Sunday 24 August 2003
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What’s the best way to avoid a cold? Stay happy and optimistic.
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That is often hard to do. In today’s news climate, where the wars seem never ending. Remembering “blessed are the peace makers” doesn’t seem to have any traction. Nether does the Ten Commandments. And TV is litteres with trash to watch. I try to be positive. Hope you can to.
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
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Copyright 2003 PR Newswire
Association, Inc.
PR Newswire
August 19, 2003, Tuesday
SECTION: FINANCIAL NEWS
DISTRIBUTION: TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
HEADLINE: IT Governance Leaders Join Mercury
Interactive; Mercury Interactive Adds Approximately 200 Kintana
People -Accelerating BTO Leadership
DATELINE: SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 19
Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation, (Nasdaq: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), announced a number of key appointments in its newly formed IT Governance business unit and at the corporate level. The new leadership additions include Raj Jain as vice president and general manager of IT Governance, Tom Ryan, vice president sales and support of IT Governance, Keith Carlson, vice president of customer value, and Bob Eve, vice president of market development.
Mercury Interactive is also adding other key leaders including Bryan Plug, Ram Duraiswamy, and Nicholas Fergis-along with approximately 200 employees from the Kintana acquisition-in key positions across sales, marketing, engineering, support and professional services.
"The people of Kintana bring rich experience, leadership, talent, and ideas to Mercury Interactive," said Amnon Landan, CEO of Mercury Interactive. "Our new leadership in IT Governance and the 200 Kintana employees accelerate our ability to execute on our BTO strategy."
Reporting to Amnon Landan, industry-veteran, Raj Jain, will take responsibility for the executive management of the newly formed IT Governance business unit at Mercury Interactive. Jain has more than a decade of experience in software engineering, development, implementation, management and consulting, and co-founded Kintana where he served as president and chief technology officer. In 1999, Jain was chosen "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the San Jose Business Journal. He holds two degrees from Stanford University, a BS with Honors in Electrical Engineering and a BA with Honors in Economics.
Kintana's other co-founders Duraiswamy and Fergis will work with Jain on IT Governance strategy and key accounts. Plug, Kintana's former CEO, will serve as an advisor to Landan and his leadership team.
Tom Ryan brings more than 18 years of high technology sales experience to Mercury Interactive. Ryan will lead the company's global IT Governance sales force for Mercury Interactive. Ryan served as senior vice president, global sales, at Kintana, where he led a sales organization that spanned multiple vertical industries. Ryan received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.
Keith Carlson will be responsible for the combined Mercury Interactive professional services organization in the Americas, including customer education. At Kintana, Carlson was responsible for services, education, customer support, and alliances organizations and transformed the services group into a strategic component of Kintana's value-driven model for IT Governance. Prior to Kintana, Carlson was chief customer officer at DigitalThink, and a partner with Accenture, where he founded the global Siebel alliance, growing that business to more than 1,000 professionals worldwide.
Robert Eve will be responsible for Mercury Interactive market development and IT Governance marketing. Eve served as vice president of marketing and vice president of business development at Kintana. He brings extensive enterprise application experience from Oracle and PeopleSoft. He earned his BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley and his MS in Management from MIT.
About Mercury Interactive Corporation
Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), delivers Optane, a family of products for application delivery and management, and IT governance, that enable customers to optimize business processes and maximize business results. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive's Optane to improve quality and performance, reduce costs, and align IT with business goals.
Founded in 1989, Mercury Interactive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in more than 25 countries. Further information is available at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at U.S. +1-408-822-5200. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol MERQ.
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NOTE: Mercury Interactive and Optane are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and select foreign countries. Kintana is a registered trademark of Kintana, Inc. Other product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies.
