DISTRHO Ildaeil ~ Plugin Host

DISTRHO Ildaeil is mini-plugin host working as a plugin, allowing one-to-one plugin format reusage. The idea is to load it as a plugin inside your DAW and then the other “real” plugin inside Ildaeil. This allows, for example, a VST3 host to load LV2 plugins and vice-versa. The Ildaeil name comes from the korean 일대일, which means “one to one”. Features: The current formats Ildaeil can work as…

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Turning up the music to max volume and laying facedown on the bed because the mental health has hit rock bottom like DROWN IT OUT, DROWN IT OUT, DROWN IT OUT, DROWN IT OUT, DROWN IT OUT, DROWN IT OUT--

Thoughts of self harm and maybe suicidal ideation in the vent in the tags. Sorry.

[VOA is US State Media]

A report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University is giving China better than expected marks for its performance in helping to restructure the crippling debt loads carried by some African countries. The report is based on a detailed evaluation of Beijing's participation in the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, or DSSI, an international vehicle for developed nations to support struggling countries like Angola and Zambia. The DSSI was introduced in 2020 at the start of the global pandemic by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which suggested the world’s 20 largest economies, known as the G-20, temporarily halt the collection of loans from the world’s poorest nations. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and World Bank Chief David Malpass have recently accused China of being a barrier to debt relief, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was in default-stricken Zambia last week urging the country's bilateral creditors — of which China is the biggest — to do more on restructuring Zambia’s debt. But, despite some caveats, the report released this week by Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang from the China Africa Research Initiative found that overall, China “fulfilled its role fairly well as a responsible G-20 stakeholder.” The analysts added that China “did implement the minimum steps of the DSSI fairly well, communicating with other players, and following through on pledges.” According to the available data, Chinese creditors accounted for 30 percent of all claims and contributed 63 percent of debt service suspensions in the countries that participated in the DSSI. “The metric by which you evaluate [China’s] performance depends on what your expectations were for the initiative,” Brautigam told VOA, noting that this was the first time the world’s second-largest economy had joined a multilateral initiative – a move one G-20 source called “miraculous.” Brautigam said it was obvious that a new architecture is needed to deal with debt relief because the current system is dominated by the Paris Club, a group of wealthy Western nations that started lending to developing countries in 1956. In recent years, there have been more major new creditors, like China and bondholders. “So what evolves out of this is really up in the air,” she said, adding that all lenders “need to be in together because otherwise you get all these suspicions, you know, worries about free riding.” Successes and failures The study concluded that China might have achieved more during the DSSI if not for fears that countries would simply take advantage of any debt relief to repay other creditors. In Zambia, for example, Chinese creditors wanted assurances their relief wouldn’t be used to pay off the bondholders, while the bondholders were concerned that any relief from their side might go toward paying off China. China was “totally justified” in its suspicions on this front, Brautigam said, because “in most countries, all of those creditors continued to be paid.” “We need something that is simultaneous - you know, they all need to be in the room together … so that we don’t have this first-mover problem,” she added. In Zambia, the Chinese decided against suspending their debt payments while the country was still paying bondholders, but this didn’t happen in Angola, China’s largest African borrower with around $20 billion in debt to Chinese entities. In that case, Chinese creditors provided 97% of the debt relief over the two-year period without asking for assurances that Angola wouldn’t continue making other repayments.

