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Many people in this country are short on time today.  Work, family and other obligations take nearly our entire time.  There is not much left for personal time to ourselves.  Not much time is left to be politically or religiously active or start a business.  For the good of the country, the good of the economy, and most of all the good of ourselves we must recover some of this time. Three areas of opportunity present themselves for recovering some of our precious time. 

WAITING: Airport delays are among the most lengthy and the most variable delays we face.  For example, the last time I flew to Chicago, the airport delays took longer than the flight itself, on both the way there and back.  Certain delays are due to security checks that don’t seem very useful, are invasive, but are also politically touchy to remove due to peoples’ fear of terrorism – (which are not to be ignored or taken lightly).  The airlines themselves are also much to blame for not having planes ready to go on time.  There have been proposals for years for a Fliers’ bill of rights that addresses airport delay due to airlines. It should be strengthened to require airlines to refund some or all of the ticket price depending on how many hours the customer has to wait.

Doctor’s offices schedule patients to maximize their profit, not to get patients in and out on time.  (For the record, I just fired my doctor for this, and her $140 tetanus shot).  A patients bill of rights similar to the proposed Fliers’ bill of rights, specifying free service if the wait is longer than X, would go a long way to solving the problem.

Phone support queues, such as when calling your credit card issuer or phone company can last an upwards of an hour.  To add insult to injury, they also like to play ads while you wait.  Lately some companies have added a feature where you can give them your account # and phone # and they will call you back at a time of your choosing instead of waiting.  It should be required of all companies to give their customers this option.  This need not be an onerous new regulation: just providing an option to leave voicemail would be acceptable.

Checkout lines at stores are ripe for reform.  In the 1990s self service check out was
introduced.  Generally these are no faster than a human cashier, because of all their error.  I believe we have all heard “*beep* please wait for cashier assistance” far too many times.  I know many people like these lines (because they can verify that the scanned price is correct) and do not advocate their removal.  I do advocate that they be made to work properly without waiting for a cashier to be called to assist every 2nd customer.  For example stores like Wal-Mart, allow their checkout lines to form 15-20 minute queues – even when most of their registers are open.  I am not sure how to solve this problem – but it has to be done.  15-20 minutes x 6 stops per family per week = 1.5-2 hours/week x 52 weeks per year = 78 to 104 hours per family per year is more than 3 or 4 entire days per family per year spent standing in line.

Several people I know have proposed some solutions to waiting:
$1 shop online – this is great if present privacy problems can be resolved.  (See my upcoming series on privacy).
$2 make waiting more productive.  This can work to the extent that you can conduct your business, worship, etc, in the checkout line.  I read in lines to improve myself and my skill-base for my career – so I am sure others could do something along these lines.
$3 Finally it was suggested that, a person could record his time spent waiting in line, multiply it by his hourly wage, and have it deducted from his bill.  Heaven help the company that delays a million dollar a year CEO for half an hour.

WORKING:  Presently, the 5 day 40 hour work week is standard.  This leaves 5 evenings and 2 weekend days to service our family and other obligations.  Good luck having any time left for yourself.  (I realize that some blue collar workers earn time and a half by working beyond this, and many white collar professionals and managers are forced to work beyond this by their company for no additional compensation.  They could certainly put in some portion of a 5th workday each week if they chose; perhaps by telecommuting.)

Lately many companies have been experimenting with flex time and the 4 day work week.  Flex time allow employees to schedule their day such that they can service all of their obligations around their work.  The 4 day work week allows the employee to work 4 10 hour days instead of 5 8hour days, thereby gaining an extra useable day on the weekend.  For many employers, this makes sense too.  Any office building operating Monday-Friday 8-5, could have all of their workforce be in at least 1 day a week together so that meetings can be scheduled, and then sign up for any other 3 days they please.  Retail and service operations would especially benefit from this too, because they could have more employees around before and after operating hours to restock shelves, clean and so on.  Likewise, a call center, hospital or a steel mill operating 24/7 with either 3 shifts or 4 turns rotating in every 8 hours could use 10 hour blocks instead to staff their operation just as well.

