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Air Canada has a policy that a flight isn't considered "late" until it's more than 15 minutes late.
As I flew to Copenhagen last week from Charlottetown, a trip that required 6 flights there and back, I thought a lot about that policy. And I realize that it says a lot about how Air Canada thinks of their service and their passengers.
To Air Canada, a delay of 15 minutes or less must feel "good enough." Perhaps they even consider it a miracle to make all their systems run smoothly enough to guide a plane from gate to gate inside such a small window.
What they forget, though, is that to a traveler, 15 minutes is the equivalent of about 2 hours. Travel is stressful. There's not only the "the plane might fall out of the sky" problem, but there's the cramped space, the worry about the luggage, the stale air in the terminal and on the plane. When you're waiting for a flight you're worried about where you're going to sit: will the seat recline, will there be enough room for your luggage, will your seat be right beside the toilet? And when the flight looks like it's not going to be on time, you start to worry about the meetings you're going to miss, the rental car they're going to give to someone else, whether you'll make your hotel on time.
All of this is amplified greatly when it's a 7 or 8 hour flight you're waiting for. In fact I'd hazard a guess that the most stressful part of flying, for many, is the wait at the gate.
So while Air Canada thinks to itself "hey, 15 minutes isn't so bad — we don't even need to tell the passengers about it," the collected grief of their passengers, watching the minutes tick by, festers.
Rental car companies have a similar problem. I seldom get anything close to the car I reserve on rental company websites. I once reserved a Toyota Corolla from Alamo and they tried to give me a Chevy Astro. I settled for a Malibu.
It seems that rental companies think that if they can give you a vehicle with four wheels, they've done their job. They don't seem to understand that this vehicle is going to be akin to a tiny rolling home for a bit of my life, and that it does matter what it looks like, that it doesn't smell like smoke, that it uses fuel wisely, and so on. In the car rental world the cars are inventory, and so one car is, it seems, pretty much like any other.
I used to think that this sort of thinking, this sort of policy, was the result of intentional maliciousness on the part of companies, that they actually set out to be callous and unthinking. Or at the very least that their systems were simply broken.
But then this morning I stopped in at the local Rogers Wireless mobile phone dealer. I had a question about accessing the Internet with my phone and I thought they could help. I set my phone on the counter to demonstrate that I was an actual customer with a real phone.
And they picked my phone up and started to play with it. And then they passed it around the office to have others take a look. They looked at my phone — and this is easy to understand — as a simple piece of technology that needed fixing. They see a million phones a day, and this was just another one.
What they didn't think about is that my phone is a piece of very personal technology to me. I have pictures of Catherine and Oliver on it. My email. My phone book. I've used that phone to talk to Catherine from across the ocean and to say goodnight to Oliver. I sat on a terrace in France and talked to my colleagues in America on that phone. I used it to find a hotel in Bourges and to give my Dad a call before leaving for Denmark.
Passing around my phone like a piece of broken inventory leaves all of that out of the equation. And it made me feel just like I feel with the car rental company thoughtlessly offers me a Chevy Astro or Air Canada runs a late flight and doesn't tell me because in their world it's not really late.
And putting all these together I realized that companies are systems, and customers, cars, flights, and phones necessarily become abstractions in a system as large as Air Canada or Hertz or Rogers.
Air Canada can't feel bad about making me worried that I'll miss an important meeting. Budget can't worry about whether I get a Cavalier or an Accord. Rogers has millions of phones in millions of hands: their system can't treat a phone like a treasured personal instrument because that would simply gum up the system.
So it's not that companies are malicious, it's not that their systems are broken, it's that they operate on a scale that, of necessity, treats passengers the same as flights, cars, and phones: as objects to be handled, shuffled, repaired, flown, scheduled.
A Chevy Astro or an A-320 doesn't have feelings, doesn't get worked up about where it is or how it's being treated, so why should a person?.
Perhaps this shouldn't come as a revelation to me, but it does.
A sub-revelation: I used words like "they" and "their" when talking about companies, the same words I would use if talking about a group of people, but not the words I would use to talk about a computer or a bar of soap. Or a system. How ironic: I write about the inability of companies to treat me like a person but as I do so, I treat them like people.
Did they answer your question about your phone and the internet?
No, they said "call customer service."
You addressing a corporation as "they" is part and parcel of the hurt or offence you feel. I think the antidote and/or drug most people take involves viewing the institution as faulty in design, though operated by people who are generally doing their best under the circumstances. So we say of Air Canada that "it" is a lousy airline, despite how hard some of "them" may be trying. A documentary film out recently took the behavior of corporations as if the corporations were people and asked psychiatrists to comment. I haven't seen the film yet, but I think basically they commented that they behaved like psychopaths and would be locked up if they were people.
Pete, your point brings up the other side of the question. How would companies such as these go about the ~concept~ of, say, treating your phone as a personal piece of technology? And, even if they managed to embody the concept, and successfully develop internal practices (policy) to meet higher service expectations, how would they go about holding the line on (ad-hoc 'don"t give a damn'- type) policy drift?
More and more, those who serve customers rarely know how to run something. They know less and less about what they are actually doing and consequently why. What they know is how to manage systems that run things. Often they don't even know how to manage systems, they simply respond to them. This divorces workers from the ability to understand even the basic principles of an organization.
Commonly technology and systems drive the customer experience, not the other way around, leaving improvement all but impossible even if one can somehow manage to shift understanding of "improvement" so that it includes those things you mention.
While I whole-heartedly agree with your points I conjure an image of Sisyphus.
In the imaginary olden days of good parenting, schooling in civility, a universal sense of personal responsibility and an ever watchful ever judgmental deity, plus everybody speaking in an upperclass English accent, one would never dream of picking up another person's cell phone, let alone passing it to someone else without first soliciting their kind indulgence. Nowadays if you pay a premium to fly first class or shop at a luxury franchize, I suppose some of that extra profit goes into simply teaching workers to kiss ass, and they are paid well enough or under enough supervision or are so into the culture of luxury that they do it. Some boutiquey places seem to have allowed and/or encouraged managers to think creatively and develop specific procedures of ass kissing that may not exist out in the world at large (cell phones are so new your mother probably taught you no rules about them, and so it's left to the retailers and Miss Manners). Regarding service at McDonalds I suppose a customer just has to hope for the best, and sometimes he or she gets it. Any other questions?
Naa, just the same ones… the point is there is no parallel for Miss Manners in global commerce and when, more and more, what is known is held (with some verve it seems) to the barest't minimum of what ~has~ to be known to keep getting a cheque every week, and the daily quotient of "couldn't possibly care less" situations make it all but impossible to create a better customer experience Even If the prime focus of service was from the customer perspective rather than the current modality of treating customers as little more than fickle or tempermental inventory. I don't blame the employees, they simply take the path of least resistance and corporate leadership can make all the difference — but in some businesses (more all the time) the geeks and machines run the show eliminating any other corporate perspective entirely.
You're right though, to improve the situation costs and prices will generally rise.
