Free idea: Tamaguchi 2.0.
That version was kinda annoying.
Here’s an idea for Tamaguchi 2.0, an app that tracks your mobile phone habits (without collecting detailed data on words or actual apps) and then creates a "fingerprint" based on, e.g., "wake up and use phone for 10 minutes…" or "call only on weekends" etc.
The idea is that everyone uses their phone in a specific way.
The app *then* hangs around and only pops up when you’re using your phone in a different way, at which time it pops up and asks "how’s everything?
and allows you to say "all good" or "I’m depressed" or "I’m traveling" or "I have a new partner" etc.
Then the app gives a little feedback (e.g., thumbs up for travel but "maybe call a friend" for depressed) It need not be invasive, and the data will only reside on the device, as it’s unique to you.
Any app developer types out there are free to use this idea…
I only ask for a thanks (and update!)
if you go ahead with it 🙂

City installs new sustainable water bottle filling stations.
The City of Malibu and West Basin Municipal Water District unveiled two new sustainable water bottle filling stations that were recently installed at Malibu City Hall on Tuesday, May 23.
Mayor Skylar Peak and Councilmembers Laura Rosenthal and Jefferson Wagner were joined by West Basin Board Member Scott Houston and West Basin and Malibu Environmental Sustainability staff.
“Malibu prides itself on being a champion of the environment, and our lifestyle revolves around water,” Peak said.
I commend the City of Malibu for its leadership and commitment to environmental stewardship.” The billions of single-use plastic water bottles produced and disposed of are a waste of fossil fuel and contribute to plastic waste that damages the environment and wildlife.
Americans buy about 30 billion water bottles every year, making bottled water the second most-consumed beverage in the U.S., according to BantheBottle.net.
While single-use water bottles can be recycled, most are not since the nationwide average recycling rate is only about 34.6 percent, according to the US EPA.
Manufacturing bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water consumes more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year, according to BantheBottle.net.
To encourage Malibu residents to cut down on single-use plastic water bottles, the City and West Basin are offering custom-made, insulated refillable steel water containers for free to the first 50 people who come in to City Hall, get a container, fill it with the new filling stations, and post a photo on social media with the hashtag #OneWaterMalibu.
For more information about West Basin Municipal Water District, visit www.westbasin.org.

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HENDERSON, N.C. (WNCN) — A boil water advisory will be in place until at least Wednesday morning for Oxford, Henderson and Franklin County, officials said.
On Monday afternoon, the Kerr Lake Plant went down, with Henderson officials adding the pumps were the source of the problem.
Water supplies are back up which has eased calls for conservation restrictions but the boil advisories remain in effect until likely Wednesday morning.
Some Granville County Schools have been impacted by the boil advisory.
Schools will follow their regularly-scheduled school days, but because of the advisory, bottled water and hand sanitizer will be made available to all students and staff, and packed breakfasts and lunches will be served as well.
Vance County Schools said that several schools in the county are on City of Henderson water and that maintenance and cafeteria staff have taken precautions to ensure that they’re only using bottled water.
That’s a big problem when it comes to the restaurant business.
So, I’ll be glad when that comes back into play and we can use running water,” said Marcus Wright, owner and general manager of the Golden Skillet in Henderson.
The Kerr Lake Regional Water System is a public water system serving portions of Vance, Granville, Warren and Franklin counties.

Water alert canceled for residents in S. San Francisco neighborhood.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KTVU/BCN) – Update: On Saturday, California Water Service cancelled the precautionary do-not-drink advisory for the Sunset Gardens residents in South San Francisco.
The service says the follow-up test results confirmed the water quality was not impacted by the breach at the utility’s facility on Friday morning.
California Water Service issued an alert Friday evening, saying there was a breach of a storage tank that serves the area.
At the property, police found that the outside of a Cal Water tank had been vandalized with spray paint, police said.
Sometime overnight, vandals climbed a 25-foot tank on Hillside Blvd.
"It’s a very heavy screen, and it would take four big men to move it.
Police told the water service the tags are gang-related; they’ve seen them before.
It serves about 100,000 water customers on the Peninsula.
For more information, call Cal Water’s Customer Center at 650-558-7800 or watch this page for updates.

Is the Incredible Growth of Bottled and Sparkling Water Sustainable?.
10 stocks we like better than Wal-Mart When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen.
David Kretzmann: I’m going with bottled and sparkling water.
Kretzmann: They also have the Powerplus brands segment, and the main driver with that is LaCroix, however you want to say that.
A little boots on the ground research here, our local Whole Foods near us at HQ, any time you walk in, there’s often a huge LaCroix display, either at the front of the store or at a pretty prominent location in the store.
And I’m leaning more toward it being a trend, because I think as people become more health-conscious, they probably aren’t going to go back to soda any time soon.
Maybe sparkling water drinkers would be drinking soda otherwise?
Kretzmann: I think a lot of people who are trying to transition out of soda will go to LaCroix or sparking water.
But I look at that sales growth, and over the past year, their sales growth has accelerated to 15%, and their earnings are up over 70%, so their margins are continuing to tick up.
So, it’s that LaCroix brand, for National Beverage, anyway, is driving those sales.

