Lilacflows

MY PENTAX CAMERA

April 20, 2024

Good Morning, Beautiful. Well the sun is shining on our glorious city #YGK. I’d like to say how much fun I am having building my website. Sure is challenging to be happy. There is always one more thing to do to get it working. I love playing with the colours and fonts and the general look of it. That’s the artist in me, always trying to make things look sweeter. Here, let me add a photo from my Pentax below.

Our Street

This is the picture of our street on January 1, 2024. The trouble is it’s a bit fuzzy. It is fuzzy because I have to make it about 600K for uploading to the site lilacflows.com, and the images come out of the camera at about 3Meg. I am still in the process of refining the exact procedure for the reduction process using Automator. I have the photos coming out too small at around 70K and will increase 10X to 700K. Should make a difference. We will see. Below is a picture of my fine camera.

I bought it during the last year of my undergrad around 2007…

Now, back to uploading new photos to this website. First, remove the memory card from my DSLR Pentax K100 D Super and place it into the slot on my little media hub. Then, ask the Automator to resize all the images from the last few days. I will perfect this process as the year moves on.

That’s it for today, friends. See you tomorrow!

TIDY UP

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

At a certain point in life, one realizes it is time to tidy up one’s mess. I am not sure when I fully began to take responsibility for everything in my life, but it is recent.

Unemployment rate for people with a disability changes little, at 7.2%, in 2023

In the US the U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS says in 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed, compared with 65.8 percent of those without a disability. The unemployment rate for people with a disability (7.2 percent) was little changed in 2023. The rate for people without a disability (3.5 percent) was unchanged.

In Canada, the data is from 2022.

“Highlights

In 2022, the employment rate for those aged 16 to 64 with disabilities was 65.1%, compared with 80.1% for those without disabilities. The employment rate for persons with disabilities varied by the severity of the disability. Those with a severe disability were employed at a rate of 50.4% and those with a very severe disability were employed at a rate of 26.8%.

In 2022, the unemployment rate for persons aged 16 to 64 with disabilities was 6.9%. The rate was nearly twice as high as for persons in the same age group without disabilities (3.8%). The unemployment rate for persons with disabilities was higher than for persons without disabilities among both women and men.

Persons with disabilities were more likely to work in the public sector than those without disabilities (24.2% of employed persons with disabilities were employed in the public sector, compared with 21.0% of those without disabilities) and to be self-employed (13.0% of those with disabilities, compared with 11.4% of those without disabilities).

Median hourly wages for persons with disabilities ($26.00) were 5.5% less than for those without disabilities ($27.50) in 2022.

These findings are from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and its supplement program, which for the first time in 2022, collected information for the 12 months of the year on persons with disabilities.”