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Remote Hearings – Progress back to the Court room
Written by NLS Admin
Since the UK was put into lockdown in the early weeks of March 2020, and all family court hearings stopped taking place in the court room, the legal world started to receive guidance upon guidance as to how to best deal with remote hearings which were to take place with extremely short notice.
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, issued guidance very quickly to try and help practitioners and judiciary alike as to how to best navigate hearings remotely. The guidance of 19 March 2020 was circulated around all social media platforms and the discretion within the guidance allowed for "any appropriate means of remote communication".
Thankfully at NLS, we were able to set up every national branch office with a dedicated, secure telephone line that was capable of recording so that we were able to immediately manage the remote listings that were coming through. Many members of the judiciary were grateful that we were able to assist in the initial transition to remote hearings and remote listings took place in those initial weeks without any issue.
It has been impressive to see the courts, judiciary, barristers, solicitors & support staff adapt their way of working to keep the wheels of justice turning. Whilst there have been a few bumps along the way and some tension over what platforms could/should be used to host remote listings, in the main, one could say that we are now in the swing of all things remote.
For our part, at NLS, having 19 branch offices has seen additional challenges in managing this transition as each court across the country has responded to remote hearings differently, exercising discretion and expressing concern in respect of their local facilities and ability to move to remote listings. This has led to series upon series of local guidance that has been disseminated to all our staff as there has been no single approach to remote listings, making advising clients interesting to say the least. We have even had occurrences of hearings taking place without the advocate being dialled in despite those details being with the court. Aside from the obvious concerns that has seen very vulnerable clients without their representative on the call to carry out the advocacy, that vulnerable client has very suddenly had to deal with a hearing in person, unnecessarily, and causing distress in some instances.
Despite some hiccups like this, which were thankfully in the minority, we have continued to help a large number of existing clients with their existing court proceedings whilst also helping a significant number of new clients. For March and April we have managed to help the following new clients and have seen an increase in public children law cases for May's stats so far. April was a particularly busy month for FLA enquiries as we are sadly all aware of the spiked increase in domestic abuse claims during the UK lockdown; a frightening reality for many families to be dealing with during an already very stressful and isolating time:
325 new clients – FLA injunctions
24 new clients – assisted in other areas of family law
Fast forward through the blur that has been lockdown and working from home for many of us, we are now over 3 months into remote hearings and there has been a build up in the discussions as to how the easing of lockdown will change things again for the family court. There has been talk of hybrid hearings (some parties attending remotely and some attending in person) and also talk of return to the court room for face to face hearings where remote hearings are not deemed to be appropriate to manage certain cases.
I was somewhat surprised that despite all the discussions I had been following across various social media platforms, that a hearing I have listed on Monday 1June as a remote telephone hearing would now be taking place as a face to face hearing at the Central Family Court, London. The notice was sent through giving the parties just over one working day's notice and indicated that if the parties agreed the case could be dealt with remotely, then the court had to be alerted to that agreement and the Judge would decide if it was appropriate to return to a remote listing. Reasons as to why any party could not attend a face to face hearing would have to be explained. The notice for the face to face hearing was received in my inbox at 16.07 yesterday. It was a surprise to all advocates and parties involved in the case and there was a real sense of anxiety and concern as to the safety of each advocate and lay/ professional person now required to attend the court room. Actually, on that case, we have written to the court confirming all parties agree the hearing should remain as a remote listing but we are yet to receive confirmation that it will revert to a remote hearing so it is all rather tense on that front.
The specifics of that case aside, I took to twitter and LinkedIn yesterday and expressed my concern at the court decision that it was suddenly safe to have us back in the court room from 1 June when the UK was still in lockdown, at that time (and this was prior to the announcements that came from No.10 at the 5pm briefing). In a country where families and friends are not meeting, schools have not yet returned and shops remain (for all non essential shops) closed, and the number of deaths for covid19 yesterday being at 377, with 1887 new reported cases, and the majority of people still working from home or being furloughed, it seemed alarming that there was to be an urgent return to face to face hearings as early as next week.
I received some helpful guidance from Gary Crawley (a family law Barrister at 1GC) who had been invited to the CFC and talked through and shown some of the safety measures put in place ahead of the return to face to face hearings. Whilst I completely agree that the CFC has clearly tried to think of as many safety issues as possible in regard to keeping the advocates and parties safe when attending court, I could not help feel concerned that some of us would feel under significant pressure to return to the court room to undertake advocacy when the UK otherwise is remaining subject to lockdown measures and many of us are receiving news of covid19 deaths and are understandably concerned that there is still a very real risk to our health and safety.
There is clearly a need to balance between public health concerns and the need to maintain access to justice and the question of whether we leave our homes is a very personal and individual choice to be made. However, there will be some advocates that faced with a face to face listing will have less choice than others to attend that hearing (ie. Low income/ sole income families). There is also advice that remains out there, from Sadiq Khan – Mayor for London – (who reaffirmed his position yesterday evening) that the public should avoid using TFL transport as he remains concerned about the impact of a surge in people resuming to daily use of the transport system in London (for example).
I suspect there will be hybrid hearings taking place in the very near future and without doubt there will be some family court hearings that have been adjourned multiple times that are just not suitable to be held remotely, that should now be listed as a face to face hearing. But at what cost to the health of the advocates and parties that attend any face to face listing?
Whilst this has been brought to my attention due to one of my own matters being listed for a face to face hearing in London on Monday 1 June, I am concerned as to how things will now progress in the rest of England. Having many staff all over the country, and having sought the views as to whether they would feel safe returning to court, the resounding response I have received is that they would not feel safe at all, at this stage. There is a consensus that they could be exposed to covid19 not only in travelling to and from court and in attending court itself but that angry respondents, in close proximity, may not observe social distancing and assaults by spitting may also occur. The feeling is that there will simply not be the correct protection in place to ensure the safety and wellbeing of advocates in such a swift return to court.
For us, dealing with such a vulnerable client base, it is already difficult advising them as to how each court deals with remote hearings differently and one can not help be concerned by the likelihood that national courts will similarly have their own approach to safeguarding for face to face hearings, meaning that providing advise to clients will be difficult and possibly uncertain into how their safety can be protected. There is the added complication that some clients may still have children at home and have no familial support for childcare and therefore would not be able to attend court; as well as the category of people still shielding or isolating due to household circumstances.
I will end this opinion piece with a query as to how understanding and flexible the court will be to requests from advocates to participate in a hearing remotely, even if other parties chose to attend face to face listings. As advocates, we often conduct all hearings from start to the end of the case and to find yourself in a position of having to either (1) attend a face to face hearing when you would really rather not or (2) be told that you are unable to do the advocacy and must find alternative representation. That has cost implications as well as client care issues (in circumstances where the client specifically wants you as their advocate).
We will continue to do all we can at NLS to keep the wheels of justice moving and to help all our clients be navigated through extenuating circumstances, whilst also ensuring that our advocates and clients have a voice as to whether it is safe/ appropriate to attend a face to face listing.
We'll be discussing different types of assets, the division of debt and how to make divorce financial settlements legally binding.
Under UK law, secure accommodation orders are defined as a deprivation of liberty within Article 5 of the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights).
Parental responsibility and parental rights form a complex area of family law with various caveats adding to the complexity in many cases.


