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On Saturday, May 16, and Sunday, May 17, the fourth annual Super-Con will bring the biggest and brightest stars of comics, sci-fi, and pop culture to the San Jose Convention Center's South Hall.
SUPER GUESTS (Visit www.super-con.com for a complete, up-to-the-minute list):
Super-Con's impressive guest list of comics professionals places it among the top fan-friendly conventions in the U.S.:
Anime Guests, voice artists for anime's popular Full Metal Alchemist and Hellsing.
Travis Charest, cover artist; WildC.A.T.s, Metabarons, Star Wars art.
Frank Cho, Liberty Meadows, Avengers, Shanna the She-Devil.
Bruce Dern, Oscar-nominated actor, star of film and TV, including Silent Running, Great Gatsby, and Big Love. First comic book convention appearance.
Michael Golden, Doctor Strange, Micronauts, Nightwing.
Adam Hughes, cover artist; Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Tomb Raider.
Joe Jusko, painter of Tomb Raider, Tarzan, Vampirella, numerous trading cards series.
Bill Morrison, co-founder of Bongo Comics, publisher of The Simpsons comic books.
Eduardo Risso, 100 Bullets, Batman: Broken City.
John Wesley Shipp, The Flash, Emmy-winning actor.
Marina Sirtis, Star Trek's Deanna Troi.
Arthur Suydam, Marvel Zombies, Conan, Batman, Death Dealer.
Jane Weidlin, the Go-Go's, VH1's The Surreal Life.
And many, many more!
Super-Con 2009 features panels, Q&A discussions with special guests, displays, and presentations by icons and industry leaders. The 4th annual Super-Con Cosplay Contest allows those daring souls to roam the convention hall in costume (providing photo opportunities galore) before the formal costume contest pits hero vs. hero. The Art Auction allows conventioneers to bid on one-of-a-kind pieces of art created especially for the auction by our super guests. In all, Super-Con has over 80,000 square feet of space to play with this year, so expect more excitement than ever, plus a great array of comic book, anime, and specialty toy vendors! Full convention programming info is at www.super-con.com.
Saturday, May 16: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 17: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center, South Hall, 435 S. Market St., San Jose.
I-880 and I-101 are less than a five-minute drive from the Center, which also has free weekend parking in the rear and nearby underground lots. Special rates at the San Jose Marriott are available to Super-Con guests (a limited block of rooms have been set aside for Super-Con).
Tickets for Super-Con are $20 for a one-day pass or $30 for a two-day pass. Tickets may be purchased three ways: 1) at the door on event day; 2) online at www.super-con.com; and 3) in advance at your local comic book retailer. Advance tickets purchased online or from your local comic book retailer will receive a $5 discount. Additionally, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in uniform, and other attendees in costume are eligible for a discount.
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* 2013 Subaru Forester SUV * Petrol and diesel engines; 4WD as standard * On sale in summer 2013...
This the 2013 Subaru Forester, which is due on sale in the UK next summer.
The all-new Forester gets new bodywork that gives it a sharper and more modern appearance than the current car.
A chunkier front end, with more angular headlights and a large front grille give the Forester a bolder look.
Although the new Forester's overall shape is similar to the current car's, it has a distinctive new 'shoulder' line along its sides, pronounced wheelarches and more sculpted tailgate and rear lights.
Full technical specifications are yet to be revealed, but Subaru has confirmed that all Foresters will have four-wheel drive.
2013 Subaru Forester has more sculpted tailgate and rear lights
More angular headlights and a large front grille give a bolder look
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Most of the engines will be updated versions of those in the current car. The entry-level petrol unit will be a 148bhp 2.0; there'll also be an all-new turbocharged 2.0 that develops around 276bhp. The diesel option will be a 148bhp 2.0.
All new Subaru Forester models have four-wheel drive as standard
Choice of 2.0-litre petrol and diesel engines
Prices are yet to be confirmed, but we'd expect a small increase over the current model, which costs between 23,120 and 30,820.
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When the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission started suing businesses for denying jobs to former convicts, the attorneys general of Georgia, South Carolina, Kansas and six other states began fighting back.
They sent a letter to the agency saying they were defending all U.S. businesses' access to criminal screening as well as upholding some of their state laws that prohibit hiring former criminals in certain positions like daycare workers. But the EEOC argues refusal to hire people who have criminal records results in illegal - if unintentional - racial discrimination because more blacks than whites are behind bars.
The issue sets up a complex tug-of-war between competing policy interests.
On one hand is the desire to reduce burdens on businesses to begin hiring the types of workers they have confidence in. On the other is the goal of getting those who have paid their debt to society into productive employment so they'll pay taxes, support their families and won't be tempted to commit new crimes.
"It is sometimes difficult for employers to navigate all the details," said Sarah H. Lamar, a labor lawyer with HunterMaclean in Savannah.
R. Daniel Beal, a labor lawyer with McKenna Long & Aldridge, one of the nation's largest law firms, says the conflict puts employers in the middle.
"An employer can be caught between complying with a state law that has a blanket rule (against hiring one with a conviction for certain jobs) and the EEOC guidance," he said.
Advocates for former prisoners argue that since most convictions are drug related and not for violent crimes or theft, then a conviction shouldn't automatically disqualify a job applicant who might otherwise be well suited.
"With our clients, we always remember that a human being's life is worth more than the worse decision they ever made. Once a person has gone to prison and done their time, we have to give them opportunities to turn over a new leaf," said Sara Totonchi, executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Employment is difficult enough for anyone in this economy, but doubly so for a former inmate. Most end up in low-skill/low-wage jobs with no real responsibility.
Even state government can frustrate them. For example, Georgia prisons teach barbering skills to prepare inmates for jobs on the outside, but the state's licensing board used to automatically reject any application that included a past conviction. That's since changed, but other examples exist, advocates say.
Every year in the United States, 600,000 people leave prison. Blacks make up more than 40 percent even though they amount to only about 10 percent of the U.S. population.
That's why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has made it a priority to eliminate obstacles to their hiring. It worked with the EEOC on developing the agency's newfound emphasis on criminal-background screening.
"The issue is making sure that employers know they should not discriminate against who have paid their debt to society," said Hilary Shelton, the national organization's senior vice president for policy.
In April, 2012, the agency issued a "guidance" which doesn't have the force of a law but is meant to inform employers about the leanings of the administration. It said employers shouldn't automatically reject applicants with a conviction but rather look at the individual circumstances of the crime, how long ago it happened and whether it applies to the job in question.
Several attorneys general raised objections.
Then last month, EEOC attorneys filed federal lawsuits against BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg and Dollar General stores in Chicago.
BMW changed subcontractors in its parts warehouse, and before the workers could move from the old subcontractor to the new one, BMW insisted on terminating any with a past conviction. Of the 88 workers fired, 80 percent were black, according to the suit, including some who had work in the warehouse for a dozen years.
Dollar General has a longstanding rule not to hire former convicts in its stores. Between 2004-07, it rejected 7 percent of non-black applicants and 10 percent of black applicants once convictions turned up in background checks despite initially offering them jobs conditional on the screening.
