Category Archives: JEmail

from: Gregory Flynn
to: reinkefj
date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:17 PM
subject: Addis Hope Campaign Status – Pledges

Dear friends and family,

I am hard-pressed to find words that can adequately express my gratitude to you for your immediate and overwhelming response to my appeal for Addis Hope.

Only two weeks have passed and we have already well exceeded in pledges the money necessary to acquire the two rental units in the shopping mall complex outside Addis Ababa.In fact, the overall amount pledged (with 81% of it already received) would enable us not only to acquire the units, but to sustain the program for another five months as we await signing final papers and leasing the property to vendors.

I am very much aware that for some the pledge that was made represented a great sacrifice, or even a hardship. And while the money is sorely needed to carry the program over until rental income becomes a reality, I feel an obligation to give you the opportunity to decrease or withdraw your pledge.

I close just as I opened this letter, hoping only you know how much I appreciate your response, your prayers and your willingness to engage in providing a future filled with hope for the children of Addis Hope.

Please reply to me by email as soon as it is convenient to let me know how you would like us to treat your pledge, even if you don’t wish to change anything. Again, we are more than willing to accommodate any change you wish.

Fraternally,
Brother Gregory Flynn FSC (Jack)

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[JR: I'm glad we all were able to do what we can.]

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REPORTING LIVE FROM THE EMAIL DESK IN THE VIRTUAL JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM …

from: Orgon, Edward A. (MC1967)
to: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-owner
date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:28 AM
subject: Re: [Distribute_Jasper_Jottings] JASPER JOTTINGS Week 16 – 2012 April 15

Hi John,

As I noted the new comptroller of the currency, i thought about all the nationally “famous” graduates from that little college in the Bronx. If I were a PR guy. :-) for MC I’d research and collate all this info and use it I’m recruiting, etc, such as as all the “presidents” and “CEOs” we’ve had.

Ed Orgon 
“President”
The Torrenzano Group
Www.torrenzano.com

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[JR: That reminds me I wanted to update Wikipedia. And, from what I've seen, Alma Mater is shaping up its act to spin out more entrepreneurs. And, at least form a technology POV, to pick up her "skirts" and start to run forward like a track star. The new Leadership is starting to get traction on its directions. I feel energize and I'm just a fat old white guy injineer who thinks they under use their alumni. We'll see. They have to do something to make the cut (i.e., the prediction that the USA only needs 100 universities). My High School died; I'd hate for my Alma Mater to bite the dust as well.]

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REPORTING LIVE FROM THE EMAIL DESK IN THE VIRTUAL JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM …

FROM: McFadden, Michael J. [MC1973]
DATE: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:48 PM
SUBJECT: Dangerous to the Ears….

Well, for any Jaspers out there who may have known me 40 years ago and are wondering what I sound like nowadays, I had a 75 minute interview with a “Vapers” group last week.  ”Vapers” are people who like to inhale vapor from things that usually look like cigarettes instead of inhaling smoke from things that actually *are* cigarettes.  There’s some interesting history in the background dealing with the relationship between vapers and smokers and I discuss it a bit in this article:   http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5433 which has links to the interview itself at the bottom.   The “soundcloud” portal is probably the best, and if people give the screen a half minute to load they should be able to click right over to the 15 minute mark where I come in.  For anyone who wants to give up smoking for health or political reasons but doesn’t want to give it up because they like it or feel they’re “addicted” to it, vaping seems to offer a reasonable alternative and the discussion is worth listening to.  For anyone who wonders what a 1973 Peace Studies Major sounds like in 2012 it’s also worth listening to.  :>

Enjoy!

:)

Michael

P.S.  Regarding this week’s Jottings:  Once one gets over the feeling that one is watching a Monty Python segment, the ending of the Indian/Pakistani border closing does indeed have a wonderful tribute to peace squeezed in there at the end!

P.P.S.  I must confess, despite my years of English and Philosophy studies at Manhattan, I am hard pressed to understand the following:  ”If an email is marked as “not for distribution”, it, if suitable, will be put into Jasper Jottings and distributed.”  Maybe I should return for some graduate work?   ;>

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[JR: Well let's see the fat old white guy injineer CIC wriggle out of this very correct "call to the carpet"!]

