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CPP re-extends ceasefire to 15 January after belated GPH announcement
3 January 2013 /0 Comments/in News & updates /by Roselle Valerio
By CPP Information Bureau
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today reextended its ceasefire declaration to January 15 after the Aquino regime belatedly announced yesterday its own suspension of military operations.
The CPP-CC issued the following declaration:
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines hereby declares to all commands and units of the New People's Army (NPA) and the people's militias that the end of the ceasefire declared on December 20 has been reextended to 2359H of January 15. Specifics of the December 20 order will remain valid for the duration of this order. This declaration overrides an earlier order by the CPP-CC abbreviating the ceasefire to 2359H of January 2.
This declaration is being issued upon recommendation of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) after being belatedly informed of the formal order by the president of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) Benigno Aquino III extending the suspension of offensive military and police operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).
According to the CPP, the Aquino government did not promptly order the extension of its earlier suspension of offensive military and police operations. As shown by the fascimile of Aquino's order, the recommendation by the Secretary of National Defense was forwarded only yesterday noon, two weeks after the agreement was forged and a few hours after the CPP order abbreviating the ceasefire was made public.
Over the past two weeks, the GPH representatives refused to answer several communications seeking compliance with the December 20 to January 15 synchronized temporary ceasefire. The correspondences were sent by the NDFP Negotiating Panel directly and through the Royal Norwegian Government third-party facilitator.
"The CPP hopes that the reextension of the ceasefire order will help push forward peace negotiations between the GPH and the NDFP. The GPH, however, still has a lot of work to do in terms of compliance and rectification of violations of previous agreements, including the release of detained peace consultants in accordance with the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and the release of more than 400 political prisoners in compliance with the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law."
At the same time, the CPP denounced the continued military operations of the AFP despite Aquino's ceasefire order. "Aquino's ceasefire order has been reduced to a meaningless piece of paper due to the AFP's continued offensive military operations against the people and their revolutionary forces in various parts of the country," said the CPP.
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Harley Benton is de merknaam waaronder Thomann muziekinstrumenten verkoopt. De lijn bestaat vooral uit gitaren, basgitaren en aanverwante producten. De gitaren worden in Azië geproduceerd naar specificaties van Harley Benton. In 2019 kreeg Harley Benton een eigen website om zich ook buiten Europa en buiten de webwinkel van Thomann om sterker te profileren. Het merk staat onder leiding van productmanager en gitarist Benedikt Schlereth die ook het gezicht van Harley Bentons reclamecampagnes is.

Producten

Gitaren en basgitaren
Het grootste deel van de productlijn bestaat uit gitaren, basgitaren en versterkers. De beschikbare modellen zijn veelal goedkope kopieën van en varianten op bekende gitaarmodellen zoals Gibson Les Paul of Fender Stratocaster.

De beginnersgitaren zijn goedkope gitaren van goedkopere houtsoorten, hoewel er ook goed klankhout wordt gebruikt. Zo zijn de naturel basgitaren gemaakt van Amerikaanse es (Fraxinus americana) en wordt ook populierenhout toegepast. Duurdere modellen zijn gebouwd van betere houtsoorten en kwalitatief betere componenten van Grover, Gotoh, Wilkinson en Roswell.

In 2019 werd ook een lijn akoestische gitaren in het middensegment geïntroduceerd. Een aantal modellen is volledig van massief hout gebouwd.

HP42
Harley Benton kwam in april 2019 ook met een signature-gitaar op de markt. De emerald/paarse Harley Benton HP42 werd naar specificaties van YouTube-ster Henning Pauly ontworpen en is in eerste instantie in een beperkte oplage van 42 stuks uitgebracht. Kopers moesten worden ingeloot om een exemplaar te kunnen aanschaffen. Een gelimiteerde uitvoering in het grijs (de "Oupsie", een afwijkend prototype voor de serieproductie waarvan er 60 in plaats van slechts een werden geleverd, kwam een paar maanden later uit. In november 2019 kwam een serieproductiemodel uit waarbij het belangrijkste verschil t.o.v. de eerste uitvoering is, dat de elementen zwart in plaats van paars zijn. Verder kwam het ingelegde HP42 logo te vervallen en kwamen er positiestippen op de toets Op verzoek van Pauly heeft Harley Benton een nieuw merklogo ontworpen dat ook op andere nieuwe modellen wordt gebruikt.

Henning Pauly maakte vanaf 2013 de effectpedalen en gitaren van Harley Benton populair door zijn demonstratievideo's - van hogere kwaliteit dan toen gebruikelijk was - op zijn YouTube-kanaal te plaatsen.

Gitaarversterkers en effectpedalen
De versterkers zijn verkrijgbaar als transistor- en buizenversterkers. De buizenversterkers zijn erg populair geworden op kleine moddingcommunities op het internet.

De effectpedalen zijn re-brands van merken als Joyo en GLX. Deze zijn populair door hun lage prijzen. De Harley Benton pedalen worden 15 tot 20 euro goedkoper dan exact de zelfde pedalen met de merknaam Joyo verkocht. Ook de overdrivepedalen worden graag gemodificeerd hoewel dat niet met alle pedalen uit de lijn mogelijk is.

Ook heeft Harley Benton een serie luidsprekerkabinetten voor gitaar op de markt waarin Celestion V30-speakers zitten. Opvallend: de kabinetten zijn goedkoper dan de losse luidspreker.

Overige instrumenten
Andere instrumenten die verkocht worden onder de merknaam Harley Benton zijn Hawaï-gitaren, banjo's, ukeleles, (elektrische) violen en elektrische cellos.

Andere producten
Harley Benton produceert ook accessoires zoals snaren, snoeren, en plectrums.

Productie
De productie vindt plaats bij fabrieken in diverse Aziatische landen waaronder OEM-fabrikant Saein, die ook producten voor Ibanez, Epiphone en Peavey maakt.

Een aantal producten zijn rebrands zoals de Harley Benton GA5 valve combo, die oorspronkelijk geproduceerd werd onder de naam Epiphone Valve Junior combo 2 en de effectpedalen die rebrands zijn van Biyang, Joyo, Eleca en GLX

Externe links
 Website van Harley Benton
 Website van moederbedrijf Thomann

Gitaarbouwer

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NSW records 13 new COVID-19 cases, seven linked to Sydney CBD cluster
Health authorities in NSW have confirmed 13 new coronavirus infections, while restrictions for residents on the NSW-Victorian border have been eased.
Two of the today's cases are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
The other 11 cases are locally acquired and linked to known clusters, including seven which are connected to the CBD cluster.
There are now a total of 41 cases associated with the Sydney CBD cluster.
There were 14,815 tests completed during the reporting period and there are now 3,874 cases in NSW.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced the easing of restrictions for residents and businesses on the NSW-Victorian border, which will come into force on Friday.
"Pleasingly, having obviously heard the sustained concerns of the community, and seeing the rates of infection in Victoria decline, from this Friday the border region, will be extended to that initial 50 kilometres on either side of the border," she said.
At present, Victorian border residents with permits to enter NSW must stay within a 2.5km zone but that will now be extended back to the original 50km either side of the border introduced in July.
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More hardship for stranded Australians as Emirates suspends flights to and from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne

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One of the ways that St. Lawrence Seminary High School knows that it is effective in developing its students is through the success of our alumni.
From being well prepared for their freshman college courses, to their successful entrance into the world of their careers, to their continued involvement in the church, it is clear that SLS alumni are inspired and motivated by their time on the Hill.
This isn't accidental. It is intentionally cultivated through the school's programs and offerings.
From the start of a student's time at SLS, there is a program in place to engineer experiences that build on the foundations of their faith, academic, and social lives.
All students are paired with a faculty/staff mentor who works with them throughout their year — supporting them in academics and serving as a sounding board for any issues that arise. This is especially emphasized with the freshmen as they acclimate to the school's culture; this formal structure allows each student to be guided by an adult advocate and helps them to build strong relationships over the course of the year.
Additionally, all students are able to participate in our spiritual direction program, which promotes the students' consideration of their prayer lives, their faith experiences, and God's call in their lives with a trained spiritual director.
As students grow in maturity and experience, our program permits them more independence and responsibility. While freshmen and sophomores find their schedules more structured and their instruction in social skills more direct, these develop their ability to independently manage their time in their junior and senior years. As they gain that independence, however, they also gain increased responsibilities in leading their fraternities, in completing their coursework, and in modeling for younger students.
SLS's social skills program teaches students cordial conduct that is useful throughout the rest of their lives!
One of the regular compliments faculty and staff receive when they accompany students off of the Hill for field trips, ministry, or even doctor's appointments is how polite, well mannered, and engaging our students are. This is a reflection of the high expectations the staff have set and the students' willingness to employ those skills beyond the classroom and the Hill. Being considered a gentleman is a remarkable complement in today's culture and one we are proud our students so often receive.
Beyond the classroom, students are given the opportunity to explore their likes and dislikes and to develop their personalities in a safe environment. Students are challenged to make friends with people they might not encounter in their daily lives back at home — by living together in the dorms, sharing meals together in fraternities, and working together in extra-curriculars.
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All of the experiences a student has on the Hill are meant to enrich their lives off the Hill.
They don't stop being a Son of Calvary because they leave the Hill, and the experiences they have here very clearly guide the steps they take after graduation. Their participation in our spiritual life sows seeds of faith that don't always fully blossom while on the Hill but very often germinate throughout their lives. The residential program develops our students' social skills, allowing them to seamlessly integrate into the broader society and even to stand out as men of moral character once they've left the Hill. Our co-curricular program lets them explore where their interests truly lie so that they may cultivate and use their talents to the fullest for the good of their communities.
Going beyond the books is fundamental to SLS's program — it's at the core of who we are — and it's responsible for the success of our alumni in their lives beyond the Hill.
Are you interested in sending your child to boarding school for high school? The Boarding School Decision Guide was created by the St. Lawrence Seminary High School Admissions team with parents like you in mind. St. Lawrence knows that choosing to send your son to boarding school can be a difficult decision, but this guide will help answer your questions and relieve your concerns.


I'm glad to see you took up the challenge. Interesting paragraph, it reminds me of Winnetou by Karl May.
I've just looked up Winnetou and the classic looks wonderful. I added to my tbr pile immediately!
It's a great book, I hope you'll enjoy it.
Wow –what amazing action in such a short space. I could totally picture it!
Thanks, Erin. I wish I could've included just one. more. sentence.
Hi Lauren…great paragraph with exciting action. I felt I was sitting on the blanket and watching it all play out. All my senses were in action. Wonderfully done!


