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Comprehending the present is what history is all about. Its study is a fascinating and enjoyable discovery of how others, and ourselves, have arrived at the present. We study the past not to repeat it, but to understand how the knowledge of the past enriches our lives each day.
This knowledge is not only important, but also basic in an age of technology and globalization. History offers the depth of knowledge and breadth of background so important to a full life in a modern, civilized society.
Chadron State, through the Communication and Social Sciences Department, offers both a major and a minor in history, in addition to a subject endorsement. Students can take history courses in a host of topics, including the Pacific Rim, 20th Century American History, Canada, Latin America, Modern Germany, the American West, and American Indians.
The mission of the history program is to engender an informed, critical, and articulate sense of the past, an appreciation for the diversity of the human experience, and an awareness of the role of tradition, people, and past events in shaping the present. The two majors within the history program develop a variety of practical research and communication skills and provide a foundation for graduate work, teaching, archival and library services, the study of law, as well as careers in business and the professions.


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A paperweight with central purple flower and opaque spiral canes with alternate red stripes, bears mark PY.
Nick, I hope you get a fair response from the auction house.However, their description for the item was accurate:They had not said it was made by Paul Ysart. Also, their images were good and the enlargements showed excellent detail, with a very clear view of the "py" cane with its differing colours for the two letters.The estimate of £150 - £200 was perhaps a little high but does reflect the price realised for similar weights over the past two or three years.As Sue and Alan have touched on, there is certainly a market for these weights.
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KimberlyM needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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We are a crewed charter company and sailboat charter brokerage. We are a group of friends and professionals who have a passion for sailing, and in our "spare" time we broker and crew sailing charters in the Caribbean (and hopefully other destinations to follow as we expand our customer base). PiratesAtlanta started nearly ten years ago, and has provided wonderful sailing experiences to friends and "friends of friends." We now want to broaden the enterprise to become a more full-time pursuit and to reach independent customers.
Our primary target is other groups and professionals who enjoy sailing and are looking for a more personalized and fun (but every bit as professional and knowledgeable) way to charter than what they can get from the more established charter companies. Ideally we will reach financially secure people who will be repeat clients and who can extend our business through word-of-mouth to a network of similar friends and colleagues. However, we also see an opportunity to reach those who have never sailed/chartered before by offering the more personalized and customized experience. Our goal is to share the joy of sailing with others, so that they can fully experience these destinations (not confined to land). Our market includes people who enjoy beach and adventurous vacations. Typically they are not people who would take cruises or a "resort" vacation, but we would like to draw away some of that market to experience sailing.
--We are striving for a professional and upscale image (i.e., no cartoons, no pirate imagery)
--Image should convey fun and adventure (but not violence)
--Typeface should be crisp and bold—to stand out in a crowd and from a distance without being too "overbearing"
Please feel free to experiment with colors…though ideally we would have a logo that will show up well on a blue background (see Nike "Italy Blue") as that is the proposed color for our crew attire.
--Would like to consider incorporating the nautical flags for "P" and "A" in the logo, but not a requirement.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Our logo uses include: website, printed materials and merchandise (t-shirts, koozies, beach towels, etc.) It would help us to have one element of the logo that could be separated from the "full" logo, for example, a "simple" logo with just the Pirates Atlanta name.
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http://sailtmm.com (design is okay, but colors don't stand out)
Good non-sailing logos: BP, Starbucks, Swatch, Maserati (but not colors)
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Lin Dong, a child from a small village isn't favored by his clan. By chance, Lin Dong obtains a mysterious artifact that is coveted by many clans in the martial world. Because of this artifact, Lin Dong is approached by many people of different clans and is forcibly involved in various events of the martial universe
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text: Don't Bet on a Bean Price Bump September 6, 2013 11:00 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email The market will be hit with another round of USDA reports Sept. 12. Jerry Gulke provides his pre-report pricing advice. On Thursday, Sept. 12, USDA will release its September Crop Producer and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says these reports could hold some market- shifting information. The soybean market could hold the biggest surprise, Gulke predicts. "We are narrowing the time frame that we can either make or kill the crop," he says. "At this point, it will be what it is." Hear Gulke's full audio analysis: His advice is to watch what USDA does with the exports and other usage. Demand will be key, considering soybean supply is large. "If you look at what we're going to grow in the U.S., even with a 41 bu./acre national average, and what South America has left over and what the U.S. has left over, we have 500 million bu. more soybeans going into Sept. 1, than we had last year." What will this mean for prices? "Do we really think that $13 beans will go to $16? I told my guys that I don't want any beans on my farm at $14," he says. "My bean bins will be empty at $14." Gulke says that with South America's large soybean supply, they will stay competitive, with U.S. prices, through this fall. "If I was going to sell anything, I'd sell the beans. Get rid of them," he says. For corn, Gulke says farmers need to prepare for a large U.S. crop. "We're going to grow a lot of corn this year, whether we get 150 bu./acre or 160 bu./acre or somewhere in between," he says. Gulke is keeping his eye on U.S. corn demand. "The demand prospects by USDA need to be monitored pretty closely. Every report since February has lowered the prospect for demand of U.S. corn," he says. The most likely situation, Gulke believes, is for corn prices to stay depressed. "I don't see a lot of hope for corn. My concern is we are going to be plagued with a lot of corn for a while. Next year, if we get a decent crop, it could get worse." The only silver lining is these are not uncharted waters for the corn market. "We've been through this before," Gulke says. "It typically takes 3 or so years to get out of this mess once we have oversupply. It is an interesting situation. It is a major difference from a few years ago." Following the report, Gulke advises farmers to be sure and watch the market close. "We need a drastically bullish report," he says. "If the market closes and collapses on good news, there is a lot more in this market that is negative that I anticipated a year ago." Have a question for Jerry? Contact him at 815-721-4705 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For More Information AgWeb will have full coverage of the Sept. 12 reports, following their release at 11 a.m. CDT. See current market prices in AgWeb's Market Center Back to news


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National Heart Month Wrap-Up!
February is officially over; we hope everyone enjoyed their "extra" day! This also means that National Heart Month is coming to a close. Uniform Advantage was able to raise $824 to support the American Cancer Society's "Go Red" program for increasing awareness and education about how to prevent the #1 killer in the US.
Read these startling facts about why this cause is so important to support:
- Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US. That's 2,200 deaths per day!
- More women die from heart disease than from the next 3 causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer.
