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EOS Global Hackathon Cape Town
December 7, 2018 Cape Town
Incubation Week & Demo Day:
Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt technology as we know it today. The Grand Finale was a culmination of the winners at each of the prior hackathons in the series for an intensive incubation week and demo day where #EOSHackathon finalists showcased their blockchain-based businesses, and competed for the grand prize of US$500,000.
Meet the Winner
Build on Change.
Build on EOSIO.
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Stay tuned for a recap video of the Grand Finale in Cape Town, South Africa.
Rob Jesudason
Block.one Group President
Rob is a member of Block.one's Board of Directors and is responsible for group global operations. Prior to joining Block.one, he worked at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), a global top-12 bank by market capitalization (A$125 billion) for six and a half years, most recently as its Chief Financial Officer. Before CBA, Jesudason worked at Credit Suisse as Head of Global Emerging Markets for its Financial Institutions Group. Earlier in his career, he held positions at JPMorgan, Barclays, GE Capital and McKinsey & Company.
Dan Larimer
Block.one CTO
Dan specializes in software creation and development and has founded several successful companies that focus on innovative technology, ranging from virtual reality simulators to unmanned vehicle control systems to several second-generation blockchain companies – most notably BitShares, Steemit, and Block.one. He is the inventor of the widely adopted Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) and Decentralized Autonomous Corporation (DAC) concepts. Dan has worked in blockchain since 2009 and is considered an industry pioneer. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science, and serves as a guest lecturer and curriculum advisor to the university.
Mark Levitt
Trixta CEO
Mark is a serial entrepreneur, and a four-time South African chess champion. He was CTO and co-founder of Gyft.com, which exited to First Data in 2014. In addition, he was also CEO and Founder of Chesscube.com, a leading chess site in 2007. Most recently, Mark became the CEO and co-founder of Trixta, which provides a software development suite of visual tools for organizations to work with blockchains. Mark is also an angel investor in multiple early stage startups.
Chris Folayan
Mall for Africa CEO and Founder
Chris is a well-established successful serial entrepreneur, board advisor, mentor, and speaker with over 25 years of C-level role experience in marketing, technology, startups, and corporate acquisitions. Born and raised in Nigeria, Chris founded his first venture at age 7 by recycling tires with a group of friends which he ran for 2.5 years prior to attending boarding school in Nigeria. He migrated to the U.S to attend college in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Coming from Nigeria, he was amazed by all that he saw around him in the technology boom era and by the growth of the internet. Chris decided to teach himself various programming, design and software languages which he used as a foundation to catapult himself into various high level advisory roles in Fortune 500 companies. By age 19, he was working on his first patent while pursuing a BA degree in marketing from San Jose State University. After graduating from college, he founded and sold several companies globally while establishing new companies in Africa, USA, Middle East and Asia. Before Chris founded his current venture, the award-winning Mall for Africa and Mall for the World platform, Chris was the Founder and CEO of OCFX Inc a multi-million dollar globally recognized Silicon Valley-based, award-winning software agency serving and consulting clients such as SONY, LSI, Cisco, HP, EPSON, TYCO, Accenture, CapitalOne, EMC, the US Government and many others in over 60 countries. Chris has a learn-as-you-grow, out-of-the-box thinking philosophy that drives strategy and business growth.
James Hedley
Quicket Founder and Director
James Hedley is a Founder and Director of Quicket, a fast and effective online ticketing service for events of every size. Within minutes anyone can create an event profile and start selling tickets though our secure online payment gateway. Quicket provides users with seamless Facebook and Twitter integration making it an incredibly powerful viral self marketing tool. Without any of the expensive administrative and advertising costs incurred by other ticketing services. Quicket is able to offer an industry beating commission of only 4.9%. This makes Quicket a truly unrivaled tool for marketing and selling tickets online in the South African market.
Nichole Yembra
Venture Garden Group (VGG) Chief Financial Officer
Nichole Yembra is the Chief Financial Officer at Venture Garden Group (VGG) and Managing Partner at GreenHouse Capital, the VGG investment arm. At VGG, she is responsible for investor relations and the financial strategy of the 7 technology companies under its umbrella as they serve public and private clients across the aviation, power, education, financial services, and social investment sectors.
Alan Cloete
Deutsche Bank Asia Former CEO
BCom (Hons), University of Cape Town. Chartered Accountant. Formerly with Lehman Brothers. Since 1997, with Deutsche Bank: former Co-Head, Structured Credit Trading, Credit Derivatives; former Head, Global Finance & Foreign Exchange (GFFX); GFFX encompasses all foreign exchange trading, debt financing, short-term interest rate trading, global exchange services and fixed income prime brokerage activities of Global Markets, leading the bank to a number 1 ranking in foreign exchange for each of the past seven years; since June 2012, Co-CEO, Asia-Pacific and Member of the Group Executive Committee.
Titi Adeoye
Sankore Investments Founder and CEO
Titi Odunfa Adeoye is the Founder and CEO of Sankore, a diversified investment platform with a wide array of investment products and services. Sankore also runs an innovation arm that builds and invests in early stage ventures with a focus on investech, artificial intelligence and market infrastructure.
Prior to founding Sankore Investments, Titi was Head of Investment Strategy at Zenith Capital where she led teams responsible for investment management, research, and new product development. At Goldman Sachs in New York, Titi worked as a member of a team responsible for investment strategy, tactical asset allocation and portfolio advisory services for private funds. In this capacity, she developed investment strategy and capital allocation expertise across a range of geographies and asset classes. Her previous experience also includes business strategy, restructuring, consulting, accounting and auditing with KPMG Consulting and Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Washington DC.
She holds a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting (summa cum laude) from Howard University.
Ciaran MacDevette
Invictus Capital VP of Analytics
Ciaran is the VP of Analytics at Invictus Capital. He leads the team responsible for managing the investments of the Hyperion Fund, a tokenized venture capital fund owned by more than 4000 blockchain community members. Prior to joining Invictus Capital, he worked in advanced analytics for Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and quantitative finance for AXA (Euronext: CS). He served as an Officer in the South African Navy, and holds Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Atmosphere Science, with a Masters in Mathematical Finance.
Clive Butkow
Kalon Venture Partners CEO
Clive is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Accenture South Africa, he has 28 years management consulting experience. During his tenure at Accenture (formally Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting), he played numerous leadership roles, including Managing
Director of Accenture's Technology business as well as Managing Director of Accenture's Resources business. Since being promoted to partner in 1997, Clive led sales for various
divisions including SAP, Resources and Accenture's Technology business, cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset which helped grow Accenture into one of the top emerging
markets globally.
Clive is currently the CEO of Kalon Venture Partners, a disruptive digital technology Venture Capital Fund (VCC). He sits on various boards of the VCC's underlying companies including chairman on one of the companies. He also sits on the board of a large privately held ICT company.
Clive joined Arthur Anderson in 1985 (now Accenture) after graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Sc degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
James van Zyl
Stackr Head of Finance
James has a decade's worth of experience as a chartered accountant, previously serving as a Director and working as Head of Finance for Sanlam Global Investment Solutions for just over 4 years where he was responsible for directing, planning, controlling and coordinating the overall financial activities of the company.
Prior to joining Sanlam, James worked as an Operational Financial Manager in the mining industry where he was responsible for implementing operational reporting and other such tasks.
He is a CA(SA) and holds the CFP® designation. He completed BAcc and BAcc (Hons) degrees at Stellenbosch University.
Tricia Martinez
Wala Founder and CEO
Tricia is a serial entrepreneur and behavioral economist who has devoted her life to solving problems for underserved consumers around the world. Her experience ranges from cash transfer solutions in Africa to small business microfinance, to the development of an investment fund for underserved markets. Prior to Wala, Tricia built a cash transfer technology that provided universal income to subsistence farmers in Uganda and tracked the investment and financial well-being of its recipients. While spending her career in the financial inclusion space working directly with consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Tricia has been exposed to the deeply rooted complexities and barriers in the financial systems. With her background in behavioral economics, Tricia decided to take a different approach and began testing incentives models as a means to influence financial behavior. From there, Wala was born. Tricia completed her Masters of Public Policy with a concentration in Behavioral Economics from the University of Chicago.
Meet the Winning Team
GeneOS
Congratulations to the winners: Albert Chen, Benjamin Tse, Jens Elstner, and Jay Bowles. Their company, GeneOS is powering genetics research through blockchain-enabled assets that represent genome data.
See their winning pitch along with the other teams at the Finale in our EOS Global Hackathon Series Grand Finale Pitches Playlist on YouTube.
Grand Finale Demo Day Pitches
Watch GeneOS's winning pitch along with all the other teams at the EOS Global Hackathon Series Grand Finale in Cape Town.


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CHOIR ON THE GREEN
I work with young artists to help them feel inspired, supported and empowered to achieve their ambitions. I work closely with them and their families to understand what they want in future and what makes them happy and motivated each day. Here are some amazing artists I've been working with...
Aaronfloydmusic.com
Jess Folley
Liberty Grant
ARTIST MANAGEMENT & MENTORING
AARON FLOYD
Aaron began as my piano and songwriting student. He was going through a difficult time during the divorce of his parents so I encouraged him to put his emotions into his music. His creativity and ability to communicate emotion through music was incredible. Especially for someone of his age. He was a pleasure to work with, his parents were supportive and he wanted a career in music, so I agreed to manage him. I made him a website and social media pages, linked them all together and filmed some content to get him started. Then chased gigs for him. I'm grateful to Richard at my local venue: The Drawingroom, for giving him a shot as an unknown 13 year old. After his performance there, other shows and small festivals followed. I found other young artists for him to duet with in the studio, filmed the performances and uploaded them to Facebook. These went viral with hundreds of thousands of hits on each video. I was then able to chase him support tours. I approached Britain's Got Talent runners up Bars & Melody who had the right demographic of fans and they kindly agreed to have Aaron as their opener. I guided him through the tour, coaching him on his stage performance, radio interviews and his interaction with fans and the crew. His success was incredible. Next I booked him on a tour around Europe with German pop star Lukas Rieger which was another massive success. He was now performing to crowds of over 1000 screaming fans per night. Numerous fan pages began appearing online. He was featured in the Daily Express who described him as the UK's answer to Justin Bieber and now Aaron was in a position where music industry were approaching us to work with him.
Most importantly for me, Aaron was coming out of a very troubled period in his life and starting to find happiness and positivity. We wrote the song in the video above together. It's about Learning from mistakes and adversity. Where Aaron goes next is up to him. He's currently starting his GCSE year, so music is on a temporary break. However, I've encouraged him to keep working on his musicianship and writing and to keep focusing on positive steps in his personal life too. I believe he can become a brilliant artist and an inspirational for young people looking to turn their lives around after troubled times. If any of his fans are reading this, thank you for everything. You guys have been absolutely incredible and Aaron is so grateful to you, every day.
If you'd like to learn more about Aaron, visit his website:
Jess Folley is the winner of The Voice Kids UK 2017. Out of thousands of talented young singers, Jess shone and won the entire series in front of millions of viewers, with a brilliant performance of Beyonce's Love On Top. Her success so far is the result of years of dedication, regular gigging and performing from a young age under the tutelage of brilliant teachers including Charlotte Logan. I work with Jess on her piano playing and songwriting and am mentoring her as she moves forward with her music career, helping her find the right gigs and opportunities to transition from a talent show winner, to a great recording artist. She's a pleasure to work with and her attitude is always lovely and upbeat. Most importantly she loves what she does. My biggest aim is to help her keep finding opportunities to have a brilliant, fun an exciting life in music.
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EXIM Matters: Funding technology transfer for vax better than IPR waiver
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News on Royalty payment brings cheer in new year
Kumkum Sen | New Delhi Last Updated at January 21, 2013 01:24 IST
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2000-09: The game changers
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Contrary to my pessimistic mood at the year end, 2010 has been ushered in with good cheer by the announcement that all royalty payments-sectors, quantum, caps notwithstanding, will henceforth be covered by the automatic route, subject to the FEMA Current Account Transaction Rules, 2000.
Post-1991, while FDI norms were generously liberalised, the royalty reforms took time. Historically, in the emotional aftermath of Indian Independence, spearheaded by the Swadeshi approach, the Indian Government's Policy towards foreign technology collaboration was expectedly cautious, but not discriminatory. It was the populist wave of the late sixties which espoused MRTPA, 1969 and FERA, 1973 severely restricting foreign collaborations, whether in equity, expansion or technology transfer. And for years India was caught in a time warp of poor quality utilities, non-functional telephones, withdrawal of foreign business – notably IBM and Coca-Cola. The Patent Act 1970 was conducive to methods such as reverse engineering and incremental adaptation leading to inefficient and unrealistic self reliance. This complacence was radically altered by the historical New Industrial Policy in 1991.
Technology transfer in the present economic environment has evolved far beyond the licensing arrangements of the pre-libera- lisation era, subjected as it was to equity restrictions, industrial licensing and exchange control limitations. While basic structures used are turnkey arrangements such as supply of technical know-how, design and engineering services, the availability of the automatic routes for payments, the flexibility of combining with equity or other forms of value addition such as import capital goods, manpower deployment led to a boom.
Technology transfers are broadly categorised into two broad categories – internalised and externalised transfers.
An internalised transfer accompanies FDI equity, whereby the foreign investor usually has a controlling share in the Indian company, and the relationship is governed by issues such as viable extraction of potential and transaction costs. Internalised transfers are more common in technologies which are fast changing, such as information and communication technology, whereas externalised modes are used in case of standard long-term technologies, and take place between unrelated legal entities.
In either mode, in the Indian context, technology transfer has been given the widest connotation possible to extend to every form of know-how and application, to include designs, brands, commercial information, professional and managerial knowledge. Technology is not just value addition to production process; it can be used for improving marketing and management systems. Contrary to popular belief, there is no boiler plate Technology Transfer Agreement (TTA). Since the document structure is based on the purpose and utilisation of the technology and the benefits to the players each document has to be customised. TTAs may range from assignment, usually of IP rights, licence contracts, know-how contracts, mainly of tangibles, franchise agreements for marketing / retail, consultancy arrangements, technical assistance, or a comprehensive package deal. While the scope transformed, financial returns continued to remain strictly regulated.
Pre-1991, technology fees were subjected to Government of India as well as RBI approval. Royalty payments were permitted through the automatic route only in the early nineties, but was capped to $2 million for a lump sum amount or at 5 per cent on domestic sales and 8 per cent on exports. Any payments over and above the extant limits required approval of the Project Advisory Board (PAB). There was a time that lump sum fees could be released in three specific tranches linked to signing, production commencement, and completion. Other sectors, notably the hotel industry had caps which were linked to turnover on room and services.
While, the percentage criteria had the flexibility of enhancement, at least incrementally, the $2 million cap is just out of sync Informal enquiries within the Ministry indicated this was a legacy of the times when India faced balance of payment problems, and was overlooked, while other foreign exchange regulations were liberalized, even though India's forex reserves have burgeoned. Anyone who has had to file the Form FC / IL (SIA) will agree that it was a piece of obsolence trying to work as a cap that fits all, apart from being convoluted and user friendly. The felling of this dead wood will not have any mourners.
Kumkum Sen is a Partner at Rajinder Narain & Co., and can be reached at kumkumsen@rnclegal.com
First Published: Mon, January 04 2010. 00:22 IST


The American shad is the largest member of the herring family and ranges on the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to the St. John's River in Florida. Shad spend three to six years in the ocean and then return to freshwater in the spring to spawn. Adults usually weigh from four to eight pounds, but the New Jersey State and International Game Fish Association's eight-pound test line record is 11lb. 1oz. Known for their strength and fighting ability, shad are often the first fish species anglers pursue as the water warms in the spring.
American shad fishing is almost synonomous with the Delaware River in New Jersey. Angling for shad on the Delaware usually begins around the end of March near the warmwater effluent of a power plant in Trenton. As the water warms to 50° F, and the population migrates upstream, shad will be caught all the way up river to the New York state line and beyond through the end of May and into June.
In June, 2017, American Shad were documented in the Musconetcong River in Hunterdon and Warren counties after an absence of at least a century. The return was made possible by the removal of dams on the lower Musconetcong River several years ago, followed by the removal of the Hughesville Dam in Warren County last year. The dam removals were made possible by a partnership of state, federal, nonprofit and private entities and opened nearly six miles of the Musconetcong to migratory fish, such as shad, eels and striped bass. For more information, see the June 15, 2017 DEP news release and biologist Pat Hamilton's article, Restoring Free-Flowing Rivers (pdf, 585kb) from the 2017 NJ Freshwater Fishing Digest.
Productive boat and shoreline fishing spots, moving from down to upriver, include the Yardley/Scudders Falls area, Lambertville, Bulls Island Recreation Area, Byram, Phillipsburg/Easton, and finally within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Early morning and dusk are the most productive times. Helpful Web sites for shad fishing include the Delaware River Boat Access Sites, the Delaware River Shad Reports, and Woo's Shad Fishing Report.
American shad are caught with shad darts, flutter spoons and flies. From shore, cast a lure slightly upstream and retrieved as it bounces along or near the bottom. From an anchored boat, a lure should be "dead sticked" out of the stern with added weights or on down-riggers. Trolling can also be effective. The main channel is productive when the Delaware River is at normal or below normal levels.
When the river is above normal, angling is best near the shoreline. Extremely high river flows may stop the migration and the shad will hold in calmer water behind in-river structures. The subsiding flow will often trigger this holding school of shad to migrate, en masse, upstream. American shad must see the lure. Therefore, muddy or debris filled water make for poor fishing conditions. To reduce hooking mortality, American shad that are to be released should be retrieved as quickly as possible, guided into a rubberized net (shad are easily de-scaled) and released, having never been removed from the water.
Other helpful Web pages include the divisions's List of Guides, Delaware River Fishing Reports and the Delaware River Shad Fisherman's Association.


Knack Media is developing a new directory for pet friendly drug rehabs. The company has recently agreed to help substance abuse treatment centers come up with rehab marketing ideas for their centers.
Internet marketing and media firm Knack Media begins a website that offers a simple way for those suffering with addiction to locate a pet friendly rehab. Whether patients are looking for a rehab that allows dogs or cats, the new directory will list these pet friendly rehabs. Entering into a drug or alcohol rehab is not an easy task, and those with pets find it even harder. Knack Media is building this directory to make the search easier because it will list whether a rehab accepts dogs, cats, both or other pets.
Animal therapy refers to the use of specially-trained dogs or other animals to connect with individuals struggling with particular illnesses or health issue, such as cancer, PTSD, heart issues, and now, even addiction.
In 2009, a research study entitled Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals was released collectively by Mississippi State University and Lindsey Wilson College. The function of the study was to assess how animal-assisted treatment might help individuals struggling with drug addiction or alcoholism.
The researchers reached the conclusion that this method can have a favorable effect on substance abuse treatment because it reinforces the restorative bond in between the patient and the therapist.
Animal or pet therapy treatment is more than just utilizing animals to enhance the moods of patients in hospital-type settings, although the animals can and do serve in that intrinsically-valuable capacity. The pets are thoroughly trained to communicate with the patient during treatment sessions.
It was found that study participants interacting with a treatment canine had a more beneficial viewpoint of the patient-therapist relationship than those participants who did not connect with a pet dog.
As discussed above, another favorable effect is a strengthening of the patient's self-confidence. Alcoholics and addicts typically experience an unfavorable self-image. The unconditional love that they get from their pet greatly enhances the patient's self-confidence and can minimize stress throughout detox and treatment.
Stress and addiction impact the brain in similar ways, so battling one generally indicates battling the other. The stresses of life can set off yearnings or a relapse, so it's essential to keep calm. Getting close to an animal is a terrific method to fight tension.
A recent study discovered that over half of all dog owners were more relaxed after hanging out with their pet. Forty-four percent that same number who reported worrying and focusing less about their issues stated they felt more favorable about life.
Knack Media provides a full range of services to cover all types of marketing including drug treatment lenders for financing for rehabs. The team of professionals has a streamlined approach to rehab marketing ideas and utilizes the best drug rehab marketing ideas to achieve success for their clients. For a full breakdown of the company's services, or information about couples drug rehabs that allow pets, or other internet marketing services please call.


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Q: Python: how set value of subclassed int with __setitem__ I'am struggling with the implementation of setitem on a subclassed int class.
I want to perform operations on bit slices of that int (limited to 32bit).
I know there is a 'BitVector' class available but this doesn't work as one would expect.
For example:
from BitVector import BitVector
foo = BitVector(intVal = 0x87654321)
print(f'[0:3] expected value = 0x1 returned value = {hex(int(foo[0:3]))}')
print(f'[4:7] expected value = 0x2 returned value = {hex(int(foo[4:7]))}')
print(f'[24:31] expected value = 0x87 returned value = {hex(int(foo[24:31]))}')

Output is:
[0:3] expected value = 0x1 returned value = 0x4
[4:7] expected value = 0x2 returned value = 0x3
[24:31] expected value = 0x87 returned value = 0x10

The problem with BitVector is that the bit order is reversed (LSB is left, MSB is right) and also the end bit is not included in the slice ([0:3] returns three bits instead of four bits).
So I decided to create my own class for that kind of operations.
(I reversed the order of start and end so that I would write [3:0] instead of [0:3] which is the more common notation)
The getitem works as expected but I can't set the new value using setitem.
class bitfield(int):
def __str__(self):
    return "%d" % int(self)

def __repr__(self):
    return "bitfield(%d)" % int(self)

def __getitem__(self, sliceobj):
    if not isinstance( sliceobj, slice ): return (self&(1<<sliceobj))>>sliceobj
    if(sliceobj.start < sliceobj.stop): raise ValueError( "slice error: start must be >= end" )
    if(sliceobj.start > 31): raise ValueError( "slice error: start > 31" )
    if(sliceobj.stop   > 31): raise ValueError( "slice error: end > 31" )
    start = sliceobj.start
    stop   = sliceobj.stop
    mask = (1<<((start+1) - stop))-1
    val = self & ( mask << stop)
    val = val>>stop
    return val
def __new__(cls, value):
    return int.__new__(bitfield, value)
def __setitem__(self, sliceobj, item):
    self.__int__ = 0x1234
    self = 0x1234
    #self.__int__ = int.__new__(bitfield, 0x1234)
    self = int.__new__(bitfield, 0x1234)
    self = self.__new__(bitfield, 0x1234)

# test __getitem__
a = bitfield(0xB2)
print(f'       {bin(a)}'     )
print(f'[0]    {bin(a[0  ])}')
print(f'[1]    {bin(a[1  ])}')
print(f'[1:0]  {bin(a[1:0])}')
print(f'[4:0]  {bin(a[4:0])}')
print(f'[7:1]  {bin(a[7:1])}')
print(f'[8:0]  {bin(a[8:0])}')
a = bitfield(0xbefa55aa)
print(f'       {hex(a)}'       )
print(f'[7:0]  {hex(a[ 7:0] )}')
print(f'[15:8] {hex(a[15:8] )}')
print(f'[23:16]{hex(a[23:16])}')
print(f'[31:24]{hex(a[31:24])}')

# test __setitem__
a = bitfield(0)
a[1] = 1
print(hex(a))

Output is:
       0b10110010
[0]    0b0
[1]    0b1
[1:0]  0b10
[4:0]  0b10010
[7:1]  0b1011001
[8:0]  0b10110010
       0xbefa55aa
[7:0]  0xaa
[15:8] 0x55
[23:16]0xfa
[31:24]0xbe
       0b0   <-- expected 0x1234 !!!

Can some give me a hint how to set a new value?

A:
Can some give me a hint how to set a new value?

Don't inherit from int. Integers are immutable, you can't update their value in-place.

The problem with BitVector is that the bit order is reversed (LSB is left, MSB is right) and also the end bit is not included in the slice ([0:3] returns three bits instead of four bits).

So what you're saying is that bitvector behaves like a sequence of bits? instead of behaving like essentially nothing else in the language?

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2006 Advancing Trails Awards
Trail Worker Award
This award recognizes an individual that has made outstanding contributions and provided consistent support for trail planning, development, or maintenance. It is intended to recognize the efforts of a private or public sector individual working for enhanced trail recreation on either the local, state, or national level.
Kentucky: James Stapleton
As a member of the Elkhorn City Area Heritage Council, James was the key organizer for the IMBA Trail Care Crew visit, held March 16-19, 2006.
James coordinated with new partners (mountain bikers) and old friends (kayakers) to develop and work the project.
James is an aquatic biologist in his working world, and cares deeply about his environment. He knows his mountains like the back of his hand, and is dedicated to helping to protect them. He understands that one way to do this is to create, maintain, and promote trails so that people can access the region and share his love for it.


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Report via Houston Chronicle - In a summer of stunners that had rocked the NBA, the Rockets on Thursday pulled off what could be the largest of them all, trading for 2017 NBA MVP Russell Westbrook to reunite him in a dramatically transformed backcourt with James Harden, two individuals with knowledge of the deal said.
The Rockets will send Chris Paul to the Oklahoma City Thunder along with two first-round picks and the right to swap picks in two additional drafts. ESPN initially reported the trade.
Westbrook and Harden had strongly favored the move and a chance to play in a backcourt together, as they did for Harden's first three seasons together, a person with knowledge of their thinking had said.
Westbrook had met with the Thunder front office this week to say he would welcome a trade following the Paul George departure to the Clippers, but an individual with knowledge of the talks said he had initially broached the subject after the OKC season ended with a first-round loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.
Paul will return to Oklahoma City, where he played after Hurricane Katrina forced the New Orleans Hornets to play during Paul's first two NBA seasons.


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Q: Uncaught TypeError: exists is not a function when attempting to use serial port in TypeScript I want to use the serial port in my Ionic 2  project. I use Cordova BLE for iOS and Android but Cordova BLE does not support Windows 10. First I used npm install serialport in node-module. That's fine. When I use .js file and nodejs to work I can get data in the serial port via ex. 'COM3'. Below is my JavaScript code:
SerialPort =require("serialport")

var socketServer;
var serialPort;
var portName = 'COM3';
var sendData = "";

function startServer() {

serialListener();
}

function serialListener() {

var receivedData = "";

serialPort = new SerialPort(portName, {
    baudrate: 9600,
    dataBits: 8,
    parity: 'none',
    stopBits: 1,
    flowControl: false
});

serialPort.on("open", function () {

    console.log('open serial communication');

    // Listens to incoming data
    serialPort.on('data', function (data) {

        receivedData += data.toString();

        if (receivedData.indexOf('E') >= 0 && receivedData.indexOf('B') >= 0) {

            sendData = receivedData.substring(receivedData.indexOf('B') + 1,  receivedData.indexOf('E'));

            receivedData = '';
        }

        // send the incoming data to browser with websockets.
        //socketServer.emit('update', sendData);

        console.log(sendData);
    });
 });
  }
  exports.start = startServer;

When I run in nodejs as like node index.js Every think is OK. I easily get serial port data.
But now I can not use this method in TypeScript. My .ts code is below.
   import { Component, Injectable} from '@angular/core';

   declare function require(name: string);

   var SerialPort=require('serialport');

 @Injectable()
 export class ServicePort {

public socketServer: any;
public serialPort: any;
public portName: any = 'COM3';
public sendData: any = "";

public constructor() {

    console.log("Geldi");

    console.log(SerialPort);
    //this.serialListener();
}

serialListener() {

    var receivedData = "";

    this.serialPort = new SerialPort(this.portName, {
        baudrate: 9600,
        dataBits: 8,
        parity: 'none',
        stopBits: 1,
        flowControl: false
    });

    this.serialPort.on("open", () => {

        console.log('open serial communication');

        this.serialPort.on('data', (data)=> {

            receivedData += data.toString();

            if (receivedData.indexOf('E') >= 0 && receivedData.indexOf('B') >= 0) {

                this.sendData = receivedData.substring(receivedData.indexOf('B') + 1, receivedData.indexOf('E'));

                receivedData = '';
            }

            // send the incoming data to browser with websockets.
            //socketServer.emit('update', sendData);

            console.log(this.sendData);
        });
    });
}
}

I call above .ts like this:
import { Component} from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, Platform} from 'ionic-angular';
import {ServicePort} from '../serialport/servicePort';

 @Component({
   selector: 'page-home',
   templateUrl: 'home.html',
   providers: [ServicePort]
 })
export class HomePage {

  constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, private platform: Platform,         private portservice: ServicePort) {

    this.portservice.serialListener();
  }
 }

I get this error:
Uncaught TypeError: exists is not a function
at Function.getRoot (main.js:99030)
at bindings (main.js:98926)
at Object.<anonymous> (main.js:111823)
at Object.<anonymous> (main.js:111856)
at __webpack_require__ (main.js:20)
at Object.<anonymous> (main.js:112063)
at Object.<anonymous> (main.js:112527)
at __webpack_require__ (main.js:20)
at Object.<anonymous> (main.js:113162)
at __webpack_require__ (main.js:20)

Can I use JavaScript function in my TypeScript for my Ionic 2 project or can I use the serial port in TypeScript?

A: To use a javascript module in typescript you need to have a declarations file of the module. Check github of definitelyTyped.
Serialport types is available:npm link
Just do:
npm install --save-dev @types/serialport

Also ensure your tsconfig.json has:
"typeRoots": [
  "node_modules/@types"
]

To import:
import * as SerialPort from 'serialport';


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XIXA — Bloodlin (2016)
XIXA — Bloodlin (Feb 26, 2016)
♦≥♦≥♦
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Genre: Rock, Indie, World
Album release: Feb 26, 2016
Record Label: Barbès Records / Bloodlin
01 Bloodline 3:22
02 Vampiro 3:14
03 Killer 4:13
04 World Goes Away 4:02
05 Down from the Sky 5:26
06 Pressures of Mankind 6:17
07 Golden Apparition 4:38
08 Dead Man 4:44
09 Nena Linda 4:01
10. Living on the Line 16:08
℗ 2016 Barbès Records
♦≥♦ The desert has a frequency, a sound you can hear in the wilds around. XIXA tunes in and warps it, in glittering, gritty psychedelic cumbia tracks on their debut album, Bloodline, an expansion on their recent EP Shift and Shadow.
♦≥♦ The band hails from the Tucson indie rock scene–core members Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan are also part of Giant Sand and play with the likes of William Sedlmayr, Calexico and KT Tunstall. XIXA wanders far and wide, into the psychedelia of Amazon backwaters, the bumping grind of chicha, quirky electronics and West African desert blues (Imarhan's and Tamashek rock legend Tinariwen's Sadam Iyad Imarhan collaborated with XIXA to write "World Goes Away".)
♦≥♦ At turns rough and raw, scintillating and ethereal, the band evokes the stark magic and eeriness of the desert, in tracks that sound effortless, despite disparate source materials. Bloodline is a departure from XIXA's first incarnation, as a chicha cover band inspired by vintage Peruvian tracks from the 70s featured on The Roots of Chicha, a compilation. The music came naturally to Lopez and Sullivan, Tucson natives with bloodlines reaching south.
♦≥♦ "All the Latin beats and rhythms are in your brain your whole life, so they make a lot of sense when you start playing them," reflects Brian. "Latin music is part of Tucson's sonic landscape." Only forty miles from the border, the city's laidback vibe and Mexican communities nurture everything from strong singer–songwriter and hardcore scenes to great cumbia bands playing at out–of–the–way Mexican steak houses on the south side of town. Latin music is everywhere.
♦≥♦ Yet it's about more than where the musicians are from. It's about the reinvention of a fragmented but powerful sense of heritage. Part of a wave of 2nd and 3rdgeneration Latin music experimenters, XIXA digs into various iterations of vintage Latin sounds to forge a new identity, one that is entirely domestic. It's more about artistic affinity than blood–and–guts roots.
♦≥♦ "Until you dive into Latin music, you don't know if you have a strong sensibility for it," Brian continues. "I grew up speaking English, but went to bilingual dances and so on, your typical second or third–generation Latino family. My grandparents didn't want my parents to speak Spanish, or to be Latino."
♦≥♦ Fascinated with the music, they learned to musically speak chicha fluently, gathering musicians from the Tucson scene to form Chicha Dust, eventually growing to a sextet. "Winston played for Alice Cooper and Bob Dylan in the 90s. Efren ONLY knows Latin music, and didn't know Led Zeppelin," notes Brian. "You put them together," that core combination of hard rock drums and Efren's timbales, "and it's XIXA."
♦≥♦ Without trying too hard, they began to write originals, somehow getting six players featuring also Jason Urman on the Keys and Geoff Hildago on bass on the same creative page with remarkably little stress. "We've never had moments when we weren't sure what to do with our sound," Gabriel explains.
♦≥♦ That confidence busts out of guitar–driven songs like "Golden Apparition," the most chicha–inflected track, or the dark, growling cumbia of "Nena Linda." The band explores dreamy atmospherics ("Dead Man") and wigged–out modal rock ("Down from the Sky").
♦≥♦ The peculiar aesthetics of the desert permeates the entire album, including its visual elements, created by Tucson–based artist Daniel Martin Diaz. "When we started working on the album, Daniel was the only person I felt I could trust with the artwork, and by trust, I mean it would be an extreme honor to have him create our image," recalls Sullivan. "The first concepts he sent us were absolutely stunning and were exactly the direction I had hoped for. The aesthetic of this band, I believe, plays an equal role to the music and creates more than just a band, but an entity that presents concepts and landscapes while allowing listeners to find reflection as well."
♦≥♦ "When one lives in the desert for so many years you begin to have a dialog within the artistic community. We are all searching for a common mystery that lurks out here," remarks Diaz.
♦≥♦ "In our work together with XIXA, we were going for a Desert Noir vibe. The shadowy figure in the pictures is based on a sketch of a character I was thinking about after a conversation Gabriel and I had about sleep paralysis. It's also reminiscent of 'La Llorona,' the weeping ghost of the southwest."
♦≥♦ XIXA hones in on new sounds in very old places, regardless of bloodline.
♦≥♦ Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan are two of the most recognizable musicians from Tucson. Both are members of Howe Gelb's mythical band Giant Sand and between them, they have collaborated with an wide variety of artists – from Calexico to KT Tunstall – as arrangers, producers, writers and sidemen.
♦≥♦ Four years ago, they discovered Peruvian Chicha and as Chicha Dust, started exploring the tropical universe of psychedelic cumbia. After a few years spent playing Chicha classics, Gabe and Brian started writing their own songs, mixing their experience as alternative musicians and their passion for psychedelic tropicalia. The result is a sort of Desert rock with a Latin heart and a marked taste for hallucinogenic experimentation.
♦≥♦ Their first EP, Shift and Shadow, came out this past fall, and helped them reach a new audience that seemed to equally appreciate their cumbias and their the Meat Puppet tribute.
♦≥♦ Their debut album, Bloodline (out 2/26) evokes the baroque magic of the desert and a certain Mexican mysticism, but never lets go of its taste for the kind of Latin parties where cumbia and melodrama both have a place. The sound can be raw, but the compositions remain sophisticated with an obvious sense of nostalgia for the analog productions of the 1970's
♦≥♦ Bloodline, genealogy if you will, holds an important place in the band's personal mythology. ""I grew up speaking English" says Brian Lopez, but went to bilingual dances, was part of a folkloric group, your typical second or third–generation Latino family. My grandparents didn't want my parents to speak Spanish, or to be Latino."
♦≥♦ Chicha is what led Brian and his bandmates to renew with a certain Latin tradition, and link it back to the rock and roll with which they grew up. "Winston played for Alice Cooper in the 90s. Efren ONLY knows Latin music, and didn't know Led Zeppelin," notes Brian. "You put them together," that core combination of hard rock drums and Efren's timbales, "and it's XIXA."
♦≥♦ This symbolic bloodline allowed the band to re-invent an American identity anchored in the Arizona desert — a place where Navajos, Mexicans and European have more or less successfully cohabitated for a few centuries. The mythology of the Southwest owe a lot to its multiple roots and is at the heart of the music of XIXA. It can be found in the western inflected–guitars that owe as much to Ennio Morricone as they do Latin guitar heroes. It can be found in their collaboration with a musician from another desert — Sadam Ivad, guitarist for Tinariwen and Imarhan who co–wrote and recorded the song "World Goes Away".
♦≥♦ This mythology can also be found Daniel Martin Diaz' esthetic. The celebrated Tucson artist responsible for all the visual aspects for the group — from the cover to the videos. Daniel calls his style, "Desert Noir"
♦≥♦ Bloodline can be viewed as part of a new trend in American music where artists find inspiration as much in their own bloodlines as they do in an invented genealogy. Second and third generation Latinos seem particularly fascinated by South American roots, but their fascination and the artistic process they lead to are not fundamentally different from that of a Beirut or a Vampire Weekend. Whether it be Chicha, Balkan or African music, these are artists are devising new identities, borrowing outside references.
♦≥♦ Bloodline is a seminal album. A founding myth. The beginning of a long lineage.
Website: http://xixa.rockpaperscissors.biz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xixamusic
Label: http://barbesrecords.com/
♦≥♦ "Every time we'd play a chicha song, it would steal the show," exclaims Gabriel Sullivan of Tucson's XIXA. He and fellow XIXA member Brian Lopez were touring Europe with Giant Sand, Howe Gelb's pioneering Americana group. On the road, they started experimenting with chicha, the guitar driven, psychedelic cumbias born in the Peruvian Amazon, after obsessing over cult compilation The Roots of Chicha, released by Barbès Records ten years ago.
♦≥♦ "People would mob us after the show, wanting to know the name of that one song. It was always the chicha cover," "Cariñito," an emblematic chicha song that Gelb ended up recording for one of his albums. They took the hint and started their own chicha cover band, pounding hours–long sets. Before they knew it, they were writing originals in the same vein, finding where north and south, rock and Afro–Latin rhythms ran together.
♦≥♦ Shift and Shadow, the band's debut EP (Barbès Records; release: November 13, 2015) shows this easy alchemy, blurring rock, punk, synth–pop, Afro–Latin rhythms, and Amazonian riffs in a north–south feedback loop. "It's weird. It's effortless," states Brian. "I don't know if it's our backgrounds, with just enough Latin, just enough rock. Alchemy makes it meld. We never sat down in a room and said, 'We need to sound like this.' It's not contrived. When we started playing chicha covers, we learned songs inside and out, and at some point that filters into your original music."
♦≥♦ Brian was in spitting distance of indie stardom with his band Mostly Bears. Gabriel hit the road with metal and punk bands in his mid-teens, but over the years he found himself fascinated with everything from Howling Wolf and Townes Van Zandt — "They made the most punk music imaginable" — to Prado Perez Perez Prado and Balkan brass music(Gabriel founded his own Balkanesque band, Taraf de Tucson). They both worked with Giant Sand and Calexico, when not pursuing their own solo songwriting. And they both moonlighted with Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, falling hard for cumbia and mambo. Then they discovered chicha, and when they saw how fans clicked with the covers, they decided to launch a band that did nothing but.
♦≥♦ It felt like a peculiar homecoming. Both Gabriel and Brian, like many young artists in Tucson, are second– or third–generation Latino. Though they never went in search of this identity, it found them in chicha. They felt how that music, those rhythms had always been there.
♦≥♦ "All these beats and rhythms are in your brain your whole life, so they make a lot of sense when you start playing them," reflects Brian. "Latin music is part of Tucson's sonic landscape." Only forty miles from the border, the city's laidback vibe and Mexican communities nurture everything from strong singer-songwriter and hardcore scenes to great cumbia bands playing at out–of–the–way Mexican steak houses on the south side of town. Latin music is everywhere.
♦≥♦ They learned to speak chicha fluently, gathering musicians from the Tucson scene to form Chicha Dust, eventually growing to a sextet. "Winston played for Alice Cooper in the 90s. Efren ONLY knows Latin music, and didn't know Led Zeppelin," notes Brian. "You put them together," that core combination of hard rock drums and Efren's timbales, "and it's XIXA."
♦≥♦ The effort comes in the studio, a recording space the band members built themselves. They will play with a track until it sounds right. "We come from that indie rock DIY mentality. You sleep in your van. You steal food from big box stores because you're broke. You scrape together the money to record in a couple of hours," says Brian. "We've come so far, and we realized we could build a studio, record our own songs, and not be satisfied with just anything. We could rearrange our songs until it's right."
♦≥♦ The cumbia beat sneaks in everywhere, even covers like The Meat Puppets' "Plateau." "I was listening to Nirvana's Unplugged set, and that song came on," Brian remembers. "The song was perfect for us. The Meat Puppets are from Phoenix, very Southwestern, with that desert mystic feel. I kept hearing this classic cumbia beat behind it, and I suggested we record it and see what happened. The band thought I was crazy, but we just did it."
♦≥♦ "It's so natural; it's very strange to me that we haven't been doing this longer," muses Brian. "We don't have to try to make something more rock or to incorporate cumbia into it. It's just I think what each person brings to the table comes out in this blend of rock, cumbia, chicha. There's no effort involved."
♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦♦≥♦
Silkworm — In The West
Recondite — Dwell
Juke Ross — Drifting Apart (Deluxe Version)
Torres — Silver Tongue
Tindersticks — See My Girls
Blackbird & Crow — Ailm
The Sufis — Double Exposure
The Innocence Mission — See You Tomorrow
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Executive Vice President, Global Sales - SES Video
Deepak Mathur
Deepak Mathur is Executive Vice President, Global Sales at SES Video. Previously, he had been Senior Vice President, Commercial at SES for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He is responsible for driving growth and strategy for SES's global video business, including in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, while providing customers with world-class satellite and content delivery services across a range of platforms.
With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Deepak has a keen understanding of customers' satellite requirements and works directly with them to ensure they have the satellite capacity they need to achieve their ambitions.
Deepak first joined SES in 2001 and brings sales, marketing, operations and executive experience to his position. Prior to SES's purchase of GE Americom, Deepak was Managing Director at Americom-Asia Pacific, a joint venture between General Electric and Lockheed Martin, where he helped to establish key strategic markets for the company across Asia. He has also held leadership and sales roles covering the Asia-Pacific region with Echostar, NagraVision and Loral. He also serves on the board of directors at Yahlive, a partnership between SES and Yahsat.
Deepak holds a Bachelor's Degree from Knox College in Illinois, a Masters in International Management from the University of Denver, and has completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School.
He is based in Singapore and is married with two daughters.


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A long time back, a really good friend of mine died and I set up a Facebook page as a sort of wake and book of condolence. A lady asked to join and in good faith I accepted Next thing I knew, she had posted a link. Click on this. i did, it was some house music. My buddy was a rock fan. i quickly dropped it, ran the virus checker and told the woman what i thought about her, preying on the mourning.
Moving on, more Estonian stuff to follow. What do I write next? Who would you put in the title roles of the hypothetical movie? More about Estonia and why it is similar to Wales in my universe. Keep smiling!


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Nunavut communities hit by flu outbreaks
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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...outbreaks.html
Posted: Mar 4, 2011 7:32 PM CST
Last Updated: Mar 4, 2011 7:32 PM CST
Several Nunavut communities have been hit hard by influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) outbreaks in recent months, prompting health officials to urge people to get their flu shots.
The territory has confirmed cases of H3N2 and H1N1 influenza and RSV, a contagious respiratory illness that especially affects infants. Communities like Sanikiluaq and Arviat were especially affected recently.
In December and early January, 52 people who fell ill in Sanikiluaq ? a community of about 750 ? were flown to Winnipeg for medical treatment, according to health officials.
"The situation in Sanikiluaq has settled. The particular flu-like symptoms during the fall, early winter ? impacted mostly the very young and senior people who have less [of] a strong immunity," Nunavut Health Minister Tagak Curley said in the legislature this week.
Extra staff sent to Igloolik
Extra medical staff have been sent to Igloolik to deal with a flu outbreak going on there.
Dr. Isaac Sobol, Nunavut's chief medical officer, said extra staff have been sent to Igloolik to support the existing medical staff there.Dr. Isaac Sobol, Nunavut's chief medical officer, said extra staff have been sent to Igloolik to support the existing medical staff there. (CBC)
Nunavut chief medical officer Dr. Isaac Sobol said it's too early to tell whether influenza or RSV caused the deaths of two infants in Igloolik in the past two weeks...
Ronan Kelly
March 8, 2011, 06:10 AM
Re: Nunavut communities hit by flu outbreaks
Health department can't explain baby deaths in Iglulik
Jeanne Gagnon
Northern News Services
Published Monday, March 7, 2011
IGLULIK - Health officials still cannot explain why two babies died in Iglulik during a two-week period after showing flu-like symptoms, but an additional nurse, a physician and other staff have been sent to the community.
News reports state one infant was seen three times by nurses at Iglulik's health centre before being sent home each time. News reports add the other infant was seen twice by the nurses before also being sent home on both occasions. Neither of the babies was medevaced out of the community.
"I cannot state what the reasons or cause of deaths are at this time ... ," Health and Social Services Minister Tagak Curley stated at the legislature on March 2.
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I see that your website helps identify old shows, particularly the creepy kind. Could you guys identify this one for me? It's an episode of a show of the Twilight Zone/Outer Limits type. I think it's from the 80s. It's about a little boy who lives in a large minimalist style house with his mom and dad who ignore him. He takes care of himself, finding his own food somehow in the kitchen that doesn't have anything that's good for kids. A man (an angel?) starts showing up and eventually takes the little boy away from the house, rescuing him I suppose. I don't think the parents ever noticed that the little boy had disappeared. If I remember right, I think that items were disappearing from the house before the little boy was taken away, like his toys and other things he needed or that the parents wouldn't need when he was gone. I'm not sure about that part, though. I remember it being a very quiet episode, not much dialogue, and the house was very airy, kind of what people in the past would think of as houses of the future — but I don't know if it was set in the future. I've looked for it on Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episode lists and on lists of similar series. I can't find it. Does anyone know what show and episode this is?
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Thank you for the compliment, uncle! Kudos coming from such an esteemed gentlemen as yourself, I'll take as the very pinnacle of praise.


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Central captain Justin Jaggessar and medium pacer Fareez ali starred for Central in their Interzone clash against South at Lewis Street in San Fernando. PHOTO: Vinode Mamchan.
South West continues to struggle in Interzone cricket tournament when the team went under to South East by 10 wickets in the opening round of matches of the 2019 TTCB U-15 Interzone cricket series on Wednesday.
Playing at Sancho Road in St. Julien, the team could have left the caterer very angry as the match finished before way before lunch. South West batting first crashed to 24 all out with medium pacer Naiel Mohammed taking three wickets for four runs and national under-15 spinner Nickyle Jalim two wickets for four runs.
South East then romped to victory at 25 without loss with Romario King on nine not out. In the other game down South, Central took care of its hosts South by nine wickets at Lewis Street in San Fernando.
South batting first made 82 all out with Vivek Gadraj scoring 17 and Mikel Mentor 15. Bowling for Central young medium pacer Fareez Ali was impressive with figures of two wickets for one run from four overs. The KRCA player got rid of experienced players Alix Gopaul and Riad Mohammed in one over, to set South back. Also bowling well for Central were Alex Chase 2/9, Kevin Kanhai 2/13 and Emilio Villafana 2/21. Chasing 83 for victory, Central romped to victory on the back of an excellent hand of 40 not out from captain Justin Jaggessar. The right-hander who opened the batting for T&T in Jamaica last year showed he was a class above the others, as he clobbered the bowling with ease.
At the Prisons ground, West Indies under-15 star Andrew Rambaran arrested three North East batsmen, to lead his team to an easy win. North East made 122 all out with Vince Kistow scoring 41. Rambaran bowling his left arm orthodox spin claimed 3/11. Verran Batchu led the run chase with an unbeaten 42, as his team reached 124/3 in reply.
At Sancho Rd: South West 24 all out (Naiel Mohammed 3/4, Nickyle Jalim 2/4) vs South East 25/0 (Ramario King 9no). South East won by 10 wkts.
At Lewis Street: South 82 all out (32.4) (Vivek Gadraj 17, Mikel Mentor 15, Alex Chase 2/9, Kevin Kanhai 2/13, Fareez Ali 2/1, Emilio Villafana 2/21) vs Central 84/1 (16) (Justin Jaggessar 40no, Terrel Combes 16) - Central won by 9 wkts.
At Prisons: North East 122 all out (Vince Kistow 41, Andrew Rambarran 3/11, Yasir Dean 2/27) vs East 124/3 (Verran Batchu 42no, Kavin Boodoosingh 29) - East won by 7 wkts.


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As the three of you know, I have, on occasion, taken up rather a lot of space here with distractions and speculations on such 'edge science' topics as the paranormal, aliens, and various anomalies seen both on the Earth and elsewhere. In June of 2008 I began posting what was originally planned to be just a simple three-part book review of the capacious turd called Dark Mission by Mike Bara and Richard C Hoagland, founder of The Enterprise Mission, recipient of an Angstrom Medal, former science advisor to CBS News and Walter Cronkite, author of The Monuments of Mars, co-creator of the 'Pioneer Plaque,' originator of the 'Europa Proposal,' and principal investigator of The Enterprise Mission which, to my own admitted surprise, ballooned into a much larger series than intended.
During that period I mentioned that I would, one day, post what I hoped would be a considerably shorter look into some of the additional Apollo/NASA lunar nonsense put forth by a former Hoagland acolyte called Keith Laney.
The last four years of my life since I began those posts, if you've managed to follow anything I've written other than bashing Food Network and ridiculous advertising, haven't precisely been terribly good ones, neither financially, personally, mentally, nor any otherly, so my little sideways excursions into these areas of minor relative interest have been few. And though it's not exactly as if things have just suddenly got more than only marginally better for me, my recent purging and ritual cleansing of the dead weight from my Anomaly Stuff folder, as reported here, had me stumbling upon a couple of smallish items of sufficient annoyance to write about.
I do still plan on posting the Keith Laney bits, however; so don't for a moment think it'll be seven years or more in the offing like it's been since Hoagland last promised the world his 'extraordinary Part 7 conclusion' to his lavish Seven Part series on Iapetus told in six stunning chapters with heaping great giant graphics and loads of important Italicised words.
If you've not read much of this blog, and most of you surely haven't, it might be of some value to note that, at one time, it would not have been too far off the mark to describe me, in the words of Expat at The Emoluments of Mars, as one of the 'Branch Hoaglandians.' But I got better. Especially when I realised that he was beginning to take those first tentative baby steps towards a soft padded cell in espousing both the utterly preposterous theory of what he calls 'ancient glass domes' on the moon (and the corresponding 'old eroded arcologies' masquerading as nearby mountains) and his rather breath-taking ignorance of or shocking disregard for basic concepts taught in first year photography classes.
So as I set about purging the aforementioned dead weight, I rediscovered a link to Hoagland's NASA… Kennedy… Obama Connection — to 2012! video from Chet Snow's 'Secrets' Conference held in 2009. It's in 14 parts but saves you buying it for $24.99 of your hard-won cash from the ancient link on Hoagland's site. This presentation was done shortly after Hoagland had been seen on SyFy Channel's staggeringly dull 2012: Startling New Secrets hosted by Lester Holt which was neither startling nor full of new secrets, expect for the laugh-out-loud hilarious comment Hoagland made in absolute serious dead-pan in which he stated he originally looked at the entire 2012 idea with 'amused, objective interest.' You can watch the SyFy special here, if you're inclined. You'll need to scroll down to part 1 and then hop round a bit for the 9 parts, but it's all there.
He references a slightly cropped version of the photograph on your left (and you can see both versions here if you scroll down some 3/4 of the page), taken at the Anthropology National Museum in Mexico City on 16 April 2009. In it are Presidents Obama and Calderon standing before what is known as the Aztec Calendar Stone. According to Hoagland, this stone was unearthed 'several hundred years ago' when, in actuality, the stone had been discovered more like a couple of hundred years ago on 17 December 1790. So relative to the time this video was made, only 219 years earlier.
He also claims that President Obama had 'requested specifically to be photographed in front of the calendar.' He does not back up this claim with any facts or citations and I've not yet found verification of this notion, as it is now more than three years later. Doesn't mean it's not true, but I would certainly like to see the information for myself.
We never do 'see why,' of course, as Hoagland does not ever get round to connecting those particular dots and, sadly, you have to struggle through the full video to find that out. Sorry for spoiling that for you.
1) The Gregorian Calendar does not come to an end on 21 December 2012. I have a recent copy which clearly shows dates through 2013, 2014, and so on, including the Zombie Apocalypse on 22 December.
2) The Mayan Calendar also does not come to an end on 21 December 2012. The 13th Baktun does. And do you know what comes after the end of the 13th Baktun? That's right, the 14th Baktun.
3) I realise I've just been down this road in recent weeks, however it is neither 'an accident' nor 'coincidence' nor 'serendipity' nor even vaguely of any intrinsic value or interest that the Gregorian Calendar date of 21 December 2012 is what we have reckoned to be roughly concurrent with the end of the Mayan 13th Baktun. It's all down to maths. And I'm simply terrible at maths. But the fact of the matter is, the Maya understood that the long, slow wobbling of the planet we call Axial Precession, or Precession of the Equinoxes, was a period of some ±26,000 years – or 25,600 years by some calculations – and they broke that into five smaller bits of ±5126 years. Once the ancient Mayan counting system was deciphered and finally rendered understandable – in the 1830s – and our own Gregorian dates were glommed on, it was determined that what we consider to be 3114BCE was the beginning of the 13th Baktun. Add 5126 to that and – voila! – you have 2012. And it's no more miraculous than saying it's 5772 in the Hebrew Calendar or that Tyrannosaurus Rex had some manual dexterity issues.
4) The Maya did not use GMT. Idiot. Nor did Pope Gregory. It wasn't established until 1675.
As far as Hoagland's subtle implication (at least in my view) that he 'discovered' this marvellous convergence, it might be of interest to note that I believe it was actually archaeologist and anthropologist Dr Michael D Coe who first brought the 2012 date to speculative light sometime around 1966. And even then he wasn't entirely certain of the exact date. The 21 December 2012 date was posited, if I am correct, by Robert J Sharer. Not Richard C Hoagland, founder of The Enterprise Mission, recipient of an Angstrom Medal, former science advisor to CBS News and Walter Cronkite, author of The Monuments of Mars, co-creator of the 'Pioneer Plaque,' originator of the 'Europa Proposal,' and principal investigator of The Enterprise Mission.
Now in 1583, when Pope Gregory and his team of, uh, experts headed by, uh, Clavius, who was an expert mathematician from Germany… when—when they re-calibrated the calendar and switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, the odds that it would all sync up precisely to the whole 2012 mythology – and furthermore that it would it would sync up so that it says 11.11, which is a code for 'look at the physics behind 2012' – is just impossible.
What that means, and this is something which did not make it into the [SyFy Channel] special, but what that means is that the entire global calendrical system we now live under is in fact being paced by the Mayan calendar and the countdown to 2012. That means that somehow… somewhere… someone thought that 2012 was really important and they sought to memorialise it in the very fabric of the temporal monitoring of our lives, day by day by day, since 1583.
History – and reality – are, of course, quite different. I've said before I'm not any sort of expert on the various cultures of Mesoamerica – it's just not my thing. I freely and openly admit that my interests in places like Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco, Machu Picchu, and, by obvious extension, Teotihuacan, Tikal, and so on, are somewhat limited and don't often include the deeper cultural aspects. However one does not do research of any kind and come away with absolutely no historical knowledge or information. Or at least I don't. So it's simply a matter of historical record – something you can find in most any textbook on the subject – that the initial contact between the Mesoamerican cultures and the Spanish Conquistadors took place in about 1517. The famous Hernán Cortés didn't make it onto the scene until about 1525, bringing Jesus and typhus to the masses. Feel free to check that for accuracy. I'm fairly certain that's right.
It's also a matter of historical fact, as I briefly indicated somewhere above, that the Mayan numeric system hadn't been sorted until roughly 1832 by Constantine Rafinesque. The glyphs used for the written language, after a wholesale burning of thousands of Mayan books and records around 1562 by the overzealous Christian friars, were left almost completely untranslated until about 1930 when Benjamin Whorf – part of the famous Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis duo – figured he'd finally got some of the phonetics worked out.
'Non so, Eminenza,' someone would surely have replied with a shrug.
Those few who survived the cataclysm spread out across the globe and went on to establish new cultures, came into contact with fledgling civilisations sprouting up in various places, and helped spread their knowledge and wisdom – their only surviving legacy. That knowledge was passed on through places like Stonehenge, Newgrange, Callanish, Tiahuanaco, The Great Pyramid and other maddeningly obtuse things.
And that's great. Personally I have no problem with at least some of this. Neither do people like Graham Hancock, who has used this very notion as the background of several of his books. What I do have a problem with is the date. According to the deciphered Mayan Calendar, the 13th Baktun cycle began – probably after a flood – in what we would call 3114BCE. If you believe James Ussher, the world began on Sunday, 23 October 4004BCE at 9am, as god slept in a bit after the chaos of Saturday night. That's only 890 years from the start of the world to The Flood, rather rushing things a bit.
On the other hand, most Flood scenarios place the time much further back in history, almost as early as 10,000BCE. Some modern researchers have even estimated there may have been a minor global catastrophe nearer to 9,500BCE. So what that leaves us with is a time discrepancy of a few thousand years, and Hoagland fails to acknowledge that areas of the Fertile Crescent were readily on their way to building vast empires and major civilisations at the time the Maya believe the 13th Baktun began in an epic flood.
So that's rather a niggling little fly in the time-scale ointment.
And finally, there's this: the theoretical and much-feared multi-planetary alignment – not to mention an alignment with the galactic core – which will not only coincide with 21 December 2012, but the collective gravity of which, or whose collective disruption in the 'Hyperdimensional Torsion Field,' as Hoagland would have us believe, will very probably cause the Earth to a) tip suddenly and violently off its axis; b) experience a massive 'crustal displacement' as the outer shell of the planet slips disastrously over its molten inner core; and/or c) cataclysmically switch magnetic poles and unleash an extinction level event.
Most of these calamitous bits of unpleasantness were also predicted in the 1997 book 5/5/2000 by Richard Noone. As of this writing, they have yet to occur.
Problem is, in all of the research I've been able to do on the subject, there hasn't been one scientific or scholarly shred of proof to satisfactorily or conclusively confirm an alignment of any sort on 21 December 2012. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune 'aligned' earlier this year (2012) in May, but that alignment was only relative to where you were standing on the planet at the time. As far as aligning with the galactic centre… kids, we go in a circle round the galaxy. Think about it. We're always aligned to the galactic core no matter where we are. Seriously. And before anyone objects and says we'll be crossing the 'ecliptic,' keep in mind that the ecliptic is an imaginary line scribbled on charts. It's something humans came up with and is entirely arbitrary and has no meaning, purpose, or value outside the confines of this planet. And it means nothing when we cross it or get aligned with it. It happens with great frequency and nothing has ever happened.
As The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reminds us, Don't Panic!


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PA Seeks UNESCO Protection For Threatened Village
The Palestinian Authority has turned to UNESCO to save an ancient West Bank village threatened by Israel's separation barrier, Lena Odgaard reports.
A farmer and his children cultivate their fields, as generations have done for centuries, in Battir, near Bethlehem Dec. 16, 2012. - Lena Odgaard
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Battir, a small Palestinian village unique for its ancient stone terraces, springs and irrigation systems, is under threat as Israel plans to expand the separation barrier through the landscape.
The village is located on the so-called Green Line from the armistice agreement after the war in 1948, and over half of the Battiri people's fields are located on the Israeli side. The villagers argue that the barrier will damage the area and cut them off from their fields and sources of income. Now the Palestinian Authority is preparing an application to UNESCO, hoping to get the area added to its World Heritage list and thereby save the historical landscape.
"Battir was a Roman city. Before that, the Canaanites used to settle here," said Hassan Muamer from the Battir Eco-Museum, talking to Al-Monitor in Battir, surrounded by lettuce and squash plants and avocado trees.
For centuries the inhabitants of the small village of Battir, located less than five miles from Jerusalem, have tended their fields built on the stone terraces hugging the hillside below the village. Ancient irrigation systems lead fresh water from springs to the lush green hills. And in the village, ruins dating back to before the Roman era bear witness of the long history of Battir.
Pointing to a farmer and his two young children plucking their crops of lettuce and dumping it in a wheelbarrow, Muamer explains that although there are other Roman-era villages in the West Bank, Battir is the only one where the traditional ways of cultivating the land and irrigating the fields are used by the farmers.
Railway tracks running through the valley mark the Green Line, and several times a day Israeli trains go by transporting goods from Jerusalem to Jaffa. A paragraph in the 65-year-old armistice agreement has for decades allowed the villagers free access to their fields on the Israeli side of the tracks, but now Israel argues that to protect the railway and due to the risk of Palestinian suicide bombers to Israeli cities, a barrier of barbed-wired fences, patrol roads and a 1500-foot-long concrete wall must be established.
With the support of the environmental organization Friends of the Earth Middle East, the villagers have filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court, arguing that the barrier will destroy the ancient terraces. But Muamer has more faith in recognition and protection from UNESCO. Palestine became a full member of UNESCO in November 2011 and in June last year, the first site, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was added to the organization's list of areas of extraordinary cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.
An urgent case
According to Cultural Heritage expert at UNESCO Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, Battir is special due to the degree of integrity of the terraced landscape and the continuity of the use of the land.
"Another thing in Battir is the association of terraces to water springs, where you have the two things combined in a marvelous symbiosis. The water is taken to irrigate the terraces and the cultivation of not only olive trees and almond trees, but also fruits and vegetables. This has existed at least 3,000 years," Antonelli told Al-Monitor at UNESCO's office in Ramallah.
In December, the Israeli Supreme Court appeared to listen to the petitions against the barrier after receiving a letter from the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority, which also warned of the negative impact of the barrier to the surrounding environment. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, this was the first time an Israeli state agency has opposed a segment of the separation barrier.
The court gave the military 90 days to suggest a new route for the barrier, but Antonelli maintains the urgency of adding the site to UNESCO's list due to the immediate threat of the barrier.
"Destroying this landscape is in my opinion a crime against humanity. The work of men and women who constructed this landscape for millennia after millennia simply must be protected," he said.
UNESCO as resistance
Antonelli denies that the UNESCO application is a political tool, citing the organization's independent status as a representative for a wide range of countries, including Israel.
"It is not a blanket you put on your country; it's a spotlight," said Antonelli: "UNESCO is mandated to preserve cultural heritage all over the world. It is not its action to enforce a political agenda. But in certain areas — and this, unfortunately, is one of them — the political factors are strongly influencing our work."
But in Battir, Muamer still sees the possible UNESCO recognition as a method of peaceful resistance.
"If I want to support my people, my community and their resistance in this land, I want to think how I can develop something on the ground which they can actually benefit from. They have created this agricultural system through thousands of years and now it could be destroyed. I must find a way to stop it — this is the main logic behind [the application]," he said.
Battir's mayor, Akram Bader, agrees, but also sees a position on the list as a way to significantly improve the opportunities for economic growth in the village.
"Battir will become famous and a lot of donors will come to renovate the area, because it will not only be for Palestinians or Israelis but a World Heritage Site," Bader told Al-Monitor, looking out on the old terraces. He explained that the past few years, a hiking trail has been established through the Battiri landscape, and other initiatives such as guest houses and souvenir shops are also underway.
The Palestinian Authority is now finishing the application, which must be sent by Feb. 1. If the application is accepted, a vote will take place in June. Meanwhile, the people of Battir fear that this will give Israel enough time to approve an alternate route and begin construction elsewhere in the ancient landscape.
Lena Odgaard is a Danish freelance journalist based in Ramallah on the West Bank. She tweets @l_odgaard.
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