SOURCE Mercury Interactive Corporation
CONTACT: Judith Meinhalt of Mercury Interactive, +1-408-822-5557, or Jmeinhalt@mercuryinteractive.com, or Kim Milosevich of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282, or kim@outcastpr.com, for Mercury Interactive
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The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
August 17, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 8B
HEADLINE: 2 Catholic education administrators promoted
BYLINE: Randi Weiner, Staff
Rockland principal to lead 54 schools; replacement named
A veteran Rockland Catholic educator has been named superintendent of Catholic elementary schools in Westchester and Putnam counties and a New Jersey administrator has been hired to fill the vacancy he leaves.
Philip Gorrasi, principal at St. Catharine's School in Blauvelt for six years, officially started his duties last week as superintendent of the 54 Catholic schools in Westchester and Putnam that educate children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
Sharon Goodman, who most recently was principal at St. Mary's High School in Rutherford, N.J., has been named principal at St. Catharine's.
Both administrators said they were excited about their new posts and stressed their belief in a strong Catholic education that adheres to state education standards.
"I think the core element of Catholic education is the religious component and the spirituality," Goodman, 49, said. "I think being able to have prayer and weaving that into the discipline and weaving that into the curriculum is really a gift."
Gorrasi, 43, was born, reared and educated in the Bronx and still lives there. An educator for 21 years, he said he always wanted to teach, and spent seven years in the classroom, three teaching math at Holy Family School in the Bronx - where he met actress Jennifer Lopez when she was a student - and four teaching theology at Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx.
After a two-year stint as an assistant principal, he was principal at four Catholic schools, including Holy Rosary in Port Chester and Sacred Heart in Mount Vernon, before moving to St. Catharine's in 1997.
Gorrasi was one of about a dozen candidates for superintendent and was chosen for his broad understanding of and experience in Catholic elementary education, said Nora Murphy, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of New York, which oversees the Catholic schools in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam.
The job became open after Deacon Arthur Manzione, who had held the post, was appointed associate secretary for education for the archdiocese two years ago. An interim superintendent was named while the archdiocese searched for a successor to Manzione. Gorrasi was chosen in June.
"Mr. Gorrasi was chosen because of the depth of his background," Murphy said. "He's been a teacher and school administrator on both the primary and secondary level. He serves on a number of committees on the local and diocese level. He has over 20 years' experience in the Catholic schools in the Bronx, Westchester and Rockland. He has an understanding of the difficulties, he has a sense of different sides of school and a commitment to Catholic education. He was the best person for the job."
Gorrasi said he was looking forward to his new duties, admitting he was "nervous, but thrilled."
"I look at it as a place that I might be able to use the skills I have in helping new teachers, new principals to be able to hone their skills," he said. "I would like to make sure that our schools are good, solid Catholic schools."
He said he waved goodbye to the Tappan Zee Bridge last week - after six years of commuting from the Bronx - without many regrets. He said he planned to concentrate on improving education in the schools he will oversee.
"As Catholic schools, we certainly abide by the mandates of the state," he said. "Our students are very much involved and we want our students to meet the state standards, and meet the archdiocese's standards also. The bar is raised for them."
Gorrasi enjoys reading mysteries, traveling and spending time at the beach.
Goodman was born in Bedford Hills and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Somers. She taught physical education at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn., for 12 years, spent two years teaching phys ed at two independent schools, then became an assistant principal at Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest, N.J. After six years at Holy Angels, she became principal at St. Mary's High School. She lives in Suffern.
"I loved teaching. I still love teaching. I love education, and I love being in schools," Goodman said.
She received her state certificate for administration with the idea that she would move to the higher-level position when she could no longer keep up with her pupils on the playing fields, but was offered an administrative position earlier than she expected and decided to make the career move.
"I felt it was an opportunity to be with all the students and a chance to work with the faculty a lot more closely than as another teacher, and work with the parents."
Goodman enjoys working in her yard and kayaking. She just purchased her first kayak and has been spending time on the lakes in Harriman Park and kayacking along the Hudson and in the Adirondacks.
Murphy said Goodman was chosen from among several applicants by a St. Catharine's committee.