- Men and women have different heart attack symptoms. In fact 64% of women who die suddenly of coronary heart disease had no previous symptoms.
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A GRADUATE CONDUCTING RECITAL By LAUREN ELIZABETH KINGRY SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE: Raymond Chobaz, Chair Russell L. Robinson, Member A PROJECT IN LIEU OF THESIS PRESENTED TO THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2012
Summary of Performance Option in Lieu of Thesis Presented to the College of Fine Arts of the University of Florida i n Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Music A GRADUATE CONDUCTING RECITAL By Lauren Elizabeth Kingry May 2012 Chair: Raymond Chobaz Major: Music Th is M aster of Music Conducting R ecital was performed on November 29, 2011 at 7:30pm in the University Memorial Auditorium. The program included works from the standard orchestral repertoire as well as select works chosen by the 2011 2012 Concerto Competition Winners. The recital was performed by the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra and included two pieces for instrumental soloists and orchestra, as well as two works for large symphonic orchestra. The opening piece was s Overture to his opera Der Freisch tz. The opera, usually hunter who makes a deal with the devil. The young man is allowed seven magic bullets th at are guaranteed to hit wh ichever target he chooses Der Freisch tz is classified as the first German romantic opera, one that would begin to reject its Italian counterpart s and serve as a precursor to German nationalist music. The Overture was chosen for this performance because it truly It foreshadows the drama that plays out in the opera and ref lects the continuous shifting moods of the forest where the Marksman hunts.
Next on th e program was the Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra by Swedish composer Lars Erik Larsson which featured Joshua Bond, the winner of the undergraduate division of the annual Concerto Competition. As a compositional st yle exemplifies a complete understand ing of twelve tone technique while including late roma nticism and neo classical features as well. His Concerto for Saxophone was written for Sigurd Rascher and stands alone as a significant contribution to the art of saxophone performance in Sweden. The graduate winner of the concerto competition was Anna Feucht, a vocalist who artfully prepared the Regnava nel Silencio Lucia di Lammermoor. In this scene, Lucia laments that she has just seen the ghost of a girl who w as killed in a jealous rage. Donizetti masterfully illustrates her torment with dramatic ornamentations and embellishments as the soprano reaches a high D. The final work on the program was the monume ntal First Symphony of Ludwig va n Beethoven. While giving obvious hom age to his two great influences, Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven still find s his own voice in style and form. The Symphony surprises the listener with a musical joke, as the first chord tonicises the subdominan t of the home key, no other symphony had ever begun this way! The work continues to captivate listeners throughout with its seamless transitions, change in textures and timbres and overall attention to detail. Beethoven gave the premier e himself, when he was twenty nine. Offering his first large orchestral work to the public was no easy task and while reviews of the Symphony have varied since its inception, the sounds spoke for themselves and have secure d a place in history as the beginning signs of a rev olutionist.
PROGRAM NOTES Carl Maria von Weber began work on Der Freischtz in 1817, although it was not finished Romantic opera, one that would lead away from its Italian counterpart and serve as a precursor to German nationalist music. Friedrich Kind, the librettist, based his text upon the German folklore of a Freischtz, in which a marksman signs a contract with t he devil. The devil allows him seven bullets which are to hit, without fail, whatever he wishes. The Overture foreshadows the drama of the opera and reflects the shifting moods of the forest. The opening chords illustrate the serene, sunlight peeking throu gh the trees. Before becoming too complacent, a shuddering tremolo of the strings is heard as the basses and timpani emulate a mysterious tone meant to depict Samiel, the young marksman and his seven charmed bullets. The New York Times review exclaimed of Swedish composer Lars Erik Larsson studied at the Stockholm Conservatory as a student of Alban Berg. He later moved to Vienna and Leipzig to study with Fritz Reuter. In 1947, Larsson became D irector of Music of the Stockholm Conservatory and in 1961 he took the same position at Uppsala University. His composition style is eclectic, ranging from late Romantic to neo tone technique. His Concerto for Saxophone and Strings was written for saxophonist Sigurd Rascher. The work is not only the first Swedish saxophone concerto, but stands as a significant contribution to the art of saxophone performance in Sweden. The story of Lucia di La mmermoor The Bride of Lammermoor In Regnava nel silenzio (Act I, Scene 2), Lucia stands at the fountain in the park of Ravenswood Castle describing an encounter with the ghost of a girl who was slain in a jealous rage by one of her ancestors. She also mentions that the water had turned to blood. This aria is a e of Lucia di Lammermoor took place in Naples in 1835. At the age of twenty nine, a young Beethoven conducted the premiere of his first large orchestral work at the Hofburg Theater in Vienna on April 2, 1800. The First Symphony seems to bid farewell to th e eighteenth century and welcomes the dawning of a new age. It serves as Gottfried van Swieten. While the nods to his teacher Haydn are obvious, Beethoven finds his own language in style and form. At the first sounds, he rejects all listener expectations and begins on the wrong chord: the dominant to the subdominant. This is commonly referred to as a musical experimentation. Reviews of the symphony have varied since its premiere. One critic of the symphony can spea k for themselves, and its place in history will hold firm as the beginning signs of a revolutionist.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Lauren E. Kingry is Associate Conductor and Graduate Assistant of the University of Florida Sympho ny Orchestra, under the supervision of Dr. Raymond Chobaz. She is seeking a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting with a concentration in Music Education. Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Ms. Kingry holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Ed ucation with an emphasis in instrumental performance also from the University of Florida. Before graduating with her Bachelor degree, she completed her student teaching internship in Naples, Florida, instructing middle school orchestral and choral classes, as well as elementary general music classes. As an educator, her interests include string pedagogy and techniques as well as conducting and rehearsal methods in the secondary music classroom. While attending graduate school at the University of Florida, Ms. Kingry founded and directed the University of Florida String Ensemble with whom she gave numerous performances. In celebration of UF Homecoming 2011 2012, Ms. Kingry conducted the First Annual Swamp Symphony concert, which included the world premiere of three pieces. As Associate Conductor of the University Symphony, she conducted the Annual Concerto Competition winners in concerts in November 2010 and 2011. Her graduate conducting recital featured the 2011 2012 undergraduate and graduate concerto winn Der Freischtz and Symphony No. 1. In the summer of 2011, Ms. Kingry was accepted to intern at the Ambrit International School in Rome, Italy, where she instructed general music classes to international studen ts, ages three through third grade. An avid performer, Ms. Kingry has held principal and section string bass positions in many ensembles, some of which include Ocala (FL) Symphony, Gainesville (FL) Chamber, Valdosta (GA) Symphony and Albany (GA) Symphony Orchestras. At UF, she has performed
with the University Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Clarinet Choir, Brazilian Ensemble: Jacar Brazil, Steel Drum Ensemble: The Sunshine Steelers and countless other musical groups. Ms. Kingry has participated in op eratic productions of Carmina Burana La Traviata Tosca, and most recently, Die Fledermaus Her professional memberships include NAfME: the National Association for Music Educators, Florida Music Educators Association, Florida Orchestra Associat ion, American String Teachers Association and the College Orchestra Directors Association.


