Spencer Providence, LLC is presenting a proposed development on Parcels 2 and 5 to the 195 Commission. The meeting was scheduled for this evening but has been postponed due to a posting error.
Parcel 5 is located on the east bank of the Providence River bounded by Wickenden, South Main, South Water, and Dollar Streets. The proposal calls for a 2-story mixed-use building fronting Wickenden Street and a second 4-story building with a restaurant and 130-room hotel along the end of the parcel at Dollar Street. The whole parcel would have underground parking with 188 parking spaces.
Parcel 2 is located north of Parcel 5 on the east bank of the Providence River bounded by South Main, South Water, Dollar, and James Streets. Nine rowhouse style buildings, 3-stories tall, with a total of 22 units would be built on the parcel. The rowhouses would feature ground level garages with driveways off Dollar Street and a new extension of Transit Street through the parcel.
In the image above, I'm assuming the center buildings are the proposed hotel, which looks quite handsome. The site plan for the rowhouses is a total non-starter for me though. That is extremely suburban, does not belong in the center of the city.
First time commenter here. Not an urban planning expert by any means, just someone who loves this city and loves watching it develop.
I do like the parcel 5 part of this proposal, but find the parcel 2 site plan very disappointing (although I like the idea of extending Transit St). The floor plan for the specialty retail shows cart storage and oversized elevators. Perhaps they are planning a grocery store?
The Jewelry District Association had presentations from Spencer Providence, LLC and Post Road Residential earlier this week, and Carpionato Group in February. After reviewing all the proposals, the JDA voted on them. Their choice was this one by Spencer Providence, LLC.
It's really sad that among the respondents, the Post Road proposal scored essentially the same as the Carpionato proposal. I was at the JDA meeting and when the Spencer team said 'grocery store' there was a collective gasp of joy from the crowd, so I'm pretty sure that is what everyone is focused on.
The JDA just wants suburban-type development. This Spencer proposal is literally the last thing that I would like to see on that land.
Above ground parking next to the townhouse?
I get it, the rendering is pretty, the use of the sidewalk, the textures, etc. However, the other two proposals would be better starting points. There must be density or don't build anything at all (until a developer is ready to put forth an acceptable proposal).
Providence, the city that turns down 33-55 story high rises, but welcomes 22 unit townhouse developments on prime riverfront land. Idiocy in its grandest form.
I'm pretty OK with Spencer's plans for Parcel 5 (the one fronting Wickenden). The building on Wickenden could be a little taller, maybe a floor or two of apartments. The rendering of the hotel building is quite nice.
The rowhouses and driveways on Parcel 2 are a non-starter for me. I don't think they conform with zoning either. It might only be a downtown zone thing, but downtown buildings have to be built to the street edge. I'd be fine with a row of houses built to the street on the South Main and South Water sides, and if they want, they could have a service alley down the center to allow for their parking. The service alley should be gated so it is not viewed from Dollar Street.
Of the three (with only two rendered), I think I like the design of this one better. The potential of a grocery store is exciting for this part of the city.
Yea I agree. this is too close to downtown to have "Smithfield" type development. I like the carpionato rendering from previous posts., something with height and density.
I think what I was complaining about with the Carpionato proposal, working too hard to throw too many things at the design to somehow make it look historic, but failing, the architect for this project (looking at the limited renderings) has solved.
That hotel building (the last image in the post) looks like it has always been there. The retail building at the Wickenden end has more modern (and one might argue trendy) design details, but I like it. The face running up Wickenden actually looks like Wickenden, with a slightly modernist twist, but using materials that soften that.
It is as if the architect actually visited the site before doing their drawings.
At the JDA meeting, the architect from Piatt Associates presented the design and made it clear that they really had studied the neighborhood and desired to engage with the local urban and aesthetic patterns. The parcel 5 proposal lives up to that, but parcel 2 sure doesn't. It way undershoots the potential for that parcel.
I take pride in knowing that a few will remember these parcels once possessed something somewhat unique and iconic to Providence, and brought simple joy and delight. Of course I'm speaking to the sunflower field I've planted and managed the past three years, as a way to promote Urban Landscape as an essential part of the city's infrastructure. I'm under know delusion that it would continue forever and by no means oppose a transformation of these parcels beyond sunflowers, but great cities have great parks, and waterfronts. The opening of the 195-land was an opportunity to begin to build a great urban green heart running through the city, and better connect to the bay. These ubiquitous proposals fail to even attempt to inspire. I might consider it a fault of the master plan and not the development proposals themselves.
I should also point out why'll other cities are frantically preparing and designing for resilient waterfront edges in areas prone to sea level rise and storm surges, Providence is pursuing skyscrapers, suburban townhomes, and hotels?
I love the city and want to see the most innovative and smart ideas take shape.


This is the problem of translating the word "we" into Indonesian language. Indonesian language has two distinct words for the personal pronoun "we", it changes depending on the clusivity of the "we" itself, the inclusive "we" in Indonesian is "kita", and the exclusive "we" in Indonesian is "kami"
I do not understand the "inclusive" and "exclusive" we - do you mean including and excluding the person being addressed?
Yes, whether or not "we" includes the person you are talking to.
do i pronounce the -t at the end? is this word pronounced the same as the arabic word for verse (surah/surat)?
Surat = a letter concerning a backwards bull. I will really stretch for a mnemonic.


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from pprint import pprint
import json
import sys

from networks.docker import build_image
from networks.docker import build_network
from networks.docker import inspect_network
from networks.docker import create_container
from networks.docker import connect_to_network
from networks.docker import stop_container
from networks.docker import create_gateway

# docker run --rm -it -p 8022:22 vulnerables/cve-2016-6515

class Network():
    metasploitable = build_image("metasploitable")
    gateway = build_image("nginx")
    openssh = build_image("openssh-vulnerable")

    def __init__(self):
        self.nodes = []
        self.subnets = []
        self.connections = []

    def add_subnet(self, subnet_name):
        build_network(subnet_name)
        self.subnets.append(subnet_name)
        return self

    def add_node(self, node, command=""):
        self.nodes.append(create_container(node, command))
        return self

    def add_gateway(self, node, external_port, internal_port, command="nginx -g \"daemon off;\""):
        self.nodes.append(create_gateway(node, external_port, internal_port, command))
        return self

    def connect_to_subnet(self, node, subnet):
        self.connections.append((node, subnet))
        connect_to_network(subnet, node)
        return self

    def inspect_subnet(self, subnet):
        if subnet in self.subnets:
            pprint(inspect_network(subnet))
        else:
            print("Subnet not connected.")
        return self

    def stop_network(self):
        for node in self.nodes:
            stop_container(node)
        return self

    def export(self):
        return json.dumps({
            "nodes" : self.nodes,
            "subnets" : self.subnets,
            "connections" : self.connections
        })

def default_network():
    """Creates Docker simulation."""
    network = Network()
    return network \
        .add_node(Network.metasploitable) \
        .add_node(Network.metasploitable) \
        .add_gateway(Network.gateway, 3000, 80) \
        .add_subnet("test_subnet") \
        .connect_to_subnet(network.nodes[0], network.subnets[0]) \
        .connect_to_subnet(network.nodes[1], network.subnets[0]) \
        .connect_to_subnet(network.nodes[2], network.subnets[0]) \
        .add_gateway(Network.openssh, 8022, 22, "") \
        .connect_to_subnet(network.nodes[3], network.subnets[0])

