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Crime and ennui in Columbia Heights, D.C., overwhelmed the adolescence of Elmer Diaz, a first-generation immigrant from El Salvador. He was always bright, but with his hard-working parents constantly away from home, Elmer's life became entwined with gangs. He also got into drugs. Then he dropped out of high school. And then, a stabbing provided the violent climax to a young man's turbulent coming of age -- and seemed to seal his future.
A growing number of young people haven't encountered the American Dream, and for them, Elmer's experience reflects their American reality. They are the disconnected youth -- the more than six million 16-to-24-year-olds neither participating in the workforce nor enrolled in school. Many are high school dropouts, foster youth, and young people involved in the justice system -- those who have fallen off, who were never put on a good path, and too many of whom have been forgotten in the various debates around education or employment. As the ranks of disconnected youth continue to grow, the urgency increases for real solutions that provide a path leading marginalized young people back in from the edge. Finding those answers isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do -- we need everyone to feel included and be included in building our future.
While it may be tempting to dismiss disengaged youth as an age-old problem, the severity of our nation's crisis is alarmingly new. The fraction of 16-to-24-year olds sitting on the sidelines in the United States is one in seven, according to the Social Science Research Council's Measure of America project, and the Great Recession (which is the only economic environment many young people have known as working-age adults) increased the population of disconnected youth by 800,000. It's of such pressing concern that last week in Chicago, leaders from government, business and the nonprofit worlds, along with civically-engaged young leaders, explored solutions to our disconnection crisis at the third meeting of Clinton Global Initiative America, a yearly gathering focused on accelerating economic recovery.
Youth unemployment is at its highest level since World War II. My father and mother both had their first jobs more than 50 years ago. In those days, the fraction of 16-to-19-year-old men out of work hovered around 15 percent (there was no tracking for an analogous percentage of young women then).
The unemployment figure for the same demographic has doubled since my father stocked shelves in the early 1960s. Even compared to 2000, the number of jobless 16-to-19-year olds of both sexes has surged more than 40 percent. For young people, disconnection when they should be gaining work experience or enrolled in school, building professional connections and skills, and developing independence can have serious consequences for their futures, including reduced job prospects and lowered earnings over their lifetimes. According to Measure of America, early unemployment can even negatively impact people's long-term mental and physical health outcomes and their prospects for marriage.
The astounding number of disconnected youth also creates long-term risks for our country. In California, the state with the largest foster care population, a study shows that women in the state who "aged-out" of foster care were more than four times more likely to end up on public assistance. Estimates of the number of California prison inmates who have a history in foster care range between 14 and 60 percent. According to Measure of America, youth disconnection's total bill to tax payers two years ago was $93.7 billion. And the Huffington Post reports that with 1.3 million 16-to-24-year olds out of work, youth unemployment could cost the U.S. $18 billion in lost income over the next 10 years.
To address the significant challenges posed by youth disconnection, we must develop and implement effective solutions targeting specific needs of specific populations. As one example, Youth Villages just announced at the meeting last week that it's committing through CGI America to serve all of the approximately 600 children aging out of foster care in Tennessee each year, addressing head on the challenges that confront far too many youth who age out of the system without support, resources, or a plan. This would be a national milestone, as Tennessee would become the first state to provide far-reaching transition services to all of its aging-out youth. Unlike other foster care programs found within the state, Youth Villages' program is truly comprehensive, with transitional living specialists assisting youth with all aspects of the transition to adulthood, big and small.
Another promising example of leadership in this area comes from 21-year-old Sixto Cancel, a remarkable youth advocate I met last week at CGI America. A former foster youth himself, Sixto's heart-breaking experience in the system was marked by abuse and violence, but he has demonstrated incredible resilience as a college student, a Jim Casey Young Fellow, and an advisory board member for the American Institutes Research (AIR) on LGBTQ and Allied Youth. Sixto also made his mark as a participant at CGI University 2013, where he and his group committed to mobilizing other young adults who have aged out of foster care to serve as leaders in reforming the child welfare system, here in the United States and around the world. After seeing him in action at the CGI America meeting, I have no doubt he will make a positive difference, helping to reconnect one of the most disconnected demographics through his CGI University commitment and his future work.
In addition to being targeted and specific, effective strategies for re-engaging youth should also prove practical and relevant. After all, research reveals what many, including CGI America participant Youth Radio, already know -- that tangible, real-world opportunities make youth less apt to drop out of school and also more marketable to employers. Last week, Youth Radio reported progress on its 2012 CGI America commitment to connect at least 60 low-income young adults to jobs in the technology and digital media industry. This includes the creation of a Break Through news desk which will provide participants with the ability to deliver reports on solutions related to youth unemployment.