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Recent in-game audio from Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco includes the Super Bowl MVP urging teammates to take out 49ers return specialist Ted Ginn Jr. during the last play of Baltimore's championship win.
Predictably, the question of whether Flacco was joking or serious depends on the ear of the listener. Ravens fans insist he was kidding. Pretty much everyone else who listens to it objectively believes Flacco meant business.
Ravens receiver Anquan Boldin appeared on Friday's edition of Pro Football Talk, and Boldin admitted that it was no joke.
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The Legend of Tucker Lane is Just Beginning
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Let's get this straight right now. Nebraska heavyweight wrestler Tucker Lane has three personal goals imbedded deeply in his mind over the next month:
1) Hold his own against the NCAA's No. 1 heavyweight, David Zabriskie, in third-ranked Nebraska's 2 p.m. dual against fourth-ranked Iowa State Sunday at the NU Coliseum;
2) Take on Zabriskie, plus the nation's Nos. 2 and 3-ranked heavyweights (from Missouri and Oklahoma State) at the Big 12 Championship March 7 in Lincoln; and
3) "Finish on top" as an All-American (top eight finisher) at the NCAA Wrestling Championships March 19-21 in St. Louis.
Sounds a bit aggressive for a redshirt freshman who grew up in an unincorporated town in southwestern Colorado – a community so remote that it has more small farms and uranium mines than people and is 100 miles and three mountain passes from the nearest McDonald's.
Well, it probably is aggressive, but the Legend of Tucker Lane is just beginning. So, please, expect nothing less than the best from this 4.0 student who chose Nebraska over perennial collegiate wrestling power Iowa and many others. He came to Lincoln with a 31 ACT score and would never, ever restrict the power of his own positive thinking. So why should we?
Tucker Lane is, after all, the first-born of one Larry Lane, a.k.a. "Red Dog Lane" when he wrestled professionally out of Charlotte, North Carolina, before becoming "Cowboy Larry Lane from Muleshoe, Texas" and touring North America with the National Wrestling Alliance, based in Amarillo.
Yes, Tucker Lane is the proud son of a father who spent 10 years (1973-83) wrestling against men who would peroxide their hair, wear ornate robes in the ring, faint purposely during a match, resort to eye pokes, shin breakers and butterfly neck-breakers, and, oh yes, did we mention how those same men would shout into a microphone whenever anybody would listen?
One of Wrestling's Biggest Icons is a Family Friend
"The first thing people think about professional wrestling is how flamboyant and over-the-top it is," Tucker said. "Obviously, I've been exposed to that side of things. I mean, when we went to see Ric Flair (a 21-time world champion), he came over to talk to us because he and my dad are great friends.
"The stereotype is flamboyant, but really, I come from a very modest background," Tucker said. "When my dad was a professional wrestler, he never went over the top. That's why he wasn't a huge star in the business. He was just your everyday, blue-collar, working wrestler who went out and did his job. He didn't wear a robe or worry about the frivolous things.
"My dad and I talk about his pro wrestling days all the time. I know all the stories by heart," Tucker said. "When you're talking to my dad, you're not really talking . . . you're listening, and I never grow tired of hearing about his life on the road. After a match, depending on how big the draw was, he'd either be spending the night at the Hilton or under the ring or, even worse, in the back of a truck in the rain. He had to make do with whatever he had. One night, he might be eating rotten tomatoes. The next night, he'd be living high on the hog."
Larry Lane started three years as a heavyweight at Northern Colorado before he was drafted during the Vietnam War and ended up wrestling on the All-Army team that toured the East Coast. When the war started to wind down, the Army next asked him to compete on the All-Service team where he was billed as "Larry Lane, All-American" in exhibition matches across the country and from Puerto Rico to Japan and Korea.
When he left the Army, he became a high school teacher and coach. He was making $400 a month in Colorado when pro wrestling beckoned. "I was invited to my first pro match in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so I decided to give it a try," he recalled. "I pinned a guy in five minutes and was told to collect my pay in the next room. I remember them handing me five crisp $100 bills, and all I could think was – '$500 for only five minutes of work?' Remember, that was 36 years ago."
Cowboy Larry Lane took the money, quit his teaching job the first chance he got and kept running after more fame and fortune over the next 10 years.
'Red Dog' Had Only One Gimmick – 1,000 Silver Dollars
"My first six months in pro wrestling, I was 'Red Dog Lane' – the villain out of Charlotte," he said. "When I became a fan favorite in Calgary, I preferred the good guy role. The only gimmick I ever had was putting 1,000 'real' silver dollars in a fish bowl. I offered that as a prize to anyone who could stay in the ring with me for 10 minutes."
Did anyone ever take those silver dollars home? "Of course not – only me," Larry said. "I needed that money a lot more than anyone else."
Over the next 3 ½ years, Cowboy Larry Lane estimates he wrestled a hundred matches with that fish bowl sitting next to the ring. Despite his blue-collar approach, he became a top-of-the-card performer and made seriously decent money over the last half of his pro career.
"I learned the more you made, the more you spent," he said.
As fascinating as his life was, Larry Lane started looking more for fulfillment than fun, and ironically, the best wrestling gig he was ever offered came shortly before another low-paying teaching/coaching opportunity emerged from his home state of Colorado.
Wisdom must have been the result of an important lesson learned. Shortly after verbally agreeing to sign a contract that would pay him $3,000 a week to tour Japan for at least a year – with all expenses paid and taxes included – his old high school superintendent in Montrose, Colo., called Larry to ask if he might be interested in teaching and coaching again.
This time, when he came to a fork in the road, Cowboy Larry took the one in his heart, not the one promised to be paved with gold bricks.
"I ended up signing the much smaller contract," Larry said. "When push came to shove and when all the smoke cleared, I knew it wasn't so much about weighing what was lucrative, but indefinite against something steady, but long-term. It was more about hard work, doing what was right and re-establishing life priorities. I have no regrets at all about the decision I made."
