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Down in Oxford Town
There's nothing like football season at Ole Miss. Plus: Five other SEC destinations within easy reach.
by Chris McCoy
The Lafayette County Courthouse is the centerpiece of Oxford's historic town square.
On seven Saturdays this fall, the population of Oxford, Mississippi, will swell dramatically. Some 27,000 people call the town home year-round. The head count almost doubles six months out of the year when 23,000 students attend the University of Mississippi. But on days when the Ole Miss Rebels football team play home games, up to 100,000 fans from all over the Southeast travel to this usually sleepy town. They're there to root for the home team, party, and have a good meal or three.
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The James Meredith Memorial on the Ole Miss Campus.
The center of campus is the Lyceum, which dates from 1846. Named for the place where Aristotle once taught in Athens, the building's facade of Ionic columns has long been the symbol of the school. It served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, and during the Civil Rights movement, it was at the center of the white supremacist riots that followed the integration of the school by James Meredith in 1962. A bullet hole is still visible in the facade from that time, and a statue of Meredith now stands nearby. Nowadays, the campus is renowned for its good looks; Ole Miss makes regular appearances on lists of the most beautiful campuses in America.
On football weekends, tens of thousands of fans converge on The Grove, ten acres of bucolic woods on the Ole Miss campus that's been called the greatest tailgating spot in America. Starting at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays before game days, people rush in to claim their spots. A temporary tent city rises, complete with streets named for famous players, such as Deuce McAllister, the Ole Miss running back who went on to lead the New Orleans Saints to Super Bowl victory in 2009. These days, most tents are provided by professional vendors, who are experts at quickly creating the ideal party environment.
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The square is the center of Oxford life, every day of the year.
The festivities start early. Even for night games, The Grove is usually hopping by 11 a.m. The bacchanalia climaxes with the Walk of Champions, when the football team parades through The Grove on their way to face their opponents in 64,000-seat Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The tradition began in the early 1980s. Legend has it that coach Billy Brewer, who brought the team back to national prominence after years of also-ran status, was fed up with his players' rowdy behavior on the team bus, and made the driver drop them off at the Student Union building rather than driving up to the stadium entrance. The move didn't work well as a punishment, but it worked wonders as a morale building exercise, when the team was greeted as heroes by revelers in The Grove. Since then, the route has been formalized with an arch, donated by alums from the 1962 team, who remain the only Ole Miss football team to end the season with a perfect record.
Beyond The Grove
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Square Books, considered one of the country's best bookstores, offers something for everyone.
Oxford comes alive on football weekends. Every Friday before football and basketball games, Visit Oxford runs tours of the town in a vintage double-decker bus. It's a must for families of students and others who want to learn about the historic community.
The Lobby of the Graduate Hotel.
The courthouse square is famous for its shopping, dining, and hotels. The Graduate, located at the corner of Lamar Blvd. and Jefferson Ave., is one of the newest hotels, dating from 2015. The rooftop bar, known as The Coop, is a popular gathering place which overlooks the Square.
The extremely competitive restaurant scene is epitomized by Ajax Diner. Named for owner Randy Yates' grandfather, Ajax's website claims more than 300 million butterbeans served over its 22-year history. That's almost one butterbean for every man, woman, and child in America. The menu is classic meat-and-two, which means a heaping helping of protein with two fresh veggie dishes of your choice. Chicken and dumplings, country-fried steak, Mississippi pot roast covered in gravy, and tamale pie are only a few grandma-good choices on offer.
Neilson's Department Store has been serving customers since the early days of Oxford.
Visitors will discover unique shopping opportunities on the Square, such as Neilson's, the homegrown department store that has been here since around the time the town was founded. Square Books is a two-story literary mecca founded by former Oxford mayor Richard Howorth. The original Square Books is exactly what you want in an independent bookstore — a twisty warren of shelves and alcoves where you can browse leisurely. And of course, there's a coffee bar. The original Square Books was founded in 1979, and in the years since it has branched off into a kids' shop, Square Books, Jr., and Rare Square Books, where expensive first editions and signed copies can be had by the discerning collector with some coin to drop.
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The Prosceco Pop at Saint Leo.
Just off the Square on East Jackson Ave. is Saint Leo. Emily Blunt's contemporary Italian restaurant is built around a huge, double-sided bar. Its cuisine is designed around a wood-fired pizza oven, with offerings that range from the familiar, like the Margherita pizza, to the exotic, like the bacon jam and Calabrian chili honey. The roasted mushroom pizza includes pecorino, an aged sheep's milk cheese that adds a little zing. The craft cocktail menu is extensive and well considered. One of the more popular options is the Prosecco Pop, a glass of the fizzy drink served with an organic raspberry and mint popsicle.
Snackbar's tandoori chicken sandwich
The dining scene has outgrown the limited space of the Square. Just a little ways up Lamar is the Mid Town shopping center, home to several excellent eateries. The Snackbar's main attraction is chef Vishwesh Bhatt, who won the 2019 James Beard award for Best Chef in the South. Bhatt — known to his co-workers as Vish — was born in India, but has been cooking in Oxford for two decades. His dishes tend to fall across the spectrum of the subcontinent's flavor profile, even when they have French or English roots. One of his specialties is chaat, an Indian street food that originated in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh, which is traditionally a mixture of potato chunks, crispy fried bread, and chick peas, usually topped with a yogurt sauce. All sorts of regional variations have arisen over the centuries. Chef Vish's chaats are ever-changing, depending on what fresh ingredients are available.