"The gross disparity in the rates at which black and non-black conditionally employees were discharged on account of defendant's criminal background-check policy is statistically significant," the EEOC lawyers wrote in the suit.
Both companies refused to budge when EEOC tried to negotiate.
Friday, Dollar General issued a statement endorsing the stance of the attorneys general.
"We believe the letter is well-reasoned and grounded in both the law and common sense," the statement read.
In their letter, the state officials argued that the EEOC is going beyond its mission to police discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, religion and nationality.
"But no matter how unfair a bright-line, criminal-background check might seem to some, it is not your agency's role to expand the protections of (the Civil Rights Act) under the pretext of preventing racial discrimination," the attorneys general wrote. "If Congress wishes to protect former criminals from employment discrimination, it can amend the law."
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said the nine letter signers are watching to see the legal reasoning in the lawsuits before deciding whether to join them as parties.
Background checks have saved lives, according to Olens. And so, failing to do them could open businesses to lawsuits from the victims of any new crimes by an employee with a criminal record, he said.
"In this world that we live in with sexual predators and whatever, clearly you have to check the criminal background of your son or daughters' Little League coach," he said. "And in this litigious world we live in, you have to expect that a parent would sue an employer for negligence if something happened.
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President Donald Trump's former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman was left speechless for several seconds on Friday's episode of the CBS show "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition" when her cast mate Brandi Glanville posed a shocking question about her former boss.
"Did you ever sleep with him?" the former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star asked.
"With who?" Manigault Newman replied.
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"Hell no!" Manigault Newman said. "God! Brandi, that's horrible!"
"Apparently, a lot of girls do," Glanville said.
"Well, I'm not," Omarosa said. "Now, there is somebody in the White House who is sleeping around with everybody, but she is not me. I've never had to do that."
Piers Morgan Claims Omarosa Asked Him to Have Sex During Celebrity Apprentice to Make Lots of Money
Manigault Newman, the "villain" of season one of Trump's former show "The Apprentice," has been making headlines for revealing details about her time in the White House. Last year, the reality star was made an aide to the president and the director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison. She was fired in December.
Brandi, who competed on "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2015, said she heard rumors that some contestants on the show had slept with Trump when he was its host. Manigault Newman asked her if she ever heard her name in the rumors.
"No. He seemed to like you so much, I was just wondering," Glanville said.
"God no," Manigault Newman said. "I'm just ratings gold."
Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Claudia Jordan, who also competed on "Celebrity Apprentice," raised eyebrows in January when she commented on Trump and Manigault Newman's relationship in an interview on the Unstable'D podcast, saying "There is some talk that there may have been some inappropriateness between the two. Allegedly."


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Kelsey Grammer's very public divorce last year from former spouse, Camille, is about to become a little more public again.
That's because the Boss star is opening up like never before during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
"You already knew your marriage was over, it had already gone on too long, according to you, because it was over when it started and it was a facade," Winfrey reiterates to Grammer what he has already told her. "But you lacked the courage to come home and say something."
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Nodding his head in agreement, Grammer says, "Yeah, I did. And I did believe that I owed something to that person, that I owed fame."
"You believed that you owed her fame?" a surprised Winfrey asks.
"Yeah, because she had given up so much to just endure this horrible life she had with me," Grammer replies, noting that there is a bit of sarcasm there.
Kelsey ties the knot with Kayte again
Meanwhile, sitting alongside Grammer, is his new wife Kayte, who is participating in her first TV interview.
"So, you are painted as the other woman who stole him from his marriage and his children," comments Winfrey. "What do you want to say about that?"
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The sins of yesterday's overeating are forgotten! Hooray for new days.
10 March 2010
Wednesday in food
The sins of yesterday's overeating are forgotten! Hooray for new days.
9 comments:
- Couples Kitchen said...
So good to see a young man eating proper food! He'll be a world class food critic in no time!
- March 11, 2010 at 12:42 AM
- Bob said...
Mmmm, venison. Man, I haven't had that in years! I need to cultivate some hunter friends. Heh.
- March 11, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Your son is a doll. You know of course, no one will look at your food when you have such a cutie-pie as a model.
- March 11, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- Sippity Sup said...
Venison. Cool! GREG
- March 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Chris said...
Bear mush without any bear ingredients? (ha ha)
Your husband cleans up for you? That's exceptional. I mess up the kitchen and my amazing wife cleans behind me...sometimes too soon when I was still using whatever it was she washed or put up;)
- March 11, 2010 at 5:26 PM
- Reeni said...
Glad you had a good day! I had sweet potato fries too! We seem to be eating some of the same things this week. Your son is so cute!
- March 11, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- Fresh Local and Best said...
Your son is a cutie! The venison may have been a mess, but I'm sure it was very good.
- March 11, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Tina said...
Joie – Good for you. Another day, a clean slate….you are doing remarkably well noting your food choices.
I would love to eat a venison steak! This weekend I will buy some Marmite and see if that works…spread it thinly on toast.
Oh, the fried sweet potatoes – those are great. A local place serves them and they are da bomb!
- March 12, 2010 at 3:56 AM
- Sutapa said...
Joie it's great to see that our future generation is giving thought to healthy food.I think your lifestyle is inspiring your kids.So you deserve a big applause for being such a wonderful Mom.May God bless you.
Hugs and Kisses to my cute little foody friend.
Love Always.
- March 13, 2010 at 7:54 AM


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Blog [David Norfolk says: I don't like most surveys I see – they're normally from the armed and dangerous wing of the PR industry – but they can be useful, when done properly. So I was interested when Richard Collins (he wrote a piece for Reg Dev on test-driven development here earlier this year) pointed me at this piece from one of his staff – and I thought it was worth sharing with our readers – , Editor]
Bob Cramblitt says:
We've all seen them, been frustrated by them, and sometimes been the culprits producing them : the surveys from hell, larded with vague questions, multiple choices that don't represent any of your choices, off-target assumptions, conclusions that have been reached before the results are in.
Red Gate Software thought its survey was different – more enlightened. And most of it was. But, there were the two questions so poorly designed that people felt compelled to comment, none more elegantly than Mark McGinty.
"It's amazing that people even took the time to complain, much less honour us with the kind of insight Mark provided," says Richard Collins, the Red Gate brand manager who compiled the survey. "We not only received a nice tutorial on how a survey question should and shouldn't be phrased, but we have a great user perspective on issues such as price, performance and ease of use."
Bob Cramblitt: The offending questions
Let's first get done with the offending questions, so we can delve into the wisdom of The Great McGinty.
Question 14 followed up on questions about home improvement and the tools that respondents own or wished they owned (there was a method to this madness, but it would take too much time to explain). It asked respondents to rank those qualities they look for in a power tool from 1 (most important) to 9 (least important). The choices were product design, wide range of accessories, power, handling, never breaks down, what the professionals use, multi-functionality, accessible price, and precision.