"One of the things we do look for in a principal is evident in her background - strong experience in administration and curriculum," Murphy said. "She has been in Catholic schools and understands the processes. She comes to a school which has had excellent leadership. She was selected because they felt she would continue to build on what's come before and continue to meet the needs of the parish community for Catholic education."
Reach Randi Weiner at rweiner@thejournalnews.com or 845-578-2468.
Philip Gorrasi
Age: 43
Residence: Bronx
Position: Superintendent of Catholic elementary schools, Westchester and Putnam
Education: Manhattan College, Bronx, bachelor of arts in education, 1982. St. Joseph's Seminary, master of arts and religious study, 1986. Iona College, professional diploma in school administration and district administration, 1990
Experience: Holy Family School, Bronx, 7th grade English teacher, 6th grade math teacher, 3 years. Cardinal Spellman High School, Bronx, theology teacher, 4 years. Holy Family School, Bronx, assistant principal, 2 years. St. Frances de Chantal School, Bronx, principal, 3 years. Holy Rosary School, Port Chester, principal, 1 year. Sacred Heart School, Mount Vernon, principal, 2 years. St. Catharine's School, Blauvelt, principal, 6 years.
Sharon Goodman
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Paul Mariani
The oldest of seven children from a working-class background, Paul Mariani was born in New York City in 1940 and grew up there and on Long Island. He earned his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, a Master's from Colgate University, and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. He is the author of five poetry collections: The Great Wheel (W. W. Norton, 1996), Salvage Operations: New & Selected Poems (1990), Prime Mover (1985), Crossing Cocytus (1982), and Timing Devices (1979). He has published numerous books of prose, including--most recently--Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius (Viking, 2002), and God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable (University of Georgia Press, 2002). Other books include A Useable Past: Essays, 1973-1983 (1984), William Carlos Williams: The Poet and His Critics (1975), and A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1970), as well as four biographies: The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane (W. W. Norton, 1999); Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (1994), both named New York Times Notable Books of the year; Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman (1990); and William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (1981), which won the New Jersey Writers Award, was short-listed for an American Book Award, and was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the year. He is currently at work on a biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Viking). His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught from 1968 until 2000, and currently holds a Chair in Poetry at Boston College. Mariani and his wife, Eileen, have three sons and live in western Massachusetts.
This bio was last updated on Apr 17, 2002.
photo: Barry Moser
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"Regret for the past is a waste of spirit" - Unknown
"Change Your Mind, Change Your Body - Bushido Karate" - Sensei Mehrkar
Master Instructor
Sensei Mehrkar has been studying karate for over 20 years, and has built an outstanding reputation for himself as a Sensei since he began teaching the art in 1989. Sensei Mehrkar received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Manhattan College, taught Physics classes at Rockland Community College and spent 4 years living with and supervising mentally handicapped adults in a group home. Being able to draw on all these experiences, Sensei Mehrkar found that his love was in teaching and sharing his knowledge of karate and the martial arts. Sensei Mehrkar has helped many people, both kids and adults, in achieving their goal of becoming a Black Belt. Many of his students have gone on to receive their 2nd and even 3rd Degree Black Belt! It is with much dedication to his students and his belief in others and their abilities that he has earned the title of Master Instructor
http://www.simtools.com/Bio.html
Steve Murtha formed Simulation Tools in 1991 to deliver the power of simulation to training and education professionals. The tools are frameworks and components, based on object-oriented design patterns, that are used to build simulation-driven animations for web sites.
He has extensive experience in modeling control systems and processes in the refining, chemical and related industries. As a co-founder and Vice President of R&D at Atlantic Simulation, he designed the company's real-time simulators that are used for training process operators.
His first professional exposure to simulation was as a user while designing molecular sieve hydrogen purifiers at the Linde Division of Union Carbide. He served on the board of the Eastern Regional Council of the Society for Computer Simulation and has presented several papers on implementing real-time simulators on microcomputers.
Steve earned a Masters Degree in Engineering from the MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice. He has a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College, where he graduated magna cum laude with membership in Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi.
