As you may of noticed, we have a box for the annual food drive at the front of the gym. We greatly appreciate all and any food item, and are very grateful for the items already donated.
That being said, I (Bill) would like to some more real food items this year instead of the less nutritious food items that are common with food drives (i.e. kraft dinner, candy, cereal). Remember, people that need some assistance with food still would like to have nutritious choices to feed their families as well. The items I listed below are actually the best bang for your buck in regards to providing the most nutrient dense calories.
Lets submit the most nutrient dense food donation the drive has ever seen!


The fixed systems for gas detection in the industry in general are systems that are basically composed of a set of elements that allows the detection and sending of a specific gas signal. These systems have 2 fundamental parts: the sensor which detects the gas and the transmitter which interprets the signal and allows it to be carried to other devices to control a process or to have information on the value of the variable that is being measured. These systems can include from 1 monitoring point to hundreds of points which can be integrated in dedicated controllers for this purpose where the concentrations and alarms can be reported. These fixed systems can integrate transmitters and sensors of different types and with different measurement principles, all connected to a controller or central unit where the signal of each measurement point arrives, in this way the alarms are in real time and the presence of some unwanted gas is alerted. Likewise these controllers allow the connection of signals to other centralized control systems or elements such as PLC, also by means of relays they allow to generate a specific action when there is a special concentration condition of the target gas.
Set to change the game in refinery application, Titan is the first truly selective benzene monitor on the market.
The EC 22 Series Transmitters are innovative and cost-effective transmitters for the detection of non-combustible toxic gases or oxygen (O2) levels, but without the need for explosion protection.


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Q: Defining FomGroup using object definitions Is it possible natively to define a ReactiveForm group using object definitions instead of defining directly in the component?
I meam, instead:
formEdit = this.fb.group({
  id: [null],
  userName: [{ value: null, disabled: true }],
  email: [null, Validators.required],
  name: [null, Validators.required],
  nickName: [null, Validators.required]
});

use something like:
formEdit = this.fb.group(User);

and in the User class, I decorate its properties accordingly.
update
It will be nice to define decorators in the User class, like this:
export class User {
    @required
    @disabled
    userName: string;

    @required
    @minValue(0)
    @maxValue(100)
    price: number;

   ...

}

A: I think what you're looking for is Dynamic Forms in Angular.
According to the Angular Guide:

Building handcrafted forms can be costly and time-consuming, especially if you need a great number of them, they're similar to each other, and they change frequently to meet rapidly changing business and regulatory requirements.
It may be more economical to create the forms dynamically, based on metadata that describes the business object model.

You'll have to do some initial setup which could be time-consuming. But once that is taken care of, the creation of forms is pretty straight-forward.
The documentation that is linked above has a great guide and use-cases where building a dynamic form would make sense.
UPDATE:
If you don't want to change your Template, then you'll have to create a method that could generate the FormGroup for you based on the configuration that you provide. But again, this will require a configuration instead of a POJO.
If you're still interested, you can get a start here:
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { FormGroup, FormControl, Validators, FormArray } from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: [ './app.component.css' ]
})
export class AppComponent  {
  name = 'Angular';

  sampleObject = {
    id: { value: null },
    userName: { value: null, disabled: true },
    email: { value: null, validators: [Validators.required] },
    name: { value: null, validators: [Validators.required] },
    nickName: { value: null, validators: [Validators.required] }
  };

  formGroup: FormGroup;

  ngOnInit() {
    this.formGroup = new FormGroup(this.createFormGroup(this.sampleObject));
    console.log(this.formGroup);
  }

  private createFormGroup(config) {
    const group = {};
    for(let key in config) {
      const itemConfig = config[key];
      group[key] = new FormControl(itemConfig.value, itemConfig.validators);
    }
    return group;
  }

}

NOTE: This won't work in all the scenarios. If you want it to work in all cases, you'll have to improve the createFormGroup method accordingly.

Here's a Working Sample StackBlitz for your ref.