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Photobombing a Honey Bee
Ready? Set? Go?
The search party is almost ready to start. If you're lucky, you'll net the prize before Art Shapiro does.
Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, has announced his annual "Butterfly for a Beer" contest: the person who collects the first cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae) of the year in one of three counties—Sacramento, Yolo and Solano—will receive a pitcher of beer or its equivalent. The butterfly must be collected outdoors and delivered live to the Department of Evolution and Ecology, Room 2320 of Storer Hall. (See rules)
As you may remember, Shapiro launched the contest in 1972 as part of his scientific research. Since 1972, the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly has varied from Jan. 1 to Feb. 22, averaging about Jan. 20. He predicts that the first butterfly of 2018 may be collected as soon as Jan. 5 or 6, "depending on the weather."
He's usually the winner; he's been defeated only four times, and then by UC Davis graduate students.
And yes, he's had some humorous moments.
Some folks contact him way way way after it's all over and done (like in the spring!) with a collected specimen and ask him if they've won.
We thought about declaring ourselves the winner to the good professor after photographing dozens of them all spring and into summer and late fall and encountering hundreds more.
Meanwhile, starting Jan. 1, the cabbage white will be the most sought-after insect in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano.
They're not easy to find in January. Neither are they always easy to photograph seasonally. They seem to flutter out of your viewfinder just as you're about to focus on them. Wait, wait, come back! I'm not through yet!
Other times, they photobomb your long-awaited image, like last summer when I was zeroing in on a solo bee on a bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis).
Webster defines photobombing this way: "to spoil a photograph of by unexpectedly appearing in the camera's field of view as the picture is taken, typically as a prank or practical joke."
In this case, they both wanted the same nectar. The photo amounted to a "two-fer"--two insects for the price (prize?) of one.
And then the determined cabbage white butterfly circled the hapless honey bee for another photobomb opportunity. Aren't you done, yet?
A cabbage white butterfly photobombs a honey bee on a bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis). This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Joy, oh, joy, another photobomb opportunity! The cabbage white circles the honey bee nectaring on bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Filmmaker Francis Kuzler reveals the story behind the story behind "The Fringe."
Had a person told me in 2006 that it would be 2019 before a documentary that I was working on would be finished, I would have laughed, said "Yeah, right," and kept on shooting. But let's face it, if that same person would have told me in 2006 that we'd have our first African American President in 2008, followed by extremist backlash manifested in a President named Trump, I would have contented myself in that person's lunacy — and kept shooting. In the time that we have been making a documentary about the New York International Fringe Festival, theater has changed, what is considered fringe has changed, down to the meaning of the word.
The point is that the story behind a documentary unfolds over time. This isn't unlike creating a fictional universe which would, if left to organic development, also take plenty of time to unfold. The main difference between the two, however, is that in the nonfiction world you have absolutely no control over the universe. You are only there to record what is not scripted, to hope that you're getting the right moments, and to acknowledge that the number of moving parts in a real-world situation can be overwhelming. You sacrifice control of the universe for a deeper understanding of reality.
But a story worth telling is also a story worth waiting for, and I wanted to tell this story the right way, fully explored. Back in 2006, after shooting for 16 days and recording 100 hours of what is familiarly known as FringeNYC, I knew we didn't have the story. I knew there was something more universal happening in this local-to-New-York, fringe-centric universe. I decided that we would continue returning, year after year, until the story revealed itself. To my process-loving, destiny-over-determinism mind, it not only meant a story revealed but a story exhausted. So I committed myself and anyone foolish enough to hang in there — my partner and co-producer Jen Larkin, my friend and fellow filmmaker Pat Sullivan, our sound mixer "newbie" from 2011, Marcella Dawson — to see the story out. Year after year we recorded the shifting tides of culture and politics, and we watched as artists responded with new forms of theatrical commentary. Year after year we bootstrapped our production by working multiple jobs, freelancing and eBaying, and getting help from some fantastic volunteers who are pros at their jobs. All with the thought that one day we'll know when our part has been played, when it would be time to call it a wrap.
That day came recently when, mid-shoot, I literally turned the camera off. I knew we had everything we needed. That doesn't mean to say we don't have some things left to get: interviews with key people at other fringe festivals internationally; interviews with people who might have been considered fringe once but now are not; archive footage from the city. But, in essence, the story of The New York International Fringe Festival has presented itself as fully as any documentary filmmaker could hope to tell it.
So here we are. What started as an enigmatic concept fueled by a passion for theater — in particular, NYC independent theater — is now nearly a fully fleshed-out thing that we can touch. We have plenty of work to do over the next year, but we got here. We are going to get it done.
Editor's Note: The Fringe is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise some of the funds needed to complete the film. The campaign ends on Sun., June 3. Visit the campaign and watch a video on the film here.


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Q: how i can play more than MP3 file in raw in my project in android studio? is there way? i mean if i have music.mp3 and music2.mp3 and music3.mp3 , how i can play them in raw file? what the code?, some body help please!
MediaPlayer mMedia = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.music);

mMedia.start();

A: I guess you want to play them seperately!
Playing three Tracks synchronously using MediaPlayer will not work!
Create three Mediaplayer Opjects:
MediaPlayer mMp1;
MediaPlayer mMp2;
MediaPlayer mMp3;

.....
.....
    mMp1 = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.music1);
    mMp2 = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.music2);
    mMp3 = MediaPlayer.create(MainActivity.this, R.raw.music3);

Play them eg.: when a Button is clicked:
    public void onClick(View v) {

            if (mBtnStart1.getId() == v.getId()) {
                    mMp1.start();
                    mMp2.pause();
                    mMp3.pause();
            }
    }

Same code for mMp2 and mMp3
There are several good tutorials on Youtube too:
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And you should definitely have a look on the MediaPlayer class on the developer page:
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The world's religions affirm it to be so and recent research across a number of disciplines tell us that "Helping others not only benefits those we assist but is good for us as well." The recent and astonishingly generous outpouring of help and donations in response to the earthquake in Haiti is a clear demonstration of this phenomenon, but what if we could be convinced to make helping others a way of life, even when times are hard? * Post is author of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People * Filled with inspirational anecdotes about the transformative power of doing good * The author is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love as well as the President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love * Beautiful packaging, ideal for gift giving The Hidden Gifts of Helping Others will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world is an essentially good place.