For the most knowledgable real estate professionals in Southbury, Connecticut, you've come to the right place. Jim Beamish & Kendra Brown who is affiliated with Prudential CT Realty can help you with all of your real estate needs. Jim Beamish & Kendra Brown was as one of very few real estate professionals in the Southbury, Connecticut area to be chosen as a member of the prestigious Real Estate Professionals directory. Jim Beamish & Kendra Brown can be found in our Homes and Real Estate category of the Real Estate Professionals web site. Go ahead and decide for yourself if Jim Beamish & Kendra Brown is a professional you can trust by viewing the member profile below.
Jim Beamish & Kendra Brown, eCert, C.P.A., M.B.A.
Southbury, CT 06488
Business Speciality: Homes and Real Estate, Real Estate Agents and Realtors, Relocation Services
Years in Business: 3
Bio: Jim Beamish and Kendra Brown are experienced Realtors and sold approximately $5 million last year. In addition, they each have more than 20 years experience in industry. Jim holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Manhattan College, is a Certified Public Accountant and has been an industry CEO. He is a master negotiotor, having helped many buyers purchase homes with significant discouts. Our listings sell at 98% of list price. Kendra holds a MBA degree from Boston University and a MSW degree from Simmons College. Jim and Kendra are both eCertified (as technology experts) and relocation specialists. They have received multiple awards in recognition of exemplary customer service as the result of enthusiastic reports from delighted customers.
Professional Memberships: NAR, CAR
Awards and Achievements: eCertified by Prudential Customer Service Award; Mortgage Support Award; Top Listing Agents Award
Areas Served: Southbury, Middlebury, Woodbury, Oxford, Watertown, Oakville, Waterbury, Newtown, Bethlehem
Key Search Words: connecticut real estate, ct realestate, , ct realtor, southbury real estate, woodbury real estate, connecticut home, ct homes,
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Copyright 2003 ELSEVIER SCIENCE
INC. All rights reserved.
Journal of Business Venturing
September, 2003
SECTION: Vol. 18, No. 5
HEADLINE: Evolving research in entrepreneurship and family business:
recognizing family as the oxygen that feeds the fire of entrepreneurship
BYLINE: Edward G. Rogoff and Ramona Kay Zachary Heck
CONTACT:
Email Address: Edward_Rogoff@baruch.cuny.edu
AFFILIATION:
Baruch College, New York, USA
For millennia, scientists believed that the entire world was composed of only four substances: earth, water, air, and fire. Fire was by far the most elusive. It was searing, dramatic, and powerful, but no one knew what actually caused fire to burn. In the 17th century, physicists J.J. Becher and G.E. Stahl popularized a theory that a substance called phlogiston existed in materials that burn. Phlogiston theory held that materials that could not burn had no phlogiston and materials that had been burned were de-phlogisticated. Phlogiston theory was widely accepted until the 18th century when the great French chemist, A.L. Lavoisier, proved in the laboratory that the true process of fire involved oxygen combining rapidly with other substances to release heat and light.
Entrepreneurship is like fire--rapid, dramatic, and powerful. Sometimes its destructive side decimates standing forests of great, old industries; sometimes its power carries innovation throughout the world like a firestorm. Research in entrepreneurship has similarly sought to identify the magic substance that feeds entrepreneurship--its phlogiston. Some scholars investigated the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs, trying to find that "fire in the belly" that many ascribe to entrepreneurs; however, no personal characteristic unique to entrepreneurs has ever been found to date. Others have focused on the creative force of innovations and technology, but again, no one has identified a specific, magic ingredient.
From a contextual standpoint, these decades of investigation have, however, taught us the same lesson that Lavoisier proved with regard to fire--entrepreneurship does not take place in a vacuum. Just as fire is fed by oxygen, entrepreneurship is fed by the oxygen of financial resources, human resources, education, economic conditions, and family. Although family permeates most business ventures, surrounding virtually every entrepreneur, contributing financial and human resources for most ventures, and providing a major source and origin of education and values that are critical to entrepreneurs, research into entrepreneurship has generally sidestepped investigating family as a source of oxygen for the entrepreneurial fire, seeking instead to identify a magic, unique, phlogiston-like substance to explain entrepreneurship.
