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The politicians who've run up our current record debts and deficits should be ashamed of themselves.
The first step to solving any problem is admitting that you have one. And the United States definitely has a spending problem.
Sadly, no one in Washington wants to admit it.
But refusing to accept reality does not make it go away; reality has a tendency to reassert itself at inconvenient times. And the reality is this: The United States is the most indebted entity in the history of the world. As of January 1, 2021, the federal debt topped $28 trillion: that's twenty-eight million million, or $28,000,000,000,000. (Unless otherwise noted, all data in this article come from the St. Louis Fed.) That is an increase of nearly $5 trillion in the last twelve months, and a nearly $14 trillion increase over the last ten years. For context, the public debt did not reach $14 trillion until 2010, meaning that we have added as much debt to our national ledger in the last decade as we did in the first 221 years as a country. None of this includes the trillions more that Congress appears intent on spending on "infrastructure" both "hard" and "soft," whatever those terms may mean.
The debt is out of control because spending is out of control. In four of the last five fiscal quarters, the United States spent, on an annualized basis, at least $7.2 trillion, and as much as $9.1 trillion. Yes, much of that was in response to the pandemic (though even more was in response to the government's response to the pandemic). But even before the pandemic, in 2019, we were spending nearly $5 trillion annually. Do you feel like you are getting $5 trillion worth of value from your federal government each year? Neither do I.
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These numbers are staggering enough, but not nearly as staggering as the coming tsunami of spending and debt that this country is facing from entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, at least as currently structured. The government's own estimates show that social-insurance programs will spend roughly $65.5 trillion more than they take in. But that may be low. By one estimate, promises made about future Social Security and Medicare benefits total over $95 trillion (again, that's ninety-five million million or $95,000,000,000,000). Regardless of which estimate is used, we are looking at a number so large that it is difficult to comprehend. To take just one example, the amount of unfunded liabilities is substantially more than what is available to the banking system: All of the assets in all of the commercial banks in the country equal only $21.9 trillion. What makes this worse is that we have known for years — decades even — that our entitlement programs were on the glide path to bankruptcy. But rather than making the tough choices required of true leaders, politicians in Washington continued to kick the can down the road, recklessly promising more spending and leaving the mess to future generations.
So yes, America has a spending problem. We have spent more than we have taken in. And we have made promises of future spending that we have not adequately financed. This spending problem is bipartisan: In the four years of unified Democratic control of Congress from 2007 through 2010, the debt grew by $5.3 trillion, while it grew by nearly $4 trillion from 2015 through 2018 when Republicans had unified control of Congress. Each of those periods also featured two years of a Republican in the White House, and two years of a Democrat in the White House. While the faces may change, the story stays the same: We. Spend. Too. Much. Money.
This is probably because there is no political constituency for fiscal restraint. There is no great mass of American people demanding that we spend less, while plenty are demanding that we spend more — at least on what they want it spent on. At the end of the day, the people get the government that they want. And right now the people want a government that does not care about running up debt.
Nor is the bond market proving to be an adequate check on the insatiable desire of politicians to spend other people's money. Politicians used to exercise at least some restraint for fear that not doing so would adversely affect borrowing costs. James Carville, a close adviser to President Bill Clinton, once quipped that he wanted to be reincarnated "as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." But fear of the bond market is not pushing America to get its fiscal house in order. This is likely for at least two reasons. First, experience has shown that large debt balances do not adversely affect the ability to borrow, at least not much. For example, Japan has no problems issuing new debt despite having a debt-to-GDP ratio well in excess of ours; indeed, much of Japan's short-term debt has negative yields. This is perhaps because there is so much capital searching for safe assets that a highly indebted Japan is still a safer investment than nearly every other option.
Second, the bond market itself may not adequately assess the risk posed by excessive government spending. In 2011, S&P lowered its rating of United States sovereign debt. It did so because the legislative process for fiscal policy was too "contentious and fitful" to address the country's debt issues, and questioned the overall "effectiveness, stability, and predictability of policymaking and political institutions." It also expressed concern about the country's entitlement programs and debt-to-GDP ratio, especially as compared with other peer countries such as the U.K. The downgrade did not appear to have any real effect on U.S. borrowing — from the third quarter of 2011, when the rating was downgraded, through the first quarter of 2021, total federal public debt nearly doubled, and our borrowing rates are at or near all-time lows. Perhaps most telling is the fact that S&P has not further downgraded the U.S. rating since 2011 despite the fact that each of the items that drove its initial downgrade have gotten appreciably worse: The legislative process is even more contentious than it was in 2011, the solvency of our entitlement system continues to erode, and our debt-to-GDP ratio is much worse now than it was before.
Further, S&P, and the bond market more generally, may not understand that the path to fiscal discipline must focus more on reducing spending rather than raising taxes, at least where the U.S. is concerned. In announcing the rating downgrade, S&P noted that, even though it was officially neutral on whether taxes should be raised, it was changing assumptions it made about certain changes in tax policy because "Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues." This was consistent with how S&P evaluates sovereign debt generally, looking at whether "the government is able and willing to raise revenues through increases in tax rates" But in the United States, federal collections as a percentage of GDP have stayed within a relatively narrow range, regardless of what the top marginal rate is:
Our fiscal situation is a moral as well as a financial tragedy. We are leaving our children, and their children, and their children, with trillions in debt. It is not enough to point to COVID relief efforts and claim that all government debt is good and necessary. Leaving aside the fact that much of our federal spending over the past 18 months was not on responding to COVID per se, but rather responding to the economic harm wrought by the government response to COVID, that argument completely ignores the fact that we as a country had run up astronomical amounts of debt before 2020. And most of this debt was not incurred to make internal improvements to help the country flourish or defeat fascism. No, it was to fund current consumption, and allow politicians to put their names on buildings, or at least help their reelection. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Eric Blankenstein is director of policy at the American Cornerstone Institute and former associate director of supervision, enforcement, and fair lending at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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September 3, 2020 — 12.01am
She's had her image projected onto the world's tallest building, called out Donald Trump for his criticism of New Zealand's coronavirus response and won worldwide praise and recognition for her handling of the global pandemic.
But Jacinda Ardern's opponent in New Zealand's October 17 election is Judith Collins, the leader of the National Party, who believes the Prime Minister has a key vulnerability Collins will be able to exploit on election day.
New Zealand Opposition Leader Judith Collins has focused her attack on Jacinda Ardern in recent weeks. Credit:Getty Images
"One of the things we are seeing is an enormous arrogance from the government, which after only three years in office is displaying all the arrogance of a third term government," she told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
"So for instance Jacinda Ardern announced some weeks back that she wouldn't be bothering to put out policies, or words to that effect anyway, because they were going to make the election all about COVID."
Ardern, before the second outbreak of COVID-19 in Auckland, told voters not to expect a "large-scale range of policies" from Labour — the pandemic would be the government's focus.
"So having politicised it, she has now put herself in the unenviable position of having to then defend every single COVID cock up ... that's the problem, that arrogance," Collins said.
The New Zealand Parliament buildings in Wellington. The country became the envy of the world earlier this year when it succeeded in eliminating community transmission of the coronavirus. Credit:Bloomberg
Collins, a political veteran and former minister who only took the leadership of the Nationals on July 14, said New Zealanders were beginning to work out there was a big difference between what Ardern promises and what she delivers.
The Opposition Leader took over when Todd Muller stepped down for health reasons and faces an uphill battle to defeat the popular Ardern.
Horizon Research polling from August 27 showed 54 per cent of voters trusted Ardern to manage the economic recovery from the pandemic compared to 26 per cent for Collins, though Collins' support was higher than the 19 per cent Muller managed.
Similarly, Roy Morgan polling from August 8 — before a second wave of coronavirus in Auckland — showed Labour led National 53.5 per cent to 26.5 per cent, though those numbers are likely to tighten as the election nears and potentially also because of the second lockdown.
New team: National Party leader Judith Collins, right, with new deputy leader Gerry Brownlee, front left, in Wellington, New Zealand. Credit:Getty Images
Collins has focused her attack on Ardern in recent weeks with detailed questions in Parliament about the still-unknown source of the Auckland outbreak, deficiencies in testing of front-facing border staff, and a mistaken Health Ministry directive — since withdrawn — that all 700,000 people in south and west Auckland had to be tested for the disease.
New Zealand's handling of the pandemic has been widely praised, with just 1406 cases and 22 deaths in a country of about 5 million people, but Collins offers scant praise.
