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Mike Skowronski, an employer relations coordinator in Niagara University's Office of Career Services, received NU's first Outstanding Employee Award today. Skowronski, a Lewiston resident, was presented with the award by the Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, C.M., Niagara president.
Skowronski, who has worked at NU since June 1992, is the first university employee to be recognized with the quarterly award. Nominations are made by NU employees, students, alumni, parents, or other persons who come in contact with NU employees.
A quote from his supervisor said, "Immediately captivated by his infectious smile and outgoing personality, many people don't see the indomitable work ethic and commitment to helping others that makes Mike Skowronski an exemplary higher education professional. In every way possible, he embodies what it means to be a Niagaran. Through his involvement in many outside organizations Mike leverages Niagara as the school of choice among area recruiters. And he does it all so that students who receive a Niagara University degree can succeed."
His supervisor also had this to say about Skowronski's commitment to the Niagara University community and its Vincentian values: "In addition to his work in the Career Services Office, Mike is committed to Niagara University and its Vincentian values. His involvement in community service activities is extensive and the short list includes working to establish and maintain the Saint Vincent de Paul Store in Niagara Falls, the establishment of the ReNU Niagara Office as an outgrowth of a federal community outreach partnership grant, and the urban ministry certificate program. Regardless of whether you spell it with a capital 'V' or a lowercase 'v,' Mike Skowronski possesses the heart of a Vincentian and, for this reason alone, he deserves to be recognized. But when that heart is combined with the power he brings to the Office of Career Services, I can think of no better candidate for the very first Outstanding Employee Award than Mike Skowronski."
Comments from another nomination stated, "Mike goes above and beyond to make sure every event runs smoothly. He works with students in the office, via email, the gym or anywhere he can assist them in making a smooth transition into the world of work; he is willing to 'coach' them."
Another nomination spoke of Mike's attitude and commitment. "He is committed, always positive, open to feedback and willing to participate in any activity that will help our students. He comes to work at all hours of the day if that is what our students need. He is a joy to work with."
Niagara University would like to congratulate Mike Skowronski on being the first recipient of its Outstanding Employee Award.


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A Bad Hair Day
OK. Something is weird in my Universe.
The past 3 nights I've gone to bed very tired and very late. This morning I awoke, moaned quietly, rolled over, looked at the clock and saw its little beady LED eyes blinking exactly the same time as it has the previous two mornings.
I've also had some, shall we say alarmingly vivid, erotic dreams and while I am not opposed to erotic dreaming in any fashion, these seem rather Chekhovian in nature......actually life in general seems to bear a faint tint of Chekhov for me these days; a sort of double vision, everything seems quite serious and somehow farcical at the same time. I won't go into the details of my dream eroticism but suffice it to say, it's fairly ridiculous..............
We finished the tech process Tuesday evening, had our first two previews Wednesday and Thursday and will have our 3rd tonight. The first show was largely uneventful with laughs in unexpected places and last night we had a full house with a lovely audience..............BUT........my beard came off.
Yep, right at the beginning of my big scene in the 3rd act--the one that has the speech that still gives me that "deer in the headlights" kind of feeling. I'm the deer. The deer with the beard. A magnificent Patriarchal full beard built for me (I couldn't grow one like this without a good head start) and glued on with the old standby Spirit Gum, applied and aligned by yours truly.
Now I thought that sucker was on--I even gave a cursory inspection--seemed fine, but no sooner had I gotten 5 lines out of my mouth than I got a sudden and distinct sensation of non- adhesion. This was not a good thing--I had a major speech coming up and an argument with Vanya (the inestimable Dan Hyatt) and the last thing I wanted was the audience to be staring at my beard and taking bets on when my little furry would at last topple from my face instead of listening to what was being said.
So I changed my blocking, or rather wound up keeping my right bearded side facing the audience as much as possible, and when I absolutely had to face stage right would do so while scratching my temple and holding my beard pressed in place with my palm to mask it.
Clever, no? A little sleight of beard.
I was met on my brief exit by Howard Swain with spirit gum in had, tacked the damn thing down again, blotted the glue and walked back on.
Coming up: Will Jim wake at 7:49 again? Stay tuned.

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Tizen Rising: Can a $4M App Challenge Do the Trick?
Jul 15, 2013 5:00 AM PT
It's no secret that humans tend to be motivated by cash, and developers are no exception -- heck, even Microsoft knows that!
Little wonder, then, that Linux developers took in the latest news from the Tizen project with such interest.
"Tizen is a brand new ecosystem, with a brand new store," the announcement read. "Now is the time to get your apps into the store, and get a head start on the next big application ecosystem."
A Fresh Challenge
It's a brand new app challenge, in other words, with more than US$4 million available in rewards. Word of that last bit actually caused a momentary hush to fall down at the Linux blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge.
Tizen? Even more than Firefox OS, it's an emerging contender -- yet another proverbial David up against the dual Android and iOS Goliaths. Will a $4M app challenge be enough?
Bloggers had plenty to say. Linux Girl settled in with a fresh a Caipirinha and fired up her trusty Quick Quotes Quill.
'A Big Deal'
"Tizen looks interesting, for being a real initiative with open source -- perhaps a little bit more open than Google's Android -- and it will rely more on HTML5," Google+ Blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. began. "Being backed up by The Linux Foundation itself, along with giants such as Intel and Samsung, is a big deal.
"So, I guess this prize will attract developers and call the attention of other smartphone makers and users," he added. "I can see they'll give higher prizes for game applications ... I guess that's the market portion that will attract younger users. For users like me, I hope they focus on being lighter and even more solid that Android."
'They Have a Good Chance'
Similarly, "I think it is worth a shot," Google+ blogger Brett Legree told Linux Girl. "I don't develop mobile apps for a living, but as I understand it, you develop the app and then try to recoup your costs -- and hopefully make a profit -- by selling the app on the platform(s) of your choice."
The effort "seems like a good way to encourage developers to write software for Tizen," Legree added. "Will it work? That remains to be seen, since others have tried this in the past (BlackBerry, Microsoft).
"Given the credentials of the people backing the Tizen project, I think they have a good chance," he added.
