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196 Beacon Street
196 Beacon Street was built ca. 1863 for George Bruce Upton, Jr., and his wife, Geraldine Ipolite (Russell) Rivers Upton.
George Upton was associated with his father's business, which included ship building and ownership, real estate, and railroad interests.
They continued to live there in 1865, but had moved by 1868 and by 1869 were living with his parents at 79 Beacon.
By 1868, 196 Beacon was the home of Israel Whitney and his wife, Mary Hopkins (Flagg) Whitney. They had lived at 14 Temple Place in 1865. They also maintained a home in Beverly.
Israel Whitney began his career as a shipmaster and supercargo in the East India trade. He subsequently became a shipping merchant in Boston in partnership with Thaddeus Nichols. He later became treasurer of the Lowell Manufacturing Corporation (carpet manufacturers), and was a cotton buyer for the New England factories, residing part-time in New Orleans.
Israel Whitney died in November of 1871, and Mary Whitney died in August of 1872.
By 1874, 196 Beacon was the home of Thomas Eugene Graves and his wife, Sarah M. (Thatcher) Graves. In 1872, they had lived in West Newton. Sarah Graves is shown as the owner on the 1874 Hopkins map.
Thomas Graves was a lawyer in partnership with his son, Frank H. Graves, who also lived at 196 Beacon.
They continued to live there in 1875, but by 1876 had moved temporarily to 206 Beacon, and by 1880 were living in Killingly, Connecticut.
196 Beacon was not listed in the 1877 Blue Book, and was shown as vacant in the 1878 Blue Book.
As a side note, the Graves's son, Thomas Thatcher Graves, had served in the Union Army as aide-de-camp to General Weitzel and wrote a much-quoted essay on President Lincoln's entry into the defeated city of Richmond. He was a physician and, in the 1890s, was accused and convicted of murdering a former patient by giving her a bottle of whisky laced with arsenic while she was on vacation in Denver. The Colorado Supreme Court reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial, but he committed suicide in prison before the new trial was held.
By 1879, 196 Beacon was the home of Andrew Varick Stout Anthony and his wife, Mary Aurelia (Walker) Warner Anthony. They had lived at 100 Mount Vernon Street in 1878.
Andrew V. S. Anthony was a noted illustrator and wood engraver. From 1866 to 1889, he supervised the fine arts editions published by Ticknor and Fields and its successors, Fields, Osgood and Co., and James R. Osgood and Company. At the time of the 1880 US Census, publisher James R. Osgood was living at 196 Beacon as a boarder with the Anthonys.
The Anthonys continued to live there in 1882, and probably until about the time of the marriage of their daughter, Helen, to Dr. Henry Phelps Perkins, Jr., in October of 1883. Henry and Helen Perkins's son, James Osgood Ripley Perkins, became a noted actor on Broadway and in silent movies, and his son, Anthony Perkins, was featured in numerous films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Pyscho (1960).
196 Beacon was not listed in the 1884 Blue Book.
By 1885, 196 Beacon was the home of investment banker George Cabot Lee and his wife, Caroline Watts (Haskell) Lee. In 1884, they had lived at 168 Beacon. They also maintained a home in Chestnut Hill.
196 Beacon was not listed in the 1888 Blue Book.
By 1889, it was the home of Mrs. Abigal S. (Gay) Kimball, the widow of carriage maker Theodore T. Kimball. She continued to live there until soon before her death, in July of 1889.
By 1892, it was the home of retired shoe manufacturer James Means and his wife, Helen Goodell (Farnsworth) Means. They had lived at 287 Marlborough Street in 1890. Helen G. Means is shown as the owner of 196 Beacon on the 1908 and 1917 Bromley maps.
Their sons, James Howard Means and Philip Ainsworth Means, lived with them. James Howard Means was married in January of 1915 to Marian Jeffries, and they moved to her family home at 15 Chestnut. He was a physician and medical researcher, and later became chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Philip Means became a noted archeologist and historian, specializing in ancient South American civilizations.
James, Helen, and Philip Means continued to live at 196 Beacon in 1920.
By 1922, it was the home of Dr. William Frederick Boos and his wife, Margaret Theresa (Eskridge) Boos. Margaret Boos is shown as the owner on the 1928 Bromley map.
