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Bass Audition Guidelines
The Audition
Prepared Piece: Berklee embraces and values all music styles so you should prepare a piece that you are comfortable with and displays your strengths as a musician. It should be approximately 3-5 minutes in length, in any style, which demonstrates your instrumental proficiency and your overall musicianship. Do not choose a piece or a style of music you think the audition team wants to hear. Rather, select a piece that puts your "best foot forward" and highlights what you feel represents your best playing. Ultimately, the audition is a discovery process and we want to find out what you do well.
It is recommended to seek the guidance of your private instructor and/or musical mentor when selecting your prepared piece. Here are some examples and additional guidelines that may help when selecting your prepared piece:
- A tune from a well-known artist or band (any style)
- A standard or jazz tune (which may include blues and rhythm changes) with your own improvisation
- A composition from the instrumental/voice repertoire or a movement, sonata, concerto or etude
- A transcription of a well-known artist's solo
If composing or songwriting is your primary focus, you may choose to play an original piece that showcases your individual style. However, the original piece should be no longer than three (3) minutes, and you should also prepare a second piece from the above listing (no longer than 3 minutes).
If you require accompaniment for your prepared piece you may bring an accompanist, play-a-long CD or MP3 player. It is not recommended to use the original tracks of artists or bands as play-a-longs. If you are playing to a track, it is preferred that you use standard play-a-long/music-minus-one or karaoke tracks so that you are not playing your part along with the part on the recording. For example, we would prefer a bass player use a play-a-long track that does not have the bass part on the track rather than playing along with an artist's original recording.
Improvisation: We would like to hear you improvise over a short progression to gauge where you are in your instrumental development. Your prepared piece may include improvisation, but it is not required.
Blues: You should be prepared to play over a standard I-IV-V blues progression.
Reading: The examples range from basic to complex in order for the audition team to gauge your reading ability. You will have 15 minutes before your audition to warm-up on your instrument and review the reading material before being asked to play the examples in the audition.
Ear Training: You will be asked to participate in call-and-response exercises. The audition team will play short rhythms and melodies, which you will either sing back or play back on your instrument. You may also be asked to identify intervals and chord qualities. The audition team will also gain a sense of your ability to match pitch during this section of the audition.
You may also be asked to play some bass lines in different styles (two-feel, walking, pop/rock, samba, bossa, funk) on standard chord progressions. You may also be asked to demonstrate your technical facility via typical practice routines and exercises (scales, arpeggios, etc.).
Some valuable things to remember
We have provided online audition practice materials (play-along exercises) that will help you prepare for the Improvisation and Blues sections of the audition.
Applicants accepted to Berklee will be taking core music classes including harmony, ear training and arranging classes, in addition to private instrumental studies and ensembles, so the audition is formatted to assess students' overall musicianship. In addition, we are also interested in seeing how you function in an ensemble setting.
We take a holistic approach in our evaluation process where each component of the audition helps the audition team assess your overall abilities as a musician. While each component is important, we recognize it is common for applicants to have imbalances in their playing abilities. We realize many applicants may not have advanced skills in improvisation, reading, ear training or multiple musical styles, but our curriculum materials are designed to help students build skills in these areas.
The Interview
You will participate in a 15-minute interview with our admissions representative to discuss your goals and aspirations, and what you will bring to Berklee. The board of admissions encourages applicants to share their creative work. Instead of bringing supplemental material to your interview, please provide a link to Youtube, MySpace, or a personal website when you submit your application.
The following checklist will help to remind you of items you may need for your audition:
- All acoustic and electric bass are required to bring their instrument to the audition.
- Bass players are reminded to bring a tuner, an instrument cable(s) and any effects needed for their prepared piece.
- Amplifiers for bass players will be provided.


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text: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 17:21:07 schrieben Sie: > Le mercredi 18 juillet 2007 16:13, Uwe Bugla a écrit : > > 2. Kaffeine's channel lists should not be sorted by a couple of numbers > > that absolutely do not make any sense. > > The sorting should be alphabetically in the first place, then using > > numbers. In a kaffeine channel list it's quite horrible to find a desired > > channel that you want to watch. > Dear Christophe, first of all a thousands of thanks for your pretty nice hints :) > You can click on list headers to set sorting. > Numbers are quite useful and easy to remember (at least for most viewed > channels). You can change a channel' number by selecting the channel in > list then clicking again to edit. > Anyway, i don't know of any good method to quickly find a channel in a list > of thousands :) The alphabetic order is the most reliable one, no matter if the total number of channels is 10, 100 or even 1000 or more. As an addition a bookmark system to sub-categorize the found channels would be "close to perfection." :) As kaffeine is not too well documented :( the alphabetic order only does appear in the editor mode, not in the watching TV or radio mode. > So you may want to delete useless channels (take a look, > you will find a lot :) to reduce the list length. This also should be done automatically (double and triple appearances, channels without a valid name appearing as "unknown" etc.). The primary direction should be: as little user inputs as necessary. > You can also take advantage of categories to group channels and so deal > with smaller lists. Never even tried that as I am missing features like this one in a proper documentation. > > P.S. > Kaffeine svn has a search field in channels list. P. S.: femonspeak is real working fine. If I find some time to do I will extend the spoken wav-part by two other core languages: German and French. Then will produce a Debian package to imply that tool into my TCL/TK project I am busily working on (which is trilingual at the current state of development). Uwe Master question 1: When I run a kaffeine channel scan I never stumble across "filter timeout pid" errors. When I do the same with "scan" out of the dvb-utils-package, filter timeouts appear very often and the scan result is neither mediocre nor even reliable, with or without the parameter -5. It's just utmost "crappy"! So please where is the clue in kaffeine's source code that makes its channel scan perform so well and reliable (well: I would not say perfect, but still far much better than "scan" ever was!)? Master question 2: In a channel scan result there are channels that are declared CA but are FTA and vice versa. How can this be corrected automatically? My proposal would be: List the channels by SID in a database or something similar, then correcting the CA-flag automatically.