'A Few Good Apps Wouldn't Hurt'
Indeed, "it pays to advertise, and this campaign will do no harm and may do a lot of good," agreed blogger Robert Pogson. "The chief selling points for Tizen are that it's not from M$, it's the same kernel as Android/Linux, performance rocks and that a few major OEMs and retailers push it."
A few good apps "wouldn't hurt, of course, but when the supply chain shows that it is serious to deliver the goods to consumers, the apps will follow," Pogson added. "That takes $hundreds of millions in investment and real salesmen.
"OEMs should contribute because it's in their best interests to be free of M$ and because they can completely control the software that gets onto the devices," he added. "Retailers should train salesmen, because that other stuff is not selling. Consumers should buy it because it works well."
Tizen's chief competitor is "not M$'s stuff but Android/Linux," Pogson pointed out. "That's hard to beat on price. The advantage will have to be performance. Native code should take care of that. HTML5 remains to be seen."
'It Lacks a Killer App'
"I've always wanted to be excited for Tizen, but it's never really given me enough to be excited about," offered Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone. "I've never seen anything where I just had to stop and say, 'Now that is cool.'"
In fact, "I don't think that Tizen offers anything that's unique enough to really make it stand out from the pack," Stone added. "It lacks a 'killer app.' Without that, I'm afraid that Tizen will either fail to launch entirely, or it will launch and languish with less than 1 percent of the market for a while before it's eventually canceled (a la WebOS)," he predicted.
'It's Going to Be an Uphill Battle'
"I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about that, but I don't think that even 4 million dollars in cash and prizes is going to be enough to launch Tizen into a successful place in the market," Stone concluded.
"Sure, Samsung needs a contingency measure for Android," Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol opined. "It's all right in doing that. It's just Tizen will need more than that to get traction.
"If I were Samsung, I would bet my chips on Firefox OS as an alternate plan to Android," Ebersol added. "FF already has an established name. Tizen? Hummm, it's going to be an uphill battle, but I wish all the best to Samsung and all the developers of Tizen."
'A Marketplace Reality'
Similarly, "this is mildly interesting, but a year from now will anyone care?" mused Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien. "The question is how many different device OSes the ecosystem can support.
"We know that Android dominates, and iOS is a strong #2," O'Brien went on. "Nokia just released a new Lumia with Microsoft's mobile OS, Firefox is pushing their solution, and Canonical is pushing an Ubuntu mobile OS based on Unity."
So, "one or two years from now, will Tizen be a success, or will it be the 'WebOS' of the mobile phone space," he wondered. "I'd have to say the odds favor the latter. This is not a reflection of technical merit, just a marketplace reality."
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack took a developer's perspective.
"We should at least be able to get a developer handset before having a contest like this," Mack told Linux Girl. "Otherwise it's just a waste of time."
'A Lot Less Than It Sounds'
Similarly, "$4,000,000 in prize money to spur app development for Tizen is a lot less than it sounds," suggested Robin Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
"Back in 2010, Samsung put in a cool $2,700,000 in prize money into app development for its own Bada mobile operating system, and it did not get them very far," Lim explained. "If a developer wants to expand its app development beyond Apple's iOS and Google Android, there are better places to exert time and effort."
A developer could win $200,000 for gaming apps and $120,000 for other apps in the Tizen App Challenge, he pointed out. "If you already have a popular app for Android or iOS, why not just port it to Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry 10?" Lim asked. "There are already 3.7 million BlackBerry 10 handsets in use, and Windows Phone 8 has substantially more than that number. If you have an app that will interest 5 percent of BlackBerry 10 or Windows Phone 8 owners, port it to one of those platforms and sell it for $0.99. You will get a better rate of return on your investment than joining the Tizen App challenge."
'The Network Effect'
Last but not least, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet was even less optimistic.
"Tizen? Don't really see how it can compete with Android, honestly, just look at how much money RIM, HP and MSFT have spent trying to compete and ending up with nothing but lighter wallets," hairyfeet pointed out.
Android has "the network effect," hairyfeet explained "It has the apps, so it has the users; trying to get another horse in the race this late in the game? They are gonna have to bring something AMAZING, and I'm not talking about apps.
"Somebody has got to come up with a better UI," hairyfeet added. "Nobody really 'likes' these mobile UIs -- they merely tolerate them. So if they can come up with a new UI that does for mobile what Win95 did to the desktop?"
In short, "Tizen may have a shot, but if it's just another 'big tile' UI with an app store?" he concluded. "It's not got a prayer."


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Mill training
This is reference material for people interested in using our mill. This material is collected here in order to assist a workshop on using the mill as well as for people to teach themselves how to use this machine.
Reading Material
This is a scan of two chapters from the book Machining Fundamentals on mills. This is a highly illustrated book with lots of different mill configurations and ways of using a mill.
Here are some scans from an older book called the "Metal Working Handbook". I recommend reading the chapter on Measuring Tools at least:
- MetalWorkingHandbook-MeasuringTools-chapter2.pdf.zip
- MetalWorkingHandbook-MillingMachines-chapter13+14.pdf.zip
This site has some more reading material on using mills:
Supplementary books
We have a set of training videos physically in Bloominglabs for the official machining workshop.
However in the mean-time if you are waiting to take the machining workshop, these MIT training videos are a reasonable introduction to the mill. They are part of a 10 video series on machine tools, these are the lathe videos from this series. They each are about 45 minutes in length.
- [1] - MIT video 1 for the mill
- [2] - MIT video 2 for the mill
- [3] - MIT video 3 for the mill
- [4] - MIT video 4 for the mill
- [5] - A good video on selecting endmills and how to determine speeds to run at
More videos:
- [6] - A listing of milling videos from archive.org


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'One Day at a Time's' Bonnie Franklin Dies at 69
Bonnie Franklin, who played Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom "One Day at a Time," died on Friday from pancreatic cancer. Watch a clip from the sitcom and an interview with Franklin from 2008. (Photo: AP)
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text: Jeff Zucker, who's going to CNN. Robert Pitts /Landov hide caption toggle caption Robert Pitts /Landov The Two-Way Former NBC Chief Jeff Zucker Taking Over At CNN November 29, 2012 Zucker rose quickly at NBC, where he led The Today Show in the '90s. But that network parted ways with him in 2010 after the failed attempt to move Jay Leno into prime time.