In the case of the phone being shown around the office: creeps.
But, those employees' behaviour is reflected in corporate policy. We never own "our" mobile phones (as we Euros call cell phones). They are produced and sold "as products", but you can't mod them to any notable degree, and I heard that the carriers [aka "the companies running the show"] make it hard to use any custom, fiddle-friendly software with them. Shortly: these treasured artifacts are never ours.
OK, I have yet to make a point, but I guess as long as these conditions prevail, it'll be hard for new mobile technology to become hacker-popular. Folks who program tend to want to own things themselves.
I have flown the Bangkok to Taipei route with EVA air about 20 times in the past year and a half. During that time without fail the boarding time has been at least 20 minutes later than scheduled. Over time I learned to compensate by arriving at least 15 minutes "late" for boarding but not everyone has the benefit of experience. You can see the result of this in peoples actions and in the stress on their faces. It's extremely uncomfortable for people for many of the reasons you have stated. People in this part of the world have a hard time queuing under the best of circumstances factor in this added stress and the simple act of getting on the plane becomes not much different than watching frightened cattle race through an open gate.
Why can't they simply change the advertised boarding time to reflect the reality that they never board on time?


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Who's to blame for Cubs slow start to second half? |
I had a tough question posed to me this morning by a friend: "If you had to make one personnel change on the Cubs, who would it be?" The truth is, I don't know how to answer that.
Many of you don't like Joe Maddon, but Maddon is not the cause of the Cubs issues; at least not in my opinion. He took a last place, 2014 team, managed by Rick Renteria and transposed them into a team that was playing in the NLCS the following year. We all know what he did with the Cubs in 2016, and he led them to a repeat bid for the NLCS last year. I hear fans screaming that Jim Hickey is the issue, but is he? He may offer suggestions for changing a pitcher's stance, release point, etcetera, but do you think Jim Hickey is going to change anything about Jon Lester's pitching? After all, Lester is a five-time All-Star with three World Series titles, and Hickey's never spent a day in the majors. Hickey and the bullpen coaches may be the answer for tweaking and prepping the up and comers, but they're not likely going to change anything significant with the veterans. So maybe some of you think it's Chili Davis' fault. Again, not likely, as the Cubs continue to hold a +92 run differential. Davis has changed the team's objective from hitting the long-ball to more of a station-to-station approach. Over the course of the 2017 season, the Cubs finished with a run differential of +104 (average of +1.56 runs per game), and that number is only slightly less this year, with the Cubs averaging +1.26 runs per game. While I've advocated that the Cubs needed to be more aggressive on the base-paths, there have been some base-running decisions lately that have been…well…just plain ridiculous, which leads me to believe the players are getting overly desperate to score runs. There is no way that first-base coach, Will Venable, or third-base coach, Brian Butterfield have orchestrated some of the reckless decisions as of late. We all love when Javier Baez goes screaming through a stop sign at third, especially when he tallies a run, but when Willson Contreras tries unsuccessfully to stretch an obvious single into a double, well, that's on him. In my mind, the coaches are coaching, but the players aren't playing, at least not to their full potential. Yes, I know, I know… the Cubs are still in first place, but that seems to be only by default. Someone in the NL Central has to lead the division, and the Cubs are just there because nobody else has stepped up yet. You can't reasonably expect the Cubs to retain first place when they have to rely on Milwaukee and Pittsburgh losing to do so. So to answer the original question, I couldn't replace one person in the organization, as I don't think it would make a significant difference. The management and coaches aren't losing these games, the team is. I'd love nothing more than to be wrong this time, but until the Cubs start playing ball, and playing like they want to win, they'll remain a second place team that happens to be in first place.

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Normally when I enter into a "gotta get seriously into shape" phase, it would be for something specific like a kendo championship tournament. I'd have specific weight goals as well as workout and practice goals. Unless I got injured, I'd be pretty good about persevering with an "eat less, exercise more" regimen, ineffective though it had come to be.
This time, my training goals were more general: basically, to continue trying to get back up to snuff in kendo (a torn knee in 2007 and subsequent surgery in 2008 had really put me in the basement). For the LCHF diet:
This may seem hard to understand, but to the Japanese, rice is more than food. Even though I'm technically third generation, meaning my parents were born in the U.S., my mom and dad were raised in Japan and then came to America in their early twenties, so we were, for all intents and purposes, an immigrant family. Gohan was pretty central to life. To give it up, I was expecting to have to exert more will power than I'd ever had to before.
Amazingly, that test of will power never occurred. It turned out the hardest thing about restricting carbs was all the time and effort required to pick it out when eating restaurant food (in retrospect, I should have carried chopsticks with me; it would have made things so much easier!).
Below is a graph of my weight, including body fat percentage, for the past 17 months, from 1207.23 to 1401.14 (let's not worry about the exact units, shall we). A few notes about the graph:
Well, I think that's enough about me! I'll end with a couple of notes that may make my mileage differ from yours:
In my next post in this series, I'll talk about other references and tools that I've found useful (like how I do the charting above). Stay tuned!
The Seeking42 low carb diet series
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We are pleased to submit this letter as the annual report on the activities of the Implementation Coordination Office (ICO) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), pursuant to Section 6503 of the Next Generation 911 Advancement Act of 2012, Pub. L. 112-96, Title VI, Subtitle E, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 942(a)(4).1 The ICO provides national leadership and coordination of stakeholder efforts to develop comprehensive and technologically enhanced 911 (E9l l) and next generation 911 (NG911) services.


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Any therapist will tell you that more of your life than you realize was probably impacted by your childhood. In relationships, for example, we tend to look to our partners for things we didn't get from our parents. It's hard to see how your childhood affects your relationships because this is usually happening subconsciously.
While our parents do the best that they can, most of us lacked something growing up, whether that was attention, validation, or respect for boundaries. We may seek these things out in our other relationships (like friendships) too, but since our romantic relationships are often the closest ones outside of our families that's where these issues tend to come out. "Romantic love is our second chance to complete and get what we didn't in childhood, and to evolve and know what those needs are and how to give and create a mutually satisfying partnership," marriage and family therapist Marissa Nelson tells Bustle.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Wanting attention and validation from our partners is normal. Still, it's important to be aware of it so that we're not projecting the failures of our caregivers onto our partners — and to make sure we're not depending on our partners to meet needs we are responsible for meeting ourselves.
Here are some of the top needs that we look for our partners to fulfill because they were unmet during our childhoods, according to Nelson.
1. Positive Attention
Children crave attention from their parents, and when they don't get it or only get negative attention, this can affect their relationships in two opposite ways. Some may avoid expressing their needs to their partners because they subconsciously believe they won't meet them, says Nelson. Others may become clingy or demanding in order to make up for the attention they lacked.
2. Belonging
We all want to feel accepted for who we are, and getting this acceptance from our parents is what leads us to feel comfortable in our own skin. Feeling like we don't fit in with our families or even our peer groups can leave us thinking there's something wrong with us and we're not desirable as dates. In relationships, people with this issue can become "almost obsessive in predicting the other person's behavior so that they can know how to act and react accordingly," Nelson says. "This can cause a lot of unnecessary stress because a large part of these fears are self created unfounded."