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The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) opened on Monday, October 1, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland. This weeklong series of discussions will focus on global progress that has been made in the fight against tobacco. The FCTC, a treaty that has 168 signatories, entered into force in 2005 after it had been acceded to, ratified, accepted, or approved by 40 Member States.
Participants of the COP8, including delegates from 181 Member States, are also expected to advocate for more widespread implementation of tobacco control measures, including plain packaging, terrifyingly gruesome images on tobacco product packages, higher taxes on tobacco products, advertising bans, and smoking bans in public spaces. Delegates will also consider extending tobacco control policies to cover tobacco harm reduction products (THRPs) such as e-cigarettes and snus – even though "harm reduction" is actually part of the FCTC's official definition of "tobacco control," as per its Article 1(d).
I am cautiously pessimistic about COP8, but I am also excited about this event for several reasons. One of them is the publication on October 2, 2018, of No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR) 2018 i, a well-researched paper on the current state and future potential of tobacco harm reduction. The GSTHR report was authored by the UK-based nonprofit, Knowledge Action Change (K.A.C.). I believe that history will eventually see that acknowledgement of tobacco harm reduction strategies is an important step on the path toward "an end to the age of smoking." I'm hopeful about this report, which covers the public health community's response to "harm reduction." The GSTHR report reviews the continuing global epidemic of cigarette smoking, the current evidence supporting safer nicotine products, consumer needs and health outcomes, as well as regulatory and control issues.
The International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO), which represents 36 member organizations in 33 countries, will also be present at the COP8. The organization, which advocates for the interests of 50 million users of THRPs, is a strong proponent for their use. INNCO's Secretariat and Board, along with the leaders of its growing member organizations, will no doubt be presenting evidence on tobacco harm reduction, especially following its recent public letter to the WHO. In that correspondence, INNCO appealed to the agency, asking them to reject prohibition of THRPs and acknowledge risk-proportionate regulation of tobacco and nicotine products that do not involve combustion, as part of an effective harm reduction strategy.
THRPs include "vaporizers" (now the preferred term for e-cigarettes) and/or "snus," a smokeless tobacco product that is also considerably less harmful than cigarettes. Snus originated in Sweden, the only country in the EU that enjoys an exemption from the prohibition of the use and sale of snus, pursuant to Article 151 of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden. Sweden now has the lowest smoking and smoking-related disease rates in Europe.
Since COP7, more and more countries have embraced tobacco harm reduction as part of their national tobacco control strategies, while others have outright banned THRPs. In time, we will see which of these strategies has been most successful in reducing smoking rates and tobacco-related diseases. Unfortunately, too much time. Let us hope that COP9 will adopt a more inclusive and rational approach to harm reduction.
i The conception, design, analysis, and writing of No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018 was undertaken by Knowledge Action Change (K.A.C.), a private sector public health agency, and supported solely by a grant from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The Foundation played no part in determining the content, analysis, or conclusions in the report and provided input only at the initial concept stage.


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Q: Wiggling connector receptacle housing causes CAN signal dropout? I am currently using a 4pin molex Microlock 1.25mm connector that has a CAN connection as well as a power connection.
pin 1 = power
pin 2 = ground
pin 3 = CAN_H
pin 4 = CAN_L
We recently discovered an issue where if you wiggle the cable that is connected to the board connector, we can cause the CAN data to stop streaming (seems like a disconnection), we also see ESI hardware errors on the CAN packets we receive right before they stop streaming.
The interesting part is that the power and ground connections never drop as we have verified power passes through no matter what we do to the cable.
We are using CAN-FD at a bit rate of 5 Mpbs so it is definitely not a slow-speed data signal coming through.
I started looking at the connector and noticed we were using tin crimps on the cables. Many resources say that tin crimps will have a higher contact resistance after multiple cycles - however in our application we just insert the cable/connector a single time during the initial install.
Would switching to gold crimps provide better connectivity and help with this CAN dropout issue ? Is it possible the marginal increase in contact resistance can cause the CAN lines to stop transmitting ? The CAN cable that connects to this board is 2m long.
Looking for some advice before re-spinning these boards with different connectors.

A: I would think it is unlikely that this has anything to do with CAN and much more likely that this is related to the connector. These kind of fine pitch connectors aren't very reliable, especially not if you connect them multiple times. Could be crimping, wire damage, soldering or similar. It is a common issue that the cable wasn't attached 100% straight and centred. Another somewhat common problem is when you use too much solder and capillary force makes it wet upwards into the connector.
When you get the error, simply measure resistance from PCB to PCB. I'm pretty certain you'll find a short and not some issue with too high resistance.


&gallery is pleased to announce it's next exhibition to open at the gallery. Tender, by Maggie Dunlap is the 19-year-old artists' first solo exhibition to date.
Maggie Dunlap was born in Washington DC and raised in Miami, FL. She is currently attending The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY.
The exhibition will open on October 3rd and continue through November 13th. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 6 – 10pm with a Q&A with the artist promptly at 6pm.
Additionally, the gallery will be hosting a Sunday Brunch at the space on October 18th to honor Maggie and talk candidly with her about her show via a virtual meeting platform. This not only allows for another opportunity for one-on-one discussion with the artist, but also provides a chance for anyone to participate in the event in person or virtually.
For Tender, Maggie will be displaying works on paper, photography and works of embroidery.


