President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate eight individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Richard L. Baltimore to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Sultanate of Oman. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he has served as Principal Officer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. From 1996 to 1999, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in San Jose, and he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Budapest from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Baltimore's previous overseas assignments include service as Political Officer in Budapest, Cairo and Pretoria. His service at the State Department has included time as Director of the Office of Regional Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary. Mr. Baltimore is a graduate of George Washington University and Harvard University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Gail Dennise Thomas Mathieu to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Niger. A career Foreign Service Officer, she is currently the Deputy Chief of Mission in Accra, Ghana. From 1997 to 1999, she was the Director of the Office of West African Affairs, and from 1995 to 1997, she was Deputy Director of Pacific Island Affairs. From 1991 to 1995, Mathieu was the U.S. Observer to UNESCO. Her past overseas experience includes service in Geneva, Jeddah, Paris, Port of Spain and Santo Domingo. She is a graduate of Antioch College and Rutgers University.
The President intends to nominate Donald C. Johnson to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Cape Verde. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he has served as the Senior Advisor to the Director of the Foreign Services Institute and as Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service since February 2000. His most recent overseas assignment was in the Irish peace process where he was one of the three members of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. Prior to his service in Ireland, he was Head of Mission for the international peacekeeping mission in Moldova sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. From 1993 to 1996, Johnson was United States Ambassador to Mongolia. His past overseas assignments include service in Moscow, Taipei, Beijing, Madrid and Tegucigalpa, and he has served as a Desk Officer at the State Department and the National Security Council. Johnson received a bachelor's degree and law degree from Lewis and Clark College, a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma, and a Master's of Law degree from George Washington University.
The President intends to nominate Jimmy Kolker to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Uganda. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he is presently the Ambassador to Burkina Faso. From 1996 to 1999, Kolker was Deputy Chief of Mission in Copenhagen. His previous overseas assignments include service as Deputy Chief of Mission in Gaborone, Political Officer in London and Political Officer in Stockholm. His assignments at the State Department include service as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary for Management. Kolker received a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
The President intends to nominate Martin G. Brennan to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Zambia. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Brennan is currently the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda. His past overseas assignments have included service in Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Taiwan, Portugal, Thailand, Ethiopia, and Uganda. His assignments in Washington have included service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, and he served on detail to the World Affairs Council of Northern California as Director of Programs. Brennan earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
The President intends to nominate Vicki Huddleston to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Mali. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she has been the Principal Office of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana since 1999. Prior to her service assignment in Cuba, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affair, and from 1995 to 1997; Huddleston was the Ambassador to Madagascar. Her past overseas experience includes service in Port-au-Prince, Bamakao, and Freetown. Her experience at the Department of State includes service as the first Deputy Director and then Director of the Office of Cuban Affairs. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and a Master's degree from John's Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
The President intends to nominate Paul William Speltz to be United States Director of the Asian Development Bank with the rank of Ambassador. Most recently, Mr. Speltz was Managing Director of Bluestone Capital Singapore. From 1998 to 1999, he was Senior Director of Asia Pacific Operations for United Technologies Corporation and Senior Advisor to the President of UTC International. From 1981 to 1998, he was the Chairman and CEO of ATC International, an Asian based marketing and consulting company. Speltz earned a bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.
The President intends to nominate Carolyn W. Merritt to be Chairperson and Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a five-year term. Merritt was most recently the Senior Vice President for Environment, Health and Safety of IMC Global, Inc., in Northbrook, Illinois. In 1994, she was a Senior Project Manager with RMT/Jones and Neuse, Inc., and environmental consulting firm in Houston, Texas. From 1988 to 1994, Merritt was with Champion International Corporation, first as the Manager of Solid and Hazardous Waste and them as Manager of Environment Health and Safety. She is a graduate of Radford University.


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Starting today, Facebook users from the United States have received a new feature for their accounts: remaining in the online world even after they passed away through something called a "legacy contact". However intriguing this new option might be, experts urge users to give it a long thought before choosing who will be the contact to represent them post-mortem.
The freshly launched feature will allow US users to write a sort of digital will. They can choose between two options of what will happen with their account after they pass away: it can be deleted or, they can appoint a "legacy contact" by accessing the website's security page.
The task of the designated legacy contact is simple: they must log on their own Facebook account, provide a name and a death date, and also a link to the obituary of the deceased. After a thorough verification of the data, the specified account will officially become "memorialized". What does that mean? It means that the deceased's profile will show the word "remembering" next to their name.
There are specific things that the legacy contact can or cannot access after the data has been verified. For example, their access is restricted from private messages and chats. On the other hand, they will be allowed to accept new friend requests, post announcements and change the profile picture, all this after Facebook has processed the so-called "memorialization request".
In your will, Facebook lets you decide whether you want to let your legacy contact download all the data you ever posted on Facebook, such as pictures, statuses, posts and any other information you shared during your life. This also means that anything that you might not have previously published in a public manner, also falls under the control and responsibility of the legacy contact. In this category we count photos, any kind of artwork or writings you added on Facebook, but did not make public.
Anthony Handal, who owns a company specializing in digital rights and intellectual property, advises us to take into serious consideration who will be in charge of our digital accounts after we pass away. It is even more important to make a wise choice if you are part of any domain which involves art, writing, photography, film or music in any way. Mr. Handal suggests that you choose the same person to be in charge of both your estate and your digital legacy.
His advice comes in handy, because we cannot predict how people will react. For example, if you are not careful and you put two different people in charge of administering your estate and of your digital media, the resulting conflict is not something people would want to deal with during the grieving process.
Interestingly enough, in 2013, the Pew Research Center has already thought about and asked about what happens with the social media accounts after the user dies. The question is quite important, considering that the average internet user has 25 online accounts, starting with email to all sorts of social media profiles and ending with important bank accounts. This information is provided by Microsoft in a study from 2007.
And because the digital era is rather new, and there is a lot of uncharted territory, the sorting out of who gets access to online property after someone dies is just at the beginning. However, companies, legislator and, most importantly, families are getting together to find the best solution. In this regard, Facebook has decided that, as its users age, it is only fair that they should get the chance to choose how to deal with potential issues.
An unchanged percentage of online adults use Facebook (71%), according to a Pew study released this January, a number which hasn't altered since August 2013. However, the number of seniors adhering to the platform continues to increase, comprising more than a half of users whose age is 65 and over.
Michelle Parker, an estate planning attorney from Virginia, believes that Facebook might have opened a can of worms with their new feature, because a lot of people might believe that giving out control over their Facebook account equals to legal ownership. The reality is that the law doesn't know yet how to handle the potential transfer of intellectual property rights. Before today, Facebook offered only the option of freezing accounts of the deceased.