3. Validation
If you grew up with overly critical parents, there's a good chance you seek out praise from other sources, whether that's your work, your friends, or your partner. It can be healing to get this praise, but it becomes harmful when you depend on other people to feel good about yourself or when you get into relationships just for the validation.
4. Comfort
Too often, when kids go to their parents with problems, they tell them to suck it up or make it all about themselves, says Nelson. So, it's no wonder that many of us crave emotional comfort from our partners — and many of us are afraid we won't get it. At its worst, this can lead people to avoid their partners whenever something's wrong because they're afraid they won't listen to them or help them. It can also lead people to become dismissive themselves because they've been taught people's feelings don't matter.
5. Trust
We all want to feel safe with our caregivers, and when they're unreliable, we may come to believe that people can't be trusted. People with this history may especially need their partners to repeatedly prove that they'll give them what they need and won't abandon them. Sometimes, they'll become emotionally unavailable themselves or develop a pattern of getting into relationships with unavailable people in order to avoid the risk of abandonment.
Again, these needs are not harmful in of themselves. They just may lead to harmful behaviors if we're not aware of them. "We have the opportunity to heal in relationships," says Nelson. "What needs to be adjusted is that other people are not responsible for our happiness or well-being. Some of these skills are more about our own individual and emotional growth. If we do that, then the way people treat us and visa versa will begin to shift in a more fulfilling way."
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Brad Smith, Idaho Conservation League, North Idaho Director, (208) 345-6933 x 403
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Whitney Palmer, Center for Biological Diversity, (208) 597-4791
Lawsuit challenges marina, housing development on Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille
Lakeside development severely threatens bull trout
SANDPOINT, ID – The Center for Biological Diversity and Idaho Conservation League filed suit today against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers for approving the Idaho Club's lakeside marina and housing development along Lake Pend Oreille near Trestle Creek. The creek is one of the most important spawning streams for federally protected bull trout in the Pacific Northwest.
"I'm highly concerned about this development's threats to bull trout, Trestle Creek and Lake Pend Oreille," said Whitney Palmer, a Sandpoint-based staffer for the Center. "It's disappointing that two federal agencies authorized this incredibly destructive project. Bull trout are resilient fish, but even they can't withstand the massive habitat destruction and increased boat traffic this project will bring near the mouth of Trestle Creek."
The private development was first permitted in 2009 and is part of the Idaho Club golf course. It includes two new developments — one located just north of the mouth of Trestle Creek and one to the south — a number of single-family estates, two marinas, a widened concrete boat ramp, 124 boat slips, a sewage pump, and a parking lot. It will also create a new private sandy beach along the lakeshore.
The project will drastically reconfigure the shoreline along a scenic stretch of Lake Pend Oreille near Hope, Idaho. The property is a designated wetland and floodplain, and it is designated as critical habitat for the threatened trout. In addition to degrading important habitat, the Idaho Club project will wound, capture, and kill bull trout.
It will also reroute the North Branch of Trestle Creek, which connects the lake to Trestle Creek approximately one mile upstream, leading to bull trout spawning beds.
"Trestle Creek is the single most important spawning stream for Lake Pend Oreille's bull trout," said Brad Smith, ICL's North Idaho director. "Bald eagles, deer, moose, beavers and more also thrive in this serene, hidden refuge for wildlife — that could all be lost if this harmful marina and high-end housing construction project moves forward. The area would better serve the public interest through permanent protection."
Building the marina directly to the north of the mouth of Trestle Creek will require the excavation of an island with an active eagle's nest, the filling of a backwater channel, removal of a beaver dam, and pile driving as many as 410 steel piles for up to eight weeks, which is likely to occur when bull trout are migrating out of Trestle Creek.
The development will also reroute the North Branch of Trestle Creek, which connects the lake to Trestle Creek approximately one mile upstream.
Today's suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, argues that the agencies failed to consider the direct and cumulative impacts of building both the marina and residential development on bull trout critical habitat, resulting in violations of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Bull trout have been protected since 1999, when they were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In 2010 the Service designated critical habitat for the trout, including Trestle Creek.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.


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Juul Labs, Inc. is being sued for injuries, death, addicting young people and disrupting county school districts. That's four types of lawsuits, two potential class actions.
Certainly, there's a lot of people media confusing nicotine-vaping with THC-vaping and health issues related to fake cartridges. Here we go through lawsuit types and their causes of action. We'll update this post as more Juul lawsuit developments take place.
There are now four types of lawsuits against Juul Labs, Inc.
Currently, there is a pending class action against Juul related to addiction, injury suits from people hurt by the devices, a wrongful death claim and suits from counties over it affecting schools. Juul is facing lawsuits from all sides. It makes us wonder if they will survive after all this or face bankruptcy.
Lawsuits go after the deepest pockets. Juul is relatively new, but it's tied to Phillip Morris. At the time of originally posting this Phillip Morris has a market cap of $122 billion. Phillip Morris creates the popular Marlboro cigarettes and their products are sold in over 180 countries. Below we'll go through each lawsuit.
Juul class action lawsuit: Viscomi et al. v. JUUL Labs, Inc. et al.
This might be the most popular lawsuit against Juul. It was filed in August of 2018 and is still pending litigation. Here we run through the allegations in this lawsuit.
The class-action lawsuit against Juul alleges the following:
- Juul had full knowledge its vaporizers were not safe under any circumstances for non-smokers and made addiction to nicotine worse in persons already smoking cigarettes, but failed to disclose these issues
- Juul products were made to appeal to young people
- Juul created online content that was designed to encourage young people to use them
Below we break down some of the allegations and add some info we have learned over the years about Juul.
Juul vaping deemed un-safe, for smokers too
The allegation that Juul vaping is un-safe is legitimate. There's two reasons Juul is un-safe. First being it's delivering even more nicotine than a real ciggarette. Second, which has not been discussed yet in the lawsuits but we anticpate becoming an issue, is Juul uses a wick that burns. Check out the picture below.
Wicks burn in the Juul, giving it a hard hit. Smoke Juulers think this might be the cause "wheezy" coughs people are getting that use Juul a lot. During the research of this article we spoke with some regular vapers. One claimed that regular Juul use produces these wheezy coughs and their regular vape does not.
There are definitely valid health claims against Juul and we predict the wick burning will become an issue in the ongoing litigation. For these same reasons when it comes to THC products, we do not recommend the wicked G Pen Gio or Pax Era.
Did they misrepresent themselves as being a safe product?
Those are two questions that will have to be decided in court. Marketing is subjective. One person might roll their eyes at a commercial claim while another buys it. We do know that nicotine substitute products have existed for years, from gum to patches to inhalers, to help people quit cigarettes, and people have not been suddenly keeling over dying from those.
