The Grand River Multipurpose Center, seeks volunteers, has a lot to offer.
Fellowship, friendships, fun and food is what it is all about at the Grand River Multipurpose Center.
The center, which is open Monday-Friday and serves lunch from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., daily is not only a place for everyone in the community to experience the variety of activities and nutritious lunches, it is also about the friendships and fellowship that come along with it.
Nearly 150 people attend lunches, each day, throughout the week, Teresa Sykes, resource coordinator for the multipurpose center said. Fridays are typically the busiest.
Meals are planned and prepared by several full-time staff members and are assisted by a variety of volunteers. Sykes said the meal preparation is vital and careful care is made ensuring a well-balanced nutritious meal is served.
In addition to the single-trip buffet style meal that is prepared for those dining at the center, more than 100 home-delivered meals are also prepared daily.
After the meal is made, carefully packaged and placed in hot and cold coolers, volunteer drivers load their vehicles and head out, delivering the meals to those who are unable to make it to the center.
For more years than she can count Judi Shaffer has been delivering meals for the center. While Shaffer knows the nutritional importance and value of each of the meals she delivers, she said it is about so much more than that.
Shaffer's husband, Butch, occasionally goes on her routes with her, he says the program, helps those that many times cannot get out of the house themselves.
While there are certain qualifications for those on the home delivered meals program, Sykes said the process to get approved isn't a long one.
Some of those who receive home delivered meals are given more than just lunch. "We have some clients who get two meals some days, and then a little more to help them through the weekend," she said. Those on the meals program are also given three shelf stable meals in late summer, to ensure they have food should the weather turn bad and volunteers not be able to make it to their homes. Sykes said after the bad roads this winter, the center has already restocked clients with shelf stable meals.
When the center is closed on holidays, Sykes said additional food is sent for clients who get home delivered meals, when the center is going to be closed, like it will be on President's Day, Feb. 18.
Arnold has been delivering meals for about five years he said. His route, is much like Shaffer's with as many as 15 stops. It usually takes him about 90 minutes to complete his route.
Sykes added that volunteers are vital to keeping the entire center running.
Weekly exercise classes, the onsite library, reception desk, certain aspects of the kitchen and the meal delivery program are all volunteer run, under the supervision of staff.
Currently, there are about 50 volunteers performing a variety of roles within the center. Sometimes, volunteers from other groups and organizations also donate their time and talents, just as The Sasseen's did during a monthly lunch-time musical performance.
While the volunteers and the seven full-time staff members are the driving force behind the center, so is the community. The center is run largely off of donations and grants and other funding sources, like the Northwest Area Agency on Aging, which reimburses the center for a portion of every meal that anyone over 60 years of age eats at the center.
The center is already near capacity, we are continually adding clients and will look for ways to keep up with our increasing numbers. The Center served 46,539 meals during 2018. Sykes noted they are only able to cook meals for about 250 people, and when combining meal delivery and those who eat at the center, many days they are near capacity.
Anyone is welcome to come and eat and join in activities. It is suggested that anyone over 60 years of age who eats donate $4, A meal is $6.75 for anyone 60 and younger; children under the age of 12 are $1.50. Carryout meals are $6.75.
Menus and activities calendars can be found on the Grand River Multipurpose Center's Facebook page, or weekly in the Constitution-Tribune on Friday.


This workshop will focus on a phenomenon observed in harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, analytic number theory, graph theory, complexity theory, additive combinatorics and cryptography, according to which arbitrary objects can be well approximated by a combination of a small number of pseudorandom objects. In the study of higher-order Fourier analysis, this corresponds to approximating every function by a combination of structured functions plus a function of small Gowers norm; in graph theory it corresponds to Szemeredi's regularity lemma; in cryptography it corresponds to approximating distributions dominated by a pseudorandom distribution by distributions of high min-entropy; and so on.
The workshop will bring together researchers working on such decomposition results in different areas and with different motivations, who often use technically similar methods.
Madhur Tulsiani (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; chair), Jacob Fox (Stanford University), Shachar Lovett (UC San Diego), Tom Sanders (University of Oxford).


