Dear Jaspers,
705 are active on the Distribute site.
This month, we had 139 views on 8/2 and 6,602 over the last month.
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
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http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2005/08/02/192955.html DNA Test Frees ===<begin quote>=== <extraneous deleted> Doswell, 46, was convicted in
the 1986 rape of a 48-year-old woman at a hospital in <extraneous deleted> "These tests confirmed what Mr. Doswell
has been saying from the moment he was charged, that he was innocent and that
this was a misidentification brought about by police officers who may have
engaged in misconduct," said Colin Starger of
the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School
of Law at Yeshiva University in <extraneous deleted> Doswell spent his years in prison getting an associate's degree, learning to speak Spanish and mastering seven musical instruments, including the guitar, saxophone, flute, drums and trumpet. "I am so happy to be actually seeing him at home instead of in jail," said Crystal Glover, Doswell's girlfriend. "Now we can get on with our lives." ===<end quote>=== Now and again, the system does work. Consider however the capital cases were we execute the murderer How does society correct its mistakes there? Execute the judge. Say “oops”. No I think that is per se (in and of itself alone) is the most persuasive of the anti death penalty arguments. Hopefully we are all very thoughtful about such issues. |
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and
every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief" John
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[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow
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Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume
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[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "updates". These
are changes that "pop" in from the various sources that are not
really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to alert old friends
seeking to reconnect or "youngsters" seeking a networking contact
with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in.
This is a benefit of freeing up time trying to make email work by
"outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "negative
updates". These are changes that "pop" in from the various
sources that are not really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to
alert old friends or "youngsters" that someone they maybe interested
in has “drifted off”. Yet another benefit of freeing up time
trying to make email work by "outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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PR Newswire US "We are delighted to welcome Jack to the DealerTrack board," said Mark O'Neil, DealerTrack's chairman of the board and chief executive officer. "He is a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, with broad experience as the CEO of public companies in transaction processing technology. We are confident that Jack will provide the board with valuable perspective." Mr. McDonnell is the founder, chairman and CEO of TNS, Inc., a leading provider of data communications services to processors of credit card, debit card, and ATM transactions worldwide. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of PaylinX Corp., a software provider for transaction processing, from November 1999 until it was sold to CyberSource Corp. in September 2000. He remains a director of CyberSource. Mr. McDonnell was the recipient of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP's 1997 High Tech Entrepreneur Award and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2004, he was named one of the top 100 Irish American businessmen by Irish America magazine. He also serves on the North American Advisory Board for the Prime Minister of Ireland. Mr. McDonnell holds a B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from About DealerTrack DealerTrack is a leading
provider of on-demand software and data solutions for the automotive retail
industry in the CONTACT: Alexi Venneri of DealerTrack, Inc., +1-516-734-3777, alexi.venneri@dealertrack.com ; or David Shein of RF Binder Partners, +1-212-994-7514, david.shein@rfbinder.com , for DealerTrack, Inc. Web site: http://www.dealertrack.com/ SOURCE DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. http://www.prnewswire.com LOAD-DATE: August 3, 2005 [MCalumDB: 1964 or 1959 ????] |
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LAGRANGEVILLE — Lisa Daley is far removed from her college dormitory days. So it's understandable that she felt a little awkward sleeping in the dorms at SUNY New Paltz. while her open women's division 1,600-meter-relay teammates have yet to doze off during a college lecture for the first time, for Daley, college is officially one of those do-you-remember-when stories. "I definitely feel older," the 35 year-old Well, she could've fooled everyone yesterday. Daley took the baton from It was the first time Daley, who ran for But if she felt older it certainly didn't look that way. She also ran the third leg in the open women's division 400 relay, which placed second with Daley, McShine, Lindsey Corbetta (Port Chester) and Jessica Retelny (Scarsdale). All of her teammates on both squads just graduated from high school. "It's definitely an interesting experience," she said before she took the track for the 1,600 relay, mainly because of the age gap. Daley also finished second in the open women's 400 in 57.67 and placed third in the 200 on Friday. She wanted to participate in open division for the increased competition as she prepares for worlds. But the energy of her teenage counterparts did remind Daley of her, umm, experience. "I do feel every little ache and pain," she said. She earned it. Layne also ran the second leg on the scholastic women's
400 relay, which won in 48.40, along with Erica Johnson, "I had a lot of fun," said White, a sophomore. "It was hard practicing the baton passes at first but we did well." "This is great. Wonderful," she said. "I feel redeemed from yesterday. I finally threw over 160 feet. The kids were there so I had a great support system. They can see me go through the same things they go through and know I can identify with them." Piermont resident Karissa
Sullivan, a member of the "Nope," she said. "I have soccer practice on Monday." Former ### [JR: Daley, Lisa (1993) -- AND -- ] GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" EmpireState Games: The Journal News.com - ... ### |
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US Fed News The office of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., issued the following press release: Sens. Charles E. Schumer and
Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced that the Surface Transportation
Reauthorization Bill, entitled the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), was approved by
the Conference Committee on which Senator Clinton served and includes an
additional $71.05 million for Senator Clinton served as a member of the Conference
between the House and Senate due to her role as a member of the Environment
and Public Works Committee. Senator Schumer is a member of the Banking and
Finance Committees, which control the transit funding and tax portions of the
bill. Both Senators fought hard to ensure that provisions important to "These funds keep "After two years of hard work, we have achieved a
bill that will create jobs and bring significant resources to The funding approved in the bill today includes: Preserving East Side Access and the Second Avenue Subway's
high position on the list of projects eligible to receive Federal Transit
Administration Full-Funding Grant Agreements. Both projects are listed on the
"Final Design and Construction" category, and could receive hundreds
of millions more dollars in the future. Last week, the Senators secured $365
million total for both projects in the Senate Transportation Appropriations
Bill, approved by the Committee on Appropriations last week and scheduled for
floor consideration later this year. The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority has concluded that the The East Side Access Project, a joint federal-state
effort, is a rail link from the Long Island Railroad via the $15 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured for
a Moynihan Station Development Project. This federal funding will be used to
build a ventilation system for tracks and platforms west of Moynihan Station, the vision of the late Senator Daniel P.
