed for bankruptcy. The family gave up their home. Getting a loan and finding a new place to live proved daunting.
It seemed like more than one family could bear.
"I don't like to make excuses," Budge says.
He's heartened by how others have responded to their plight.
"We'll never be able to repay all these people other than just to tell them we're forever grateful. We're rich beyond compare with friends. We intend to be good stewards of these benefits."
Budge views the home as "a legacy" for Diane and the kids when he's gone.
He hopes to inspire and assist others through the Budge Porter Project.
"I would love to see us form a foundation to raise future monies to help others in need along these same lines. There's a lot of people far worse off than us and we feel for them and pray for them and we just hope they're as fortunate someday to have the type of friends we're blessed with to give them a hand."
Donations may be made at http://www.budgeporter.bbnow.org.
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I rarely do stories involving any aspect of law or justice and if I do it's generally a profile like the following one I did a few years ago for the Jewish Press on Norman Krivosha, who at one time served as chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court. As you might expect from someone who has enjoyed a distinguished career on the bench and as an attorney Krivosha is a thoughtful, well-spoken individual. He's well aware how fortunate he is to have found a profession and vocation that has engaged him for so long. He's one of those blessed persons who proves that attitude can be everything. He's definitely of the glass half-full fraternity.
Norman Krivosha's Life in Law
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally published in the Jewish Press
Norman Krivosha's life is a classic case of the adage that behind every great man is a woman. The noted attorney and one time Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice and corporate counsel may not have been any of those things if the Detroit, Mich. native had not met a certain woman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when he arrived as a brash but undisciplined undergrad in the early 1950s.
Krivosha came to UNL at the urging of a cousin who taught microbiology there. The professor saw his cousin's potential. The young Krivosha was bright. He'd done well at a select college prepatory public school in Detroit. He'd shown industry as a top notch sales clerk for the Mary Jane Shoe Store. He'd displayed an avid interest in politics, handing out pamphlets on the street for a cousin running for public office.
Only when Krivosha got to Lincoln — having never been further west than Chicago — he was the proverbial big city boy let loose in the sticks.
"I had to get out a map to see where Nebraska was. I vividly recall walking downtown the first Sunday I was there and I was the only person on the street. It was such a great transition for me coming from Detroit, but a very valuable one."
Studying was not a priority. The former Helene Sherman changed all that. The studious young woman from a tradition-rich Lincoln family eventually became Mrs. Helene Krivosha, but long before marrying him she got him on track.
"The truth of the matter is had I not met my wife Helene when I did I would probably have retired as the general manager of the Mary Jane Shoe Store in Miami, Fla." said Krivosha, who with his wife retired to Naples. Fla. three years ago.
"When I got to the university I was not very interested in worrying about studies.
But I met her and I'd go over to the library to take her for coffee and she'd say, 'Well, we can go at 10 o'clock.' And I'd say, 'It's 7 now — what do I do for three hours?' She'd say, 'Bring some books.' So I started studying. Then I started taking some classes she was in so I could see her during the day. And before I knew it I got a Regent's Scholarship and I was on my way to law school."
There would be more mentors in his life. Before any of these guided him, however, his immigrant parents, neither of whom completed high school, stressed the importance of education to their only child. His mother was a homemaker and his father one in a long line of dry cleaners.
"Neither of them were well-educated." Krivosha said. "Both of them were terribly literate. Going to college in my neighborhood was not a common sort of thing to do but my parents were determined that I should. We always talked about me going."
The dutiful son attended Wayne University in Detroit but didn't exactly buckle down. Between going to school by day and working for the post office at night, he said, "I was running with my friends." That's when he took up his egghead cousin's offer to live with him in Lincoln and go to school there.
Krivosha carried his family's hopes and dreams for a better life and finally aplied himself. With the help of Helene, some veteran lawyers and an ambitious newcomer to the political scene, Krivosha enjoyed a fast ride up the political-legal ladder. He readily acknowledges the aid he received along the way.
"I'm a great believer that nobody gets where they get on their own. That they all have help. Quite frankly, I resent when people seem to want to take claim for having made it 'on their own.'"