To quote a famous Brother, who shall remain nameless, but every injineer knows who it is, when teaching the Engineering Measurements for dummies class, said: “No, sir, you’re wrong. The board is wrong, but I didn’t make a blunder. I was merely trying to see if anyone was paying attention. You passed that test.” Then while scribbling in his grade book, he’d continue: “And, the rest of you get an F in this latest quiz. You should all know that Brothers are infallible like his holiness the Pope. But whereas he is infallible  on matters of faith and morals, we Brothers are infallible on everything else. When you think we are wrong, we aren’t; you are. And, will always be so. Now back to the matter at hand, pay close attention as I erase the “test question” and move along in our topic.”

So the CIC didn’t make a stupid mistake, or miss speak, it WAS a test to see if anyone was reading.

OK?

Yeah, I don’t believe it either.

It’s a blunder!

I was trying to say … … well you understand.

Best way to say it is: If you don’t want it in Jasper Jottings, don’t send it. I’ll do my best to honor DNP or NFA, but I AM a terrible clerk. You can send DNP’s to DNP at reinke dot cc and NFA’s to NFA at reinke dot cc.

Yeah, maybe I should return to MC for remedial proof reading or avoiding thankless tasks.

Thanks for reminding me how bad a clerk, writer, and editor I am.

ROFL!

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Last night, I went back to MC for the reconstituted ITAB (IT Advisory Board). The new Prez had nuked it as “unneeded”l he reconstituted it because it was “necessary to guide the College’s technology”. It’s smaller, but with the usual trouble makers.

One thing of interest is they want some new fresh blood with some specialize IT expertise. The powers that be don’t want honchos, but the honcho’s experts who actually know something. (A profound change of direction!)

Soooo, any alum, who like to give Alma Mater help in this niche, pro-bono, should get their stuff together. I don’t know what the process will be to get on the ITAB. I’d hope there is one. Some of the areas that imho should be of interest are: the future of academic information technology, IT Governance, Info Sec, BCP/DR/ITDR, IT Architecture, Quality, (Computer) Communications, Database, Oracle, Platform (Computer) trends, Applications architecture, Applications Change Control, and any other nose-bleed level IT discipline.

There’s probably a need for both temporary and permanent expertise on the ITAB. I doubt that adding more than 5 ± 2 people will be productive.

I’m not in charge. (Thank the Universe. Leading that mob required real skill.) I’m not sure I’m even allowed to talk about it. (There’s no NDA in place; plus all I was “paid” was a nice dinner. So no chance of a paycheck making an implied NDA.)

I saw students. They look so young. And the “costumes” are funny, shocking, and sexy. Makes me feel VERY old.

So maybe you’re interested. Let me know and I’ll keep you wired in to the process as it develops. Or not.

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Dolan, Paul (MC1982) reports:

Just wanted to let you know that I attended “Manhattan College Accepted Students Day” Wednesday April 11, 2012 with “Number 2 Son” Jack.  It was nice to be on campus again. A lot of changes even from when I was last there 5 years ago, particularly the Cafeterias in Thomas Hall.The one thing I wanted to tell you was that MC received about 6,400 applications for about 750 Freshman slots.  The numbers, even for a small school, amaze me. Jack is probably going to join his brother Kevin out in Milwaukee at Marquette. They are best friends after all. It had been a while since Jack had seen the campus and I wanted to see a small campus in case Marquette (about 8,000) is too big.

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[JR: Well, you just have to be a better sales person. It should be about Jack's needs; not "following". I went to MC because my cousin Peter did. I had USC, Notre Dame, and Catholic University acceptances in hand. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), my Mom wasn't hearing anything but MC. :-) P.S.: She was probably right since I almost flunked out of MC and probably would have at a "real" school. MC faculty and staff were ever tolerant of my hijinks. More tolerant than I'd be. Maybe you can use that as a sales point.]

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From:
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Subject: Manhattan College Reunion Photo March 2014 University Park Country Club

John Antenucci

Dear Fellow Jasper,

Courtesy of John Antenucci I am forwarding this email which contains two pictures of attendees at our luncheon.

The following attendees are in the first picture:First Row, Left to Right:Jim MaGuire, Neil O’Leary, Frank DeLuca, Bob O’Brien, Ed Codd, Lindy Remingino, Wally Pina, Joe Centofanti, John Antenucci, Jack Zurlini.

Second Row, Left to Right:Mike Gainor, Marty Garry, Joe Pero, Jack Lyons.