Moynihan, will be a new intermodal transportation
facility designed to expand and enhance Pennsylvania Station. Located in the
James A. Farley building across the street, the station will expand passenger
capacity, increase emergency egress points, double
the circulation pace and upgrade the complex with state-of-the-art safety and
security measures. $14 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured in
additional funding for studies, design, and construction of the High Line
Project, in addition to funding provided by the House, bringing total funding
in the bill to approximately $18 million. The federal funding is an important
step in preserving the High Line, a disused freight rail, and converting it
into a pedestrian walkway that will be 1.45 miles in length, spanning 22
blocks across Hell's Kitchen, $7 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured for
improvements to the Harlem River Bridges. The funding will be used for
rehabilitation of the bridges which serve as the main passageways between $5 million that Senators Clinton and Schumer secured in additional funding for road and transportation improvements near the Brooklyn Children's Museum. The Brooklyn Children's Museum Comprehensive Transportation Plan is designed to make this regional educational facility more accessible by mass transit including the construction of an intermodal facility, the purchase of an additional trolley, increased signage for pedestrians and vehicles, and streetscape and safety enhancements. The Museum is currently undertaking a $40 million expansion of its facility requiring additional enhancements for visitors arriving from a variety of transportation means such as school buses, passenger cars and vans, bicycles, mass transit, and pedestrian routes. $4 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured in
additional funding to establish an Intermodal
Facility at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo. This facility
would be constructed at the entrance off the $5 million that Senator Clinton secured for the design,
planning, and construction of a Senators Schumer and Clinton also secured Congressional
authorization in the bill that will enable the MTA to pursue federal funds in
future appropriations bills toward the design and construction of the Penn
Station Access project. The "New Start" designation allows the MTA
and other project leaders to purse initial design and alternative analysis,
kick starting the project and putting it in line to receive significant
federal funding in the future. The Penn Station Access project would
eventually bring Metro-North in to $4 million in additional funding that Senators Schumer and
Clinton secured for the Miller Highway Project, bringing total funding in the
bill to approximately $4 million. The funds will be used to relocate the West
Side Highway between 61st and $3 million in additional funding that Senators Schumer and
Clinton secured for streetscape and sidewalk improvements outside the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The funding will be used in a project to repair
and restore the Met's main outdoor stairs at the $3 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured for
the $1 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured for
planning and interim improvements for the $1.25 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton included
for improvements to West 125th Street in West Harlem for $800,000 that Senators Schumer and Clinton included for
construction and improvements to Soundview
Connection Greenway from $4 million for the Governors Island Ferry and $4 million for Staten Island Ferry improvements, that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured. Senators Schumer and Clinton today also announced the approval of several of their own provisions, including: High Priority Corridor Amendment - Clinton and Schumer
worked to secure approval for Route 219 in Western NATIONAL SYSTEM STUDY COMMISSION. The Conference Report
contains a provision creating the National Surface Transportation Policy and
Revenue Study Commission that Senator Clinton authored as a member of the
Environment and Public Works Committee. This Commission will determine the
future transportation needs of CARGOWATCH TECHNOLOGY - the Senators secured $3.5 million
for PAR Technology's CargoWatch Transportation
Management Program. This funding is in addition to funds added in the House.