From a macro perspective, he knows the opportunities given him resulted from the sacrifices and generosity of folks, some of whom he'll never meet. He views his achievements as the return on an investment that others made in him.
"I did what I did because somebody in Scottsbluff, Nebraska got up at 4 o'clock in the morning and milked cows and paid his taxes so I could get a Regent Scholarship to go to law school. That's what helped me become a lawyer and be successful."
He believes fate has played a part in it all.
"Things work out the way they're supposed to," he said. "I was supposed to go to law school, I was supposed to be a lawyer, and that's where I wound up."
Funny thing is, he initially only studied law "because some friends were going to law school and that just seemed like something to do." At some point law became more than a way to pass the time.
"I did well in law school. I finished high in my class. I started clerking in my second year in law school with a firm I ultimately became senior partner of."
It was soon apparent he'd found his niche.
"I immediately enjoyed it. For me, law has always been a challenge — the ability to seek to analyze a situation, to design a solution. The practice of law was just something I loved to do. I never got up a single morning in my life not looking forward going to work."
Past tense notwithstanding, he still practices law. This marks his 50th year in the profession. He cut his legal teeth with twin lawyers Herman and Joe Ginsburg in their Lincoln, Neb. firm. Krivosha had already clerked there three years by the time he finished law school. He became a lawyer with the firm as soon as he was admitted to the bar.
He said Herman Ginsburg "was extremely influential in my career. He was one of the best lawyers in the state if not the country — a fine, wonderful trial lawyer. He taught me a great deal."
The Ginsburgs operated a general practice.
"In the late '50s-early '60s in Lincoln, Nebraska lawyers were probably what today would be described as country lawyers," he said. "That is, we did everything. We did a great deal of trial litigation for other lawyers outstate who did not frequently go to court. We represented corporations, we probated estates, we did adoptions, we did divorces, we did personal injury cases. We did anything that came into the office. Our office was in Lincoln but we really practiced all over the state."
That heavy, diverse case load made a good training ground.
"I think what it did was it made me a better lawyer and certainly made me a better judge ultimately because I had had all that experience."
As a comparison of just how different his experience was from young lawyers starting out today, he used his daughter Terri Krivosha-Herring as an example.
"My oldest daughter is a lawyer in Minneapolis. A very fine, wonderful lawyer whose practice is limited to mergers and acquisitions. She's great in her field but I don't think lawyers today have the same broad background we used to have."
Terri's married to Rabbi Hayim Herring. Krivosha's younger daughter, Rhonda Hauser, is married to lawyer Adam Hauser. "In our family you must either be a lawyer or marry a lawyer," Krivosha joked. "If you're smart you marry a lawyer, if you're not so smart you become a lawyer."
The Ginsburgs brought on a third partner, brother-in-law Hyman Rosenberg, before Krivosha became a partner with his name on the window. All the while he honed his legal skills he pursued a parallel interest in politics. His law partner Joe Ginsburg was active in Nebraska Democratic politics for years and became a political mentor.
"He sort of led me into it and it was sort of a natural for me. I'd been involved in Democratic politics all of my life and certainly all of my adult life in Lincoln. I was Lancaster Democratic Party County Chairman for a number of years. And I was state vice chairman. I was an alternate delegate for the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago, although I never did wind up going. I was (Nebraska) campaign manager for Henry 'Scoop' Jackson's presidential bid."
He also managed Clair Callan's only successful Congressional bid — a rare instance of a Democrat being elected from the Republican stronghold 1st District.
Political engagement was another way Krivosha hoped to make a difference.
"I cared. I believed Democrats were providing the answers to the country's needs. Being involved in Democratic politics was a way of trying to make things better. I was never interested myself in holding public office but in helping others."
Krivosha's political stock in the state grew when he befriended a newcomer to the arena named Jim Exon, a future governor and U.S. senator.
"I nominated him as national committee man at the state Democratic convention in Hastings (in the early '60s), and that was really sort of the beginning of his political career," said Krivosha.
Exon was elected Nebraska governor in '71 and asked Krivosha to join his inner circle.