Thousands In South City Await Tests Of Water In Vandalized Storage Tanks.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Officials with the California Water Service asked people in the Sunshine Gardens area of South San Francisco to use bottled water while their water source was being tested Saturday.
The first tests of the water found it safe but the results of more tests won’t be back until Saturday afternoon, Cal Water director of operations Darin Duncan said.
Those people were asked to use bottled water.
Duncan said free bottled water was available at 96 Chestnut Avenue in South San Francisco.
Cal Water officials will post the results of the additional water tests at http://www.calwater.com.
The Cal Water customer center can be reached at (650) 558-7800.
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Why is it that this one markup grinds guests’ gears more than almost everything else? Perhaps the wording of ‘unmistakably exorbitant’ offers a clue. When a commoditized item like bottled water, is commonly understood to be sold at a certain base price – let’s say $1 for 300ml for simplicity’s case – then any inflated price that’s paid forward to the customer will be instantly discernable. And when you charge, say, seven bucks for what generally costs only one in the supermarket, then it is builds distrust in guests’ minds. “This is a blatant rip off! What else are they marking up to pad their pretentious wallets? What other tricks are they pulling to price gouge me? What are they hiding?” These are not the sorts of questions that you want running through your customers’ minds. It’s not a healthy start to a good relationship and it’s just bad business. Think about it even further. What does such a tremendously large price tag for bottled water say about your property, and importantly, about your sense of hospitality? Moreover, this one singular markup can become a reflection of all other prices for any good or service sold at your hotel. That is,…

This time the battle is over the bottling of Michigan groundwater by Nestle, the Swiss multinational food company. Nestle is seeking permission to extract more water from an existing well about 100 miles from Flint, for sale in the Midwest. As long as it passes review, the expansion would only incur a nominal permit fee, to the dismay of critics who argue that Michigan is handing over its natural resources to a corporation for a song. There is no direct link between Flint’s municipal water crisis and Nestle’s pumping permit. But the emotions stirred by the mismanagement in Flint, and concern over how regulators failed to stop it, have combined to make Nestle a lightning rod for environmentalists and a potential test case for how that most basic of natural resources – groundwater – should be managed. “Flint has changed the conversation,” says Liz Kirkwood, director of FLOW, an advocacy group in Traverse City, Mich., that has contested Nestle’s application. In fact, officials in Osceola Township near the Nestle plant voted in April to deny the company a zoning permit to build a booster station so that it could handle additional flow from its wells. Nestle, which hopes to nearly double its permitted flow to 400 gallons per minute from its White Pines well, is appealing that decision. Although bottlers like Nestle don’t use nearly as much water as farms or factories, the dispute is calling attention to how water is regulated in the US. State laws typically offer wide latitude for property owners to pump groundwater for personal or business use. Nestle has argued that its increase wouldn’t put the environment at risk. Still, the company seems to concur with critics on one point – that the Flint crisis has altered the zeitgeist here. “What happened in Flint is a tragedy … we feel frustration about this,” says Nelson Switzer, chief sustainability officer for Nestle Waters North America. He points out that Nestle and other companies have donated bottled water to the city, which he visited in February. “Water is a passionate issue,” he adds. “People make decisions based on their data and their knowledge, and they make decisions based on passion and their emotional responses.” Like many well-watered states,…

Why are people spending money on bottled water when many have a safe water source, right from the nearby tap?
Do people think it is safer to drink?
Locally, the Peterborough Utilities Commission (PUC) manages our water to meet and exceed government requirements for water testing.
It produces a compound that can be detected in the taste of the water, even after treatment.
Bottled water comes in individually packaged, plastic bottles.
Also, fossil fuels are required to produce that bottle.
It takes one-quarter of a bottle of oil to produce each plastic bottle and transport it to the store.
“Someone living in Peterborough, Ontario may not imagine that their plastic water bottle could end up in the ocean,” explains Jenn McCallum, GreenUP Water programs co-ordinator, “but, we are surrounded by water in this area and any plastic bottle that ends up in the Otonabee River could find it’s way through the watershed to Rice Lake, into the Trent River, to Lake Ontario and finally to the Atlantic Ocean.
Reusable water bottles are available in many local stores, including the GreenUP Store at 378 Aylmer St. N. in downtown Peterborough.
You can also find the Ptbo H20 mobile drinking water station at several events in and around the Peterborough area.

Airway Heights water samples to be collected Wednesday morning.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — After the first round of test results showed at least some contaminants were still in the water, Airway Heights officials planned to collect more samples Wednesday morning after continued flushing of the water system over Memorial Day weekend.
City officials announced Friday that residents would need to continue drinking bottled water for about another week after testing results showed six of 17 samples still had contaminants above the "action level."
They have been drinking bottled water since May 16, when officials announced there were high levels of two different contaminants in the water and urged residents not to drink it.
The acids in the water are classified by the EPA as emerging contaminants and are present in common household items and heat and fire resistant products, including aqueous film forming foam formulations that were used by the Air Force in fire trucks from 1970-2016 including those at Fairchild AFB.
PREVIOUS: City of Airway Heights completes first round of testing, water still unsafe to drink City Manager Albert Tripp said over the holiday weekend, about 8 million gallons were flushed or used in the Airway Heights water system.
“We still have other uses occurring, like irrigating, showering, washing dishes,” Tripp explained.
He said they will collect 21 samples over the next few days and then hope to have the test results back by the end of the week.
Residents are still able to get free water from behind the Airway Heights Yokes.
Editor’s note: The original version of this story said sample collection would begin Tuesday night, but officials announced Tuesday evening they would not begin sample collection until Wednesday.