Employees would benefit by having a 3rd useable day off every week.

DRIVING:  There are about 300 million people in this country.  About half of us work.  Nearly all of us workers commute to our job.  Many of us have long-mileage trips.  Many of those trips take unnecessarily long to make; the average American spends ½ hour commuting, each way, to work.  If we could save some of that time, as a society we would be better off.  Families could spend more time together and people would have more time to relax.   Roughly 300,000,000 people x ½ work x 2 trips per day x ½ hour average per trip multiplies out to tell us that American spend roughly 150 million man hours are spent in a car commuting to and from work each day.

What if we could save some of that time?  25% would be roughly 37 million man hours saved per day.  To the average American, that would mean saving 15 minutes every day.  Multiply that by 250 commuting days per year and the average American would have roughly 2¼   extra full 24 hour days each year to do something other than sit in a car.  So how could we do it?

First we should establish some ground rules:  (1) whatever changes are made should not increase driving fatalities.  (2) whatever changes are made shouldn’t cost a lot of money.

There are many things that could be done.  Most commutes involve a mix of highway and city driving, so both should be addressed.  Many of the worst commutes involve long delays due to high traffic, construction or poorly designed intersections – which makes these ripe opportunities to work on.

Highway driving is an easy fix: raise the speed limit to 85mph on all highways.  Insurance companies compile a slew of statistics showing that higher speed is associated with higher fatalities.  More careful researchers note that it is the difference in speed between the many cars on the road that lead to accidents and fatalities.  So when raising the speed limit, we should also raise the minimum to 70 or 75mph .  Excepting certain collectors’ antique cars there are no cars on the road that can’t do at least 70 or 75mph.  It doesn’t cost hardly anything to do this.  Many motorists already drive at these speeds in defiance of the law, and seem quite safe doing it.  Indeed, the British Medical Journal noted in 2006 that British highway fatalities per year actually increased slightly after installing speed enforcement cameras (studied 1996-2004) to slow their drivers down -i.e. speed is not the dangerous and important factor that we are led to believe. Obviously, in severe weather, one would drive at a safe and reasonable (slower) speed – no one wants tp do 70-85mph on snow and ice.  Also, local government would have to stay on top of potholes, read: Canton, Ohio, where the potholes often seem to be more numerous than the sands by the sea, and they can appear to be large enough to float ocean-going vessels.  All other things equal, the average American motorist, could save a maximum of 8 minutes a day or 1 ½ days per year.

City driving is more difficult.  It depends very much on delays due to traffic and intersections.  1 possible reform would be to raise the speed limit on most roads that are not highways to 40 mph.  Critics argue that in certain situations involving on-street parking or older (small dense) residential neighborhoods, that 25mph makes sense.  I agree with them on this.  No one wants to run over a child or have any other kind of accident.  But everywhere else, 40 mph would make sense and make a big difference.  Enacting this reform would save the average American commuter a maximum of a third of a day per year.  It would save us even more time when running our errands.  This is not an expensive change either.  It would also help for all the cities in a given metropolitan area to cooperate in synchronizing their stoplights.  Pairs of multilane 1 way streets with timed lights have significantly reduced travel time in many cities across the nation.

Reducing delays are the biggest improvement opportunity of all.  When I first started my previous job, my 30 mile commute took 65 minutes on average – event though it was 2/3 highway driving with a 65mph speed limit.  By leaving for work at 6AM instead of 6:55AM, I found I could reduce this time to 35 minutes.  I avoided traffic, drove 40 and 80mph instead of 25, 35 and 65mph and had more favorable stoplight cycles.  In practical terms, I saved 10½  24 hour days each year.

Herein lies a large part solution: it’s cheap and easy to change the time at which we commute.  As companies allow more flex time and telecommuting, this reduces the peak traffic densities on our road ways.  We can improve this by having governments pass ordinances that non-customer service buildings open before 7:30 or after 8:30 in order to spread out the load.