These funds will be used to identify, track, and manage cargo within
containers along with associated over-the-road assets from point origin until
destination. Tracking container shipping supply chains will provide essential
national security and efficient transportation management. The tracking
system is being developed by PAR Technologies, based in New The Conference Report is now scheduled to be considered by both the Senate and the House sometime later this week. After passing each house, the approved Report will then go to the President's desk to be signed. The bill originally passed the House on March 10 and the Senate on May 17. The new project funding is in addition to any money already approved by the House. LOAD-DATE: July 30, 2005 [JR: I am saddened that anything I am associated with is funded even in passing by the Gang With Guns In Washington aka the Gummint. Doesn’t any one see the problem with forcing everyone to pay for such as this. Sigh and Cry!] |
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MNEWSxx: Some students get MC some good press Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:13:45 +0000 http://www.troyrecord.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1170&dept_id=7010&newsid=14953733 07/31/2005 For The Record Community news from around the region <extraneous deleted> MEMBERSHIP <extraneous deleted> ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" ForThe Record Troy Record - ... ### |
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http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/07/31/esg10.htm July 31, 2005 A quick glance behind her presents the Squatting behind Maisonet in
catcher's gear was So did Fox have anything to say to her ex-mate? "No, she didn't say anything," Maisonet said, smiling. "Very professional." Fox graduated from NFA in 2002; Maisonet graduated two years later. But Maisonet, who goes to SUNY "I think she's a bit of a traitor for playing for
Adirondack," said Fox, a senior at Fox was kidding ... we think. This isn't the first time the two have been on opposite
sides of the softball diamond. But Maisonet, 19, has bragging
rights for now. Her RBI single in the third broke a scoreless tie and
Adirondack went on to beat Fox had a single in the fifth inning, and Walden's Brandy Weed had a double in the third. So will their paths cross again in Fox said she'll definitely be back. Maisonet isn't as positive. "That's a whole year away," she said. "I'll see how I feel." But if Maisonet does come back,
it'll probably be for the ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" Diamondpals turn foes Times Herald-Record- ... "I think she's a bitof
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MNEWSxx: Prospective student will attend MC http://www2.townonline.com/kingston/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=295757 Home > Chelsea Beasley, daughter of Clive and Kimberly Beasley of
While a student at Sacred Heart, she was a member of the Fighting Saints Varsity Track and Field and Cross Country teams, Chorus, Liturgy Choir, Peer Ministry, the school show choir, Pizzazz, Speech, Theatre, and the National Honor Society. At Senior Awards Day, she received recognition for her participation in Chorus, her work as a Peer Minister and the Sr. Dolores Kohout Community Service Award. Having attended Sacred Heart Schools for 13 years, she was also welcomed into membership of Tau Kappa Delta. She is employed at French Memories in Duxbury. ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" Beasleyto attend Chelsea Beasley, daughter of Cliveand
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MNEWSxx: Street shooting by an MC student? http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050802/NEWS02/508020382/1018 Street feud led to WHITE PLAINS — A Manhattan College student was retaliating for a drive-by shooting when he fatally shot a rival in broad daylight on a busy Yonkers street, a prosecutor said yesterday as the student's murder trial began. "This was not a random act of violence. This was not
a robbery," Assistant District Attorney Lana Hochheiser
told the jury. "This was a culmination of an onoing
feud. But, Michael Santangelo, lawyer
for the defendant, Ayman Marji,
23, of Santangelo said that Marji was the victim of misidentification and that detectives had botched the investigation and framed him. Santangelo said he would call as a witness a brother of Torres' who identified a different man as the shooter. "At the end of the case, you're going to be disappointed, disturbed," Santangelo told the jury, stating emphatically that he expected the police to commit perjury. The detectives "wrote the ending, and they needed to fill in the book," he said. Torres, 26, was shot three times, once in the chest and
twice in the head, that afternoon on Hochheiser said a key prosecution witness, an 18-year-old woman on her way home from church, would identify Marji as the shooter and describe how he fired the last two shots into Torres as he lay on the ground. The victim's twin brother, Javier Torres, testified yesterday that he and Omar Torres had been at odds with Marji and his friends for a few years. Javier Torres described one incident in which Marji pulled up to where he was playing cards, and a friend jumped out of Marji's Mercedes-Benz with a handgun. Javier Torres said he had been stabbed by Marji months before the slaying when he tried to defend his brother during an altercation outside their home. That same summer, he said, Marji and his friends would frequently drive by, yelling threats and gesturing as if they had guns. "He constantly drove around harassing me and my brother," Torres testified. "He said we're going to die." Santangelo said those incidents, none of which were documented until after the slaying, were an attempt by the prosecution to "poison" the jury into thinking Marji was the killer. "The D.A. needs to paint him as a thug. It does not fit who he is," Santangelo told the jury. Marji was a standout football
