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Mothers of soldiers killed in Patrick Tillman's mother to testify
before Congress By Julia Prodis
Sulek Mercury News Article Launched: 04/18/2007
07:11:01 PM PDT *** begin quote *** Three Each was told by the military that her son died gloriously in battle: either charging up a hill to confront the enemy, fighting off an ambush, or saving 60 fellow soldiers. And each found out later - five weeks for one, 15 months for another, and two years for another - that the stories were false. *** end quote *** Why, as if it wasn’t bad enough that their children were dead, make it worse by lying? I think there is a special place in the Intelligent Designer’s Final Judgment for lies such as these. Mistakes get made. You wanted a burger with ketchup and got mustard. That’s a mistake. Lies are when I know the burger has mustard on it and I give it to you any way. In the real world, I can’t know what is in people’s heads, minds, or hearts. It appears that these are lies; not mistakes. Designed to put these tragic deaths in a better light. I have news for the “spinners”, liars by another name, there is no good way to spin a soldier’s death. I’m sorry and I apologize to these mothers that I didn’t do a good enough job supervising the gooferment that is supposedly representing me. |
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JHQ: Concert today May 14, 2007 Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door. The proceeds will benefit the performing arts on campus. The concert is to be performed by Livia
Mazzanti. A well-known European organist, Mazzanti has recorded several albums under the RCA and
Philips labels. Her performance will include pieces by Bach, Scarlatti,
Vivaldi, For more information about this event, please contact Mark
Pottinger, assistant professor of fine arts at Members of the media wishing to cover this event may
contact Scott Silversten at (718) 862-7232 or
e-mail scott.silversten@manhattan.edu. Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent,
Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40
major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business,
education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education
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JOY: Lawler, Jennifer (1994) http://www.amherstbee.com/news/2007/0516/lifestyles/098.html *** begin quote *** Lawler - Kromer Marianne and Robert Lawler of *** end quote *** # # # # # |
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JObit: MC1960 Zipparo, Joseph A. ACTIONABLE OBIT: EXPIRES 16MAY7 http://www.legacy.com/NewsTimes/Obituaries.asp? ***Begin Quote*** Joseph A. Zipparo M.D. Joseph A. Zipparo, M.D., who
loved Born in In the 40 years he practiced radiology, Dr. Zipparo practiced at hospitals and offices in the Dr. Zipparo was a longtime
member of St. Mary’s Dr. Zipparo absolutely loved being around his family and is survived by his wife, Maureen; four sons: Jay of New York, Greg of Louisiana, Joe of New York and David of Ridgefield; two daughters, Ali of Danbury and Krysta of Ridgefield, and five grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday
at 10:15 a.m. in St. Mary’s Church, Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, The family will receive friends in the Kane Funeral Home, Published in the News Times on 5/14/2007. ***End Quote*** Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/NewsTimes/GB/ # # # # # |
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JObit: MC1952 Sparkman, John C. ACTIONABLE OBIT: EXPIRES 16MAY07 http://www.legacy.com/TheDay/Obituaries.asp? ***Begin Quote*** John C. Sparkman He was born on April 16, 1930 in Mr. Sparkman was married to the former Patricia Keane in
1954 in An Army veteran of the Korean War, he earned his
undergraduate degree from John was a retired attorney and partner in the He had a life-long love of boating, and had worked with the race committee of the ‘Mudheads’ for five years. Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Susan
Sparkman- Sperandino and her husband, Anthony, of
Somers, N.Y.; two sons, John C. Sparkman Jr. and his wife, Amy, of Old Lyme
and Paul H. Sparkman of Peekskill, N.Y.; a brother. Robert Sparkman. of He had also been predeceased by a brother, Drake Sparkman. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, May 16, at the St. Mary Mother of Our Redeemer Church in Byles- Groton Memorial Home, In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be directed to the Hospice of Southeastern CT, Please visit www.byles.com for direction, obituary and the family’s online registry. Published in The Day on 5/15/2007. ***End Quote*** Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/TheDay/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=88059154 http://tinyurl.com/2rwgkr ### {MikeMcE reports: Dear John, John is a member of the Class of 1952. May He rest In Peace! Mike (Thanks, Mike.) } # # # # # |