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Question: What's wrong with President Obama's slogan, "Forward."
Punctuation Nerds Stopped by Obama Slogan, 'Forward.'From Both Sides of the Aisle, a Question: Is Ending It With a Period Weird?
By CAROL E. LEE [Since many of my readers do not read the Wall Street Journal, I thought it better to include the entire article to give them an idea of how much fun it is to read the Journal. If the editors of the Journal object, I will withdraw it immediately. My purpose is to increase Journal readership. Rays.]
The. Obama. Campaign. Slogan. Is. Causing. Grammarians. Whiplash."Forward." is the culprit. It was chosen to reflect the direction Mr. Obama promises to take the country if re-elected. It also is designed to implicitly convey the opposite: that likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney would set the nation in reverse.
Obama campaign sloganSimple enough. Except the moment seven characters became eight, things got complicated. Period. Even for some in the president's orbit, the added punctuation slams the brakes on a word supposed to convey momentum.
"It's like 'forward, now stop,' " said Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of the National Economic Council who still advises the Obama campaign. He added, "It could be worse. It could be 'Forward' comma," which would make it raise the question: "and now what?"The president signed off on his own slogan, but evidently isn't sold. "Forward! Period. Full stop," he has joked to his campaign staff, according to an Obama adviser.
On that, if on nothing else, Mr. Obama has bipartisan support."It's sort of a buzz kill," said Rep. Pete King (R., N.Y.).
The period was a subject of a spirited debate as Mr. Obama's senior advisers and outside consultants spent hours in a conference room at their Chicago campaign headquarters deliberating over the perfect slogan, according to an adviser who was in attendance.Does a period add emphasis? Yes! Does it undermine the sense of the word? Maybe!
President Obama campaigning in Florida this month. He has joked with staffers about the slogan's punctuation.David Axelrod, the president's longtime messaging guru, is a champion of the period. "There's some finality to it," Mr. Axelrod said. For those who think it stops "forward" in its tracks, he has a suggestion: "Tell them just to put two more dots on it, and it'll seem like it keeps on going."
The period debate hasn't been confined to the upper echelons of the Obama campaign. Politicians, grammarians and designers who brand people and products have noticed it, too."There's been some speculation that the period really gives the feeling of something ending rather than beginning," said Catherine Pages, an art director in Washington, D.C.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush's line, "Who do you trust?" generated chatter about the use of "who" versus "whom." Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 slogan "I like Ike" is clearly a sentence, but didn't include a period. George W. Bush's "Yes, America Can" slogan included a comma; Mr. Obama's "Yes We Can" chant four years later did not.Meanwhile, the title of the super PAC supporting Mr. Romney, "Restore Our Future," seems to bend the rules of space and time, if not grammar.
Those who brandish red pens for a living are divided on whether Mr. Obama's campaign slogan passes muster."It would be quite a stretch to say it's grammatically correct," said Mignon Fogarty, author of "Grammar Girl's 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time." "You could say it's short for 'we're moving forward.' But really it's not a sentence."
The only single words that properly end with a period are verbs, Ms. Fogarty added, or interjections such as "wow."George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at University of California Berkeley who is well-known in Democratic circles, has a different verdict. He says that the slogan respects the period's proper use because "Forward." is an imperative sentence.
"You can look at the period as adding a sense of finality, making a strong statement: Forward. Period. And no more," Mr. Lakoff said. "Whether that's effective is another question."Joining the Obama campaign is the alternative rock band fun., which added a period on forming in 2008. In a written statement, two of the group's founders, Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, described the punctuation as "our way of sedating the word fun. We love how quick and sharp 'fun' is, but in no way do we intend to give people the impression that we're going to walk into rooms doing back flips."
On its page-one nameplate and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal maintains its period, a holdover from the 1800s. No one at the paper knows why the Journal kept it when other papers gradually dropped their traditional periods, a spokeswoman said.In presidential campaigns, discussions over slogans often focus on pre-emptive damage control. "We'd sit around the conference rooms and have these discussions," said Steve Hildebrand, a deputy campaign manager for Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign. "You wonder if they're going to catch on; you wonder if people are going to make fun of them."
Shortly after the 2012 line was unveiled in April, late-night talk show host Jay Leno said, "That's a good message for Obama. He's telling voters, whatever you do don't look back at all those promises I made. Just look forward."Mr. Romney has called the "Forward." slogan "absurd," and has seized on it to argue Mr. Obama's policies would take the country "forward over a cliff."
Mr. Romney's slogan, "Believe in America" (no period), has its share of critics as well. "I think that's about as close to a standard slogan as you can possibly get," said Fred Davis, a Republican media consultant.Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a former public-relations manager, said he prefers the period over an exclamation point or nothing at all.
"Forward without a period leaves open the question: 'In what direction?' " Mr. Israel said. "But that's just the old, frustrated, former public-relations executive in me."It is possible the president isn't the best judge of his own marketing. During his successful 2008 run, Mr. Obama told his campaign staff he wasn't sold on the slogan "Change We Can Believe In," according to a book written by close aide David Plouffe.