Nicotine without the cigarette has been assumed, even by doctors, to be safer compared to cigarettes. So even a claim to that effect by Juul could be defensible. Be that as it may, about their advertising claims. That warning cited testimony from a congressional hearing in which "a Juul representative speaking with students in a school presentation" made claims about Juul being safe. Whether or not that is true should come out in the litigation.
Marketing by Juul was directed at young people
Lawyers against Juul are claiming their advertising, branding, packaging and even USB charging are reasons Juul should be liable for getting young people addicted to nicotine. The FDA did dispatch a warning to Juul about its marketing practices being aimed at youth, which definitely helps the case.
Some of these claims might be valid, but the USB claim seems like a stretch. USB is simply a standard way to charge a product and nothing more. USB ports debuted in 1995, before the young people that use Juul were even born.
Addiction to Juul is claimed to be stronger than addiction to traditional tobacco cigarettes
There is some truth to this. Although anecdotal, based on our experience Juul is the only device that seems to stick over regular tobacco for a good portion of picky former smokers. This class action lawsuit is for addiction by minors, but tracing back cigarette smokers going to Juul leads to an interesting conclusion.
The same smokers we surveyed seen fully be satisfied by Juul also tried traditional e-cig devices before Juul was even available to purchase. Those only lasted so long and they were back to cigarettes. Juul vaping is the only thing strong enough to satisfy some smoker's cravings.
One former smoker and now-Juuler who said regular e-cigs did not cut it, praised the Ploom, another product of Pax Labs. Ploom used real tobacco flower in pods that had traditional tobacco flavoring. I have tried it and it is a strong hit, but it didn't make a lot of sales.
What we can conclude from older tobacco smokers and current Juul use
Juul has something extra to the hit that regular e-cigs are not delivering. The addiction appears at a minimum as strong as regular cigarettes. and more addictive than tradition e-cig vapes.
Class action lawsuit damages in Juul case: Better than others?
Class action lawsuits are known for being suits in which really only the attorneys win, but if Juul is found liable for actually causing a harmful addiction, the per capita payouts may be large. Ten dollars to you for some software that had a bug, millions to the attorneys who litigated the case in fees. This Juul class action may prove different.
Juul personal injury claims: More than just nicotine addiction
Lung damage, shortness of breath and a multitude of other health issues are hitting people who regularly use Juul products. Personal injury claims against Juul have now begun to pop up.
Burning wick might play a part
The wick burning mentioned above might be leading to injuries with Juul products. We spoke with a user who uses both cigarettes and traditional e-cigs, but tried Juul. They claimed they got a "different type of cough" they did not get from cigarettes and they had been smoking 20 years.
They also acknowledged that regular e-cigs were not strong enough to stop them from still smoking cigarettes.
Injury claims for Juul products likely to result in larger damages for individuals, not limited by age
A personal injury claim will generally pay out more to the victim than a class action. There's no age requirement for injury claims. For help getting connected with a qualified injury attorney email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or fill out the contact form below.
Juul wrongful death action
This recent story on BuzzFeed states an 18-year-old vape user died. So his mom is going after Juul. BuzzFeed points straight at the exact same death toll that we have mentioned in connection to black market THC cartridges, implying that those deaths somehow validate the incrimination of Juul.
THen over at C|Net they have a timeline of vaping stories that mash Juul and THC cartridges together. It's all under "vaping." This goes on through one news outlet after another, making this an extremely frustrating story to follow.
Every other story the news media reports on this issue jumps back and forth between Juul, THC, nicotine, e-cigarettes, dabbing, CBD oil, and leaf tobacco, all in one paragraph.
This Washington Examiner reporter gets it right, citing a Mayo clinic study that pinpoints illicit THC vaping products:
"Combined with the prevalence of marijuana use in the patients, the likelihood that marijuana use in these cases are severely underreported, and that patients fessing up to vaping high concentrations of THC had more urgent injuries, it's looking increasingly likely that black market, laced vape pods are in fact the culprit behind the recent outbreak."
Yes, that is a likely scenario.
Are people dying from Juul already?
People are definitely already injured from Juul, but in our opinion likelihood of death to be low considering how new it is and that vaping deaths have been linked to illicit THC products that contain Vitamin E acetate. That's not to say some have died from consistent heavy use, it's possible.
The crossover is big between people that Juul and people that hit THC cartridges. That's why were putting this article on our site. Still if you think someone you know died from Juul or THC cartridges, please reach out to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
County lawsuits against Juul
Juul is now facing lawsuits from two counties, King County in Washington State and Montgomery County in Maryland. We'll discuss these differences between these two suits.
King County, WA Juul lawsuit: Targeting young people
King County, Washington is claiming in its lawsuit that Juul specifically targets young people. King5, a local King County news agency, reported that the lawsuit claims over 90% of nicotine and tobacco-related violations at schools were from vaping. Over 60% of the violations were just for Juul.
The lawsuit also alleges Juul is responsible for the vaping health crisis currently going on. While there maybe people individually harmed from using Juul as mentioned above, this seems like a mix up between what's really causing more recent deaths, illegal THC cartridges containing Vitamin E acetate.
The claims regarding school use are similar to the class action claims mentioned above, that Juul targeted young people in its advertising.
Montgomery County, MD Juul lawsuit: Making it another class action
Montgomery County's Juul lawsuit alleges many of the same contentions as King County's. Basically that the county is spending too many resources dealing with Juul issue and they are targeting kids and disrupting schools.
The different part of this lawsuit is that, according to Patch, "Montgomery County is seeking certification of a nationwide class of plaintiffs that would include all counties or municipalities in the United States that have expended resources to address, or whose property has been affected by, underage use of JUUL products."
Basically this means they are trying to turn their county lawsuit into a class action that multiple counties can join. Should this go through the damages would be large.
So are nicotine and Juul actually harmful?
Yes. Nicotine, all by itself as just the molecule, is heavily established as impacting health in a negative way all over. Never mind the effects of leaf tobacco itself, whether you smoke it or chew it. Remove all the other fillers in cigarettes, constituting some 7000 chemicals by the way. Nicotine, the molecule, is bad for you.
Juul delivering nicotine thereby makes it unsafe. Additional safety issues arise as well, such as the wick burning mentioned above.
Fake Juul products might be contributing to health concerns
Counterfeit Juul products have been around for a couple years now. Some actually copy the Juul brand, some are simply compatible with the battery. It's possible poor quality hardware could be contributing to the epidemic. Stores are selling to underage users and it's possible they are not always selling authentic Juul products.
Products on the black market don't help the situation.
Can the Juul cause popcorn lung?
Not exactly, at least so far as we can prove.
"Popcorn lung" is the informal term for Bronchiolitis obliterans, a condition first reported in workers at a factory producing microwave popcorn who developed breathing issues through being exposed to the buttery flavoring agent. The culprit chemical was diacetyl. Diacetyl is a naturally-occurring organic compound formed in butter and other dairy products. It's widely used in the food industry for butter flavors, including butterscotch candy.
