The off topic thread

mjmaherjr said:
To be fair if he’d have gone to Seton Hall he might not have made the rookie forum
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But his mother went to a Vincentian school.....DePaul.😉
He is the most "multicultural" pope in history.

Pope Leo's paternal grandparents were Jean Lanti Prevost, an Italian man of French and Italian descent from Settimo Rottaro, near Turin, emigrated in the United States during the Italian diaspora, and Suzanne Fontaine, a Frenchwoman from Le Havre. His maternal grandparents were the Hispaniola-born mixed-race Joseph Martínez, who had Spanish blood and the New Orleans-born mixed-race Louise Baquié.
He has a very rich ethnic background that includes Italian, French, Spanish and mixed race Creole from Louisiana.
 
fan since 65 said:
Nah, I moved my 401K to mostly a Stable Value Fund right before that so I actually had a gain that year. but to stay on topic, it is still amazing that they screwed this up.
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My rule of thumb is not to look at your age in terms of when to move retirement assets but when you exlect to draw on those funds. If that age is 60, and you need those funds to live off, then begin to move assets out of equities towards fixed rate of return.
What is difficult for retirees is trying to live off of interest when rates plummet. My advisors say that retirement funds are the last you should tap, since they grow tax deferred, in essence you are getting a return on money that would otherwise go to the government in taxes.


In terms of potential donations to sju, you can donate appreciated assets like stocks or mutual funds to the school, take the full value of the donation as a tax deduction and not have to pay taxes on the gain.

So if you invested $2,000 in Apple a dozen years ago, it could be worth 25k which when sold the gain would be taxable. Donating part or all of that investment allows you to take a deduction for that full amount donated, without ever having to pay the tax on the gain.

Another way to make a dination won't cost you a cent in your lifetime and that's through estate planning. If you are living say in a mortgage free home, your estate has an asset that may be worth $1 million or more. Pledging to donate part of your estate in a will would improve your priority points without impacting you in your lifetime.
 
Beasts of the East said:
I believe even the highest ranking priests and Deans below Shanley buy their own tickets. I'd have to imagine that the priests at least get a discount. I wouldn't be shocked to learn a Dean took it out of department budgets but that's never been intimated. I can assure you though, those folks gets prime seats with little priority points.
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In the 1990's the school started taking the costs of our tickets out of our budget lines. I was given my 4 comps near the bench for my wife and kids, but everything else including tickets for my team doctors were charged to my sports medicine budget. They finally ended this practice in the mid 2000's when they realized other departments were transferring funds from one act to another to cover additional game tickets.
At least SJU did not institute the practice of taxing the value of my comp family tickets and the sports medicine donor dealer car we used to transport athletes to medical facilities as was done at other colleges!
 
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