William Boos was a biological chemist and physician specializing in internal medicine, and maintained his medical office at 196 Beacon. He was a noted toxicologist and provided expert testimony in criminal cases.
In September of 1922, Margaret T. Boos applied for (and subsequently received) permission to construct a two car garage at the rear of the property.
In 1933, the house suffered minor damage from a fire in a fifth floor closet.
William and Margaret Boos continued to live there until about 1935.
The house was shown as vacant in the 1936 City Directory.
By 1936, 196 Beacon was owned by the Franklin Savings Bank. In January of 1936, it applied for (and subsequently received) permission to significantly remodel the house into six apartments, including removing the front bay and brownstone facade and replacing it with a simple brick facade. Franklin Savings Bank is shown as the owner on the 1938 Bromley map.
The property subsequently changed hands, and in June of 1949 was acquired by Dorothy F. Armington. In November of 1952, she applied for (and subsequently received) permission to remove the rear wall of the existing garage, increasing its capacity from two to four cars.
Dorothy Armington continued to own the property for the rest of her life. In August of 1989, the Estate of Dorothy Armington applied for permission to increase the number of units from six to nine. The application subsequently was abandoned.
In October of 1991, 196 Beacon was acquired from the Armington Estate by the Brantum Corporation.
In July of 1998, Brantum Corporation filed for (and subsequently received) permission to reduce the number of units to five, reflecting prior remodeling and consolidation of two apartments.
In August of 1999, it applied for (and subsequently received) permission to renovate the building and convert it into four units. As part of the renovation it restored the front elevation to a more appropriate architectural style, reversing the "modernization" undertaken in 1936 by applying stucco tooled to resemble brownstone, replacing the entrance steps, resigning the windows, and adding a belt course below the top floor windows to (in the words of the Back Bay Architectural Commission) "provide a transitional acknowledgment of the cornice lines of the adjacent properties and to offset the sheerness of the elevation."
In December of 1999, Riverside Beacon LLC converted the property into four condominiums. In June of 2000, two of the units were consolidated and the number was reduced from four to three.


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It has now been a week since returning from my last stint in hospital and for me so much has happened but that may not seem the same to you reading this. I guess for me it has always been about taking small steps forward, always knowing that I have a goal to aim for and coming home was a massive step forward.
With my stomach firmly open and ready to play I have started on the trail towards eating normally. It is funny but one of my lovely friends said to me what are you looking forward to eating most. Bizarrely I couldn't actually answer her as it has been so long since I have eaten anything much I haven't really thought about food. Anyhow as the week has worn on so food has slowly started to come back in to my life. It is still not natural, I mean I don't get up in the morning and even think about breakfast. I do think about taking our dog Waffle for a walk but not really about breakfast. Having been told to start with cakes I have sampled cherry cake, lemon drizzle cake, apple cake and other varieties. Even my friends that come by to say hello give me their cake orders before they arrive. One was so put out that there was no more apple cake left that he almost didn't come, that was until I told him my daughter makes a mean lemon drizzle cake and five slices later he did leave a happy man.
Progress has been made though beyond cake and I am now eating different things throughout the day. I think raspberry ripple ice cream has been my favourite thing so far although I am a little upset that my favourite mint chocolate flavour hasn't made an appearance. The one thing that hasn't yet happened though is the retraining of my brain to start thinking about food. Thankfully my wife does appear with a plate and some food on it at different times of the day so the great bowel transplant foodathon has begun. It has though also coincided with the great stoma outputathon. I am averaging over 2 litres a day and although I do put about a litre of water back in to my bowel most evenings this constant emptying has become a nuisance. I know that I shouldn't moan so apologies for that.