As I've said and written about before, I believe that Millennials have the power to change the world. And now I'm challenging America to give underserved Millennials a fair opportunity to do so. If the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., hadn't given Elmer a chance to write a different future for himself, violence and victimhood could have been his final chapter. But after finding somewhere to turn and someone to mentor him, Elmer, now 28, has reclaimed his life and is a youth counselor for others. He's also a proud father and homeowner. He's soon to be a master's degree candidate, too. Most of all, he's living proof that no human being is hopeless. We can and we must get disconnected young Americans back on track. To achieve a real economic recovery, let's ensure that coming of age in the United States yields the promise -- not the memory -- of the American Dream.
This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and the Clinton Global Initiative in recognition of the latter's third meeting of CGI America (June 13-14 in Chicago). CGI America convenes business, government, and civil society leaders each year to make commitments promoting domestic economic recovery and the long-term competitiveness of the United States. Since the meeting's launch, CGI America participants have made more than 200 new commitments, with an estimated value of more than $13.4 billion when fully funded and implemented. For more information, click here.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that the parent institution of the Measure of America project is the Social Research Council. The parent institution of the Measure of America project is the Social Science Research Council.


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Surgery is the main treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer, although it may depend on your individual circumstances.
Non-surgical treatments, such as freezing (cryotherapy), anti-cancer creams, photodynamic therapy (PDT), radiotherapy and electrochemotherapy, are also used in certain circumstances.
Overall, treatment is successful for at least 9 out of 10 people with non-melanoma skin cancer.
If you have skin cancer, your specialist care team may include a dermatologist, a plastic surgeon, a radiotherapy and chemotherapy specialist (an oncologist), a pathologist (a specialist in diseased tissue) and a specialist nurse.
If you have non-melanoma skin cancer, you may see several (or all) of these specialists as part of your treatment.
When deciding which treatment is best for you, doctors will consider:
- the type of cancer you have
- the stage of the cancer (its size and how far it's spread)
- your general health
Your cancer team will recommend what they think is the best treatment option, but the final decision will be yours.
Before visiting hospital to discuss your treatment options, you may find it useful to write a list of questions you'd like to ask.
For example, you may want to find out what the advantages and disadvantages are of particular treatments.
Surgical excision
Surgical excision is an operation to cut out the cancer along with surrounding healthy tissue to ensure the cancer is completely removed.
Surgical excision may be done in combination with a skin graft, which involves removing a patch of healthy skin, usually from a part of the body where any scarring cannot be seen, such as your neck, abdomen or upper thigh. It's then connected (grafted) to the affected area.
In most cases, surgery is enough to cure non-melanoma skin cancer.
Mohs micrographic surgery
Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is a specialist form of surgery used to treat non-melanoma skin cancers when:
- it's felt there's a high risk of the cancer spreading or returning
- the cancer is in an area where it would be important to remove as little skin as possible, such as the nose or close to the eyes
MMS involves surgical excision of the tumour and a small area of surrounding skin.
The edges are immediately checked under a microscope to make sure all the tumour has been completely removed.
If it has not, further surgery is done, usually on the same day. This minimises the removal of healthy tissue and reduces scarring while ensuring that the tumour has been completely removed.
Curettage and electrocautery
Curettage and electrocautery is a similar technique to surgical excision, but it's only suitable in cases where the cancer is quite small.
The surgeon will use a small spoon-shaped or circular blade to scrape off the cancer before burning (cauterising) the skin to remove any remaining cancer cells and seal the wound.
The procedure may need to be repeated 2 or 3 times to ensure the cancer is completely removed.
Cryotherapy uses cold treatment to destroy the cancer. It's sometimes used for non-melanoma skin cancers that are at an early stage.
Liquid nitrogen is used to freeze the cancer, and this causes the area to form a scab.
After about a month, the scab containing the cancer will fall off your skin. Cryotherapy may leave a small white scar on your skin.
Anti-cancer creams
Anti-cancer creams are also used for certain types of non-melanoma skin cancers, but are only recommended when the tumour is contained within the top layer of the skin, such as early basal cell carcinoma and Bowen's disease.
There are 2 main types of anti-cancer creams:
- chemotherapy creams – these contain a medicine called 5-fluorouracil
- immune stimulating creams – these contain a medicine called imiquimod
For non-melanoma skin cancer, chemotherapy creams containing 5-fluorouracil are used.
The cream is applied to the affected area for several weeks.
As only the surface of the skin is affected, you will not experience the side effects associated with other forms of chemotherapy, such as being sick or hair loss. However, your skin may feel sore for several weeks afterwards.
Immune stimulating creams containing imiquimod is used to treat basal cell carcinomas with a diameter of less than 2cm. It's also used to treat actinic keratoses and Bowen's disease.
Imiquimod encourages your immune system to attack the cancer in the skin and is used over several weeks.