The second picture has the following attendees:Left to Right:Wally Pina, Neil O’Leary, Lindy Remingino and Jack Zurlini.

Don Ryan who attended the luncheon had to leave before the pictures were taken.

Hope everyone had an enjoyable afternoon.

Best regards,
Neil O’Leary

PS:  We’ll be having another luncheon in the fall either in late November or early December — I’ll contact you by email.

[JR: McEneney, Mike (MC1953) will be going nuts at the "class-i-fiction" desk. That'll give him something to do. ]

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For your reading “In 1991, when the government collapsed, that was the worst time in my life,” she said. “So how can I leave now? We can smell a government coming.”

Dear Jasper John:

I thought this might be of interest to you and other libertarians who tout the elimination of governments – I have  thought that Somalia was a place libertarians could call home but they are making what  most people call progress with the help of governmental power.

Donald M Stebbins
BS 1961

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Appended NYT copyrighted article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/world/africa/somalis-embrace-hope-and-reconstruction-in-mogadishu.html?_r=1

[JR: McEneney, Mike (MC1953), on the Jasper Jottings Legal Desk, forbids me from including copyrighted material in Jasper Jottings but here's the link.]

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[JR:  How quickly you forget that the general peace of the various warlords was disrupted by the UN picking a winner to be the official Somalia Gooferment. The article refers to the corruption and weakness of that UN imposed Gooferment. So, because that backwater country didn't have the ability to resist the UN tyranny, you blame the Libertarians? Out of control Government is worse than no government at ll. Old TJ said it best: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." I'd assert that we've long past the point. And, the USA should "downsize" into probably more than 10, but less than 50 smaller countries. All government should be "local".]

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FROM: Mark Mangone
DATE: 10:38 AM (8 hours ago)
TO: Distribute_Jas.

Hello John,

The endnote reached new lows in prejudice and offensiveness.  There has been and is an ongoing effort to win an argument by insulting and degrading opponents to discredit them, so as to avoid having to conduct an intelligent discussion.  “greens are dumb” does just this and you should be ashamed of yourself. 

Environmentalism has always been about efficiency.  If you make a product and use 90% of your raw materials and throw away 10% you will have more of an environmental effect than if you can 95% and only throw away 5%.  Over the long haul good environmental practices improves efficiency and the bottom line and always will.  The essence of environmentalism is efficiency.  The opponents of environmentalism intentionally deceive to avoid this because they know that it is correct.

Most environmentalists do not oppose global cooling or global warming as long as it is natural.  They oppose climate change that is manmade and any other change to the environment that is manmade and unintentional.  If it is well thought out and planned it is acceptable.

The issue is when someone makes money and does harm and leaves it for someone else to pay for.  This is stealing and immoral.

If your neighbor did not pay for garbage removal and dumped his garbage and you had to pay for your neighbors garbage to be removed you would think that is bad. 

If many people pollute a river and the town at the mouth of the river must pay twice as much to clean the water to make drinking water for their town, you think it is acceptable and taxing the polluters to clean it up is bad.  Shame on you.  Responsibility is important. Efficiency is important.

You should be printing pieces that make a point, not denigrating other people who disagree with you.  Of course you think that anyone who disagrees with you is dumb.  Again, I say shame on you.

Regards,

Mark A. Mangone
Senior Environmental Engineer
Buckman International

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[JR: I don't think I denigrated anyone. And, there are two Jaspers in that ENDNOTE; not just me alone. And, "Green" isn't about efficiency or inflicting harm on someone else. "Green" is commonly a "watermelon"; green on the outside and red inside. Environmental cover over a communist core. "Greens" want to issue orders. And, control how people live their lives! The Chevy Volt is prime example. A car no one wants that the taxpayer has to pay for. The Global Warming Carbon Tax, Carbon Credits Exchange, and the run away EPA are all examples of "command and control" being imposed upon "We, The Sheeple". Al Gore has a carbon footprint like Bigfoot, but that's OK. As an injineer, I like efficiency AND effectiveness. As a little L libertarian, I'm all for making property rights sacrosanct; any damage done by another should be fixed by restitution. For the record, the biggest polluter is always the Gooferment. Environmentalism has become a cult of the "Secular Progressives" advancing their agenda of socialism. So maybe I wasn't as polite as I could have been, but remember I am an injineer. ]

Mangone, Mark (MC1977)

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