One moan that I think I am entitled too is the state of toilets. I met with someone I hadn't met before to go over some future (seems distant at the moment) work ideas, together with a friend, in a Starbucks. The weather was beautiful and so sitting outside made perfect sense. Anyhow whilst they made small talk I went off to the loo for an "empty". So you walk in to the loo and then what, well I have to place my enteral feed bag down, squat down and empty my stoma bag. Pretty easy, done it hundreds of times; but what do you do when the loo is filthy. Didn't want to put my feed bag down on the floor as it was soaking so I found a dry spot in the corner. Then I realised that my lead from my bag to my stomach wouldn't stretch far enough for me to lean over the toilet. So I hook it over my shoulder carefully twisting my body so as not to let it drop in to the toilet. Now I have to squat down, except at home I would kneel. Can't kneel here as the floor is dirty and wet. The light bulb moment! I know I will empty in the sink and then wash it all away. I carefully open the end of the bag and empty a little in to the sink, then turn on the tap to flush it away. Crikey the tap doesn't work and the water only trickles out, now what am I going to do? Ok I know I will carefully go over to the loo and trust my leg muscles to stay strong whilst I squat. Over I lean, oh no a little leaks out of the end of the stoma as I haven't closed it fully. So there I was, crap on my trouser leg, crap in a sink that doesn't work, my back pack by this time had swung off my shoulder and in to my tummy and all this when I know two people are waiting for me......
Suffice to say I sorted things out eventually but why do shops keep their toilets so filthy? Our conversation carries on, I am in full flow, things are doing well and then disaster. My bag has filled again very quickly and I need to do something. So I do what I think many stoma patients have done in the past and ignore things for a bit. Stupid eh, I mean where is it going to go. It is not going to think I know I will dribble back in to my bowel. Eventually when I think everyone is relaxed, I go and do the whole toilet routine again. This time though my back pack decides to swing round off my shoulder and in to my stomach just at the moment that I am emptying my stoma bag.
Anyhow - it was a positive get together and hopefully it wont be long before I can actually start to think about work.
Food was going very well until last night when I decided to do a bit of recycling. I wouldn't mind but it was only an omelette. Immediately my mind thinks oh great that's the botox over and done with. Then I reckoned it was worth having another go today and see what happens and I have to say that at the time of writing this things have stayed down.
Coming out of hospital this last time I definitely felt a great sense of optimism and decided that as well as eating a bit I would get off my backside and do some exercise. I have been out with the dog 3 or 4 times a day. In fact yesterday evening when I went to go out, the dog stayed in his basket with his eyes shut, I think I shattered him! Total wimp I mean who has had the bowel transplant. I do have another reason for getting fit though. There is an event called the British Transplant Games happening at the end of August and I would really love to try and be well enough to enter the golf tournament. My place has been secured I just need to ensure that my health is ok. If my transplant surgeon or coordinator is reading this then don't laugh. I know I haven't mentioned it before but for me it is something to aim for; a goal to try and reach. I know that I may not get there but it is something to focus on.
My other pet focus of late has been the state of hospital food. Some of you may have seen a report in the UK press that MacDonald's and KFC have been shown to be more nutritious than NHS food. How can that be right? Eating healthy food is essential in hospital especially to our family of bowel diseases yet currently it works out that roughly 80p is all that is spent per meal per person. It's a scandal.
Talking of scandals I am currently in a fight with the government department that deals with benefit payments. So far mine seem to have been stopped without any explanation. Thank you to everyone who has shown support and also offered advice. Believe me this is one fight I intend to win.
I guess I had better sign off now, stoma bag to empty and I can hear the clattering of plates in the kitchen. I suspect that means food. Am back to Oxford next Wednesday for my full MOT am just keeping everything crossed that I am not sick again.
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My book club theme this month is Mystery books and we are all charged with cooking a dish that has a mystery ingredient that everyone else has to guess. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good mystery ingredient and dish? Thank you!
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there's also recipes for chocolate cake with mayo
Here's a recipe for brownies with cayenne, anise and cinnamon:
Freeze coleslaw or shredded cabbage. When thawed, add to your favorite meatball or meatloaf mixture (about a cup to a mix that has a pound of ground meat). Freezing breaks the cell walls, jumpstarting the melding of the cabbage into the meat. If it is even visible at all in the finished dish, it looks like onion. It adds moisture, tenderness, and mellow sweetness to the meat. Nobody thinks it's cabbage.
Make meatloaf cake. If you get the potatoes smooth enough, you can't tell it's not real cake.
I like the tomato soup cake idea. But if you are in a pie-making mood, think about mock apple pie, made with ritz crackers. Also online. The crackers kind of smoosh down while baking into clumps that look like apple, and when seasoned with some butter and cinnamon taste like apple pie. Not the greatest apple pie, but apple pie.