Common side effects of 5-fluorouracil cream and imiquimod include redness, flaking or peeling skin and itchiness. Less common and more serious side effects include blistering or skin ulceration.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is used to treat basal cell carcinoma, Bowen's disease and actinic keratoses. It involves using a cream that makes the skin highly sensitive to light.
After the cream has been applied, a strong light source is shone on to the affected area of your skin, which kills the cancer.
PDT may cause a burning sensation and may leave scarring, although there is usually less scarring than with surgery.
Radiotherapy involves using low doses of radiation to destroy the cancer. The level of radiation involved is safe. However, your skin may feel sore for a few weeks after radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy is sometimes used to treat basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas if:
- surgery would not be suitable
- the cancer covers a large area
- the area is difficult to operate on
Radiotherapy is sometimes used after surgical excision to try to prevent the cancer coming back. This is called adjuvant radiotherapy.
Electrochemotherapy is a possible treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer.
It may be considered if:
- surgery is not suitable or has not worked
- radiotherapy and chemotherapy have not worked
The procedure involves giving chemotherapy into the tumour or sometimes directly into a vein (intravenously). Short, powerful pulses of electricity are then directed to the tumour using electrodes.
The electrical pulses allow the medicine to enter the tumour cells more effectively and cause more damage to the tumour.
The procedure is usually done using general anaesthetic, where you're unconscious, but some people may be able to have local anaesthetic, where you're conscious but the area being treated is numbed.
Depending on how many tumours need to be treated, the procedure can take up to an hour to complete.
The main side effect is pain where the electrode was used, which can last for a few days and may require painkillers.
It takes around 6 weeks for results to appear and the procedure usually needs to be repeated.
Your specialist can give you more detailed information about electrochemotherapy.
Page last reviewed: 6 January 2020
Next review due: 6 January 2023

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Once again, cast member Michael S. brings us another new cupcake on Disney property! This one's for all of you springtime strawberry lovers… and Grand Marnier lovers… 😉
A Strawberry Shortcake cupcake has joined the other new cupcakes at Boardwalk Bakery!
Yummo! Here's Michael's review:
The Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake was probably one of the lightest, most refreshing cupcakes I have had at Disney World. It is the perfect dessert or snack for a hot summer day.
The frosting had the light, fluffy consistency of whipped cream. At first glance you may wonder where the strawberries are, but once you cut it open you will find a generous portion of fresh, sweet, juicy strawberries and I was pleasantly surprised that they did not make the cupcake soggy.
When I ordered I noticed the sign indicated that the cupcake contains alcohol. When I asked about this I was told that the strawberries are drizzled with a little Grand Marnier. While the flavor of the Grand Marnier was certainly not overwhelming it did provide a little extra flavor to the cupcake and gave it just a little bit of a kick.
Overall, this cupcake is quite unlike many of the other cupcakes I have sampled at Disney World, presenting a nice contrast to the others that are heavy and rich. I will definitely be getting it again sometime soon.
Thanks Michael! Can't wait to see what else you find for us as you tour the World!


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(2) Teaseeds oil machineryDecoloring section: used to remove off pigments, bleaching oils and grease dehydrate.
(3) Teaseeds oil machineryDeodorizing section: to remove off the odor components in oil.
(4) Teaseeds oil machineryDewax: used to remove off the wax in the oil, in order to get the high quality oil.
(5) China Continuous and automatic sunflower oil making machineHeattransfer oil stove: supply each device production needing heat energy, temperature reach above 280°C.
(6) Teaseeds oil machinerySteam generator: produce the needing steam for de-odoring and distillation.
(7) China Continuous and automatic sunflower oil making machineVacuum pump: supply needing vacuum for dehydrate, de-color, de-odor. Vacuum degree can reach above 755mm Hg.
(8) Teaseeds oil machineryPress filter: filter clay, filter out clear oil.
(9) China Continuous and automatic sunflower oil making machineAir compressor: blow dry bleached clay, blow empty the leftover oil in the press filter.
sunflower seeds raw indicators:
1.1.1 odor, color: normal
2.1.2 Water content: ≤ 10%
3.1.3 trash content: ≤ 1.5%
3.1.4 Oil content: 40 ~ 55%
Process Description (Pictures for reference only to prevail in kind)
3.3.1 smell, taste: sunflower oil has inherent smell and taste, no smell
3.3.2 insoluble impurities (%) ≤ 0.20
3.3.3 peroxide value (mmol / kg) ≤ 7.5
3.3.4 moisture and volatile matter (%) ≤ 0.20
3.3.5 Acidity (KOH meter) (mg / g) ≤ 4.0
3.3.6 solvent residue (mg / g) ≤ 100
Process Description (Pictures for reference only to prevail in kind)
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Cleaning sieve shaker and scales commonly used flat screen, the screen surface means for reciprocating movement at work, high cleaning efficiency, reliable structure from the feed mechanism, sieve, sieve, sieve surface cleaning mechanism, vibration mechanism, transmission institution, dust suction mechanism and other components, the feed mechanism on the human role is to ensure the entire surface of the screen on the screen uniform and stable stream, the structure of the feed hopper, the suction pressure duct doors and other components imported.