If chaat is the only thing you eat at Snackbar, you will be suitably impressed. But there's so much more, such as Punjabi catfish bites coated in a thin, tempura-like batter with creamy chutney sauce. Fried catfish is a perennial Southern favorite, but the landlocked Punjab region of India loves the familiar fish as well, and Chef Vish knows how to make it sing. An incredible tandoori chicken sandwich also makes appearances on the ever-changing menu. There's nothing like chicken slow-roasted in a traditional tandoor clay oven, and nestling it into a sandwich emphasizes the dish's tender strengths.
The Breakfast Crumble at Big Bad Breakfast.
Next door to Snackbar is its sister restaurant, Big Bad Breakfast, which is a production of chef John Currence, who started the modern Oxford food scene with City Grocery on the Square. Big Bad Breakfast has proved to be Currence's most successful creation, expanding to locations throughout the South. If you don't mind a wait, you can load up for game day with a Breakfast Crumble, two poached eggs, crumbled house bacon, and biscuits over grits covered in tomato gravy.
Those offerings only scratch the surface of Oxford's vibrant dining scene. If you're planning on going down to catch a game, patience and planning are necessary. With so many people making the pilgrimage, waits can be long. It's best to check online or call ahead to see if the restaurant you're interested in takes reservations. But don't fret. There's no shortage of places to raise a glass and toast to victory!
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Tailgating in the SEC
If you're up for a longer drive than Oxford, all the SEC schools have their own traditions of fan fun. For Memphians, here are five manageable SEC destinations.
The powerhouse Alabama Crimson Tide plays in one of the largest college stadiums in America, the 101,000-seat Bryant-Denny Stadium, named for legendary coach Bear Bryant and former University president George Denny. The tailgating spot to be is The Quad, the 22-acre centerpiece of the University of Alabama campus where the team played all their games before Denny Field was built in 1915. You can opt for help from a professional tailgating service, such as Gameday Done Right, or set out on your own to join the throngs in The Quad. Campus parking is impossible to come by on game day, so you're better off leaving your car at the Downtown Tuscaloosa Intermodal Facility and taking the free bus shuttle to the game.
Starkville, Mississippi
The Mississippi State Bulldogs play in Davis Wade Stadium, a 61,000-seat facility that dates back to 1914. On the south side of the stadium is The Junction, named for a railroad station that once served the campus, where fans gather to live it up on game day. Unusual for most college stadiums, the outdoor party palace is directly adjacent to the field; fans greet the team, coach, and band two hours before each game in a tradition called the Dawg Walk. Nearby Harveys steakhouse is a favorite dining destination for locals and visitors alike.
The state capital is home to Vanderbilt University's Commodores, who play in a 40,000-seat on-campus stadium, the smallest in the SEC. The tailgating scene in Nashville is centered on Vandyville, located at the corner of Jess Neely Dr. and Natchez Trace. Since it's the heart of a major city, there's less room to spread out in Vandyville, so the nearby bars and restaurants, like the Whiskey Bent Saloon and the Corner Bar at Elliston Place, see plenty of action. For a little history with your drink, you can visit Springwater, which claims to be the oldest bar in Tennessee, and the immortal Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, where the country music stars of old slaked their thirst between sets at the Ryman Auditorium.
The University of Arkansas Razorbacks first played in Fayetteville in 1894. In 2018, the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium was expanded to seat more than 76,000 hog-calling fans. Game day festivities take place all over Fayetteville. The center of attention is The Gardens at the corner of Razorback Road and MLK Jr. Blvd., but it's a much more laid-back scene than you find at other SEC schools. The Powerhouse Seafood & Grill is a popular spot near the campus for libations and dishes that range from crab cakes and escargot to fried alligator and shrimp.
The University of Tennessee's flagship campus is home to the Volunteer football team, who play in 102,000-seat Neyland Stadium, the seventh largest in the world. The city's unique contribution to football fan culture is the Vol Navy. Neyland Stadium is located on the Tennessee River, and boaters crowd the waterway for "sailgating" before disembarking for the game at the Vol Navy Boat Docks. The tradition began in 1962, when radio broadcaster and boater George Mooney discovered that the aquatic route was the best way to avoid game-day gridlock. Nowadays, the Vol Navy even has its own flag. If you're a landlubber, the Half Barrel on Cumberland Ave. is a favorite football hotspot.
September 2021 William Faulkner Ole Miss Oxford Travel
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Alright, the last one bombed, so I have a new one.
This time, create a game/program that allows platform jumping. I don't care how you do it, just do it. This is obvious, but make it in AGS. Don't worry about graphics, or sounds. Of coarse, you CAN make your graphics pretty and the sounds soothing, but it's not required. The only limitation this time is that there must at least two platforms to jump from/on.
You have until forever to make it, if you actually DO decide to enter this contest.
When you say platform jumping, do you mean fast-smooth jumping as in a platform style game. Or do you mean making the character jump from one platform to another? I'm a little confused but interested in the challenge.
Yes, pardon me. I was a little...energenic when I wrote that. What I mean is, make a game, one room or more, where the player can jump from one platform to another. The minimun number of platforms is two. The contest will be over in two weeks. Whoever can write the fastest and most efficient code will win. The winner can then start the next competition.
PS. The quality of the graphics or any sounds you may have added will not be counted, but feel free to make it look cool and be pleasing to the ear.
Well I have to do that anyway for my game so maybe I'll start this now.
Okay its incredibly lame but its sort of working. What do I do with it now?
Quintaros, upload it and post it in this thread, or send it to me at roberteric@rain-day.com, then I will evaluate it and upload it to my site for you.
Do you just want me to send you the compiled game or do you want to see the code itself?
The code, of coarse. I'll compile it myself.
"Platformerius: The Ninja Incident (by 2ma2)"
which does exactly what you want and the download comes with the full open code.
The engine is pretty fast and works astoundingly well.
Well I'll be damned. You know what, let's stop this competition. It's getting boring.
I do believe its a good idea, but perhaps it will live on in Mods' new OverProductiveDay.