I made this and served it years ago. I served it as apple pie and noone questioned it in the least.
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Another delicious dessert made with Ritz crackers - it tastes a bit like a blonde brownie, different texture because of the nuts and egg whites. I bet no one would guess that crackers are the main ingredient. Both my mom and grandmother used to make this, it's great served slightly warm with whipped cream - and homemade whipped cream makes a huge difference. I'm not a snob about canned, but there's a lot of sugar here, and the plain chilled homemade really makes a nice contrast as well as a better texture. You want to crush the crackers very fine with a rolling pin.
You have lots if ideas for desserts so far, the recipe I'd probably make is Seafood Lasagne, which is perfect for a group. The mystery ingredient is Pernod. When I've made it everyone loves it, and it stirs up quite a bit of conversation as people ask what is that flavor. I start with the recipe in Silver Palate, and use different seafood and veggies. It's delicious and beautiful.
Lamb with Preserved Lemons - the lemons are the surprise that add the kick
Chocolate Avocado Coconut Muffins? http://www.foodbuzz.com/recipes/20635...
Lamb with Muhammara with Pomegranate Molasses? http://www.forkfulofnews.com/?p=3923
i make Salmon Croquettes using almond meal to bind, and they are always extraordinarily light and fluffy, and people always want to know why and what the secret is... i don't know if it's my recipe or the almond meal or both... i served them last saturday with a creamy garlic dill sauce to great raves.
Make your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, replacing the chips with chopped Nestle Crunch cereal. Then stir in about a cup of Rice Krispies to the finished dough. They add tremendous texture, but no one knows why.
Tofu chocolate mousse/pudding. Use Bittman's recipe, but cut back on the sugar a tad. No one will ever guess it's soy and not devilish dairy.
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Paula Deen has made that in guest appearances on TV talk shows more than once. It must be in her cookbooks and/or website.
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a funny thought -- make a paula deen recipe without butter, then tell people it's her recipe and watch them never guess that the secret is that it's butter free... oh wait, i'm not sure one of those exists.
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I make Green Goddess dressing as a crudite dip, and even the anchovy haters never suspect that there are anchovies in it. "What's that delicious flavor," they always ask. I think because it is so green no one suspects anchovies.
I had a wonderful salsa made of kiwi, avocado and pomegranate seeds that had us all dissecting to identify the ingredients.
Make a simple vinaigrette using oil, vinegar, a little dijon mustard, some finely chopped shallots, then add pomegranate molasses to it. Put it on a nice salad with fresh greens, maybe a little fruit (whatever's in season where you live), and some chopped roasted almonds.
The pomegranate molasses makes a big difference and I'm betting most people won't be able to identify it.
people love this spread, and never guess the secret ingredient (unless they've read this post of mine before, of course. ;-).
This recipe is from a friend married to a retired Colonel, and so has years of entertaining informing her repertoire. This spread is amazing, because it is so savory and mysterious. Nobody suspects smoked oysters, but everyone is quite addicted.
The recipe below can be halved. Try it -- even if you think you don't care for smoked anything!
Smoked Oyster Cream Cheese Roll
16 ounces cream cheese
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 small onion, grated
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/8 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
2 cans smoked oysters, well drained and finely chopped
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
Cream together cream cheese, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion, mayonnaise. Blend in oysters. Taste for salt. Shape into a log on wax paper, tightly wrapped, and chill for an hour. Then roll in chopped parsley, rewrap in plastic and chill for a few hours (or can serve immediately.)
Festive Variation (but NOT so mysterious): Don't add oysters into the cheese blend. Instead, spread cheese mixture on wax paper until it is about 12 x 8 inches and less than 1/2 inch thick. Chill in refrigerator about one hour. Then sprinkle finely chopped smoked oysters over this, and roll up like a roulade. Coat with parsley, following directions above.
Serve with crackers.
Hey, OP! Anything strike your fancy yet? BTW, I'd think twice about using any mystery ingredient that's a common allergen, such as shellfish or nuts.