Cowboy Larry Got Married, Focused on His Family
Cowboy Larry Lane has no regrets because the money he turned down turned out to be the best investment he ever made.
Within a year of leaving the pros and going back home, he married for the first time. He and his wife, Gwen, 20 years younger and "a lot tougher than I am", will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary this summer.
They are the parents of three academically gifted, hard-driving athletes – son Tucker, in his second year on a full-ride at Nebraska; son Stryker, who this weekend is going after a third Colorado state high school heavyweight championship in Denver after recently accepting a full scholarship at second-ranked Cornell; and daughter Mollie, a high school junior, who, despite weighing only 130 pounds, has finished second twice in state meet discus competition. "Mollie may be the smartest of all three children," Larry said.
"She also may be the toughest," Tucker added. "My sister is very supportive and my biggest fan, but I don't want to mess with her. She's every bit as tough as Stryker and I are."
She's another benefactor of her father's vision, her mother's wisdom and their joint commitment to enable and maximize their children's gifts.
"It's obvious how tough my dad is, but he's always said for any kid to be tough, the mom's got to be tough, too," Tucker said. "I think it's true. If the mom's not tough, the kid can turn out weaker than wet toilet paper."
Well, guess what? Gwen Lane, the matriarch of this hard-charging family, "is one of the toughest people I know. She'll stand up and fight with the best of them," Tucker said. "Don't get me wrong. She's the most loving and supportive mother I've ever seen. I mean, she cooks for us. She drives the bus to our meets, and she films the competition once we get there. She'll do anything."
Anything, that is, except allow any shortcuts to the tough workouts that Tucker, Stryker and Mollie have completed for five mornings a week since they were grade-schoolers.
Tailor-Made Facilities for Wrestling, Everything Else
"If you've ever been to the Lanes' little ranch out in the middle of nowhere, you'll see two barns behind the house," Nebraska Wrestling Coach Mark Manning said. "One is a wrestling room with a full mat. The other is a weight room with all the weights you need."
Cowboy Larry laughs when people say Redvale, Colo., isn't close to anywhere. "Why," he said, "we're 800 miles from Lincoln, 800 miles from Tulsa, 800 miles from Reno and 800 miles from Waterloo. How much more centrally located can you get?"
Tucker admits there are pros and cons to living in such relative isolation.
"Being a wrestler, those barns were my dad's first priority when we were growing up," Tucker said. "My dad didn't just build those wrestling barns, though. He built us our own football field, our own baseball field and our own track to run on. I mean, he had overhead ladders built for us outside and climbing ropes tied into the tree."
The Lanes loved the freedom of living in wide-open spaces. "Where else can you do everything you love to do right on your own property?" Tucker asked. "That's what my dad did and loved doing, and we all benefited from it. We didn't have all the other resources that an athlete in the city might have, so my dad studied up and made sure he found the best way to give us what we needed most to succeed. I guess you'd have to say he always seemed to find it. Pretty much any sport you wanted to do, he had a facility to do it. It was pretty cool then. It's even cooler now."
It's cooler because, more than ever, Tucker Lane realizes how much his own potential legend is tied to the Legend of Cowboy Larry Lane.
"My dad really taught me about all the important things in life, especially how to work hard for everything you get," Tucker said. "I couldn't be happier about the way my parents have raised me. I'm proud of my dad just like he's proud of me. His lifelong love has been wrestling, and his experience has really let me live the dream that most people just don't ever get a chance to live. I get to wrestle, go to class and prove myself every day."
Nebraska's head coach knows the source of that attitude. "Cowboy Larry Lane . . . I love that guy," Manning said. "He's tough on Tucker, Stryker and Mollie, but it's only because he wants the very best for them. I mean, those kids all have great values, great work ethic and tremendous humility."
Cowboy Larry "feels my successes and failures just as much as I do, if not more," Tucker said. "Even though he had this unbelievable wrestling career for 30-plus years, he always wanted more and always wondered what he could do better. He wanted to make sure I had the chances he never really had. We've had some emotional moments, but I know they're only because he loves me so much. He only pushed me because he cared."
Tucker: 'I Have As Good a Chance as Anyone'
Tucker's motivation and focus are exceeded only by his honesty and humility.
"I'm happy with everything going on in my life right now," he said. "I love Lincoln, Nebraska and the life that I have here. Even though I've had my ups and downs as a freshman starter, I have a chance to put on a big push here against the best heavyweights in the country, starting Sunday and continuing on through Big 12 and the NCAA. I've been taught all my life that I have as good a chance as anyone, if I work hard, learn and execute what my coach plans for me."
Manning shares the optimism. "Tucker has really stepped up to the challenge," he said. "He's won a lot of matches and shown a lot of character. He's so conscientious and has such high standards for himself. We're all excited about what our team is going to do and what he's going to do here in the Big 12 and the NCAA."
A large part of Tucker's optimism rides on the shoulders of his higher-ranked teammates. "Having Craig Brester, Brandon Browne, Jordan Burroughs and Stephen Dwyer around really helps Tucker," Manning said. "They really set the ladder high for him, and he has risen up to that. You want a freshman and first-year starter to step up to that challenge and expectation level. Tucker has done a great job wrestling under pressure. You know, a lot of times the match comes down to him, and he's responded."
In this week's national individual rankings, only three freshmen are included in the top 20 heavyweights. Ranked 15th, Tucker Lane is one of those freshman.
"We're hoping Tucker's legend is just beginning," Manning said. "He's certainly worked hard enough, and he's not the only one who thinks he can finish in the top eight and become an All-American next month. I think he can, too."


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|'The End of Time' - Originally broadcast 25 Decemeber 2009 - 1 January 2010.
This is important to this review for two reasons. The first is that it was really David Tennant's Tenth Doctor who convinced me that the show was worth sticking with. The second is that, even once converted, even with my Doctor on the screen, I was never really taken with Davies' vision and whilst it was sad to see Tennant go (more on that later), it was a relief for me to see Steven Moffat taking over in 2010. Who fandom being what it is, there is a very good chance that you disagree with me here, so I ask you to bear it all in mind as you read the rest of my review. These are my thoughts about the final moments of my Doctor. I hope you find them insightful in some way, but don't take them too much to heart.