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Thinking About UFOs and Alien Visits
Posted on January 10, 2014 by JimS
It's funny how things happen. This essay resulted from a pingback. If you, like me, had not heard this term before, then welcome to our new age of Internet media. "Ping" is an old word based on resemblance to a sound. It was certainly used extensively during World War II to designate a sound emitted by sonar that would be bounced back by objects. The time required for the ping to make the round trip gave the distance. The high frequency of the ping meant that the signal was more directional because low frequencies tend to spread more.
More recently, I encountered ping in Internet activities. A Unix utility is called ping, and it sends a signal out to an Internet protocol (IP) address. If the address is active and responsive, you get a signal back. Hackers troll the Internet by sending pings to all possible Internet addresses to find out which are in use. They then may attempt to hack into the servers they find. If you have a server and Internet router, as I do, you may tell the router not to respond to pings and thus make it invisible to such searches.
The word "ping" has expanded and morphed into pingback meaning that you receive notice when someone puts up a link to your site. You then put a link to theirs in your comments section — or not.
In this instance, the article that referenced my "Mars: One-Way or Round-Trip" article was from a URL (universal resource locator) called ufosuncovered.com, clearly a site that deals in UFOs and alien sightings. The article is titled "Alternative 3: Evidence that We were on Mars in 1962."
My first response was laughter. In 1962, there were a few satellites in orbit and the Apollo program has just begun in response to President Kennedy's challenge to put men on the Moon by the end of the decade. On the Moon, not Mars!
As I read the article, I found that it was entirely about an April Fools' Day joke movie produced in the U.K. but released late due to scheduling difficulties, in 1977. So, we have a 1977 movie made as a joke citing people on Mars in 1962. Yet, I found a rather long article about this entire episode on this UFO-oriented site. What could they be thinking?
Near the end of the movie, starting during minute 48, it shows footage of what is described as a landing on Mars. You are looking through a rounded rectangular window at a barren surface as the vehicle swoops toward a landing spot. Finally, it lands and focuses in on a small patch of dirt.
Here it is — the climax of the spoof. You can see what appears to be a mole burrowing through the surface of the red planet. It's "life on Mars." There are quick concluding remarks and credits afterward.
Why did this site pick up on this 36-year old movie? Are their claims valid? Are any claims of UFOs and/or alien visitation on Earth valid? How can we know?
I'll pick up the story beginning with a quote from the article.
"It was quite evident at the end of the movie that something was fake because almost every single person filmed on the show was an actor, not genuine footage."
Fine. I have no problems here because the entire movie was faked. However, to understand well what this site's author has in mind, I have to quote an entire paragraph:
What you will see on this tape may do for you what it did for me – my hair stood on end (I believe this is an indication of the truth). It shows the view through a window of some kind of flying vehicle that is flying over the surface of Mars. You see a blue sky and you can hear American and Russians in the background cheer that they have found life on Mars, when they see a small burrowing animal on the ground.
We all can be quite certain that no Earth-based or Earth-built spacecraft was anywhere near Mars in 1962. We hadn't even reached the Moon until 1959. The first manned landing there was ten years later. Yet the site insists that the short bit of film is fact despite the entire movie being a grand hoax. Their logic is based on a belief in a particular concept and a desire to prove that concept. The concept is that UFOs are real and represent visits from outer space. If you read the entire article, you will find some parts that are somewhat paranoid: mysteriously lost documents, tapped telephones, sinister intelligence agencies, and getting too close to the truth.
The plot line of the hoax movie has this ultimate video clip initially being static, but a discovered printed circuit board discovered somehow allows it to be decoded into what is shown, complete with English and Russian commentary. The hoax plot line also has a number of scientists disappearing mysteriously.
Here's where things get really strange in the article. I cannot quote because it goes on for several long paragraphs. The argument basically begins from the conclusion and back to the conclusion using fictional plot lines to support it. For example, it argues that the movie was not made in Hollywood (or the British equivalent) because it was kept so secret that people were being killed over it. But there's no evidence of anyone being killed except for the fictional movie.
There's a book, Alternative 3, to go with the movie. It's out of print in the U.S. So, the article argues about why was the book banned in the U.S. But it wasn't banned; it simply went out of print due to lack of sales. Based on this flimsy evidence, the article continues by assuming that the tape is real. (Is this article an April Fools' Day joke too? But it's not April yet.)
The article writes of lack of window bolts and the large size of the window to prove that this is a flying saucer. It does the same regarding the motions of the scenery. It even takes the brief moments of static between scene changes as meaning that "UFO's are controlled by high intensity electromagnetic fields." (Gee. Doesn't everyone know that!)
There's even readouts in English and Russian on the screen giving the temperature (4°C), low wind speed (21 km/h, which is about 12 mph), and air pressure (707.7 millibars or about 70% of Earth pressure). Then, there are the circular landing pads visible (obviously designed for saucers despite helipads having the same shape) and a building.
If you're seeking a particular pattern, many things can appear to match that pattern. In this case, the pattern being sought is that of UFOs and alien visits. Ignore contrary evidence and interpret, even twist, other evidence to support your expected pattern. This case is somewhat extreme, but we must recall that science has had many such issues. There was "cold fusion" not so long ago. The scientists involved hoped for fusion and they "found" it. But it was all just interpreting data as they wished it to be.
On the other side, we have geologists strongly denying that the continents moved in just the last century. They claimed that such enormous masses could not move despite the evidence surrounding them. This dogmatic viewpoint must be fought by scientists because it creeps in quietly and settles down on an establishment and quashes innovation. We saw something similar regarding the asteroid hypothesis of dinosaur extinction.
For these reasons, we should be careful in debunking the ideas of others while retaining a healthy skepticism. So, I'll go over the evidence that we can see.
1. Blue sky. (See first quote above.) The Martian sky is not blue but rather a reddish color as many images from Martian landers have shown. The video clip was certainly made where blue skies predominate, i.e., Earth.
2. Air pressure. The air pressure on Mars is about 6 to 10 millibars, much less than indicated in the movie. We didn't even have to land on Mars to estimate that value because telescopic analysis of the density of its atmosphere is possible. Of course, the readouts on the screen can be, and certainly were, faked. The fakery was way off, though.
3. Temperature. Actually, 4°C is possible at the Martian equator during Martian summer in the middle of the day in secluded spots. However, the average temperature on Mars in more like -40°C. It ranges from a maximum of 20°C to -153°C. It's unlikely that you'd find Mars at 4°C upon landing there but not absolutely impossible.
4. Rotating scenery. Proves nothing one way or the other. The film makers could readily have done this from a helicopter in a desolate area.
And so it goes. Is there any reason that the film makers would have obtained a real clip of landing on Mars to go with their entire hoax film? Certainly not. Any rational producer would simply have faked that too.
