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First Impressions: Publications in November 2021
governance, innovation, press review
What social protection innovations were implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis? A new report commissioned by UNDP found that almost all countries required innovative practices to quickly deliver social protection to those usually excluded from benefits, including informal-sector workers, refugees and migrants.
Are entrepreneurs in Kenya's informal sector more likely to receive goods and services on credit when using mobile money? A new working paper says that mobile money can indirectly improve the welfare of non-business customers, so should be encouraged to help ensure financial inclusion and economic development.
These are just two questions tackled by our researchers in November 2021 — in five journal articles, two book chapters and one report, among many others. Click here for the full list of our most recent publications.
'Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference?' is a systematic study testing the impact of cooperation in transportation on CO2 transport emissions. The study uses a novel dataset covering over 200 metropolitan areas in 16 OECD countries. The findings demonstrate that both fragmented and consolidated metropolitan governance structures are equally inefficient in delivering a reduction in CO2 transport emissions. Further, without functional enforcement mechanisms, mitigation policies fail to have a positive effect on environmental outcomes. Inter-municipal cooperation in metropolitan areas facilitates coherence and widespread enforcement and emerges as a crucial factor explaining the reduction of CO2 transport emissions. Effects of metropolitan cooperation on transportation are magnified by the presence of national environmental mitigation policies. By PhD candidate Victor Osei Kwadwo and Dr. Tatiana Skripka.
'The relationship between economic growth and environment. Testing the EKC hypothesis for Latin American countries' seeks to estimate the relationship between income and CO2 emissions per capita in 21 Latin American Countries (LACs) over 1960-2017. The EKC hypothesis effectively describes the long term income-emissions relationship only in a minority of LACs and, in many cases, the effect on CO2 emissions of different factors depends on the individual country experience and on the type and quantity of environmental policies adopted. Overall, these results call for increased environmental action in the region. By PhD candidate Cecilia Seri et al.
'Financing universal social protection during COVID-19 and beyond: Investing more and better' argues that overcoming current social protection coverage and financing gaps requires not only investing more in social protection, but also investing better. This means ensuring that both the mobilisation and allocation of resources systematically allow for the establishment of universal, comprehensive, adequate and sustainable social protection systems, including floors, and that international financial and technical assistance is consistently geared towards unleashing domestic resources and capacities. By Dr. Mira Bierbaum et al.
'The ideal neighbourhoods of successful ageing: A machine learning approach' shows that generally the affordability of health facilities is a major determinant of life satisfaction, self-rated health condition and mental wellbeing for individuals in most age groups. Other important but age-specific determinants are neighbourhood safety and accessibility to cultural facilities and to green areas. In contrast, characteristics such as urbanity, transportation and air quality do not significantly influence ageing outcomes. These findings lend support to the resources theory in explaining ageing outcomes and suggest that more resources may have to be directed to improve the affordability and quality of health care services, the policing services and the accessibility to cultural and green areas in order to achieve more favourable ageing outcomes. By Dr. Pui-hang Wong et al.
'Social networks, female unemployment, and the urban-rural divide in Turkey: Evidence from tree-based machine learning algorithms' takes a novel, algorithmic approach for understanding the underlying mechanisms related to the employment status of individuals. This study examines how social connectivity and location play a role in the prediction of employment status through the use of two tree-based modern machine learning techniques, namely random forest, and extreme gradient boosting. It presents a wide array of observations, with gender being the most prominent finding when periphery and rural locations are considered. By Dr. Mehmet Guney Celbis.
'Next practices: Innovations in the COVID-19 social protection responses and beyond' aims to systematise the social protection innovations implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which can be leveraged to build more inclusive and sustainable systems in the medium and long term. This UNDP report shows that countries with more well-established social protection systems in place prior to the crisis were able to respond faster, but almost all countries required innovative practices to quickly deliver social protection to those usually excluded from benefits, such as informal-sector workers, refugees and migrants. Contriutions by PhD candidate Raquel Tebaldi et al.
'Money matters: The role of funding in migration governance' is a chapter in the book Money Matters in Migration: Policy, Participation, and Citizenship. The chapters in this book expose hidden and sometimes contradictory policy objectives, unwanted consequences, and inconsistent regulatory structures. The authors from a range of fields provide multiple perspectives on how money shapes decisions from all actors in migration trajectories, from micro to macro level. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws on case studies from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This comprehensive overview brings to light the deep global impacts money has on migration and citizenship. By Dr. Elaine Lebon-McGregor et al.
'Coordination of different instruments' discusses the importance and complexities of coordinating social protection systems. For coordination to work effectively, it needs to be organised on various dimensions. This requires robust legal, regulatory and policy frameworks that mandate coordination across relevant bodies, clearly assigning roles and responsibilities. Furthermore, strong institutional capacities and the necessary resources are imperative to ensure social protection interventions are well-coordinated at all levels of the public administration. By Dr. Mira Bierbaum et al.
'Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: A text-similarity measure' represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. This measure allows to obtain fine-grained information on tasks and occupations according to their similarity ranking. The paper then studies occupational exposure by wage and employment dynamics in the United States, complemented by investigating industry and geographical penetration rates. By Prof. Marco Vivarelli et al.
'Is there job polarization in developing economies? A review and outlook' analyses the evidence of job polarisation in developing countries. The paper suggests that job polarisation in emerging economies is only incipient compared to other advanced economies. It then examines the possible moderating aspects preventing job polarisation, discussing the main theoretical channels and the existing empirical literature. Finally, it presents the main gaps in the literature in developing economies and points to the need for more micro-level studies focusing on the impacts of technology adoption on workers' careers and studies exploring the adoption and use of technologies at the firm level. By PhD candidate Antonio Soares Martins Neto, Dr. Nanditha Mathew, Prof. Pierre Mohnen and Dr. Tania Treibich.
'COVID-19 in Central America: effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment' uses data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey to examine how firm-level resilience capabilities interact with government support in the reduction of lay-offs among formal firms in Central America. The paper finds that support policies play a marginal role among most groups, except in the dynamic resilient group, where receiving government support does shrink the probability of lay-offs. By PhD candidate Beatriz Calzada Olvera and Mario Gonzalez Sauri et al.
'Mobile money adoption and entrepreneurs' access to trade credit in the informal sector' investigates the relationship between mobile money adoption and the probability to receive goods and services on credit from suppliers based on a sample of entrepreneurs who operate informal businesses. The paper further explores the effect of mobile money adoption on the likelihood to offer goods and services on credit to customers. The authors suggest that entrepreneurs with mobile money are more likely to receive goods and services on credit from suppliers. They also find a positive and significant relationship between mobile money adoption and the likelihood to offer goods and services on credit to customers. The evidence supports the promotion of mobile money adoption among entrepreneurs in the informal sector to facilitate access to credit. By PhD candidate Godsway Tetteh, Dr. Micheline Goedhuys, Dr. Maty Konte and Prof. Pierre Mohnen.
'Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis' examines how participation and positioning in global value chains (GVC) affect wages. The paper also examines whether this relationship is conditioned by a country's development level and labour market regulation. The results show that participation and upstream specialisation in GVCs are associated with higher wages but only in developed countries. In developing countries, while GVC participation is associated with higher wages, upstream specialisation exerts downward pressure on wages. In developing countries, GVC participation only benefits higher wage earners and make low-wage earners worse-off. Even when upstream specialisation is associated with lower wages across all wage segments, low wage earners are disproportionately affected. By Dr. Gideon Ndubuisi and Dr. Solomon Owusu.
'Financial development and small firms' tax compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa' explores the effect of financial development on small firms' compliance with value-added tax, profit tax and local tax. The paper equally explores the mitigating impact of informal finance on financial development's role in driving small firms' tax compliance. To demonstrate this, we estimate a recursive trivariate probit model. The results show that financial development increases the likelihood of firms being tax compliant. In contrast, access to informal finance decreases that likelihood. It also emerges that the lower the taxes, the greater the effects of low costs of banks on tax compliance. Another finding is that informal finance mitigates the effect of financial development on small firms' tax compliance. By Dr. Racky Balde.
'Global dynamics of Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries updated to 1950-2015' updates the Gini coefficients of education to include the year 2015, added to the Barro‐ Lee data set recently. A panel analysis shows that every five years education inequality falls by 2.8 percentage points. A stable average value is predicted to be 0.22. Kernel densities loose their twin peaks when going from 1955 to later years. By Dr. Thomas Ziesemer.
'How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign' identifies a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP), educational development and political regimes. Examining the speed of vaccinations across countries, this paper finds that initially authoritarian countries are slow in the vaccination process, while education is most relevant for scaling up the campaign and financial strength of the economies drive them to higher vaccination rates. By Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann et al.
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'Public sector innovation in the United Arab Emirates: How innovation occurs and what outcomes it delivers' represents the first quantitative study on innovation within the public sector performed in the "Arab World", more particularly, in the United Arab Emirates. This dissertation collected its own data through a survey launched in the UAE public sector, and uses this data to provide analysis from two angles: knowledge of innovation outcomes and knowledge of collaborative innovation. The first aim provides a new layer of analysis through examining the relationship between the different characteristics, activities, and processes that are correlated with innovation outcomes. The second aim expands understanding of collaborative innovation in the public sector, mainly through analysing the motivations driving managers to source ideas from outside their organisations. By Dr. Rafael Lemaitre Carabias.
'Towards e-compliance: Exploring the role of compliance and e-governance initiatives in the case of Bhutan' identifies compliance as a conduit and part of mechanism to explain the phenomena of e-governance implementation which aims to control corruption. Building on the identified gaps between the case study initiatives and literature and in recognition of the lack of appropriate compliance models, this dissertation proposes a new conceptual framework of e-compliance which integrates technology with organisational, leadership and social compliance drivers in e-governance implementation. By Dr. Atsuko Okuda.
'The negotiations of Zambia's welfare regime: The transformative potential of social cash transfers' provides fine-grained empirical insights into the complex negotiations of Zambia's welfare regime. Specifically, this dissertation examines the decision-making processes about who should receive social cash transfers, who should not, and why. It argues that in order to transform poverty, development and reform initiatives need to take account of local power relations and values of social justice, expose the clashes of beliefs, and convince local actors of the desirability of change. In short, interventions need to embrace a transformative, or political, approach. By Dr. Maria Klara Kuss.
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Q: Android Studio Maps Api v2 My code works perfectly on eclipse. I have created a new project on Android Studio and added my classes, I have also followed this popular tutorial answer How can I create an Android application in Android Studio that uses the Google Maps Api v2?
Now the code doesn't show any red flags and it detects the imports fine but when I build the project I get these errors:
Gradle: package com.google.android.gms.maps does not exist
Gradle: package com.google.android.gms.maps.model does not exist
On a side note I have attempted to import the MAPS sample project like the tutorial says and that has worked fine but I do not know why my new project gives me these errors even though I have followed the tutorial to the letter.
Any idea guys?

A: In short words:

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*Run Android Studio

*Create new project

*Create new module of Android Library type, remember to set the package name to com.google.android.gms

*Copy res, src folders and AndroidManifest.xml file from google-play-services_lib (you can find it in your SDK folder if you installed it using SDK Manager) to the appropriate folder in your library module ([Project]/[Library]/src/main)

*Remove android-support-v4.jar from libs folder under your library module, live only google-play-services.jar and google-play-services.jar.properties files there.

*Make sure your build.gradle file in library module contains following:
dependencies {
    compile files('libs/google-play-services.jar')
}

*Make sure your build.gradle for application module contains following:
dependencies {
    compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar')
    compile project(':[LibraryModuleName]')
}

*Make sure your settings.gradle contain following:
include ':MapStudio', ':[LibraryModuleName]'

*You can grab layout and manifest settings from Google Maps API v2 tutorial

*Keep in mind that android-support-v4.jar is neccessary only when you want to support Android v2

You can find more detailed description on my blog.

A: I have tried and failed many a tutorial on this, but finally find a simple solution that seem to work.
I just installed Android Studio 0.2.3 on my mac, and these are the steps that made me view a maps fragment on a fresh hello world project template:
1) Click the SDK manager button in the toolbar in Android Studio.
2) Under 'Extras' locate 'Google play services' and install it.
3) in your build.gradle file in your src directory, add this line to dependencies:
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:3.1.36'

4) order and install your API-key following this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/start#the_google_maps_api_key
5) add the fragment to your layout xml:
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:id="@+id/map"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/>

6) you should now be able to run your project on your device.

A: If you created a new project (which uses Gradle) and then followed the tutorial, it's completely wrong.
When using Gradle (which new projects do by default), you cannot use the UI to add dependencies. You need to add them manually in build.gradle.
It's a crappy solution right now and we're working to make this better.

A: For those of you completely confused by everything going on with implementation of external libraries to gradle projects i have the easiest and most reliable solution.
Step by Step Guide: http://aetherstudios.net/pages/gradle.html
this might be a bit of work but it is the most reliable way i have found to get it done.

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In what could be easily/effortlessly/unobtrusively/neutrally/unabashedly termed
By Just in Print	 On Feb 17, 2016
In what could be easily/effortlessly/unobtrusively/neutrally/unabashedly termed as for India, by India, of India fully applicable to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than a 1,000 topnotch CEOs of the world presently have assembled in Mumbai — India to be precise — to be synonymous with India; Make Up for India; Make In India; Be Indian, Buy Indian; Make for India. The BigShot CEOs have pushed in $ 21,000 crores in India already. They will make in India making India single destination point in the whole world for all and sundry ( =anti-India countries like Pakistan ) as they will be naturally forced to ask for alms from India for their survival. Modi is ensuring, India, as days go by, becomes more intense with India-ism fully lapping in all forces in it so that all of them become for India, by India, of India. This way, India will be at pinnacle of topnotch powers in the country so what even if countries like USA continues to be militarily most powerful. Spiritually, India will be more powerful than the USA, admitted then by the whole world. As of now, majority of the countries in the whole world are looking at India — thanks to Modi — for its blessings on them so that they continue to exist head high but not nose up. India is doing that without any vested interest. It wants whole world to live in happy co-existence dependent on each other without any fear, apprehension. grumble, grimace, grunt, grin. India via Modi wants the whole world to be a fully safe place for all denizens of the world without any suspicion of any kind. That's the reason why the whole world now is chanting Modi, Modi…whole heartedly. Modi has become popular in the whole world whether his adversaries — they do not matter in any way —- like it or not. They are of course devising new ways to dislodge Modi but they are proving themselves to be nitwit, tidbits in the process. People are not looking at them the next time considering them to be utterly anachronous, incongruous. Modi himself however remains unruffled. Not heeding to them in any way, he continues to lead India in the front bench of globe while his works already have become much to be emulated by the whole world whose leaders are asking him in anyway to "teach them also so that they too can excel in their respective roles". Modi has become a household name in the whole world today. It is evident in India where presently, CEOs from all over the world have assembled and are ensuring that they prove their mettle in India. Only when they excel in that will they really be "successful". For that, they are keenly looking at Modi's blessings.
Technology Vision 2035 – Putting Science to Use
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Q: Is the embedding $L^2(0,T;H^1) \subset L^2(0,T;L^2)$ compact? Is the embedding $L^2(0,T;H^1(\Omega)) \subset L^2(0,T;L^2(\Omega))$ compact?

A: No. Here is a counterexample, inspired by the answer to this question:
If $V \subset H$ compact, is $L^2(0,T;V) \subset L^2(0,T;H)$ compact too?
Take $v\in H^1$, $T=\pi$,
$$
\phi_n(t) = \sin(n t)v.
$$
Since $\sin(n \circ)$ converges weakly but not strongly to zero in $L^2(0,T)$, it follows that
$\phi_n$ converges weakly to zero in $L^2(0,T;H^1)$.
If there would be a subsequence of $(\phi_n)$ converging strongly to zero in $L^2(0,T;L^2)$, then this would imply $\sin(n \circ) \to 0$ in $L^2(0,T)$, which is a contradiction.
Hence, the embedding is not compact. You need some control of the time derivative (see Aubin-Lions theorem).


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Q: how to find out a result set by which column ? if we write 3 columns in where clause with OR Operators on single table I have a database table. That table has 4 columns. In 3 columns members(values) want to access the 4th column value.
So here i don't want to write same query for every member. I want to write only single query. So is it possible with single query? If possible how I can know which column has given those result set?
select 4thcolumn from tablename where lstcolumn=?1 or 2ndcolumn=?2 or 3rdcolumn=?3;

A: Using OR is a solution (but that requires you to repeat the parameter three times):
SELECT col4 FROM mytable col1 =:myvalue OR col2 =:myvalue OR col3 = :myvalue;

One solution to shorten the query (and pass a unique parameter) is to use IN:
SELECT col4 FROM mytable WHERE :myvalue IN (col1, col2, col3)

If you want to know which column matched, then this gets longer. In MySQL you can do:
SELECT
    col4,
    col1 = :myvalue is_col1,
    col2 = :myvalue is_col2,
    col3 = :myvalue is_col3
FROM mytable
WHERE :myvalue IN (col1, col2, col3)

This adds three columns in the result set: is_col1, is_col2, is_col3; the column(s) that matched will have value 1, other(s) will show 0.


It is impossible to get an appointment to see a doctor at this surgery unless you turn up at the reception in person. They do not answer their telephones and their online appointment system is always fully booked in advance by about three weeks! When you do eventually get to see a doctor, they have no idea who you are or your medical history. They do not seem up to date on NICE guidelines regarding medication.
Surgery has on line booking for non urgent appointments but short notice/emergency is luck on the phone!!Always treated well,staff helpful & polite!!A good surgery!!
I have found staff to be helpful, doctors professional and the overall cleanliness good. The only problem is the waiting time for appointments, but i do not blame the surgery for this as it is rhe same everywhere. Too many patients and not enough facilities.
Phones are rarely answered. Almost impossible to get an appointment. Called and asked for emergency appointment and was told to just go to A&E!


You can now enter the camp Pokémon to start a new adventure together with all the characters of Pokémon. There are hundreds of adventures so you can enjoy a game of Pokémon where you have to train your Pokemon to join the great battle. Talk to the villagers Pokémon camp to seek new mission, win Pokébola, train Pokémon, fill your Pokédex and evolve your Pokémon. Do not miss the camp Pokémon!.
Enjoy the game Pokémon camp, it's free, it's one of our pokémon games we've selected.


Is it possible to move my mom from Edmonton to Winnipeg she is in a hospital in Edmonton and has been assessed as needing permanent care. She has only lived in Edmonton for a couple years and the rest of her life in Winnipeg.
We need to get my mom home as it is only my sister in Edmonton and is overwhelmed the rest of the family is here and can spend more time with mom in personal care.
Confirm what 'permanent care' really means in this case. Is it 24/7 heavy care, or does it just mean that Mom cannot live alone with no supervision. What are her personal care needs, can she wash and dress herself, feed herself, go to the bathroom alone or does she need help? Can she walk without assistance, or if not, is a walker enough, or is it a wheelchair? All these details allow you to research appropriate housing in Winnipeg.
Check the Manitoba ministry of health's website to see when health coverage can begin, and until then, how the two provinces reimburse each other for health care while out of province. If necessary, look into private health care coverage for the interim.
Based on what you've learned in Step 1, are you looking for long-term care in a nursing home, or assisted living in a retirement home? Nursing homes cater to heavier care needs and are usually funded by the provincial ministry of health. Retirement homes are usually privately owned and cater to more independent living, with extra personal care and nursing in their 'assisted living' areas.
Because nursing homes are publicly funded, their cost is about $2,000 per month for a private room, and the fee includes all meals, activities and care. Retirement homes are more costly, with the suite starting at $3,800 and additional costs for care ranging from $500-$1,000 a month.
Because of their affordability, nursing homes often have waiting lists of 4-12 months. If the home you are interested in has this type of waiting list, you will have to develop a plan to either leave your mother where she is, or make alternate plans, such as bringing her to your home with care, or into a retirement home, until a nursing home spot becomes available. You will have to be very specific about the costs involved and be sure they are affordable for the time limit you expect.


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Norway beat GB on penalty shots
Great Britain 3-4 Norway (after penalty shots)
A stunning late third-period fightback secured Great Britain a point before they were beaten by Norway on penalty shots in their second game at the 2022 IIHF World Championship in Tampere, Finland.
Two goals in 38 seconds from Robert Dowd and Brett Perlini was followed by Mark Richardson's equaliser as GB roared back.
Scott Conway scored in the shootout but Mathias Trettenes and Michael Haga netted for Norway to secure them the extra point.
Ben Bowns iced in his 45th Great Britain game to go level with all-time leader Stevie Lyle.
Deflected goal gives Norway lead
Norway had the first chances as Daniel Rokseth's shot from the blueline was saved by Bowns, who then stopped Kristian Jackobsson after he broke at speed down the right wing.
Bowns then denied Ludvig Hoff from close range on the powerlay, but could do nothing about Andreas Klavestad's pass towards goal that deflected in off the stick of David Phillips to give Norway the lead (16:13).
Norway extend advantage in second period
GB found their jump early in the second period as Robert Lachowicz just failed to convert on the doorstep from Richardson's pass, while Cade Neilson was denied from the right circle.
Norway's second was credited to Mathis Olimb as the puck trickled through a pile of bodies from a goalmouth scramble at 26:39 (powerplay).
Dowd and Ben Lake went close on the same shift before Olimb scored his second of the afternoon with a powerful blast from left point at 35:19, also on the powerplay.
Stunning GB comeback in third period
Perlini was obstructed on a breakaway and his resulting penalty shot was saved by Henrik Haukeland's glove.
Dowd scored on his backhand from the right circle (52:51) and 38 seconds later, Evan Mosey's wraparound the net found Conway to tap home at the backdoor (53:29).
GB were level less than three minutes later as Perlini set-up Richardson in the slot to fire past Haukeland for the equaliser (56:09).
Norway edge it in penalty shots
Bowns made three outstanding saves in overtime and at the other end, Mosey was denied on the breakaway and narrowly failed to put away the rebound.
Norway scored twice in the shootout to win the game, but it was an heroic performance by GB as they secured a point against the 12th ranked team in the world.
GB Head Coach, Pete Russell, said: "We started a bit slow and at the end of the first period we asked them for a bit more.
"In the second period we gave up a couple of powerplay goals, but found a bit of drive in our legs.
"As soon as we got one in the third period the momentum changed and we got the three goals.
"This team know how to ride momentum. They've got the quality of togetherness.
"I think that third period shows how good we are as a group, how we stick together and we don't listen to the outside noise. I'm proud of the boys."
There's no action for GB tomorrow but they return to action on Tuesday when they face Sweden at 20:20 (18:20 UK time).


Next HIGH TIDE in Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) is at , which is in from now.
Next LOW TIDE in Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) is at , which is in from now.
The local time in Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) is . See the detailed Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) tide chart and tide table below.
Tide Times are EDT (UTC -4.0hrs). Last Spring High Tide at Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) was on Sat 06 Apr (height:0.67m 2.2ft). Next high Spring Tide at Bakers Haulover Inlet (inside) will be on Fri 19 Apr (height:0.79m 2.6ft).
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Now, that is a question that millions of social media users are asking after a video showing dozens of salmon hastily crossing a highway in Skokomish River Valley, Washington surfaced online.
Seattle news station KIRO 7 recently posted the clip, which was recorded by fish hatchery specialist Alexis Leonard, on Facebook, and it has gotten more than 10 million views since.
Leonard, who didn't expect to attract this much attention told CNN that she and her father were on their way to Eells Springs Trout Hatchery when she took the video for her sister, who had never witnessed such phenomenon.
While this isn't a normal occurrence in other parts of the country, in Washington it isn't all that rare.
According to Leonard, it is mating season. The salmon from the Skokomish River swim upstream in search of "spawning grounds." They often end up dwelling in creeks to find a mate, reproduce, and sadly, die.
But whenever heavy rainfall occurs, the creeks flood and push the fish out, sending them onto the roads.
"If they're lucky, it'll meet up with the creek on the other side of the road, if they're not, they're stranded," Leonard explained.
It looks like the salmon are willing to risk it all to find a mate, which honestly, sounds like someone we all know.


A sad day in Cardinal and baseball history, as Chris Carpenter has had another set back in his shoulder rehab. The prognosis does not look good and Chris will not be joining us in Spring Training. I have never seen a warrior on the baseball field like Carp, and we may never see one like him again. A respected competitor, and a loved teammate who went out of his way to make people around him better. A legacy will follow him that goes beyond his three All-Star appearances, Cy Young award, and two World Series Championships. That legacy of unmatched worked ethic, and fiery competitiveness, will live on with the many pitchers in our organization that were fortunate to spend time learning from one of the best.


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Sørfjorden er den sydlige del af Søndeledfjorden i gamle Søndeled kommune (nu Risør kommune) i  i Agder fylke i Norge. Fjorden er 8 kilometer lang og ligger på sydsiden af øen Barmen. Den går fra det smalle sund som skiller Barmen fra fastlandet i øst til Rødsfjorden i vest. I Sørfjorden ligger flere mindre øer, blandt andre Rigårdsøya, Tobergsholmen, Stuøya, Hanøya og Engholmen.

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By judysjottings July 19, 2015 childhood memoir Navy Seabees Trinity Test
I knew I wanted to write about my life for my children and grandchildren, as my mother had done for us. However, my life seemed so mundane compared to those of my parents and grandparents – until I received a forwarded email from a friend asking where I was on a particular date in history. That was all I needed to get my juices going. This is the first of a series of stories linking my life with points in history.
When the first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945 at 5:45 am MST in the New Mexico desert, on land that is now the White Sands Missile Range, I had just turned three and was asleep in our Santa Monica, California home. 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of this event that changed the course of history.
According to an Associated Press article that appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on July 16, 2015, "When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early on July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes fall….The end of the world is here, they thought."
It would be another three weeks before the world would begin to know the significance of the desert event.
My father, an engineer with the U. S. Army Engineers, was not allowed to join the armed forces before 1945 since his job was deemed essential to the national security.
Dad with U.S. Army Engineers
By January 26 1945, the repair and construction of airports in the western part of the country came to a close, and he joined the Navy Seabees (Naval Construction Force). He left for Camp Pendicott in Rhode Island for basic training on February 24.
Omer Brodie in his navy uniform.
Fate intervened and just prior to his battalion leaving for North Africa, he came down with pneumonia and was hospitalized. They left without him and he was assigned to another battalion that was bound for the Pacific. They spent a month at the Naval Construction Battalion Center at Port Hueneme (near Ventura, CA) the West Coast home port of the Navy's Seabees and he was able to visit us at home (overnight liberties) – much to my delight.
Among the birthday gifts listed for my 3rd birthday was a "telegram from daddy." He must not have had overnight liberties at that time. I'm sure this was nothing unusual during the war.
my 3rd birthday party – 16 days before the atomic test.
Because the Manhattan Project, responsible for the development of the atomic bomb, was still secret, even the Navy did not know what had happened on that morning and my father's battalion continued their preparations to leave for Okinawa.
Dad with Seabees in Okinawa
While I have never visited the Trinity Test site even though I have lived in New Mexico for over 20 years, I have visited the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos where a replica of "the gadget" is on display and there are extensive exhibits on the history of the Manhattan Project.
I am grateful for my mother's detailed record-keeping of events during my early years and my reactions to them in Your Child Year by Year: A Development Record and Guide From Birth to the 16th Year, published by The Parents Magazine
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Waiting for the TUR !
Always feel free to speak your mind here. That's why we exist.
I sometimes come on pretty strong but that's because I've seen what happens with a number of folks who have come to the forum over the years. My first diagnosis was in 2006 so I have spent a lot of time learning all I can. Compared to some, I'm still a newbie.
We push hard on getting to the top doctors because we've seen folks who don't die needlessly. Getting the best doctor you can means better outcomes. Since you already set up for MD Anderson, you are doing the right thing. The surgeons there are going to be significantly more experienced than your urologist (no matter what his receptionist says). The pathologists at MD Anderson also specialize in bladder cancer and are better at determining if there were complete margins.
Right now, for you, it is about you. Later, hopefully, you will be coming back here to help others who find themselves in the situation you are in now.
I wish you the absolute best outcome and I do know that the highest statistical probability of that happening is at MD Anderson.
Can't your uro have you come in for urine test to check for infection?
U still might wantto consider getting it done at MD Anderson.
No TURB should be done if you have an infection. Which is what it sure sounds like. That's why a urine test is done before any cysto or TURB. Pat as usual is right on!
Well Kenneth..it looks like he has you in a strangle hold. Sounds like an infection to me which, of course, can be treated with an antibiotic and something to deter the pain. Instead he wants to go in there with a probable infection and remove the tumor and do the biopsy and throw in a dose of mytomycin....watch where the pain and urgency goes after that!!
You've got one of the best with Kamat...call his nurse..tell her whats going on and recommendations before June 15th appt.
Ask your own uro why he won't treat you and test you for infection and why he would even consider a biopsy if you have an infection?
I'm may be way off but these seem like good questions????


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From the Caribbean to the South African coast, marine archaeologist Matthew Arnett's work involves recovering treasures from the deep – and preserving them for posterity.
I have a pet peeve with people like Elon Musk who want to jet off to space," remarks Matthew Arnett, who has made it his business to explore the depths of the world's oceans.
"I would think 99% of the sea is left unexplored. I believe there are answers there that come from energy and renewable resources. There is a twilight zone that we don't even know is there, and they want to go to Mars!"
It is the planet we are in that Arnett, the co-founder and CEO of PO8, has made his priority, uncovering treasures that date as far back as the 1400s.
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"Millions should be spent under the ocean instead of jetting off to space so quick. There are many aspects of the blue economy that have not been explored and there are so many opportunities that come out of it," says the explorer who is based in the Caribbean and visiting South Africa.
PO8 is a marine archaeology startup that uses blockchain technology to recover sunken artifacts from the ocean floor.
Using the blockchain model, through PO8, ownership of the recovered treasures and artifacts is with non-fungible tokens, which are asset-backed tokens.
Arnett says the sensitive, more lucrative approach is preserving these artifacts in museums and not giving them away to private collectors.
"They [the artifacts] have to stay in the public domain and that is why there are the museums."
With innovative ways of looking at the blue economy, the PO8 project, based in the Caribbean, also aims to connect lost histories across the globe.
The growing historical tourism market in the Caribbean generates revenue without selling any of the recovered artifacts, leading to social and economic impact that he says can be duplicated in Africa.
"Because of the success in the Caribbean, it only makes sense to come back to Africa to put the same model in place.
"There are millions and billions of dollars in the ocean," Arnett says.
"We are going to find other things that relate back to Africa, so we might also be able to find some missing links from an anthropology stand point."
He believes his work contributes to transforming the narrative of the Caribbean that's often only known for tourism. "When you look at the Caribbean, it is no longer just sun, sand and sea; there is a tech tsunami that is coming," he says.
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"These artifacts are open to anthropologists, archaeologists, or to university programs all over the world to come to the Bahamas and study these objects to draw parallels between other pieces and artifacts that might be similar to them. Essentially, we are telling the story of our past in a way that it can be globally accepted and people can own a part of history."
Cyclone Idai Aftermath: No Maize, No Money, No Future
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The deadliest African cyclone, to date, tore through Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in March, leaving a trail of death and destruction. The worst is yet to come for survivors.
The deadliest cyclone to ever hit Africa, Idai, overnight, ripped through Mozambique and then tore into Zimbabwe and Malawi, leaving a long trail of destruction in its wake.
Trees were uprooted, so were people, in the millions.
Roads were washed away, houses destroyed and bridges torn from their edifices. Worst of all, the raging muddy waters killed at least 847 people, affected about two million and destroyed several hundreds of thousands of crops. The devastation caused by the cyclone is almost unimaginable as, in these three countries, bodies could be seen floating in water where there used to be villages.
"This was unimaginable. I am in the military but I have never seen such. People are desperate for help and have lost everything," says Brigadier General Joe Muzvidziwa, who is helping survivors in Zimbabwe.
For those who did survive, the worst is yet to come. Many of them will mourn the deaths of their loved ones on empty pockets and growling stomachs.
The drive to Zimbabwe's hardest hit district, Chimanimani, is long and painful. A mere six days after the furious waters swept away most parts of the villages in the area, the ground is dry but the pain and destruction still palpable.
We struggle to drive into the villages as trees and debris still block the roads and bridges have been decimated.
We continue our journey on foot and meet many with no place to call home. One of them is Tsitsi Mungana.
Tsitsi Mungana in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai. Picture:
As we meet, she is trying to climb over a tree blocking the road, to make her way to aid agencies for her first decent meal since Cyclone Idai. She is walking barefoot and is wearing the only dress and doek (headwrap) she now owns. She mutters a few words to herself as tears stream down her cheeks.
"It's been the worst time of my life. I don't know how I am going to move on from this. I don't have anything else left. My husband was swept away by the floods and was found about 10km away… We spent hours looking for my grandson. The rocks which fell off the mountain due to the heavy rains and wind covered his body and it took many people to find him. All our belongings and livestock are also gone," says Mungana as she begins to weep uncontrollably.
She is one of hundreds of families who have lost loved ones, and thousands who are most likely going to starve this year.
According to Wandile Sihlobo, Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz), Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi will collectively have to import over a million tons of maize this year to feed its people.
He says Zimbabwe's maize imports could reach 900,000 tons in order to meet the annual needs of roughly two million tons a year.
"Meanwhile, Mozambique will most likely double the typical maize import volume of about 100,000 tons a year," he says.
It's going to be hard to find suppliers of maize because the key suppliers, South Africa and Zambia, are expecting low harvests this year.
"If we assume that South Africa's expected production of 10.6 million tons materializes, then the country could have about 1.1 million tons of maize for export markets. A large share of this will, most likely, be destined to the BNLS countries (Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini), thus leaving a small volume for Zimbabwe and Mozambique," Sihlobo says.
There is also very little to be expected from Zambia as the International Grains Council forecasts the country's 2018/19 maize harvest at 2.4 million tons, down by 33% year-on-year. This will be enough only for domestic consumption.
Cyclone Idai also affected trade.
In its wake, according to the UN Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, the cyclone cost Africa infrastructure worth more than a billion dollars.
Port of Beira, the main corridor for Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Eastern DRC, closed its doors.
"We closed the port two days before the cyclone hit to allow us time to prepare for it by reorganizing and removing all potential hazards. There was a lot of damage to the port. It took another two days to clean up and, at least, make the port accessible. The damage was several millions of dollars. We are currently in talks with insurance to know how much exactly. It will take time and money to fix everything up. We are currently improvising just to make sure business goes on," says Jan de Vries, Managing Director of Port of Beira.
Jan de Vries, Managing Director of Port of Beira.
Before this disaster, Beira port controlled 60% of the country's imports and 40% of its exports.
"We handle about 300,000 containers per year and about three million tons of general cargo per year and a lot of fuel but we had to put services on hold… On the first day, it was tough to go around. Nearly all the roads were blocked, to some extent, with trees, electricity cables and many things. There was a lot of destruction. A lot of roofs damaged, buildings completely collapsed. This place looked like a warzone," de Vries says.
He says at the port, roofs, doors and warehouses were destroyed but they are lucky because it is currently low season.
"Electricity supply had been cut off but we are very impressed by the government because power is being restored. Technicians from all over the country are working hard. Major industries have been reconnected and a few residential areas are now being connected. Rail and road infrastructure is also being fixed. Although we have to struggle a bit, we have opened the port and business continues," he says.
The president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) Sifelani Jabangwe says Beira is one of the major ports for the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region and its closure, no matter how short-lived, affected trade.
"Zimbabwe imports fuel and wheat through the Port of Beira. The closure caused a strain on the supply of these two commodities. We had trucks that were stuck in Beira for a number of days. The bigger impact is also on businesses located on the eastern sides of the country, like timber estates, fruit and tea producers, and even the diamond company, in that area, is now revising its targeted output because of the flooding," Jabangwe says.
Henry Nemaire, the Chairman of the CZI Trade Development and Investments Promotion Committee based in Mutare, says most businesses have been severely affected and are looking for funding to rebuild.
"Some businesses are in areas that can't be accessed with 30-ton trucks which they used to move their goods like timber… Power lines are cut off and there are issues around water supply systems which have been damaged. Smaller businesses were the most affected. Most of them are now trying to apply for loans to get new trucks and rebuild so they can get back on track," Nemaire says.
Jabangwe agrees with Nemaire. He says it will be a long and harsh road to recovery.
"We are still waiting for reports from various companies affected by the cyclone which should start coming in soon so we can understand the actual loss that has occurred… there are already teams working with government to import the required maize to feed the country. We need additional support to make sure that people are catered for. We would need to feed people in that area for at least 12 months, which means a full-fledged program has to be put in place," he says.
Cherukai Mukamba, a local smallholder farmer, says he relied on farming to make money. "I would sell maize and chicken, and sometimes cows, to make money to be able to take care of my children. A week before the cyclone, I had hired people who were going to help me with harvesting when the time came," he says.
Cherukai Mukamba, a local smallholder farmer.
Like many in this area, Mukamba spent the night fearing for his life and that of his family.
"I was asleep and was woken up by very loud winds that I have never heard before. I went outside to look and right in front of me, was a bus rolling down the mountain. I could hear people scream and it crushed them before my eyes. I tried to go help but it pouring and I could see rocks fall off the mountain right into the fields and I had to go back in the house and say a prayer."
The next day, Mukamba says he woke up to the biggest horror.
"Everything was destroyed; all my crops, livestock and part of my house. I went to check on the bus but didn't find anyone inside. I heard that there had been three people in the bus and their bodies were found over 100km away. I couldn't believe it. It is the worst thing to ever happen to us," he says.
Mukamba's story is one of thousands of stories in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.
These countries have weathered many storms over the years like Cyclone Leon–Eline and poverty, but this massive natural disaster will go down in history books as the worst and southern Africa will bear its scars for generations to come.
South Africa's Informal Sector: Why People Get Stuck In Precarious Jobs
South Africa has a jobs crisis. In the fourth quarter of 2018, 6.14 million people were out of work, an unemployment rate of 27.1%, which is one of the highest rates in the world, along with sub-Saharan African countries like Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia.
South Africa's labour market has another important distinction. Only about three million people who are working – about 18% of all employed (16.53 million) – are in the informal sector. That's much lower than other developing countries. For example in India and Ethiopia, up to 50% of those with jobs are employed in the informal sector. The figure is as high as 90% in Ghana and Mali.
There are two schools of thought around the role and value of a country's informal sector. Some argue that it's an important alternative to the limited opportunities available in the formal sector; a survivalist strategy that allows those without much formal education to work and earn money. In addition, others argue, the informal sector is also an important space for entrepreneurs.
But there are some who disagree, arguing that employment in the informal sector tends to be poorly paid and precarious. A mere 20% of informal sector employees are hired permanently, compared to 70% of those in the formal sector.
Little is known about how many people transition between the two sectors, a phenomenon called "churning". Addressing this knowledge gap is important for a number of reasons. These include the fact that informal workers may be spending some time in the formal sector, getting valuable skills and work experience to boost their chances at formal employment, with the hope that they eventually settle permanently in the formal sector, which would be good news.
Conversely, knowing whether there's a high rate of transition from the formal to the informal sector would be cause for concern because it would suggest high rates of retrenchment and fewer formal job opportunities.
We set out to understand "churning" between South Africa's formal and informal sectors. To do this we analysed data from the country's National Income Dynamics Study – a study that was conducted four times between 2008 and 2015 by the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit based at the University of Cape Town's School of Economics.
We found there was a lot of movement between the informal and formal sectors during these years. But there were very few instances of people making successful, lasting transitions from informal to formal sector employment.
This emphasises South Africa's skills mismatch. The formal sector requires skills that those in the informal sector simply don't have. More education and support is necessary to bridge this gap.
Our data were drawn from the National Income Dynamics Survey, which is the first national household panel study in South Africa. It examines the living standards of individuals and households over time.
By analysing data from the four waves of the study we were able to make some key findings about churning, and about the informal sector more broadly. These included:
Only 8% of those surveyed were inactive (7%) or unemployed (1%) in all four waves – that is, throughout the seven-year period. About 54% were employed in one to three waves, meaning they worked transitorily but not continuously;
only 3% worked in the informal sector in all four waves;
only 12% always worked in the formal sector during the seven years under review; and,
8% of individuals worked throughout the seven years under review but transitioned between the two sectors.
These results clearly indicate that a high proportion of the labour force participants have been in and out of employment (which is not surprising, given the country's high unemployment rate), some workers enjoy the privilege of always working in the formal sector, and most importantly, churning between the informal and formal sectors definitely takes place to some extent.
The findings also emphasised how precarious the informal sector is. For instance, 67% of those who started off working in the formal sector in 2008 remained there seven years later. This suggests that for those who initially secured work in the formal sector, retrenchment likelihood is not as high as perhaps anticipated. The retention figure in the informal sector was just 39%. Only 27% of those in the informal sector successfully transitioned to the formal sector.
The country's many social inequalities were evident in the data. Black women without school leaving certificates aged between 25 and 44 years were most likely to remain in the informal sector. Highly educated white men living in the urban areas of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces were most likely to successfully transition from the informal to the formal sector.
Given what we've learned from this research, how might the government and policy makers deal with those who "churn"?
First, the country's education system must do more to produce skilled labour in the areas the economy requires. Formal firms could help here, by providing assistance and information on what skills are needed and how to develop these. This implies that strengthening the partnership between industry and universities is important, as this would help those who are able to access higher education.
Those who don't go on to higher education, or don't complete their secondary schooling, also need to be helped. The government should more actively provide workshops and specialised assistance to enhance entrepreneurship skills and advise small informal firms on growth strategies. These incentives will assist in their growth, long-term sustainability and successful transition to the formal sector.
In addition, larger, more established formal firms can also play a role by helping to develop and train informal sector workers and providing expert guidance to informal firms. This assistance can be incentivised through tax reductions and the prospects of a larger collective market via the informal sector.
Lastly, the government should continuously alleviate the numerous barriers to the informal economy. These include limited credit and training opportunities, poor infrastructure and the red tape that makes it difficult to start a business.
–Moegammad Faeez Nackerdien Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
–Derek Yu Associate Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
-The Conversation


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Emacs evernote mode

Table of Contents

1  License

2 Introduction

3 Evernote note edit mode

3.1 XHTML mode

3.1.1  An example of XHTML mode editing:

3.2 TEXT mode

3.2.1  An example of TEXT mode editing:

3.3 Select edit mode

3.4 Change edit mode

4 Search Query Examples

5 Evernote Browser

6 Bookmarks

7 Install and Settings

8 Collaboration with Anything

9 Troubleshooting

9.1 `require': no such file to load – gdbm

9.2 `require': no such file to load – net/https

9.3 No such file or directory – enclient.rb (LoadError)

1  License

Copyright 2011 Yusuke Kawakami

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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2 Introduction

Emacs evernote mode offers functions to refer and edit Evernote notes directly from Emacs. Currently this package offers the following interfaces.

Command: evernote-login

Login to Evernote. The following commands are available only when you login.
If you execute the following commands without the login, the login prompt will be shown.

Variable: evernote-username

An username of your evernote.

Command: evernote-open-note

Read an existing note to an Emacs buffer. At first, input tags of the notes, then input the name of the note on the minibuffer.

Command: evernote-open-note-in-notebook

Read an existing note to an Emacs buffer. At first, input the notebook and tags of the notes, then input the name of the note on the minibuffer.

Command: evernote-save-note (default bound to \C-x\C-s)

Save the modified note..

Command: evernote-create-note

Create a note from scratch. The note is created in the default notebook.

Command: evernote-create-note-in-notebook

Create a note from scratch. The note is created in the specified notebook.

Command: evernote-write-note

Create a new note from the current buffer. The note is created in the default notebook.

Command: evernote-write-note-in-notebook

Create a new note from the current buffer. The note is created in the specified notebook.

Command: evernote-post-region

Create a new note containing the selected region. The note is created in the default notebook. If you call this command without argument, no buffer associated with the new note is generated, which is different from evernote-open-note and evernote-create-note. If you call this command with an argument by \C-u etc.(not default argument), it creates a new buffer associated with the new note and you can edit the note in the buffer.

Command: evernote-post-region-in-notebook

Create a new note containing the selected region. The note is created in the specified notebook.

Command: evernote-change-notebook (default bound to \C-cen)

Change the notebook to which the note belongs. The change on Evernote service will be made after exec of evernote-save-note.

Command: evernote-edit-tags (default bound to \C-cet)

Change tags attached to the note. The change on Evernote service will be made after exec of evernote-save-note.

Command: evernote-change-edit-mode (default bound to \C-cee)

Change the edit mode of the note. (See Evernote note edit mode for details) The change on Evernote service will be made after exec of evernote-save-note.

Command: evernote-rename-note (default bound to \C-cer)

Rename the note. The change on Evernote service will be made after exec of evernote-save-note.

Command: evernote-delete-note (default bound to \C-ced)

Delete the note.

Command: evernote-search-notes

Search notes by query in the minibuffer. (See Search Query Examples for details)

Command: evernote-do-saved-search

Search notes by using a Saved Search.

Command: evernote-create-notebook

Create a new notebook.

Command: evernote-edit-notebook

Change the name and whether this book is the default notebook or not.

Command: evernote-create-search

Save a query with a name for later use.

Command: evernote-edit-search

Change the name and the query of an existing Saved Search.

Command: evernote-toggle-read-only (default bound to \C-x\C-q)

Toggle read-only status of the note. When a note of XHTML mode is changed to the read-only status, the command in the variable evernote-enml-formatter-command formats the XHTML. See Evernote note edit mode for details.

Variable: evernote-enml-formatter-command

The command to format XHTML. When a note of XHTML mode is read-only, the command formats the XHTML and displays it. Currently evernote-mode supports w3m as the formatter.

Command: evernote-browser

Open Evernote Browser. Evernote Browser offers the features to open notes from the tag hierarchical list, the saved search list and the note list of the past search result. See Evernote Browser for details.

Variable: anything-c-source-evernote-title

The variable that offers the function for Anything(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Anything) to display the note candidates from the title.
See Collaboration with Anything for details.

Command: anything-evernote-title

Open a note by using Anything. See Collaboration with Anything for details.

Variable: evernote-mode-display-menu

Display the menu on the menubar for evernote-mode (default: t)

Variable: evernote-password-cache

Non-nil means that password cache is enabled.
It is recommended to encrypt the file with EasyPG(http://epg.sourceforge.jp/). EasyPG is included in Emacs 23 or later. On Emacs 22, you install the EasyPG, then add the following line to your .emacs

(require 'epa-setup)

You can cache the password safely by using gpg-agent.

When you create a note by evernote-create-note, evernote-write-note and evernote-post-region, you can attach tags to the note.
Also, when using the commands, you can input the name and the tag of the note with completion in the minibuffer.

The minor-mode "evernote-mode" is applied to the buffers opening the evernote note. The following commands are available only when "evernote-mode" is valid.

evernote-save-note

evernote-change-notebook

evernote-edit-tags

evernote-change-edit-mode

evernote-rename-note

evernote-delete-note

3 Evernote note edit mode

Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD(http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd). evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for saving and reading the Evenote notes.

3.1 XHTML mode

When you save the Evernote note in XHTML mode, the content of the buffer will be saved as the content of the note. Therefore if the contents of the buffer is not valid ENML, you cannot save the contents because of the error.

And when you read a Evernote note by using XHTML mode, the buffer is read-only as the initial state. If the variable evernote-enml-formatter-command is set, the content of the buffer is formatted. (See Install and Settings for details of setting evernote-enml-formatter-command) If you toggle the read-only status and change it to read-write, unformatted XHTML is displayed in the buffer. The buffer will display the formatted text if you change the state to read-only again.

3.1.1  An example of XHTML mode editing:

   Emacs Buffer
   -----------------------------------
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">
   <en-note>Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD<br clear="none"/>
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for<br clear="none"/>
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.<br clear="none"/>
   </en-note>
   -----------------------------------
   | save on XHTML mode
   V
   The content of the note (same as the emacs buffer)
   -----------------------------------
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">
   <en-note>Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD<br clear="none"/>
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for<br clear="none"/>
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.<br clear="none"/>
   </en-note>
   -----------------------------------
   | read on XHTML mode
   V
   Emacs Buffer (read-only and formatted)
   -----------------------------------
   Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.
   -----------------------------------
   |toggle read-only(evernote-toggle-read-only: \C-x\C-q)
   V
   Emacs Buffer (unformatted)
   -----------------------------------
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">
   <en-note>Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD<br clear="none"/>
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for<br clear="none"/>
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.<br clear="none"/>
   </en-note>
   -----------------------------------

3.2 TEXT mode

In XHTML mode, you have to edit a XHTML as a text but it is a complicated work. evernote-mode offers TEXT mode to make editing text notes easy and effective.

The text mode is specialized in editing Evernote notes that only contain text content. When you save an Evernote note, special characters(&keyword; space, newline) in the buffer are escaped and the root element is added to transform it into a XML document. Therefore text contents in the Emacs buffer is same as the appearance of the note. (is not same as the actual XML content of the note.) And when you read a Evernote note by using TEXT mode, evernote-mode reads the contents under the root element of the XML as a text and all the special characters are unescaped then evernote-mode insert it to the buffer.

3.2.1  An example of TEXT mode editing:

Emacs Buffer
   -----------------------------------
   Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.
   -----------------------------------
   | save on TEXT mode
   V
   The content of the note (escaped and transformed into a XML)
   -----------------------------------
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">
   <en-note>Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD<br clear="none"/>
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for<br clear="none"/>
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.<br clear="none"/>
   </en-note>
   -----------------------------------
   | read on TEXT mode
   V
   Emacs Buffer (unescaped and transformed int a text)
   -----------------------------------
   Evernote notes are XML complying with ENML DTD
   evernote-mode offers the two edit mode, XHTML mode and TEXT mode for
   saving and reading the Evenote notes.
   -----------------------------------

3.3 Select edit mode

You can select the edit mode when you create a note. The edit mode is recorded in the note when you save it, and the recorded edit mode is applied to the note when you reopen it.

3.4 Change edit mode

Use the command evernote-change-edit-mode to change the edit mode of the existing note. If you change the edit mode from XHTML mode to TEXT mode and the buffer is read-only, then the content of the TEXT mode is the formatted text. Note that the change will remove all format information(xml tags). If the buffer is read-write, the content of the TEXT mode is the original unformatted text.

4 Search Query Examples

Here are examples of queries used for searching notes.

The following examples are referred from (http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/evernote-api.htm#_Toc277181479).

Find notes containing the word "chicken", tagged with "cooking", and created this year:

chicken tag:cooking created:year

Find notes tagged with "cooking" but not "mexican" that include the word "beef" but not the word "carrots"

tag:cooking -tag:mexican beef -carrots

Find notes in my "Travel" notebook with San Francisco in the title:

notebook:Travel intitle:"San Francisco"

Find notes that either include the text "San Francisco" or are tagged with the "SFO" tag:

any: "San Francisco" tag:SFO

5 Evernote Browser

Evernote Browser offers the features to open notes from the tag hierarchical list, the saved search list, and the note list of the past search result. These lists are different from the completion lists of evernote-open-note command or the evernote-search-notes command. These lists of Evernote Browser are always kept in Emacs buffers until they are deleted by the user after they were created, and they make the procedure to open notes easy by using these list repeatedly.

Evernote Browser is composed of multiple Evernote Browser pages(emacs buffers). An Evernote Browser page is created when searching notes or when executing the evernote-browser command at the state that no search has been executed. The multiple pages are managed as the page list. There is one valid current page and each page has the next/previous page. Execute the evernote-browser command to move the cursor to the current Evernote Browser page. Also, use the keys for moving to the next/previous page key (described later) to move to another page.

There are three type of Evernote Browser page

tag list page

saved search list page

note list page

notebook list page

A tag list page shows the hierarchical tag list created on Evernote service. Pressing Enter(\C-m) on the tag name opens a note list page of the tag.

A saved search list shows the search list created on Evernote service. Pressing Enter(\C-m) on the search name opens a note list page from the search result.

A note list shows the note list from a note search result. The note list page is newly created by the evenote-open-note command, the evernote-search-notes command and by searches on Evernote Browser. Pressing Enter(\C-m) on the note name opens a note.

A notebook list page shows the notebook list created on Evernote service. Pressing Enter(\C-m) on the notebook name opens a note list page associated with the notebook.

The followings are other key assignments on Evernote Browser pages

<colgroup><col align="left" /><col align="left" />
</colgroup>

Key	Action

b	move to the previous page

f	move to the next page

t	create a tag list page and show it. If a tag list page already exists, move the cursor to the page

S	create a search list page and show it. If a tag list page already exists, move the cursor to the page

s	create a note list from the search query input and show it

N	create a notebook list page and show it. If a notebook list page already exists, move the cursor to the page

o	same as Enter(\C-m), but it does not move the cursor to the opened note

n	move to the next line and open the note on the cursor if in the note list,

p	move to the previous line and open the note on the cursor if in the note list,

d	delete the current from Evernote Browser

6 Bookmarks

On Emacs 23.1 or later, you can set emacs bookmarks to the evernote notes.
You can open immediately the note that you can refer frequently by using this feature.

You can use the bookmarks in the same way as when using bookmarks to regular files.
You can set a bookmark to a evernote note by executing 'bookmark-set' (C-x r m RET) in the buffer opening the evernote note.
Also, you can refer the bookmarks 'bookmark-jump' (C-x r b bookmark RET) or 'list-bookmark' (C-x r l).

7 Install and Settings

Install ruby scripts for using Evernote service.

cd evernote-mode/ruby
ruby setup.rb

Copy evernote-mode.el to your load path.

cp evernote-mode.el <your load path>

Get w3m for evernote-enml-formatter-command (Optional)

If you use Linux/Unix, get w3m from here and install it or install w3m from the package of your distribution.

If you use Win, get cygwin from here, execute setup.exe and select w3m from the "Select Packages"

Add the path of w3m to the environment variable "PATH".

Add the evernote-mode configuration to .emacs.

(add-to-list 'load-path "<your load path>")
(require 'evernote-mode)
(setq evernote-username "<your evernote user name>") ; optional: you can use this username as default.
(setq evernote-enml-formatter-command '("w3m" "-dump" "-I" "UTF8" "-O" "UTF8")) ; option
(global-set-key "\C-cec" 'evernote-create-note)
(global-set-key "\C-ceo" 'evernote-open-note)
(global-set-key "\C-ces" 'evernote-search-notes)
(global-set-key "\C-ceS" 'evernote-do-saved-search)
(global-set-key "\C-cew" 'evernote-write-note)
(global-set-key "\C-cep" 'evernote-post-region)
(global-set-key "\C-ceb" 'evernote-browser)

If you don't set evernote-enml-formatter-command, the unformatted XHTML is displayed when reading the note of XHTML mode.

If you use cygwin for ruby, cygwin-mount.el (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/cygwin-mount.el) is also needed.  Get cygwin-mount.el and put it in your load path, and add the followings lines to your .emacs.

(require 'cygwin-mount)
(cygwin-mount-activate)

Proxy settings

If you want to use the proxy, set the value to the environment variable 'EN_PROXY' written as 'host:port' format. (ex. export EN_PROXY=proxy.hoge.com:8080)

8 Collaboration with Anything

evernote-mode offers the function for Anything(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Anything) to display the note candidates from the title.
You can add the evernote note titles to the source of candidates of Anything by adding the following configuration to your .emacs.

(add-to-list 'anything-sources anything-c-source-evernote-title)

You can also use 'anything-evernote-title' to choose the candidates only from the evernote notes.
The above features for Anything are available only when you login the evernote service
(after executing evernote-login or the first time you use the command evernote-xxx).

9 Troubleshooting

9.1 `require': no such file to load – gdbm

Some distributions do not have the GDBM library for ruby. Install libgdbm-ruby for using GDBM.

ex. for apt,

apt-get install libgdbm-ruby

In the case of ActiveScriptRuby or Ruby-mswin32

Retrieve gdbm.dll from Porting Libraries to Win32, then copy it to the folder where ruby.exe exists.

In the case of Mac OS X

The pre-installed ruby on Mac OS X does not contain GDBM bindings.
Re-install ruby and GDBM by MacPorts or Homebrew.

MacPorts:

$ sudo ports install ruby gdbm

Homebrew:

$ sudo brew install ruby gdbm

Also, specify evernote-ruby-command.

9.2 `require': no such file to load – net/https

Some distributions do not have the openssl library for ruby. Install libopenssl-ruby for using https.

ex. for apt,

apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

9.3 No such file or directory – enclient.rb (LoadError)

When multiple version of ruby are installed in the OS, the evernote-mode may use another ruby that has installed the evernote-mode (The ruby that has executed 'ruby setup.rb').
Specify the full path of ruby to the evernote-ruby-command, before load the evernote-mode.

e.g.

(setq evernote-ruby-command "/your/path/to/ruby")
(require 'evernote-mode)

 Author: Yusuke Kawakami
<Yusuke Kawakami>

 Date: 2011-06-24 06:49:56 JST

HTML generated by org-mode 6.33x in emacs 23

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Do Not Sell To People Outside The U.S.
First off, I just want to say I am merely writing to share my paypal horror story, and to warn people who might fall into the same trap that I did.
I used to sell items on ebay, and paypal was one of my accepted payments along side with bank checks. For two years I (April 2001-April 2003), I mostly just sent money to sellers when I mostly purchased on ebay, and never had any problems.
But in April 2003, I was still fairly new at selling on ebay, I got put into a (resolution status), restricting my activities in paypal until further notice.
I had sold a laptop computer to a gentlemean from Austrialia, and we agreed to ship it federal express and payment in full, but when he only sent me half the money, I balked shipment, and tried to refund him his $750, but he filed a complaint with paypal stating I tried to scam him. The date he filed the complaint was only 2 days after he sent me the $750. Mean I had a few other items that were in transit to other buyers,(all of them were provided tracking numbers), whom got emails from this austrailan guy to file complaints against me which they did, and thats when all the money I had in paypal which was about $5000 give or take $100, was frozen.
I tried repeatedly trying to reach paypal, and of course having trouble finding where they're number was. They gave some bs line that i had to prove that all the transactions were legit.
After I refunded all the customers, I sent sent paypal copies of the cancelled, for proof of payment. For several months I tried contacting them and got lots of resistance, so I gave up, but felt that i should at least put in my two cents worth.
Some where in May, paypal managed to garnish $500 from my friends checking account, claiming that $500 i sent him ( which was a gift and not a business transaction) they claimed that the $500, i sent to them was fraudulent. Which had absolutely nothing to do with ebay. So I've managed to pay them back. But the point is is that, paypal seems to have more power than the IRS, when your money is in they're hands. I just hope that enought complain to put them out of business or to shape up.


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Meretz's Reactions to ICC Ruling
Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision that the Court's territorial jurisdiction regarding the Situation in Palestine extends to the territories that have been occupied by Israel since 1967—in other words, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. While Israel is not a party to the ICC's founding "Rome Statute," Palestine has been since 2015, and the ICC has therefore been considering the question of jurisdiction in the Occupied Territories.
We share with you below reactions from senior Meretz party figures in the wake of this development.
Meretz party chair, MK Nitzan Horowitz:
"Stop with the hypocrisy. We destroy diplomacy with the Palestinians, incessantly create settlements and outposts, occupy another nation more than 50 years, and then yell 'antisemitic persecution' when someone from the outside intervenes. You want others not to intervene? Then we need to solve the problem, and that's in our hands. The path is the two-state solution, which will be good for both peoples."
Meretz faction chair, MK Tamar Zandberg:
The International Criminal Court decision is "a disturbing and painful reminder that even if we close our eyes real tight, the reality won't disappear. The Occupation isn't just a 'piece of shrapnel in the buttocks' [as rightwing leader Naftali Bennett once dismissively called it], and peace with [United Arab Emirates] is important, but not instead of peace with Palestine. PR 'Hasbara' won't help whitewash military rule over another people and the creation of Settlements—only a courageous initiative to end the Occupation and reach a diplomatic agreement [will help]."
Meretz MK Yair Golan:
"With regard to the [International Criminal] Court in The Hague: Our immediate obligation is to cooperate with it. Israel has nothing to hide, we're a country of laws, and condemning or ignoring the [ICC] will do more harm than good. Our longer-term need is to separate from the Palestinians, preferably by agreement. Not for the [rest of the] world, but for ourselves. Only separating will ensure security, reconciliation, and peace."
Meretz candidate and former MK Esawi Frej:
"The problem isn't the [International Criminal] Court in The Hague. The problem is that many here [in Israel] think that we can occupy and annex, and the world will remain silent."
Meretz candidate and former MK Mossi Raz:
The International Criminal Court "decided what should go without saying: The Occupied Territories belong to Palestine. Not to Israel."
Chair of the Meretz party Executive Committee, Uri Zaki:
"Netanyahu boasts that his greatest diplomatic achievement is pushing the Palestinian issue off the agenda. The decision by the [International Criminal] Court in The Hague is a painful reminder of the price that Israel will pay for maintaining a criminal policy of halting diplomacy and removing the two-state solution from the agenda in favor of the Settlements."
"The declarations by Netanyahu and the rightwing in favor of annexation are a danger to Israel. I greatly hope that no proceedings against Israelis are opened at the [International Criminal] Court. The claim all these years had been that the Territories are being held temporarily and therefore the [ICC] has no jurisdiction there. Netanyahu's declarations about annexation, on one hand, and the lack of negotiations for six years now, on the other, were some of the arguments that brought the [International Criminal] Court to declare that it does have jurisdiction."
By Dinesh Sharma| 2021-02-17T10:58:32-05:00 February 17th, 2021|Advocacy, Annexation, Israeli Left, Meretz, Palestinians, Policy Statements, Settlement Boycott, The Occupation|0 Comments


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IPL spot-fixing: Pak umpire Asad Rauf happy to face any probe
null | 26 July 2013 12:20 AM GMT
Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf who is allegedly linked to the spot-fixing scandal in the IPL, on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing saying he was ready to...
Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf who is allegedly linked to the spot-fixing scandal in the IPL, on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing saying he was ready to face any probe. The International Cricket Council (ICC) had suspendedA Rauf, who is part of elite-level international umpires, A from next month's Champions Trophy in England after media reports that he was under police investigation. "I vehemently deny allegations of match-fixing, spot-fixing, taking gifts (from bookmakers) and any illegal money," Rauf, 57, said in his first public statement after returning from India. "I am ready to face any inquiry if the ICC's anti-corruption unit wants to conduct any." Indian media alleged Rauf was in contact with Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh who has been arrested on charges of betting and acting as a middleman between bookies, players and officials. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) distanced itself from the controversy, saying Rauf was under ICC control and the event was held in India, but assured action would be taken against Rauf if the governing body ordered it. Rauf, also a former first-class cricketer, was included in the Elite Panel in 2006 and has so far stood in 48 Tests, 98 one-day internationals and 23 Twenty20 internationals. Rauf said he had never been interested in fixing or backhanders. "Fixing, illegal money and gifts have never been my topic, nor my target. These allegations have no truth and this is all," he said. Rauf clarified his pull-out from the Champions Trophy, saying he was only withdrawn from the tournament and not removed from the panel of top umpires approved to stand in Tests and one-day internationals. "I want to make it clear that the ICC has withdrawn me from the Trophy, they have not removed me," he said. "The ICC took the decision in the best interests of the game and for me, and I accept that." Rauf is the second Pakistani umpire to come under the scanner in fixing after another ex-international panel umpire was banned for four years in April following a sting operation by an Indian channel which showed him agreeing to fix matches.
Pakistan has a history of match-fixing controversies. Three of their players -- Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer -- were banned and jailed in a spot-fixing scandal in 2010. Former captain Salim Malik and paceman Ata-ur-Rehman were banned for life and six top players including Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and Saeed Anwar were fined in a match fixing inquiry in 2000.


Lisa Lisa (born Lisa Velez, January 15, 1966) and her band Cult Jam are an American urban contemporary band and one of the first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes. They were assembled and produced by Full Force.
Velez is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in New York City and attended Julia Richman High School in Manhattan, NY. According to Spin Magazine, she was born in 1967 in Hell's Kitchen, NYC as the youngest of 10 to a mother who supported the family by babysitting and an absentee father. She learned to speak Spanish at home and English in school. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam was formed after Velez auditioned with Full Force, a production team from East Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the age for 14. The group released their debut album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force in 1985. She was signed by Columbia Records and the label released their single "I Wonder If I Take You Home" to the European division of CBS Records for the compilation album Breakdancing. Stateside club DJs began playing the single from the import LP, and thus the U.S. division of CBS, Columbia Records, released the record. It quickly became a chart-topper on Billboard's Hot Dance/Disco chart. It then crossed over to the R&B chart where it peaked at #6, and then to the pop chart, peaking at #34 in summer 1985. The single eventually went gold.
Their second album, Spanish Fly, was a huge success in 1987. It spawned two #1 pop hits, "Head to Toe" and "Lost in Emotion", both of which went gold and both of which sported a retro Motown flavor mixed with the Freestyle sound they were known for. "Head to Toe" also parked at #1 R&B for two weeks and stayed in the pop top 5 nearly three months.
Lost In Emotion's video went on to become the 4th most played video of 1987 on MTV. Spanish Fly went platinum, peaking at #7 on the album chart. Other singles from the album were the ballad "Someone to Love Me for Me" b/w "Spanish Fly" (#7 R&B), "Everything Will B-Fine" (#9 R&B).
In between albums they recorded "Go For Yours," which was featured in the movie Caddyshack II and is found on its soundtrack exclusively.
Lisa Lisa released a solo album called LL77 in 1994, which included the moderate club hit "When I Fell In Love" (which was remixed by Junior Vasquez) and the notable single "Skip To My Lu", which hit #38 on the R&B chart. She resurfaced circa 2001 on the Nickelodeon series Taina, in which she played the title character's mother.
On June 24, 2008, Lisa Lisa presented an award at the BET Awards sparking interest that she may be plotting a comeback.
In 2009, Lisa Lisa released Life 'n Love, a full-length album of new material on Mass Appeal Entertainment featuring the single "Can't Wait" with guest rapper Pitbull. The album also features a cover version of the song "Stand" which was originally performed by Taylor Dayne on her 1998 album "Naked without You." The song "Que Locura" was also released as an iTunes single.
A Album credited to Lisa Lisa.
B Single credited to Lisa Lisa.