Dear Jaspers,
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In Late December, I am going to rehost www.jasperjottings.com to a different (cheaper) service provider. It SHOULD, emphasize should, be transparent to everyone. That being said, I point out that the email distribution via the Yahoo Group Distribute will continue to send out email. If you have subscribed to that group, regardless of your email setting, you can also use your browser to read the various weekly issues. I would appreciate that when I pinpoint the date for the change, if you have any problems, then please send me an email. Fasten your seat belts, change happens.
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Friday, December 16th - Young Alumni Club - NYC Bar Night |
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- - Lara, Angel (2002)
- - - 1st Recon BN, H&S Co, S-6
- - - Unit 40535
- - - FPO, AP 96426-0535
- - Sekhri, Sachin (2000)
- Unknown location
- - Lynch, Chris (1991)
- Uzbekistan
- - Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)
… … my thoughts are with you and all that I don't know about.
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Col. "One day you will come to a fork in the road. And you're going to have to make a decision about what direction you want to go." [Boyd] raised his hand and pointed. "If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments." Then Boyd raised the other hand and pointed another direction. "Or you can go that way and you can do something - something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference." He paused and stared. "To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?" |
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051123/D8E25RC81.html === <begin quote> === Afghan Girl Gets Chance for Healthy Life Nov 23, 7:16 AM (ET) By RICK CALLAHAN (AP) Ghulam Ghaus, left, smiles as he holds his daughter, Basira Jan, 6 , as they sit in the lounge at... Basira Jan, born with a malformed heart that left her body starved of oxygen, faced a bleak future amid the country's poverty - until Indiana National Guardsmen heard about her plight and vowed to help. "I wanted to make a difference, to make a little
piece of the world better because we were there," said Indiana Guardsman
Capt. Michael Roscoe, 33, a physician's assistant who examined Basira last spring when her father brought her to That meeting set in motion a journey that took Basira to <extraneous deleted> Ghaus said There, fields of rice and cotton sometimes conceal land mines left from the era of Soviet occupation. Ghaus worked for years as a mine-clearer, but he quit this spring after several co-workers died in explosions. He said he's grateful his daughter has
been given a chance for a healthy life. He and Basira
plan to return to The soldiers and doctors who've reached out to Basira and others know there are no guaranteed happy endings. Earlier this year, a 14-month-old Afghan boy also brought to Riley thanks to Indiana Guardsmen underwent surgery to correct a heart condition similar to Basira's. Qudrat Wardak's transformation into a chubby, smiling child delighted Riley staff, who were devastated when he inexplicably died just two days after returning home in April. Turrentine, who also performed Qudrat's heart surgery, fears the impoverished conditions the boy returned to - an unheated home, lack of clean water, the threat of disease - somehow caused his death. "We could fix his heart, but going back to those conditions, that was something we could not fix," he said. === <end quote> === One applauds fixing, or trying to fix, the heart wrenching problem. How do we fix the bigger problem? One thing that the American experiment has taught is that give people their freedom and they will solve their own problems with such energy, vigor, and uniqueness that everyone will be astonished. Politics is the art of the possible. But until everyone understands that freedom is empowering and problem solving |
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and
every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief"
reinke--AT—jasperjottings.com
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6403 The Manhattan Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2005 is listed below: Michael Burkowski '59: One of just two Jaspers that have competed in the NCAA Tournament in two sports, having been a key member to the Jaspers' only NCAA Tournament baseball team in 1957, as well as the 1958 NCAA Tournament basketball team that defeated #1 ranked West Virginia, led by NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, in the opening round. A .340 career batter, he was a two-time All-Metropolitan honoree, and helped lead the team to a Metropolitan Championship. On the hardwood, he was a valuable member of the first Jasper team to win the Holiday Festival, helped Manhattan to a #10 (UP)/#13 (AP) national ranking, as well as two NIT appearances. Kye Courtney '61: A member of the Manhattan two mile relay team that set the world indoor record in 1961, running 7:32.8 on a 11-lap to the mile track, and later setting the two mile relay record on a 12-lap track. An IC4A champ in the mile relay and the school record holder in the 600 yard run, Courtney later coached the Hawthorne (CA) High Track and Field teams to six boys' and one girls' state team championships. He also coached numerous world class athletes, including two time Olympian and three time Olympic medallist Mike Marsh. Jennifer Drum '95: Named MAAC Softball
Player of the Year in 1995, after finishing second in the nation in triples
per game, and 11th in slugging percentage. A two time captain and team
MVP, she garnered All-MAAC recognition three times, and was
named to the MAAC All-Tournament team three times. A 1995 TPS First
Team All-Region selection, Drum boasts a career batting average over .400,
and tops the all-time Artie Evans '61: Was the anchor leg on Cari-Lynn Piotrowski
'92: Tallied 1,187 points and pulled down 688 rebounds, numbers that rank her
eight in both categories on the all-time Larry St. Clair '61: . Was a
member of the World Record setting two-mile relay team in 1961, breaking the
18-year old record. He was named Indoor Athlete of
the Year by the Spiked Shoe Club for his performances during the 1959-60 season. St. Clair was the 880-yard champion at the Outdoor
Metropolitan Championships in 1960 before winning the Metropolitan Cross
Country individual title the next fall. He followed that up
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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
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Shirley; his ten children, Carol, He is a veteran of World War II having served in the U.S.
Marine Corps. He is a graduate of A mass will be celebrated on
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, at 9 a.m. at St. Brendan's Catholic Church. Per his
request, in lieu of flowers, a donation to Sign a guest book at MyrtleBeachOnline.com. Coble Ward-Smith Funeral Service & Crematory, Supply Chapel. <extraneous deleted> LOAD-DATE: December 6, 2005 [mcALUMdb: 1950 ] |
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The CAMPANELLA, AMERICO, 83, of Narragansett, formerly of Born in LOAD-DATE: December 2, 2005 # # # The * Americo Campanella, who served 10 years on the Superior Court bench, dies at 83. Campanella, a former state prosecutor, was appointed to the Superior Court bench by then-Gov. Edward DiPrete in 1986 and served until his retirement in 1996. "The best way to describe Judge Campanella is that he was a gentleman at all times, whether on or off the court," said Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. of Superior Court. "He could be firm but for all his gruffness he was compassionate." Campanella was educated in He became involved in Republican Party politics, winning
the chairmanship of the Fifth Ward Republican
Committee in After Herbert F. DeSimone won the attorney general's race in 1966, Campanella became head of the attorney general's office criminal division. "He liked getting a job done and getting it done faithfully and honorably," DeSimone said yesterday. Campanella later served as chief of staff to DeSimone. "He treated people well. Despite having a kind of gruff aspect to his personality, I never saw him take undue advantage of anyone. He was a funny guy and he loved people." In 1976, after a bruising contest against J. William Corr, Campanella won the state GOP chairmanship by a 98-to-73 vote. In that run, he had support from then-Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., who was at the time a Republican. (Cianci later left the party and ran for mayor as an independent.) In a controversial 1992 decision, Judge Campanella declined to give prison time to Family Court
Judge Fuyat apologized and presented evidence that his illegal conduct was due to his dependence on alcohol and drugs. After sentencing him to 600 hours community service and a fine, Campanella explained why he did not apply a tougher sentence. He denounced Fuyat for violating the public trust but said, "I have always adhered to the motto that justice can be tempered with mercy." "He was a perfect example of why someone from a political background often makes a good judge," Rodgers said. "He brought his experiences to the bench, and I think there is some merit in that." LOAD-DATE: December 2, 2005 [mcALUMdb: 1948 ] |