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Can you get cancer from vaping?
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Colour in cinema: Abstract colour in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira
Jun 3, 2020
Jake Hicks
Colour in cinema: Abstract colour in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira
Many new people who find my work today, think my lighting is simply inspired by me watching a couple of modern films. Either that or I get asked which photographer inspires me the most. The truth behind my lighting and colour inspiration is routed far further back than that though, and not even by cinematographers or photographers at all.
Although I've never consciously tried to be inspired by this, my best guess assessment of what inspired me and my work all those years ago was in fact not a photographer at all, but rather a comic.
And no, not one of the cookie-cutter Marvel comics, but Japanese Manga like that of the infamous Katsuhiro Otomo and his now legendary Manga, Akira.
I fully appreciate that not everybody is aware of Manga, but before you turn away and write this off as a simple comic book review, I'd urge you to take another look. My aim here today is not to impress the genius of story telling and design from this genre, but to analyse something that has ultimately been very unique to them; Abstract Colour.
I appreciate that the word 'abstract' means different things to different people, but for the sake of this article and discussion, I'll be referencing the idea that abstract in relation to colour is about a skewed version of reality. Colour that is used in a non-realistic, yet highly effective and suggestive way.
Why the hell are The Simpsons bright yellow?!
Comics, Manga and moving versions of their characters like cartoons and anime, all ask their viewers to put their expectations of reality on hold for a moment. All cartoons we watch are quite clearly not something that is real. It's this suspension of reality that enables these genres to do several things that other disciplines cannot, and one of those things is mess with colour….. in a BIG way!
Nobody questions why the Simpsons are bright yellow and nobody questions why the cats in Top Cat are bright pink and blue…
It's because it's a cartoon, that's why!
This is a very clear-cut and easy to understand example of abstract colour, the only difference here is that it's done in such a way that you don't question it, because of the bizarre nature of the characters surrounding it.
In short; cartoons do all sorts of hella crazy things with colour, simply because it's a cartoon that is not based in reality.
So what happens if we try to use abstract colour with more 'realistic' characters?
Katsuhiro Otomo
It's at this stage where Japanese comics, or as they're better known, 'Manga' come in. Eastern comics mainly directed their stories to younger audiences, but in the 70's and 80's Manga saw a rise in comics being targeted at a more mature audience, specifically the late teens. Although there are many, many great artists from this period, for the sake of this article I will be focusing on one, the now infamous Japanese Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo.
Katsuhiro Otomo's arguably most famous work is the Manga Akira, which he began work on in the early 80's. To give you an idea of scale, Akira was ultimately made up of 6 volumes, each of which contained a staggering 300-400 pages each! It's no wonder Otomo is so praised for his work on it toady, as it was a staggeringly colossal project to undertake.
So let's look at Katsuhiro Otomo's vision of colour back in the 80's…
No, do not adjust your sets, the Manga was indeed originally in black and white and apart from a few pages of colour at the start. The ordinal Manga was indeed ALL black and white.
The West Wanted Colour
Thankfully though, Akira was receiving so much success in Japan that Marvel's EPIC imprint wanted it brought to the Western market as well and in 1998 the western world got their wish.
In an Anime News Network interview with Yasumasa Shimizu (Senior Vice President and Board Member, Kodansha*) said this:
"Otomo-sensei didn't want AKIRA to be perceived as some 'strange thing from Japan,' so we put a lot of work into making it accessible to American audiences. It's unimaginable to put in that kind of effort now, but at the time, they worked on making it all color, and flipping the artwork (to be in left-to-right western style pages)."
*Kodansha was one of the companies that made up the Akira Committee in the late 80's. The Akira Committee was formed of several large companies in order to fund the colossal ¥1,100,000,000, Akira anime. More on that in a sec.
This really was the first time this process of bringing Manga to the West had happened and although the colouring of Akira was done by American colourist Steve Oliff, every single colour was checked and approved by Katsuhiro Otomo himself before production.
Take a look at some of the original coloured pages from Steve Oliff's archives below…
I think the above pages are an excellent example of abstract colour, but did you even notice it? Look again.
The first page up there is explains it perfectly. Bright green motor bikes, red roads, cyan sky and the panel with one bright pink cop inside the car and one bright blue cop outside of it.
Can you see now what I mean by abstract colour? These are ridiculous colours, yet because it's a comic, you don't question it. Can you imagine that same scene in real-life? Can you imagine seeing those same colours in real-life and not be pulled out of the action due to the colours looking weird? Hard to pull-off right? But not impossible, as we gel-shooters well know.
The Anime Akira
One of the core reasons American colourist Steve Oliff was drafted in to colour the western adaption of the Akira Manga, was simply due to the fact that Katsuhiro Otomo was somewhat busy on other things… namely the film of Akira.
Back in the late 80's Katsuhiro Otomo was approached to make his Manga into a feature length film. Katsuhiro agreed, but on the proviso that he could maintain complete creative control over the project and even direct it. I mentioned this earlier in the article, but the Akira film was budgeted out to cost ¥1,100,000,000 if it was to do Katsuhiro's Manga justice (remember that's 1980's money).
To give you some idea of the sheer size of this project, the Akira movie was made up of 160,000 individually hand-drawn and hand-painted cells!!!
Can you really imagine someone with no directing experience being given that sort of budget today. To give you some perspective in todays money (2020). That's like giving $12,145,258 to someone with no directing experience to make a movie!
As it turns out, that was the right call and Katsuhiro Otomo ultimately directed one of the most famous anime's ever made. In fact it was so well made, that it still holds up to this day… and its over 30 years old now! Sadly, there aren't too many films from the 80's that can say the same (un-ironically) .
Abstract Colour in Akira
So here we are, you finally made it to the meat of the article, let's look at how Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira uses abstract colour and what that means today. Below are some stills from the final movie.
So I ask you; 'can you see the abstract colour now?'
What I find fascinating about this, is simply how ridiculous and over the top some of the colours are here, yet how we actually never notice it when we are watching the film. This is extremely hard to do, yet Otomo is an absolute master of it.
To further cement this fact about just how colourful this film is, if you're not familiar with the story, Akira is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia! How many other post-apocalyptic films can say the same.
In the examples above we have blue concrete, green concrete, red concrete, orange concrete and yellow concrete. And that's not to mention the red helicopter interior with the purple seats.
Like I said, it seems utterly ridiculous when you spell these colours out, but when seen in context with what's onscreen, we simply don't notice it and this is what makes this a masterclass in colour theory too. Otomo is using colours that simply just work well together and if this part is done well, a visual balance is struck and the image is assimilated by us without question.
Abstract colour is not about displaying a series of random colours together, it's about using colours as a major feature of the scene, without allowing them to dominate it. This is what is truly impactful, but the best part of all, you never notice it happening!
So although we specifically focused on Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and explored abstract colour within it, there are of course a huge multitude of live-action examples out there too. We won't go to deeply into them here today, but here are a couple of examples that spring to mind…
I appreciate that you may not have thought I'd use these two movies as an example, but remember, we're looking at abstract colour, this is colour that is not designed to be a feature or character in its own right, but compliment and develop a scene without you noticing it.