Coming in at around two hours, twelve and a half minutes, The End of Time is a rather long story for the new series. It is also complex, convoluted and, if you try to follow its internal logic too closely, rather confusing. Because of this I don't intend to take you through it step by step, nor do I intend to recap the story. Chances are you've seen it already, but if not, then there's no need for too much in the way of spoilers either. Instead let's break it down into its larger pieces, see where they work and where they do not, and then examine how it all comes together as a whole.
There's actually too much going on, even in the first episode whilst everything's building and Davies' somehow still has time to show us one of the most boring chase scenes ever (through a gravel pit, no less - was he being ironic?) and later an equally boring confrontation. Even the excellent David Tennant and John Simm are unable to save some of their early scenes together. The script feels hollow, the drama false and the special effects are just plain laughable.
But it does get better, at least a little. Once the Master's ridiculous plot is shoved aside for the true focus of events, the story finally starts to develop a sense of direction and whilst it's never really what it ought to be, it does manage to generate a sense of excitement and peril. Not Davies' best stuff, but passable Who and considerably more palatable than the nonsense which had preceded it.
And then the story as it has been ends, and there's still another twenty minutes of running time remaining. But I'm still not going there yet...
So what's next? The characters? Why not?
There are lots of uninteresting, unimportant or completely throwaway characters in this story, from the singularly dull Joshua Naismith and his two-line daughter, to the slightly more prominent, but still largely unnecessary Vinvocci aliens, but this does allow much more time for the characters that actually matter.
Whilst there are some scenes (particularly in that gravel pit) where the script or the cinematography let him down, David Tennant does some of his best work as the Doctor in this story, particularly towards the end, but also notably in two separate conversations with Bernard Cribbins' Wilf, both of which reveal much about the character and set the table, so to speak, for the regeneration which is to come. He is deeply emotional in these episodes, more so than we've seen him before, and yet he's never overacting or hamming it up in any way. This is the Doctor, undeniably, at the edge of all that he is, desperate not to have to say goodbye, and we are utterly convinced.
John Simm does some good work as the Master, when he's not laughing maniacally or demonstrating appalling table manners. If there's one thing we can be in no doubt of by the end of his first five minutes on screen it is that he is totally, utterly mad. There are the more tender moments, however, in the presence of the Doctor, when we see another side to this character; the side the Doctor sees and desperately wants to set free.
Also of note are Claire Bloom, playing the mysterious 'woman' with understated brilliance and Timothy Dalton, whose Rassilon is much better on-screen in part two than he is as an over-dramatic narrator in part one.
All told, at this point, if I were to put the pieces I've examined back together and give it a score, it would be a pretty low one. The strength of the key characters is largely overshadowed by the silliness of the plot and whilst this is a Christmas special, and so silliness is not unusual, in my opinion this is the silliest of them all, featuring all the worst excesses of Russell T. Davies' imagination. It's worth maybe five out of ten? Perhaps a six, if I'm feeling especially generous (I'm not).
But there is one piece of the story I have left untouched: the ending.
As I said before, the story ends with twenty minutes still left on the clock. What follows is an extended ending which, if I were being uncharitable, I might describe as Davies' being self-indulgent with his characters, but for once I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The last twenty minutes is brilliant.
From the moment we hear that fateful knocking on the glass of the radiation chamber, the whole focus of the episode shifts. This is no longer about running through gravel and saving the Earth from egotistical madmen. No. This has become purely a character piece and all our attention is on the Doctor, first on his fear, his anger, his hurt, and then on his tender compassion, his bravery, his loss.
The regeneration itself is spectacular, destroying the TARDIS almost as much as it destroys the Tenth Doctor and then we're left with a fresh new face, a world of new possibilities once more and, above all else, a madman in a box.
The End of Time is a confused story. It wants to be so much more than it achieves, but its ending, the part that finishes one era and begins another, is a work of great beauty and redeems much of what comes before it. Taking this into account I have to give it a somewhat more balanced score. The ending itself would easily be worth nine of ten, but that is only twenty minutes out of one hundred and thirty. It's a tough decision, but here goes... 7/10. Maybe that wasn't so difficult after all?
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CANNES, France — Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else's script for the first time?
In a word: "relief."
"Writing is wonderful, I've mined some things out of myself, but I'm interested in the art of directing," Payne said here this week, ahead of the festival premiere of "Nebraska," his latest movie. "What I've written has been out of desperation, to have something to direct."
The impressive "Nebraska," starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte and written by Bob Nelson, joins tart-tongued screwball comedy with unexpected poignancy and warmth to remarkable effect. Even more remarkable, given how good the script is, is the fact that Payne has been sitting on the project for nine years.
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"Nebraska," beautifully shot in expressive widescreen black and white by Phedon Papamichael, centers on an aging, dementia-afflicted resident of Billings, Mont., who's convinced he's won $1 million in a sweepstakes and won't be talked out of going to prize headquarters in Omaha to collect. His exasperated son agrees to drive him there, a journey that includes a side trip to the small Nebraska town where his father was born and lived a chunk of his life.
Nelson, a first-time screenwriter, has family roots in Nebraska, and the story resonated with Payne, himself a native of the state.
"Bob is a writer from Snohomish, Wash. — which I like to say because Bob & Ray used to say it — but his parents were from a small town in Nebraska," Payne related over lunch in a quiet hotel dining room, with "Amour" star Emmanuelle Riva at the next table. "Producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa showed [the script] to me, they thought it was probably too small to do myself but wondered if I could recommend another director with a Nebraska connection. I read it and I said, 'How about me?'"
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"Nebraska," which Paramount Pictures will release Nov. 22 in the United States, has some funny and pointed things to say about family, memory and getting old. Payne held off making the film for many years for prosaic reasons — "Shooting in cars is such a drag that I didn't want to follow 'Sideways' with another road picture," he said — but the delay ended up deepening the material for him.
"In the intervening years, my parents have aged, we've all been aging," said Payne, 52. "As a son with two older parents, I was able to draw on some of my own experience. I've lived a lot of the elements in the film — not literally, but the emotions."
(Payne said he did some uncredited work on the script. "In a way, it's the same process of adapting a book," he said. "You get to have dialogue with the author.")
To play the film's obsessive, always difficult father Woody Grant, Payne chose 76-year-old Dern, who is often cast in darker roles. "I like how he looks," the director said. "He could convey both orneriness and sweetness, as well as a certain childlike quality that could come with old age."