He also thought the campaign's signature symbol—a red, white and blue rising sun—was "cheesy," recalled longtime Obama adviser Robert Gibbs.The period has mysteriously been dropped in several recent Obama campaign ads. Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said there is no particular reason behind the omission. "Stay on your toes—anything could happen," he said. "Do not be surprised if we introduce a semicolon."
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An update from Meredith of The Guildhall at SMU:
Things are really starting to heat up at day two of Comic Con Chicago! In between character spotting and photo ops, we're on the lookout for future gamers and game changers.
The most popular characters so far are Deadpool and Harley Quinn. They come in all sizes and shapes and constantly amaze.
Another unique aspect of this Con is the sheer number of Star Trek actors making an appearence including Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Brent Spiner (Data), Patrick Stewart (Picard), and Michael Dorn (Warf).
Our booth neighbor to the right are the very talented artists of Lion Forge Comics who are continually sketching and creating masterpieces. To the left is Insight Editions, publishers of journals, books providing artist insight into the World of Warcrraft, Harry Potter, and the Game of Thrones, and a wonderful tongue-in-cheek book on how to become a barbarian (including do's and don'ts and wardrobe options).


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This week, Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings challenges us to post about our longest unbroken line of ancestral gravestones. How far back can we go and do we have photos.
I have to think about this for a second. I know it's not my direct maternal line or it's offshoots: my Great-Grandmother Ruby Waters Huyler does not have a headstone. Other lines have much older headstones, but have missing generations in between. Some have memorial markers, but not actual gravestones. So, what's the longest line?
It's a tie! Both my Albea and Powell (via Craft) lines have graves with known locations and markers. Both lines go back to my 5x Great-Grandparents. On the Albea line, that's Thomas Albea who was born in 1778 and died in 1844. On the Powell line, that William R Powell who was born in 1772 and died in 1847.
I visited the graves of all but one of these ancestors. Wiley Powell died in Virginia during the Civil War and was buried at a veterans cemetery there. A FindAGrave volunteer kindly sent me a photo.


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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
Yes! It's true! A major supernatural event will be occurring *this* Saturday, May 21, 2011!
I'm *not* kidding!
Harold Camping—president of the Protestant radio outreach known as Family Radio—has been predicting for some time that the long-awaited Rapture will occur on May 21st of this year.
Of course, he's made similar predictions before. He famously got his followers worked up back in 1994 about that being the year the world would end (or something) and, well ... y'know.
But this time is different!
There really *is* a major supernatural event occurring this Saturday!
That doesn't necessarily mean that the reasoning Camping uses to arrive at his conclusion is sound. In fact, it's not.
If you go to Family Radio's page explaining why the Rapture is supposed to happen this Saturday, the reasoning used is astronishingly weak. Even incoherent. Dig it:
God declared in 2 Peter 3:8:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
God had written in the Holy Bible in Genesis 7:4:
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
God added in Genesis 7:10-11:
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the Flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The ark that Noah had built was the only place of safety from the destruction of the Flood. Likewise, God's gracious mercy is the only place of safety from the destruction that is coming on the Day of Judgment.
In 2 Peter 3:8, which is quoted above, Holy God reminds us that one day is as 1,000 years. Therefore, with the correct understanding that the seven days referred to in Genesis 7:4 can be understood as 7,000 years, we learn that when God told Noah there were seven days to escape worldwide destruction, He was also telling the world there would be exactly 7,000 years (one day is as 1,000 years) to escape the wrath of God that would come when He destroys the world on Judgment Day. Because Holy Infinite God is all-knowing, He knows the end from the beginning. He knew how sinful the world would become.
Seven thousand years after 4990 B.C. (the year of the Flood) is the year 2011 A.D. (our calendar).
4990 + 2011 – 1 = 7,000
[One year must be subtracted in going from an Old Testament B.C. calendar date to a New Testament A.D. calendar date because the calendar does not have a year zero.]
Thus Holy God is showing us by the words of 2 Peter 3:8 that he wants us to know that exactly 7,000 years after he destroyed the world with water in Noah's day, he plans to destroy the entire world forever. Because the year 2011 A.D. is exactly 7,000 years after 4990 B.C. when the flood began, the Bible has given us absolute proof that the year 2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgment, which will come on the last day of the Day of Judgment.
Got that?
Me neither.
So let's employ a technique commonly used by philosophers when trying to analyze someone's argument. Let's try to put it in logical form. As near as I can tell, Camping's argument has a form something like this:
1) Noah's Flood occurred in 4990 B.C.
2) Noah was warned seven days before the Flood that it would occur, per Genesis 7.
3) A day with the Lord is like a thousand years, per 2 Peter 3.
4) Therefore, 7,000 years after Noah's Flood some great, Flood-like judgment will occur.
6) Therefore, the end of the world will occur in 2011.
Camping has other arguments zeroing in on May 21st as the date for the Rapture and for October 21st for the final end of the world (if I understand correctly), but before messing with days, let's first see if his argument concerning years holds water.
The first thing to be remarked about the argument as I've put it above is that it's not in a logically valid form. The premises do not entail the conclusions. I could fix that by rephrasing and introducing some extra, hidden premises, but Camping's logic is so obscure that I don't want to go too far beyond what he explicitly says. So let's simply look at the premises of the argument and see how likely they are to be true, remembering that if even one premise is false then the whole argument is unsound (and that's if it had a valid form to begin).