Mishra, M., Singai, V. (2010). Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 in 453 Asian Indian Patients with Seronegative Spondyloarthropathy. Iranian Journal of Immunology, 7(4), 252-256.
Mahendra Narain Mishra; Vinay Singai. "Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 in 453 Asian Indian Patients with Seronegative Spondyloarthropathy". Iranian Journal of Immunology, 7, 4, 2010, 252-256.
Mishra, M., Singai, V. (2010). 'Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 in 453 Asian Indian Patients with Seronegative Spondyloarthropathy', Iranian Journal of Immunology, 7(4), pp. 252-256.
Mishra, M., Singai, V. Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 in 453 Asian Indian Patients with Seronegative Spondyloarthropathy. Iranian Journal of Immunology, 2010; 7(4): 252-256.
Background: Spondyloarthropathies are a group of closely related inflammatory arthritis which involve the axial skeleton and are negative for rheumatoid factor.
Objective: This case-control study was conducted to examine HLA- B27 positivity in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis (SSA) as per ESSG criteria and compare the frequency with healthy controls because a lower positivity is reported in Indians.
Method: The study included 453 patients and 200 controls. HLA -B27 typing was done by microlymphocytoxicity and/or by sequence specific primers (SSP) using commercial kits. Patients were categorised as Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), Undifferentiated Spondyloarthropathy, SSA with inflammatory bowel disease, reactive arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and juvenile spondyloarthropathy.
Results: HLA-B27 antigen was present in 56% of patient and 3.5% controls with highest frequency in juvenile spondyloarthropathy (80%), followed by AS (76%). The P value < 0.001 for all categories of SSA and overall Odds ratio was 34.9.
Conclusion: This study showed HLA-B27 frequency slightly lower than reported in Caucasian SSA patients and in our opinion HLA- B27 testing is extremely useful in young patients with suspected SSA.


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Android 11 may let users shoot videos larger than 4GB
Addressing a minor annoyance for some, and a real pain for others.
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There are Android phones on the market today with 1TB of storage and the ability to shoot 4K video, but a software limitation means there's still no way to record videos with file sizes larger than 4GB with them. That's set to change in Android 11, according to XDA Developers.
You may not have noticed — Many Android users are probably oblivious to the file-size limit because they've never run into it. Depending on frame rate and other variables, 4GB of video at 4K is around 12 minutes of footage, and if you do shoot for longer than that on an Android phone it simply creates separate video files (each up to the maximum file size) which can be stitched together with video editing software.
But for those users who routinely shoot long, high-res videos, don't want to have to wrangle multiple files, or are looking forward to shooting with the 8K-capable handsets that are incoming, it's an exciting addition to Android.
It should arrive in March 2020 — The beta of Android 10 dropped in March of this year, so we're expecting to see Android 11 beta around the same time in 2020, with a more stable release out around August.
For Pixel and Nokias, that is. As owners of Samsung handsets know all too well, there's no telling how long they'll have to wait for Android 11. The Galaxy S10, for example, only got a stable version of Android 10 last week. Note owners, meanwhile, are still waiting for it.

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Psychologist Andrew Fuller writes that about 20% of people experience depression at some time in their lives. That means that almost every family has someone with some times of depression. Unfortunately once someone has experienced depression, they are at far greater risk of feeling that way again. While I can't guarantee that we can protect everyone from depression, there are things that we can do to make it less likely.
regretting things we have done and helps us to resolve to be better people. Feelings of sadness, disappointment and setbacks are part of human lives and without them we don't live whole lives.


