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An important part of financial planning is preparing for the unexpected. Have you thought about what will happen if you can't make financial or medical decisions for yourself? Have you decided what will happen to your property when you die? An annual visit to your doctor is an essential part of keeping track of your physical health. Mark Rheaume, senior wealth strategist at PNC Wealth Management says it's just as important to keep tabs on your financial health.
"As many people age, they spend a significant amount of time before doctors — focusing on their wellness and what they are ingesting," he says. "But we often find in the financial world, there's not a significant amount of planning done. This not only relates to their financial matters but also their estate plan and the legacy they are going to leave."
Rheaume highlights the three key steps when planning for death or illness:
Rheaume says solid lifetime planning involves obtaining two critical documents: a durable power of attorney and a durable power of attorney for healthcare. A durable power of attorney gives someone the power to handle financial matters for you in the event you are incapacitated. A durable power of attorney for healthcare will make sure your wishes are granted in the event you cannot make medical decisions. "They are both lifetime instruments that are really critical for people to understand so they have control of their decisions, of their life and they don't place themselves into the hands of an institution that may not know their intentions," he says.
Rheaume says a will and trust are also essential documents. He says many intelligent people do not understand the terms of their will and trust, how they both work together or even how tax laws affect them. Generally, both documents allow you to choose how your assets are distributed to beneficiaries.
"There are often surprises contained in wills and trusts," he says. "We have people trying to do wills themselves online and it can bring about unintended consequences. Oftentimes people don't understand the practical impact of decisions within their will and trust."
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Rheaume says family circumstances are one of the most dynamic aspects of financial wellness. Who have you chosen to handle financial/healthcare matters for you? What are the implications of those decisions? Whether it's your children, siblings or friends, he says it's important to have a serious discussion with all parties involved.
"Who am I choosing to be a major stakeholder in my decisions going forward?" Rheaume says. "What are the implications of those decisions? Being appointed an executor is really not an honor because it involves significant legal, financial and emotional issues. How do they handle emotional issues? Are they empathic? Do they understand the impact not only of passing but also incapacity? What about collaboration among the beneficiaries?"
In order to have a successful estate plan, he says it's important to take into account changes in family circumstances; as well as wealth and tax laws.
"How does it all work together?" Rheaume asks. "What is the intersection and how those decisions impact those that we leave behind?"
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Whether it's life insurance or an IRA, Rheaume says many assets are passed onto others by designated beneficiaries. From paid on death accounts, transfer on death accounts, deeds, and joint tenancy; he says it's important to understand the various ways property can be transferred because it can often bring about unintended consequences. Have you named someone as your beneficiary who is subject to claims of creditors? He notes that cases like this often do not end well, as those assets could be subject to claims of creditors.
Rheaume recommends working with a financial planner and a legal professional who both understand all of the complications of estate planning.
"What is our legacy?" he asks. "How thoughtful have we been with respect to what we have accumulated and what we have left behind? People spend so much time building their estates and really managing their expenses, but ultimately not dealing with the end game."
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Why Isn't The Environmental Community Using the Fiscal And Tax Reform "Window" to Push For A Carbon Tax?
November 8, 2011 By James Handley
A carbon tax offers a unique and powerful combination of fiscal, economic-efficiency and environmental benefits, argued Adele Morris, the Brookings Institution's Policy Director for Climate and Energy Economics, at an Oct. 18 forum convened by the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and the Tax Policy Center. Morris acknowledged the political obstacles. One of course is the failure of anti-tax politicians to distinguish beneficial "Pigouvian" taxes on pollution from conventional taxes that burden and discourage productive activity. But another has been "tepid" support for a carbon tax from the environmental community.
We heard that as a challenge: Why has the environmental community (with a few notable exceptions) parked itself on the sidelines of this crucial policy debate?
Adele shared her presentation text, which we reproduce below:
Time to '86 the Tax Code? Prospects for Tax Reform After 25 Years
AN URBAN INSTITUTE – BROOKINGS INSTITUTION – TAX POLICY CENTER EVENT 10/18/11
The potential role for a carbon tax in a broader tax reform package is timely and economically important. This paper addresses two aspects of the issue: the economics and the politics. It makes good economic sense to embed a carbon tax in a broader tax reform package. If you're going to "go big" on deficit reduction, it makes sense to include a carbon tax, and likewise if you're going to do serious climate policy, it makes sense to raise revenue for deficit reduction or to offset other taxes. Despite the strong economic case, the political challenges to a carbon tax are many, and they aren't just from anti-tax Republicans who don't believe in the science of climate change. Some of the headwind to a carbon tax derives from tepid enthusiasm from Democrats and the environmental community.
Embedding a Carbon Tax in Broader Tax Reform
First and foremost, the reason to do a carbon tax is to reduce the risks posed by climate change. If you don't believe the science that indicates that humans are responsible for rising temperatures then naturally there is nothing else compelling beyond this point. But if we stipulate the risks of climate change, then a policy that prices those damages (as best as we can estimate them) into fossil fuels is an economic no-brainer.
Adele Morris, Climate & Energy Policy Director, Brookings Institution
The kind of carbon tax policy I support is the canonical carbon tax recommended by many economists. It would fall on the carbon content of fossil fuels broadly across the economy. It would start modestly, at something like $15 to $25 per ton of CO2, and ramp up at a modest real rate over inflation, something like 4 percent per year. It would allow tax credits for carbon in fuels that are not subsequently emitted, for example because it is sequestered underground or embodied in a product, such as plastics.
While it's true that tax reform is hard enough without larding it up with a grab bag of other policy priorities, especially something as contentious as climate policy, there are several good economic reasons to combine these two efforts. First, a carbon tax can raise significant revenue. Depending on the tax rate, it can raise more or less revenue, but estimates suggest that a price on carbon about $33 per ton of CO2 in 2020 would raise about $180 billion per year. A tax of about the size I described earlier would start out at revenue of about $100 billion per year, and it would rise from there. However, the revenue profile isn't as steep as you might think because people respond exactly as you want them to — by emitting less carbon. That means that although the tax rate goes up, the revenue tapers off and eventually falls over the long run as the falling emissions dominate the higher tax rate. So a carbon tax is a medium- to long-run revenue instrument, but as emissions fall to low levels in the very long run the tax eventually raises little revenue, which is exactly what you want if the goal is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
A second reason to embed a carbon tax in broader tax reform is that a carbon tax can be regressive. If you don't make the carbon tax part of a progressive tax reform, then you have to fix the regressivity within the climate policy or not fix it at all. If you address the regressivity within the carbon tax system, you can end up with less efficient climate policy – for example with rebates to households to offset higher energy bills. This blunts the incentive to conserve energy, which means you have to have a higher carbon price to get the same environmental benefits, which is obviously more costly.
Third, a carbon tax used for deficit reduction could possibly avoid some of the protracted rent-seeking we saw over the cap-and-trade bill, where relatively little of the debate over cap-and-trade was over the cap — most of the squabble was over who got the free allowances. Everyone who thought they were about to lose their share of the pie had incentive to block the measure and get another bite at the pie. Maybe if all the carbon tax revenue goes to deficit reduction or to fund the reduction of other taxes, then there'd be less to squabble over and we could make some progress.
Fourth, a carbon tax policy that doesn't apply the revenue for deficit reduction or to offset other distortionary taxes would be a lot more costly to the economy than one that does. The economic literature is clear on this. If you just give away allowances or carbon tax revenue, you're not getting the economic benefit of reducing distortions from the existing tax system which in turn makes the climate policy a lot more costly than it could be.
A final reason to embed the carbon tax into other tax reform is that it might make it harder to unwind later. There's always going to be a constituency to repeal the carbon tax, and it will get louder as the tax and retail energy prices go up. If there's a countervailing constituency that is the clear beneficiary of the other taxes reduced, then we have a counterweight. That's what they did in British Columbia, which is a model we should consider.
More on the Politics
AEI's Kevin Hassett recently observed that one reason we not have discussed climate policy this long without actually putting a price on carbon is that economists haven't done a good job convincing Republicans that Pigouvian taxes are okay, meaning that taxing something you want less of is good economic policy. I agree with his assessment.
I also think economists haven't done a good job convincing the environmental community that Pigouvian taxes are good environmental policy. After decades of opposition, the good performance of the Acid Rain program led environmentalists to support the idea of cap-and-trade to control air pollutants. And we saw their strong support of the cap-and-trade legislation as it moved through the House but died in the Senate in 2010. However, even as the environmental community embraced cap-and-trade, which put a specific limit on emissions, they didn't entirely trust it to do the job. Recall that only one title of the monster bill was cap-and-trade. The environmental community embraced, and still does, a wide variety of ancillary policies, some of which would have been redundant to the cap. These include appliance standards, fuel economy standards, renewable energy mandates and subsidies, and a host of other measures that would have shifted around where emissions reductions occurred and raised costs, but not necessarily decreased emissions below the cap.
So if there was lingering distrust of cap-and-trade, there's probably even less confidence in a carbon tax to do the job. Very few NGOs supported a carbon tax over cap-and-trade, mostly because they viewed the cap-and-trade as more certain environmentally. Perhaps downward sloping demand is just not that convincing, and now, when we're in the context of discussing a carbon tax instead of cap-and-trade, the unease over letting go of the ancillary policy apparatus is likely to be higher.
The political reality is that Democrats will likely have to give up something to get a carbon tax. It might include proposed or existing clean air act regulations that could become redundant with a carbon tax, spending on clean energy or green jobs initiatives, or transfers to what Republicans view as sketchy UN bureaucracies for climate finance in developing countries. (I would note that the politics of those ancillary policies aren't just about concern about the environmental effectiveness of a carbon tax; there are important Democratic constituencies for these clean energy measures, such as renewable energy firms and labor unions.) But be that as it may, I think the way forward, if Democrats are serious about putting a price on carbon, is for leaders to put together a carbon tax proposal and to sell it in part by describing what they would be willing to give up to get it.
It might have to wait until we've tried everything else, and it hasn't worked. We can pursue appliance standards and renewable subsidies and the like. Then when we're not meeting our environmental goals, we'll converge on the economic equivalent of concluding the earth revolves around the sun and put a price on carbon.
climatetf says
Bravo and Amen! If we can frame the climate change debate in terms of national security and/ or deficit reduction, I absolutely believe that we can "sway" those resistant to environmental arguments. For my money, a carbon tax is already vocally supported by a majority of leading economists, scientists and opinion leaders and, I believe, would be supported by a well-educated electorate as well. Moreover, the revenues from this approach can be recycled in tax relief for American families, making it politically attractive to members on both sides of the aisle. I certainly hope that Congress pays attention and at least includes a carbon tax in the discussion.
jack bradin says
Once again a very well thought out and sound path for carbon usage into the immediate future.
Today's reality being: The forces allied against any sane approach to an effective energy policy OPEC, Wall Street, The Coal Lobby, The Fracking fools, and the nuclear crowd, have all the $$$$$ and clout to stall and corrupt any meaningful change.
The Solution is simple vote these known fossil/extractive influences out of Congress.
Then extract a pledge from all political parties in the USA to:
Campaign finance reform, strict penalties [ loss of office ] for accepting any perk from K Street. { Will never happen unless, We the People, come out in the streets as we are witnessing today by the Occupy Movements}
Obama has no chance of stemming the forces arrayed against him. Dr. Chu et all are still convinced cap and trade is the only way to harness the beast. He and Obama are dead wrong on this approach. We must push for Cap, Tax, and NO Trade… M O B I L I Z E…
James Handley says
Thanks for your reply and passion. Yes, two pernicious dogmas: corporate "personhood" and the fiction that campaign money is protected "speech" top my list of targets for reform.
But the forces arrayed against "truth in pricing" of fossil fuels don't strike me as monolithic or even well-organized. Gimmicky cap/trade/offset isn't dead, but seems seriously wounded. Last week, Entergy's CEO endorsed a carbon tax while accepting an award from former(?) cap advocate National Wildlife Federation. Pew Climate Center (a USCAP founder) lost its Pew funding; director Elaine Claussen uttered "carbon tax" without her previous dismissive sneers.
For better or worse, a carbon tax would help the gas and nuclear industries compete against coal, so I don't count them as adversaries in the carbon tax fight. (And given the tremendous potential for gas to displace coal, substantially reducing the CO2 emissions of electricity generation, I'm not convinced that fracking is always an unalloyed evil: we haven't even tried to regulate and clean it up.)
The deficit reduction effort, while poorly-timed during "the great recession," offers an opportunity for reform focusing on pollution taxes instead of taxes on work and other productive activity.
In short, I sense an unsettled, even chaotic situation, potentially ripe for the climate movement to find common cause with tax reform advocates to enact a carbon tax. But as Adele Morris pointed out, the climate movement needs to shake off the hangover of cap/trade/offset and engage.
David F Collins says
Mr Handley:
The present confusion and gridlock in government, particularly in the legislative branch of the Federal Government, might indeed augur for progress. Confusion, turbulence, no clear sense of purpose or direction might well provide an opening. In Spanish we have a saying, «Aguas revueltas, cosecha del pescador» which is similar to our Deep South proverb, «Troubled waters bring good fishing». Interestingly, there is a slight pejorative undertone in the latter, an implication that the fisherman is not pursuing noble objectives, so let's go with the former.
In the subject blog essay, Dr Morris gives a quick but pretty inclusive overview of why we should have a properly implemented Carbon Tax. (Nothing new to anybody who has been following this blog for very long, but it is great to hear another good voice.)
But the Carbon Tax has support from folks on the political right as well as the political left, from supporters and opponents of nuclear power, from Peak Oilers and even a few Cornucopias, among others. There might be some well-reasoned arguments against the Carbon Tax, but at this time, after much reading, I am quite unaware of any whatsoever. So why is there resistance?
I suspect the opposition comes from those with intelligence aplenty who have other interests than the general wellbeing, let alone the climate wellbeing: they recognize the Carbon Tax as a danger to their current accustomed wealth and comfort, to which they feel entitled. Along with their yakuzas. The very potential of the Carbon Tax is why they oppose it. They are the ones who have been stirring up and muddying the waters. Who else could it be? Trouble is, I have not the slightest idea as to prevail.
The opportunity: Deficit reduction and tax reform. The Joint Select Committee is only the beginning… lots more needed.
Our response: Let Congress know you support a carbon tax because of its climate and fiscal benefits. Tell Republicans that you prefer a tax on CO2 pollution to taxes on desired activity, including work. Tell Democrats that a gradually-rising carbon tax can do more to slow global warming than regulations or subsidies.
Huon says
This is a wonderful post. Thanks so much for putting up the text from Adele Morris's speech. The material is useful not only for seeking to embed a carbon tax in broader tax reform, but also for crafting a stand-alone measure.
Consider, for example a $12 carbon tax with 1/3 of the revenue used for dividends, to shield the poor and middle class, and 2/3 used to cut the corporate income tax to 25%. According to Ms. Morris, the dividends, though perhaps necessary politically, would be a slight net drag on the economy. But cutting highly-distortionary corporate income taxes should more than offset this drag.
Greg Mankiw has recently written that reducing the corporate tax would be one of the most important steps we could take to boost the economy:
"What can policy makers do to stoke animal spirits and encourage businesses to invest?
"One obvious step would be a cut in the taxation of income from corporate capital. According to a 2008 study by the [OECD], 'Corporate taxes are found to be most harmful for growth.' Tax reform that reduced the burden on capital income and shifted it toward consumption would improve prospects for long-term growth and, in so doing, encourage greater investment today." "How to Make Business Want to Invest Again", NYT, Sep. 10, 2011.
A carbon tax combined with a cut in the corporate tax would give both Democrats and Republicans something very significant.
Daniel Jones says
Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times of November 27, 2011 entitled "Things to Tax". He included several measures that would individually raise less than the $100 billion per year we could raise from a $20 per tonne carbon dioxide fee.
Krugman didn't have anything at all to say about pollution taxes in general, or carbon taxes in particular. The problem in getting a carbon tax approved may lie partially with lack of support from the environmental community; but there are still some influential economists to bring onboard.
I share your frustration that more policymakers aren't embracing the double advantages of pollution taxes in our current budget debate. (But as evidenced by our "scientists & economists" and "conservatives" pages, I'd say that economists of practically all stripes are very supportive.) Both the Simpson-Bowles and the Rivlin-Domenici commissions last year recommended a European-style "Value Added Tax," apparently overlooking the environmental and efficiency benefits of a carbon tax.
Last July, Krugman did make the case for carbon taxes. He wrote that, "given the right incentives — namely, putting a price on emissions, through either a tax or a tradable permit scheme — the economy will find lots of ways to emit less… [O]nce we get to the point where a carbon price makes [renewables] commercially viable, there's every reason to expect huge improvement over time through, yes, the magic of the marketplace."
Kevin Chisholm says
Making the carbon tax argument is easy intellectually and tricky politically. I know, I have been a long time advocate. It would have saved us billion's of $ in our war efforts! And thousands of lives. Kevin Chisholm, candidate for U.S. Senate (I), Virginia
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Zipporah Chandler Rice, Rice Cove, Madison County, NC 1976
The Liston B. Ramsey Center at Mars Hill University will be hosting a celebration of the 100 year Anniversary of Cecil Sharp's visit to Madison County in conjunction with the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Festival on October 1, 2016. Sharp, along with his assistant Maud Karpeles, was a musicologist from Great Britain who collected more ballads in Madison County for his classic volume, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, than anywhere in the United States. While in the Sodom community, he famously said, "I discovered that I could get what I wanted from pretty nearly everyone I met, young and old. In fact I found myself for the first time in my life in a community in which singing was as common and almost as universal as speaking."
One of Sharp's informants was Zipporah Chandler Rice who was an aunt of Dellie Norton, the protagonist of my 2002 book Sodom Laurel Album. Aunt Zip, as most everyone called her, was 98 years old when I met and photographed her in 1976 and had sung for Sharp in 1916 when she was about 36. At that point in her life, she didn't have much memory of the man from across the water although Dellie and her older sister, Berzilla Wallin, certainly remembered him. Aunt Zip had fallen and broken her hip shortly after I met her and I recall thinking she wouldn't be around much longer. Remarkably, she lived another five years, dying in 1981 at age 103.
The photograph above, along with others of mine, John Cohen's and David Holt's, will be on display with memorabilia documenting the ballad tradition in Madison County at the Weizenblatt Gallery at Mars Hill University. A ballad swap will begin at 3 pm on October 1 with a reception following at 5.
Zipporah Rice's grave, Rice Cove Cemetery, Madison County, NC 2013.
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I've got it! They should be a light blue/grey. Thank, you, thank you.
Anyway, I could never see her eyes as brown or green. Alek's eyes should be bright green, not Deryn's.