"We have as a country been saved by the fact that we are so far away from any other country. It's not that hard to keep isolated a country that already is isolated," Collins said.
"We are a 3½-hour flight from anywhere to any part of Australia, and 3½ hours to a Pacific Island."
"A lockdown is not hard to do, the issue is coming out of that."
National has released a range of policies including $4.4 billion over 10 years for school infrastructure, a new Border Agency modelled on Taiwan to co-ordinate the management of COVID-19, with more to come such as changes to the Resource Management Act ("a huge brake on the economy") to facilitate the rollout of new major projects.
Though she is coming from a long way back, Collins says she will leave no stone unturned to snatch an unlikely victory.
"People are starting to get grumpy and they are grumpy at the government because they have promised big and not quite actually achieved anything much," she said.
"People have drawn some comparison between Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau, [both are] somewhat more popular overseas than necessarily at home."
"Ms Ardern, she shows a lot of empathy for people, her university degree is in communications, so she is very good at that but ultimately organisation? No. Running a team? No. She is down to a few ministers that she puts confidence in. Does she have any experience in business? No, she does not. What is her experience? It's all in politics."
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An Award Show for Inclusion
Before she could accept her award in Hollywood for promoting diversity in major TV roles, Keli Lee flew to London to present to Disney executives.
By Sheila Marikar
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Two nights after the Emmy Awards, Keli Lee, the managing director of international content and talent at ABC Studios International, faced a dilemma. She had to choose between accepting an award in Hollywood for helping to cast people of color in major television roles—Sofia Vergara in "Modern Family," Kerry Washington in "Scandal," Viola Davis in "How to Get Away with Murder"—and flying to London to make a presentation to executives of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.
Standing outside the beige ballroom of the Loews Hollywood Hotel, an hour before the Adcolor Awards ceremony, Lee smoothed her hair and said, "The hurricane cancelled the flight I was supposed to take tomorrow morning, so I'm flying out tonight." She would have to head to LAX just as the ceremony was beginning.
"Oh, shit, which hurricane? Maria or Jose?" a man wearing a bow tie encrusted with tiny mirrors asked. He was Bing Chen, a former YouTube executive.
"Whatever one," Lee said.
"There are so many now," Chen said. He held up an iPhone to film her making an acceptance speech, to be played on a monitor while she was on her way to the airport. The Adcolor Awards commend diversity in media and advertising and give trophies to people more accustomed to conference rooms than to red carpets. In her remarks, Lee, who is forty-six, recalled emigrating from South Korea, assimilating with help from "Charlie's Angels" and "The Love Boat," and wondering why TV stars were mostly white when the people around her were not. When she finished recording, she was joined by Anjula Acharia, a talent manager and venture capitalist, who complimented her pink gown, which fastened at one shoulder with a bow of Oldenburgian proportions. "I'm going to change in the car," Lee said. "I've done that a few times. I scare the drivers."
Acharia and Lee walked a short red carpet. Nadja Bellan-White, an Ogilvy & Mather executive vice-president based in London, grabbed Lee's elbow. "I hear you have to leave," Bellan-White said. Like Lee, she was receiving a Legend Award that evening. (Earlier this year, as part of a conservation ad campaign, Bellan-White created a Tinder profile for the world's only remaining male northern white rhinoceros, who has a low sperm count; more than two million people swiped right on him, raising a hundred thousand dollars for researching alternative reproduction methods.)
Grabbing a pot sticker from a passing tray, Lee told Bellan-White about her presentation the next morning. "And you don't get to where we are without that shit," Bellan-White said. "You gotta go. The higher up you are, the worse it is. People are gunning for you. I was on conference calls last night at 3 A.M., 4 A.M., 5 A.M., because even though you're here, they've gotta know that this," she gestured around at the crowd, "means nothing."
"I'm up for the challenge," Lee said. "Though I'm a little sleepy."
"I was sick yesterday," Bellan-White said. "Because, after the long-ass flight to get here, I was done."
Prior to plotting the international expansion of ABC Studios—Lee oversees shows in the U.K., Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, and Italy—in 2001, she conceived of ABC's diversity showcase, an incubator for minority talent. "I was in a position to think about what's on television, who's on television, why aren't we seeing people who look like us?" Lee said. "If this is a talent-pipeline issue, how do we fix that? Let's go audition seven hundred people in New York and L.A. and try to find the best fourteen to twenty to nurture, develop, and create opportunities for them." The showcase gave Lupita Nyong'o, Gina Rodriguez, and Chadwick Boseman their starts.
"She created my son!" a man in burgundy velvet shouted. He was Jeff Yang, and his thirteen-year-old son, Hudson, stars in the sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat."
"She created everybody," Acharia said. Her client Priyanka Chopra stars in "Quantico."
"Hey, we're going to take a quick picture with all the Asians," Yang said, pulling at Lee.
"Are South Asians included?" Acharia asked.
A bell dinged, beckoning guests to their seats. As Lee prepared to leave, Chen said that he'd miss her at the after-party. Lee and Acharia spent the end of August club-hopping through Ibiza together. Chen said, "When I met Keli, I was, like, 'This girl knows how to party, and she's legit.' She can get shit-faced right now, but she'll be up and running tomorrow, you'd better believe that!"
Lee shot him a look. "I never get shit-faced," she said.
"I'm waiting for you to be Iger," Chen said. Robert Iger, the Disney C.E.O. to whom Lee reports, is stepping down in 2019. "That's not why I talk to you, by the way. I'm homies with you because I like you." ♦
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Six conglomerates form a joint procurement Web site
Six of the country's conglomerates have banded together to put up a P1 billion joint procurement Web site firm,the first of its kind in Asia that allows online access to their suppliers to bid for the supply of their requirements.MANILA, 19 June 2000 (Manila Bulletin) - The six conglomerates are the Aboitiz Group, Ayala Group, GokongweiGroup, Lopez Group, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.
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Six of the country's conglomerates have banded together to put up a P1 billion joint procurement Web site firm, the first of its kind in Asia that allows online access to their suppliers to bid for the supply of their requirements.
MANILA, 19 June 2000 (Manila Bulletin) - The six conglomerates are the Aboitiz Group, Ayala Group, Gokongwei Group, Lopez Group, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and United Laboratories.
A memorandum of understanding that will govern the formation of the proposed electronic procurement company with an initial capitalization of P1 billion will be signed today by the conglomerates to be witnessed by President Estrada.
"This is a major event of what IT, e-commerce means and I hope this will be replicated by other business firms," Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel A. Roxas II said.
To ensure that the procurement Web site is a working one, each one of the participating conglomerates is committing to a "significant amount of procurement".
Roxas did not reveal the amount the conglomerates will source from the Web site but said that the conglomerates require the "supplies of paper clips to cables ... you just can imagine what these conglomerates purchase that run to billions."
"This Internet-based procurement system has narrowed down the supply gap in the supply chain, eliminate the middlemen and reduce the paper works," Roxas said.
Roxas said the establishment of a procurement Web site has provided every supplier both local and foreign equal chance to bid via the Internet.
As buyers, SMEs will have greater discounts created by the volume of all buyers, and by using the Internet, they will lower the costs associated with the purchasing process itself.
"This is also a major break after the passage of the E-Commerce Act," he said.
The still unnamed firm will be managed by an independent professional group. The shareholders agreement is still in the process of final formulation for approval by the respective boards of the founding companies.
Based on the MOU, the group is looking at a start-up operation by November this year.
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I demand my consulting fees
Tim Craig at the Washington Post tracked down $10,000 in taxpayer money sent from Councilmember Marion Barry's office his alleged "stalkee," Donna Watts-Brighthaupt. Mike DeBonis at the CityPaper finds another $10K. Thit $20k is made up of various consulting fees, including $5k in computer consulting. It should be noted that all of these payments were made after the two became a couple.
Craig tracks down the official conflict of interest policies for the DC Government, and this appears to fall into a ridiculous grey area:
According to the District's conflict of interest laws, no public official should use an "official position or public office to obtain private financial gain for the public official or any member of their household, or any business with which the public official or any member of their household is associated."
Members of the household are defined in the statute as spouses, parents, brothers and sisters and children, as well as their spouses. The law does not appear to address girlfriends.
"The issue becomes whether [Barry's] relationship would fall into any of those categories," said Cecily E. Collier-Montgomery, director of the Office of Campaign Finance. She declined to comment further because her office could be asked to investigate Barry's hiring of Watts-Brighthaupt.
Well, regardless of technicalities, it stinks. But that's obvious. Not to mention that while the policy doesn't mention girlfriends, it does mention spouses. That made me think about how, Marion "Gay marriage will start a civil war" Barry is still married. Yeah, they've been separated for seven years now, but haven't gotten a divorce. Stay classy, your honor.
Shit, he's so good at manipulating people that not only does he get elected Mayor after going to prison, and then gets elected to the DC Council... he gets people to give him organs. Yeah, remember that whole ordeal? About how he was too ill to pay his taxes?
From another excellent WaPo article:
"He was raised by three women, and so he truly understands women and he speaks to your need," said Kim Dickens, who donated a kidney to Barry last year. "And if there is no need, he will create the need for you to be with him. He knows how to get into your life."
Damn. Now I'm waiting for the "Ripped From the Headlines" episode of Law and Order: SVU based on this whole saga.
In other news, I'm still waiting on my consulting fees to be paid. As people from the Wilson Building read this blog, I feel I've provided them with quite a bit of consulting. Heck, if you hire me at the rates Barry paid his girlfriend, I'll tell you what not to do before you do it, which beats reading about it in the newspaper and on blogs. It's a win-win situation for everyone involved.
Hell, at this rate, maybe I should just run for the DC Council myself. I'd say most of the DC "blogosphere" is generally more qualified and would make better representatives than the current crop we've got in there. The bar has been set so infinitely low.
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All this talk about Barry reminds me of a very special memory. Back in the early 2000s (when I was still working for the museum world in DC) I went to the opening of an exhibtion about Kenyan cloth at the Smithsonian's African Art Museum and he was there.
Apparently he had loaned several pieces to the exhibition and could not for the life of him understand why when he reached across to touch the artifacts that they would set off an alarm. I actually overheard him say, "why is it making that noise, it's mine".
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I like arriving at a job a few hours early. I can get waffles, check out a few local shops, and snap a few pictures. Maplewood Village is a wandering town, the perfect place to spend a Saturday afternoon.
One of favorite cameras to shoot on is a cheap plastic do-it-yourself twin lens reflex camera. Once assembled, the Recesky takes blurry, hipster-esque, low-fi images on 35mm film. The single, tiny plastic lens give images a unique look; the 35mm version of the Holga or Diana.
The little $15 kit was the catalyst for me rediscovering film photography, and, therefore, is the reason I ended up in Maplewood. Seeking photography work is but the latest stop on a long road that started when I developed my first Recesky test roll in my bathtub.
Shops and restaurants in the village of Maplewood are quaint and inviting. In the morning the streets were filled with shop owners and delivery people. At night the alfresco tables were packed with chatty locals.
One great find was the train station. Ever since my internship, where I took a train daily, I have had a fascination with stops and stations. Every platform has its own unique qualities and characteristics. They're tiny microcosms, representatives of the place in which they occupy.
Maplewood's train station is special in that it has been enhanced by artists. When you venture down into the tunnel beneath the tracks, you see a glimpse of the creativity of village's residents.
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Ed Sheeran: 'Stop Taking an Interest in Justin Bieber' – Interview
by jbz 12/07/2014 | 3:14 13 Posted in News
Ed Sheeran wants people to start ignoring Justin Bieber.
This all came up during an interview with Power 96.1 Morning Show in Atlanta, when Ed was asked about Justin's past (and present) troubles:
I don't think there is any going back from some stuff now. I think he has stable relationships in his life. I don't think that's the problem.
I think the problem is people expect too much from him, and people want too much and people are very grabby. People follow him around and he doesn't really have any privacy and never really has had any privacy.
I feel like it's not so much what he needs to do. It's what we need to do. We need to stop taking such an interest in him, and let him make his music because I genuinely like his music.
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Belieber 4 Eva 13/07/2014 | 10:52
He needs to shut up yeh justin had some issues but ur not him ur right he needs privacy but u DNT tell people to ignore him ed would get jumped by a lot if beliebers if they saw it the way I do
Birk 13/07/2014 | 7:36
What Ed Sheeran is saying is that people should give Justin some privacy, and quit reporting on every single thing he does. I agree, but on the other hand there are Beliebers who want to know every single thing he says or does.. So how do you balance that??
Hannah Cortez 12/07/2014 | 10:04
I didnt know ED had an accent ? but i agree with him. People need to stop worrying about what he does and just let him do his own thing. He doesnt even get his own privacy anymore and now i just feel bad for him bcuzz its like he has no freedom. Its like the world is after him or obsessed with him
Belieber 12/07/2014 | 9:22
Everything Ed Sheeran said was on point & correct. I have respect for him now. Thank u
Lailani 12/07/2014 | 9:43
At least Justin has his friends that defend him. He'll always have the support from his friends and family . Since the Stalkrazzi are trocious fools
lambor500S 12/07/2014 | 7:09
I agree with Ed Sheeran on the privacy part it is alot of pressure and very little privacy once you become famous. If, the paparazzi would give him some breathing room and back off from following him everywhere he goes. No one would know half of Justin business today. Unless he puts something on Bieberzone
ivan 12/07/2014 | 6:55
The headline makes it seem he's talking bad about him; the opposite is true. He's pointing out he has no privacy. Everything he does, the media looks at. HE NEEDS TO BE LEFT ALONE ONCE IN A WHILE.
I feel Sorry for him. Justin is Amazing guy. He needs privacy.
Nicki 12/07/2014 | 4:36
I agree with him about his privacy but ignoring him I don't agree.
stringbiebs 12/07/2014 | 6:38
I think he really mean ignore the drama you hear about him not ignore him completely.
#1belieber 12/07/2014 | 3:43
Firsst!!!! I don't agree with him. Simple as that. Don't ask me why 'cuz I don't know yet.
woriah 12/07/2014 | 4:01
what the hell is that supposed to mean? He is protecting Bieber and his privacy…
At least Ed knows whats it's like to have no privacy.
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The American Medical Student Association:1. BELIEVES that global warming is one of the major threats to public health and health equity in our time and that all sectors of society, especially the health professional community, must be engaged in solutions to the climate crisis. (2009)2. BELIEVES that stabilization of climate change in time to minimize harm to the global community will require a reduction of global warming emissions to at least 80 percent below current levels by the year 2050 and may require movement toward zero emissions. (2009)3. JOINS the global community in pursuit of the 2050 climate stabilization goal by organizing staff, national leaders, and other interested members charged with creating an inventory of our organizational greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions and implementation of a comprehensive plan to achieve significant, measurable and sustainable reduction of those GHG emissions to at least 80 percent below current levels by 2050, with the ultimate goal of a policy of climate neutrality: net-zero global warming emissions. The committee will develop a plan that establishes short-, mid-, and long-term GHG reduction targets, make the inventory and plan available to AMSA members and will regularly review institutional progress and new scientific data related to climate stabilization. (2009)4. COMMITS to reduction of GHG emissions by a variety of means, including budget-neutral and budget-saving measures, at all AMSA properties and functions. (2009)5. URGES medical schools, hospitals, and health institutions to make equivalent commitments. (2009)6. URGES medical students and health professionals, especially AMSA leaders, members and staff, to adopt environmentally healthy lifestyle changes wherever possible. (2009)7. URGES inclusion in medical school curricula of the causes of global warming, of the public health impacts, and healthy equity implications of climate change, and of strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. (2009)8. SUPPORTS enactment of a multi-sector national program of requirements, market-based limits, and incentives for reducing GHG emissions to at least 80 percent below current levels by 2050, including provisions for scientific review of evidence related to health-protecting climate stabilization targets. (2009)9. BELIEVES that emission allowances represent public goods and should be managed to the benefit of the public. Polluters should be forced to pay for these emission allowances through an auction system. Funds generated such auctions should be used to advance clean, renewable energy technologies, reduce the impact on low-income workers and communities and assist those most impacted by the effects of global warming. (2009)10. BELIEVES that climate stabilization should not come at the expense of economic development in poor countries that are not responsible for this crisis. Instead, corporations, developed countries and the wealthy of all countries should bear the primary financial responsibility for reducing global GHG emissions. (2009)11. SUPPORTS international agreements on climate stabilization that promote economic justice, encourage sustainable development and the growth of the global renewable energy infrastructure, especially in developing countries, and that require reductions in GHG emissions commensurate with available resources, current share of emissions, and historic responsibility for emissions. (2009)12. SUPPORTS efforts to identify, analyze, and mitigate public health impacts of climate change and prepare for and build resilience to those impacts. Special consideration, commensurate to impact, should be given to the needs of vulnerable populations, including in developing countries, people of color, the poor, women, the elderly, children, and people with disabilities. (2009)13. BELIEVES that national and international efforts to end poverty, support women's rights, and provide universal education and healthcare, including access to reproductive services are critical to climate stabilization. (2009)14. SUPPORTS investment in Green Jobs programs to provide employment, promote economic justice, and provide the needed training, education, and workforce to help build the renewable energy infrastructure. (2009)15. BELIEVES medical students should take a leadership role in promoting public awareness and health professional action on climate change. (2009)
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Q: Redeclaration Error in C++ when using extern So, AFAIK you can declare a name in C as many times as you want, but you cannot redefine a name more than once. Also according to what I think, a declaration is when a name is introduced. It is when, say, a compiler would add that name to the symbol table. A definition is when memory is allocated for a name. Now, here the name p is being declared again. It is not being defined again.
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
float goo(float x)
{
    int p = 4;
    extern int p;
    cout << p << endl;
    return floor(x) + ceil(x) / 2;
}
int p = 88;

