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Frederik Wellmann
c. 1907/1908 or 18 months after "Prolegomena"
This manuscript was intended as the fourth article of the Monist series of 1905-06, with two more articles following: The fourth article was to begin the apology, the fifth to have contained the main argument, and the sixth to have provided the subsidiary arguments and illustrations. More specifically, a rhetorical defence of the principle of pragmatism in the Popular Science Monthly issues of November 1877 and January 1878 system of existential graphs the nominalism of Ockham and J. S. Mill objective and subjective generality Scholastic realism the three ways in which an idea can be mentally isolated from another (dissociation, precision, and discrimination). Among the variant pages are some interesting biographical data, especially CSP's reflections on his father's "remarkable aesthetical discrimination" and his boyhood impressions of visitors, Emerson included, to the family home in Mason Street, Cambridge.
Discrimination, Dissociation, Emerson Ralph Waldo, Generality, objective, Generality, subjective, Graphs existential, Mill John Stuart, Nominalism, Ockham William of, Monist Artides (of ), Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, Precision, Scholastic Realism, Scholastic realism
pp. 1-14 14-32, with p. 25 missing (but with no break in the text) pp. 7-16 of another draft plus 24 pp. of variants
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TweetLive is an interesting app for our Windows Phones that builds a tweet wall on your Windows Phone. Once you authorize the app to access your Twitter account, you can search for tweets by keyword and have them randomly displayed on your Windows Phone.
Retweets are filtered so you won't see duplicates and the background cover automatically changes to keep things mildly interesting. Tweets cycle through about every five seconds and you can always pull up the search field and change things up.
TweetLive does support portrait and landscape orientation just in case you want to prop your Windows Phone up and watch the tweets pass by. I can see TweetLive coming in handy if you want to monitor what's being said about a current event, about a person you know or anything else you want to keep an eye on. It would be nice though if the links in the tweets were accessible.
TweetLive may not be everyone's cup of joe but it's a free app for your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 device so you won't be out anything for trying it out. You can find TweetLive here in the Windows Phone Store. There's also a Windows 8 version of TweetLive available that you can pick up here in the Windows Store.

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"Simple Flickr Gallery" shows your flickr photostream in a clean interface. Easily configurable and changeable appearance/interface by little css modifications.
Features :
- This application simply mirrors a Flickr user's photostream
There is two view mode in listing :
- List View (Detailed information included in this view type)
- Grid View (Default)
- Each view type has paginated listing. You can define how many photos will show at one page in configuration file (see Customization Guide).
There is 2 theme based css and fully customizable :
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Photo detail page has :
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- You can't comment photos from this application. This application only shows comments from flickr database.
Demo & DocumentationDemo : http://projects.mfyz.com/simple_flickr_gallery/
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Sunday, June 02, 2013
Written in Water
Whatever happens, it's important to realise that Disney's schedule is written in water.
All predictions are based on current conditions continuing into the future, and that rarely happens. For proof, we only have to go back to the start of this year. After DreamWorks' Rise of the Guardians underperformed at the box office, there were layoffs and a schedule shuffle. Peabody and Sherman was delayed and Me and My Shadow was taken off the schedule all together.
There will be no difference if a Disney film underperforms. There's nothing like a write-off to get an executive to reexamine the plan and hedge his or her bets.
There's another elephant in the room that nobody is mentioning. Robert Iger retires as CEO in 2015 and as chairman in 2016. Iger was a marked departure from Michael Eisner. While Iger is open to criticism for his decisions, his tenure has been free of the feuds that Eisner had with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz and Steven Jobs. Iger's successor, whoever that may be, will undoubtedly bring different ideas and priorities to the job. Those differences may have to do with animation, including the status of Pixar, John Lasseter and releasing films in 3-D.
Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, is currently 68 years old. He'll be 70 by the time Iger steps down and he or the studio may decide to call it quits. That may also result in changes to what happens to Disney animation.
No changing of the guard takes place without a change in the status quo. While Disney and other studios can plan their release schedules for as far into the future as they like, the truth is that changing personnel and box office results are variables that they can't control. As they say, past performance is no guarantee of future results. If it was, we'd be watching Lion King 8 by now.
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Animation is a medium, not a genre like musical or western. A medium like animation can tell a story through a musical or a western. These genres might be out of date now, but as we saw with wreck it Ralph, there are enough stories and new genres to be told with the medium animation.
- June 04, 2013 2:36 AM
- Mark Mayerson said...
Animation is a medium, but Hollywood treats it like a genre. Every animated feature is a comical fantasy for children. Wreck-It Ralph may have a different fantasy setting (and that's the major difference between animated films), but in other respects it is exactly like the rest of the current animated features.
- June 04, 2013 10:05 AM
- Roberto "Heisenberg" Severino said...
Great summary of what's going on, Mr. Mayerson.
I never like using the word capitalism at all though. The word has become conflated with the existing cancerous crony corporatism that currently exists. I'm a pro business, pro market kind of guy, but I don't support these oversized kind of Wall Street style companies giving to ax to many people.
Look what happened with Hostess and companies like Clear Channel. People are now being more proactive and trying to create their own products and businesses without having to go to some corporate entity or middle man to do it. I hope the same thing will happen with animation on a larger scale.
Hulu and Netflix now have exclusive content on their platforms and Amazon Prime is working on a few shows themselves from what I heard. I also hope that someone at one of these companies will capitalize the idea of producing movies exclusively for their websites.
Maybe the idea will become very popular in a decade or so. Movie theaters and their companies may become almost irrelevant like radio has.
- June 04, 2013 4:40 PM
- Floyd Norman said...
Animation has had many deaths during my career. The tanking of Sleeping Beauty and the subsequent layoffs. The selling off of animation desks in the sixties and the arrival of CGI animation in the nineties.
I find it difficult to remain concerned in recent years since my beloved medium as morphed into a high tech puppet show. It would appear animation as I knew it is already dead.
- June 07, 2013 11:24 PM
You are correct. The corporations are in it for the short term. Jeffery K. is working to keep his business afloat by spreading his eggs into multiple baskets (oddly enough, very little includes toy licensing--you don't see a lot of DW toys out there). People like Catmull are small fish in the Disney corporate ocean; terrified of real change and innovation, choosing instead to rely on safe ideas and insular technologies of the past at both Pixar and Disney. Blue Sky has long been corporate (fox) driven. The problem is it takes artists to make these films. Even with the best technology, films are driven by creativity and visual focus--not mathematics and technology alone. But they are, and must be driven by the visual artist. And creativity takes time. It cannot be summoned as easily as a the spread sheet of a production manager can. Animated films take time. That doesn't necessarily mean they take more money. This rush for the almighty dollar is going to strangle the business. Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.