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The Post-Punk Professor
Reading my way through pop culture one book at a time
A Cure For Gravity
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A Cure For Gravity (1999)
I'll just admit right here at the top that this is a blog post on a book that is, shall we say, "in progress." Hey, I'm on page 81! I just have been so terrible at updating this blog, I thought I could jumpstart my writing by commenting on something that is really fresh in my mind. So fresh, I'm still reading it!
I'm no Joe Jackson aficionado, though I liked a lot of his songs they played on KROQ back in the day. I haven't closely followed his career, so I know very little about what he is doing currently and I know nothing about his personal life. I have, however, been thinking a lot about him in relationship to the New Wave masculinity project I've been (embarrassingly slow in) working on. As the project currently stands, I have Jackson and Elvis Costello grouped into the same category: Dorks Who Want Revenge. I'm not sure about that category title but I do think it characterizes a lot of Costello's early work and though Jackson isn't "dorky" in the same way Costello is, his early work does include an examination of masculinity that is particularly biting. They both wrote songs that featured narrators who wanted revenge: on the girls who rejected them, on the world that confused them, on themselves for being so uncertain about who and what they are.
In a paper I delivered at the last Popular Culture Association Conference, I included some thoughts on Jackson because I'd titled my paper "I'm The Man," not thinking that profoundly about what a weird song about capitalism it actually was ("I'm the man who sold you the hula hoop!" is a truly odd and wonderful lyrical refrain). Jackson's album I'm the Man was released in 1979 and contains several meditations on manhood including the titular song and "It's Different for Girls." Jackson has a marked preoccupation with investigating definitions of masculinity which go beyond reflections of heteronormative romance or a patriarchal need for control. Jackson's "It's Different for Girls", is, for example, an epic instance of mansplaining captured in song. In the lyrics, a man urges a woman to rethink her desire to have a one night stand with him. She's down for it but Jackson's man is there to remind her that he was always told that "it's different for girls." She couldn't possibly want just sex because he knows better! Women want to be in love! The woman, in turn, laments throughout the song "who said anything about love?" while the man continues to argue that sex should mean something because "it's different for girls," ably turning a rock cliché on its head.
Jackson's men are, like Costello's, often losers in the war of the sexes and also like Costello, Jackson uses a wry intellect to skewer his masculine subjects. In The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records, Jackson's songs are described as "tough and wiry … mixed with an edgy sensibility with a self-deprecating wit that put[s] him in a class apart from his serious, serious peers" (149). Jackson frequently uses a "regular bloke" persona to create ironic portraits of modern masculinity in a state of flux. In "I'm the Man," Jackson embodies the persona of a hustler and inventor who has graced the world with fads like the hula hoop, the skateboard, and kung fu (it's truly a wild song). A vision of capitalism in human form, Jackson's "man" is locked in a cycle of invention and failure; a cycle that nonetheless successfully separates the masses from their money, and perhaps also reflects how capitalism separates men from more complex and sensitive forms of masculine identity. In "I'm the Man," Jackson's man is framed as someone to mock and pity, a man for whom masculinity is a performance deployed to part a sucker from his money. Like any variety of disguises, dressing as a man is no more powerful than any other choice. Jackson drains traditional masculinity of its importance leaving behind an empty suit, neither useful nor fashionable.
One of the things I didn't know about Jackson before I started reading his autobiography is that he identifies as bisexual. This revelation has added an interesting layer to my thoughts about his work, particularly in a song like "Is She Really Going Out With Him." Suddenly, the song takes on extra depth when imagining Jackson alternately longing for the "she" or the "him" in the title. A song which directly engages with Jackson's sexual identity is "Real Men," the lead single from 1982's Night and Day (which also contained the hit "Steppin' Out"). Notably, in this song, the narrator queries his listener: what is a man?
Take your mind back, I don't know when
Sometime when it always seemed
To be just us and them
Girls that wore pink
And boys that wore blue
Boys that always grew up better men
Than me and you
What's a man now, what's a man mean
Is he rough or is he rugged
Is he cultural and clean
Now it's all change, it's got to change more
Cause we think it's getting better
But nobody's really sure
The song is a ballad, sung as a mournful recounting of a lost traditional masculinity and a confusion about what a modern man might be. As the song goes on, however, Jackson twists this expected narrative of "sad man longs for the past when men were men" as his song turns to a contemplation of gay men, correcting those who call them "f*gg*t" (unless you're a "friend," implying Jackson has insider knowledge of how the word could be deployed within the gay community), and finally ends with a reminder to men that women are surpassing them:
Time to get scared, time to change plan
Don't know how to treat a lady
Don't know how to be a man
Time to admit, what you call defeat
Cause there's women running past you now
And you just drag your feet
Though Jackson evinces an understanding for those men contemplating what it means to be a man now, he doesn't feel sorry for them. He asks them instead to step up and move forward into modernity with women. His early work is filled with observations about a world that is just about to turn feral (just look at the lyrics for "Look Sharp": "Big shot, thanks a lot, gotta go, it's getting late/ I got a date with my tailor now, thanks for putting me so straight/ Tell me how they rob me blind on every street/ But check your watch and wallet now before I go and you're too late") and attack those of us who live in it.
His autobiography, A Cure For Gravity, was written in 1999, 15 or so years after these early cynical songs were written. Jackson narrates his life story with a wry but kind and generous eye for his past. As with most of the postpunk/New Wave autobiographies I've read, Jackson reflects on his working class background and how it contributed to his desire to play music. Just as his career has been punctuated by peripatetic experimentation in everything from jazz to classical music, so too was the young Jackson interested in a range of sounds. He states, "It wasn't that I didn't know, at seventeen, that my tastes were broader than those of my peers. I just didn't care. After all, my musical heroes were eclectic, and I think I grasped the essential fact that in being so, they were being true to themselves" (72). It seems clear that Jackson has remained true to himself as he followed his eclectic interests throughout the albums he's released over the years. I'm eager to read about his adventures as I progress through this book.
