Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Brazil’s leader blames white people for crisis
“This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”
Friday, March 27, 2009
Right whales put on heartening show
Endangered, dozens appear off Cape
Right whales in Cape Cod Bay pictures
In a rare congregation, about 70 North Atlantic right whales have gathered in Cape Cod Bay. The group represents approximately 20 percent of the endangered species' worldwide population.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
God Is Great And Greatly To Be Praised
Song written by Bishop R. C. Lawson, author of "The Anthropology of Jesus Christ Our Kinsman"
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Wake (County North Carolina) judge orders home schoolers into public classrooms
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ex-mob moll survives hanging with a rough crowd
“That era’s gone. It was glamorous. It was a lot of fun. But, it stripped me of my pride, my dignity. I guess sometimes it takes a wise woman to play the fool.”
Monday, March 9, 2009
George "Little Chocolate" Dixon
career highlights
1. 1888 - Became world bantamweight champion
2. 1891 - Became world featherweight champion
3. - First-ever black world champion
4. - Invented shadowboxing
5. 1906 - Pro record 158 bouts, won 30 by Knock-Out (KO), 55 by decision, 1 on foul, 38 draws, 21 decisions lost, 4 times KO’d, 9 no decisions
Biography
George "Little Chocolate" Dixon, who was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, held, in succession, the paperweight, bantamweight, and featherweight boxing titles. He was the first-ever black world champion in 1888 and invented the technique of shadowboxing.
But in those days of post slavery-abolition in the United States, his battles didn't end with a handshake in the ring. For, among other racially-motivated pressures, he caused an outrage by marrying a white woman, raised the ire of a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob when he fought and beat a white man in Dixie, and died down-and-out at 39 in a New York City hospital.
His career took off in 1888 when he claimed the world bantam title and successfully defended it twice. Moving up to the featherweight class, he fought a grueling 22 rounds against Cal MacCarthy to take that title in 1891. He defended this title three times before losing a 20-round match in 1897 but regained it the following year. He lost the title when stopped by Terry McGovern in eight rounds on January 9, 1900.
George Dixon was a boxer in a time when bareknuckle boxing and 20-round matches were common. Today's relatively short championship fights of 10-12 rounds would be warmups for the fighters of Dixon's era. In 1899, in likely the most arduous year for a fighter to endure, he fought three, 25-round matches, three at 20 rounds, one at ten, and three at six. In England, against the best fighters of Britain, he fought three, 20-rounders, three at 15, 34 six-rounders, and one eight-round bout.
Dixon's last fight was in 1906 at the age of 36. When he retired from professional boxing, he continued to fight what were then called barnstorming matches. In all, only 158 of the 800 times he stepped into the ring were classified as pro bouts.
While his fortunes diminished, forcing him into abject poverty, his friends and fans stayed true. They rallied to collect funds to save the "little iron man" from being buried in Potter's Field, a cemetery for charity cases. He was buried instead as an esteemed equal in Boston's Mount Hope Cemetery in 1909.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The HSBC deal that gave legitimacy to subprime - IHT
HSBC = The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Oldest Mounted Police Unit In U.S. To Take Their Last Rides
BOSTON - March 05, 2009 - The Boston Police Department will lay off 40 police cadets and 20 civilian workers in July to help close a $20 million department budget gap.
The department says the cuts would be worse, if it weren't for state and federal grant money.
As WBUR's Steve Brown reports, the cuts include disbanding the Boston Police Mounted Unit, the oldest police mounted unit in the nation.
The mounted officers and their horses have been a familiar sight at Downtown Crossing, and anywhere large crowds are gathered. At one point in the 1970s, during the busing crisis, there were a hundred horses in the unit. Now it's much smaller. Thirteen specially-trained police horses, with names such as Chopper, Captain and Magnus, are boarded in the police stable in Jamaica Plain.
Workers at the stable, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said mounted officers are critical to community policing and can move within crowds into places where cruisers or motorcycles can't go. The unit's 10 officers will be reassigned. The 10 civilian workers will be laid off. It's unclear what will happen to the horses.
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