The researcher’s third African case study, Kenya, showed how China’s DSSI treatment was different from the other two. Chinese banks agreed to provide relief at first but later stopped loan disbursements and suspended only some 40 percent of the expected amount in 2021. Moving forward The study also showed how China's banks and central government, despite the country's top-down political structure, do not always act in unison. The fragmented nature of the Chinese system and bureaucratic hurdles often remain a barrier to debt relief. Being part of the DSSI helped address that because it “pushed the Chinese government to align interests among fragmented banks and bureaucracies with conflicting goals. This process, still under way, is a necessary step toward full acceptance of the necessity for debt restructuring in the post-pandemic era,” the researchers found. The DSSI ended in December 2021 and has been superseded by what’s known as the Common Framework to continue helping indebted countries like Zambia with their restructuring. In January, World Bank chief Malpass said, “China is asking lots of questions in the creditors' committees, and that causes delays, that strings out the process.” Last month, Yellen accused Beijing of leaving developing countries “trapped in debt.” China has called on the IMF and World Bank to also offer debt relief, with President Xi Jinping saying at the G-20 summit last year: “International financial institutions and commercial creditors, which are the main creditors of developing countries, should take part in the debt reduction and suspension for developing countries." The Chinese Embassy in Zambia hit back at the U.S., calling Yellen’s “debt trap” comments “irresponsible and unreasonable.” Ultimately, the study found, “the DSSI was a success in what some saw as its primary goal: to bring China into a multilateral, G20-supervised forum where Beijing has an equal voice.” It now remains to be seen how the challenges highlighted by the pandemic relief program spill over into the current debt negotiations.

6 Apr 23

Calling around different endodontic clinics and dental schools, trying to get quotes for Out Of Pocket costs for my fuckin root canal, because I can't wait on potential DSSI anymore, and even if I enroll in a dental plan they don't start until the first of the month-after-next (march).... and I've made a lot of calls today but at least this one gives me The University of Chicago Jazz Ensemble for my hold music...

High Office

Decadin squinted at the fine print. “My name?”

“Yeah, just means we can use your name and likeness for branding, maybe put it on our intellectual property.”

Decadin looked back up at the Chief Executive Officer. “I am not comfortable with that. My name isn’t your property.”

“I assure you, these are standard terms for national heroes.” The CEO kept his eyes on the toast he was adorning with honey. “It’s not that deep, we can even purge the part about your likeness. But I’m insistent about using your name for endeavours that’ll make history. You and I, we’re going to build each other’s legacies.”

The CEO punctuated his point with a bite. He imagined Decadin’s name on buildings, ships and advertisements, and all the investors drawn in by the endorsement of a celebrity scientist. Decadin saw his name on off-brand toothpaste and Spinning Flyers made for war.

“If my name goes on something unethical…”

“We’ll talk about it,” the CEO said through a mouthful of stickiness.

Decadin shook his head, signed this page of the contract, and flipped to the next.

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In commemoration of the Acolyte’s death, Terminus founded Decadin Suppression Services Inc., a subsidiary holding a State-granted monopoly—and obligation—for suppression tower repairs. Terminus did some lying, the Church did some whining, and DSSI even acquired a leadership role in maintaining the Aether Suppressor, which technically made Decadin Inc. a sacred entity protected by religious law.

It’s not easy having a monopoly. DSSI had to move its headquarters to Pelbee, despite the outrageous rent costs, all for the Emperor’s satisfaction that the best personnel would be readily available to service the world-saving relic. But the company made the most of their forced relocation, drawing direct inspiration from the building design that its namesake once daydreamed about.

Terminus built new highway exits leading right into Decadin Tower, maximizing transport efficiency. The building’s outer surface is white, standing for the brightness of tomorrow, while green streetlights and a single purple stripe represent the adaptability they need in the present. Far above, floating vehicles let the most important people and products bypass a long elevator ride to the top. But Decadin Tower has no text. It doesn’t need any, for its sacred duty is evident in all languages from one look at its renowned logo: two orange circles left to interpretation.

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Yaldev is a sci-fantasy worldbuilding project by Ulysses Maurer, with art by Beeple. By looking at narratives, stylized loredumps, bad poetry and little details, we'll witness the story of a planet filled with magical power, the nation which tried to conquer it, this empire’s dramatic collapse and the new world which emerged in its wake. Along the way we'll meet the characters who live here, and we'll explore questions about nationalism, rationalism, the natural world and the quest to master it. For all stories in chronological order, check out the pinned posts at r/Yaldev!