"When he became governor he asked me to come be his general counsel," Krivosha explained. "I didn't want to leave the practice. And so I made an agreement with him that I would be his general counsel at no pay and I would come to the capitol every morning, maybe till one-two o'clock, do whatever he needed done, and then I would go downtown and practice law for the rest of the day and evening. I did that for four years.
"And during all that time we (his firm) agreed not to take cases involving the state."
No conflict of interest that way.
"I had really sort of gotten used to that because in 1969 I was loaned by my firm to be City Attorney of the City of Lincoln, and I did that for 20 months."
By the time Krivosha's general counsel duties for the governor ended his next entree into state government presented itself when then-Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul White "unexpectedly resigned" in 1978. Krivosha inquired if Exon would be OK if he submitted his name for the seat, which for the first time was to be appointed rather than elected.
Exon gave his blessing and Krivosha said just to avoid any hint of impropriety he didn't speak with the governor from that moment until after he got the nod.
"There were 16 of us whose names were submitted and Jim (Exon) had an incredible way of advising you you'd been appointed. He sent a letter to everyone who had not been appointed, but you, telling them who had been appointed and thanking them for applying," Krivosha recounted.
"I was in Judge Dale Fahrnbruch's court on a Friday morning about to start trying a lawsuit before him. He and I had both been candidates for chief justice. He was opening his mail on the bench as we were getting ready to begin the case and he stopped suddenly and said, 'I think we better take a recess.' He called me into his chambers and said, 'I suppose you're not going to want to try your case today.'"
Krivosha didn't know what the judge meant. It was left up to Fahrnbruch to inform him he was the state's new chief justice. "That's how I found put," Krivosha said. He made it to the highest judicial seat without prior bench experience.
"Not unheard of," he said. "You have to also remember I was the first appointed chief justice (of Nebraska). Up until then all the members of the Court had been elected and we had just recently changed to the merit selection system. It's probably more common to have people come from the District Court to the Supreme Court, but not unheard of. There were people elected before and certainly there were people appointed later who had not been judges before."
Not only was he serving his first judgeship on the state supreme court, he was perhaps the youngest member of that august and senior body.
"Some of the members of the court called me 'Sonny,' which they were entitled to. I mean, I was 44 years-old and some of them were in their 60s. But they were wonderful. It was a great experience."
He'd argued many cases before the Nebraska Supreme Court prior to his appointment. After leaving the bench he argued cases before the court again, but only after all the members he'd served with had retired. from the court. While admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court he never argued before it.
He said his becoming chief justice was dependent on three key factors.
"You have to work very hard in law school and graduate at or near the top of your class. You then have to spend the next 20 years as a lawyer gaining a reputation of being a fine lawyer. And you need to become a close friend of a governor. And if you can't do all of them, you must at least do the last one.
"The fact of the matter is I guess I can honestly say I did all three. I graduated well in my class, I think I had a reputation of being a good lawyer, and I was a close friend of Jim Exon."
What made he and Exon click?
"We were both committed Democrats. We both felt the same way about things. I think we got along so well because we shared the same views about family, about ethics, about integrity," Krivosha said. "He would never ask you to do anything you'd be embarrassed to tell your mother…He always did what was ethically and morally right even if it wasn't politically right, but for him it always turned out to be politically right.
"Jim Exon in my view was one of the world's greatest public figures."
Krivosha was Exon's last appointment before he left to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1979. For Krivosha, serving on the bench was another facet of a rich legal career.
"I've been a practitioner, I've been a trial lawyer, I've taught, I've been a judge and I've been a corporate counsel. All of it was satisfying. I enjoyed very much the collegiality with my colleagues on the bench. I disagreed with them occasionally but nonetheless had a very close relationship with them."
A fellow Nebraska Supreme Court justice, Judge Nick Caporale, was a classmate of Krivosha's at UNL and remains a good friend.
Being a judge suited Krivosha.
"I enjoyed looking at the cases, trying to conclude an appropriate legal answer, but even more than that I guess as executive head of the judicial branch of government I enjoyed the administration of the court system."
He introduced some innovations.
"We made some changes along the way," he said, "many of which still exist today. We did away with the municipal courts in Lincoln and Omaha — merging them into the County Court system. This was a more efficient way at a financial savings. We instituted type-written briefs in the Supreme Court — doing away with printing the briefs — which certainly was a savings to litigants."