player for The night before he was killed, Omar Torres fired at Marji from a passing car as Marji
stood with relatives and friends at Elm and The Torres brothers' friend, Mark Fennell, testified that he drove the car as Omar Torres fired out the window. He admitted that he was given immunity from prosecution after telling authorities just a few weeks ago about what happened. Fennell's girlfriend, Hazel Solivan, testified that Marji approached her later that night and demanded to know where Omar Torres and Fennell were. Santangelo suggested that Javier Torres was the shooter that Friday night and that police and the prosecution were using testimony by Fennell and Solivan to further their theory that revenge was the movtive in the slaying. But Javier Torres testified that he was working out of
state that week. The prosecution called a roofing company foreman, Juan Cartagena, who showed business records indicating that
Torres was on a job in Marji, who is free on $150,000 bail, faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted. The trial before acting state Supreme Curt Justice Richard Molea resumes this morning. ### Street feud led to The Journal News.com - WHITEPLAINS -- A Manhattan College student was retaliating for a drive-by shooting when he fatally shot a rival in broad daylight on a busy Yonkers street, a ... ### |
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MNEWSxx: NIT litigation NIT Lawyer Says NCAA Tried to Ruin Tourney A lawyer for the NIT took a shot at restoring the tournament's lost luster Tuesday, telling a jury that the NCAA's March Madness was purposefully ruining it. Jeffrey Kessler, a lawyer for the five schools which sponsor the preseason and postseason National Invitation Tournament, said the NCAA "willfully, deliberately set out to get a monopoly, to eliminate competition, to make it impossible to compete." In a civil case projected to feature testimony from college presidents, coaches, athletic directors and economists, the NIT — the older of the two tournaments — is asking a jury to find that the NCAA violated federal antitrust laws. Kessler said the NCAA had eliminated the NIT's chance to land the best teams for its postseason tournament. "Playing the game with the NCAA is a rigged
game," he charged in U.S. District Court in The NIT is challenging a long-standing NCAA rule requiring schools to accept a bid to its tournament over a bid to all others. This, the lawyer said, severely damaged the NIT, sponsored
by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, which consists of
Fordham University, Manhattan College, St. John's University, Wagner College
and Kessler introduced four presidents of the schools and one former president to the jury, asking the men to stand. He later explained that the NIT started its basketball tournament in 1938, a year before the NCAA began one, and once was so successful that many athletes played in both tournaments. Gregory L. Curtner, the NCAA's lawyer, said the NCAA was made up of 1,024 schools, including the schools that sponsor the NIT. He nodded in the direction of the school officials, which included two clergymen, as he told jurors that those five schools "want more money." "They want to take it from the other 1,000 schools and put more of it in their pocket," he charged. After featuring many of the best basketball programs in the 1940s and 1950s, the NIT faded in importance because it agreed in 1962 to let the NCAA choose teams for its tournament first, he said. After losing a television contract and struggling financially, the NIT asked the NCAA for help in 1985. The NCAA let it conduct a preseason tournament whose games did not count against the total number each school was permitted to play. "Far from trying to run the NIT out of business, the NCAA has helped keep it in business," Curtner said. "The NCAA will not say there is something bad about the NIT. The NCAA is not trying to drive it out of business." At one point, Curtner accused the NIT of exercising a form of courthouse bad sportsmanship by waiting until 2001 to file its lawsuit, decades after its troubles began. He noted that no school had ever complained about the rules that the lawsuit opposed or taken steps to change them. Instead, he said, schools understand that the NCAA sponsors 88 championships in 23 sports and sets rules through a democratic system that benefits 360,000 athletes annually. He said the NCAA was created in 2006 after 18 young men died a year earlier playing college football. The sport was so unregulated that schools used to bring in "ringers" or older men to give their teams an unfair advantage. Now, he said, the schools decide how to distribute money from profitable college sports to support teams for women and sports that do not draw crowds. "It is a truly democratic institution," he said. "It's like Congress." He said the NCAA has twice considered eliminating the rule requiring teams to play in its tournaments but kept it because it feared that someday producers might try to cherry pick the best potential college championship matchups for made-for-tv events. Kessler said the NIT is willing to accept its status as the second most important tournament. "We're not seeking to change that," he said. "We'd just like it to be a fair competition and, of course, earn a little more money so we can make the tournament better." URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/02/sports/s165835D61.DTL ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" NITLawyer Says NCAA Tried to Ruin Tourney SanFrancisco Chronicle - ... severely damagedthe NIT, sponsored by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association,which consists of Fordham University, Manhattan College,St. ... ### |
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The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to
attend one of these games and support "our" team.
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If you do go support "our" teams, I'd appreciate any
reports or photos. What else do us old alums have to
do?
