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Viñoly's 76-Story Tower to Start in June as Neighbors Push Back
Some South Loopers say they felt left out of the project's approval process
By Jay Koziarz Apr 8, 2016, 10:17am CDT
Rafael Viñoly's upcoming 76-story, 792-unit residential tower at 113 E Roosevelt is set to break ground in June after following the City of Chicago's zoning and design review protocols to the letter. Despite acknowledging the fact that developer Crescent Heights executed their project according to the rules, a group calling itself South Loop Residents for Responsible Development claims that the voices of many local residents opposing the project were not heard during the process. An online petition recently launched by the group cites a number of grievances against the planned multi-phase project.
Most of the teeth-gnashing revolves around the tower's base that will house a 640-space parking garage and small liner apartments facing the park. According to the online document, neighbors believe that the building's 17-story base is too tall and is much higher than the base presented in a previous, pre-recession proposal for the corner of Roosevelt and Indiana.
The group voiced concerns about the total number of new parking spaces impacting traffic. With a similarly-sized garage planned in a later phase, 1200 new parking spaces are expected to come online. Urban theory has proven a correlation between increased parking and increased traffic and many developers are starting to see the light when it comes to cutting down excessive parking. That said, the future residents of 113 E Roosevelt may choose to store a car on site but not necessary use it to commute or run everyday errands.
The group also described the upcoming development as a "wall" blocking-off the South Loop neighborhood from Grant Park. The two-acre vacant lot where the project will rise has been effectively sealed off for years, so the wall argument may be more a function of aesthetics (or in some cases obstructed views) rather than any physical barrier that would prohibit access. Lastly, South Loop Residents for Responsible Development oppose the current plan -- or really any plan -- on the grounds that an increase in new housing supply will negatively affect existing property values.
Even if opposition to the project suddenly gains critical mass, the first tower was approved late last year and is still expected to begin construction this summer. At this point there's really not much the neighbors can do besides grasp at some legal straws and find a reason to sue. Future phases (including the taller twin tower planned to the west) still will need to go both the community approval process and the city's Plan Commission before moving forward and would be a great opportunity for any concerned neighbors to speak up.
Community Members Voice Concerns about Crescent Heights High-Rise at Roosevelt/Indiana [Sloopin]
Chicago Skyline Set for Change as Plan Commission Approves Big Projects [Curbed Chicago]
76-Story Rafael Viñoly-Designed Tower Planned for South Loop [Curbed Chicago]
South Loop archives [Curbed Chicago]

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The Institution of Occupational Safety & Health Management (IOSHM) first known as the Association of Health and Safety Managers was founded in 1981 and is registered under the Registration of Association Act 1978. It is the oldest and most representative non-governmental and non-profit organisation regrouping more than 200 occupational safety and health officers and safety professionals in Mauritius. The Institution is also an MQA registered training institution.
Singapore Accord
IOSHM joined more than 40 organisations worldwide in the landmark signing of the Singapore Accord. The Accord, spearheaded by the International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO), presents the OHS Professional Capability Framework as a global framework for the occupational safety and health professional that will increase the effectiveness and impact of this role in every industry.
Six years in the making, the OHS Professional Capability Framework received global support from organisations such as the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
IOSHM is a signatory of the Singapore Accord to advance global workplace safety and health
For further information and if you are interested in joining the IOSHM delegation to APOSHO 33, you can contact Ashley APPAYA, our Secretary at:
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The 33rd APOSHO (Asia Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organization) Annual Meetings and Conference will be held in Regal Kowloon Hotel, Hong Kong from 04 – 05 December 2018.
APOSHO 33 will be hosted by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the world's largest professional health and safety organisation. Building on the continuous success of the past 32 conferences, APOSHO 33 sets to create an excellent opportunity for forging relationship and collaboration between members of the APOSHO family.
The Conference topics will include:
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Home»Gaming»the brutal Dark and Darker won't be out until the end of 2023, but you can play it for free now. We tell you how
the brutal Dark and Darker won't be out until the end of 2023, but you can play it for free now. We tell you how
By Cooper December 21, 2022 No Comments3 Mins Read
The role, fantasy and video games They are a winning combination that has given us enormous joy. Dark and Darker it gives new nuances to the whole betting very strongly on survival. And, although it will take almost a year to put down the gauntlet, you can now start accumulating loot and distribute cuts and spells at your discretion at the click of a mouse. But let's go by parts: What is Dark and Darker and what does it offer me as a player?
Although there are lots of classic role-playing elements both in its interface and in the character structure, the essence Dark and Darker is a first person survival dark fantasy adventure game best enjoyed in multiplayer mode. The idea is simple: put us in a dungeon, invite us to obtain wonderful treasures and escape in one piece. Easy, right?
The thing gets complicated, since in addition to the fact that there will be other treasure hunters in the same dungeon, taking advantage of it is not normally seen, but the threats and creatures of the dark will gain more and more strength and aggressiveness. The higher the risk, the higher the reward but as they say, greed also breaks the bag.
How to play? Since mid-December it is possible to access the Alpha version of the game from Steam. Given the importance of multiplayer, it is a test to see that everything is in order online.
Technically, the process requires that we be granted access to participatealthough it will be enough for you to access the Steam product page through your account, click on the "Play" button and you will instantly receive confirmation that you can start the adventure.
However, we will need a suitable equipment to enter the dungeon of Dark and Darkerand we are not referring to swords and magic wands, but to the minimum and recommended requirements.
Windows 10 / 11 64-bit
3.0GHz Quad Core CPU
GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of RAM
Radeon RX 580 with 4GB of RAM
GeForce RTX or better
Radeon RX5600 or better
12 GB of available space
Finally, and unless this testing period is extended, this Alpha version of Dark and Darker It will be enabled until December 24. If your curiosity, the spirit of adventure or simple greed piques you, do not leave it until the last day.
I am thankful that I live in the universe where I can wash Cloud's bike from Final Fantasy VII in PowerWash Simulator


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Q: Efeitos de hover acontecendo automaticamente em @media Olá!
Estou fazendo um efeito de hover no meu projeto (Atribuindo um estilo CSS a um elemento específico dentro de uma div), em caixas, que quando eu passo o mouse ela se expande e exibe um texto e um botão que não existiam antes do efeito acontecer.
O problema é que quando eu mudo o site para a versão mobile, esses efeitos de aparecer o texto e o botão ficam acontecendo infinitamente. Eles nem deveriam aparecer na versão movel, alías.
O código:
https://jsfiddle.net/brikohler/86rgnsLx/16/
Alguém sabe me dizer como anular esses efeitos de hover?