He also instituted measures to ease the volume of cases heard.
"There was no Court of Appeals then, so the Supreme Court was a court as a matter of right. You could appeal to the Nebraska Supreme Court from Small Claims Court and we had to take the case," he said. "So we appointed two district judges and we sat in divisions of five instead of a court of seven, which the statute allowed, in an effort to try to cut down the number of cases and to handle the volume in a more expeditious way."
While presiding on the bench he wrote more than 600 opinions, meaning he decided far too many cases to single out just a few. Besides, he said, "once I finished a case I finished it. It's done, it's done. I didn't have any second thoughts once I decided a case."
He does take satisfaction, however, in knowing some of his dissents ultimately became the law. He was the lone dissenter when the court ruled a landowner with a ranch bisecting two states could not transfer water from Nebraska to Colorado to feed his cattle.
"I dissented on the basis it interfered with interstate commerce — that he had a perfect right to do that — and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. It was reversed based on my dissent"
He said it's unusual the highest court in the land opted to hear this water rights case in the first place since the Nebraska Supreme Court is usually the last word.
He served eight years as Chief Justice, stepping down in 1987.
"I did not leave because of any unhappiness. I delighted in being Chief Justice. I was 53 years old, about to turn 54, and somebody made me an offer I couldn't refuse."
Bankers Life Nebraska in Lincoln hired him as senior vice president, administration, and chief counsel and when the company became Ameritas Life Insurance Company he was executive vice president, secretary and corporate general counsel. He later worked as general counsel for Kutak Rock.
He retired a couple years ago.
Reviewing his long legal career is not something that occupies much of his time.
"It's not my style to look back," he said.
Still, he said, "I've been fortunate enough to do almost everything a lawyer can do." All his years trying and hearing cases did not sour him on the system but rather reaffirmed his faith in it.
"I'm just more convinced it's as good a system as I always believed it to be. I believe that courts by and large do a good job. There are exceptions. The law is an art, it is not a science, and therefore the answer you get depends on the question you see. The job of the lawyer, for instance, is not to convince the court what the law is but to convince the court what the question is. Once that happens the answer becomes obvious."
These days he does a bit of arbitration work and sometimes litigates cases. Mostly, though, he serves as an expert witness in insurance fraud suits. His keen political mind is attuned to the presidential race. He reads The New York Times and watches the Sunday public affairs programs. Barack Obama's chances excite him.
"Obviously as a Democrat I'm a great believer that we need to move in a different direction," he said.
Is he ever tempted to return to the bench?
"No…Remember, I never look back."
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For Love of Art and Cinema, Danny Lee Ladely Follows His Muse
When I wrote the following article in the early 2000s the alternative cinema landscape in Nebraska was very different than it is today. The profile subject of the story, Danny Lee Ladely, headed the only dedicated art cinema in the state, what was then called the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater but which came to be known as the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center , located in Lincoln, Neb. At roughly twice the size of Lincoln, Omaha had no such venue. Neither could one be found anywhere else in the state. That's changed with the addition of Film Streams in Omaha, where Rachel Jacobson is the metro's equivalent to Ladely in running and programming a full fledged art cinema complete with screenings of the best in contemporary film, along with repertory programs, visiting filmmakers, Q&As, and panel discussions. The Omaha Film Festival has added another dimension to the film scene. And there have been concerted efforts to restore long abandoned neighborhood and small town theaters. This is all familiar territory for me, as I used to be a film programmer in Omaha and I appreciate any attempts to engage and energize the cinema culture here. Ladely was way out in front of anyone in Nebraska in nurturing an alternative film culture and what he's accomplished with the Ross in Lincoln is remarkable, including the new facility he got built courtesy of the cinema's major patroness and namesake, Mary Riepma Ross. My piece for The Reader (www.thereader.com) appeared as the facility was under construction. It's been operational for years now and now that Film Streams in Omaha has provided a comparable venue in Omaha, the area's once rather stark art cinema landscape has turned bountiful. It took the vision and will of Ladely and Jacobson (who's profiled on this blog) to make it happen.
