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[paininmyassachusetts]

My room is 58°f hehehe

[baulandscape-blog]

#define MAX_OCTAVES 8 uniform vec2 u_resolution; float map(float value,float min1,float max1,float min2,float max2){ return min2+(value-min1)*(max2-min2)/(max1-min1); } float random(in vec2 st){ return fract(sin(dot(st.xy,vec2(12.9898,78.233)))*43758.5453123); } float noise(in vec2 st){ vec2 i=floor(st); vec2 f=fract(st); float a=random(i); float b=random(i+vec2(1.,.0)); float c=random(i+vec2(.0,1.)); float d=random(i+vec2(1.,1.)); vec2 u=f*f*(3.-2.*f); return mix(a,b,u.x)+(c-a)*u.y*(1.-u.x)+(d-b)*u.x*u.y; } float fbm(in vec2 n,in int octaves,in float l){ float v=.0; float lacunarity=2.; float a=.5; n*=l; for(int i=0;i=octaves){break;} v+=a*noise(n); n*=lacunarity; a*=.5; } return v; } float plot(vec2 st,float pct){ return 1.-smoothstep(pct,pct+.005,st.y); } void main(){ vec2 st=gl_FragCoord.xy/u_resolution.xy; st.x*=u_resolution.x/u_resolution.y; float m=st.x*.5+.5; vec3 colorA=vec3(0.22,1.00,0.83); vec3 colorB=vec3(0.08,0.60,1.00); vec3 color=vec3(0.28,0.80,1.00); float y; float pct; float scaleFact; vec2 coords=vec2(49.633888,63.498058); float i; for(float i=3.0;i>0.;i--){ scaleFact=(3.0+i)/i*.25; y=scaleFact*m*(fbm(5.*(m+pow(coords.x,random(coords)))+.001*coords,int(map(i,.0,3.0,5.,7.)),.4/scaleFact)-.5)+(i-1.)*3./(3.0+i); pct=plot(st,y); color=mix(color,vec3(map(i,.0,3.0,colorA.r,colorB.r),map(i,.0,3.0,colorA.g,colorB.g),map(i,.0,3.0,colorA.b,colorB.b)),pct); } gl_FragColor=vec4(color,1.); }

[autisticadvocacy]

The Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania is calling for systemic changes in how people with disabilities are employed. The group’s board of directors issued a white paper Friday calling for the elimination of subminimum wages paid to workers with disabilities and for a ban on creating new sheltered workshops.

[autisticadvocacy]

Disability policy is full of examples of yesterday's innovation becoming today's indignation. As my friend Anne Donnellan once put it, "The mark of anyone good in disability service-provision is th...

[autisticadvocacy]

Hello!

I am writing to urge you to include workers with disabilities, including those now making less than minimum wage under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, in the President’s forthcoming executive order on a $10.10/hour minimum wage for government contractors. I am the Black mother of an autistic, nonspeaking son. I lived through a time in American history when my race was used as a reason to give me less than a living wage while coworkers who were white were paid much more. To live now and realize my son will become a man only to remain in poverty is too painful to believe. I doubt any of you will read this open letter. But if you do, imagine being me, and thousands of mother's like me, of all races and ethnic backgrounds. Our children deserve better than what I was subjected to. Their disabilities, like my race, should not be an excuse to bar them from equal pay for equal work.

Sincerely

Mrs, Kerima Cevik

Proud mother of Mustafa, 11, Autistic

Thank you Kerima for this excellent open letter. I hope that more people do the same. 

[autisticadvocacy]

Disabled groups press Obama on minimum wage order

WASHINGTON- €”With President Obama expected to sign an executive order any day now to raise the minimum wage on new federal contracts, advocates for the physically and intellectually disabled are pressing the White House to include the group among those getting raises.

[autisticadvocacy]

Left Behind By Obama’s Call For A Higher Minimum Wage

A section of the Fair Labor Standards Act allows employers to pay their disabled employees subminimum wages. Advocates say it's time to change that.

[autisticadvocacy]

Workers with disabilities deserve the same protections as workers without disabilities. That is why Change to Win and the Good Jobs Nation campaign are proud to urge President Obama and Secretary Perez to include workers with disabilities in their forthcoming landmark executive order requiring a $10.10/hour minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. Change to Win is proud to stand with all low wage workers fighting to improve their circumstances.  As the White House and Department of Labor work to prepare the details of the executive order, we wish to strongly state our support for the full inclusion of workers with disabilities, including those today being paid drastically less than minimum wage, in the executive order.