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Generic and Reusable Parallel Pattern Interface

Filter pattern

The filter (or stream filter) is a streaming pattern that discards items from a data stream based on a predicate, so that only data items satisfying (keep) or dissatisfying (discard) the predicate are passed to the next stage. This streaming pattern can only be used inside another pattern and consequently does not take an execution policy itself, but uses the execution policy of its enclosing pattern.

The interface to the filter pattern is provided by functions grppi::keep() and grppi::discard().

grppi::pipeline(exec,

  stage1,

  grppi::keep(predicate1),

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  stage3,

  stage4);

grppi::discard

auto discard(Predicate &&predicate_op)

Invoke md_stream-filter on a data stream that can be composed in other streaming patterns....

Definition: stream_filter.h:58

grppi::keep

auto keep(Predicate &&predicate_op)

Invoke md_stream-filter on a data stream that can be composed in other streaming patterns....

Definition: stream_filter.h:42

grppi::pipeline

void pipeline(const Execution &ex, Generator &&generate_op, Transformers &&... transform_ops)

Invoke Pipeline pattern on a data stream.

Definition: pipeline.h:46

Stream filter variants

There is a single variant:

Composable filter: Defines a filter that can be used as a building block by another pattern (e.g. a pipeline).

Key elements in stream filter

The central element in a filter is the Predicate. The operation may be any C++ callable entity. This operation, is a unary operation taking a data item and returning value that is contextually convertible to bool. Thus, a predicate pred is any operation, that given a value x of type T, makes the following valid:

if (predicate(item)) { /*...*/ }.

if (!predicate(item)) { /*...*/ }.

Details on stream filter variants

Composable filter

A composable filter has a single element:

A Predicate filtering values.

The input values will be generated by the upper level pattern, which will be also responsible for consuming the output values.

 Example: A filter stage in a pipeline.

grppi::pipeline(exec,

  stageA,

  stageB,

  grppi::keep([](auto x) { return x.lenght()>4; }),

  stageC

  );

 Note: For brevity we do not show here the details of other stages.

For composing complex patterns, the keep() and discard() functions may be used to create an object that may be supplied to another pattern to build a composed pattern.

 Example: A composable filter stage in a pipeline.

auto keep_odd = grppi::keep(

  [](auto x) { return x%2; });

grppi::pipeline(exec,

  stageA,

  stageB,

  keep_odd,

  stageC

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Business/First seating on UA153 Stuttgart-Newark 757-200.
United Airlines operates the only daily, non-stop flight from the New York City area to Stuttgart, in southwest Germany, and for travelers heading to this region it is the most convenient and fastest way to travel there from the East Coast.
With a BusinessFirst boarding pass in hand I took the five-minute shuttle ride from my airport hotel to Stuttgart Airport (STR), arriving at the premier access security lane at 8:30 am for UA153's 11:10 departure. Within a few minutes I was making my way to the Lufthansa Senator lounge, where a nice breakfast buffet was set-up. Lufthansa is United's Star Alliance partner, and code shares the flight.
Although the lounge offered no magazines, there was a full supply of American and British newspapers, free WiFi and no shortage of food and beverages. At 10:45 I went to the gate and boarded quickly using the premium line. On this version of the B757-200 the 16-seat, lie-flat, BusinessFirst seat configuration was four rows, 2×2, with all seats having on-demand entertainment screens, AC power outlets, padded headphones, an amenity kit, blanket and pillow. Champagne and orange juice was offered to front cabin passengers prior to take-off.
United Airlines 757-200 seat configuration.
After a short taxiway, and with no air traffic, we were off the ground at 11:17, flying into a hazy, summer morning over the green hills and forests west of Stuttgart.
Shortly after levelling off a chilled appetizer of gravlax and loin cut salmon with wasabi mayonnaise and salad was served, followed by a lunch of beef tenderloin, spaetzle, carrots and zucchini. For dessert I passed on the cheese selection for a dish of ice cream. During mid-flight a basket of warm, fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies was left in the galley for premium cabin passengers, and a chicken tortilla wrap accompanied with fresh fruit and carrot salad was served prior to landing. A good selection of white and red wines from Europe, South Africa, Australia and California was available throughout the flight.
The only drawback to this 757's BusinessFirst seat (or "pod as they are often called) was the narrowness of the feet area when the seat is in the lie-flat position. Although the length of the "bed" is a nice 76", the bottom is poorly angled so there is little room for passengers' feet when in the sleep position, not a big deal on UA153's daytime STR/EWR flight, but for taller passengers it may be a bit uncomfortable during the eastbound overnight segment.
UA153 touched down at Newark Liberty International at 1:50 pm local time, 25 minutes early, with a flight time of 8 ½ hours. In summary, ground service at check-in and lounge access at Stuttgart Airport was fast and efficient, cabin crew service during the flight was excellent in all respects, aircraft lavatory was kept clean throughout the flight, and seat positions and entertainment system operated well. .
Kunstmuseum-Stuttgart illuminated at night. Cube restaurant is located on top floor of building.
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart opened in 2005 on a lovely, historic square in the middle of the city. The museum's collection of mostly European contemporary art is outstanding, and the building itself, a square stone-core structure with a transparent outer shell of glass, is illuminated at night and has become one of the Germany's most eye-catching structures. Located on the top floor of this "glass cube" is the museum's restaurant, called, appropriately, Cube. Designed with large glass windows, and a partially screened semi-transparent, glazed ceiling, the venue is lit with natural light during the day and offers wonderful views of the square in front of the museum, the surrounding streets and the hilly residential districts beyond.
The striking architecture of Cube stands out among the traditional office buildings of central Stuttgart.
I visited Cube for lunch after walking through the art collection, and was pleased to see an extensive menu offering a relatively inexpensive "Dish of the Day," as well as larger main dishes, salads, and desserts. Fresh bread and olive oil was placed on the table, and the beverage menu listed about 100 European wines, and several good, local Stuttgart beers, an indication that Cube was no ordinary museum restaurant. I chose the salmon fillet with fennel braised artichokes and vegetables, which was excellent, and finished with a warm chocolate cake with berries and yogurt ice cream. Two cold glasses of a Sauvignon blanc from the wine village of Weinstadt, just east of Stuttgart, accompanied the meal.
Some of the other main dishes, including saddle of veal steak with polenta and king oyster mushrooms, and orecchiette (ear-shaped pasta) with asparagus, Serrano ham and baby spinach looked quite good on other tables.
The lunchtime crowd was a combination of museum visitors and office workers from nearby buildings, coming in for the affordable and beautifully prepared "Dish of the Day" specials in an innovatively designed restaurant. The only drawback to my visit was the temperature of the room. The weather outside was exceptionally hot and sunny, near 100⁰, a heatwave even for a summer day in southern Germany, and the air-conditioners were not able to overcome the overheated floor-to-ceiling windows that surround the room, providing 360-degree views, but also allowing unshaded sunlight to pour in. Some patrons were waving small Japanese-style fans provided by the restaurant.
I am sure that the interior of the restaurant cooled off for the evening dinner service, when Cube becomes a more fine-dining venue with a different menu (more gourmet items, higher prices), and a low-lit, candlelight ambience that offers a spectacular night view of the city through its glass walls.
Open daily, 11:30 – Midnight; Closed on some holidays; dinner reservations required.