For Love of Art and Cinema, Danny Lee Ladely Follows His Muse
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally appeared in The Reader (www.thereader.com)
With his braided pony tail, arrowhead-pattern shirt, blue jeans, boots and Stetson hat, Nebraska film guru Dan Lee Ladely looks like a holdover from the 1960s, when the Gordon, Neb. native was in fact an anti-war demonstrator in college. During his undergrad days at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned a degree in English lit between showing films for the student council, he once led a takeover of the campus ROTC building. These days the 50-something Ladely is an activist for the aesthetic, educational and entertainment value of the moving image and more and more his cinema dreams loom large on the horizon.
As construction proceeds on the new Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater (MRRFT) at 13th and P Streets in Lincoln, the new home for the nationally recognized alternative film program Ladely's overseen since 1973, he daily watches his dreams taking shape from the temporary office he and his small staff occupy a block away. Once the theater opens in early 2003 he plans an ambitious exhibition schedule that will give cinephiles access to see American independent, first-run foreign and classic films the way they're meant to be seen and opportunities to meet emerging and established filmmakers. Two auditoriums, equipped for film, digital and video projection, will provide flexible exhibition space to show a large, diverse menu of feature, documentary and short films as well as video art pieces. Plans call for the theater's Great Plains Film Festival, a celebration of regional indie film which Ladely inaugurated, to continue unreeling there every other year.
The new theater will replace the auditorium the program exhibited in at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, located within a block of the new site.
The MRRFT is an anomaly. Where art houses and alternative film series have failed in more populous Omaha, Ladely's program has survived 30 years in Lincoln of all places and now, in the midst of a recession, is embarking on a new building program.
It is a stunning accomplishment, especially in the capitol of such a conservative state, because the pitfalls to success in the art film market are legion. Among the obstacles to running any art house in today's environment are: the tight economy; the fact that indie films regularly play at commercial cineplexes; and the encroaching presence of cable television, video-DVD and the Internet, media formats that feature much of the same kind of fare art houses used to be the exclusive outlet for.
Now, a film buff outfitted with a home theater system can select from the market's glut of viewing choices and, in effect, be his or her own film programmer. In addition to this competition, Ladely's program faces additional constraints in the form of: budget cuts, as his theater is partly subsidized by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where it is a department within the College of Fine and Performing Arts; the whims of private and public contributors it depends on for the bulk of its funding; and ever higher operating costs. All of which might lead one to wonder if this is the right time to build a new theater?
"There still is a place and a need for this program and I think people will respond," a reflective and soft-spoken Ladely said. "I think people will come out, at least at the beginning out of curiosity, in pretty good numbers. The new building is going to do one thing for us. We were sort of hidden in the Sheldon Art Gallery. I think being in an art museum kind of put some people off and now that we won't be there we have the possibility of a whole new audience."
The mission of the theater, which he said he "sort of created out of thin air" over the years, has always been "to provide an alternative venue for true commercial cinema and to bring films here that wouldn't get shown here otherwise."
He said the proliferation of art films on cable and video/DVD has made it "harder and harder" to stay true to that vision. But the one thing MRRFT can still provide is a state-of-the-art space where you can watch these films in the manner in which they were meant to be seen, namely, a theater. He said regardless of how elaborate one's home theater system is, "it's still not the same" as the real thing. "No matter what happens in the future there's always going to be a place for the film theater because film is really still a social event. Even though you're there in the dark, there's an audience and the audience reacts and that's part of the experience. It's totally different when you're home alone." Plus, there's the dearth of alternative film exhibition in Nebraska, where except for the Dundee Theater, art houses have come and gone, the most recent being the short-lived Brandeis Art Cinema.
As Ladely points out, "There isn't any other alternative place in this whole area right now where you can see these films."
Much of what Ladely envisions has already been done from its old site in the currently closed Sheldon Art Gallery, where a major renovation under way has put a halt to the film program's exhibition schedule until the new theater is completed. For years the program has been the state's best and most consistent venue for presenting what used to be called underground cinema and the people who make it.