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'Last Night in Soho' Delivers Haunting Entertainment
An intimate thriller that descends into twisted mind games, Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho follows Eloise "Ellie" Turner (Thomasin McKenzie), a shy and eventually outcasted fashion design student obsessed with the 60s. What begins as strange, recurring dreams, soon has her, and the audience, questioning the line between dreams and reality.
When Ellie's hopes of being accepted into a fashion school in London become reality, her grandmother warns her of the city's dangers and the effects it had on her late mother. We catch sporadic glimpses of her dead mother throughout the movie through Ellie's strange visions, as if alluding to a fate she can't escape.
She spends the first few nights in the school's dorms but quickly gets sick of the active nightlife and bullying from her neighbors and roommates. She comes across an intriguing top-floor bedroom for rent. The owner is Ms. Collins (the late Diana Riggs), an old woman who seems to share Ellie's love for the 60s.
Ellie has no trouble falling asleep on her first night in the quaint bedroom, besides the blinking neon light from the restaurant next door. She soon finds herself in a beautiful dreamland- or so she thinks. Here, we meet Sandie (Anya Taylor Joy), an aspiring singer and dancer in Soho. The viewers get to know Sandie's story through Ellie's strange, mirrored dreams. During her first dream, Sandie meets her soon-to-be manager, Jack (Matt Smith). We begin to notice Ellie is both Sandie and an observer. In the mirror, she replaces Sandie's reflections, yet she is unable to control Sandie's movements, words, or even interact with her.
This first dream sequence is magical, and you can feel the excitement and fascination from Ellie. The incredible yet mind-boggling cinematography and set design come into play, and when Ellie wakes up from her dream, you can't help but feel the same disappointment she does. The audience is left just as captivated yet bewildered by the whole dream as she is.
Ellie instantly becomes invested in Sandie's life. She's eager to leave school every day and can't wait for nightfall when she can drift back to sleep to revisit Sandie in her dreams. Ellie soon begins using Sandie as her muse. She changes her hair, buys the same coat, uses the same dance moves, even tries a pick-up line that Sandie used during her dreams. Soon her fashion designs are identical to the pieces Sandie wears.
The fantasy-like dreams soon start to take a sinister turn- her record player even turns on by itself. What was once a whimsical escape from her real-life now keeps her up at night as she grows more and more terrified of falling asleep. Ellie becomes haunted and distracted by these dreams, completely engulfed by Sandie's nightmare of a life. Ellie gives her best efforts to intervene, to no avail. Around town, she begins seeing ghosts of the men from her dreams and Sandie herself. She even begins to run into an old man who seems too intrigued by her blonde hair and a drawing of Sandie she left behind. She soon becomes convinced this strange man is Jack.
"It's not what you imagine, London," is repeated throughout the film, a piece of advice from her grandmother that Ellie now understands. She begins to feel herself unravel and wonders if it's .time to escape London. The last 30 minutes of the film are fast-paced and filled with reveals as the movie starts to wrap up. The difference between real life and dreamland is hazy as Sandie's life becomes intertwined with Ellie's. As more pieces of the mad puzzle are revealed, your mind begins to spin as much as Ellie's.
Edgar Wright doesn't disappoint with this electric psychological thriller. The cinematography, acting, fashion, and soundtrack, in which Anya Taylor Joy lends her voice to a sultry cover of Downtown by Petula Clark, come together to create an unforgettable film.
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How vital are further inflows of EU workers?
EU Immigration: MW 420
Long-term EU migrants now account for 7.4% of workers in the UK, up from 4.7% in 2010 and only 2.7% in 2004. (Paragraph 4)
There is little sign of quick progression from lower-skilled work. Any changes for particular firms may be largely due to the conditions of employment offered. (Paragraph 9-11)
While employment rates are at record levels, for the UK born population these have been mainly driven by older people working for longer and increases in part-time working and self-employment. All of the net growth in UK-born employment since 2008 has been in self-employment, whereas the great majority of the increase in EU workers has been in employee jobs. There are still 1.5 million unemployed in the UK and over a million part time workers who cannot find a full time job. (Paragraphs 12-13)
The significance of EU workers to specific sectors depends not only on their number but also their proportion. For example, only 5% of workers in "education" and "retail" are from the EU. (Paragraphs 15-16)
There is no sign of a net outflow of EU workers. In any case it is important to be clear that the stock of EU workers in the UK can be maintained with nil net migration since those who leave could be replaced by others without adding to net migration. (Paragraph 19)
Complaints from some sectors may reflect a desire to continue to offer low paying jobs with poor conditions and little flexibility for workers. (Paragraph 22)
Suggestions that raising the National Living Wage (NLW) will reduce immigration are misplaced. The NLW does not apply to workers under 25. It could, therefore, make employment of younger people from abroad even more attractive. Indeed, the latest statistics show that a considerable number of recently arriving EU nationals are under 25. (Paragraph 24)
The true economic cost of employing migrant workers is often overlooked. The working age benefit bill for EU migrants in the UK in 2014/2015 was £4.4 billion. It may well have risen further since. In many cases, therefore, the taxpayer is subsidising low paid work for EU migrants. (Paragraph 23)
Conclusions are at Paragraphs 25-27.
1. As the Conservative Manifesto confirmed a commitment to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands, some continue to claim that any significant reduction in net migration will be a catastrophe for UK businesses as they will not be able to get by without further and continual large inflows of workers from around the world. Some even claim that reductions in net migration will put companies out of business.
2. This paper uses official statistics on employment in particular occupations to help examine the extent to which businesses might rely on continual net inflows of migrant workers. It also highlights evidence gaps and some of the difficulties in analysis of labour market issues.
3. Migration to the UK for work is affected by a number of factors. From the EU it is largely a matter of simple supply and demand. There is a very considerable difference in pay levels between the UK and Eastern Europe that stimulates supply, and the availability of these workers at lower wages than their experience and qualifications would otherwise command stimulates demand. Free movement within the EU means that government has had no control over the high levels of migration that have resulted. Migration for work from outside the EU is controlled by government primarily through salary and skills thresholds for work permits and admission of additional workers only to specified occupations where there is a shortage.
4. Much of the growth in UK employment to record levels has resulted from increasing numbers of EU migrant workers. There are over a million more EU workers whose usual residence is in the UK than in 2010, and such migrants from elsewhere in the EU now account for 7.4% of those in employment in the UK. It must not be overlooked, however, that the EU still only accounts for around half of annual net migration and that among those working in the UK, for every two workers born in the EU there are three born outside the EU. However, this is largely a reflection of the fact that significant EU migration for work dates back only to 2004, and that some workers born outside the EU will have been in the UK for a considerable time.
