Host: Doug Campbell
A review of Green and Clean Tech Trends, Technologies and Companies – Art Baron
Host: Doug Campbell
A review of Green and Clean Tech Trends, Technologies and Companies – Art Baron
Host: Doug Campbell
An update on Trust and Estates – John Schachtenhaufen
Karen Goersch, Financial Advisor will present. Introduced by John Schlachtenhaufen
- The Secure Act, passed in December 2019, has largely eliminated the ability for our beneficiaries to “stretch” our IRA over their lifetimes.
- Strategies and ideas to reduce your or your beneficiaries’ tax burden including:
- Qualified charitable distributions
- CHET 529 contributions
- Donor advised fund
- Roth conversion
- Will also discuss why these strategies can be helpful, including things like,
- Do you know your incremental tax bracket and what the next lower or higher bracket is?
- How reducing your Adjusted Gross Income can save you money on your Medicare Premiums and the “cliffs”
- Are you charitably inclined and might there be ways to “do good” and save on taxes? If giving to charity, do I give now or later?
- If I have more than I need, where does it go and how to ensure it goes where I want and most tax-efficiently
Video recording of Karen’s presentation: https://youtu.be/UVxZPh4mJGw
Qualified Charitable Distributions – FAQs and Checklist
USCGT Key Differences between DAF vs Private Foundations 07 2020
Tom Glover, 90, who for years did a caricature of each DMA president for this newsletter, died peacefully on December 17 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Tom was a caricaturist with a unique ability to capture the essence of those he drew, and he touched thousands of people with his cheerful perception.
He was born in New York and raised in Great Neck, Long Island. The course of Tom’s life took a decisive turn when he headed north to St. Lawrence University, where he honed his drawing skills at a local watering hole called the Tick Tock, where his caricatures hung. He graduated in 1952, and after serving in the Army, Tom returned each year to draw new SLU students. A blind date was arranged with one of the new coeds, and Tom’s fate was sealed.
Tom and his wife Diane went on to make a wonderful life based in Rowayton and were married for 62 years. From an ever-busy home studio Tom built a thriving business. A private service will be conducted at Christ Church in Exeter on December 27, with a Committal service to follow during warmer weather in Rowayton.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named “Sonya,” who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named “Sonya.” Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya’s diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers
Host: Jim Phillips
Host: Bob Baker
Discussion Leader: David Mace
Host: Bab Baker
Discussion Leader: Joe Spain
Dear Family and Friends,
We hope you will save the date and join us for a virtual celebration of David’s life on Sunday, April 18 at 4:00 pm EDT.
Please register for the event by clicking on the link below today. Once registered, Zoom will send you all the details needed to attend.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArce6gqz0tHdQDcC5Rrs-am5eM-6YIveWM
You are welcome to forward this information to others you know who would appreciate being included.
We are so looking forward to gathering together to celebrate our precious dad and husband with you.
With love,
Susie, Doug, Laura, Dave and Sarah
Chip’s introductory notes: Hydrogen – the _Green Fuel__ (v2)
Article from Geoffrey Rezek: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201127-how-hydrogen-fuel-could-decarbonise-shipping
https://theconversation.com/hydrogen-where-is-low-carbon-fuel-most-useful-for-decarbonisation-147696
https://theconversation.com/hydrogen-isnt-the-key-to-britains-green-recovery-heres-why-143059
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_electrolyte_membrane_electrolysis
The latest on global energy geopolitics from the pen of an expert.
Yergin is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of multiple magisterial volumes on world affairs as they relate to energy. In The Quest (2011), he described the stormy rivalry between an America struggling to maintain its hegemony in the face of upcoming rivals Russia and China. The following decade has not improved matters, and the current global pandemic is proving to be a disaster. However, bad news often makes for entertaining reading, and Yergin delivers a fascinating and meticulously researched page-turner. He maintains that an energy revolution has transformed the world to America’s benefit. However, it’s not wind and solar but fracking. American oil production had been dropping since 1970, but after 2000, fracking changed the game. In 2018, the U.S. overtook Russia and Saudi Arabia to again become the world’s largest oil producer. Production tripled between 2008 and 2020. Yergin astutely examines how other nations responded. Russia, with an economy “only slightly larger than Spain’s,” depends on oil income as much as the old Soviet Union. Responding to American oil sanctions, Putin has vastly improved relations with China, by many measures the world’s leading economy. “China,” writes the author, “has become what Britain had been during the industrial revolution—the manufacturing ‘workshop of the world.’ ” It’s already the largest producer of steel, aluminum, and computers as well as the largest energy consumer. Turning to the Middle East, Yergin describes an unhappy collection of failed states, civil wars, oppressive theocracies, bloody insurgencies, and wealthy ministates, all dealing with plummeting oil prices. The author views Trump with the same mild disapproval he applies to Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, and he chastises environmentalists for getting certain facts wrong. Yergin accepts that humans have dramatically affected the climate, but he doubts the practicality of proposed solutions.
Required reading. Another winner from a master.
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