Monthly Archives: July 2009

MFound: MC Social Life Commission on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/ManhattanCollegeSocialLife

Manhattan College Social Life Commission on Facebook

Manhattan College Social Life Commission Hello one and all, Welcome to the new Manhattan College Social Life Commission fan page. I can already say that the first two weeks of school look to be exciting and packed with cool trips and events. Look for more updates soon and please suggest this to all of your friends so we can better work to serve the Manhattan College community. Thanks, Mike B.

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REPORTING LIVE FROM THE FACEBOOK NEWS DESK
IN THE VIRTUAL JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM …
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JFound: Menchise, Louis (MC1987) movie role cited on a blog

http://olgarodericknoblesville.blogspot.com/2009/07/movie-citizen-candy-man-chocumentary.html

The Fowler Center for Wildlife Education

Saturday, July 25, 2009
Movie – Citizen Candy Man: A Chocumentary
Not bad – Citizen Candy Man: A Chocumentary movie

Movie Is being made – in 2005.

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Louis Menchise (actor)

Height:5′ 8″

Birth Notes:Bronx, New York, USA

Graduated from Manhattan College contained by 1987 near a amount in Finance. He work in sandbank operation from 1988 to 1993. Obtained a authorization from New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (Filmmaking) in 1992. Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in 1994. Is a cancer survivor (1995.) Joined the US Army correctness in 1994, clutch to retire in 1995 in the red to the cancer, but return in the Spring of 2001. Is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) and Operation Noble Eagle. Is Italian-American and be conversational in Italian.

Birth Date:14 August 1965

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Menchise, Louis (MC1987)

[JR: Hey Louis, you're famous! You're being blogged about. How that line go: "Did they spell my name right?" You're now way ahead of me in the inet fame department.]

[NB: Louis is a long time Jasper Jottings, Facebook friend, and sometimes contributor.]

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JEmail: McEneney, Mike (MC1953) fills in severl missing class years

Dear John,

Subject: Maffia, Gennaro J. (Jerry) 1972
>JFound: Maffia, Gennaro J. (Jerry) [MC????] 8/19 Online Training

   I believe that Jerry is a member of the Class of 1972.

  

Subject: Henderson, Tom1992
>JBlogger: Henderson, Tom [MC????] cites Muccilo, Lisa Marie [MC1992 RIP]

   I believe that Tom is a member of the Class of 1992.

Subject: LaPorte, Stephen 1932
>JObit: LaPorte, Stephen [MC????]

   I believe that Steve is a member of the Class of 1932.

   May He Rest In Peace.

Subject: McGill, Joe 1985   
>JFound: McGill, Joe [MC1985] an appreciated lawyer   

   I believe that Joe is a member of the Class of 1985.   

       

Subject: Cleary, Joseph G. 1971
>JFound: Cleary, Joseph G. [MC????] posts   

   I believe that Joe is a member of the Class of 1971.

  

   Mike

[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. Yoeman's work today. Clears up several loose ends. Guess all your competition got scooped today. Maybe they all took the week off. ROFL, usually I get updates minutes after release. Probably I'm the only one with no life. Thanks much, for sharing. fjohn68]

McEneney, Mike (MC1953)

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POSITRACTION: Wiring for empathy

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6681923.ece

From The Times
July 11, 2009
Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture
Hannah Devlin  

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When faced with the photograph of the baby people were far more likely to send the wallet back, the study found. In fact, only one in ten were hard-hearted enough not to do so. With no picture to tug at the emotions, just one in seven were sent back.

According to Dr Wiseman the result reflects a compassionate instinct towards vulnerable infants that people have evolved to ensure the survival of future generations. “The baby kicked off a caring feeling in people, which is not surprising from an evolutionary perspective,” he said.

Scientists argue that it would be difficult to genetically code for feeling empathy exclusively towards your own child and much easier to code for feeling empathy towards all children. If you find a baby alone, there is a good chance it belongs to you, making it an effective evolutionary trait, said Dr Wiseman.