This machine use sunflower alongside stone gravity and suspension help speed up the different physical properties of the material through the sunflower airflow gap teeth, prompting oil and alongside stone grading, alongside other heavy impurities in the stone lower in reciprocation for directional tilt Next to the stone effect, to the stone side running, floating on top of the oil under its own weight, to the discharge end outflow, thus bringing together the stone separated from the sunflower, the local structure tight, dust-proof effect, to stone rate characteristics.
Broken purpose, the large grain crushing sunflower seeds into a small particle size, in order to facilitate flaking, makes fat cell destruction, for the pre-conditions to squeeze oil higher offer, with alloy Roll, long 1 times more than ordinary roll life, broken even, automatic hydraulic tight roller system, machine sealing effect.
Flaking of the object, the crushed sunflower tissue, so that the grease can be smoothly separated from the roll with the alloy, times longer than an ordinary roll life, tight roll automatic hydraulic systems to ensure a uniform rolled flakes Bohou (≤ 0.3mm ), machine sealing effect.
Steamed fried
Using layer-style cooking and stirring wings from each pot maximum spacing 5 mm, to avoid turning the temporary oil pot is uneven, the overall pot sealed to keep the space above the material embryo has the largest humidity, can feed the embryo steam through steamed uniform.
Oil pressing
Mature domestic sunflower dedicated pre-press machine ZY24 type, machine pressed cake residual oil at about 10% to 18%, the biggest feature is a machine pre-press, press, low energy consumption, small footprint, is the sunflower pre-press first.
Automatic slag filter, manual cleaning cloth to avoid trouble, high efficiency, filter diesel automatic back,pressed, the station is also equipped with fold clarify slag machine, make sure the amount of residualcrude oil greaves least degumming process to ensure follow-up results.
Conveying Equipment
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Technical Highlights
1, continuous mechanization to reduce human labor, reducing labor costs;
2,more advanced dust removal system to ensure that the workshop neat and clean, while reducing dust emissions;
3, All mechanical transmission equipment using oil-specific configuration, long life and reliable operation.
cake production line extraction process indicators
raw indicators:
1.1.1 sensory traits: brown, tile-like, small flakes or pie. Oil flavor, without fermentation, mildew, caking and odor smell.
1.1.2 Moisture content shall not exceed: ≤ 12%
1.1.3 trash content: ≤ 0.05%
1.1.4 Oil content: 5 to 18%
1.1.5 Powder degree: ≤ 2%
leaching process
Cake through the feed conveyor, into the extractor, extractor material in the mouth by a running feed spout week, between the inlet and outlet port for spray oil mixed with diminishing concentration, before entering the drain section, then by fresh solvent spray, drain wet meal after discharge from the extractor feeder cells discharged from the dial into the wet cake scraper. Concentrated oil from the mixture of the rich mixture into the twostage pump hydrocyclone powder after removing the impurities into the mixing tank;
Steamed off process
Extractor containing dissolved out of the wet cake is fed by a wet cake scraper delamination DTC pre-steaming through off the wind off the bottom with indirect steam heating, removing part of the solvent; off after the pre-meal into the steaming wet delamination steamed delamination set automatic control to maintain a certain material layer, bottom pass into direct steam, stripped of all solvent, while some steam condenses meal, the meal will be part of the water rises. Desolventizing meal by the layers of material position level control layers, drying layer to maintain a certain material level, water drying process to finally control the material by an automatic feeding door, and then into the database by the meal meal scraper.
Removing solvent from the solvent out of the top of the machine and the mixed vapor of water vapor, after the solvent trap, condenser cooling into recycling.
sunflower oil refining production line process indicators
1.1.0 refined sunflower oil quality indicators
1.1.1 Lovibond slot (25.4mm) yellow red ≤ 3.0 ≤ 35
1.1.2 smell, taste: sunflower oil has inherent smell and taste, no smell
1.1.3 moisture and volatile matter (%) ≤ 0.10
1.1.4 insoluble impurities (%) ≤ 0.05
1.1.5 peroxide value (mmol / kg) ≤ 7.5
1.1.6 Heating test (280 ℃) no precipitation, Lovibond color: yellow value unchanged, increasing red value is less than 0.4
1.1.7 the amount of soap-containing (%) ≤ 0.03
1.1.8 residual solvent oil extraction / crushing oil: ≤ 50 / not detected
1.1.9 Acidity (KOH meter) (mg / g) ≤ 1.0
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Project Gekkako is now up and running. With only a few remaining members of Tsukikage left, will they be able to save everyone or fail as others before them?