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School of Liberal Arts Dean Brian Edwards at the Yale Club of New York City with SLA Dean's Advisory Council members Dianne LaBasse and Loryn and Michael Kass.
The semester is in full swing, and the energy of our campus is everywhere apparent. In my first semester as dean, I'm getting a closer look at what makes the School of Liberal Arts tick.
In between a full load of meetings in Newcomb Hall and a trip to New York for the Audacious Campaign, I've been venturing around the campus to meet the 260 full-time faculty of SLA. Perhaps it was a bit forward of me, but I invited myself to the meetings of each of our 16 departments. After all, the strength of any university committed to research and teaching is its faculty. Plus, I'm truly curious about what our professors are researching, writing, and creating.
As I read the interview with artist Sally Heller, I recognize a common theme throughout the School of Liberal Arts—crossing boundaries.
Indeed, I was rushing to the faculty meeting of our Newcomb Art Department, in Woldenberg Art Center, when I passed Heller's installation Mind Over Mayhem in the Carroll Gallery. I stopped in my tracks to admire it. Heller, I learn here, involved our own students in the design and execution of the work. She reveals that not subscribing to boundaries—of painting, of two-dimensional space—was her discovery as a feminist artist. Heller reminds us that such expansive thinking is at the heart of the liberal arts themselves.
This week's issue shows us again and again that crossing boundaries is what the liberal arts are particularly good at.
Heller's work in the Carroll Gallery makes this immediate and visually compelling. But you can see it too in the projects on urban trash and punitive traffic fines identified by our students in the Policy Research Shop. Or the Professional Meet Up event that presented political science students with the stunning variety of career paths that their degrees can open up.
Similarly, the theme is also present in anthropology professor Nathalie Dajko's new research on language variation in Louisiana, where she explores how displacement and migration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina may be affecting the way language is used in New Orleans. Storms know no boundaries, and one of the lessons of sociolinguistics is that language and society are perpetually malleable.
There's so much going on every day at Tulane, and as I spent a couple of days in New York last week meeting with alumni and members of my Dean's Advisory Council, my enthusiasm about all the boundary crossers in the School of Liberal Arts was hard to contain.
We continued celebrating the theme of crossing boundaries at a fabulous New York City fundraising event held in the Ziegfeld Ballroom near Central Park, featuring the always inspiring Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History, and New Orleans' iconic Preservation Hall Jazz Band. And we are lucky enough to live it every day here on the Uptown campus. Learn more about the boundary crossers featured in the stories of this latest installment of our SLA Newsletter!
Read more from the SLA October 11, 2018 Newsletter.


Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have discovered a new kind of particle called the pentaquark, they announced on Tuesday.
Physicists had theorized the existence of the pentaquark since the 1960s, but had never been able to prove it until its detection by the LHCb experiment at the LHC, the world's most powerful particle smasher.
The discovery of the pentaquark comes after the LHC was used in 2012 to prove the existence of another particle, the Higgs Boson, which confers mass.
LHCb spokesman Guy Wilkinson said the pentaquark represented a way to combine quarks -- the sub-atomic particles that make up protons and neutrons -- "in a pattern that has never been observed before in over 50 years of experimental searches."
He added: "Studying its properties may allow us to understand better how ordinary matter, the protons and neutrons from which we're all made, is constituted."
The LHC cranked back up again in June after a two-year upgrade, with scientists hailing a "new era" in their quest to unravel more mysteries of the Universe.
The new tests at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have twice the energy levels they had during the last three-year experiment phase, when the existence of the Higgs Boson was confirmed.
Four laboratories are located along the LHC's ring-shaped tunnel around a hundred metres (109 yards) underground, where scientists analyze collisions between particles moving at close to the speed of light.
The LHCb, one of the four experiments, is focused on understanding the differences between matter and anti-matter and analyzing certain quarks.
"Our understanding of the structure of matter was revolutionized in 1964 when American physicist, Murray Gell-Mann, proposed that a category of particles known as baryons, which includes protons and neutrons, are comprised of three fractionally charged objects called quarks," CERN said in a statement.
Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Physics Prize in 1969, further proposed another category of particles, mesons, formed of "quark-antiquark" pairs.
His model allowed for the existence of other quark combinations — such as pentaquarks, which are composed of four quarks and an antiquark. But no conclusive evidence for pentaquarks had been seen until now.
The LHCb experiment changed the game by allowing scientists to "look for pentaquarks from many perspectives", CERN said.
The findings have been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters. The next stage of the research will focus on studying how the quarks are bound together within the pentaquarks, the nuclear laboratory added.