A more unexpected choice was Forte, of "Saturday Night Live" fame, for the straight dramatic role of the son, David Grant. "He sent in a self-recorded audition tape and I liked it very much," Payne said. "I like actors with great comic timing in dramatic parts. He communicates a sweetness, a humanity and a certain amount of damage. You just feel like you went to high school with him."
Certain to make a strong impression is June Squibb, who plays Woody's wife, Kate, an acerbic, exasperated woman who never says anything nicer to anyone than "you dumb cluck."
Squibb, a New York stage actress, portrayed Jack Nicholson's wife in Payne's "About Schmidt," but she was also cast partly thanks to an audition tape. "She did something fantastic on her tape," Payne said. "She played the character two different ways, straight and as a virago." You can guess which version won.
Payne has never found it a problem to work with actors who have gone over the top in other people's movies. "These guys are pros," he explains, "and the best actors need to know from their director what film they're in. You ask them to do it a certain way and then you edit it. That's why God gave us more takes."
As he's done in his previous movies, Payne and his casting director, John Jackson, also make liberal use of nonprofessionals in key roles, especially when the film gets to Nebraska. "I like to lavish attention on subsidiary characters," Payne said, "and he's my secret weapon."
What Payne also likes is shooting in his home state.
"It interests me," he says with a smile. "It doesn't matter where you set a film so it might as well be a place you know well, so you get the details right. The Czech director Jiri Weiss once said to me, 'Oh my dear, you have Nebraska. It's like having your own little Czech Republic.'"
So it has proved to be, and never more so than with this sparkling new film.
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Unlike Orville and Wilbur Wright, who a century ago turned to ingenuity and physics to achieve airtime, fellow North Carolinian Cameron Pierce chose snowboarding. In the latest Forum release Forever, Cameron breaks out with a grip of shots that make anything that went down at Kitty Hawk a hundred years ago look pussy. (How's that for some in-your-face hyperbole?) Now, back to our regularly scheduled On Deck interview…
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Tell us about snowboarding at Cataloochee in North Carolina.
Cataloochee is a small hill in the Appalachians; I basically was one of like four people that snowboarded there. At Cataloochee there's a lot of camo one pieces— the usual hunting attire. There are two lifts, five trails, and maybe like 500 feet of vertical.
Ever ride there with anyone who looks like Benjamin Button?
Tyler Flanagan? Little Flanny—I shredded with him all the time at Cataloochee. If you ask him about Cataloochee, he'll for sure say he knows what's up.
How did you get a gig working on Brighton's park staff?
Right after I graduated high school in 2006, I was a digger at Windells and Jared Winkler from Brighton was the head digger. By the end of the summer I had made friends with all the Brighton park crew dudes, and they said I had a job if I wanted to move there. Then I just peaced out of North Carolina to Utah.
Are the resorts around Salt Lake still stereotyped by the locals?
I would say that most of the hipsters ride Brighton, most of the gangsters ride Park City, and thehippy-powshred-dogs ride Snowbird. A lot of the ex-park crew kids at Brighton work at The Canyons now—they have their own little deal and are just now starting to make a name.
While we're on the subject of "making things," can you tell us how to make moonshine?
Start with equal parts water, corn, and sugar. You mash it all up and then let it sit in the sun and ferment for a few weeks. Next, put it all in a still and heat it. The steam will rise to the top, collect, and then slowly run down a coil to a bucket at the bottom. Inside that bucket is white lightning.
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Debrahlee Lorenzana is the woman who may have answered the question "How hot is too hot … for a major international banking firm?"
The former Manhattan Citibank employee claims she was fired for being … wait for it … too good looking! Lorenzana filed a gender discrimination lawsuit after she was canned, claiming she was constantly reprimanded for "dressing sexily" at the office before getting the boot. She lost the case when it went to arbitration.
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ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta rapper was shot dead in a car outside a hospital where his fiancee was due to give birth in what prosecutors say was an elaborate murder-for-hire plot involving gang members, a former Russian mobster and a basketball star.
Melvin Vernell III — known as Lil Phat — was killed after he stole 10 pounds of marijuana, prosecutors said. They've indicted five people in the plot, including another rapper they say belongs to an Alabama-based gang, a former Russian mafia member turned informant and a college basketball standout from California.
Vernell, who was 19 when he died, stole the drugs from Decensae Xavier White, a San Francisco State University point guard also known as Griz, and Gary Bradford, a rapper who goes by El Dorado Red, prosecutors said. Angry and seeking revenge, the pair hired Deandre Washington and Maurice DeWayne Conner to kill him for $10,000, prosecutors said.
Washington and Conner were able to find Vernell at the hospital on the outskirts of Atlanta using GPS coordinates given to them by White and Bradford, who had gotten the information from Mani Chulpayev, who runs a business leasing expensive luxury cars and had rented out the car Vernell was driving the day he died, prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys flatly deny that version of events.
At the June 13 bond hearing for four of the five men accused in Vernell's death, prosecutor Sheila Ross and defense attorneys painted dramatically different portraits of the men accused in the case.
Chulpayev, 38, was convicted in the late 1990s on charges related to his involvement in Russian organized crime and then became an FBI informant, his original lawyer in the current case, George Plumides, said. Plumides told ABC News in May that Chulpayev's FBI handler asked for and received from Chulpayev gifts of cash, jewelry, tickets to sporting events, hotel rooms and the use of luxury cars.
The FBI's Atlanta field office has said the agency took immediate action to address those accusations and that the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General had initiated an investigation.
Plumides, who withdrew from the case after Chulpayev's June 13 bond hearing after prosecutors objected to a perceived conflict, said the FBI agent tried to keep local police investigating Vernell's death away from Chulpayev. But that actually complicated things for him because Chulpayev was eager to talk to police to clear his name in the matter and offered multiple times to take a lie detector test, Plumides said.
Chulpayev rented out luxury cars and had GPS trackers on them so he can repossess the car quickly if the person failed to make a payment, Plumides said. Getting such expensive cars requires capital, and White had invested in Chulpayev's business, which is how White had the tracking information — not because Chulpayev gave it to him to kill Vernell, Plumides said.
Vernell had leased six cars from Chulpayev over an 18-month period, Plumides said.
"Why would you kill the goose that laid the golden egg?" Plumides asked during the bond hearing.
Ross said White was "the setup man," the one with a direct connection to Chulpayev, and who conspired with Bradford to have Vernell killed. White is not a gang member himself but he associates with gang members, like Bradford, Ross said.