- June 13, 2013 10:59 PM
- Jodie said...
Why's everyone so pesimistic these days? Animation won't die, it's a wonderful medium that has so much more to tell. Discussions about the nature of Capitalism. What should we use instead, Communism? To me Capitalism is like an apple and Communism is like an orange. People taste a bad fruit of either and then they don't want apples because they taste bad or they don't want oranges because they taste bad and it's all based on a relative small amount of samples. Well we have Capitalism in our country of America and I'm sure we'll figure it out and adapt it to our needs just like every other country. Because all politics is is the art of governing and so many get hung up on the details of an ideology. We can always improve on our type of governing if we need to and that's what makes politics fun, that's it's not about what the Founding Fathers gave us but more what we add to what the Founding Fathers gave us to make our country a better nation. We aren't perfect, just like no country is perfect but if we work hard, we'll have the America we want and I really believe that. And Floyd's right, animation has had it's ups and downs many times and this time is no different. I'm sure animation, 3D and 2D will always exist and theaters too because that's a group experience of storytelling the ancient Greeks would have killed for. Animation is only a hundred years old and has lots of room to grow and it needs both creative people with ideas and the ability to execute them in writing, drawing, sculpture, music, computers, etc. and business people with money and the reputation to get things done. Why is one group always better than the other? I never understood this. Anyways, I never comment but I love reading this blog, and just thought I'd add my two cents. It's always a pleasure to read this blog. Okay, have a great day!
- June 20, 2013 10:51 AM


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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
It feels like it's been a little while since one comment took the top spot in both categories, but here we are again! An anonymous commenter won Most Insightful by a narrow margin, and Funniest by a wide one, on our post about an app developer hijacking users' Twitter accounts and making them post "confessions" for their piracy (even some who weren't using pirated copies). This AC suggested some alternate text for the hijacked tweets:
"I swear I will stop using DRM products that treat me like a pirate. I promise to stop. I really will"
In second place on the Insightful side, we have another comment that was popular in both categories—in fact, it got slightly more Funny votes, but only enough to bring it to third place on that side since the voting was more competitive there this week. On the first of our series of posts looking closer at the RSC's short-lived copyright brief, fogbugzd had a thought:
The RSC's "full review procedure" probably now includes sending it to the US Chamber of Commerce.
For Editor's Choice on the Insightful side, we'll start with a comment from our somewhat controversial post about the Stuxnet worm infecting computers at Chevron. There was some excellent debate on that post about the real implications of what happened, including some suggestions that we had started to fall under the cyber-scare spell that we decry so often. Whether that's true or not, one comment in particular caught my attention. When politicians talk about cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, we've often noted that the obvious solution to the problem is to disconnect such systems from the internet. An anonymous commenter claiming to have run Chevron systems in the past (and offering a fairly compelling rundown of their system) showed how this is already how it's done in the private sector (with the help of existing regulations, no less):
I don't know of any zero day exploits that have not been patched in reference to Stuxnet. I suspect that those that were used, the company hardware and software were told of the exploit after the it was in place but under speculation I would think they were requested by the US gov to have the patches ready but not to use them until notified.
I suspect this to be the case simply because after the own up of the US involvement almost everyone from Siemens to Microsoft had a patch out in days.
Chevon's SCADA control is not hooked to the net. It runs on a separate system, tied through the company's intranet and by itself is not able to connect to the internet. A separate computer is used for report generation, record keeping, company emails, and web surfing. Changing ladder logic requires the software as well as a dongle to obtain authorization access to alter software settings as well as making changes in operation parameters outside those already set up. I know this because I used to run such systems for them.
It is hooked up this way so that when a hurricane abandonment happens, the offshore platforms are now left running. The crews that operate them come inshore and continue to monitor and operate the platforms from remote control. Due to Federal laws, some operations can not be restarted if they go down unless the operator is physically present to restart them. This due to things like if you had a hole in a line spraying oil and had a shut down due to a low pressure sensor, the last thing you would want is for someone to be able to restart with out looking over the area first.
In addition, video feeds for sea conditions as well as current, wave, on site weather conditions, are all fed through the system. The operators are liable to be several hundred miles from the platform they are controlling under hurricane conditions.
Up next we've got a comment from our post about AC/DC and some other guy offering their music in the iTunes store. Another anonymous commenter had an all-too-common lament:
And of course, Aussie fans get screwed over again by the inequities of the pricing schemes on iTunes. Aussie store : AU$16.99 for an Album, compared to USA Store US$9.99...
Or AU$2.19 per track compared to US$1.29. And the AUD exchange rate is $1AUD = $1.03USD.
Since AC/DC is an Australian band, that certainly seemed worth highlighting. Connect With Fans, right?
Now to the Funny, and since we already had the top comment, straight on to second place. On our post about the DOJ-Megaupload-Ninjavideo dance, one of our regular critics suggested that since the government's case against Megaupload isn't dead yet, it must be more solid than we think. Yet another anonymous commenter boiled that sentiment down while also slyly noting that the opposite implication (the fact that the case hasn't succeeded) carries more weight:
obviously, if the government is investigating you, you are guilty
why else would they investigate you?
the govt should throw the book at this guy. they obviously have the evidence against him. oh wait
For Editor's Choice, we turn to an exchange on my thanksgiving post about turkey patents. An anonymous commenter pointed out that there are sure to be plenty of other turkey patents on the way, suggesting "how to cut turkey... on a cutting board" as one possibility. Martyburns thought up an even more likely abstract:
or maybe...how to cut Turkey...on the internet?
This prompted a second AC to start fleshing out the claims:
First, you start by rounding the corners...
Good to know our community doesn't take a holiday from being entertaining. See you tomorrow, folks!


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Albany Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support Composing the Future, a multi-faceted project celebrating American composers and their music. During 2001-02, the Albany Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and two smaller ensembles made up of ASO musicians will commission, present and record for national distribution the music of established and emerging American symphonic repertoire.
American Composers Orchestra, $50,000
To support the Emerging American Composers Project, featuring composers of diverse racial and stylistic backgrounds in commissions and performances of new works, as well as outreach and residency activities. During 2001-02, the American Composers Orchestra will mark its 25th anniversary with six world premieres in four orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall and will continue its new music reading sessions.