5. This paper examines firstly the issue of potential churn among arrivals for lower-skilled employment in the UK, as this is often stated to be a key reason why continual net inflows are needed. It takes workers who first arrived in the UK in 2010 and subsequently, as this is when overall employer demand increased as the UK recovered from recession. Notably, during the recession, the number of workers born outside the UK remained unchanged while UK-born employment fell by almost a million from its pre-recession peak.
6. The paper secondly examines the extent to which particular sectors rely on migrant workers from the EU, bearing in mind that the focus of potential policy changes following Brexit is on new controls on the entry of EU nationals for work.
The persistence of new arrivals in low-skilled occupations
7. From 2010 to 2016 there has not been any drop in the numbers of migrant workers in the UK by any of the arrival cohorts from 2010 onwards. That is, in 2016 there were no fewer migrant workers who first arrived in the UK in 2010 than there were in 2011, no fewer who arrived in 2011 than there were in 2012, and so on. This suggests that new arrivals are consistently adding to the existing stock rather than being needed to make up for continual departures from the UK.
8. The fact that there appears to be no diminution in the overall numbers in work of each cohort does not necessarily indicate that more workers have not been needed. If new arrivals are restricted in the type of job they get because of language skills, lack of work experience in the UK or unfamiliarity with the UK labour market, then a high degree of churn might be expected in such jobs as they will move on to more congenial or better-paying jobs when they find their feet in the UK. Some employers indeed say that this is so, and make it the key reason why more new migrants are constantly required.
9. However, there does not appear to be anything other than anecdotal evidence to support this. If this was the case, then one would expect to see earlier arrival cohorts moving up the occupational ladder as they gain more experience and move on to better jobs. The official labour market statistics do not suggest this has been occurring to any significant degree. The number of recently arrived workers in semi-skilled and unskilled roles has increased significantly in both production and services sectors, with 650,000 workers in these sectors in 2016 having first arrived from 2010 onwards.
Figure 1. Stock of arrivals 2010-onwards in semi-skilled/unskilled production work
Figure 2. Stock of arrivals 2010-onwards in semi-skilled/unskilled services work
10. In both sectors, there is little sign of any significant movement out of this kind of work over time that might be expected by reason of career progression.
Figure 3. Workers in semi-skilled/unskilled production work: by year of first arrival to the UK
Figure 4. Workers in semi-skilled/unskilled services work: by year of first arrival to the UK
11. There also seems to be little change in the numbers of migrant workers over time in specific occupations or occupational groups and certainly no evidence of a decline. The implication is that there is no need for considerable replacement at a sector level. It seems more likely that if particular employers find that new arrivals move on quickly and need constant replenishment that is because at the firm level they are not matching better terms and conditions offered by other employers in the same sector for similar work. For example, a large part of the high staff turnover in the care sector appears to be explained by workers moving from one company to another rather than leaving the sector altogether or leaving the UK. The remedy for such employers is in ensuring a better employment offer rather than exploiting the availability of a constant flow of new arrivals.
The changing nature of work by sector and employment type
12. Employment of the UK-born is now higher than its pre-recession peak, but there has been considerable shifting of work between sectors. Table 1 below compares the number of workers by industry sector in early 2008 with early 2017. Sectors where the numbers of UK-born workers have shrunk considerably have seen quite large increases in EU workers, suggesting a degree of substitution.
Table 1:
Changing numbers in work by sector
UK-born
EU-born
Professional, scientific, technical 436,269 118,376
Education 417,900 45,516
Accommodation and food services 326,108 134,316
Health and social work 299,301 90,340
Admin and support services 241,558 66,371
Other service activities 189,531 32,716
Information technology/communications 86,030 34,699
Real estate 80,233 3,724
Utilities 45,727 10,974
Arts, entertainment, recreation 31,461 17,534
Agriculture, forestry, fishing 28,031 12,050
Mining and quarrying -14,548 4,115
Finance and insurance -143,306 24,595
Public admin and defence -166,465 8,348
Transport and storage -180,407 66,797
Wholesale, retail, and repair of vehicles -348,543 179,996
Construction -365,894 85,047
Manufacturing -566,152 140,604
Total 396,834 1,076,118
(ONS Labour Force Survey Apr-Jun 2008 and Apr-Jun 2017)
13. As the UK-born employment rate is also now at record levels, it might be thought that everyone in the UK who wants a job must have one, and that migrant workers are simply filling the gaps in a tight labour market in response to employer needs. However, it is well known that much of the return to 'full' employment since the recession has been due to growth in part-time and self-employment. The latest available data for the second quarter of 2017 shows that the number of UK-born workers with employee jobs is actually lower than it was in the same period in 2008, despite more UK-born people working, whereas the number of EU-born workers in such jobs is very much higher.
Employee Full-time
Employee Part-time
Self-employed Full-time
Self-employed Part-time
UK-born -137,928 100,979 175,572 334,804
EU-born 663,355 196,875 164,300 52,349
(ONS Labour Force Survey 2008 and 2017)
14. This is potentially an important matter. The data are at least suggestive that high levels of EU migration have had a negative impact on the availability of employee jobs for the UK-born, and thus on the stability of work and security of earnings. There are still more than 1.5 million unemployed in the UK, and over a million part-time workers who want but cannot find a full-time job (ONS Labour Market Statistics, August 2017).
Employment levels and proportions of EU workers
15. A more detailed breakdown of work by industry division shows that over 80% of EU workers are working in fewer than 30 divisions. The second column of the table below shows the number of EU workers in these industry divisions. However, numbers alone are not necessarily an indication of the extent to which business relies on EU workers, the proportion of workers who are from the EU needing to be taken into account. On this basis, three of the five largest-employing industry divisions would be near the bottom of the list with barely 1 in 20 workers in Retail Trade, Education and Human Health Activities being from the EU. On the other hand, nearly 1 in 3 workers in Food Manufacture and 1 in 5 in Accommodation are from the EU. Food and Beverage Services sit in a middling position with 1 in 10 from the EU.
Industry division in main job (2 digits)
Total EU workers
47 Retail trade, except vehicles 159,036 3.3% 2.2%
85 Education 156,315 1.2% 3.5%
56 Food and beverage service activities 145,106 6.3% 4.8%
86 Human health activities 128,366 2.4% 3.3%
41 Construction of buildings 112,796 10.2% 2.8%
10 Manufacture of food products 108,348 28.1% 4.3%
46 Wholesale trade, except vehicles 84,286 7.6% 3.6%
81 Services to buildings and landscape 78,130 8.8% 3.5%
55 Accommodation 76,881 14.0% 5.7%
43 Specialised construction activities 73,935 5.3% 1.5%
87 Residential care activities 64,189 4.9% 2.1%
52 Warehousing & support for transport 63,373 15.8% 1.8%
62 Computer programming and consultancy 61,381 3.6% 5.8%
84 Public admin, defence, social sec 52,157 0.5% 2.3%
64 Financial ex insurance and pension 45,588 2.1% 5.7%
88 Social work without accommodation 40,787 1.5% 2.7%
71 Architectural and engineering 40,514 2.7% 4.5%
53 Postal and courier activities 38,803 8.0% 3.1%
49 Land transport inc via pipelines 36,614 3.4% 1.2%
66 Auxiliary to financial and insurance 34,733 1.0% 6.7%
70 Head offices; management consultancy 30,675 2.6% 3.8%
45 Wholesale retail trade repair vehcls 28,305 4.6% 0.9%
74 Other prof, scientific and technical 27,363 5.2% 4.0%
96 Other personal service activities 27,041 3.8% 2.2%
42 Civil engineering 26,579 4.2% 2.9%
28 Manuf of machinery n.e.c. 26,163 6.9% 2.1%
69 Legal and accounting activities 24,937 1.4% 3.1%
