Archive for August, 2020

Fordham Basketball Hoping To Get Back To Normal Soon

Fordham Basketball Hoping To Get Back To Normal Soon

By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Jeff Neubauer has not seen his Fordham men’s basketball team in five months.  Mid March, the Rams won their opening round Atlantic-10 Conference tournament game against George Washington at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Hours […]

by · August 14, 2020 · Sports

Crowded Fields in Bronx 11th and 15th City Council Races Already

While Democratic candidates prepare for the November General Election, in the Bronx 11th and 15th City Council Districts the field of candidates to replace future Supreme Court Justice Andrew Cohen and future Congressman  Ritchie Torres keeps growing. Both Cohen and […]

by · August 14, 2020 · Bulletin Board, Politics
Whose Birthday Is It? August 14, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? August 14, 2020

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777) Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist. In 1820, he discovered that electric current passing through a wire can deflect a nearby compass needle, a phenomenon that inspired the development of electromagnetic theory. His 1820 discovery of piperine, one of the pungent components of pepper, was an important contribution to chemistry. In 1824, he founded a society devoted to the spread of scientific knowledge among the general public. What unit of measurement was named after him? More…

by · August 14, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: August 14, 2020

Quote of the Day: August 14, 2020

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. Jane Austen (1775-1817) 

by · August 14, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: August 14, 2020

Word of the Day: August 14, 2020

abridge  Definition: (verb) Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. Synonyms: abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce, cut Usage: I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an underground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative. Discuss.

by · August 14, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Bronx DA: Bronx DA Darcel D. Clark Announces Findings of Investigation Into Fatal Shooting of Kawaski Trawick by Police

Bronx DA: Bronx DA Darcel D. Clark Announces Findings of Investigation Into Fatal Shooting of Kawaski Trawick by Police

BRONX DA DARCEL D. CLARK ANNOUNCES FINDINGS OF INVESTIGATION INTO FATAL SHOOTING OF KAWASKI TRAWICK BY POLICE No Criminality in Tragic Death, But a Need to Review Training and Procedures; and Provide More Assistance to Those in Supportive Housing            Bronx […]

Whose Birthday Is It? August 13, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? August 13, 2020

Lucy Stone (1818) In 1847, Stone became the first Massachusetts woman to graduate college. Not long after, she began speaking on women’s rights. An effective orator, she is said to have swayed antagonistic audiences and inspired Susan B. Anthony to join the cause. She kept her own name after marriage as a protest against the unequal laws applied to married women, and others who did the same called themselves “Lucy Stoners.” She caused an uproar by wearing “bloomers.” What were they, and why were they so named? More…

by · August 13, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: August 13, 2020

Quote of the Day: August 13, 2020

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

by · August 13, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: August 13, 2020

Word of the Day: August 13, 2020

charnel  Definition: (adjective) Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral Usage: The charnel smell coming from the suspect’s basement left little doubt that he was the killer we were seeking. Discuss. 

by · August 13, 2020 · Bulletin Board
BASEBALL Batting .400 Will This Be The Year?

BASEBALL Batting .400 Will This Be The Year?

By William Coppola: Bronx Chronicle Sports Baseball is rich in tradition. The records set by the greats from the past have set the bar very high for all those who have followed. Yet records, as they say, are meant to be […]

by · August 13, 2020 · Sports
Whose Birthday Is It? August 12, 2020

Whose Birthday Is It? August 12, 2020

Ross and Norris McWhirter (1925) In 1954, a few years after identical twins Norris and Ross McWhirter founded a London fact-finding agency, they met a director of the Guinness brewing company, Sir Hugh Beaver, who commissioned a compilation of world records that was intended to settle bar-room disputes. The first edition of the McWhirters’ Guinness Book of Records was given to bars for free as a marketing gimmick, but the book quickly became a phenomenal success. In 1975, Ross was assassinated. Why? More…

by · August 12, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: August 12, 2020

Quote of the Day: August 12, 2020

The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

by · August 12, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: August 12, 2020

Word of the Day: August 12, 2020

erudition  Definition: (noun) Profound scholarly knowledge. Synonyms: encyclopedism, learning, scholarship Usage: They, like himself, had been bred in the studious cloisters of a university, and were supposed to possess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age. Discuss.

by · August 12, 2020 · Bulletin Board
Financial Focus: Congressional law vs Executive orders?

Financial Focus: Congressional law vs Executive orders?

Financial Focus: Congressional law vs Executive orders? By Professor Anthony Rivieccio MBA PFA Well, we knew that Congress has been at a stalemale— even way before this pandamic. Some would even say, even before Trump was President. We have been […]

by · August 11, 2020 · Financial Management
On the Dias (L-R) Stanley Schlein Esq. elected Chair of the convention, Acting Bronx Democratic County Leader Assemblywoman Latoya Joiner, Political Director Daniel Johnson, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz.

Three Supreme Court Judges nominated at Bronx Democratic Party Judicial Convention

With the Board of Elections finally declaring the results of the June 23rd 2020 Primary official, The Bronx Democratic Party got down to it’s Judicial Convention to nominate three highly qualified candidates to run on the Democratic Party Line for […]

by · August 11, 2020 · Bulletin Board