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|Antidote to Common Poisons
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Counteracts the effects of common poisons
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The Antidote to Common Poisons (or Antidote for Common Poisons) is a potion which counteracts ordinary poisons, such as creature bites and stings.[1] Its ingredients include Bezoars, Standard Ingredient, ground unicorn horn and mistletoe berries. The recipe for this potion can be found in Magical Drafts and Potions.[2]
Brewing instructionsEdit
- Add 1 Bezoar to the mortar
- Crush into a very fine powder using the pestle
- Add 4 measures of the crushed Bezoar to your cauldron
- Add 2 measures of Standard Ingredient to your cauldron
- Heat to a medium temperature for 5 seconds
- Wave your wand
- Leave to brew and return in 40 minutes with Pewter Cauldron, 34 minutes with Brass cauldron and 30 minutes with copper cauldron.
- Add 1 pinch of Unicorn Horns to your cauldron
- Stir 2 times, clockwise
- Add 2 Mistletoe Berries to your cauldron
- Stir 2 times, anti-clockwise
- Wave your wand to complete the potion
The Half-Blood Prince used a slightly different potion formula, that included Honeywater, mint sprigs, stewed Mandrake, and essence of Lavender.[3]
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the PS2 version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this antidote was created by mixing together Moondew, Puffapod Spores and Flobberworm Mucus. In the GBC version, the potion was brewed by mixing Aconite and Boomslang skin together.
See alsoEdit
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Mentioned only) [4]
- Pottermore
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - GBA version
- ↑ Pottermore
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- ↑ Mentioned in a broadcast of Potterwatch.
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I am having trouble accessing the ajax control toolkit that I installed on my visual studio.net 2010 professional ide.
I followed the directions that are listed on the following link: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx.
I setup a new C# website and had the default.apx file open. I was then able to see the ajax toolkit controls from the NEW website I setup.
However now for an existing C#. asp web form 2010 application, I am adding a new page webpage and I want to use the ajax controls I just added to my ide. However, when I click on the toolbox, I do NOT see the ajax control toolkit I just added to the my visual studio ide from this existing project.
However when I go back to the new web application I just setup, I DO see the ajax control toolkit.
Thus I can see the AJAX Control Toolkit on the toolbox when I open the 'new' website project. However, I do not see AJAX Control Toolkit on the toolbox when I open my existing application.
Thus, can you tell me how I can access the AJAX Control Toolkit from the tooltox for my existing application?


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Michael O'Neill accepts the threat of Euro 2016 elimination is already looming over his Northern Ireland side, yet he is determined not to vacate the French base where he is enjoying presidential perks.
Having lost their opening fixture with Poland in Nice, Thursday's clash with Ukraine in Lyon could decide the Northern Irish's fate prior to a final Group C contest with the reigning world champions Germany.
The squad have been at their base north of Lyon for the past 10 days and O'Neill is desperate to extend that sojourn by progressing out of a tough group.
"We were the second team in France...just after France," O'Neill said.
"When you come into the tournament there's an excitement building into the first game and having lost the first game, there's a natural fear of, 'When do you go home?'
"Other countries will feel the same and we have to make sure that's our motivating factor.
"We actually love our base and want to stay there as long as possible! We must make sure tomorrow night that we play it like a cup final because we know the significance of three points."
Northern Ireland are competing in their first ever European Championships in France and O'Neill and his squad are the first from the nation to have reached a finals in three decades.
That means they have also experienced some of the benefits associated with such a high-profile tournament.
"I have been going for a jog and sometimes there are guys from Sky hanging about outside the hotel that see us there," O'Neill added.
"Security has been tight, we've had to run with security which has had a presidential kind of feel to it which I've kind of enjoyed.
"We have to use our time, there needs to be downtime. The base we have is fantastic for the players, I'm staying at the other end of the hotel so it's perfect - I get a bit of peace and they do as well.
"The turnaround time has been so tight but the intensity of the tournament is something I enjoy."
O'Neill was particularly amused in his pre-match press conference when informed of comments from Ukraine midfielder Ruslan Rotan that suggested his team play "purely a British style, with great physical preparation".
"It's interesting that that was the statement that was made," O'Neill said in response.
"I looked at the statistics in the game and Ukraine's possession was not particularly high against Germany, they also played a lot of long balls, which is very British.
"One thing we've noticed about the Ukrainian team is they are a physical team, the player in question is a competitive player, an excellent player but a very competitive player. If you look at the yellow and red cards that the Ukrainians have had, I don't think they are playing a Spanish style of football.
"We expect a tough game, physically, but also a highly technical game. But what we have been impressed with is their level of competitiveness and physicality."


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Office of the President, Lee C. Bollinger
End of Year Update
June 12, 2006
Dear Colleagues in the Columbia Community,
With a strong academic year behind us, we had a sparkling commencement day that thankfully gave everyone a chance to dry out from some of the previous day's water-logged ceremonies. Having said our farewells to a wonderful and enthusiastic group of new graduates, I'd like to provide an update on a range of recent campus developments that will have an important impact on all of us, including future classes of Columbia students.
Since it was on the front page of the Sunday New York Times last month, it's hardly a secret that we are preparing to embark on a major new University fundraising campaign. We are off to an impressive start with the largest gift ever received by Columbia—$200 million from Dawn M. Greene and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to establish the Jerome L. Greene Science Center. More recently, the Business School received donations totaling $45 million from three prominent alumni, Arthur J. Samberg, Russell L. Carson, and Henry R. Kravis, to support faculty development and launch new curricular and research initiatives at the Business School. These major gifts are significant not only for their generosity but also for what they support: the fundamentals of teaching and research. A central goal of the new campaign will be to provide greater support to our faculty and students, especially by building endowment for professorial chairs and financial aid.