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Everybody saw this coming.
Red lights blinking on democracy's dashboard
Infrastructure week. at last.
When someone says they "love freedom", rest assured they don't mean yours.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it's because Fetterman won.
But frankly mr. cole, I'll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Let's delete this post and never speak of this again.
I really should read my own blog.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
You can't attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
"Everybody's entitled to be an idiot."
You don't get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Thursday / Friday, Dec. 15-16
by Anne Laurie | December 16, 2022 7:46 am | 55 Comments
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New study estimates that the COVID-19 vaccination program in the U.S. prevented more than 18.5 million additional hospitalisations and 3.2 million additional deaths. Will this be a triggering as the suggestion that antivaxxers may not be the best drivers?https://t.co/QKC1URUMeT
— Dr Susan Oliver (@DrSusanOliver1) December 13, 2022
That study was done in Canada (but I suspect it scales for the US, because FREEDUMB):
… The increased traffic risks among unvaccinated adults extended to diverse subgroups (older & younger; drivers & pedestrians; rich & poor) and was equal to a 48% increase after adjustment for age, sex, home location, socioeconomic status, and medical diagnoses. The increased traffic risks extended across the entire spectrum of crash severity and appeared similar for Pfizer, Moderna, or other vaccines. The increased risks collectively amounted to 704 extra traffic crashes.
"The study found traffic risks were 50%-70% greater for adults who had not been vaccinated compared to those who had," noted Dr. Redelmeier.
"These data suggest COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with significant increased risks of a traffic crash, however, this does not mean COVID-19 vaccination directly prevents crashes. Instead, it shows how adults who do not follow public health advice may also neglect the rules of the road. Misunderstandings of everyday risk can cause people to put themselves and others in grave danger."
The authors recommend that individuals who hesitate to take the COVID-19 vaccine reflect on their choices and recognize how such decisions have repercussions in ways they do not imagine…
Pandemic's 2-year global death toll may be closer to 15 million, nearly 3x more than previously reported, according to a new WHO study. Researchers say the pandemic caused ~4.5M more deaths than would have been expected in 2020 & 10.4M more in 2021 https://t.co/YxLvattEur
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) December 15, 2022
The deaths from Covid in the first 2 years of the pandemic were nearly 3-fold reported—~15 million globally—by @WHO excess death calculationshttps://t.co/YwZHD4ufC1@Nature pic.twitter.com/sE7wVs0tWR
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 14, 2022
China put a priority on protecting rural communities from COVID as millions of city-dwellers planned holidays for the first time in years after Beijing abandoned its stringent system of lockdowns and travel curbs https://t.co/tRjDRaZh91 pic.twitter.com/uwtWTBQEx5
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 16, 2022
In Beijing, patients going to fever clinics jumped 16x this Sunday compared to a week before & calls to the emergency hotline increased 6x
Concern is when covid hits rural areas w/ poor infrastructure
Canned peach craze reflects lack of communication b/t health officials & public
— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) December 15, 2022
From a longer thread:
Consequence: there's now a waiting list to get bodies into crematorium. RFA wrote about 5-6 days waiting list at 3 crematoriums in BJ (https://t.co/lrZBFwl599), we found 2 more with waiting list of 3-5 days. Means relatives have nowhere to go with the body of their loved one.
— leen vervaeke (@leenvervaeke) December 16, 2022
Ah, now reporting cases in the hospital- much more transparent and helpful.
I wonder if between this and making Paxlovid available they're going to come around to a sane response🤔 https://t.co/gc92NfD7Wl
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 14, 2022
Prof Chen (article below): 'timing of China's re-opening "not ideal" but had to do it…Singapore/New Zealand made changes when infections at bay…#China moved with full-blown outbreaks… government "heard the voice of the protesters" but not ideal timing.' https://t.co/qdTleHrz34
— Stephen McDonell (@StephenMcDonell) December 14, 2022
All is not quiet on the Asian-Pacific front
(besides China) pic.twitter.com/ON6Xhw2DvP
Excellent, if scary, article — worth reading the whole thing:
Long Covid can attack multiple organs and weaken overall immunity for months https://t.co/xv1Za03wA0
— Bloomberg (@business) December 14, 2022
Beginning & end of a long, informative thread:
I know we got off on the wrong foot in 2020 and I have remained unimpressed with your antics since. But I'm sincerely happy to answer any of your virology questions so you can stick to humiliating yourself in matters of business, law, or pronouns.https://t.co/FHXsb9yEKf
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) December 15, 2022
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Standard disclaimer: the reported numbers in China no longer track reality, not even the underlying trend. The China National Health Commission is no longer publishing the count of asymptomatic cases, since there are no more mass screenings to find such cases. The numbers to watch are active severe/critical cases, new deaths, & vaccinations.
Local Chinese media has reported the death of a 37 y.o. retired footballer in , from chronic conditions exacerbated by COVID-19. A 23 y.o. medical student at Chengdu in Sichuan Province suddenly died of heart failure. (Medical school students have been pressed to serve in hospitals, at reduced pay compared to the permanent staff, often while positive.) A China analyst posted on Twitter that the father of an acquaintance of an acquaintance in Beijing had died from COVID-19. One of my colleagues in Beijing told me the father of an acquaintance passed away overnight, having gone to the hospital yesterday w/ COVID-19 (did not seem to have severe symptoms), but was turned away w/ some medicine. Yet, the official data continues to show no increased in deaths over the past several days.
I think it is certain that both the central & local authorities will attempt to underplay the death toll from the exit wave, & they certainly have room to do so by playing w/ the definitions (the old debate of deaths of COVID-19 versus deaths w/ COVID-19). However, I don't think anyone is delusional enough think continued 0 deaths would be credible. Shanghai had reported hundreds of deaths from the Spring 2022 outbreak. The handful of recent deaths from around the country had deemed COVID-19 as contributing (not primary) cause. I think it is plausible that the local authorities are simply waiting for guidelines from Beijing to attribute cause of death to COVID-19, & whatever the death figures in the coming weeks, do not be surprised if there is an upward revision months down the line. Transmission (including nosocomial transmission) has exploded so quickly in parts of China that a significant percentage of deaths in the past week, in cities such as Beijing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, are likely to be positive for COVID-19 regardless of cause. Including all cases w/ COVID-19 will be a massive number, & no more illuminating for the state of the pandemic in China.
For the time being, we are left to monitor Chinese social media, what is sent over the Great Fire Wall onto international social media, & word of mouth on the state of the healthcare system. The CCP regime can obfuscate on the exact numbers, but a collapse of health care system & a massive wave of death cannot be hidden. So far, that seems not to have happened in the cities at the forefront of the exit wave.
w/ all that said, below are the official numbers:
On 12/15 Mainland China reported 2,091 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new domestic deaths. Mainland China reported 66 new imported confirmed & 0 new imported suspect cases.
Overall in Mainland China, 2,145 confirmed cases recovered (54 imported), 25,685 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (176 imported) & 155 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 116,701 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 34,707 active confirmed cases in the country (424 imported), 193 in serious/critical condition (all domestic, + 26 in the past 24 hrs.), & 19 suspect cases (all domestic). 446,786 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine. There have been 5,235 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
As of 12/15, 3,454.559M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.403M doses in the past 24 hrs. As of 12/13, 1,307.222M individuals have taken at least 1 shot (or 92.73% of the total population), 1,274.018M are fully vaccinated (90.37% of the total), & 815.718M boosted (57.86% of the total). Of the > 60 y.o. cohort, 240.217M individuals have taken at least 1 shot (or 91% of the cohort), 228.644M are fully vaccinated (86.6% of the cohort), 184.179M boosted (69.76% of the cohort). Of the > 80 y.o. cohort, 27.73M individuals have taken at least 1 shot (or 77.5% of the cohort), 23.757M are fully vaccinated (66.4% of the cohort), 15.153M boosted (42.35% of the cohort).
On of 12/15, Hong Kong reported 15,726 new positive cases, 823 imported & 14,903 domestic, & 32 new deaths. There have been 11,108 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
On 12/15, Taiwan added 15,416 new positive cases, 100 imported & 15,316 domestic. There were 24 new deaths. There have been 14,820 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
Malaysia's Ministry of Health reported 1,161 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 5,014,885 cases. 1,158 of these new cases were local infections; three new cases were imported. It also reported three deaths, for an adjusted cumulative total of 36,787 deaths – 0.73% of the cumulative reported total, 0.74% of resolved cases.
7,353 Covid-19 tests were conducted yesterday, with a positivity rate of 6.0%.
There were 16,811 active cases yesterday, 404 fewer than the day before. 1,004 were in hospital. 58 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 34 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 1,562 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,961,287 patients recovered – 98.9% of the cumulative reported total.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 2,610 doses of vaccine on 15th December: 160 first doses, 166 second doses, 557 first booster doses, and 1,727 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,532,857 doses administered: 28,117,996 first doses, 27,529,078 second doses, 16,273,181 first booster doses, and 612,602 second booster doses. 86.1% of the population have received their first dose, 84.3% their second dose, 49.8% their first booster dose, and 1.9% their second booster dose.
On a more personal note, I finally tested positive on the RAT yesterday morning. I had 3 days of low to medium grade fever that is coming down, some coughing & nasal congestion. The main annoyance has been dizziness & soreness. My daughter has recovered after 3 days, & the rest of the family is on the mend. All of my wife's extended family in Wuhan have tested positive, & past the peak of symptoms. One relative suddenly lost her taste, after recovering from other symptoms. The urban areas of Wuhan may already be past peak.
Experiences of family, friends, colleagues & acquaintances around the country is similar: mild symptoms akin to the common cold, or more severe symptoms closer to flu, fevers can go as high as 40 C. People definitely are reported stronger symptoms in northern China than southern China, might be due to the different Omicron strains prevalent.
Streets in Wuhan, at least where we live, are very quiet even during rush hour. The restaurants that are open are half empty. The economic impact of the exit wave is already evident. Express delivery services & logistics in general are under severe strain, due to worker absenteeism from infections. Takeout delivery services, normally extremely convenient & prompt & is a core part of urban fabric of life in China, are now unreliability. Grocery deliveries in Wuhan has ground to a halt. Many of the restaurants that had been doing takeouts are now shut. All likely due to infections. Manufacturing operations are being sustained by workers w/ asymptomatic/mild symptoms continuing to work. Given the speed of transmission so incredibly high, the exit tsunami may arrive & recede more quickly than anticipated, & the period of socioeconomic tumult may be shorter than feared.