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42% return rate for the planted wallets.

Humm, what would I do?

I’d like to think that I’d be honest and go out of my way to help. But I know I’m a sinner!

Interesting that there is something in our “hardware” or “software” that empathizes with babies.

Finding one alone, fat chance. The gals are usually all over “the baby”. I think the “wiring issue” is more obvious with them.

May all your challenges be as big as you need. I’ll take my “small”; thank you, very much.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: JASPER JOTTINGS Week 30 – 2009 July 26

JASPER JOTTINGS Week 30 – 2009 July 26

Jasper Jottings – The achievement journal of my fellow Jaspers, the alumni of the Manhattan College

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2009/jasperjottings2009W30.html

INDEX

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ENDNOTE: Rodriguez, Vincent [MC1984] posts a pic; prompts a rant

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ClSYfrorYVM/Smn7aKWOvDI/AAAAAAAAA5w/HQMYda21Wuk/s1600-h/Their+Lives+in+Our+Countrys+Wars.jpg

http://vrod62.blogspot.com/2009/07/their-lives-in-our-countrys-wars.html

http://vrod62.blogspot.com/

Rodriguez, Vincent [MC1984]

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[JR: He has a moving image on his blog. (I don't have permission to reproduce it here.) Take a peek and then read on.]

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[JR: Back? Good. If not, go and come back.]

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[JR: If your eyes are like mine the inscription was hard to read.]

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS
WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN
THE GLORY OF THEIR YOUTH
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[JR: Will we? Do we? I think not! They are just more victims of an illusion. Think those girls (No knock on them, they are a proxy for all the living) think like that. I liked Ron Paul's peace plan. "Bring them all home!" It time to demonstrate our understanding about "government" as the meme that kills. It's all a mass delusion. And, it cost people -- their lives, their fortunes, and their loved ones. Let's be like Switzerland. A porcupine. Bring all our boys and girls home. It's time Americans grew up. We Jaspers have to be the eloquent champions of peace. "Dona Nobis Pacem"]

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JNews: McGuiness, Natasha [MC2010] on the Dean’s List

http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/bergen_ot_meetings/Natasha_McGuiness_earns_place_on_deans_list.html

Home : News : Bergen : Bergen Other Town Meetings

Natasha McGuiness earns place on dean’s list
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Last updated: Thursday July 23, 2009, 3:22 PM
Pascack Valley Community Life

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Emerson – Natasha McGuiness has been named to the dean’s list at Manhattan College for the spring 2009 semester.

She recently completed her junior year and is majoring in psychology.

A 2006 graduate of Emerson Jr./Sr. High School, she is the daughter of Alice and Kevin McGuiness, also of the borough.

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McGuiness , Natasha [MC2010]

[JR: Good for her. Good PR for MC. No interest; no applicants. No applicants; no students. No students; no graduates. No grads; no school. No school; no alma mater. Alums can help by talking up what the place meant to us. The Ivyes do it! For the record, I was on several of Dean Eastman's lists but not for academics. Luckily, those weren't in the paper. My Mom would have killed me.]

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JNews: Krajcik, Chelsea [MC2013?] coming to MC in the fall

http://www.wickedlocal.com/easton/news/x540129422/Easton-s-new-police-chief-a-familiar-face?FORM=ZZNR

Easton’s new police chief a familiar face
By Paula Vogler
Fri Jul 24, 2009, 02:09 PM EDT

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While he may be new to the position of chief of police, Allen Krajcik’s 27 years in Easton make him no stranger to the residents or his fellow police officers.

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His daughter, Chelsea, 18, will attend Manhattan College in New York in the fall.

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Krajcik, Chelsea [MC2013?]

[JR: Nice to know Jaspers have a police connection in Raynham, Massachusetts, 02767. Not that we speed; nor that we'd try to use "connections". That would be sinful. Besides who'd go to the Pepuls Republik of Taxachusetts anyway. ROFL. Amazing what you can find on the inet.]