I made Mario Batali's Chocolate and Valpolicella Crema for exactly the same theme dinner - nobody could guess that there was red wine in the chocolate pudding. It is quite intense, and terrifically good.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — For the last several years, the New York Court System's budget has remained essentially flat. The state's top judge says that is having an adverse effect on access to the legal system.
"We cannot continue to take flat budgets and serve the people. It isn't good for the people. It isn't good for any branches of the government. Courtrooms are closing at 4:30. It isn't good for the people that they can't get equal justice because they can't get access to the courts," said Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
Lippman is backing a 2 1/2 percent increase to the court system's budget after years of no increases.
This year's $142 billion budget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo would increase the court budget by 2 percent, but Lippman says after years of flat spending, more money is needed to catch up.
"What we've been telling the governor's office and the Legislature is the judiciary is critical to our tripartite system of government and to our society," Lippman said.
Lippman first made the appeal for the higher budget in his State of the Judiciary address. Asked about the proposal last week, Cuomo was not receptive.
"I say welcome to economic reality and welcome to the situation that families deal with all day long in this state," said Cuomo.
Lippman may have some help from his allies in the state Legislature. His longtime friend, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, backs the idea of a higher budget increase for the coming fiscal year.
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Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) tries to save the Jews by bringing as many as he can to an ammunitions plant that may not produce any ammunition.
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Snoogans 06/08/2014 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 3.5/4
This is a greatly made film, by some greatly talented individuals. A true cinematic wonder, at times. It almost feels like you are transported back to this exact time and place. There's no attempt to dramatize the story. It has an unrelenting real-world feel to the actual horrors that took place. The acting across the board is great. But, for me, the show stealer is Ralph Fiennes. Wow! I've always been an admirer of his talent. Personally, I only feel that it comes short of a 4 Star rating because of the seriously slow start. I don't think a good handful of scenes throughout are completely necessary. I would be even more into the story if they'd been left out. Other than this small annoyance, the film is impeccable.
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Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) tries to save the Jews by bringing as many as he can to an ammunitions plant that may not produce any ammunition. This movie is heartbreaking and shocking and all of the cast all do amazing jobs in they roles.
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The subject matter itself is of enough grave importance to make this film great, but Spielberg handles the material with the right combination of artistic creativity and documentarian directness. The use in color, often noted, is brilliant, and the stark photography allows you to focus on the commanding performances. Fiennes and Neeson play their cat-and-mouse game to a hilt and their shared scenes are the film's best. This is, without a doubt, Spielberg's most personal film and one of his very best.
09/16/2014 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Perhaps the hardest movie I tried sitting through.
I've actually yet to finish this movie because I find it so emotionally distressful. I've started it at least three times but I always stop at the halfway mark of its running time. The Holocaust was the greatest moral failure of the 20th century and among the worst crimes against humanity in recorded history. Schindler's List pulls no punches like later films such as Saving Private Ryan, Hotel Rwanda, and 12 Years A Slave in order to make modern audiences feel better about themselves. At the same time, it's a fantastic story with some of Steven Spielberg's finest directorial work to date as well as featuring Liam Neeson's best performance of his career. Ralph Fiennes is abit hammier than I'd expect him to be; there are scenes where he is so evil (accurate as it my be) that his character d...
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"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
"Schindler's List" is described as a film about the Holocaust, but the Holocaust supplies the field for the story, rather than the subject. The film is really two parallel character studies--one of a con man, the other of a psychopath. Oskar Schindler, who swindles the Third Reich, and Amon Goeth, who represents its pure evil, are men created by the opportunities of war.
In telling their stories, Steven Spielberg found a way to approach the Holocaust, which is a subject too vast and tragic to be encompassed in any reasonable way by fiction. In the ruins of the saddest story of the century, he found, not a happy ending, but at least one affirming that resistance to evil is possible and can succeed. In the face of the Nazi charnel houses, it is a statement that has to be made, or we sink...
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A shocking biopic.
We see a Polish town, a wide shot in a street. Soldiers run up and down, tearing children away from their parents, executing resisting inhabitants and vandalizing the buildings.
Suddenly, a little girl comes out of one of the buildings and starts wandering down the road lined with mayhem.
She is wearing a red coat.
The film isn't in color. But we see the color of her coat.