Question 15 got back to software, asking respondents to rank the qualities they look for in a software tool from 1 (most important) to 9 (least important). Choices included feature rich, support and upgrades, good reputation, speed, attractive UI, good price, ease of use, never crashes, and accuracy.
Both questions forced respondents to place a separate rating value for each characteristic, in a specific order of importance.
Leaving out some complimentary remarks about Red Gate products, [Of course – Ed] here is McGinty's response, edited for length and consistency.
Mark McGinty's contribution:
The problem with these questions, McGinty says, isn't that they are unclear. It's that the importance of those characteristics can't often (maybe can't ever) be placed in an exact order. And even if they could, that order would be shifting constantly, depending on variations in context that are practically infinite.
Performance and price point are similar in that the importance of either/both tends to be relative to what else is available, and at which end of the extreme hey happen to live. The slower something is at completing its job[s], the more important its performance becomes to me, because it causes me to focus on that aspect.
Likewise with price – price is always something of a hinge point in a decision to buy. Does that make it the most important characteristic? Well, maybe – it depends on how much it costs! :-) I once eval'ed this truly stellar protocol analyzer at a client's request, then just about soiled myself when I found out it cost $25,000 to license! Very difficult for me to picture a positive ROI for that one.
So at a certain level of exorbitance, price can become the most important factor. I think the best case is when something is priced moderately enough so that the specific price of that specific something is rendered fairly unimportant – it's so much easier that way. In a perfect world price would never be the deciding factor, but this world has constraints, and as such, it's important.
Performance is special in that it invariably depends on various environmental factors, each of which is subject to ongoing price vs. performance analysis. In the case of SQL Compare, for example, I know I could boost performance by paying for more upstream bandwidth. Case in point, two identical databases: one on my local system took around six seconds to make a snapshot; the other across a WAN link took a minute and a half. My connectivity bill has nothing to do with SQL Compare, but it heavily affects its performance.
Escaping the "lizards"
Ease of use is yet another quagmire – an ambiguous term. I tend to focus on how intuitive a UI is in the context of the problem it's meant to solve. I also focus on how tedious it becomes to use repeatedly. I prefer complexity that equates to power over mindless "lizards" (my pet name for wizards) that pretend to enable anyone to do anything.
I don't want a UI that tries to spoon-feed a concept to me every time I use it – like the way the .zip shell extension works in XP: I know a .zip contains files/folders, and I know I'll need a target folder in which to extract them; why must I endure this relentless UI? To do 25 or more of them in a sitting is easy (intellectually), yet at the same time, excruciating!
I like a UI that I can figure out as I use it. If I need help before I can even scratch the surface of some app, I'm usually a little bent by that alone, depending upon how well I understand the concepts involved. Conversely, I have no qualms about using an online reference, provided it's adequately keyworded and reasonably detailed, to figure out how to do intricate tasks. Sometimes things that aren't immediately intuitive turn out to be that way after all, given a good explanation.
Ease of use is not a simple characteristic to quantify. Determining whether or not something fits that bill depends heavily on its purpose and intended users. As such, it's difficult to say how important this is, either before or after purchase – it may turn out to be way more important than anyone anticipated! Bottom line, its place in the order of importance can't be pinned without some attached context.
Mcginty's final word on surveys
A survey is a set of questions designed to extract my opinions, so my underlying assumptions are: a) there are no wrong answers; and, b) there should be no questions I can't answer. In practice, it works out that way more often than not.
Question 15 in the Red Gate survey, however, left me no way to respond that I didn't feel substantially misrepresented my opinion in some way.
Surveys must allow multiple characteristics to be assigned equal importance. It must be possible for the underlying inference logically drawn from the answer[s] to a question to be entirely positive [or negative]; exclusivity of choices cannot force the answer to defy real life or actual opinion.
Bob Cramblitt: So much for the garbage in, garbage out cliché.
It just goes to show, Cramblitt says, that if you engage people with good intention, they might not only forgive your survey sins, but reward you for them. It helps, of course, if one of those people is a Mark McGinty.
Bob Cramblitt is a technology writer and Marketing Consultant at Red Gate, and has blithely inflicted some bad surveys on unfortunate readers.
Mark McGinty landed his first real programming position in 1990, working on a Department of Defense mission planning app written for Windows 2.11. Since then he's worked as a contractor on numerous (C, C++, VB, HTML, VBS, ECMA Script and T-SQL) projects for almost as many companies, with some occasional network consulting projects in between. For the last seven years one client has monopolized his time with work that includes optimizing schema and SQL statements.


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This is another way of making cheese pie - Tiropita. This recipe uses bechamel as well as Feta cheese. It's a common way of making the pie here in Greece and is extremely filling and nutritious, as well as being really tasty!
1kg feta cheese crumbled
4 eggs
2 tbsp dried mint
Freshly ground pepper to taste
60ml olive oil
For the Béchamel
½ litre fresh milk
125g butter
½ cup all-purpose flour
For the Pastry
500g all-purpose flour
200g butter
260ml soda water
1 tsp salt
Put the flour and salt in a mixing bowl and add the soda water to make a pliable dough.
Knead the dough well for approx. 10 minutes.
Divide into 4 balls, wrap them in cling film and set aside to rest for 1 hr.
In a heavy-bottomed pan gently heat the butter until it melts.
Add the flour and stir continuously.
Add half of the milk and continue to stir with a whisk.
When the mixture starts to thicken, add the rest of the milk whilst stirring continuously.
Whisk the 4 eggs into the béchamel, mix and set aside to cool.
When it has cooled, add the feta, mint and pepper. Turn over lightly a couple of times and set aside.
Take one of the balls of dough and on a floured surface roll it out into a circle approx. 40cm diameter.
Half melt the 200g butter and brush ¼ of it generously over the pastry.
Fold the pastry into a square in the stages shown in the photos below, tapping it with your hands to make sure there are no air bubbles.
Set aside.
Roll out another ball of dough into a circle approx. 40cm diameter.
Brush it with another ¼ of the half-melted butter.
Place the first square of pastry in the centre of the circle and fold into a square as in the photos below.
Wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge for 1 hr.
Repeat this process with the other 2 balls of dough.
After the 1 hr has passed, roll out one of the squares on a floured surface, large enough to cover the bottom of an oven dish (approx. 30-35cm diameter and 5cm deep) as well as the sides and to go over the edge.
Brush the oven dish with some of the oil and place the pastry on the bottom, flattening it with your hands, up the side and over the edge.
Put the filling on top of it.
Fold over the pastry on top of the edge of the filling.
Brush the pastry with some more oil.
Roll out the other square of pastry and place it on top.
Shape the pastry around the edge.
Brush over the top with the remaining oil.
Score the surface into portions.
Place in a pre heated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for approx. 1 hour, until it has turned golden brown.
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BOSTON -- Former Bristol Probate and Family Court First Justice Elizabeth LaStaiti testified Thursday she learned that a prospective probation officer in her court was the girlfriend of Sen. Mark Montigny on the day of job interviews, and right after she was hired believed that was "her only qualification for the job."