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JFound: Logan, Doug [MC????] MLS’ first commissioner

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/133345507

Becks to the Future – Galaxy Bad-Boy Stirs Up Mls Passion

July 24, 2009

By Brian Lewis

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BEFORE David Beckham joined the Galaxy, I said he’d be great for MLS and soccer in this country. Now that the honeymoon is over – Beckham was booed in his return to Los Angeles and had an ugly incident with a fan – I’m sure of it. Business is about profit, but soccer is about passion. Beckham gives them both. He gives the sport buzz, the league cash, and fans a villain to revile. But all the Beck-lash is good for MLS, so keep the hate coming. Sure, all sports prompt emotion, from a Yankees fan hating the Red Sox to a Mets fan hating his Mets. But whether you cheer for Chelsea or root for River Plate, soccer is often about passion, pain and frustration. Like that of Galaxy fan Josh Paige.

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And according to Doug Logan, the MLS’ first commissioner, that’s what the league needs. “[Beckham] gets paid an inordinate amount of money to take this stuff. For him to walk in the corner and do what he did is the epitome of lack of professionalism,” Logan told The Post. “I can tell you what my good friend David Stern would’ve done, and has done. It’s bush-league on his part.” Logan, now CEO of USA Track & Field, meant Beckham, but it could also apply to his successor as MLS commissioner, Don Garber, for not suspending or fining him. What does it say that Houston’s Brian Ching was fined for tweeting about a game in which he didn’t even play, while MLS’ cash cow is allowed to go all Tony Bernazard? But Beckham is Telflon because he’s good for MLS, which for too long chased soccer moms and ignored futbol fans. Now Logan, who knows fan passion from helping pay his way through Manhattan College as a Yankee Stadium beer vendor, says hardcore fans are finally caring, from Beckham feuding with Landon Donovan and now his own fans. “[Now] we’ve got people in the seats that know what the hell’s going on and have passion. It’s a tribute to the sport coming of age,” Logan told The Post. “It’s a tribal sport. It’s not a picnic. It’s serious. The more serious it’s treated, the more commercially viable it becomes. “What you need is a passionate following that comes game after game, enjoys an adult beverage or two, occasionally sees a blue word come out of their mouth and is very male. Around the world, that’s successful soccer.” Slowly, MLS is becoming just that. And, love him or hate him, Beckham is a big reason.

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Logan, Doug [MC????]

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JFound: Chidwick, John P. [MC1883 RIP] Hero of the Maine

http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/24/hero-of-the-maine/

Hero of the Maine
Monsignor Chidwick

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Night, February 15, 1898, the American battleship USS Maine lay at anchor in the harbor of Havana. Although tensions were running high between the US government and Spain, the colonial power occupying Cuba, the night was calm. Suddenly, at 9:40 PM, a huge explosion devastated the forward section of the Maine, an external explosion setting off the powder in the magazines of the Maine. Into this vision of hell on Earth strode the Catholic Chaplain of the Maine, John P. Chidwick.

Born in New York City on October 23, 1863, John Chidwick graduated from Manhattan College with a BA (1883) and an MA (1885). Ordained at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie, New York in 1887, he spent several years serving as a parish priest before being commissioned in 1895 as the third Catholic Chaplain in the history of the United States Navy. He was eventually assigned to the Maine. He rapidly became popular with the members of the crew, no matter their religion. Friendly and outgoing, he did whatever he could to help the crew and was always available to listen to their problems.

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After his death a monument to the Maine was erected in New York City in Columbus Circle.

The monument bears this inscription:

IN MEMORY OF
RT. REV. MSGR. JOHN P. CHIDWICK
CHAPLAIN IN CHIEF
UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS
CHAPLAIN, UNITED STATES NAVY,
IN SERVICE ON THE
BATTLESHIP MAINE
AT THE TIME OF HER DESTRUCTION.
DEDICATED BY
THE UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS
SEPTEMBER 15, 1935

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Chidwick, John P. [MC1883 RIP]

[JR: Wow, I didn't know that! Learn something every day.]

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