This special issue of Journal of Business Venture seeks to further the understanding of family as a major source of oxygen for the combustion of entrepreneurship. Without question, changes in technology, family structure, work patterns, and business creation, among others, have fed and will continue to feed the major changes in the relationship between entrepreneurial business ventures and families. However, at every stage of a venture, the family connection is a key fuel. The sharing of resources, including social networks, between the family and business is a major influence on the ability of each to thrive--that is, a venture's ability to thrive along with its family remaining viable.
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This special issue would not have been possible without the contributions of many hardworking experts willing to be reviewers. We are grateful for their contributions. Specifically, the reviewers for this issue were:
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Most previous family business and entrepreneurship research suffers from an omitted relevant dimension--that is, the family dimension. Our future research agenda is full and demanding. There is a great need to replicate or reconceptualize most business research to date and to replicate and reconceptualize family studies research if business assets are involved in the financial assets of the family. As Aldrich and Cliff encourage us to do, we need to rethink the importance of families in entrepreneurial ventures and family business by adding a family dimension when conceptionalizing and modeling, when sampling, when analyzing, and when formulating conclusions and implications. Moreover, our research might be better informed if action research were more fully embraced (Heck et al., 2000b; Poza et al., 1998). We trust that there are those among us who are equal to this challenge.
After decades of looking for the phlogiston of entrepreneurial fire, researchers are now beginning to identify one of the sources of oxygen that truly feeds the flame of entrepreneurship--the family. Families create, indeed breed, entrepreneurs by first giving them education, values, and experience. Later, families contribute financial and human resources to the entrepreneur's ventures--ultimately linking forever both the venture's and the family's viability.
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August 17, 2003 Sunday THREE STAR
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SECTION: BUSINESS, Pg. E2
HEADLINE: ON THE MOVE
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HEALTH CARE Glens Falls Hospital Foundation Dennis Buckley of Wilton was appointed charitable resources officer at the fund-raising arm of the hospital in Glens Falls. Previously, he was director of major gifts at Manhattan College.
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Copyright 2003 The Hearst
Corporation
The Times Union (Albany, NY)
Copyright 2003 The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
All Rights Reserved
The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
August 14, 2003 Thursday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1B
HEADLINE: Student musicians head to Ireland
BYLINE: Alison Bert, Staff
Festival gives youth chance to celebrate Irish music, history
Kathleen Mariah Mahon tapped her platform sandals to the beat of "Peg Ryan's Polka" as she played tin whistle, her bright tones sparkling over the lush sounds of accordion and piano. The cheery sound of jigs, reels and hornpipes filled the basement of the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers, as students rehearsed for an international music competition in Ireland.
Twenty students from Westchester and Rockland counties are heading to the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in County Tipperary, where they will attend workshops and concerts and compete against students from around the world.
The weeklong festival, or fleadh (pronounced "flah"), will start Monday. It's expected to draw 200,000 people to the small southwest town of Clonmel, said Kathleen's father, James Mahon of Mount Vernon, who along with other parents helped organize the trip.
To qualify for the competition, students must place first or second at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Fleadh, held in the spring at Manhattan College in Riverdale.
The students study in Irish music schools with Annmarie Acosta, who teaches in Yonkers, Blauvelt and Queens, or Kathy Linnane, who teaches in Pearl River. As an accompanist, Acosta won a first-prize award at the festival in 1998.
Students said they looked forward to mingling with other young musicians while honing their skills to keep Irish music thriving in America. For many, the festival is a way to experience the heritage of their parents, relatives or ancestors.
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Copyright 2003 Worcester Telegram
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TELEGRAM & GAZETTE (Massachusetts)
August 14, 2003 Thursday, NORTH EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; Pg. B6
HEADLINE: Education Notes
The following people have recently received academic appointments, awards or honors.