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Gian-Carl Casa
Greenwich Time: Nonprofits adjust to austere reality By Ken Dixon, Greenwich Time Reporter
December 31, 2017 By jeff
[Family ReEntry Executive Director Jeff] Grant said that with state agencies withdrawing support, the main strategy he and other private nonprofit providers are taking is outside support. "We're looking at more private funding, foundation funding, and to be considerably less (reliant) on the [government] to fund solutions to social problems," Grant said. "We need to get a real private-public partnership that's innovative and supportive. Unfortunately, it means we have to make do with less and find ways to seek and get support."
Reprinted from Greenwich Time, Nov. 27, 2017
Facing an austere state budget, nonprofit social-service providers are tightening their belts and doing more with less.
They're cutting programs, reducing staff and seeking more private donations. When the next session of the General Assembly meets in February, service providers will be asking state lawmakers to let them handle more programs, in exchange for more funding, because they are less-expensive than state-employee-run treatment centers, day programs and residences.
Gian-Carl Casa, president and chief executive officer of the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, said the current budget, which lawmakers crafted during a contentious year that finally eliminated a $5 billion deficit, culminates a decade of underfunding for the state's private social-service providers, and sharp reductions in state aid in more recent years.
"It's really a cumulative effect on a lot of places," Casa said during a recent interview, adding that between July and October, when state services were sharply curtailed under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's executive order, years of stress were added on nonprofits.
"While some providers eventually received the state funding they had counted on, across the board, folks are having a hard time," said Casa, whose umbrella group represents dozens of nonprofits that focus on developmental disabilities, arts, children, adult behavioral health and community justice.
Executive-order hardships
Robert Francis, executive director of the Bridgeport-based Regional Youth Adult Social Action Partnership, said the new two-year, $41 billion state budget restored money for the organization's Street Safe, program, which offers alternatives for teens and young adults who are at risk of joining gangs or are already gang members.
"I think we'll get about $233,000, which will enable us to run the program in full force," said Francis, who had to lay off two employees when the new fiscal year began on July 1 without a budget and Malloy's executive order sharply cut social-service funding. "It'll enable us to run the program full-force and get everyone back who we let go."
Still, Francis is worried about other funding he usually gets from the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. He said that state officials want to merge the 14 regional action councils such as RYASAP with regional mental health boards.
Overall, RYASAP provides direct services for about 2,000 people a year and trains as many as another 5,000 in its juvenile-justice initiatives, youth development, public service and parent education, Francis said.
Kelly Donnelly, Malloy's communications director, said changes in nonprofit funding reflect hard economic reality.
"Nonprofit social-service providers are an integral part of the system," Donnelly said. "Regrettably, they, like other important entities that receive state support, have been affected by our state's present budget constraints. We continue to work with them to explore options to mitigate the impact of cuts in funding."
Looking for outside support
Jeff Grant, CEO of Family ReEntry, which concentrates on helping inmates transition back into their communities, said that the contracts his nonprofit has with the state Judicial Branch have not been affected.
"Thus far, the only reduction that we have received is a 4.5 percent, across-the-board cut by the Department of Correction," said Grant, a former white-collar offender.
"After losing approximately $2 million in behavioral health contracts on July 1, 2016, we have grown and made back almost half of that."
Family ReEntry serves about 3,500 individuals and families in eight cities.
"I think our biggest problem is that as of 18 months ago, the state dismantled nonresidential mental health programming. So there are no mandated services," Grant said. "There are some very progressive programs going on inside the prisons."
Grant said state officials believe that inmates leaving prison who need mental health services will find them through Medicaid and other programs.
"But since there is no enforcement, most are not going to go," he said.
Grant said that with state agencies withdrawing support, the main strategy he and other private nonprofit providers are taking is outside support.
"We're looking at more private funding, foundation funding, and to be considerably less (reliant) on the [government] to fund solutions to social problems," Grant said.
"We need to get a real private-public partnership that's innovative and supportive. Unfortunately, it means we have to make do with less and find ways to seek and get support."
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CT Mirror: CT nonprofits fear GOP tax overhaul will reduce charitable giving By: Ana Radelat, CT Mirror Reporter
But to Grant, it's the private donations that give his criminal justice programs flexibility. Family Re-entry has offices in Bridgeport, New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, Norwich and New London. "We believe that's the way we can have the most impact and create the most creative programs," he said of the individual donations. Also, as state and federal grants become more scarce, private donations are becoming more important, Grant said.
Reprinted from CT Mirror, Nov. 28, 2017
Washington – Both the tax bill the Senate hopes to vote on this week and a House-passed tax overhaul would keep the popular charitable deduction, but non-profits say the legislation still would shrink American help to those in need.
CT Community Nonprofit Alliance President Gian-Carl Casa says the bills would "devastate" the state's community based non-profits.
"This is a significant problem for non-profits," Casa said of the GOP tax bills.
The main reason?
The tax bills in both the House and Senate would eliminate most individual deductions, and nearly double the standard deduction. That means taxpayers may stop itemizing their deductions – and have less of an incentive to give to charity.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 720,000 Connecticut taxpayers itemized deductions in 2015. Most of them, 603,420, claimed a charitable deduction. That's nearly 35 percent of the state's income tax filers.
But by simplifying tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction, the number of taxpayers who choose to itemize – and use the charitable tax deduction – is expected to drop to 5 percent, according to the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance and analyses by national non-profit groups.
A study commissioned this year by Leadership 18 and the Independent Sector, an alliance of the CEOs of the nation's largest non-profits, found that these changes could decrease charitable giving by an estimated $13.1 billion annually. (Full disclosure: The Connecticut Mirror is published by the nonprofit Connecticut News Project.)