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2021 Lesson 2: Diverse Communities
This is an online interpersonal perspectives course focused on diverse communities, cultural competence, bias prevention, and a history of the American civil rights movement.
Section one defines cultural competence and explores why the concept is important to the law enforcement community. It explains how cultural competence can be practiced at the individual and organizational level.
Section two examines elements of culture and describes how those elements distinguish one culture from another. It explores concepts of race and ethnicity, including how racial labels can vary over time and from one location to another. The lesson describes the following elements of culture and how those can shape a person's experiences and perspectives: language and communication; geographic location; values and traditions; family and kinship; gender roles; socioeconomic status and education; immigration and migration; heritage and history; sexuality; perspectives on health, illness, and healing; and religion and spirituality.
Section three provides a summary of certain noteworthy people and events that are part of the history of the American civil rights movement, including: slavery; abolition; reconstruction; the Jim Crow era; lynchings; school segregation; the Great Migration; World War I and the Red Summer; mass violence against Black Americans; civil rights protests of the 1960s; Rosa Parks; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Malcom X; the Little Rock Nine; the Freedom Riders; and other people and events.
Section four examines paths for self-evaluation and engaging with diverse communities. It explains how individuals can examine how culture has influenced their own perspectives and that of others. It explains how law enforcement agencies can practice cultural competence and how an agency might use a racial equity toolkit.


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Big Drop in Vaping Among American Students
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A U.S. government study has found that vaping rates among young students fell sharply this year. The drop comes after last year's sudden increase in vaping-related illnesses and deaths.
The national survey, released this week, showed that just under 20 percent of high school students said they were recent users of e-cigarettes and other vaping products. Just 5 percent of middle school students said they had recently used them.
That marks a big decrease from a similar survey in 2019. The earlier survey found nearly 28 percent of high school students and 11 percent of middle school students had recently vaped.
The 2020 survey was carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
About 20,000 American students took part in the survey from mid-January to mid-March. They were asked about the use of any vaping or tobacco products during the past month.
While the number of students smoking cigarettes has reached all-time lows in recent years, the use of vaping products has exploded. Officials say the vaping increase was linked to popular e-cigarettes, like those made by Juul Labs of San Francisco.
Earlier this year, the FDA barred some flavors from vaping devices mainly used by minors. And federal law now bans sales of all tobacco products and e-cigarettes to anyone under age 21.
Public health experts have wondered if last year's sudden increase in vaping related illnesses may have caused some students to give up vaping. Most of the cases happened in August and September. By year's end, more than 2,600 illnesses and close to 60 deaths had been reported.
Most of those who got sick said they had vaped mixtures containing THC. That is the substance in marijuana that produces a high. Health officials eventually centered their investigation on these THC products and on a chemical compound called vitamin E acetate, which had been added to some THC vaping liquids.
Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids said in a statement the survey showed a "meaningful drop" in teen vaping. But he criticized the Trump administration for not following through on a promise to ban all flavored e-cigarettes. The policy did not cover disposable e-cigarettes, which saw a big increase in this year's survey.
"As long as any flavored e-cigarettes are left on the market, kids will get their hands on them and we will not solve this crisis," Myers said.
I'm Bryan Lynn.
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Fleet management systems are being ported to the cloud and finding acceptance among a wider customer set, creating opportunities for broad-based VARs.
Anyone who owns a vehicle can attest to the expense of keeping a car or truck on the road.
That burden becomes all the greater for an organization running a fleet of vehicles. Fleet management systems aim to help companies and government entities keep tabs on maintenance, track fuel economy, and record mileage and trip times. Solution providers specializing in this field say the market is set for expansion. Vehicle fleet management technology is transitioning out of its early adopter phase and finding acceptance among a broader customer set, they contend.
Chris Ransom, director of sales engineering for Verizon Networkfleet, a fleet management and telematics solutions provider based in San Diego, aptly described the market as "accelerating." He said fleet management is following a trajectory similar to cell phones and other technologies: a slow buildup leading to an expansion stage in which declining prices and increasing capabilities encourage adoption.
"I believe we are at that inflection point right now," Ransom said of fleet management.
Indeed, fleet management's footprint appears poised for significant growth. Rickard Andersson, senior analyst with Berg Insight AB, a market research firm based in Göteborg, Sweden, said fleet management's market penetration varies according to geographic region. The forecast for the technology's penetration rate in the North American market in the total population of nonprivately owned commercial vehicles is to increase from 11.7% in 2012 to 21.9% in 2017, Andersson noted. Market penetration in Latin America, he said, is expected to grow from 7% in 2012 to 14.2% in 2017, he added.
Fleet management systems differ from one solution provider to another, but generally consist of hardware for collecting vehicle data and a wireless service for transmitting data to a central computer. The fleet management software component analyzes the data and creates reports. Many systems employ global positioning systems (GPS) for vehicle location tracking and an additional device that plugs into a vehicle's onboard computer and collects vehicle usage information.
Fleet management is following a trajectory similar to cell phones and other technologies: a slow buildup leading to an expansion stage in which declining prices and increasing capabilities encourage adoption.
Traditionally, fleet management systems relied on on-premises computers, but cloud-based systems now populate the market. The cloud shift has contributed to the increasing pace of adoption.
Prova Systems and Technologies Inc., a fleet management solutions provider based in Carbondale, Pa., has made the transition from PC-based systems to Software as a Service (SaaS). The company debuted its Fleet Genius cloud system last fall. The system includes Prova's onboard diagnostic device, which plugs into a vehicle's data link connector port and reports data to the fleet management platform in the cloud. The system can track mileage, speed history and engine diagnostic codes among other metrics.
John Collins, vice president of business development at Prova, said the SaaS system currently links to nearly 500 onboard devices and has logged more than 1 million miles of vehicle usage. He said the cloud approach has made life easier for the company's small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers, who no longer have to worry about details such as memory requirements or what version of Windows they operate.
SaaS also simplifies his company's business model, Collins added. "It has freed us up to focus much more on features ... rather than on supporting any number of antiquated computers our customers might be running," he explained.
With SaaS, the key for customers is "not having to do anything from an IT perspective," Ransom added.
The Verizon Networkfleet telematics solution uses in-vehicle hardware and a Web-based application for analyzing data on particular vehicles and tracking overall fleet performance, according to the company. The solution employs GPS, which transfers information to the company's data center via a wireless network.
The ease-of-use factor makes SaaS-based fleet management an attractive option for fleet operators.
"SaaS-based offerings have, in general, become increasingly popular on the fleet management market, both among SMBs and enterprise customers," Andersson said. "The importance is greater for the smaller companies, which in many cases may be unable to host a system on in-house servers, thereby finding cloud-based systems the only viable alternative for fleet management adoption."
The fleet management field actually covers a number of vertical niches and vehicle types. Fleet verticals include transportation, government, retail and utilities. Vehicles range from large-goods vehicles such as tractor-trailers to lighter transports such as vans and service trucks.
Andersson said the fleet management penetration rate is highest for heavy transport fleets, while service fleets remain less penetrated in many verticals.
A solutions provider's offering may not change much from vertical to vertical. The size of a customer's fleet, however, may prompt a different market response. Some companies have created products geared toward customers who need to manage small fleets.
Collins said Prova has developed a pricing strategy that begins with a "freemium" offer for customers with five or fewer vehicles who don't want to use the company's on-board device. Those customers sign up to use the SaaS system to monitor fuel receipts and track preventive maintenance.
"They are happy to get off spreadsheets," Collins said.
Fleet owners with more than five vehicles who are not interested in purchasing the on-board monitors pay 95 cents per vehicle per month. And customers pay $5.95 per month for each vehicle equipped with Prova's on-board device. Collins said hybrid deployments are possible: A company with 50 vehicles, for example, can purchase on-board monitors to cover just 20. He said a customer can move the hardware from vehicle to vehicle over time to get a sense of each vehicle's performance.
Ransom said most of his company's business is with smaller fleets, but noted across-the-board demand from SMBs to enterprise customers. He said no particular vertical segment is moving faster than others.
That said, a few common themes are drawing customers of all kinds to fleet management systems.
"The growing competitiveness among the transportation service providers, CO2 emission control norms and rising fuel prices are making the fleet management system ... an essential component for the business operation of the fleet vehicle operators," noted a MarketsandMarkets research report published in August.
Solution providers focused on vehicle fleet management, as opposed to more broadly based channel companies, appear to be the primary players in the market. But the shift to SaaS and the expansion of the market to a wider range of customers could change the sales and delivery landscape. Fleet management specialists have begun to cultivate more broadly based resellers as well as transportation-oriented VARs for assistance in expanding market reach.
TomTom International BV, for instance, has established a network of partners to back its fleet management SaaS tool. The partners provide pre-sales consulting, installation, integration and technical support at the local level, according to the company.
"Resellers are typically able to earn revenue from hardware sales, installation, training and support, as well as ongoing SaaS commissions," said Matt Gunzenhaeuser,sales director US for TomTom Business Solutions.
Local Motion, a Burlingame, Calif.-based startup offering cloud-based fleet management, is moving toward the channel. Neil Zeller, business development and commercialization lead for Local Motion, said the company looks forward to working with VARs and integrators in the future. Local Motion's system includes real-time fleet monitoring and remote diagnostics. The company has received a $6 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
The channel can put more feet on the street for fleet management companies looking to scale up. And linking fleet management data into other IT systems represents another potential channel role. Solution providers have created application program interfaces (APIs), exposing fleet management data. APIs may provide an opening for integrators.
Ransom said Verizon Networkfleet has an API but doesn't build the interfaces to other systems. He said a customer's IT staff or third-party companies perform that task.
Overall, channel companies entering the fleet management arena will find a young market with ample opportunity for innovation.
"Most companies in our space are smaller companies," Ransom said. "There's still plenty of room to improve the technology on the hardware and software side to do the job better."