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JNEWS: Jim Scanlon [MC1966] president of ***Begin Quote*** St. Joseph News-Press ( May 12–Students at two local universities have more in common with their presidents than they probably know. Dr. Jim Scanlon, president of Dr. Scanlon, who said probably more than 50 percent of Western students are first-generation students, identifies with them. “I commuted to school and worked about 24 hours a week
outside of school to help put myself through school,” he said, noting that
many Western students do the same. Dr. Scanlon attended Dr. Hubbard comes from a farming family in Dr. Hubbard and Dr. Scanlon are obvious success stories. But the road for many first-generation students has more curves, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education. First-generation students have lower grade-point averages and are more likely to drop out of college than students who come from families that have college degrees, according to the 2005 report. “First-generation students were more likely than other students to withdraw from or repeat courses they attempted to study,” read the report. Paul Klute, assistant to Dr. Hubbard, said data suggests that first-generation students are likely to need additional academic support during their college experience. Northwest created the American Dream Grant that pays for all but $1,500 of the students’ college expenses, in part to “help students pay for college and ease the transition into higher education.” About 66 percent of ADG recipients are first-generation college students, compared with 45 percent of all Northwest students who are first generation. Lindsay Bosch is graduating from Western today with a B average. Despite earning good grades, like a majority of first-generation students, Ms. Bosch said she didn’t feel academically prepared for college when she got out of high school. “I didn’t take much college prep in high school,” she said. “I would stress to high school students to go to their teachers or counselors and find out how to get ahead for college.” But unlike the Department of Education report, which said first-generation students don’t always find support from their parents where college is concerned, Ms. Bosch’s parents nudged their children toward higher education. “He hasn’t always had jobs that are very stable,” Ms. Bosch said of her father, who was employed with Quaker Oats before it shut down. “He wants us to be confident when we get out of school to find jobs.” Though parents of first-generation students may be supportive, they can’t always provide helpful advice. Brandi Derstler, a senior at Western whose parents are mechanics and truck drivers, couldn’t turn to them for questions about college like her non-first-generation counterparts could to their parents. “I had to rely on asking questions a lot,” she said of arriving at Western. “My adviser helped me tremendously. That was very important to me.” Judy Grimes, dean of student services, said Western
students have several options in helping them adjust to college. Included is
the Academic and Though some students do require developmental classes when they first arrive at college, Dr. Scanlon is quick to point out that not all first-generations students have academic issues. “Some of them have been able to overcome a variety of challenges in order to come to the university, stay in the university and persist toward graduation,” he said. “First-generations students are a pleasure to have here.” LOAD-DATE: May 13, 2007 {MikeMcE reports: Dear John, This President Scanlon is a member of the class of 1966, I believe. Mike (Thanks, Mike.) } # # # # # |
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JNEWS: Bill Emmerich played for
both http://www.newsday.com/sports/highschool/ny- Nassau Conference AA-I ***Begin Quote*** Blowouts take on many forms, but rarely do they look like they did Monday, with such a compelling pitcher presiding over the action and a team scoring so many runs in one inning. {Extraneous Deleted} “There’s a new sheriff in town,” pitcher Bryan Henrick said with a wink. The 6-3 lefthander struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings, and allowed two runs - one earned - to improve to 6-0. “They’re a good team, and they can always come back and win two from us, but we feel good about our effort right now.” Maybe because his bloodlines are so strong, Henrick was allowed to speak with such flair. His
grandfather was Bill Emmerich, a minor-league
pitcher in the late 1940s who pitched under an assumed name so he could play
for both Emmerich was a teammate of Bobby
Thomson, yes that Bobby Thomson of the Giants, but he played for When “He’s the one who got me into pitching,” ***End Quote*** {JR: A Jasper bending the rules. Unheard of! } # # # # # |
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JNews: Kosch, James A. [1977] Reed SmithLLP Reed Smith is pleased to make the following announcement: James A. Kosch, a Partner in the
firm's Environmental and Toxic Tort Practice Groups, has been elected Chair
of the Toxic Tort & Environmental Law Committee of the Jim is resident in Reed Smith's About Reed Smith: Reed Smith LLP is a top-20 international