There are few ambulances on the streets, one can hardly hear the sound of sirens. There are reports of long lines at fever clinics, but not necessarily ERs. No horror stories have emerged from hospitals, yet. It appears the vast majority of the population have heeded the advise of avoiding hospitals unless there is a medical emergency, which is helping the health care system cope for now. How the situation will pan how for of the rest of the exit tsunami is anyone's guess. At least the people in rural areas, especially the elderly, are better vaccinated than those in urban areas.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
58 new cases on 12/13/22.
102 new cases on 11/14/22.
Ordered my tests yesterday
New Deal democrat
Biobot updated yesterday, and the news was *relatively* good, as COVID wastewater particles appear to have peaked for the moment in all regions except the West, where they are declining.
Confirmed cases also appear to be peaking at 64,500, slightly below their level of one week ago. Hospitalizations have increased only slightly, by 1,300, in the past week, to 36,000. Deaths have declined to 374. In the past 8.5 months, "only" 103,000 people have died from COVID, an annual rate of about 140,000, which is awful except in comparison to the 500,000 deaths in each of the first 2 years of the pandemic. As usual, deaths are concentrated among un- and under-vaccinated seniors.
Regionally the South has the lowest rate of confirmed cases, and the Northeast has the highest. By jurisdiction the highest rates are in PR, NY, NJ, UT, IL, GA, RI, CA, AZ, and WI. The lowest are in AK, VT, ID, DC, HI, WA, WY, FL, ME, and OR. If there is any theme to this list, it is that rural areas seem to have lower rates than concentrated urban States.
Later this morning the CDC will update its variant tracker, and the only real question will be whether any other of the Alphabet soup variants have gained any traction vs. BQ.1&1.1.
All things considered, despite the fact that we can expect further increases in cases from holiday get-togethers, it is encouraging that the Thanksgiving wave peaked after less than three weeks, despite the evaporation of almost all mitigation measures. This is probably what endemicity among a thoroughly previously exposed population looks like.
arrieve
I had a very mild case of Covid in January. Now I have it again. And this is not mild. First night, non-stop vomiting, second night non-stop coughing. And apparently I can't take Paxlovid because of other medications, so I'm on Lagevrio, the Merck antiviral which is about one third as effective. Has anyone else taken it? Did it help?
I can't imagine how sick I'd be if I hadn't had five vaccinations because I am pretty fucking sick.
The worst part of is that I am finally finishing my Master's this week. Saturday was going to be my last class (teaching English) and the end of semester party and I won't get to say goodbye to my wonderful students.
Let's put it bluntly: the GOP is the Asshole Party. They're all about their freedom to be assholes without any repercussions.
They became anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-social distancing (and antisocial in general) because it was a way of expressing their jerkitude and opposition to the very notion that there are times when we're all in this together.
Well, people who are assholes are much more likely to drive like assholes, and people who drive like assholes get in a lot more traffic accidents than people who don't drive like assholes. I think we all know that.
So while correlation isn't causation, sometimes it can point to a common cause: in this case, conservatism and Republicanism, and the assholism at the root of both.
@arrieve:
The worst part of is that I am finally finishing my Master's this week. Saturday was going to be my last class (teaching English) and the end of semester party and I won't get to say goodbye to my wonderful students
Sorry you're having such a bad case of Covid this time, and especially sorry that it's ruining this moment you were looking forward to.
@arrieve: Sorry to hear that! When was your last booster shot, if I may ask?
@New Deal democrat: Any idea on the impact of repeated infections. I keep seeing anecdotes from the US & Europe of people having worse symptoms on their 3rd infections (but there is certain to be a strong selection bias on social media). w/ all of the vaccine shots & infections, shouldn't symptoms be progressively milder?
@YY_Sima Qian: Please take care and get better soon. This is all so horrifying. During the pandemic many of us watched China perform so well, and we were jealous of your freedoms and safety, of the way you didn't have to fear for your elders' safety, while we were terrified that if we hugged ours, we'd kill them. And now it seems like we're going to watch a new wave of death, only this time in China, the last place anybody expected it.
It's all horrifying. Is the government at least expending more effort on getting vaccines into arms?
Argiope
@YY_Sima Qian: So glad to hear that you and yours are on the mend, especially your daughter. Thank you for the updates, both personal and writ large.
@arrieve:
So sorry you're dealing with this now, of all times. Get well soon, and start planning a real humdinger of a PhD defense party, perhaps? Swinging from chandeliers, the works.
@YY_Sima Qian: I got the bivalent in early October
ETA: But almost everyone in school stopped wearing masks a while back. I still wore one but would have to pull it down when I was teaching pronunciation. I'm sure that's where I got it. They sent out an email this week suggesting (but not requiring) that everyone start masking up again. Too little, too late.
@YY_Sima Qian: At least the people in rural areas, especially the elderly, are better vaccinated than those in urban areas.
That really surprises me, here it's the exact opposite. Are people still wearing masks in public? Because if I were there, I certainly would be. I have always thought the zero Covid policy was headed for a bad ending; even in a country like China you can only suppress people for so long in this way before they rebel, although it sounds like it's more about not being able to control infection due to Omicron than anything about what the Chinese people actually want.
Ordered my tests this morning. I haven't checked the ones I have at home yet to see if they've been extended. They also have free tests at City Hall if I want to pick up 3.
First media reports of COVID related deaths in Beijing. There clearly are deaths where COVID-19 was at least a contributing factor, & there will be many deaths w/ COVID-19 simply because there has been such rampant spread. What I am surprised at is very few such mentions in Chinese social media or have seeped over the Great Fire Wall. Normally these developments will show up a day or two before western MSM. If an elder died because of COVID-19, & official death counts remain fixed, someone will raise a stink. Perhaps we will see more of it as the deaths mount.
Beijing death toll mounts as Covid sweeps through Chinese capital
Official count shows no fatalities in weeks but bodies have been seen at hospitals and crematoria
After our household dodging this bullet for nearly three years, my wife tested positive for Covid on Wednesday night. She'd been feeling crappy all day, and logged off work in the late morning because she couldn't concentrate at all. After most of a day of this, she figured she'd better check for Covid, and sure enough, that second line on the test gizmo popped up right away, no need to wait fifteen minutes.
All three of us are fully vaxxed and boosted. The kiddo spends most of his time in his room when he's home, which should minimize his exposure to his mom's germs. I'm wearing a mask when I'm in the living room or the kitchen, whether or not she's there at the same time. She tried masking, but she's blowing her nose every few minutes if not more often, so good luck with that.
I got hit with a bad head cold the week after Thanksgiving, and it lasted through the middle of last week. At first, she was saying I probably had Covid and didn't know it, but what I had was completely indistinguishable from head colds I've had in the past. What she's got includes head cold symptoms but also a lot more than that: fever, aching all over, stuff like that – more comparable to influenza if anything.
This wouldn't be so bad, except that we're flying to Florida next Thursday (or maybe not, now) to spend Christmas with her family, including her dad who's 81 and in poor health. She's worried that (a) she might not be well enough to travel, (b) that either the kiddo or I might get it from her and not be well enough to travel (we'd certainly have less time to recover before traveling), and (c) she/we might give her dad a case of Covid.
I have a feeling we may be celebrating (?) Christmas at home. One more wrinkle: she's already had the kiddo's Christmas presents shipped to her dad's house in Florida. There just ain't no good way through all this.
At least we aren't worried about Covid killing her, the way we would have been just two years ago. That at least we can be thankful for.
@New Deal democrat: Our treatment plants are still showing low levels of Covid, although there was a slight uptick at the north plant at the end of November. Considering that a little over half of the population of Springfield has had at least two shots, that's not terrible. Someone kicked someone's ass at our south plant in August, because data suddenly started showing up again after it stopped in May. I don't know what happened there.
@Chetan Murthy: Thank you!
It was going to happen sooner or later. Since vaccines that are effective at blocking transmission did not emerge, & SARS-CoV-2 has not yet to evolve to very mild pathogenicity, a bad exit wave is baked in. There are many things the Chinese government could have & should have done that would have improved things at the margins, but they would only have improved things at the margins.
We have seen this play out already in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia & New Zealand. What is different is the information opacity. Case data would always be massive undercounts w/o mass screenings, but lack of credibility on deaths is very concerning.
I am thankful that my in-laws & their siblings have had mild to moderate cases so far. I am still quite concerned about the danger to my wife's grandparents.
Ohio Mom
That's interesting about guanfacine. It was first used to treat high blood pressure, then newer drugs made it obsolete for hypertension.
Nowadays it is used to treat attention issues (ADHD) and tic disorders. And now apparently, brain fog.
@YY_Sima Qian: As someone who has had 4 shots and 3 infections, I can say that my symptoms got milder with each case. The first case was before vaccines were available. The 3rd was after the 4 shots. Still wondering what all the long-term damage may be.
@Soprano2: One speculations is that urban elders are more connected online, & thus more vulnerable to misinformation wrt vaccines (there certain those floating around on WeChat groups, even now). Urban elders also have access to better healthcare, & generally felt very safe under "Dynamic Zero COVID". Rural elders are more likely to play along w/ government mobilization campaigns, including for vaccination.
As for what the Chinese people wanted, there was a large diversity of opinion. Some no longer wanted to put up w/ the lock downs, others wanted to stay the course w/ DZC. Some who had pushed for opening are now regretting the consequences. It depended on how much DZC policies have affected the individual. It took all of the socioeconomically damaging soft lockdowns & mass screenings just to contain the Omicron outbreaks, & population compliance was waning rapidly.
Masking rate is almost 100% (though too many still wear surgical masks), & the streets are quiet as many people stay home. That has not stopped COVID-19 from quickly burning through the urban populations of Beijing & Wuhan (& presumably other Chinese cities). Omicron is just that transmissive, & Chinese urban environment is just that dense. There is no graceful way to exit in the age of Omicron, as we have seen w/ other Zero COVID countries/regions.
@lowtechcyclist: When Ohio Family had Covid the first part of November, a casual observer wouldn't think we all had the same virus.