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Increases from 1976 through 1988 in the localized disease graph were due to national implementation of screening mammography. The regressions are logarithmic, with 1990 as the starting year for localized disease among 40-year-olds to avoid the screening mammography effect during prior years. APC indicates annual percent change; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.
All 3 regressions are exponential. APC indicates annual percent change; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.
Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals; APC, annual percent change; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.
Johnson RH, Chien FL, Bleyer A. Incidence of breast cancer with distant involvement among women in the United States, 1976 to 2009. JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.776.
Importance Evidence from the US National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database suggests that the incidence of advanced breast cancer in young women is increasing.
Objective To quantify this trend and analyze it as a function of stage at diagnosis, race/ethnicity, residence, and hormone receptor status.
Design, Setting, and Patients Breast cancer incidence, incidence trends, and survival rates as a function of age and extent of disease at diagnosis were obtained from 3 SEER registries that provide data spanning 1973-2009, 1992-2009, and 2000-2009. SEER defines localized as disease confined to the breast, regional to contiguous and adjacent organ spread (eg, lymph nodes, chest wall), and distant disease to remote metastases (bone, brain, lung, etc).
Main Outcome Measure Breast cancer incidence trends in the United States.
Results In the United States, the incidence of breast cancer with distant involvement at diagnosis increased in 25- to 39-year-old women from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.01 to 2.21) per 100 000 in 1976 to 2.90 (95% CI, 2.31 to 3.59) per 100 000 in 2009. This is an absolute difference of 1.37 per 100 000, representing an average compounded increase of 2.07% per year (95% CI, 1.57% to 2.58%; P < .001) over the 34-year interval. No other age group or extent-of-disease subgroup of the same age range had a similar increase. For 25- to 39-year-olds, there was an increased incidence in distant disease among all races and ethnicities evaluated, especially non-Hispanic white and African American, and this occurred in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Incidence for women with estrogen receptor–positive subtypes increased more than for women with estrogen receptor–negative subtypes.
Conclusion and Relevance Based on SEER data, there was a small but statistically significant increase in the incidence of breast cancer with distant involvement in the United States between 1976 and 2009 for women aged 25 to 39 years, without a corresponding increase in older women.
In the United States, breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in adolescent and young adult women 15 to 39 years of age, accounting for 14% of all cancer in men and women in the age group.1 The individual average risk of a woman developing breast cancer in the United States was 1 in 173 by the age of 40 years when assessed in 2008.2 Young women with breast cancer tend to experience more aggressive disease than older women and have lower survival rates.2,3 Given the effect of the disease in young people and a clinical impression that more young women are being diagnosed with advanced disease, we reviewed the national trends in breast cancer incidence in the United States.
The total number of women with malignant breast cancer during 1976-2009 with data in the SEER database, as of the 2012 release, was 936 497, of whom 197 632 were diagnosed during 1976-1991 (SEER 9), 191 779 were diagnosed during 1992-1999 (SEER 13), and 547 086 were diagnosed during 2000-2009 (SEER 18). For the 1976-2009 era, the database has data for 562 062, 288 639, 57 138, and 28 658 women with localized, regional, distant, and unstaged disease at diagnosis, respectively.
Figure 1 depicts the annual incidence rates of malignant breast cancer from 1976 to 2009 in the SEER 9 registry by 15-year age intervals and extent of disease at diagnosis. The regressions, APCs, and P values are for 1976-2009 except for localized disease among women aged 40 years and older among whom the era 1990-2009 was used to avoid the rapid increase in localized disease associated with the national implementation of screening mammography during prior years. Since 1976, there has been a steady increase in the incidence of breast cancer presenting with distant disease in 25- to 39-year-old women, from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.01 to 2.21) per 100 000 in 1976 to 2.90 (95% CI, 2.31 to 3.59) per 100 000 in 2009 and at an APC of 2.07 (95% CI, 1.57 to 2.58; P < .001). The absolute increase of 1.37 per 100 000 over 34 years is relatively small but with nonoverlapping 95% confidence intervals. There was also a statistically significant increase in the incidence of distant disease in 40- to 54-year-olds during 1976-2009, but all of their increase occurred prior to 1990 (Figure 1). No other age group had statistically significant increases, either for distant, regional, or localized disease at diagnosis, the latter in 25- to 39-year-olds throughout 1976-2009 and in women 40 years and older after the screening mammography increments.
Figure 2 shows the incidence of distant disease in 25- to 39-year-old women by SEER registry/era on semi-log coordinates. SEER 18 data, with the largest sample size of the United States (28% of the total population) and the most recent era (2000-2009), demonstrated the steepest increase and greatest APC. SEER 13 data, with an intermediate sample size (15%) and era (1992-2009), depicted the next greatest increase and corresponding APC. SEER 9 data, with the smallest sample size (9.5%) and longest era (1976-2009), showed the slowest increase and least APC. Joinpoint analysis also revealed a continuously increasing incidence trend among 25- to 39-year-olds with no discrete inflection during 1976-2009.
The Table lists the APCs in the rates of diagnosis of localized, regional, and distant breast cancer for 15-year age cohorts in SEER 9 for 1976-2009, SEER 13 for 1992-2009, and SEER 18 for 2000-2009. With one exception, APCs increased significantly (P < .01 and APC > 2.0) in, and only in, women aged 25 to 39 years with distant disease at diagnosis. The one exception is in older women, who had an increase in localized disease associated with implementation of screening mammography during the 1980s. Comparing the most recent interval, 2000-2009, with the more retrograde intervals of 1975-2009 and 1992-2009, the annual incidence in the age group younger than 40 years accelerated over the time interval studied. The APCs in 25- to 39-year-olds increased from 2.07 (95% CI, 1.57 to 2.58) to 2.85 (95% CI, 2.09 to 3.62) to 3.59 (95% CI, 1.57 to 5.64) during 1976-2009, 1992-2009, and 2000-2009, respectively, and the corresponding estimated doubling time in the incidence rate decreased from 34 to 20 to 18 years. As another indicator of increasing frequency of distant disease, this category as a proportion of all invasive breast cancer in the age group increased from 4.4% in the 1970s to 4.8%, 5.5%, and 7.2% during the next 3 decades.
Figure 3 shows that the rate of increasing incidence of distant disease is inversely proportional to age at diagnosis. The greatest increase occurred in 25- to 34-year-old women, from 0.81 per 100 000 in 1976 to 2.14 per 100 000 in 2009 and at an APC of 2.24 (95% CI, 1.38 to 3.12; P < .001). Progressively smaller increases occurred in older women by 5-year age intervals and no statistically significant incidence increase occurred in any group 55 years or older.