The heads of the nation's largest nonprofits, including the American Red Cross, the American Cancer Association, the Boy Scouts and the YMCA, want Congress to allow all tax filers to be able to take the deduction, not just those who itemize. But the GOP writers of the House and Senate tax bills have yet to make that change.
The issue is of concern to smaller nonprofits, too.
Jeff Grant, executive director of Family ReEntry, a criminal justice non-profit, said he's concerned there's less incentive for people to donate to his organization under the GOP tax bills, universally opposed by Democrats.
Grant said about half of $700,000 a year his group receives from private donors comes from individuals. The bulk of the group's income, about $4 million, comes from state and federal grants.
But to Grant, it's the private donations that give his criminal justice programs flexibility. Family Re-entry has offices in Bridgeport, New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury, Derby, Norwich and New London.
"We believe that's the way we can have the most impact and create the most creative programs," he said of the individual donations.
Also, as state and federal grants become more scarce, private donations are becoming more important, Grant said.
Both the House and Senate tax bills would lower the top corporate rate from 35 percent to 20 percent and lower rates for individuals, too. But they would eliminate many popular individual deductions, including the ones for state and local taxes and for interest on student loans.
Even as GOP crafters of the tax bill were careful to keep the charitable contribution deduction, which turns 100 years old this month, the worry about the disincentive to itemize in the tax plans has spread in the nonprofit community.
"It's a scary proposition for us," said Alice Forrester, CEO of Clifford Beers Clinic, which provides mental health care for thousands of children and their parents in the New Haven area.
Forrester said she's concerned that some loyal donors who contribute less than $1,000 a year may stop giving or donating less. She's also worried the disincentive to itemize will hurt efforts to attract Millennial donors and start them down the philanthropic path.
Politicizing nonprofits
There are other concerns, too, said Casa of the CT Community Non-Profit Alliance.
One is that the House tax bill would repeal the Johnson Amendment, a provision in the U.S. tax code that since 1954 has prohibited certain non-profit groups from endorsing or opposing political candidates or donating to candidates for public office. The prohibition applies to Section 501(c)(3) organizations, the most common type of nonprofit in the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities and churches.
Casa said the end of the Johnson Amendment would pressure many non-profits to give to political candidates, siphoning off money now spent on helping people.
To Forrester, having charities become political players, forcing them to choose one candidate over another, would hurt them in other ways as well.
"It's very important for us to stay neutral," she said. "We depend on government to support us, no matter who is in charge."
She also said her clinic has a politically diverse staff, and politically diverse patients, "so it would be horrible to be affiliated with a political party."
Another problem nonprofits have with the tax bills is that they would boost the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion, forcing future cuts in government spending on social and health programs that help fund many nonprofits, Casa said.
"It's hitting nonprofits from all angles," Casa said of the tax bills.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said GOP leaders plan to vote on the Senate version of the tax bill this week, then work out the differences between that bill and one passed by the House earlier this month.
But the White House this week indicated the House may be persuaded to vote on a Senate-approved bill so that a final bill can become law before Christmas.
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Massive seafront project unveiled
LONG-awaited details of a £15 million-plus project to help regenerate Felixstowe as a seaside resort were unveiled today.It has taken 20 years to reach this stage on the south seafront scheme, but now a start on work could be just months away.
LONG-awaited details of a £15 million-plus project to help regenerate Felixstowe as a seaside resort were unveiled today.
It has taken 20 years to reach this stage on the south seafront scheme, but now a start on work could be just months away.
Tourism chiefs hope the venture will generate a £1 million spending boom every year for the town's traders as visitors pour in to see and enjoy the new maritime park, designed to attract families.
But today as Suffolk Coastal council's development partners Bloor Homes formally lodged a planning application for the 17-acre site, objectors were preparing to fight the scheme tooth and nail.
Householders say the land is a floodplain and parts of it act as a vital soakaway when the sea overtops the defences. Residents, who have clubbed together to fund legal experts, also want the land left as open space to be enjoyed by the whole community.
But others will see the low-key attractions with 209 homes to pay for them as a missed opportunity to give Felixstowe facilities that appeal to more visitors.
The main attractions will be a refurbished Martello Tower art gallery, a classic Greek semi-circular ampitheatre for open-air concerts, local bands and street entertainers, plus car parks, restaurant, café, gardens, wooden galleon, and traditional and unusual play areas, all on a beach and sea theme.
Today Felixstowe Town Council announced that it would hold a special meeting to make recommendations to Suffolk Coastal - which will make the final decision - on March 17 at Langer Primary School at 7pm. The public will be allowed to speak for the first half hour.
In its submission , Bloor Homes said: "It is the belief that the creation of a park based on a maritime theme, incorporating a high quality urban housing scheme, will form an integral part of the wider regeneration programme envisaged for this area of Felixstowe.
"The development will considerably improve this part of the resort and be a major draw to visitors.
"The park will provide a wide range of services and recreational facilities for residents as well as visitors to Felixstowe.
"The majority of these facilities will be aimed at families and their children and adults over 35, and designed to compliment those facilities already present in the town."
The leisure attractions will cost £2.3 million - in effect, what the council receives for giving up the land for the project.
Building the 209 homes, which will include 21 affordable homes, will cost around £12 million. The housing will include 25 four-bed houses and 18 three bed ones, 123 two-bed apartments and some smaller ones at 33 homes per acre. All will be built 30 cm above the height of a predicted sea surge.
Suffolk Coastal has agreed a 50-50 profit sharing scheme if Bloor Homes makes more profit than it is expecting - that figure is confidential. If the development loses money, Bloor will bear the loss.
n What do you think of the project - should Suffolk Coastal council be allowed to decide its own scheme? Write to Your Letters, Evening Star, 30 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, IP4 1AN, or e-mail EveningStarLetters@eveningstar.co.uk