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To support the performance of an updated version of Camille Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals set to slam poetry (poetry with performance elements), a premiere of a new work by a University of Michigan doctoral candidate in composition, and youth concerts focusing on the theme "All Creatures, Great and Small."
Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, $6,000
To support a festival and symposium titled The Monteverdi Experience. Activities will take place during 2001 and will include performances of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, concerts, lectures, recitals, a baroque dance class and a panel discussion.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Consortium), $50,000
To support A King Celebration, a consortium project of performances, educational outreach activities and national radio broadcast in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The consortium member of this 2001 project is Morehouse College, in partnership with National Public Radio, Spelman College and the King Center.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, $5,000
To support the American Orchestral Music Initiative. During 2001, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project will perform and record three American orchestral works for international distribution.
Boston Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center), $50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. In August 2001, Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) will present the week-long event within the Tanglewood Festival featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of TMC fellows and guest artists and by the TMC Orchestra.
Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra, $7,500
To support a residency by the Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and Roberto Sierra as composer-in-residence at the Hostos Community College in the South Bronx. The week-long residency in November 2001 will include performances of Roberto Sierra's oratorio Bayoan.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, $25,000
To support the premiere performances of newly commissioned works by composers Michael Hersch and Christopher Theofanidis. Each work will be performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House during 2001.
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, $7,500
To support jazz artist residencies with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. During 2001-02, several jazz soloists, ensembles and composers will be invited to collaborate with the chamber orchestra for the creation, presentation and recording of new work.
The Cleveland Orchestra, $75,000
To support Restoring a Landmark - Restoring Tradition, a celebration of the reinstallation of the Cleveland Orchestra's historic E.M. Skinner organ in the renovated Severance Hall. During 2001, the orchestra will perform repertoire scored with the organ; present organ recitals; and schedule discussions, lectures and open rehearsals.
Colonial Symphony, $5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for orchestra, chorus and soloists by composer-in-residence David Sampson. The new work will premiere in Morristown, NJ in the spring of 2002 and is intended to showcase New Jersey musicians, singers, poets and Mr. Sampson.
Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, $5,000
To support the creation and premiere of a new work by American composer Luis Prado. Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia and pianist Gary Graffman will perform Prado's concerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra at the new Pennsylvania Regional Performing Arts Center in 2002.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support Classical Connections, a series of concerts with an informal format that combines discussion, demonstration and performance. There are four concerts scheduled in 2001 to take place in Memorial Hall in Dayton.
Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To support a world premiere performance of a new work by James Poulsen and a composer residency with Michael Daugherty. The composers will participate with the Des Moines Symphony in community outreach activities during 2000-01.
Eos Orchestra, $10,000
To support the presentation of a concert and symposium dedicated to American composer Bernard Herrman. During 2001, Eos Music will perform Herrman's orchestral works and neglected repertoire, and showcase his compositions in a film festival.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic, $12,500
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During 2001-02, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local television personality and feature casually-dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.
Handel & Haydn Society, $20,000
To support performances of a semi-staged production of Handel's opera Ariodante. The presentations will take place in Boston's Symphony Hall during 2001-02.
Houston Symphony, $22,500
To support a new chamber orchestra series. During 2001-02, select Houston Symphony principal musicians comprising the newly named Houston Symphony Chamber Players will perform four concerts in the 1,110-seat Cullen Theater.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To support CREATExcellence, a composer-in-residency initiative. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will host two American composers and premiere their new works during the 2002 season.
Jubilate Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To support orchestral and choral concerts of music written or influenced by African Americans. The four programs will take place from January to May 2001 in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties in Florida.
Kansas City Symphony, $30,000
To support a celebration of the orchestral music of Igor Stravinsky. The Celebrating Stravinsky festival will occur from January to March 2001.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, $100,000
To support the 20th anniversary celebration of the Philharmonic's New Music Group. Throughout 2001-02, the New Music Group will perform works featuring composers William Kraft, John Harbison, Steven Stucky and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, $5,000
To support the commission and premiere of four new works by American composers. The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra will perform the works at Boston's Jordan Hall during 2001-02.
Minnesota Orchestra, $75,000
To support the creation and performance of up to 11 commissions by the Minnesota Orchestral Association in the second phase of its centennial celebration. For two seasons starting in 2001-02, the Minnesota Orchestra will premiere these new works.
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, $10,000
To support a consortium project with the Nashville Independent Film Festival for the creation and presentation of a short concert film for chamber orchestra by filmmaker John Lloyd Miller and composer Conni Ellisor. The filmmaker and composer will collaborate so that the original music will be conducted by the film using video monitors and a rear-projection screen. The premiere performance will be in November 2001.
National Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support a festival of British music. In 2001, the National Symphony Orchestra will present a three-week festival of nine orchestral concerts that explore known and lesser-known repertoire and British influences on classical music.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support the creation and presentation of new orchestral works. The three commissioned works by composers Bun-Ching Lam, Hannibal Lokoumbe and Thomas Oboe Lee will premiere in the springs of 2001 and 2002.
New York Philharmonic, $75,000
To support a presentation project by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Music Director Kurt Mazur. During 2001-02, the Philharmonic will perform two large-scale choral works featuring the Westminster Symphonic Choir, the American Boychoir, and New York Choral Artists.
North Arkansas Symphony Society, $10,000
To support Crossover 2001. This project will commission an orchestral work by a Brazilian and an American composer and choreography by Dance Brazil's resident choreographer Jelon Vieira.
Northwest Sinfonietta, $5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new symphonic work by composer-in-residence Daniel Ott to mark Northwest Sinfonietta's 10th anniversary season. The first performances will take place in February 2001 in Seattle and Tacoma, WA.
Oakland East Bay Symphony, $12,500
To support three commissions and two West Coast premieres of new works by American composers. During 2001, the Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform works by Chen Yi, Michael Abels, David Conte and Ellen Hoffman.
Oregon Symphony, $20,000
To support the presentation of American orchestral works. During 2001-02, the Oregon Symphony will incorporate works by composers such as Barber, Bernstein, Ives, Kernis and Menotti into its programs.
Peoria Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To support the Peoria Symphony's Musical Matinees, a series of shorter, afternoon concerts for families. During 2001-02, the Symphony will perform four concerts at the Peoria Civic Center.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $100,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works celebrating the Philadelphia Orchestra's centennial anniversary. The works of the three composers to be commissioned -- Michael Daugherty, Aaron Jay Kernis and Jennifer Higdon -- will have premieres and subsequent performances during the 2001-02 season.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, $5,000
To support the presentation of 18th-century Spanish composer Antonio Literes's baroque zarzuela work, Jupiter y Semele. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Eduardo L pez Banzo, will give five performances at four venues in the Bay Area during February 2002.