01 Crop, animal production, hunting 24,761 6.0% 2.0%
93 Sports, amusement, recreation 24,357 2.5% 2.6%
Reliance on EU workers
16. Reliance on EU workers by particular industries will arise from a combination of the two factors: the number working in the industry and the proportion they form of those working in the industry. Where either is small, it is hard to see the industry properly described as relying on EU workers. If the number is small there should in practice be no real difficulty in meeting any future increasing demand even where at present they form a relatively high proportion of the workers in the specific industry, for example in Waste Collection, Treatment and Disposal the number of EU workers is barely 1/20th of one per cent of the total UK workforce (or 1% of the unemployed). Where the proportion is small as in Retail Trade, then in practice the industry should be able to address any restriction on future supply of more EU workers through efficiencies, offering more hours to part-time workers etc.
The need for more new workers from the EU
17. However, as these figures above represent the stock of EU workers who are in the UK now they are not themselves any indication that more workers are required even in sectors that rely on these workers. In principle there are two reasons why more new arrivals from the EU might be required. Firstly, to meet employer needs for more workers as they expand. Secondly, to replace any diminution in the stock as workers leave the UK.
18. As to employer need, the Bank of England's regular Agents Reports show businesses' employment intentions declining sharply from June 2015 onwards - well before the referendum and when there will have been no reason to expect a Leave vote or any change in the UK's relationship with the EU. The forecast of the Office of Budget Responsibility of an increase of 800,000 in the number of workers from abroad over the next five years in their March 2016 Economic and Fiscal Outlook was not an estimate of likely need, but simply an extrapolation of previous trend. This forecast also saw the unemployment rate barely changed in 2020, suggesting that even if employers were to create significant numbers of new employment opportunities, they would continue to take advantage of the availability of workers from abroad rather than seek to mobilise the pool of unused or under-used labour already in the UK.
19. As to diminution in stock, the general picture for arrivals since 2010 is drawn above. The data for workers from Eastern Europe shows that the number of Eastern European workers who arrived in each year post-recession remained stable year-on-year or even increased. There have been anecdotal stories in the press about individuals planning to leave the UK since the referendum and the most recent data has shown an increase in the number of EU8 nationals leaving the UK over the year to March 2017 to a record number since 2008 of 48,000. However, this was more than matched by the same number of new arrivals from these countries, meaning no lower stock. It can easily be overlooked that the stock of any group of migrant workers in the UK can be maintained with nil net migration for that group. Not only was the stock of EUA8 thus maintained, but there were over 40,000 more arrivals than departures from the EUA2, and over 75,000 more arrivals than departures from the rest of the EU.
The impact of short-term and seasonal workers
20. Notwithstanding the above, there is a gap in the evidence about the extent to which employers rely on workers who do not appear in the official employment statistics. As the Labour Force Survey by design does not cover individuals who are not usually resident in the UK or those living in communal establishments, it will not identify any person working in the UK only over the short term. While some statistics are published on short-term migration to the UK from the International Passenger Survey these are based on stated intentions on arrival in the UK, and there are no official statistics on how many of these people are in the UK at any one time or what activities they are undertaking.
21. Statistical releases by HMRC state that in 2014/15, 2.87 million EEA nationals had an income tax record, whereas the number of 'usually resident' European workers in the LFS was only 1.88 million. This could suggest a significant number of EU workers in the UK who are not observed in the official labour market statistics. The number in the UK at any one time (and thus the number of jobs employers rely on them to fill) should not be taken to be the difference between these two numbers though, as if a single job were filled by individuals working successively for three months at a time, there would be income tax records for four people, but only one person at a time would be working in the UK, and they would be relied upon to fill only one job. However, these unobserved numbers present still occupy accommodation in the UK, visit the doctor or hospital if they fall ill or have an accident.
Reliability of representations
22. There have been a number of headline-grabbing reports from some sectors about their need for more workers from the EU, in particular food producers, the care sector, and the hospitality sector. Looking behind the headlines, most of what these sectors appear to be asking for is the opportunity to continue to offer low-paying jobs with poor conditions and little flexibility for workers.
23. While some commentators have suggested that the planned increases in the National Living Wage to £9 an hour will significantly reduce any impact of the availability of migrant workers on wages, as the NLW does not apply to those aged under 25, it could in fact make the employment of younger people from abroad even more attractive than at present. Notably, statistics from the Department of Work and Pensions show that a considerable number of new National Insurance numbers issued to EU nationals are to people in the 20-24 year old age group who do not have to be paid NLW. This shows clearly that the solution lies in making work in these critical sectors more attractive to British workers rather than encouraging further immigration into low-paid work.
Subsidy of EU workers in the UK
24. It is often overlooked that the true economic cost of employing migrant workers is not borne just by their employers, as low-earning work is subsidised by welfare payments. The working-age benefit bill for EU migrants in the UK was £4.4bn in 2014/15, or £12 m a day, according to figures released by HMRC and DWP. That was 10% more than the previous year and it is likely to have increased since then as the number recorded as working in the UK has further increased, including large numbers from Romania and Bulgaria following the final lifting of transitional controls. If welfare spending has increased pro rata, it might now be well over £5bn. Thus the calls to government to allow continued inflows of EU migrants to low-paid work are as much calls for taxpayers to provide further subsidy for their employment.
25. There is little evidence of "churn" among workers from Eastern Europe. There is no evidence of any significant outflow of EU workers. Indeed most of those who have arrived since 2008 appear still to be here, and net inflows continue. In any case, even zero net migration would allow the existing stock of workers to be maintained at its current level; those replacing departing workers would not add to net migration.
26. The significance of EU workers to particular sectors depends not only on their number but also on their proportion in the sector; this is often low. Where the proportion is high, the actual numbers involved can be quite small.
27. Some claims might reflect a desire by employers to continue to offer low pay, poor conditions and little flexibility. It is relevant that some employers are, in effect, being subsidised by the taxpayer. The working age benefit bill for EU migrants in the UK in 2014/15 was £4.4 billion, or £12 million a day, and is likely to be higher now. It follows that each claim of the necessity of continued large net inflows of EU workers should be carefully evaluated.
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Last year my watercolor painting "Serene" won an Honorable Mention in Jerry's Artarama 2015 SOHO Spring Painting Contest. Jerry's recently contacted me requesting a higher resolution image of my painting so they could use it for their Summer (June 2016) catalog. I was thrilled by the opportunity.