For young women aged 25 to 39 years, the incidence of distant disease increased in all races/ethnicities assessed since at least 1992, when race/ethnicity became available in the SEER database (Figure 3). These increases were statistically significant in African American and non-Hispanic white populations, with increases from 1976 to 2009 of 3.14 to 6.25 per 100 000 and 1.52 to 2.37 per 100 000 and APCs of 3.50 (95% CI, 1.42 to 5.58; P = .03) and 2.67 (95% CI, 1.29 to 4.06; P = .01), respectively. Between 1992, when urban vs nonurban residence data became available in the SEER database, and 2009, the incidence increase appears to have occurred in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas (Figure 3), with an increase of 1.77 per 100 000 in 1976 to 3.00 per 100 000 in 2009 and an APC of 2.89 (95% CI, 2.11 to 3.67; P < .001) for the metropolitan areas.
For 1992-2009, the APC for 25- to 39-year old women with distant disease was 8.15 (95% CI, 5.79 to 10.57; P < .001; 0.39 per 100 000 in 1976 to 1.21 per 100 000 in 2009) for those with estrogen receptor–positive and progesterone receptor–positive (ER+PR+) tumors. For those with ER+ and progesterone receptor–negative (ER+PR−) tumors, the corresponding APC was 8.89 (95% CI, 6.38 to 11.46, P < .001; 0.09 per 100 000 in 1976 to 0.54 to 2009 per 100 000 in 2009) and for those with ER−PR+ and ER−PR−, it was −0.51 (95% CI, −4.46 to 3.59; P = .79; 0.09 per 100 000 in 1976 to 0.03 per 100 000 in 2009) and 5.44 (95% CI, 3.57 to 7.34; P < .001; 0.41 per 100 000 in 1976 to 1.03 per 100 000 in 2009), respectively.
There is no evidence for stage migration from regional, localized, or in situ categories, none of which had a decline in incidence at any time since 1976 (Figure 1, eTable 1, and eFigure). Of the 5 staging categories of breast cancer available in SEER, only the unstaged group had a decline but only since 1995 whereas the increasing incidence of distant disease began no later than 1976 (Figure 1 and eFigure).
For the most recent evaluable interval in the largest SEER database (SEER 18), 2000-2004, there was an absolute difference of 55% in observed survival in 25- to 39-year-old women with distant vs locoregional disease. The mean 5-year observed survival in the age group diagnosed with breast cancer during 2000-2004 was 31.4% (95% CI, 28.4% to 34.5%) for 925 women with distant disease and 86.8% (95% CI, 86.2% to 87.4%) for 12 387 women with locoregional disease (eTable 2). In this age group, the difference between distant and locoregional disease in the 5-year survival rate (55 absolute percentage points) was greater than the survival disparity for any of the differences we identified for race/ethnicity, residence, hormone receptor status, or age at diagnosis.
Because younger patients have greater PYLA by a disease, we estimated the potential effect of the incidence increase on PYLA. Approximately 15% of the PYLA in all women with distant-disease breast cancer at diagnosis in 2008 occurred in women 25 to 39 years of age. Nearly 70% of the PYLA in 25- to 39-year-olds resulted from the increase in incidence from 1976 to 2009 (eTable 3).
The incidence of distant disease in women with breast cancer younger than age 40 years has been increasing at a steady or even accelerating rate, in contrast to locoregional breast cancer in the same age group and all stages of breast cancer in older women, in whom no such trend is apparent. Acceleration in the incidence of distant disease in young women is suggested by the increasing APCs, decreasing doubling times, and steeper regressions in successive SEER eras. The absolute increase of 1.37 per 100 000 over 34 years is relatively small, but the trend shows no evidence for abatement and may indicate increasing epidemiologic and clinical significance.
The increase of distant disease in young women has been independent of race and ethnicity and metropolitan vs rural residence. Non-Hispanic white and African-American individuals appear to have been more affected by the increase, as have women with the ER+ subtype of the disease.
Why is the increase occurring? One consideration must be stage migration: changes in staging classification, improvements in diagnostic imaging technology, or increasing use of imaging studies for staging and sentinel node biopsy could have over time placed patients in a higher stage group at diagnosis. For a number of reasons, however, stage migration may not explain the increasing incidence of distant disease. Stage migration may occur from an adjacent category (eg, regional to or from distant) and usually from a lower to the next higher stage category (eg, regional to distant). We could find no direct evidence for stage migration from regional, localized, or in situ disease, but this does not preclude the chance that increased diagnostic sensitivity and scrutiny is one of the reasons for our findings. Stage migration may have had a minor contribution after 1995 (eFigure) but no apparent discernible effect during the 2 decades before that, when the incidence was already occurring. Moreover, throughout the history of SEER, only a few percentage of the patients have been classified as unstaged—1% to 4% depending on the year—and therefore unstaged patients can have only a limited influence on migration into another category.
It appears that more of the increase in advanced breast cancer has been in the ER+ subtypes than in the ER− subtypes. This finding is comparatively fortunate in that breast cancer patients with distant involvement and ER+PR+ disease have a median survival of approximately 45 months vs a median survival of only 25 months for women with ER−PR− disease.13 However, the 10-year overall survival for both groups is less than 20%. Increasing utilization of receptor testing in clinical practice is apparent in the decrease in incidence of the number of patients for whom no hormone receptor status was reported, from 0.67 per 100 000 in 1976 to 0.01 per 100 000 in 2009 and at an APC of −9.0 (95% CI, −11.75 to −6.18; P < .001).
A report in 2007 described an increase in the incidence of breast cancer in Geneva, Switzerland, among 25- to 39-year-olds during the 1995-2004 decade, with cancers in the age group representing 3.4% of all breast cancers in 1995 and 7.2% in 2004 (P = .03).14 With only 63 patients diagnosed during the last 3 years of the decade they studied, the authors were unable to determine the stage that was most affected by the increase.
Whatever the causes—and likely there are more than 1—the evidence we observed for the increasing incidence of advanced breast cancer in young women will require corroboration and may be best confirmed by data from other countries. If verified, the increase is particularly concerning, because young age itself is an independent adverse prognostic factor for breast cancer,2,3 and the lowest 5-year breast cancer survival rates as a function of age have been reported for 20- to 34-year-old women.1,2 The most recent national 5-year survival for distant disease for 25- to 39-year-old women is only 31% according to SEER data, compared with a 5-year survival rate of 87% for women with locoregional breast cancer.
Although breast cancer before age 40 years occurs in a relatively small percentage of women, the PYLA in 15- to 39-year-olds is more than one-seventh of PYLA in all women with breast cancer, and more than two-thirds of their PYLA appear to have resulted from the incidence increase. These projections add to the significance of the observed incidence increase.