I'll leave you with a favorite of mine:
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John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, buys the empty site in Berkeley Square and commissions Robert Adam to design a house there
Lord Bute resigns as the King's chief minister
William, second Earl of Shelburne, buys the unfinished property from Lord Bute, agreeing to keep to Adam's original designs
Lord Shelburne becomes Secretary of State for the Southern Department, responsible for American affairs
Lord Shelburne and his family move into the unfinished house. Lord Shelburne resigns as Secretary of State in October
After the death of his first wife, Lord Shelburne goes to Italy and starts his collection of paintings and antique statues
Outbreak of American War of Independence. Adam's First Drawing Room completed
Lord Shelburne negotiates peace treaty with America. Tradition holds that he drafted the treaty in what is now the Round Room Cocktail Bar of The Lansdowne Club. His friend Benjamin Franklin is the chief American signatory
Lord Shelburne is created first Marquess of Lansdowne. The house becomes known as Lansdowne House
George Dance the Younger is commissioned to redesign Adam's library and other rooms
The second Marquess of Lansdowne inherits the title and sells the bulk of his father's art collection
The third Marquess of Lansdowne succeeds. He re-establishes the Lansdowne Art Collection
Further alterations to Adam's library carried out by Robert Smirke the younger
Visitors to the house include Charles Dickens, Byron's biographer Thomas Moore and Lord Macaulay
After fire destroys both Houses of Parliament, the Lansdowne Dining Room is used for meetings of the Privy Council until the Palace of Westminster is built
The third Marquess employs Matthew Arnold as his secretary
The fourth Marquess of Lansdowne succeeds
The fifth Marquess of Lansdowne succeeds
A sculpture gallery in the Gothic style is designed by T.H. Wyatt
The fifth Marquess holds office as Viceroy of India
As Foreign Secretary, the fifth Marquess negotiates the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and the Entente Cordiale
Lansdowne House is used as a first aid station throughout the First World War
The last grand family party at the house is held for the wedding of Lady Dorothy Cavendish to Harold Macmillan. The fifth Marquess rents the house to Gordon Selfridge, the American owner of Selfridge's department store
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An exhibition of English decorative art is held at Lansdowne House. The sixth Marquess then sells the house to the American architect and property developer Benson Greenall. Greenall is refused permission to build a fifteen-storey hotel on the south side of Berkeley Square
Greenall sells Lansdowne House to the Bruton Club
Lansdowne House is radically restructured. Adam's façade is cut back forty feet. The First Drawing Room and Great Eating Room are dismantled and shipped to America
The Bruton Club sells the freehold to London Assurance
Official opening of the renamed The Lansdowne Club on 1 May. Plans to extend Curzon Street are shelved. The cul-de-sac outside the Club is named Fitzmaurice Place
Outbreak of the Second World War. The Club pool is closed for the duration
Adam's First Drawing Room is reassembled for permanent display at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia
Swimming pool reopens on 12 February
Adam's Great Eating Room is reassembled as the Lansdowne Dining Room at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Westminster Council builds the extension of Curzon Street, sweeping away The Lansdowne Club's steps' and adjusting the split levels
The Club buys the freehold
The Masterplan commences
Refurbishment of the Fencing Salle is completed
The sports area refurbishment is completed with a new exercise studio and steam room
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Where next for public health in the era of austerity?
This event was the second in a series of master class lectures jointly staged by the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University bringing together relevant senior figures and academics from across the city and surrounding region. The twenty-first century has seen a growth in political, environmental and economic insecurity in the context of global recession, population ageing and climate change. Responding to these threats involves rethinking how we work together, care for ourselves,
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Creates a listing file containing assembler code.
The /FA compiler option generates an assembler listing file for each translation unit in the compilation, which generally corresponds to a C or C++ source file. By default, only assembler is included in the listing file, which is encoded as ANSI. The optional c, s, and u arguments to /FA control whether machine code or source code are output together with the assembler listing, and whether the listing is encoded as UTF-8.
By default, each listing file gets the same base name as the source file, and has a .asm extension. When machine code is included by using the c option, the listing file has a .cod extension. You can change the name and extension of the listing file and the directory where it is created by using the /Fa option.
Only assembler language is included in the listing.
Optional. Includes machine code in the listing.
Optional. Includes source code in the listing.
Optional. Encodes the listing file in UTF-8 format, and includes a byte order marker. By default, the file is encoded as ANSI. Use u to create a listing file that displays correctly on any system, or if you are using Unicode source code files as input to the compiler.
If both s and u are specified, and if a source code file uses a Unicode encoding other than UTF-8, then the code lines in the .asm file may not display correctly.
One source.asm file is created for each source code file in the compilation.
A listing file named filename.asm is placed in the current directory. This is only valid when compiling a single source code file.
A listing file named filename.extension is placed in the current directory. This is only valid when compiling a single source code file.
One source_file.asm file is created and placed in the specified directory for each source code file in the compilation. Note the required trailing backslash. Only paths on the current disk are allowed.
A listing file named filename.asm is placed in the specified directory. This is only valid when compiling a single source code file.
A listing file named filename.extension is placed in the specified directory. This is only valid when compiling a single source code file.
Select the Configuration Properties > C/C++ > Output Files property page.
Modify the Assembler Output property to set the /FAc and /FAs options for assembler, machine, and source code. Modify the Use Unicode For Assembler Listing property to set the /FAu option for ANSI or UTF-8 output. Modify the ASM List Location to set the /Fa option for listing file name and location.
Note that setting both Assembler Output and Use Unicode For Assembler Listing properties can cause Command-Line Warning D9025. To combine these options in the IDE, use the Additional Options field in the Command Line property page instead.
See AssemblerListingLocation or AssemblerOutput. To specify /FAu, see AdditionalOptions.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Washington Case Law › Washington Supreme Court Decisions › 1966 › Layrite Conc. Pr. of Kennewick, Inc. v. Halvorson, Inc.
Layrite Conc. Pr. of Kennewick, Inc. v. Halvorson, Inc.
68 Wn.2d 70 (1966)
LAYRITE CONCRETE PRODUCTS OF KENNEWICK, INC., Appellant, v. H. HALVORSON, INC., Respondent.[*]
The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.
February 24, 1966.
Horton & Wilkins, by Hugh B. Horton, for appellant.
Palmer, Willis & McArdle, for respondent.
COCHRAN, J.[†]
Appellant (plaintiff) seeks to recover from the respondent (defendant) as a third party beneficiary of a bond furnished by respondent as part of his subcontract in the construction of the Hanford Atomic Project.
*71 The facts on which this claim is based are briefly as follows: May 13, 1959, the United States, through the Atomic Energy Commission, contracted with Kaiser Engineers Division of Henry J. Kaiser Company for Kaiser Engineers to construct a nuclear production reactor at Hanford, Washington. Kaiser Engineers was given the right to subcontract with others for the accomplishment of much of the construction. Kaiser did not give a bond to the United States in connection with this contract.
On January 27, 1961, Kaiser Engineers entered into a contract with respondent H. Halvorson, Inc., for construction of a portion of the work. Respondent gave a performance bond and a payment bond in connection with its contract with both Kaiser Engineers and the United States as joint obligees.
Respondent also had the right to subcontract and, on March 1, 1961, did so with one H.H. Van de Ven, doing business as Keystone Masonry Company, for certain masonry work. This was only one of several subcontracts entered into by respondent.
May 16, 1961, Van de Ven contracted with appellant, Layrite Concrete Products of Kennewick, Inc., for the supplying of materials, the value of which is not disputed and which were not paid for by Van de Ven, although respondent had paid Van de Ven in full. The latter's obligation to appellant was later discharged in bankruptcy.
The hold harmless clause of the Kaiser-Halvorson subcontract is as follows:
Article 36 Indemnification by Subcontractor. The Subcontractor shall be responsible and liable for, and shall save the Contractor and the Government harmless from all suits, claims and demands of whatsoever kind or nature arising out of or in connection with the work to be performed under this Subcontract; provided, that this article shall not apply to suits, claims or demands solely due to the fault or negligence of the Contractor or Government, or both, or to claims as to which the article herein entitled "Workmen's Compensation" is applicable.
