abs this is a a material we're really excited about we right now actually pellets of this are being made into 3mm filaments in in Ohio yeah and PLA stands for polylactic acid which is actually derived from corn uh basically they grow it in Nebraska uh it's all made within
these are the the railyard aware that the plastic factories discharge the pellets from the rail cars into the factory to those two to one side those are just like big factory mode and they start to tell us out of the river when they make it break that connection to the rail cars when they still that's how
Carole's young Michelle is growing it can get caught on one of those things pellets that captain more talk about a moment ago now the classics has have
And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful. So Pell Grants are this close to becoming a reality.
I just want to squeeze them and take them home. Delilah Pellow and also Addison Valentino-- those are the two young ladies that are getting to play little Anastasia. And so when I sing that first song in the show, they just look you right in the eyes
that Sarah said would die with the first hint of cold weather. slug pellets and tulips, followed by the news.
fixed reward system so basically the the rats were inside the Box they would press the lever and they would get a food pellet as a reward and it was a fixed system so maybe they would press the lever 10 times and then they would get a pellet right it was a fixed system so press the lever 10 times or 100 times whatever it was you would get a reward
And back in the day if you wanted to make something, this is an injection molding machine it's probably a 210 ton press. And pellets go in one side, and there's basically two big pieces of metal that are a mold that goes , with that kind of noise and cranks out plastic stuff all day long.
the knowledge gets spilled and there's there you can see the person of the safety vest on is squatting next to a million pellets pill and you can see the pellets going out through the storm drain system into the yard and that little bow that you see on the left side is the gal that the vacuum hose would be
Education, when put in a carceral space, dramatically reduces recidivism rates by 43% on average. So if we reinstated Pell Grants to prisoners across the nation, invested in more programs where there were post-secondary programs, particularly vocational skills, then these people who are inside are more prepared when they come home to become productive in whatever community they end up going to.
But educational opportunities in terms of while you're in prison, what types of options exist? You mentioned bringing back Pell Grants, for example. Erik, I know we've talked a lot about your GIS training and the self-education that you were doing with technology magazines.
You would not have that dynamic that you had before in Thrawn and Pellaeon. Even if you brought Pellaeon in here, there didn't seem to be any point in changing that dynamic just to shoehorn Pellaeon in, which is why I created Eli Vanto, who is our point of view, our Doctor Watson, the readers'
Maybe I'll get a whole pig and I want to do barbecue night. They dye the pellets they feed it.
food pellet as a reward and it was a fixed system so maybe they would press the lever 10 times and then they would get a pellet right it was a fixed system so press the lever 10 times or 100 times whatever it was you would get a reward and then he experimented with using a variable reward system so in this scenario the rats could never really
But it had some problems. It required expensive fuel pellets, which people didn't want to pay for. And it needed electricity, which many villages didn't have.
No, I think that we're both super excitable. Congratulations with the San Pellegrino list.
But in a nutshell, at the top side above the street, like at a lamp post level or something, you actually use a system of optics to concentrate sunlight down into a tiny, tiny footprint, a tiny little pellet of super-concentrated light. You take that light, you funnel it through a tube or a fiber optic cable for that matter.
in fact because he was enormously sick for his entire life. He had been pronounced dead in 1947 and resuscitated because of problems with his adrenal disease, Addison's Disease, for which he had pellets of time released medicine implanted in his thighs every six months for the rest of his life. He walked most of the time with crutches when he was outside of the public view and he had injections of Novocain put deep into his back up to three
bug bite in his leg and they pull out this little pellet of Bryson and it turns out that there had been a little rice and pellet embedded in the tip of that umbrella and and KGB actually did him in and and Markov was known for being very paranoid and for always insisting that the KGB was after him and you know sometimes when
plastic industry every button object is made from a little plastic resin color and those pellets were escaping the fact and I wanted to show that it wasn't just the consumers that one but there's also so we actually showed
We didn't have the opportunities, right? So Aaron speaks about the Pell Grant initiative that MDOC had a few years ago. Well, because of the Second Chance grant, we actually have a contract with MDOC in which we go in and we train--
But if they put a small pellet of hard agar, which is about the same consistency as the brain,
We're going wherever the food pellets are.