The spyce must flow when Momo unknowingly observes Tsukikage on a mission. What will this mean for her confidence and desire to become a police officer?
It's one thing to WANT to join a secret intelligence organization, but a completely different matter to pass initiation! Good luck, Momo, you're gonna need it!
All Momo wants is Yuki's approval, but her mistakes nearly botch Tsukikage's missions! Is she really cut out for this role or will experience come with time?
As an apprentice, Fu owes a lot to Tsukikage, especially to Mei. How far is Fu willing push herself and what can Mei do about it?
Momo's dedication to the cause negatively impacts her personal life. Meanwhile, the Moryo organization establishes a new affiliate to lure Tsukikage out into the open.
Humanity can be cruel. Two friends were torn apart and forced down divergent paths. One joined Tsukikage, and the other joined Moryo. What happens when they reunite?
Theresia continues her investigation into Hatsume's ties to Tsukikage. Hatsume attempts to rekindle her old friendship with the Moryo agent but where will this leave Goe?
Tsukikage travels to Okinawa and discovers that their contact, The Shisa, have been wiped out by the Nirai Kanai. Meanwhile, Goe bonds with a girl claiming to be a Viking.
All members of Tsukikage had mentors at some point. Yuki tells Momo the story of her own mentor, a girl known as Nagaho. Whatever happened to her?
All things must end, and that includes Moryo's reign of terror. The countdown begins while Tsukikage has a heart-to-heart. They prepare to take down Moryo once and for all.
It was a trap! With the traitor revealed and Tsukikage decimated, Moryo's ambitions now stand unopposed. However, it is always the darkest before the dawn...
Project Gekkako is now up and running. With only a few remaining members of Tsukikage left, will they be able to save everyone or fail as others before them?


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Review by The Enthusiast
No list of ignored and unloved eighties properties is complete without Remco's unfortunately-named Mantech. Yikes. Mantech. Mantech was like a beautiful candle which burned very bright, yet all too briefly. Except the flame was kind of stupid looking. And not terribly fun to play with. But funky! A funky flame! Remco was at sea in the mid eighties, Like fellow sixties stalwart Ideal, Remco was desperate to remain relevant in the midst of a modern action-figure explosion. Mantech, like Ideal's woeful Robo Force, was a quaintly inept attempt to tap into the robo-zeitgeist. I want you to imagine these things on a shelf next to, I dunno, Return of the Jedi toys and Transformers. Mantech never had a chance.
The principal figures, organized into good and evil teams, were cyborgs. There was of course a bland storyline best left un-summarized. Good Guys:
Bad Guys:
Mantech's gimmick was interchangeability. Interchangeability is good. I love Microman, so this should be good, right? Ehh. While these figures certainly come apart in a modular fashion, the results are less than exciting. All of the components are just too similar. All of the lower legs are subtle variations on chunky boots, all of the arms are subtle variations on chunky arms. All of the weapons are similarly anonymous.
But look, different colors!
The masks show a little promise, though.
Of special note are the soft rubber heads. While lame in the context of contemporaneous toys, I find them charming. The good guys are winningly multi-ethnic, and the bad guys have a great proto-Borg quality.
All of the figures share a clumsy stature which never looks exactly right. The stocky legs are off, and they don't even work. You can pose the arms and twist the head, but the legs are essentially static. Just balancing the figures in a standing position can be difficult.
The plastic used throughout somehow manages to be both rubbery and brittle. Most Mantech lots on eBay are littered with broken limbs. The nubs at the ends are particularly fragile. Mantech is purely for eighties fetishists. There is little to recommend them other than a certain wistful half-memory of a failed anachronism.
|Posted 15 January, 2011 - 17:04 by The Enthusiast
Comments6 comments posted
Never heard of these guys. Interesting failure.
Aw man, I woulda loved those back in the day! Never heard of them, but that's a BADASS name! MANtech! Yeah! Those suits are probably made for wrestling bears.
mantech... I'm in love.
Mantech was far and away one of my favorite toylines in the 80's. Heh...I only had *one*, but I loved the crap outta that lil dude! Back when Glyos was still largely unknown, Matt Doughty and I would wax poetic about the greatest scifi toylines ever, and this one always came up. If ya think about it, these really are just 7" Glyos figures!
The criticisms are legit, though: the interchangeability is the main gimmick of the line...BUT with all the parts being so similar, it's a tad lame. But then again, Glyos started with just two sculpts for the longest time...in a myriad of different colors! ;)
The best arrangement, though, was sticking another pair of arms onto the shoulders of the arms already on there. You could make a pretty sweet four-armed dude that way!