All of the above begs the issue of UFOs and alien visits. Are such things possible? Are they likely? How likely?
To address this issue properly, you must distinguish between probability and possibility. Is it possible for a tornado to assemble a house under construction instead of destroying the building site? It's about as likely as finding a particular grain of sand amongst all of the beaches in the world while digging down to a depth of a few meters on every one. Most would classify either event as impossible, but a scientist might qualify it as being astronomically improbable. That's one of the fun things about science. Many things are possible, but few have any reasonable likelihood once we know the facts.
Look at the stars near to us, excluding our own Sun. The closest set of stars is Centauri a bit over four light-years distant. Then, Barnard's star is nearly 10 light-years away. Quite a few are within 15 light-years but not a really large number. Planets are circling the majority of these stars, with around 100-400 billion in our own galaxy.
And, if indications are to be believed, life is common and easy to get started on planets with liquid water. So, why not consider contact with alien civilizations? The issues become very technical, having to do with the effects of large moons on climate, the way evolution works, the locations of supernovas, the availability of heavy elements, and much more. There's also the issue of finding strong enough radio signals to sort out the content against the background of noise and the lifetime of radio broadcasts into space of a mechanical and electronic civilization.
While we continue to broadcast radio and television signals, these are giving way to cable and satellite signals that will not propagate strongly into space. It appears that we may not continue to broadcast into space much longer. The window on catching a civilization sending such signals into space may be only 100-200 years. We'd have to match up rather closely for SETI to find anything. As far as space travel is concerned, the time to reach the nearest star using imaginable technology is quite long, decades. Reaching a star that could have large land animals on it would probably take centuries. Finding "intelligent" life would expand the range even further.
What about those factors that affect the development of tool-using, self-reflective, and potentially electronics-using life? Oddly enough, the Moon is an important factor. Simulations suggest that a moonless Earth would have extreme winds very often. These would limit the size of land plants and animals to a few centimeters in height, too small to develop into large tool-using animals.
When life develops on a suitable planet, a nearby (in galactic terms) nova or a more distant supernova would sterilize the planet with heavy-duty cosmic rays. Stars nearer to the center of the galaxy will certainly have their planets sterilized often in geological terms.
Heavy elements are created by stars exploding. They accrue slowly in the universe over hundreds of millions of years. Without them, the Earth could not exist. Both silicon and iron come from these sources and constitute a large amount of our planet's mass. Calculations indicate that when the Earth formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, the amounts of heavy elements had finally reached a level that would allow rocky planets to form. In other words, we are one of the earliest planets to be capable of life.
Then, for close to four billion years, no multicellular life existed on Earth. Estimates put first life at around 500 million years, followed by 3.5 billion years of single cell life only. For just over 500 million years have we had multicellular life here. Crucial in the development of that life were some unusual planetary events. That life evolved very quickly in geological terms until the seas were teeming and the trilobites appeared. A major extinction, which some attribute to decades-long volcanic eruptions, paved the way for a new group of animals that culminated in dinosaurs. (My apologies to paleontologists who may be upset at my condensation of this history.) During the dinosaur era, over 150 million years, mammals were only small burrowing creatures keeping carefully out of the way of the dinosaurs. The Cretaceous extinction destroyed the dinosaurs who showed absolutely no tendency toward toolmaking or intelligence, and allowed the age of mammals to begin. (Again, my apologies to those who know that we live in a continuing age of bacteria and in a more recent age of beetles if you count species instead of taking the anthropomorphic point of view.)
Both extinctions were unlikely events and would not be often duplicated on other planets. Evolution does not head inevitably toward large brains. So it is that many planets with life will not develop multicellular life. Many of those that do will never see large animals with sizable brains. The chances for tool-making, self-reflective, land-based life developing on a given planet with life are hard to measure, but must be substantially more difficult than winning the lottery. Add to that the likelihood of our state of advancement matching that of another planet within 100 light-years, and you are searching for that grain of sand. It's possible but EXTREMELY unlikely.
Because we cannot travel faster than light, getting a spacecraft from and to a distant star becomes the journey of several lifetimes. Advances in medicine may fix that problem someday. Once we have solved the problem of our brief lifespans and of launching into interstellar space and of avoiding cosmic radiation for decades in deep space, why would we choose to go visit another planet from which we have detected possible radio signals? Why would the peoples of another civilization? Curiosity is the only motivator I can imagine.
Just think. Once you get there after a few centuries of travel, your messages back to Earth will take decades to arrive. By then, you will have been forgotten. Travel to another star must presume complete disconnection from Earth forever — except for messages that will be decades old when you receive them. Some may choose such a life if it ever is available, but we're not talking about exploratory visits by some intelligent race from afar here. Except for the very immediate vicinity in our galaxy, this concept fails miserably.
The very idea of some alien race zipping about the galaxy and visiting remote stars leaves me in stitches. It makes great television series (Star Trek, Firefly, etc.). It's fun to think about. But, when you sit down and analyze the situation carefully, it comes up short. Were FTL (faster than light) travel possible, I'd feel differently. You cannot even send a message faster than light speed, let alone a person. To send a message faster than light speed would lead to a paradox because you could send messages back in time and alter the present. Again, it's fun to speculate on this stuff and some authors have made good money doing so. It's fun to speculate about living for 500 years or longer, and this speculation has some potential for happening by the end of this century, but for the present, it's just fiction.
No one can absolutely say that no aliens could ever have or ever will visit Earth. However, you can put the likelihood against finding that particular grain of sand somewhere on some beach. It's in the same ballpark. So it is that fanciful notions of a visit to Mars in 1962 are just out there somewhere on the fringes of reality, and the particular one in the referenced article fails on the face of the evidence presented. Its chances of being real truly are zero.
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harrykeller, on January 13, 2014 at 1:20 pm said:
As you may gather from the article, I am a skeptic regarding alien visitation. In my opinion, we're stuck going it alone here on this bit of rock circling an unremarkable star somewhere in the "suburbs" of the Milky Way galaxy. We should behave like that's how it is.
It's nice to speculate and then indulge in wishful thinking, but it doesn't get us to the next day or even the next century. UFOs and aliens distract from our world, the real world, by suggesting that a fantasy world is available.
Many will argue that we don't know what we don't know. True. However, we can extrapolate unpresumptiously. Just because we don't know everything, we should not speculate wildly. We cannot know the future, but we can know physics.

