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Entries from September 2008

JHQ: Cartoonist And Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud To Speak 11/6

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/092908_2.shtml

September 29, 2008

Cartoonist And Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud To Speak At Manhattan College

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Cartoonist and comic book theorist Scott McCloud will speak at Manhattan College on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

McCloud’s talk is the fall semester’s scheduled college writing lecture to accompany Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, a wise, funny and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

McCloud is the author of Understanding Comics (1993), a 215-page book about comics that has been translated into more than 16 languages. He also has written Reinventing Comics (2000), a more controversial look at comics revolutions in art, culture and technology, and Making Comics (2006), an extensive look at comics storytelling techniques.

A native of Boston, Mass., McCloud in 1984 created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot!, which he describes as a “cross between Peter Pan, Buck Rogers and Marshall McLuhan.” His other print comics include Destroy!!, scripts for various Superman comics, a 1998 series The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, and various short subjects and mini-comics.

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JNews: Tolli, Dominick [MC????] SVP Marketing SpinVox

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

http://www.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=533441#

SpinVox Appoints Former Virgin Mobile Executive as Senior Vice President of Marketing for North America
Tolli Joins to Drive Continued Growth Across Unified Communications, Cable And Telecom Hosted Services
By BusinessWire

ATLANTA, BUSINESS WIRE — SpinVox, a global leader in voice-to-content messaging, announced today the appointment of Dominick Tolli as the Senior Vice President of Marketing for North America. Tolli joins the organization after leading mobile data and service delivery efforts at Virgin Mobile.

“Dominick brings two decades of deep experience in all facets of telecom service marketing to SpinVox in North America,” says Christina Domecq, co-founder and CEO. “At Virgin Mobile alone, he was responsible for Virgin’s Mobile Data Services which included messaging, music, mobile marketing, mobile advertising and social networking. At SpinVox he’ll be charged with developing an ever increasing range of routes to market for services enabled by the automatic conversion of voice to text.”

Prior to joining SpinVox, Tolli was the V.P. of Innovation Services at Virgin Mobile and prior to that, for three years held the position of V.P. of Mobile Data Services. From 1999 through 2002, he was the President of Business Operations and the V.P. of Business Development at Net2Phone. Tolli spent more than 12 years with AT&T with the most recent stint being a Product Management director in their Consumer Group. He also worked in launching AT&T’s WorldNet service with prior assignments including sales and systems engineering.

Tolli holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Masters from Cornell. He received his MBA from New York University in 1986.

About SpinVox

SpinVox(R) is the world’s largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the most successful voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people. SpinVox services are available directly on www.spinvox.com and through leading carriers and service providers globally.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies, SpinVox has brought together the two most natural forms of communication – voice and text – to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content(TM).

Its award-winning service is not only upgrading voicemail – by converting voicemail to text for delivery as SMS or email messages – but is also empowering people to speak SMS messages or emails to anyone, from any phone. SpinVox also enables people to speak messages directly to their favourite web messaging services such as Facebook, Twitter and many other popular web networks.

As a carrier-class hosted service provider, any network, anywhere in the world can rapidly implement SpinVox and it is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German – with additional languages, Portuguese and Italian, under development.

Contacts:

SpinVox Public Relations Director – North America Tony Carter +1 404-316-0201

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Tolli, Dominick [MC????]

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JHQ: Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak Sunday 11/14

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/092908_1.shtml

September 29, 2008

Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak At Manhattan College
Dear is the former executive director of the fellowship of reconciliation.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – John Dear, a Jesuit priest and former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will speak at Manhattan College and sign copies of his autobiography on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library. The event, sponsored by the College’s peace studies program, is free and open to the public.

A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World was released this past August, and copies will be available for sale during the event. The book follows Dear’s decades-long journey and spiritual growth, including his unpopular actions before government officials, military personnel and even hostile representatives of the Church.

Dear, well-known and loved in the Catholic peace and justice community, has worked with the homeless in Washington, D.C., New York City, Richmond, Va., and El Salvador, and at a human rights center in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He taught theology at Fordham University and has edited books about Henri Nouwen, Daniel Berrigan and Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan.

From 1998 through December 2000, Dear served at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States. From 2002-2004, he was a pastor of several parishes in northeastern New Mexico. Currently, he coordinates Pax Christi New Mexico and lectures to tens of thousands of people each year in churches and schools across the country.