My favorite feature, however, was the helmets. For some reason, the wild sculpted detail on those helmets really impacted me as a kid. The over-wrought angular "tech" look was SO 80's...but just having a removable helmet was really sweet for some reason. Guess that's why I loved M.A.S.K. toys so much, too!
Oh, Josh, just one minor thing: the purple bad guy is actually "Negatech" (not Nagatech)...guess he's a real Debbie Downer. ;)
I had Solartech, got him at Pic n' Save for a dollar, best dollar I spent on a toy.
While these were interesting and had some good funk, the Centurions line by Tonka stole the thunder from this line with all around better toys and some great vehicle ideas. Later on these would be called ghetto Centurions, but like Gobots vs Transformers - they came before and were fun for other reasons than detail.
...should be used as the photo-description in the dictionary for the definition of the word "funk"
Thanks for reminding me of these haven't thought about the MAN in a while ;)


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Just a couple of important points before the rules:
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5) Racism, Sexism, Sexual slams, name calling, cursing, etc posts will be deleted.
Any of these actions are grounds for banning.
These are just a few points that should be very clear from the beginning.
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Mobile Warming Classic Softshell Jacket For Women
- Windshark® 4-way stretch highly breathable, waterproof fabric
- Three heating panels lined with steel alloy fiber elements
- Optimum placement with two panels on the chest and one on the back
- Includes one 7.4V 2.2Ah rechargeable lithium-ion battery and charger
- Battery features built-in four-level thermo-regulating controls
- Provides up to ten hours of comfortable warmth
- Reaches a maximum surface temperature of 135° at full power
- Adjustable hem draw cord
Technical product information can be found here
The Mobile Warming Owner's Manual can be found here
Check out these similar products:
Sizing Information
Mobile Warming has provided the following sizing info:
|Jacket Size
|Dress Size
|Chest Size in Inches
|32.5 to 35
|35.5 to 37
|38 to 39.5
|41.5 to 42
|Plus 14 to 16
|42 to 44
|Plus 18-20
|46 to 48
|Plus 22-24
|50 to 52
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Our Two Cents
Mobile Warming® was designed with outdoor enthusiasts in mind; the range of applications is widespread including motorcycling, skiing, hunting, hiking, fishing, and just everyday use (I wish I would have had one last time I was at a football game and my seat was located in the shady side of the stadium). Mobile Warming's breakthrough technology gives unprecedented heating and warmth for an entire day at the touch of a button exceeding the heat transmitted by any other form of insulation available in outerwear today. It's designed to work as a base layer under a rider's motorcycle jacket, and is powered by a portable rechargeable battery power supply. Fully charged it can offer up to 10 hours of warmth to the rider with continued use. The battery takes just 2-3 hours for a full charge. Both battery and charger are included and very easy to operate. There are lots of good heated gear choices out there which require that you hook up to your bike's battery, but this line is unique in that it's operated with a rechargeable battery. Will the Mobile Warming gear provide as much warmth? Probably not quite as much as the heating elements don't run throughout the garment but are located in two zones on the upper chest and one on the upper back. On the other hand, the other heated gear lines that I've seen feel more like you're wearing an electric blanket and this jacket is very comfortable to wear. The heated zones on the chest and back do provide a lot of warmth and it felt like the heat spread throughout the torso. Another thing I really like about this jacket is how nice it looks on its own, Holly really liked how it fit and felt like she could easily wear it off the bike. There are two zippered hand-warmer pockets and one zippered chest pocket so there is a fair amount of storage space. The sleeves have a cuff with an opening for your thumb so it's easy to put this on under a motorcycle jacket; it also has a built in gaiter on the sleeve to keep wind from blowing up your arms. The collar, sleeves and lower back are lined in microfleece, which feels nice and soft against the skin. Overall, I have to say I'm really impressed with the quality, fit and finish on this jacket and think it'll be a good addition to a rider's gear; it will definitely extend your riding season past the time when you normally might have put the bike away until spring. Please be sure and read the technical info before using the first time so that you get maximum enjoyment out of the garment. :: Paul, 11-08-11


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Just the other day I listed my recent book purchases and it is already out of date. On Sunday I headed down to Washington, D.C. to assist Marisa with a canning demo at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market. The demo lasted for a couple hours, and while I enjoy supporting my lovely wife she didn't need me lurking about the entire time.
Luckily, there were bookstores to checkout in the very near vicinity.
It would seem that Kramersbooks is an institution in DC, and one that I had been hoping to visit for some time. A while back I happened to be in DC for a week attending some training. During the evening I would rush back to my hotel and work on a book I was writing at the time, but I plotted taking some time off to explore this lovely bookstore. Finally, the day I had decide to visit Kramerbooks was upon me. I had finished my training for the day, and stopped by my hotel to unload some stuff. Just as I was putting my bag down a terrific downpour started and lasted the entire evening. Needless to say I stayed in, and the bookstore had to wait until last weekend.