This past week the University's Board of Trustees resolved to name the Mailman School of Public Health building at 722 W. 168 St. in honor of the school's extraordinary dean, Dr. Allan Rosenfield. We made the announcement at a remarkable tribute dinner and special World Leaders Forum on issues that Allan cares most about—women's health, human rights, and AIDS/HIV prevention and treatment. As you may have seen in the Times, the event attracted friends and colleagues from across the globe, including former President Bill Clinton, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and actor and philanthropist Richard Gere.
That terrific turnout shouldn't have surprised us. Over the last three decades at Columbia, Allan has not only inspired and trained generations of public health leaders, he has helped define what a school of public health should be. Having the Mailman School reside in the Allan Rosenfield building is a living legacy to what Allan himself has built here—and to the impact he's had on people from northern Manhattan to southeast Asia and southern Africa.
A group of respected foundations joined together with Dr. Rosenfield's many friends and supporters to establish a sizable Tribute Fund dedicated to the renovation of the school's new home. The Tribute Fund, just launched this past March, has already received commitments totaling more than $36 million to enable Allan to achieve his goal of creating facilities that match the extraordinary caliber of the Mailman School's departments, centers, and programs. We are enormously proud that his name will now always be an essential part of the University.
Professor Jean Howard, the vice provost for diversity initiatives, continues to lead the University's efforts to increase faculty diversity through recruitment, retention, and faculty development. As part of the Diversity Hiring Initiative in the Arts and Sciences, we have recruited nine outstanding women and minority scholars to join the faculty this year and have extended offers to several more. That's a very strong start to a three-year initiative during which we plan to add 15 to 20 faculty members to Arts and Sciences. On June 16, through a small grant from the Ford Foundation, we are hosting the first meeting of academic administrators involved in diversity efforts from Brown, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Princeton, and Yale. Susan Sturm, professor of law and social responsibility, is working with Jean to lead this effort, which we hope will yield beneficial collaborations with our peer institutions. Early in the next academic year, I will report on the progress we're now making on this front across the University, including SEAS and the professional schools.
Provost Alan Brinkley created a Faculty Quality of Life Committee to facilitate discussions among faculty and senior administrators on quality of life issues. The committee has been meeting for the last month with Alan, Lisa Hogarty, Joe Ienuso, and other administrators. Its members are Charles Hailey, associate professor of physics; Sharon Marcus, associate professor of English; Robert Shapiro, associate professor of political science; Robert Lieberman, associate professor, SIPA; Panagiota Daskalopoulos, professor of mathematics; George Deodatis, professor, SEAS; Laurie Hodrick, professor of business; and Michael Bell, associate professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Their effort is critical to our goal of recruiting and retaining the most talented faculty and creating an environment where people can do their best work in teaching and research. Among the questions they will consider are parenting issues such as childcare and schooling; work life issues such as staffing, leave policies, office space, and policies governing research funds; housing; and retirement planning.
If you've been reading The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine or The Village Voice lately, you know that our effort to weave the University's long-term future in the fabric of Upper Manhattan is moving into high gear in the months ahead. The Department of City Planning is currently reviewing draft chapters of the plan's Environmental Impact Statement to ensure it provides all the necessary data. We hope to enter into New York City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (appealingly known as "ULURP") this autumn on our proposed academic development of the blocks between 125 and 133 streets west of Broadway and east of 12 Avenue.
In the weeks ahead, we hope that community leaders establish a set of priorities for the community and begin to negotiate a formal agreement on community benefits with us. You should know that it has been at the request of some of our local elected officials and the leadership of Community Board 9 that we have waited for this process to crystallize rather than engage in an informal series of negotiations on community benefits with individual groups in the neighborhood.
We very much welcome this process of public engagement on the Manhattanville revitalization plan because it provides precisely the kind of discussion and debate that is not only part of any major development in New York City but also the hallmark of university life. I am confident that our academic growth will bring extraordinary benefits to the local communities and all of New York City.
The most noticeable example will be the estimated 7,000 new direct jobs, and thousands more indirect jobs, created by Columbia's proposed presence in Manhattanville, along with new retail opportunities for local merchants and local consumers, a public math and science secondary school, and a welcoming, human-scale urban streetscape. As the Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported, our plans combine the "desirable elements of campus and urban life."
More subtle, but perhaps more important, are the incalculable benefits to New York City. As Mayor Bloomberg and Congressman Rangel both suggested at the March 20 announcement of the new Jerome L. Greene Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, in order to remain a thriving economic and cultural capital, New York needs our great universities to provide the intellectual foundation of knowledge and creativity. In serving as an anchor for the proposed first phase of a Manhattanville campus, the Greene Science Center will be a place where scholars can advance our understanding of the human organism in ways we can only now begin to imagine, leading to cures for diseases and fresh insights into many of life's challenges. It will ensure that Upper Manhattan can be home to a new renaissance of interdisciplinary thinking and research and New York City continues to be a place that attracts the best scientific minds to do their best work.
If Manhattanville presents the opportunity to secure Columbia's long-term future in Upper Manhattan, the Northwest Corner Science Building at 120 Street and Broadway will have an even more immediate impact on the space constraints on Morningside Heights—allowing us to hire faculty in key areas and add new research laboratories, teaching space and a consolidated science library. But no building on the Morningside campus stands alone. By physically connecting departments, the science building will unlock new opportunities for collaboration and interdisciplinary research in the areas of chemistry, biology, engineering, nanoscience, and physics. And by freeing up existing space for reallocation and renovation, the building will help ease the space constraints in other departments, as well.
David Hirsh, executive vice president for research, and Ann McDermott, professor of chemistry, are overseeing the academic planning. Architect José Rafael Moneo has designed the new building to sit on top of Dodge Fitness Center. When completed, it wil l be connected to Chandler, which currently houses the Department of Chemistry, and Pupin, home to the Departments of Physics and Astronomy. We expect construction to begin by the summer of 2007 and the building to be ready in 2010.