Dear earned two master’s degrees in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California. In 2008, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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JHQ: Heffernan, Thomas J. [MC1968] Doctor Of Humane Letters

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

September 22, 2008

Manhattan College To Award Doctor Of Humane Letters To Thomas J. Heffernan ’68 At Fall Honors Convocation

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Dr. Thomas J. Heffernan ’68 Ph.D., who holds the Kenneth Curry Professorship at the University of Tennessee (UT), will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Manhattan College’s Fall Honors Convocation on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 4:00 p.m in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers.

During the ceremony, nearly 150 seniors will be recognized for their academic excellence and inducted into Epsilon Sigma Pi, the oldest college-wide honor society. Induction into Epsilon Sigma Pi is considered the highest scholastic honor that can be earned by a Manhattan College student.

A native of New York City, Heffernan is a member of the departments of English and religious studies and the program in Medieval Studies at UT. He earned his doctorate in religious literature and reform in late antiquity and the Middle Ages at Cambridge University, where he was the recipient of the Emmanuel College scholarship.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., Heffernan was awarded a fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America for the study of Latin palaeography at Harvard University. He is the author of The Popular Literature of Medieval England (1978), Sacred Biography (1988), and the co-author of The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (2001) and Scripture and Pluralism (2006).

In addition, Heffernan is currently completing a critical edition of the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis for the series Ancient Christian Authors, and he edited the prestigious journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer for 10 years. He has written some 50 plus scholarly essays and reviews and has lectured and taught in the United States and abroad.

His scholarship has received numerous awards, including the Medieval Academy of America’s Van Courtland Eliot Prize and most recently the National Endowment of the Humanities. He has been the recipient of several fellowships and received the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Citation by UT, the most significant teaching award presented by the university.

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JFound: Murray, Michael M. (MC????)

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

http://www.milbank.com/en/Attorneys/m-o/Murray_Michael.htm

Michael M. Murray

Michael M. Murray is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department and is in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mr. Murray is a member of the federal and state bars in both New York and Massachusetts and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is also an electrical engineer with extensive experience in highly complex technology, including semiconductors, digital electronics, software and the Internet.

Mr. Murray’s intellectual property experience dates from 1984 when he was a Patent Examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Since 1985, Mr. Murray has worked with clients in a wide variety of intellectual property matters. His patent litigation experience includes both jury and non-jury matters in a number of Federal Courts throughout the U.S. and in matters before the International Trade Commission. Mr. Murray has written and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications on a wide variety of inventions. He counsels clients on issues such as the licensing and patentability of technology, the infringement and validity of U.S. patents, patent infringement avoidance, and strategies for developing and exploiting intellectual property assets.

Mr. Murray is a frequent author and lecturer on a variety of intellectual property issues. Representative publications and presentations include: Preventing Third Parties From Gaining Rights in Your Intellectual Property, The IP Litigator, Oct. 2002; Instructor, American Intellectual Property Law Association Basic Training Program in Patent Law, August 2002 and August 2003, Arlington, Virginia; Guest Lecturer, Japanese Intellectual Property Association, Sept. 2002 and Sept. 2003, Tokyo Japan; A Practical Guide to E-Commerce Inventions, Presentation in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 2000; The Best Defense is a Good Offense – Better Results in Intellectual Property Disputes With Aggressive Action, International Legal Strategy, Volume IV-12, Dec. 1995; Techniques for Obtaining a Strong U.S. Patent, Journal of the Japanese Group A.I.P.P.I., Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 16-22, Jan. 1993.

Mr. Murray is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Mr. Murray received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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JObit: Brophy, John F. [MC1975]

September 30, 2008 · Comments Off

http://www.legacy.com/StarLedger/DeathNotices.asp?
Page=LifeStory&PersonId=118063310

http://tinyurl.com/4pvxp4

Dr. John F. Brophy formerly of Harrison, 55

Dr. John F. Brophy, 55, of Missouri City, Texas, died in Texas on Wednesday at his residence. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 9 to 9:45 a.m. at the Condon Memorial Home, 210 Davis Ave., Harrison. A Funeral Mass will be on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Holy Cross Church in Harrison. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Born in Newark, he was a resident of Harrison and lived in Texas for many years. Dr. Brophy was a computer software designer for Visual Numerics of Texas. He was a graduate of Manhattan College and received his master’s and doctorite from Purdue University. He was predeceased by his mother, Anna Mae (nee Reilly). Surviving are his father, Frank Brophy, and two brothers, Francis and Thomas Brophy.