Discussion in 'Tips and Tricks' started by BradsXmasLights, Mar 22, 2015.
I've had a few people ask about my current CCTV camera setup, which is the Hikvision gear from Alixpress/China.
Whirlpool forums have a massive thread about Hikvision & home cctv setups here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2352121&p=107 This is extremely useful once you've read the 100's of pages Most people there are recommending to buy from Aliexpress vendors, 'CCTV China' or 'E&M Security'. I have used both & it was a fast experience with DHL shipping, etc.
Although whatever you buy, I'd steer clear of the Swann stuff that's sold Retail here.
All the 'popular' Hikvision cameras are around the same price and use the same firmware (and camera hardware inside?). They are 3MP (2048 x 1536) & POE based, so a single CAT5 cable is required for power & data. They can be also be powered with a standard 12VDC supply. They can also record to an SD Card internally, however I'd be recording to an external DVR as playback is far easier in a multi camera setup then.
I personally think the $$$ PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) 'remote controlled' cameras are a waste of time unless you are have have a dedicated camera/security officer operator.
+ 'Turrent' form-factor a avoids IR reflections that can occurr on the usual dome cameras if they get dirty due to reflections.
- The base is about the size of a CD - so it's not the smallest camera out there.
- Negative IMO is they can be vandalized easier as the it's easy to grab hold of.
* You can usually specify a lens size when ordering. The wider the lenses the more you can see! However this comes at the cost of detail/clarrity for things that are further away from the camera. eg: a 2.8mm lens will give a nice wide-angle shot of your frontyard, but numberplates for example will effectively be so small they'll be hard/impossible to see.
* 4mm are a more tighter, but still side shot that has less of a fish-eye effect.
* Mounting the camera further way, (or higher up), then you'll want to increase the lens MM size to get a more zoom'd image.
* For open spaces, the wider lens work best IMO so you can see if someone is there.
* For narrow walkways/gates/side of your house, more zoomed in is better so you'll get a nice close up if you know the suspect has to walk past the camera.
* There's much more to this topic of lens & camera positioning.
* The cameras have a web interface on them for configuring various settings like shutter speed.
* Usual photography rules apply here, slow shutter speed and the "nightvision" will look amazing! But anything moving will become blurry. For this reason I would take most sample images with a grain of salt.
* Also beware of mounting the camera up too high - you'll just be looking at the top of heads.
* Successfully getting the numbers plates of cars driving down your street is far easier said than done. A dedicated camera would usually be needed for this with enough zoom (and correct angle) to the street.
* They produce two streams, so your mobile (or live) viewing can be a lower resolution for faster viewing over the internet.
IP Cameras can be recorded using a PC with camera recording software, or a dedicated purpose built unit. Having used PC-based CCTV in the past, I've found them to be less reliable & use more electricity in the process.
- Minorly annoying 40mm cooling fan on PSU.
No hard drive is included, so I picked up a 4TB Western Digital Purple drive. With 7 cams recording 24/7 @ 3MP, 15fps, I get about a week. This is more than enough for a home setup.
The NVR is preconfigured to DHCP IP addresses to the cameras connected to the POE switch - which effectively a standalone network/subnet from your existing LAN. Most of the basic camera settings can be remote-programmed from the NVR itself.
The NVR can also be remotely accessed via Android (and I assume iPhone app) or just a plain webbrowser. once the usual port-fowards are setup. However I don't do these as there's unpatched security exploits for Hikvision NVRs. The way around this is to use a VPN (which will require a suitable router & skill to setup).
I record everything 24/7 as Motion Detection IMO on all CCTV systems should just be used as an event guide. Shadows, rogue headlight beams will false positive motion events like there's no tomorrow. Getting "continuous" recording AND motion-event logging working was not so straight forward. On the usual Chinese analogue systems you just set your record mode to 'continuous+motion' - a setting which was not on the Hikvision. Instead each camera is configured to send motion events (flags as such) to the NVR and these are then logged, and visible during the 'smart playback' - not the normal playback screens. Quirky, but works.
Thanks for posting this great information, was wanting to put some sort of security camera on the house when the new soffits are installed.
Now what mm of lense would be best for 20-30 of driveway depth and about 35 in width?
thanks for the detailed info Driver !
Learning about xmas lighting has been a breeze compared to this crap!
and after initially getting it working it has done nothing but play up ever since.
It drops out constantly, the box restarts (as most do and should) but won't hold memory, now after initially getting it on my mobile it now won't.
I tried the wireless route with the cameras I got from Alliexpress but had same problems with dropping signal so ended up running them wired via the Ethernet cables and ended up much more reliable.
Anyhow, with CCTV (and security alarms in general), it's technically it's best to hardwire.
There's CCTV lens calculators out there on the internet that can give estimates of coverage - you'll want to select 1/3 lens size.
76 series Project Level versus 78 series Family level?
I cant see any difference other than price?
Not entirely sure off the top of my head. But I think the more expensive units may support more hard drives (physically 2RU sized). eg: if you need 30 days of storage, etc.
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the other "Support Smart IPC Smart Functions"


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Question Of The Week: "Auntie Mame" And "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
by Conor Friedersdorf
A reader writes:
I thought about this question for a long time.
I could go for the insightful philosophical treatise, the cogent historical argument, the incisive political indictment, but the truth is that there are two books, both of which I read when I was about ten years old, that had long-lasting and thorough effects on me; one, perhaps, even more than the other. They are Patrick Dennis' novel Auntie Mame and Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Both of these books showed me a version of the world--an approach to life--that was utterly outside everything in my limited midwestern experience. They offered me an approach to life--"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving" and "Furthur"--that opened up possibilities hitherto unimagined. I had had a very conventional 1960s childhood, and suddenly the world outside my door seemed wider and wilder and more beautiful than anything had led me to believe.
I think Mame had more of a long-lasting effect because 1) we moved east rather than west, to a NJ town just outside of Manhattan, about a year after I'd read both of them, and 2) most of the possibilities Mame offered were unlikely to land me in prison. Also, Mame presented a sophistication and open-mindedness, a true liberality, that Kesey didn't really offer, as his troupe became more inverted as Wolfe's tale wound on. When I would come into the city, I would see the places and things Dennis wrote about. I was desperate for an Auntie Mame of my own, to break me out of my family's mold of conventionality, but it took me until I hit my 20s and was living in NYC myself to find the world that Dennis described. There were only traces of the literal world he wrote about, but there were plenty of the metaphorical landmarks left. I was always sorry not to have a guide through it all, or to have a chance to live it at an earlier and more formative stage. I've just given a copy of Auntie Mame to my 12-year-old nephew, in hopes that it will open his mind and heart to possibilities in similar fashion.


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import com.intellij.diff.DiffDialogHints;
import com.intellij.diff.DiffManager;
import com.intellij.diff.actions.impl.GoToChangePopupBuilder;
import com.intellij.diff.chains.DiffRequestChain;
import com.intellij.diff.chains.DiffRequestProducer;
import com.intellij.diff.chains.DiffRequestProducerException;
import com.intellij.diff.requests.DiffRequest;
import com.intellij.diff.requests.UnknownFileTypeDiffRequest;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnAction;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnActionEvent;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.CommonDataKeys;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.DataContext;
import com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.*;
import com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.apply.ApplyFilePatchBase;
import com.intellij.openapi.extensions.Extensions;
import com.intellij.openapi.fileTypes.UnknownFileType;
import com.intellij.openapi.progress.ProcessCanceledException;
import com.intellij.openapi.progress.ProgressIndicator;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbAware;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Getter;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.UserDataHolder;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.UserDataHolderBase;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.FilePath;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.FileStatus;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.VcsException;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.Change;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.ChangeListManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.CommitContext;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.FilePathsHelper;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.actions.diff.ChangeGoToChangePopupAction;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.patch.ApplyPatchForBaseRevisionTexts;
import com.intellij.openapi.vcs.changes.patch.PatchDiffRequestFactory;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import com.intellij.util.Consumer;
import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
import com.intellij.vcsUtil.VcsUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;

public class DiffShelvedChangesAction extends AnAction implements DumbAware {
  public void update(final AnActionEvent e) {
    e.getPresentation().setEnabled(isEnabled(e.getDataContext()));
  }

  public void actionPerformed(final AnActionEvent e) {
    showShelvedChangesDiff(e.getDataContext());
  }

  public static boolean isEnabled(final DataContext dc) {
    final Project project = CommonDataKeys.PROJECT.getData(dc);
    if (project == null) return false;

    ShelvedChangeList[] changeLists = ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_CHANGELIST_KEY.getData(dc);
    if (changeLists == null) changeLists = ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_RECYCLED_CHANGELIST_KEY.getData(dc);
    if (changeLists == null || changeLists.length != 1) return false;

    return true;
  }

  public static void showShelvedChangesDiff(final DataContext dc) {
    final Project project = CommonDataKeys.PROJECT.getData(dc);
    if (project == null) return;
    if (ChangeListManager.getInstance(project).isFreezedWithNotification(null)) return;

    ShelvedChangeList[] changeLists = ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_CHANGELIST_KEY.getData(dc);
    if (changeLists == null) changeLists = ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_RECYCLED_CHANGELIST_KEY.getData(dc);
    if (changeLists == null || changeLists.length != 1) return;

    final List<ShelvedChange> textChanges = changeLists[0].getChanges(project);
    final List<ShelvedBinaryFile> binaryChanges = changeLists[0].getBinaryFiles();

    final List<MyDiffRequestProducer> diffRequestProducers = new ArrayList<>();

    processTextChanges(project, textChanges, diffRequestProducers);
    processBinaryFiles(project, binaryChanges, diffRequestProducers);

    Collections.sort(diffRequestProducers, ChangeDiffRequestComparator.getInstance());

    // selected changes inside lists
    final Set<Object> selectedChanges = new HashSet<>();
    selectedChanges.addAll(ContainerUtil.notNullize(ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_CHANGE_KEY.getData(dc)));
    selectedChanges.addAll(ContainerUtil.notNullize(ShelvedChangesViewManager.SHELVED_BINARY_FILE_KEY.getData(dc)));

    int index = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < diffRequestProducers.size(); i++) {
      MyDiffRequestProducer producer = diffRequestProducers.get(i);
      if (selectedChanges.contains(producer.getBinaryChange()) || selectedChanges.contains(producer.getTextChange())) {
        index = i;
        break;
      }
    }