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There comes a time, probably many times, when you ask yourself – what do you want. What do you really want. And, if you're lucky to figure that out, even for a small amount of time before things change and shift on you again, then maybe you have a chance at pruning the branches of your life so that your tree, and the branches that really matter, have the best chance at thriving.
I want to be happy and at peace and to be loved. I want to throw some good out into the world and be stronger, surer in the notion that what does not come to pass in this lifetime will, God willing, be rewarded to me and my loved ones in the next. I want the best for my husband and loved ones. I want my children to find peace and happiness in this world, to walk the sirat ul mustaqeen (the straight path) and find their best way between deen (faith) and dunya (the world).
I want a life of ease for D. I want peace and contentment to be his. I want his safety and protection ensured. I want him to be understood, for him to find his method of communication. I want him included, accommodated, accepted, treasured, appreciated. I want others to learn what I have learned from him – lessons not taught in school, on the streets or inside of an office. Lessons only learned by the intimacy of bearing witness to something other worldly, something extraordinary.
This year I did not write another 30-day Ali Family #AutismTruths series in April for Autism Awareness/Action/Acceptance/Whatever month. Three years of doing it had kind of brought me to a point of, what else is there left to say?
But the stories lie within D. They lie within me, too, as our lives as a family are permanently entwined in the way that only parents and children can live. But sometimes they must stay there – within. The private, personal and deepness that could be shared but is better left private, personal and deep.
I was helping D shave this weekend in anticipation of attending a function together. I've become adept at helping him shave, something I had never done before my own son needed my assistance – shave a man. There is a parental intimacy in this act that is in a way immensely beautiful while simultaneously painful.
I want him to gain his own independence in these things – these acts of self-care that others take for granted. The rite of passage where a father or mother teaches a son how to shave, and then the son does it, perhaps nicking himself in process until he gets the hang of things. The road to shaving was scary and exhilarating with D, first trying an electric razor, which scared him, and then moving to get him accustomed to shaving cream and a disposable blade.
The blade scared the hell out of me. What if he moves his face or jerks it? What if he gets mad? One wrong move and he could be seriously cut. And, he moves all the time. He changes directions at the drop of a hat, and as well prepared we are, we don't always know what is going to happen.
But here we are, after several months of working at it, in a time and place where I can assist him in shaving and he moves his cheek, neck and even stretches his upper lip in mimicking my movement so I can get at the stubby mustache.
I wish he could shave himself. I am so thankful he is comfortable letting me help him.
And so, when I hear the latest autism rates from the CDC, seeing once again that the numbers are increasing, reading the articles that break down the data and seeing once again folks in the autism community take sides or multiple sides about things like the use of the word "epidemic," or "alarming" or what have you, I retreat back into this world that is ours and keep my thoughts to myself.
Numbers and statistics aren't going to change what I already know and what I am bearing witness to every single minute of every single day with D. At the risk of drawing the ire of autistic people who rightfully are proud and happy with who they are just as they are, I wouldn't choose this life for D. It has been difficult, challenging and heartbreaking while also beautiful and breathtakingly trandescent.
But I don't have a choice here in D's autism. My choice is how I choose to live, how I choose to parent, and what I choose to fight for, how I help him and all my kids, where I choose to drown and when I choose to resurface.
The blade we use to help D shave is the thinnest margin between a smoothly shaven face and a painful disaster. I am acutely aware of that every time I enter the bathroom to help him. The line we walk on is razor-thin, and yet D walks it. Every day, with the strength of which I have never seen in anyone else. The very least I can do is walk it with him.