Premise 1, that the Flood occurred in 4990 B.C. is an idiosyncratic claim on Camping's part. You'll note that this date is earlier than the conventional Protestant Ussher chronology, which had the world beginning in 4004 B.C. and had the Flood occurring around 2348 B.C. Camping rejects the Ussher dating, and I can't fault him for that. I reject it myself, as do most Protestants these days, because it is based on unsound methodology and results in unlikely, unprovable, and over-precise dates.
Unfortunately, I have no more confidence in Camping's dating, which also strikes me as unlikely, unprovable, and over-precise. I don't know what house of cards he has supporting that date, but I view basing any argument regarding the end of the world on this date as extremely shaky.
Premise 2, that Genesis depicts Noah being told that the Flood was going to begin in seven days (this was after he'd been given an earlier warning and built the ark) is true.
Premise 3, that Peter states that a day with the Lord is like a thousand years is also true.
But can we infer from this that some Flood-like judgment would occur 7,000 years after the original Flood?
Not on your life.
For a start, why zero-in on the warning Noah got seven days before everything started happening? Why not focus instead on the earlier warning he got? Why not at some other time in this narrative? The proposed starting point is arbitrary.
For another thing, why suppose that there's any kind of prophetic significance to this at all? There is nothing in the text telling us that these seven days, or any span of time mentioned in the narrative, is a scale-model prophecy of when the end of the world will take place relative to the Flood. This is sheer supposition.
What's more, why should the scale be a thousand years to a day? This is a notorious bugaboo with predictions of the end of the world. Over and over different interpreters pick out some random mention of days in the Old Testament, multiply it by a thousand years, and then declare some prophesied even must occur on the corresponding date.
It's true that 2 Peter says that a day is as a thousand years with the Lord, this doesn't give us a license to take any mention of a day and interpret it as a thousand years. Quite the opposite! The exact same passage also says the reverse: That a thousand years is like a day with God (per Psalm 90:4). In other words, time is meaningless with God. He's an eternal being who can find as much experience in a day as we would in a thousand years and who can encompass huge spans of time like a thousand years in what is only a moment for him. Rather than providing a license to multiply any reference to a day as code for a thousand year prophetic period, this verse is actually a warning against trying to determine God's timetable for events. That timetable is unpredictable because we cannot know what temporal calculus God is applying to particular prophecies.
Camping's use of this verse is thus not only over-precise but flatly contrary to the literal meaning of the verse!
And would be even if the seven days mentioned Genesis 7 were a prophetic scale model, which we have no reason to think.
And if those days were prophetic in some way, why treat them and only them in such a way? What God says is that in seven days he would start flooding for 40 days and 40 nights. Does that mean that once the judgment starts it will go on for 40,000 years?
Camping doesn't think so. He's got the final end coming in October. This only underscores the arbitrary nature of the figure he has picked out and multiplied. If the seven days mentioned must be literally multiplied by 1,000 years, why should the 40 days also mentioned in the same passage not be similarly multiplied?
Camping does, at least, avoid the trap of thinking that there's a "year zero" on our timeline. There's not. It jumps from 1 B.C. to A.D. 1, so he gets points for that. Not all end-time speculators have been so fortunate on that one.
But even if we were to grant all of the foregoing, even if there were some big Flood-like event scheduled to occur 7,000 years after a 4,990 B.C. Flood, why would it have to be the end of the world? Why not just Another Big Judgment?
Even that is giving him too much credit, however. The fact is that this whole prediction is a house of cards. It's based on over-precise, unknowable dates, arbitrary starting points, arbitrary parallelisms, invalid logic, and a multiplication factor that is wrenched out of context and used in a way flatly contrary to the clear meaning of the text.
Given that his overall year calculation is so shot through with holes, we need not be detained by his more precise datings of the Rapture or the final end. (I should also note that Catholics do not typically use the term "Rapture," though they do acknowledge the reality of the event St. Paul mentions in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, though it is seen as occurring at the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the world, not before an earthly millennium.)
The whole thing is comic—but it is also tragic, because many people have been misled by Camping, and some have been misled into spending vast sums of money in support of his advertising campaign, telling their friends and co-workers that the world is about to end, and generally bringing scorn on the cause of Christ.
As St. Paul wrote: "It is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you'" (Rom. 2:24).
You have to admire the courage of people like this gentleman who spent his life savings promoting these speculations, but not their wisdom.
God help everyone who bought into this come Sunday morning.
Of course, that's not to say Christ couldn't come back on Saturday. I don't see the signs being right for that, but who am I to say it couldn't happen?
Harold Camping is right, though, that a major supernatural event will be happening this Saturday.
One of my godsons is being confirmed!
Congratulations, James!
So ... what do you think?


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Sometimes I think about my life as a series of narrative arcs. The small daily goals or chores are nested into the weekly arcs, the weekly into the monthly, the yearly and then the big one, the story of my life. I have these milestones, the big decisions: love, marriage, work, kids, home. And once my kids move out, which isn't that many years away, there's going to be a big empty whooshing sound beyond the edge of that cliff.
But anyway, every day, I have to decide what I'm going to work on—or rather how I'm going to fit into my normal crazy day, already so filled with little arcs, some sort of work on my bigger arcs, like, for example, writing a book. How can I work on my important stuff today? Little arcs are sprints. Big arcs, big goals—they're marathons.
So, I imagine the world in my mind. I locate myself in it. I think about what my work is, what my life is about, what my days and years are going to be like. And I do this so that I can try to give proportion to those things that do and don't affect my life and my goals. I am still struggling as a creative worker today, but I am no longer struggling to be one. I just struggle to keep at it.