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MNEWS: Danielle Cirillo DEAN’S LIST ***Begin Quote*** The Record ( Mail items to Cathy Krzeczkowski,
The Record, 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, {Extraneous Deleted} * Moonachie: Danielle Cirillo {Extraneous Deleted} LOAD-DATE: May 14, 2007 ***End Quote*** # # # # # |
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MNEWS: Fiona Maclachlan, an
economics at http://www.sciencevirtual.info/2007/05/16/main%20/ http://tinyurl.com/3925×9 Mathematica demonstration of The Long Tail ***Begin Quote*** Second, and (for me) more importantly, Wolfram now has a
Long Tail interactive demonstration as part of its online gallery of cool
things Mathematica can do. You can see it in action
here and download a free Mathematica player to try
it out yourself. Thanks to Fiona Maclachlan,
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sophomore at http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? Mirror Images: Our mother-child look-alikes ***Begin Quote*** Christine Thorsen is a 2005
graduate of Monroe-Woodbury High and is a sophomore at ***End Quote*** {JR: Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! They not only look alike. But, Jaspers are getting better looking than when I was there. } # # # # # |
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From: James McClafferty [1987] Are you setting up a yahoo group or a LinkedIn group? I’m A Manhattan Alum – 1987. I’d like to join the group when it is ready. I couldn’t find it listed under Groups on LinkedIn. -Jim McClafferty {JR: http://tinyurl.com/yp6x2q } |
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From: Paul Dolan [1982] John, Thanks for letting me know. I'll give her a call. I registered on line on Monday. Maybe her list wasn't updated. I better get after Jack and Frank as well. BTW have you seen the alumni website? It's all screwed up now. You can't even check the Online Database. Paul —1— From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona Hi Gang: I hear that, and I can confirm that, the MCALUM site is down. Something responds please refresh. But heads up. Need an injineer to help? Cheap! fjohn —2— From: Paul Dolan John, I resubmitted my registration for the Class of 1982 Cocktail Party and Dinner Dance of Friday June 1st. and just confirmed with Grace Feeney that she received it. I'll be there and report back. I'll be there with Jack Degnan (who has registered) and Frank Jackson (who has not yet registered). I asked them if they received Jasper Jottings and they said they did not. I talked it up and told them that they would absolutely love it. ; ) They said they would accept the invitation when you send it. {privacy invoked} Thanks, Paul {JR: Done. Thanks for the victims! } —3— From: Jake [MCstaff] This still seems to be an issue. To confirm, the site is www.alum.manhattan.edu that is experiencing the issue. I have seen the “Please Refresh” error message. This site is hosted off campus via a 3rd party: Name:
lb.toplinks.com X/Y, have you had any luck contacting the vendor? Let me know if I can be of any assistance. Jake —4— From: Thomas McCarthy [MCstaff] Jake et al – Our former provider for our alumni online community, IAC appears to have shut down the site (we canceled the service the end of March but they kept us live for a bit longer). We’re still in the process of configuring our new online community directory and webpage through a company called iModules and hope to have something up by the end of this month. In the interim, we have a message at the following link (http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/online_community.php ) which is available on the alumni webpage. Incidentally, most of our material under that /alumni_friends/ periphery will be maintained off the new community page, which, when ready to launch, will occupy the url alum.manhattan.edu. Tom
Come visit all the great features of the —5— From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona Dear Thomas, We haven't met, and I realize I'm only an alum. And, I hate to start off on the wrong foot. But, you have to be kidding. I understand that you all in the alumni office can do whatever you want with the services that you provide free to the Alumni. But, how do expect to build a community when you make decisions like this? The essence of Web20 is to always have your service available and develop a conversation with an audience over time. Specifically, the Green Alumni Printed Directory was eliminated because the alumni were promised the Online Directory would be "better". Now we have nothing. It's stunning arrogance to treat the alums this way. Sorry to be blunt, but having had the rug pulled so many times, it's a wonder that anyone trusts the promises at all. To have to have the alumni find out that your vendor is no longer giving you a free ride is humorous at best. You may not be running a bank, but you're certainly not valuing your "Customers". Luckily, I've vampired most of what I need a while ago. Other alums I am sure are not so lucky.