On Thursday, the focus of the ongoing trial of three former probation department officials at the Moakley federal courthouse turned to the hiring of Kelly Manchester at the New Bedford court.
"She was very pleasant. She was very young. She was recently graduated from college. She was light on experience. She had no experience that was related to the work we did," LaStaiti said on the stand.
The former judge, called to the stand as a prosecution witness, said she recalled Manchester had a clerical job at the Office of Community Corrections and had worked for the town of Dartmouth, operating a bridge that opens and closes to let sailboats through.
Though LaStaiti said she was concerned after Manchester was hired, the retired judge said Manchester had worked out "beautifully. She was an excellent probation officer."
Former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien and two former deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, are facing federal fraud charges for allegedly operating a patronage system disguised beneath merit-based personnel policies. Prosecutors contend that O'Brien and others in the department installed people with political connections, but not necessarily the best qualifications, at courthouses around the state, to gain "political currency."
Thursday also wrapped testimony of former Sen. Jack Hart, who later in the day appeared at the State House as a lobbyist on an economic development bill.
Asked to identify the Senate Ways and Means chairmen who might have directed the state budget process in 2006, Hart said Therese Murray, the current Senate president, and Sen. Stephen Brewer, the current Ways and Means chairman, were the only chairs in a little over a decade. Hart did not include Steven Panagiotakos, now a lobbyist, who chaired the committee from 2007 until 2010 - between Murray and Brewer. Hart also said many of his former colleagues had received subpoenas for business records.
"I complied as did a number of members of the Senate and the House as well," Hart said. That subpoena turned up a letter Hart wrote to committee chairmen backing legislation that would increase probation officers' pensions and a fax of O'Brien's 2004 testimony in support of the legislation.
Hart, who recalled few details about his support for the pension legislation when he testified a week ago, said Thursday that after some reflection, he remembered Bernard O'Donnell, a South Boston resident and the longtime chief probation officer at Clinton District Court, had asked him to support legislation boosting pensions for probation officers.
Questioned by O'Brien's attorney William Fick, Hart said some of the bills that would have boosted probation pensions also applied to court officers. He also said he generally supported bills that grant the more favorable pension classification enjoyed by police and firefighters to other public safety workers, including state prosecutors.
The South Boston Democrat did not recall specific budget amendments he had filed when he testified last Thursday, saying he would usually file up to 60 amendments to the annual budget along with a slew of bills. Hart did remember that the pension bump had not become law.
In December 2007, Hart wrote to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall about a candidate for a probation job, and she replied that she would forward the recommendation to O'Brien.
Hart insisted that all he wanted was "consideration," of candidates that he supported.
"Consideration" was a term in use within the probation department's hiring practices, according to James Casey, who was the chief probation officer at the Bristol Probate and Family Court from 1976 until his 2009 retirement.
Recalling a conversation about Manchester with then-probation official Frank Campbell, Casey said, "He said that there was an interest in this person from the Office of Commissioner and was to be given some consideration." Casey said he understood that to mean the candidate should be given "a little extra consideration."
A Fairhaven resident who said he knew Montigny for years, Casey said that the New Bedford senator called him and asked "if I could give [Manchester] any consideration."
Manchester was hired as a probation officer at the family court in 2008. Her resume shows she lived in South Dartmouth, graduated from UMass Amherst in 2006 and had worked as an operator on a bridge in the village of Padanaram, monitoring boat traffic and enforcing fishing regulations.
There was some contradictory testimony between LaStaiti and Casey. Casey at first said he learned that Montigny had endorsed Manchester after the hiring process, and later said his conversation with Montigny occurred before the hiring, and he only later learned the senator was dating the young woman.
LaStaiti said Casey told her about the relationship the day of the interview. She was challenged by defense attorney John Amabile about an FBI report based on an interview with LaStaiti that said she "later learned" Manchester was Montigny's girlfriend.
"My memory is somewhat faded," said Casey, at one point.
Prosecutor Fred Wyshak said in the trial's opening statement that Montigny's girlfriend was 21 years old, however in a brief interview in a State House hallway, the New Bedford Democrat said earlier this month that Manchester was not 21.
The U.S. Attorney's office declined to confirm Wyshak's assertion or provide additional details about the age of Montigny's then-girlfriend, and the probation department also declined to provide that information.
Not all of the people under discussion in the case are able to testify.
Campbell died a little less than a year ago, according to an obituary. LaStaiti described him as "gruff," and Casey said, "I never liked him anyway, so I didn't appreciate his commentary."
Defense attorneys quizzed LaStaiti about appeals she had received from the mother of Laurie Plante to appoint her daughter to the New Bedford court so she could work closer to home. LaStaiti described the mother as a "blue shirt," a sometime court security officer who filled in for the regular court officers.
"Her mother mentioned it to whoever would listen," said LaStaiti. Asked if it was a "coincidence" that Plante was hired to her court around that time, LaStaiti said, "Yes, well it was not based on her mother's love for her daughter."
"As a blue shirt, did Ms. Plante control your budget?" asked prosecutor Robert Fisher, though the question was scrapped with an objection.
O'Brien's defense attorney Stellio Sinnis drew out contrasts between the testimony of LaStaiti and earlier testimony by Plymouth County Probate and Family Court Judge Catherine Sabaitis, who viewed dimly the qualifications of Patrick Lawton, a former summertime Martha's Vineyard police officer who had a law degree when he applied to work at the Brockton family court.
LaStaiti said that a law degree and experience as a police officer were both relevant to the work of a family court probation officer, whose duties include dispute resolution and dealing with families going through divorce and other distress.
After he was hired in 2008, Lawton previously testified that he began using heroin and was fired after a drug arrest.
Prosecutors explore roles on Hart, Montigny in probation case
BOSTON -- Former Bristol Probate and Family Court First Justice Elizabeth LaStaiti testified Thursday she learned that a prospective probation officer in her court was the girlfriend of Sen. Mark Montigny on the day of job interviews, and right after she was hired believed that was "her only qualification for the job."


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Choppy trading was the theme on Wall Street yesterday as statements from the Federal Reserve coupled with looming uncertainty over the "fiscal cliff" made way for speculators. Stocks kicked off the day with a rally only to give in to profit-taking pressures after Chairman Bernanke announced the extension of the ongoing bond-buying program; the twist that spooked some was the new stipulation, which set a 6.5% threshold for the unemployment rate. The Chairman also put pressure on Congress by stating that the Fed doesn't have the necessary tools to offset the effect of the fiscal cliff [see 101 High Yielding ETFs For Every Dividend Investor].
Investors will keep their attention fixed on the homefront later day as November retail sales data hits the street at the opening bell. As such, the State Street S&P Retail ETF (XRT, A-) will be on our radar screen as it may experience volatile trading following the latest report; analysts are expecting the November retail sales figure to have expanded by 0.4%, which would mark a healthy improvement from the previous reading which showed a contraction of 0.3% [see our Consumer Centric ETFdb Portfolio].