Today it can be especially hard to prove to yourself that what you want to do is valuable. It's easier to get depressed hearing the news of the recession. Just give in. Absorb it all. Give up. Professor Emmanuel Saez won some economic awards for his studies of American income. He found that in 2007, the top 10 percent of American income earners earned 50 percent of all wages, a disparity higher than any year since 1917. From 1993 to 2007, a period of overall economic growth, the top one percent of American earners captured half of all that growth. This study alone makes me doubt that an overall economic recovery in the next five years will have anything to do with me. Today there are more than 308 million Americans, 40 million of whom live in poverty. Critics say the recovery will be jobless; that is, it won't replace the 8 million jobs lost for a very long time. What are the majority of us Americans going to be doing with our time?
As for my time, I still have to get my kids to school and sit down and get my work done. The recession hasn't made me stop loving my family or my work. I'm not going to give up. What's dangerous are those little arcs, those daily chores. A year can go by and, oh, man, what have I been doing? I've just been making decisions little arc by little arc.
If I make these little-arc decisions long enough, year after year, I might reach a point where my life has described a larger arc, and it's one I never realized I was choosing, over and over again, as I chose to complete those smaller arcs. I did all the right things, listened to everyone, was good and nice and responsible, and now I'm lost. And I can't do a back flip through time and start the big arc all over again.
This is where imagining a world in your mind can give you a perspective above the smaller arcs to form a lifelong arc. A life story. What's your story?
Whose plan is this?
If I happen to be thinking about my life this way, I find that I have a filter for the world, a means for being selective in how I spend my time while I am on guard against threats to my time. These threats can be benign and even beneficial: books, movies, posters, a new ergonomic office chair, a video game, a cooking magazine.
Designed objects and experiences can interrupt your life (with books, music, software) and enhance some activity (by giving you a new chair, tool, idea). Design can entertain, educate, economize and enable. Designers can provide the props and build the sets for our human activities: homes and subdivisions, highways, states, municipal buildings, hospitals, parks, malls, vehicles and clothes, tables and chairs and toys and appliances. To design is to plan. Look around you. Where are you? What are you wearing? How do you feel? What are you looking at? What are you listening to? What are you doing? Whose plan is this?
Designers, from their point of view, might imagine someone going through their life one day. Little arc, big arc. At what point is the designer trying to intersect with this person's life? And what is that person telling themselves about their own lives at that moment? Seeing a play? Little arc. Buying a home? Big arc.
There was a study in which Princeton University theological seminary students were asked to fill out a questionnaire and then cross the quad to give a sermon. Some were told to cross the quad and meet in a room in another building. There was no hurry. Others were told their audience was there and waiting, and so they were already late. In the quad, a participant in the experiment posed as a man lying in a doorway and flagged down the seminary students for assistance.
Who stopped to help? Of those students who were not in a hurry, 63 percent stopped to help. Of those who were in a hurry, 10 percent stopped to help. Those who were told they were late did not stop, not because they were bad people, but because they had a story in their head about their goal at that moment. They had a little arc to complete.
It's something to keep in mind as we go through our day and our lives. How are we making decisions? Is some story that we've told ourselves making decisions for us? A designer might make something to interrupt your story, whatever's going on in your head as you're rushing by, late for a meeting or a date or a cup of coffee. A designer might use that opportunity to remind you of the bigger arc of your life.
Artists do this; so do writers and poets. Like other creative people, a designer might remind you that the little-arc decisions add up, like sleepwalking at night: Suddenly you wake up, and you're in a strange neighborhood.
As that designer dares to entertain, educate or help someone, that person is going to ask, "Is this worth my time? Is this interruption something that can help? Is this thing—this design, this art, this product, this message, this experience—going to steal me away from following my big arc? I don't get the time back. So what am I after?"
The choices you make mean everything
Figuring this out requires imagination. Imagination is work. It is easier to be a spectator than a participant. It is easier to focus on the little arcs of your day and allow all the world's interruptions to wash over you. It is easier to identify with a celebrity and copy and paste their hopes and fears into your mind's software than to kick-start the creaky two-stroke engine of your imagination. It is easier to repeat the prejudices of a radio host and disfigure your own personality than it is to think for yourself and become somebody real. We make judgments every day, in many ways, and over time these judgments add up to our lives.
Judgment depends on imagination, and imagination is work. But the work of the imagination is solitary. You have to be alone. You have to hide from all those interruptions. Carve time away from the chores and habits of your daily grind, sit there, stare into space, allow yourself to be quiet and alone, almost bored. Concentrate. Let the world into your mind.
Prepare to move a world with your mind, and to find your place in it. We often don't have time for this, or at least we say we don't. We set aside hours for TV shows and movies and the computer, and while we're sitting there flipping channels and clicking through YouTube, we're also on the cell phone telling our novelist friend, "I'm not a big book reader. I mean, I just don't have the time to read, you know?" This always sounds to me like the person is saying, "I'm not a big thinking person. I mean, I just don't have the time to think, you know?"
For designers and for everyone else, thinking critically about the complexities of what you notice in the world is a way to fit what you see into your own imagined framework and to engage the sensory world rather than be dominated by it. We are human beings, after all, not eyeballs wired to an online credit account. There is neurosecurity. And there is neuro-insecurity. Some minds are more easily hacked than others. Design is everywhere because the world is everywhere, and in our lives as in our nightmares, we are pursued, relentlessly. Yes, something is coming for me. Something wants my time. I raise my hand and push a palmful of air in the direction of my desire. I concentrate. I try to move my world with my mind. I try to design my life, while allowing for accidents and boredom and surprise. Yes, sometimes I stop to help. And sometimes design stops me. But sometimes I remember that I have a big arc to complete, and only so much time in which to complete it.