Schindler's List is a movie that I find hard to call a movie. Usually, movies are fun and uplifting, made for entertainment. But once in a while comes along a film that is more than entertainment. It is heartbreaking filmmaking.
Schindler's List is more an odyssey than a movie. It is the truth. A part of history, telling the story of a Nazi who took pity on the Jews and helped them, because no matter what anyone ...
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Yesterday, on the first day back after its August recess, the Senate confirmed Jill Pryor to a Georgia-based seat on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now-Judge Pryor had originally been nominated to fill this judicial emergency back in February 2012, making her the longest-pending judicial nominee in the Senate.
Judge Pryor's confirmation vote follows the confirmation of three other female Court of Appeals judges in July -- moving the percentage of active female federal court of appeals judges even closer to 35%. She becomes the 8th female circuit court judge, and the 12th court of appeals judge overall, to be confirmed this year. She is the 23rd female circuit court judge confirmed during President Obama's Administration. Read more »
Last week, the Senate left for its August recess after having confirmed Pamela Harris to a Maryland-based seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and obtaining cloture on the nomination of Jill Pryor to a seat on the Eleventh Circuit (her confirmation vote presumably will take place shortly after the Senate returns in early September). Read more »
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Today, the Senate unanimously confirmed four district court nominees, including one woman: Paul Byron and Carlos Mendoza to the Middle District of Florida; Beth Bloom, to the Southern District of Florida; and Geoffrey Crawford, to the District of Vermont. Read more »
Earlier this week, the Senate confirmed Judge Darrin Gayles (to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida), Judge Salvador Mendoza (to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington), and Staci Yandle (to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois). As White House Counsel Neil Eggleston noted in a blog post, all three of these confirmed judges have broken barriers in their respective districts. Judge Gayles is the first openly gay African American man to be confirmed as a lifetime-appointed federal judge in our nation's history; Judge Mendoza is the first Hispanic judge to serve on his court; and now-Judge Yandle is the first African American to serve on her court and the first openly gay lifetime-appointed federal judge in Illinois. This marks the first time that two openly gay judges have been confirmed on the same day. In addition, with today's confirmations, President Obama has appointed more female federal judges than any other President and more Hispanic judges than any other President. Read more »
Yesterday, Nancy Moritz was confirmed to a Kansas-based seat on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Moritz, formerly a Justice on the Kansas Supreme Court, becomes the third active female judge on the Tenth Circuit. She is the 18th woman confirmed to the federal Courts of Appeal under the Obama Administration.
Following Judge Moritz's confirmation, there are 20 female nominees currently pending before the Senate. Read more »
March is women's history month, and, as such, it is a good opportunity take stock of the gains women have made in terms of their representation on the federal judiciary in the past year and under the Obama Administration more generally. One of President Obama's signature accomplishments was the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, where three women now serve for the first time in history. While the Supreme Court tends to garner more attention, President Obama has had an impact on the gender balance on lower federal courts as well. While the percentage of women still lags in other arenas, for example with women comprising only 4.6% of CEOs in Fortune 500 companies, women have increasingly been appointed to the federal bench: slightly under 43% of the President Obama's confirmed nominees over the course of his administration have been women. (This percentage is nearly double the percentage of women among President George W. Bush's confirmed judges.)
Over the last year, President Obama nominated and saw confirmed two outstanding women to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals—widely viewed as the second most important court in the country. The confirmation of these two women, Judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia ("Nina") Pillard, brings the number of active women judges on the D.C. Circuit to nearly 50%, a historic high. 2013 also marked the confirmation of Jane Kelly to the Eight Circuit, important because she is only the second female to ever have graced that court. And, just this week, Carolyn B. McHugh was confirmed to the Tenth Circuit, bringing the number of active female judges on that court to two (out of eleven). Read more »
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Christopher Nolan owes a lot to 1977: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Spy Who Loved Me—three movies he often cites as major influences. But more important, 1977 was the year his dad took him to the theater to see 2001: A Space Odyssey. The precocious kid instantly fell in love, and a career was born. "Movies become indistinguishable from our own memories," Nolan says. "You file them away and they become very personal." Those memories burrow through time and erupt in his films, so we journeyed back to see which works and artists have incepted him.