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Patronal feast at the church of the Three Hierarchs in Paris
On February 12, 2012 the commemoration day of Sts. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom, celebrations took place at the church of the Three Hierarchs in Paris on the occasion of its patronal feast. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated in this cathedral church of the diocese Chersonese by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and Primorje (Serbian Orthodox Church), Archbishop Innokenty of Vilna and Lithuania, Archbishop Michael of Geneva and Western Europe, and Bishop Nestor of Chersonese.
They were assisted by the diocesan clergy and numerous guests in holy orders. Among the worshippers was Russian Ambassador to France A. Orlov. During the service, Bishop Nestor ordained Deacon Maxim Politov as priest.
After the liturgy the rite of praising the Three Hierarchs was performed and 'Many Years of Life' was sung to the guests, clergy and newly-ordained Father Maxim and all the parishioners.
On the same day, a festive concert took place with the participation of six Russian Orthodox choirs. In addition, liturgical compositions by J. S. Bach were performed by parishioners, the website of the diocese of Chersonese has reported.
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Although it might seem simpler to simply buy and fit a reconditioned engine � beware! Unless you buy from a reputable company, that is prepared to provide you with a list of the parts they have fitted, and warrant that engine for 12 months, you could soon be back where you are now. Since you know the history of your own engine, it might be better to have it repaired or reconditioned. Any competent mechanic should be able to do it.
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In planet formation, as in adolescence, you've got your late bloomers. Such is the case for a nearby star called TW Hydrae. At some three million to 10 million years of age, it's relatively old for a young star. That is, TW Hydrae formed much more recently than our sun but is past the point at which most fledgling stars are still encircled by a massive disk of dust and gas—the stuff of planet formation.
But a new analysis shows that TW Hydrae retains a surprisingly hefty circumstellar disk, implying that the star could still be forming giant planets. The study appears in the journal Nature.
Researchers from the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands pointed the European Space Agency's orbiting Herschel Space Observatory at TW Hydrae to investigate the star's disk. They detected a heavy hydrogen molecule called hydrogen deuteride. From that measurement they were able to estimate the abundance of ordinary hydrogen, which makes up the bulk of the disk.
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2. Charles Christmas-1533 1 (Goodman ) died 2 after 1705 in Stafford Co., VA.
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Snowless streak ending?
Tough call for measurable snow
Big, wet snowflakes fell across much of the area overnight and most of the moisture has now pushed east. We'll even see sunshine today with highs close to 40.
Waiting to hear if Mitchell International picked up any measurable snow from early today. If not, we tie the record at 278 days with no measurable snow. If we make it through tomorrow we set a new record for longest period without snow.
We do have another chance of snow for Sunday. We'll start cloudy and see a chilly rain or mix begin to fall sometime mid morning. Most areas lakeside will stay liquid or mix all afternoon. Inland locations will transition to a mix and then wet snow as temps fall. Minor accumulations across western Waukesha, Jefferson, Dodge, FDL, western Washington and Walworth counties may approach an inch or two by Sunday night.
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The Manchester Museum in England has its own case of "Night at the Museum." An ancient Egyptian statue has mysteriously started spinning inside its display case. The statue was made as an offering to Osiris, which is the Egyptian god of death.
This time lapse video shows the statue move and spin on its own.
"In ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit," said caretaker Campbell Price to the Manchester Evening News.
Others have a more scientific approach.
"[Physicist Brian Cox] thinks it's 'differential friction,'" said Price.
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Clifton, NJ: Breakfast of Champions at Tick Tock Diner
Editor's note: Nick Solares, one of AHT's first reviewers, is making a return after a sabbatical. Expect to read more NYC reviews and burger-centric features from him soon!
Tick Tock Diner
281 Allwood Rd, Clifton NJ 07012 (map); 973-777-0511; theticktockdiner.com
Cooking Method: Grilled
Short Order: While the plain burger leaves something to desire, topping it with egg, bacon, cheese and some amazing hash browns significantly improves it.
Want Fries with That? Comes with steakfries, coleslaw and pickle. If you like steakfries (I don't) you will like these, especially the portion size, which is enormous. Next time I would substitute for shredded hash browns or disco fries.
Price: Bacon, Egg and Cheeseburger, $10.99
Notes: There's a Tick Tock Diner in NYC that has a different burger menu
It seems to me that there are two things diners (the restaurant type, not the people) should do well: breakfast and hamburgers (people should do every meal well). Forget fried chicken and steaks, roasts, seafood, pizza, pasta, and any other type of ethnic cuisine—they are invariably handled better by other types of restaurants. But a quality diner is worth its weight in hash browns, pancakes, fried eggs, and cheeseburgers. Even a mediocre diner burger, assuming fresh beef is used, tends to be far better than fast food drek, and a top notch one will embarrass most any rococo creation by a fancy-pants chef.
I think I would've found the cheeseburger at the legendary Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, New Jersey, mediocre had I ordered it plain, as is most often my custom. But it was breakfast time and all about me swirled plates brimming with pancakes, eggs, and shredded hash brown potatoes (the most superior form of hash brown in my opinion). The air was perfumed with the smoky essence of bacon and the aroma of fake maple syrup. There really is nothing like breakfast in America.
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Naturally I ordered the Bacon, Egg and Cheeseburger—a half-pound hamburger topped with bacon, cheddar, hash browns, and a fried egg. Not that I didn't contemplate some of the other combinations—such as the Jersey Shore (mozzarella cheese, mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce; probably not enough cheese to live up to the name) or the Slobber Knocker (pulled pork, white cheddar, mayo, onion rings)—admittedly out of morbid curiosity. But really, how could I resist the breakfast-themed burger, especially as I was in New Jersey, the land of diners, and at the Tick Tock, which has been referred to as the King of the diners?
I suppose I was doubling down on what I hoped were the diner's strengths. It turns out that the burger was not an inspired example of a diner burger—while the beef seemed fresh it appeared to be a commercially packaged product made en mass. It was tightly bound and did not crumble or flake the way a freshly formed patty might.
In its favor, it was delivered rare as requested, but the exterior, the hatch marks aside, was rather light in color. I wanted mahogany; I got balsa. It was also not as juicy as I would've liked despite being rare; I imagine that at medium or beyond it'd be too dry to enjoy. The beef was definitely better than a fast food burger, especially in terms of flavor—it actually tasted like meat. But I wanted more juice and more char.
All of this mattered little because of everything that came on top. First, a layer of crisp, buttery hash browns, followed by the salty punch of three rashers of bacon. Here is where the grillman showed his skill—the bacon was shatteringly crisp but without a smidgen of char. Next up, a molten blanket of cheddar served to hold down everything in a gooey, tangy embrace, save the sunny-side up egg (another nod to the grillman—perfectly cooked), which sat perched atop the stack, cocked to the side like a hat. The bun was topped with sesame seeds and came well toasted. It acquitted itself with valor but ultimately succumbed to the torrents of egg yolk and cheese that cascaded from the sandwich. The use of a knife and fork is required for this breakfast beast for all but the most uncivilized.