Where many like programs in Omaha once thrived but eventually folded, including those of the New Cinema Cooperative, the Joslyn Art Museum and the UNO Student Programming Organization, Ladely's has continued uninterrupted for 30 years. How? Part of the answer lies in the fact the Lincoln program has enjoyed a measure of institutional support unknown elsewhere in this state owing to the legacy of the man who formed it and hired Ladely to run it, Sheldon's director emeritus Norman Gesky, and to Ladely's own passion for creating something of world-class stature. Ladely also had hands-on experience running two theaters in his native Gordon. Long a step-child of the Sheldon, where the MRRFT eventually lost favor under the man who succeeded Gesky as director, George Neubert, who cut the exhibition schedule and made life uneasy for Ladely, the theater is now poised to have its own stand-alone facility and identity.
And then there's the one factor separating the theater from its imitators — Mary Riepma Ross. The retired New York lawyer is not only the theater's namesake but its most ardent patron, biggest contributor and tenacious protector. A former UNL undergraduate student who fell in love with the movies as a young girl living in Lincoln, she was serving on the University Foundation board of trustees in the 1970s when then-chancellor Durwood "Woody" Varner put her in touch with the Sheldon's Geske, a fellow film buff just beginning to shape plans for a full-fledged film program. She bought into Geske's vision and, according to Ladely, "pledged she would support the program, which she's obviously done. She started very early on sending us financial donations."
In 1990, with the then Sheldon Film Theater struggling financially after a round of state budget cuts and slowly but surely being squeezed into oblivion by a director (Neubert) unfriendly toward the program, Ladely sent her a letter outlining his bold dream for a new theater space that would give the program a solid, independent foundation for survival and growth. It was just an idea. Ladely didn't even ask for money. Amazingly, her response was to donate 3.5 million dollars in an irrevocable trust, a giant windfall for an arts organization of any size anywhere, but a truly extraordinary and unprecedented commitment for a film series in the Midwest. The Sheldon Film Theater quickly became the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
Ladely, who has a portrait of his benefactress hanging in his office, said, "She's actually the perfect patron. She has really impeccable tastes in film and she loves the kind of films we show. She sees them in New York and often writes to me and sends in articles about films she's seen and makes recommendations to me. And very often they're films we're considering and we end up showing."
In the new space Ladely anticipates reviving some activities he was forced to abandon during leaner times, such as film retrospectives, artist showcases and screening seven nights a week. In the past he has brought to Lincoln prominent filmmakers and actors with local ties, including Joan Micklin Silver, Peter Fonda and John Beasley. And now for the first time the theater will sell concessions, including popcorn, a new revenue stream he's counting on to help defray expenses. He would also like to resume the theater's long dormant touring film exhibition program and to share programs with other organizations, such as a film series it cooperatively presented with the Joslyn a few years ago.
There's even more Ladely would like to do, but he admits all his plans are ultimately "contingent upon whether or not we can come up with enough money to keep the program going." That's why Ladely is using this down time while the MRRFT marquee is blank to write grants and solicit funds. Even if successful in securing enough money for the new theater's operating budget, he is left with the nagging realization that attendance just isn't what it used to be for documentaries by Emile De Antonio, Ricky Leacock, Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker (all of whom appeared at the old theater at one time or another) or for Hollywood classics or for the best emerging cinema from places like Iran.
Even in its fattest years, he said, "if the university hadn't been paying all the utilities…we couldn't have survived as a stand-alone theater in a market this size." That, and the fact the theater is about to come out of the shadows and expand in every way, has made for "sleepless nights" for Ladely, who is left "wondering how we're going to do it."
But, if nothing else, Ladely is an evangelist for film. He has a way of making you see the stars in his eyes when he discusses the kind of cinema he sees at the Telluride and Sundance festivals and that makes him compelled to share it with audiences here.
"I'm really interested in what's going on now. What's coming out. What's the next big thing. Who's doing what. I'm always interested in new filmmakers. And I'm very interested in what's happening locally. One of the major things we'll be doing in the small theater is have an open screening night where local filmmakers show their films. We'll be able to show them in almost any format." He said he keeps tabs on the local filmmaking scene and expects more new filmmakers to surface as technology makes moviemaking, especially the digital variety, more accessible and affordable, "That's going to be very exciting — to see what comes out of that."