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6108 MEN'S SOCCER TABBED TO PLACE 10TH IN MAAC PRESEASON POLL ###
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6107 MATT RIZZOTTI NAMED ECAC DIVISION I BASEBALL ALL-STAR Riverdale, NY (August 2, 2005)- Manhattan freshman first baseman Matt Rizzotti has been named to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Baseball All-Star Team, it was announced recently by the ECAC. ### |
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6106 SOFTBALL WELL-REPRESENTED AT EMPIRE STATE GAMES ###
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6105 MATT RIZZOTTI TURNING HITS INTO CASH FOR CHARITY Riverdale, NY (August 1, 2005)- Manhattan rising sophomore Matt Rizzotti has been using his bat to raise money for charity during his summer baseball season playing for the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Basbeall League (NECBL). After starting the season in a mini-slump, the slugging left-handed hitter motivated himself by pledging money to a charity for each hit he tallied the rest of the season. ### |
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6103 MAGGIE PFEIFER NAMED PRE-SEASON ALL-MAAC Riverdale, NY (August 1, 2005)--Manhattan Volleyball's Maggie Pfeifer (Liberty, MO/St. Pius X) was selected to the 2005 Pre-season All-MAAC team, the coneference announced on Monday. The senior middle hitter is coming off a 2004 season in which she earned First Team All-MAAC honors and averaged 4.29 kills per game. ### |
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6102 XAVIER AND THE MAAC ALL-STARS WRAP UP The MAAC All-Stars opened their seven-game schedule on
July 17 with a 106-78 win over the Chinese College All-Stars in Bao Ding. Xavier ( On July 18, the team improved to 2-0 with a 94-84 victory
over the China Junior National Team. Three thousand people were in attendance
at the Henan Oil Field and Cultural Stadium to see
the MAAC All-Star Team defeat future members of the 2008 Olympic Men's
Basketball Team for In the third game, The MAAC All-Stars trailed by one at
the end of the first quarter, but went on to outscore their opponent, 35-18,
in the second stanza on their way to a 108-94 win over the Shanghai Sharks at
the Louhe Municipal Stadium. The MAAC led by no
less then 10 points over the future members of the China National Team for
the remainder of the game. Burtt ( In the fourth game, the MAAC All-Star Team once again
defeated the Shanghi Sharks, 86-75, in “Tonight was the best that we have played as a unit,” MAAC All-Stars head coach Jimmy Patsos said. “We passed the ball well, and everyone played unselfishly. This win was a total team effort.” “It was a privilege to play in the new arena here in Thompson (Rider) paced the squad tonight with his 16
points, while Mathis ( In the fifth game, Jared Jordan (Marist) netted two key
three pointers to spark a 31-15 run in the second quarter as the MAAC
All-Star Team defeated the Chinese Soldiers Team, 100-92, in Todd Sowell (Saint Peter's) scored six points in the
fourth quarter to extend the MAAC All-Stars' lead to 10. Wilson (Canisius) paced the team with his 18 points, including 10
in the first quarter. Thompson (Rider) added 17 points, while Mathis ( In the sixth game, the MAA All-Star Team once again defeated the Chinese Soldiers Team, 104-65, in Yangcheng to improve their record to 6-0. The game was played at an open-air stadium, filled to capacity and with more fans waiting outside the gates to hear the final outcome. “This was the most unique coaching experience I have ever
been a part of,” Patsos said. “From coaching in The squad jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, going ahead 38-9 after the first quarter, led by Xavier's (Manhattan) 10 points. “The team responded well once again,” Patsos added. “Jordan (Marist) got plenty of passes out early in the game – 10 in the first quarter – to give us an early lead.” Burtt (Iona) led the way with 21
points, while Mathis ( In the tour finale, the 2005 MAAC All-Star Team defeated
the Chinese Soldiers, 115-83, in Hengshui to finish
their tour of Up 51-41 at the half, the MAAC All-Stars outscored their
opponent, 40-13, in the third quarter, led by Wilson (Canisius)
and Xavier ( “Once again these kids did a great job tonight,” MAAC All-Stars head coach Jimmy Patsos said. “They passed the ball well, and functioned as a team well. I could not have been prouder of this team as representatives of the league.” “Each member of this team has acted with class, both on and off the court,” Patsos added. “James Mathis was our unsung hero of the trip, playing hard every night. Steve Burtt was the team's Most Valuable Player, and Jared Jordan (Marist) was the leader of the group as the point guard. “Darnell Wilson and Jason Thompson provided energy every game, and were the crowd pleasers on this trip with their dunks and athletic ability. It was an honor to coach this team, and I commend Commissioner Rich Ensor for the tremendous job he did in putting this tour together.” For the tour, Thompson averaged a team-high 16.1 points
per game, while Burtt registered 15.7 points an
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6101 ASSISTANT TRACK COACH JOE RYAN TO COACH GUYANESE NATIONAL TEAM AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Riverdale, NY (July 28, 2005)- Manhattan College assistant
track coach Joe Ryan '81 will travel to Helsinki, Finland as the official
track coach of the Guyanese national track team for the World Track and Field
Championships, being held August 6-14. This is the third time Ryan has been
selected to coach Ryan coached the Guyanese team at both the 2001 World
Championships held in Competing for the Guyanese team is former Pompey is no stranger to elite level track and field, as
over the past few years she has won gold at the Commonwealth games, bronze at
the Pan Am Games, and was a semifinalist in the 400m at the 2004 ### |
[JR: At the risk of losing some of my aura of omnipotence or at
least omni-pia-presence, you can see Jasper Sports
stories at: http://www.topix.net/ncaa/manhattan/ so for brevity’s sake I will
not repeat them here. I will just report the ones that come to my attention and
NOT widely reported. No sense wasting electrons!]