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The debt situation in many low-income countries (LICs) following the COVID-19 pandemic has deteriorated considerably. While many LICs had participated in the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) by April 2022, only three countries have taken part in the Common Framework for Debt Treatment beyond DSSI. To better operationalise the Common Framework, the G20 should incentivise private and public creditor participation including those of Non-Paris Club members. In addition, G20 members should encourage the application of the comparability of treatment clause and urge multilateral creditors to participate in the debt restructuring process. The G20 should encourage full disclosure of debt among creditors by promoting the OECD Debt Transparency Initiative and by adopting the G20 Operational Guidelines. Moreover, the G20 should support local capacity building for public financial management in LICs and should promote that debt treatment under the Common Framework is subject to scaling up sustainable investments in debtor countries. Finally, the G20 should use its weight in the managing boards of the international financial institutions to push IMF-WB debt sustainability analyses to better include sustainability criteria.

World Bank Welcomes the Common Framework Statement by Zambia’s Creditors

WORLD BANK STATEMENT World Bank Welcomes the Common Framework Statement by Zambia’s Creditors WASHINGTON, July 30, 2022 The World Bank Group welcomes the Statement of the Creditor Committee for Zambia that was issued today under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI. The statement describes the Creditor Committee’s commitment to provide long-term debt relief that matches the…

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Pakistan strikes deal with France to suspend loans worth $170m

Pakistan strikes deal with France to suspend loans worth $170m

A person holds dollars in this undated photo. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government Monday signed an agreement with France under the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated, leading to the suspension of loans worth $107 million. “This amount, initially repayable between July and December 2021, will now be repaid over a period of six years…

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Who are the biggest winners in the G20’s debt-relief programme?

Who are the biggest winners in the G20’s debt-relief programme?

– DSSI, Common Framework and SDRs were designed to ease debt and financing concerns – $5.7bn in debt payments deferred under the DSSI last year – Critics say relief measures do not go far enough and have recommended debt cancellation – Calls for developed countries to pass on their SDR allocations to emerging markets The economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the establishment of a…

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Turning Tide

Terminus had a new CEO now, and the new CEO said, “oh fuck.” He was looking out his bedroom window at the wall of colorful darkness that stood down the street. Twisted faces, mockeries of those slain in the Flood and long before, pressed their eyes and mouths and noses against the glass. The CEO ran for the door. His property values were plummeting by the second.

It wasn’t an object that floated over Pelbee. It was a protector spirit, a guardian angel, a shield held high by all Ascended prosperity. In the beginning its form was weak, a design by a team of amateurs in the earliest days of the world’s most important discipline. But successive generations of brilliant minds fed the Aether Suppressor their work, and by the time the last suppression tower fell, its wall of force could hold back the sea.

The CEO of Terminus got his coat halfway on before he remembered his managers. He had managers. Good ones. If Terminus could save the world, they’d do it with or without him. He hung his jacket back up and ambled back to bed with a sigh of relief.

The waters rose until they engulfed Pelbee, and their metaphysical pressure wore at the city’s essence. For all of nature’s crimes against the Empire, these were the only scratches it could deal the capital. There had to be some critical pressure that could break through. It would start with the slightest fracture in the disk of crystal of metal. The hairline crack would spread, some enchantment would fail, and a burst of unprecedented power would strike from the heavens, incinerate the disk, and close the age of Man.

The CEO of Terminus had an expensive bed. A third of his life was spent on his mattress, and he knew better than to invite chronic back pain by skimping on the essentials. His managers were good. They’d get up early, drag the husk of Terminus’s duplicate Suppressor from the archives, and innovate all over it. That would take time, but it was time they had. Faltering physics was the only thing threatening delays, and that was statistically unlikely to make the difference, so the CEO of Terminus climbed back into bed, wrapped himself in his blankets, and braced as gravity hurled him at the ceiling. Man and mattress broke through the wood paneling, but the soft insulation above cushioned his fall. Sure, there were bunkers, but if things were going to get so bad that he’d need them, he didn’t want them.