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Dear John,

I believe that John is a member of the Class of 1975.

May He Rest In Peace.

Mike

[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. ]

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Brophy, John F. [MC1975]

Guestbook: http://tinyurl.com/48ubaq

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JEmail: McFadden, Michael (MC1973) reports on Yuen, Kam [MC1965]

September 29, 2008 · Comments Off

From: McFadden, Michael (MC1973)
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:52 PM
To: reinkefj
Subject: Hi John! :)

I haven’t written for a while, but read the JJ every week it pops into my mailbox. You’re doing a great service for us and it’s *very* appreciated even by those who you rarely hear from.

A friend sent me a notice about a “Peace Studies Lecture Series” at Kennesaw State University and while researching it I ran across the following that I thought I should send you as a “Jasper Found” item. Note that Kam’s name links to a therapeutic medicine website he’s evidently founded.

Hope all’s well with thee and hope things are going well up at MC!

:)
Michael

Michael J. McFadden
Author of Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains
Mid-Atlantic Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.
Director, Pennsylvania Smokers’ Action Network (PASAN) http://pasan.TheTruthIsALie.com

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Kam Yuen:

Kam, who appeared on Show # 176, was born in Hong Kong, where he spent his formative years. When he moved to the United States with his parents he furthered his studies in New York. Over the years he visited to refine his style with help from his teacher in Hong Kong.

After receiving his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1965 from Manhattan College, he moved to the San Francisco area and received an advanced graduate degree in Engineering Studies from the University of Santa Clara. It was while he was employed at Lockheed Aircraft near San Jose as a structural and mechanical engineer in research and development that he opened his first dojo.

In 1969, after a brief stay in Los Angeles, Kam returned to Hong Kong to further his study in the martial arts. After training for several months, and achieving the status of Grandmaster in Shaolin Kung-Fu, Tai Mantis Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong he returned to the United States.

Back in Los Angeles, he held numerous classes at local YMCAs, the Chinatown Recreation Hall, Cal State, UCLA, and USC. Kam is the founder of the “Shaolin West Healing Center” and co-founder of the “Tai Mantis Kung Fu Assoc”. He has been the featured speaker at the world medical Qi Gong conference in Beijing as well as at several Whole Life and New Life Expos here in the US.

Early in 1972, Kam was called by Warner Brothers Studio to act as technical advisor to David Carradine in the Kung-Fu series. Mr. Carradine has been quoted as saying that he based the Caine character in that show on Kam. Mr. Carradine dedicated his book The Spirit of Shaolin to Kam.

Kam holds licenses in the following healthcare fields: Doctor of Chiropractic, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Chinese Energetic Medicine, Martial arts and Sports Medicine, Homeopathic Medicine and Acupuncture.

Kam currently lives in California, but travels extensively teaching and giving lectures and demonstrations of the technique he spent a life time developing, The Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics.

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[JR: Thanks, MikeMcF. Much appreciated. Glad to see you're getting the JJ issues. Thanks for the report. Where would I be without all my reporters? ]

McFadden, Michael (MC1973)

Yuen, Kam [MC1965]

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JFound: Piccinich, Edward V. [MC1984] is Executive Vice President of SL Green Realty Corporation

September 29, 2008 · Comments Off

http://slgreen.com/about/biographies/executive-vice-presidents/edward-v-piccinich/

Edward V. Piccinich

Executive Vice President, Property Management & Construction

Edward V. Piccinich serves as Executive Vice President of SL Green Realty Corporation, where he manages one of the largest portfolios in New York, oversees all redevelopment & capital projects, and underwrites potential new acquisitions.

As the head of Property Management & Construction teams in the area, Mr. Piccinich focuses on maintaining high levels of tenant satisfaction within the portfolio, as well as fulfilling the increasing engineering and safety obligations required by the City of New York. Further, under Mr. Piccinich’s experienced leadership, SL Green has realized numerous efficiencies in its office towers by developing an electricity-purchasing program, obtaining NYSERDA and NYISO rebates, and replacing mechanical systems with energy saving equipment.

With a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College, Mr. Piccinich is a member of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) and the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and has been consulted by national and local periodicals for his views about the real estate industry in New York City.

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Dear John,

I believe that Ed is a member of the Class of 1984.

Mike

[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. ]

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Piccinich, Edward V. [MC1984]

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