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La Unión Internacional de Radioaficionados (en inglés International Amateur Radio Union o IARU) es una de las confederaciones internacional de asociaciones nacionales de radioaficionados fundada en 1925 que representa a los radioaficionados afiliados a las mismas ante las instancias gubernamentales internacionales, y asume por sí misma la tarea de poner orden y armonizar el uso de las bandas asignadas al servicio de radioaficionados.

Las funciones que se atribuye son las de ser un foro para debatir asuntos comunes, así como asume representar al conjunto de los radioaficionados ante la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones.

Órganos directivos
La IARU tiene un presidente, un vicepresidente, secretario y otros directivos (incluyendo representes por región), que conforman el Consejo de Administración.

El secretariado internacional de la IARU (IARUIS, de sus siglas en inglés IARU International Secretariat) es operado por una sociedad nacional de radioaficionados por elección de sus miembros. Actualmente, esa sociedad es la American Radio Relay League (ARRL), que opera el IARUIS desde sus oficinas centrales en Estados Unidos.

Organización
La IARU está dividida en tres regiones:

Región 1
 Región 1 - IARU Region 1 incluye las sociedades que representan a los operadores de Europa, Oriente Medio, África.

Región 2
 Región 2 - Incluye las sociedades que representan a los operadores de América.

Región 3
 Región 3 -  incluye las sociedades que representan a los operadores de Oceanía y la mayor parte de Asia.

Actividades
La IARU organiza actividades para los radioaficionados a lo largo del planeta.

 Por ejemplo, las reglas para telegrafía de alta velocidad son editadas por un Grupo de Trabajo de la IARU.
 Otro ejemplo es la radiolocalización, un deporte cuyas reglas y cuya organización también están a cargo de la IARU; por ejemplo, los campeonatos regionales y mundiales.
 La radiolocalización es una carrera que consiste en localizar a pie una baliza de frecuencia conocida en un terreno accidentado y desconocido, con la ayuda de un receptor de radio y una antena sumamente direccional. Comúnmente conocida como la "caza del zorro".

La IARU se implica menos en los concursos de radioaficionados. Aun así, auspicia una competencia anual conocida como el Campeonato Mundial HF IARU. La IARU no administra directamente esos eventos, sino que los delega a otras organizaciones, y las patrocina.

Sitios externos de interés
 Sitio web de la International Amateur Radio Union
 División de las tres regiones IARU