Take a film like Neon Demon as a counter to that. This movie forces colour down your throat every damn second you're watching it. Don't get me wrong, I get and respect the technical excellence of this film, but the colour is so dominating it's actually hard to watch. Compare that to the film Drive, this was directed by the same guy a few years prior to Neon Demon, but try and see what I mean by powerful, yet less dominating colour. The director Nicolas Winding Refn does a far better job here in using abstract colour to compliment and propel the film over simply dominating it.
Don't get me wrong, there is a time and a place for this extremely dominating colour and there are films that do it well. Films like the original John Wick have scores of exquisitely lit neon coloured scenes or the Shanghai fight in James Bond Skyfall. These are highly crafted and complimentary scenes to the action and story as a whole. But these are not abstract colour pieces and the colour and design in these scenes are characters in their own right.
Sadly, as a result of the successes of earlier film using extremes in colour, many modern films are now quite literally shoehorning in neon and gelled lighting in a 'tick list' approach to lighting in their films.
"Okay we're making a modern action movie, we gotta have someone fighting with a household appliance and lit by coloured lights in a futuristic apartment!"
-sound familiar?
The very recent (2019) Fast and Furious spin-off 'Hobbs and Shaw' saw some hilariously bad gelled lighting with both the main characters getting their own 'gelled' scene. The obligatory neon-lit tattoo parlour and the modern apartment with a single neon light flashing outside!!! I swear I'm not making this up. Remember, this is a modern film that had a staggering $200 MILLION BUDGET! This wasn't a student film, yet the coloured lighting was tacked on to seemingly fill some secret coloured light quota so many modern films have. Watch these gelled-lighting scenes in isolation and they're hilarious. Jason Statham even fights with a shiny toaster to reflect the light too! They really thought of everything.
….but we're getting off topic here and I hope that clears up what I mean by this type of colour-use in modern cinema. Sure films like Neon Demon have a lot of great coloured light, but it makes for a better art installation than it does a movie unless it's done with purpose.
What can we as photographers learn from all this?
In todays world of photography, I can share a gelled lighting shot of a bright blue model with a bright pink background and nobody thinks that's weird. When I was doing this 10 or even 20 years ago, people would actively say to me,
"Why have you ruined that photo with those awful colours?"
Times have changed and nobody looks twice at a gelled lighting photo today and more and more films are shoehorning ridiculously out of place gel-lit scenes into their films, simply because they can.
Gels are common place today sure, but that can be a good thing if we use this theory of abstract colour to our advantage. Think about where you can add colour to your scene to enhance the drama and engagement, but not to dominate and distract.
Closing Comments
The core point I want you to take from all this is this;
Abstract colour exists all around us and if it's done well, we shouldn't even notice it.
Taking charge of this and applying it into your own shots is now more acceptable to do than ever before. Just look at all the random colour 'toning' we see on Instagram. Our audience is primed and willing to be fooled by it, we just need to be open to experiment with it.
Start off slow if you like. On your next shoot, throw a cool blue colour on the wall behind the model. Add a subtle yellow or orange light to the hair. These are subtle abstract colours, but they are about creating visually engaging colours in our scenes without them dominating it.
Looking Ahead
As I've mentioned throughout, although this article was specifically looking at the masterful abstract colour work of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, take the time to explore more of not only his work, but other Manga artists from that period too.
The reason I mention this period specifically is because they were excellent at this subtle colour that didn't dominate or try to fight for attention, instead their colour was bold but more importantly, complimentary.
We are in an age where crazy, bold and saturated colours are filling our media and screens. Sadly, with films like 'Hobbs & Shaw' overusing it in horrendous ways like this, the audience will turn away and grow tired of it very quickly. If we want to use colour in a dynamic way in the future, we'll have to be far cleverer and far more subtle than many are doing now. Go back and re-watch films like 'Amelie' or 'Grand Budapest Hotel' to see the difference compared to some more modern films today. I promise, all this will immediately make a lot more sense.
Thank You
Thanks for checking out this article and spending a little bit of your day with me here. I know this was a long one, but I hope you found it useful and that you left here a little wiser to colour than when you arrived. If you did, then this was worth it. As always, if you have any questions, then by all means fire-away in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer what I can. Thanks again and I'll see you in the next one.
Reference articles and further reading:
- Akira Manag Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)
- Akira Anime Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film)#Legacy
- Steve Oliff Akira pages http://www.felixcomicart.com/ArtistGalleryTitles.asp?ArtistId=582
- Steve Oliff Interview https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2016-03-17/akira-in-color-with-steve-oliff/.99830
- Kodansha Interview https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2015-11-05/bridging-the-gap-between-us-comics-and-manga-with-kodansha-usa/.95039
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Jake Hicks is an editorial and fashion photographer who specializes in keeping the skill in the camera, not just on the screen. Jake currently has a workshop available on colour and exposure. For more of his work and tutorials, check out his website. Don't forget to like his Facebook page and follow him on Instagram, too.
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This article will discuss the preparation necessary for riding your motorcycle. We are mainly addressing what a rider must do to prepare him or herself before they go out on a ride. Area such as choosing the appropriate ride gear, as well as, basic routine motorcycle inspection will be addressed.We all assume a level of acceptable risk when we ride a motorcycle.
Part of this risk deals with what type of motorcycle riding gear we choose to wear. Some choose not to wear a helmet or protective clothing.This is the risk that rider has chosen to accept. The saying goes, dress for the wreck you are going to have. So if the rider choose to not wear a helmet and other protection.
That is his choice and hopefully he has enough medical and life insurance to cover his accident. Again life is full of risk.It is up to each of us to choose how much of that risk we are willing to accept.
We can minimize the risk of riding motorcycles by wearing protective gear and doing regular routine inspections on our motorcycles.The purposes of motorcycle riding gear are for a rider's comfort, protection, and visibility.Proper personal protective gear consists of the following:.
Helmet,.Eye protection,.Full-fingered gloves,.Over-the-ankle footwear,.Long pants,.
Long-sleeved jacket.The principal function of the helmet is to protect the head and brain from injury. The four basic components that make up a helmet are:.
Outer shell - keep sharp object from penetrating,.Impact-absorbing liner ? cushion and absorb shock,.Comfort padding ? comfort and fit,.Retention system ? keep the helmet in place on the head.
There are several types of helmets.The full-coverage helmet differs from the three-quarter-coverage helmet in that the full-coverage helmet has a chin and lower face protection. Head injuries account for the majority of motorcycle deaths. A well-made helmet will have the DOT and Snell stickers.For eye protection do not wear ordinary glasses or sunglasses.
These are not shatterproof and do not keep out debris. Two types of motorcycle eye protection are the face shield and goggles. You can also get Doggles for your motorcycling dog. These are special goggles for dogs.