The Prince George's Fire/EMS Department will provide smoke alarms or carbon monoxide detectors to county residents. Call the Safety First program at 301-864-SAFE (7233) to request either.
Two elderly residents of an Oxon Hill home were treated for exposure to carbon monoxide Thursday after emergency crews made repeated trips to their home for reports of them feeling sick - and after another firefighter found a deceased man in their home.
It's not clear that the death of the man, who was 50 and had a "known medical history," according to the Prince George's County Fire/EMS department, was due to carbon monoxide poisoning. And emergency crews said they had no reason to suspect carbon monoxide was present until the final call - when their equipment found moderately high carbon monoxide levels in the house.
The house had no carbon monoxide detector.
The string of incidents started on Tuesday, when a man described as "70-ish" called 911 and said he felt sick. He was transported to a local hospital.
On Wednesday, a "70-ish" woman called 911 to report feeling ill, and was transported to the hospital by a different ambulance crew.
Later that day, another crew returned to the home and found the body. The cause of death is not known, nor is it known if carbon monoxide exposure was involved in the death.
Then, on Thursday, an ambulance was sent to assist the elderly man and woman again, and emergency crews detected carbon monoxide. The victims were transported to a hospital in Baltimore that has a hyperbaric chamber, which is frequently used to treat carbon monoxide exposure.
The department said in a statement that emergency crews had no reason to suspect carbon monoxide was a factor in any of the above incidents until this morning. "However, the Fire/EMS Departments Quality Assurance office will conduct a complete review of each incident," the statement read.
The Oxon Hill home is in the same community where five people were poisoned by carbon monoxide exposure in April.


