tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73295558506166674322024-03-05T13:01:02.055-08:00Life Cube BlogLife Cube is a rapid deployment airframe shelter system that simplifies and expedites emergency response efforts. It is the only tent system with an integrated hard-surface floor with steel hoops that unfolds into an inflatable airframe canopy and an interior storage space that allows easy maneuverability over the most challenging terrains. It is an all in one solution for every emergency situation.Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-22704086538727493942014-07-22T14:04:00.000-07:002014-07-22T14:59:14.804-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-15652174698200767302012-07-11T09:10:00.000-07:002012-07-11T10:25:38.006-07:00More Extreme Weather To Be ExpectedSeveral<b> U.S scientists</b> are warning the American people of more<b> extreme weather conditions </b>in a new <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/10/world/unusual-world-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t2" target="_blank">CNN article.</a> They are calling 2011 the year of extreme weather and we could not agree more. After watching <b>Hurricane Irene, floods in Thailand and China and the Japanese earthquake</b> to mention a few, natural disasters clearly seems to be an increasing trend.<br />
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We will not stop our hard work here at<a href="http://www.lifecubeinc.com/" target="_blank"> Life Cube</a> to make sure that we get our instant relief shelters into the hands of<b> first response organizations around the world.</b> Our dedication to making relief efforts<b> more efficient and more timely</b> has just begun and we are extremely grateful for any support we receive. We need more of our friends and supporters to help us spread the word of the Life Cube so that more people become aware of the shelter technology that Life Cube has to offer.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Let's make 2012 the year of extreme weather<b> PREPAREDNESS! </b> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Read the CNN article here: </span><br />
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Check out the video of the deployment and feel free to subscribe to our new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/lifecubetv" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.<br />
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Thank you for your support!Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-13364928309037603092012-07-06T13:13:00.003-07:002012-07-06T13:31:33.007-07:00Life Cube Summer 2012 Update!<span style="background-color: white;">So far we have seen several natural disasters in 2012 and it doesn't seem like it'</span><span style="background-color: white;">s going to "ease up" any time soon. While writing this blog post, the</span><a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-26/us/us_western-wildfires_1_single-digit-humidity-evacuation-extreme-fire-behavior?_s=PM:US" style="background-color: white;"> <b>Colorado wildfires</b></a><span style="background-color: white;"> are still going on and several devastating </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://earlystart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/25/tropical-storm-debby-drenching-florida-coast-john-zarrella-on-how-the-state-is-preparing-for-a-prolonged-storm/?iref=allsearch">summer storms in the South East</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> have just passed leaving homes destroyed and many more people injured.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">What really concerns us here at</span><a href="http://www.lifecubeinc.com/" style="background-color: white;"> Life Cube</a><span style="background-color: white;"> is the way that these firefighters and other </span><b style="background-color: white;">first-responders</b><span style="background-color: white;"> are deployed in the field. There is a clear deficiency in the way we house our </span><b style="background-color: white;">heroes </b><span style="background-color: white;">today and we want to see that change asap. Even though we understand that budgets for</span><b style="background-color: white;"> rescue forces are being cut daily</b><span style="background-color: white;">, we would still like to see these hard working rescuers sleep and work out of </span><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.lifecubeinc.com/">proper shelter systems</a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> when they are deployed in remote areas.</span><br />
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This is where the <b>Life Cube can help! </b>It is 2012 and we are still responding to disasters and emergencies in an<b> extremely outdated way.</b> It is sad to see that fire departments on a national level still don't have access to the Life Cube. But we are not giving up! We are striving to make sure that 2012 is the year when we i<b>ntroduce the Life Cube to the world! </b>Next time our troops, fire fighters, and other emergency response personnel have to <b>risk their lives to save others,</b> let's make sure that they can be sheltered with <b>dignity and safety.</b><br />
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We have lots of great things happening for Life Cube right now and many announcements are to be made this coming month so stay tuned and subscribe to this blog. Also follow us on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/LifeCubeInc">Twitter</a> </b>and like us on <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/LifeCubeInc">Facebook</a></b> to show your support for the Life Cube.<br />