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December 1, 2005 One of the greatest players in A banquet will be held on campus Saturday. Piotrowski started all four
years at She was a two-time all-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) tournament selection and finished her college career with 1,187 points (still eighth-best in school history), 688 rebounds and 219 assists. At Central Catholic, Piotrowski scored 1,511 points, the third-highest total in school history behind only Michelle Marciniak and Monica McCaffrey. Piotrowski led CCHS to a state title in 1987 and was inducted into the school's Rockne Wall of Fame in 1998. After her playing days ended, Piotrowski
became a college coach and had stints at <extraneous deleted> # # # From: Google Alerts
[mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com] Piotrowski to be honored at ... history, Central Catholic graduate Cari-Lynn Piotrowski, will receive another honor this weekend when she is inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame. ... # # # # # # [REPORTEDAS: 1992 ] |
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Mellon Investor Services Names John B. Power as Chief Administrative Officer 12/6/2005 7:50:28 AM JERSEY CITY, N.J., Dec 06, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Mellon Investor Services (MIS) has appointed John B. Power as chief administrative officer, responsible for ensuring that MIS' ongoing development plans consistently support the business' growth objectives and produce measurable results for clients. He brings more than 15 years of financial management
experience to this position. Prior to joining Mellon, Power was the chief
financial officer of E*Trade Financial's corporate
services division and the controller and chief of staff at Bank Julius Baer's
Private Bank in "We are pleased to have John join our MIS organization," said Julian Clark, MIS managing director. "In addition to demonstrating our ongoing commitment to growing and enhancing this business, I am certain that his expertise will help us focus on our growth objectives and initiatives that will add true bottom-line value for our clients." MIS, a subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, is one of the leading providers of shareholder services and related securities products in North America with approximately 1,300 corporate clients worldwide and 20 million shareholder accounts for small, middle-market and Fortune 500 corporations. Additional information about Mellon Investor Services is available at www.melloninvestor.com. Mellon Financial Corporation (MEL) is a global financial services company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Mellon is one of the world's leading providers of financial services for institutions, corporations and high net worth individuals, providing institutional asset management, mutual funds, private wealth management, asset servicing, payment solutions and investor services, and treasury services. Mellon has approximately $4.5 trillion in assets under management, administration or custody, including $766 billion under management. Its asset management companies include The Dreyfus Corporation and U.K.-based Newton Investment Management Limited. News and other information about Mellon are available at www.mellon.com. SOURCE Mellon Financial Corporation [mcALUMdb: ???? (common name)] |
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THE This is a canyon you don't see
until you're almost at its lip; then, it's as if the desert had split in two,
allowing the river to flow through the bottom of the chasm. It's a spectacular beginning for a stretch of river that
stands witness to almost a thousand years' of The In his book, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, Paul Horgan describes how the first people climbed up a great fir tree through a lake and emerged into the world, making all bodies of water doorways to the world below. Water is a gateway so revered that the But as Erich Schlegel and I continue our journey along the river, they will share with us some ways in which the river embodies their past, their present and their future. The We drive south from the Rio Grande Gorge to meet Herman Agoyo of San Juan Pueblo. The pueblo, which only recently reverted to its original
name, Ohkay Owingeh, is
one of 19 in the state. It sits along New Mexico Highway 68, about 25 minutes
north of Herman is a tribal councilman for his pueblo and one of its former governors. Most pueblos limit access by outsiders. Herman has agreed to be our guide. At 70, Herman is lean and limber, with
wire-rimmed glasses and salt-and-pepper hair. He earned a degree in
physical and health education from Just outside the pueblo, on the hillsides by the river, he shares some of his cultural past: petroglyphs carved on giant basalt boulders. The carvings of spirals, birds, people and animals date to the 1200s and the 1300s, he says, and there are thousands of them here. "The interpretation of the spiral is recording the migration of the people," he explains. His favorite is a lion with a man's head. "This looks like something was removed," pointing to a boulder with an unnatural wedge. Thieves sometimes steal the petroglyphs, carving out just the picture. In one sense, I understand the temptation. There is so much history around us in this very spot that it's difficult to take it all in - the river, the man, the carvings. The urge to own a piece of history, to connect in a concrete way with the past, can be great. I long to simply touch one of the images, to run my fingers along its thick lines. Would it be like briefly touching the person who created it so many centuries ago? But it seems disrespectful to steal even a moment that does not belong to me. So I don't. Source of life Some weeks earlier, Tito Naranjo
of Santa Clara Pueblo explained to me the river's historical significance to
the "All of the "All of a sudden you could irrigate....It made the corn grow year-round, it made big corn grow, instead of the little, tiny ears that were grown on the plateaus," he explained. The people learned to fish, and because of the river's bounty they called it "P'osongeh,"
which means " "We had huge groves of cottonwood trees," he
said. The flood plain was "expansive and rich in wildlife along the
river bottoms...deer living along the Then the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, marking an era of
conquest, slavery and spiritual turmoil for the "Everything...changed" Nora Naranjo-Morse, Tito's
sister and a well-known artist and documentary filmmaker, shared a story
passed on to her about the Spanish conquest: When the Spanish arrived among
the "When I heard that story I was so affected by it, because they had no escape," said Nora. "...Their concept of everything, including their relationship to the water, changed." Today, the river, too, has been altered, dammed and straightened by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said Tito. They "just dehydrated the flood plain...killed the whole ecosystem." Add to that the opening of "All the Across the road from the petroglyphs I can see the river, its brown waters
stretching under the sun. It splits San Juan Pueblo in half, east and west.
In But here I still see giant cottonwood trees blanketing the side of the road. I wonder how much farther we'll travel before we see salt cedar forests. And I wonder: How much of Farming and family When I first called Herman to introduce myself, I asked
whether "I think we're failing in that because hardly anybody farms anymore," he said. "So you can see a disintegration of the family unity because families don't get together, and relatives don't get together to help plant and nurture the field. So the young people today don't have the same kind of experience that I had. "I still farm, and I'm giving some of my children, especially the boys, some experience in farming, but not the same extent that I was involved," he said. This evening he and his grandson Jordan Agoyo, 16, irrigate Herman's garden near the river. He has several plots of vegetables, and just adjacent are his horse pastures. One horse has broken through the fence and is galloping wide circles around us, apparently glad to be running in the cooling air. "This is yellow sweet corn." Herman points to some stunted stalks. "It looks like they might make it. Water comes from six or seven miles... " He pauses. "Hear that? That's a pheasant. That's what I like to hear when I come in the morning. The birds and the pheasants and, of course, the elk bull is bugling. This group of elk that's coming has some little ones. If they come tonight you can see their tracks in the mud." Tradition lives Next morning, we meet Bertha and Louie Burck, also from San Juan
Pueblo. Every summer morning, their grandson This morning we ride along with them to the spot where the
The energy in this spot is palpable - two powerful forces
converging into something bigger, stronger. Where the rivers actually
collide, the We explore the wedge of land between the two rivers, Bertha pointing out the geese, elk and cow tracks. She is 73 and tiny, with green-gray eyes. She wears jeans, boots and a scarf over her head, and walks with a quiet energy that reminds me of the river: It might look still, but underneath, there's motion. She loves her cows so much that market time makes her cry, she says. "They're like one of my kids." Sometimes they're on the other
side of the river, and the dogs swim across to get them. Once, one of the
dogs was almost carried off by the current, says Bertha.