http://www.topix.net/ncaa/manhattan/
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OSPORTSxx: Women's soccer picked 8th! http://www.collegesports.com/sports/w-soccer/stories/080105aaf.html
Defending champion The Saints will be led by senior Cory Silon, Turner and sophomore Amy Loughridge. Silon, the lone Saint who was named to the MAAC All-Tournament Team, ended her junior year after playing in 19 games, capturing one goal, four assists and six points. Turner, a forward led the Saints with nine goals, four assists for 22 points and landed on the All MAAC First Team. Loughridge, an All-Rookie Team selection, earned Second Team All-MAAC honors a year ago after tallying six points (one goal, four assists) from her midfield position. 2005 MAAC WOMEN'S SOCCER PRESEASON POLL ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" SienaWomen's Soccer Selected Second in MAAC Preseason Coaches ... CollegeSports.com - ... ### |
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OSPORTSxx: Jasper frosh hits stride during summer ball http://news.newstimeslive.com/story.php?id=73239&category=Sports Sports 2005-07-29 Autumn Pinette New Milford’s Ryan Marcoux helped spark the offense during Sunday’s American
Legion state tournament game against Following a rocky freshman season at Last Sunday, Marcoux delivered three singles, drew a walk and scored twice as New Milford beat Newington 5-2 in a play-in round game, advancing to the Round of 16 in the 78th annual state tournament. “I don’t know if anybody can hit the ball any harder than he’s been hitting it,” coach Dan Olson said. Last weekend’s performance lifted his average to .370, with five homers, two RBIs and 29 runs scored. He’s also contributed on the mound, posting a 6-2 record and a 1.90 ERA in 47 innings. New Milford will again be counting on Marcoux
when it opens against Marcoux was New Milford High’s emotional leader two years ago when it won the school’s first league championship since 1983. In addition to batting .386 and providing staunch glove work at shortstop, he brought a special brand of intensity. “He’s like a Paul O’Neill type. The more down he got, the more fire he gets inside of him. A kid like that drives the rest of the team. Everybody feeds off of that and they play hard,” Green Wave coach John Wrenn recalled earlier this week. But like so many scholastic studs, Marcoux struggled trying to make the challenging transition to Division I. The 5-foot-10, 185-pounder was in the lineup a lot at the outset, then spent much of the second half of the season watching and learning from the dugout. He made 11 starts and appeared in 24 games for the Jaspers (27-21), finishing with a .239 average (11-for-46). “It’s an accomplishment as a freshman to go to Said Marcoux: “I played a lot at the beginning of the year. I didn’t play so much towards the end. I cooled off a lot. It’s one of those things. I got into a slump and they took me (out of the starting lineup).” He was only the latest to discover that being the most talented player on the field in high school or making All-State doesn’t mean much anymore. “It’s humbling. You go to a school and you’re playing on a team where everybody is that or better,” Marcoux said. “It’s tough going from being somebody to being nobody at the college level.” And although “I’m in class for 15 hours a week and I bet I play baseball for twice that. I spend a lot more time practicing baseball than I do in class,” Marcoux said. “I can’t imagine the kids that go to USC or those big schools. We spend the whole second half of the fall and the winter playing baseball inside, which is completely different than playing outside on the field.” “We used to play second and short together, right up the middle,” Crowcroft said. “He’s a great shortstop and an awesome hitter, probably one of the best in the state.” Olson has also known Marcoux since he was young, watching him play youth soccer and three years of varsity ice hockey in addition to baseball. He noticed a different person this summer. “Ryan always put so much pressure on himself in every sport he played,” Olson said. “This year, after a year of college, he’s so relaxed at the plate.” Wrenn expects Marcoux will do whatever it takes to have a successful
career at “He’s not going to sit there and be satisfied which is what makes him a good player,” Wrenn said. ### GoogleAlert for: "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"boroughof manhattan college" Marcouxheats up offense Following a rocky freshman season at ### |
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RE: McKenna, James (1995) Fred McKenna wrote: > From: "Fred McKenna (1972)" -----Original Message----- From: Ferdinand Reinke This message is being sent to you from a user at the Manhattan College Alumni Society Web site Fred, Did you know that there is a "McKenna, James (1995) Just pursuing my hobby to find Jaspers to read Jottings by
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From: Lou Apoldo (1963) Hi John, Although your Curmudgeon message this week about how the
Feds are stealing our savings with inflation was interesting and relevant, I
think that the Curmudgeon should have addressed a far more important
topic-How our fellow Jasper NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly '63 and his
"RINO" boss, Mike Bloomberg are endangering the lives and financial
security of In response to the recent terrorist bombings in Similarly, by continuing the politically correct policy of
not arresting or even reporting known illegal aliens (as established by our
Jasper former mayor, Rudy Guiliani '65), Messrs.