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IDI Supporting Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Uganda with Support from The Fleming Fund
The Executive Director, Dr Andrew Kambugu and Dr Mohammed Lamorde head of the Global Health Security programme met with the Hon. State Minister for Animal Husbandry Bright Rwamirana and the Permanent Secretary Mr Pius Wakabi Kasaija at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries offices in Entebbe. This meeting was held to address contributions by the project through the Fleming Fund Country Grant towards the Ministry specifically in fighting Antimicrobial Resistance in Uganda and also visit the NADDEC facilities supported by the project.
The Fleming Fund has a major aim of supporting of antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems including enhancing the diagnostic capacities and data reporting in low- and middle-income countries. The IDI led consortium includes College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB), Pharmacy Department, Department of Medical Microbiology from Makerere University and Mbarara University of Science and Technology Department of Medical Microbiology.
A project motor vehicle was handed over to NADDEC to offer full-time support to the sample transportation at the microbiology laboratory and AMR National Coordinating Centre. A tour was held at the NADDEC National Veterinary Microbiology Reference Laboratory which is currently supported by the Fleming Fund Country Grant through Mott MacDonald as the management agent. The Laboratory is undergoing renovation to improve the working environment for microbiology and enforce international biosafety standards. State of the art equipment has also been installed i.e. MALDI Tof and BD Phoenix M50 to support real-time bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
The project has made contributions towards AMR in the country and these include the finalization, launch and dissemination of the National Action Plan for AMR, establishment of the Animal Health AMR National Coordinating Centre, development of national AMR ad AMUC surveillance plans and protocols and conducting AMR surveys. It has supported the equipping of 10 laboratories in the human and animal health sectors which have consequently contributed to the data generation, analysis and reporting at the national and international level.
The Global Health Security Team has continuously worked diligently through this project to improve AMR surveillance and promote data sharing to inform policy. To emphasize One Health, building capacity is essential to prepare for any future drug-resistant infections outbreaks across the animal health, human health and environment.
Also in attendance was the commissioner, senior veterinary officers, deputy principal CoVAB and the IDI Fleming Fund team.
By Nakitandwe Rebecca Melisa


New studio web site now online !
After weeks of work, I am pleased to present my new portfolio. It will be now under the mrcup-studio.com name as after working freelance for years, I am now in a real studio with Jef working with me. He designs this website and I thanks him for that, I guess it is important to have a new eye on your own work ! An important thing to was to separate the project for what I was commissioned to do by clients and companies and the work on I self-initiated and do with other designers and creatives like the letterpress calendar and the Walter magazine done with the mediafix team !
Here come some of the latest works I have done over the past work and never found time to present in details !
Letterpress calendar New goal : do a box set that will unfold to be a stander!
So the next goal is to do a box set that will unfold to be a stander for the calendar ! Studio Pression already prototypes it and you can see a video on the project page here !
At the same time, designers continue to work on the project, at the begining of this article is Renaud Orange design (he designs last year front cover). And I am very pleased that Radim Malinic (Brand Nu) climb on the bandwagon. Here comes his first idea (not finished yet !).
Here comes an updated sum up page !
Get your copy on Kickstarter, still 15 days to improve this calendar !