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Snowbirds who fly the coop to Florida each winter need to make special arrangements to make sure their auto insurance claims are covered.
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Anyone who has a vehicle in Florida for more than 90 days a year -- and the days don't have to be consecutive -- is required to register the car and meet the minimum state car insurance requirements.
You might be tempted to register the car only in your home state to save on car insurance rates and avoid dealing with two insurance agents and two insurance policies.
But that strategy could backfire and cost you more in the long run. You could get a ticket at a traffic stop if you're caught without proper Florida registration and insurance, says Kirsten Olsen-Doolan, spokesperson for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
Worst-case scenario: The insurance company finds you misrepresented the car's location, and refuses to pay your claim.
What Florida requires
"If you register a car in Florida, you need to have Florida insurance," says Penny Gusner, consumer analyst for CarInsurance.com.
You'll need to have at least $10,000 of personal injury protection (PIP) and $10,000 of property damage liability coverage on your vehicle to meet state law, says Olsen-Doolan.
Although car insurance requirements are minimal in Florida, David Thompson, a licensed insurance agent who teaches courses for the Florida Association of Insurance Agents, recommends you request coverage and limits similar to those on your vehicle at home.
And even if you have an insurance agent you love back home, your Florida car insurance has to be purchased through an agent licensed in Florida. Most big auto insurance companies in your home state will have agents in Florida as well. (See a list of auto insurance companies licensed in Florida.)
What you don't need to get is a new driver's license, as long as you're a U.S. citizen.
Olsen-Doolan says you can retain your home state's driving license. If you're a Canadian citizen, you can keep your license from Canada, but also need a license from Florida or any other state in the country, she says. Canadian snowbirds face the same registration and car insurance requirements as those for residents of other U.S. states, she says.
Do you really need to bother?
In a word: Yes.
If, say, your legal residence is Pennsylvania and you have your vehicle, which is garaged in Florida, registered in your home state, "it's possible that the Pennsylvania insurer could deny claims, stating misrepresentation about where the car was located. The premium paid would be based on the Pennsylvania address and thus the insurer can say they weren't able to rate the car and driver properly due to not having the correct information," Gusner says.
It doesn't help that Florida has some of the most expensive car insurance costs in the country, tempting many to try to rely only on their home-state coverage. (You can get an idea of what coverage might cost at your Florida residence by looking at CarInsurance.com's survey of rates in all ZIP codes, or get personalized online auto insurance quotes.)
On the other hand, if you spend only a couple of months each year in Florida, under that 90-day threshold, you can keep your vehicle registered and insured in your state of residence, Olsen-Doolan says.
If your vehicle is garaged in Florida year round, you can drop certain insurance coverage when you head back home, though that isn't necessarily the best move.
Saving money while you're away
One way to save money on your car insurance bill is to surrender your license plate and vehicle registration when you go home, so you can completely drop your insurance coverage, and then get new insurance and reregister your vehicle when you come back down the next year.
That works only if your car is paid off -- a lender would insist on full comprehensive and collision coverage -- and no one will drive your car while you're away. Your car would not be covered for any damage during that time.
Snowbirds are most likely to be in their home states during the summer, which is hurricane season. If you drop your comprehensive coverage and a hurricane blows through Florida and swamps your vehicle or crushes it with a tree, you cannot make a claim.
Your other option is to keep the car registered and maintain only PIP and property damage liability coverage. You may be able to get a low-mileage discount for that renewal period, Gusner says.
But Thompson cautions against making that move. "I've never been a supporter of suspending coverage," he says.
He recounts the story told by an agent in one of his courses. One of the agent's clients removed all coverage but PIP and property damage liability when he left the state, and planned to reinstate the coverage when he arrived back in Key West.
The man flew in to the state, jumped into his car for a quick trip to the grocery store, and got in a wreck, injuring the other driver.
By suspending coverage, "there's a huge potential for financial disaster," Thompson says.
"The least expensive choice today is many times the most expensive choice after a claim takes place."
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The Aggies (6-1) led 42-24 at halftime before Houston climbed back in the contest by slicing Texas A&M's lead to 62-54 with 2:09 remaining. But Turner, a senior guard and team leader, tallied 10 points, including two 3-pointers, in the final 4:52 to hold the Cougars at bay.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - With General Motors Co (GM.N) in recent days setting in motion big changes around the globe, the focus for new Chief Executive Mary Barra and her team will be making cars and trucks that prove popular enough to help end losses in Europe, analysts said.
Over the past week, GM has announced it would pull the Chevrolet brand out of Europe by the end of 2015 to concentrate on Opel and stop making cars in Australia by 2017, to end losses in those regions. It also celebrated the long-awaited exit of the U.S. Treasury as a shareholder.
The moves, welcomed by Wall Street, clear the decks for Barra and her reshuffled management team that takes over next month.
GM on Tuesday named 51-year-old Barra as its next CEO, making her the first woman to lead a global automaker.
Barra will also be the first engineer to lead GM since Robert Stempel in the early 1990s. Analysts who follow the No. 1 U.S. automaker said that was a good sign as developing and building hot-selling vehicles is crucial to ending financial losses in Europe while also defending profit in the key U.S. and China markets.
"It would appear that her ascension shows the emphasis will be on product as opposed to strategies like squeezing suppliers and that's the right path," Gabelli & Co analyst Brian Sponheimer said.
"Quality and consistency of product will always be GM's No. 1 challenge," he added. "Mary Barra needs to continue to change the perception of GM in the eyes of potential customers. That starts with the quality of the car."