The Phoenix Symphony, $12,500
To support the creation and presentation of a new orchestral work by Kenneth Frazelle. The work, to be written in the style of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, will premiere in February 2001.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, $85,000
To support the presentation of three weekend programs by the Pittsburgh Symphony. During 2001, the Symphony will also conduct related lectures and discussions in collaboration with community partners.
Portland Symphony Orchestra (Consortium), $12,500
To support the Portland Symphony Orchestra's residencies in rural Maine, a consortium project with the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the University of Maine at Machias. The seven-month project will provide audiences with the opportunity to experience live performances by professional musicians.
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, $5,000
To support the commission of a new work by composer Oliver Lake. The World Saxophone Quartet and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra will premiere the work in November 2001 at the Southern Theatre in Columbus.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, $65,000
To support a Philip Glass celebration. The week-long schedule of events in April 2001 includes an organ recital by Mr. Glass, a radio show, an evening of films about and by Glass, an interactive lecture/demonstration and educational activities, culminating in the St. Louis premiere performance of Mr. Glass's Timpani Concerto.
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, $50,000
To support performances by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in rural communities of the upper Midwest. During the 10-month project, the Orchestra will tour to as many as 15 towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. (Multi-state)
Seattle Symphony, $40,000
To support Music as Culture-Bearer, a project of performances and education activities. Centered around the Orchestra's Silk Road Festival, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, this 2001-02 project will explore music of other cultures.
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support a touring project to underserved, rural communities throughout central and northern New York State. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra's 2001-02 project will continue to build the orchestra's regional presence in New York State.
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Carnegie Hall , $85,000
To support Philip Glass 2002 - Celebration of a National Treasure, a series of programs including the creation and presentation of a new orchestral work by Mr. Glass, as well as other performances that encompass artistic presentations, audience development, elementary education and teacher training. While Mr. Glass's participation will occur throughout the season, the highlight of the celebration will take place February 1-3, 2002.
Concert Artists Guild, $15,000
To support national concert presentations of emerging classical musicians on the Concert Artists Guild roster, the 50th Anniversary Guild Artists Festival, and Festival Tour. Featuring contemporary music and collaborations between Guild artists, 50 concerts will be presented in New York and across the country, with performances broadcast on radio and the Web.
Concert Competitions and Musical Development, $25,000
To support the Sphinx Competition for gifted emerging musicians. During 2001, the Competition's semi-finalist string players will perform with the Sphinx Symphony at the Honors and Finals Concerts in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium.
Carnegie Hall , $85,000
Monadnock Music, $7,500
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles and a chamber orchestra presented in churches and meeting houses in 17 rural towns of the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. From July 7 through August 31, 2001, three free concerts per week are planned.
Ojai Festivals, $15,000
To support the 2001 Ojai Music Festival. Directed by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the six-day festival will celebrate its 55th anniversary with performances by ensembles, soloists and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Young Concert Artists, $20,000
To support the presentation of the Young Artists Series, recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians who are winners of the annual Young Concert Artists' Auditions. This 2001 project will feature ten concerts in New York City and five concerts in Washington, DC.


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Why Are the Cowboys Draft Picks Always Hurt?
Next up was Kyle Wilbur. He somehow broke his finger during rookie minicamp and needed surgery and pins inserted into his finger to help the injury heal. Again, not a major deal, but something that forced him out of the last day of rookie mini-camp and now OTA's. The time he is missing learning the defense can't be replaced.
And today Danny Coale went down with a broken foot. It looks like he has a good chance to be back for training camp, but he'll miss the entire offseason of work with his teammates and coaches. So even if he can get himself in playing shape by the time the preseason games start he will be way behind the rest of the receiving corp when it comes to knowing the offense and developing chemistry with his quarterbacks.
The injury bug seems to be a problem on one level or another every single year for the Cowboys and their draft picks. All we can do is hope that this will be the end of the injuries. And, I guess, we should be thankful that none of the injuries have been catastrophic season enders.
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- Denver DarnellMay 23, 2012 at 11:03 PM
You nailed it with that last sentence. As long as nobody suffers anything season ending before the season even starts, it will be an upgrade over recent years and other teams in the NFL.ReplyDelete
Tony Romo, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, disagreeing recently with Jerry Jones and how he sees the window closing on opportunities on the field:ReplyDelete
"It's not closing. I think there's a sense of urgency every year that you play, whether it's your first year in the league or your 22nd. You never know when all that stuff is going to happen, so you just play every year as if it's an urgent day."
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- AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 6:29 AM
No words on OTA or mini-camp???? Hope you've not become board with your blog here... I come to enjoy reading your articles over the past couple of years!!!!ReplyDelete
- Sterling SmithJuly 17, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Hoping you're not done with this man. I agree with the above poster. I really like your blog, and hope you are just on an extended break.ReplyDelete
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COME BACK TO ME! We miss you. Need you to comment on the shenanigans and improvements in the practices. And Dez got arrested for domestic problems.ReplyDelete


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When Kim Dotcom came calling, Vikram Kumar initially turned him down flat.
He had just left his job at the beginning of January. "I was looking for new opportunities and new challenges," he says. "Then Kim Dotcom emailed me to say, 'Would you like to join Mega as CEO?"'
Mr Kumar had just started applying for jobs after three years at the non-profit industry organisation internetNZ. In that time, his leadership developed its credibility through setting standards, championing open and fast internet, and developing the highly-regarded NetHui conferences.
Mr Dotcom wanted him to go and run Mega, the cloud storage site seen as the successor to the file-sharing service MegaUpload.
Almost a year earlier, the German-born tycoon and three colleagues had been arrested in the dramatic dawn raid carried out at the request of the FBI. They now face extradition to the United States.
Mr Kumar listened to the offer and declined. "My response was that is a good opportunity - but very risky. I'm not interested."
Mr Dotcom said yesterday: "It's not really the sort of start-up someone, on the first call, would consider as a good offer." Quite simply, the US does not like Mr Dotcom - not at all. It says he is a criminal, guilty of running the file sharing website MegaUpload as a deliberate criminal enterprise.
MegaUpload was crushed, destroying a business the US said was illegal and which Mr Dotcom valued at between $2.6 billion and $5 billion. Mr Dotcom and his colleagues Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk reject the claims and face an extradition trial in August.