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FDA urges patients to ditch vulnerable insulin pumps built by Medtronic
Jun 27, 2019 | CyberScoop
A vulnerability in an insulin pump made by medical device vendor Medtronic could allow a hacker to change the pump's settings and control the delivery of the hormone, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday.
After security researchers demonstrated how an attacker could abuse a radio frequency protocol, which the pump uses to communicate with other devices, to inject and intercept data, the FDA told patients to switch to pump models with better cybersecurity protections. The advisory is the latest example of a health care company struggling to secure medical technology, which often is expensive and difficult to replace.
Norman "Ned" Sharpless, acting head of the FDA, said the agency wasn't aware of any patient harm stemming from the software vulnerability.
While we are not aware of any patients who may have been harmed by this particular cybersecurity vulnerability, the risk of patient harm if such a vulnerability were left unaddressed is significant.
— Dr. Ned Sharpless (@FDACommissioner) June 27, 2019
Minneapolis-based Medtronic said it is recalling the affected "MiniMed" pump model, which was produced in 2012 and before. Medtronic, in a letter, advised patients to consult with their physicians before switching to another model of insulin pumps with stronger cybersecurity protections. Medtronic heart defibrillators were the subject of a separate advisory in March from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which said hackers could have changed setting in those devices.
In this case, Medtronic spokeswoman Pamela Reese told CyberScoop that roughly 4,000 "direct customers" in the United States could be using the affected pumps, and that the company is working with distributors to identify anyone else who might be using vulnerable equipment. "Most of our current customer base [is] already using insulin pumps that are not impacted by this cybersecurity concern," Reese said.
Medtronic said it hadn't received any "confirmed" reports of unauthorized tampering with the affected pumps. Asked if there were "unconfirmed" reports of tampering, Reese told CyberScoop: "On occasion, we've been alerted to a suspected tampering incident which we investigate thoroughly. But none of those investigations have ever confirmed an incident of this nature."
The Department of Homeland Security also released an advisory about the vulnerability on Thursday which said that no known exploits specifically target the protocol flaw.
Cybersecurity experts have credited medical device makers for being more willing to embrace vulnerability disclosure programs for their equipment, but have also said more of the industry should follow suit.
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Sindh Assembly: Two Bills Passed
ISLAMABAD, February 07, 2012: The Sindh Assembly, which met for two hours and 45 minutes in the third sitting of the 40th session, passed the Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Bill 2013 and the Sindh High Density Development Board (Amendment) Bill 2011.
The Education City Bill 2012 was deferred till February 13.
The House adopted two resolutions – one to pay tribute to noted Sindhi Scholar Siraj ul Haq Memon and the other regarding compensation to the families of victims of Karsaz bomb blast and other terrorist incidents.
PMLQ, NPP, and ANP lawmakers staged a walkout over the passage of the Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Bill 2013. They were of the view that this bill was a contempt of court as the issue of out of turn promotions was pending before the Supreme Court.
The Deputy Speaker chaired the sitting for an hour and 45 minutes as the rest of the proceedings were chaired by a member of the Panel of Chairpersons.
Following are some key observations of the parliamentary business:
Members' Participation in House Proceedings
The Sindh Assembly met for two hours and 45 minutes.
The sitting started at 1030 hours against the scheduled starting time of 0930 hours, witnessing the delay of an hour.
The Deputy Speaker chaired the sitting for an hour and 45 minutes whereas the rest of the proceedings were chaired by a member of the Panel of Chairpersons.
The Chief Minister attended the sitting for nine minutes.
The parliamentary leaders of MQM, PMLF, NPP, PMLQ, PMLQ (F-B), and ANP were present.
Only nine members were present at the start while 48 were there at the time of adjournment. A maximum of 68 members were present at one point of sitting.
Four minority members were present.
Two members applied for leave.
Representation and Responsiveness
Seven of the 18 starred questions on the agenda were taken up and responded to by the relevant minister. Additionally 31 supplementary questions were asked.
An adjournment motion regarding absence of basic civic amenities like electricity, water, gas and employment was raised and debated. It was raised by an NPP lawmaker and seven members spoke about it for 40 minutes.
The Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Bill 2013 and the Sindh High Density Development Board (Amendment) Bill 2011 were passed by the House.
The Education City Bill 2012 was deferred till February 13, 2013.
The House adopted two resolutions. One was to pay tribute to noted Sindhi Scholar Siraj ul Haq Memon while the other was regarding compensation to the families of victims of Karsaz bomb blast and other terrorist incidents.
Order and Institutionalization
Two points of order were raised during the sitting.
A five-minute protest and a 31-minute walkout were staged by PMLQ, NPP, and ANP lawmakers over the passage of the Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Bill 2013. They were of the view that this bill was a contempt of court as the issue of out of turn promotions was pending before the Supreme Court.
Orders of the Day were available to the legislators, observers and others.
The Daily Factsheet is based on direct observation of Sindh Assembly proceedings conducted by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), a member organization of FAFEN
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Q: Display empty int value in textfield This is the first screen of my multiplication practice app

This is the second screen. The problem is that it shows the previous number which you have to delete to put in a new one. So when I try checking the answer to see if it is right the computer picks up the value that it was given first (a.k.a number "6" in this case)

this is what my code looks like.
struct MultiplicationScreen: View {
@State var answer: Int! = nil
@State var num1 = Int.random(in: 0 ... 10)
@State var num2 = Int.random(in: 0 ... 10)
@State var number1:String = "Click Next"
@State var number2:String = "To Start"
@State var correctAnswer: Int = -1

let line = "______"

var multiplicationBrain = MultiplicationBrain()

var body: some View {

    VStack {

        VStack {

            Text(self.number1)
                .font(.largeTitle)
                .padding(.bottom)
            Text(self.number2)
                .font(.largeTitle)
                .padding(.bottom)
            Text(self.line)
                .font(.largeTitle)
                .padding(.bottom)
                .frame(height: 0.0)

            TextField("", value: $answer, formatter: NumberFormatter())
                .font(.title)
                .padding(.all)
                .frame(width: 100.0, height: 55.0)
                .border(Color.black)

        }
        .padding(.all)
        Button(action: {self.updateUI()}) {
            Text("Next")
                .fontWeight(.semibold)
                .font(.largeTitle)
                .foregroundColor(Color.white)
                .padding(.all)
                .frame(width: 250.0, height: 60.0)
                .background(
                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 20)
                        .stroke(lineWidth: 2)
                        .background(Color.blue.cornerRadius(20))
            )

        }
        .padding()
    }

}
func updateUI() {

    print("updateUI ran")

    self.num1 = Int.random(in: 0 ... 10)
           self.num2 = Int.random(in: 0 ... 10)
           self.number1 = "     \(self.num1)"
           self.number2 = "x   \(self.num2)"
           self.correctAnswer = num1 * num2
           self.answer = nil
}


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Why are TV shows better than movies?
Gavin Polone:
Without doing a scientific survey of the entertainment predilections of the American public, I can still confidently say that there appears to be a preferential shift away from movies and toward television. I would bet that you have noticed that your friends are more excited for new episodes of a favorite show than they are for the release of a super-hyped studio tentpole movie. Sure, some of the reason for there being more good TV shows than movies is arithmetic: There are more networks producing series than ever, and also it is much more convenient to access those shows on your DVR or streaming service. But there's more to it than just volume and convenience. The most significant reason TV is favored has to be the overall malaise that has taken hold of the movie audience, which is illustrated by the oft-heard phrase, "There is nothing out worth seeing." Yes, there have been a few successful sequels this year like The Dark Knight Rises, and remakes like The Amazing Spider-Man, and sequel – remakes like Independence Day with Super Heroes a.k.a. The Avengers. But when was the last time you saw a non-animated studio film and thought, "That's a classic," something on the level of Goodfellas, Raiders of the Lost Ark, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, or Lawrence of Arabia? Of course there have been independent films that may have risen to that level. But when you're dealing with a mass audience, it is the studio releases that reach the majority of moviegoers, and the studios don't seem to be delivering the goods as they once had. This explains why in 2012 the number of theater admissions is going to hit a nineteen-year low, while the population during that period has increased from 258 million to 313 million. And I believe that a significant part of the blame for this downward trend can be found in how the studios have changed the process of deciding which movies they will make and distribute.
According to Polone, the problem is twofold. First, movies are largely greenlit by committee. All of the execs involved have to be onboard, and they'll only be onboard if they're sure of success, which leads to safer movies being made, rather than interesting passion projects. Second, the decision to make movies is heavily based on financial projections, meaning that only movies that are similar to movies that brought in lots of money will get made, resulting in more derivative movies.
Unfortunately, Polone doesn't see this changing any time soon.
Sidenote: I suspect that the structure of television, which is largely based around having a season containing a predetermined number of episodes, affords greater creativity because you can develop more ambitious story arcs and deeper character development that are more satisfying for longer periods of time. Movies may offer a higher "high" immediately, but a television series can, in theory, offer a more consistent narrative experience for the long haul. Viewers will come to expect and appreciate that more, as they enjoy long-term rewards from the medium.