In conclusion, SEER data showed a small but statistically significant increase in the incidence of breast cancer with distant involvement for women aged 25 to 39 years. The trajectory of the incidence trend predicts that an increasing number of young women in the United States will present with metastatic breast cancer in an age group that already has the worst prognosis,1 no recommended routine screening practice, the least health insurance, and the most potential years of life. Our finding requires corroboration and, if confirmed, further study of potential causes.
Corresponding Author: Rebecca H. Johnson, MD, Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington, MB 8501, PO Box 5371, Seattle, WA 98105-0371 (rebecca.johnson@seattlechildrens.org).
Author Contributions: Dr Bleyer had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: All authors.
Acquisition of data: Chien, Bleyer.
Analysis and interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: Chien, Bleyer.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Johnson, Chien.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Johnson reported having served on a board for Critical Mass Young Adult Cancer Alliance and having served as a speaker at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society AYA Survivorship Conference. Dr Bleyer reported being a consultant and speaker for Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals. No other disclosures were reported.
Funding/Support: Mr Chien's salary was funded by the Seattle Children's Guild Association Teen Cancer Grant.
Role of the Sponsor: The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
This article was corrected for errors on February 26, 2013.


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The house is quiet. Little is stirring. I decided to pick up my camera and have a look around. I know that I see things every day, but sometimes I do not notice those everyday things.
In fact, lately, what I have mostly noticed, and focused on, have been the shortfalls and frustrations, the disappointments. It may not be a conscious effort to wallow a bit, but sometimes it takes a deliberate effort to shake-off the pity party, the funk, or nameless dread. I recognized the heavy way I feel, contrasted with the joy and gratitude I found while browsing the Interwebs, and I made my deliberate move to see the good stuff. There is good stuff. All around.
I see books, waiting to be read... a first time, a tenth time. I see my tape measure, and I think yes, there it is, and later when I want it, I may not have to turn the house upside down searching for it. There is the hat I crocheted, and owl, too. Our felted soap, which twice this week made gifts for loved ones. I see a basket full of note cards, for thank-yous. Resisting the urge to chastise myself for not sending those out to the dozen, or so, people who deserve a thank-you... focusing on my good intentions. Is it too late to say thank you?
Quiet morning, all to myself, with the urge to see the good stuff... and where does this take me? The garden. I stood at the gate, seeing them, Van Gogh's sunflowers, as though in conversation, and I hesitated a moment, expecting them to invite me in, to greet me.
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Passion flower vine cuttings. We are waiting for them to root, so I can plant them along our fence. They make me think of our first visit to the Biergarten, the small transplants along the fence, and seeing them flourish in the last two years. It's a hopeful act, rooting cuttings, planting, waiting... it takes faith. Am I comfortable with the quiet, do I have faith?
Caged tomato. Hang on little tomato!
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Summer light, a lemon, an aloe, garden gloves, old tools. I see the things we love, the things we reach for, in sickness and in health. Squeezing lemons, the air vaporized with citric summer... I cannot be quiet about the smell and sting of lemon juice... it is too good.
I cannot sit here, any more. The day is moving ahead, with both good stuff and other stuff. I see it, and I am ready to move with the day, and say thank you.
Thank you, Natalie, for sharing so much good stuff with us. We enjoy the good and we empathize with the other stuff.
This is beautiful writing, Natalie. I'm glad you stopped to see the Good Stuff.
Also, I see "The Flame Trees of Thika" on your bookshelf. I fondly remember that book. Read it one year when I was called for Jury Duty to (ugh) downtown Los Angeles and those were the days we had to actually go and sit there all day for 9 days at least. The book was a wonderful escape from my boring surroundings during that time.
Like a little bit of French countryside in your sunny sunflowers. Good stuff indeed.
Your prose is as beautiful as you photos Natalie.
I see you have a Tasha Tudor book - I've long admired her life and talent.
The sunflowers are growing. In fact lots of our plants are growing. It's beginning to be Candlelight. Get the tomatoes, get the carrots, get the strawberries, get ready for Candlelight!


Box set containing six films from the 'Carry On' series. In 'Carry On Camping', Sid (Sid James) and Bernie (Bernard Bresslaw) attempt to trick their girlfriends into attending a nudist camp with them. Fellow holiday-makers include Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), his matron Miss Haggerd (Hattie Jacques), and their school of overdeveloped young girls (including Barbara Windsor). In 'Carry On Abroad', the 'Carry On' team put their talents to sending up package holidays. When a group of British tourists arrive on the island of Elsbels, they discover their hotel bears little resemblance to the one on the brochure. In 'Carry On Follow That Camel', an English gentleman joins the Foreign Legion after having been accused of fraud, and saves a fort from marauding Arabs. In 'Carry On Girls' the 'Carry On ' team send up the 'Women's Lib' movement. Sid Fidler (Sid James) convinces Fircombe council to hold a beauty contest, but the local women's lib action group opposes the idea. In 'Carry On Behind', a beautiful Russian archeologist joins a British dig with chaotic results. Things are further complicated by the presence of hordes of glamorous campers at the caravan park next door. Finally, in 'Carry On At Your Convenience' Kenneth Williams leads the 'Carry On' team as W.C. Boggs, the owner of a troubled toiletware company. The management is highly incompetent and as a result the unions are not happy, but they are the least of Bogg's troubles.


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Gamaliel Butler
an unknown artist
watercolour on ivory (frame: 9.5 cm x 6.7 cm, oval: 7.0 cm x 5.7 cm)
Gamaliel Butler (1783–1852), lawyer and free settler, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1824 with his wife, Sarah. A London-born lawyer of merchant stock, Butler had come to the colony to attend to an investment and to the business interests of his deceased brother-in-law. Though initially intending to return to London and to the six children he and Sarah had left there in the care of relatives, Butler saw opportunity in the colony and decided to stay. He was admitted as a practitioner of the Supreme Court soon after his arrival and later established his own law firm in Hobart. A landowner, director of the bank of Van Diemen's Land and a supporter of various charitable causes, Butler died in Hobart in February 1852. His firm, now Butler, McIntyre and Butler, is still in operation and is the oldest law firm in Australia.
Gallery Seven (Ian Potter Gallery)
Gamaliel Butler (age 27 in 1810)
1. Gamaliel Butler, c. 1824. All an unknown artist.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters' true grit.


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Viewpoint: Democrats Should Feel Less Gloomy as 2018 Midterms Approach
Recent victories in Virginia and across the country have Democrats stirring with anticipation for 2018 midterms.