But, I get the following error:
iter.cpp: In function 'float goo(float)':
iter.cpp:53:16: error: redeclaration of 'int p'
     extern int p;
                ^
iter.cpp:52:9: note: previous declaration 'int p'
     int p = 4;

According to me, int p = 4; should allocate memory for p on the call stack i.e. introduce a new local variable. Then, extern int p should declare p again. Now p should refer to the global variable p and this p should be used in all subsequent statements in the function goo.

A: In the function gcd the name p is declared twice referring different objects.
float goo(float x)
{
    int p = 4;
    extern int p;
    cout << p << endl;
    return floor(x) + ceil(x) / 2;
}
int p = 88;

The first declaration is
int p = 4;

that declares a local variable.
And the second declaration is
extern int p;

that refers to the external variable defined in this statement
int p = 88;

So the compiler issues an error because there are ambiguous declarations.

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you can declare a name in C as many times as you want, but you cannot redefine a name more than once.

This is false, or at least incomplete. If you have multiple declarations using the same name in the same scope, they must all declare the same thing. You cannot, for example, declare that p is simultaneously both the name of a local variable and the name of an external variable.
If you want to use the same name for different things, the declarations must be in different scopes. For example
{
    int p = 4;
    {
        extern int p;
        extern int p;  // Declare the same thing twice if you want.
        std::cout << p << std::endl;
    }
    return floor(x) + ceil(x) / 2;
}

uses the name p for two different variables, and uses different scopes to distinguish those meanings. So this is no longer an error. This is not advisable since it will confuse human programmers, but it is acceptable as far as the compiler is concerned.

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Die Villa Gruner war eine großbürgerliche Villa in Leipzig und Bestandteil des Villenrings entlang der Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße im Musikviertel. Das Haus wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg bei den Luftangriffen auf Leipzig zerstört.