Kelly and Bloomberg are squandering the limited social welfare services that
could be made available to deserving US citizens. Moreover, by providing such free welfare
and medical services to undeserving illegal alien invaders, such political
cowardly policies only send the wrong message to these invaders, and invite
more invaders to come to In such trying times, our country desperately needs leaders with the honesty and moral courage to do the right thing to protect our citizens, in spite of all the influences put upon them by special interest groups, the mainstream press, and misguided "do-gooders." Unfortunately, the current rules of politics demean true American patriots like Rep. Tom Tancredo who wants to protect our national borders from illegal immigrants and terrorists, and instead, with the aid of our liberal mainstream media, allow self-serving political hacks like Bloomberg, Kelly, and Guiliani to ascend to positions of power. In the past, putting such people into political power only cost the taxpayers money to allow the scoundrels to buy votes for themselves from the special interests by funding useless give-away programs with our tax dollars. However, with the current threat from the Islamo-Fascists, the cowardly policies of these political hacks can now get a lot of innocent taxpayers killed. When will the American "sheeple" wake up? Lou Apoldo [JR: I would not
dare to venture into speaking for Curmudgeon. But as a Big L and a Little L
Libertarian, I am shocked (in the sense of just like Captain Renault) that
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From: " > John, I have not had time to get knee deep into this, We were
out of the office up in Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen J. DeSalvo [JR: I of course responded. The elemental thing is, that other than to sign a document authorizing and allowing LinkedIn to use the name and logo without either side paying the other, there really is nothing to do. Sigh!] |
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From: Robert Helm [1951] Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears...or in this case, your eyes. Good Evening one and all: This epistle will come to you all in sections...some of you know all about what has been going on, some of you know some of it (and some of you may think I no longer exist). A. The For the past 16
and 1/2 years (in 2003) I had been cajoling, begging, pleading, etc. with the
Navy to retire me. I filled out the forms and mailed them in November of
1987, the month after I became 60 years old. They sent me more forms - the
dreaded W-2, et al which I filled out and returned to them in January, 1969.
Thereafter, NADA...I did not exist. Sometime in 2001, Ted Furlong asked me to
help him acquire a new copy of his DD-214. For 2 years I tried with no
result. At my birthday party in Brock's in That's where the
fun began. Chris Shays wrote the above office a letter in early July. By the
middle of September, we had not heard a word. Young Chris Albert called the
above office and the first bureaucrat asked him if we wanted them to open a
file on this matter. Chris A. asked for this GS-2's supervisor - a Mr... Hugh Taylor - who began to hem and haw about how
they would have to go back over the records to see how much, if any, back pay
I would receive and the Marine Corps became somewhat disturbed and demanded Mr... The good things
are that I have a pension as LCDR with 22 years service, Tricare
for life, a pension for my Lady Helen, and unlimited access to all such
places as PXs and military health facilities. The
bad thing is that the pension back pay put us into a very high tax bracket
and our lovely Infernal Robbers Society has claimed nearly 50% of the money.
(I just had a thought that if Chris A. had let the boobacrats
delay the board until late October, maybe the 10 year payment would not have
come until 2005. This would have put a great strain on This ends the first installment of my "After Action Report". I will relate the move to MD tomorrow or the next day, as time permits. (It is also somewhat of a 'doosey'). FNS sends (at last) [JR: So we now have an “expert” in “claims”. I’m sure that Senor helm will want to hear from each of you with a similar problem. ;-) After all he is now “retired” and has tons of time to work on your problems.] |
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**[SmallGovernment]: 53% of Americans Want to Cut Taxes in Half!] ===<begin quote>=== ==================================================== Scripture tells us that God asks for 10% of our earnings. “Tithe” means a tenth. Tithing means giving a tenth to the Church. Medieval Serfs were compelled to give 25% of their harvest, of their income to the King. How much does Big Government in 47% of your income in taxes. Every year. That’s federal,
state, and local taxes. (Source: Federal income taxes. Social Security taxes. Excise taxes, gas taxes, and tariffs. Phone taxes. State and local property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes. Car taxes. Taxes disguised as “user fees,” “licenses,” “permits,” and other compulsory payments. Plus hundreds of other direct, indirect, and hidden taxes. Big Government is taking 47% of your income in taxes. 47% of every working American’s income. 