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As fire raced through the complex of old industrial buildings next to the Tecumseh Street bridge Monday afternoon, neighbors came out to see the spectacle and one obvious question arose: What's in those buildings?
No one seemed certain. Lots of old stuff stuck in storage, junk, some said. There was an old camper that had been in there for years. One building had construction foam. An old trailer had been sitting in one building for 14 years, one man said.
The next day as people reminisced about the history of the century-old buildings – Wayne Pump was based there once, and they made bombs in one of the buildings during World War II – one name did come up.
A kid named Alex who is an amazing welder had a shop in there. He made turbochargers and manifolds for Hondas, for people who wanted to turn them into race cars. He even had some patents, one man said, but he couldn't remember his last name.
I tracked down Alex. His name is Alex Neumann. He's 28 years old. When he was a kid his dad bought him a go-kart, and he learned how to tinker.
His senior year at Northrop High School he designed and engineered his own turbocharger.
Later his parents lent him $3,000 and he started a company – one of several – called Neukin Motor Development. For eight years he had been slowly building the business, producing intake manifolds and turbochargers and other engine parts for the custom market in the U.S. and Europe.
He didn't make just those, though. He was tinkering with solar power and had built a solar-powered model airplane that would just fly and fly, he said. He had a company called Slimfan that made engine fans for race cars, too.
Neumann, it turns out, isn't just a welder. He's an inventor. He gets ideas for products and he makes them. Stuff I'm passionate about, he says.
He never studied engineering. You know how the Internet is, he said. You can study lots of different ideas there, he said.
It's a lot of fun, like the American dream, he said. It's how anything is done, with a lot of passion.
And Neumann seems to have plenty of passion. His little shop, with a concrete floor, reinforced concrete roof and metal walls – the kind of place he thought couldn't possibly burn – was full of computers containing all his ideas, pictures, prototypes, computers used for three-dimensional design, computer-run machinery used to make his products.
Then there was what he called proprietary stuff – custom jigs, a couple of customers' cars, and his car, a BMW he planned to sell to use for a down payment on a house where he planned to build his own shop.
You'd be surprised the crazy stuff I was working on, Neumann said.
Everything he'd designed in the last eight years or so, all the specs, exactly how to make all of his products, were on those computers.
Now it's all gone. Everything baked first, he said, and then the concrete roof collapsed. There is nothing but rubble now. It's sort of like having his own library at Alexandria burn.
It's pretty mind-blowing, Neumann said. I went from being able to do anything to not being able to change my oil.
The total loss was probably in the $60,000-to-$70,000 range, none of it insured, but then you can't insure ideas and specs, eight years of intellectual work completely erased.
It's not, Oh, this guy's turbo shop is gone.' My whole brain just got wiped, all my tools, all my ideas.
It totally disrupts your life's plan, he said.
But Neumann is dealing with it. I'm not in horrible shape. I ran the company for eight years. I know how to deal with stress, including the stress of just having had his first child three weeks ago.
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Perhaps the greatest shock of all was the fact that so many people appeared to be shocked. Excusing young people, who might not have heard of the Catholic gulags, many of us knew that what the Church did was hideous. The report is a kind of vindication for those unfortunate enough to be in one of those places but, because of the Christian Brothers, no priest, nun or brother can be named.
It's still going on. Canon law is designed to protect the Church but must be subjugated to state law. The Catholic Church in Ireland is in rag-order after these latest revelations of abuse, including sexual abuse. There have been deaths too and it is only a matter of time until details come out. For instance, if you were single, you stood more than four times the rate of losing your baby than married parents. Single women were buried too – all for a few pain-killers and decent cleanliness.
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Since 2008, the K/9 rate has gone up from 6.8 to 7.7 -- a huge change. But hitters' swing rate (% of pitches swung at) has gone from 45% in 2008 to.... 45% today. No change at all. What has changed is contact rate when hitters do swing, down from 80% to 78%. And strikes/looking are also up a bit, from 15% to 16% of all pitches. You can argue the rising K rate is a function of hitters swinging from their heels more (although this is almost certainly wrong too), but it certainly isn't a function of hitters being more patient.
Could this be an actual effect of testing for amphetamines? Slightly slower bat speed on average? Slightly more tired players on average?