While the burger component by itself might have left something to be desired, the combination of ingredients was far greater than the sum of its parts. The egg yolk and cheese added welcome moisture. The potatoes and bacon both contributed some crunch as well as creaminess and saltiness, respectively. Now, you might think that the patty was unnecessary, but it provided the textural foundation of the dish as well as a heartier flavor than any breakfast item I can imagine. The toppings helped mitigate the weakness in the patty and brought the level of the burger up significantly. Adding a dollop of Hollandaise, available upon request, takes it even further.
There are burgers I would rather eat than the cheeseburger here, but I can't think of a breakfast sandwich I would choose over the Tick Tock's Bacon, Egg and Cheeseburger.
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This year's Euromold will feature an innovative 3D face scanning and printing system by 3D Systems and Geomagic. All attendees will be able to get their face scanned using Geomagic and a Kinect scanner, and attendees can watch faces be printed out in 3D using 3D Systems' latest 3DTouch printer, an affordable 3D printer newly launched by the company...
Using a Kinect scanner, attendees' faces will be rapidly scanned into Geomagic Wrap software at the 3D Systems stand in the Euromold Breezeway (Stand FN01). Geomagic will also be in attendance at Euromold at Hall 11 C132.
Selected face scans will be rapidly printed out during the event and all attendees are able to enter a drawing to win their face as a 3D print.
See the new YouTube video directly from the 3D Systems' stand showing this entire process.
Find out more at the Geomagic and 3D Systems stands at Euromold, Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2011, Frankfurt, Ger.
(Image 1 - top - Get yourself scanned using the Kinect scanner and Geomagic, then rapidly printed out on a 3DTouch printer by 3D Systems.
Image 2 - a face scan being printed on one of the 3DTouch printers at Euromold 2011.)
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Cruisin' Back to the '50s
George Barris Throws a Hot Rod Show
Read the history of hot rodding and you'll learn that Culver City, California, surrounded on all sides by Los Angeles, was a hotbed of hot rod activity in the '50s. We don't know exactly what a "hotbed" is, but we have heard a lot of stories from those days--about Dick Kraft and others early drag racers meeting up at the Piccadilly Drive-In before heading over to a long, straight stretch of industrial road nicknamed "Thunder Alley" for purposes we can only speculate. Elsewhere in town, the roundy racers tore up the planks at the long-gone Culver City Speedway.
George Barris remembers those days, and relives them in May when he hosts the Cruisin' Back to the '50s hot rod show. The event packs a couple major streets and several minor ones in the downtown area with hundreds of rods, customs, bikes, classics, street machines, and many of Barris' TV and movie cars.
Here's a gallery of rides from George's recent party in the streets of Culver City.


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Recyclemania Begins
- All Day on Sunday, February 3, 2013
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over an 8-week period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week and are in turn ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most on a per capita basis, as well as which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste and which schools generate the least amount of combined trash and recycling. With each week's updated ranking, participating schools follow their performance against other colleges and use the results to rally their campus to reduce and recycle more.
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Sioux Falls Awarded Eight NCAA Division II National Championship Events
The post season sports calendar in Sioux Falls is about to get a lot busier in the next few years, as the city has been awarded eight different NCAA Division II national championship events starting in 2015.
The NCAA announcing Division II championship sites thru 2018, and Sioux Falls grabbing events in four different sports: basketball, outdoor track & field, volleyball, and wrestling.
Wes Hall, Executive Director of the Sioux Falls Sports Authority, says it's a big day for the city:
In all, Sioux Falls bid on 19 Division I and II events. Hall says finally having the facilities to host national tournaments was the key component that had been missing:
The Sanford Pentagon will host the majority of the events, beginning with the women's basketball Elite Eight in March 2015. The facility will also host the 2016 women's championship, the 2017 men's championship, and the first-ever combined men's - women's tournaments in 2018.
The Pentagon will also be home to the 2016 women's volleyball tournament.
The 12,000 seat Denny Sanford Premier Center will host the 2016 national wrestling tournament. The facility will open in the fall of 2014, and was built in the hopes of landing more national sporting events.
The University of Sioux Falls Lillibridge Track and Field Complex will host the 2018 Division II outdoor track & field championships.
As important as the facilities are to the process, Hall said the role of the Sioux Falls Convention & Visitors Bureau and the business community all played a role in landing these events:
Sioux Falls does not have any experience hosting NCAA championship events, but the Sioux Falls Arena has played host to the men's and women's Summit League basketball tournaments in Division I since 2009 to rave reviews from fans, players, coaches, and administrators. Hall says the success of the Summit League Tournament was another key to securing the Division II bids.
And while Sioux Falls was unsuccessful in landing any of the Division I events they bid on this time around, Hall says hosting these Division II events could be the key to eventually bringing some of those bigger events to town in the future:
The calendar of events:
2015 DII Women's Basketball: March 27, 28 & 30 (Sanford Pentagon)
2016 DII Women's Basketball: March 22, 23, &25 (Sanford Pentagon)
2016 DII Wrestling: March 11-12 (Denny Sanford Premier Center)
2016 DII Women's Volleyball: December 8-10 (Sanford Pentagon)
2017 DII Men's Basketball: March 22, 23 & 25 (Sanford Pentagon)
2018 DII Outdoor Track and Field: May 24-26 (USF Lillibridge Track and Field Complex)
2018 DII Women's Basketball: March 27, 28 & 30 (Sanford Pentagon)
2018 DII Men's Basketball: March 28, 29 & 31 (Sanford Pentagon)
A total of 1,948 bids were received by the NCAA as part of the site-selection effort.


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I have a dog class type list which contains many objects of that class(many dogs each new object) with constructor input. For example list Dogs with type dog contains dog with weight, age, length: dog(30,5,100), dog(40,6,120). I want the program to print out all dogs with age 5.
I would think something like that, but cant figure it out.
public Dog askDogs(int age){ //user enters requested age for(Dog d:Dogs){ if(d.askAge()==age){ //I have method askAge() in dog class which returns integer } } return Dogs; }


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One of my favorite parts about writing for TV or film is the magical process of seeing my words come to life. In reality, it was a very talented props person named Ian, and not magic, that made the centrifuge I wrote about on Thursday appear in the entryway of our building Monday morning. But unless I end up winning Powerball, scriptwriting is probably the closest I'll ever come to that genie-in-a-bottle moment: your wish is my command. I hope I never become too world-weary to appreciate how special this feels.
So, I called this blog "Tales from the Writers Room," but the truth is, I'm not actually spending much of my time in the writers' room these days as I start to prep my first Bones episode. However, I do hope this kicks off my (sporadic) blog about the super awesome job of writing for a network television show. For the uninitiated, Bones is a drama that airs on Fox, 8pm Thursday nights.
At Bones, the writers each produce their own episodes and are encouraged to be involved in the producing process. We are lucky. Not all TV writers get to have a hand in production.
Here we are on a location scout.