Organizaciones deportivas internacionales
Telecomunicaciones
Radioafición

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Steve Hall
Piano from Williamsburg, VA (45 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
I have played cocktail piano and keyboard in and around the Williamsburg, Va. area for 25 years. I sing, as well, accompanying myself at many events. When there isn't a piano available at any given location I carry my keyboard and PA system with me. I played at the Kingsmill Conference Center dining room in Williamsburg for 18 years. I am now playing at the Williamsburg Inn in the Regency dining room with my band, 'Limelight'. I've been a soloist there off and on since 1990. As a change, I've... (more)
Stan Hamrick - Acoustic Guitar
Guitar from Richmond, VA (90 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Hi... Don't let the lack of hires or reviews here bother you.Check out my profiles, experience and reviews by Googling me or checking out my Gigmasters Charlottesville page!! Or contact me about your event and I will send additional info. I play a broad range of popular music ranging from Sinatra classics to Beatles and Johnny Cash, up to Sting and Norah Jones on acoustic guitar - guaranteed to be enjoyable for a wide range of audiences and ages. I perform either "instrumental only"... (more)
Anders Hyatt
Acoustic Guitar from Philadelphia, PA (234 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Quality Sound. Expansive Song List. Pleasing Live Entertainment. A Hard-working & Honest Professional. As an experienced solo artist, Anders brings a friendly and inviting energy to every event, and is capable of captivating his audience while making them feel immediately at home. Whether it be a special ceremony, a rousing sing-along, or the background ambiance for a party, Anders knows how to play to the mood. His strong guitar playing offers the perfect backdrop for rich, warm vocals that... (more)
Ryan Cook
Singer Guitarist from Philadelphia, PA (221 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Ryan Cook does music for a living. You'll be hard-pressed to find better entertainment for your wedding or event anywhere in the Tri-State area. Think of the difference that you get when you find someone that does their craft all the time as opposed to someone that does it on occasion - it is same difference between professionals and amateurs. Keep this in mind when making a decision on who to hire for your event. When making a living as a musician gets difficult amateurs will hedge their... (more)
Singer from Washington, DC (152 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Award winning artist Amy Andrews has been named Best of GigMasters for 5 out of 5 years, and would love to bring her sound to your celebrations! As a musician for everything from Hollywood Star studded galas to the U.S.O., to intimate gatherings and celebrations of all kinds (wedding, cocktail hours, and other special events), Amy is regarded as a consummate performer, receiving praise for her ability to seemingly effortlessly, and non-invasively, navigate and enhance the day's... (more)
Catherine Backus
Singer Guitarist from Roanoke, VA (214 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Catherine is an award-winning singer-songwriter who often draws comparisons to Gillian Welch and Kathleen Edwards. A classically trained music therapist, she has an encyclopedic knowledge of American music from bluegrass to jazz standards to 90's pop. She plays just about anything with frets (and the trumpet). Catherine is comfortable in settings both formal and casual, and has a knack for learning material quickly and competently. She has over a decade of experience recording, performing,... (more)
Singer from Baltimore, MD (173 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Bruce Thomas hit the stage at the age of 3 and has been in entertainment for most of his life. Not only a singer and musician, Bruce was a New York City based actor/model and has appeared in Hollywood feature films, national commercials, soap operas, Off Broadway stage theater, and prime time television shows. He is also an international filmmaker and just recently his short film won Silver at a film festival in Bangladesh. His talents have given him exposure and allowed him to work with... (more)
Kenny Cunningham/Acoustic English Guitarist/Singer
Kenny is a solo acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter from Liverpool, England. Kenny has played music all over the world - from parties/restaurants in Liverpool and London to the South of France to the Caribbean where he also worked on Yachts and played music for guests. His acoustic music of classic rock/contemporary folk, unique voice, fingerpicking guitar style is reminiscent of Paul Simon and James Taylor and sounds like two guitars! He often (when requested) provides a coffee... (more)
Hughie Mac
Singer from Lafayette Hill, PA (229 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
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Rock Acoustic Guitar from Arlington, VA (152 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Sharif has been performing for over 20 years in venues throughout the US, Europe, and Central America. Companies like Sony, Dell and Starbucks have all hired Sharif to liven up their special corporate events. And most recently, Sharif earned his Master's Degree in Guitar Performance from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Sharif's breadth of music is truly extensive, ranging from Classic Rock (Eagles, Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac) to 80's (Cars, Poison, Bon Jovi) to Modern Rock... (more)
Jim The Entertainer ~ An Award-Winning Performer
Jazz Singer from Baltimore, MD (175 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
JIM FORERO a.k.a. JIM THE ENTERTAINER isn't quite an impersonator, even though some have said "... he sang that song as good, if not better, than the original artist...", but what he is, without a doubt, is A TRUE & HUMBLE ENTERTAINER. With that being said, CONSIDER JIM when planning your next affair – Anniversary, Birthday, Cocktail, Corporate, House, Office, Singing Telegram, Wedding etc., no party is too small or too large as Jim can tailor a SHOW for your special occasion! You have a... (more)
Gene DiNapoli " The Singing Dj"
Oldies Singer from Bronx, NY (301 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Gene DiNapoli ,One of NY's most exciting and versatile entertainers should be your choice for your party and event. Gene has been the Elvis act at both casinos in New York as well as B B Kings in Times Sqaure just to show you the kind of venues he plays. From Sinatra to Classic Disco, Gene sings and also DJ's Remember the good old days when people danced close and even did the twist? When songs actually had great words and meaning in them? Well Gene DiNapoli brings back all those good... (more)
Violette & La Vie En Rose
Singing Pianist from Montclair, NJ (295 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
French native Pianist & Singer Violette from La Vie En Rose Band is available for corporate events, weddings and parties. Violette's tasteful marriage of American Jazz standards (Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra etc), French classics (Edith Piaf) and Pop (Adele, John Legend, Aretha Franklin) will add an upbeat and elegant touch to your event: a bridge between the old world and the new, between French charm, American glam and contemporary pop. Violette can perform solo, piano/voice, or... (more)
Marie Michele
Singing Pianist from New York City, NY (291 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Marie Michèle is a singer and pianist originally from Paris, France. Her repertoire is extremely versatile, covering classic Jazz (Blossom Dearie, Nat King Cole) to French chanson (Yves Montand, Edith Piaf) , to Brazilian Bossa nova (Jobim, Joao Gilberto) and modern Soul/Pop/Rnb (Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, John Legend, Adele, etc) . She will add a timeless, elegant touch to your event, and will be happy to learn special requests and adapt to your preferences! Je parle et chante en... (more)
Bill Foley
Singer Guitarist from Reynoldsburg, OH (421 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
EXPERIENCED FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL: Nationally Touring Singer/Acoustic Guitarist. SOLO, TRIO or 4 PIECE BAND. Specializing in the music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Early Rock & Roll Classics, 'One Hit Wonders', Folk, Country and Original music. INCLUDING THE MUSIC OF: James Taylor, John Denver, Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, The Eagles, Neil Young, America, Bread, Chuck Berry and many, many more. PERFORMS WITH: Gibson, Epiphone, Guild, Gretsch, Takamine,... (more)
Jennifer Mello
50s Singer from Boston, MA (466 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Gig masters Rising Star Award Female Vocalist 2011,2012,2013,2014 Jennifer Mello is an Entertainer in Southeastern Massachusetts. She has been a singer/songwriter for many years. She began in Dinner Theater as a featured performer in Mario and Mary's wacky Italian wedding. In the late 90's she produced her first album entitled "True To Yourself." Songs from the album were played in local clubs and radio stations. In 2003 Jennifer began performing live Tribute Shows in and around... (more)
Gordon Michaels-Nat King Cole, Blues, Soul & More
Variety Singer from Boston, MA (462 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Gordon Michaels - Powerful is a word that most people would use to describe his smooth baritone voice. His delivery seems almost effortless and his stylistic range is diverse. He is comfortable singing Broadway ballads, jazz standards and gospel and is a treat for those lucky enough to enjoy one of his performances. He is a gregarious southern gentleman at heart and truly an entertainer that will leave you wanting more. Today Gordon resides in Boston and continues to entertain and... (more)
Marc Hoffman - Pianist & Vocalist
Piano from Charlotte, NC (288 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Professional, creative and diverse -- Marc Hoffman's range of keyboard styles and exceptional vocals make him the ideal musical choice for any event; wedding celebration, corporate gathering, cocktail party or private function, large or small. Marc is a highly respected pianist and vocalist and strives to provides the ideal music to compliment any occasion. With vast repertoire and a willingness to learn new songs and pieces as well, the musical sky is the limit. To date, Marc has provided... (more)
Grant Swift Glidden
One Man Band from Brooklyn, NY (293 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
NYC native Grant Swift Glidden is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and acclaimed vocalist and guitarist. He plays regularly as a soloist for all types of public and private events throughout the US with his extensive repertoire of cover songs, arranged for guitar, voice, and loop pedal. His unique "one-man band" take on the traditional party/wedding cover band has earned him a great reputation and acclaim throughout the US. A versatile performer, he has done weddings, galas, and corporate... (more)
Mark Bader
Pop Piano from Rochester, NY (444 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
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Jazz Singer from New York City, NY (293 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
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Marie Mazziotti
Pop Singer from New York City, NY (294 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Marie's cover version of David Bowie's Modern Love debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in Jean Claude Van Damme's 2008 movie "JCVD". Marie Mazziotti: Born to Perform. With her smoky voice and sparkling showmanship, Marie captures the crowd. Her extensive repertoire, which features more than 1,000 cover songs and 30 originals, appeals to music lovers of all tastes and generations. One minute, Marie croons classics like "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "The Way You Look Tonight." The... (more)
Melissa Ellis
Singing Pianist from Crossville, TN (500 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Melissa Ellis possesses a voice and style that is unmatched by any other. A vocal power that packs a serious punch, add in her opulent tone and texture reminiscent of jazz's golden age, her distinctive raw bluesy growl, and emotion-driven delivery, she has concocted an unforgettable signature blend of blues, jazz, and blue-eyed soul. Many have referred to her sound as the marriage of 2 classic queens, Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald, with a hint of modern talent's, Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones,... (more)
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Opera Singer from Los Angeles, CA (2361 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
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Matt Walch-Singing The Big Band Standards
Big Band Singer from Ann Arbor, MI (556 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Singing the Big Band Standards and more like you've never heard before! Winner of many awards through Gigmasters including "Top Tribute Singer" for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, "Top Italian Singer" for 2011, and finally "Top Big Band Singer" award for every year since joining - 2008 through 2014!" Matt Walch is from Michigan, performing throughout the country. His music consists of songs recorded by Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Elvis, Bobby Darin, Michael... (more)
Jazz Singer from Las Vegas, NV (2153 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
RATED #1 JAZZ SINGER/SOLOIST IN THE U.S ON GIGMASTERS FOR 6 YEARS IN A ROW, WINNER OF THE 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 RISING STAR AWARD, THE "BEST OF 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018" AWARDS! Lisa Smith is an accomplished, experienced, versatile singer (Jazz, Blues, Motown, Pop, R&B, Country, Wedding Songs, Broadway, Cabaret, etc.) and performer, with over 15 years of professional experience. Creating a custom package and performance to fit your preferences, Lisa has access to the most... (more)
YVONNE COBBS
Singer from Oakland, CA (2509 miles from Virginia Beach, VA)
Yvonne Cobbs touches many with her harmonious and soulful voice as she sings; causing feet to move, bodies to rock, eyes to tear up and hearts to smile. From the Star Spangled Banner to Gospel, Jazz, R&B, she will accommodate you with what ever style of music you choose. She's available for funerals, weddings, church services, community events and celebrations. Yvonne is professional and will work with you on song choices to make your event memorable. She sings by performance tracks, ... (more)