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by John Jodzio
The work of John Jodzio has already made waves across the literary community. Some readers noticed his nimble blending of humor with painful truths reminded them of George Saunders. His creativity and fresh voice reminded others of Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. But with his new collection, Jodzio creates a class of his own.
Knockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. A recovering drug addict gets tricked into stealing a tiger. A man buys a used sex chair from his neighbor. A woman suffering from agoraphobia raises her son completely indoors. An alcoholic runs a bed and breakfast with the son from his deceased wife's first marriage. These people will admit that their chances have passed them by. These people know they were born on the wrong side of the tracks, and their dreams will remain unreachable, but that doesn't stop them from dreaming. Yet readers won't be fooled by the funny premises —Jodzio steers these stories into deeper places, creating a brilliant examination of those on the fringes of modern life.
With its quirky humor, compelling characters, and unexpected sincerity, Knockout by John Jodzio is poised to become his breakout book, drawing a wide readership to this provocative and talented young writer.
A breakout book of short stories that packs a wicked punch . . . These 17 well-crafted tales, most first person, most short, are tight, funny, and bizarre — each is its own absurd world made real . . . Dark, grim, and sardonically funny, Jodzio's stories stick like gum to the side of your brain and won't shake loose.
In this collection of fiercely funny and often satirical portraits, Jodzio focuses on the quirkiness of everyday people . . . Jodzio's clean, quick, biting prose demonstrates a firm grasp of storytelling. He grounds the oddness of each narrative with believable human interactions: poignant moments where characters share meaningful connections.
Knockout is full of memorable outcasts, underdogs, losers, and oddballs — and the wondrously imaginative John Jodzio sets these lonely, alienated souls loose in a darkly absurd world that's simultaneously humorous, perverse, and moving.
—J Ryan Stradal, author of the New York Times bestselling Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Take a time out to read John Jodzio's Knockout, you won't regret it.
—Kristen Schaal, co-star of The Last Man on Earth and commentator for The Daily Show
Knockout feels like a collection of one's cherished treasures. There's the gemstone, the tar-splashed rock, the gold safety pin, the folded note, each story an object that feels imbued with life. John Jodzio has crafted a book that inspires a kind of wistful euphoria, an assembled, precious hoard that demands revisiting and reliving.
—Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Don't Kiss Me
We like John Jodzio's short fiction a lot . . . So it's probably not surprising that we're eager to read his latest collection . . .
John Jodzio is a Minneapolis-based short story writer and literary journal darling with a devout following. His compelling tales couple bizarre circumstances with freakishly flawed characters but are emotionally authentic enough to make you wonder if they might be inspired by real life.
—CityPages
With Knockout, his third collection of stories, Minneapolis writer John Jodzio proves his devotion to the form . . . Jodzio has a gift for the wacky compelling premise, and deploys a deceptively casual voice — calling to mind George Saunders — to create screwed-up, deeply sympathetic characters . . . The collection crackles with energy, its tales jolting in unexpected directions.
—Minnesota Star Tribune
It's difficult to write with emotional honesty about the people on the very edge of society, the misfits among misfits. But even when he writes with humor, Jodzio never treats his characters as a joke. He's a compassionate writer who is refreshingly unafraid to take risks, and his book is, well, a knockout.
Minneapolis writer John Jodzio creates darkly humorous short stories about people on the fringes.
John Jodzio's short stories are powder kegs of wit, vice, and human frailty . . . Pithy, unrestrained, and entertaining, Jodzio's prose puts the reader in the headspace of the depraved and managed to evoke empathy for their plights.
Knockout almost seems to good to be true . . . Jodzio's characters are likable for the sheer fact they are so real, so human. This is a writer in top form, and Knockout is aptly titled.
John Jodzio's entire collection is tremendously funny and well written, every story inventive and a pleasure to read.
John Jodzio
JOHN JODZIO is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship and the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You'd Already be Home. His work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He lives in Minneapolis.
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I welcome the opportunity to testify before the committee concerning my experience in working with the private sector on the sequencing of the genome of the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Over the last year a group of academic scientists working together with scientists at Celera Genomics, Inc. determined and analyzed a nearly complete sequence of the Drosophila genome, the largest genome yet sequenced. I would like first to explain why one would choose to determine the genome sequence of the lowly fruitfly. I will then describe the history and nature of the successful collaboration between the public and private sector that allowed this goal to be achieved.
control communication between cells during development were discovered by genetic analysis in fruit flies in the late 1970s. For these reasons, and because of the large and active community of researchers using Drosophila, it was placed on the list of five organisms whose genomes were to be sequenced when the genome project was established ten years ago.
Of the cancer genes surveyed, two-thirds have Drosophila counterparts. Studies of these genes using the powerful experimental methods available for use in the fruitfly will provide important clues as to the mechanism of human disease.
Flies are sophisticated animals having complex structure and behavior including circadian rhythms, learning and memory. While clearly not as complex as humans, flies and humans appear to be constructed largely from the same set of parts, much as the largest supercomputers and desktop PCs are both made from similar microprocessors and memory chips. It is the nature of these parts and the simple integrated circuits composed of them that we hope to understand from our work with fruit flies. The supercomputer differs from the PC mainly in the number of copies of each component and in an increased number of cross-connections between them.
make this gloomy prophesy come true, the naysayers were widely quoted in the press.
But my interest in this collaboration was pretty simple. By combining our efforts, it seemed likely that we could get the science done better and faster than either group working alone.
When I agreed to collaborate with Celera scientists, I must admit I considered the collaboration itself a form of experiment. When people asked me how I felt about it, I'd say "Ask me when it's done."
It's done now and I am happy to be able to report that the collaboration was both highly successful and enjoyable. Celera honored all the commitments they made to me in this collaboration and they have behaved with the highest standards of integrity and scientific rigor.
Because of this collaboration, we have the Drosophila genome sequence a year ahead of our most optimistic estimates. The sequence is freely available to all, and the savings of over $10,000,000 in federal funds can be spent on the next steps in the genome project. For example, further improving the genomic infrastructure for Drosophila research by sequencing cDNA clones and providing other important tools and information to researchers.
Obtaining the genome sequence is just the beginning, not the end, of a long research process. If our work is going to have maximum impact on advancing understanding of human biology, we now need to determine the function of the genes encoded by the fruitfly genome. We began this process by setting up a larger collaboration of over 40 scientists from 20 institutions in five countries to perform an initial interpretation of the genomic sequence, which was reported along with the sequence itself in the March 24, 2000 issue of Science. This annotated sequence, freely available from the National Library of Medicine's database GenBank as well as from the www pages of the Drosophila Genome Project and Celera, will greatly accelerate the work of the 5,000 scientists world-wide who perform experiments with Drosophila. This work can be expected to facilitate the continuation of Drosophila's long history of significant contributions to our understanding of medically relevant human biology, as well as lead to a greater understanding of the biology of insects, which are themselves often vectors for disease and agricultural pests.


