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Rhode Island righthander Joe Ciancola died Thursday following a medical emergency during a team preseason conditioning workout.

Ciancola, 20, is a Connecticut product who played his high school baseball and hockey at Amity High in Woodbridge, Conn.

According to a press release from the Atlantic-10 Conference, Ciancola suffered a medical emergency during a team preseason conditioning workout on Monday, Oct. 24.  He was transported to South County Hospital in South Kingstown, R.I., and was later transported to Providences Rhode Island Hospital. The cause of death had yet to be determined.

The Milford-Orange (Conn.) Bulletin, quoting an unattributed source, reported that Ciancola was originally being treated for heat stroke and later developed malignant hypothermia, an inherited muscle disorder that can be triggered by certain types of anesthesia.

According to the press release, the workout was held under the supervision of an NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association) certified coach.

“It is a tragedy any time you lose someone close to you, and even more so when it is a member of your family,” Rhode Island athletics director Thorr Bjorn said in a statement. “

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More than a thousand students from universities across the city mobilized mid-afternoon Thursday at the north end of Union Square. This was part of a national day of ‘solidarity’ and action in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement that saw its symbolic residence at Zuccotti Park removed by a surprise NYPD raid on Tuesday.

Earlier Thursday at NYU, an assembly of students drawn together by NYU4OWS occupied the Gould Plaza in front of Stern in preparation for the subsequent convergence on Union Square. Behind a 15-feet banner that read “NYU CUT THE BULL: STUDENTS AND WORKERS UNITED,” NYU4OWS held a briefing they called “The 99% Reclaim the University: Student and Worker Speak-out.” Afterwards, two of the organizers brought forward a purple paper-mache bull hanging off from wooden bars, called “Wally,” which a speaker announced represented “the spirit of Wall Street here at NYU.” They then pulled off Wally’s golden testicles in a highly symbolic gesture before shattering the animal into smithereens with a staff wrapped in union leaflets amid a chorus of an impromptu marching band.

By 3:00PM, armies of students equipped with banners and placards from universities across New York (including the New School, CUNY, Hunter College, Pace, Fordham, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, The Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, and NYU) swarmed into Union Square—a historic ground for political demonstrations. There was much anticipa

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In case you missed it, todays date is a rather fun one: 11/11/11. (Its also a date that Europeans and Americans write the same way. No fretting over Should the day or month come first? here.) Next year well have a 12/12/12, but then after that the fun dates will be few and far between. While we still have this fun date to enjoy three prime numbers in a row! lets revisit a lesson from the past about how to quickly break down larger numbers and determine whether or not theyre prime.

Lets look at 2011. Is it a prime number? You could spend at least a few minutes trying to answer this question if youre not careful. But if you think strategically, it needn’t take that long, and you can likely complete your prime test even within the two-minutes-per-question time allotment that the GMAT would give you for a question that, as so many do, requires your knowledge of prime numbers and divisibility. H

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On June 27, 2011, near the end of its October 2010 Term, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari review in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, a case arising in 2010 out the Second Circuit Court of Appeals following a 2009 remand from the Supreme Court.

At issue, in this round of the litigation, is the FCC’s expansion of its broadcast prohibitions to include so-called “fleeting indecencies,” isolated utterances that “describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities” and, when used, are “patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.” Perhaps the most notorious fleeting indecency in recent years was Janet Jackson’s unfortunate “wardrobe malfunction,” precipitated by Justin Timberlake, during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Among other things, the FCC’s revised policy, as described by the Second Circuit, “establish[ed] a ‘presumptive prohibition’ on the use of the F- and S-Words unless their use is ‘demonstrably essential to the nature of an artistic or educational work or essential to informing viewers on a matter of public importance,’ or the words are uttered in the course of a ‘bona fide news’ program.” Of course, the policy is not limited to these specific words—they are paradigmatic but not exclusive—and can include instances of nudity, sexual activity, or other words with the same cultural significance as the F- and S-words. More significantly, the FCC policy has bee

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Former Siena forward Edwin Ubiles scored 17 points to help Puerto Rico beat Canada 80-58 on Friday and advance to the medal semifinals of the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Puerto Rico went 2-1 to win Group A and will next face the Dominican Republic in a semifinal on Saturday at 9 p.m.

The winner of that game will meet either the United States or Mexico for the gold medal on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The U.S. team is comprised largely of D-League players.

Ubiles started for the third straight game on Friday and shot 7-for-11 from the field in 29 minutes against Canada.

Ubiles is averaging 10 points per game for the tournament.