—6— {JR: No further communications on the mcOLdb! Not surprising. I literally blew my kool. I guess I should be pleased it’s been five years sine the last time the pulled the rug out. Maybe I’m getting too old for this “barbara streisand”? } # # # # # |
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From: Michael Toner (1972) Dear John, I read JJ via the e-mail that comes to my mailbox, using Microsoft Office Entourage on a Mac. Lately, a number of the punctuation characters have been coming through as “squirrely” characters – see sample below. Any guesses on what might be happening? Any suggestions on what I can change in my settings to eliminate the problem? Also, is something about JJ going to change with the “LinkedIn” stuff, or is that just another service that the JJ publisher, editor, CIC is offering to your subscribers? Thanks, as always for the good work. mike toner Sample of “squirelly” characters -- “You can’t bomb a country on one hand and then say you want to rebuild it on the other,â€ů said Midland Beach resident Tiffany Schwabacher, 21, a senior double-majoring in history and women’s studies. “You can’t drop your gun and turn around and pick up a hammer. We need to pull back and let the Iraqi people rebuild themselves.â€ů —1— From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona Hi Mike, JJ via email comes from the Yahoo Distribution Group. It "should be" a straight text distribution. But there are a lot of "hands" in this pots. Any one of which could be guilty. JJ in prepped on Microsoft Office 2003 on Windows XP. I copy it to Yahoo's web based interface with the Pure Text utility which blanks all "unusual" characters. Yahoo is always playing around with stuff. So, they could be guilty. It goes down the wire to you where we have Mac and Microsoft software. The fact that no one else is griping and there are several who would makes me think it's arriving at you end "clean". It seems like the squirelly is quotes. I'm not a Mac person. I'd look at the font defaults in Mac and Microsoft. If you can select the default font, pick something "standard" like Courier, Ariel, or such. And, see what shows up. I'll push this next week and maybe one of the Mac readers can help. LinkedInJasper is really just a coordinated effort in building the Jasper community. I hope that it will draw more "action". Probably of more "interest" is the JasperJottings on WordPress. I'm using that to build the weekly email more quickly and easily. It has a built in RSS feed allows a daily Jasper Jottings. It also allows people to take partial feeds. If you're interested in just "news", you can get just as it is built. If obits, you can get that. You can use the mash up tools to build a combination of them. If and when there's a tool that would build the weekly email, I'd move from Yahoo to that tool. All my efforts are to build that community. Like Jasper Jottings Sports on Blogspot, some ideas seem to work. Others fall flat. Who knows what works and what doesn't. Thanks, just trying to be the Jasper version of "Paul Revere", connecting everyone. fjohn —2— From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, As you can see, my copy has the same unusual characters as one of other readers mentioned. I think that he was using a MAC while I am on a PC. Help. Mike —3— {JR: Arghhh! } # # # # #
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of them goes to a family in 19. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him .... (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good)... A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. 20. And finally, there was the person who sent twenty different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least ten of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did. :-) |
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at http://lancestrate.blogspot.com/2007/05/and-now-this.html Lance Strate’s Blog Time Passing ***Begin Quote*** This all began because I had wanted to organize an event to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Media Ecology Association. The organization came into being when I brought together Casey Man Kong Lum (at William Paterson University) and Thom Gencarelli (at Montclair State University, but about to become the chair of a new communication department at Manhattan College in nearby Riverdale)–the three of us had been talking about the need to do something along these lines for a number of years–along with Sue Barnes (who was my colleague at Fordham at the time, since departed for the Rochester Institute of Technology) for a meeting at Fordham University (we met in the conference room next to my office, up at the Rose Hill Campus–aka da Bronx). Paul Levinson, who had recently joined us at Fordham, was present at the time, so I asked him to join us at the meeting. And so we five became the founding fathers (and mother) of the MEA, which we called into existence on September 4th, 1998. ***End Quote*** # # # # # |
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JBlogger: http://forwhomthebelltolls24.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, May 16, 2007 My Plan for Cars to Get Better Gas Mileage ***Begin Quote*** I’m baaaaaaack. Well…I’m finally