Once bitter despair has turned to cautious optimism in the Democratic Party. The election of Donald Trump and a Republican-led Congress have made life quite difficult for the political left. But there is hope. The recent victories in Virginia and across the country have the party stirring with anticipation for 2018. While these wins were certainly important, they do not guarantee us anything come midterm season. The election of Ralph Northam over Ed Gillepse means nothing for states also hoping to flip their governor seat from blue to red. But these victories both small and large mark a change in time. It proves that success in 2018 is possible. It's easy to feel discouraged by the everyday monstrosity that's become reality in the United States. However, there is no time to wallow in misery. There is even still a precise danger in being overly confident based on more or less random results from scattered elections in 2017.
Without strong efforts from the core of the Democratic party voting base, the momentum we're currently building will come to a screeching halt all but ensuring the reality of more years with a Republican-led Congress. This therefore stands as a plea to all who are able to get involved in the upcoming midterm elections. It is unclear if President Trump will last for his entire term, but his childish attitude to the presidency has doomed us for far beyond the time he can claim the Oval Office as his own. There is no end to rock bottom as we see American leadership plummet internationally with each and every embarrassment the president bestows upon us. But he is not the only current disgraceful leader currently in our government.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is facing two challengers that could certainly put his job in jeopardy. Randy Bryce, a union ironworker, is one of the candidates vying for Ryan's spot. Bryce recently received the endorsement of Bernie Sanders. He's certainly popular on social media, but is facing a strong opponent in the primary. Cathy Myers is a school board member in the district that's won a number of local elections to hold this spot. Regardless of who wins this primary, there's no doubt that ousting Paul Ryan would be enormous for the country. Of course, it's quite unlikely that such a powerful figure could be replaced. But this race is one to devote some time too.
The Speaker certainly is not the only well-known Republican that could lose his seat. In Nevada, Dean Heller has faced significant backlash. Illinois congressmen Randy Hultgren and Peter Roskam are also facing threats back home for their cowardly response to their party's constant lack of regard for democracy.
These are only a few of the races across the nation that will matter in 2018. But the wins this month prove that nothing is impossible. Through the power of people coming together and fighting for decency, we can begin to restore the country we once knew.


Started " SHORES SPACE " in Amsterdam in 1999, a gallery for contemporary American Art.
Curator "The Amsterdam Connection", 8 Amsterdam artists to Memphis at Marshall Arts, 1996.
Memphis Business Journal. Dutch Artist Expands Upon Old Masters.
Art in New Orleans, Le Mieux.
Leeuwarder Courant, Hergebruik van oude meesters, by Johanna Schuurman Memphis Business Journal. Dutch Connection delivers striking art exhibition, by Linda Romine.
Commercial Appeal Memphis. Dutch artist's work finds friendly reception in Memphis, by Michael Kelly.
Peel en Maas, Limburg. Expositie Van Gogh instituut.
Dateline Memphis. Recent paintings by Rob van der Schoor.
Memphis Flyer. Memphis TN. Dutch Tweak, the Netherlands makes a strong showing, by David Hall.
Noordhollands Dagblad, Beeldmerken en Boeddha's Studiegenoten by Linda Bonnema.
San Antonio Current. Artifacts. A protestant Emisarry from the East.
1989 Buiksloterkerk, Amsterdam. "Niet zo maar zo".
1994 Hot springs, AR. "Dutch Floors".
His works are represented in many collections, both corporate and private in The Netherlands, U.S.A. and Canada.


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I will tell you right now, a homemade chlorine battery is not going to be as cost effective as commercial batteries. In the nanny state it is almost impossible to get pure enough chemicals to really experiment. However, I think it is important for the sustainable power types to understand what is going on within their system. This allows them to make informed decisions when they buy their batteries.
In a true grid down collapse, i.e. Mad Max scenario, the ability to make batteries from scrounged materials may come in handy. Now before you get too excited, if you get one volt per battery cell you are doing extremely well.
It will take many of these cells to get any usable energy. This is not a cost effective way to power your home.
In the video we make a battery using a mason jar, copper, aluminum, and chlorine bleach.
Basically, any two different kinds of metal can be placed in a conducting solution and you get a battery. In some schools they still teach an experiment that involves inserting copper and zinc strips into a lemon or a potato to make a battery.
Once you get the basic chemistry down, feel free to experiment. I have seen instructions for making large cells from aluminum soda cans riveted together and inserted into long PVC pipes. Right now I am experimenting with PVC pipe, grounding rod, and aluminum pipe.
If you want to see the procedure to make a chlorine battery, please watch the video.
As promised in the video, this article will discuss the theory of batteries in a little more detail.
The Chemistry in a Nutshell.
At the location where the water and metal meet, some of the metal atoms are attracted to the negative side of the water molecules. This attraction allows the metal atom to leave one or more of its electrons behind in the metal strip, and others to move into the water.
Because of this movement of electrons a metal atom is left with a very small negative electric charge. This tiny charge does not pull very much on the metal ion that has left the strip. But since there are huge numbers of atoms at the surface of the metal strip, and an enormous number of metal ions are in the water at any given time the metal strip ends up with a slight negative charge.
Some metals hold on to their atoms more tightly than others.
If one metal strip has more extra electrons than another strip of a dissimilar metal, the extra electrons will flow from the first strip to the second, until they both have the same charge and equal each other out. However, before the electrons can flow from one strip to the other, they need a conductive path.
We give them that path when we connect two strips of different metals with a wire. The electrons then flow through that wire, creating an electric current.
In the case of the copper and zinc strips, the copper holds onto its atoms more strongly than the zinc does. That means the zinc strip is more negative than the copper strip. The electrons will flow from the zinc to the copper.
If our battery just had water in it that would be the end of the battery. This battery has water plus an acid. An acid has an easily detached hydrogen ion. (in the video I mention about ionic solutions). Hydrogen ions are positive, and the remaining part of the acid becomes negative when it loses the hydrogen ion. In a battery made with soda (phosphoric acid) you would end up with phosphate ions – in a vinegar battery (acetic acid) you would have acetate ions left.
When all of those positively charged zinc ions bump into those negatively charged phosphate/acetate or other acid ions the phosphate ion is more strongly attracted to the zinc ion than to the hydrogen ion.
The positively charged hydrogen ion is attracted to the copper strip, because the copper strip has the extra electrons, and is thus negative (opposite charges attract).
Now the copper strip no longer has the extra electrons. It attracts more from the zinc strip through the connecting wire, as it did when the wire was first connected.
When you use a salt solution instead of acid in the water you have a different chemistry.
At the zinc strip, the zinc ion combines with four hydroxide ions to form one ion of zincate (Zn(OH)42-), leaving two electrons behind on the zinc strip. The chlorine ions from the salt then combine with the hydronium ions leftover when the hydroxide ions were taken away by the zinc, and form hydrochloric acid.
The oxygen from the air is combining with the zinc.