This still leaves the matter of construction delays.  Most delays form when a roadway is reduced by 1 or more lanes to be worked on.  2 innovative solutions have appeared lately, but not yet widely.  (1) do the work at night, and reopen the entire road each morning.  (2)  Rather than close down many miles of highway all at once, just close down the section that needs to be closed in order to do work and cure the cement properly.

More creative ideas yet are worth exploring.  Many professional people could telecommute to work at least 1x per week, thereby saving at least 20% of travel time.  Moving to a 4 10hour day work week would certainly save 20% of commuting time for everyone.

If all these ideas were implemented, the average American could easily save at least 1 to 2/3  of his driving time each year.  Imagine what you would do with an extra 20-40 minutes every day.

While fashion critics failed to appreciate the actress’s creations, it seems that her clothes line sales are not doing bad at all.

Even if at her debut in the fashion world, Lindsay suffered tough criticism from experts in the field because of her obsession for molded pink outfits, the actress persisted and showed everyone that she’s good at what she does.

Several months ago, the star has been named consultant of the house Emanuel Ungaro and strove to develop the collection of clothing, with the support of the creative director of the house, Estrella Archs.

“Even if there were waves of criticism, I think Lindsay will do better next time,” said Mounir Moufarrige, the company’s president.

Nike genser til Nike joggebuksen!

Etter jobb i går kryperte jeg, seriøst. Gikk rundt i hodet mitt og sengen min var så varm..den ropte på meg. Uansett, i dag er en ny dag, og det er en fridag! Sto opp halv 8 i dag for å hjelpe min eldste søster med hennes jobb, hun er varelevrandør for Leaf, Malaco osv. og vi måtte på to butikker på fridagen til både meg og henne for å sette på plass varer fordi vikarbyrået hadde failet, typisk. Etter der stakk vi på Ikea fordi hun har større bil enn Line og det var plass til tingene jeg måtte ha, så jippi!

Nå sitter jeg her med kaffe og røyk, som er alt jeg trenger. Dagen er fremdeles ung, og jeg tenker jeg må sitte meg ned å skrive den historie oppgaven jeg skulle ha gjort for lenge siden Har også noen viktige papierer jeg må sortere, bleh.

En liten side-note:

Noe som irriterer meg til de grader er når folk skriver ting på engelsk og ikke har peiling på grammartikk eller hvordan ord skrives. Cry’d? Mener du CRIED? oh my god lizzom. Du er norsk og suger i engelsk, hold deg til norsk, thank you very much.

Yesterday (2:30 hour ago), it was your birthday Line. You turned 18.. Its like your still 14.. You go to Toy’R'Us. You love Batman, you play with lego. all that kind of stuff is things that many adults do, and so on, childrens thinks that their acting extremly strange, but in a way that they acted themselfes once before they turned “Teens”.! You are still a child when your Teen !, its okay for a adult to act like a child.. or act like a teen !.. Who knows”shrug” they’l find out that someday, back to the Event.
Happy birthday. Line, i hope you got some great presents and a great trip to Yearhouse(aarhus), i hope you liked the present from me, “Click” the movie with Adam sanders… “Laughing out Loud”

Happy bDay,

iMartin

Drawing probably was born eons ago with dragging a stick in dirt, creating a line. Line continues to be an essential element in art making, from cartoons to fine art painting. It is most often used to show the edge of an image; for example, a line circle for the sun. Fine art tends to distinguish itself from graphic design by varying the tone of the line, instead of using an unchanging, solid outline.

One great way to vary the line tone of your image is to think spatially–think of the distance of the image’s edge between you and the background, such as a wall.

An awesome benefit to varying lines through space is that it creates emotion in the viewer through giving the viewer a sense of moving through space. Michelangelo said it simply: movement equals emotion.

On white paper, the darker you make your line, the more it will “pop” forward toward the viewer. Above is an example of lines toned from light to dark. Notice how the lighter marks disappear into the distance, and the darker lines come forward.

Below is one of my hour and a half drawings done with the focus on accenting her edges based on “pulling” her forms off from the wall behind her. You can’t see the wall, but it was about three feet behind her head, and five feet behind her knees.