First: A picture of my dear old dad Ray with his brothers. From left to right: Uncle Deloy, Uncle Elvin, Uncle Harold, and my daddy. My favorite part of this picture is that my little dad is standing on a rock to be tall like his brothers. I love the hats, the shorts, the shoes...EVERYTHING!
My parents had this picture framed and hanging in their den when my dad passed away. I wanted that picture more than anything. I didn't get it but, I did get this little tiny one. I treasure it.
Second: Pictures of my mom's parents are rare. This is one of the few I have ever seen of them together. This is Fred and Ione Walburger. My grandma died before I was born. "Pa" died when I was 14 years old. After I got my ears pierced, he bought me an orange ferris wheel to keep my earrings organized. I didn't know him well. I wish I had. I am their youngest grandchild so I missed out on a lot. I wish I knew more about them.
What great pictures! I love old pictures, they are so fun to wonder what the people are like and what was their life like.


Renualt 19 was part of a French automobile producer Renualt, the first production of the car took place during 1988 and the last production happened in 1996 while the production was continued in few countries like Argentina and Turkey since 2000. The R19 includes four models each with different car type and features. The code name of R19 during the production was X53, company have named cars on the basis of their features like the five door version was named B53, three door car was coded C53, Cabriolet version was coded by D53 and L53 were given to Chamade version.
It was invented with an intention to take the place of Renault 9 and Renault 11; they were previous versions of Renault that has become old for current market of 80s. R19 was first debuted at September 1988 in France markets. The car designed innovated by Giorgetto Giugiaro and it includes two versions of engines, E-type 1.4 L engine and F-Type 1.7 L engine. However, its engine type depends upon particular market. The basic version utilized Overhead Valve C-type Cleon 1.4 L and 1.2 L engines. The company has sets simple conditions that the genuine version of R19 includes environment friendly diesel engine, it was basically a turbine powered version that was introduced in 1992.
Since 1996, R19 has been covered European markets and the production was continued in Argentina for the markets of South America. Turkish has witness a bit longer production than other nations of Europe although even they have stopped productions of R19 in the end of 2000. However, the original production was shutdown, but the R19's remain accessories and sparing part's consumption continues in the first production of Renault Megane.
Renault car was always appreciated by critics; in 1989 R19 has achieved the title Car of the Year by Germany as well as by Spain. In addition, it also gets recognition by Ireland & Argentina, as well. It received car of year awards by Ireland in 1990 and by Argentina in 1993.
Renualt always delivers performance with fuel efficiency and even today it is achieving a lot of appreciation worldwide with different cars.