Geschichte und Beschreibung

Die Villa wurde 1886 bis 1887 von Arwed Roßbach (1844–1902) für den Stadtrat Carl Robert Gruner (1834–1901) im Stil der Neorenaissance errichtet und stand an der Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 19 / Ecke Beethovenstraße. Nach alter Zählung hatte die Villa, die nach neuer Zählung Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 19 hieß, die Adresse Carl-Tauchnitz-Straße 35. Um 1913 war die Geheime Kommerzienrätin, Thekla Gruner-Demiani, Eigentümerin des Hauses.

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Heute wird das Areal der ehemaligen Villa und deren Garten teilweise von dem Hochhaus Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 17 eingenommen. Das Grundstück der Villa Gruner wurde mit benachbarten Grundstücken von fünf kriegszerstörten Villen (Villa Oelßner, Villa Wölker, Villa Girbardt, Villa Hermann Beckmann und Villa Carl Beckmann) zwischen Ferdinand-Rhode-Straße und Beethovenstraße zusammengelegt, worauf 1970 die drei 16-geschossigen Punkthochhäuser (Typ PH 16) von Walter Havliczek errichtet wurden. Im Volksmund "die drei Gleichen" genannt.

Literatur
 Johannes Forner et al.: Wohn- & Bürgerhäuser im Leipziger Musikviertel. Hrsg. vom Musikviertel e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-010-4.

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Neorenaissancebauwerk in Leipzig
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Erbaut in den 1880er Jahren
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Kade Ruotolo (Maui, Hawái, Estados Unidos; 22 de enero de 2003) es un grappler de sumisión en no-gi y cinturón negro en jiu-jitsu brasileño estadounidense firmado con ONE Championship, donde es el actual Campeón Mundial de Submission Grappling de Peso Ligero de ONE. Siendo un competidor junto a su hermano desde los tres años de edad, Ruotolo es un dos veces Campeón Mundial de la IBJJF, una vez campeón panamericano de la IBJJF y una vez campeón del European Open en cinturón marrón, promovido a cinturón negro en diciembre del 2021. En 2022, Ruotolo ganó el Campeonato Mundial de -77 kg de ADCC, convirtiéndose, a los 19 años, en el Campeón Mundial de ADCC más joven de la historia.

Biografía
Nació en Maui, Hawái, de ascendencia puertorriqueña e italiana. Ruotolo se crio en Huntington Beach, California, y comenzó a competir en jiu-jitsu a los 3 años de edad. Ruotolo y su hermano Tye fueron considerados como las "primeras estrellas infantiles del grappling", entrenaron en Art Of Jiu-Jitsu academy (AOJ) por 4 años bajo la tutela de Guilherme y Rafael Mendes antes de trasladarse a Atos jiu-jitsu en 2017. Como cinturón marrón Ruotolo ganó el Campeonato Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu dos veces, además de los campeonatos panamericanos y el European Open.

Ruotolo y su hermano fueron promovidos a cinturón negro el 14 de diciembre de 2021 por André Galvão.

Carrera competitiva

Combat Jiu-Jitsu
El 9 de noviembre de 2020, Ruotolo compitió en los Campeonatos Mundiales de Combat Jiu-Jitsu y derrotó a cuatro grapplers en una noche para ganar el título. Su sumisión Buggy choke sobre PJ Barch en la final fue premiado como la 'Sumisión del Año' en los premios de 2020 de Jitsmagazine.

ADCC Trials
Ruotolo ganó los Trials de la Costa Este de Norteamérica de la división de 77kg del ADCC el 6 de noviembre de 2021, consiguiendo así una invitación para el ADCC 2022. Fue premiado con la 'Sumisión del Año' en los premios de 2021 de Jitsmagazine por su d'arce choke volador sobre Joshua Dawson en la segunda ronda del torneo. En preparación para el evento, Ruotolo enfrentó a Roberto Jiménez en el Road to ADCC el 17 de julio de 2021, siendo sometido con un rear-naked choke. Durante el 25–26 de septiembre, Ruotolo compitió en los Campeonatos de Who's Number One y derrotó a tres oponentes para convertirse en el campeón inaugural de peso ligero de la promoción. En el Grapplefest 10, el 10 de noviembre de 2021, Ruotolo derrotó a Keith Krikorian por decisión.

ADCC 2022
Ruotolo compitió en la división de 77 kilogramos en el Campeonato Mundial de 2022 de ADCC. Ruotolo se convirtió en el competidor más joven en ganar el oro, sometiendo a Micael Galvão en la final del torneo, convirtiéndose a su vez en el primer grappler en someter a Galvao.

ONE Championship
El 15 de marzo de 2021, Ruotolo y su hermano firmaron con ONE Championship para competir en submission grappling y eventualmente hacer su debut en MMA.

Ruotolo hizo su debut en la promoción contra la leyenda japonesa de MMA Shinya Aoki en un combate de grappling de peso ligero en ONE 157. Ganó el combate por decisión unánime luego, de no poder lograr una sumisión durante los 10 minutos pactados.

Campeonato de Submission Grappling de Peso Ligero de ONE
Ruotolo enfrentó al cuatro veces Campeón Mundial de Sambo Uali Kurzhev por el Campeonato Inaugural de Submission Grappling de Peso Ligero de ONE en ONE on Prime Video 3, el 21 de octubre de 2022. Durante el pesaje, Kurzhev dio 174 libras, 4 libras por encima del límite de peso ligero, la pelea continuó en un peso pactado en el que sólo Ruotolo podía ganar el título. Ruotolo ganó la pelea con un heel hook en para convertirse en el Campeón Inaugural de Submission Grappling de Peso Ligero de ONE. Esta victoria lo haría ganador de su primer premio de Actuación de la Noche.

Ruotolo hizo la primera defensa de su título de submission grappling de peso ligero de ONE contra el Campeón Mundial de la IBJJF Matheus Gabriel en ONE on Prime Video 5 el 2 de diciembre de 2022. Ganó la pelea por decisión unánime.

Linaje de instrucción
Kano Jigoro → Tomita Tsunejiro → Mitsuyo "Conde Koma" Maeda → Carlos Gracie Sr. → Hélio Gracie → Rolls Gracie → Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti → Alexandre Paiva → Fernando "Tererê" Augusto →  André Galvao →  Kade Ruotolo

Campeonatos y logros

 ONE Championship
 Campeonato Mundial de Submission Grappling de Peso Ligero de ONE (Una vez; actual)
 Una defensa titular exitosa
Peleador del Año 2022 de Submission Grappling de ONE Championship
 Actuación de la Noche (Una vez) vs. Uali Kurzhev
ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship
 Campeonato Mundial de ADCC 2022 (–77 kg)
Combat Jiu-Jitsu
Campeón de Peso Ligero de Combat Jiu-Jitsu de 2020
International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation
Campeón Mundial de la IBJJF (2019, 2021 como cinturón marrón)
Campeón Panamericano de la IBJJF Pan (2019)
 Campeón de European Open de la IBJJF (2019)
 Campeón Panamericano Infantil de la IBJJF (2010 / 2014 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018)
 Campeón Internacion Infantil de la IBJJF (2014 / 2016)
 Campeón Nacional de Estados Unidos Infantil de la IBJJF (2014 / 2015)
 Segundo lugar del European Open de la IBJJF (2019)
 Tercer lugar del Campeonato Panamericano de la IBJJF (2019)
Figure 4 Promotions
Campeonato de 70 kg de GrappleFest (20209
FloGrappling
Campeonato de Peso Ligero de FloGrappling