The condition of the payment bond, in its entirety, is as follows:
*72 The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the Principal [Halvorson] entered into a certain written subcontract, a copy of which is or may be hereto attached, with Kaiser Engineers Division of Henry J. Kaiser Company dated 27th day of January, 1961, for all 105N Building Architectural, structural and electrical work specified in specification 100N-71, 100N Area, Hanford Works, Richland, Washington. NOW, THEREFORE, if the above bounden principal shall promptly pay or cause to be paid, in full, the claims of all persons performing labor upon or furnishing materials to be used in, or furnishing appliances or power contributing to the work provided for in said Subcontract, and any and all duly authorized modifications of said Subcontract that may hereafter be made, notice to the Surety of which modifications are hereby waived, then this obligation to be null and void; otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
[1] It is the position of the appellant that these obligations are for the benefit of the public, and an unequivocal obligation to pay all persons who supply materials. This court, however, over a period of many years, has held to the contrary. This type of obligation looks up, not down. It is for the sole benefit of the joint obligees, the United States and Kaiser Engineers. [A third party may enforce a contract to which he is not in privity only if it is made to appear that the contracting parties intended to "secure to him personally the benefits of the provisions of the contract."] Pacific Mercantile Agency v. First Nat'l Bank of Ferndale, 187 Wash. 149, 60 P.2d 6 (1936); Spokane Merchants Ass'n v. Pacific Sur. Co., 86 Wash. 489, 150 Pac. 1054 (1915). See, also, 12 Am. Jur. Contracts § 280.
Appellant was not known to or contemplated by respondent at the time it gave Kaiser Engineers and the United States a payment bond. The clear intent of the hold harmless clause and the payment bond was to protect Kaiser Engineers, the prime contractor, and the United States, not the creditors of respondent Halvorson or the latter's subcontractors or suppliers.
An early case of this kind was that of Spokane Merchants Ass'n v. Pacific Sur. Co., supra, which involved a contract *73 entered into by Ilse and Elliott for the construction by them of a road for the state of Washington. They executed a bond to the state, conditioned that they "shall pay all laborers, mechanics, sub-contractors, and material men and all persons who shall supply such laborers, mechanics or subcontractors with materials, supplies or provisions for carrying on such work, and all just debts, dues and demands incurred in the performance of such work."
One Nick Mandic entered into a subcontract with Ilse and Elliott, the prime contractor. Mandic executed a bond with respondent as surety to Ilse and Elliott, conditioned in part substantially the same as the bond given to the state by Ilse and Elliott. Mandic became indebted for supplies furnished him by appellant's assignors. The court held there was no privity of contract between respondent and the persons who furnished Mandic with supplies for the prosecution of his subcontract, citing Sears v. Williams, 9 Wash. 428, 37 Pac. 665, 38 Pac. 135, 39 Pac. 280, and Armour & Co. v. Western Constr. Co., 36 Wash. 529, 78 Pac. 1106. The court said, at 491: "It seems quite plain to us that the bond here sued upon was given only for the benefit of Ilse & Elliott."
In Pacific Mercantile Agency v. First Nat'l Bank of Ferndale, supra, the court said, at 151:
Before a third party can recover upon a contract made for his benefit and to which he is not a party, it must appear to have been the intention of the parties to secure to him personally the benefit of the provisions of the contract. Sayward v. Dexter Horton & Co., 72 Fed. 758; Horstmann Co. v. Waterman, 103 Wash. 18, 173 Pac. 733, 1 A.L.R. 856.
The most recent pronouncement by our court on this subject is that of Brower Co. v. Noise Control of Seattle, Inc., 66 Wn.2d 204, 401 P.2d 860, decided May 6, 1965. This case had a fact situation very similar to the case at bar with a performance and payment bond of the same type. The court said, at 197:
Appellant argues that, even though the owner is the only obligee in the bond and even though there is no provision that it shall inure to the benefit of laborers or materialmen, they may avail themselves of the security thereof. *74 This court, however, has ruled that a third party supplier of labor and material has no right against a common law bond on private construction unless the terms of the bond expressly give that right.
[Citing cases.]
We reiterated the third party beneficiary rule in this state in Priestley v. Peterson, 19 Wn.2d 820, 838, 145 P.2d 253: In the case of Pacific Mercantile Agency v. First Nat. Bank, 187 Wash. 149, 60 P. (2d) 6, we said: "Before a third party can recover upon a contract made for his benefit and to which he is not a party, it must appear to have been the intention of the parties to secure to him personally the benefit of the provisions of the contract. "Contracts which only create a general obligation to pay the costs of performing a particular undertaking do not show an intention to make such contract for the benefit of a third person who may have furnished materials necessary to the performance thereof."
ROSELLINI, C.J., OTT, HUNTER, and HALE, JJ., concur.
April 19, 1966. Petition for rehearing denied.
[†] Judge Cochran is serving as a judge pro tempore of the Supreme Court pursuant to Art. 4, § 2(a) (amendment 38), state constitution.


Studies have shown that transmit and receive diversity employing a combination of multiple transmit-receive antennas (given ideal channel state information (CSI) and independent fading between antenna pairs) will potentially yield maximum achievable system capacity. In this paper, the concept of a layered super-orthogonal turbo transmit diversity (SOTTD) for downlink direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is explored. This open-loop transmit diversity technique improves the downlink performance by using a small number of antenna elements at the base station and a single antenna at the handset. In the proposed technique, low-rate super-orthogonal code-spread CDMA is married with code-division transmit diversity (CDTD). At the mobile receiver, space-time (ST) RAKE CDTD processing is combined with iterative turbo code-spread decoding to yield large ST gains. The performance of the SOTTD system is compared with single- and multiantenna turbo-coded (TC) CDTD systems evaluated over a frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel. The evaluation is done both by means of analysis and computer simulations. The performance results illustrate the superior performance of SOTTD compared to TC CDTD systems over practically the complete useful capacity range of CDMA. It is shown that the performance degradation characteristic of TC CDTD at low system loads (due to the inherent TC error floor) is alleviated by the SOTTD system.


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I love my Switch but to me, the embedded speakers are really poor, thus most of the time I play it with my headphones, which is not convenient for multiplayer gamingand in that case your console may be set on a table so you can't charge it while you play.
For those reasons, I wanted to make a charging dock/stand with speakers for better audio quality when my Switch was not used on TV.
I must admit it turned to be easier than I planned as I found a charging dock, cheaper than the USB-C plugs couple (male & female) on the internet.
Now we can see there not much in here, just the two USB plugs connected by a ribbon cable.
Once you have decided of the place of your components, put on marks and start to drill the holes for the speakers, the gain potentiometer and the audio input cable.
As a speaker vibrates, it has to be firmly fastenned. I chose to glue it.
My tip for pasting on plastics is to scratch the surfaces to glue, to increase adherence.
Before pasting the speakers, I used little drops of cyanoacrylate glue to hold it in place, for it not to move when the epoxy glue will get dry.
You may notice I've been quiet generous on the epoxy, but at least I'm sure the speakers are strongly pasted and sealed.
I soldered the wires on the amp first (don't forget to pass the audio input cable through its hole before soldering it to the amp), then set the amp in the stand and finally soldered the wires to the speakers, and to both GND & 5V of the USB-C female plug.
Now your amp is set, you may add the knob to the potentiometer.
PS : I added a small foam pad between the USB-C plug and the amp to prevent short-circuits.
Step 6: Try It !
So everything should work fine, let's try it before closing it back.
Put your Switch on it, use a 5V power source, plug the 3,5mm jack to the headphone jack of the console.