Hosting significant world leaders in programs that allow us to connect knowledge across academic, cultural, and national boundaries is now a regular part of our campus life. Next semester, we will have one of the truly transformational leaders of our time join us for a more extended exchange with Columbia students and faculty. This coming October, Václav Havel— the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic— will take up an 8-week residency at Columbia . A poet, playwright, and champion of humanistic values, President Havel embodies the convergence of the arts and humanities with civic leadership, and we are honored to have him be part of our academic community. It is especially notable that one of President Havel's plays wil l b e on the syllabus in Literature and the Humanities, and he himself will deliver the class-wide lecture as part of the Core Curriculum. In addition to working closely with the College and the faculty in the Core, Gregory Mosher and the Columbia University Arts Initiative are collaborating with colleagues at the School of the Arts, SIPA, and across the University on this remarkable endeavor, and we expect many more details to come into focus as President Havel's visit draws closer.
The excellence of Columbia's faculty is the University's definitive strength. In recent months, eight of our colleagues were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to scholarship and research:
Two Columbia professors have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their achievements in original research: Ann McDermott, professor of chemistry (as if helping build an impressive new science building weren't enough, Ann seems to be doing just fine in her day-job teaching students and leading her own research group) and Stephen Goff, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. These accomplished faculty members joined with members of our Board of Trustees and alumni leaders last week at a celebratory dinner on campus. Our congratulations to all of our academy fellows, new and old.
Earlier this spring, I announced the hiring of new Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine Lee Goldman, M.D., MPH. Lee will begin his leadership duties at the University on July 3. Also, Michael J. Duncan joins Columbia as executive director for the Columbia Faculty Practice Organization at Columbia University Medical Center as of June 1. He will work with Dr. Goldman and Dr. Richard U. Levine, president of the Columbia Faculty Practice Organization, in further supporting the efficient delivery of the highest quality medical care.
Taken together, the upcoming Columbia campaign, the expansion and increased diversity of an acclaimed faculty, new leadership in key areas of the University, and material progress in solving the University's long-term needs for academic space all point to Columbia's building momentum. I hope that everyone feels, as I do, that for all the greatness in our history, we now have plenty of great reasons to look ahead to an extraordinary future.
My best wishes for a safe and enjoyable summer.
Lee C. Bollinger


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February 23, 2011, 5:44 pm
CSU car accident victim hopes to swim in MWC meet
Despite getting run over by a car and requiring an ambulance transport to the hospital, Colorado State swimmer Maddie Gamble hopes to compete this week in the final meet of her career.
The Mountain West Conference championships began Wednesday in Oklahoma City. The freestyle distance specialist injured a knee in the accident but was determined to compete.
The MWC all-conference academic swimmer competed locally at Poudre High School.
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33 U.S. Code § 857–13 - National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere
Source(Pub. L. 95–63, § 2,July 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 265.)
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to that contained in this section, which established a National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere with a membership of twenty-five, were contained in section 857–6 of this title prior to repeal by section 7(a) ofPub. L. 95–63.
Short Title
For short title of Pub. L. 95–63, see section 1 ofPub. L. 95–63, set out as a note under section 851 of this title.
Transfer of Personnel, Positions, Records, and Funds
Pub. L. 95–63, § 7(b),July 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 267, provided that: "All personnel, positions, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions specified by the Act of August 16, 1971 [former sections 857–6 to 857–12 of this title] (establishing an advisory committee on oceans and atmosphere), are hereby transferred to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere established by this Act [sections 857–13 to 857–18 of this title]. The personnel transferred under this subsection shall be so transferred without reduction in classification or compensation except, that after such transfer, such personnel shall be subject to reductions in classification or compensation in the same manner, to the same extent, and according to the same procedure as other employees of the United States classified and compensated according to the General Schedule in title 5, United States Code."
Termination of Advisory Committees
Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 14 ofPub. L. 92–463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Dishcloths: From Basic to Beautiful
|Kathleen's handknit washcloths.
These are probably 10 years old, and I still use them almost every day.
The knitted dishcloth is a classic. It's sort of a knitter's right of passage; we've all knit at least one, and most of us have a drawer full! Not to mention that knitting dishcloths is a great way to learn how to knit.
I've knit just a couple of dishcloths, and I used the old stand-by pattern, Granny's Favorite Dishcloth, shown at right.
I think part of the reason I haven't knit more dishcloths is that I became bored with the pattern. The other part of the reason is that cotton is hard on my hands, and I thought most dishcloths are knit from cotton.
Little did I know that both of these problems aren't really problems. I learned just recently that dishcloths can be made from blends. A friend gave me a one that was made from a wool-cotton blend, and it works just great.
And then I found out about the new video workshop, Ten Knitted Dishcloths, with Joanna Johnson, and her bounty of beautiful dishcloth patterns.Check out the variety of dishcloths Joanna will teach you to knit:
|What a beautiful variety of dishcloths! I love the colorful zigzag cloth and the lace patterns, too. And that scrubber is fantastic; it's made with a stainless steel yarn!
Sorry about the grainy photo—it's a screen shot from the video. But still, what a great collection of dishcloths! If the photo isn't inspiration enough, Joanna gives us ten reasons to knit dishcloths!
10 Great Reasons to Knit Dishcloths
1. To enjoy the beauty of an everyday item.
2. Each dishcloth is about the size of the swatch, but when you're done knitting, you have a useable object!
3. Dishcloths are an easy way to expand your knitting horizons with new patterns and techniques.
4. Dishcloths are a great way to try out a new fiber; linen is wonderful to use for these projects.
5. You can also combine fibers, such as using a stainless steel yarn to make a dish scrubber.
6. You'll learn new-to-you cast-ons and bind-offs!
7. If you like experimenting with new shapes in knitting, dishcloths are a great project for you.
8. You can explore color theory, with stripes, mosaic knitting, and so on.
9. Try something new, such as a crochet edging or a zigzag lace pattern.
10. Dishcloths make excellent gifts!
Joanna uses her top ten list in her workshop, plus much more! Get your DVD or download of Ten Knitted Dishcloths with Joanna Johnson today and start knitting dishcloths!
P.S. What's your knitted dishcloth story? Share it with us in the comments.