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Bought this refurbished from Olympus, it's in excellent condition with only around ~650 shutter clicks. Comes with all accessories, cables, etc that a new one would. If you would like pics, I can send a few, but the camera essentially is in like-new condition. This is the black version. The lens is the newest 14-42mm II R MSC.
Selling because I decided to get the 2-lens kit instead. If no one is interested, I'll just return it to Olympus, but I figured I'd post on here in case someone wants a good deal on a PM2 kit.
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is the master of all industry and commerce." -James A. Garfield (20th President of the United States) Watch: Who Controls the Money Supply Controls the World: http://globalelite.tv/2013/01/15/who-controls-the-money-supply-controls-the-world/
"The state doesn't actually exist. It is just a group of individuals in costumes, listening to other people in costumes, committing massive crimes." – Jeff Berwick
"Do not #judge by appearances; a #rich #heart may be under a #poor coat." – Scottish Proverb
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." -Gloria Steinem
THINK! "It ain't illegal yet…but they working on it!" -Eddie Griffin
(33) years later: "The entire taxing and monetary systems are hereby placed under the U.C.C. (Uniform Commercial Code)" – The Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966: http://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SRpt89-1708.pdf
"Give them bread and circuses and they will never #revolt." – Juvenal
"You ask why and down a couple of levels of 'why' you always get to #money."
"True #reality is usually scoffed at and #illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring." – Dr. Stanley Monteith
"I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a #society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions." – Graham Hancock
1990: Studio portrait of American rock and roll musician Frank Zappa (1940 – 1993). (Photo by Nancy R. Schiff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
"If it is left to me, I would certainly not eat it. We are putting new things into food which have not been eaten before. The effects on the immune system are not easily predictable and I challenge anyone who will say that the effects are predictable. And on the ability of the regulatory system to cope with prospect of the arrival of large numbers of GM crops: Once the floodgate was opened, it's almost impossible. A committee cannot deal with it." – Dr. Arpad Pusztai, Professor of the Food, Gut and Microbial Interactions Group, Rowett Research Institute – on the health risks associated with genetically engineered food. After 36 years at the Institute, following his controversial research on GM potatoes, Rowett did not renew his contract.
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country. – Murray Newton Rothbard was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a revisionist historian, and a political theorist whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism.
"#Television is by nature the drug par excellence. Inevitably a tool of coercion, #brainwashing, and #manipulation." – Terrence McKenna
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"The United States is owned and dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families, buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth… These families are the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States, functioning discreetly under a de jure democratic form of government behind which a de facto government, absolutist and plutocratic in its lineaments, has gradually taken form since the Civil War. This de facto government is actually the government of the United States — informal, invisible, shadowy. It is the government of money in a dollar democracy." – Ferdinand Lundberg (April 30, 1902 – March 1, 1995) was a 20th-century journalist who studied the history of American wealth and power.


Lots of things about a business are already decided before the marketing plan, for example the products and services you are in, the areas you trade from, the way the business is run, structured and financed. The marketing plan operates at the pointy end of all these business processes: getting customers to buy. For many people, it's the fun end.