If it works well, you may close the stand back !
To conclude, I would say the audio quality is better than with the embedded speakers, but not that much. It is no surprise that Ø23mm speakers won't give a lot of low frequencies, so maybe I should add a small pipe like in bass-reflex enclosures, or a passive radiator I wouldn't even know where to put, or maybe I'll make my own enclosure and use larger speakers..
Hope you liked it, and hope you have succeeded if you made one !
wow good idea. where did you get the dock from. Is it the dock that comes with the switch?
No it's not the original one, I bought it on the internet for a few bucks to get the USB-C plugs, but finally used the all dock instead of making my own as all the stuff could fit in.


Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in the pathogenesis of b-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL) and contribute to the stratification of BCP-ALL subtypes, according to results from a recent study.
BCP-ALL is a disease with various established risk subtypes, such as BCR-ABL and MLL. Recently, investigators identified 3 novel BCP-ALL subtypes, DUX4, Ph-like, and NH-HeH, that may become therapeutic targets for upcoming drugs. Despite these findings, understanding on of these subtypes is incomplete.
Recent studies investigating lncRNAs have suggested that they play an important role in the development and progression of leukemia. Similar to protein-coding genes, lncRNAs are attributed to oncogenic or tumor-suppressive activities that have been associated with a significant portion of the genetic etiology of cancer. Although genetic profiling has been evaluated in many various types of leukemia, a complete genomic identity of lncRNA deregulations in BCP-ALL subtypes is lacking. In a present study, investigators provide a comprehensive insight on lncRNAs for the molecular subtypes of BCP-ALL.
BCP-ALL subtype-specific lncRNAs were analyzed in 25 pediatric and 20 adult patients with BCP-ALL. lncRNAs were separated into 3 major BCP-ALL subtypes, DUX4, Ph-like, and NH-HeH, with no changes in subgroups from initial diagnosis to relapse. In total, 1235 significant differentially expressed subtype-specific lncRNAs were defined among the 3 subtypes, with 24 lncRNAs detected in all 3 BCP-ALL subtypes. Twenty-three of the lncRNAs were previous identified to be cancer-related, including upregulation of PVT1 and GAS5 in the DUX4 subgroup and upregulation of EGOT in Ph-like subgroup.
Investigators also performed a functional enrichment analyses to examine how lncRNAs regulate neighboring (cis), and distally (trans) located protein-coding genes. Of the cis protein-coding genes identified, 58 DUX4 and 24 Ph-like–specific lncRNAs activated signaling pathways for proliferation, apoptosis, and differentiation in leukemia. DUX4-specific lncRNAs were involved in TGF-β, Hippo, and p53 signaling pathways while Ph-like–specific lncRNAs were involved with JAK-STAT, mTOR, and PIK3-AKT signaling pathways. From the trans-based analysis, p53 and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways were additional signaling pathways found for Ph-like subtype. Both DUX4 and Ph-like subgroups included oncogenes IL2RA, TGFB2, and CDK6 coexpressed cis protein-coding genes. No significant pathways were identified in the NH-HeH subtype.
Another difference among the subtypes was the lncRNAs methylation pattern. For the DUX4 and NH-HeH subtypes, the number of hypo-methylated lncRNAs (differential methylation value < 0) was higher compared to the number of hyper-methylated lncRNAs (differential methylation value > 0.2). In contrast, the Ph-like subtype had higher hyper-methylated differential methylation than hypo-methylated lncRNAs. Compared with lncRNAs from other cancers, lncRNAs from the 3 subtypes of BCP-ALL showed epigenetic alterations.
The potential role that lncRNAs has on BCP-ALL progression was also investigated using a differential expression analysis of lncRNAs between initial diagnosis and relapse samples. A total of 947 lncRNAs were considered differentially expressed between initial diagnosis and relapse from the 3 subtypes. A few of them were already known from other cancers, including TCL6, LINC00312, and miR-17-92a-1. Although no significant correlation was found between relapse-specific lncRNAs for the Ph-like and NH-HeH subtypes, the DUX4 subtype was involved in many metabolic and signaling pathways.
Based on this study, investigators concluded that lncRNAs may play a key factor in regulating the signaling pathways involved in BCP-ALL. These subtype-specific lncRNAs may become potential therapeutic targets and should be investigated further.
James AR, Schroeder MP, Neumann M. Long non-coding RNAs defining major subtypes of B cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. J Hematol Oncol. 2019;12(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s13045-018-0692-3.


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This week I found out that sticking your credit card in your vest pocket with your kids' magnets really will muck up the card's magnetic strip. Not an old wive's tale. Just so you know.
I also found out that the only thing more annoying that having your credit card get ruined by magnets is to have to explain in advance to the gas station attendant that your card is perfectly valid but won't scan. And then to explain why. And then to have the attendant look at you askance, like you're a crazy old lady, a crazy old shyster lady, and then go off and try to swipe your card through the machine anyway.
Which leads, because she swiped it several times before giving up, to your credit card's fraud detection agency being alerted to suspicious activity and calling to make sure that really was you purchasing $35 bucks worth of gas. And you think $35 bucks? It only took $35 bucks to fill up my tank? Woah.
Which makes you forget all about the magnets and the credit card.


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Author of Historical Fiction & Nonfiction
Kansas sunflowers in a farmer's field near my home. Sunflowers are the Kansas state flowers. Some are wild and grow alongside roadways. Some are domestic and are planted and harvested by farmers.
Writing for Children's Magazines
Want to have a manuscript waiting when you get tired of writing on a big story, say a book? I like to have several things going at once. When I wear out on one, I go to another.
Secret about me? I don't like to create first drafts of anything. They're hard, I don't always know what the "thread" is yet, and doing first drafts makes my head hurt. So, if I have an article that's past the first draft stage, I can move away from the brain-draining work of a first draft and relax into something more fun for a few moments.
A Bridge and Kite for Cricket "Old Cricket Says"
Sep 2012. pp 44.
A construction company had a contract to build the first suspension bridge over Niagara Falls. They were ready to start but could not figure out how to get the first cable across the deep, roaring rapids. A kite contest was held during Canada/New York's freezing winter of 1848 to see whose kite could carry the cable across. Homan Walsh and the kite he built won the contest, and the construction company completed the bridge on time.
A Home for Home on the Range for Cricket magazine.
Jul/Aug 2012. pp 24-27
Webster Higley wrote a poem called "My Western Home". His friend added a tune and changed the title to "Home on the Range". It become the most famous cowboy song, known by music lovers all over the world.
Sunflowers for Hopscotch for Girls magazine.
Jun/Jul 2011. pp 22-23.
I used a "thread" of Kansas sunflowers for this article. It has information about the history of sunflowers and the many ways they have been used over the years, but the focus is on the state flower of Kansas—sunflowers.
Gordon Parks: Bigger than LIFE for Cricket magazine.
Feb 2008. pp 34-39.
This shadows Gordon Parks's life from his birth in small town Kansas to his joining the photographic staff at LIFE magazine. He overcame racial barriers and artificial obstacles meant to stop him to become a world-famous photographer, film maker, and writer.
Neon Artist for Boys' Quest magazine.
Dec/Jan 2006. pp 2-3.