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A few weeks back, I spoke of a young man who had written me several times with the following concern:
"You seem to avoid some of the tense battles among Catholics on left and right. Issues like the Latin Mass, abortion in the health care bill, what the Church did, should have done in regards to sex abuse scandal, etc. Do you think the hot button issues of the day are important for the average Catholic to engage in and fret about? I have and it's making me so upset, angry, stressed, etc. I wonder if I am losing my focus on the real spiritual battle?
Should I be e-mailing, discussing, lobbying, debating people, friends, family on the wrongness say of abortion or gay marriage or the culture of death, etc. or should I be inside a church praying, doing small acts of penance, works of mercy that don't seem to amount to much while the whole world keeps moving in the wrong direction...?"
In particular, this guy had spoken of his frustration with Facebook, in which he apparently gets involved in doctrinal discussions, sees it as his duty to take a stand, and tries to set people straight, at which point they more or less turn on him.
My response had basically been: If the discussions frustrate you, DON'T ENGAGE IN THEM. Figure out what you're for, not what you're against. The road to Christ is lonely, long, and almost unbelievably rocky, and though it takes place in community, we have to also walk it alone, often in great anguish and distress, often for decades if not our whole lives.
But obviously a whole movement is afoot among young people in the Church—which they unfortunately learn from us older people—that is based on vitriol, grandstanding, contempt, finger-pointing, and the drive to "win," because this earnest young seeker wrote me several more times expressing his frustration. So by way of a kind of open letter, I thought I would try to make it a little clearer why I "avoid some of the tense battles among Catholics on left and right."
The first thing to keep in mind is that following Christ is not a career move. The mark of authentic conversion is that it costs you something, not that it gains you something. So if you're trying to become, say, a "pro-life" or an anti-war or a convert celebrity, that is something, but it is not Christianity. That is to bring the world into the temple; that is to be a money-changer in the temple: to make a name for yourself, to cultivate a reputation, to strive for notoriety based not on your love, but on your "views." Both the right and the left are simply variations on "the world" in which the goal is power, prestige, efficiency, triumph, and the goal is to shame or bully other people into changing without changing one iota yourself. The Catholic media that traffic in this sort of incessant "opinion"-driven "discussion" seem to me to have very little, if anything, to do with Christ. Keep your own side of the street clean and pray--pray for us all--is more my idea.
To write some snarky "opinion" doesn't cost anything. That's cheap grace. Nothing infuriated or repulsed or grieved Christ more. The people who wear their five-inch aborted-fetus buttons, to take one of the more unfortunate examples of the religious right, remind me of the Pharisees who prayed loudly on the streetcorners and wore their phylacteries long. "We care," they proclaim; they insist. 'We care more than you do. We're more outraged than you are. You're wrong and we're right."
I've had abortions. I feel deeply that abortion is wrong. I have gone on record and I will go on record again as saying I believe abortion is deeply wrong. But the reason abortion is wrong is that it's a failure of love, and if you're not converted by the sight of an actual child, you're certainly not going to be converted by seeing an aborted fetus; just as, if you're not converted by Christ's person, teachings and life, you're not going to be converted by watching a fetishistically violent film of his crucifixion.
So I don't show my sorrow by wearing a button of an aborted fetus—or actually any fetus—who by the way could not possibly have been in a position to give his or her consent to be plastered all over my chest in order to make a statement about my political/religious views.
I show my sorrow by changing my life. I show that I care by changing my life. By looking at my own sexual baggage, wounds, behavior; by looking at the ways I use and discard people as objects; by ferreting out my resentments, fears, character defects; by a more or less constant examination of conscience; by sharing those things with another human being—a spiritual director, a confessor—and trying to do better, knowing I am mostly bound to fail. The spiritual path doesn't consist, in other words, in pointing out to others the ways they might be contributing to the suffering of the world, but in searching out the ways I am. That's why I steer clear of the religious right.
The religious left is all about faux love." Two gay people "marry," that's supposedly an increase of love. Two people sleep together to see if they're compatible, thereby (supposedly) saving the world from a ton of unhappy marriages: that's an increase in love, the thinking goes. But it's the "love" that urges people to take a shortcut to avoid suffering. It's the "love" that says I think you're too delicate to face and live out the truth. I don't think you're strong enough, or mature enough, to take in the whole picture, to hold the full tension of the suffering of the world before you; to admit that every time you take the shortcut, you are contributing to that suffering, not relieving it. So if a kid you conceive might be "unwanted": abort it. If an old person strikes you as no longer serving any "useful purpose": help him or her to commit suicide.
Unfortunately, the underlying idea, if you follow it through, and you don't have to follow the idea very far, is "Exterminate or annihilate people who are suffering," because suffering always stems from or is exacerbated by a lack of love, and love is grounded in family--mother, father, if possible, children--and the holiness of sex, and the sacrament of marriage, and making our life's work, no matter what our station, to welcome, support, rejoice in, marvel at, and support new life and all life: in charity, in integrity, in truth. Which requires sacrifice, on everybody's part: married, single, straight, gay, young, old.
So much sacrifice, in fact, that I, for one, am way too busy to get overly exercised about whether to, say, bring back the Latin Mass, though I'm sure I would welcome such a move; or lobbying against (or for) abortion in the health care bill; or calling for reform in the hierarchy. As it is, I look at these people who are always railing against the Church (from the right and left) and think: How in any way is the Church impinging upon your freedom? How is the Church in the smallest particular preventing you from performing the works of mercy, from trying to figure out how to love your neighbor as yourself, from taking the beam out of your own eye before you take the mote out of your own eye, from not casting the first stone? Are the Papal police coming to your door and arresting you? Is Rome telling you anything other than at the last day, you will be judged by how you treated the least of these, which includes not just the unborn, or the illegal immigrant, or the prisoner on Death Row, or whoever else you've adopted as your cause, but the person on the other side of the fence: your "enemy"? If the Church started saying You can't pray, you can't go to Confession, you're not allowed to be emotionally or sexually responsible, hate your enemy, I'd start to worry.