Récord en grappling de sumisión

Récord en Combat Jiu-Jitsu

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Defective vision is a common problem nowadays. The reasons for eye defects are excessive reading in either too dim or excessively bright light.
There is popular belief that spectacles can rectify defective vision but at the same time it is based on the assumption that such defects are caused by permanent changes in the eyes, which are not correct.
Actually defective vision is a result of functional derangements which can be rectified by simple natural methods.
Persons prescribed with glasses have been told that because of the danger of eye strain they should avoid taking glasses off and always look straight through the center of lens.
So, for this reason when these persons look in other directions, they do not move their eyeballs and eye muscles, but instead move head up and down or sideways.
Thus, constant use of glasses stops the natural process of vision of the eyes. Therefore, the muscles of eyes start degenerating gradually through their non-use.
Moreover, the use of glasses results in a reduction of blinking, which is a movement intended to assist and preserve eyesight. Wearing glasses for many years results in stiff, dull-looking eyes without any sparkle.
Improper blood and Nerve supply.
Mental strain is considers as one cause of defective vision, which puts corresponding physical strain on the eyes , their muscles and nerves. In his opinion the lesser defects are mainly due to mental strain owing to overwork, fear, anxiety, etc.
Wrong Feeding : The eye is a part of the body and as such must share in any condition affecting the system.
Most of the diseases affecting the eyes are symptoms of a general toxemic condition of the body due mainly to excessive starch, sugar and protein ingestion.
Improper blood and nerve supply : The eyes need to be properly supplied with blood and nerve force for proper vision.
Any factor capable of interfering either with the blood vessels or with the nerves of the eyes could cause defective vision.
The muscles covering the upper portion of the spine at the back of the neck are the main seat of the mechanical interference with the blood and nerve supply to the eyes.
Keep your head still and relaxed.
Gently move the eyes up and down six times.
Repeat the same movement twice or thrice at two-second intervals.
The eyes should move slowly and regularly as far down as possible and then as far up as possible.
Hold the index finger of your right hand about eight inches in front of the eyes, then look from the finger to any other large object ten or more feet away – the door or window will do.
Look from one to the other ten times.
Do this exercise fairly rapidly.
Move the eyes up gently and slowly in a circle, then move them low in the reverse direction .
Do this four times in all.
Rest for a second and repeat the movements two or three times, using minimum efforts.
All eye muscle exercises should be performed while seated in a comfortable position.
Neck Exercises : Rotate the neck in circles and semi circles.move the shoulders clockwise and anti-clockwise brisky, drawing them up as far as possible several times.
Allow the head to draw forward and backward as far as possible.
Turn the head to the right and left as far as possible several times.
These exercises help to loosen up contracted neck muscles which may restrict blood supply to the head.
Sun gazing : Sit on a bench facing the sun with your eyes closed and gently sway sideways several times for 18 minutes.
Open the eyes and blink about ten times at the sun and look at some greenery.
This helps short sight and is good for inflamed eyes.
Splashing : Splash plain, cold water several times on closed eyes.
Rub the closed lids briskly for a minute with a clean towel.
This cools the eyes and boosts blood supply.
Palming : Sit comfortably in an armchair or on a settee and relax with your eyes closed.
Cover your eyes with your palms, right palm over the right eye and left over the left eye.
Do not, however, press down on the eyes.
With your eyes completely covered in this manner, allow your elbows to drop to your knees, which should be fairly close together.
With your eyes closed thus, try to imagine blackness, which grows blacker and blacker.
Palming reduces strain and relaxes the eyes and its surrounding tissues.
Swinging : Stand with your feet 12 inches apart, hands held loosely at the sides, the whole body and mind relaxed.
Gently sway your body from side to side, slowly, steadily, with the heels rising alternatively but not the rest of the foot.
Imagine you are the pendulum of the clock, and move just as slowly.
Swinging should be done in front of a window or a picture.
You will see the object moving in the opposite direction of your swing.
This must be noted and encouraged.
When you face one end of the window or object, blink once.
This exercise has a very beneficial effect upon the eyes and nervous system.
Cereals are also necessary , but they should only be consumed sparingly. Genuine wholemeal bread is the best and most suitable. Nans, cakes, pastries, white sugar, white bread, confectionery, tea, coffee, etc., together with meat, fish, or eggs, soon play havoc with the digestion and the body.
The value of vitamin A for improving vision must be stressed.
The intake of sufficient quantities of this vitamin is essential as a safeguard against or treatment of defective vision or eye disease of any kind.
The best sources of this vitamin are cod liver oil, raw spinach, turnip tops, cream, cheese, butter, egg yolk, tomatoes, lettuce, carrot, cabbage, soya beans, green peas, wheat germ,fresh milk, oranges and dates.
The four yogic exercises prescribed for strengthening the optic nerve known as 'trataka' as explained in chapter 7 on yoga therapy should be practised daily. Certain yogasanas such as bhujangasana, shalabhasana, yogamudra, paschimottan asana and kriyas like jalneti are also beneficial for the eyes.


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Q: What tense should I use in the following sentence? I am writing a descriptive essay about what my life will be like 30 yrs from now.
Which tense should I use?
"I will be wearing/wear the same boyish clothes I wear now".
I mean, I am speaking of a habit in the future.

A: Both are possible, and there is not much difference in meaning.
Saying "I wear boyish clothes" talks about your general style. "I am wearing boyish clothes" talks about the particular clothes you have on right now.

I wear boyish clothes to school every day, but right now I am wearing a long dress because I am at a party.

So putting this in the future has the same meaning. "I will wear..." to talk about what your general fashion sense will be.  "I will be wearing" to talk about the clothes that you have at a particular time.

In 30 years time I'll be wearing a long black dress as I walk up to collect my 10th Oscar. But usually I'll just wear the same boyish clothes that I wear now.

The same structure can also be used to express "determination": "No matter what people think, I will wear the same boyish clothes."

A: The future progressive primarily suggests what is actually going to be happening at a relatively precise point in the future. When talking about somewhere that far in the future, it needn't be terribly precise, but it would certainly be appropriate for a period of a day (say, "on this day 30 years in the future"), and less likely for referring to a whole year-long period (say, "in 2049").
The future simple, when talking about that far in the future, would be used for two main scenarios, I think. One is making a prediction of a series of events, like:

I will finish my book, then I will take a holiday somewhere exotic.

The other is refer to habitual things, much as you might use the present simple:

I will wear comfortable clothes, and enjoy a steady income.

That said, it also depends on the verb in question - while you might use either "I will wear comfortable clothes" or "I will be wearing comfortable clothes", some sentences will only work with one or the other. Don't try:

I will be enjoying a steady income.