Still, it seems to be true that the big increase in hitters' taking pitches came in the 90s.
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A Baraboo woman suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on Interstate 39 Saturday night that was allegedly caused by a drunken driver, officials said.
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A Toyota Scion and a Toyota Corolla were traveling southbound on I-39/90/94 when they collided, investigators said. The Corolla went into the media, rolled over and stopped in the northbound lanes. The Scion stopped in the southbound lanes.
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Can someone in the forum help me with this please. I own a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone which is on a business Tarrif. I want to buy some apps but do not want to pay via my vodaphone tarrif on my business contract, I need to buy these apps private so they do not show on my bills. I have my google email account set up. & can also use Google checkout if thats safe.
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I've bought an app for my Galaxy S but I didn't do it through my mobile phone operator. I bought it online and did it through my PC. It was then sent to my mobile. You'll need to log in with your Google account (e-mail and password). Android Market
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Does this help? How to buy Android Apps
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Thanks Woolwell, is Google Checkout fairly safe. Never used it before.
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As far as I am aware Google check out is as safe as any online purchase.
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Microsoft India has warned customers of its online store that their financial details may have been compromised, backtracking on a previous statement to the contrary. Chinese hackers, apparently members of a group known as Evil Shadow Team, were thought to have breached Microsoft's systems earlier this month, defacing the …
Tut tut tut
Tut. That is all.
Forced by who ?
"In time honoured fashion, however, Redmond has now been forced to admit that this prognosis may have been a little over-hasty, and optimistic, according to Wall Street Journal India blogger and Microsoft customer, Amit Agarwal."
Would it also be possible that the Indian branch tried to keep things covered up and that Redmond has now forced them to put the cards on the table?
That scenario sounds much more likely to me, yet the article is a bit vague there. As such; "forced by who?".
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Whether you're right or not, it was an "over-hasty", "optimistic" and premature announcement for MS to make before MS itself had checked the facts. Nothing wrong there, in terms of journalism.
Don't say "It hasn't happened" unless you've absolutely, cast-iron, 100% verified it hasn't. Or you'll look like a pillock who doesn't know what the hell their own company is doing. You could say "We're investigating", or "Our inquiries are still being pursued but we don't believe that..." etc.
If you say, in effect, "Your card numbers are safe", you better be damn sure they are.
When Steam was compromised a few months back, they took WEEKS to investigate and still gave only "We think they only got encrypted copies". As such, they didn't look half as incompetent as MS have here (and it's still believed that not one single card number has been stolen from Steam BECAUSE everything was properly encrypted in the first place).
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Or, conversely, the operators of the store told Microsoft that the CC details were safe... why would MS believe otherwise? And how would they prove it?
It is quite likely that it is indeed the investigations that MS have carried out that have forced the provider to come clean...
Now, should MS have made the statement in the first place? Debateable. operators said it was safe, should MS have believed them?
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Where did you pull that one out from ? I know, from your the forefathers grave who were l basically conniving theives who looted the subcontinent!
Rich I tell ya
You're right, but there is one unwritten company "law" which is even more important: never /ever/ attack colleagues / co-workers in public. Because that will make the whole company look bad. So if this branch said that there was nothing wrong; why would HQ (Redmond) question that ?
Although this is about Microsoft as a company I just can't help wonder if the main cause of the problem wasn't with the Indian branch itself.
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Picture this:
Microsoft (see there, I spelled it correctly) is now caught with `egg on its face`, and its CEO is "embarrassed". An explanation is demanded. People need to be held accountable.
So, the fools that told Microsoft are hauled into Ballmer's office, and get to experience one of Ballmer's `infamous` chair throwing episodes. Unfortunately, for them, they are IN the chair as it sails out the window.
Icon department, can we get a chair throwing icon please!
Otherwise, FAIL, because that is the obvious choice.
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"Would it also be possible that the Indian branch tried to keep things covered up and that Redmond has now forced them to put the cards on the table?"
Absolutely, Microsoft has never been known to release misleading statements to the public.
I seem to recall reading that the servers operated in India were by a non-MS subsidiary and not "MS India".
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But why would MS not operate the web store? Can't they scale a website for global use?
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Maybe they outsourced it to India.... Oh wait!
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