One of the scenes in my script calls for a bunch of animals in the Ookey Room. Cue the animal parade…
It was like one of the animal shows you hire for a kid's birthday party. Except I was at work, getting paid for it. 😉


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Hi! I sure love sticky saucey things. You should too. So we're kind of eating healthy, so no desserts or anything. Sadfaces. The good news is that I made this tempeh and it was delicious. Remember last time I made tempeh and posted about it?
Tempeh is kind of boring by itself, but crisp it up in a pan and coat it with a sticky sauce and it's a delicious thing you should eat. This is Lightlife brand garden veggie tempeh. This is a super easy recipe. All you do is crisp the tempeh and pour over an easy quick bbq sauce that can be whipped up in 1 second, let it cook for a minute or two or five to thicken the sauce and make it stick, and you're done. I served it over rice, with a side of kale chips.
sticky bbq tempeh
1 package tempeh (I bet this would be good with tofu too probably)
oil for cooking, 2-3 T or so
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c ketchup
4 T cider vinegar
2 T mustard
1 T hot sauce
Slice the tempeh about 1/4" thick. Heat enough oil to lightly cover the bottom of the pan you're using over medium-high heat, and toss in the tempeh. Cook for a few minutes on each side, until well browned and crispy looking. While that's happening, whisk together the brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar, mustard and hot sauce. When all the tempeh is crispy, pour over the sauce mixture and reduce heat to medium. Simmer for a minute or two or three until the sauce thickens. Serve over rice, or on a sandwich, or whatever.


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We are playing a Mutants and Masterminds campaign in the Eureka Seven universe and using R505 Sumner model LFOs. The GM has already statted out the mecha in the system. We get to customize it a little and outfit our pilots with equipment, skills, and feats. There are no superhumans in the setting.
How can I optimise a Pilot for mecha combat and occasional non-mech ground combat?
All I'm looking for really is suggestions on the human pilot aspect. I'm looking for feats that (for example) make the PC a better pilot, skills besides Pilot that might help combat, or feats that make the mecha better. I am not allowed any Super abilities.
My GM is setting the Power Level at "approximately 2" and giving us 22 PP. Quoting my GM:
The power level is approximately 2. power-level 1 or 2 not sure yet all that u will NEED is 40 equipment points a feat and skills i think one and a half so about 22 PP i think
Also not allowed to have above Human stats. because we are all human and either military or Ex Military.


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Jacques Barzun, the distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history and came to see the West as sliding toward decadence, died Thursday night in San Antonio, where he lived. He was 104.
His death was announced by Arthur Krystal, Mr. Barzun's friend and editor.
Mr. Barzun was a man of boundless curiosity, monumental productivity and manifold interests, encompassing both Berlioz and baseball. It was a life of the mind first cultivated more than a century ago in a childhood home outside Paris that became an avant-garde salon.
Mr. Barzun stood beside Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell and Lionel Trilling as among the mid-20th century's most wide-ranging scholars, all of whom tried to reconcile the achievements of European culture and philosophy with the demands and tastes of American intellectual and cultural life.
He wrote dozens of books across many decades, demonstrating that old age did not necessarily mean intellectual decline. He published his most ambitious and encyclopedic book at the age of 92 (and credited his productivity in part to chronic insomnia). That work, "From Dawn to Decadence," is an 877-page survey of 500 years of Western culture in which he argued that Western civilization itself had entered a period of decline.
Mr. Barzun was both of the academy and the public square, a man of letters and — he was proud to say — of the people. In books and in the classroom he championed Romantic literature, 19th-century music and the Western literary canon. He helped design the influential "great books" curriculum at Columbia, where he was one of its most admired figures for half a century, serving as provost, dean of faculty and university professor.
As an educator Mr. Barzun was an important critic of American universities, arguing in 1968 that their curriculums had become an undisciplined "bazaar" of miscellaneous studies.
But he was also a popularizer, believing that the achievements of the arts and scholarship should not be divorced from the wider American culture. Writing for a general audience, he said, was "a responsibility of scholars."
To that end he served as history consultant to Life magazine and as a critic for Harper's. His articles appeared in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post as well as The Atlantic, The Nation and The New Republic. In 1951, he joined Trilling and W. H. Auden in founding the Readers' Subscription Book Club, which sought to make serious scholarship and literature widely available.
His fascinations extended to mystery fiction, which he surveyed in the anthology "The Delights of Detection" in 1961. Another was baseball, an American institution he considered with a scholar's eye. In a 1953 essay, "On Baseball," he wrote:
"The wonderful purging of the passions that we all experienced in the fall of '51, the despair groaned out over the fate of the Dodgers, from whom the league pennant was snatched at the last minute, give us some idea of what Greek tragedy was like."
Unlike many of his colleagues, Professor Barzun showed little interest in taking overtly political positions. This was partly because he became a university administrator and had to stand above the fray, and partly because he approached the world with a detached civility and a sardonic skepticism about intellectual life.
"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish," he wrote in "The House of Intellect" (1959), "are one another's works."
If Mr. Barzun kept the political issues of the day at arm's length, he nonetheless developed a reputation as a cultural conservative after the student protests at Columbia in the late 1960s. He later argued that the "peoples of the West" had "offered the world a set of ideas and institutions not found earlier or elsewhere."
But at the same time, he said, Western civilization had also cultivated the seeds of its undoing by envying what it renounced and succumbing to the lure of rebellion. Its virtues and failings, he argued, were in some respects identical: the freedom to rebel could turn into sweeping nihilism, resulting in decadence. He saw that happening.
His own stature as a public intellectual was undisputed. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France's highest award, established by Napoleon Bonaparte, and awarded the Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush. His friendships embraced poets and scholars, and he continued often argumentative correspondence with friends into the 21st century. An authorized biography, "Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind," by Michael Murray, was published in 2011.
In 1996, he also made a seemingly unlikely move from New York to San Antonio, where he lived until his death.
"After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating," he wrote in The New York Times in 1982 about his repeated visits to Texas. "The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene."
Jacques Barzun was born on Nov. 30, 1907, in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, the son of Anne-Rose and Henri Martin Barzun. His father was a diplomat and writer with artistic interests. The Barzun home became an avant-garde salon, which Mr. Barzun once called "a seedbed of modernism" and "an open house for hotheads." Regular visitors included the writer Jean Cocteau and the painter Albert Gleizes. (Gleizes's portrait of Mr. Barzun's mother hung in Mr. Barzun's house.)
"By the time I was 9," Mr. Barzun said in an interview with The Times in 2000, "I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries."
Mr. Barzun studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly, only to find himself, he said, teaching there at the age of 9. After World War I broke out in 1914, many teachers were drafted into the military, and older students were inducted to teach the younger ones.
With friends and acquaintances killed in the fighting, Mr. Barzun found the war a "shattering experience." In 1917, his father went to the United States on a diplomatic mission. Then, at age 11, he "experienced a very deep depression," Mr. Barzun said in the New York Times interview in 2000. He contemplated suicide.
In 1920, with the French university system decimated by the war and young Jacques still in despair, it was decided that he would travel to the United States, accompanied by his mother. To improve his English, he read "Gulliver's Travels." Mr. Barzun's first thoughts about America, he said, were of a people almost as exotic as Gulliver's Yahoos and Brobdingnagians.