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Home Money, Politics and Power Saving Obama from a Bad Trade Deal
Saving Obama from a Bad Trade Deal
Republican intransigence may have saved the president's legacy—from himself.
by Kevin P. Gallagher
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
In this June 11, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, prior to a trip to Europe for a Group of Eight summit of major Western democracies, where the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with Europe was be a top item. The deal is touted as a means of boosting growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers, but those expectations are unlikely to be fulfilled in the deal, which would benefit corporations far more than governments or citizens, which would likely be hurt.
Plans to rush fast-track authority for two trade deals for a quick House and Senate vote abruptly broke down on Tuesday. The White House was hoping to put the vote to Congress as early as this week.
But Republicans wanted to see more details of one of the deals, which addresses trade with Pacific nations-before agreeing to a fast-track vote. Democrats who favored the deal were seeking some concessions to appease their skeptical colleagues.
An aide to Senator Ron Wyden, the Democrats' lead Senate negotiator, told Reuters: "Senator Wyden is looking for some good, eleventh hour concessions that he can get to demonstrate to Democrats that he has gotten the best deal possible." Republicans, however, refused to deliver even window dressing.
The vote is now off until April at the earliest. But April may be too close to the gravitational field of the 2016 elections, and the whole scheme could go down. The deadlock could be a huge blessing in disguise for the Obama administration, which has fought hard for two trade deals that most Democrats oppose.
These deals would eclipse some of Obama's very remarkable achievements, including rescuing the country from a depression, passing comprehensive health reform, and taking climate change seriously. The deals would increase corporate power and increase inequality.
History will be more kind to this President than what a bad dose of Fox News would suggest-unless Obama trades his accomplishments away to a Republican-dominated Congress and the group of private interests that have hijacked U.S. trade policy.
The first deal is the nearly finished Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) with Japan, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Vietnam, and other countries in the Pacific Rim. The TPP aims to bring China in upon completion, and China has expressed interest. The second is the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a treaty with the entire European Union.
These pacts would bring little in terms of economic benefit to the United States economy, but they will bring high costs. Obama's treaties rebrand regulations to protect public welfare as protectionism, and grant private corporations the right to govern them.
Hijacked Trade Policy
To Obama's credit, he saw early on that U.S. trade policy had taken a wrong turn, particularly with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and pledged to change the direction of trade policy. But after finding himself weakened by special interests and Republican control of Congress, the president has abandoned his pledge.
On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama told Ohio voters: "I voted against CAFTA, never supported NAFTA, and will not support NAFTA-style trade agreements in the future. While NAFTA gave broad rights to investors, it paid only lip service to the rights of labor and the importance of environmental protection."
Obama also pledged, in an answer he wrote on questionnaire from the Oregon Fair Trade Coalition:
With regards to provisions in several free trade agreements that give foreign investors the right to sue governments directly in foreign tribunals, I will ensure that foreign investor rights are strictly limited and will fully exempt any law or regulation written to protect public safety or promote the public interest. And I will never agree to granting foreign investors any rights in the U.S. greater than those of Americans.
Also to his credit, during his first term Obama also created a commission to make recommendations toward a new model treaty that would enshrine his promises. I had the honor to serve on that group, but was shocked to find just two other academics, a few members of civil society, but a strong representation of special interest groups that saw the need for no change at all. In the end, the commission couldn't come to a unified set of conclusions, and those of us in the minority signed a note in opposition to the corporate-led recommendations that outlined the principles for making U.S. trade policy more balanced.
Despite such pushback, Obama inspired a healthy debate in Congress over the past few years regarding how U.S. foreign economic policy can rectify past wrongs and expand the administration's achievements and goals across the world. Many have argued that the U.S. should take the lead on a trade policy that helps the U.S. and our negotiating partners enhance financial stability while facilitating trade and investment in goods and services that will help us transition to a low-carbon, less-toxic, and more inclusive economy.
Representative Sandy Levin from Michigan-a state hit hard by lopsided trade agreements-has tabled a bold reform package for the TPP. Levin proposes reforms to the TPP that would grant better market access for agricultural and automotive goods, and strengthen worker rights, environmental protection, and provisions for the access to medicines for the U.S. and its trading partners. Levin also proposes key provisions that draw a clear line in the sand that would prevent multinational corporations from taking TPP governments to private tribunals and claiming that regulations for workers, the environment, and financial stability are barriers to trade.
By 2014 those special interest groups had completely taken over the administration's trade policy-so much so that he abandoned his pledges and his party to side with the Republicans in an effort to ram through a blueprint for trade deals that is at fundamental odds with the Obama presidency.
The Washington Post documented this take over in an investigative report titled "Industry voices dominate the trade advisory system." The Post found that there are 566 advisory group members that can look at U.S. trade proposals and comment on them (Congress members or their staff can not). According to the Post, though, 480 of those advisers represent industry or trade association groups-or 85 percent. Those academics, unions, and civil society members that can take part are most often relegated to small sub-committees that don't get access to the meat of the deal.
It is thus no surprise that Obama's new trade pacts would bring big gains to private interests and high costs to the public.
It's (Not) About the Economy, Stupid
The United States already enjoys historically low tariffs with its TTP and TTIP partners. For that reason, even the most optimistic economic modeling efforts yield miniscule benefits from the president's trade agenda.
The Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates that the TPP would only boost U.S. GDP by 0.38 percent in 2025. That is likely an overestimate, given the estimators' assumption of full employment for the U.S. and all trading partners. Nevertheless, the administration has been endlessly quoting the Peterson Institute's findings out of context, and tacking on that the agreement would also bring 650,000 jobs to the U.S. economy.
The administration's fuzzy math raised so many eyebrows that it prompted Glenn Kessler, author of the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog, to take a look. Kessler went back to the Peterson Institute's study and to its authors and confirmed that the Peterson Institute's study sees only a 0.38 percent increase in U.S. GDP, and does not see any improvement in jobs to the U.S. economy.
In modeling based on the Peterson Institute projections, economist David Rosnick estimates the TPP would accentuate inequality in the United States. Under the TPP, reckons Rosnick, the median U.S. income would fall relative to the incomes of the wealthy (which will rise under TPP) and in absolute terms, thus middle-class U.S. workers to take home less in 2025 than they earn today.
Thus the TPP would contribute to an already alarming trend. According to economist Josh Bivens, deals like the TPP have already brought job losses and lower wages to the tune of $1,800 per year for full time workers without a college degree.
The story is similar for the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP. The most optimistic studies by the European Union put the benefits of the TPP for the U.S. at 0.40 percent of GDP-way out in 2025. Adding the two deals together would thus yield all of about eight one-hundredths of one percent to U.S. GDP per year until 2025-amounting to nothing less than a rounding error when put in proper context.
And with both deals, our loss is not our trading partners' gain. The benefits for all the TPP countries are estimated by the Peterson Institute to be 0.49 percent of their combined GDP, and the TPP is estimated to actually hurt the economies of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and many South Asian countries. Official estimates by the E.U. put the TTIP's benefits for the Europeans at 0.49 percent of GDP far into the future, and more realistic modeling efforts conducted by Tufts University economists estimate that the TTIP would make Europe worse off.
It's About Elevating Rights of Corporations Over Citizens' Rights
The TPP is the furthest along and reveals the depressing similarity between Obama and Bush trade policy. Leaked text of the TPP confirms that bona fide regulations to protect public welfare have been recast as illegal barriers to trade by the big corporations in on writing the rules of U.S. trade policy. What is worse, Obama's new deals would let the private corporations themselves be the ones to govern key parts of these treaties.
Despite the rhetoric from the United States Trade Representative's office, the nearly-done TPP makes few improvements on labor and environmental standards beyond a compromise deal struck with the Bush administration in 2007, worsens access to medicines, and could make all TPP members more vulnerable to financial crises.
A 2014 GAO study signaled the inadequacy of the 2007 compromise, as it found that labor violations remain rife in post-2007 treaties. On the environment, Peru has become a hotbed for illegal logging that has also come with the murder of environmental activists-despite the 2007 compromise. The deal would also expand draconian intellectual property rules that would choke access to medicines. What is more, the deal would limit the ability of our trading partners to prevent and mitigate financial crises.
As Senator Elizabeth Warren argued in a recent Washington Post opinion article, perhaps the most egregious aspect of Obama's new trade deals are that they allow foreign investors to govern the core aspects of the agreement. She writes:
Agreeing to ISDS in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the United States further in favor of big multinational corporations. Worse, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty.
Senator Warren was referring to the system under many U.S. treaties referred to as "investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)," which allows private corporations the right to challenge U.S. laws and the laws of our trading partners and then directly sue them in private tribunals without ever stepping into a court of law.
This stands in stark contrast with the procedures of the World Trade Organization, where nation-states and regulators take cases against each other that are decided in relatively public tribunals.
These ISDS procedures are the same measures that Obama campaigned against. Big multinational corporations have been using these rules to pick off regulations in poorer countries for years. What makes the president's new trade package most worrisome is that it will now open the door to attack U.S. law too.
In other trade deals that have ISDS, multinational companies have been using ISDS on every issue where the Obama administration has made gains. On jobs and labor a French company sued Egypt because Egypt raised the minimum wage. A Dutch company sued the Czech Republic because the company was not bailed out under provisions that look at lot like what is in the Dodd-Frank bill.
There is a case by a Slovakian company against Greece for the restructuring of its debt in the wake of the European crisis-even though the Greek debt deal was struck by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank. There was a case against Malaysia for measures it took to stem the retreat of financial flows from that country in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, as well. Despite new rules by the IMF and a letter signed by over 250 economists, the Obama administration's deals would enshrine the ability of Wall Street banks to move the savings of American taxpayers in and out of the country with out any caution about financial stability at home or abroad.
And impact on health care is likely to be profound. In Canada, the Eli Lily Corporation is suing Canada for $100 million in an attempt to be able to charge higher prices in that country even though the Canadian Supreme Court has already ruled against them. Philip Morris is using ISDS to go after Uruguay's new regulations on the health impacts of tobacco use.
Actions such as these, if allowed under U.S. policy, will fly in the face of Obama's health-care agenda. Obama's new budget proposes to reduce special monopoly protections for pharmaceutical firms for biologic medicines-drugs used to combat cancer and other diseases that cost approximately 22 times more than conventional medicines. To lower prices and lesson the burden on Medicare and Medicaid, the administration's 2015 budget would reduce the period of monopoly protection for biologics from 12 to seven years. Obama says this would save U.S. taxpayers more than $4.2 billion.
Yet the TPP would grant these same companies 12 years of protection and the ability to go after the government in private tribunals. A new study finds that the TPP would reduce the share of Vietnam's AIDs patients who have access to life-saving antiretroviral drugs from 69 to 30 percent-cutting access to life saving drugs to upwards of 45,000 Vietnamese currently covered.
Some of the most worst cases have been against environmental regulations. U.S. companies have gone after Canadian regulations on fracking and renewable energy standards, and have filed against Peru (despite the 2007 compromise) and Ecuador for more than $3 billion over measures to clean up toxic pollution and stem the deforestation of the Amazon. A Swedish company has filed a $1 billion claim against Germany for new nuclear safety regulations.
U.S. companies have been using our treaties to attack the regulations of other countries and the TPP will expand those rights to Asia. Now the U.S. law could come under attack as well. Under the TPP and TTIP we could see Japanese, French, German, and later Chinese companies come after our system of public welfare.
The Washington watchdog group Public Citizen estimates that over 3,400 parent corporations in the E.U. own more than 24,000 subsidiaries in the United States could. Business Europe, a key business lobby, Public Citizen reports, assesses the rules under TTIP this way: "U.S. fuel tax credits and Cellulosic Biofuel Producer Credit should become impossible." And the European Association of Dairy Trade has asserted that the Grade-A safety standard for milk is an 'obstacle' that "is both highly cumbersome and expensive."
Even closer to home, the CEO of the Canadian company that would benefit from the Keystone pipeline told Politico that his company could eventually consider filing a claim against Obama's veto of the controversial program. The E.U. and Canada have higher standards than the U.S. does; imagine what Chinese state-owned enterprises that have shunned much weaker health environmental regulations in China would see as 'obstacles' in the United States when China gets wrapped into the TPP, and can use the ISDS provision to challenge U.S. regulatory regimes. The Obama administration says it wants to write the rules for China and other Asian countries; if these are rules that Chinese companies will be able to take advantage of, too, they are doubly misguided.
Saving the Legacy
The underpinnings of the president's most crowning achievements would be jeopardized under these agreements. This is not worth a supposed gain of 0.78 percent of GDP in 2025, a figure that is only as good as its very dubious assumptions.
It's a mercy that fast-track authority is now stalled. Rather than exporting a model of deregulation that elevates the rights of private corporations over national court systems, the United States needs to uphold its tradition of fighting for freedom and equality, the betterment of humankind, and a protected environment at home and abroad.
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Hiss is a Lisp interpreter written in Python, because why not?