"Could have ended up in The next day, as they work in the garden, Bertha prompts her grandson to explain their spring planting ritual: "What do we do?" "We ask Mother Earth to bless our seeds?" he says. "Mother Earth, here we are again with our seeds," she helps him out. "Give us a good garden so we can be strong and healthy and hard-working. "You have Mother Earth, the Water Serpent and the Sun," she says. The Water Serpent is the river, called avayui in Tewa, she explains. "Without those, this wouldn't be here. But you have to have two cents' worth of hard work somewhere in there. "Here we go, 'jito, a little eggplant," she says to him. "It's a cute little thingy." To watch the two working together is to watch years of wisdom and cultural heritage pour from the woman to the boy. "It makes me real proud for him to be that young and show that kind of interest," Bertha told me earlier. "My heart is this big," she gestured. But Maybe one day he'll enjoy them, I suggest. "Maybe one day," he says. "But I know one thing: It's not today." The connection We leave the That evening, we arrive at the north end of But the water volume has decreased every year due to drought and overuse upriver. The lake's capacity is more than 2 million acre-feet of water, but last year it held just 89,000 acre-feet. This summer, it rebounded to about 690,000 acre-feet. In the waning light, we see white cliffs rise from the middle of the water. Shore grasses ripple gold and green. With deep rumbles, a storm breaks out northwest of the lake. The wind brings us the sweet smell of rain, but it stays dry where we are. Before we left San Juan Pueblo, Herman shared a poem he
wrote about the It reads in part: "To us you are P'oekay (strong water) You are the source of life and joy.... You are avayui (sacred water serpent). You fed our sacred springs, ponds and wells. Because of you Ohkay Owingeh (Village of the Strong People) was born. Because of you, we are still connected to our place of birth and emergence." Will I ever connect in a deep way to the river I knew growing up? To me it was just a dark swirl of waters on whose banks we picnicked. Once, it nearly swallowed my mother whole as she swam. Aside from that fearful memory, I have never explored any deep, personal emotions I might have for the river. Yet tonight, I find myself hoping that the Hermans and the Berthas of the Just east of the reservoir, a slice of fire shimmers on a mountaintop. In a few minutes, the moon is wholly visible, a silver medallion reflected in the water below. <extraneous deleted> GRAPHIC: PHOTO(S): (1-7 Photography by ERICH SCHLEGEL) 1.
Bertha Burck and husband Louie ride through their
ranch in San Juan Pueblo, N.M. The Rio Grande and the Chama
River, the Rio Grande's major tributary in New Mexico, come together near
their home. The water, sun and earth sustain them. "But you have to have
two cents' worth of hard work somewhere in there," Bertha says. 2. There
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NEWS FORUM GABE PRESSMAN, host: (Joined in progress) about any criterion that Gotham Gazette wrote, Ray Kelly is the best
qualified Announcer: From Studio 6B in PRESSMAN: And good morning, Commissioner. Welcome. Commissioner RAYMOND KELLY (New York Police Department): Good to be with you, Gabe. PRESSMAN: Good to be with you. On Tuesday, a familiar and solemn spectacle will take place, the ritual of an inspector's funeral for Officer Dylan Stewart, and you'll be there. Is this something you ever get used to or is it the worst part of the job? Cmsr. KELLY: Never get used to it, and it is the worst part of the job. I think it brings home the dangers that police officers face every day. It's easy to take some of these things for granted for the public, but cops face dangers 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the streets of this city. Terrible tragedy and here's a young man, really a senseless murder, leaves two children, wife, home. He had a terrific reputation. So it's just a terrible tragedy and you never get used to it. PRESSMAN: And this cop even mortally wounded... Cmsr. KELLY: Yeah. PRESSMAN: ...he managed to chase his assailant. Cmsr. KELLY: Right, exactly. He
was shot when he was driving the police car with his partner,
this individual reaches over, fires five shots out the window, strikes
Officer Stewart under his--at least the armpit of the bulletproof vest,
between the plates of the vest. Takes off in the car, Officer Stewart pursues
him about a block and a half, gets out of the car with his partner, shots are fired at this individual. He then realizes that he's struck. He's taken
immediately in the police car to PRESSMAN: So just that one little spot like Achilles in ancient... Cmsr. KELLY: Right. PRESSMAN: ...Greek mythology. Cmsr. KELLY: Yes, yes. It was between the... PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...plates of the bulletproof vest. PRESSMAN: How does the investigation stand? Cmsr. KELLY: Well, the individual has been arrested. He's been indicted. He's also been indicted for the robbery and shooting of another police officer--off-duty police officer about 10 days before. So he is, you know, obviously, a dangerous criminal and the process goes forward. It doesn't make it easier, though, of course, for the family and for the department. PRESSMAN: He told a Times reporter because he's such a big guy, `Do I look like I need to carry a gun?' And he claimed he didn't do anything. Cmsr. KELLY: Yeah, that was a
bizarre story. Times went to PRESSMAN: How many family members do you think you've consoled over the years? Cmsr. KELLY: Too many. Many, many, and, again, it doesn't get easier. It's a difficult--What do you say? How do you console someone who's, you know, lost their, you know, life partner or their son. It's just very, very difficult to do. PRESSMAN: This case underlines a major problem in this country and that is the widespread availability of guns. Has Congress made a dent in the gun problem, the availability of guns? Cmsr. KELLY: Congress has not made a dent and Congress apparently doesn't want to make a dent. It makes it--it has made it much more difficult for ATF to give local authorities gun tracing information, has now given, in essence, immunity to gun manufacturers... PRESSMAN: ATF is a federal anti... Cmsr. KELLY: ATF is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: They are the federal agency that enforces gun laws... PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...and also does gun tracing. And they are precluded now from giving us aggregate information; in other words, the number of gums that have come from other sources. PRESSMAN: You--well, you used to do this. You were once the head of that. Cmsr. KELLY: Well, I was the head of... PRESSMAN: You were overall. Cmsr. KELLY: ...all the
enforcement agencies in the Treasury Department and ATF was one of those
agencies. And when I was there, it was difficult
dealing with Congress, and it's become even more difficult. The NRA, National
Rifle Association, is an extremely powerful and quite
frankly, effective lobbyist in PRESSMAN: Is the NRA so powerful
that we'll never be able to crack down, eliminate guns to reach a point
where--well, like some of the European countries, particularly Cmsr. KELLY: Well, we're never gonna eliminate guns,
and I don't think anybody is calling for the elimination of guns. What we're calling for is reasonable, common sense gun laws. And I would submit that we have them here in PRESSMAN: Has to be licensed by the police department. Cmsr. KELLY: To me, that's the eminence of the--pardon me? PRESSMAN: You have to be licensed... Cmsr. KELLY: Licensed by the
police department, yes, but you have to show a need to carry a weapon. I
think that's common sense. But
you don't have those types of laws in the rest of the country. You certainly don't have any federal law that mandates that. So it's very easy to go to another state and get a gun-- PRESSMAN: So it's hopeless? Never be able... Cmsr. KELLY: It's difficult. It's very difficult. They're not, you know, masters of our own ship in this regard. We have--yes, we have stringent gun laws here, but I think they're common sense gun laws. But much of the rest of the country doesn't have that. So it's easy to get a gun, it's easy to go a gun show, for instance, and buy a gun with virtually no check whatsoever. You know, the Brady--the checks--you know, the so-called Brady checks are not done at gun shows. PRESSMAN: The Brady law doesn't prevent somebody from that state from buying the guns and giving it someone from, say, up here. Cmsr. KELLY: Right. Yeah. It's a very lax system and we bear the brunt of that. We
pay the price here on the streets of PRESSMAN: So is... Cmsr. KELLY: Officers are doing a great job and they're putting their life on the line to do that. But they're coming in from other states. PRESSMAN: Is it hopeless to control that influx? Cmsr. KELLY: It's
difficult. It's difficult. You know, you always have
hope, but it puts a lot of pressure on us. This gun
that killed, you know, Officer Stewart came from PRESSMAN: Talking about another matter, recently, there was an announcement or rather a revelation that you had ordered or had organized a crackdown on panhandlers in the Penn Station area of the NYPD, the MTA and the Amtrak police as well. Is that really a major problem? Cmsr. KELLY: No, it's not a major problem but this administration has paid a lot of attention to the quality-of-life issues. If you recall, just as this administration came in, there was a lot of concern that things would slip, that we wouldn't be paying attention to quality-of-life concerns. Four days after he was sworn in, Mayor Bloomberg initiated Operation Clean Sweep. And under that program, we've paid a lot of attention to quality-of-life concerns. We've had about 35,000 arrests, over 400,000 summons in four years, and part of it is aggressive panhandling. So all I did was point out the fact that there was some panhandling going on in the vicinity of Penn Station. And they got together, the agencies got together, they formed a task force... PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...and they're paying attention to it. PRESSMAN: But doesn't this violate--in one sense, if it's carried, if the enforcement is--eliminates toll begging, doesn't that violate the injunctions of all the major religions which almost exalt beggars and the poor? Cmsr. KELLY: No, we're talking about aggressive panhandling. We all know what we're talking about here. It's one thing to ask somebody for money; it's another thing to aggressively pursue them. We've seen it. You know it; I know it. That's what we're talking about. You shouldn't have to be confronted when you're going into the Penn Station by people who are in your face and are overly aggressive. That's what we're talking about. PRESSMAN: You don't think that that is going to be an immoral pursuit if it's--if every person who holds a cup who doesn't act aggressively is eliminated, too? Cmsr. KELLY: It's part of a larger issue. We're concerned about the homeless population. We work closely with the commissioner, Linda Gibbs, and we have our own homeless outreach unit. We take people who are in need to homeless shelters all the time. So, you know, if they're in need, we want to help them and we are helping them. But you and I know what we're talking about. It's not just somebody asking in a quiet way for some help if the people who are aggressively pursuing people, sometimes even physically, pushing them or touching them. You know, we're just not going to tolerate that. PRESSMAN: I want to talk to you about counterterrorism and the city's preparedness, safety of New Yorkers after this message. (Announcements) PRESSMAN: We're back here with