done with school forever, and while I was sitting in traffic today during my
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JBlogger: Jasper AFuzzyLlama (2007) http://www.aslongasitendswith.us/ Tag: AFuzzyLlama *** begin quote *** New Era As the last days of college come forth I decided its time
to post an initial post since I did start this page from NYC. Leaving this
town with only a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Setting up this blog I hope that more than just I utilize it. I invite people to register if they feel they have something to contribute. Not that I believe this blog will become famous or be visited often, I’d like to make a page where people can share what they are doing so people may know what they are getting into. To use myself as an example, I’m going to write about my experiences with the JET programme and hopefully beyond and welcome all questions about what I do and how to go about doing it. This page is also up for my own achieve purposes and some posts might not be available to the public [but if you register and you are a good friend I’ll allow you access! =D]. Hopefully more later, but for now take care. ***End Quote*** Dear Jasper AFuzzyLlama (2007), Don’t be too hard on the planning. A plan is good. But
like they say in the military, “the best laid plans go out the window, when
the first shot is fired”. Might I suggest that you may find new and
interesting synergies between Computer Science, Medicine, and Spanish for example. Doctoring is going to be about interpreting fuzzy
data for possibilities for Spanish people. Or, developing prescription
systems — tracking, drug interaction, and cost minimization — for doctors in # # # Note: I tried to post a comment, but you can’t. So if he’s waiting for a comment, he’ll be waiting a long time. ;-) # # # # # |
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Jasper le’Roy (2009) |
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Jasper Ms. "siobhano"
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Jasper BAS (2001) |
My list of previously reported Jasper Bloggers here:
http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.googlepages.com/blogging_jaspers
{JR: My backlot pages aren’t
editing correctly so I have had to carry this over. Until I find a home for
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Control your own subscription: (1) Send a message from your old email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com saying that your switching. (2) Send a message from your new email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com with your name and class year. To keep me from spamming you, Yahoo only permits me to invite and delete people. I can NOT just ADD your email address. AND you’re done. With zero extra work for the CIC! :-) http://www.jasperjottings.com/boilerplate.htm |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north528.html Debt: An Inescapable Concept *** begin quote *** Debt is an inescapable concept. It is never a question of debt or no debt. It is always a question of which kind of debt, owed to whom, when. We enter this world helpless. Our parents owe a debt to us when we are born. They have obligations to us. Every society operates in terms of this principle. Parents who refuse to care for their children are placed under social sanctions. They are encouraged to provide care for their children: positive sanctions. If they refuse, they are punished in one way or another: negative sanctions. Humans are slow learners. It takes longer for humans to reach maturity as a percentage of their lifetimes than any other species. So, parenthood is a long-term commitment. Prior to the longer lifespans produced under capitalism, one or more parents died of old age before all of their children reached maturity. Other family members would then step in and care for younger children, usually older siblings. Again, this was a debt relationship. For parents who reached old age and became incapacitated, their hope lay in their children, usually their sons. The sons were expected to care for their aged parents. This was a form of debt repayment. The parents had honored their debt obligations while the children were young. But once the children reached maturity, they became debtors to their parents. Conclusion: Families stick together. The nature of this bond rests on debt. Human society is impossible without debt. We can learn a great deal about a society by examining its most pervasive forms of debt: who owes whom, for how long, under what terms, at what interest rate. *** end quote *** You have to develop a taste for North’s writing. He tends to wack you in the face with the “dead fish” (i.e., your old ways of thinking). We have to understand that we are piling up debts faster than the future generation can pay them off. He makes it painfully obvious that we are heading in the wrong direction. And, need to hit the “u turn” soon. |
And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon
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