It is important to wear appropriate footwear. Proper footwear protects you from road debris, exhaust pipes. They also help with traction when your feet are on the ground. Boots also protect your feet and ankles.
When choosing riding gloves, follow these considerations: Fit, sturdy, outside seams, naturally curved, full-fingered.The value of motorcycle-specific clothing is that it is made to fit a person in a motorcycle riding position, longer sleeves and arms, fuller shoulders, non-flap design, some built-in protection ? leather or kevlar.When choosing proper motorcycle clothing, consider the following: Fit, comfort, snug cuffs and arms, snap and button collar, durable material.Considering the appropriate ride gear is important.
It is always wise to dress in layers. This is so clothing can be removed and put back on as weather and temperature changes.You want to prevent hypothermia while riding in colder temperatures. Hypothermia is a subnormal body temperature and is indicated by shivering.Motorcycle ride gear can also make you more visible in traffic.You can add a vest, add reflective material, and wear clothes that are reflective.
White helmets are the most visible to other drivers. Bright clothing stands out. Dark clothing blends in and makes it harder for others to see you.Now that you have prepared your ride gear for your upcoming ride, you now want to turn your attention to inspecting your motorcycle before you start out.
The best place to find out about information in regards to proper routine motorcycle maintenance is by check with your M.O.M ? Motorcycle Owners Manual.Following your M.
O.Ms routine maintenance ensures trouble-free riding and prevents expensive corrective maintenance.There is an acronym I learned while taking my Motorcycle Safety Foundation riding course. The MSF calls it T-CLOCS. T-CLOCS is an inspection routine acronym.
It stands for:.Tires and Wheels,.Controls,.Lights and electrics,.Oil and other fluids,.
Chassis,.Side stand.Hopefully after reading this article, you have gained some insight into how to properly prepare for you ride. One other are to prepare is your mind.Are you healthy, awake, not under medication, not under the influence? If you are clean and sober, awake, aware and feeling good.
Then you will have an enjoyable ride. Ride straight and stay alive.
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Industry-leading virtual tabletop suite Roll20 is under new management. Polygon can reveal that, as of Tuesday, Google veteran Ankit Lal has taken the reins as CEO. In an exclusive interview, he talked about the challenges his organization has experienced over the last two years of the ongoing global pandemic, and how he intends to move the company forward in 2022 and beyond.
Roll20 began in 2012 as a crowdfunding campaign with a novel goal — to enable tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons to be played online. Today it's a full-featured set of tools, one that allows game masters to spool up a homebrew campaign or a professionally designed module in minutes. Players can join just by clicking a web link. Since launch, the platform has been home to more than 250,000 campaigns, each with a week or more of cumulative online playtime.
In March 2020 the platform became a lifeboat for groups who wanted to continue playing safely during the pandemic. But that influx of new users — more than 5 million of them, according to Lal — put major upgrades to the suite's core functionality on hold. The company has since tripled in size, growing from just 20 or 25 employees to nearly 60. Lal says that he now has two different groups of employees, one dedicated to users and another to publishers. That flexibility will help him to be more nimble in 2022.
"While I can't speak to the details of the past," Lal told Polygon in an interview earlier this month, "I have worked with and run product teams before, and what I think you're going to see out of me is a very deep focus on our users and publishers."
As far as users go, Lal said that his primary goal is to help onboard two new kinds of users that Roll20 has attracted over the last two years. "The pandemic brought across two key personas that we haven't seen historically, and in a much faster velocity than I think anyone predicted," Lal said.
The first persona is a cohort of users who are already familiar with TTRPGs, but whom have never played them online before. For this group video tutorials and in-app tools are key.
"The second group is what I call the TTRPG curious," Lal said. "[They'd say] 'I've heard of Dungeons & Dragons. I've heard it's cool. But I haven't literally played before.' [...] You can't just drop them into a blank canvas anymore. You need more onboarding, you need more tools, you need more intuitive tooling, and you need better tutorials and how-to guides."
Roll20 has been cranking out those tutorials on YouTube at a decent pace for the last few months, and will continue to do so. Other elements of his team will be spending time improving the core usability of the suite itself. First up on the roadmap for 2022, Lal said, is the addition of "image placement logic tools," which will allow game masters to more easily drag and drop images or maps onto the virtual tabletop.
An additional focus will be continuing to add more and varied rulesets to the platform.
"We're not just building for Dungeons & Dragons," Lal said, "but we're trying to build out for the entire tabletop RPG industry. We have hundreds of games on our platform that people are playing. I think we have 800 character sheets now. We have over 10,000 SKUs on our marketplace. And so while Dungeon & Dragons is the biggest, there is more to it than just D&D."
Roll20 regularly publishes The Orr Group Industry Report, which details what kinds of games users are playing on the Roll20 platform. Since 2019, 5th edition D&D has continued to dominate, rising from 51.87% of ongoing campaigns to 53.7% of ongoing campaigns in 2022. While Pathfinder has continued to decline (from 6.46% to just 3.2%), Call of Cthulhu has increased from 9.48% to 11.9% of all campaigns. That setting is extremely popular in countries like Japan, and represents a new and growing international cohort of Roll20 users.
It's the "all others" and "uncategorized" games, Lal says, that continue to be an important sector for the continued growth of the Roll20 platform.
"Nine years ago, eight years ago, we used to onboard one title a quarter to Roll20," Lal said. "This past year, in order to support publishers, we onboarded more than 100 titles. And if you can imagine how much we scaled just in the last two years in terms of our ability to support onboarding, it's been tremendous — multitudes bigger. But unfortunately, part of that was brute force, and part of that was automation. [With] our roadmap for 2022, there's a lot of exciting stuff that's going to help publishers onboard a lot faster, with a lot more [and] slicker features."


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August 15, 2016
It's not the first time that an entrepreneur has developed a way to use plastic as building blocks—and we're not talking Lego here. No, these are real building blocks modeled in the size and dimensions of common concrete building blocks that can be used for commercial and residential building projects. The only difference is they are made from comingled scrap plastic.
Using a 100% modular manufacturing system, ByFusion (Brooklyn, NY) takes in scrap plastic from the world's oceans, where some studies estimate that 4.8 million metric tons of plastic gets dumped each year, and puts it through a machine that compacts the comingled scrap into 8 x 16 x 4 inch building blocks, called RePlast.
The company also will take scrap plastic from coastal communities as well as landfills. ByFusion noted that globally about 32 million tons of plastics are generated each year, of which only 8% gets recycled. ByFusion will "upcycle" that material for various building applications. In the United States, RePlast is a fit-for-purpose material that can be manufactured in various densities and weights to make non-inhabited structures such as sound barriers, warehouses, rest areas and roadway projects. Outside the United States, RePlast can be used to build single-story houses and other inhabited structures.
The RePlast blocks can be made in density weights from eight to 27 lbs. and have a fire rating similar to the Trex decking materials.
Currently, ByFusion is trying to raise funds on Indiegogo, with a goal of $250,000. At the time of writing, the company had raised $30,649. The funds will be used to complete its first project with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii (SCH), an organization whose mission is to inspire local communities to care for their coastlines through hands-on-beach cleanups.