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. In these past four years, you've
been able to create a counterterrorism program that has nerve endings, you
might say, throughout the world, breaking new ground in the department's
history. You've got sort of--I guess you'd call them
bureaus in many cities. Most recently the king of
Jordan, Abudullah, was in Cmsr. KELLY: Right. PRESSMAN: And... Cmsr. KELLY: We have what we
call listening posts, you might say, in other capitals throughout the world. Obviously it has to be a friendly environment for us to go
there and work closely with the police officials there. And
the king of PRESSMAN: Does the federal bureaucracy... Cmsr. KELLY: We want real-time information. PRESSMAN: Are some of the federal agencies getting jealous of the police department? I mean, do they feel that you're in competition with them? Cmsr. KELLY: I don't think so. Maybe at a lower level there might be some
rumblings, but certainly not at the higher levels. We're
not looking to substitute for the services they provide. We can't. We need the federal government. We're
just augmenting. We're supplementing what they do. And we're asking the PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...that's happening have any relevance to PRESSMAN: I understand you're about to open another bureau, you might call it, in down--far Down Under. Is that correct? Cmsr. KELLY: In PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: We're--you
know, we're considered about that part of the world, as well. We saw just three weeks ago a major plot was uncovered in PRESSMAN: Well, where will your new bureau be? Cmsr. KELLY: Well, it will be in
PRESSMAN: Terrorism still is very much in the minds and the hearts and the--of all New Yorkers. Can you give the people of this city any assurance that we're better protected now than we were, say, immediately after 9/11? Cmsr. KELLY: Oh, there's no doubt about it. We are in much better position now than we were immediately after 9/11. We get better every day. But having said that, there's no guarantees. We know that they want to come here. This is still the capital of the world, the financial/communications... PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...capital of the world. We've been attacked successfully twice. If they can come back here a third time, it would be a major statement for them. PRESSMAN: Well, breaking it down, bioterrorism, chemical warfare, dirt--so-called dirty bombs. How do we stand on that? What specifically are you doing? Cmsr. KELLY: You really can't put them in those neat little packages. Obviously, we're concerned about all of those threats. And there are--you know, there are systems in place that will help detect those threats, but, you know, there are no guarantees. As I say, you can't say, `Hey, we're better prepared for... PRESSMAN: What sort of... Cmsr. KELLY: ...bioterrorism than chemical attacks. PRESSMAN: You mean that you monitor the air? Cmsr. KELLY: Sure. We--there are monitoring systems here in
place in PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...with the FBI. We've increased that tenfold. PRESSMAN: Is there a great cost attached to keeping these bureaus oversees? Cmsr. KELLY: No, the bureaus overseas are funded by the Police Foundation, funded by private contributions to the Police Foundation. PRESSMAN: Yeah. Cmsr. KELLY: They've been very helpful to us. So these--the cost of officers overseas are not being borne by the taxpayers other than the officers' salaries. PRESSMAN: A great deal of tension at the moment throughout the country to the death penalty with some well-publicized executions or clemency appeals. How do you feel about the death penalty? Are you for it? Cmsr. KELLY: I'm for the death penalty for murder of a law enforcement officer in the performance of his duty. I've had that position all along. I think it makes sense. They--officers, law enforcement officers, police officers represent all of us. It's like Officer Stewart out in uniform protecting us--you know, a cold-blooded killing. I think if this individual is found to be guilty, he should forfeit his life. PRESSMAN: What about if somebody else gets murdered? Do you think the death penalty should be applied to him or her? Cmsr. KELLY: My position is for law enforcement officers. I think it is--it--because of the unique position that they hold in the society, I think it justifies the death penalty. PRESSMAN: How do you feel about the relaxation of rules just announced by the Transportation Security Administration to allow people now to take scissors, screwdrivers, other sharp objects aboard planes? Hillary Clinton, the senator, has denounced this as an unsuitable relaxation of regulation. How do you feel? Cmsr. KELLY: I think you need a
commonsense approach. I think--I had my pocket knives
taken from me about two years ago when I was police commissioner coming--you
know, coming off from PRESSMAN: So you think the federal authorities are right in relaxing it? Cmsr. KELLY: I think some relaxation is probably appropriate. PRESSMAN: OK, let's come back, Commissioner, and discuss some other matters, including your own childhood on the West Side of Manhattan, after this. (Announcements) PRESSMAN: And again we're here with police Commissioner Kelly. Commissioner, we have term limits in this city. Mayor Bloomberg has just been re-elected. He'll have to step down after his next term, and you have many admirers who think you would make an excellent mayor. Has that ever crossed your mind? Cmsr. KELLY: Not really. You know, I really don't have any interest in it now. I have the best job in the world, and I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. PRESSMAN: Yeah, but supposing you decided that you'd like to do other things as well and still be over the police commissioner whom you would appoint? Cmsr. KELLY: No, I don't see that happening. But as I say, I'm very happy to have the job I have now and look forward to the next four years. PRESSMAN: Challenges will be over after these four years. There won't be anything more to do in terms of police work? Cmsr. KELLY: Well, I hope there's more to do, but, you know, we have a lot of challenges right now in the next four years. We want to... PRESSMAN: Right. Cmsr. KELLY: ...increase the number of cameras on the street. We want to improve our technology. We want to perfect and mature our counter-terrorism programs. So there's a lot to do. PRESSMAN: You grew up on the West Side of Manhattan, correct? Cmsr. KELLY: Yeah. PRESSMAN: Did you resolve to join the police force when you were very young? Cmsr. KELLY: No, not really. I had no relatives in policing at
all. I was going to college, a PRESSMAN: Selling what? Cmsr. KELLY: I was the stock boy. Of course, that's not politically correct anymore, but I was the stock boy. I was not deemed appropriate to sell, so I was taking care of the stock. But I saw the police cadet program. It was--they were trying to get college graduates into policing. And I joined the cadet program while I was going to college and I kind of fell in love with the excitement, the--just the breath and scope of the department. And that's when I got the bug. PRESSMAN: Are you still in love? Cmsr. KELLY: Absolutely. It's a great
organization. And if you want to be involved in
policing, there's no place better than right here in PRESSMAN: You grew up on Cmsr. KELLY: PRESSMAN: All right. But Cmsr. KELLY: That's right, correct, right across the street. PRESSMAN: ...how did you get along with those Trinity kids? Cmsr. KELLY: There was some
tension. But, you know, the neighborhood, of course,
has gotten much better now. In those days the
neighborhood was problematic, and, you know, I moved to PRESSMAN: Was it kind of a DMZ on
Cmsr. KELLY: No, not so much a DMZ. I think the Trinity kids would accuse us, in those days, of harassing them, you know, I'm sure that doesn't go on anymore. PRESSMAN: Your first assignment as a cop was where? Cmsr. KELLY: In the 20th
Precinct on the west side of PRESSMAN: Cmsr. KELLY: ... PRESSMAN: But anyway, your--how many years has it been? Cmsr. KELLY: Well... PRESSMAN: Thirty-one... Cmsr. KELLY: That was in 1967 when I was assigned to the 20th Precinct. So it was a long time ago. PRESSMAN: And you're still in love? Cmsr. KELLY: Absolutely. PRESSMAN: Thank you, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. I'm Gabe Pressman. Have a good day. LOAD-DATE: December 4, 2005 [mcALUMdb: 1951 ] [JR: Perhaps Jasper Ray is running for mayor, senator, or even el presidente. Maybe vp for rudy? ] |