GRADUATES
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Worcester: Matthew N. Haddad.
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FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: Your resume can be sent to employers who contact our office seeking to fill positions. For more information contact the Recruitment Coordinator at (718) 862-7965 or Email to JGlenn@manhattan.edu
Actual jobs at MC are at: http://www.manhattan.edu/hrs/jobs
Peter E. Devlin
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Objective: A position utilizing analytical, quantitative and verbal abilities.
Education:
Master of Arts, February 2003
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
Major: Systematic Theology
GPA: 3.925/4.0
Bachelor of Science, May 1999
Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY
Major: Mathematics
GPA: 3.96/4.0 Major GPA: 4.0/4.0
Employment:
St.
Raymond High School for Boys, Bronx, NY
(09/00 _ present)
Secondary Education Mathematics and
Theology Teacher
Worked on curriculum committee for
all levels
Implement a philosophy focusing on
enabling students to develop critical thinking skills
Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, AZ (Summer 1998)
National Science Foundation
Fellowship Recipient
Conducted original research
in Real Analysis
Invited
Presentations: Northern Arizona University
Title: Degrees of Differentiability
Marist College
Title: Making Non-differentiable
Functions Differentiable
Hudson River Mathematics Conference
Various Titles
Publications: A New Martyrdom in Latin America accepted for publication in
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
Honors
Mathematics Full Tuition Scholarship
recipient, Manhattan College
Received Manhattan College Medal of
Excellence in:
Mathematics
Scientific Research
Science and Mathematics
Membership: American Academy of Religions
Honor societies:
Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi Mu
Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, Theta
Alpha
Kappa, Epsilon Sigma Pi
Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Maple Computer Algebra System
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FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: http://www.gojaspers.com [which is no longer at the College, but at a third party. Web bugs are on the pages. (That’s the benefit of being a security weenie!) So, it’s reader beware. Your browser can tell people “stuff” about you, like your email address, leading to SPAM. Forewarned is forearmed.]
The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to attend one of these games and support "our" team.
Date Day Sport Opponent
Location Time/Result
8/25/03 Monday W. Soccer Long Island
University (scrimmage) Brooklyn,
NY TBA
8/29/03 Friday W. Soccer St.
Bonaventure HOME 4:00 PM
8/29/03 Friday Volleyball University
Miami (Hurricane Invitational) Coral
Gables, FL 7:00 PM
8/30/03 Saturday Volleyball TBA
(Hurricane Invitational) Coral Gables,
FL TBA
8/30/03 Saturday Volleyball TBA
(Hurricane Invitational) Coral Gables,
FL TBA
8/30/03 Saturday M. Soccer Fordham
University Bronx, NY 12:00 PM
9/2/03 Tuesday W. Soccer West
Point West Point, NY 5:00 PM
9/6/03 Saturday Volleyball University
of Albany(Hofstra Tournament) Hempstead, NY 12:00 PM
9/6/03 Saturday M. Soccer Saint Joesph's University (Hawk Classic) Philadelphia, PA 3:00 PM
9/6/03 Saturday Volleyball Hofstra University Hofstra
Tournament) Hempstead, NY 4:00 PM
9/7/03 Sunday W. Soccer University of
Maine Orono,
ME 1:00 PM
9/7/03 Sunday M. Soccer Philadelphia
University (Hawk Classic) Philadelphia,
PA 3:00 PM
9/11/03 Thursday Golf Bucknell Invitational
Lewisburg, PA 2:00 PM
9/12/03 Friday Golf Bucknell
Invitational Lewisburg, PA 1:00 PM
9/12/03 Friday W. Soccer Jacksonville
University Jacksonville, FL 4:00 PM
9/12/03 Friday Volleyball University of
Illinois (Connecticut Invitational)
Storrs, CT 5:00 PM
9/13/03 Saturday M. Soccer University
of Maine Orono,
ME TBA
9/13/03 Saturday Golf Bucknell Invitational
Lewisburg, PA 8:45 AM
9/13/03 Saturday Volleyball University
of Connecticut (Connecticut Invitational)