Despite shrinking attendance for things like politically-charged documentaries, he will continue programming quality cinema regardless of how little box office potential it has, because that is part of what an alternative film series is all about, particularly one allied with a university.
"We have to balance this out between showing stuff that's very esoteric and very important, even if there's just one person in the audience, and showing stuff that's more popular and generates a bigger audience. Just like there are classes that are real popular and classes that aren't popular but are really important and you have to have, there are some kinds of films people don't want to see but it's absolutely important that, for example, film students see them in order to get a well-rounded education. The university has these burgeoning film studies and new media programs and I think our program definitely serves a need for those students." Reality also dictates the theater at least break even, which means Ladely must show slightly more mainstream fare or at least indie cinema with a strong buzz behind it in the hope that better box office returns offset losses incurred on more obscure selections.
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The Man Behind the Voice of Husker Football at Memorial Stadium
There are many voices of University of Nebraska football. Head Coach bo Pelini. Husker Sports Network play-by-play man Greg Sharpe. Not to be forgotten though is Husker football's Memorial Stadium public address announcer Patrick Combs, who lends his own signature personality to the goings-on inside that cathedral of college football without ever detracting from it. I did the piece a few years ago about Combs and his dream role as "The Voice of Husker Football."
The Man Behind the Voice of Husker Football at Memorial Stadium
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally appeared in Omaha Magazine
Patrick Combs, 41, lives a dream each Husker game day as the in-stadium announcer for Nebraska football. He grew up cheering Big Red at Memorial Stadium, where he and his late father, Lincoln, Neb. car dealer Woody Combs, bonded on Saturdays.
From age 13 on, he said, "it's safe to say my dream was to be the Voice of the Huskers. I always thought how cool it would be someday to be that booming voice…"
When not living his dream he's director of business development for NRG Media, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based company with 83 radio stations in seven states. Combs works out of the Omaha office, home to Waitt Radio Network. He loves radio, but despite a resonant voice he didn't seek a career in broadcasting, it sought him.
Growing up he and his family were into horses. His father, whom Combs said "had a great voice," announced area equestrian events, including those a young Pat rode in. Whenever his dad couldn't do an event, Combs filled in. People would invariably tell him, "You should be an announcer." Instead, he attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln intent on going into law or politics. He interned for then-Governor Bob Kerrey.
He ended up going to work for his dad. Recruited away by another dealer, he made general manager at 24. In 1993, he led a group of young American professionals to Taiwan for an international business summit and found a new calling.
"It was a life-changing month for me," Combs said. "I realized very quickly how fortunate we are in this country with the freedoms we have and the abilties we have to be entrepeneurial. I came back idealistic and energized…and I decided to channel that by running for political office to try to make a difference."
He entered the '94 U.S. Congressional race against Neb. Republican incumbant Doug Bereuter. Combs, a Democrat, was a 27-year-old unknown. But in a GOP-heavy state he managed 40 percent of the vote by campaigning every day and raising an unheard of $250,000 for his upstart bid. He failed to gain the same seat again in '96.
By then soured on selling cars and being denied a political career, he answered opportunity when KLIN in Lincoln asked him to co-host a talk show. The gig got in his blood and he learned the biz, laying the foundation for his 13-year radio career.
Life was good. He married, became a father of two, saw his career flourish at Waitt, which merged with NRG, and indulged his "passion" for riding Harleys. But two things were missing. The man he calls "my biggest idol and mentor" — his dad — died in 2001. And his dream job as Voice of Husker Nation seemed unattainable.
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Going on his fifth year as the P.A. man, he said, "I'm still like a little kid in a candy store. I love it." Though few know the name behind the voice, he said, "that's OK. I'm just thrilled to be there. I'm humbled every day I walk into the stadium and to be part of such a storied program. There's pressure to do a good job and I try very hard to do a good job. I do not want to let the fans down." That's why he preps hours before each contest. Calling a good game, he said, comes down "to being a facilitator of information and adding to the environment of the game."
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A political campaign in 95, enabled in 96 assembled a committee to pass legislation (SR322 LC 19 258: 2-10. 2-11, 2-12) actively detouring incoming tourist.