Olivia, 2009, graphite on paper, 6 x 9 inches.

I started with marking her distant right shoulder just dark enough to gently pull it off from the wall. Then I drew progressively darker marks for her hair, nose, left shoulder, and so on. The intensity of the darks increased based on how close her forms were to me, and how far they were from the wall behind her.

I hope you enjoyed seeing line in a fresh way.

Michael Newberry
Santa Monica, November 2009

Peter’s series of illustrations that replace the pencil with cotton thread include abstract line studies and iconic buildings.

*Vivi Yip Art Room, 28 May 2009

Oversized doll heads of little girls dominate the canvas, surrounded by vertical and horizontal lines, and graphic shapes that seep and melt around them. Whimsical creatures who seem to stem from childhood fairytales, peer out of the crowded background, inhabiting the frame. The palette is subdued, with regular sweeps of muted brick reds and matte mustard greens. Part comical, with strains of anime, Badruzzaman’s creations deconstruct human interactions and personalities, always with the slightest dash of discomfort for the onlooker.

On canvas is where Badru plays with elements to adorn his paintings, such as foliage and snaking lines, creating a more tangible impression of space. Extensions of the artist’s graphic design background is apparent in the cubic shapes, hexagons and squares, and tiled spatial details of his pieces. The 27-year-old Yogyakarta-based artist, with his clean and defined lines, is inclined to provide the two-dimensional impression of a sleek graphic novel rather than a work of brushed acrylic upon canvas. But Badru, a native of Lampung, was never predisposed towards comic books or the like, his main influence being the street art that run rampant on the walls of Yogyakarta.
“Our attitude, our instinct,” he said, “was just to paint.”
The artist rarely displays his works, this being only his third exhibition. Though when he does, he prefers to express himself on a larger scale, saying “It seems such a waste to place my themes on a small canvas.”
His paintings veer more towards female characters, whose visages he bases on young women who enter his reality. While his male figures, possessing clown-like features, originate from the playful experimentation of his imagination. But these are not pictures of mirth. There is a sense of melancholy behind the children’s faces and, though resembling jesters in a royal court, Badru’s men hold something sinister behind their smiles.
“People have their own characters, I paint them accordingly,” Badru said.
Though the characters who appear to menace his central characters and invade the background change with each new canvas, one makes a routine debut – a bile-green rotund shaped critter with sharp, eager little dentures. Badru has no name for his creature, simply calling it is a symbol of egoism.
“I feel free to criticize people on canvas,” he said,” without them understanding that I have criticized them.”
His themes, Badru explains, all stem from personal experiences. Life’s daily fluctuations, minor joys, tediums, aches and interactions all play a part in Badru’s final pieces. He dips into his past and uses the memories to actualize his canvas. “I find more satisfaction with personal themes of love, friendship and day-to-day life,” Badru said.

Of a painting entitled “Girlfriend: Saving My Dog”, Badru had drawn on his experience with a former lover, depicting a beautiful woman-child with crimson pillow lips and sad bedroom eyes. In a larger  ontext, Badru does touch on universal themes, such as the desire to be accepted. “Hi…”, one of his earlier works, is a painting of a red-headed girl-child with an unadorned background and Badru’s personal favourite.
“She is a person who is lonely at heart, not accepted by the society around her,” Badru explained.
“I see myself as this newcomer, in a strange place, looking for someone to befriend,” he continued. He offers hope for his protagonist in the shape of a little bird that flies above her, playing with a strand of the little girl’s tresses between its beak. Although there remains some paintings that Badru considers too personal to be displayed for the public to scrutinize or enjoy.
“There are pieces which I’d prefer to keep for myself,” Badru said. “It is similar to how some people keep diaries, except mine is on canvas.”