The copper electrode is just there to conduct the electrons, and does not participate in the chemistry. It can be replaced with a carbon rod.
They had the best explanation of what is happening and I took a lot of their information to write this as their way of explaining was a lot easier to understand when I contrasted the two. (I guess that means they understand the process much better than I do). If you have kids with an interest in science I recommend visiting their site.


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John Berry Shares Positive Outlook After Cancer Scare
Carena Liptak
For Grammy-winning singer-songwriter John Berry, the year ahead is looking bright. However, a recent health scare has reminded the artist about the importance of being grateful for good health, and he's sharing a message of strength and optimism with his fans.
Before embarking on his 21-city Christmas tour at the end of 2018, Berry was treated for a tonsil infection. However, after the run of shows wrapped, Berry's health issues were still not improving despite a second run of antibiotics and steroids. In early January, the singer sought further treatment, and a CAT scan revealed a mass that appeared to be a tumor in one of his tonsils. He underwent surgery to have his tonsils removed on Jan. 10, and a portion of his soft palate was also removed during the procedure.
Soon after, a biopsy report confirmed that the mass on both tonsils was malignant. However, there was good news: Berry's course of treatment is only expected to last five weeks, and it has over a 90 percent cure rate. While he has a difficult few months ahead, Berry expects to make a full and relatively quick recovery, and will be able to return to his musical career soon.
As he addresses his health issues, Berry says he is leaning on the support of his wife Robin, his fanbase and his faith. As inspiration, the couple has adopted the message of Philippians 4:13: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Following his course of treatment, Berry is planning a busy 2019, with a growing tour schedule and new music in the work. To stay up to date, visit his official website.
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Brian Johnson's new book When God Becomes Real (Bethel Book Publishing), out today, journeys readers through the darkest times of his life as he battled a long jaunt with depression and anxiety head-on. The husband and father of four shares about the vitalness praise and worship served in ushering in the presence of God to fight the panic alongside scripture which was essential in his mind's renewal. Chris Tomlin, Kari Jobe, Christine Caine and a host of others have supported the authentic tell-all.
"There's a major need. There's a lot of people that feel alone, that feel the anxiety and depression," Johnson shared with Fox News last week. "He's been real my whole life, but there's just something that happens when God rescues you and you know that you know that God did it. That's why I wrote my story so that people can use that as an example in life, encouraging everyone to run after God."
Johnson is also featured on VICTORY, the awaited new collection of music from Bethel Music. He will take part in 2019's nationwide "The Victory Tour" presented by Bethel Music with special guests Tasha Cobbs-Leonard and Housefires.
Brian & Jenn Johnson are co-founders of Bethel Music, WorshipU and have been integral in the production of more than 15 albums that have influenced the culture of worship across the global church. Brian facilitates an atmosphere of faith in worship and has written anthems such as "Living Hope,""Have it All", "We Will Not Be Shaken" and "One Thing Remains," which was awarded No. 1 song for ASCAP Christian Music and No. 1 Radio Single in 2013. Johnson's newest, chart-topping solo album, After All These Years, released in January 2017 alongside his wife Jenn. They are committed to raising healthy family, cultivating community and fostering unity among worship leaders from around the world. Together they are passionate about raising up worshippers who take hold of their true identity and pursue intimacy with God above all else. Brian and Jenn reside in Redding, California, with their four wonderful children. His first book, When God Becomes Real, is available now.


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Chorus Aviation completes acquisition of Falko Regional Aircraft
Creates world's largest aircraft lessor focused solely on serving the regional aviation segment
HALIFAX, NS, May 3, 2022 /CNW/ – Chorus Aviation Inc. ('Chorus') (TSX: CHR) announces that it has completed its acquisition of Falko Regional Aircraft Limited ('Falko'), as previously announced on February 27, 2022. This acquisition transforms Chorus into a premier full-service provider in regional aviation with unique capabilities to maximize value at every stage of an aircraft's lifecycle. The completion of this transaction establishes Chorus as the world's largest aircraft lessor focused solely on investing in the regional aircraft leasing space, and results in a portfolio of 348 regional aircraft with an aggregate value of approximately US$4.5 billion which are owned, managed, and/or operated by Chorus subsidiaries. As contemplated by the acquisition agreement, Chorus expects to acquire the beneficial interests in five aircraft trusts on a deferred basis prior to the end of the second quarter of 2022 (subject to the satisfaction or waiver of specified conditions applicable to those transactions) bringing the total to 353 aircraft.
"I'm extremely pleased and very optimistic about our future growth opportunities," said Joe Randell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chorus. "This transformative acquisition establishes Chorus as the world's largest aircraft lessor focused on the regional aviation segment and a leading worldwide provider in all aspects of regional aviation. Further, the transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings and earnings per share in 20221. With the addition of Falko's asset management platform, we will shift to growing our leasing business through an asset light model, significantly increasing cash flow generation, improving return on invested capital, and facilitating the pursuit of larger deals with more efficient access to equity capital. Growth through accessing third party capital reduces balance sheet exposure, lowering debt and residual value asset risk, while also enhancing stability and diversity of earnings, through asset management fees. The combined leasing platforms also present a broadened market opportunity covering the full age spectrum of regional aircraft from new deliveries to mid and end-of-life aircraft. Chorus' technical skills and capabilities, including aircraft repurposing, end of life disassembly, and parts provisioning and sales, provide multiple opportunities to maximize returns on aircraft assets."
Concurrent with the closing of the Falko acquisition, Chorus closed the private placement with an affiliate of Brookfield Special Investments Fund L.P. ('Brookfield') as previously announced on February 27, 2022. As a result of this transaction, Brookfield beneficially owns 25,400,000 (Class B Voting Shares) of Chorus (representing approximately 12.5% of Chorus' issued and outstanding common shares2 of Chorus), 300,000 Series 1 Preferred Shares of Chorus and 18,642,772 common share purchase warrants. Chorus and Brookfield also entered into an Investor Rights Agreement in connection with Brookfield's investment. This new relationship with Brookfield gives Chorus access to their extensive experience in asset management, fundraising and capital markets.
"I'm deeply grateful to our team for delivering significant value to our employees, customers, and shareholders. The Chorus Aviation Capital team's dedication to growth since its inception in 2017 has helped make this significant milestone a reality; they are a terrific complement to the Falko team, and we are very pleased to welcome the Falko employees to the Chorus group. Our immediate priority is to seamlessly integrate operations and ensure the successful execution of the opportunities this transaction brings. We believe the timing of this endeavour is opportune as global air travel continues to resume and demand for regional aircraft leasing increases," concluded Mr. Randell.