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In 07, iFREAKNiK like the original event however the similarities end there.
We learned to merch with a hands on approach.
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08, mentioned it would be a great idea to have a cartoon.
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Media outlets published false and misleading stuff.
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A year ago, I went to an Urgent Care clinic that my employer had just acquired. The treatment was OK, but I was disappointed to see Medical Assistants calling themselves "Nurses" and being referred to as such by coworkers - a... Read More
- 0Mar 20, '13 by uRNmywayQuote from psu_213This is obviously going to be an area of disagreement and that is fine, I have no intention of starting a fight. I worked on a adult telemetry floor. There was one nurse who regularly wore a Scooby Doo top. Another often wore a tinker bell top. Some people may like it. If I were a patient, I would be a little turned off by it if my nurse were wearing such a top and I was on the unit s/p cath.
Another example would be if I were just waking up in the PACU after major surgery and I see a nurse hovering over me with Sponge Bob scrubs. For me, not the most reassuring image. Then again, just my opinion, feel free to disagree.
Well sure, depends on the department, and depends on the patients. I think that those scrubs are fine with kids for sure. And like I said, it sure helped with my little old folks to remember who their nurse was. Just call for Scooby!
I do see what you mean, but at the same time, I don't see why the print on your outfit matters as long as it's not vulgar. If you are competent and how to properly care for a patient, you could come to work in your pajamas for all I care (not that scrubs look real different from pajamas...)
- 0Mar 21, '13 by samadams8Look, no one gives two figs what color scrubs someone is wearing. What they want to know is on the tag, or at least should be. The issue is nurses have these bizarre feelings about wearing the freaking name tags. Ooooh. . .someone is going to follow them home if they know their name. . .which could be done anyway, even if they didn't know their name.
If you have an earned title and license, be proud of it, and present it. But please know that you don't have to put every freaking letter of the alphabet and certification after you name. It's starts to look ridiculous when people put too many letters after their title. I have heard physicians joke and smirk over this all the time--overcompensation is how it comes off to them and others. Put your title-- license, and maybe one of your most relevant certs, if you want--like CCRN, whatever. I don't usually put it on anymore--just like I don't put PALS or ACLS or BCLS after my name. It just gets to be ridiculous.
A name tag or legal signature is not the place for all of your earned degrees and certs. That's for your CV and perhaps your office wall. But for heaven's sake, put your legal title on your badge. I don't necessarily think it's important to put BSN or MA or whatever, but I'm not gonna fight about it Put whatever your role is and save the rest for your CV, etc.
In most situations, no one really gives a damn. Do you see most physicians walking around with name tags that say John Smith MD, BA or BS, MA, etc? Maybe someone of them will reflect they are mudfuds, MD, PhD, or ScD or whatever, but most don't. It's overkill for a name tag or a legal signature. Your licensed role is enough. Otherwise, again, to most of us, it looks like ostentatious overcompensation.
I mean add the alphabet soup if you will, but if people aren't rolling their eyes externally, know that they are doing it internally--and many of those doing it have their own alphabet soup, which they don't make conspicuous. BTW, IMO, you should be learning for the internal content and knowledge and not to have something to display on some tag or a piece of paper. (I find when people put too much emphasis on external stuff, there are issues of insecurity--like really, you are defining yourself as a person? No. Your education is simply your education. It's not you. You should not be defined by it. Come on. Your extended education should be for your benefit and the benefit of your patients, period. So again, I say hang it on your office wall and put it in your CV, but name tags are for directly relevant titles within instutions.
As for scrubs colors, all I can say is God help those people that are forced to wear dayglo pink, green or purple. Egads.Last edit by samadams8 on Mar 21, '13


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Semper Fi: Always Faithful - Nov 09,2012
The United States of America is the greatest country on this earth. Our military serve us and fight for us so that we can continue to enjoy our freedom. But who is protecting our military from the corporations that continue to wreak havoc on our environment? Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Jerry Ensminger's mission to expose the Marine Corps and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of soldiers and their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a grave injustice at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and a looming environmental crisis at military sites across the country. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to Jerry Ensminger and talk about his mission to educate the public about this environmental nightmare! Stay Tuned!
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