Fred Elliott turned a neon-sign business into art. He tells how he used gases, glass sticks, and heat to make his own profile, a neon guitar, and a slinky made of 40, 36-inch circles of yellow lights.
The Fall of a President for Boys' Quest magazine.
Aug/Sep 2005. pp 10-11.
This is the story of President Richard Nixon's resignation, what led up to it, and what he did while president. "I have never been a quitter," he said. He wished his job could have ended another way.
Secret Career for Hopscotch for Girls magazine.
Jun/Jul 2005. pp 10-11
Emma Edmonds wanted to serve in the Civil War. She cut her hair, put on boy's clothes, and as Franklin Thompson, became a Union soldier. She asked to be a spy and disguised herself again—first as a Confederate slave and then as a Mr. Charles Mayberry in a suit and tie. She completed eleven spy missions before she became ill with malaria. She ran away to get treatment. Franklin Thompson was declared a deserter, which upset her terribly. She told her secret and asked the War Department to review her case. In the end, she was given an honorable discharge.
Overalls for Aprons for Highlights magazine.
This is the story of women going to work during World War II when many of America's men were sent to the military. Thelma Baldock joined them by going to Portland, Oregon, to take training to be a welder. She welded tanker ships that were sent overseas.
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Swedish communities celebrate the life and story of St. Lucia each December 13. Beginning about 250 A.D. and several times throughout the years, she mysteriously arrived on ships in Italy and Sweden. Dressed in white with a wreath of candles on her head, she delivered food to hungry people. This article tells about fourth-grader Elise Nelson being chosen as St. Lucia for an annual celebration in the Swedish community Lindsborg, Kansas.
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Seal Sitters for Lindsborg News-Record.
May 18, 2017. p 5.
Karin Cumming joined SSMMSM (Seal Sitters Marine Mammal Stranding Network) in 2012. The organization schedules a network of volunteers who agree to be on call for a few hours at a time. When a seal in Seattle's Puget Sound "hauls out" (leaves the water) for some reason, and they are found on the shore, a rescuer is alerted until further help arrives. The rescuer keeps onlookers at a safe distance, assesses the situation, and calls for help if needed. Karin loves the cute little fellows—"big eyes, charming personalities, 12 to 18 pounds," she says. The SSMMSM goal is to provide protection if they are sunning, aid if they are injured, and prepare them for their way to adulthood. West Seattle has become a hot spot for seal pups to snooze and sun themselves. More than 200 sightings per year are reported. Karin is grateful for SSMMSM, their rescue goals, and their chance to educate the public about seals' habits.
Healing with Compassion for Smoky Hills Currents
Fall, 2018. pp 5-11.
David Atherton, veterinarian, realizes that his work is about people as much as it is about animals. "When a special pet dies, the owner often grieves as much as if a family member had passes on," he says. "It's hard for us, too, going through the steps to do an euthanasia procedure, even if the animals had been suffering for some time. It's an emotional ride for all of us." Another side is seeing pets grieve the loss of their owners. The Athertons, Dave and his wife, Anne, match an abandoned pet with new owners when they can. "We have one woman who adopts only older animals. She picks up the slack, and we appreciate her," Anne says. People have become more important members of their families and are cared for more extensively than in the past. Dave does more surgeries, more prevention, and gives more support when a pet has fulfilled its life. "I think I can make my goal of being in business for 45 years," he says.


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Q: How to test Web Service I've created? How am I going to test the Web Service that I've created?
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The NYC Cooling Tower Laws were passed to keep people safe from legionella bacteria and the severe form of pneumonia that it causes. Over the past year, thousands of cooling towers were inspected and tested by the Department of Health's newly staffed Office of Building Water Supply Oversight (OBWSO). If you are a cooling tower owner in New York City and have received an Inspection Summary Report (ISR) or a Violation Deficiency Report (VDR) then this is article for you. At first glance these documents, issued by the OBWSO, can be very confusing. The following article and FREE downloadable eBook can help answer questions that you may have about your NYC cooling tower ISR, VDR, and/or summons or any assessed fines or penalties.
November 1st Deadline for Annual Certification of NY Cooling Towers!
In its all-out war against the mighty legionella bacteria, New York has passed sweeping legislation regarding cooling towers over the past year. One of the upcoming deadlines in New York City and State regarding compliance is the portion of the laws that require annual cooling tower certification. In the State of New York, building owners and property managers must annually certify that their cooling towers have been inspected, tested, cleaned and disinfected in compliance with New York State Legionella Law - Part 4 of Title 10: Protection Against Legionella. New York City has their own version of this law that must also be followed by building owner that operate a cooling tower with the five boroughs of NYC; the requirements of which are spelled out in Local Law 77 of 2015 and Chapter 8 (Cooling Towers) of Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York.
Are the New York City and New York State Cooling Tower Laws confusing you? You are not alone. We get dozens of calls asking which law applies to which location and when. While we cannot offer legal advice on how you should interpret the laws, we can offer you some assistance in navigating them for yourself.
New Law Passed for Cooling Tower Owners in New York State!
On July 6th, 2016, New York State adopted a new Part 4 to Title 10 of the New York Code, Rules and Regulations entitled Protection Against Legionella. Officially known as NYCRR Title 10 Part 4: Protection Against Legionella, it is now the definitive regulation governing Legionella prevention in New York. This new legislation closely mirrors NYC's Title 24 Chapter 8 of the Rules of the City of New York and the New York State emergency legislation that it replaces regarding legionella in cooling towers for all buildings and legionella in potable water systems for healthcare facilities throughout New York State. There are however, some significant additions and changes that NY building owners should be aware of. If you are responsible for a cooling tower in the State of New York, including the five boroughs, you are probably going to want to be familiar with this new law.
The NYC Cooling Tower Maintenance Program March 1st Deadline is Here!
Attention NYC Building Owners! The governing bodies of New York City and New York State are requiring all owners of cooling towers to implement a Cooling Tower Maintenance Program and Plan by March 1st, 2016 or face potential fines and penalties. Navigating the City and State laws that require this maintenance plan to be in place may not be easy for some and there is a possibility that many cooling tower owners do not even realize that there are new requirements that need their attention immediately.
If you are just catching up on your New York Cooling Tower laws, there has been a lot going on lately! Building owners, water treatment companies, and environmental consultants have all been struggling to keep up with the evolving regulations. The current "law of the land" that governs what must be done in order to properly operate a cooling tower in New York City was established in Local Law 77 of 2015 which was passed by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on August 18th, 2015.
This past summer New York City experienced the worst Legionnaires' disease outbreak in its recorded history. In what is now being referred to as the NYC Legionella Outbreak of 2015, more than 130 people were sickened and 16 people tragically died. In an effort to keep the public safe, both the City and State of New York passed emergency legislation designed to regulate the operation and maintenance of cooling towers. Today, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) seeks to make those emergency provisions stronger and lasting; and will hold a public hearing to discuss and pass their newly proposed rules. The hearing will take place from 10AM to 12PM on January 4, 2016 at DOHMH headquarters in Long Island City. Once the hearing is over, the DOHMH will modify the rules based on the public's feedback, if necessary, and then draft a final version. A copy is then published in the City Record and submitted to the City Council where it will be voted on to become law. This legislation will have an effect on the operation procedures of any building that operates a cooling, as well as the water treatment companies and environmental consulting firms that service them.