"I had read a lot of books about the Indians," he explained. "I thought that I would come here and see Indians galloping across the plains."
Instead he went to Columbia, where he was exposed to the work of the most important critics and historians of the time, including F. J. E. Woodbridge, John Dewey, Mark Van Doren and Mortimer Adler. He became a drama critic for the university newspaper; wrote lyrics for a campus show, "Zuleika, or the Sultan Insulted"; and helped create Ghosts Inc., a tutorial service.
He graduated in 1927 as valedictorian and that summer taught his first course at Columbia in contemporary civilization. He stayed there until his retirement in 1975, having received his master's degree there in 1928 and his Ph.D. in 1932, with a thesis on Montesquieu, the French Enlightenment political philosopher, in which Mr. Barzun attacked the popular notion of "the French race." He came to be so closely associated with the university that he redesigned its academic robes.
In 1931 he married Lucretia Mueller; they were divorced in 1936. That year he married Mariana Lowell, a distant cousin of the poets Robert Lowell and Amy Lowell, who died in 1979. In 1980 he married Marguerite Davenport, a descendant of a founder of the Jamestown colony and a scholar of American literature. She survives him, as do 3 children from his second marriage: James, Roger and Isabel Barzun; 10 grandchildren; and 8 great-grandchildren.
A turning point in Mr. Barzun's academic career came when he was exposed to the developing discipline of cultural history, which relates culture, the arts and ideas to historical events unfolding on the larger public stage. At Columbia, Mr. Barzun assisted the historian Carlton J. H. Hayes in preparing the textbook "A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe." With the book he was, as he put it, "launched."
The themes of his first books were related to the political world of the 1930s. (He became a United States citizen in 1933.) His 1937 book, "Race: A Study in Modern Superstition," grew out of his dissertation. In 1939, on the eve of World War II, he wrote "Of Human Freedom," attacking absolutism and tracing the intellectual origins of democracy.
These issues reflected a broader concern that preoccupied him throughout his career as he championed 19th-century liberalism, with its ideals of individualism and liberty, and opposed intellectual and political traditions that he felt to be rigid, deterministic or aristocratic.
Mr. Barzun came to associate liberalism with European Romanticism as it was reflected in poets like Wordsworth and Goethe and composers like Berlioz and Beethoven. His two-volume study "Berlioz and the Romantic Century" (1950) was credited with restoring Berlioz's reputation as a great composer. Romanticism, Mr. Barzun later wrote, "implies not only risk, effort, energy; it implies also creation, diversity and individual genius." In Time magazine in 1956, Mr. Barzun argued that America was "the land of Romanticism par excellence," thus linking the nation's possibilities with the intellectual tradition he most admired.
Against that Romantic vitality, Mr. Barzun pitted anything "systematic" or "absolute," particularly the "scientism" that he saw as modernity's unjust revenge against Romanticism. In another seminal book, "Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage" (1941)," he argued that 20th-century thought had been skewed by the influence of those three major figures — harmful influence, he concluded. Darwin, Marx and Wagner, he wrote, had each created a variety of "mechanical materialism," in which all that is human and variable is subjected to domineering systems. Mr. Barzun associated those systems with the scientific worldview, extending its power over religion, society and art.
This was to become a recurring theme; Mr. Barzun even considered science to have had a deleterious effect on university education. While he maintained that modern science was "one of the most stupendous and unexpected triumphs of the human mind," he attacked, again and again, any hint of "mechanical scientism," which he said had baleful consequences.
In 1964, in his book "Science: The Glorious Entertainment," Mr. Barzun offered ironic praise for science's "all-pervasive energy."
"It is," he wrote, "at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion and faith as fanatical as any in history."
This view of science and his attempts to associate its supposed mechanistic qualities with Darwin or Wagner now seem to be among his weakest and most dated speculations. But Mr. Barzun may have been most influential in his arguing for a form of Romantic liberalism in American education. He believed that the mission of the university should have nothing to do with professional training or political advocacy. The university, he wrote, should not be a "public utility"; rather it should be a "city of the mind" devoted to the intellectual currents of Western civilization.
That was the thinking behind his curriculum of classic literary texts, still required of all Columbia College freshmen. And with Trilling he taught one of Columbia's most renowned courses, "Studies in European Intellectual History and Culture Since 1750," familiarly known as "the Barzun-Trilling seminar."
In books like "The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going" (1968), Mr. Barzun raised questions that still roil the academy and intellectual life: What is the purpose of a university education? What should the relationship be between the elite artistic traditions of Europe and the democratic popular culture of the United States?
His positions on many issues inspired controversy. So fervent was his advocacy of Berlioz that Auden, writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1950, said that Mr. Barzun "sometimes seems a fanatic to whom Berlioz is the only composer who ever lived, against whom the slightest criticism is blasphemy."
In 1945, reviewing his book "Teacher in America," The New Yorker said that "everybody in the teaching profession ought to read Mr. Barzun, if only to be able to argue with him."
But his admirers were legion. In 1959, Daniel J. Boorstin wrote in The Times that Mr. Barzun's book "The House of Intellect" was "the most important critique of American culture in many years."
In that book, Mr. Barzun argued that egalitarianism, which he celebrated in the political sphere, had no place in the university. He objected to educational "philanthropy," which he defined as "the liberal doctrine of free and equal opportunity as applied to things of the mind."
By the 1960s, he wrote in "The American University," the university was being mistakenly expected to "provide a home for the arts, satisfy divergent tastes in architecture and social mores, cure cancer, recast the penal code and train equally for the professions and for a life of cultural contentment."
He also objected to attempts to politicize the academy, whether in support of governmental policies or in opposition to them. In the 1968 student demonstrations at Columbia, for example, protesters took over administration buildings and held a dean hostage, objecting not only to the Vietnam War but also to the roles the university played in the defense establishment and in its own Upper Manhattan neighborhood. In his critique of the protests, Mr. Barzun accused the faculty of failing in its educational responsibilities and commitments to students. And the protesters, he wrote, were guilty of "student despotism."
After Mr. Barzun retired from Columbia, he became an adviser to Charles Scribner's Sons, the publishing house. Mr. Barzun's engagement with Western civilization continued into his last years. According to his biographer, Michael Murray, he began a book called "Janus" in 2001, that "was to have been a view of present-day culture by an archaeologist of the thirtieth century." In 2008, dissatisfied, he put it aside.
In his 2000 book, "From Dawn to Decadence," he argued that one of the great virtues of the West was its character as a "mongrel civilization": over the course of its development, it was resiliently constructed out of dozens of national cultures.
He traced periods of rise and fall in the Western saga, and contended that another fall was near — one that could cause "the liquidation of 500 years of civilization." This time the decline would be caused not by scientism and absolutism, he maintained, but by an internal crisis in the civilization itself, which he believed had come to celebrate nihilism and rebellion.
And yet, in the cycles of history, he believed another renewal would come.
"It is only in the shadows," he wrote, "when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West."