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Thank you!Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-4620076382690351022011-07-26T15:43:00.000-07:002014-07-15T13:41:52.319-07:00My Inspiration Behind the Life Cube<span style="font-family: "Tinos; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tinos; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Tinos;">I never imagined that I would be in the shelter business but here I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2005, after the devastation wrought by both Hurricane Katrina and a massive earthquake in Pakistan, I noticed the variety of shelter designs that were out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different shapes and sizes, made from a number of products and materials, all a combination of form, function, and cost. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet an adequate portable design still did not exist.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tinos; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Tinos;">The Life Cube is a rapid deployment air frame shelter systems that simplifies and expedites emergency response efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the only tent system with an integrated hard-surface floor with steel hoops that unfolds into an inflatable airframe canopy and an interior storage space that allows easy maneuverability over the most challenging terrains. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an all in one solution for every emergency situation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tinos; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Tinos;">Within just a few years, Life Cube, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets innovative air-beam shelters for a variety of markets and uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn more at </span><a href="http://lifecubeinc.com/"><span style="font-family: Tinos;">http://lifecubeinc.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Tinos;">.</span></span></span></div>
Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-27970082026599923422011-07-22T08:58:00.000-07:002014-07-15T13:30:00.773-07:00Effective Disaster Relief Programs are Proactive<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Tinos;, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">According to recent reports, natural disasters have made the year 2011 the costliest in terms of property damage thus far, and we are only seven months in. For the United States alone, 98 events (storms, flooding, fires and earthquakes) left $27 billion in economic losses, more than double the 10-year average of $11.8 billion. From these devastating statistics, we can conclude that natural disasters are not only devastating, they are extremely expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tinos;, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The most effective disaster relief programs are proactive. In order to stay true to our proactive mindset we have developed the Life Cube Foundation and a humanitarian project called Adopt a Cube. With these efforts we hope to facilitate inexpensive access of this unique shelter solution to non-profits, NGOs and international service organizations. Donations to support the cost of manufacturing and transporting Life Cube shelters can be made to the Life Cube Foundation or directly to our humanitarian aid partners.</span></div>
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Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-29604743817328435952011-07-08T10:38:00.000-07:002014-07-15T13:22:15.264-07:00Answering Basic Needs After a Disaster<span style="font-family: Tinos;"><b>By Pamela Voge, Life Cube Director of External Affairs</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">The three most important things after a natural disaster are seeking shelter, finding food and clean water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life Cube offers those who have been displaced after a disaster the most basic means of shelter and comes with food and water for five days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Optional packages also include an electrical system with 12-volt battery, solar panel trickle charger, lighting, electric pump, propane system with cooking stove and catalytic heater.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">I have participated in most major domestic disasters within the last 20 years including earthquakes, fires, floods, tornados and hurricanes. It doesn’t matter what the disaster is. The aftermath is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is destruction and death, and the needs of the surviving people is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all need shelter, food and water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Addressing the basic needs after a disaster, our innovative air beam shelter is an all-in-one solution that can be deployed in minutes so survivors can begin to rebuild their lives and their communities. I’m so proud to represent it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">When I first heard about Life Cube, I was impressed with its concept—durable shelter, quick to deploy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">I was in a Rwanda refugee camp in 1993 in neighboring Burundi, when all people had were blue tarps that had been distributed during this emergency. I was so in Sierra Leone refugee camps in Guinea in 1995. These were camps that had been there for a longer period and time. There was a school for the children and nice grass huts had been built for shelter. It was like a Ritz Carlton compared to the Rwanda camps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">So I do have a somewhat first-hand knowledge about the needs of shelter during disasters. But the more I learned about Life Cube and talked to others who have worked in disasters, the more I learned about how such shelters are needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">I imagined these being used as shelters for those who didn’t have homes, such as the people in Joplin after the tornado, in New Orleans after Katrina or in the refuge camps in Africa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">However, I have learned there are other much needed uses for this type of shelter. The versatility of the Life Cube platform beyond being a shelter for those homeless is also important. Humanitarian aid workers are generally going into areas where this is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing. </i>They<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>need a place to hang their hat, put out their shingle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Faye Coleman, President of Westover Consulting, had a contract to provide counseling services after the Katrina Hurricane in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. “We could have used a shelter like that to hold our sessions,” she said. “There were no offices, no homes, no where to meet that people might find comfortable enough to really talk.