This animated short by David Scharf is one of the best explanations I've seen as to why we should be worried about sleepwalking into a surveillance society, not to mention a beautifully crafted piece of visual art in its own right.
You can see larger, better quality versions of the video at http://www.huesforalice.com/bbs/.
Domain Name Registrars - The New Points of Control?
Jonathan Zittrain has pointed out that regulation of the internet has tended to proceed - whether by way of litigation or legislation - by identifying particular intermediaries and compelling them to act as points of control over user behaviour. The intermediaries targeted have included hosts, ISPs, search engines, hyperlinkers and financial intermediaries (which have been compelled, for example, to stop credit card payments to gambling sites). Some relatively recent developments suggest that domain name registrars are joining them in the firing line - and that this may result in some interesting cross-border legal issues.
The Spamhaus case didn't, however, deter the lawyers acting for Bank Julius Baer in its attempt to silence Wikileaks.org, who succeeded (albeit temporarily) last month in persuading the Californian courts to issue an interim order requiring the registrar (Dynadot) to disable the Wikileaks.org domain name and remove all DNS hosting records. (This despite the lack of any obvious role for the Californian courts in adjudicating on a dispute between a Cayman Islands bank, its Swiss parent company, a Swiss former employee, and the various individuals around the world responsible for Wikileaks, and despite the lack of any full hearing.) Daithi has a particularly good post on why this amounted, in effect, to an internet death penalty and was a disproportionate prior restraint on speech.
Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government.
The sites, in English, French and Spanish, had been online since 1998. Some, like www.cuba-hemingway.com, were literary. Others, like www.cuba-havanacity.com, discussed Cuban history and culture. Still others — www.ciaocuba.com and www.bonjourcuba.com — were purely commercial sites aimed at Italian and French tourists.
It turned out, though, that Mr. Marshall's Web sites had been put on a Treasury Department blacklist and, as a consequence, his American domain name registrar, eNom Inc., had disabled them. Mr. Marshall said eNom told him it did so after a call from the Treasury Department; the company, based in Bellevue, Wash., says it learned that the sites were on the blacklist through a blog.
Either way, there is no dispute that eNom shut down Mr. Marshall's sites without notifying him and has refused to release the domain names to him. In effect, Mr. Marshall said, eNom has taken his property and interfered with his business. He has slowly rebuilt his Web business over the last several months, and now many of the same sites operate with the suffix .net rather than .com, through a European registrar. His servers, he said, have been in the Bahamas all along.
Susan Crawford, a visiting law professor at Yale and a leading authority on Internet law, said the fact that many large domain name registrars are based in the United States gives the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, control "over a great deal of speech — none of which may be actually hosted in the U.S., about the U.S. or conflicting with any U.S. rights."
"OFAC apparently has the power to order that this speech disappear," Professor Crawford said.
There's also a very important practical point here. Website owners are already acutely aware that hosting liability varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction - and for that reason many chose to host in the US where section 230 CDA makes it less likely that a host will take down a site based on vague and unjustified threats. These cases illustrate that domain owners should be equally cautious in deciding which registrar to use - pick a registrar located in the wrong jurisdiction, or one which (as Dynadot appeared to do in the Wikileaks case) caves in too easily and you may find your domain name vanishes.