It was a meeting with the four men that turned Mr Kumar's rejection - eventually - into acceptance; a meeting that happened because Mr Kumar thought he would accept an invitation to visit so he could check out "the mansion". "I've never met him before," said Mr Kumar. He decided to "go and have a look" at the mansion. "So that's half the attraction."
The first meeting took two hours. "What really impressed me was [they are] really good people, very competent and very honest guys. I got a feeling that they are not interested in Mega being used for illegal purposes. To me their intentions were far more important than everything else put together."
Then came the launch - a dramatic and outrageous show put on from a stage erected at the mansion. The stage, usually used for music festivals, saw Mr Dotcom deliver his view of the internet future while launching Mega live over the internet. Mr Kumar sat in Wellington, watching the internet stream. He watched the reaction online in the days which followed.
"Finally, I read the indictment and spoke to Kim and his team. When I heard the other side of the story ... there are actually a lot more issues and these are important issues - should a file storage company have a search engine, should they remove links or the files themselves? Those are really big issues should the case go to trial in the US."
On the MegaUpload case, Mr Kumar is clear. "My own assessment is this is an example of prosecutorial over-reach." The term "prosecutorial over-reach" has come into vogue after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American internet activist who killed himself while facing charges related to downloading academic journals. Mr Kumar aligned the case with that against MegaUpload. Swartz took his life while facing charges carrying a potential 35 years in jail. Robert Swartz told Aaron's mourners his son had been "killed by the Government".
Mr Kumar defined the term as using laws created for one reason to serve another purpose. It had led to "US law enforcement looking how to extend those laws to meet the current challenges" faced by industries reliant on copyright protection. It created "cases where they are going far beyond the intention and the letter of the law... When I looked at the MegaUpload case much more closely it seemed to fit that pattern. They needed to do criminal charges on what should be a civil charge otherwise they can't extradite them." It saw existing laws "used in new and novel ways" with outcomes which were "perverse", he said.
Regardless of how he viewed MegaUpload, it was not that company he was being asked to lead. As reaction bedded in, he decided on three largely product and technical points.
The first was automated encryption. "One of the bugbears all of us have had for a long time is cryptographic approaches are hopelessly complex. [The Mega team] have managed to do encryption and decryption in the background. Without people doing anything it gets encrypted and decrypted in the browser."
The second was creating a way which allowed data to stream more efficiently and much faster. He said the system was faster than Dropbox, one of the embedded competitors it hoped to challenge.
Finally, the offering of 50GB of free storage was "many times what others are offering". He said an analogy was the development of Gmail, which dominated the free email market by offering huge storage capacity while others had lower limits. "In the old days when we had to go into the office, the first thing we would get is this message saying your mailbox is full. With Gmail, you never delete an email. They just transformed the thinking we had around emails."
Mr Kumar met the group again about a week ago. He wanted to know what their intentions were around the company; they wanted to know if he saw the world their way.
"They look at Mega as a global company and what they are interested in is people working on a global stage."
If Mr Kumar was unable to see the world as a market place, he would not fit. "Quite often the perspective from New Zealand is to find a niche or something small they are good at in a domestic market and to try to enter the export market based on that.
"What these guys are doing is they are looking at the globe as their market on day one."
The company's reaction to the first major abuse of the service was also important. A website started listing copyrighted material kept on Mega, leading to the company deleting links to 150 files.
"For me that was a real boost. Not only were their intentions clear, it was also quite evident they will take every action they can reasonably do to make sure the services aren't misused."
Reactions had been largely positive, with those opposed assuming - incorrectly, he said - the job was lined up when he left internetNZ.
He said he had also had "people questioning whether I am selling out to the 'bad side', as it were".
"If people have a point of view that Mega is essentially a bad service you can see from that point of view they would think I am selling out to a bad service. The fundamental assumption that Mega is inherently bad is a wrong assumption."
Mr Kumar said the copyright debate polarised opinion with little room between those who cried theft and others who called for laws to be updated to meet the internet age.
"It's not about bad and good. It is about recognising that copyright, brought together in a print age where restrictions were possible on the copies being made because it was expensive to print copies, completely disappears in the internet age where making a copy is costless. It's the way the internet works." He pointed to political concerns in recent copyright legislation debates about video rental shops going out of business and travel agents closing as business moved online. "All of that is bad news but it is part of this unstoppable march of technology and societal change."
Mr Dotcom he described as "a flamboyant larger-than-life character with a flashy lifestyle".
"That is part of what is attracting attention. The response of the New Zealand Government is also attracting a lot of attention and a lot of people have been disappointed as it has played out in court ... people who were responsible and charged with implementing the law were found to have been breaking it without any problems at all."
But there was a "larger trend" which captured the MegaUpload story. "As the internet becomes more and more important for people in their everyday lives, and the law is struggling to keep up, there are these tensions between the law, society and technology."
On talk about motivations behind the case, Mr Kumar said anyone with questions should watch the address to the first NetHui at which Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig spoke.*
He said his talk on corruption was "completely eye-opening" in describing the way the US political system worked. It was not about bribes, he said, but the need for those who wanted to win to enlist support from powerful lobbies like the National Rifle Association or Hollywood.
Since launching two weeks ago, Mega had signed up two million users who had uploaded 50 million files. Those put off by choked internet speeds in the first few days would need to be lured back, he said.
Beyond that, Mr Kumar said his job was to do what he could to have the company publicly listed as quickly as possible. It was too early to commit to doing so in New Zealand, he said.
Asked if he was being paid well, he said: "Yes and no. Every new internet start up is cash-constrained." He said Mega had yet to break even.
"If I get even half my salary on time, I'd be delighted."
* Lawrence Lessig's address to the NetHui conference: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Vikram Kumar
2013: Mega Ltd, chief executive
2010-2013: internetNZ, chief executive.
2004-2010: State Services Commission, innovation and strategy manager.
2001-2004: Telecom NZ, business technical manager.
Prior: United Kingdom, India. internet start-ups and state sector roles.
Qualifications: MBA, engineer.
Blog: internetganesha.wordpress.com
Twitter: @vikram-nz


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While many programmes and projects dealing with natural resource management in the South Asia region have included alternative livelihood components, these have often been poorly conceived and ineffective in their implementation. To address the lack of institutional capacity within the region to systematically approach
alternative livelihood creation in a participatory and poverty-focused way, IUCN and Integrated Marine Management Ltd (IMM) organised the first of three workshops from January 27 to February 3 in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India.