All employers know that finding the best staff for their workplace is a real pain. The entire process can take weeks or even months if you don't follow the correct processes. That is a time you could spend working on the growth of your brand. So, I think it would be wise for you to read some of the tips and advice on this page. I'm going to try to show you how the use of modern technology could save you a lot of time and money. The same rules should apply, regardless of your industry or niche. You just need to take some of the suggestions from this page and put them into action the next time you have to navigate the employment process. At the end of the day, you should always keep your eyes open for new concepts that will increase efficiency and assist you in reaching your goals.
There are hundreds of specialist online job boards for most industries these days. That means you can put your advertisement in front of people with the right skills and experiences. That should help to save you a lot of time and become more efficient. Thankfully, you shouldn't receive applications from unsuitable people if you follow that tip. While you might have to pay a fee to post your vacancy, it's worth the expense. Using websites of that nature instead of general job sites is always a wise move. The only people looking at those domains will understand the nature of the tasks you want them to undertake. So, now is the best time to search Google and find the most relevant platforms for your niche or the position you need to fill.
In both the UK and the US, government officials force people to apply for jobs to get their benefits or welfare payments. That means they have to send applications for roles in which they have no previous experience or skills. That's bad news for you as an employer because it would take forever to sort the wheat from the chaff. The best thing you can do is to avoid those websites altogether. There are lots of other ways to find employees, and so they're not worth the hassle. When all's said and done, I saw an article recently from an employer who didn't understand the situation. He stated that within twenty minutes of posting his vacancy, he received no less than two hundred emails. You don't need that.
You can reduce working times by asking people to complete in-depth online job applications. Maybe you could create a little test for them to undertake too? That will help you to narrow the field and identify the people who seem most suitable for your business. You can ask a secretary or administrative assistant to read through them all and provide you with the best. That should mean you never waste time offering interviews to people who are not suitable for your company. There is some excellent advice on the internet for anyone who needs assistance with creating an online application. The process is simple, and you just need to perform some research to get it right.
The last thing you want is to spend an entire week conducting job interviews face to face. Your business would suffer, and you'd lose a lot of money. On top of that, you still might not end up with the right employee at the end of it all. That is why I think you should always hold your initial interviews via a video messaging platform like Skype. Speaking to people over the internet from your desk is an efficient way of managing the process. After you've done that, you just need to select the best candidates and invite them in for a chat. There are plenty of alternatives to Skype if you don't like that platform for whatever reason. However, most people have the program installed on their laptops or the app on their phone.
It's possible to remove all the stress and hard work from the employment process if you're smart. There are plenty of professional recruiters out there today who deal with niche professions and skills. So, perhaps you might like to search online for the most relevant companies? Whether you need to find a payroll Recruiter or experts focusing on accounting, Google is your best friend. You should have no trouble identifying the best firms if you read some reviews and testimonials. You could also speak to some of your business contacts because they are sure to have done that in the past. So, they might be in a position to offer some word of mouth recommendations.
We are living in a digital world, and so there are many ways to research a candidate before you make contact. While it's possible to make social media pages private, most people don't. So, you can find out a lot about the individual by taking a look at their online presence. If they've ever been involved in a crime of any kind, you should discover news articles with a quick internet search. You get the idea, right? Some people might consider it as snooping, but I think it's just smart. When all's said and done, you might let that person into your business, so it makes sense to learn as much about them as possible.
I hope you found the information on this page useful today. Whatever you do during the next twelve months, make sure you use technology to aid them employment process. Otherwise, you're going to lose focus and limit the growth of your company. You need to make sure you are always planning for the future, and so you can't afford to spend too much time interviewing people. If you follow my tips, there's no reason you won't find the ideal workers in a matter of days. See you back here next time!