* Free software: BSD license
* Documentation: http://hiss.rtfd.org.

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* TODO

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Q: Best way to load images pygame Currently, I am loading all images at the start of the program. Is there a better solution for this? As some images may not be used at all throughout the entire game (I'm currently making a main menu).
Main.py
import pygame as pg
from Menu import Menu

pg.init()
"""Displays screen"""
winWidth = 1920
winHeight = 1080
size = (winWidth, winHeight)

win = pg.display.set_mode(size)

"""Load images"""
bg_img = pg.image.load('Pic/td-gui/PNG/menu/bg.png')
title_img = pg.image.load('transtitle.png')
settings_img = pg.image.load('Pic/td-gui/PNG/menu/button_settings.png')
play_img = pg.image.load('Pic/td-gui/PNG/menu/button_play.png')
reg_img = pg.image.load('Pic/td-gui/PNG/menu/button_registration.png')
quit_img = pg.image.load('Custom/Menu/Quit.png')
rope_img = pg.image.load('Pic/td-gui/PNG/menu/rope_small.png')
changeDiff_img = pg.image.load('Custom/Menu/Change_Difficulty.png')
score_img = pg.image.load('Custom/Menu/Scoreboard.png')
selectmap_img = pg.image.load('Custom/Menu/Select_map.png')
tutorial_img = pg.image.load('Custom/Menu/Tutorial.png')