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Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases
Gary B. Evans, Richard H. Furneaux, Ben Greatrex, Andrew S. Murkin, Vern L. Schramm, Peter C. Tyler
N-Ribosyl phosphorylases and hydrolases catalyze nucleophilic displacement reactions by migration of the cationic ribooxacarbenium carbon from the fixed purine to phosphate and water nucleophiles, respectively. As the lysis reaction progresses along the reaction coordinate, the distance between the purine and carbocation increases and the distance between carbocation and nucleophile decreases. Immucillin-H and DADMe-immucillin-H have been shown previously to be potent inhibitors of purine nucleoside phosphorylases and lie more toward the reactant and products side of this reaction coordinate, respectively. Both these enzyme inhibitors, which are currently in human clinical trials for different indications, are chiral and expensive to manufacture. We now report the synthesis of azetidine analogues of the DADMe-immucillins, which, despite their lack of stereochemical complexity, remain potent inhibitors (equilibrium dissociation constants as low as 229 pM) of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP), methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP), and methylthioadenosine nucleosidase (MTAN), with potential utility as drug candidates.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1021/jm701265n
Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase
Phosphorylases
azetidine
5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase
DADMe-immucillin H
forodesine
Evans, G. B., Furneaux, R. H., Greatrex, B., Murkin, A. S., Schramm, V. L., & Tyler, P. C. (2008). Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 51(4), 948-956. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm701265n
Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases. / Evans, Gary B.; Furneaux, Richard H.; Greatrex, Ben; Murkin, Andrew S.; Schramm, Vern L.; Tyler, Peter C.
In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 51, No. 4, 28.02.2008, p. 948-956.
Evans, GB, Furneaux, RH, Greatrex, B, Murkin, AS, Schramm, VL & Tyler, PC 2008, 'Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases', Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 948-956. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm701265n
Evans GB, Furneaux RH, Greatrex B, Murkin AS, Schramm VL, Tyler PC. Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2008 Feb 28;51(4):948-956. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm701265n
Evans, Gary B. ; Furneaux, Richard H. ; Greatrex, Ben ; Murkin, Andrew S. ; Schramm, Vern L. ; Tyler, Peter C. / Azetidine based transition state analogue inhibitors of N-ribosyl hydrolases and phosphorylases. In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2008 ; Vol. 51, No. 4. pp. 948-956.
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Biden All, No, It's Cool, Making Enough To Live On Is Good Actually!
Robyn Pennacchia
Earlier this week, Sen. Ron Johnson complained about wages rising as a result of businesses having to compete for workers, and claimed that paying workers enough to live on will result in inflation, and then everything will cost more, making those new, higher wages worth less in terms of purchasing power.
Not only is that a grotesque thing to say, it is tantamount to admitting that America's economic structure is a failure. If our economy doesn't allow for everyone to make enough to live on, and we "need" some people to make less than that, then how do Republicans justify crying that all those people who don't make enough to live on are just lazy, because everyone can make it in America as long as they work hard?
Speaking to a crowd in Cleveland, President Joe Biden responded to Johnson and other "critics" yesterday, going full Robert Reich/Elizabeth Warren and explaining that not only can our economy "handle" people not working on starvation wages, but that wage stagnation for workers has been a far worse economic problem overall. The increase in wages, he said, was not a "bug" but a "feature."
Via Business Insider.
"Instead of workers competing for each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employers to compete with each other to attract workers," Biden told a crowd in Cleveland, Ohio.
He continued: "That kind of competition in the market doesn't just give workers more ability to earn a higher wage, it gives them the power and demand to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace."
Critics of the recent wage hikes have also deemed them a symptom of rampant inflation that could spark a new economic crisis. Stronger inflation typically does translate to higher pay, as workers demand greater compensation to counter rising prices.
Biden instead linked the raises to a reversal in long-stagnant wage growth. Worker salaries and wages have made up a smaller and smaller share of US economic output since the 1960s. At the same time, compensation for CEOs and shareholders has boomed.
Boosting compensation for workers at the bottom of the pay scale is long overdue and poses little risk to the recovery, the president said Thursday.
"We have more than ample room to raise workers' pay without raising customer prices," Biden added.
The fact is, people at the bottom of the economic pyramid having more money does way more for our economy than tax cuts for the rich do. Why? Because they actually spend that money and put it right back into the economy, rather than just hoarding it like billionaires do. In order to have an economy, in order for people to be able to start businesses that require customers, people have to have money to spend. Starvation wages are not just bad for the people who make them.
People like Johnson love to claim that if you pay people a living wage, cheeseburgers will suddenly cost one million dollars. Except the thing is, when you have higher wages across the board ... businesses will then have more customers. Because more people can afford to eat out or to buy other things beyond basic necessities. And having more customers attracts more customers because no one wants to go to an empty restaurant in non-pandemic times.
The thing is, as expensive as many things are, we're still not actually paying enough for them. Sort of. In order for the rich to get everything they feel they need, not only do wages need to be depressed, but costs do as well, which is why child labor, slave labor, prison labor, and sweatshop labor are considered "necessities" in many industries. The actual cost of a candy bar or a dress, were everyone involved in the production of those items paid fairly, would be a lot higher. The actual cost of a meal, if the farmers harvesting the vegetables and raising the animals were paid a fair wage, and those who serve it were being paid a fair wage, would be a lot higher than it is now. But people on the bottom can't get paid fairly because people in the supposed middle class aren't making enough to sustain that, and at the end of the day, you can't actually charge more for things than people are willing to spend on them.
So it is possible that the cost of some things would go up were we to pay everyone involved in the process of making them fairly, but that wouldn't be inflation so much things costing an appropriate amount in relation to how much it costs to make them without exploiting people.
The only group whose income has significantly increased in terms of purchasing power over the last 40 years is the rich, and there are simply not enough of them to sustain a working economy.
Changes in annual wages, by wage group, 1979-2018
The graph above shows that in 1979, the average income for the bottom 90 percent of earners was (in purchasing power of 2018 dollars), $30,330. In 2018, it was $37,574. And hey! That sounds kind of good, right? It's at least an increase! But the problem is, the average income of the 0.1 percent went from $637,180 to $2.8 million.
We're working within very tiny parameters here. You've got all of the poor and the working class and the "middle class" smushed together, having to share a much smaller slice of the economy than the very rich. You make a little more room for everyone, let things spread out a little more, those small, positive changes will have less of a major effect on the economy.
Wealth distribution in the United States.
Of course, increasing wages isn't the only thing that needs to happen to change all of this and make our economy more stable. Rich people also need to have less money. Not just because they need to pay their fair share (although that would be nice), but simply because things need to even out a little bit in order to keep everything stable and to keep our country livable.
They ought to be taxed to the point that it is simply "not worth it" to have a company like Walmart, because we are all better off economically when instead of one Walmart, there are five local small businesses that pay their employees a living wage. You still have the people who own those stores making a good deal of money, but instead of making 380 times what their workers make, they make a couple times what their workers make, and the really, really necessary CEOs who are so necessary and nobody else could possibly do their jobs make 10 times what their workers make and they put that money back into their local economy so that other people can also make money. That will create a far more stable and sustainable economy than just insisting that 44 percent of the country subsist on less money than it takes to survive here, so that inflation doesn't go up.