WaterAid and Coca-Cola visit the communities, and one water standpipe, in Balkuy.
With 768 million people living without clean drinking water around the world, many people think that we just need more money to solve the world's water crisis.
Recently, I was in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to launch a new project between The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and WaterAid that is making safe drinking water a reality for people living in one of the poorest suburbs of the nation's capital. Our extensive meetings included people from Coca-Cola and WaterAid from both the United States and Burkina Faso, a local government official, people from our local NGO partner, and representatives from the local water utility company, all together, at the same table. It's not a surprise that the word local comes through three times in that sentence; that's where and how projects can thrive and people feel responsible; that's where change happens. At the table in Ouagadougou, our conversations took place in both English and French to make sure that everyone understood their role, and agreed to be accountable for their responsibilities. The investment is not just on the side of the funder, it's from everyone at the table – the funders and recipients alike.
Hear more about Annie's trip to Africa, facts about the money spent each year to provide clean drinking water and more on solving the water crisis, find the rest of this post on WWF's On Balance.


Fab Planet Summit is on track to be delightful. This first ever LGBTQ sustainability conference will be September 13th, 2014 from 1-6:30PM. The final schedule is below. For complete information on panels, speakers, partners and to register visit our event page.


that was obvious from his NY Pro showing, i wouldnt imagine he would jump into another show unless he was on much stronger footing and really motivated to do better?
I would imagine losing the woman you love would be very distracting, actually.
Heinz Senior presents to IFBB Pro Rixio Tapia, from the Elev8tion gym in Miami, just 2 days before competing in 212 class at the Chicago Pro Show. Rixio is one of the bodybuilders of the old school in Venezuela. After a break, Rixio returns with everything ready to return to qualify for Mr. Olympia.
Wesley and dad plus him with another competitor..look that arm shape.


HomeD&A Anime Blog: 2017 Convention Tour Review!
D&A Anime Blog: 2017 Convention Tour Review!
We've done it! We've finally done it! 2017's Thy Geekdom Con was not only our first time going to that convention, but our last stop on our 2017 Mini Tour! From start to finish this year has had it's ups and downs, twists and turns, but to be on our way to our second year as a blog (as well as gain over 1,000 followers on Twitter and over 10,000 views on the blog overall), it's without a doubt that we can't thank you guys enough for all of your support! Truth be told we never thought that our blog would make it this far.
Now with Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Christmas around the corner, it's time to give you guys our overall review on how the tour went for us!
Not too far from our own backyard in Reisterstown/Glyndon, NipponCon is set inside McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. Although it's small in size and only one day, it makes for a great atmosphere for budding anime fans who want that fan-centered feel. We're hoping that we can make our way back here for the 2018 year, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Our first out-of-state anime convention! Zenkaikon is a mid-sized convention that sits in between fan-centered, and the hustle n' bustle found at larger conventions. Lancaster's Convention Center is a lot smaller than ours back in Baltimore, but it's got enough square feet to hold anywhere between 1,500 to 3,000 con goers. The people are awesome, the dances are hot, and we were lucky enough to meet the one and only Steve Blum! We'll be returning to this convention next year, hopefully hosting a panel…hopefully.
Our second out-of-state anime convention in Pennsylvania! This convention reminds us a little bit of Animore; with that fan-centered feel that you can only find at smaller cons like these, with the exception of some really awesome VA's that came by. Although we won't get the chance to come back next year, we're hoping to make our return in 2019 – if things for the blog go well!
Again we just want to thank all of our awesome fans who have supported us through the entire tour, as well as the special one's who have taken some pictures with us. We plan on establishing a 'Panel Presence' for next year's anime con go-around, so don't be surprised if our name pops up somewhere on your convention's overall schedule.
There's more posts coming, so stick around for more fun and more D&A!
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text:
package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"net/smtp"
	"os"
	"strings"