    MyDiffRequestChain chain = new MyDiffRequestChain(diffRequestProducers, index);
    DiffManager.getInstance().showDiff(project, chain, DiffDialogHints.FRAME);
  }

  private static class ChangeDiffRequestComparator implements Comparator<DiffRequestProducer> {
    private final static ChangeDiffRequestComparator ourInstance = new ChangeDiffRequestComparator();

    public static ChangeDiffRequestComparator getInstance() {
      return ourInstance;
    }

    @Override
    public int compare(DiffRequestProducer o1, DiffRequestProducer o2) {
      return FilePathsHelper.convertPath(o1.getName()).compareTo(FilePathsHelper.convertPath(o2.getName()));
    }
  }

  private static void processBinaryFiles(@NotNull final Project project,
                                         @NotNull List<ShelvedBinaryFile> files,
                                         @NotNull List<MyDiffRequestProducer> diffRequestProducers) {
    final String base = project.getBaseDir().getPath();
    for (final ShelvedBinaryFile shelvedChange : files) {
      final File file = new File(base, shelvedChange.AFTER_PATH == null ? shelvedChange.BEFORE_PATH : shelvedChange.AFTER_PATH);
      final FilePath filePath = VcsUtil.getFilePath(file);
      diffRequestProducers.add(new MyDiffRequestProducer(shelvedChange, filePath) {
        @NotNull
        @Override
        public DiffRequest process(@NotNull UserDataHolder context, @NotNull ProgressIndicator indicator)
          throws DiffRequestProducerException, ProcessCanceledException {
          Change change = shelvedChange.createChange(project);
          return PatchDiffRequestFactory.createDiffRequest(project, change, getName(), context, indicator);
        }
      });
    }
  }

  private static void processTextChanges(@NotNull final Project project,
                                         @NotNull List<ShelvedChange> changesFromFirstList,
                                         @NotNull List<MyDiffRequestProducer> diffRequestProducers) {
    final String base = project.getBasePath();
    final ApplyPatchContext patchContext = new ApplyPatchContext(project.getBaseDir(), 0, false, false);
    final PatchesPreloader preloader = new PatchesPreloader(project);

    for (final ShelvedChange shelvedChange : changesFromFirstList) {
      final String beforePath = shelvedChange.getBeforePath();
      final String afterPath = shelvedChange.getAfterPath();
      final FilePath filePath = VcsUtil.getFilePath(new File(base, afterPath == null ? beforePath : afterPath));
      final boolean isNewFile = FileStatus.ADDED.equals(shelvedChange.getFileStatus());

      final VirtualFile file; // isNewFile -> parent directory, !isNewFile -> file
      try {
        file = ApplyFilePatchBase.findPatchTarget(patchContext, beforePath, afterPath, isNewFile);
        if (!isNewFile && (file == null || !file.exists())) throw new FileNotFoundException(beforePath);
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        diffRequestProducers.add(new MyDiffRequestProducer(shelvedChange, filePath) {
          @NotNull
          @Override
          public DiffRequest process(@NotNull UserDataHolder context, @NotNull ProgressIndicator indicator)
            throws DiffRequestProducerException, ProcessCanceledException {
            throw new DiffRequestProducerException("Cannot find base for '" + (beforePath != null ? beforePath : afterPath) + "'");
          }
        });
        continue;
      }

      diffRequestProducers.add(new MyDiffRequestProducer(shelvedChange, filePath) {
        @NotNull
        @Override
        public DiffRequest process(@NotNull UserDataHolder context, @NotNull ProgressIndicator indicator)
          throws DiffRequestProducerException, ProcessCanceledException {
          if (!isNewFile && file.getFileType() == UnknownFileType.INSTANCE) {
            return new UnknownFileTypeDiffRequest(file, getName());
          }

          if (shelvedChange.isConflictingChange(project)) {
            try {
              final CommitContext commitContext = new CommitContext();
              final TextFilePatch patch = preloader.getPatch(shelvedChange, commitContext);
              final FilePath pathBeforeRename = patchContext.getPathBeforeRename(file);
              final String relativePath = patch.getAfterName() == null ? patch.getBeforeName() : patch.getAfterName();

              final Getter<CharSequence> baseContentGetter = new Getter<CharSequence>() {
                @Override
                public CharSequence get() {
                  BaseRevisionTextPatchEP baseRevisionTextPatchEP =
                    Extensions.findExtension(PatchEP.EP_NAME, project, BaseRevisionTextPatchEP.class);
                  return baseRevisionTextPatchEP.provideContent(relativePath, commitContext);
                }
              };

              Getter<ApplyPatchForBaseRevisionTexts> getter = new Getter<ApplyPatchForBaseRevisionTexts>() {
                @Override
                public ApplyPatchForBaseRevisionTexts get() {
                  return ApplyPatchForBaseRevisionTexts.create(project, file, pathBeforeRename, patch, baseContentGetter);
                }
              };

              return PatchDiffRequestFactory.createConflictDiffRequest(project, file, patch, "Shelved Version", getter, getName(), context, indicator);
            }
            catch (VcsException e) {
              throw new DiffRequestProducerException("Can't show diff for '" + getName() + "'", e);
            }
          }
          else {
            final Change change = shelvedChange.getChange(project);
            return PatchDiffRequestFactory.createDiffRequest(project, change, getName(), context, indicator);
          }
        }
      });
    }
  }

  private static class PatchesPreloader {
    private final Map<String, List<TextFilePatch>> myFilePatchesMap;
    private final Project myProject;

    private PatchesPreloader(final Project project) {
      myProject = project;
      myFilePatchesMap = new HashMap<>();
    }

    @NotNull
    public TextFilePatch getPatch(final ShelvedChange shelvedChange, CommitContext commitContext) throws VcsException {
      List<TextFilePatch> textFilePatches = myFilePatchesMap.get(shelvedChange.getPatchPath());
      if (textFilePatches == null) {
        try {
          textFilePatches = ShelveChangesManager.loadPatches(myProject, shelvedChange.getPatchPath(), commitContext);
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
          throw new VcsException(e);
        }
        catch (PatchSyntaxException e) {
          throw new VcsException(e);
        }
        myFilePatchesMap.put(shelvedChange.getPatchPath(), textFilePatches);
      }
      for (TextFilePatch textFilePatch : textFilePatches) {
        if (shelvedChange.getBeforePath().equals(textFilePatch.getBeforeName())) {
          return textFilePatch;
        }
      }
      throw new VcsException("Can not find patch for " + shelvedChange.getBeforePath() + " in patch file.");
    }
  }

  private static class MyDiffRequestChain extends UserDataHolderBase implements DiffRequestChain, GoToChangePopupBuilder.Chain {
    @NotNull private final List<MyDiffRequestProducer> myProducers;
    private int myIndex = 0;

    public MyDiffRequestChain(@NotNull List<MyDiffRequestProducer> producers, int index) {
      myProducers = producers;
      myIndex = index;
    }

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public List<? extends DiffRequestProducer> getRequests() {
      return myProducers;
    }

    @Override
    public int getIndex() {
      return myIndex;
    }

    @Override
    public void setIndex(int index) {
      assert index >= 0 && index < myProducers.size();
      myIndex = index;
    }

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public AnAction createGoToChangeAction(@NotNull Consumer<Integer> onSelected) {
      return new ChangeGoToChangePopupAction.Fake<MyDiffRequestChain>(this, myIndex, onSelected) {
        @NotNull
        @Override
        protected FilePath getFilePath(int index) {
          return myProducers.get(index).getFilePath();
        }