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http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2005/dec/1217863.htm December 06, 2005] Tom Rowley Tapped as Co-Chair of StarVox Communications Board By PATRICK BARNARD TMCnet Associate Editor Thomas E. Rowley has been appointed as the co-chairman of the board of directors for VoIP networks provider StarVox Communications Inc., the company announced today. Rowley, who will play an active role working with the StarVox team, has 35 years of experience assisting early-stage technology companies in commercializing their technology and determining new markets. During his career, he has founded and helped grow nine venture-funded companies. Previously, Rowley served as CEO of Preventsys, a supplier of enterprise security policy management software. Prior to that, he was a founder and CEO of Counterpane Internet Security, a managed security services provider. He also served as the CEO of both Veridicom, a manufacturer of silicon fingerprint readers, and Centigram, a leader in the voice messaging market. “I am very excited about the market opportunity for StarVox and the excellent growth prospects for the company,” Rowley said in a company news release. “I believe my experience in building successful companies will be valuable to StarVox’s team as the company executes its plan to capitalize on this significant opportunity.” Rowley, a graduate of StarVox Communications is a facilities-based next generation infrastructure and applications service provider which offers wholesale and retail traditional voice services and enhanced VoIP services over its domestic VoIP network and its international wholesale network. The company’s domestic VoIP network provides over 300 points of presence (POPs) which allow local access from more than 80 percent of business sites. The company also provides local services to more than 65 percent of business sites. StarVox works with a variety of channels (ISPs, CLECs, Telecom Agents, Carriers, Affinity Groups, Property Management Groups, etc.) that are interested in migrating customers from traditional separate voice and data communications connections to a converged voice/data connection. It offers a complete “turnkey” package of services to its channels with full individual branding. StarVox is unique in owning both its application technologies and domestic and international networks. The company owns and continues to develop feature-rich technologies including VoIP trunking; VoIP VPN; IP Centrex; and IP-based unified communications, including advanced calling features, calendaring and contact management. For more information visit www.starvox.com. [mcALUMdb: 1969 ] |
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Sam Graham arrived at the Frankfurt airport and picked up
the new American import for his Volklingen Baskets
98 team on that September day in "On the Autobahn, there's no speed limit," Nick Volchok said. "We were doing like 180 miles an hour on the highway. It felt good." Apparently, though, they were in the slow lane. They might as well have been in an old pickup truck with a fleet of Danica Patrick and Tony Stewart clones in a hurry behind them. "You know, we're doing 180 miles an hour and there are Mercedes Benzes and BMWs flying past us in the next lane," Volchok said. "It's just different." It's a long way from the New York
Thruway and his home court of Yonkers. But the
24-year-old product of the city's rec leagues and
the programs at Gorton High, And he's certainly enjoying the ride. "The only thing I really miss is my family and my girlfriend, and that's really it," Volchok said at the other end of the line earlier this week. "Other than that, this is a great opportunity for me. It's something I've been wanting my whole life. I'm actually getting an opportunity to do it. So it's just great." But not only is he enjoying it, he's excelling at it, averaging about 17 points per game after 11 games — including one 52-point eruption early last month — and doing the little blue-collar things as well. The 6-foot-5 starter at shooting guard is also leading his Regionalliga league in 3-pointers made per game with 3.5. "Nick is not the greatest athlete," said Rob Kurzinsky, his former coach at RCC and mentor. "He's not playing above the rim all the time. He's not running a 4.2 40 and getting up and down the floor. He doesn't have the greatest quickness. But he has worked really hard at his game. He knows what he does well. And he can shoot the hell out of the ball." Volchok just thinks the pro game across the big pond is made for him. "It's a lot more finesse, a lot more shooters," he said. "Back in the States, it's a little more aggressive. It's more muscle and athleticism. Here, it kind of fits my style of play more because I'm more of a shooter." Away from the court, it's just
like "There are probably more sheep and cows than there are people in this town," Volchok said. He has plans to move closer to his basketball interests soon, but Volchok has been sharing an upstairs apartment with teammate and fellow American Keith Lambkin in a house in Ohmbach — population, he says, about 400. There are some quaint shops, but it's mostly farmland and hills and trees and animals. "It's a lot more peaceful, a lot cleaner," he said, comparing it to his home city. There's also one pub, one gas station and a handy bus stop to take him into the adjacent town, a virtual metropolis compared to Ohmbach named Kaiserslautern — population, he says, about 4,500. The closest large city is Volchok isn't exactly fluent in German, so things can get lost in translation, whether it's giving orders for food or taking orders for basketball. "The hardest thing I've had to do is adjust to the language," Volchok said. "I have a little German handbook that I use. And my teammates help me out a little bit with picking up some words. I do traveling by train and bus, and I just pick up stuff as I go along. "I can go into a store and order food. Am I going to get exactly back what I want 100 percent of the time? Probably not. But I'll definitely get some food back." His dad, Nick, works as a clerk for the U.S. Postal
Service in "He played there and he wasn't that great," she said, "but they chose kids for a team as he got a little bit older that would play other teams more regionally, and that's when he started to get good. About 13 or 14, he saw that he really had a gift for it. He was at every gym that ever opened." After he played in Gorton's gym, he took his game to
Division III Cazenovia near That summer, Kurzinsky saw him play in the Yonkers Midnight League and found his first recruit for his new job at RCC. The gym rat sat on game days during his first season, a redshirt year for him, but Volchok came out firing the following season. He started at shooting guard, averaging about 19 points per game and nailing 112 3-pointers, the second most in the nation and believed to be the most for a season in school history. "He had a highlight tape where he really shoots the ball really well," said Steve Kelly, the Mercy coach. "When he gets a split second to set up, he has strong range. I mean, he has NBA-type range. I think what helps him, too, is he's got good size. ... We really needed a 3-point shooter." So Volchok picked up his full scholarship and delivered on his end, starting every game and leading the team in 3s in both of his seasons — hitting 124 of them in all — while averaging 10.3 points and sweating to improve his defense as well for the Division II Flyers. "He was really low maintenance," Kelly said. After graduating with a journalism degree last year, Volchok went to three exposure camps, including one at "It was hard watching guys my age still playing ball and I'm on the sideline with a suit and tie," he said. Then in May, Kurzinsky decided
to leave the RCC job after five years and take a position as the director of
basketball operations at The fall semester had just started in early September when the call finally came. Graham, now the head coach of Volklingen, had a roster spot to offer. The team, with an October-to-April season, needed him there in a week. What to do? "It was very hard," Volchok said, "because I had played at "I had worked out with the guys all summer. I had put them in summer leagues. I had developed good relationships with all the guys. I had recruited a lot of players. I had brought in a good nucleus of a team. And then I got hit with this opportunity and it was something I'd been dreaming for my whole life. "So it's like, where do you go? Do you chase your dream? Or do you fall back on what you have now?" Volchok called Kurzinsky with his dilemma. Kurzinsky
pointed out to him that the situation wasn't
guaranteed in "You've got to go," Kurzinsky told him. "And everybody at Now he's making less than six
figures in a league that's considered the third level out of five in "Already, I'm talking to new agents and getting more interest from other clubs," he said. "I'm actually going to be getting my Italian
nationalism soon. That's my dream right there, to go
to And what about an NBA stop? Well,
Volchok may be living a dream, but he's not living in a dream world. Even when he used to
think about someday being a pro, he knew "The chances of being an NBA player are just so far away," he said. "I wanted just to say that I played professional ball and just know I accomplished it. If one day I was to land in the NBA after playing overseas for a couple of years, then so be it. But my goals weren't set as high as the NBA. "Now my goal is to turn it into a career (in # # # # # # |
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Amanda Giordano does a double take almost as soon as the words come out of Jerome "T.J." Harris' mouth. Giordano, a "I want you to take him," Harris says, looking
in the direction of 6-5 Giordano flashes Harris a look that has "Are you serious?" written all over it. He is. Very much so, in fact. As "Start with the in-and-out (dribble) and then go into a double crossover," he says. Though apprehensive, Giordano proceeds to do just that —
and it works to perfection as she drives around "You see that," Harris tells an onlooker. "If it works against a big guy like him, it's probably going to work against the girls she's going to go up against this year." Giordano and Such established area players as Tyrell Thompson and Dan O'Connell of Kennedy, Nick DiMaggio of Croton, Christine Kemp and Kim Kastuk of Putnam Valley, Michelle Smyth of Kennedy and Amanda Alicea of Lakeland have all trained with Harris. It's his way of keeping the city game he grew up playing alive and well in the suburbs. West Haverstraw's Shenekwa Kellman, a sophomore at "Before I came, I didn't know how to dribble with my left hand," Kellman said. Said Kellman's mother, Sharon: "She has not only gotten much better, but much more confident." Shenekwa Kellman's
father, Earl, played with Harris when the two were growing up in "I grew up in what I call the golden age of basketball," Harris said. "I tell the kids about 'The Goat' (Earl Manigault), Connie Hawkins and Pablo Robertson, and they don't know the names, but I say 'Boy, if you saw these people.' " Harris is nicknamed after a "They called me 'Little T.J.' because he was 6-foot-4
and I'm a shade under 6 feet," Harris said.