"We realized that in order to start making a difference for our planet or environment, we needed to act now," said Gregor Gomory, CEO of ByFusion. "Every year millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. We have the technology to process it in an environmentally sensitive way and put it to use in local communities. When we spoke with SCH and learned about what was happening in the protected area, we realized that we could contribute a viable way to process the plastic collecting on the islands and reef systems. This area is much too important to write off as a victim of our broken waste management system—the plastic has got to be contained."
The machine to make RePlast blocks is mobile and can be hauled on a flatbed truck and set up in the communities that need the system. That saves the cost of shipping the scrap plastic to a re-processing facility.
The funds collected on Indiegogo will also go toward completing the required U.S. testing in order to get RePlast listed as an approved building material. The company also needs to upgrade its current pilot machine to increase the amount of plastic that can be processed from the current 7,000 blocks per day to 10,000.
The company also needs to expand its manufacturing capabilities to be able to produce more ByFusion machines, which can run on propane gas or electricity. The first commercial ByFusion machine is expected to be completed by May 2017.
A video showing the process can be viewed on the ByFusion website.
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If you think the West Village is just another hyped-up landmark of New York City, think again. Its singularity and the charm of its twirling streets has attracted artists for years, as the "bohemian outpost of America"; today, it's attracting families to its brownstones, townhouses, and mansions to cradle and cultivate the future generation. Don't forget Bichon, now let's go!
Greenwich Village, the place to be
The West Village or Greenwich Village or, simply, the "Village" is the area west of Lafayette Street, well-known as the hotbed for the creative-rebellious types (writers, painters, sculptors, theater producers, etc.) for some time now. While maintaining its signature identity as the artistic soul of the big city, it has become a tony neighborhood where successful families, who aim to immerse their children in a cultural and privileged lifestyle, take refuge.
Like a chic suburb of the city but better, because it's actually in the city; and its parameters, marked by the Hudson River (to the west), the Whitney Museum of American Art (to the north), and elevated soccer fields at Pier 40 (to the south), show how versatile the Village can be. Its maze-like interior of crisscrossing cobblestoned streets, winding lanes, fire escapes is probably to blame for its charm, made irresistible at the sight of its beautiful brownstones and townhouses with hidden backyard gardens.
It's also a nice area for the social butterfly to flap his or her wings. On these blocks, the neighborhood comes alive with its intimate bistros and cafes, old fashion diners, lively bars, and stylish clubs. Mommy, who works on Wall Street, and Daddy, who invented that algorithm that no one understands, will love nights out at Blue Hill or Annisa for gourmet dining, and then Chumley's speakeasy for date-night cocktails. And for this, you'll never have to leave the neighborhood, therefore, you're never too far away if the babysitter calls.
A soul that can never die
During morning and evening strolls, it's incredible to pass by the stoop where Carrie and Mr. Big underwent many make-ups and break-ups, or walk under the Arch where Harry actually left Sally, and even circle the corner of Grove and Bedford where you'd always imagined being a part of the Friends gang. Although these moments are gone, their spirit remains in its new characters (you?).
On most days, Villagers rediscover the neighborhood with their Bichon, who absolutely adores his daily walks to Washington Square Park. There are always new bookstores, galleries, or boutiques in old firehouses, factories or churches, where impromptu Off-Broadway performances are often held. The music of the street is jazz, as if Miles Davis were orchestrating from up above, so many big-name performers, instrumentalists, and enthusiasts make their way to the Village Vanguard or the concrete sidewalks to perform and enjoy sweet tunes.
A largely residential area, the Village's attractiveness relies greatly on the renovations and upgrades of turn-of-the-century apartment buildings, modern mid-rises, and post-Civil War mansions. And so, those who appreciate character move into their lofts and apartments, which have perfected the balance of a low-maintenance style in an upscale neighborhood. Celebs love it, and so do we.
It takes a village …
Despite this special emphasis on its vintage appeal, the Village is dedicated to the future--that's to say our babies. And don't worry, we promise the aforementioned rebellious day are (mostly) over. Families living in the neighborhood today only have to deal with curious teens, who benefit from the neighborhood's superior public schools or an elite private education. From pre-pre-school to the post graduate curricula, your children will never have to leave the nest: there's the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI to insiders just learning the alphabet), P.S. 41--with a waiting list raising eyebrows at the Guinness World Record--St. Luke's School, and the beloved flagship New York University.
The area is also known for its safety, security, and pristine streets. Before you know it, the kids will be taking Bichon out by themselves (or is it Bichon will be taking them out?) to the newly renovated Minetta Playground or the classic Bleecker Playground to meet up with SJP's twins. As the name suggests, it is a village … in the proverbial sense, too.
Everyone to the Village if …
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- You're waiting for Sebastian from La La Land to open a jazz club on the East Coast
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Sometimes we can feel stuck and unable to find the way forward and life can become overwhelming. Sometimes we just need someone who will really listen to us and treat us with respect.
At these times talking to a counsellor can be helpful in offering you a confidential and safe place where you can explore how you feel and gain insight and clarity into what can often seem like confusing and difficult feelings. It can help you to find ways of coping and managing life's demands. We can't always choose what happens to us or how other people behave towards us, but we can change our perception of life's events and our role in society, and become more aware of our patterns and behaviour.


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The Long and Winding Road · 5:17am Apr 23rd, 2013
So yeah. It's been a while, huh? I can try and blame a vast multitude of things on why I haven't been doing really anything recently, but that'd only be half true.
But making excuses for my lack of activity isn't why I'm here right now.


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The same group has been fucking with the various ads that go on this billboard for months. It all started with an ad for a ski resort that had a headshot of a grinning guy with snow on his head. Their edit had it say, "CAT SPUNK: Taste it again for the first time."
You can just imagine how they changed the picture *shudder*
Wow, it really is. If nothing else, I admire the ingenuity of the work there. If you want to make a statement, at least do it creatively.
Posted by: kati on May 4, 2003 01:29 PMIf this is the ski resort ad I'm thinking of, I'm not sure it needed much alteration. Gene and I had already commented it easily could have had "bukkake" instead of the resort name and it would have been totally appropriate, even unaltered. One of them in Oakland has had "impeachment" substituted for the resort name, as well.
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Former Eire Og Senior Footballer Willie Quinlan says that the Club needed Sunday's County Final victory more than Rathvilly.
Speaking to KCLR after Sunday's County Final, Willie says they have the potential to go and win future County titles.
"I think EIRE OG needed this one more. They are missing the last 5 or 6 years. It's 5 years since they won one. They needed to get back into it"
"It's great for these bunch of young lads that are coming together there for a long number of years. You are always thinking are we going to win one, are we going to win one"
"I know Niall (Quinlan) came on as a sub there and that's his first Senior Championship. It's great to see win their first one and gives them that bit of confidence hopefully. They are a young team and they can push on, their is many years in the future again"


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