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"witch doctors," do you believe?
Posted on October 29, 2010 by hugmamma
With Halloween just around the corner, I'm reminded of something that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I'm in the midst of reading "Orson Welles-A Biography" by Barbara Leaming. Written with his complete cooperation, it really is "a dazzling, intimate portrait of a legend." Never one of my favorite actors, I must admit that I've altered my opinion after reading 396 pages of the 630 page book. Welles was really the genius he was touted to be! Unfortunately his diverse talents overextended him physically and mentally, so that his failures were as huge as his successes, both personally and professionally. But I'll leave that for another post.
Through a series of fortuitous events, 20-year-old, recently married Orson Welles made his New York directorial debut in the midst of this country's Great Depression. In 1935, Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre Workshop, was appointed as national director of the Federal Theatre project. As part of FDR's Works Progress Administration, the FT was charged with providing work for the nation's unemployed theatrical professionals. Because Flanagan "was not a member of the Broadway commercial establishment, but an academic with a taste for experimental and regional theater," and because, by rule, 10% of actors, musicians, playwrights and technicians "could consist of theater people who had not been receiving relief, thereby ensuring the presence of expert professional talent to counterbalance the inevitable amateurs who found working in the theater more appealing than a government construction project," Orson found himself among this elite class of professionals.
Charged with mounting a classical production, Welles, upon his wife Virginia's suggestion, chose to stage "an all-black Macbeth by transposing its action from Scotland to Haiti, a startlingly new setting with important artistic advantages, not the least of them the rich possibilities for music and decor. … Preferring not to anchor the action too firmly in Haiti he had in mind a mythic island more like the fantasy setting of The Tempest than any actual place. But as Orson saw it, there was a significant gain in realism as well: by alluding to Haitian voodooism the production could make credible the role of the witches that modern audiences of Macbeth often have trouble accepting."
At Harlem's Lafayette Theatre, Orson's Macbeth opened to a mixture of gang members, respectable black bourgeoisie, and Manhattan's chic downtown crowd. When the curtain rose on "the intricate jungle settings, piquant costumes, and sensuous lighting," the audience broke into "wild applause and gasps of pleasure." And the critics' reviews were just as ebullient. Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times wrote with enthusiasm " 'As an experiment in Afro-American showmanship the Macbeth fairly rocked the Lafayette Theatre, …If it is witches you want, Harlem knows how to overwhelm you with their fury and phantom splendor.' " The New York Daily News' Burns Mantle hailed Macbeth as " 'a spectacular theatre experience. …the most colorful, certainly the most startling, of any performance that gory tragedy has ever been given on this continent.' "
In contrast, Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune wrote " 'What surprised me last night was the inability of so melodious a race to sing the music of Shakespeare,…The actors sounded the notes with a muffled timidity that was often unintelligible. They seemed to be afraid of the Bard, though they were playing him on their home grounds.' " One of the African drummers, who accompanied the ranting of the three witches, made a voodoo doll in the critic's likeness, hanging it in effigy and sticking it with pins. When told by the lighting director that Hammond was entitled to his opinion, the African replied " 'He's bad man.' " Humoring the man over beer and pretzels at a local bar, Orson agreed to his drinking companion's decision to put a curse on the critic.
"The African made one stipulation: the responsibility for Hammond's death would be Orson's alone. As a pretzel disappeared into his mouth, Orson nodded agreement. The rest of the company, Orson among them, watched with amusement as the voodoo practitioners blessed their drums before pounding on them backstage for several days. He barely gave it another thought until, shortly thereafter, he gasped to learn that Percy Hammond had just died."
One of these times I'll tell you about my "big-aunt," who was a "Kahuna," a Hawaiian witch doctor.
makes you wonder…hugmamma.
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In response to your Jan. 6 editorial "Happy ending for Cyprus?": Unfortunately, this only focuses on the Greek tragedy, and omits the Turkish tragedy that lives on the island. The island's problems did not originate in 1974, but in 1963 (and even earlier) with the gang of EOKA attacking the Turkish population. Why did the UN peacekeepers arrive in Cyprus in 1964 if everything was so nice and peaceful prior to 1974? Maybe the answer is that more than 100 Turkish villages were destroyed and hundreds of Turkish Cypriots were killed or just vanished between 1963 and 1967.
In 1974, Turkey did not invade the island, but intervened because of a very a real threat to the Turkish population. The right to intervene is given to Turkey, Greece, and Britain by the Treaty of Guarantees signed in 1960. Prior to intervening, Turkey asked for the support of Greece and Britain to protect the Turkish population. Greece and Britain refused.
The standard of living of the Turkish population on Cyprus is a quarter of the Greeks' standard of living. This is a direct result of the inhumane embargoes imposed on the Turkish Cypriots, who are being punished for asking for the right to life, self-determination, and self-government.
I remain ever hopeful that one day the Turkish population in Cyprus will be given the basic human rights and fair press coverage that they deserve.
Regarding your Dec. 30 article "Ankara, Kabul get reacquainted": What a wonderful story. At a time when everyone is pushing Turkey away (sometimes because they are not Christian enough, sometimes because they are not Muslim enough), it's so good to see someone tell a true story.
Yes, secularism is secularism in Turkey, and secularism is entirely different from atheism. And Islam is Islam - something sacred and private, not just something people shout about. And Turkish education is a universal education (in schools in Turkey, religious education consists of Islam, Christianity, and other religions).
The Turkish Army always has advocated democracy. The Turkish people love and trust their army more than their politicians - which the European press always ignore.
In response to the Dec. 9 column (Work & Money) "Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US": In David Francis's column, you refer to the Stauffer study as being "commissioned" by the US Army War College. This is misleading.
The US Army War College cosponsored a conference on US-Arab relations with the University of Maine. Dr. Stauffer was invited by the conference organizer from the University of Maine. The conference was held in an environment of academic freedom: Participants were selected for their credentials rather than their political perspective. The US Army War College had no prior knowledge of or role in the development of the content of his paper.
Regarding your Jan. 8 article "The write way to honor John Hancock's legacy": Thank you for this wonderful article. Today, sadly, I find myself using the computer for most letter writing, but do use pen and ink often. A handwritten note or letter is always much more appreciated - it's certainly more personal. This article should be read and acted on by all teachers through high school. Think what a difference it would make.