Most things will work with future simple, and some thing won't work with future progressive.
In a lot of cases, though, it will be a stylistic choice. Even having said that one primarily suggests one thing, and the other would be used for another, those aren't rules. They're factors to think about. You can talk about predicted habits in the future progressive, and things happening on a specific day in the future simple. Apart from the combinations that just don't work, it's not going to matter a huge amount.


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England beat Germany in Euro 2016 property battle
With just 9 days to go before the European Football Championships kick-off in France, new research reveals England will be semi-finalists – if the outcome of the tournament was decided on each competing nation's property market.
International house price data shows residential property values in England jumped 26.8% over the five years to Q1 2016, taking the average price per square foot to £300.
This impressive rise is, however, eclipsed by Turkey, Iceland and Austria.
Turkish property values have grown by 91.3% over the past five years, but homes in the country are worth just £46 per sq ft.
The value of homes in Iceland has risen 42.1% to £139 per sq ft, while Austrian properties are up 27.6% to £221 per sq ft.
Two of the world's greatest footballing nations are near the foot of the Euro 2016 property table. Spain is in 15th place with a 29.5% fall to £124 per sq ft, while Italy is ranked 13th with a 14% fall in house prices to £180 per sq ft.
What about Germany? At 17.8% growth to £187 per sq ft, the Germans are sixth ahead of tenth-placed Wales (7% growth to £149 per sq ft), host nation France in 13th place (1.1% fall to £265 per sq ft) and Northern Ireland in 14th position (1.2% fall to £130 per sq ft).
Land Registry data shows property values in Battersea and Brixton are continuing to rise.
According to the latest House Price Index, the value of residential property in Wandsworth jumped 8.6% in the year to March 2016 to take the average value of a home in the borough to £633,121.
Meanwhile, homes in Lambeth have risen 11.4% over the same period to hit an average value of £608, 415.
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Source: The Telegraph
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Q: How does WebSocket compress messages? JSON.stringify is obviously not very space efficient. For example, [123456789,123456789] occupy 20+ bytes when it could need just around 5. Does websocket compress its JSONs before sending to stream?

A: WebSocket is, at its heart, just a set of framing for TEXT or BINARY data.
It performs no compression on its own.
However, the WebSocket spec allows for Extensions, and there have been a variety of compression extensions in the wild (the formalized specs for one of these is finalized).
As of today (August 2018) the accepted compression spec is permessage-deflate.
Some of the extensions seen in the wild:

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*permessage-deflate - the name of the formalized spec for using deflate to compress entire messages, regardless of the number of websocket frames.

*x-webkit-deflate-frame - an early proposed compression that compresses each raw websocket data frame.  Seen in use by Chrome and Safari. (now deprecated in Chrome and Safari)

*perframe-deflate - a renamed version of the above compression.  Seen in use by various websocket server implementations, and also briefly showed up in various WebKit based clients. (Completely deprecated in modern browsers, but does still show up in various WebSocket client libraries)

Of note, the permessage-deflate extension is the first in a line of PMCE (Per-Message Compression Extensions) that will eventually include other compression schemes (ones being discussed are permessage-bzip2, permessage-lz4, and permessage-snappy)

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Does websocket compress its JSONs before sending to stream?

The short answer is: sometimes, but you can't depend on it.
As stated aptly by Joakim Erdfelt, Websocket connections support both Text and Binary messages.
JSON is just one way to transport data, with the advantage of versatility and ease of use (while being wasteful as far as space is concerned).
You can easily transfer binary data using the Websocket API, eliminating bandwidth overhead at the expense of other concerns (such as endieness, word length, parsing, etc').
Many browsers also support Websocket message compression as an extension to the Websocket protocol (although the server might not support the extension).
Extensions are negotiated using the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions HTTP header. The negotiations are usually implemented by the client / server without offering a public API to control them.
Right up until 2015, there were a number of approaches and implementations in the wild, but since December 2015 RFC 7692 is the only real contender for message compression and things are much clearer.
RFC 7692 compresses the whole message before wrapping (and perhaps fragmenting) it in Websocket "packets", making it easier to implement than some previous compression schemes.
The current draft offers a permessage-foo compression negotiation scheme (where foo is the requested / supported compression).
I only experienced the permessage-deflate extension myself.
Do notice that extension negotiations are optional, meaning that potential network clients are usually allowed to negotiate connections without compression, even if your server supports the extension.
Moreover, RFC 7692 supports selective compression, meaning some messages might be compressed while others aren't compressed...
... for example, [123456789,123456789] might be sent as is, since it's length indicates it isn't likely to be worth the compression effort.
Support for permessage-deflate (RFC 7692), August 8th, 2017:
This is a combination of the information in the comments, last updated August 8th, 2017.
If I missed anything, add them here and update the date.
Known Browser Support

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*Chrome since 32

*Mozilla Firefox since 37

*Safari - unsupported (10.1.2 seems to use x-webkit-deflate-frame)

*Microsoft Edge - unsupported as of version 40

Known Server Support

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*Crossbar.io (Autobahn)

*wspy

*Tornado

*Faye on node.js and Ruby

*SwiftWebSocket (read only?)

*WS-RS (Rust)

A: You could use Unishox compression technique for compressing text sent over Websockets.  However this is not integrated with the spec and the implementor is responsible for compressing one one side and decompressing on the other side.
Unishox achieves compression by assigning fixed prefix-free codes for each letter in the given Character Set based on known frequency of popular symbols (entropy coding). It also encodes repeating letter sets separately (dictionary coding). For Unicode characters, delta coding is used. More information is available in this article.
So far it has been implemented in C and Javascript.
Disclaimer: I am the developer of Unishox.

A: Websockets send raw bytes.
They don't know or care what those bytes represent.
If you want to compress data, you'll need to compress it yourself before sending it down the wire.
Note that Chrome supports gzip for websocket connections.  (assuming your server also does)