47% every year. That’s the price of Big Government. That’s what Big Government costs you every year. Is this what you want? If you answered “no,” you are not alone. Nor part of a tiny minority. In January 2003, FOX News/Opinion Dynamics polled Registered Voters about taxes. (Margin of error: 3%) Here’s their question – and the results. "What is the maximum percentage of a person's income that should go to taxes -- that's all taxes, state, federal and local? Out of every dollar, what's the highest percentage anybody should have to pay?" 53% said less than 20 percent 53% of Americans want our taxes cut by at least 57%. ===<end quote>=== With all due respect to all the economic experts and to the people who quote a percentage of tax that we pay, I think they are wrong. Because of the way the Government at all levels taxes us, I don't think we can possibly know what the effective tax rate is. I have two observations. BEGIN #1 Because of all the intermediate taxation, we have no idea how much tax we pay on an item. For example, gasoline is probably 50% at the pump. If we pay $2 per gallon at the pump, then my "feeling" is that at least 1$ is tax. The federal, state, local, dales, and excise taxes are easy. But don't forget that the slob who runs the gas station has to pay tax on his "earnings". So in order to clear X4 per hours, he has to mark it up a little extra. AND, the truck that delivered the gas, uses gas, thus paying taxes and overhead. So there is an element of "recursion". To figure the amount of tax we pay on a gallon of gas. we have to do a calculus limit problem of infinite depth. Then, when you figure gas is intimately involved in every product or service that we buy, use, or sell, you can see that the calculus becomes much more difficult. By the way that Big Gummamint sticks it to us, we can't "see" what we are being "stuck" paying. But, it feels that is is much much more. BEGIN #2 FRBs. Furbies. The Federal Reserve Banknotes. The dollar is not a fixed standard. By the fiscal slight of hand, each year, all of our dollars are inflated to be worth less. If over the last thirty years, our dollar has lost 95% of its value. So it I save a hundred buck in my bank account in 1970, inflation has eaten away the value so it would be like I had only saved 5$! Where does that get figured into the total tax percentage? SO let's say in a year the actual inflation rate was 4%! Not that zero per cent fiction that Greenspan purports it is. Personally I think that the inflation rate is more like 8% to 15%. I can't prove it. It feels like it. So if the average taxpayer makes 40k per year, with 40k in savings, and if the tax rate is half and the Government steals half the value of their savings, then the tax rate ain't half! It's 100%. If you have a lot of savings, then the rate could be even more! BEGIN #3 (Yeah I said there were only two. But I thought of a third while I was writing number two! So I lied, like any thing about the Big Gummament, get used to it. You accept politician’s who lie so you should be used to it!) Unfunded liabilities, depreciation, and the national debt! Almost Forgot Those. In a business, when I agree to pay for something, the auditors and bean counters insist that I account for it. When I take on a liability, like a loan, regardless if I can pay for it right now, I have to think about it. Bean counters create a balance sheet item that represents such a unfunded liability. If I take a car on credit, and produce a balance sheet of assets and liabilities, I can NOT claim the car as an asset without carrying along the liability. When we calculate tax rate, we really have to figure in all the unfunded liabilities in our tax rate. We claimed the "asset" side; so, we have to recognize the liability side. People of all shapes and sizes are making their plans based on promises that the Government is making. In a business, when I have an asset that is "wearing out", like that car above, there is an implied cost of operation. So if I took the car on a loan, and use 20% of it this year, bean counters make me "recognize" the cost. I can NOT claim that the asset has the same value, after the 20% use, as before. No where in these gigantic projects, that the Government does, do we recognize the true costs of replacement that will hit us down the road. These are real costs. Now, the final point! Even for the mickey mouse accounting job that Government pretends to recognize, there are huge amounts that it just doesn't pay. The national debt just runs up and up and up and up. So some how, we have to recognize our share of this negative asset! END #3 So I think 47% is wrong! I don't know what the correct number is! But, I'll guess it is very large. In addition, as an aside, I laugh when they all gripe about the personal savings rate being low. Maybe after 35 years, people are coming to the realization that saving furbies (FRB's -- dollar denominated savings) is pointless. That's why there's a housing bubble. That's why there is ebay. That's why there's the Antique Road Show on TV. People are intuitively seeking stores of value that can't be seized by the Government. In response to writing this, I have begun to buy small quantities of gold, platinum, and palladium bullion coins. I've been putting them in small hiding places around the house. I'll probably move up to diamonds when I know more. Finally, I’ll bury some coins in concrete in the back yard. So when we eventually do have the general recognition that the currency is valueless and the Japanese stop send us Toyotas for pretty green pieces of paper, I’ll be able to buy something to eat. This FRB craze will make tulip mania look rational. At least you can grow a tulip. My investment strategy in the past is to buy stocks and bonds, which while FRB dollar denominated, has "grown". I use the fiction "grown" while recognizing that they have not "grown" any where near the proportion that has been seized by inflation. (To the uninitiated, I use the metaphor that you have a yardstick that shrinks each year. So your 9x12 rug, next year will be 9.9x13.2! It's still the same size run, but the measuring stick has been "shrunk"! ALL to permit the Government to spend "hidden taxes"!) Thanks to the Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) podcasts. I use my commute time to get totally aggravated with the Government riding on my back, like a drug addict's monkey! |
And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon
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GBu. GBA.