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">After Katrina, businesses as diverse as the Verizon store, Sempra Energy, Burger King—all were ready to get back into business, but had no “shelter” to operate out of. Life Cube can also help businesses get back to work more quickly—which helps re-establish a <u>community and local economy.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Hospitals can use such a shelter for triage—of patients AND staff and volunteers. Life Cube set up a shelter a few days after the tornado in Joplin, MO, in the St. Johns Hospital parking lot for that purpose and hospital administration was impressed with its effectiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">It makes sense—workers go to a disaster site to work—and where do they set up? Where do they get people out of the elements? Where do they process paperwork? Have team meetings? Log where volunteers and workers are deployed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Life Cube is listening as well as it goes to shows and demonstrations around the world. They are listening to what people who work in these environments want and need, and are creating new designs based around the Life Cube concept to meet these needs.</span></div>Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-11489302931708132622011-06-07T10:16:00.000-07:002014-07-15T13:26:37.031-07:00Life Cube Releases QuietGuide®<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: Tinos;"><b>By Michael Conner, President, Life Cube, Inc.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">We recently partnered with Visual Travel Tours to create a QuietGuide® for easy Life Cube set up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Life Cube is not as simple to set up as your camping tent, but it is amazingly easy, especially with the new QuietGuide®.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">This is the first time that Visual Travel Tours has used their QuietGuide® for humanitarian use and in the few short weeks since the partnership arose, our QuietGuide® has received an outpouring of positive feedback from government and independent aid organizations worldwide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The QuietGuied® was demonstrated at the premiere emergency preparedness conference at the United Nations in Geneva in May, 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Visual Travel Tours’ QuietGuide® has predominantly been used for travel guides. But it can enable companies in multiple industries, in any location, to create and distribute graphic-rich eBooks and training documents to mobile users. Users can edit, upload, and embed graphics without any desktop word processing applications. The format is “mobile-friendly” and can be uploaded and viewed on virtually any device that has a PDF reader including computers, smartphones, and tablets. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos; ">Using Life Cube’s QuietGuide®, anyone, anywhere can download the instructions to the Life Cube and inflate the shelter in 5 minutes, without any previous experience or knowledge. This advancement is beneficial for those facing any disaster, and makes Life Cube a survival tool truly accessible to all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Life Cube’s QuietGuide® can be downloaded for FREE from any device with a PDF reader at: </span><a href="http://quietguides.com/"><u><span style="font-family: Tinos;">http://quietguides.com/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: Tinos;">.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Life Cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784705538110240294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329555850616667432.post-61030541420104446252011-06-03T11:57:00.000-07:002014-07-15T13:25:03.048-07:00Life Cube Goes Global in May<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">We had a whirlwind month in May—(and no pun intended, with the tornados). The global community is definitely getting to know Life Cube.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">The United Nations invited us to the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Geneva, where we had the opportunity to showcase Life Cube to more than 180 countries. We were one of only four companies with products at this invitation-only event. We got an extremely positive response from delegates from the UN and NGOs. We were offered a pilot program with the United Nations to use Life Cube for command posts and offices. This is exciting—and I’ll have more on that in a future blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Then we were in Madrid, MO (yes, before the devastating Joplin, MO, tornado hit) for FEMA’s National Level Exercise (NLE), the largest functional exercise of its kind undertaken in about 20 years. The simulation was of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake because 200 years ago there were devastating earthquakes that rolled through this area and of course, the fault lines are still there. It was the first NLE to focus on a natural hazard scenario. Life Cube was an active part of the exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">Then after a quick trip to New Orleans for the Rotary International show where we again got a tremendous response, we headed back to Missouri to Joplin after their devastating tornado and set up a Life Cube in the parking lot of St. John’s Mercy Hospital, which was destroyed in the tornado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">This would be one of our ultimate uses--to set up as a temporary new </span><span style="font-family: Tinos;">hospital for one that has been damaged or is overflowing. This is the type of information that we are getting out there about Life Cube as we show up around the globe to demonstrate it. We were there several days after the tornado hit, and St. John's used the Life Cube as a processing center for RNs and MDs coming to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">This is why it is so important to get the word out on Life Cube—so we can be deployed to the sites much more quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tinos;">And we are proud that Life Cube employees volunteered their time in the relief effort at Joplin. We assisted Samaritans Purse to clear debris from homeowners' properties and help them find their precious treasures in the rubble. These are the first steps in rebuilding their lives. Life Cube is honored to be able to assist in this time of need. </span></div>
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