Biltwell Inc. Lane Splitter helmet The retro helmet market is pretty crowded these days, but Biltwell Inc. have been doing it for longer than most. Their gear always looks great, with an authentic, no-frills vibe. In the case of their latest offering—the Lane Splitter—that approach is both a strength and weakness. I'll tell you why, right after I bore you with the basics.
The hot rod-inspired Lane Splitter is Biltwell's second foray into visor-equipped helmets (after the Gringo S). Let's be honest—it looks a lot like the iconic Simpson Bandit, but it's pretty badass in its own right, so I'll give it a thumbs up. More notably, the Lane Splitter's ABS outer and EPS inner shell earn it both DOT and ECE approval—something we haven't seen on Biltwell helmets before.
Stylmartin Red Rock boots Each season seems to bring with it an avalanche of new gear, but there are some standbys that have sold for years on end. Icon's Elsinore boots are one example, and Stylmartin's Red Rocks another. I've had my Red Rocks for just over two years now; in that time I've used them around town, toured in them and taken them on multiple press launches. I've put them through some light flat tracking, flown in them, done the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride in them, and even used them as casual wear.


Emerging biotechnologies hold great promise but could pose great risks. However, the benefits and costs are often difficult to anticipate and hard to quantify, and they can vary widely among the populations and environments.
How can we make wise policy decisions about emerging technologies—decisions that are grounded in facts yet anticipate unknowns and promote the public's preferences and values? A new special report from The Hastings Center examines the options and proposes improvements. Governance of Emerging Technologies: Aligning Policy Analysis with the Public's Values, edited by Hastings Center research scholars Gregory E. Kaebnick and Michael Gusmano, is the product of a National Science Foundation-supported project at The Hastings Center. Gusmano is also an associate professor of health policy at Rutgers University School of Public Health.
The report focuses on the predominant method used to evaluate new technologies in the United States, cost-benefit analysis. CBA aims to understand the public's preferences for certain policy options—such as whether to halt, restrict, or promote the application of a new technology—by linking those preferences to a common metric, such as the amount of money that people are willing to pay for something that would be produced or destroyed by the application.
Proponents of CBA point to its relative objectivity, "in the sense of being scrubbed of bias, of fairly representing the views and interests of the overall population," write Kaebnick and Gusmano in the introduction. "It tries to ensure that there is no thumb on the scales when a decision is made." But critics say that CBA can fail to recognize important values, such as justice and equity in the distribution of benefits and harms to different populations.
All agree that there is room for improvement. The report has three major takeaways.
First, it advances understanding of how CBA handles the public's values. "Demystifying Evidence-Based Policy Analysis by Revealing Hidden Value-Laden Constraints," by Adam Finkel, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, breaks new ground by cataloging a multitude of specific choices that policy analysts must make, which appear to be value neutral but are in fact "suffused with hidden value judgments." He argues that we are best off sticking with cost-benefit analysis, but that we must be aware that it is rife with unexamined value choices that ought to be examined carefully. "Transparency—the dogged task of highlighting where each value judgment enters the analysis and why—is the only productive path forward," he writes.
Another takeaway is that the institutions that carry out policy analysis may be as crucial for impact assessment as the decision-making tools like CBA. Several commentaries propose and begin to explore new kinds of institutions, such as "governance coordinating committees," to coordinate perspectives from multiple sources in a trustworthy way. The commentaries also examine different mechanisms for public engagement.
The full text of the special report is available here.


Insert a separate clip into a video ?
Thread: Insert a separate clip into a video ?
I wonna create a simple video of a marble run but I also wonna include seprate clips of scenes within in. So for example if I am following the marble along the rails I want to add a scene when the marble makes a turn. But I want this smaller clip to appear in that video in the top right corner?
I am not sure how this process is called and what software should be used to achieve this.
Do you mean picture in picture. If so there are lots of tutorials on YouTube.
How do I insert a walking person in one video into my current video?


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The contemporary technology really makes twists on typical online games which are, as what can be noticed, commonly accepted by this era. With the positive aspects and disadvantages stated over, it is now for you to determine whether you would like to engage in or follow multiplayer video games.


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