Beyond his home, civilization wavered. Roads evaporated. A gold statue of Commander Bruzek, a mainstay of the public square, turned to wax and caught fire. Armed troops threatened unskilled workers away from the bunkers. Vehicles of the land and sky darted in arbitrary directions, seeking escapes their pilots had yet to disbelieve. Aethereal engineers stood beside the Suppressor’s barrier, collecting measurements with strange baubles, determined to become the next Decadin. As tides of mana swirled through themselves, students on the Western side of the dome were the first to catch an intruder: sand. It fell from above, bone dry of the liquid chaos that could carry it only this far.

Only one student was destined to be the next Decadin. The Aether threw a dead suppression tower at him, and destiny was no savior. While the other students ran for cover from uprooted trees and the flying ruins of other towns, they scribbled notes: objects in mana pass thru, same trajectory/momentum.

The CEO of Terminus had managers, and they were on the main floor of the DSSI head office, innovating as hard as they could. Had it been the shareholders’ will, this device would’ve been finished a century ago. Now the managers had to fit decades of work into hours, solving logistics problems and issuing their assembly machines contradictory orders.

The shortest manager opened a priceless treasure displayed in the DSSI lobby. The old desk of Decadin himself. Desperate hands tore through papers the Acolyte had abandoned there. None of these reports had anything to do with a second Suppressor. One of the sheets was crumpled, so the shortest manager unraveled it and found a miracle: a sketch in Decadin’s style, covered in arrows and surrounded by diagrams. The shortest manager could practically feel the frustration emanating from this page, the essence of indignity Decadin left behind in a primer proving why Bruzek’s vision was the dumbest idea since Flying Spinners.

This sheet was the key.

Through the flooded heavens, a moon bowled past the Suppressor’s barrier, carried no mana on its way, and dove toward the great lined disk.

Anti-aircraft guns fired at Deft, but this was elemental earth.

What could a constellation god have done to save them?

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Yaldev is a sci-fantasy worldbuilding project by Ulysses Maurer, with art by Beeple. By looking at narratives, stylized loredumps, bad poetry and little details, we'll witness the story of a planet filled with magical power, the nation which tried to conquer it, this empire’s dramatic collapse and the new world which emerged in its wake. Along the way we'll meet the characters who live here, and we'll explore questions about nationalism, rationalism, the natural world and the quest to master it. For all stories in chronological order, check out the pinned posts at r/Yaldev!

G20 Summit: How does the debt service suspension initiative work?

G20 Summit: How does the debt service suspension initiative work?

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G20 Summit: Finance Minister highlights debt service suspension initiative

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday November 20, while attending a virtual meeting of finance ministers of G20 nations to discuss the global economic outlook amidst the COVID-19 crisis, continued and collective efforts by 2020 members to deal with losses The need to emphasize. Impact of…

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IMF Chief Welcomes the Statement by the Creditor Committee for Zambia under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments

Following the statement issued on July 30 by the Creditor Committee for Zambia under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI, Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement: “I am very pleased to welcome the statement issued on July 30 by the Official Creditor Committee for Zambia. The support from the…

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G20 Meet: How Does The Debt Service Suspension Initiative Work?

G20 Meet: How Does The Debt Service Suspension Initiative Work?

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Beneficiaries of DSSI commit to disclose all public sector debt and debt-like instruments.

While attending a virtual meeting of finance ministers of the G20 nations to discuss the global economic outlook amid the COVID-19 crisis, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, November 20, stressed the need for continued and collective efforts by G20 members to tackle the…

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Carla ~ Cross-platform Plugin Host

Carla ~ Cross-platform Plugin Host

Carla is a fully-featured modular audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like transport control, automation of parameters via MIDI CC and remote control over OSC.

Carla currently supports LADSPA (including LRDF), DSSI, LV2, VST2, VST3 and AU plugin formats, plus SF2 and SFZ file support. It uses JACK as the default and preferred audio…

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