"I was a good leaping guard. I learned from guys
in Harlem and "I teach these kids how to play downcourt, how to play down low, drop steps. I can basically teach them everything." Former Panas star Danielle Hood,
now a sophomore at the "I worked with her three to four times a week up until her junior year, and then we kept working out once or twice a week up through her freshman year at Hartford," said Harris, who also trained former Putnam Valley standout Kristi Dini, a freshman at Boston University, for two years, and worked briefly with Ossining's Whitney McDonald prior to her departure for UMass. "My biggest thrill is when I hear about them signing
with colleges or when I see them on TV doing well," said Harris, who
retired from his job with the Harris had no idea he would wind up improving the
basketball skills of so many youngsters when he first moved to the area from
South Jamaica, But then one day that summer, he went to a local club to work out and happened to walk by a pickup game. "It looked a little bizarre up here," he said. "There are kids who are pretty good, but the ones I saw that particular day weren't doing too well. They lacked the fundamentals." So he decided to do something about it. He started off by working with three players he met at the club. His list of pupils slowly continued to increase — mostly by word of mouth. "The first thing I have them do is shoot with a heavier ball," said Harris, who charges $40 for a package of three sessions, each of which lasts nearly three hours. "I make the girls shoot an eight-pound medicine ball for months." Before "What it does is it helps them with their shooting and rotation on the ball," Harris said. "It won't go in unless you shoot it right through the rim. Anything else will bounce off the rim." But mostly, he has the players perform a variety of drills while giving feedback much of the time. "That's it," Harris shouts during a defensive drill. "Move your legs. Keep your hands going — one up, one down." On Saturdays from April to June, Harris takes many of his
pupils to the Dyckman Clinic at Harris has been friends with Jim Couch, the founder of the Dyckman Foundation, for seven years. "It's a chance for the girls and guys from up here to
play with kids from Cathryn and Heather Cardillo, 15-year-old twin sisters from "He has a sense of humor, which is good," Cathryn said of Harris. "But he's strict when he has to be." Harris' work with youngsters also proved to be an important diversion after Sept. 11. He worked at Ground Zero from Sept. 12-16. "I worked at least 13 hours a day," he said. "We would be covered with soot, but people would come up and kiss us and say, 'God bless you.' We were all so overwhelmed. "We were all walking around in shock wondering if this really happened. One day a month later, I was reading an article in the paper, and I broke down and cried. That's when it sunk in." Harris also has a year of coaching varsity basketball on his resume — and he said he learned something very important in his stint with Kennedy's girls team last season. "I'm nobody's coach," Harris said. "I tried it at Kennedy and couldn't wait for the season to be over. The girls were very sweet, but I'm a trainer." |
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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.
Date Day
Sport Opponent Location Time
12/11/05 Sunday M. Basketball
Loyola*
12/11/05 Sunday W. Basketball
Niagara* HOME 2:00 PM
12/18/05 Sunday W. Basketball
Quinnipiac
12/18/05 Sunday M. Basketball North
Dakota State
12/20/05 Tuesday M. Basketball South
Dakota State
12/23/05 Friday M. Basketball
Fordham HOME 7:00 PM
12/30/05 Friday W. Basketball
Villanova HOME 3:00 PM
12/30/05 Friday M. Basketball St.
Francis-NY HOME 7:30 PM
1/2/06 Monday W. Basketball
1/5/06 Thursday W. Basketball
Rider* HOME 7:00 PM
1/6/06 Friday Track & Field Fordham
Invitational NYC Armory 4:00 PM
1/6/06 Friday M. Basketball Iona*
1/7/06 Saturday W. Basketball
Loyola*
1/8/06 Sunday M. Basketball Saint
1/12/06 Thursday W. Basketball
1/13/06 Friday M. Basketball
Rider* HOME 7:00 PM
1/14/06 Saturday Track & Field
1/14/06 Saturday W. Basketball Canisius* HOME 2:00 PM
1/15/06 Sunday M. Basketball
1/18/06 Wednesday M. Basketball
Marist*
1/19/06 Thursday W. Basketball Saint
1/20/06 Friday M. Basketball Canisius* HOME 7:00 PM
1/21/06 Saturday Track & Field
1/21/06 Saturday Track & Field
Adidas Classic
1/21/06 Saturday W. Basketball
Rider*
1/24/06 Tuesday M. Basketball
Rider*
1/27/06 Friday Track & Field Jasper
Relays HOME 9:00 AM
1/27/06 Friday W. Basketball Iona*
1/27/06 Friday M. Basketball
1/28/06 Saturday Track & Field
Jasper Relays HOME 9:00 AM
1/28/06 Saturday W. Swimming CW
Post
1/29/06 Sunday W. Basketball
Marist* HOME 2:00 PM
1/30/06 Monday M. Basketball
If you do go support "our" teams, I'd
appreciate any reports or photos. What else do us old
alums have to do? Right, encourage the young ones to max their achievement to
100% potential. I don’t think you have to win or die. Just give us it all and we should applaud. What better things
do you have to do today, but to go to some strange support, dress up “funny”,
and cheer for “our” athletes. So
what if they think you’re a loon. You’re their loon.
You never know what kind of difference you’ll make!
