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bosch.capdeferro, Josep Bunyesc, Francisco Cifuentes, Data AE, Harquitectes, Emiliano López Mónica Rivera arquitectos, Núria Salvadó, David Sebastian, TEd'A arquitectes, unparelld'arquitectes, vora
This is a conceptual and collective book. It is the result of the work carried by a group of young Catalan architects, that represent a particular shared sensitivity in a moment of change. The book puts forward a series of thought-provoking ideas for a different way of intervening in the city, one that is sensitive to the dynamics of urban processes, based on a proposal submitted to the competition for the regeneration of Plaça de les Glòries in Barcelona and the process which led to this proposal. Although the resulting project is not what might have been expected in conventional public space planning, it is an honest reflection on Plaça de les Glòries, on Barcelona city, and on town planning as a system. The ideas set out in this book make a case for the possibility of leisurely and evolving urban planning and management, in line with the challenges bequeathed us by a failed model of development based on growth as paradigm. There are other Glories, but they are in this one. * The book has been awarded with a Bronze Laus Award 2017 in the category of Graphic Design, Entire Book. It has also been finalist of the FAD Awards 2017 in the category of Critical Thinking.
bosch.capdeferro arquitectura Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro. In 2003 they founded their own studio in Girona. Both architects combine their professional activity with teaching at institutions such as Cornell University in New York, supporting the development of design and constructive processes based on theory and research. In 2011 they received the Emerging Architect Special Mention of the EU Prize - Mies Van der Rohe Award and their work has also been recognized in several editions of the FAD Award as well as the Spanish and the Iberian-American Architecture Biennials. Widely published internationally, the projects of the studio have been exhibited in the 13 th and 15 th editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Josep Bunyesc Architect, graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2003. Master of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Architecture and PhD in Sustainable Architecture, energy conservation and habitat in mountain areas from the ETSAB-UPC and the EPFL Lausanne in 2013. He is guest professor at ENAC EPFL Lausanne 2015-18 and visiting professor at ETSAB (Barcelona) in 2020. In 2012 he received the National Culture Award for Architecture and Public Space. In 2020, he published his first monograph book "Positive Architecture". Among his most outstanding works, there are the energy efficient refurbishments of several traditional buildings in the Pyrenees and wood framed constructions with sheep-wool insulation following Passive House Standard.
Francisco Cifuentes (1977) is an architect, PhD in Architecture, and founder of Aulets Arquitectes. Aulets works giving responses to a community in a territory using materials and crafts linked to this territory. He has been a professor at the EAR Reus, ESARQ UIC in Barcelona and currently a Professor in Master MIAD La Salle. He has been an associate curator of the exhibition of "Domus Mare Nostrum. Habiter Le Mythe Méditerraneén" in Toulon 2012. He has been General Director of Department of Housing in the City Council of Palma (2015-2018). He has won "THE PETER DAVEY SPECIAL PRIZE" and Best Architects 2018.
Data AE is a multidisciplinary architecture studio founded in 2000 by Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo. The studio has won numerous awards, including FAD Awards in 2017 "City and Landscape", the Public Prize FAD Awards in 2007 and 2015; finalist in Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2013 and 2016. Claudi Aguiló (1972). Architect from ETSAV 2001. Since 2006 he is associate lecturer of the Department of Architectural Technology, and has collaborated with other national and international universities. Visiting professor at Rural Studio (USA). Albert Domingo (1975). Industrial engineer from ETSEIB-UPC 1999. Master of Project Management in Construction and Urban Planning in 2007.
Harquitectes Architecture studio founded in 2000 by David Lorente (1972), Josep Ricart (1973), Xavier Ros (1972) and Roger Tudó (1973) all graduated in the ETSAV-UPC. They combine their professional activity teaching in the ETSAV-UPC and ETSAB-UPC. They have received several national and international awards, including the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention 2019; shortlisted EU Mies Van der Rohe Award 2019, 2017; MAPEI sustainable building 2017; Brick Award 2016; Ugo Rivolta 2015; Public Prize FAD 2015; Shortlisted FAD Award in 2015, 2012, 2009; Fritz Höger Preis 2014; Sacyr Award 2012; Hise Award 2012; Enor Award 2011; SAIE Award 2011.
Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectes Emiliano López received a PhD, a Masters in History and his Architecture Degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Mónica Rivera received a B.F.A and B. Arch. from Rhode Island School of Design. They both received an M.Arch from Harvard University before establishing their professional practice in Barcelona. Their work—widely published, awarded and exhibited—engages multiple scales and types and is internationally known for carefully crafted works that understand architecture as a cultural endeavor that is deeply engaged with the environment. They currently teach architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, were Mónica serves as Chair of Graduate Architecture programs.
Núria Salvadó Architect graduated from the ETSAB, (UPC) in 1999. Salvadó holds a PhD in Architecture from UPC (2013). She is tenure-track 2 professor at the UPC Department of Architectural Design, researcher at HABITAR research group, and vice-dean at ETSAV, Vallès School of Architecture (UPC). Since 2000 she has established an architectural practice and her works have won several awards, including the Alejandro de la Sota Biennale Awards in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2019; shortlisted for the FAD Awards in 2011 and 2013. Her work was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006, 2008 and 2012, the Arquia /Próxima Forum in 2008 and 2009, the Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine in Paris in 2009, the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona in 2009 and at the UIA World Congress of Architecture held in Tokyo in 2011.
David Sebastian Born in 1973 and graduated in architecture from the ETSAB-UPC. Since 2001 he leads his own architecture studio, a multidisciplinary space where he combines research and projects. He has been assistant lecturer at the School of Architecture in Talca (Chile), and visiting professor at the schools of design EINA (Barcelona) and EDRA (Rubí) and at the School of Architecture in Reus (Tarragona). His works have been published and exhibited in different Spanish and European cities. He was selected for the Catalan Pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2012. He has been recognised in the FAD Awards in 2011, 2016 and 2018 and with the Jury Mention of the Arquia/Próxima in 2012. He was shortlisted for the EU Prize – Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2013, and have recently received the García Mercadal Award from COAAragón.
TEd'A Architecture studio founded by Irene Pérez (Barcelona, 1976) and Jaume Mayol (Mallorca, 1976), both graduated from the ETSA Vallés. They run the Studio TEd'A arquitectes, based in Mallorca. Their work focuses on local resorces, local materials and local tipologies. Both architects combine their professional practice with teaching. Recently they have tought at the University of Stuttgart, at the Fakultät für Architektur TU Graz, and also at the TU Munich. Their work has recently received diferent awards, among wich stand the Spanish Bienial BEAU XIV distinction in 2018, the international FAD award 2018, the interior FAD award 2018, the ECOLA award 2019 or the Brick award 2020.
unparelld'arquitectes is an architectural office led by Eduard Callís and Guillem Moliner and based in Olot. Both are architects graduated from UPC and professors at ETSAB, UdG and Olot Art and Design College. Their projects are a meeting place between different worlds and scales. They build radiant scenes, capable of enhancing activity, of narrating a new story that is attentive to real life, of building atmospheres. Their work has recently been exhibited at the Architecture Biennale of São Paulo 2019, and awarded by the Spanish Biennial BEAU 2018 or the opinion FAD award 2020, among others.
vora Architecture studio founded in 2000 by Pere Buil (1973) and Toni Riba (1973). Their work is focused on buildings and urban design at different scales and typologies. They combine their professional practice with teaching, curating and cultural activism. Their built works have received several awards such as 2AA 2018, Archmarathon 2014, or City of Barcelona 2013, and have been selected in several editions of FAD awards, ENOR, Spanish Biennal of Architecture (BEAU), and European Biennial of Landscape Design among others. Their work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale in the Catalan and Spanish Pavilions in 2014 and 2016. In May 2018 they opened their first monographic exhibition "Shared Identities" in Kolektiv Gallery, in Belgrade.
2016, glued bound, 175x260mm, 192 pages
Title Other Glories. Proposal for the renaturalization of Barcelona
Authors bosch.capdeferro, Josep Bunyesc, Francisco Cifuentes, Data AE, Harquitectes, Emiliano López Mónica Rivera arquitectos, Núria Salvadó, David Sebastian, TEd'A arquitectes, unparelld'arquitectes, vora.
Contributions by Manel Guàrdia, Núria Garcia (Aquidos arquitectura), Daniel Jordi (INTRA), Fabián López (Societat Orgànica), Roser Vives, Maria Muñoz and Florian Schmidt (Urbanitas).
Coordinated by Pere Buil, Claudi Aguiló, Emiliano López
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Tehran Holds First Public Friday Prayers In Almost 2 Years
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian capital Tehran has held its main public Friday prayer service for the first time in 20 months, after it was halted amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organizers said beforehand that all health protocols would be followed to protect the expected hundreds of worshippers during the ceremony at Tehran University. Iran's National Coronavirus Taskforce, which had ordered a halt to the prayers, authorized its resumption.
Public Friday prayers have been underway in other cities, especially in smaller towns across the country since the summer. Individual mosques have been free to hold normal services since early October.
The move comes as Tehran hosts over 400 Muslim scholars and religious leaders for a meeting known as the International Islamic Unity Conference.
Tehran's communal Friday prayer was halted for 20 months over the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 124,700 people and left some 4,400 in critical conditions in hospitals since the February 2019. The statistics show Iran as having the worst COVID-19 fatality rate in the Middle East.
Iran has accelerated vaccination programs for its 80 million people in recent weeks. Nearly 27.6 million Iranians have received their second shots, compared to some seven million when President Ebrahim Raisi formed his administration in late August.
Iran generally uses China-made Sinopharm vaccines, although Russian-made Sputnik-V, British-Swedish AstraZeneca, and its own domestic CovBarekat vaccines have also been used.
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Despite all the rhetoric, "prepared for college" says much less than it seems, since many colleges don't require anything besides a high school diploma for admission, and many students attend only briefly and drop out with few or no college credits. "Prepared to pass placement tests" is more meaningful, and we need to do more to make that standard clear and visible in high school, preferably in time for students to devote more effort to meeting the standard. Aligning high school tests with college-placement tests would be a valuable reform.
But while it would be desirable to have all students meet the standards for college-placement tests, it's not clear that the labor market demands that. The top 40 percent of jobs may require greater academic skills than schools are currently producing, especially in math and science. The standards movement has gotten that part right. Many other jobs require some academic skills, and that is truer now than it was 30 years ago, when many well-paid jobs required no academic skills.
Research by the economists Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy, however, suggests that while academic skills are required for many jobs, such jobs require communication, problem-solving, and 9th grade academic skills, not college skills. I found the same thing in interviews conducted with employers as part of a study of workforce readiness in Illinois. Many students don't get these skills now, but that requires better high school instruction, not necessarily college.
Indeed, while the United States is trying to devise policy so that all students can handle highly skilled jobs, our society has many jobs that do not require such skills, and many students will not end up in highly skilled occupations whatever we might wish. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and research by Paul E. Barton at the Educational Testing Service suggest that over 60 percent of jobs don't require any college degree at all, and many baccalaureate-degree holders report having jobs that don't require college. Aiming to prepare 100 percent of students for the 40 percent of society's jobs that require college skills makes good politics, but bad economics, and it will create a lot of disappointment.
But the bigger problem is that nearly all jobs require communication skills and basic work habits, such as regular attendance, motivation, and discipline. Employers I've interviewed said they were able to redesign jobs around high school graduates' academic-skills deficiencies, but not around deficiencies in these "soft skills." Unfortunately, schools are not taking steps to improve students in these areas. In fact, the opposite may be occurring. If teachers are compelled to focus more on academic skills and test scores, do they devote less attention to soft skills and efforts to improve them? I'm seeing some evidence that teachers are spending more time on "drill and kill" exercises to boost test scores and less time on group activities that may foster soft skills.
There's also the potential that heightened academic standards will make low-achieving students even more discouraged than they are now, contributing to poor motivation, poor school attendance, and a sense that their efforts in school are hopeless. Such students could be needlessly facing frustration and failure over skills that they believe will never be useful to them again. Only 29 percent of 8th graders reach the National Assessment of Educational Progress' proficient level, and many enter high school several grades behind. We can't pretend that high standards have served these young people. I worry that the more we focus on skill standards that are distant and unrealistic for the bottom 40 percent of students, who have failed at these standards for many years, the more we lead them to behaviors that undermine their readiness for any jobs in American society.
Aiming to prepare 100 percent of students for the 40 percent of society's jobs that require college skills makes good politics, but bad economics, and it will create a lot of disappointment.
At the margin, some students will benefit from higher standards. However, for the students far below the margin, we need to examine what can be done to prevent them from being hurt. Many high school seniors have less than 9th grade skills, they aren't attending school, they aren't doing the homework, and they aren't staying awake in class. Exactly how the "higher standards for all" movement relates to these students and their needs is unclear. Simply offering them "college for all" dreams and delusions—especially given their 80 percent likelihood of dropping out of college with few or no credits—may be the wrong way to go. They may need something that differs from raised standards and traditional approaches to instruction.
Our political reluctance to prepare students for anything besides the top 40 percent of jobs may leave many students unprepared for any jobs. Traditionally, the nation has offered such people job-training programs, which rarely improve employment outcomes and might even confer a stigma.
Enhanced career and technical education offers one option. Economist John H. Bishop at Cornell University has suggested that, as a safety measure, students take a string of four sequentially arranged career courses as electives during their high school years. That approach provides students with alternative career options in case college doesn't work out, it provides good earnings payoffs, and it can also lead to college. A handful of career-oriented courses is not a large burden and can lead to valued jobs (for instance, in skilled trades) that don't require college degrees. Such an approach could be combined with other standards-based education reforms and with the option of pursuing occupational coursework in community colleges.
Another key reform that could help many students in the labor market is to focus more on their acquisition of soft skills. Teachers' ratings of soft skills strongly predict work performance. Currently, employers don't use teachers' ratings because they mistrust teachers' judgments. However, by ignoring such ratings, employers deprive themselves of signals about students' work habits and social skills, deprive teachers of authority in the classroom, and deprive students of incentives for working hard in school. In other words, everybody loses.
Job-placement activities at schools and colleges, as well as individual faculty-employer contacts, are other promising ways to assist students. These contacts provide dependable signals to employers about students' capabilities, and dependable incentives to students for working hard in school and college. These effects are powerful. They motivate students who have never done well in school before, as studies by my colleagues and I of successful high schools and two-year colleges indicate (James E. Rosenbaum, Regina Deil-Amen, and Ann E. Person, After Admission: From College Access to College Success, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2006).
High schools have the responsibility to serve all students and prepare them to fit into productive roles in the larger society. Politicians like to make grand promises of getting all children to be doctors and lawyers. But education policy should focus on meeting the needs of the entire society and all students. Otherwise, we will offer only dreams and delusions to roughly half our young people, who will not only fail to earn a college degree, but also will lack the basic work habits needed to have any productive, respectable job in society.
James E. Rosenbaum is a professor of sociology, education, and social policy and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.
Published in Print: June 12, 2007, as Prepared for What?
"Caution in Use of College-Entry Tests Urged," April 11, 2007.
"Chat Transcript: Tough Choices: Preparing Students for Global Competition," March 14, 2007.
"Book Sparks Debate Over Necessary Job Skills," January 29, 1997.
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Q: How to find the last successful run time of a Jenkins Job Is there a way to get the last successful run time of JENKINS job using Python?
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A: You can use python-jenkins. There is an example showing how to work with Jenkins Jobs, basically:
server = jenkins.Jenkins('http://jenkins.xxx.com')
last_build_number = server.get_job_info('myJob')['lastCompletedBuild']['number']
build_info = server.get_build_info('myJob', last_build_number)
duration_in_seconds = build_info['duration']

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India Copies Israel's Domicide Policy of Killing Homes
Ajaz Ashraf | 16 Jun 2022
Yes, the State can murder or annihilate homes, explain two Canadian academics. India, like Israel, is guilty of the crime, in Prayagraj and elsewhere.
The demolition of Mohammad Javed's house in Prayagraj vividly illustrates the Bharatiya Janata Party's shock-and-awe strategy of frightening Muslims into submission. They must not protest regardless of the humiliation and injustices they are made to suffer. This was the message the Prayagraj administration sought to convey after they identified Javed as the alleged organiser of the 10 June protest in Prayagraj against the mocking of Prophet Mohammad—and then swiftly demolished his home.
But the house Javed called his home was registered in the name of his wife Parveen Fatima, as the Indian Express has shown. It was gifted to Fatima by her father. This fact makes the administration's notice to Javed for removing the encroachment he is alleged to have committed, cited as the reason for the demolition, legally untenable. The couple's home has become uninhabitable.
It seems India is borrowing from Israel's playbook to torment and terrorise a community. Compare the fate of Javed to that of Mahmoud and Daoud Shqeirat, the two brothers who lived in separate homes in East Jerusalem until January.
In that month, the Israeli Police gave the brothers a 24-hour notice to demolish their homes. Otherwise the municipality would, the notice said. The brothers chose the first option, for they would have had to bear the cost the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality would have incurred in tearing down the two houses, including the cost of water consumed by workers at the site.
The notice was issued to the Shqeirats after an Israeli court ruled, following a three-year legal battle, that they did not have requisite building permits from the municipality. But the chances of brothers securing the permits were negligible as these have been deliberately denied to the 93% of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Imitating Israel
Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes on the pretext that their owners do not have permits—which they are denied in the first place—has replaced its earlier policy of knocking down family dwellings of militants. Every such demolition was a message to Palestinian families that they must check their members from engaging in militancy or countenance the prospect of their homes being destroyed.
Described as punitive demolitions, this policy sought to penalise a collectivity for an act of the individual. Not only was there a global outcry against it, the Israelis realised that its demolition strategy was provoking more and more Palestinians to join the resistance against the Israeli occupation of their land.
A rethink was desperately required.
The data of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions show that the demolition of Palestinian homes have continued over the years. Only the reasons cited for doing so changed. Thus, punitive demolitions climbed up from 12 in 1983 to 227 in 2003—and then plummeted to just four in 2005. It remained nil for many years thereafter.
However, demolition for administrative reasons, such as not possessing building permits, climbed up from 405 in 2002 to 1094 in 2016, then dipping to 865 in 2020. Infraction of municipality rules seems a more justifiable reason than imposition of collective punishment for destroying homes. The world opinion was mollified to an extent, as were those Jews who opposed their government's policy of wanton destruction.
India has adopted Israel's method of dressing up punitive demolitions as a measure to enforce municipality rules. In April, as clashes erupted over anti-Muslim slogans chanted during the Ram Navami processions, bulldozers were sent to flatten homes and shops in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP rules, and in Delhi, where the party controls the municipality. Significantly, the Modi government also oversees the Delhi Police.
Shahbaz Khan was among those in Sendhwa city, Madhya Pradesh, whose homes were reduced to rubble. He told the BBC, "My wife and sister wept and begged the police to let us take our things—at least the Quran—but they didn't listen."
Whether Madhya Pradesh or Delhi or Gujarat, the BJP then claimed the demolition was part of an anti-encroachment drive. But nobody believes the party, not even its supporters, who think the government-ordered destruction was a collective punishment handed out to Muslims for their temerity to respond to the incendiary slogans shouted during the processions.
Domicide or Killing Homes
Such demolitions should be called domicide, a term Canadian academician J Douglas Porteous coined. This term is explained in detail in Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, which Porteous and another Canadian academician Sandra E. Smith wrote in 2001. They begin by asking why home is not just a house, why it matters immensely to people.
After doing the round of the outside world daily, all of us, Porteous and Smith write, "gladly re-enter our homes—places that are quiet refuges from the outside world; places in which we can truly be ourselves and display and nurture of our being; places in which, above all, we may experience centeredness, identity, and security." They, therefore, argue that the deliberate destruction of home against the will of the home-dweller ought to be called domicide.
"Briefly domicide is the murder of home… Domicide is the deliberate killing of home," they write. This form of murder has specified goals and, as in the case of genocide, is carried out by a superior power, often the State.
The State's goals could include building airports, roads, hydro-power projects, offices and commercial complexes. Domicide as a tactic is deployed in war, in counter-insurgency operations, and as a tool for ethnic cleansing to make a given territory homogeneous and lay claims to it. "Jews flooded into Palestine after 1945 and committed domicide against about one million Palestinians in 1948 and 1967," the two authors point out, ironic for a religious group which had suffered both domicide and genocide in Hitler's Germany.
Obviously, domicide is a lesser horror than genocide. "While domicide requires that victims remain alive to suffer the loss of home and perhaps rebuild their lives, genocide requires the deaths of the victim," Porteous and Smith say. Yet domicide hurts because "home can…be one of the deepest wounds to one's identity and self-identity, for both of these props to sanity reside in part in objects and structures that we cherish."
Powerful authorities resort to domicide because they know home is central to each individual, and its destruction will make the home-dweller suffer, evident also from the briefings of Parveen Fatima's family members.
Porteous and Smith focus on large-scale domicide, but they also cite individual cases of deliberate killing of home. For instance, Albert Dryden built his home with his own hands at Bustfield, north England. In 1988, the local planning department claimed Dryden had done so without securing its permission. After Dryden exhausted all his appeals to save his home, the local department sent a bulldozer to flatten it.
A knot of people gathered to watch the pulling down of Dryden's home. A frustrated Dryden fired at the crowd. The man who took the bullet was Harry Collinson, the director of the planning department. Porteous and Smith write, "His neighbours are equivocal about the now-jailed Dryden's extremism, but some regard him as a martyr regarding the rights of private property and the sanctity of the home."
The authors cite an example from India, albeit a fictional one, even though India has witnessed large-scale domicides through its history. They cite Cavasji, a character from Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel Such a Long Journey, berating god thus: "No other place You could find? Here only all the trouble, always? The darkness, the flood, the fire, the fight? Why not Tata Palace? Why not Governor's mansion."
Porteous and Smith, tongue-in-cheek, note, "He [Cavasji] is berating the wrong person, for it is just those who do not suffer domicide – namely business and government people—who perpetrate it. Tata Palace and the Governor's mansion are immune." To this list, in 2022, add the names of the Adanis and the Ambanis, the Hindutva footsoldiers who lynch, BJP leaders who preach hate, and personalities like Nupur Sharma whose punishment for demeaning the Prophet was suspension from the BJP, not demolition of her home.
Domicide is discriminatory. It is about certain groups being denied their rights; they are India's unequal citizens, the Adivasis being the foremost among them. The Prime Minister's slogan of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas must sound as a cruel joke to the victims of India's policy of domicide, extended from forested and remote areas to its urbane heart, where Muslims largely reside.
The author is an independent journalist. The views are personal
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Q: Radio Button within Iteration - When user selects radiobutton, store the associated sourceId in attribute 'accountId' Currently, I'm iterating through a wrapper that includes sourceId (aka accountId) and Opportunity Name, etc. When the user selects a radio button, I want to capture that sourceId in an attribute at the top of my component called "accountId".
    selectAccountRadioGroupOnChange : function(component, event, helper) {
    helper.setAccountId(component, helper);
}

The JS Helper is attempting to get the value attribute on the specific Radio Button that was selected.
    setAccountId : function(component, helper) {
    console.log(component);
    var accountIdOnRadioButton =  component.get("v.selectAccountRadioGroup");
    component.set('v.accountId', accountIdOnRadioButton);
    console.log('accountIdOnRadioButton', accountIdOnRadioButton);
}

You can see the console.log returns 'undefined'

<aura:component access="public" implements="force:appHostable,lightning:isUrlAddressable" controller="MyController">

<aura:attribute name="compositeWrapper" type="Object" />
<aura:attribute name="options" type="List" default="[{'label': '', 'value': 'option1'}]"/>
<aura:attribute name="value" type="String"/>
<aura:attribute name="accountId" type="String"/>

Note I'm trying to set value here to {!organization.sourceId}, which is the Account ID. This would allow me to then get that Account Id later. (Also, note here: onchange="{!c.selectAccountRadioGroupOnChange}")

        <aura:iteration items="{!v.compositeWrapper.organizations}" var="organization">

                    <lightning:radioGroup name="selectAccountRadioGroup"
                        onchange="{!c.selectAccountRadioGroupOnChange}"
                        variant="label-hidden"
                        options="{!v.options}"
                        value="{!organization.sourceId}"
                        type="radio"
                    />

                {!organization.organizationName}

                    <lightning:formattedDateTime value="{!organization.lastPurchaseDate}"/>

A: component
 <aura:component>
    <aura:attribute name="options1" type="List" default="['1','2','3']"/>
    <aura:attribute name="options" type="List" default="[{'label': '', 'value': 'option1'}]"/>
    <aura:attribute name="value" type="String" default="option1"/>
 <aura:iteration items="{!v.options1}" var="organization">
     <input type="radio" id="{!organization}" name="options"  onclick="{!c.checkboxSelect}"  />
    </aura:iteration>
</aura:component>
}

and in js
checkboxSelect: function(component, event, helper) {
   var selectedaccId= document.querySelector('input[name="options"]:checked').id;
console.log(selectedaccId);

}


Quasi-underground cannabis events have become prolific in the District. On any given night of the week, a cannabis enthusiast or seeker can find several events across each of the City's quadrants, often as many as nine in a night. In a bazaar-like setting, event attendees will have the option to purchase or consume many forms of cannabis from a large vendor roster. In response to the increasing frequency and exposure of these events, the MPD has been devoting considerable resources to crack down on these speakeasies, causing tensions to rise between law enforcement and event vendors. Since January 2018, the MPD has raided at least ten events, either subject to a warrant or in response to public safety concerns and complaints from neighbors. Tensions seem to have reached a boiling point this summer, with the MPD executing at least six raids in June and July 2018.
Why now? The MPD has attributed its recent prosecutorial efforts of events to public safety. The 5th District has spearheaded this effort, creating a Crime Suppression Unit which coordinates and carries out many of these raids. In a statement MPD's 5th District Commander attributed an increase in violent crime in the area to cannabis events in Northeast. Following one of the June raids, Council member McDuffie (Ward 5) issued a press release regarding increasing efforts to crackdown on illegal cannabis events. The public messaging of the Unit and the Councilman is to prevent violent crimes that are occurring in the vicinity of these events. And the fact that the Unit has uncovered handguns at multiple raids further justifies its public safety objective.
But is the threat of violence the main reason for this increased police scrutiny?
Perhaps it's the saturation of the "market" and the growing population of vendors and participants that are now too numerous for the MPD to ignore. Perhaps it's the widespread and inconspicuous advertising from event promoters and vendors across social media platforms. Perhaps it's the attraction to out-of-state vendors and customers, who transport cannabis back to their home jurisdictions. Perhaps it's the over 250 K2 overdoses that occurred in July 2018.
Whatever the reason or reasons – it is clear that the MPD will continue to raid events in an effort to disrupt the growing subterranean cannabis economy.


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Japanese youths love Line. But is social fatigue setting in?
Japanese mobile marketing research company Livigen conducted a survey of 200 students about their usage of social network applications. When asked about which social network apps they use most frequently, 65% of respondents answered Line, 29% said Twitter, and 5% Facebook (see chart below). Back in August at its 'Hello Friends in Tokyo' conference, Line Corporation announced that among its 230 million registered users to date, 47 million come from Japan. That's a pretty hefty figure considering that the country's population is about 130 million.
When asked why they prefer Line, many students responded that most of their communication with friends happens there, phone calls are free, and its an easy way to get in touch with friends. Students who favor Twitter cited its ease of use, the ability to read tweets by celebrities, and the general wide variety of information, stories, and photos. Students who like Facebook say they like to find out what friends are up to, and they also like how it helps them keep in touch with friends overseas.
Looking at the social space outside of Japan, we have seen quite a few reports this year about 'Facebook fatigue'. This may also be true for social networks in Japan, and not just for Facebook either. Livigen asked Line users if they feel and fatigue toward using the mobile chat service. 8.5% responded that they feel a strong sense of fatigue, while 16.5% answered that they felt somewhat tired of it. That's a total of 25% showing some weariness. As for heavy users of Twitter, 15.5% responded that they feel some fatigue, while 7.5% said the same for Facebook.
Line and Twitter are both popular among young people, but for Facebook, kids tend to open an account as part of their job-hunting process. Although kids are connected with their friends on Twitter, its 'at-your-own-pace' characteristic allows for a more loose connection. In contrast, all notifications you get on Line (messages, stamps, invitation to Line game, etc.) are addressed to you specifically, and people often feel more pressure to respond.
Admittedly this survey used a very small sample, but Line is undoubtedly the dominant communication tool among kids in Japan. The closed nature of this social network provides comfort and security that many mainstream users want.
Closed can be good, but is it too closed? Figuring out the right distance to put between friends is mostly a responsibility left to the social network users. For now, Line appears to have hit the sweet spot for Japanese users, but it remains to be seen whether it stays that way.
How we socialize online is, of course, always changing.
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Tokyo Office Tour: Panoplaza has a 360-degree view of the world
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Rick Martin 2013.10.28
Panoplaza, a platform created by Tokyo-based Kadinche, enables the creation of virtual spaces through the use of panoramic technology. In the past we have written about some implementations, including a number of retailers who use it to more realistically show how their store looks, all in the browser and viewable across many devices. Check out their panoramas of Daimaru department stores or Tokyu Hikarie to see what the service is capable of doing. In our latest Tokyo Office Tour, I had a chance to visit the Kadinche office. CEO Soko Aoki explained a little more about how they work, and what lies ahead for Panoplaza. I like photography, so it was really fun to see some of the gear they use on their Panoramic photo shoots. In addition to super-wide fisheye lenses, they also have some custom fabricated tools (using a Makerbot 3D printer on site) for mounting multiple GoPro cameras for 360-degree video recording. Panoplaza's advantage, of course, lies in its software, and the end result when the images are processed into the final panoramic presentation. Soko expects that retailers and e-commerce players will make more use of these panoramic presentation, as it has high potential as an O2O…
Panoplaza, a platform created by Tokyo-based Kadinche, enables the creation of virtual spaces through the use of panoramic technology. In the past we have written about some implementations, including a number of retailers who use it to more realistically show how their store looks, all in the browser and viewable across many devices. Check out their panoramas of Daimaru department stores or Tokyu Hikarie to see what the service is capable of doing.
In our latest Tokyo Office Tour, I had a chance to visit the Kadinche office. CEO Soko Aoki explained a little more about how they work, and what lies ahead for Panoplaza.
I like photography, so it was really fun to see some of the gear they use on their Panoramic photo shoots. In addition to super-wide fisheye lenses, they also have some custom fabricated tools (using a Makerbot 3D printer on site) for mounting multiple GoPro cameras for 360-degree video recording. Panoplaza's advantage, of course, lies in its software, and the end result when the images are processed into the final panoramic presentation.
Soko expects that retailers and e-commerce players will make more use of these panoramic presentation, as it has high potential as an O2O tool.
For users, being able to access such a virtual space online has many benefits, as you retain the sense of exploring a realistic space. But you can also benefit from supplementary info and functions, like clicking on a product to see more information or to make a purchase directly. Just recently Kadinche announced two new retailers that are using its service: Kintetsu Department Store (see their Abeno Harukas store panoramas) and Seibu Department Store in Shibuya (see their 15 panorama spots here).
Readers may recall that the company has previously partnered with Stores.jp to help small businesses create panoramic online store fronts.
Given the work required to do these photo shoots, the business does lack some scalability at present. But the company has managed to carve out a niche that appeals to big retailers, and Soko hopes they can manage to scale their operations further so they can do more. I hope they can do well, because I think the upcoming 2020 Olympics could represent an opportunity for a company like Kadinche, helping the city and its many retailers with promotion.
CEO Soko Aoki at the Kadinche office
Their meeting room sits just adjacent to a pedestrian street in a quiet neighborhood
Kadinche logo signals we're in the right spot
Fisheye lenses galore, and a fun Go Pro set-up for video
A 3D printer for making custom mounts
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Japanese personal accounting startup Money Forward raises $5 million
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See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Money Forward, the startup behind the personal accounting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised 500 million yen ($5 million) from Japanese investment company Jafco. Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The company also announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter. The service launched back in December of 2012 in beta, and subsequently launched its official version back in July of 2013. The company's CEO Yosuke Tsuji told us that their service has acquired over 100 million accounting records from users, up 43% on average in the last several months [1]. He explained: We launched an asset simulation tool called 'Yoso-Q' this past July, and it has been getting lots of attention from our users. Its daily active users are much higher than we expected. When we look at…
See the original story in Japanese.
Tokyo-based Money Forward, the startup behind the personal accounting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised 500 million yen ($5 million) from Japanese investment company Jafco.
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The company also announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
The service launched back in December of 2012 in beta, and subsequently launched its official version back in July of 2013. The company's CEO Yosuke Tsuji told us that their service has acquired over 100 million accounting records from users, up 43% on average in the last several months [1]. He explained:
We launched an asset simulation tool called 'Yoso-Q' this past July, and it has been getting lots of attention from our users. Its daily active users are much higher than we expected. When we look at visiting frequency, almost 30% of our users who have registered their bank accounts on our service are using the simulation tool once every two days.
Their personalized credit card recommendation engine is especially popular among users. It proposes cards based on how much you pay on a monthly basis, or what kind of rewards you want to get. Their 60% of users are male, and 40% are female.
CHART: The growth of expense data collected from Money Forward users
Simplifying income tax reporting
Cloud-based accounting is a fierce space here in Japan, where Tokyo-based startup Freee is doing well in its user acquisition. According to Tsuji, Money Forward will be also getting into this space, launching a tax reporting tool later next month. It will simplifies your tax reporting tasks by scraping expenses from your bank accounts and sorting out automatically.
So what is his overall goal for Money Forward? He explains:
Along with the account aggregation technology, we'll be providing various services for users including asset management and simulation for individuals, and cloud-based accounting for SMEs. When you have money management troubles, you find the answer at Money Forward. That's what we're aiming to be.
With the funds raised this time around, the company plans to hire more engineers in an effort to be a leading one-stop solution provider.
The startup was spun-off from Tokyo online stock brokerage Monex in 2012. It raised 100 million yen (over $1 million) back in March from several angel investors and WIT Corporation, a technology licensing organization under Waseda University.
Not to be confused with user growth, of course.↩
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Traditional Japanese craftsmanship comes online, reaches fans outside of Japan
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For the many fans of Japanese craftsmanship who reside outside of Japan, there are two e-commerce websites you might want to keep your eyes on. Unique Japan and Alexcious both provide such products. The first is operated by a Canadian couple who have fallen in love with Japanese art, and the latter was founded by an Japanese entrepreneur who previously worked at Sony and Google Japan. Unique Japan launched back in 2006, introducing many traditional craftsmanships including hand-crafted knives, or Daruma, a round Japanese wishing doll. But believe it or not, their speciality is Japanese swords. The founder of Unique Japan is a passionate fan of antique Samurai swords. On the site, you can find a page titled '7 points to consider when choosing your Japanese sword,' which includes professional advice when considering a sword purchase. Unique Japan also has a beautiful gallery of ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. As for Alexcious, it showcases a wider variety of products. This ranges from interior products to toys, from tech to Japanese sake. The Japanese entrepreneur behind the ecommerce service is Koichiro Tsujino, who is ex-Sony and a former Google Japan president. For some of its products, Alexcious provides great…
For the many fans of Japanese craftsmanship who reside outside of Japan, there are two e-commerce websites you might want to keep your eyes on. Unique Japan and Alexcious both provide such products. The first is operated by a Canadian couple who have fallen in love with Japanese art, and the latter was founded by an Japanese entrepreneur who previously worked at Sony and Google Japan.
Unique Japan launched back in 2006, introducing many traditional craftsmanships including hand-crafted knives, or Daruma, a round Japanese wishing doll. But believe it or not, their speciality is Japanese swords. The founder of Unique Japan is a passionate fan of antique Samurai swords. On the site, you can find a page titled '7 points to consider when choosing your Japanese sword,' which includes professional advice when considering a sword purchase. Unique Japan also has a beautiful gallery of ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
As for Alexcious, it showcases a wider variety of products. This ranges from interior products to toys, from tech to Japanese sake. The Japanese entrepreneur behind the ecommerce service is Koichiro Tsujino, who is ex-Sony and a former Google Japan president.
For some of its products, Alexcious provides great product videos. Below you can see how one product, a Makuzu-yaki sake cup, is crafted.
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Japanese mobile payments processor Coiney secures $8M in funding
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Masaru Ikeda 2013.10.28
Japan's Nikkei reported that Tokyo-based mobile payments processor Coiney will soon raise up to 800 million yen (approximately $8 million) from Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, the country's state-run investment fund which promotes emerging technology businesses. Our readers may recall that the startup raised 500 million yen ($5 million) back in August from Credit Saison, one of Japan's top credit card companies. The company expects to transact more than 1 trillion yen ($10 billion) through its payment platform in the next five years. Coiney was launched back in March of 2012 by ex-PayPal Japan employee Naoko Samata, and has been providing mobile payments solutions using swipe card readers for smartphones. In Japan, other competitors in this space are Square, Paypal Here, and Rakuten Smartpay. On a related note, it was announced a couple of weeks ago that the aforementioned fund announced will also invest up to 1 billion yen ($10 million) in another payments processor company, Royal Gate.
Japan's Nikkei reported that Tokyo-based mobile payments processor Coiney will soon raise up to 800 million yen (approximately $8 million) from Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, the country's state-run investment fund which promotes emerging technology businesses.
Our readers may recall that the startup raised 500 million yen ($5 million) back in August from Credit Saison, one of Japan's top credit card companies. The company expects to transact more than 1 trillion yen ($10 billion) through its payment platform in the next five years.
Coiney was launched back in March of 2012 by ex-PayPal Japan employee Naoko Samata, and has been providing mobile payments solutions using swipe card readers for smartphones. In Japan, other competitors in this space are Square, Paypal Here, and Rakuten Smartpay.
On a related note, it was announced a couple of weeks ago that the aforementioned fund announced will also invest up to 1 billion yen ($10 million) in another payments processor company, Royal Gate.
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Viibar wins OnLab demo day with crowdsourced video production solution
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See the original story in Japanese. All photos courtesy of Open Network Lab. Tokyo-based startup incubator Open Network Lab (OnLab for short) held a demo day event earlier this week, showcasing five startups from the 7th batch of its incubation program. The Best Team Award and the Special Award were presented to two startups who have shown solid growth in the last six months of their incubating period. Let's do a quick rundown of the startups that have graduated from the program. Viibar (The Best Team Award winner) Viibar is a crowdsourcing platform focusing on video production. For enterprises or startups, you may need to produce video clips or ads to promote your products or services online. By splitting your video production process into small tasks, this platform lets you create high quality videos at affordable rates by taking advantage of crowdsourced skills. The startup can also accept orders to create YouTube TrueView video ads, providing content optimization advice and measurement of ad effectiveness so that your viewers are more likely keep watching your video through to the end. The concept of its '1 min videos' production service is similar to that of Korea's 500videos. Locarise (The Special Award winner)…
See the original story in Japanese. All photos courtesy of Open Network Lab.
Tokyo-based startup incubator Open Network Lab (OnLab for short) held a demo day event earlier this week, showcasing five startups from the 7th batch of its incubation program.
The Best Team Award and the Special Award were presented to two startups who have shown solid growth in the last six months of their incubating period. Let's do a quick rundown of the startups that have graduated from the program.
Viibar (The Best Team Award winner)
Viibar is a crowdsourcing platform focusing on video production. For enterprises or startups, you may need to produce video clips or ads to promote your products or services online. By splitting your video production process into small tasks, this platform lets you create high quality videos at affordable rates by taking advantage of crowdsourced skills.
The startup can also accept orders to create YouTube TrueView video ads, providing content optimization advice and measurement of ad effectiveness so that your viewers are more likely keep watching your video through to the end. The concept of its '1 min videos' production service is similar to that of Korea's 500videos.
Locarise (The Special Award winner)
Locarise is an analytics solution for retail stores. By placing small sensors inside and around your store, the system can collect metrics such as how many people passed in front of the store and how many customers you have served.
The system's web-based dashboard shows you these metrics, as well as other things like visit duration, and retention rate. For a business owner monitoring many store locations, you can easily stay up to date on real-time target rates for KPIs at many stores in a single interface.
Shakring
Regardless of location, culture, or language, this mobile app lets you to ask or tell other users what you're looking at. By scanning barcodes, it also helps you find details about what you have in your hand.
When the app's creator, Hyongchol, Kim visited a drug store here in Japan, he saw a young Indian confused about cold medicine he should buy. Since he couldn't read Japanese characters, he hesitated to buy the medicine despite the fact that Kim told him which one it was. This experience motivated Kim to create the app, which he is preparing for iOS and Android platforms.
Style With is an e-commerce site for men, helping them coordinate their outfits. Users' preferences are classified according to the 'taste graph' concept, and you will receive about five different outfit proposals of outfits every month that you might like. The platform can monetize by letting a user buy any item from the outfits proposed. It targets male users may not be very bold in their fashion but want to purchase clothes that will turn some heads.
Ednity
Ednity is a vertical social network for school classes. By putting teachers, students, and their parents in a sort of loop, it will help them build a collaborative education environment. The platform gives you a dashboard to manage notifications from school and your homework, and also provides a virtual white board for hand-drawn content that can be shared between teachers and their children.
Open Network Lab is now inviting applications from startups looking to join the upcoming batch of its incubation program starting next January. The application deadline is November 8th. The incubator's parent company, Digital Garage, will also launch a co-working space in San Francisco pretty soon, where their incubated startups will be able to establish a base.
To commemorate the launch of the facility, the company plans to host Global Pitch 2013 on November 4th, and New Context Conference 2013 in San Francisco on November 5th and 6th. That's just before digital agency Btrax's SF Japan Night event at Pivotal Labs on November 7th.
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For sometime now The Witch Doctor has advised that bloggers keep an eye on what Dr Grumble is reading as well as what he says himself. He has a rare, astute, birds-eye view of the world that eludes many.
You will find what he is reading at the top left right hand corner of his blog.
This is of interest to The Witch Doctor because quite independently she came across similar information a while ago after following her own interesting Intertwinglements but didn't blog about it at the time. (There are many Intertwinglements she has not blogged about). Her Intertwinglements on this matter have become so tangled up that she fears she will have to start all over again on this one!


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INVEST TCI TO SIT ON CAIPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2023-2024
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Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, January 18th, 2023 – In a year-end meeting of the members of the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA), held on December 19th, 2022, the members elected a new president, Mr. Ronald Theodore, CEO of the Grenada Investment Development Corporation, along with a new Board of Directors for 2 years 2023-2024.
Mr. Theodore, no stranger to CAIPA, worked with the organization when the Association began in 2007 and served as the President of CAIPA from 2013-2014.
Ronald Theodore, CEO of the Grenada Investment Development Corporation
Angela Musgrove, CEO of Invest Turks and Caicos
Members of the CAIPA Board of Directors were also elected to their posts on December 19th: 1st Vice President, Ms. Diane Edwards, President of JAMPRO (Jamaica), 2nd Vice President, Dr. Leroy Almendarez, Executive Director of BELTRAIDE (Belize), Director 1, Mr. Sekou Alleyne, President of InvesTT (Trinidad and Tobago), Director 2, Ms. Rhoda Josephs, Executive Director of IDA (Dominica), Director 3, Ms. Jeanette Bonet, Executive Director of CINEX (Curacao) and Director 4, Mrs. Angela Musgrove, CEO of Invest TCI (Turks and Caicos Islands). The outgoing President, Ms. Annette Mark, Executive Director of InvestSVG, will also support the Board in an ex-officio role.
In her appointment as a Director of CAIPA, Angela Musgrove stated, "Invest TCI has been a strong partner of CAIPA from the Agency's inception. We are delighted to have a representative on the Board of Directors and will do our part to ensure representation and visibility for the Turks and Caicos and the Caribbean. I look forward to working with my colleagues from around the region to ensure the success of CAIPA."
In speaking about his vision for the Caribbean and CAIPA, Mr. Theodore noted, "I intend to help position CAIPA as a contributor to the integration process in the Caribbean, pulling the Caribbean together. We are at a crucial point in our history. Investment promotion funding is scarce, investor confidence is low, and the Caribbean is highly dependent on investment to move our economies forward. This is not a time for us to work on our own. We must work together to position the Caribbean as a destination for investment. A rising tide will float all boats. All our countries will benefit if we push a Caribbean brand." Mr. Theodore also noted that for the period of his tenure, his focus will be on building strategic partnerships.
Mr. Theodore will be supported by members of the CAIPA Board of Directors.
About Invest Turks and Caicos
Invest Turks and Caicos is the Islands' Investment Promotion Agency, responsible for enhancing the economy through the attraction, growth and retention of overseas investment; and supporting the growth of local businesses.
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Oliver Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry (August 23, 1785 - August 23, 1819) was an American naval officer. He served in the War of 1812 and earned the nickname "Hero of Lake Erie".
At his request during the war he was given command of U.S. Naval forces on Lake Erie. He supervised the building of a small fleet. On September 10, 1813 Perry's fleet defended against an attacking British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. His battle report after victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours".
While this opened Canada up to possible invasion, it simultaneously protected the entire Ohio Valley. It was the only significant fleet engagement of the war.
In 1819, during an expedition to Venezuela, he died of disease caused by indiginous insects.
Son of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry (December 4, 1760 - June 8, 1818) and Sarah Wallace Alexander (1764 - December 4, 1830), his younger brother was Matthew Calbraith Perry.
During the 20th century, the U.S. Navy named a class of guided missile frigates after Perry, the Oliver Hazard Perry class.
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Juice of 2 lemons squeezed mixed with one tablespoon cold-pressed olive oil, a teaspoon of grape syrup (jelly) or a teaspoon of honey and juice 2 cloves garlic. This syrup drink once a day, in the morning under fasting conditions.
It makes a mixture of 20 grams of honey, 20 ml olive oil and 20 ml brandy. The resulting mixture is placed in a vial and put it in 6-7 drops in the nose, in the morning and evening.
In a glass bowl placed 500 grams of honey, 250 milliliters of lemon juice and 250 ml olive oil. The ingredients mix well with a wooden spoon, until a uniform mixture. From this mixture take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day, 2 hours after a meal.
It makes a mixture of 50 grams of carob honey, 10 ml fish oil and 30 ml of cold pressed olive oil. The resulting grease mix well, so it was put 10 drops of 20% solution of propolis, and stir well again. Grease stir before each use. This grease is applied hygiene (with gloves) three times a day, and are bent from the top with sterile gauze.
If you have a hard and cracked heels every night after thoroughly washing the feet moisten with half a lemon, then olive oil. Bind cotton socks and leave treatment act until morning. Repeat the treatment until healed heels.


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Ideas to help manufacturing grow, prosper in the state
Trenton | Apr 13, 2018 at 7:10 am
Senate President Steve Sweeney has thoughts on helping manufacturing in the state.
Sweeney (D-West Deptford), who helped to create the manufacturing caucus, spoke in length last week at the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program's annual State of the State about sponsoring a $750 million bond issue to fund the expansion of vocational and technical education facilities, as well as manufacturing programs and safety protocols within high schools and county colleges.
"We hear from you that 40,000 jobs go unfilled each year because we simply haven't trained enough people for those jobs," he said. "Then we hear that there are 15,000 kids each year who can't get into vocational schools because we have made them institutes of technology.
"Through Sen. (Bob) Gordon's work and our bipartisan caucus, we have started recognizing where we are failing."
Sweeney said the work could begin by expanding "stackable credits" outside of the Gloucester County Institute of Technology and Rowan University.
"The idea is that if you need a certificate to do a certain job, you can get it and go to work," Sweeney said. "If you only need so much education to make a living, get it, go to work, and if something changes and you need to learn more, go back. You can work your way through vocational school, county college and a university this way by getting the education that you need when you need it.
"No one is against this idea in Trenton. The challenge for me now is to expand this idea beyond Gloucester County."
Michele Siekerka, CEO and president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, said time is of the essence.
"New Jersey is the No. 1 out-migrator of millennials between 18 and 34 years old in the nation," she said. "These are the students we have taken the time to educate using the highest property taxes in the nation for one of the best deliveries of kindergarten through 12th grade education, and they are leaving. That is not a very good return on investment."
Siekerka said her organization has and will continue to serve as a facilitator between New Jersey businesses, academia, policy makers, students and nonprofits to identify skills gaps and put forth recommendations on how to solve them.
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"We've also put together a task force — involving many of you in the room as well as businesses, K through 12 schools, career and technical educators, community colleges, public and private four-year secondary educators, nonprofits, the Department of Labor, the Secretary of Higher Education, and the Department of Education — to discuss with millennials how to make post-secondary education in New Jersey attractive and affordable so graduating high school seniors don't leave and how to be honest about traditional career pathways."
John Kennedy said he was thrilled that more than 150 manufacturers attended the first session of the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program's second annual State of the State last week at the Trenton War Memorial.
The CEO of the NJMEP just knows there could be more.
"There are nearly 11,000 manufacturers in the state," Kennedy said. "I, too, own a manufacturing company and could give myself every excuse to not be involved. But we cannot assume that our legislators and our government know everything about what we do and vice versa.
"If we do not get involved, we do not get to speak to the people who make decisions on our behalf."
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Universal Studios Singapore – Update 06/2012
By Dejiki on June 23, 2012 in Theme Parks, USS Park Updates
This is the park's busy middle-of-year season, and there has been some interesting developments.
Battlestar Galactica: Metal Detectors
Sesame Street merchandise
Sesame Street indoor ride – possible info on ride system
Press-A-Penny Souvenir Coin Machines
In recent weeks, the park has started using metal detectors to check guests' pockets before allowing them to enter the queue area of Battlestar Galactica. Before this, the park crew would either use visual inspection, ask guests to pat their pockets, or use a stick to tap their pockets.
Like what I've said in the previous update, the Brown Derby was closed and likely to be reopened as a Sesame Street store. It has reopened, still as Brown Derby, but sells only Sesame Street merchandise. While the ceiling is still unfinished and the store still plays music from the Hollywood zone (which doesn't seem fitting anymore), it has a wide variety of items available.
Here are some photos from the store:
There are a lot of stuffed toys available, but none of them seem to be park-exclusive items.
Caps and Headbands.
Magnets.
Rock Candy, S$7.90 per pack. I think this is a simple and nice gift.
Apart from a dedicated retail outlet, Sesame Street merchandise can also be found at the Hollywood zone, at Universal Studios Store and pushcarts.
Some of you might know that an indoor dark ride based on E.T. was announced for Universal Studios Singapore and was supposed to be built at New York zone. This is supposed to be an upgraded, special version for Singapore that is unlike existing E.T. Adventure rides. Unfortunately, after its initial announcement, the ride was never mentioned again and was quietly removed from the park's list of attractions. Here is a snippet from the original press release:
E.T.: The Flight Home
"RWS will bring to Universal Studios Singapore an all-time favourite Universal Studios' ride: E.T.: THE FLIGHT HOME. Steven Spielberg's timeless classic is brought to life in a fantasy attraction that captures the charm of childhood and the thrill of flying on an intimate scale that's sure to delight grandkids and grandparents alike.
A "dark ride", E.T.: The Flight Home brings that fantasy of flying to visitors, who will escort the Extra-Terrestrial back to his home planet. Here, in this other worldly realm, a celebration takes place welcoming E.T. back to a world filled with fantasy, warmth and charm. This unique version of the adventure brings the charm and sweetness of E.T. to life in a flying adventure tale that is language independent-for guests from China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore."
Now then, this is speculative, but I believe these are the tracks for the Sesame Street indoor ride.
The tracks do look similar to the ones used in E.T. Adventure's, so it is possible that the Sesame Street ride will utilize a similar ride system.
Besides, I believe one of the Sesame Street character is able to fly (?). At the Sesame Street building facade, the characters are superimposed on a starfield, and there are two "movie" posters showing characters in outer space. It could either be mere coincidence, or foreshadowing the story for the ride.
From the looks of it, it is an overhead track design – meaning ride vehicles will be suspended under the track. The track are mostly straight elements with very gentle, gradual turns and bends. There does not appear to be any inclined track pieces, so it is unlikely for there to be ascending or descending element (meaning: no lift hill or drop) in the ride. Furthermore, given the single-rail, suspended vehicle ride design, this ride should be a slow and gentle one – as expected to fit with its Sesame Street theme. The best hope now is that the Universal Creative has some tricks up their sleeve with the ride vehicles, with some interactivity or surprises.
Coming from another train of thought: If these are the tracks for the Sesame Street ride, they are still lying about outside. Will the park be able to get the ride done up before the end of the year?
Jurassic Park Press-A-Penny machine
Sci-Fi City/Transformers Press-A-Penny machine
I was quite surprised the park too so long to get these machines up. Mind you, the park has been selling coin albums since 2010. I'm sure they found them hard to sell – after all, what's the point of buying the album if you don't even have anything to slot inside? Not anymore!
Three Press-A-Penny machines can be found in the park. They are located at three themed zones at the moment:
Sci-Fi City, outside Transformers Supply Vault
Jurassic Park, inside Dino-Store
Hollywood, inside Universal Studios Store
According to a store manager, the park plans to have at least one machine in every zone of the park, but it'll be some time before we see more machines in the park.
As each machine offers 4 designs, you can collect the first 12. The park sells coin albums for $16.90 each, with a capacity for 56 coins.
Here are all 12 coins, courtesy of a friend who pressed them all in one afternoon!
Unlike coin machines in other parks I've been too, the ones here seemed very popular. At $2, it is a simple and affordable gift, with a small personal touch. After all, the coins need to be "made" in the park. The younger guests just can't wait for their turn to turn the crank.
The machines are fairly reliable with sharply-pressed images so far, however the pressed coins seem a bit too curved. My friend encountered a dud (where the image was severely misaligned). Simply approach a park crew member and they'll be glad to help out. They'll even turn the crank for you!
I intend to write a dedicated entry about these pressed coins, so please stay tuned for it!
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4 Responses to Universal Studios Singapore – Update 06/2012
Luke June 23, 2012 at 9:20 pm #
It has been a while since my last visit at the park…
I have never been on E.T., so I am actually quite excited about the Sesame Street ride….
But seeing that the tracks are still out there, I really wonder if they could finish in time, or even if they managed, will this rush result in a low quality ride?
Anyway, Thanks for the update!
P.S. TDS and TDL are Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing……
Dejiki June 23, 2012 at 11:52 pm #
Thanks for dropping by again, Luke!
I believe the park is able to do things quickly, but probably we will see the consequences of rushing when the ride opens. The park itself was completed in slightly more than two years. Whenever a new ride opens, breakdowns and technical difficulties were commonplace.There is no point not rushing because they have a deadline to fulfill. I'm just concerned that this is a technically simple ride (again) – though it is hasty to jump to conclusions just by observing the type of tracks they intend to use.
Of course, Tokyo Disney Resort Parks have been rated as the best parks in the world by many theme park enthusiasts. Their parent company is very passionate and know that their target audience – the Japanese – are very hard to impress. This is why the parks' strategies focus on merchandising and seasonal entertainment – they play an important role to keep guests in love with the park! I'm glad to hear that you've enjoyed your trip there.
Jay June 24, 2012 at 7:42 am #
Dejiki have you ride on E.T when they used to had at USJ
elka maxwell October 5, 2012 at 11:27 am #
It'd be great to see some sesame st coin operated rides at fashion show mall las vegas.