"""Puts loaded images into the correct size"""
bg_img = pg.transform.scale(bg_img,(winWidth, winHeight))
title_img = pg.transform.scale(title_img, (750, 75))
play_img = pg.transform.scale(play_img, (250, 250))
rope_img = pg.transform.scale(rope_img, (27, 290))

clock = pg.time.Clock()

win.blit(bg_img, (0, 0))
mainMenu = True
settingsMenu = False
run = True
running = True
while run:
    clock.tick(30)
    pg.display.update()
    for event in pg.event.get():
        if event.type == pg.QUIT:
            run = False
            if not run:
                pg.quit()
    """Places correct images in specified location"""
    title = Menu(winWidth // 2 - 375, winHeight // 2 - 500, title_img)

    if mainMenu:
        reg_button = Menu(winWidth // 2 - 150, winHeight // 2 - 100, reg_img)
        ropeR = Menu(winWidth // 2 - 100, 200, rope_img)
        ropeL = Menu(winWidth // 2 + 70, 200, rope_img)
        scoreboard_button = Menu(winWidth//2 - 330, winHeight//2 + 275, score_img)
        play_button = Menu(winWidth // 2 - 125, winHeight // 2 - 375, play_img)
        reg_button = Menu(winWidth // 2 - 161, winHeight // 2 - 100, reg_img)
        quit_button = Menu(winWidth//2 + 30, winHeight//2 + 275, quit_img)
        changeDiff_button = Menu(winWidth//2 - 330, winHeight//2 + 80, changeDiff_img)
        selectmap_button = Menu(winWidth//2 + 30, winHeight//2 + 80, selectmap_img)
        settings_button = Menu(winWidth - 200, winHeight - 200, settings_img)

        """Draws images in specified location and makes buttons if specified"""
        title.draw_img(win)
        if reg_button.draw_button(win):
            print('Reg button clicked')
        ropeL.draw_img(win)
        ropeR.draw_img(win)
        if scoreboard_button.draw_button(win):
            print("options Clicked")
        if play_button.draw_button(win):
            print("Play Clicked")
        if quit_button.draw_button(win):
            pg.quit()
        if changeDiff_button.draw_button(win):
            print('Change Difficulty button pressed')
        if selectmap_button.draw_button(win):
            print('Select Map button preseed')
        if settings_button.draw_button(win):
            print('Settings button pressed')
            mainMenu = False
            settingsMenu = True
    if settingsMenu:
        win.blit(bg_img, (0, 0))
        title.draw_img(win)

Menu.py
import pygame as pg
pg.init()

class Menu():
    def __init__(self, x, y, img):
        self.img = img
        self.rect = self.img.get_rect()
        self.rect.y = y
        self.rect.x = x
        self.clicked = False

    def draw_button(self, win):

        action = False
        #get mouse position
        pos = pg.mouse.get_pos()
        #check mouseover and clicked conditions
        if self.rect.collidepoint(pos):
            if pg.mouse.get_pressed()[0] == 1 and not self.clicked:
                action = True
                self.clicked = True

        if pg.mouse.get_pressed()[0] == 0:
            action = False
        #draw image
        win.blit(self.img, (self.rect.x, self.rect.y))
        return action

    def draw_img(self, win):
        win.blit(self.img, (self.rect.x, self.rect.y))

Say I'm making a music button, which is accessible through the settings button, I would currently load the music button image at the start of the program. Is there a way to make it so the music image would only be loaded once the settings button has been pressed?

A: To give a quick and simple overview of what you could do, here's an example. You define an abstract Scene class. Then, every "scene" in your game inherits from it. Each scene has a setup method that loads everything the scene needs (or might need).
import pygame

class Scene:
    def __init__(self):
        """ Create all attributes """

    def setup(self):
        """ Load everything in and initialize attributes """

    def handle_events(self, events):
        """ Handle the events for this scene """

    def update(self, dt):
        """ Run logic """

    def render(self, screen):
        """ Draw to the screen """

class Menu(Scene):
    def __init__(self):
        """ Create all attributes """
        self.image1 = None
        self.image2 = None
        # ... and so on ...

    def setup(self):
        """ Load everything in and initialize attributes """
        self.image1 = pygame.image.load("my_image1.png")
        self.image2 = pygame.image.load("my_image2.png")
        # ... and so on ...

    def handle_events(self, events):
        """ Handle the events for this scene """

    def update(self, dt):
        """ Run logic """

    def render(self, screen):
        """ Draw to the screen """
        screen.blit(self.image1, (0, 0))
        # ... and so on ...

class Game(Scene):
    def __init__(self):
        """ Create all attributes """
        self.player  = None
        self.enemies = None
        # ... and so on ...

    def setup(self):
        """ Load everything in and initialize attributes """
        self.player  = Player(position=(100, 100), image=pygame.image.load("player.png"))
        self.enemies = [
            Enemy(position=(200, 400), pygame.image.load("enemy1.png")),
            Enemy(position=(200, 500), pygame.image.load("enemy2.png")),
        ]
        # ... and so on ...

    def handle_events(self, events):
        """ Handle the events for this scene """
        for event in events:
            if event.type == pygame.KEY_DOWN:
                print('PAM!')

    def update(self, dt):
        """ Run logic """
        self.player.update(dt)
        for enemy in self.enemies:
            enemy.update()

    def render(self, screen):
        """ Draw to the screen """
        screen.blit(self.player.image, self.player.position)
        for enemy in self.enemies:
            screen.blit(enemy.image, enemy.position)
        # ... and so on ...

Here's roughly how a game loop would look like.
def main():
    screen  = pygame.display.set_mode((1024, 1024))
    clock   = pygame.time.Clock()
    running = True
    scene   = Menu()
    scene.setup()
    while running:
        dt = clock.tick(60)
        events = list(pygame.event.get())

        scene.handle_events(events)
        scene.update(dt)
        scene.render(screen)

        # Have some way of determining when to switch scene.
        if should_switch_to_game:
            scene = Game()
            scene.setup()
        elif should_switch_to_menu:
            scene = Menu()
            scene.setup()
        # ... and so on ...

This is a basic starting point, but there are other ways to handle the situation, like having an asset manager that dynamically load and unload assets based on usage. However, these are quite complicated and will make development and debugging much harder. It's always best to keep things simple when you can. If you can load all images at the beginning of the program, then I'd suggest doing so.
Also, remember that there's nothing that's "best" or "optimized" as all you're doing is tradeoffs. If you're trying to optimize for memory, then you're often making your program slower. If you're optimizing for speed, then you're often making your program use more memory.
If you are loading things just when you need them, you're going to have a loading time switching between different views in your menu. This is often not something you want as the user expects it to be fast. Switching from the game to the menu, it's more forgiving to have a couple of extra ms. But if you feel you want to go the other way then different views in the menu could be considered different scenes.

A: In general, no it's not a problem to load images that are never used, as long as the images are small. It's better to load them all at once so that the interface never has to wait for loading.
However, if you have a very large amount of images or your images are very big, it might be worth loading some images only when you need them. You could do something like this when you start your music field:
def start_music_menu():
    global music_icon # Sorry about the global
    if music_icon is None:
        music_icon = pygame.image.load('...')

In this case your interface will freeze while loading the extra image. You can also use threading or asyncio to keep your interface responsive while a image is loading.

A: Properly use OOP concept make separate class for various loading image and then use them accordingly .


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