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6407 PLAYING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND Tonight MAAC men's basketball opener between http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6406 XAVIER BREAKS OUT WITH 25 IN HOMECOMING, BUT MEN'S Kingston, R.I. (December 6, 2005)- Jeff Xavier scored 12
of his career-high 25 points in a 4:28 span, including nine straight, to pull
Manhattan even after trailing by 10, but the Jaspers could not take the lead,
falling, 78-69, to Rhode Island tonight at the Ryan Center on the URI campus.
http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6404 FREEMAN AND LIANDER THROW THEIR WAY ONTO MAAC WEEKLY HONOR ROLL Riverdale, N.Y. (December 6, 2005)—The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has named Manhattan Track and Field seniors Michael Freeman and Marina Liander to its weekly honor roll, it was announced by the MAAC office on Tuesday afternoon. Freeman earned the conference's Indoor Track and Field Male Performer of the Week honors, while Liander was named the Indoor Track and Field Co-Female Performer of the Week. http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6402 TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN AND FORMER NCAA CHAMPION ALIANN POMPEY RETURNS TO MANHATTAN AS A COACH http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6400 SWIMMING RUNS WIN STREAK TO SIX WITH DOUBLE-DUAL WINS OVER ST. JOSEPH'S AND OLD WESTBURY BOXSCORE Patchogue, NY (December 3,2005)- Manhattan posted its
sixth straight win, posting a double-dual meet win over St. Joseph's College,
57-46, and Old Westbury, 55-37. With the two wins, the Lady Jaspers are off
to their best ever start after 11 meets. The two
wins also move http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6398 WOMEN'S West Hartford, Conn. (December 4, 2005)--Manhattan Women's Basketball was unable to overcome a 51 percent shooting performance by its opponent, as the Lady Jaspers fell to the Hartford Hawks on Sunday afternoon at Chase Arena. The Lady Jaspers fall to 3-3 with the loss, while the defending America East Champion Hawks improve to 5-1. http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6397 INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CONTINUES OPENING WEEKEND AT YALE'S LIDLIFTER INVITATIONAL http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6396 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL WINS Riverdale, N.Y. (December 2, 2005)--Freshman forward Kymesha Alston gave the Lady Jaspers a 2-0 advantage with
a layup in the first minute of the game, and
Manhattan Women's Basketball never trailed in a 69-55 victory over Bronx
rival Fordham University on Friday night at Draddy
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[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!]
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# # # http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/SPORTS/51201011/1030 The Wright time for SU; SYRACUSE - Syracuse University's hard-to-believe, upside-down, immensely blown-lead, incredible-comeback 87-82 overtime basketball victory over Manhattan College Wednesday was something the Orange and all their fans should drop to their knees and give thanks for. # # # Observer-Dispatch ( SYRACUSE - Syracuse University's hard-to-believe, upside-down, immensely blown-lead, incredible-comeback 87-82 overtime basketball victory over Manhattan College Wednesday was something the Orange and all their fans should drop to their knees and give thanks for. "That's a miracle," said Josh Wright, who helped produce it. "We really don't want miracles this early in the season." No, but SU needed one. After leading by 24 points late in the first half and 20 at intermission, the Orange- atrocious on defense and about as bad on the boards- gave up 61 points to the Jaspers in the second 20 minutes, found themselves down by 10 with 1:42 to play and still found a way to come back and win. "All I think about is the next play," said SU coach Jim Boeheim on what he was thinking with that double-digit deficit as time was quickly winding down. "If you think about it, you'll think you're going to lose." Boeheim remains terribly worried
about defense, rebounding and inside scoring ability, as he should be. He
gave his team credit for fighting back, but he knew it was
indeed a miracle that the "We should not have won this game," he said. "This is one of the most remarkable comebacks we've had here." One of the reasons was Wright, the sophomore guard from "I thought he was tremendous today," said Boeheim, who rarely uses that word in assessing a player's performance. And he was. Wright scored nine
points in the first half - his most noticeable play, though, was a slick pass
to Darryl Watkins for a jam - but saved his best stuff for late in the game,
after Through it all, the slim, 6-foot-1 Wright was calm, cool and competitive, far more than he's ever seemed before on a college court. "I just came out really confident," he said. "It's all part of a learning process. Tonight I learned how to win a game - to make good decisions, smart decisions." Wright said his confidence level didn't
go up with Wednesday's performance, but he does feel his coaches and
teammates are confident in him. If they weren't
before, they should be now, and that can only lead to more good things for
him, and for the LOAD-DATE: December 2, 2005 # # # The Post-Standard ( After blowing a 20-point halftime lead, As the final horn sounded, And several thousand of the 19,193 fans in attendance never saw it, having given up hope with more than two minutes left in regulation. "That's a miracle," Wright said. The reserve
guard came off the "You've got to say this is one of the remarkable comebacks we've had here," Boeheim said. The against-all-odds comeback prevented Gerry McNamara led The first and second halves were polar opposites with The Jaspers, who had shot a woeful 6-for-29 from the field
in the first half, then scored 61 points in the second half of play. Mike Konovelchick paced It took very little time for Those fans had seen enough by the time Arturo Dubois hit two free throws for a 72-61 lead with 2:21 left. The shots sent a good portion of the Carrier Dome crowd into the aisles and out into a cold winter's night. Several The fans had seen one historic comeback from "They missed a good couple of minutes," Boeheim said. After Jason Wingate hit a pair of free throws for a 79-76
lead, Still, Gonzalez knew his team had missed out on a golden opportunity to pull off a huge upset. "With a team like In the overtime period, GRAPHIC: PHOTO Dennis Nett/Staff
photographer ERIC DEVENDORF celebrates after hitting a game-tying 3-point
shot that sent the LOAD-DATE: December 3, 2005 # # # |
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From: Ed Eaton [1994] Thanks for contacting me Regards, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay [JR: Trolling thru LinkedIn for Jaspers. ] |
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Name: Kevin Moore Dear Collector-in-Chief, Thank you so
much for sharing Ronald Herzman's First Things
article with us fellow Jaspers. I
attended Herzman also includes Br. Luke Salm, who in addition to being my uncle was indeed a feared professor of Theology and a tough grader. I never ventured to take any of his courses, but friends of mine did. They soon regretted it when, after numerous cuts and poor classroom participation, they would up with "D"s. I had tried to warm them at the beginning of the semester. Thanks again, and keep up the good work with JJ. Kevin Moore [JR: Jasper Kevin, I am most pleased that you find some value in Jasper Jottings. Especially pleased that it hits a responsive note. Thanks for sharing the vignette. As an injineer who made the “trek” up the hill, I always felt that the Theology Department had a personal vendetta against Engineers. Partially due to my “drive thru” mentality, I never understood the logic of 20-30 people trekking up when one person could have drive up and down with no sweat. Faculty had a reserved parking lot remember at both locations.) Since the media is often the message, it reinforced to me that they need to use their “lofty position” to command respect as opposed to earning it. I did learn a lesson about the need to establish common ground to have a conversation. Of course, referring to us as the “barbarians from the lower campus” didn’t do anything to raise this injineer’s opinion of theology. I probably should have paid more attention in theology and economics. Like Attila the Hun, learn the enemies’ ways to defeat them. Thanks for a great post. ] |
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From: Zelnik, Geoffrey (1998) Hello Thank you for the invite to LinkedLN.