	"github.com/jordan-wright/email"
)

// List makes a slice from a coma separated list:
// - list: coma separated list
// Return: list as a slice.
func List(list string) []string {
	result := strings.Split(list, ",")
	for index, element := range result {
		result[index] = strings.TrimSpace(element)
	}
	return result
}

// SendMail sends an email:
// - server: the SMTP server address (such as 'smtp.orange.fr:25')
// - from: the email sender (such as 'test@example.com').
// - to: the email recipient(s) as a coma separated list.
// - cc: carbon copy recipient(s) as a coma separated list.
// - bcc: blind carbon copy recipient(s) as a coma separated list.
// - subject: the email subject.
// - text: the email text.
// - attach: email attachment as a file path.
// - user: SMTP server user name.
// - password: the SMTP server password.
// - html: tells if email is HTML.
func SendMail(server, from, to, cc, bcc, subject, text, attach, user, pass string, html bool) error {
	mail := email.NewEmail()
	mail.From = from
	mail.To = List(to)
	if cc != "" {
		mail.Cc = List(cc)
	}
	if bcc != "" {
		mail.Bcc = List(bcc)
	}
	mail.Subject = subject
	if html {
		mail.HTML = []byte(text)
	} else {
		mail.Text = []byte(text)
	}
	if attach != "" {
		if _, err := os.Stat(attach); os.IsNotExist(err) {
			return fmt.Errorf("attachement file '%s' not found", attach)
		}
		mail.AttachFile(attach)
	}
	var auth smtp.Auth
	if user != "" {
		index := strings.LastIndex(server, ":")
		if index == -1 {
			return fmt.Errorf("smtp must be like hostname:port, no port found")
		}
		host := server[:index]
		auth = smtp.PlainAuth("", user, pass, host)
	}
	return mail.Send(server, auth)
}

func main() {
	smtp := flag.String("smtp", "", "smtp server ('smtp.example.com:25')")
	from := flag.String("from", "", "mail sender")
	to := flag.String("to", "", "coma separated list of mail recipients")
	cc := flag.String("cc", "", "coma separated list of carbon copy recipients")
	bcc := flag.String("bcc", "", "coma separated list of blind carbon copy recipients")
	subject := flag.String("subject", "", "mail subject")
	html := flag.Bool("html", false, "html email message")
	attach := flag.String("attach", "", "file to attach to the mail")
	user := flag.String("user", "", "user name for authentication")
	pass := flag.String("pass", "", "user password for authentication")
	flag.Parse()
	text := strings.Join(flag.Args(), " ")
	err := SendMail(*smtp, *from, *to, *cc, *bcc, *subject, text, *attach, *user, *pass, *html)
	if err != nil {
		println(fmt.Sprintf("ERROR sending mail: %v", err))
		os.Exit(1)
	}
}

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Here's a continuation of my "Balance" Journal. Just wanted to be playful and happy because these winter months have been rough. Gave this a child-like quality with rough brush strokes and a heart balloon. I found a quote for this month's lesson, and while it didn't fit on this page, it's waiting for another journal page: "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have" - Frederick Keonig. Enjoy what's left of the month! Happy Journaling!
I have been reading "Creative Awakenings" - scroll down and see it on my Shelfari, on the right. I vowed to make a 12-month commitment to live the artful life I desire. As a start, I created these journal pages. It's a large journal, which is out of my comfort zone, but I kept at it until I completed these pages to my satisfaction. I used some magazine clippings for the woman's face and the birds. I also started a "milestones passport"(See "Creative Awakenings") to record my monthly progress. Since January is over, I recorded my progress tonight which included teaching 3 new journaling students, creating and mailing valentine ATCs, creating Frida skinny book pages, registering for a photoshop course in Spring, and making an effort to spend a little time each day in my studio -- to not beat myself up for not having an idea, but to go in there and play around to see if ideas pop up - and they usually do! And if they don't, if I'm tired, I just turn off the light and say, "I'll try tomorrow".