Badru’s pieces can take up to 2 weeks to complete. Concepts, colours and timing are all swayed by the artist’s moods.
“Emotion plays a factor,” Badru said. “If I am feeling emotional, I tend to use warmer colours.”
With each piece, Badru begins with a rough sketch on paper before spilling his images on to canvas.
“I feel the power [on the canvas] to be more creative. I can add and embellish,” said Badru, who never limits himself to adhere to the original sketches he draws.
Badru has simple ambitions – to introduce his art to the public as he utilizes the canvas to release his past experiences and emotions. What he strives is to maintain a style that is unique to him.
“It is hard to accept comparisons to other artists because I try so hard to create my own style,” said the artist.
Badru, who has no formal training in fine arts, continues to develop his art, finding new techniques, adding and playing with dimensions to add to his eccentric tableaux. When he first started painting, his works were plainer, focusing only on the main characters. His backgrounds were rarely garnished with the detailed landscape and cacophony of critters as they are now.
“I feel I want to try something new, to change the composition, the layouts,” Badru said of his newer pieces. He surrenders to the process of creation, unburdened by style trends or themes that are popular in the art market.
“What is important is to be as creative as possible,” Badru stated. “As for the art being good or bad, that is up to the public to judge for themselves.”

PARMA [WMAT NEWS] – An enormous crowd of bargain hunters lined up outside the Toys R Us store on Day drive in Parma.

The line stretched almost half a mile, with a crowd estimated at anywhere from 800 to 1000. It was so crowded, people began parking across the street at Parmatown Mall, due to the lack of parking at the store itself. Parma Police were also called to assist the store workers in crowd and traffic control.

The rainy weather certainly didn’t damage the spirit of these shoppers. Even those towards the back of the line remained very enthusiastic.

Not only were there several hundreds of shoppers. The huge line also drew dozens of spectators as well.

The person who was first in line at the store told us she had been waiting in line almost six hours before the store opened at midnight, and that she was shopping for her grandkids and some of her family members.

According to the store, the majority of their yearly revenue comes from Black Friday, and the four weeks leading up to Christmas.

©2009 Westcom/WMAT News

Nod…

We do tend to hurt the ones we love the most. We know that they have got hurt due to something which we maybe done unknowingly, but aren’t able to do anything about it. I had learned to choose my choices of words carefully when I am upset. Saying “Can I have sometime alone and I promise to talk about it when I cool down.” instead of yelling “LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” is one of the most often used opening sentence when I got home upset. Sometimes we don’t have a clue how the people we love feels, but i believe that everything happens for a reason! Along the way we might, we just might realize that what we did is wrong but when at comes down to it all whatever happens happens. Its also just out of nowhere and then you find yourself feeling all the blame, but still there’s always a way to work things out and get along the way. I think we hurt the ones we love the most because we are so comfortable with those people that we just don’t think. I have been hurt enough by people I love, that I stop to think, making sure I don’t repeat the pattern and hurt someone else. It happens most of the time. Love and hurt comes at the same time.

No makeup, og ekte Bushido Merch genser <3

Plutselig var jeg ikke fattig lengre, og om en time stikker meg og Line på Ikea! Ah, jeg gleder meg. Vet ikke lengre hva jeg vil ha nå..Hva skal jeg kjøpe? Øøøøøh. Uansett, nå er jeg bare litt hyper, bare litt. Skylder på eplejuicen, er jo allergisk mot den, kanskje den kicker inn andre steder og.

Anyway, når jeg jobber får jeg aldri tid til å blogge noe spesielt mye, pleier jo egentlig å blogge om kvelden, og siden jeg jobber kveldsvakter for det meste er jeg helt utkjørt og vil egentlig bare slappe av. I går var det bare meg og Line på jobb, Haha, huff. Uansett, så skulle jeg prøve å sitte opp et stand til julehefter som vi får hvert år, og jeg gav opp halveis etter at to jenter på 10 lo av meg Haha, de to jentene altså..De stikker innom av og til fordi de er utvist fra Kiwi butikken ovenfor oss (Hvem utviser to småjenter?!) fordi de er for hyper, og i går skulle de absolutt hjelpe meg da, haha.

Oh my god, om en uke og…to dager skal jeg se Backstreet Boys, herrejesus jeg gleeeeddeeeer meg!!! Nå må jeg nesten gjøre meg klar til ikea, som dere ser på bildet ser jeg ikke heelt oppegående ut.