I bought three books:
Second Story Books
I hastened back with my new books and was alerted to the fact that Second Story Books, a used bookstore, was just across the street from the Farmers market. I headed over and bought:


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Research Farm Laborer in Kaysville, UT
Utah State UniversityFarm Jobs in Utah • Agriculture Research Jobs • Fruit Farm Jobs
USU Land Acknowledgment
Executive Director of the Office of Equity Matthew Pinner, [email protected], Distance Education Rm. 401, 435-797-1266
Job Description
Seasonal labor helping in efforts on the Kaysville Research Farm primarily in apple, peach, and cherry orchards.
- Help maintain research orchards- this may include removing rootsuckers, hoeing weeds, watering, summer pruning, etc.
- Help in harvest efforts- this includes hand thinning fruit in the early portion of the season, as well as harvesting mature fruit later in the season.
- Help in data collection efforts- this may include measuring growth of trees, recording harvest counts, weights, and quality measures, assessing effects of chemical treatments, etc.
- Must be 16 years or older and able to drive.
- Must be able to work outdoors in warm or otherwise inclement weather.
- Must be able to work productively without direct supervision.
Required Documents:
Along with the online application, please attach:
- Resume/CV to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under "Resume/CV"
**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**
Advertised Salary: $10.00 – $15.00 per hour ADA:
The environment and physical requirements may change depending on the specific function of the work each department performs. Incumbents may be in both indoor and outdoor environments. Indoors, in an office space, event space, or public space are protected from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes. Incumbents may nearly continuously sit and often use repetitive hand motion (such as typing).
Outdoors, incumbents may not be protected from weather conditions and may be exposed to extreme heat and extreme cold. Additionally, indoor or outdoor work environments may include being confined or in narrow spaces for periods of time. The incumbent may also be exposed to loud noises or vibrations from equipment, and conditions that may affect the respiratory system, such as fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, and poor ventilation. Bending, crawling, and crouching may be required. Incumbents may be required to lift, push, and/or pull objects up to 50 pounds and be required to walk and/or stand for long periods of time.
University Highlights:
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North Dakota Voters Sidestep Controversies
North Dakota voters shied away from several controversies at the polls Tuesday (June 12), including bids to eliminate property taxes, to prevent the University of North Dakota from dropping its "Fighting Sioux" nickname and to strengthen protections for people who claim government actions violate their religious beliefs.
North Dakota was one of several states to hold primaries, including Maine, Nevada and South Carolina, which also featured intraparty fights, often between incumbents, as lawmakers ran in newly drawn districts.
In North Dakota, the hotly debated ballot measures all appeared early Wedenesday morning to be decided by lopsided margins.
Voters decisively defeated an effort to make North Dakota the first state to abolish all property taxes. The grassroots effort to remove the foundation of local government funding never gained widespread support, especially because it was opposed by virtually the entire political establishment of the state, from the union of state workers to the Chamber of Commerce. Opponents said the shift would greatly reduce local control of schools and municipalities.
Tuesday's vote to allow the Fighting Sioux nickname to be retired was the culmination of more than five years of wrangling over the moniker. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ordered the university to change the name, which long offended some American Indian groups. The NCAA threatened to ban the use of UND's nickname and logo during postseason sports tournaments and block the school from hosting such tournaments. Reluctantly, the school and state lawmakers acquiesced.
The ballot question was an effort to reverse that course. Even with its defeat, though, voters may address the issue again in November, notes The Associated Press. The group backing the nickname says it wants to amend the state constitution in this fall's election to keep the name.
A proposal backed by the Catholic Church to protect "religious liberty" also met defeat. The proposal would have required governments to make policies that imposed the least "burden" on residents' religious beliefs. Critics claimed the measure was vaguely worded and could lead to needless lawsuits.
In South Carolina, candidates who were booted from the ballot by recent court rulings came out to polling places to try to get signatures to try to qualify for another run in November. Republican Governor Nikki Haley signed some of the petitions, because, she said on her Facebook page, "the process is better served when voters have a choice about who represents them."
In all, 248 challengers for state legislative and local offices were stricken from the ballot on a technicality, while incumbents were left unscathed. As a result, one out of six South Carolina voters had nothing to vote on, according to The State. Turnout Tuesday was extremely low, but the longest-serving member of the state House lost to a fellow lawmaker.
In Nevada, liberal Democrats won a major victory by ousting an incumbent state senator, writes the Las Vegas Sun. Senator John Lee had the backing of local powerhouse, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, but Lee had angered environmentalists and other liberal groups.
Democrats control the upper chamber in Carson City 11-10, making even small changes in membership significant. The Republican caucus in recent years has been plagued by constant in-fighting between conservatives and moderates. "This was the first time in memory," the Sun writes, "that Nevada progressives have taken on an incumbent lawmaker."