White's lawyer, Bruce Harvey, showed the judge television footage of his 25-year-old client's standout performance during the most recent basketball season at San Francisco State University, called him "a success story" and quoted a letter from White's coach calling him a "model citizen" he'd like to hire for his coaching staff.
Bradford is a member of a violent street gang known as the Bang Get Money mafia, or BGM, out of Montgomery, Ala., and has previous convictions, Ross said. The 34-year-old says in a video, "If you cross the BGM, we will kill you," Sandy Springs police Detective J.T. Williams testified at the bond hearing.
But lawyers for Bradford, who said he has had his name legally changed to Salim Sonko, said their client is a rapper with a registered company called BGM and all the tough talk in his songs and the violent imagery in his videos are just part of his image. Bradford's lawyers called numerous witnesses, including his mother and fiancee, who described him as a devoted father to his young son who suffers from autism.
Deandre Washington, who lives in Montgomery, is also a member of the BGM gang with a prior murder charge that was dropped because of a lack of cooperation from witnesses, Ross said. He's the one who pulled the trigger and fatally shot Vernell, she said. Montgomery police arrested him after discovering the warrant out of Atlanta when they responded to a call from Washington's girlfriend, who said he had hit her during an argument.
During the bond hearing, his lawyer Jill Polster described Washington as an unsophisticated 23-year-old with a 9th-grade education and very little money. He lives with his girlfriend's family and knew Bradford casually, having worked with him at a music studio from time to time, Polster said.
At the bond hearing in last month, the judge granted bond only to White. The other three remain in jail.
The fifth defendant, Maurice Conner, was in jail in Alabama and didn't appear at the June bond hearing. Ross pinned him as the one who drove Washington from Alabama to Atlanta and brought him to the hospital where she said he shot Vernell. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.
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Y'all are wonderful. So many people fell for my tall tale of the baby bison, and they were such good sports about it! Things went to a whole new level when my April foolery made the Decatur Metro blog. Suddenly I had an all-time record-breaking number of hits, emails and phone calls from people (some I know, some I have never met!) wanting to come and visit my bison, and a few astute folks calling me out on my bad photoshopping (true, that). Then I got a phone call from a local TV news reporter wanting to do a story about my bison. Then John Kessler tweeted about me!
Really. The best April 1 ever. Nellie and I thank you.


text: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Gus Correa<gus at ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote: > Some people are reporting good results when using the > Nehalem hypethreading feature (activated on the BIOS). > When the code permits, this virtually doubles the number > of cores on Nehalems. > That feature works very well on IBM PPC-6 processors > (IBM calls it "simultaneous multi-threading" SMT, IIRR), > and scales by a factor of >1.5, at least with the atmospheric > model I tried. Thanks for all the useful comments, Gus! Hyperthreading is confusing the hell out of me. I expected to see 8 cores in cat /proc/cpuinfo Now I see 16. (This means I must have left hyperthreading on I guess; I ought to go to the server room; reboot and check the BIOS) This is confusing my benchmarking too. Let's say I ran an MPI job with -np 4. If there was no other job on this machine would hyperthreading bring the other CPUs into play as well? The reason I ask is this: I have noticed that a single 4 core job is slower than two 4 core jobs run simultanously. This seems puzzling to me. -- Rahul


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Openings: Roberta's Pizza
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Not sure if it has popped up on the Slice Radar yet, but this place looks promising:
I am going to check this place out very soon. Since I moved to Bushwick, I've been driving all the way to Fornino [Slice Fornino Archives] to get the real deal.
PS: Here's a report from my friend Jamie: http://theknownuniverse.us/index.php/archives/1998:
The rustic ski-camp feel of the wood paneling under the high loft ceiling, cords of wood stacked near the doorway, long, beer hall style tables, and the smell of burning wood was great, but 40 bucks for a couple of pizzas, including coffee and dessert (no liquor license yet) quickly dashed any illusions of eating there five nights a week. Still, the pizza was great and you certainly can't beat the convenience, so no complaints from me.
Sitting at the long banquet table next to ours was a guy with a notebook and a camera, taking pictures and scribbling notes for a blog or a newspaper. It led me to do a google search when I got home. Sifting through countless blogs posts and newspaper articles, pro and con, everybody is talking about Bushwick.
Dear Daniel, It has not popped up on the Slice Radar yet. Consider it "popped" now. Lemme know how it turns out if/when you go. I enjoyed Jamie's write-up of the grand opening and his own visit the next night. I wonder who was notebooking and cameraing.
Hasta la pizza, Adam
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The truth behind UK migration figures
Ever wondered how many people are moving to, and leaving, the UK? If so, you're not the only one - the official figures are said by some experts to be based on not much more than guesswork.
Yes, despite few issues mattering more to politicians and the public than migration, the UK still does not have an accurate system for counting people in and out.
The e-borders scheme - which was meant to do this job - is still a work in progress, and despite government assurances to the contrary, there are some who fear it might stay that way.
Instead the government relies on the answers given by a sample of travellers who agree to be stopped and questioned by a team of social survey interviewers at Heathrow and other main air, sea and rail points of entry to the UK.
And despite the increasingly high hurdles to jump through to get a visa to come to the UK, it seems there is no way of knowing if someone is still in the country when it expires.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the influential home affairs committee says he finds it incredible that a supermarket loyalty scheme can collect and store details on the shopping habits of millions of people, yet a similar database can not be set up to record arrivals and departures.
Particularly when the coalition government sets such store by reducing "net migration" - the difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country.
So if Britain does not count everybody in as they arrive, and count them out again as they depart, where exactly do the net migration figures announced each quarter by the government come from?
The main source is the International Passenger Survey (IPS), which was designed in the early 1960s to find out how much foreign tourists were spending in the UK - something it is still used for today.
It works something like this: There are about 240 IPS officials stationed at major airports and ports around the country.
They pick out every 10th, 20th or 30th passenger streaming through arrivals or departures, depending on how busy they are that day, and ask if they wouldn't mind taking part in a short survey.
"There may be times when, owing to a particular flood of passengers, you just cannot keep an accurate count. Do not panic if this happens but keep counting as best you can," advises the Office for National Statistics training manual.
'Hopelessly inadequate'
The ONS takes the raw IPS data and adds information about asylum seekers and migration statistics from Northern Ireland, as well as figures for people who have entered the country on short-term visas and decided to ask to extend their stay, before arriving at a final immigration figure.
About 300,000 people are interviewed each year by IPS officials - about 0.2% of the 200 million who enter and leave the UK over the same period.