Outgoing CEO Dan Akerson is certainly not leaving the product cupboard bare, as vehicles like the Chevy Impala and Cadillac CTS sedans and redesigned Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks are garnering awards and pulling in profits.
But a company is only as good as its next vehicle debut, so Barra must complete her current task as global product development chief - consolidating the number of platforms on which GM builds vehicles around the world as a way to cut costs, analysts said.
"GM has more complexity than a lot of other global automakers and they really need to harness their scale to get the full benefits," said UBS analyst Colin Langan, who has a "buy" rating on GM's stock.
Fixing Europe, where GM has lost $18 billion over the last 12 years, is at the top of Barra's to-do list, analysts said. New Opel products and the decision to stop selling most Chevy vehicles there will help.
GM's European Opel brand has in the past suffered from having to adapt European cars from platforms more suited to the North American market, after former Vice Chairman Bob Lutz insisted on Chevy and Opel sharing more parts, said an Opel employee who declined to be named.
Analysts also said GM's efforts in Europe are more likely to bear fruit in 2015 after the automaker has ceased production in Bochum, Germany.
Another money-losing region that needs help is the Asia region excluding China, analysts said. While GM is a leader in China, it is struggling elsewhere in the region with lack of market share or, in the case of its South Korean manufacturing hub, rising labor costs.
GM earlier this year cut the third shift at its Korean plants, and industry research firm IHS said the automaker is likely to cut output in that country by nearly 20 percent in 2015 compared with this year. GM officials have been mum lately on plans for Korea, but executives have not hidden their desire to minimize reliance on the country in the future.
The decision to cease production in Australia as well as the move to drop the Chevy brand in Europe will cost the company as much as $1.6 billion, but will help lower costs long-term and possibly relieve pressure on GM in Korea as Australian demand is met by the Korean plants, analysts said.
"It's important for Ms. Barra to start out with a relatively clean slate and announcing these changes in the last couple of weeks gives her an opportunity for her first six months to talk about what's positive at GM as opposed to coming in and announcing cuts," Gabelli's Sponheimer said.
Other challenges facing GM and all automakers include tackling the different regions' regulatory agendas, as well as continuing efforts to help GM's global operations work together more seamlessly, IHS managing director Michael Robinet said.
To do all that, David Cole, former chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, said Barra and her top executives will need to "break down the fiefdoms" throughout the company globally, something Ford Motor Co (F.N) CEO Alan Mulally pulled off in his turnaround of GM's U.S. rival. "The whole concept of team play is critical at GM," he said.
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said in a research note on Wednesday that investors' concerns about GM slipping back to the "old ways" that led to its 2009 bankruptcy should be alleviated by the presence of so many "outsiders" on the management team and board.
Jonas cited the presence of Dan Ammann, the incoming president and current chief financial officer who joined from Wall Street, and incoming Chairman Tim Solso, who saw sales double and shares rise nearly 10-fold in his 12 years leading engine maker Cummins Inc (CMI.N).
Jonas said concerns facing Barra and her team in GM's core North America market include rising capacity, deteriorating credit quality, falling prices for used vehicles and the weak Japanese yen.
Analysts and investors expect one of Barra's early actions to be the introduction of a stock buyback program and reintroduction of a common stock dividend, given GM's large pile of cash and the exit of the U.S. government as a shareholder.
Barra takes over at an auspicious time, as the new pickups and related large SUVs hit showrooms in growing numbers, pushing up profit.
But Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting at LMC Automotive, said, "This is a 'what have you done for me lately?' market, so keeping the edge and connection to consumer needs with the next-generation products will be a challenge."
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Mom began doing genealogical research on the family before she became a mother...actually before she even married Dad. Stories she tells indicate that she would work on her research when my brother and I were napping or in bed at night. She never missed a stroke, but her time was somewhat limited for genealogy.
When I was about eight months old Mom began working on a family genealogy for the Amsberry reunion. That was before computers, so she set the typewriter up in the living room on a card table, along with her paper and notes. To entertain my brother for close to an hour, without interruption, she cut out strips of paper and had him color them. After that he could make loops and a chain which he seemed to never tire of doing. That allowed Mom to be a mother and a genealogist. A eight month old is a bit different, so when it came time to feed me she learned how to balance me on her feet under the table and rock me while I drank my bottle. She would type away on the Amsberry genealogy notes.
Of course, there were the trips to visit relatives, to cemeteries and also to allow Mom to research in libraries. My brother and I both had chicken pox practically at the same time. He was about 7 years old and I was about 4 years old. After we had healed up, Dad took Mom to a library that had a genealogy section and told her to spend a few hours and he'd entertain us. Mom had definitely earned that free time!
Mom worked when we were in high school, but she still found time to write and column on genealogy and history for the local newspaper. She would stay up until the wee hours of the morning working on her writing and genealogy. I think that's why she doesn't need as much sleep as some people. When she and Dad moved to Iowa in 1996, Mom was having health problems and was diagnosed with cancer. After surgery in May of 1999, she was declared free of cancer. She's a ten year survivor.
By 2000, Mom and Dad had moved back to Nebraska. Where they were living meant that Mom had to travel quite a ways to do research. That didn't stop her. She had internet and from time to time she'd do some traveling. In 2004 Dad was diagnosed with cancer. After numerous operations, chemo and radiation, it was apparent he was not going to be a survivor like Mom. He left us on 26 June 2007. during those three years, Mom took care of Dad without any help. Their vacations were to hospitals. Mom never complained about not finding time for genealogy. She'd think about it, read genealogy periodicals in the hospitals and doctor's offices and try to do some research from time to time.