Ohio Dad's symptoms completely resembled a head cold: lots of nasal congestion and sneezing but still fairly energetic through the ten days or so while it ran its course.
I had what looked the flu, with a fever, chills, aches and fatigue, but no nasal congestion at all; Ohio Son was just quietly miserable, also with no nasal congestion, but for a shorter time period than his parents.
So maybe you did have Covid? I had to laugh at your son holed up in his room, that also describes Ohio Son.
@Argiope: Thank you for the kind words!
Fraud Guy
The problem with the Grossman tweet is that anti-vaxxers claim almost every death, even that from Covid (if vaccinated), as a vaccine related death, so to them there have been millions of deaths already.
We're clearly into our winter wave here in MA; it might have hit a second peak but it's a safe bet that the biggest one is still in the future. I can't say that so far it's been much milder than last winter; case rates are much lower but that is clearly bogus, since wastewater and hospital admissions are comparable. But at this point last year the Omicron wave hadn't really gone vertical yet.
A bunch of my coworkers are back at the office but I will probably hold off my return until the new year at least.
kalakal
@YY_Sima Qian: I'm sorry to hear of your illness and glad to hear that you and your family are on the mend. I very much appreciate your comments, both on the Covid posts and elsewhere. Hope you're all well again very soon
@Chetan Murthy: On vaccination, the number of shots into arms have increased 13X fold over the past week+. The Chinese government had tried all kinds of carrots & sticks to motivate the elderly refuseniks to take the shots, everything short of mandates (which some cities tried but had to back pedal quickly after public outrage), but the drive hit a wall by Q3.
I guess fear is a great motivator.
Locally, hospitalizations seem to have peaked a week or two ago, or at the very least are on an extended plateau. Much better than previous winter waves (this year: ~1300 people in the hospital county-wide, last year at the height, ~4600). Fingers crossed that this is truly the peak.
@Ohio Mom: That was me and my husband when we had Covid, we had completely different symptoms while we had it at the same time!
@kalakal: Thanks. All in all my symptoms were not too bad, the fever is almost gone. I actually had a worse viral infection back in early Oct. Back then I had 5 days of fever, including 3 days of high fever, & a deep cough that lingered for a month. It wasn't COVID-19, as I had been tested 5 times on PCR during the 1st week.
@arrieve: Sorry to hear that. Hope you regain your health very soon
@YY_Sima Qian: I remember when the shots were first available to me, I immediately went on the Web site and scheduled the first time I could get. I almost cried when I got the second shot, I was so relieved to have some protection. So yeah, fear is a great motivator.
@lowtechcyclist: Sorry to hear about your wife's illness, I hope she gets well very soon. I get where you're coming from with the head cold/covid thing. I have chronic sinus problems and every so often I feel like I have about half a dozen covid symptoms, then I settle down.
@Soprano2: Oh I know what you mean about the sense of relief. I felt like a load had been lifted from me
@YY_Sima Qian: " I keep seeing anecdotes from the US & Europe of people having worse symptoms on their 3rd infections (but there is certain to be a strong selection bias on social media). w/ all of the vaccine shots & infections, shouldn't symptoms be progressively milder?"
There's published data that at least *some* people have progressively worse symptoms with re-infection. Emphasis on *some.* That absolutely does not exclude that for *most* people, the symptoms are milder (or not even noticed).
The aggregate data on hospitalizations and mortality, which is objective, is pretty persuasive that there are progressively fewer worst case outcomes. Not perfect, because the biggest pool of the most vulnerable to the worst outcomes were already killed earlier in the pandemic – but still pretty compelling (imo anyway).
@YY_Sima Qian: @arrieve: Wishing you both speedy and full recoveries.
I attended a holiday party on Sunday; the first indoor social event I've attended since May (which was a wedding, where I caught my second case of Covid). There were about 15 guests at this party, and six now have Covid. I'm testing negative and no symptoms, so that's good, but man, it feels like this will never end. Fortunately none of the six who caught it sound like they're terribly ill; they're ranging from no symptoms to uncomfortable but not miserable.
@New Deal democrat: Thank you for the explanation.
I must say discussing the pandemic w/ the community here has helped me prepared for the exit wave in China, & helped me educate other on what the new normal will likely be post-exit wave. For that I am quite grateful.
Case in point, I told my wife & family that we now have to do at least the RAT before visiting our oldest & most vulnerable elders, or before large family gatherings (Chinese New Year comes to mind for both). It was not something that ever occurred to any of them.
@Ohio Mom:
The kiddo's fifteen this year, and that's the way they are these days, communicating on TikTok and other social media. Seems to work for them.
It's always possible that that head cold was Covid, I suppose, but I still have a hard time believing it. Too late to tell now, though – I didn't bother to test myself because it really was a classic head cold like I could have had anytime in the past fifty years.
I'm supposed to help out with concessions tonight at our local community theater, and I'm going to test myself this afternoon to make sure I'm safe before going.
@rikyrah: Same. They're supposed to ship next week.
The last time I tried to order some from USPS (a few months ago), they said that I had received my entitlement so I couldn't get any more. They seem to have reset the counter with this announcement, so if anyone was in a similar situation as me, go do it.
Post-Thanksgiving wastewater virus numbers are taking off like a rocketship so be careful out there…
gvgl
I don't understand China's decision to go from total control to let it rip. I really don't understand. I always knew it would be hard to transition and they seemed to be making no effort to prepare for it which is IMO why people got frustrated, but the total change is weird.
They could have announced a target date and presented vaccinations as a fear warning….even let some cities go first so people would believe.
I guess it is good they are finally choosing to vaccinate (some people I mean). I wish I had better faith in their own vaccines.
The policy change is almost like a different faction won control. If so the new policy is not going to look good. Something more moderate would have been better I think.
@gvgl: There is no moderate way to contain Omicron spread. The latest Omicron variants have R0 > 10. Hong Kong & Taiwan had maintained quite a bit of mitigation measures (relative to common practice in North America & Europe) after Omicron breached efforts at containment, these soft measures didn't do much to slow transmission.
As for letting some cities be the guinea pigs, the selected cities would need to be sealed off by cordon sanitaire, & the populations there would probably revolt. Arguably, Shanghai in spring 2022 did try the softer approach to contain Omicron, until it was exporting so many cases to the rest of China that they were triggering lock downs across much of the country.
@YY_Sima Qian: Thanks for your continued reporting here. I'm glad you're recovering.
Does China publish wastewater virus numbers? I've been using that as a metric here as it seems to be something that (even with all its problems – the 1-2 week lags, the missing of many cities and all septic systems, etc.) is of some value in figuring out how bad infections are in an area.
Fingers crossed for everyone.
I know some for-real political anti-vaxxers at this point, people who specifically won't get COVID boosters because Republicans say it's not cool. Quite a mental ecosystem they've built up there.
Will this be a triggering as the suggestion that antivaxxers may not be the best drivers?
Not precisely sure what she means by this, but if she thinks even one of these people are going to reconsider, she is wrong. They have been taught, and sincerely believe, that these numbers are nothing but raw made-up bullshit.
Quite a few of them believe any excess deaths in 2020, 2021 and 2022 are from the COVID vaccine and that COVID has not killed one single person.
Don't know how this gets fixed. I am at a total loss as to what we should do with these people.
@Another Scott: I am sure Chinese health authorities monitor waste water, based on the odd published paper & media reports. However, it is not released to the public. Hasn't been all that relevant under DZC. Definitely would be useful now!
Looks like I'm part of the trend, along with everyone in the household. My son came home from college, tested positive on 12/3, I was a day later, my wife a day after me. I took a round of Pax and was feeling 95% normal on Day 9. Then yesterday Day10 the rebound hit. Same symptoms as before. Ugh.
Our family is weathering now a 3rd wave of colds since September. No Covid, but lots of sinus congestion, coughing, etc. Everyone in our community seems to have some version of cold or flu right now, but I don't know anyone who's had Covid in a while. Fingers crossed.
And speaking of Covid and boosters and all that, sure enough a new ABC poll out shows widespread hesitancy to get the new bivalent booster, primarily because people don't think it works. Well duh. The medical Twitterati and other reporters out there on the Covid beat have been going on and on about how omicron is a million times more contagious than earlier variants and totally bypasses even your boosted immune system. What are people supposed to think? To most ears that = "why bother?". The broader public still doesn't seem to grok that a vaccine won't always prevent you from contracting Covid, but it will dramatically reduce the chances that it puts you in the hospital or kills you and the media has played an outsize role, imho, in perpetuating that misperception.
@The Moar You Know: There was some report/study out the other day showing that there is a very slight risk in some people that mRNA vaccines can produce a certain kind of heart problem. Of course, the anti-vaxxers latched on to this and have been screaming for days now that we have ironclad proof now Covid boosters will basically kill you. If you look at all the studies on Covid/Covid vaccines and heart health, the one major, incredibly robustly-demonstrated conclusion is that the worst thing for your heart is *getting Covid*. But you can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into to begin with.
Even more worrying now is that we're starting to see not just Covid vaccine resistance, but a significant segment of the population now turning against other routine childhood vaccinations. I suppose next there will be some kind of movement to ban disinfectants and masks in operating rooms because the germ theory of disease is a liberal globalist conspiracy of some kind. I wish I were joking.
I don't know how I did it but I misplaced my box of N95 masks. I've been using several I keep in my car but it's time to toss them, so I've ordered a new box. I just don't feel protected using the blue masks – why the N95s aren't with that box is beyond me.
Stay safe, people!
@Fraud Guy:
They appear to have forgotten that there were a large number of COVID-19 deaths, and even emerging long COVID (covid sequelae) prior to COVID-19 vaccinations being generally available. Also, COVID-caused myocarditis, and COVID-caused blood clots, and sudden mysterious apparently-COVID-related deaths were happening in populations prior to those populations being vaccinated.
These people cannot have been injured by COVID-19 vaccines, unless those vaccines were time-traveling.
Time-travelling vaccines! We have proof of time-travel!
KrackenJack
You fooled me with the .gov link in a Twitler image, but good for you AL for doing that.
Also I wish the government hadn't given up on updating their definitions of fully vaxxed. It influences a lot of normies.
JAFD
@lowtechcyclist:
Methinks 'twould be good time to declare that you've converted to Russian Orthodox, and thus are celebrating Christmas two weeks after the rest of us ;-)
Regardless, hope y'all feel lots better real soon !
also, Happy Beethoven's Birthday, everyone !
Two particular things bothering me about Covid.
And this is besides Covid affecting Friends here and afar.