[Business Insider]
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Group Reveals Why Fani-Kayode Should Be Atiku's Running Mate
John Andah
Former Minister of Culture and Tourism, Femi Fani-Kayode
A Christian group has advised the presidential candidate of the opposition PDP for the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar, to choose ex-Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode as his running mate.
Atiku, who emerged as the PDP presidential candidate at the party's elective convention on 7 October in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, is considering some persons to run with him as a vice-presidential candidate.
And there are speculations that the former vice-president may eventually opt for a running mate from the southeastern part of the country.
But this group, Christians in Power Network (CIPN), says Fani-Kayode, who hails from Osun state in the southwestern part of Nigeria, possesses the qualities which Atiku requires to solve Nigeria's problems.
Fani Kayode, according to the group, "is the one man who has stood firmly for the [Christian] faith and has suffered immense persecution in the hands of the establishment because of this."
In a statement signed by Apostle Chikezie Onyekere and Pastor Solomon Ayuba, the body's Coordinator and Secretary respectively, the group also said: "The greatest fear of Christians today is that of insecurity where priests, pastors and their members are wantonly killed, our churches continuously desecrated and destroyed, and our sources of livelihood wasted, we as Christians will not vote for any party that parades a Christian who cannot effectively represent our cause at the highest levels."
Atiku was Nigeria's Vice-President between 1999 and 2007
It continued: "Apart from the votes that Fani-Kayode would get from the southwest as one from there, he will also get massive votes across the nation and everywhere Christians are found because we have come to see him as our voice, not just us but also evry oppressed Nigerian irrespective of religion, ethnicity or party affiliation.
"This will be the masterstroke for both Atiku Abubakar and the PDP.
"Fani-Kayode is loved for having been consistent in playing the roles of voice for the voiceless and defender of the defenceless without any immunity covering him even while those with one refused to speak up for the people.
"No doubt, an Atiku/Fani-Kayode presidency will be an ideal team that would tackle our economic crises and insecurity satisfactorily. We shall sensitise and mobilize our people massively to vote for the PDP at the presidential election should we be sure that we have a strong voice for us there. Fani-Kayode is widely loved across the major religions of the country.
"He has spoken up for the Shiite Muslims who have suffered untold hardship in the hands of the current government. He has spoken up for Dasuki, a Fulani Muslim, who is being unjustly held in detention even after multiple valid court orders had granted him bail. He has also spoken up for Sheikh El Zakzaky who is suffering a similar fate to that of Dasuki etc. So no one can accuse him of religious bigotry."
John Andah is a fine-grained journalist. He has been a member of the fourth estate for nearly a decade. He loves the smell of a good lead, and has a penchant for finding out something nobody else knows. John is Snr Asst Editor at Concise News.
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Articles tagged as "Bahamas"
A booster dose of HIV prevention
Adolescent HIV risk reduction in the Bahamas: results from two randomized controlled intervention trials spanning elementary school through high school.
Stanton B, Dinaj-Koci V, Wang B, Deveaux L, Lunn S, Li X, Rolle G, Brathwaite N, Marshall S, Gomez P. AIDS Behav. 2016 Jun;20(6):1182-96. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1225-5.
To address global questions regarding the timing of HIV-prevention efforts targeting youth and the possible additional benefits of parental participation, researchers from the USA and The Bahamas conducted two sequential longitudinal, randomized trials of an evidence-based intervention spanning the adolescent years. The first trial involved 1360 grade-6 students and their parents with three years of follow-up and the second 2564 grade-10 students and their parents with two years of follow-up. Through grade-12, involvement in the combined child and parent-child HIV-risk reduction interventions resulted in increased consistent condom-use, abstinence/ protected sex, condom-use skills and parent-child communication about sex. Receipt of the grade-6 HIV-prevention intervention conferred lasting benefits regarding condom-use skills and self-efficacy. Youth who had not received the grade-six intervention experienced significantly greater improvement over baseline as a result of the grade-10 intervention. The HIV-risk reduction intervention delivered in either or both grade-6 and grade-10 conferred sustained benefits; receipt of both interventions appears to confer additional benefits.
Editor's notes: Prevention of HIV infection in adolescents is key to combating HIV. In the Bahamas, two school-based programmes for adolescents were evaluated to answer key questions about the effect of school-based activities at different ages in adolescence, and the effect of including parental participation. This paper focused on the additional effect of a programme in mid-adolescence (age 15 to16) following an earlier programme (at age 10 to11). The early- and mid-adolescent programmes were similar. There were eight-sessions based on Protection Motivation Theory, using discussion and role play to increase knowledge and skills regarding sexual-risk avoidance, with the aim of changing behaviour. Both included a component for parents and children together, and both were effective at improving HIV knowledge, and reported condom-use skills and intentions.
Results illustrated that the early-adolescent programme had sustained effects throughout the following six years, and the mid-adolescent programme acted as a 'booster', conferring additional benefits including increased rates of reported consistent condom use and abstinence/protected sexual intercourse and increased condom-use skills. Participants who did not receive the early-adolescent programme gained more benefit from the mid-adolescent programme but had lower scores than youth who had both. Parental involvement was important, especially regarding condom-use skills. Although the results are promising, there is potential for biased reporting of self-reported behavioural outcomes, and it would be good to confirm these findings with biological outcomes including unplanned pregnancy and HSV-2 infection.
Categories: Preventing HIV infection in children
Related Regions: Latin America
Related Countries: Bahamas
Renewed prevention efforts needed for key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Epidemiology of HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean.
De Boni R, Veloso VG, Grinsztejn B. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2014 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print]
Purpose of review: The aim of the present review is to update HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean highlighting the concentrated aspect of epidemic in the region.
Recent findings: Among general population, HIV prevalence in Latin America is at stable levels (0.2-0.7%). The Caribbean still has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world (<0.1-3%), but incidences have declined around 49%. This is not the current situation for high-risk key populations; most incident cases occur among MSM. Available data on transgender women suggest that they are the most-at-risk group. Female sex workers still have a 12-fold chance of being HIV positive compared with other women. IDU prevalence was revised to 0.45%, but non-IDU has been suggested as a mediator between sexual risk and HIV.
Summary: The increase in treatment coverage (mean is at 63%) resulted in modifications of HIV/AIDS epidemiology. New strategies to seek, test and link key populations to care are urgently needed and targeted interventions to prevent HIV expansion among them must be adopted. These strategies should consider the particular situation regarding social inequalities, discrimination and violence that pervade the HIV epidemic among key populations.
Editor's notes: This review highlights recently published data on key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean, including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, female sex workers and people who inject drugs. HIV remains a concentrated epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean with MSM and transgender women being the most vulnerable populations. Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage has increased to over 80% in several countries, a renewed focus on prevention, especially among key populations, is needed. It is estimated that prevention efforts currently only receive 15% of HIV public spending in this region. Culturally appropriate efforts are needed to identify and prevent HIV infection among key populations, and to better understand transmission dynamics of neglected groups such as transgender women.
Target: Reduce sexual transmission
Categories: Epidemiology, Health care delivery, HIV testing, People living with HIV, Sexual transmission and prevention
Related Countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela