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Sept 2019 - AIC Conference - speech by Wendy Norris
Adapting to a changing world: how the Future Fund is investing in private markets
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Speech by Wendy Norris, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Private Markets, at the 2019 Australian Investment Council Conference, Melbourne Victoria
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Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.
The Future Fund was established, as Australia's sovereign wealth fund, in 2006 to strengthen the Australian Government's long-term financial position.
We invest over $200bn across six public asset funds for the benefit of future generations of Australians. The largest fund is the Future Fund itself which currently stands at over $160bn – and we've added more than $100bn in earnings over the last 13 years.
In the last financial year, the Future Fund delivered a return of 11.5%pa and the return over ten years has been 10.4% pa. Our private markets investments, in particular private equity, contributed strongly to those results.
Today I will touch on our perspectives on investing in private markets and how Future Fund is adapting to the current investment environment.
Before I talk about the market, I'd like to introduce some exciting changes in the Future Fund team and describe how we approach private markets investing.
In 2017 the government announced its intention to defer withdrawals from the Future Fund from 2020 until 2026. This means the Fund will continue to grow through accumulated earnings for years to come.
In addition, the government has allocated additional funds to us to manage; most recently the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund and the Future Drought Fund.
Together with the Medical Research Future Fund, these perpetual portfolios exceed $25bn in their own right, materially increasing our appetite for private market investments.
Organisational Changes
These are major developments for us. They mark the beginning of a demanding new phase as we design and build our organisation to manage portfolios of substantial additional size and complexity, while sustaining the success we have achieved to date.
Last year we reviewed our organisational structure to reinforce three key functions;
our investment process,
our technology and
our risk management
All designed to support efficient and flexible management of the portfolios as they continue to grow.
These changes will strengthen the core investment philosophy that has benefited us since 2006 - our guiding principal 'one team, one purpose' is at the forefront of our mind and the centre of our investment process.
Within the investment team, we created three new deputy chief investment officer roles to bring the public markets, private markets and portfolio strategy teams closer together.
I was appointed as Deputy CIO, Private Markets. Prior to this I was the Head of Infrastructure and Timberland.
David George was appointed Deputy CIO, Public Markets, and Sue Brake has recently joined us as the Deputy CIO, Portfolio Strategy.
Together with our Chief Investment Officer, Raphael Arndt, the four of us lead the bottom-up and top-down elements of our investment strategy, with a focus on a collaborative and 'joined up', approach to investing.
I was also delighted to welcome Alicia Gregory to the Future Fund as Head of Private Equity in April this year. Alicia brings outstanding experience as a leader and investor and is well positioned to further develop our successful private equity program. Sid Khotkar has also recently joined as a senior member of her team.
Future Fund's investment process
To give you a bit of insight to our process, I'll explain how the Future Fund goes about investing and how private markets fit in.
Our investment approach is based on working together for the benefit of the portfolio as a whole. This is our 'one team, one purpose' philosophy. It drives our culture and the way we invest.
When constructing our portfolios, we bring together top-down and bottom-up views – we call this being joined up.
Our top-down people look at the global economy, financial markets and political risk, and think about how this will impact the portfolio and the level of risk we can accept in pursuit of our objectives.
Our bottom-up people look across the world for great assets and investment managers, thinking about whether they are being well rewarded for the risks they are taking.
We seek to uncover the best investment opportunities across all sectors, rather than the best opportunities in each sector, and then to act with conviction on these opportunities. In this way we pursue diversification at a total portfolio level rather than creating series self-contained sector portfolios.
By blending together the big picture and local insights – the macro and the micro - we generate a rich and nuanced view of the opportunities and outlook, which enables us to create portfolios where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
This 'joined up' process leads us to a portfolio construction that is far from a typical 60/40 split between the public market asset classes of equities and bonds. In fact, as of 30 June 2019 the Future Fund had investments in private equity, private debt, property, infrastructure, timberland and alternatives that totalled around 45% of the portfolio.
Private Equity and Venture at Future Fund
As you can see, private markets investments play an important role in Future Fund's portfolio. At 30 June, Future Fund's private equity portfolio was over $25bn or nearly 16% of the total Fund.
Private equity fulfils two functions.
The first, in the large buyout space, is to invest in high 'alpha' opportunities, where we believe we can earn a significant premium over similar - but more liquid - public market equity investments.
Secondly, in the venture space, we seek to invest in strategies that we can't readily access in public markets - innovation and small company growth.
We invest primarily in funds and in co-investments and will selectively use fund-of-funds for specific initiatives.
To achieve this, we build our team from industry professionals that have the skills to meet our managers as peers, and the expertise to openly debate the merits of a deal with them.
This helps us to understand the skill and insight our managers bring to their fund portfolios, to be responsive to investment opportunities in real time and to thoughtfully build our co-investment exposures.
To focus more closely on venture - venture and growth capital play an important role in our private equity program, with around $15bn invested currently. It gives us access to the innovation cycle and delivers an uncorrelated risk exposure.
We don't think about our venture capital strategy in terms of geography – innovation is not bounded by geographical borders. We have a global perspective when searching for the best ideas.
We look for opportunities in markets that can scale rapidly and have the potential to deliver the 10x outcomes that are so critical to the success of venture capital funds. That is why the US, with its large developed business and consumer markets, has been a focus for us in the first 10 years of our portfolio build out.
We are also actively engaged in the development of the Australian venture market both with investment dollars and by using our global network to develop and create opportunities for the industry.
We have been pleased to partner with the Australian Investment Council to introduce some of our US fund-of-fund managers to the Australian market – this included Greenspring Associates in 2017 and Horsley Bridge earlier this year.
Following their visit in 2017, we created a dedicated Australian venture capital mandate with our existing manager Greenspring Associates and they are actively monitoring the market to assess opportunities.
Changing market landscape – the growth in private markets
Turning now to the market landscape, the emphasis Future Fund has placed on private markets investments reflects a powerful trend in global investment flows. Over the past 20 years we have witnessed a strong and sustained shift in the market landscape, with growing private markets on one hand and shrinking public markets on the other.
Privately held investments have grown twice as fast as public markets in the last decade. Private markets now account for more than US$6tn of market value - almost 10% of global investment assets - as McKinsey says 'private markets have graduated from the fringes of the economy to the mainstream'.
We are in a market environment where loose monetary policy has led to an unprecedented supply of capital, and, at the same time advancements in technology have decreased the need for capital investment. These forces have combined to produce a sustained period of low interest rates and low inflation.
Investors have more money to invest and fewer attractive opportunities to invest in, which causes them to look for places where they can earn greater returns. The illiquidity, complexity and skill premia that are available in private markets start to look very attractive.
Consequently, when investing in equity markets, private equity is becoming an increasingly important consideration in portfolio construction.
This brings with it two challenges – the first is that it takes greater manager skill to navigate all that complexity, and investors pay away a larger portion of the excess return through fees.
The second is that as an investor, you end up with a less flexible portfolio. There is a very real risk that you may not be able to meet the liquidity demands of your beneficiaries when they make them.
This means that all investors, including the Future Fund, need to be thoughtful about how they navigate the balance of risks and rewards in private markets and how they can gain access to the best opportunities, while all the time continuing to adapt and improve their investment processes to keep up.
How are the private equity and venture industries responding to these market changes?
These market changes are also having an impact on the private equity and venture capital industries.
In the private equity market, we see fund managers that are awash with capital striving to deliver the same returns they have delivered in the past. This is despite strong market competition for deals and less use of leverage.
Everyone is working harder to try to produce their desired returns.
In the past managers could buy almost any company, add some leverage and sell it on in a few years' time at a comfortable profit. Today's market requires them to seek every opportunity to add value, at every stage through the life cycle of the investment. Operating teams are becoming more and more prevalent. Fund managers are investing in technology to improve efficiency in deal sourcing and in due diligence. Leverage is being used more intelligently.
As they seek to maximise their competitive advantage, great managers are leaving no stone unturned.
In venture capital, the sustained inflow of money means entrepreneurs have more funding options than ever before. This gives young companies much more scope to grow in private markets without having to deal with all the regulation that goes with public listing.
Staying away from the public markets also allows entrepreneurs to take a long-term view and ride out market cycles. They can keep growing at a rapid pace without focusing on short-term profitability or providing the kinds of detailed information about their strategies that they would have to in the public markets.
Not surprisingly, venture companies are staying private for longer, stretching the definitions of venture and growth. As companies no longer look to public markets to fund their expansion stages, growth funds, 'select funds' or 'greatest hits' private funds are supplanting the role of IPOs. Those companies that do go public, or are acquired by a public company, are much older and more mature than they were in the late 1990's.
Venture fund managers are responding to the competitive environment by pulling every lever they can. Where private equity firms have developed operating teams, venture capital firms place more emphasis on the human element. By building networks of business growth experts and 'CEO whisperers' they cultivate their entrepreneurs and guide management teams to lead larger and more mature companies.
Impact on private markets investments
However, from the investor's perspective, the return dispersion between best and worst performing venture funds is large, and average market performance has been, well, average.
According to Bridgewater, when you look at the average market returns from venture funds over the last 20 years, there has been little return for illiquidity or the higher risk of early stage companies. Total venture capital returns post fees have underperformed both private equity and small cap stocks in all but the five years post the global financial crisis.
In the more recent past, a lot of the supercharged returns that used to be seen in the public markets for newly listed companies have disappeared, with recent IPOs tending to perform in line with overall listed equity market performance. This is consistent with companies IPOing at a more mature stage of their life cycle. Returns from younger companies have shifted from public to private markets.
How is Future Fund adapting to these market changes?
As I mentioned earlier, for the Future Fund, venture remains the key way to access the innovation cycle and disruptive technology, and it will continue to hold a prominent place in our portfolio as a result.
To ensure that we end up earning an acceptable return for the risk, we are keeping a laser-like focus on partnering with top quartile managers that are responding proactively to the changing macro environment.
It puts the onus on us to make active hold or sell decisions about the individual stocks we end up owning when mangers do exit their now more mature investments in to the public markets.
It also requires us to actively adjust our investment pacing decisions to reflect the longer expected hold periods across private equity and venture.
What are we currently prioritising?
We, like the fund managers we invest with, have more capital to manage and are working harder to maintain returns in a low interest rate environment.
We are investing in our organisation - enhancing our technology capability which is giving us more insight into our portfolio exposures. We are also uplifting our leadership skills as we push ourselves to collaborate more effectively and make better investment decisions.
We are working the portfolio harder to ensure that every exposure we hold is delivering the right outcome.
We are also focussed on getting the right balance of flexibility and return in our portfolio overall. To this end we have exited about A$5bn of private markets investments in the last couple of years. When assets become mature and the expected look-forward return has decreased, we look to sell them and re-deploy the capital within the portfolio.
The increasing maturity of secondary markets is helping us to optimise the portfolio we hold today, and we are focused on ensuring we are in the best possible position to maximise returns without taking excessive risk, in the future.
What is Future Fund looking for in investment managers?
We know capital is abundant right now, but we continue to look for partnerships that will stay with us through the long term.
Capital availability is like a pendulum and whilst it is very favourable towards managers right now, we know this will swing back at some stage and those who treat us well when capital is abundant will find us to be a great partner through leaner times.
We are always seeking strong and consistent investment processes which value diversity of perspective and that limit downside risk without cutting off the opportunity for the outperformers that significantly influence overall fund performance.
We also value robust fund manager business structures with considered sharing of economics and thoughtful team development and succession planning.
Partnership and an open two-way dialogue are becoming even more important to us. Asset owners face higher scrutiny and as we seek to be a responsible investor through the investments we make, we place more emphasis on understanding the way our managers engage with their investee companies about social and environmental impacts.
Let me conclude by thanking you once again for the opportunity to be here.
The Future Fund is in an exciting period of change and renewal as we embark on our next period of growth.
Private markets have graduated to the main stream of portfolio construction as investors around the world seek diversifying opportunities that offer attractive risk / return trade-offs beyond traditional public markets.
We collectively face an investment environment where capital supply is in abundance and the look-forward return environment is challenging, forcing – or creating the opportunity for – investors like us to respond by working harder to build more efficient processes and work their portfolios harder, while managers work harder to re-invest in their own value creation strategies.
The investment environment is changing, and we are adapting to it.
We look forward to continuing to partner with the private equity and venture industries as we work towards generating strong returns for the benefit of future generations of Australians.
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A wedding by the racetrack, Mary Kate and Aaron get married in their hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY.
An opera singer marries a music writer and have an Old Hollywood NY wedding at Tribeca Rooftop.
Rosaria and Ralph take 13 of their closest family and friends to Cabo to party at the Hacienda Cocina in Mexico.
With only 65 guest in attendance, Cheryl + Pete have an intimate dinner gathering on the farm at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
On a stormy day in NY, Christine and Frank celebrate their wedding inside Bryant Park Grill.
Jade + Kavin have a ceremony under the bridge before heading to Flushing for a traditional Chinese banquet reception.


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They wanted to appeal to the more discerning reader and equally attract interest from appropriate brands.
Our Brief was to create a clean brand and website that worked beautifully on mobile.
We designed a new modern brand that paid homage to the cycling brands of old in the 1950's.
The website was built using a fully responsive framework which adapts perfectly to desktop, tablet and mobile devices allowing for a great customer experience. Social media was designed to bring a consistent feel to all platforms.


The Lockheed AC-130 Specter is a heavily armed ground unit aircraft. The basis for this model was the transport aircraft. C-130 firm Lockheed. Installation of additional equipment and weapons involved in the company "Boeing". Actively used in the Vietnam War.
ensuring the defense of strategic sites and their bases.
Work on the creation of the most powerful battleship of the heavenly program "Ganship" started in 1965, the US Air Force wanted "Ganship" with the increase in the take-off weight, the duration of the flight cruising speed and heavily armed.
The most suitable platform to provide military transport aircraft Lockheed C-130. On conversion of the command of the Air Force was isolated unit C-130 tail number 54-1626. Its equipped with the following weapons: four modules MXU-470 and four guns "Volcano" 20 mm caliber. The plane got night vision equipment, which included an analog board computers, radar and powerful searchlights.
Until September, a number of improvements were made on the device and forwarded it to the Nyatran base. 27.09.1967 fired the first combat mission of the battleship. Flight lead Major Terry. Before 9, November "Super Spooks" (an armed aircraft got the nickname) made several sorties to carry out fire support for ground forces. On the night of October 9, the plane 1967 conducted a military flight to hit trucks on the "Ho Chi Minh Trail". Having reached the destination, six cars were identified, all successfully broken by sighting aviation light.
The first converted vehicle from JC-130 was placed at the disposal of the Air Force in the summer of 1968. In Vietnam, it was sent six months later. It had the same set of weapons as the Vulcan Express, but instead of a primitive infrared night vision system, they installed the best AN / AAD-4 and a stronger fire control computer system. Officially, the aircraft began to be called AS-130 "Plane Jane". Three more AC-130A were sent to Vietnam before the end of the year. The remaining three aircraft remained in the United States, at the Eglin airbase, where they trained crews preparing for military operations. In May 1969, they were redirected to the Ubon (Thailand) base, from which combat sorties were sent to Vietnam. All eight AS-130A units that were in the combat zone differed in the exterior and interior, which caused problems with maintenance.
Ninth AC 130A was distilled from the plant at Wright-Patterson AFB for testing to create a more modern "Ganshina" program "Surprise Pekkadzh." He spent two replacement 20-mm guns on Single-barrel machine guns "Bofors". The composition of avionics began to enter the TV system AN / ASQ-145, a laser rangefinder-tseleukazatelel. Analog onboard computers replaced by digital.
The program "Peyv Pronto" US Air Force entered into a contract with the company "LTV" of redeveloping another nine aircraft C-130. All were to receive a system of "Black Crow", capable of pinpoint operation of automobile engines, power of enemy air defenses and electronic warfare equipment.
Of the eight AU-130A aircraft during the conflicts in Southeast Asia, six survived. They were sent to the States for the equipment according to the criteria "Peyv pronto." The main task of the AS-130A was night hunting ground transportation plying the "Ho Chi Minh Trail." Battleships AU-130 16-armed special purpose squadron, which was based on Ubon Air Base. Perform regular flights began in 1969-1970 years.
Successful steel 1970-1971 years. Then there were the broken and damaged the car 12 741 opponent. But this figure is conditional, since more than 5 thousand. Wrecked cars attributed to his military achievements crews of other aircraft that conducted patrols trails.
Aircraft AC-130 conducted combat missions only in the dry season, because during the rains washed away roads and transport links between Laos and South Vietnam ceased. Each plane cruised over the path for about four hours. Target detection performed by the "Black Crow" system verifies the location of the IR and TV, then the crew tried as soon as possible to perform aiming.
It was possible to shoot to kill both manually and in automatic mode. The problem was the definition of damage to the enemy battleships machines. According to statistics, some trucks after a meeting with aviasnaryadami issued weapons from the complex AC 130A could start immediately and go.
Often, the Lockheed AC-130 made combat missions in conjunction with the RC-130S aircraft, on which 28 searchlights were installed. This bunch spent the night patrols of the trail.
During the Vietnam military conflict, the crews of these aircraft were crouching to avoid the oncoming fire from ground-based anti-aircraft installations, but there was not enough maneuverability from ground-to-air missiles. Even then it became clear that it was time to print Spectra out of this zone. But the daily successes in the form of the defeat of dozens of trucks did not allow the leadership of the US Air Force to take drastic measures. In the first decade of the 1971 year, over 2,5 thousand enemy trucks were destroyed, yet another amount was damaged. A tough rebuff to US aggression was given 31 March and 1 April 1951 r, when anti-aircraft guns shot down two US very expensive battleships.
Lockheed AC-130 Specter began to transfer to other points with a less dense concentration of enemy air defense systems. In particular, they were used to defeat Vietnamese tanks during the protection of An Locke. However, here the battleships were not able to make good resistance. The enemy by that time had the Strela missile system available. Thanks to him, the Communists shot down three aircraft AC-130. But the flights continued until the end of the war.
From the military conflict in the US returned home to ten aircraft, which were aimed at the airbase Halbart Field. The war took away the life of 52 people who were a part of the crew of "Ganshipov."


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D-Day Paratrooper falls prey to Covid-19
Apr15 by contoveros
An American hero has fallen to the Coronavirus and the world may never see the likes of him ever again.
Ninety-eight-year-old George Shenkle, a card-carrying member of the "Greatest Generation" took part in the invasion of Normandy more than 75 years ago, freeing our universe from the evil of the Nazis. He served as a paratrooper with three combat jumps – including both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge — and got a purple heart in return for the wounds he received after hitting the ground and running into enemy fire and explosions.
He didn't know at the age of 21 when he enlisted and became member of the Army's 82nd Airborne in 1942 that he was to take part in the largest amphibious assault ever. No more than 25 percent of the troop were expected to survive although a good 50 percent eventually made it back home.
"D-Day," as the Sixth of June since been called, started a two month-long attack on the beaches of Normandy, France, and led to Hitler's downfall a year later. It almost never materialized. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was ready to quit as commander of the Allied Forces when England Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his Air force leader opposed the plan. They gave in to Ike's demand and as they say, the rest became history.
Dwight Eisenhower addressing paratroopers the day before the D-Day Invasion.
"When we flew over the English Channel, we saw thousands of boats crossing, we thought we could walk on water." Shenkle recalled in an interview with Marc Laurenceau of the D-Day Overlord association. "Above the French coast, we were hit by anti-aircraft fire. We were relieved to leave the plane!"
As a radio operator, Shenkle provided communications between headquarters and his commanding officer. But the latter jumped far from the drop zone and he did not find him, according to Laurenceau (See post at D-Day Overlord).
"Our mission was to protect two bridges over the Merderet River, at La Fière and Chef-du-Pont," Shenkle reported. At dawn, with a few soldiers, he joined a group of 200 paratroopers awaiting orders. They took possession of what was designated Hill 30, According to Laurenceau. For three days, the paratroopers defended this promontory against German assaults.
German casualties were at a staggering 320,000 (30,000 dead, 80,000 wounded and the rest missing) and Allied casualties were at about 230,000 (more than 45,000 dead).
The entire operation was one of the bloodiest battles ever for Americans, as 19,000 U.S. soldiers lost their lives and more than 70,000 were wounded or went missing. For comparison, of the 12,000 British casualties, 200 were killed.
Over the course of "the longest day" of June 6, 1944 over 10,000 servicemen – Brits, Frenchmen Poles and other allies of the Americans who suffered the lion's share of those killed or wounded.
He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2014 by both Presidents François Hollande and Barack Obama.
Many of the men returning from the war suffered from nightmares, depression, rage and some even turned to alcohol, drugs and a few to suicide. This man became crotchety, some would even call him a "curmudgeon" in a more loving way as he roared like a lion at home and at work. He suffered from an untreated life-long dose of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) which was labeled as Battle Fatigue for World War II and "Shell shock" from World War I. "A Soldiers' Heart is what doctor's called the injuries of soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
But no bullet, no artillery shell or no landmine ever stopped this man. He survived flack shot at his airplane, which was part of an aerial armada C-47 Skytrain or C-53 Skytrooper which carried the elite paratroopers on their mission to seize objectives ahead of the seaborne landings.
No, the enemy never got to him in 1944, but the Virus of 2020 did. "These are no ordinary times," is what his daughter, Rebecca Goff, said of the battles her father engaged in during World War II. The same can be said today about our battle with a different enemy as we honor this man who placed himself in harm's way so that his family, friends and nations of the world would have a better life.
Photo Source: Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a26521.
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19 comments on "D-Day Paratrooper falls prey to Covid-19"
cabrogal says:
He served as a paratrooper with three combat jumps – including both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge
Are you sure of that?
I'm not aware of any paradrops during the Bulge. The weather was pretty awful.
BTW, I once met a German anarchist peace activist who fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a teenager. He was in the Waffen SS under Otto Skorzeny and ended the war with some serious decorations, including for knocking out two T-34s in quick succession with panzerfausts as they overran his position. He told me the following joke, which he says was popular among German troops on the Western Front.
"If you see white planes, that's the USAF. If you see black planes, that's the RAF. If you see no planes at all it's the Luftwaffe."
I am simply relaying information provided to me by the veteran's daughter. It could be that he took part in the invasion by truck or by foot and not by air.
Not too crazy about a former Nazi fighter recollection, but I will accept this as he turned out to be an "anarchist peace activist."
The joke was the only recollection he relayed to me. The rest came from his biography. His unit conducted Operation Griffin, in which Germans disguised as American MPs infiltrated US lines to reconnoiter and sow disruption, but as his English was poor and he was too young to pass as a GI he was deployed in a conventional infantry role. He was injured by artillery and evacuated without even seeing the enemy.
I'm a collectivist anarchist myself. That's how I met him. But I don't concern myself with the politics of individual soldiers unless they serve in an overtly political role. There's no such thing as a just war to me. All sides are politically reprehensible, even when forced to defend home and hearth. But that in no way detracts from the nobility and sacrifice of the participants (though their own actions can). I think the Bhagavad Gita resolves the moral contradictions between warriors and wars fairly well. As a peacenik from an Army family with a horrid fascination for military history it sure helped me.
Both the 82nd AB and the 101st AB served with distinction in the Battle of the Bulge but I'm pretty sure neither jumped. The 82nd played a critical role in snapping off the German spearhead, Kampfgruppe Peiper. The 101st defended Bastogne.
Beth Swartz says:
George attended Central Schwenkfelder Church, which I where we became acquainted. He knew I was a teacher in a nearby school district. One thing led to another in our conversations, and George volunteered to speak to Social Studies classes one day, all day, the last day before Christmas vacation one year! He showed a power point of pictures of artifacts and memorabilia which he shared with high school students all day long. He was thrilled to have had the opportunity to speak with young people. He could be quite a character! He always looked forward to his trips back to France. He will be missed!
He became a major part of history as an Army paratrooper who volunteered to fight in one of the most decisive battles of all time. D-Day was the indeed the turning point the world needed to overcome the evil of the Nazis.
All Americans can appreciate persons of that era and understand why we call them members of the "Greatest Generation." Your experiences with George Shenkle confirms that he continued his inspirational activities throughout his life and touched so many people both young and old with his memorable stories!
Holistic Wayfarer says:
Unbelievable, what he endured. So sorry he succumbed to COVID, Michael. Sending good thoughts.
This was the first person I knew indirectly who died from the virus. Rebecca was his daughter. She is a long-time friend who I have meditated with and enjoyed her cooking for an annual "feast" sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Mysticism of Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.
I also served as a paratrooper but never made any combat jumps.
What a life, what a history he lived!
Paratrooper cool.
I went to Bryn Mawr my freshman year before transferring to U Penn.
My wife got her master's degree in social work from Bryan Mawr.
I didn't know you were a local girl!
That's cool.
Me, I went to Temple in North Philadelphia.
Got my master's there while teaching full-time right after Penn. *High five*
Katherine Hepburn has nothing on you. I didn't know this. Learn something new about my fellow Bloggers everyday.
See you on your next post!
Dear Michael, Thanks for the "shout out" about all the incredible memories we have enjoyed! You and I have continued to find each other amongst the finest people. I suppose cause we keep seeking goodness in humans, and we find it! Take care my friend, and keep spreading your light and energy, the world 🌎 needs YOU!
I am grateful to finally have met and made friends with some of the most enlightening people on God's green earth. They may have a slight touch of the devil in 'em, but they sure can have fun and help each other through the good times and the bad.
We had the privilege of meeting your dad at one of the Friends and Family of the 508th reunions. He was very sweet! Not curmudgeonly at all. I'm sorry for your loss. He was a great man.
Thank you for your kind words. I will pass this onto my good Rebecca!
Hi Katie, George was affectionately called a curmudgeon, if there ever was one! He could keep his patience in short spurts, and his "whatever" was expressed in all tones! We will not see the likes of this man again, as his greatest generation contained so many complications! After he could no longer live on his own, as he got into trouble, he resented being "told what to do". A good analogy was an old lion on the Serengeti, captured, and placed in a zoo, God he roared to no avail. I rest assured he is at Peace now. 🙏
My good friend Janet Mather re-blogged this post on Facebook.
She wrote that this is a story about the father of a dear friend, who died last week. By another dear friend . . .
Michael J Contos
Janet, I really got into this Blog the more I read about the history of D-Day and the wonderful article done in France of Rebecca's dad by the Overlord organization. (It was printed in the French language and I got my son to show me how to translate it.)
Rebecca has a lot to be proud of despite her dad being a curmudgeon most of his life.
Can't wait to see you and her in person in the next several months!
Janet Mather
I realized there is a slim chance that my uncle may have crossed paths with her father. He was in the 82nd Airborne, and also a paratrooper, killed at the Battle of the Bulge. Never met him, of course, but have letters he wrote.
You should contact Rebecca. She has contacts with some of the old veterans who attended services in Normandy and they may know some army buddies who remembers him. Battle of the Bulge. Helluva story for both of your families!
Rebecca Shenkle Goff says:
Michael, you are a great writer, Patriot, and friend. Thank You for spreading words for reflection, wisdom, and healing. God Bless 🙏
My pleasure my dear. We're all just doing our duty and seeking enlightenment wherever we can find it!

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While we may differ with Chick-fil-A's owners on politics, as owners of our own self-funded business we understand why you don't want entitled clowns messing with your legacy. Running a restaurant business is tough, and entitled government officials and their families only make it tougher.
For the last two days the extra-curricular activities of the staff of the Environmental Protection Agency's Secretary Scott Pruitt have touched on the specialties of Skift.
Why would anyone risk their Cabinet-level government position to get their spouse a franchise of any kind? Especially one for which, based on what we understand of Chick-fil-A and how it operates, the Pruitt family seems totally unsuitable for?
To better understand what it's like to be a franchisee, we reviewed Chick-fil-A's 267-page Franchise Disclosure Agreement.
First note: It's pretty competitive. According to Business Insider, less than one half of one percent of franchise applicants are accepted each year. The Atlanta-based chicken sandwich specialist wants franchisees who are hands-on, community centered, and focused on returns rather than fame built on the backs of others' hard work.
Basically the opposite of a Pruitt who's the focus of a record number of ethics complaints, known for skirting ethical lines for decades, has used others to buy his homes, has had sweetheart arrangements on lodging, and via both politics and policy has demonstrated himself to be wholly unconcerned for communities of both chicken sandwich eaters and non-chicken sandwich eaters alike.
We reviewed the franchisee agreement and pulled out these points which would be red flags to Pruitt and important points for anyone interested in a franchise, either with Chick-fil-A or a competitor.
Buying a franchise is a complex investment.
Franchisees are paying a small amount in order to pull a small amount from an existing business while shouldering the more challenging parts of opening, such as staffing and creating a user base. Like McDonald's which pioneered the real estate-first method of franchising, Chick-fil-A has the scale and expertise and contract which helps it sell every element of the restaurant business to its engaged franchisees.
If you're going to work hard and follow the Chick-fil-A plan it's likely to work. If not?
Short story: It's a complex investment, and not one to which you should outsource to your taxpayer-funded assistant.
Chick-fil-A does not use any public figure to promote its franchises.
This part has a section all its own, and it's one of the smallest. It seems smart, since the company's half-literate, plotting cows are both cheaper and less polarizing than, say, a pizza pitchman who blames all his problems on athletes before resigning right before the holidays. It also speaks to the brand's incredible loyalty and word-of-mouth edge that it holds for so many of its diners.
Like In-N-Out or Five Guys, the chicken sandwich operator spends less than the big brands on advertising. Much less. But is that a big deal?
According to Statista Chick-fil-A spent $63 million on measured media advertising in 2016, which was equal to Starbucks but dwarfed by McDonald's ($773 million), Subway ($434 million), and Taco Bell ($367 million).
Whether the Operator candidate has good moral character pursuant to Chick-fil-A's current criteria.
Well this is certainly political in nature when it comes to Pruitt. We would normally leave spouses out of it, but when someone uses a taxpayer-funded staffer to solitic business on behalf of said spouse we will leave them in.
Although Chick-fil-A is privately held, the franchise agreement gives insight into the brand's performance. Out of revenues of $2.64 billion in 2017, the company says it earned $426 million in profit, an increase from $363 million in 2016.
Franchisees paid Chick-fil-A $677 million in 2017 for store leases, equipment rental, proprietary seasoning, and other mandatory spending.
Payments to approved suppliers will make up 46-64% of franchisees' spending.
Chick-fil-A does not plan to open any company-owned restaurants in the current fiscal year.
It will open 110 franchised outlets in the year, with 22 in Texas and 10 in California.
They can terminate franchise for multiple reasons, including subjecting Chick-fil-A to "public scandal" or stay open on a Sunday or Christmas Day.


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How to Delete a WhatsApp Group Permanently
Delete purpose fulfilled or unwanted groups from your WhatsApp account.
WhatsApp is the most convenient and user-friendly social media app supported by many platforms. It is an all-in-one app with exciting features that let you communicate and share photos, videos, documents, and stories with your friends and family members. Apart from private chats, you can create a group to chat with upto 250 participants at the same time. Most of the groups in WhatsApp are created for specific purposes, and it is the best way to associate with colleagues, team members, and people from other countries. When the purpose of the group is done, or the group is no longer active, you can delete the WhatsApp Group at any time. You no need to intimate others or require any permission to delete Whatsapp Group.
Delete WhatsApp Group
Once the WhatsApp Group is deleted, it cannot be retrieved. Entire group data will be lost. If you are not an admin, the WhatsApp group will be deleted only from your account. But if you are the Group Admin, you have the authority to delete the group by removing all group members. This process will delete the WhatsApp Group permanently from all member's accounts.
How to Exit and Delete WhatsApp Group as a Member?
(1) To begin, launch WhatsApp on your device.
(2) Open the Group chat and tap on the group name.
(3) Now, the Group information page will appear, scroll down to find the Exit group option, and tap on it.
(4) Again, click Exit from the confirmation pop-up.
(5) Now You are not a member of the group, and you won't receive any messages from it. If you want to delete the group permanently, then go to the Group Information page.
(6) Scroll down the page and tap the Delete group option.
By the end, the group will be permanently removed from your chat list.
How to Delete WhatsApp Group as an Admin?
A Group admin has the full authority to delete the Group. If the admin decided to end up, it could be done by removing all other participants from the Group.
(1) Open the WhatsApp app and select the Group you want to delete.
(2) Make a tap on the Group name, and it will take you to the Group information screen.
(3) Remove all the participants from the group. Tap the name of every person and choose Remove.
(4) After removing all the participants, tap Exit Group.
(5) Finally, select the Delete group option.
(6) Tap Delete again from the prompt to delete the group.
Note: Before deleting a group, you can forward all the media files in the group to others or save them. It is optional.
Techowns Tip: How to Delete WhatsApp Messages
The above-mentioned are the best ways out there to delete the WhatsApp group chat. While deleting a Group as admin, you have an option to make any other participant as admin and leave the Group only from your account permanently. To quit any unnecessary group, the delete option is covered by the exit group option. So, before deleting any WhatsApp group, you need to exit the group.
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McClusky é uma cidade localizada no estado norte-americano de Dacota do Norte, no Condado de Sheridan. A cidade foi fundada em 1905. É a sede de condado de Sheridan.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 415 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 337, um decréscimo de 78 (-18.8%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de 1,0 km², dos quais 1,0 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água. McClusky localiza-se a aproximadamente 586 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 40 km ao redor de McClusky.

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This area is a up and coming growth area for north Denver. Located on the South edge of Brighton,CO, next to the Prairie Center Retail area, easy access to I-76, E 470, I-70 and Denver International Airport. 20mi from downtown Denver. Commercial financing, Owner carry terms may be available. Two water wells and septic on property. Currently Zoned A-2, Unincorporated Adams county. Suitable for retail, gas retail and lodging with county approval. Last traffic counts are 136th, 6000, I-76, 3500, Buckley rd, 5500. The greater Brighton area has 47,000 residents with a average income of $76,000. Adams county population is 450,000.


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High Patient Satisfaction Rates after "Adam's Apple" Reduction Surgery
Cosmetic surgery to reduce the masculine appearance of the "Adam's apple" has a high patient satisfaction rate, according to a study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open®, the official open-access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
But plastic surgeons performing this procedure must balance the cosmetic results against the need for caution to prevent irreversible voice changes, according to the outcomes study by Jeffrey H. Spiegel, MD, and colleagues of Boston University Medical Center. Their study presents a new questionnaire for use in assessing the cosmetic outcomes and quality-of-life impact of Adam's apple reduction surgery in transgender and other patients.
Most Patients 'Very Satisfied' with the Results of Adam's Apple Reduction
The researchers evaluated patient satisfaction after Adam's apple reduction surgery. Known to plastic surgeons as aesthetic chondrolaryngoplasty, the procedure is sometimes called "tracheal shaving." The Adam's apple, developing during puberty from an increase in the size of the larynx and thyroid cartilage, is more prominent in males than females.
Chondrolaryngoplasty is performed in patients who want to decrease the masculine appearance of the Adams apple. It is most often performed in transgender women as part of facial feminization surgery, but may be requested by other patients as well. Since 2006, Dr. Spiegel has performed over 600 chondrolaryngoplasty procedures.
The procedure involves reducing the most prominent part of the thyroid cartilage. Ideally, the surgeon would completely remove the forward-projecting cartilage. However, if surgery is too aggressive, there's a risk that the larynx and vocal cords could be affected, resulting in permanent voice changes.
"This is particularly devastating in transgender females, in whom lowering the voice can be especially traumatic and a difficult handicap to overcome," Dr. Spiegel and colleagues write. "The aesthetic results must be balanced with the goal of minimizing the risk of over-resection and voice change."
The researchers created a seven-item questionnaire to assess physical, emotional, and social quality of life after chondrolaryngoplasty, assessing. The researchers contacted Dr. Spiegel's first 112 patients, 45 of whom responded to the questionnaire.
Sixty percent of patients indicated that they were "very" or "completely" satisfied with the appearance of their neck and Adam's apple. Only 13 percent said that they were "not at all" satisfied; 15 percent felt that the results limited their social or professional appearance.
About 55 percent of patients felt that the appearance of their neck/Adam's apple was the "best that it could be," while only 25 percent said they were interested in further surgery. None of the patients experienced any long-term voice changes.
Dr. Spiegel and colleagues also performed an additional anatomical study to evaluate the potential for refining the tracheal shave technique in feminization procedures. The results suggested it might be possible to carry the incision lower so as to further reduce the prominence of the tracheal cartilage. However, at least until further research is carried out, the researchers conclude that this maneuver poses "too strong of a risk."
Meanwhile, the new outcomes study, using a procedure-specific questionnaire, will be helpful to plastic surgeons in informing patients about the expected results of Adam's apple reduction surgery. "We can tell them that three-quarters of patients have adequate reduction in the size of the thyroid cartilage, and that the majority are very satisfied with their outcome," Dr. Spiegel and coauthors write.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open® is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Click here to read "Patient Satisfaction after Aesthetic Chondrolaryngoplasty"
Article: "Patient Satisfaction after Aesthetic Chondrolaryngoplasty" (doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000001877)
About PRS Global Open
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open (PRS Global Open) is an open access, rigorously peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on global plastic and reconstructive surgery. PRS Global Open educates and supports plastic surgeons globally to provide the highest quality patient care and maintain professional and ethical standards through education, research, and advocacy.
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Facial Asymmetry Increases with Age
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This kid's bath features the wildest of woods, Rustic Hickory. For someone looking for a truly unique wood, Hickory can range from the light color of Maple to the darkness of Walnut. Notice the continuous grain flow in the upper drawers.


A soldier, a privateer, an army camp follower, a prisoner and a slave.
Those were just a few of the roles kids and teens routinely took on during Revolutionary times. "Many children were swept up in the drama of the American Revolution," explained Dr. Elizabeth Grant, the director of education at the immersive the Museum of the American Revolution, which opened a little more than a year ago in Philadelphia.
The kids' stories, like those of women, Hispanics and African and Native Americans are showcased here "so that everyone feels like they have a tie to this history," explained the museum's curator, Mark Curdo, as he guided me around the museum's new discovery center, Revolution Place. Through a combination of 21st-century touchscreens (join the Revolutionary Army! Trace the route of goods coming and going from the colonies) and more traditional hands-on options (do "laundry" in an Army camp; lay down in an Army tent, "take tea" in an 18th-century home) kids and their parents can travel back to Philadelphia when it was the largest city in the colonies and the headquarters of the American Revolution.
"Just like the internet!" one young visitor declared the "tavern" area in Revolution Place. Philadelphians in the 18th century visited taverns to catch up on the news, as each establishment offered newspapers from all over. A big hit, of course, is the "privy," complete with artifacts found in an archeological dig of a nearby home's bathroom -- everything from jugs to pitchers to plates. Kids will no doubt like that chamber pots were adorned with a GR -- a not-so-subtle dig at King George III.
Elsewhere in the museum, there are baby booties made from a British officer's coat, shackles designed for a child and toys left behind by camp-follower children who traveled with the army from campaign to campaign. You'll also find life-sized tableaux that tell memorable stories, including that of 10-year-old Israel Trask, who famously recalled seeing Gen. George Washington break up a soldiers' snowball fight-turned-riot in Harvard Yard.
Gen. Washington's war tent, which served as both his sleeping quarters and office throughout much of the war, is housed in a dedicated theater and is the centerpiece of a mixed media presentation.
Philadelphia, of course, is a great place to celebrate our country's birthday, complete with the largest July 4th Fireworks Show in a decade and special holiday activities. For 26 years, Philadelphians and visitors have enjoyed the multi-day WaWa America festival with free events -- concerts, free museum days at, among others, the National Constitution Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the African-American Museum in Philadelphia and the National Liberty Museum.
There are hands-on activities for the kids "go forth and learn!" And plenty of good eats.
With Historic Philadelphia, you can have dinner with "Thomas Jefferson" and sneak into Independence Hall to watch the Founding Fathers discuss the Declaration of Independence or meet Betsy Ross in her upholstery shop. See the famous Liberty Bell in the National Historical Park.
All summer, you can stop by the Storytelling Benches in historic downtown Philadelphia -- 13 free benches to hear stories of the true history that took place right at that spot.
New stories for 2018 include "Like Father, Unlike Son: The Revolutionary Split of Benjamin Franklin and William Franklin;" "The Quaker Lioness: Lucretia Mott," about a ferocious leader in the fight to win equal rights for women and people of color in the 19th century and "Streetcar Justice: The Awesome Caroline LeCount," who, nearly 100 years before Rosa Parks, took a stand to ensure that all people of color have equal rights to take a seat on Philadelphia's newly integrated streetcars.
Kids can pick up a Story Flag at any storytelling bench, and then collect a star from every storyteller on their journey. Flags with all the stars can be redeemed for a History Hero Certificate and a free carousel ride on the Parx Liberty Carousel in Franklin Square.
"Storytelling is a wonderful way to immerse children in history -- books, movies or even your own family history are great places to start," suggests Dr. Grant. Make sure to include the "Wow's" (including gross stories), "How's" (why things do/don't work) and "Me's" (stories that connect to kids' specific personal interests or that are about "kids like them").
Even a hotel can help you get in the spirit. The newly renovated Renaissance Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in the heart of "old city" and a short walk to the historic sites and American Revolutionary Museum, includes pop-inspired images of famous Philadelphians in each guestroom. Look closely and you will notice that the railings in this kid and dog-friendly hotel (our pooch was greeted with new toys!) mimic Franklin's spectacles and the wallpaper encourages you to "read" the Declaration of Independence.
Wherever you are this holiday, remind kids that children their ages were very much a part of the American Revolution. "Kids just don't realize that there were kids back then who played a role," explains Mark Curdo.
"The American Revolution was more than a war; it was a transformation in the way people thought," explains Dr. Grant. "It seized power from a king and gave it to the people. The museum shows us that that change continues today, and we all have to play our part in living up to its promise." Remind kids this July Fourth of the important role in history revolutionary kids played.
Remind them, said Grant, that "You don't have to be an adult to make a difference."


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Dan Black's verdict as FA Cup stalemate versus Ipswich Town is far more beneficial for Burnley boss Vincent Kompany than meets the eye
Burnley complete the signing of former Manchester United youth ace — said to be quicker than Marcus Rashford
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"Overwhelming moment" for dad as Jay Rod makes England debut
"An overwhelming experience" was how the proud father of Burnley-born footballer Jay Rodriguez described his son's international debut at Wembley.
16th Nov 2013, 2:31pm - 2 min read
England's Jay Rodriguez battles for the ball with Chile's Eduardo Vargas
Kiko Rodriguez was at England's national stadium to watch his son and former Claret Jay start for his country in front of live television cameras.
Jay, a former Barden High school pupil, pulled on England's famous white jersey and played 57 minutes of the friendly match against Chile, which England lost 2-0.
Despite the result, Kiko was still bursting with Joy at seeing his son play.
He said: "It was such an overwhelming experience to see Jay represent England at Wembley.
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"I am so proud and I know Jay is too. I went down with some of his old school friends and he couldn't stop talking about the whole experience after the game. I think he was nervous during the game itself. He still can't quite believe it's happened.
"He loved every minute of it from the training, to the match and afterwards. It's just a shame the result and performance wasn't the better but he said it's made him even more determined to get back there."
Jay was selected by England manager Roy Hodgson following a great start to the Premier League campaign with his side Southampton who currently sit third.
The talented forward moved to the south coast club for £7m. from the Clarets, his boyhood hometown team.
Kiko added: "We were sat in the same box as we were for Burnley's Championship play-off final, which was another great experience, but I think this was an even prouder moment.
"Jay is a great lad and is still friends with many people from Burnley. My phone has never stopped ringing in the last few days so that just shows how much people think of him."
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Bruno Py, né le  à Argenteuil, est un professeur français de droit privé et sciences criminelles, spécialisé en droit pénal et en droit médical.

Carrière
Il enseigne actuellement à la Faculté de droit de Nancy, rattachée à l'Université de Lorraine. Il a également enseigné à l'Université française du Pacifique (Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie) et à l'Université de Poitiers.

Bruno Py est membre de l'Institut François Gény, plus particulièrement de l'équipe de recherche en sciences criminelles et en droit médical ISCRIMED (Institut de Sciences Criminelles et de Droit Médical, composante de l'Institut François Gény EA73301).

Il est titulaire d'un DEA en sciences criminelles (obtenu en 1988), d'un DEA en histoire du droit (1989) et d'un doctorat en droit (1993), avec comme thèse : « Recherches sur les justifications pénales de l'activité médicales ».

Auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, il publie également dans des revues spécialisées. Il est par ailleurs membre de la Commission régionale de conciliation et d'indemnisation de Lorraine et conseiller juridique du Conseil départemental de l'Ordre national des médecins.

En 2019, il se prononce contre une réforme envisagée du secret professionnel dans le cadre de la lutte contre les violences conjugales. Cette dernière offrant la possibilité au professionnel de santé, après examen et sous certaines conditions, de dénoncer des faits de violences conjugales à la justice sans le consentement de la victime.

En juillet 2022, il s'illustre par une lettre de réponse à un député, diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux. Sans honorer les sollicitions du député lui demandant abusivement de réexaminer le refus octroyé à un étudiant pour accéder au master de son choix, il dénonce le manque de moyens des Universités et les aberrations du système de sélection introduit par la loi du 23 décembre 2016.

Publications
 Le sexe et le droit, Presses universitaires de France, 1999
 La mort et le droit, Presses universitaires de France, 2004
 Le secret professionnel, éditions de L'Harmattan, 2005
 Questions d'évaluation en santé, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2009
 Le sexe et la norme, en collaboration avec Nathalie Deffains, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011
 La pudeur et le soin, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011
 La crémation et le droit en Europe, en collaboration avec Marc Mayer, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Office national d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux
 Conseil de l'Ordre des médecins en_France

Liens externes

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Naissance à Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise)
Naissance en juin 1964


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Q: Setting up a button press function to trigger an Ajax call with a Id I am trying to figure out the easiest way to set out a page that contains Ajax calls.
My primary problem is that I can write the page but when it comes to binding the event that gets run when the user clicks the button, I struggle to think of a good way to pass the id to the function to make the call and then get back to the DOM element that was pressed to let the user know it was a success.
I have created a very simplistic jsFiddle to show the problem:
Html:

Javascript:
var Data = [{"id":1,"name":"a"},{"id":2,"name":"b"},{"id":3,"name":"c"}];

function dothething(id){
    alert("load the ajax - but how to get the back to the element that was clicked?")
}

for (i=0;i<Data.length;i++){
   $("#list").append(
       $("

")
           .text(Data[i].name)
           .click(function(){
               alert("How to get the id?")
               id = 1
               dothething(id)
           })
       )
}

http://jsfiddle.net/wqorcwjq/1/
What is the simplest way to complete this example?

A: You didnt set the ID to get it in the first place. :)
Use .attr("id", Data[i].id) to set the ID.
Use event delegation to handle the click event of dynamically added li elements.
Updated jsFiddle
JS:
var Data = [{"id":1,"name":"a"},{"id":2,"name":"b"},{"id":3,"name":"c"}];

function dothething(id){
    alert("load the ajax - but how to get the back to the element that was clicked?")
}

for (i=0;i<Data.length;i++){
    var li = $("

").text(Data[i].name).attr("id", Data[i].id);  // set li text and ID here
   $("#list").append(li);
}

// Event delegation
$(document).on("click", "li", function(){
    alert($(this).attr('id'));
    dothething($(this).attr('id'));
});

Readup:

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*.attr() | jQuery

*Understanding Event Delegation | jQuery Learning Center

A: You can use $.each function of jquery.
$.each(Data, function(i, item){
     $("#list").append(
          $("

")
             .text(item.name)
             .click(function(){
                 alert(item.id);
                 dothething(item.id);
             })
     );
});

A: You can use the data api to store the id of the li element and then use the same in the click handler

var Data = [{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "a"
}, {
  "id": 2,
  "name": "b"
}, {
  "id": 3,
  "name": "c"
}];

function dothething(id) {
  alert("load the ajax - " + id)
}

for (i = 0; i < Data.length; i++) {
  $("#list").append(
    $("

", {
      text: Data[i].name
    }).data('id', Data[i].id).click(function() {
      var id = $(this).data('id')
      dothething(id)
    }))
}

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Day use hotels : You may often enjoy a long day in a city far from home and thus need to book a day bedroom and have a place to stay. In these cheap day use hotels, you will feel as comfortable as in any hotel, and you will appreciate the quality of the service. Booking requires no credit card and cancelling is free. Booking a hotel room for a romantic date has never been so simple.
Is it possible to book a hotel room for a few hours ? Yes it is possible thanks to So Room. Whether you want a room for 1, 2 or 3 hours, you will doubtlessly find the day use hotel you need on So Room. How can you find a day use hotel situated by or close to a highway ? This is what many business and leisure travellers wonder when they need to take a break in a day use hotel on their way.
As France is a small country, it is easy to go to another city just for the day or even just for the after-noon. You may need to travel for different reasons : going to a job interview, visiting a friend, discovering a new city or meeting your beloved. Available options : rose petals, Champagne half bottles, jacuzzi, room service, closed parking.
You can book a day room in some luxury hotels, which allows you to enjoy a bedroom that usually costs hundreds of euros for the night and to pay it only 100 euros in day use. For a couple of lovers, meeting in a romantic hotel for a few hours will offert hem a wonderful memory. One day with SoRoom : Lisa meets her lover at the station. Every week, she takes the highway to come and see him a few hours on Wednesday after-noons. That's what we call a « 5 à 7 ». Lisa and Jean are a couple but they prefer to keep a part of surprise and meet in hotels situated close to Jean's office. Both of them find this solution convenient and cheap. Thank you day use and thank you So Room.


Comment: As a Challenge Cup entrant, Ericsson only competed in two of the five rounds before the summer break: Donington Park and Croft. He couldn't finish higher than ninth in any of the six races or third in the challenge cup class.
Comment: With only two rounds down, Ericsson competed in every round of the championship after the summer break. He continued to develop and his results improved, taking regular top 10 finishes. Ericsson claimed his first overall podium at Knockhill as he continued to close the gap to Challenge Cup rival Harry Webb. With a second third place in the final race of the season, he secured the Challenge Cup crown.
Best moment of the season: Ericsson entered the final race of the season nine points behind Webb in the Challenge Cup fight, but starting ahead of his rival on track. With drizzle just hitting at the start of the race, the Cup battle was cut short when Webb collided with Luca Allen off of the line, damaging his car and ending his race Webb was out of the fight and all Ericsson needed to do was finish the race. Ericsson did more than that. He spent the first half of the race running seventh, just behind Oscar Piastri and Jamie Caroline. As Piastri tried to make a move past Caroline, Ericsson found a way past around the outside and slotted in ahead of the Arden driver. The following corner, he passed Caroline, moving up to fifth. As Ericsson built up a gap to Caroline, retirements from Ayrton Simmons and Logan Sargeant ahead of him boosted him to third. He finished a long way off second, but more than eight seconds ahead of third, securing his Challenge Cup title and 10th in the overall standings.
Worst moment of the season: Ericsson was the only driver to be excluded from a race this season. He was battling with Karl Massaard for ninth when the pair collided. Massaard was wiped out of the race, leaving fluid over the track and brining out the safety car. Ericsson was able to continue, and was running 10th until the final lap, when he dropped to 13th, which would have put him second in the Challenge Cup class. It was deemed he had caused "avoidable" contact and was excluded from the race.
Testing, testing; British F3 is ready to go!


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Derry City's Ben Doherty joins Glenavon
Midfielder Ben Doherty has joined Glenavon on loan.
Derry City youngster Ben Doherty has joined Danske Bank Premiership side Glenavon, on loan for a season.
The 21-year-old, who still has another season to run on his current Derry contract, trains with his new team-mates later this evening and is hoping to be in Gary Hamilton's squad for Friday night's encounter at Newry City.
"If my clearance is through I would love to be involved, but we'll have to wait and see," confirmed Doherty.
"I feel, at my age, I need to playing matches and hopefully I get more game time at Glenavon.
"My deal is for a season with Glenavon, but Derry have an option to bring me back in January. At the minute I'm only focusing on training tonight and I'll see then about trying to force myself into the squad."
Doherty knows a few of his new team-mates having played with Joshua Daniels at the Brandywell and Mark Sykes at international level.
"I know a few of the boys at Glenavon, obviously I played with Josh at Derry and Mark Sykes with Northern Ireland U21s, so that will help me," he said.
"Glenavon is a big club, they were in Europe this season and only a few season's ago they won the Irish Cup, so I know that Gary (Hamilton) will want to keep on improving and pushing for European football next season and hopefully if and when I get my chance, I can help them do well again this season."
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Die evangelische, denkmalgeschützte Dorfkirche Gülitz steht im Gemeindeteil Gülitz der Gemeinde Gülitz-Reetz im Landkreis Prignitz in Brandenburg. Die Kirche gehört zum Kirchenkreis Prignitz der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz.

Beschreibung
Die neugotische Saalkirche wurde 1875 aus Feld- und Backsteinen erbaut. Die Pläne hat Friedrich August Stüler 1861 gefertigt. Das Langhaus und das Erdgeschoss des Kirchturms im Westen bestehen aus Feldsteinen, die Obergeschosse des Kirchturms und die polygonale Apsis im Osten aus Backsteinen. Das oberste Geschoss des Kirchturms beherbergt hinter den als Biforien gestalteten Klangarkaden den Glockenstuhl. Darauf sitzt ein schiefergedeckter, achtseitiger Knickhelm. Die mit spitzbogigen Blenden gegliederten Ost- und Westwände des Langhauses sind mit Staffelgiebeln bedeckt. Die Orgel mit 9 Registern auf zwei Manualen und Pedal hat um 1893 Schlag & Söhne gebaut.

Literatur
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Brandenburg. Bearbeitet von Gerhard Vinken, durchgesehen und erweitert von Barbara Rimpel; Deutscher Kunstverlag 2012, S. 449

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CUTRER ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
Sharon "Cookie" Cutrer has announced that she will retire as Laboratory Manager of Hood Memorial Hospital effective July 30, 2019.
"I would like to personally thank Cookie for her years of service and support to HMH. Her long-lasting commitment has certainly aided in the progression of our Hospital," shares Hood Memorial Hospital CEO, Michael Whittington.
Cutrer's retirement marks the end of an era for Hood Memorial Hospital as she has been an integral part of the hospital for the past 39 years. Her contributions will always be valued and remembered, and her hard work, dedication, and commitment are traits worthy of admiration.
Cutrer observes, "It has truly been an honor to work for Hood Memorial Hospital for the last 39 years. I have had the privilege of working with some amazing people, but the best part of my job has been getting to know so many people in the community. Having the opportunity to work in my hometown was quite the privilege. I will miss my coworkers and patients, but I am looking forward to this new chapter in my life."
"On behalf of the Board of Commissioners, I want to thank Cookie for her almost four decades of service and commitment to Hood Memorial Hospital. We wish her the best and are forever indebted for her dedication, enthusiasm and leadership", states Hood Memorial Hospital's Chairman of the Board Charles "Mose" Guzzardo.


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Home Blog The Three Generations of the Nigerian Passport (1960 to 2021)
The Three Generations of the Nigerian Passport (1960 to 2021)
The Nigerian passport is a document issued by the Nigeria immigration services. It is a travel document that allows you to travel to other countries around the world.
International Passport was introduced to Nigerian in 1948. It was called the British West African passport. The colour of the passport was brown with 63 pages. However, after Nigerian gained her independence in 1960. A new International passport was issued. Nigeria as a country started issuing its passport officially in 1960 The colour of the passport was then changed from brown to green. The number of pages was reduced from 63 to 32.
In 1988 the Nigeria Immigration Service was chosen as the only institution to issue the Nigerian passport.
The passport has gone through several changes over the years. It started from the manual handwritten passport to the Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and now the electronics passport.
As at 2021, the Nigerian international passport gives visa free or visa on arrival to over forty countries of the world.
These are the three Generations of Passports in Nigeria
For privacy, I will be blurring out personal information on these passports. This is to protect the privacy of the users.
What differences can you see between the different kinds of passports?
Originally, the information on the International passport issued in 1960 was handwritten.
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The First Generation
This particular passport was popular between 1960 towards the 90's. It has an attached passport photograph, the personal information is handwritten
Data page
Renewal Page
Visa Page
The E-Passport
The E-Passport was introduced in July 27th, 2007 to replace the old passport. This is to reduce multiple registrations, fake passports, non appearance etc.
The first page
The back page/Instruction
The New Nigerian Electronic International Passport (e-passport)
Since the introduction of the e-passport, it has
The Data page/The first Page
The page page
What are your thoughts, which is your favourite?
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Viale della Libertà è un viale di Forlì, costruito come strada di accesso alla stazione ferroviaria in collegamento con il centro della città. Con una larghezza di quaranta metri e l'orientamento perpendicolare alla Via Emilia, presenta una nutrita rappresentanza di edifici che costituiscono importanti esempi dei vari stili architettonici del Ventennio.

Storia
La realizzazione del viale venne decisa dall'amministrazione comunale nel 1926 come collegamento alla nuova stazione ferroviaria inaugurata nello stesso anno. Il primo progetto prevedeva una carreggiata centrale e due marciapiedi laterali, ma con una delibera del dicembre 1926 la giunta presentò la variante elaborata dagli ingegneri Luigi Donzelli e Pietro Marconicon, una carreggiata centrale, due vialetti pedonali alberati, due carreggiate laterali e due ulteriori marciapiedi per una larghezza complessiva di 40 metri. La larghezza del viale, soprattutto per i parametri dell'epoca per quanto riguardava le cittadine delle dimensioni di Forlì, era senza precedenti. I cordoli e le panchine erano previsti in granito, la pavimentazione in asfalto colato e le cunette in cubetti di porfido.

Fu posta una grande attenzione anche all'illuminazione, che ha mantenuto le sue caratteristiche nel corso degli anni e che prevedeva dei grandi pali in ghisa, realizzati dalla ditta "Officine di Forlì", disposti lungo la carreggiata centrale, modificati nel 1934 come quelli delle carreggiate laterali, con braccio di sostegno della lanterna del tipo "a pastorale".

Per la costruzione del viale vennero espropriati i terreni dove sorgevano lo stabilimento della "Fornace Ragazzini", che produceva laterizi, la "ditta Ettore Benini" specializzata nella produzione di materiali e prefabbricati edili, e vari edifici di proprietà privata. L'appalto venne aggiudicato all'impresa "Le Nuove Strade" di Bologna per 2.118.241 lire. Il collaudo del viale terminato avvenne il 22 maggio 1930.

Inaugurazione e intitolazione
Dopo la costruzione, il viale venne inaugurato il 30 ottobre 1927 dal Ministro delle Comunicazioni Luigi Federzoni e intitolato al capo di governo Benito Mussolini. Nel 1935 per disposizione del governo, tutte le strade e le piazze intitolate a Mussolini dovettero cambiare nome e così il viale venne denominato XXVIII Ottobre, in ricordo della Marcia su Roma.

Nel 1945, infine, venne rinominato "Viale della Libertà".

Recupero urbanistico
A partire dal 2009 sono previsti dei grandi lavori di recupero dell'architettura originale che il viale ed i palazzi adiacenti presentavano all'inizio diventando così un museo a cielo aperto dell'architettura del Ventennio. Il palazzo della casa del Balilla inoltre ospiterà il Museo della ginnastica.

Architetture civili
Fra il 1930 e il 1933, come completamento al progetto urbanistico del viale, si realizzarono la scuola elementare "Rosa Maltoni Mussolini" (ora intitolata a Edmondo De Amicis), le case INCIS, le case economiche per i postelegrafonici e per i ferrovieri e il villino Boni. La prospettiva del viale venne conclusa nel 1931 con il Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale nel piazzale della Vittoria, realizzato al termine del viale. Nel 1935 fu costruita la fontana del piazzale della Stazione, progettata dall'architetto Cesare Bazzani. Nel 1934 e nel 1941 vennero costruiti la casa del Balilla poi divenuta della GIL, il Collegio aeronautico e l'Istituto tecnico industriale "Alessandro Mussolini" (ora intitolato a Guglielmo Marconi).

Nel 1944, durante i bombardamenti il palazzo dell'Istituto tecnico industriale, il Collegio aeronautico, le case INCIS e quelle dei postelegrafonici furono gravemente danneggiati.

Case economiche per i postelegrafonici
Il condominio popolare nominato Case economiche per i postelegrafonici è stato progettato dell'ingegner Ezio Bianchi e realizzate nel 1931 con una prospettiva ottocentesca. Presenta un intonaco con tinteggiature per un effetto di finta pietra lungo tutto il basamento dell'edificio che comprende anche il piano rialzato sulle lesene angolari e sulle riquadrature degli ingressi.

A causa delle imposizioni della commissione edilizia comunale ne venne aumentata l'altezza, aggiunto il cornicione, trattato a fregio la fascia sottostante il cornicione che comprende le finestre dell'ultimo piano e arricchite le cornici delle finestre del primo e secondo piano.

Case economiche dei ferrovieri
Il condominio popolare nominato Case Economiche dei Ferrovieri venne costruito nel 1933 su progetto dell'ing. Ezio Bianchi che lo sottopose ad un accurato trattamento decorativo prendendo ispirazione dal palazzo I.N.C.S.I.S. appena costruito tenendo conto degli imposti della Commissione edilizia già per le case dei postelegrafonici ubicate sul viale.

Le case economiche per i ferrovieri trovarono molte difficoltà per la loro realizzazione. Il primo ostacolo riguardò la localizzazione: pensata all'angolo della piazza della stazione con il viale per crearne un decoroso inizio, dovette essere spostata per difficoltà di esproprio all'angolo con l'allora via Crispi , oggi Via Andrea Costa.

Villino Boni
Il Villino Boni è un notevole esempio di edilizia residenziale della buona società negli anni trenta. Fu progettato dal geometra Bruno Neri su direttive dell'impresario edile Giovanni Boni e costruito tra il 1932 e il 1933.

L'edificio presenta una prospettiva ottocentesca con i piani superiori che poggiano sul piano terra rialzato, coronati dal parapetto e modulato sulle lesene sottostanti. Presenta grandi vetrate dalle quali si accede alle terrazze. L'ingresso presenta una grande scala elicoidale per raggiungere i piani superiori. Gli arredi interni e le suppellettili ben conservati mostrano lo stile di vita delle buone famiglie forlivesi alla fine degli anni trenta..

Ex Casa del Balilla

L'ex Casa del Balilla "Arnaldo Mussolini" è un palazzo polivalente sulla parte finale del viale, nei pressi del Piazzale della Vittoria. L'opera, che in seguito mutò il nome in "Casa della Gioventù Littoria", era stata pensata dell'Opera Nazionale Balilla come polo sportivo e culturale per l'indottrinamento ideologico dei giovani. La costruzione è stata classificata tra le opere più importanti del Razionalismo italiano.

Palazzo dell'ex collegio aeronautico G.I.L

Il palazzo sorge all'angolo tra il viale della Libertà e il piazzale della Vittoria. L'edificio, costruito in stile razionalista su disegno di Cesare Valle risale al 1937 e fu sede del primo istituto aeronautico in Italia. Dal secondo dopoguerra è adibito ad uso scolastico.

Nel piazzale dell'edificio accanto all'entrata principale, si trova una statua rappresentante Icaro, opera dello scultore Francesco Saverio Palozzi.

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Bibliografia
 Comune di Forlì, Il Viale della Libertà, museo a cielo aperto dell'architettura del Ventennio, Forlì, 2008.

Voci correlate
 Casa del Balilla (Forlì)
 Piazzale della Vittoria (Forlì)
 Palazzo dell'ex collegio aeronautico

Architetture fasciste di Forlì
Libertà
Architetture razionaliste dell'Emilia-Romagna


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Students and academics have condemned plans to raise the cap on tuition fees to a "basic threshold" of £6,000 and an "absolute limit" of £9,000 a year.
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Playing in his third World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, Storm forward Richard Panik and Team Slovakia opened the tournament with a 2-1 win over Germany. Panik opened the scoring only eight seconds into the second period with a wristshot over the right shoulder of Philipp Grubauer (Kingston Frontenacs). In overtime, Panik assisted on Marek Hrivik's winning goal.
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África – Nigeria: 'How Govt, Financial Institutions Can Support MSMEs to Create Jobs'
By Helen Oji
Stakeholders in the financial sector have identified non-access to credit as the major challenge facing the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria, urging government at all levels and financial institutions to create institutional support for growth of SMEs and ultimately generate more jobs opportunities for the youths.
They noted that the segment of the economy accounts for over 50% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the country and enjoys less than one per cent of the banking system's credit to the economy.
This, according to them, had made it difficult to unlock the huge potentials of small businesses in job creation, poverty reduction and economic inclusion.
Furthermore, they added that this underscores the disconnection between the small business and the banking sector, which demonstrates a critical failure in the financial intermediation role of the banking system.
Therefore, they called for a holistic and multi prolonged intervention that would help stimulate developmental activities in the sector in a long-term basis.
The Director-General of Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Muda Yusuf, pointed out that the consequence of failure of financial inclusion for MSMEs is the resort to money lenders, finance companies, informal financial markets, and micro finance banks for credit.
He noted that the lending rates in these windows are outrageous, ranging from 40 to 70 per cent.
"Some of these lenders, in some instances, charge as high as 70 per cent interest per month. This had made it difficult to unlock the huge potentials of small businesses for job creation, poverty reduction and economic inclusion," he said.
The Managing Partner of Ciuci Consulting, Chukwuka Monye, explained that a lot needed to be done to ensure that the sector contributes significantly to the nation's GDP as obtainable in the developed countries.
Monye pointed out that financing, infrastructure, transfer of knowledge and favorable policy are critical areas in need of intervention, adding that the sector constitute a major part of industrial activity in both developed and emerging economies.
According to him, while SMEs are defined as enterprise with less than 250 employees with an annual turnover not exceeding N18.36 billion in Europe, the U.S Small Business Advocacy classifies it as enterprises with fewer than 500 employees and annual revenue of between $7 million to $25 million.
Regrettably, Monye said despite that 96 per cent of Nigerian businesses are SMEs, compared to 53 and 65 per cent in the US and Europe, the sector contributes barely seven per cent to the nation's total export.
"Interventions by government must be holistic and multi prolonged. Many small business owners are actually doing well given that the current business administration has recorded good successes in terms of ease of doing business.
"However, more interventions are required to further stimulate development al activities in the sector. Our small business need to become more than potential they need noted that the country desperately needed a mechanism for job creation to address inclusiveness and sustainable development. We need to continue to prioritise our SMEs and improve the environment for SMEs to succeed to be real engine of growth in Nigeria."
The Founder, Heirs Holdings; Tony Elumelu had, in a recent yearly LAPO Development Forum identified SMEs as having a huge potential and the capability to create millions of jobs if the government addresses some of its critical challenges such as inadequate funding, policy inconsistencies among others.
He noted that the country desperately needed a mechanism for job creation to address inclusiveness and sustainable development.
"SMEs are the engine of growth. When they succeed, they recruit, they train people and when the likes of GE come on board they have a ready ecosystem and pipeline of supply chain players that will support what they are doing. To get it right we need to continue to prioritise our SMEs and improve the environment for SMEs to succeed," Elumelu said.
Fonte: http://allafrica.com/stories/201801220160.html
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Q: I just installed Apache, MySQL and PHP stack on my Mac but now everytime I alter a file the OS asks me for my system password? How can I stop this? I just installed Lion on my machine and I'm starting fresh. I thought I'd manually install an AMP stack on my machine. Also, I'm using my ~/Sites folder as my web root. However, now that everytime I update a file I'm being asked for my system password.
I think it's a permission problem except I'm not entirely sure what to do. Can someone help?

A: You can do a couple of things, but the basics will be chmod and chown. Chmod changes the permissions of the file or folder to allow rights on a user, group, and world access. Chown changes who owns the file or folder.
From the command line you could use chown -R to change ownership recursively for all files and subfiles to your username. Or, better yet, you could change the file permissions similarly using chmod -R.
In octal notation doing something like chmod -R 777 ~/Sites will make it readable, writeable, and executable by everyone on the machine (not necessarily the best way to go). chmod -R 755 would make it writable, executable to the owner and readable by everyone else. There's lots of examples and ways to do this.
You may want to look into users and groups to avoid making it all world executable, and not annoying you everytime you want to modify a file.

A: Try setting the folder permissions to 777 from the console:
chmod 777 <directory path>