Storrs, CT 12:00 PM
9/13/03 Saturday Volleyball Akron
University (Connecticut Invitational
Storrs, CT 12:00 PM
9/14/03 Sunday W. Soccer Stetson
University DeLand,
FL 11:00 AM
9/19/03 Friday Volleyball UMBC Villanova, PA TBA
9/19/03 Friday Volleyball Villanova
University Villanova, PA 12:00 PM
9/19/03 Friday Golf Manhattan Fall
Invitational Riverhead, NY 1:00 PM
9/20/03 Saturday Volleyball University
of Pennsylvania Villanova, PA TBA
9/20/03 Saturday W. Soccer Fordham
University HOME 1:00 PM
9/20/03 Saturday M. Soccer Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY 5:30 PM
9/21/03 Sunday M. Soccer Adelphi
University Garden City, NY 4:00 PM
9/24/03 Wednesday W. Soccer Wagner
College HOME 3:30 PM
9/24/03 Wednesday M. Soccer Virginia
Military Institute Lexington, VA 4:00 PM
9/25/03 Thursday Volleyball SUNY Stony
Brook Stony Brook, NY 7:00 PM
9/27/03 Saturday W. Soccer Northeastern
University Boston, MA 6:00 PM
[Sports from College]
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[Sports from News & Web]
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The Wichita Eagle
August 20, 2003 Wednesday MAIN EDITION
SECTION: D; Pg. 1
HEADLINE: Turgeon: Schedule difficult but doable;
The Shockers will spend a lot of time away from home to start the season.
BYLINE: BY ADAM KNAPP; The Wichita Eagle
Wichita State's basketball schedule was released Tuesday. From the way coach Mark Turgeon talks, he can hardly stand to look at it.
The Shockers have a five-game homestand during the holidays, but not before playing six of their first eight games away from Koch Arena.
"We're going to have to start well for me to enjoy (being at home)," Turgeon said.
WSU has a home game in December against an NCAA Division II opponent, Rockhurst. Games against Division II opponents don't affect power ratings, and Turgeon said he couldn't find a satisfactory Division I opponent.
"We were forced into that situation," he said.
For the second straight season, WSU will end its regular season at Creighton, the Missouri Valley Conference's best team over the past three years. Turgeon said that's for television purposes since the game is on Fox Sports Net, but still figures the Valley didn't do WSU any favors.
"It's part of being good, I guess," Turgeon said. "It's not right, but it's the way it has to be."
WSU has three other games on Fox Sports Net -- Jan. 11 at Southern Illinois, Jan. 24 at Evansville and Feb. 8 at home against Bradley.
Home dates are highlighted by the Koch Arena opener, Nov. 29 against Northern Arizona, and Dec. 20 against Tulsa. The Shockers start their season at the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands and also play Manhattan College in New York.
They will have a road game against an opponent to be named later in Bracket Busters II, a non-conference game scheduled to help the schools' power ratings, on Feb. 21.
"It's doable," Turgeon said. "There's no one on our schedule I feel we can't beat, and I haven't always felt that way in the past. I just feel it's a very difficult schedule for a team that's going to have a lot of expectations this year."
Adam Knapp covers Wichita State sports. Reach him at 268-6284 or aknapp@wichitaeagle.com
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The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
August 17, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 2C
HEADLINE: Bryant another athlete living under a cloud
BYLINE: Readers
<extraneous deleted>
Not throwing games the difference for Rose
I can't understand why they refuse to induct Pete Rose into the baseball Hall of Fame. All he did was bet on the game; he did not throw a game.
I remember the colleges in New York City when several players were indicted for receiving money to throw the game on points.
Manhattan College, City College of New York - athletes at these schools received cash for manipulating the scores in basketball. Pete Rose only bet on the game of baseball. He did nothing to manipulate the score.
I disagree with the outcome: to keep Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame.