In accordance with the terms of the Investor Rights Agreement between Chorus and Brookfield, Mr. David Levenson, Managing Partner and Global Head of Brookfield Special Investments, and Frank Yu, Managing Director, Brookfield Special Investments have been appointed to the Chorus board of directors. (Bios for Messrs. Levenson and Yu are available on Chorus' website at www.chorusaviation.com). In addition, Mr. Paul Rivett has been appointed Chair of the Chorus Board of Directors. Paul joined Chorus' board in 2021 and is the co-founder and Chairman of NordStar Capital Inc., a company he co-founded in 2020. Prior to co-founding NordStar, he served as the President of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a global insurance holdings and value investing company, where he worked for nearly two decades. Chorus' former Chair of the Board, Mr. Richard Falconer and director, Mr. Sydney John Isaacs, elected to retire from the Chorus Board effective today, thereby enabling the immediate appointment of the Brookfield nominees. The Chorus team is very indebted for their dedication and commitment, and sincerely thank them for their service.
Increased size and scale:
Portfolio of 348 owned, operated, and/or managed aircraft with 32 airlines in 23 countries.
Market opportunities are broadened and enhanced by strengthened market competitiveness and ability to execute larger leasing transactions.
Full suite of service offerings and full age spectrum of aircraft provides the ability to offer value-added solutions to customers.
Best-in-class trading platform with deep market insight and relationships.
Financially accretive in the first year:
Earnings and EPS in 2022 creating an attractive financial profile.
Asset management model increases cash flow generation, improves return on invested capital, lowers the cost of capital and balance sheet risk.
Diversifies revenue streams and provides access to larger pools of capital to accelerate growth.
Brookfield's investment immediately reduces net leverage3.
Multiple aircraft exit strategies provide enhanced shareholder returns.
Well-capitalized to pursue further growth opportunities across multiple acquisition channels.
Exceptional expertise in asset management, capital raising and markets:
Combines best-in-class management teams in regional aviation with over 200 years experience.
Establishes Brookfield as a strategic investor with a 12.5% common share stake and adds Brookfield's expertise to Chorus' Board of Directors.
Additional information including key metric projections for the balance of fiscal 2022 will be provided concurrent with Chorus' first quarter 2022 financial disclosure on May 5, 2022.
Based on assumptions including currently contracted and planned lease revenue, and asset management revenue, depreciation expense, interest costs on the debt assumed with the acquisition, estimated tax rates and USD/CAD exchange rate of 1.27. Preferred share dividends are deducted for the purposes of calculating EPS.
Refers to Chorus' Class A Variable Voting Shares and Class B Voting Shares.
Leverage is defined as pro forma net debt to equity.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. was the exclusive financial advisor to Chorus. Dentons UK and Middle East LLP was the legal advisor to Chorus in connection with the acquisition transaction, and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP was the legal advisor to Chorus in connection with the private placement.
About Chorus Aviation Inc.
Chorus is a global provider of integrated regional aviation solutions. Chorus' vision is to deliver regional aviation to the world. Headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chorus is comprised of Chorus Aviation Capital a leading lessor of regional aircraft, and Jazz Aviation and Voyageur Aviation – companies that have long histories of safe operations with excellent customer service. Chorus provides a full suite of regional aviation support services that encompasses every stage of an aircraft's lifecycle, including aircraft acquisitions and leasing; aircraft refurbishment, engineering, modification, repurposing and preparation; contract flying; aircraft and component maintenance, disassembly, and parts provisioning.
Chorus Class A Variable Voting Shares and Class B Voting Shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol 'CHR'. Chorus 6.00% Senior Debentures, 5.75% Senior Unsecured Debentures due December 31, 2024, 6.00% Convertible Senior Unsecured Debentures due June 30, 2026, and 5.75% Senior Unsecured Debentures due June 30, 2027 trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbols 'CHR.DB', 'CHR.DB.A', 'CHR.DB.B', and 'CHR.DB.C', respectively.
www.chorusaviation.com
About Falko Regional Aircraft Limited
Falko is an established asset management company actively engaged in all aspects of commercial aircraft leasing, financing, and management with particular focus on the regional aircraft market. The team of specialists is focused on managing a portfolio of modern regional jet and turboprop aircraft on lease to leading airlines worldwide, in combination with a growing engine leasing and trading business. Falko is globally positioned to offer comprehensive asset management solutions to the regional aviation industry, with offices and representation in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia, from which extensive experience and expertise can be deployed across all regions of the world.
Since 2011, Falko, through its managed funds and affiliates, has acquired over 320 regional jet and turboprop aircraft worth in excess of US $3 billion. www.falko.com
About Brookfield Asset Management
Brookfield is a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $700 billion of assets under management across real estate, infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, and credit. Brookfield owns and operates long-life assets and businesses, many of which form the backbone of the global economy. Utilizing its global reach, access to large-scale capital and operational expertise, Brookfield offers a range of alternative investment products to investors around the world—including public and private pension plans, endowments and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, insurance companies and private wealth investors.
Brookfield is listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the symbol BAM and BAM.A respectively.
This news release includes forward-looking information and statements. Forward-looking information and statements are identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "plan", "potential", "predict", "project", "will", "would", and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions. All information and statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking and, by their nature, are based on various underlying assumptions and expectations that are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual future results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those indicated in forward-looking information or statements. As a result, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking information and statements included in this news release will prove to be accurate or correct.
Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results indicated in forward-looking information and statements for a number of reasons, including: a failure to complete the acquisition of the beneficial interests in the five aircraft trusts mentioned in this news release on the terms currently contemplated or at all; Chorus' ability to successfully integrate Falko's operations and employees and realize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition transaction; the potential impact of the completion of the acquisition transaction on relationships, including with employees, suppliers, customers, investors and other providers of capital; a prolonged duration of the COVID-19 pandemic (including as a result of the emergence of new COVID-19 variants) and/or further restrictive measures to minimize its public health impacts; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial strength of Chorus' and Falko's contractual counterparties; changes in the aviation industry and general economic conditions; Chorus' ability to pay its indebtedness and otherwise remain in compliance with its debt covenants; the risk of cross defaults under debt agreements and other significant contracts; the risk of asset impairments and provisions for expected credit losses; and the risk factors in Chorus' most recent Annual Information Form and in its public disclosure record available under its profile on www.sedar.com. Forward-looking information and statements contained in this news release represent Chorus' expectations as of the date of this news release (or as of the date they are otherwise stated to be made) and are subject to change after such date. Chorus disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise such information or statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing factors and risks are not exhaustive.
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Something that is important and incredibly timely now would be a movement toward respect and civility in the public space. We need to stop demonizing the other side and acting as though only our own views are worthy of consideration and start engaging with one another and working towards a common understanding. In all likelihood, we all want the same societal benefits but have different approaches on how to achieve them. If we were more respectful and open, we could accomplish so much more.