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It's interesting to me how various story themes emerge and then make the rounds of blogs and other Internet sites and then find a home at the national mainstream media. Here's one. Is a college degree worth the cost and effort? And does the answer to that question hinge on whether there is a job waiting at graduation?
Here are two interesting op-eds from the NYT.
First, by Frank Bruni, "The Imperiled Promise of College":
FOR a long time and for a lot of us, "college" was more or less a synonym for success. We had only to go. We had only to graduate. And if we did, according to parents and high-school guidance counselors and everything we heard and everything we read, we could pretty much count on a career, just about depend on a decent income and more or less expect security. A diploma wasn't a piece of paper. It was an amulet.
And it was broadly accessible, or at least it was spoken of that way. With the right mix of intelligence, moxie and various kinds of aid, a motivated person could supposedly get there. College was seen as a glittering centerpiece of the American dream, a reliable engine of social mobility.
I'm not sure things were ever that simple, but they're definitely more complicated now. And that was an unacknowledged backdrop for the pitched debate last week about federal student loan rates and whether they would be kept at 3.4 percent or allowed to return to 6.8 percent. That was one reason, among many, that it stirred up so much anxiety and got so much attention.
Because of levitating costs, college these days is a luxury item. What's more, it's a luxury item with newly uncertain returns.
Yes, many of the sorts of service-industry jobs now available to people without higher education are less financially rewarding than manufacturing jobs of yore, and so college has in that sense become more imperative. And, yes, college graduates have an unemployment rate half that of people with only high school degrees.
But that figure factors in Americans who got their diplomas and first entered the job market decades ago, and it could reflect not just what was studied in college but the already established economic advantages, contacts and temperaments of the kind of people who pursue and stick with higher education.
It doesn't capture the grim reality for recent college graduates, whose leg up on their less educated counterparts isn't such a sturdy, comely leg at the moment. According to an Associated Press analysis of data from 2011, 53.6 percent of college graduates under the age of 25 were unemployed or, if they were lucky, merely underemployed, which means they were in jobs for which their degrees weren't necessary. Philosophy majors mull questions no more existential than the proper billowiness of the foamed milk atop a customer's cappuccino. Anthropology majors contemplate the tribal behavior of the youngsters who shop at the Zara where they peddle skinny jeans.
I single out philosophy and anthropology because those are two fields — along with zoology, art history and humanities — whose majors are least likely to find jobs reflective of their education level, according to government projections quoted by the Associated Press. But how many college students are fully aware of that? How many reroute themselves into, say, teaching, accounting, nursing or computer science, where degree-relevant jobs are easier to find? Not nearly enough, judging from the angry, dispossessed troops of Occupy Wall Street.
The thing is, today's graduates aren't just entering an especially brutal economy. They're entering it in many cases with the wrong portfolios. To wit: as a country we routinely grant special visas to highly educated workers from countries like China and India. They possess scientific and technical skills that American companies need but that not enough American students are acquiring.
"That's why there are all these kinds of initiatives to make math and science fun," Stephen J. Rose, a senior economist at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, reminded me last week. He was referring to elementary and high school attempts to prime more American students for college majors in those areas and for sectors of the job market where positions are more plentiful and lucrative. The center issued a report last year that noted that "not all bachelor's degrees are the same" and that "while going to college is undoubtedly a wise decision, what you take while you're there matters a lot, too."
And from Paul Krugman, "Wasting Our Minds":
There is, however, a larger issue: even if students do manage, somehow, to "get the education," which they do all too often by incurring a lot of debt, they'll be graduating into an economy that doesn't seem to want them.
You've probably heard lots about how workers with college degrees are faring better in this slump than those with only a high school education, which is true. But the story is far less encouraging if you focus not on middle-aged Americans with degrees but on recent graduates. Unemployment among recent graduates has soared; so has part-time work, presumably reflecting the inability of graduates to find full-time jobs. Perhaps most telling, earnings have plunged even among those graduates working full time — a sign that many have been forced to take jobs that make no use of their education.
College graduates, then, are taking it on the chin thanks to the weak economy. And research tells us that the price isn't temporary: students who graduate into a bad economy never recover the lost ground. Instead, their earnings are depressed for life.
[Spoiler alert: Dr. K then launches his familiar rant about the economic and job-creation policies of Romney and fellow conservatives.]
I still believe that the lack of quality jobs and the continuing weak economy will be the dominant issues in this year's elections.
Is college worth it?
You bet.
But without the prospect of a job and a career that involves asking more than whether the customer wants fries with the sandwich, more and more young people and their parents may begin to question it.


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What Would The Movie Business Be Like If The MPAA Succeeded In Killing The VCR?
from the a-thought-exercise deptAs the fight over the E-PARASITE/SOPA bill continues, it's worth taking a step back, and conducting a short thought exercise:
What would the movie business be like today, if the MPAA had succeeded in banning the VCR?Remember, in the Betamax case, the studios sought to kill off the VCR, leading to the famous quote from MPAA boss Jack Valenti:
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.And, Valenti and the MPAA came very close to convincing the courts, who only granted immunity for those offerings with substantial non-infringing uses by the narrowest of margins (though court initially decided to side with the MPAA before changing its mind). Unfortunately, while SOPA seeks to couch its broad upending of the legal and technical frameworks of much of the internet in the claim that this is "just" about "stopping pirate sites," twenty years ago, this case was about "just" stopping this "pirate technology."
But what happened after that? Once the court finally declared VCRs legal, suddenly the movie industry exploded. With this new method of video distribution, the entire movie business was reinvented in a good way. It meant no longer just viewing in the theaters. An entire new category soon took over: home movie viewing (and renting). Before long, the home video market actually overtook the theater. And, these days, ironically, what do you hear the MPAA whining about the most? That online sharing is decimating the home video market. Of course, if the MPAA had had its way 20 years ago, we wouldn't even have a home video market.
So the thought exercise of where the movie industry would be today, if the VCR had been declared dedicated to infringing purposes twenty years ago, seems particularly relevant. That's doubly true, seeing as the E-PARASITE bill effectively looks to overturn the court's Betamax decision, and open up the floodgates for the MPAA (and others) to cut off all funding from any new technology it believes is "dedicated to the theft of US property" under the exceedingly broad definitions in the bill.
Take a moment, and consider where the movie business would be today, if the VCR never existed. And think about just how wrong the MPAA was then to freak out about a technology that later saved it. And consider that perhaps we should wait before changing the law to allow the MPAA to kill off the next "VCR" in the digital age.