Why is this still surprising?
Alertnet has a post on climate change and the poor that opened with one of my least favorite narrative techniques – surprise about local capacity and knowledge for adaptation.
I was struck by the local community's scientific knowledge about climate change. I'd often heard that such communities know a tremendous amount about changing weather patterns – and can easily tell a good year from a bad one in terms of droughts or floods – but that they don't know much about 'greenhouse gas emissions' or 'climate change'.
Not so in Manikganj District. The community performed a drama for us and it was clear that they knew exactly what these relatively western scientific terms mean both in theory and in practice.
I was also struck by how the community – supported by the local nongovernmental organisation, GSK – has developed a range of strategies and activities to cope with longer floods, higher floodwater levels and the erosion that each year washes away more and more of their crop and homestead land into the nearby Padma River. There was no drama here. And I was deeply affected by the industrious positive way the people of Manikganj District meet these challenges and carry on with daily life.
I confess to a bit of fatigue at the continued voicing of surprise at finding out that those in the Global South who are dealing with the impacts of climate change actually have ideas, and often successful strategies, for managing those impacts. Implicitly, every time we do this we back our readers up to a place of comfort ("those poor/dark people don't know much") and then get to act surprised when it turns out they do actually have knowledge and capabilities. I'd like to think that the first half of my book flips this script, arguing consistently that the people I have been working with are staggeringly capable, and therefore it is the breakdown of livelihoods and adaptation that is interesting, not its existence.
To be fair, though, I blame myself and my colleagues working on adaptation and livelihoods for the persistence of this narrative technique. Once we get past that all-to-common intro, the post gets into concrete discussions of how people are adapting – good, useful grounded description. But what I long for, and what I am working on (articles in review and in prep, folks) is moving beyond the descriptive case toward a more systematic understanding of adaptation and livelihoods decision-making that enables some level of generalization and systematization. Indeed, by failing to approach livelihoods and adaptation decision-making in this manner, we enable the very frustrating lead-in technique I described above – every case becomes unique, and every effort to manage the impacts of climate change is therefore an isolated surprise. If, in fact, it is not at all surprising that people have at least some knowledge and capacity for addressing climate change (and this is really not surprising at all, dammit), we need to get past simple description to capturing processes that might be leveraged into better early warning, better programming, and better understandings of what people are experiencing on the ground.
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How Is Binary Options Regulation Changing in the UK?
As a relatively new investment vehicle, binary options have suffered from a poor reputation in the past. Partly owing to the actions of a small minority of brokers, but also due to these options being classed as gambling in some jurisdictions.
The regulatory landscape has changed significantly since the inception of binary options, and it continues to evolve. In the UK, changes in legislation now look extremely likely, and consumers may ultimately be offered a level of protection which they have not previously enjoyed. Binary options could soon be classed alongside other financial instruments – bringing them into the financial mainstream.
Regulation of binary options brokers up until now, has fallen largely to the Cyprus Securities and Exchanges Commission (CySEC). Brokers adhering to the CySEC regulations (specifically the MiFID elements) were able to use this 'passport' to trade anywhere in the EU.
The CySEC regulations do have some teeth, and have certainly improved the security of traders. In terms of consumer protection for those in the UK however, regulation via the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would give far superior peace of mind – and it may be on the way.
In the summer of 2015, the UK government embarked on a consultation exercise to judge whether regulation of binary options would be better handled via the FCA. Relevant stakeholders, and the wider public, were asked their views on where regulation should sit.
The consultation process ended in July, and we understand that the findings will be published in early 2016. The commonly held view is that the government would like to align itself with the rest of the EU, in classifying binary options as financial instruments, and not as bets.
Many responsible brokers will already adhere to many of the requirements that FCA regulation brings, or will be able to implement them. So the real value in these changes will be in finally ensuring high standards of any broker operating in the UK.
Enhanced customer protection, coupled with a greater respect for binary options, could see a huge increase in their use. 2016 could be a watershed year for binary options in the UK – for all the right reasons.
FCA is perhaps one of the worst regulators on the planet!
Hi Paul, interesting. Why do you think so?
I have searched the net for updates to the binary options revolution and can't find anything. has a decision been made as to whether this will come under the financial or gambling sectors??
99% of these operations are bucket shops, the reason for this being the bonus terms and conditions and the massive lack of transparency of the 'brokerages'.
Hi Rich, I was recently stung by this company. They are one to avoid. Have had to communicate with my bank to sort it out.
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Respect for human rights, as envisaged by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, requires companies to exercise human rights due diligence across the project life-cycle. This includes early business development and contracting between a company and a host-state for an investment project (often called 'host-government agreements' or 'state-investor contracts').
Ensuring that human rights are considered at the contracting stage can provide key benefits. For example, it can facilitate the early identification of human rights risks and provide a space for the parties to put in place measures for the future management of human rights due diligence for the project. It can also assist both parties in understanding their respective duties and responsibilities vis-à-vis human rights, and based on this understanding establish the respective role of each party for human rights due diligence activities, and allocation of resources for their implementation.
The importance of integrating human rights considerations in contract negotiations was recognised by the former UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, John Ruggie, who as part of his mandate launched the Principles for Responsible Contracts – integrating the management of human rights risks into State-investor contract negotiations (2011).
The Principles for Responsible Contracts consist of ten key principles that seek to help integrate the management of human rights risks into investment project contract negotiations. They cover negotiations planning, operating standards, stabilisation clauses, compliance and monitoring, transparency, security, grievance resolution and community engagement. The Principles focus both on the duties of the state, as well as the responsibilities of the company, to include human rights considerations in state-investor contract negotiations.
Importantly, the Principles focus not only on the actual content of state-investor contracts, but also emphasise the importance of the negotiations process itself. Essentially, the Principles pose that the negotiations process provides a key opportunity for both parties to acknowledge their role towards human rights and make provisions for the future and ongoing management of human rights due diligence.
This can include making provisions in the contract itself where relevant, or articulating clearly that specific human rights due diligence aspects will be addressed through other governance frameworks applicable to the project. For example, the contract might not specify exactly what type of community engagement activities and grievance mechanism will be put in place, however, it can make provision for the development and resourcing of community engagement programmes.
Building on the Principles for Responsible Contracts, in January 2014, the Danish Institute for Human Rights launched a new human rights due diligence tool on integrating human rights in state-investor contracts and negotiations: Human Rights and State-investor contracts – Guidance and assessment tool for company negotiators.
The Guidance seeks to operationalise what is expected of companies in terms of human rights due diligence during negotiations by (a) pinpointing those aspects which relate specifically to the company responsibility to respect, and (b) articulating what is expected of companies during negotiations in a simplified format that is easily understandably by persons who may not have a background in human rights.
The Human Rights Compliance Assessment Module based on the Principles for Responsible Contracts.
These tools are intended for use by company staff in areas such as business development and negotiations, but also for staff groups who may have responsibilities for implementing human rights due diligence, such as legal compliance or sustainability functions.
A key challenge in developing the Guidance (in particular the Questions for Company Negotiating Teams) was to strike a balance between providing information that is concise, while at the same time ensuring enough detail to make the explanations and questions provided meaningful and understandable to an audience which may not be familiar with human rights. To this end, we opted for a short Mini Briefing Note as a companion document to the Questions for Company Negotiating Teams.
The Human Rights Compliance Assessment Module is more comprehensive and can be used by a variety of audiences. The questions and indicators can be used as a standard against which to evaluate company negotiations practices and the content of state-investor contracts. Such evaluations might be carried out by staff internal to the company or an external and independent third party. As such, this component of the Guidance is not only targeted at companies, but can also be a practical resource for independent third parties, such as civil society organisations, national human rights institutions or community groups, to challenge and evaluate company practice in the area of state-investor contracts.
The Guidance pinpoints those aspects which relate specifically to company responsibilities in negotiations. However, this is not to diminish the role of the state in the negotiations process nor to detract from the holistic approach that is emphasised in the Principles for Responsible Contracts, but rather, to take a step towards operationalising the content and intent of the Principles for Responsible Contracts.
Looking forward, we suggest that the Guidance can become one tool in the area of human rights and state-investor contracts, which necessarily also needs to include other areas of focus such as working towards contracts transparency; extending technical assistance services for host-states to include a focus on human rights; and capacity building of both company and state negotiating teams on human rights due diligence. It is only through such a holistic and comprehensive set of tools, services and approaches available, that the effective integration of human rights considerations in state-investor contract negotiations can be realised.
Nora Götzmann is Advisor in the Human Rights and Business Department of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland.
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