Instead, I'm always a little taken aback by the complete lack of affection, often within her own ranks, for the Church. To me, the Church is kind of like having an alcoholic mother: majestic one minute; engaging in some cringingly non-Christ-like behavior the next. But no matter what, she's your Mother. No matter what, you love your mother. And the way you love her is you notice when she goes wrong, you grieve for her, you mourn for her, and then you silently resolve to help her do a little better. You don't pretend not to see her faults and get all self-righteous and militaristic if someone attacks her—but you also don't kick her when she's down. I think the way we feel about the Church is very much an indication of how we feel, in our hearts, about the least of our brothers and sisters. In one of her letters, Dorothy Day quotes a priest who said, "You love God as much as you love the person you love least." And by extension, I think we love God about as much as we love His Church...
To be a follower of Christ is to accept to hold an almost unbearable amount of tension: to accept bottomless imperfection, brokenness, woundedness; to consent to any number of extremely unpromising people and situations. But this is where things get interesting. I mean we're given all kinds of signs to let us know when we're onto Him, and almost the first sign is that the Way, the Truth and the Life are interesting. You start to change; that's interesting. You forgive someone you thought it was impossible to forgive; that's interesting. The MOST unpromising person, or situation, the seeming catastrophe, turns out in the end to have helped you along in some way you could never have imagined on your own: that's interesting. You forego a slew of money and security in order to pursue work you're passionate about: that's interesting.
Listening to a bunch of people try to shout each other down, especially in the name of God, is not only corrupt and depressing, but deathly boring. I once signed up for a day of "community discussion" among a group of artists where, simply in the course of the introductions, I was attacked, twice, for being a Catholic. At the break, I simply left. Not so much because my religion had been attacked but because I knew the conversation would not be interesting. I went home and worked and had a rich, lovely day.
So to be a follower of Christ is not a career move, and it's not a social move either. It's not about having a bevy of supportive, admiring, we're-all-on-the-same-team friends. I can hardly imagine anything worse for a person's spiritual development than to be told, "Whoa, dude, that was a killer pro-life polemic!" or "You really nailed those pederast priests!" No-one, to my knowledge, has ever become a saint on the basis of his or her political views.
That's not to say that we shouldn't know exactly where we stand, and why. But we stand with Christ. Christ himself neither endorsed nor supported any causes. His cause was love, his cause was truth, his cause was beauty. His cause was to lay down his life for his friends. Being a follower of Christ is not about convincing, it's about converting. And the heart you should be most concerned about converting is your own.
Here's how, in my experience, you know you're becoming a follower of Christ. You begin to want to be seen less, not more. You begin to want to be quieter, not louder. Knowing you're on the right track doesn't come from scoring points among your "friends." Knowing you're on the right track doesn't come from winning useless arguments. You find yourself making tiny sacrifices. You find yourself experiencing tiny moments of joy. You find yourself mysteriously drawn to the Gospels, to Confession, to Mass.
A few years ago, I found myself in line at the confessional at a church in Atlanta, Georgia: a moment I didn't realize would be seminal, but since then has come back to me again and again. At the time I was in a real dark night of the soul, struggling with a certain obsession, and a shattered heart, and a bunch of other difficult things. I'd tried everything I knew, I'd run out of ideas, and in desperation, I'd decided, in a kind of self-styled pilgrimage, to get in my '96 Celica and drive from L.A. to the coast of New Hampshire, my childhood home, going to Mass every day. Every day for weeks, wherever I was, I'd been to Mass. All I knew was: Try to get close to Christ. Stay close to Christ. I'd made it to Atlanta, where my brother Joe and his wife Mimi lived, I was staying on their couch, I was physically and emotionally exhausted, and I had a deep urge to go to Confession.
It was a Friday and I looked in the Yellow Pages and found a nearby church that had Confession just before noon Mass. So I walked from my brother's apartment down Peachtree to what turned out to be this dear, dingy little neighborhood church, and I found myself standing in line with all these not-very-prosperous-looking gay guys. I didn't know what they were about to confess, but I knew they were human, and like me, had a body, a heart, a will, a longing to be loved, to love, to be good. I knew they were as weak and fragile as me; as prone to succumb to temptation as me; that, like me, they probably approached Confession with a mixture of humility, reverence and dread. I'm a citizen of the 21st century. I'd seen the billboards; I knew the score. I did not need to be told how futile, how pathetic, how meager, how seemingly useless it was to stand in a shabby church and sit before an overworked priest, as I did a few minutes later, and tell him the ways I was broken, and then go out to kneel in a pew behind an aging drag queen and say three Hail Marys and a prayer for peace.
But we do not come as people who strive for efficiency, for results, to swagger and preen and lord it over the rest of the world. We come as sinners. We come as beggars. We come hungering and thirsting. We come: the lame, the blind, the deaf, the halt, the leprous, the demoniacs, the desperate, the lost, the lonely. We don't have our political views to give each other; we have Christ. We don't have convincing arguments; we have our wounds, our holy longing, our groping in the dark. We don't have clever op-eds; we have our bodies, our puny love, our lurching, guaranteed-to-fall-short striving for purity.
And I'm not sure I have ever felt so close to the heart of reality, so certain of my seemingly utterly ineffective and irrelevant faith, so proud to be a member of the human race as I was that afternoon, standing in line with my brothers in Christ--aching, hoping, against all odds trusting--at that dingy church. If I did not believe that to stand in line at that confessional was in some sense saving the world, I would blow my brains out. Because to believe that is to believe in the Resurrection. And if Christ did not live, if he did not vanquish death, there would be no reason, no possible way to go on.
So we walk alone, and yet we walk with Christ, and that means we walk with, are inextricably bound to, every other human being who lives now, ever has lived, and ever will live. To believe that we are all deeply, intricately connected, and that our actions have eternal consequences, is to operate from an entirely different basis than politics. We operate from a basis of redemptive suffering, which was what MLK, Jr., operated from and why he was assassinated. It was why Christ was tortured to death. Redemptive suffering subverts every possible order. It upsets people terribly. It enrages and unsettles. It's radical: gets to the root of. We like to think of ourselves as radical but when push comes to shove, we're not radical at all. We're lost sheep. We want things to be pleasant. We want to be "ok."