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I hope Lee busts out and scoops up 25 rebs and Reggie goes off. Just close out on their 3 shooters instead of pretending you're in help defense for Christ's sake!!!


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Food Shares Climb After $23 Billion Heinz Takeover Bid
Food stocks notched multiyear highs Thursday as the takeover of H.J. Heinz Co. raised hopes for more consolidation in the grocery aisle.
Campbell Soup Co. earlier climbed as much as 6% and was recently up 1.9% to $38.92 ahead of its fiscal second-quarter report due Friday. General Mills Inc. rose 3% to $44.28, while Kellogg Co. and ConAgra Foods Inc. also traded higher. Thursday's gains came as the broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index was little-changed, recently down less than a point near 1520.
H.J. Heinz agreed to be acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital for $23 billion. Heinz shares surged 20% to $72.49, a penny below the offer price.
The deal — the largest-ever takeover of a pure-food producer, according to Dealogic — could signal a new round of merger-and-acquisition activity for the packaged-food industry, analysts said.


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Media 2007
|Statement: December 11, 2007
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Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher's opening remarks on
Interconnection Queuing Practices
Technical Conference
"The purpose of the technical conference today is to discuss issues related to the interconnection queue in different regions of the country. The interconnection queue process is governed by Order No. 2003, which standardized the agreements and procedures related to the interconnection of large generating facilities. The rationale for this important rule was that establishment of a 'standard set of procedures as part of the [Open Access Transmission Tariff] for all jurisdictional transmission facilities will minimize opportunities for undue discrimination and expedite the development of new generation, while protecting reliability and ensuring that rates are just and reasonable.' I believe this objective is still sound.
We pursued this goal by establishing a set of comprehensive queue management procedures. However, some regions of the country are experiencing various challenges to the interconnection queue process. In general, surges in development of new generation are taxing the queue management system.
Unprecedented demand in some regions for renewable generation presents different challenges. The planning horizon for wind generation facilities may be shorter than other generation facilities. Wind facilities can generally be brought online more quickly, so any delay in the interconnection process is significant. There also is the reality that many states have adopted aggressive renewable portfolio standards, which drives much of the demand for new renewable energy facilities.
In regions that have adopted capacity markets, such as New England, the queue issues are different still. The question of whether a resource that is chosen through a capacity market auction move to a higher place in the queue has arisen.
Queue management issues are not limited to the organized markets, they extend outside regional transmission organizations and independent system operators.
Order No. 2003 adopted a first come, first served approach towards queue management. That approach has the manifest virtue of preventing undue discrimination and preference in queue management. However, there are competing policy goals, such as the need for new electricity supply, the demand for renewable energy, driven in large part by state renewable portfolio standards, and the need to complement newly established capacity markets.
To me, the purpose of this conference is to identify the various challenges relating to the queue management process with some precision and to explore possible process reforms. Perhaps there are different approaches to the queue management process that better serve these competing policy goals, while still guarding against the potential for undue discrimination and preference. There is sufficient flexibility within Order No. 2003 to adopt certain reforms.
Within this context, we ask that speakers differentiate their proposed solutions between short-term approaches to deal with immediate queue problems and longer-term approaches."
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He'll love to climb, jump and run - often in a direction opposite to you! But his new-found confidence will also mean that he is at a higher risk of accidents as he doesn't understand when he should stop.
Developmental milestones include:
At 2 ½ years:
- he can run smoothly
- he can climb on and off play equipment
- he can self-feed using a spoon and drink from a cup
- he can softly kick a large ball, though often not in the intended direction
- he can walk up stairs
- he can throw a large ball in the intended direction
- He can undress himself and is beginning to learn how to dress himself
By 3 years:
- he can independently walk up and down stairs
- he can pedal a ride-on toy such as a bike
- he can balance and walk on tippy-toe
- he can kick a ball with force
- he can throw a ball, and attempt to catch one, with two hands
- he has begun toilet training - although some toddlers won't attempt it until they are close to 4 years
- he can self-feed using a spoon and fork
What can I do to encourage his physical development?
- Introduce toys for stacking, threading and pulling apart - blocks, simple jigsaws, beads (make sure that they are large enough that they won't pose a choking threat) toy cars, animals and dolls.
- Give him plenty of time to play outdoors - take him to the local park to play on the swings and slippery dip, or the beach to dig in the sand, or your garden for kicking a ball and water play
- Allow him to explore his world, but remember that he doesn't know how to keep himself safe.
Signs that suggest a developmental problem in a 2-3 year old:
- he can't run smoothly
- he isn't able to walk up stairs or climb up onto low furniture
- he is markedly more or less active than his peers
- he can't feed himself using a spoon
All children are different and develop at different rates, so don't be overly concerned if your toddler is acquiring new skills at a different rate to those around him. But if you are worried about his development or it seems to have stalled or be going backwards, talk to a health professional.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > JULY 2001 > Wayland - San Antonio graduate follows God's call back to school
Wayland - San Antonio graduate follows God's call back to school
Floyd Burkett is not a rarity among the student body at Wayland Baptist University - San Antonio. At 54, he's only a bit over the median age of students that choose the Baptist university's external campuses to finish a degree once began or start over toward a new career path.
But unlike many come to Wayland in hopes of getting better jobs or promotions, Burkett has only one reason for pursuing a degree: God told him to.
Burkett, who graduates June 24 with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education specializing in religion, said coming to Wayland for the degree was simply a matter of submitting to God's will.
"I had felt a call into ministry many years back, but the circumstances were such that I didn't follow the call and I went into the military," he said. "So many years later, God in his infinite wisdom felt that I still needed to be in ministry and I finally took the call."
Between those incidents, Burkett had already established himself in the pest control business, working for several companies, managing another and finally starting his own business in 1985, Master Service Pest Control. Licensed by the state as a certified applicator, Burkett said he had found a niche in that industry.
But he was learning what everyone else, seemingly, already knew: He was meant for ministry. He began studying with materials from the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (now Lifeway Christian Resources) but felt that he needed further instruction.
"I prayed and searched, and God led me through another person to Wayland," he said. That was three years ago.
Armed with confidence only in the Lord's call for his life, Burkett enrolled and entered the first classroom since he'd graduated high school 32 years prior. He admits a bit of trepidation.
"I was very nervous when I walked into that first class. I didn't know if I could do it. All that studying was so far back for me," he said. "I went in with a whole lot of prayer. But I had made a commitment to the Lord and part of that was to complete the degree. It was something I just had to do."