I think I have used it three times since I signed up. I was one of those
early adopters of the internet, especially since I was lack in choosing the
net as my profession of choice as I have seen a half dozen of these six degree of separation sites and still believe it's all about brick and mortar with emails and web sites serving as support information. It's a pleasure to get your emails, they are so much more informative than anything the college produces. I was born and raised in Riverdale, went to Geoff Zelnik/gsz [JR: Well, we don’t accept advertising. But we are interested in anything you do. If anyone’s interested, I’m happy to pass them along. Thanks for the kind words.] |
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From: Forlini, Stephen (1983) Hi Thanks for getting me "linked". Always good to hear from a fellow Jasper. Steve - Stephen Forlini [JR: My db shows 1983 ] |
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From: Jim, Dear fellow Jasper, Hi. I noticed
that you are also using LinkedIn. If you'd care to do the LinkedIn
equivalent of the proverbial Star Trek Vulcan mind meld, I be pleased to link
up with you, If not, I understand. It was just nice to have an excuse to say
"hi". Go Jaspers, # # # From: Wilson, James T. # # # Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:28 PM Jim, How can I help you? You start by going to www.linkedin.com and signing on. I hope you remember your password. If not, just put in your email address and it will send you a link to reset it. Once you are on and authenticated, it just a typical website. You have the front page that tells you all the stuff that they have available. You’ll see my outstanding invitation to join networks with you. That will allow you to connect thru me to them and their contacts. Pretty neat stuff. For free, you can connect to up to five people. So if you see someone via the search page that you’d like to network with, you write up a request and LinkedIn passes it along. I think it’s like passing notes in first grade. But, it seems to work. Ugly, slow, but it does allow you to reach strangers. They seem willing to respond because some one they know has vouched that you’re not an ax murderer. You’ll have the ability to build your profile page and to load your address book in. I recommend just loading it in but NOT sending out invites right away. To invite someone to be your blood brother, who may or may not know anything about LinkedIn, networking, or technology can be a mistake. On the other hand, LinkedIn will tell you who of your email list is already a LinkedIn member. That’s how I found you. You can then offer the Vulcan mind meld and not get sucked into starting from scratch. Does this help? If you have more questions, let chat on the phone and see if we can make you remember why you singed up. Other than it was free. ;-) I think there are about 75 – 100 Jaspers on LinkedIn. |
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From: Lorenzo A. Rodriguez [1968] Just a quick note to advise you that my e-mail address is correct and that I receive the weekly mailings. Lorenzo A. Rodriguez [JR: Great! ] |
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From: Kelly, Christopher
[MC1987] On December 2, 2005, Christopher Kelly wrote: Introduction Details Graciela Camero Christopher Kelly From: Graciela Camero to HI My name is Graciela Camero. I
use to work with Chris Kelly at Blair Television. i
was looking at your back ground and saw that you were a Manhattan College
Alumni. I also attended Just wanted to say hello. [JR: Hello fellow Jasper, My deepest sympathies for having to work for a living. Hopefully you didn't emerge from Jasperland convinced as I was that I knew something. Sigh, if life had rewind. But enough about that. Glad to make your acquaintance. How can I help? I have a lot of stuff and I am always accused of being overpowering. In addition to work, I run an alumni ezine that I can send you an invite. I run a "virtual turkey farm" for unemployed victims of the economy. I "do" a lot of networking and know some pretty strange and diverse people. And, I get excited when stuff happens. I am giving you my "super secret" Jasper Jottings address. Let me know what's up. ] [JR: A double win for trolling through LinkedIn. I do so much “trolling” someone might mistake me for a fisherman. ] |
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From: Mark Boland [1993] I would be delighted to have a drink with you after work
during your visit to My office is at 13th and Broadway, near downtown. I'll see if I can round up another Jasper or 2, also. Please consider me your ambasador
to Regards, Mark Boland '93 [JR: Great, hope it comes to fruition. ] |
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[JR: What do you need? ] From: Lara, Angel (2002) -baby wipes [JR: Here’s the address. ] > Angel Lara |
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From: Kirrane, Thanks for accepting my LinkedIn
invitation. I graduated from <privacy invoked> Thanks for your help. Regards, [JR: Another Jasper turned up on LinkedIn. ] |
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From: Patrick J. O'Neill [1988] Friends of the James Keating O'Neill Foundation, My father, Thomas O'Neill, passed away on Monday after a short battle with cancer. The wake will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday at O'Shea-Hoey Funeral Home
( In lieu of flowers, donations can be
made in memory of my father to the James Keating O'Neill Foundation.
The foundation supports an endowed scholarship at JKO Foundation [JR: Sorry for your loss. James, Jasper Class of 1990. ] |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/vancemarr/37752.html Here are just a few points to ponder concerning recent developments the world of sports: <extraneous deleted> 4. Nice to see that the <extraneous deleted> [JR: I of course responded to the assertion that we were “blatant”. ;-) ] |
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http://chronicle.com/jobs/id.php?id=0000438119-01&pg=r Position: Library Director LIBRARY DIRECTOR Tom and Mary Alice O'Malley Library The ideal candidate will possess a strong record of leadership, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to continue our client-centered service. The successful candidate must have an ALA-accredited master's degree in library science or information technology; a second subject master's degree or an earned doctorate; a minimum of eight years of progressive administrative and managerial experience in academic libraries; a commitment to a liberal arts education and the essential support that the library offers faculty and students; a commitment to developing and assessing information literacy programs; an ability to cooperate effectively with Information Technology (IT) staff to deliver information services to the College; and evidence of active participation in state and/or regional library consortia and professional organizations. In addition, the successful candidate will have a record of academic and professional achievement warranting tenure at the associate or full professor level; demonstrate effective fiscal resource management; have knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in higher education; present a record of collaborative leadership in planning, developing, and managing library programs and services. The successful candidate will have a clear understanding of the critical role of library services in the 21st century and the skills to advocate for and communicate that vision; an understanding of the instructional and scholarly needs of students and faculty in a wide range of disciplines; and the ability to foster teamwork and build relationships between and among internal and external library constituents. THE COLLEGE: Chartered in 1853 by the State University of
New York, Applications will be accepted
until January 22, 2006. All nominations must be received
by January 15, 2006. Each application shall include a cover letter describing
a commitment to the role of the library at a Catholic liberal arts college, a curriculum vitae, and the names of three references, one
of whom is a teaching faculty member. The search committee will begin its
review of applications on January 2, 2006 and continue until the position is filled. Send all materials to Barbara Fabé, Vice President for Human Resources, Search Committee for Director of Library. Contact Information: |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/sacdawg/174699.html sacdawg: Somebody please please tell me what the hell is wrong! BIG BLUE! The NY Giants defeated
the Dallas Cowboys this afternoon 17-10 to claim the sole lead in their NFC
East division with an 8-4 record. I attended the game with my father, mother,
sister and her friend Christina Sa, and we gave an extra ticket to the son of
my father's old college buddy, Nicky Manzione (who's a junior at |
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http://www.nypress.com/18/49/news&columns/JoshMax.cfm WHITE COP ON DOPE I first met White <extraneous deleted> I had gone to <extraneous deleted> Two weeks later, I got fired. It pisses me off. I was a police officer. I was a cop with a heroin problem. If you're, say, a cop who's a drunk—they put you in detox. But a heroin addict, you're a piece of shit. So they fire you. The guy who shot me—they caught him, he went to trial and they plea-bargained. They gave him one and a half to three years. For attempted murder on a cop. I was now a junkie with no job. My wife and I went on welfare, food stamps, the whole nine yards. I became the kind of guy I hated. But eventually I got on a methadone program. I spent five years on methadone. I went to detox. I didn't sleep for 40 days. Went back and forth, back on heroin, off, on, off. In the next two years I went to the hospital 12 times. In and out of detoxes. And my last detox was ten years ago tomorrow. |
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Dodgeball Tournament From: "Keith G. Fonseca" On behalf of NJ NIRSA, I would like to personally congratulate Manhattan College Men's Team and Cook/Douglass Recreation (Rutgers University) Women's Team for winning the Men's and Women's Divisions of the 1st Annual Regional Dodgeball Tournament. I would also like to send a huge NJ NIRSA thank you to
Bridget Weikel of I am so proud of NJ NIRSA. We really "Ready, Fire, Aim" with this one and did a great job. Thanks to all the NIRSA Members that participated and sent teams. I look forward to great future endeavors and a terrific tournament next year. <extraneous deleted> Thanks again to all, |
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[JR: It’s not a email to us. But it is public. So maybe, I have hit upon another niche for JJs. Rather than everyone having to check, here it is. I’ll catch any Jasper’s blog if I knew where they were hiding. Care to rat out your fellow alums?] |
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Everyone deserves a chance to fly Travel “Take a message back from me. Tell them how I’m defying gravity.” -Wicked So, we meet again. Well, Martin
left this morning to go back to the If you want to hear Martin’s side of the story, or just to get a decidedly more comprehensive idea of our itinerary plus more pictures than you knew was humanly possible (he may not have them up yet), you can check out his blog at http://offthebeatenpath01.blogspot.com/ and the pictures are here: http://community.webshots.com/user/mwalker05 . Published: Administrator Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:27:00 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Curmudgeon's Friend Not wanting to "offend"....it's a "Christmas" tree! Funny how the name changed during the 1990s (wonder who was President then?) http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/D8E6H4V82.html -----Reply Message----- From: Curmudgeon's Friend Well, I hope that whatever they are doing with that tree,
I am not paying for it. Why do I suspect I am? As the resident grinch, these guys use our
language, symbols, and beliefs against us. If this really was
a Hmmm, Curmudgeon === And, yes, I do have a friend! |
And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon
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GBu. GBA.