One. That an effort to team up against the pandemic was used instead to disable the union.
Two. Tonight is the third garden club Christmas party I will be missing. Mrs. eachother is going. We had Covid in September and got the latest booster 11 days ago.
I hope the only things she brings home are leftovers, the exchanged gift and memories.
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The contemporary situation of neoliberalism can be delineated as a doubled entity that concerns at once the role of the economic market and the formation of the citizen-subject. Under neoliberalism, the market holds unquestioned supremacy over the state in "distributing public resources," and this market dominance supports a brutal individualism that Aiwha Ong describes as "'competitive,' 'possessive,' and construed often in terms of the doctrine of 'consumer sovereignty.'"3 As I see it, neoliberalism is a social system in which the formation of one's sense of self is calibrated and intercalated with the pulse of market relations. The priority of the market in distributing public resources is evidenced in such socioeconomic changes as the early 1970s shift of retirement funds from accounts held and protected by employers to market-based 401(k)s and 403(b)s—the risk of which falls to the shoulders (and pockets) of employees4—and also in the 2008 rhetoric that the financial industries were "too big to fail," thus justifying the TARP funding that saved Wall Street but dismissed homeowners and workers with a parallel—but opposite—rhetoric of individual responsibility.5 In colleges and universities, this sort of market logic reduces mission to profit—or at least a quantifiable, objectified "good." The results include: (1) the hiring of adjunct faculty more than tenure-track faculty; (2) mandates to increase teaching loads, class size, or both; (3) the undermining of faculty governance at both department and college levels; and (4) the erosion of the assumed good of tenure—all of which make it increasingly difficult to sustain the view that students are anything other than consumers opting among superstore-like shelves of academic commodities.
For many faculty, the department's faculty web pages—once a nifty informational tool for colleagues and current and prospective students—has become obligatory to create and maintain with a current picture, CV, hyperlinks to publications, and course information. Web presence wraps around one's name and promulgates one's worth and status more effectively than word of mouth or professional reputation (indeed, it could be argued that web presence now simply is today's word of mouth and professional reputation). This increased compulsion to craft and market one's reputation as a scholar-teacher can be positioned as part of neoliberalism's voracious warping of the temporal dynamics of academic labor. As Fredric Jameson has written recently, the expansionist flows of global capital mimic the Red Queen, who must run as fast as she can just to stay in place.8 As flows capital, so congeals the worker-subject: exhaustion, increased workload, precarious employment, anxiety, and the burden of performing one's own professional legitimization on top of the labor of performing one's professional tasks—this is the state of many of today's faculty. Even bracketing the notion of a life outside (or on the sidelines) of this all-consuming work, it is hard to see how "balance" enters into this situation.
It should also seem hard to understand why balance has become such a widespread concern, but its putative self-evidence obscures its historical and contingent development. One useful rubric for clarifying the increased attention to and tactics for managing the habits and rhythms of workers and populations is "biopower," a shorthand term for the wide-ranging technologies that govern the individual worker and citizen in postindustrial societies.9 Foucault gave a succinct distinction between disciplinary power and biopower in his statement that the former "makes die or lets live," (the guillotine or a pardon) whereas the tactics of biopower "make live and let die" (vaccines and toxic waste dumps).10 The question of work-life balance, then, arises because we live in an era of biopower in which the attitude and practices of workers and citizens are central to the fluid operations of economic and political processes.
The concept of biopower, however, while providing a general account that may allow for the various contradictions of identity politics, itself remains an unmarked theory; it does not account for the different ways that different bodies are affected by the same biopolitical technology. This presumptive neutrality is important when one considers that the development of biopolitical management tactics, the solidification of neoliberal economics, and the professionalization of educated white women all occurred during the 1970s and intensified in the 1980s. When the financial crises of the 1970s caused white male professional salaries to plummet, white women were, for the first time, encouraged to enter the workforce.11 The discursive upshot of these social and economic changes was thus hardly oblivious to race or gender. Rather, the debate about work-life balance is a debate addressed primarily to professional labor such as academics, and hence primarily to hegemonic white bodies, and it became visible and voracious around the pressure point where the production of neoliberal subjectivity converged with bourgeois and white gender politics, namely, the social reproduction of labor.
To conclude, the entire "problem" of work-life balance can be seen as a symptom marking the necessity of social reproduction alongside the failed integration of educated women (no longer only White) into the workforce.16 Work-life balance in the academy thus signals a double disavowal: first of the gendered dynamics of time and labor that still fall heavily on women who bear children (relegated as a "private choice" and covered by professional dynamics that quietly punish women faculty who have children)17 and second of the historically contingent social infrastructure that eviscerates life for the sake of work (relegated as "professional success" and covered by the punishing rhetoric of individual will and the "need" for better time-management techniques).
1 I wish to register my thanks to Jacqueline Hidalgo for her insightful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this essay. What remains unsatisfactory is of course my own failing.
2 For reasons I will touch on below, this essay focuses especially on white, heterosexual women academics with children as a constellation of normative factors that have driven the "work-life balance" discourse. This focus is not to overlook other factors that are also crucial and central, but only to suggest that the centrality of the latter has been denied or disavowed for the sake of keeping discursive and policy spotlights on hegemonic bodies.
3 Aiwha Ong, Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 11.
4 See Ellen E. Schultz, Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2011) for a 21st century version of this asymmetric burden and risk on retirement funds.
5 TARP is the acronym for Troubled Asset Relief Program, initially authorized by the US Congress in October 2008 for $700 billion, and reduced to $475 billion by the Dodd-Frank Act of June 2010. http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TARP-Programs/Pages/default.aspx, accessed July 12, 2014.
6 See Antonio Negri, The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2008); Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2008).
7 Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of the Indebted Man, trans. Joshua David Jordan (Amsterdam: semiotext(e), 2012), 143. Lazzarato speaks directly to the social dynamics underpinning the question of work-life balance: "the increase in psychologists', sociologists', and other 'self-help' experts' interventions, the creation of 'coaching' for better-off workers and obligatory individual monitoring for the poor and unemployed, the explosion of 'care of the self' techniques in society—these are symptoms of the new forms of individual government, which include, above all, the shaping of subjectivity" (95).
8 Fredric Jameson, Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume 1 (New York: Verso, 2011), 68.
9 Foucault discusses biopower in many of his later works, from 1976 on. See Part Five of History of Sexuality, volume 1 (New York: Vintage Books, 1978), and his Collège de France Lectures from Society Must Be Defended, 1975-1976, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003) to Birth of Biopolitics, 1978-1979, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
10 Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, Lectures at the Collège de France 1975-1976, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), 240-241.
11 Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (Boston: South End Press, 1996), 135. The authors note that the social approbation given working women was completely lacking in the 1930s, when middle class families had equal or greater need for more than one salary.
13http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/being-married-helps-professors-get-ahead-but-only-if-theyre-male/267289/ ; http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/the-pregnancy-penalty-how-working-women-pay-for-having-kids/266239/ ; http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/24/489973/paid-maternity-leave-us/. All accessed July 12, 2014.
14 Amott and Matthaei, 139.
15 It is also interesting to note that while female professional workers have been told it was 'their fault' if they had children and derailed their careers, men have been increasingly blamed for being bad parents and lazy housekeepers, even while their careers have not suffered from marriage or children.
16 Non- or lesser-educated women have also failed to integrate into the workforce because of the labor requirements of social reproduction (childrearing), but their desperate struggles are not framed as "work-life balance." In fact, they are rarely framed at all. The academic struggle for work-life balance is, fundamentally, a struggle of privilege and by the privileged.
17 I have come to call the dynamics of silence and censure around women faculty having and raising children the anti-maternality of the academy, a disposition distinct from misogyny but still falling under the general umbrella of sexism. These dynamics hold even in women's and gender studies departments (that academic site of hyper-policed solidarity), where even if I raise the issue of children as a feminist, the discussion quickly devolves into debates about essentialism, as if the social fact that wombs bear babies (regardless of whether those wombs are in bodies labeled woman/female or man/male) automatically threatens a social mandate that all wombs must bear babies.
18 Gayatri Spivak, "Terror: A Speech after 9-11", boundary 2, 31:2 (Summer 2004), 81 and 98. See other expositions of this training in imagination and rearrangement of desire in her book, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
19 The phrase "complex love" belongs to Anne Joh, who may or may not wish to be associated with the way I've used it here, but to whom I owe so much in thinking through the affective costs of academic anti-maternality.
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Tonight I worked dialogue with some of the cast and had a really interesting time talking about the piece. In order to shorten the musical (it's rather long), I had made some pretty significant cuts. However upon hearing the lines spoken by the players tonight, I decided to open up a number of those cuts. It'll really help the show, and certainly makes me feel good as I love so much of the dialogue - being a fan of the Arthur legends since I was a young boy.
It's getting late, so I'll cut to the chase: I think that musicals AND operas should be treated much more as living entities that need to be reborn each time they are presented. We're currently in a present, operatically speaking, where directors and production designers re-think the operas, but where the music directors strive for note perfect renditions based on critical editions. It presents problems when one is trying to create a whole piece in a genre that is based on sung text.
Agreed. If we want our art form to survive, it has to constantly be reborn and adapt. See you soon Patrick!!!!
I like this! The living entity of theatre has to be renewed and reborn with each incarnation of a production!
Absolutely agreed (and very well put). Opera and theater is alive. We should be careful not to present older established works as museum pieces.