Rock-And-Roll!!

Oh man, this is making me go way back with the corny slang. Does anyone recall, “Tubular?” I think we can thank the Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles for popularizing that one.

I think it’s obvious that I’m liking this idea, lots. My ribbon and string finally will have a safe place to find rest, until I cut them with my scissors. Hmmm…

Original YouTube vid found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t2QtU8EYz0

Jeg svikter jeg min min kjære favoritt Radiokanal p3 i kveld. For de som kjenner meg vet at jeg elsker p3, og jeg hører på kanalen ved hver anledning jeg har. Men nå har jeg skiftet til en radiokanal som har litt gamle sanger. Mimring på gang.

Og siden jeg tok bilde av en pizza til 365 prosjektet, så fant jeg heller noen gamle bilder som jeg redigerte på nytt. Jeg må nok ta flere bilder av denne sorten snart. Spesielt siden jeg vant Benedikte sin fotokonkurranse, og får en fjernuløser i posten om ikke lenge! Den jeg får er ikke trådløs, som jeg hadde tenkt å ønske meg til jul. Men det kan jeg leve med!

This Joan Miro inspired lesson is a one day project.  First grade students had a good laugh as I explained shapes and lines, and drawing lines on shapes and lines over lines that sit on shapes…. you get the idea!  We looked at various examples of Miro’s work and talked a bunch about different ideas for our own crazy people!

Mrs. Meader’s  class click here

Mrs. Charette’s class  click here

Mrs. DeCarolis’ class click here

Mrs. Wentworth’s class click here

A dog which made headlines around the world after he lost his owner and caught the right train home has died…. From BBC News. Full story

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Sitter og rocker for øyeblikket..

Forsvant visst jeg..But im back bitches! Sitter nå og rocker ut til Breaking Benjamin, en av mine favoritt bands, annbefales! Ellers i det siste har egentlig ganske mye skjedd. Lørdag jobbet jeg for harde livet og måtte nesten løpe hjem for å gjøre meg klar til bursdagsfeiringen til Line. Var litt ukomfortabelt, egentlig, siden jeg kun kjente Line der. Men etter litt smisking klarte jeg å “lokke” en arbeidskollega der til, men først måtte jeg ut på kjøretur med han, haha! Var morsomt det.. Spesielt når vi kommer tilbake og Line er dritings og ler seg ihel av alt mulig, spesielt seg selv. Var utrolig kos!

Søndagen var jo egentlig bare daffere enn daffest, våknet halv 4 om dagen. (Shit!) Og brukte egentlig tiden min foran TV’en.

Å herregud, i natt våknet jeg kl. 04.40 av at jeg satt meg opp i sengen i skrekk fordi jeg trodde jeg hadde forsovet meg, adrenalin er aldri bra å ha når du ikke er våken! I dag har jeg brukt tiden min på jobb, og ifølge NK’en (Nest kommanderende) er jeg rå, haha. huff. Uansett, så var jeg den som åpnet butikken, det vil si at jeg var den som låste opp osv. Og selvfølgelig er jeg på jobb litt tidligere enn oppført bare for å passe på at alt går smooth, og for andre gang har en av mine kollegaer skremt livskitten ut av meg mens jeg står med hodet inni safen og de sniker seg innpå, fy faen!

Er nok jobb imorgen og, og nå sitter jeg her trøtt og jævlig så hopper snart til sengs tenker jeg vel..

I propose that monday be dedicated to visual artists. Therefore, I christen today the first minimal words Monday. Now, to today’s pretty thing:

Miss Keima is a deviantartist I’ve been following for a very long time. I don’t know much about her, other than her real name, Mirva Lukkari, and that she’s Finnish. I’m going to make a wager and say she draws inspiration from Edward Gorey. If you don’t know Gorey, then perhaps you should brush up.

Here’s an excellent write-up by Kaitlin Allen.

Now that you’re brushed up on Ed Gorey, here’s a smattering of some of my favorite Miss Keima works.

Note the intensely crazy texture, and minimal use of color. I want to tape these all over my walls.