During those three years, Burkett took a full load (9-12 hours) each semester, went straight through and spent nights either in class or studying. He also still had to maintain the full-time job of running his company and caring for a family. It wasn't easy; in fact, Burkett called it a "balancing act."
Before pursuing the degree, Burkett had already been involved in ministry. He had been licensed and ordained at Believers Baptist Church in Smithson Valley and served as mission director and assistant pastor there. He had also founded the Smithson Valley Food and Clothing Bank in 1997.
He knew the degree wasn't necessarily essential to his ministry. But God felt differently.
"I felt that's what God wanted me to do. It was an obedience thing for me," he said. "I wanted to know more. I felt like if I was going to be active in ministry I needed to know what ministry is. That's what Wayland has taught me. Now I have to take that and move forward."
Now that graduation is upon him, Burkett said he's looking ahead to where God may have him serve next. He's also not ruling out further education. "Whatever He wants, I'm available. He will see you get the ability if you have the availability."
Burkett credits the understanding and sacrifices by his wife, Helen, who runs the business' office, and his three sons, Floyd II, 16, Adam, 14, and Christopher, 12, with helping him endure the past three years as a student and a businessman.


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You will get Euro Truck Simulator 2 CD Key (a digital unique codes). You can activate the key and download the game on official site or Steam.
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Sediment Trap
What is a sediment trap and why do we use it?Sediment traps are containers that scientists place in the water to collect particles falling toward the sea floor. The traps collect tiny sediment or larger accumulations called marine snow - made up of organic matter, dead sea creatures, tiny shells, dust and minerals.
Analyzing the samples helps scientists understand how fast nutrients and trace elements like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, silicon and uranium move from the ocean surface to the deep ocean. These materials are what almost all deep-sea life uses for food (since plants can't grow in the dark). Other researchers analyze the trace elements for clues about ocean circulation thousands of years ago. And sediment trap data helps to understand the other end of the nutrient cycle: how upwelling currents create such productive fishing areas.
How do sediment traps work?The basic sediment trap consists of a broad funnel with a collecting jar at the bottom. The funnel opening covers a standard area (such as 0.25 square meter [2.7 square feet]) and has baffles at the top to keep out very large objects that might clog the funnel.
The trap clamps at a specific depth to a fixed cable attached to an anchor or buoy. Traps are often placed very deep, where they can catch sediment near the ocean bottom.
When a ship returns to retrieve the trap, the crew activates a remote-controlled device called an acoustic release. The release severs the line between the trap and its anchor, and the trap floats to the surface with its samples.
The first sediment trap was deployed in 1978 off Bermuda, in more than 3,200 meters (2 miles) of water. In more recent experiments, several traps have been spaced every 500 meters from the upper ocean to 500 meters above the seafloor. By comparing the trap catches, scientists learn how much material gets recycled by sea life on its journey downward.
How have sediment traps been refined since 1978?New, automated traps carry up to 21 collection vials on a motorized tray. The pre-programmed unit swaps out the vials at set intervals or when sensors on the unit record a change in water conditions. Each sealed vial stores information about a narrow slice of time, and together they allow the unit to operate continuously for up to a year.
Scientists studying the upper ocean use smaller traps that are easier to handle and collect multiple samples at the same time. In shallower waters, much more sediment falls through the water than at depth. That means upper-ocean sediment traps can forgo the bulky funnel top. They can be deployed for only a few days at a time and still collect useful samples.
But currents near the surface can be strong enough to push sediment past a trap the way rain can blow past a rain gauge. So scientists designed the neutrally buoyant sediment trap, which drifts with prevailing currents at a specified depth while catching falling sediment.
What have we learned using sediment traps?Before sediment traps, scientists assumed that nutrients and the tiny bodies of plankton would sink very slowly, taking centuries or millennia to finally reach the sea floor. During the long descent, they reasoned, much of the material would re-dissolve or be consumed by sea life and never reach bottom. Just how deep-sea life could survive with so few nutrients arriving became a puzzle.
Sediment traps showed much larger particles (to 12 mm [0.5 inch] long) than scientists expected. This marine snow sinks as fast as 200 meters (656 feet) per day and can reach bottom in just a few weeks. At that speed, transient surface conditions, like a summer bloom of phytoplankton, can be felt on the sea floor in the form of a blizzard of marine snow.
Years of trap data now indicate that about 740 million metric tons (815 million tons) of carbon reaches the global sea floor every year. That's about 1 percent of the ocean's total production of carbon in a year. Scientists have made similar calculations for other important elements and nutrients.
What platforms are involved?Sediment traps are usually mounted on the mooring cable of a subsurface or a surface buoy. The traps are bolted onto the lines at specific depths, where they remain for up to a year before a research vessel returns to collect the samples.
AdvantagesSediment traps are the only means for scientists to get hard data about the amounts and kinds of material that surface waters transport to the deep ocean.
Sturdy titanium construction means traps can be redeployed as soon as the collection vials are replaced.
LimitationsSediment traps have to remain vertical in the water to work properly. Traps deployed in strong currents must continuously record their tilt angle so scientists can tell whether the samples have been compromised.
In deep water, it takes a long time to collect enough sediment for a sample - especially because, back on shore, scientists from a wide range of disciplines are waiting for a part of the sample.
The samples can bias themselves. The deep ocean is low on food, so a collection jar filled with sediment is a buffet for local zooplankton. In some traps, the majority of the catch can come from "swimmers" who arrive looking for a meal, and not from sediment at all. Trap designers are working on ways to keep live organisms out of the samples.
SourcesSusumu Honjo, Scientist Emeritus, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Steve Manganini, Research Specialist, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Buesseler lab website ("Cafe Thorium").
Jim Valdes, Senior Engineer, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Coale, K. H. Labyrinth of doom: a device to minimize the "swimmer" component in sediment trap collections. Limnology and Oceanography 35:1376-1381. (1990)
Honjo, S. Trapped particulate flux. p. 3045-3048 in J. H. Steele, K. K. Turekian and S. A. Thorpe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. (2001)
Lampitt, R. S. Marine snow. p. 1667-1675 in J. H. Steele, K. K. Turekian and S. A. Thorpe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. (2001)
Valdes, J. R., and J. F. Price. A neutrally buoyant, upper ocean sediment trap. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 17:62-68 [doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2000)017<0062:ANBUOS>2.0.CO;2]. (1999)