I had the pleasure to interview Scott Rosen the CEO of Visible Alpha.
I began my career as a sell-side equity analyst in Hong Kong — I believe as the first brokerage analyst covering China, long before that market was open. I spent six years as an analyst and eventually a director of research before starting a small company focused on research dissemination, which was ultimately sold to I/B/E/S. I then served as the Director of Research for I/B/E/S, which was bought by Thomson Financial, where I was subsequently put in charge of Thomson Financial's FirstCall research business and later Thomson Financial's investment product and content strategies.
I took a break from the financial industry to pursue other passions, but I always felt drawn to come back to it, which is how I ended up as Entrepreneur in Residence for TheMarkets.com, a research distribution platform owned by a consortium of the world's most prominent investment banks. I started working on a platform to aggregate and make sense of sell-side analyst models, and when TheMarkets.com was sold to Capital IQ, my project was carved out of the acquisition with the support of the banks, ultimately leading to the creation of Visible Alpha. My team continued to work through the challenges of making all models on a company easily comparable and creating a unique consensus on every line item. Though we've been working on it since 2011, Visible Alpha was formally established in 2015, and we continue to help investors identify unique perspectives on companies for their investment ideas.
The acquisition of TheMarkets.com closed in the fall of 2010, and in order to continue working on the research distribution platform, I needed to form a new business with ownership from the banks. So I set up a consultancy, thinking it would be a few months before I could set up a formal company. Well, due to complex banking regulations and a variety of other barriers, it ended up taking four years. I hired people under the consulting business, and once Visible Alpha was formally established, the company launched by the whole team.
Visible Alpha is a creation of the industry, formed by the major players in investment banking but intended for the benefit of both themselves and the wider financial community. Both the investment banks and investment managers look to us for a common purpose of addressing industry challenges. We're called upon every day to solve pragmatic and tactical issues, and we help provide stability in a time of rapid change. At the end of the day, we're serving both sides as a true partner, not only in trying to meet today's regulatory and operational challenges associated with institutional research, but helping the investors get more value out of that research to generate alpha.
While working in India, I paid close attention to their culture and management style to learn techniques that would be helpful when working with global teams. I discovered the concept of Kama and Yama by Indian philosopher Devdutt Pattanaik. Kama is the god of drive and passion; he doesn't worry about the way things are, but rather dreams and strives for how he believes things should be. He's the "god of startups." Yama, on the other hand, is the god of death and judgement, who determines one's fate in the afterlife based on how well you have followed the cosmic order. Yama is the corporate world, where structure and order rules. What I have learned is to run a company successfully, you need a little of both. Employees need to be motivated by a common and ambitious vision, with the freedom to express themselves and try exciting new things (Kama), but within an environment with healthy institutional habits and resilient structures (Yama). Balancing passion and order creates something lasting.
There are a lot of people who have helped me throughout the years, but the CEO of I/B/E/S, my supervisor at the time, was the best manager I've ever had. While Joe was not an expert on the business, he was an incredible leader. His greatest skill was his ability to empower employees to work through their differences and arrive at mutually agreeable solutions to difficult problems. During a management meeting, a colleague and I were having a dispute and couldn't find a resolution. Joe asked us to leave the meeting for 5 minutes, find the optimal solution and return; otherwise, he would simply pick an option without having any idea what the best choice actually was. We returned with an answer, as neither of us wanted a random solution to be chosen. This happened over 20 years ago, but the memory and lesson continues to stick with me.
· The continued rise and eventual leveling off of passive management. The trend over the past few years has been the rise of passive management, putting intense pressure on active management. While there is still tome way to go, I do believe passive management is innately self-limiting.
· The increased use of AI and machine learning and how it will enhance human performance, as opposed to how it will replace people. We're seeing this in the rise of quantamental investing, a merging of fundamental investing made by humans and big data number-crunching done by computers.
· Blockchain will evolve from hype into a powerful enabling technology.
· A continued increase in the efficiency of banking and investment management brought on by economic and regulatory pressures.


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BTA Volunteers Visit "II Volunteer Solidarity Forum"
The Second Solidarity Forum of Azerbaijani Volunteers was held on December 5 as part of the "Volunteer Week of Azerbaijan" with the participation of about 3,000 young people. The forum was organized by the State Agency for Citizen Service and Social Innovation and the Youth Fund. The
Baku Transport Agency has announced a tender for regular routes N: 11, 30, 40, 71 and 199
The Baku Transport Agency has announced a tender for regular routes N: 11, 30, 40, 71 and 199. An analysis of these regular routes was carried out based on incoming requests from citizens, and a number of shortcomings were identified. Taking this into account, it was decided to
Scheme of bus route No. 46 changed
The scheme of bus route No. 46 has been changed. Considering the numerous requests of citizens, buses on this route will go to the intersection of General Aliag Shikhlinsky and Samedbay Mehmandarov. A circle was created at the intersection so that buses can easily and safely maneuver
The problem of public transport is solved for residents of the area near the New Salyan road
Scheme of bus route No. 5 was temporarily changed to ensure the comfort of residents of the area near the New Salyan road until the consequences of a landslide on the Bibiheybat road are
New buses were commissioned
In accordance with the decree of the head of state, new buses were put into operation to bring public transport services in Baku in accordance with the highest international standards for both safety and
The "pocket" at the existing bus stop on Hanifa Aleskerova Street was eliminated, and the sidewalk was provided
The Baku Transport Agency has made another change to ensure the comfort and safety of pedestrians. Thus, the "pocket" at the existing bus stop on Hanifa Aleskerova Street (at the intersection with Mardanov Brothers Street) was eliminated, and a sidewalk was built for pedestrians.
Buses on regular routes N: 71 and 93 are replaced by repaired and more capacious vehicles
Buses that have been out of service for a long time on regular routes N: 71 and 93 are replaced by repaired and more capacious vehicles. Thus, the technical malfunction of buses operating on both routes, non-compliance with passenger requirements, as well as other shortcomings have
A meeting with representatives of the International Transport Forum was held at the headquarters of the Baku Transport Agency
The meeting was attended by representatives of the International Transport Forum and the Wuppertal Institute of Environment and Energy, who arrived in our capital as part of the project "Decarbonization of Transport in Developing Countries." The measures taken by the Baku Transport
Transport Exchange Center(HUB) "Keroglu" will be regularly disinfected
Given the increased likelihood of a number of acute respiratory infections due to cold weather, the Baku Transport Agency has taken preventive measures. In this context, disinfection was carried out at the Keroglu Transport Exchange Center. Waiting rooms and a park area were disinfected


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