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E. A. Johnson
For other people with the same name, see Edward Johnson (disambiguation).
"E.A. Johnson" redirects here. For the classical scholar, see Ebenezer Alfred Johnson.
Edward A. Johnson is a Canadian ecologist. His research focuses on the contact between the geosciences and ecology. :)
Johnson is currently a professor of biological sciences at the University of Calgary, located in Alberta.[1] He was formerly the director of the Biogeoscience Institute (BGI) at the university, which promotes research in the Canadian rockies and surrounding areas,[2] where he is involved in research programs.[3]
His research aims to incorporate the concept of natural disturbance into plant community organisation and dynamics.[3] E. A. Johnson's applied interests include but are not limited to global climate change, conservation biology, and ecosystem and fire management.[3]
Johnson is a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System,[3] whichis a national effort that aims to coordinate surface dynamic modelling of the Earth's surface. He is also a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management, NSERC Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE), PAGSE (Royal Society of Canada), and he serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.[3]
E. A. Johnson has published four books that pertain to his areas of ecological interests.[4] This includes the book titled Fire and Vegetation Dynamics which was published in 1992, which explores the dynamics of fires in the North American boreal forest.[5] He published Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects in 2001.[4] In 2005, he published Environmental Education and Advocacy [4] which highlights the changing perspectives of ecology and education.[6] In 2007 Johnson published Plant Disturbance Ecology: the Process and the Response.[7]
E.A. Johnson received the 1986 W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Johnson, E.A. and K. Miyanishi (eds.) 2007. Plant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and the Response. Academic Press, San Diego.
Johnson, E. A. and M. J. Mappin (2005). Ecological education and environmental advocacy, Cambridge University Press.
Johnson, E.A. and K. Miyanishi (eds.) 2001. Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects. Academic Press, San Diego.
Johnson, E.A. 1992. Fire and Vegetation Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.
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Hickory Public Schools » Departments » Communications » What's New ? » HHS grad wins "Jack Kent Cooke" Scholarship
Kristina Stuckey, a 2018 graduate of Hickory High School, is one of 106 recipients in the nation to be awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's College Scholarship Program. This highly competitive national scholarship will provide Stuckey with up to $40,000 annually to complete her bachelor's degree.
Stuckey will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall. She plans to major in environmental health science with a pre-med focus. "I am especially interested in pediatric medicine with a concentration on health development. I love working with kids—it's really a big part of my journey," said Stuckey. "I've enjoyed working with younger students through dance and also I've taught 'Sunday School' at St. Aloysius Catholic Church for three years."
A native of Hickory, Stuckey attended Viewmont Elementary and Grandview Middle Schools before starting her secondary education at Hickory High. "I've loved attending Hickory High," said Stuckey. "I completed the International Baccalaureate program, taking the courses during my junior and senior years—and I believe the program really inspired me to do well. My most amazing IB teacher was Ms. Gena Barnhardt. She is a great teacher and she helped guide me to becoming a semi-finalist for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship."
Stuckey was active in service clubs at HHS including the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Interact Club (president), Latin Club, and Science National Honor Society (VP).
The daughter of Scott Stuckey and Annamarie Stuckey, Kristina was also recognized locally from the Thursday Rotary Club of Hickory for "Service Above Self" with a scholarship award of $12,000 payable over four years to Stuckey's college education.
With the active life at HHS, Stuckey still managed to participate in another passion—dancing with Ann Freeman Dance Academy in Hickory. "I've danced since I was age three. Besides my family, Ms. Freeman is one of the greatest mentors in my life. I served as a two-term president of the state chapter of Carolina Dance Masters. I enjoy all dancing, but ballet is my favorite," she said. I served
In addition to the monetary award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, as a Cooke College Scholar, Stuckey will receive comprehensive educational advising from foundation staff to guide her through the processes of transitioning to campus and preparing for her career. The foundation will provide opportunities for internships, study abroad, and graduate school funding, as well as connection to a thriving network of 2,300 fellow Cooke Scholars and alumni.
Jack Kent Cooke (October 25, 1912 – April 6, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and former owner of the Washington Redskins (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), and the Los Angeles Wolves (United Soccer Association). The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.
This year, over 5,000 students applied for the Cooke College Scholarship. Many of these students were identified through a partnership with the College Board, which connects scholarship organizations to students through their participation in the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10. The foundation evaluated each submission based on academic ability, persistence, leadership, and service to others. Engineering, political science and government, biological science, and physics are the most popular fields of study among the cohort.
"I really want to thank everyone in the Hickory community who helped me to get to where I am today. My family's support means the most; but I appreciate everyone from dance, church, Hickory High and the community at large. I've had fantastic experiences growing up in Hickory," said Stuckey.
Kristina Stuckey!


Two years ago, prominent private theater designer Theo Kalomirakis, founder of TK Theaters, and his VP of sales and marketing James Theobald envisioned putting together a collection that would capture the essence of those custom elements that define the "TK signature," making it easier and more costeffective for installers and contractors to build elegant and inviting home theaters.
The TK Living collection features innovative specialty products such as acoustically transparent designer fabrics, unique architectural lighting fixtures, luxurious carpets, and a variety of one of-a-kind accessories that include poster displays.
The result is TK Living, a distinctive brand carrying the imprimatur of Kalomirakis and CINEAK, the Sausalito, California, home theater seating company founded by Alvin Hellemans.
The collection features innovative specialty products such as acoustically transparent designer fabrics, unique architectural lighting fixtures, luxurious carpets, and a variety of one-of-a-kind accessories that include poster displays, decorative speaker grilles, exit signs, theater-door hardware, and more.
CEDIA EXPO 2010 attendees will get the first full look at the collection in the September, but a sneak preview was revealed last month at the gala showroom opening for the custom installation company SEAL Solutions, in Islandia, New York. SEAL's showroom/theater features one of TK Living's theater styles, utilizing many of the items offered in the line. It highlights cost-effective construction, design, and engineering, according to Kalomirakis.
TK Living's James Theobald (left) boasts a design background that serves him well in his capacity as TK Living's vice president. TK Living carries the imprimatur of Kalomirakis and CINEAK, the Sausalito, California, home theater seating company founded by Alvin Hellemans (right).
TK Living's Theobald, who has worked with Kalomirakis since 1996, boasts a design background that serves him well in his capacity as TK Living's vice president (Hellemans is president), and, in fact, personally designed CINEAK's Bruges chair.
The partnership itself was the easiest part, according to Theobald. The biggest challenges came because TK Living's products are unique, have specific engineering features, and would be needed in relatively small quantities.
The collection, Kalomirakis says, does not compete with the high-end clientele needs of TK Theaters. "The tradeoff with TK Living is that you don't get a grille that nobody else has," he said. "We don't bastardize our custom pieces; we just make available the elements that have made our theaters look attractive, without the design fee. This brings to CEDIA wellthought- out and well-designed pieces that the average consumer finds in good stores for the rest of the house." Karen Mitchell is a freelance writer based in Boulder, Colorado.