The IPS has been considerably beefed up in the past three years, after it came in for stinging criticism from senior figures, including Bank of England governor Mervyn King, who branded it "hopelessly inadequate".
The ONS admits the survey is still not perfect but points out that 800,000 people are sampled to find the 300,000 interviewees and it has cast its net wider than Heathrow, where most interviewers were based, to other airports around the country and ferry terminals at Dover and Portsmouth it says 95% of travellers now "have a chance" of being interviewed.
It also has the virtue of being long established and relatively cheap.
But it is entirely voluntary and despite the training manual's advice to interviewers to be cheerful at all times - "no one wants to be interviewed by an unsmiling person with a dreary monotonous voice". Although the response rate is 78%, the ONS says that only 2% of people approached refuse to take part in it.
Passengers travelling at night, when interviews are suspended, or on smaller, low volume routes also slip through the net.
The one thing the IPS has over other sources of data on immigration - such as the number of non-EU passengers passing through border control, new NHS registrations or new National Insurance numbers - is that it records how long migrants say they intend to stay in the country.
But its major flaw, according to experts, is when it comes to measuring how many people are leaving the country.
IPS emigration estimates are based on interviews with just 2,000 people (who, the ONS point out, are found from interviews with about 400,000 interviews) - and there is currently no alternative source of data to measure them against.
This matters because the coalition government has promised to reduce net migration - the difference between those entering and leaving the country - to "tens of thousands" by 2015.
Home Secretary Theresa May hailed "the first significant falls in net migration since the 1990s" in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference.
What she failed to mention was that when that "significant fall", from 252,000 to 216,000, was announced, the margin of error was also revealed for the first time.
This showed that the main source of these figures was only accurate to within plus or minus 35,000 people.
In other words, according to the ONS, the fall was not yet statistically significant.
This does not mean, of course, that net migration has not fallen, just that, according to some experts, the government's main method of measuring its progress is little better than a rough guess.
"It is very difficult to assess how well the government is progressing toward its target of reducing net-migration to the 'tens of thousands', or to evaluate the effects of specific policy changes," says Dr Martin Ruhs, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
"In simple terms the government could miss the 'tens of thousands' target by many tens of thousands and still appear to have hit it - conversely the government could hit, or even exceed its target and still appear to have missed it."
The government denies that the IPS is a faulty instrument for measuring its progress on migration.
In a statement to the BBC, Immigration Minister Mark Harper said: "The International Passenger Survey already provides the ONS with a reliable method of measuring net migration.
"By 2015, we aim to reintroduce exit checks using the e-borders system, which will allow us to build an even more accurate picture of the number of people entering and leaving the country."
A brainchild of the Tony Blair era, when it seemed as if there was no problem that could not be solved by a multi-billion pound IT project, e-borders was meant to replace the old paper-based embarkation system, which was scrapped in the 1990s.
Since then departures from the UK have not been officially recorded.
So it is possible for migrants to enter on short-term visas and - unless they notify the authorities of their intention to stay longer or are really, really unlucky and are picked up in a Border Force raid - stay in the UK or leave the country years later without showing up in the official records.
It was one of the justifications Mr Blair made - and is still making - for the introduction of an identity card system.
E-borders which was primarily meant to improve security, when combined with a biometric identity card scheme, began collecting details of passenger and crews for inbound flights from outside the EU at nine airports in March.
The plan now is to extend it to ports and railway stations by 2014 and to passengers from within the EU by 2015.
But that will depend on persuading all EU countries to share passenger and crew list information - quite a number of them regard this as illegal under European free movement laws.
High hopes
And there are some, such as Keith Vaz and Sir Andrew Green, of think tank Migration Watch, who fear the project, which was meant to be up and running in time for the Olympics, may have stalled altogether.
"The government will rightly be held to account if they fail to achieve a steady and substantial reduction in net migration, whatever the technical details," said Sir Andrew.
"But it is time we were told more about the purpose and progress of the e-borders programme."
The statisticians at the ONS still have high hopes that e-borders will one day be able to provide reliable migration statistics.
But they say it will be 2018 at the earliest before they can even start incorporating data from the programme into their estimates - and there are no plans to replace the IPS as the main source of migration data.
So until the Home Office can be persuaded to come up with a different method - the men and women of the IPS will continue to put on their best smiles and try not to panic as they scan the arrivals halls of Britain's ports and airports.
And net migration statistics should continue to be taken with a major dose of salt.


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Fröse (Froese, Frös, Froes, Froesen, Frese, Vreesz, Fresz, Friese) family
A Mennonite family name in West Prussia, Fröse appeared in rural Frisian congregations and in Danzig. It was first mentioned 1655. In its earlier forms this family name cannot clearly be distinguished from the name Friesen; possibly both names developed from the same root. In 1776, 59 families of this name were counted in West Prussia (without Danzig), 254 persons in 1910, and 195 persons in 1935. Peter Fröse of West Prussia was a Mennonite writer and elder.
At least 11 Mennonite ministers with the name Froese were serving churches in 1953. Six of these were in Manitoba, two in Brazil, one in British Columbia, one in Saskatchewan, and one in Ontario. In the United States, at least 17 Froese families were living in the Buhler-Inman, Kansas area in 1949.
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Reimer, Gustav. "Fröse (Froese, Frös, Froes, Froesen, Frese, Vreesz, Fresz, Friese) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 24 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Fr%C3%B6se_(Froese,_Fr%C3%B6s,_Froes,_Froesen,_Frese,_Vreesz,_Fresz,_Friese)_family&oldid=119584.
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Reimer, Gustav. (1956). Fröse (Froese, Frös, Froes, Froesen, Frese, Vreesz, Fresz, Friese) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Fr%C3%B6se_(Froese,_Fr%C3%B6s,_Froes,_Froesen,_Frese,_Vreesz,_Fresz,_Friese)_family&oldid=119584.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 416. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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As we previously announced, Adeo Ressi (Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute) will lead his first ever San Francisco Founder Institute semester this summer. If you could use expert training and feedback to launch a technology company in San Francisco, then apply now.
To celebrate the launch, Adeo will host a number of free events in San Francisco in May to answer questions about the program.
Here is the full event schedule;
- FI Information Session (Monday, May 20th @ 6:30 - 8:00pm)
- Founder Night Out (Monday, May 20th @ 8:30 - 11:00pm)
Join us for what will be sure to be some great events!