We study a framework where agents have to avoid aversive signals.
The agents are given only partial information, in the form of features that are projections of task states.
Additionally, the agents have to cope with non-determinism, defined as unpredictability on the way that actions are executed.
The goal of each agent is to define its behavior based on feature-action pairs that reliably avoid aversive signals.
We study a learning algorithm, called A-learning, that exhibits fixpoint convergence, where the belief of the allowed feature-action pairs eventually becomes fixed.
A-learning is parameter-free and easy to implement.


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Incorporating in the State of Delaware is the logical choice for a large number of companies we represent. Many founders think incorporating in their home state is the best option, however that is not always the case. There are several reasons companies incorporate in Delaware, some of which will be discussed below.
The State of Delaware has been the preferred home to large corporations and small companies from across the globe for many years. As a result, they have specialized courts that only deal with corporate disputes and issues. Delaware law is extremely predictable and is largely seen as business friendly. All Delaware judges are thoroughly trained in all sorts of business matters, so there is comfort knowing that the judge will be someone that knows exactly what they are talking about. This is not always the case in other jurisdictions. Decisions are generally issued via written statements, thus making it easier to review and ensures predictability. While many of the safeguards Delaware has in place wont effect a company until an issue arises, some even effect a company on day one. For example, the State of Delaware will allow a company to decide most operational issues for themselves. Other states like to dictate how a company should be operated and create sometimes burdensome and inapplicable restrictions on companies and its shareholders. Delaware is well known for providing maximum flexibility in the structuring and operation of business entities, including the allocation of rights, risks and duties among founders and shareholders.
Delaware does not require officers and directors names be listed in the formation documents. In fact, most of the time the documents merely list the attorney who filed them with the State of Delaware.
Delaware makes it extremely quick and easy to form an entity. Generally, filings will come back the same day. A handful of Delaware registered agents have direct connections to the Division of Corporation's electronic database, and can file your company's formation documents electronically. Formation in Delaware can not only be quick, but also cheaper than other jurisdictions. The initial formation costs, as well as all ongoing fees are generally among the most affordable in the country.
Virtually every investor in the United States (and perhaps the world) is familiar and comfortable with Delaware law. Law students across the country study the Delaware corporation statute and the decisions of Delaware courts interpreting that law. As a result of their client's needs and law school teachings, many lawyers are far more familiar with Delaware law then they are with their home jurisdiction. Many investors will require a company be incorporated in Delaware before making an initial investment. If you plan on raising funds from an investment bank or venture capital firm, you will likely be forced to become a Delaware entity. The cost of converting a foreign entity into a Delaware company is far more expensive than any initial formation costs.
These are just some of the reasons it may make sense to form your company in the State of Delaware. This blog post is not intended to provide legal advice. You should consult legal counsel to discuss the facts and circumstances of your particular situation.


Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "The food for two suffices for three; and the food for three suffices for four persons."[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].In Muslim, Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The food for one person suffices for two; the food for two suffices for four, and the food fof four suffices for eight persons."
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Q: What's the best way to pass data between concurrent threads in .NET? I have two threads, one needs to poll a bunch of separate static resources looking for updates. The other one needs to get the data and store it in the database.  How can thread 1 tell thread 2 that there is something to process?

A: If the pieces of data are independant then treat the pieces of data as work items to be processed by a pool of threads. Use the thread pool and QueueUserWorkItem to post the data to the thread(s). You should get better scalability using a pool of symmetric threads and limiting the amount of synchronisation that has to occur between the producer and consumer(s).
For example (from MSDN):
    TaskInfo ti = new TaskInfo("This report displays the number {0}.", 42);

    // Queue the task and data.
    if (ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(ThreadProc), ti)) {
        Console.WriteLine("Main thread does some work, then sleeps.");

        // If you comment out the Sleep, the main thread exits before
        // the ThreadPool task has a chance to run.  ThreadPool uses
        // background threads, which do not keep the application
        // running.  (This is a simple example of a race condition.)
        Thread.Sleep(1000);

        Console.WriteLine("Main thread exits.");
    }
    else {
        Console.WriteLine("Unable to queue ThreadPool request.");
    }

// The thread procedure performs the independent task, in this case
// formatting and printing a very simple report.
//
static void ThreadProc(Object stateInfo) {
    TaskInfo ti = (TaskInfo) stateInfo;
    Console.WriteLine(ti.Boilerplate, ti.Value);
}

A: I use Monitor.Wait / Pulse on a Queue of work items.

A: Does the "store in the DB" thread always need to be running? It seems like perhaps the best option (if possible) would be to have the polling thread spin up another thread to do the save. Depending on the number of threads being created though, it could be that having the first polling thread use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() might be the more efficient route.
For more efficiency, when saving to the database, I would use async I/O on the DB rather than the sync methods.
Anytime you can get away from having to communicate directly between two threads, you should. Having to throw together some sync primitives, your code won't be as easy to debug and could introduce some very subtle race conditions that cause "once in a million execution" type bugs (which are far from fun to find/fix).
If the second thread always needs to be executing, let us know why with some more information and we can come back with a more in-depth answer.
Good luck!

A: I personally would have thread 1 raise events which thread 2 can respond to.  The threads can be wired up to the appropriate events by the controlling process which initiates both the threads.

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The Feb. 1 event at Kelly Writers House in conversation with Camille Z. Charles, the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, was co-sponsored by the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), Kelly Writers House, and the Center for Africana Studies.
SP2 Dean Sara S. Bachman introduced Jealous. Like his book, "Ben embodies hope," she said. "He helps us to see the path forward."
Jealous is professor of practice at SP2, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Arts & Sciences, as well as distinguished visiting fellow at Penn Carey Law and executive director of the Sierra Club.
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I love it. The more mainstream the better. Screw originality. If it's on the Billboard Top 100 Chart, there's a good chance that I'll like it. Biebs? Bring it on. Pink? Yep. I love being able to sing along. Better yet, I love when there is a story that speaks to me. Maybe it's simply that I like pop and folk music and that they just happen to be pretty mainstream. But they are mainstream - liked by most people - for a reason. It's because they are good. With that, think it's time to put some mainstream music on and get to bed.


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Top Tech Foundation: Deplatforming Not Enough, Entire Internet Needs to Change After Capitol Incursion
Mozilla, the foundation and developer of the popular free web browser Firefox, published a blog post on Friday arguing that silencing and de-platforming President Donald Trump is not enough and that the entire internet needs to be re-tooled to stifle political dissent.
"There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6," Mozilla said in a blog post. "Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?"
"But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality," the company said. "Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won't be the last. We need solutions that don't start after untold damage has been done."
Mozilla essentially called everyone who didn't vote for Democrats in the last election racist. Then, it advocated for more censorship and more voter disenfranchisement for conservatives who already face so much discrimination in their daily lives.
The company said it is time to unmask "who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted," which sounds an awful lot like an advocation for doxing people. Surely, that won't be misused and unevenly applied.
"Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation," Mozilla added.
Finally, the Mozilla said the tech must "Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms' impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things."
"These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that," concluded Mozilla.
Mozilla also took to Twitter to share its message:
This week we saw the culmination of a four-year disinformation campaign orchestrated by the President. We have to acknowledge how the internet was misused to get here.
And we have to change it.https://t.co/gIVZHQPYT4
— Mozilla (@mozilla) January 8, 2021
One of the top responses was my personal favorite:
Hey cool fix your browser's memory leak problems.
The job is just to render webpages. Im sorry your employees went to college thinking they'd change the world and ended up doing such mundane tasks.
— LingolaXD (@LingolaXd) January 9, 2021
Is it too much to ask a software company to just make software? In this day and age, apparently so.
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Many others vowed to remove the average-at-best browser from their computers. But the symbolic removal of Firefox won't be enough to stop Big Tech's continued assault on free speech, though. It's difficult to tell what will, especially since Congress won't do anything about it. But the statement puts us all one notice.
Mozilla's Twitter bio verbatim reads: "We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all."
Apparently, the optics of the breach of the Capitol Building were all it took for a company to change its mission from "offer free access to information" to "suppress more people."
Following the shameful incursion on Wednesday at the Capitol, the institutional leftists who run and control essentially every aspect of our society have spent their days pretending the event was the absolute worst thing that has ever occurred — even though we all know it wasn't.
Like everything leftists do when they think they've hit the public vein, they've gone overboard and missed the mark. Big Tech is now calling to neutralize the voices of people who are already angry because they feel like they aren't allowed to express themselves.
It doesn't seem likely to end well for anyone when censorship is no longer enough.
And it's probably not a coincidence either that the day Twitter took action against Trump and Mozilla proposed weaponizing the internet against conservatism, that Apple and Google decided to target the free speech platform Parler. The future of the app is now in doubt.
Do you think social media platforms should be broken up and/or regulated?
The heavy-handed and apparently coordinated response to the actions taken by so few people on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. shows the hypocrisy of corporate America, the Democrats and tech oligarchs. Where was this censorship and dehumanization of people when leftists spent 2020 burning down small businesses during murderous riots?
An angry mob is the worst thing on the earth if it can be connected to conservatives and especially to the president. Never mind 99.99 percent of us had nothing to do with what happened.
But those using the event for political gain have overestimated the Capitol incursion's value to them. Now, the story of the year is about censorship, and not the actions of those who stormed Congress. Big Tech is cutting off its own nose to spite its face in order to label millions of people as domestic terrorists.
Big Tech is creating martyrs for free speech while debasing discourse.
President Trump was essentially deleted from society on Friday when fascist Twitter banned him from the platform. But Trump will not be the last person the tech leftists attempt to disappear online — not since they were delivered what they view as a justification for banning wrongthink.
They will, as Mozilla signaled, eventually come for all who don't subscribe to the twisted value systems of Silicon Valley and Washington.
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Temperature for February 1993
In February 1993 the average high temperature in Tyler, TX was 0.0°F, and this was 62.0°F cooler than the average of 62.0°F. The hottest day in February 1993 was 0 February when the temperature reached 0.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in February is 41.6°F and in 1993 the average overnight temperature was 41.6°F cooler at 0.0°F.
Precipitation for February 1993
In February the average monthly rainfall in Tyler, TX is 1.96 inches with rain usually falling on 6 days. In February 1993 there was a total of 0.00 inches of rain, that fell on 0 days.


After what felt like decades of cold space between the two Ca$ h Money OG's, Juve and Birdman recently dropped a new joint album in Just Another Gangsta and today have dropped their first visual in support of the project. Flying high and luxurious in their visual to "Breeze," Juvenile and Birdman seem to have buried the hatchet as they sip on bubbly while they make their way to, well, we don't know. A beach maybe? Vegas? N'awlins?