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Galerie Ropac Previews FIAC Stand with Carl Andre
October 12, 2018 by Marion Maneker
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac has announced the works it is bringing to FIAC later next week. The fair held in Paris's Grand Palais will feature works by Jack Pierson, Yan Pei-Ming, and Imi Knoebel, alongside recent works by Robert Longo, Georg Baselitz and Tony Cragg. Coinciding with the survey exhibition Monumental Minimal, on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin during FIAC, Ropac's stand will also present major pieces of Minimal art by Carl Andre (above) and Robert Mangold.
Carl Andre's Fifth Copper Square (2007) is the result of a life-long investigation into mathematical structures, geometric forms and seriality. Composed of 25 copper plates, this sculpture embodies the characteristic features of Andre's work, such as the use of ready-made materials, the employment of modular units, and the articulation of three-dimensionality through a consideration of negative as well as positive space. Considered one of the most important figures of Minimal art, Andre has sought to reduce the vocabulary of 20th-century sculpture to basic forms such as the square.
With classical restraint, Robert Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements – shape, line, and colour – into paintings whose apparent simplicity expresses complex ideas. In his shaped panel paintings, of which Four Color Frame Painting (1985) is a distinctive example, he uses subtle modulations of colour and hand-drawn graphite lines to present the viewer with a meditative experience.
Untitled (X-Ray of A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, After Manet) (2017), a monumental charcoal drawing by Robert Longo, is a remarkable rendering of Édouard Manet's last major work. Longo decided to tackle Manet's masterpiece after seeing an X-ray of the work. The X-ray image offered a window into the past, revealing clues about Manet's working process and, most intriguingly, the adjustments he made to the barmaid's position in earlier stages of the composition. Both past and present versions are made visible in Longo's intricately-detailed depiction, showing the viewer what usually remains unseen and revealing an alternate history.
Providing a preview of the artist's forthcoming exhibition at the Musée Courbet, Ornans, Yan Pei-Ming's Portrait de Gustave Courbet (2018) pays homage to the master of Realism. Ming's monochromatic paintings of epic scale have redefined the traditional parameters of portraiture over the past three decades. The artist believes that portraits have the power to capture and transcend experience and thought. His exhibition at Musée Courbet will coincide with the celebration of the bicentenary of Courbet's birth in June 2019, before it travels to the Petit Palais and to the Musée d'Orsay.
Georges Mathieu Returns to America After 30 Years at Nahmad Contemporary
ARCO 2012 Preview
Ropac Brings Rauschenberg Combine to Art Basel
Galerie Gmurzynska Returns to FIAC
Auerbach Comes to New York at Timothy Taylor
Grisebach Has Max Beckmann's Egyptian
Filed Under: Artists, Dealers
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Your workers compensation experience modification factor (e-MOD) directly impacts the amount you pay for workers compensation insurance.
Your e-MOD is calculated by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) or by your state department of insurance. It represents your workers compensation claims experience compared to other employers of similar size and type of business.
The average e-MOD for each business classification is 1.0. Companies with workers compensation losses greater than the average will have an e-MOD above 1.0 and those with fewer losses will be less than 1.0. The e-MOD essentially rewards companies with fewer losses and penalizes those with excessive losses.
Only 3 factors determine your workers compensation premium – your NCCI payroll classification, total annual payroll and the e-MOD. Therefore, the only way to reduce your workers compensation premium is to lower your e-MOD.
The most effective way to control or lower your e-MOD is to implement safety policies and a return-to-work (light duty) program.
Review your job classifications annually. Improper classification of employees can result in an increase in your workers compensation premium.
Current trends indicate that many businesses are now refusing to use vendors or contractors that have an e-MOD greater than 1.0.
A company with an e-MOD of 1.2 may pay an additional $10,000 in workers compensation premium. At a 10% profit margin, that company would need $100,000 in additional sales to cover that unnecessary yet controllable increase.
Your e-MOD is primarily impacted by claims frequency, not the severity of those claims. A single claim valued at $100,000 has less of an impact on your e-MOD than 10 claims valued at $2,000 each.
Current year claims provide the greatest opportunity for cost containment.


How do you spell 'school' again? | Bite Me.
How do you spell 'school' again?
Today is a very exciting day. I signed up for SIDES (South Island Distance Education System) Spanish Program, and not grade 10 cause I actually finished that one (thank you very much!), but Spanish 11!! I hope I will be able to do some of the real work! I finished the preliminary assignment today which was very exciting. I was just 20 questions but still…I was proud to be doing some work at all. It took me all day to do but I did it, that's the part to remember (or forget in my case). I still have to get my text books and stuff but still, I'm on my way!
We are having green curry for dinner and I am so freaking excited. Its my favorite Thai dish, or I should say one of my many favorite dishes.
2 Comments on How do you spell 'school' again?
yay!!! you're getting back on track with school! i took SIDES for a few years and its a lot of work, but you can do it in probs half the time it took me! i'm a great procrastinator (like right now i should be doing Bio homework).
good to hear that you're doing some work and feeling good about it! can't wait to see you back at our school!