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What is there to do? Heed the warnings about fossil fuels and related greenhouse gases, of course. Unless it's too late. In which case, what am I worrying about?
Generally, this is one of those problems that seems so vast, so beyond human comprehension, let alone intervention, that it easily falls into the background. Oh, well. We did our best, and now desertification is turning California into a long, coastal Palm Springs. Too bad.
In my first full-time job, I was a science writer for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Having absolutely no technical or scientific abilities, my role was observer, outsider. I came to respect the scientists enormously. To advance in theoretical physics, I learned, requires fluency in five or six languages. Somehow, many physicists had energy left over to dabble in rock climbing or playing the violin. All I could do in their presence was listen and learn.
It was a struggle to read the journals, Science and Nature. I understood a little of scientific publications, but mostly got the general hang of the discipline. Research is a matter of endless disputation, a lifelong Socratic dialogue. The trick, for a layperson, is to see where the argument is trending. Unfortunately, with our climate, it's been trending the wrong way for decades.
Which is why on a Sunday morning when I call Caroline, one of my British cousins, to have a chat...I carefully steer the conversation away from climate change. She's an MD, my cousin, and should know how to read scientific reportage. Still, she is a skeptic on the topic of global warming. Nevermind that the disastrous impact is currently on full display in the UK. This includes nearby Gloucester, where unprecedented hurricanes have collided with tides in the Severn estuary...flooding villages, overflowing sewage plants. Anthropogenic climate change? It's happening around the world. My cousin isn't buying it. Problem is, I'm not selling it. No one is. It's just there.


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"Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit" Featured on Connecting Point
Connecting Point Features "Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit"
Thank you to Dave Fraser from WGBY Public Television's Connecting Point for traveling to Worthington, MA for a feature on Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit which aired on Jan 17th, 2012:
In 2011 the exhibit was on display in seven different locations through out the region.
In 2012 the show started out the year in Worthington for the first two months, will be moving the Treehouse in Pittsfield for the month of June, will be inviting local artists to join the show in Cummington in July, the Westhampton Library will host in August, and the Quarry Cafe gallery at River Valley Market Co-Op will host in November. All are great opportunities to showcase photographs from the region in community gathering spaces.
All images in the exhibit are for sale and are a fundraiser for Hilltown Families. All net proceeds from the sale of images will benefit the organization. Contact us to inquire about hosting this fundraising exhibit for Hilltown Families in your town/venue.
"Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit" is supported in part by grants from local Cultural Councils in Ashfield, Buckland, Chesterfield, Cummington, Westhampton and Worthington — all local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.


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The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market.
That's the conclusion of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, whose founder Michael Liebreich estimated that clean energy will reap 86 percent of the $10.2 trillion lik
In a presentation to the research group's conference in London on Tuesday, Liebreich said technology that's slashing the costs of wind and solar farms makes it inevitable that clean energy will become more economical than fossil fuels for utilities in many places. The most visible advance is in the scale of wind turbines, highlighted by the chart below.
When it started collecting data in earnest in 2004, BNEF already could see a trend toward bigger machines in the wind industry that deliver more spark to the grid. The scale of those turbines will grow with models planned by Siemens AG and Vestas Wind Systems A/S that already are delivering ones with wing spans bigger than the Airbus A380 double-decker jetliner.
"One of the reasons those offshore wind costs have come down to be competitive without subsidies is because these turbines are absolute monsters," Liebreich said. "Imagine a turbine with a tip height that's higher than The Shard.''
The same process of producing more electricity for a lower cost is making photovoltaics cheaper. Liebreich predicted two "tipping points" where the cost of renewables will make power generation fueled by natural gas and coal increasingly unattractive.
"The first is when new wind and solar become cheaper than anything else," Liebreich said. The slide below from his presentation indicates that in Japan by 2025 it will be cheaper to build a new PV plant than a coal-fired power generator. That milestone will be passed in India for wind power by 2030.
"At that point, anything you have to retire is likely to be replaced by wind and solar," Liebreich said. "That tipping point is either here or almost here everywhere in the world."
The second tipping point, a little further off, is when it's more costly to operate existing coal and gas plants than to take power from wind and solar. The chart below, from BNEF forecasts, indicates that point may arrive in the middle of the next decade in both Germany and China.
Because energy costs vary widely from country to country, it's difficult to make firm conclusions about when renewables might be able to overtake fossil fuels on the grid. For example, Brazil relies heavily on hydroelectric dams and France on its nuclear reactors — technologies in much lower use in most other places.
For Liebreich, the economics of wind and solar are becoming compelling enough that it's unlikely coal be able to hold onto its dominant position in the global power mix no matter what incentives President Donald Trump implements in the U.S.
"This is going to happen," Liebreich said. "Coal is declining in the U.S. Nobody is going to make coal great again."