        @NotNull
        @Override
        protected FileStatus getFileStatus(int index) {
          return myProducers.get(index).getFileStatus();
        }
      };
    }
  }

  private static abstract class MyDiffRequestProducer implements DiffRequestProducer {
    @Nullable private final ShelvedChange myTextChange;
    @Nullable private final ShelvedBinaryFile myBinaryChange;
    @NotNull private final FilePath myFilePath;

    public MyDiffRequestProducer(@NotNull ShelvedChange textChange, @NotNull FilePath filePath) {
      myBinaryChange = null;
      myTextChange = textChange;
      myFilePath = filePath;
    }

    public MyDiffRequestProducer(@NotNull ShelvedBinaryFile binaryChange, @NotNull FilePath filePath) {
      myBinaryChange = binaryChange;
      myTextChange = null;
      myFilePath = filePath;
    }

    @Nullable
    public ShelvedChange getTextChange() {
      return myTextChange;
    }

    @Nullable
    public ShelvedBinaryFile getBinaryChange() {
      return myBinaryChange;
    }

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public String getName() {
      return FileUtil.toSystemDependentName(getFilePath().getPath());
    }

    @NotNull
    protected FileStatus getFileStatus() {
      if (myTextChange != null) {
        return myTextChange.getFileStatus();
      }
      else {
        assert myBinaryChange != null;
        return myBinaryChange.getFileStatus();
      }
    }

    @NotNull
    public FilePath getFilePath() {
      return myFilePath;
    }
  }
}


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A 200-word RPG about the quest for enlightenment and redemption, and the pilgrims you meet on the way. Digital version available free here.
You are pilgrims. You carry burdens, wear concealing clothing, and seek absolution for a transgression. You climb a mountain, visiting shrines linked by perils.
Speak of the trail ahead.
Start at the first shrine. In turn, give the shrine keeper something from your pack and say how it fulfils their requirements. Then together perform the purification ritual.
Your life: Describe your home. Say one thing you regret leaving behind.
The trail: Warn of danger and say why you turned back last time.
Ancestors: Receive an otherworldly item, described by the others.
Your face: Reveal your transgression.
Then you leave the shrine and travel onwards. One pilgrim describes how the next peril endangers them. Another pilgrim describes a skill/tool they use to protect them, and what it implies. Repeat until you reach the next shrine.
When you reach the fifth and final shrine, you may enter or turn back. Pilgrims that enter are never seen again.


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Equites acquires INTAPROP's R1.9 billion industrial portfolio
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Equites CEO, Andrea Taverna-Turisan
Specialist industrial property developer and landlord, Equites Property Fund Limited, today announced that it has concluded a merger with one of South Africa's leading private property developers and owners, INTAPROP Proprietary Limited, which involves the acquisition by Equites, of a R1,9 billion industrial property portfolio from INTAPROP in return for a strategic equity holding in the listed entity. Together with Equites' own R1.4 billion portfolio, the transaction would create an industrial portfolio of scale and provide further geographic diversification to Equites.
Equites CEO, Andrea Taverna-Turisan, said that this transaction is more than just the acquisition of a R1, 9 billion quality portfolio. "This deal sees the formation of a strategic partnership between the two entities. Equites will be acquiring INTAPROP's industrial portfolio, with the purchase price being paid through the issuing of new Equites shares to the owners of INTAPROP. The transaction will be financed through a combination of debt and equity and will not require any new capital from the markets. The owners of INTAPROP will as a result become significant shareholders of Equites, with board representation. In addition, Equites has also concluded a development agreement with the INTAPROP Group in terms of which they will continue to develop quality distribution warehouses on the vacant land that Equites is acquiring as part of the merger. We see this as an important part of our growth strategy and to have a skilled, experienced developer such as INTAPROP generating a quality pipeline, will no doubt position us well in the future."
The INTAPROP portfolio consists of 8 contemporary A-grade distribution warehouses, 2 office buildings and 21 hectares of strategic, industrial zoned land within key logistics nodes in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Taverna-Turisan also emphasized that new industrial warehouses like these rarely come to market and the transaction is an important step for Equites towards achieving its vision of becoming SA's premier listed industrial property fund.
Andre Gouws, the CEO of INTAPROP, said that when INTAPROP made the strategic decision to dispose of their industrial portfolio in exchange for shares in a listed REIT, they required a partner with the correct profile who shares the same values and objectives.
"We were looking for a listed property counter which has sound property fundamentals and the ability to create significant shareholder value over the medium to long term. After an extensive process it became clear to us that Equites was the ideal partner for us. We share an entrepreneurial, development background and a strong belief in the attractiveness of the industrial property sector. INTAPROP will continue operating as a private development company, with one of our key objectives being to unlock yield enhancing development opportunities for Equites."
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By Talha Waseem	 Last updated Dec 4, 2019
The topic of long-awaited Sherlock Holmes 3 movie is surfacing on the Internet yet again as more details arrive. Fandomwire has done an exclusive report over the Warner Bros' movie which stars Robert Downey Jr. The last Sherlock Holmes movie came out in 2011, titled Game of Shadows. Hence, it would be a full decade by the time the movie comes out in Christmas of 2021.
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Sherlock Holmes 3 Movie Details
It looks as if we will be seeing Robert Downey Jr. once again; the Iron Man star is currently working to reprise his role as Sherlock Holmes. In the prequel, the story ended by making everyone believe he was dead. Jude Law as Dr. John Watson is also set to return. He is also preparing his role for the movie, to provide support to one of the best fictional detectives in Hollywood.
Senator Cornelius Guest is the main villain of the storyline. The politician is planning a grand robbery for taking away the nation's gold. He will (perhaps) team up with Sebastion Moran, played by Paul Anderson. The thug wants to kill John Watson and take revenge. Next, the exclusive report also talked about an additional role of Sidney Bloom. She would be a 29-year-old crime reporter for the San Francisco Herald newspaper. However, she is actually working undercover for the US Marshalls. Sherlock Holmes 3 movie is definitely planning something big, we believe.
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Supporting Character For the Movie
The storyline for Sherlock Holmes 3 movie looks to be huge as the production house is taking on several other roles. Interestingly, we will see Dean Horace is the story as well. He is a Mormon with six wives! Sidney Bloom will possibly be reporting to US Marshall Sutherland. There is Dr. Henri Montreaux, who is a wicked doctor and enjoys when his patients are in pain. Sebastian will probably take help from James Winter, who is a black man tasked to kill Watson and Holmes.
The cast for these roles have not been announced as of yet.
Release Date for One of Robert Downey Jr.'s Top Films
According to Digital Spy, the movie first was released in the final week of December 2020, on Christmas. However, Guy Ritchie and his team have decided it would be better if the release date is pushed a whole year further. Hence, Sherlock Holmes 3 movie release is now December 22, 2021.
Currently, there are no trailers, teasers, or movie posters. The movie is in the pre-production phase. However, watch this space as we would post the trailer right when it comes out!
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Q: batch for loop not iterating beyond first entry My problem is pretty simple, but I'm unsure why I am seeing this behaviour. I want to get a list of parameters down to a single entry at a time so I can do some processing on them. The list of jar files I am processing is separated by a ; delimiter.
set JARS=this.jar;that.jar;and.jar;the.jar;other.jar
for /f "delims=;" %%a in ("%JARS%") do echo.%%a

I'm expecting the script to exit listing as follows.
this.jar
that.jar
and.jar
the.jar
other.jar
C:\>

But the script is instead exiting as follows.
this.jar
C:\>

I'm clearly missing something obvious, but I can't seem to see it.
I'm using Windows 7.

A: Try this: The semicolon is a separator on a command line so it will delimit the filenames.
set JARS=this.jar;that.jar;and.jar;the.jar;other.jar
for %%a in (%JARS%) do echo.%%a


Citation: Li, J.-Y.,Li, L.-W.,Ooi, B.-L.,Kooi, P.-S.,Leong, M.-S. (2001). A fast full-wave spatial domain analysis of multi-port microstrip structures using closed-form Green's function. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest) 2 : 576-579. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: This work presents an application of method of moments (MoM) with Rao-Wilton- Glisson (RWG) basis functions to analysing planer multi-port microstrip structures. The frequency dependent characteristics of the single open-circuit stub attached to a transmission line and a two-gap filter are derived. The numerical results are compared to these existing measurement data. A very good agreement is obtained from the comparison. As the Green's functions in closed form are used, the analyses is quite fast and effecient.


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Theme: "Empowering Women through Innovative Approaches to Social Protection: A Pre-requisite for Inclusive and Sustainable Development".
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The International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on the 8th of March. It is a day in recognition of the role and contribution of women to the development process all over the world. The day provides an opportunity to enhance advocacy for inclusion of women's concerns in the development agenda at all levels by calling on United Nations Member States to design and implement interventions aimed as attaining gender equality and the empowerment of women.
This year, International Women's Day will be celebrated under the global theme: "Think Equal, Build Smart, and Innovate for Change". This theme focuses on creating a paradigm shift for transforming mind sets to the goal of gender equality as well as identifying new ways of advancing the women's agenda at all levels.
The theme selected for the national celebrations is: "Empowering Women through Innovative Approaches to Social Protection; a Pre-requisite for Inclusive and Sustainable Development". This theme recognizes the importance of providing social protection to women with the aim of minimizing their vulnerability, building their potential through innovative approaches so that they contribute to and benefit from the development process. Sustainable development aims at meeting the needs of the present population without compromising the needs of future generations. The National Development Plan II states that "the attainment of gender equality and women's empowerment is a pre-requisite for accelerated socio-economic transformation."
2.0 Social Protection in Uganda
Social protection refers to public and private interventions to address risks and vulnerabilities that expose individuals to income insecurity and social deprivation leading to undignified lives. Globally, it is now recognized that social protection programs enable countries to address poverty and vulnerability and in so doing improve the socio-economic wellbeing of their otherwise excluded people. Within the context of poverty and inequality, social protection programmes are increasingly seen as promising interventions for inclusive development. Effective programming for social protection however requires an analysis of the underlying causes of gender and equity inequalities as the basis for which gender responsive social protection programming can be undertaken.
In the Ugandan context, social protection refers to public and private interventions to address risks and vulnerabilities that expose individuals to income insecurity and social deprivation, leading to undignified lives. It is a basic service and a human right that ensures dignity of people. Social protection is comprised of two pillars, social security and social care and support services.
Social security refers to protective and preventive interventions to mitigate factors that lead to income shocks and affect the ability of individuals to live dignified lives. Social Care and Support Services are a range of services that provide care, support, protection and empowerment to vulnerable individuals who are unable to fully care for themselves. (Uganda National Social Protection Policy, 2015). Social security consists of two parts, namely direct income support and social insurance.
Under direct income support people who are unable to meet their basic needs receive an amount of money or quantity of food regularly without contributing. An example of direct income support is the Senior Citizens Grant. Under social insurance, people who are working contribute money from their earnings, which they receive when they stop working due to sickness, disability or old age. Specific contribution may also be made to cover treatment costs when any member of the family falls sick. An example is the National Social Security Fund Scheme and the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme.
Social Care and support services are actions that provide care, support, assistance protection, and empowerment to individuals who are unable to fully care for themselves. Facilities that provide social care and support services include, reception centers for abandoned children, orphanages, remand homes for children in conflict with the law, special homes for older persons and those for persons with disabilities as well as Shelters for GBV survivors.
2.1 Legal and Policy Framework
The Constitution under the National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy stipulates the protection of the aged, enhancing equal opportunities for all, as well as access to basic services, including retirement benefits. Uganda Vision 2040 underscores the importance of social protection to address risks and vulnerabilities, recognizing the need to provide assistance to people who are vulnerable either by age, social class, location, disability, gender or disaster.
Some of the specific legal and policy frameworks for addressing social protection in Uganda include The Pensions Act Cap.286 which provides for granting and regulating pensions, gratuities and other allowances; The National Social Security Fund Act Cap. 222 which provides for social security benefits for employees in the private sector and the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority Act (2011) which provides for regulating the establishment, management and operation of retirement benefits schemes in Uganda in both the private and public sectors.
Other legal and policy frameworks include the Workers Compensation Act Cap.225, The Employment Act No. 6 (2006), The Children's Act (Cap 59) The Land Act Cap. 227, The Birth and Death Registration Act Cap.309, The Persons with Disability Act (2006) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act No. 9 (2009). Key policies include the National OVC Policy (2004), The National Child Labour Policy (2006), The National Policy for Older Persons (2009), The Uganda Gender Policy (2007), The National Policy for Disaster Preparedness and Management (2010), The Special Needs, Inclusive Education Policy and the National Policy on the Elimination of Gender Based Violence in Uganda, 2016.
3.0	Gender and Social Protection
The role of social protection in transforming gender relations for improved impacts of development programmes cannot be over emphasized. Gender mainstreaming in social protection is critical in the programme design, implementation and evaluation because it lays a foundation for fair distribution of outcomes and impacts on all the categories of beneficiaries.
As part of building Uganda's National Social Protection systems, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development formulated the Gender and Equity Strategy which was launched in 2018. The objectives of the strategy are to;
•	Ensure gender responsive social protection initiatives
•	Address gender inequalities and equity in delivering social protection services
•	Build capacity of duty bearers to effectively implement gender responsive and equitable social protection interventions
•	Develop and institutionalize system for delivering gender responsive and equitable social protection interventions.
The Strategy is expected to guide implementation of social protection initiatives with a gender and equity perspective for inclusive and sustainable development.
4.0	Empowering Women through Innovative Approaches to Social Protection
Women's empowerment has been achieved though implementation of various innovative approaches under ongoing Programmes. These include;
4.1	Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE)
Under the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) Programme, the Government of Uganda is implementing direct income support under its Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) scheme. Through this scheme, Government provides a social pension (the Senior Citizens Grant) of Shs 25,000 per month, to older persons. Government recently approved a national roll out of the grant with the age threshold adjusted to 80 years and above. The current number of SAGE beneficiaries in 61 Districts as of January 2019 is 157,493. Of these, 94,544 are women and 62,949 are men. Among the FGM practicing communities in Amudat and Moroto Districts older persons who are SAGE beneficiaries have been enlisted as members of community-based action teams (COMBATs) to raise awareness and work with their communities to end female genital mutilation (FGM).
4.2	The Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP)
The Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme is an initiative that is aimed at improving access to financial services for women and equipping them with skills and information for enterprise growth, value addition and marketing of their products and services. The primary target beneficiaries of the Programme are women within the age bracket of 18-65 years most of whom fall under the unemployed and vulnerable categories of society. They include single mothers, widows, women slum dwellers, GBV survivors, women with disabilities, women living in hard to reach areas, women heading households, women living with HIV and AIDs and ethnic minorities. By the end of 2018, UWEP had a total of 103,770 women in 8,247 projects. The national outlook of the programme as well as the special targeting makes it one of the major breakthroughs for addressing the livelihood needs of marginalized and vulnerable women and girls in Uganda.
4.3	The Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP)
The youth are susceptible to negative shocks of unemployment more than other age groups. The situation is worse for the female youth due to factors such as low literacy rates among girls compared to boys, limited employable skills, poor bargaining skills, limited morbidity of young females in search for jobs, sexual exploitation of the girls among others. These factors put them at high levels of vulnerability which require social protection interventions. It is also critical to tap into their energies for national development. The Government of Uganda designed the Youth Livelihood Programme to enhance employment creation and skills development for the youth. Under this programme, 17,850 projects have been financed mainly in agriculture (33%), trade (28%) and 21% in industry with a total number of 216,366 youth benefiting. The female youth constitute 46% of the beneficiaries.
4.4	Establishment and Management of GBV shelters