Joe O'Lear
Brewster
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The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
August 17, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 11C
HEADLINE: LOCAL GOLF NOTEBOOK
BYLINE: Paul Suwan, Staff
Anderson looking for another peak performance in Women's Met Open
Wykagyl pro going for fifth consecutive sectional crown
When someone asked Cheryl Anderson this week about her impressive winning streak in recent Met PGA women's events, it took a few seconds for it to sink in.
You could forgive Anderson for losing track after sweeping all three Met PGA women's tournaments last year and successfully defending her Women's Stroke Play title earlier this year. Tomorrow at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, Anderson will try for her fifth consecutive Met PGA victory as she begins defense of her Women's Met Open crown.
The 34-year-old Anderson said she takes Met Section events very seriously.
"I try to peak for them and I try to get a little extra practice the week before," the Wykagyl Country Club director of instruction said. "They're very important to me."
Anderson will certainly face some stiff competition in the two-round, stroke-play event, which concludes Tuesday. Among the potential contenders are recently crowned LPGA Teaching and Club Pro champion Dede Cusimano of Mohansic, former LPGA Tour player Alicia Dibos of Winged Foot, two-time Women's Met Open champion Eve Vanderweele of Dutchess, and LPGA T&CP fifth-place finisher C.J. Reeves of Century.
Top amateurs in the field include last year's runner-up, Adrienne MacLean of Verona, N.J.; two-time New York State Women's Amateur champion Megan Grehan of Mamaroneck; and U.S. Women's Amateur qualifier Nannette Hill of Pelham Manor.
As far as Anderson is concerned, the course will be as much a factor as those playing it.
"You have to drive the ball well - and I'm good at that - and then you have to hit fairways and greens," she said. "Quaker Ridge is so tough that if you can hit fairways and greens, you're already ahead of half the field."
Chip shots: The women will take center stage this week, but several noteworthy men's events will also be held.
With defending champion Patrick Pierson of Minisceongo having qualified for the U.S. Amateur, the 28th Rockland County Amateur at Spook Rock Golf Course in Suffern is wide open. Top entries include former pro Craig Watson of Centennial, Manhattan College standout Chris Damiano of Westchester Hills, and three-time MGA Public Links champion Lee Richardson of Spook Rock.
The first round of the 36-hole event will take place tomorrow, after which the field will be cut to the top 40 and ties for Tuesday's final round. ...
Also on tomorrow's busy schedule, Howard and Andrew Kaskel of Quaker Ridge will attempt to defend their WGA Father & Son title against a 58-team field at Scarsdale Golf Club.
Two Knollwood teams - Jim and Jimmy Turnesa and Craig and Michael Adams - figure to be among the leading challengers.
Reach Paul Suwan at psuwan@thejournalnews.com or 914-696-8503.
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From: Suzanne Giugliano
Subject: Ezekiel's Café
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:14:09 -0400
Hi All,
Hope everyone is well!
Ezekiel's Cafe is supposed to be featured at some point tonight on WNBC (Channel 4) news at 5:00pm (EST). Be sure to tune in, spread the word and call us for all of your catering needs!
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From: Patrick
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Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: JKO Memorial: Early Bird Registration Ends Friday
Just a reminder that the early bird registration ends on Friday 8/22. You can return the form in the mailing or sign-up online at www.jkogolf.org by Friday to receive the discounted registration fee.
The event is shaping up to be a great day. We hope you can join us on Monday, September 22nd at the Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge, Long Island.
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See you in the woods!
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=== <begin quote> ===
Sometimes these discussions are important. Often they are not.
The "push the button" test gets to the heart of the matter. It clears the air.
"If there were a button in front of you, and by pushing that button, you could totally privatize Social Security, get it entirely out of the hands of government, would you push the button?"
"If there were a button in front of you, and by pushing that button you could immediately repeal all 20,000+ federal anti-gun laws, immediately restore the right to keep and bear arms, would you push the button?"
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I be a pushing on every button that would bring back our peace and freedom from a huge intrusive government. Wouldn’t you?
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