So when you crush up that hop pellet there and smell it, that's because we smash the oils inside of there, and they all released into the air.
Yeah, let's go ahead and just address the Pellaeon issue. A lot people weren't happy that Pellaeon is not in any book. Spoilers!
It really wouldn't have worked. But I would like to see Pellaeon come back in at a proper time. Obviously, Mara Jade-- people have been nagging about that since, about, a minute and a half after "Thrawn" was revealed in the London celebration trailer.
You can throw some wood pellets or some wood chunks or some chips on the charcoal.
And there were epidemics of pellagra that went on for centuries until-- actually, the guy who figured out was Joseph Goldwater, an American.
And there would be these little tiny pellets-- little tiny tweezers-- that people would use to take out little bits of saccharin
And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful. But what we want now is the permanent restoration of Pell Grants, which are grants to pay for education for low-income students.
However, in Michigan, we do have a Pell Grant pilot, which was sponsored by the US Department of Education under the Obama administration. And Michigan does have several sites in which prisoners are gaining Pell Grants and actually earning associate's and bachelor's degrees right now, which I think is extremely powerful.
And all the girls went to college on combinations of Pell grants, which at that time paid for about 80% of a public college education,
training or education, Pell Grants, National Science Foundation, NASA, transportation, highway system and so
Most of the hops that we use turn into the pellets you can see on the right.
But then they're ground down through a pelletizing machine which compresses them down into the pellets, and so it's a lot easier with shipping and handling.
So they send off these dehydrated flowers to these pelletizing facilities. that grind it up into a powder, shoot it out of dye, and then ends up like this rabbit food
Spoilers! I think the thing a lot of people liked about Pellaeon in the "Thrawn" trilogy was the relationship with Thrawn. The but the Thrawn in the book, "Thrawn," is not in the same situation.
Or why there's a little dispenser with rat chow pellets next to your laptop.
Each of those tubs is filled with eight tons of steel pellets.
and we'd run every batch of steel pellets through there, magnetize it, turn off the power and if it flowed then it was OK.
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50 miles of the place where it's processed they uh they process it into little pellets and then we it goes to our place in Ohio where they take the pellets and they make get into filament it's so it's a it's it's green it's not green in color but it's green in that it's uh a natural material that um under the right circumstances will biodegrade
and save him and it's not until the coroner is doing the autopsy but they see this little tiny what looks like a bug bite in his leg and they pull out this little pellet of Bryson and it turns out that there had been a little rice and pellet embedded in the tip of that umbrella and and KGB actually did him in and and Markov
in order to define trash so that we could regulate they define it as debris of human origin that wouldn't pass through a five millimeter screen well I knew these little plastic pellets that we're seeing out the ocean are less than 5 millimeters in there to feed stock plastic industry every button object is made from a little plastic resin color
actually had plastics act like a plug at the bottom of its stomach in the pylorus and the turtle from digesting food that died from plastic pellets in its stomach blocking his digestion I have a lot of examples up on the table of plastics
But because of this technology, we've been able to continue those conversations throughout the pandemic. And we've talked to over 50 legislators in the last few months about restoring Pell Grants in prisons, which the House has already voted to do. We're just waiting for the Senate.
And a lot of us think that by running them through a pelletizer you're also like ripping open the resins
She has a restaurant in Mexico City that has twice been named in the San Pellegrino list of the World's 50 Best
He's dealing with superior officers, some of who recognize his potential, others who just don't like him, period. You would not have that dynamic that you had before in Thrawn and Pellaeon. Even if you brought Pellaeon in here, there didn't seem to be any point in changing that dynamic just to shoehorn Pellaeon