Shelters to support survivors of Gender Based Violence have been established in various parts of the Country. This has been made possible through the collaboration of Local Governments with the support of Development Partners and Civil Society stakeholders. To operationalize the shelters, the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development developed the National Guidelines for the Establishment and Management of GBV Shelters as well as guidelines for providing psycho social support to GBV survivors.
4.5 Extension of Social services to the poor by subsidizing costs is another innovative way of empowering women and interventions include the abolition of health charges and introduction of Universal Primary Education. Under the UPE Programme gender parity has been achieved in enrolment and completion. There was an improvement in enrolment to reach 50% for both girls and boys in 2015 (EMIS 2015). Completion for girls rose to 72% in 2015 from 47% in 2008 and completion for boys rose from 51% in 2008 to 72% in 2015. (EMIS 2015). Investment in health infrastructure has improved accessibility of women to health facilities enabling them to obtain antenatal care, immunization, reproductive health services, as well as counselling for HIV and AIDS.
4.6 Asset Transfers. This includes tangible transfers of agricultural inputs, livestock, agricultural machinery and land. Through the restocking programme and Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), livestock have been transferred to the poor, the majority of whom are women. Programmes such as the Project for the Restoration of Livelihood in the Northern Region (PRELNOR) provide agricultural inputs, agricultural machinery and livestock that have improved the livelihood of women in Uganda.
Under the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) 70,200 beneficiaries are being targeted for Livelihood Investments (LIS), and 285,500 beneficiaries to earn income from temporary employment through the labour intensive public works component. This is aimed at improving livelihoods of the community especially women who are primary target beneficiaries due to the level of their vulnerability and Government of Uganda's efforts to promote gender equality.
4.7 Private Sector and Civil Society Led Initiatives;
One of the innovative approaches to women's empowerment is the establishment of the micro-initiatives that have achieved great success. These include microfinance and micro-health insurance schemes, programmes and institutions that provide support to Persons Living with AIDs (PLWD), Persons with Disability (PWD), Orphans and other vulnerable groups.
•	Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs)
VSLAs in Uganda play a critical role in bringing financial services to rural areas, where access to formal financial services is limited. Promotion of VSLA groups in Uganda has led to an improvement in financial inclusion, household business outcomes, and women's empowerment. There is evidence of improved resilience in villages affected by drought, with households having improved food security and income.
•	Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) ensures that both public and private sector organizations make commitments to promoting, protecting, respecting and fulfilling children's rights and taking concrete action in their key priority areas. Family friendly policies and child focused corporate social responsibility (CSR) Action are being implemented.
•	Social Security through the NSSF Voluntary Saving Scheme. This scheme covers former NSSF members who have left formal employment and crossed over to the informal sector. It also gives an opportunity to companies employing less than the mandatory 5 employees to voluntarily contribute for the social security of its employees. To date the scheme has been able to recruit 11,000 members with collections worth Sh. 6.5 billion.
5.0 Challenges and Gaps
5.1	Diminishing traditional social protection mechanisms
There is an erosion of traditional social protection systems in Uganda. Communities no longer engage in protection of the vulnerable groups due to adoption of nuclear system of families and the deepening economic situation. This has resulted into increased number of children living on streets, abandonment of older persons in rural areas especially women, grabbing of productive assets from widows and high school dropout rates of orphans and other children due to lack of support.
5.2	Low coverage of social protection interventions
Despite the tremendous interventions by the government, coverage is still minimal considering the ever-increasing number of vulnerable groups in the country. For example, the SAGE project only covers 61 districts out of 128 districts and currently in some districts targets older persons above 80 years of age thus leaving out majority of the target group.
5.3 Limited Access to Markets for Agricultural Produce.
Uganda has continued to invest heavily in agriculture as the largest sector for production and employment opportunities. Many women participate in the agricultural sector as peasants and small-scale farmers especially in the rural areas. Although programmes such as Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), UWEP and YLP have contributed to increased agricultural productivity and output, women still have limited access to market for their products due to their imitated exposure based on the gender inequalities between men and women. Many women are paid low prices for their produce and hence become vulnerable.
In view of the above challenges, the following are the recommendations to strengthen social protection interventions for women's empowerment.
6.1	Increased budget allocation for Social Protection Interventions
There is need to have increased funding to the existing social protection interventions particularly the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme. The objective of this intervention is to provide affordable credit to Women groups for enterprise development through a revolving fund. The intervention facilitates Women groups with bankable proposals to access interest free loans. If this intervention is well facilitated, the women will have more stable businesses and improve their productivity hence reduction in their level of vulnerability. Improving the budget allocation to Social Protection should include SAGE coverage to be extended to all districts from the current 61 districts but also lower the age of eligibility from 80 years and above to 65 year and above as the resource envelop grows.
6.2	Adopt modern and appropriate technologies
Available evidence from UWEP and YLP progress reports indicate that women are predominantly engaged in traditional enterprises such as poultry, piggery and produce buying and selling. There is need to conduct more sensitization, training and capacity development to assist women to move into enterprises which utilize appropriate technology for value addition. This will widen their income base, diversify investments and increase their ability to resist shocks.
6.3	Revive and enhance the traditional system of social protection
It is still important to enhance traditional and informal social protection system for the benefit of both men and women. This can be done through Cultural and Faith Based Organization leaders to uphold positive social protection aspects like looking after orphans, providing support to the needy persons and Persons with Disabilities. The primary responsibility of caring for such people lies with the community members because they are closer to them. Even when the vulnerable groups are targeted by Government projects and programmes, the communities still need to support them to benefit from the various project and programme interventions.
6.4	Increasing Care for the Marginalized Women
There is need to integrate the needs and rights of women informal sector workers, women refugees, women in low paying jobs, rural and indigenous women and women with special needs in the design of social protection interventions.
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New cards 4/1/2017 + banlists update
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Banlists TCG and OCG have been updated to 2017.4
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please add ai mode (offline)
By Kazuma13 on: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Great work, i saw That you are Going to Update Android, Thais Great!!!!, but can you Tell us? if the same are going to happends with iOS, it Seem at least 2 years in the oblivion, Tranks for your excelent work keep going, you are amaizing
By Dk on: Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Works fine, but all the cards are blank, and that's annoying
By ASJ on: Thursday, September 13, 2018
For those asking how to download. You must go to their Discord server. If you dont know what Discord is, google it and download it. Once you do, open the program. Then come back here and click their Discord server and it will open it in the Discord program and you will find the link there.
By vastus9001 on: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Is no one going to seriously tell anyone how to download this? So many people asking but no one answers.....
Please Add a newer Android Version. I Would like to Play Link monsters.
By TheDoctor85 on: Sunday, August 26, 2018
Solve an application problem because it stops when you order playing cards and hope to improve them more and thank you for your efforts
By Idriss789 on: Thursday, August 23, 2018
When will the new update take place? Especially for the current and new ban lists. Also, we need the newest cards in the game as well.
By Negroyasha on: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
when comes the new cards from the recent editions?
By hoihoi on: Sunday, August 19, 2018
when will a newer version for android?
By TheDoctor83 on: Thursday, August 16, 2018
hello am sry but a cant download the yugpro percy 1.033D then ther is no update for cards not all new card a know a have link but a nead percy like suprem king venom on plz help me ='
By zenkun on: Thursday, August 16, 2018
I can't download it at all. It tells me to complete an offer and after I'm done doing whatever it is it still wont let me download it.
By Ross Lux on: Monday, July 30, 2018
Maybe their waiting till link vrains ends so they dont have to keep hearing us for a while about new cards we see
By Shadowmaker on: Saturday, July 28, 2018