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Modern Technology Helping Weather Predictions
George Putic
Severe storms that cause heavy damage throughout the world are a reminder of how important it is to be able to predict the weather. A meteorological exhibition in Brussels earlier this month featured the latest technology to help improve our ability to forecast the weather and better prepare for its effects.
On October 17, Hurricane Gonzalo hit the island of Bermuda, knocking down trees and power lines, and making roads and streets impassable. The damage was substantial. But thanks to early warnings from forecasters, residents were able to prepare and no deaths or serious injuries were reported.
Scientists say weather systems are notoriously hard to predict because so many variables have to be taken into account. But increasingly sophisticated algorithms and accessibility to supercomputers are making weather prediction much easier.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says its new storm prediction system, called NEIS, collects millions of data points from all over the world to create a four-dimensional model of the world's weather.
Agency director Alexander MacDonald said the storms created by the computer model are very similar to real ones that have been observed in recent years.
"So this really shows the skill that we are developing, when we run a computer model and Mother Nature does the same thing with the real world and they are pretty alike. We are excited a lot about these improvements," said MacDonald.
Air pollution is another modern calamity that affects large cities and industrial areas. So its adverse effect on health also makes its timely measurement important.
Alan Taylor, Director of the Britain-based company Turnkey Instruments, said their device, called Topas, uses lasers to monitor the air for particulates.
But, he said, providing accurate measurement does not solve the problem.
"It's what cities do about it when they know about it. Do they stop traffic going through, do they stop trucks going through? So we can get that information, but what the city does with that information is a different situation," said Taylor.
Even in cities that do not have pollution problems, it is important to measure other atmospheric conditions, like the level of pollen, which can make life miserable for those who are allergic to it.
University of Geneva research team leader Svetlana Afonina said their new instrument, called Plair, uses an optical detector with ultraviolet laser technology.
"The device is highly specific and allows identification of different kind of particles in the atmosphere. We are able to measure and detect different species of pollen in the real time," said Afonina.
The Brussels exhibition, now in its fifth year, drew more than 2,500 people from around the world to see the latest weather and climate change forecasting technology.
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Series Thoughts: Steeple #1-5
Giant Days is by far my favorite comic book series that I've kept up. Even when cutting my book budget down to the minimum I saved the money for each volume that came out. So when I spied a new John Allison series starting I jumped on board without even looking at the summary. It wasn't a bad decision for me but I do have some thoughts.
Steeple, Issues 1-5
by John Allison, Sarah Stern, & Jim Campbell
Source: Purchased via Kindle
TL;DR – Though it's got quite a different setting and setup than Giant Days, John Allison's last work, the comic is still fun and engaging. I definitely think it's worth checking out if you're interested though some of the characters feel a bit repeated.
First off, I love the premise. Elevator pitched with a slightly different tone this could be an action show or movie, at least the first couple issues. Then the story changes abruptly and becomes more of what you'd expect from John Allison.
This is both good and bad? He's good at what he does, funny interpersonal relationships. It's funny and you just want to keep reading. So that's strong but those original two issues with the almost darker seeming storyline seemed like a promising start to a different sort of story, a different sort of idea. I was kind of excited to see where he was going to take that, so I was a bit disappointed when that wasn't what we ended up with.
That being said the end of issue 5 ended on a very fun cliffhanger. Things have flipped on their head twice now in 5 issues and I am definitely no mad at it.
Giant Days strength was its ridiculously clever character interactions. We have more of that, but also a more community feel with a wider character base. I hope we get more of those community characters. They add depth to the story and setting but they fell a little flat due simply to lack of page time.
The art style is more of the same with what we had in Giant Days as well. It's really hard not to compare everything to that series but there are definite very clear similarities. This could be both bad and good.
I liked the slight political stance the story has taken as well. It helps setup the small town community feel because everyone is so involved. However, the issue with the Witch Festival did feel a little awkward and stands out to me because it didn't have that same feel.
I do recommend jumping on this series while it's early if it's something you're interested in. I've enjoyed it a lot so far and I'm super excited to see where it goes next – I've definitely subscribed via my digital comic service.
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Q: How to extract a field that is contained inside of another field via logstash grok config So let's say I have the following log message that I'm trying to capture via a grok filter:
"2018-10-02 18:00:00 INFO THIS_IS_A_TEST_MESSAGE"
I want to extract "THIS_IS_A_TEST_MESSAGE" as a field, but then additionally I want to capture just the word TEST as another field. I need them both to create some Kibana visualizations, but it requires them to be separate for aggregation purposes.
The current grok I have looks something like this:
match => { "message" => "%{TIME:time} %{LOGLEVEL:logLevel} %{WORD:payload}" }

So as I have it that creates 3 fields: time, logLevel, and payload; however, I need it to capture 4 fields, but the 4th field lies within the payload field. How can I adjust my grok to do this?
I am very new to ELK stack so still getting used to writing these configs.

A: Use another grok filter on the payload field.
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I don't know what the data you want to extract is. I just took the data between the third and fourth _.
With the data you provided, I'm getting:data: TEST

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Kelli A. Hutchens, MD, MBA, FCAP is a board-certified dermatopathologist with experience as a both diagnostician and laboratory director. She earned her undergraduate degree in Biology and her medical degree at the University of Nevada Reno. She completed her residency in 2009 at Loyola University Medical Center in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology followed by a fellowship in Dermatopathology at the world renowned Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology in New York.
"Since joining Forefront I have been consistently impressed by the forethought behind the design of the laboratory, which is one of only a handful of labs in the country with true 24-hour operation, so we never stop taking care of our patients.
While our facilities certainly give us a competitive edge, it's our people that really make the difference. Our people care deeply about their work and understand that they are an integral part of our patients' journey. As we say here, every single slide is a person.
Because we're all one team in every sense, our lab has each patient's full medical record, giving us access to broader context, and that context can mean that we catch something that would otherwise go undiagnosed. A small tidbit of past history or treatment can solidify or redirect our diagnostic path.
Ling Xia, MD, FCAP is a fellowship-trained and board-certified dermatopathologist and anatomic and clinical pathologist with 15 years of practice experience. He earned his medical degree from Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, China. He completed a pathology residency and pathology surgical fellowship in 2003 at Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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On January 12st 1972, Viet Nam and Austria established diplomatic relations.
In July 1991, Viet Nam opened its Embassy in Vienna, Austria.
On September 21st 1998, Austria opened its Embassy in Ha Noi.
• December 2011: Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan visited Austria.
• May 2012: Austrian President Heinz Fischer visited Vietnam.
- In 1980, the two countries signed an agreement on trade and payment.
- In 1994, Austria provided Viet Nam with US$1 million to liquidate the debt from IMF.
- The two sides have also signed some other cooperation agreements.
Bilateral trade turnover reached US$ 328.33 million in eight months of 2011. Main Vietnamese exports include bicycles and bicycle parts, footwear, textile, seafood, cashew nuts and vegetables; and Vietnam's primary imports are plastics, machinery and equipment, spare parts and some pharmaceutical products.
As of end of 2011, Austria holds 16 projects with total capital of 26.625 million USD, ranking 53th out of 91 countries/territories investing in Vietnam and 10th among EU member states.
Austria granted non-refundable aid for "Restoration of tractor" project in Viet Nam worth US$ 1.06 million. This project was to restore 1,500 imported tractors from Austria during the 1980-1997 periods. In April 2001, Austria funded a project titled "Research and development for the post-harvest technology in the Mekong Delta" with the total capital of EUR 575,000.
Austria has committed to helping Viet Nam in three main areas: railways, health sector and education.
In 1995, the two countries agreed to form a joint committee with a view to promoting bilateral cooperation in trade and investment. There have been, so far, 7 rounds of meeting of this joint committee (the last meeting was held in March 2010 in Vietnam).
Austria and Vietnam have so far signed 15 credit agreements with total value of EUR 200 million.
The Austrian government continues to offer post-graduate fellowships to Vietnamese students (around 20 scholarships a year). At present, seven Vietnamese universities have cooperation projects with Austrian counterparts. Austrian scholarships for Vietnam in 2008 exceeded EUR 600,000 in value./.