A few days before he passed away, Dad told Mom that he wanted her to resume her genealogical research after he passed away. Mom has done exactly that, but she still juggles that with the title of Mother and also Grandmother.
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How many of you have heard of Conway's Law? Melvin Conway postulated in 1968 that:
...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
I usually paraphrase it into:
Software architectures will reflect the structure of the organization that built them.
Of course stated like that, there is a sense of fatalism. Our organization structure is possibly flawed, sub-optimal so of course we'll wind up with a software architecture that is also flawed and sub-optimal. I prefer to look at the law from the other direction though. Start with the architecture, then derive the organization.
This is something that is contrary to how most companies think though. The idea that you would create your architecture component diagram first, then design your entire technology organization to support the architecture isn't your typical process. In some cases it works out that way through organic growth or even through a logical accident of fate where teams form as components spin off. These fortunate evolutions, when they occur, provide the framework for good architectures, but why leave this as an accident of fate?
Starting a new product? Start with a small senior team and focus on determining your component architecture. From there, you can create your organization to deliver that architecture. The teams will become obvious, formed around components so that high frequency communication occurs within teams and lower frequency communication across teams. Your component interfaces become your team communication boundaries. Of course, this also lends itself well to agile processes which is an additional benefit.
What if you have a legacy architecture? How do you improve your existing architecture? The same way. Figure out how you want your architecture to look and then before doing any engineering work, reorganize to create an organization structure that reflects the desired software architecture. This will potentially be suboptimal in the beginning but it will become a forcing function to drive change. The benefit is that the organization will draw the new architecture out of the code because it's the only way the teams can become more effective.
Approaching organizations in this way provides the opportunity to form teams with a higher sense of ownership as well. So many companies attempt to achieve quality through process, governance, checklists, sign offs, and many other impediments to delivery. The hope is that through all these processes poorly built software will not be released to site. The reality is the best way to achieve high quality software is to give people a sense of ownership in the code they write.
If you align your organization around your architecture and create teams that fully own a component, then the natural result is a better quality product. Quality that becomes inherent and owned by the people creating the software, without heavy processes that impact the efficiency of the team.
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No end in sight for Foxwoods dealers' contract negotiations
Mashantucket - Unionized dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino ratified their historic first contract with the casino-owning Mashantucket Pequot Tribe in January 2010, marking the end of a negotiating process that had begun 14 months earlier.
It appears it could take just as long or longer for the parties to agree on a second contract to replace the first, which expired Dec. 31, 2011.
Neither side has been commenting publicly, but in a posting on its website, Local 2121 of the UAW says it's fighting to contain members' health care costs and to secure "decent raises" and investments in cleaner casino air, among other things.
Foxwoods management, according to the union, wants "astronomical health insurance increases," a three-year wage freeze and the right to stop the 401(k) match for employees for a year.
"Dealers and dual rates have to stand together!" the union's bargaining committee says on the site. "What is at stake is whether we will go forward or backward economically and whether we will keep the job protections that we fought so hard to win in our first contract."
Scott Butera, Foxwoods' president and chief executive officer, said Friday he was not at liberty to talk about the contract negotiations. Earlier, a spokesman for the tribe said the same thing, and Mary Johnson, the Local 2121 president, said she, too, was unable to comment while negotiations are in an arbitration phase.
Foxwoods employees, however, both union and nonunion, have been contacting The Day in recent weeks to complain about cost-cutting by management and what they described as department-by-department layoffs, albeit none in great numbers. All of the employees spoke on condition of anonymity.
Just last week, several employees said, the casino laid off dozens of cafeteria workers who prepared and served employees' meals. Before that, a number of janitorial staff and cashiers were let go, employees said.
"I'm not sure what you're hearing, but it's nothing out of the ordinary," Butera said when questioned about such layoffs. "We're always working to match our head count to the demand. We haven't changed the service we provide or any programs one bit."
Asked whether Foxwoods was simply operating with fewer workers, he said, "It's not even that. It's just routine."
Butera said that in an organization with 8,000 employees, "you're going to have some people coming in and some going out" at all times. He said Foxwoods remains one of the largest casino employers in the world.
By comparison, Mohegan Sun recently laid off more than 300 employees - its second round of mass layoffs in two years - reducing its workforce to 6,400 people.
Both Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun have been experiencing declining revenues over the last five years. The casinos' release last week of their slot machine revenues for October was the latest example. The numbers showed Foxwoods' slots revenue for the month was down 15.6 percent over October 2011, while Mohegan Sun's declined 17.6 percent, believed to be the biggest monthly decline in its 16-year history.
October's revenues reflected the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which knocked out power at homes and businesses and disrupted lives throughout the region at the end of the month.
The weak economy and growing competition in the Northeast gaming market were blamed for the Mohegan Sun layoffs, and they are the same forces driving the Mashantuckets' efforts to diversify Foxwoods' offerings.
The tribe began operating a gas station near Foxwoods last week, part of its 5,000-square-foot Pequot Outpost, which will include a Burger King and a convenience store. The complex is expected to officially open Dec. 1. Developers are also expected to break ground soon on a 312,000-square-foot outlet mall connecting Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods.
"The gas station and the stores are going to be opening, and we're working on a master plan for our retail and food and beverage," Butera said. "There's a lot of development, a lot of positive stuff going on here."
Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun will face increased competition in Rhode Island, where voters have approved a full-fledged casino in Lincoln. Twin River held a job fair last week that attracted, among others, former and current workers from the two local casinos.
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