I keep trying to open the demo, doesn't seem to be available anymore. Loved it when I had it on my phone but it was taking up to much memory space and really slowing down my phones processing speeds. To be able to literally open up my chrome browser and have it run quickly and efficiently would be a god send because I don't always get the opportunity to try out my decks in actual tournaments, being able to build them and test them online is much more efficient and effective for being able to understand how your decks work and the ability to create new combos you would have never thought of. I really hope this becomes an actual browser run version of this game, there really isn't anything else out there that operates on chrome.
By Nathan B. on: Friday, July 20, 2018
Such unappreciative people. They're not going to do all these revisions and release more software just because you come on here and order them to do it.
By Face on: Thursday, June 14, 2018
Plz update Master rules 4 + all the Link stuff for Android version. It has been 1 year. Plz.
By Update Link for Android plz on: Sunday, May 13, 2018
Please add pre-errata cards and anime cards too on the next update thanks.
By Taeyeon on: Wednesday, May 09, 2018
cant create host, cant choose room/allowed cards/kick player.
By inkamu on: Sunday, May 06, 2018
Hey, I want to download this version of the game but the link is broken. Can anyone give me the actual link?
By Max Middleton on: Saturday, May 05, 2018
Please, Update in android version of this game with Ai working It will be appreciated and post some update in the development thank you
By Gsrebirth on: Friday, May 04, 2018
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Data analyses will be carried out in the LTRC for two main purposes. One is to monitor CC performance and the second is to perform appropriate analyses of all study data with particular emphasis on evaluation of comparisons among participant groups. It is anticipated that recruitment and status reports will be generated on a monthly schedule and monitoring reports providing more detailed information about data quality and performance of the CCs and CLs will be generated on quarterly performance reports that will be presented to the SC, the NHLBI and the OSMB. Analyses of study specific objectives will be performed on an "as needed basis." This will include support, as directed by the NHLBI and the OSMB, for discrete and collaborative studies between the LTRC and other investigators.
Some missing data are anticipated. If data are missing at random, there will be a loss in efficiency of the proposed analyses, but bias will not be introduced into the study by not accounting for the missing data. We have assumed that we will have outcome information on 85% follow-up on LTRC participants. Per Appendix C this is at least 1300 participants through 2010 and 2700 through 2014. A review of power curves and tables for sample numbers up to 1600 participants, suggests that, there will be sufficient power to address the study objectives, even when the sample of evaluable participants is lower than 1000.
However, if data are not missing at random, there could be a bias in some of the estimation and inference routines used in this study. We will use the multiple imputation procedure developed by Rubin to correct for this type of bias (15).
A preliminary power analysis has been performed for the LTRC. It has been found that the proposed number of participants (N = approximately 1600) is sufficient to allow for small to moderate effects to be detected with adequate power (at least 80%) when testing at the alpha level of 0.05 (two-sided tests) and for larger effect sizes if subgroup analyses are to be performed.
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A Year Later, Sandy Exposes Flood Insurance Program in Desperate Need of Reform
Many in Broad Channel felt as though they had been forgotten in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Numerous residents in the neighborhood still haven't been able to move back into their homes because they haven't been able to get the necessary funding from insurance companies and the government. Richard York/The Forum Newsgroup
As the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy rapidly approaches, many are taking yet another look at the storm's chaos and the myriad of unresolved issues it left in its wake.
For many city and Queens residents alike, the word "insurance," became synonymous with an expletive rather than a protective or compensatory measure, as the dictionary so states.
Many residents have been unable to return home – or couldn't for months – in part because of battles with insurance companies over reimbursements for damage sustained from widespread flooding. Richard York/The Forum Newsgroup
At the heart of many city residents' problems with insurers has been a combination of denials and partial denials of claims as well as compensation that is insufficient to rebuild lost homes and businesses.
In the aftermath of Sandy, which cost New York roughly $18 billion in losses, the media was rife with stories of homeowners who couldn't afford to either make repairs or rebuild due to inadequate flood insurance reimbursements.
Dan Mundy Jr., a longtime Broad Channel resident and environmental activist, said that right after the storm was when insurance companies were at their worst when it came to disbursing needed funds quickly.
Asked about what residents went through in trying to get those funds, Mundy said, without hesitation, "It was a nightmare…and that goes for every single Rockaway resident who was affected by storm damage."
Mundy said the insurance problems persisted until some local elected officials stepped in to help.
Moreover, the insurance mess created by Sandy is about to get even messier as the Biggert-Waters Reform Act seeks to right the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), managed by FEMA, by charging premiums based on actual flood risks.
FEMA's website says that the reform act will cause "some but not all" policyholders to see increases in their flood insurance rates over time. A recent rally in Broad Channel protesting the proposed changes in flood insurance rates drew hundreds of homeowners, activists and politicians.
Sophia Vailakis-DeVirgilio's Broad Channel home was devastated in Hurricane Sandy. Photos Courtesy Sophia Vailakis-DeVirgilio
Mundy Jr. has long held that if the Biggert-Waters Act isn't amended by lawmakers, it will have a profound and negative impact on coastal communities throughout the city as well as across the nation.
"Flood insurance premiums are already rising and will be going even higher," Mundy said. "It will affect a homeowner's ability to stay in the area and also their ability to sell if they want to leave."
He adds that the flood maps are unfairly being redrawn based upon Sandy, which was widely acknowledged to be a "once in a lifetime" storm.
Through a spokesperson, state assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, who represents the Rockaways, said that the biggest hurtle after Sandy has been the Biggert-Waters Act, which will have a detrimental impact on coastal communities in need of flood insurance if it is not amended in Washington.
"We must act immediately to reduce impending insurance rates which could harm homeowners with more than 2000% increases and destroy our communities that have worked tirelessly for the last year to rebuild," Goldfeder said in an emailed statement.
"There are unintended consequences that must be corrected in the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act to ensure our families and businesses survive and continue to recover," he continued.
He warned that the changes to the NFIP would not only devastate the area's economy and small businesses, but will also prevent new buyers from investing in the community.
For Broad Channel resident Sophia Vailakis-DeVirgilio, her Hurricane Sandy nightmare has yet to end.
While the majority of affected Sandy residents have since returned to their homes, there are still some, like Vailakis-DeVirgilio and her family of four, who are still not back in their homes due to a variety of reasons from battles with insurance companies and engineers to crooked contractors.
"So where's the help for Sandy victims?" Vailakis-DeVirgilio asked, in an email. "We had insurance to protect us, yet it was so woefully inadequate once we really needed it that we now find ourselves draining retirement monies and far deeper in debt then when our biggest problem was that our house was 'up-side-down' with our first mortgage because of the bursting of the housing bubble."
She wrote that her family is still living with neighbors in Brooklyn while battling a large insurance company for flood insurance reimbursement payments as well as dealing with a string of serious illnesses that hit her husband within the last year.
Sophia Vailakis-DeVirgilio and her family are still not back in their Broad Channel home because of battles with insurance companies and engineers to crooked contractors.
"I can only pray to God that we will be experiencing the second part of the Book of Job where we'll see considerably more favor from the heavens… that we are back in the comfort of our own home and no longer imposing and relying on the kindness of neighbors."
While there are no easy answers to the vexing issue of flood insurance in vulnerable coastal areas such as New York, efforts at reform are being investigated.
A recent city report issued this past June and titled "A Stronger, More Resilient New York," detailed approaches to improve the NFIP apart from the controversial Biggert-Waters legislation.
In the report, the City said it will propose a series of reforms to the NFIP to encourage flood mitigation by offering commensurately lower premiums to those who obtain flood insurance; create lower-cost flood insurance products for those who are vulnerable to flooding but are not required to obtain insurance and advocate for the creation of premium assistance measures to help low-income New Yorkers afford flood insurance.
Separately, a recent editorial in the Rockaway Wave Newspaper urged Assemblyman Goldfeder to move forward with a plan to explore a New York or tri-state regional association that could tailor flood insurance to fit homeowners in the area.
Other suggested systemic fixes would include allowing higher deductibles, charging homeowners more for filing multiple claims and raising the ceiling on flood insurance from its current federal level of $250,000 to a limit that is more in line with the New York Metro area, where home prices can easily go for two, three or four times that amount.
Goldfeder's spokesperson said that taking the insurance issue "out of the feds hands and into the states," would yield more control.
Reflecting on the storm's anniversary, Mundy was cautiously optimistic.
"It's a year later and people are recovering," he said, "but we need to remind the bureaucrats in Washington that we still need help."
By Alan Krawitz