Category: Site Announcements

'Crosspoints' Discount for Atlasphere Members

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From Alexandra York to Crosspoints reviewer Michelle Fram Cohen:

My nonprofit arts foundation American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) is making a special offer to ART members right now. If they buy either an author signed soft or hard cover of CROSSPOINTS (at 15% discount), they get a copy of FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE and Other Essays on Art and Excellence ($14) free.
If you’d like to offer your readers this same thing, please do so, but tell them that they must put “Atlasphere” on their order to cue us that they are eligible for this special deal. They can check the web site www.ART-21.org to see the essay book and get ordering info. ART is nonprofit, so their check could (if they wish) be viewed as a donation for tax purposes.

Charles Tomlinson (1932 – 2004)

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Charles Thomlinson passed away yesterday. Charles was a forester, writer, and long-time supporter of the importance of Ayn Rand’s ideas.
Charles’s book The View From My Stump was a popular favorite among many admirers of Ayn Rand’s work and, together with his wife Susanna, he was a founder of the “traveling Objectivists,” a group which traveled to destinations around the world twice annually.
He was also the founder of the concept behind the Atlasphere.
Charles was diagnosed with cancer in 2001, and did not expect to live more than a year. He published his thoughts about his pending death in the May 2002 edition of TOC’s Navigator, and shared his reflections on how private ownership has helped save American forests in a column for the Atlasphere this past September.
His funeral will be private. There will be a local celebration of Charles’s life from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, January 2nd at the Tomlinson Building at 250 South Poplar Street in Florence, Alabama.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to The Objectivist Center, the Cherokee Public Library, Hospice of the Shoals, or an organization of personal choice.

Atlasphere Nuptials (with Photo)

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Here is a photo of the newlyweds from this month’s “In the Atlasphere” announcement. We offer our hearty congratulations to Grant and Honor on their joyous union.
From their letter to the Atlasphere:
What does one say to the people who have introduced you to your best friend, soul mate, and ideal business partner? This is the question that my darling husband and I are struggling to answer. If it weren’t for this magnificent web site, I don’t know how we could ever have met. We lived on opposite coasts and were skeptical about Internet dating services, that is, until we discovered The Atlasphere.
We had both learned the hard way that we would never be fulfilled romantically with a partner that did not share our sincere commitment to studying and practicing Objectivist values. We had chosen to live alone rather than to compromise any longer in this critical area of our lives. In addition, we both understood that we needed a partner with similar interests or who at least would be open to activities that we enjoyed. All of this and more we found in each other.
It was in the summer of this year that I first discovered The Atlasphere and my future husband, Grant Reason. I read his profile the very first time I visited the web site, and though he had not posted a photo, by the time I finished reading his profile, I sincerely believed I had found my match. His values so clearly reflected my own, it was a dream come true, and it was clear that he was passionate about Objectivism.
I realized that in order for me to contact him, I would have to post a description of myself, which I found to be a great challenge. I really liked the fact that I could edit my own profile online and did not have to upload a photo. I was delighted that I could just “send a smile” and let him decide if he was interested. Little did I know that he had seen my profile before he received my smile, and that he was already smiling and composing an email to me!
What began with a smile by email ended up in a face-to-face smile (on my side of the country) at the Baltimore Washington airport on August 7, just a few weeks after we had burned up the phone lines for many hours. By the next day, I was so in love with him that I actually proposed, “Grant Reason, will you marry me?” He replied, “In a heartbeat,” and I responded: “In a mindbeat.”
We had truly connected in our hearts and minds and were married in a local courthouse on the 13th of August, which, by the way, was also “Friday the 13th” (a date we thought appropriate, to demonstrate we had no trace of superstition).
We had a magnificent drive across the country and arrived in California on September 15. We are now living near San Diego and have started a business together and are helping others to do the same.
When our friends and family ask us why we decided to get married in such an incredibly short time, I tell them, you wouldn’t understand, couldn’t begin to understand, unless you’ve had the experience of actually meeting your soul mate.
By the way, I’ve legally changed my name to one I intend to live by: Honor Reason. If I could share one thing with the readers of this web site it is this: Honor yourself and love yourself so that you will be able to honor and love another.

Atlasphere Nuptials

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We get e-mails regularly from happy couples who’ve met through the Atlasphere, but this week we received our first notice of an Atlasphere wedding, from a woman who, needless to say, no longer needs her dating profile:

Thanks to the Atlasphere dating service, I met my match! We are now happily married and living in California. Thank you beyond measure for creating this website! It has changed my life for the better!

We’re thrilled, and offer our heartfelt congratulations to the bride and groom. Building and maintaining the site takes a lot of work, and stories like this keep us going. (Plus, er, the paid subscriptions!)
The lucky lady has promised to give us further details for the next edition of our “In the Atlasphere” monthly newsletter.

Writer Wanted: The Case for Kerry

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Do you advocate voting for John Kerry in this election? Would you like to write up your perspective for the Atlasphere? If so, read on…
High-profile advocates of Ayn Rand’s ideas have come down on different sides of the 2004 presidential race.
We’d like to publish a series of commentaries on the election, titled “The Case for Kerry,” “The Case for Bush,” and “The Case for Badnarik.” We’ve been unable to find someone to advocate the Kerry position, however.
If you’re interested in writing a pro-Kerry piece, please contact us ASAP and include a quick outline of the kinds of facts you’d plan to marshal to make your case.
If we don’t find a Kerry advocate by Saturday, we may not proceed with the project; so if you’re interested at all, please let us know.

Wanted: Objectivist Families

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ABC recruiter Susie Banikarim (who tells me she has, herself, read all of Ayn Rand’s novels) extends the following invitation to members of the Atlasphere:

ARE YOU AN OBJECTIVIST?
Is Your Family Ready for Prime Time?

ABC is currently working on a groundbreaking new series that celebrates the American family, based on a major award-winning British format.
The programs are portraits of American life and I am looking for a family that lives its life by the philosophy of Ayn Rand to participate.
If you are a two-parent family with young or teenage children, at least two of whom are over the age of eight, you can be on our show.
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a different family or if you have ever wanted an opporunity to share how your family does things with the world, this is the opportunity for you.
If you’re interested, please call me (Susie Banikarim, 212-404-1429) as soon as possible. We’re looking for families all the time.

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