My friends are well aware of my religious affiliation. I would not dream of informing them that their views on sex or abortion or gay marriage are wrong. What I do instead is live my life in such a way that if, for example, a woman friend comes to me and says "I've had an abortion and I'm in terrible sorrow and grief," I don't say some asinine thing like, "Well that's not a healthy reaction! You need to go to a shrink right away and get some antidepressants! You need to find a guy and have yourself a little fling. You need to go on match.com and take a bubble bath." No, I get to say "Oh my sister! I have been there!" I get to say, "Thank God someone is still alive enough to feel her own heart!" I get to share my experience, strength, and hope, one human being to another. I get to listen. Or if a gay friend comes to me (I'm not holding my breath, but you never know) and says, "Am I crazy to want to stay with this person I love with all my heart, but to not have sex?" I get to say, "No, dear friend, you are not crazy. That is toward love. That is toward the highest. That is toward all of humanity. That is one of the most beautiful sacrifices I can imagine."
--Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root and the Flower
Strive to be that kind of person.
If you're wondering whether you're being called to witness, consider how eager you'd be to "witness" if you stood to get killed for it: as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Edith Stein, and St. Maximilian Kolbe and so many others have been.
"To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery; it means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist."
--Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Archbishop of Paris 1940-1949


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What if I had known earlier that I was a target for breast cancer? Would that have impacted my decisions? You bet! I would not have put off that one mammogram for an additional six months while I moved, I would not have taken birth control in my 40s; I would have opted instead for a hysterectomy or oophorectomy. Would that have been enough to prevent the diagnosis? I can't answer that for sure, but perhaps it would have allowed cancer to get only as far as the ducts in my breast, known as in situ, or stage 0.
This week, I found out that I could have known for certain that I was a genetic candidate for breast cancer with a very high risk of developing the disease. I could have known about this years before diagnosis. Sister had a conversation with a cousin who was well aware of the family risk on my father's side of the family. Sister and I inherited the BRCA II gene mutation from my father, and only recently discovered that it wasn't from my mother's family. This member of the family knew that her mother, my father's sister wasn't positive, and that the gene was more predominant in the male side.
Why these family members that we have been separated from by distance for most of our lives didn't share this information with us, we may never understand. The truth is that I have been dealing with anger and disappointment these past several days, and regret. What if I had known? What could I have changed? Would I have found cancer before it invaded 8 of my lymph nodes? Would I have had less of a risk of dying from breast cancer than I do now? If you knew, would you have told me?


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TV actor Rajeev Paul rejects the rumors that he and Hrithik Roshan's sister Sunaina, are dating each other. According to Rajeev they both are very good friends. He also told that he was not only close to Sunaina, but he was close to the entire Roshan family."Sunaina has been my friend even ... read more
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Alan Pasqua: Lifetime's Aglow, A (non) Antisocial Interaction
Pasqua was a critical piece of Williams' balls-to-the-wall outfit, chosen as much for his blossoming compositional leanings, fostered by his studies with George Russell, as his flat-out blistering skills as a pure player. His first composition for Lifetime, and therefore the world, was his only one on that cataclysmic debut. It was a composition so exciting, and still so fresh, that it remains in Allan Holdsworth's set lists today, in performances with and without Pasqua, usually as an encore: the prototypical jazz/fusion masterpiece, "Proto Cosmos."
The New Lifetime supernova burst after two tumultuous years, but spawned an offshoot solar system in which Pasqua and Holdsworth remain stars today. Pasqua's career veered into the highest annals of popular music, following up the Lifetime stint immediately with fellas named Dylan and Santana, helping to launch the career of one Eddie Money, and compiling an overwhelming, pages-deep list of session appearances. Even as his industry path continued to glitter with such jewels as co-composing the theme for the CBS evening news (still running since 1987), his love for all forms of jazz never waned. While continuing to record with Holdsworth, Pasqua began to carve out a separate career path as a formidable acoustic pianist, perhaps Los Angeles' leading light in that genre, with releases such as Milagro (Postcards, 1993) and Dedications (Postcards, 1995).
Today, Pasqua's career revolves more closely around the jazz world, as he continues to release acoustic sessions with his former college roommate, drummer Peter Erskine. But he's somehow remained relatively underrated as a composer and performer of electric jazz, and unheralded for his groundbreaking and seminal work, both harmonically and as a sound-sculptor, as it relates to the evolution of electric piano styles. That changed in 2007, as fans of electric jazz were gifted with two stellar recordings, one of which was a live DVD with Allan Holdsworth, complete with state-of-the-art sound and video quality, recorded at Yoshi's. But it was The Antisocial Club (Cryptogramophone), one of 2007's finest releases, which packed the most stunning surprises. With new personnel, new tunes, a new keyboard providing a new arsenal of sounds, and a discriminating genre-specific aesthetic that remains intact and strikingly up-to-date, Pasqua accomplished nothing less than re-evolutionizing that previous Lifetime right into this one. It's like he never stoppedand, as we'll find out, he never really did.
- Back to Electric, Part One
- The Antisocial Club
- The Acoustic Alan Pasqua
- Standards
- The New Tony Williams Lifetime/Alan Holdsworth
- Books and Personal Favorites
- Back to Electric, Part Two
- Alan Pasqua: Educator
All About Jazz: Sorry, but I'm suddenly intimidated. In preparation for this, I discovered I was not aware of all this bio for you. I am a fan of electric jazz and know you from that. I had no idea about Santana and Dylan and all of that. Did you tour with these people too?
Alan Pasqua: I was in Bob's band for a year and I was in Carlos' band for two years.
In 1978 I played with Dylan. I met Carlos, actually, while I was out on the road with Bobhe knew of my work with Tony and we just kind of stayed in touch. When I finished my time with Bob he had an opening in his band for a keyboardist so he gave me the call. I went up to the Bay Area and did that for a couple of years.
That was a lot of fun! I grew up of course playing in rock music and bands when I was a kid so it was like the best of both worlds. I got a chance to improvise but also play some good tunes. With Santana I was on Marathon (Columbia, 1979) and Zebop! (Columbia, 1981). Keith Olsen produced thatit was a more commercial venture. With Dylan it was Street Legal (Columbia, 1978) and Live at the Budokan (Columbia, 1979). Really different [laughs].
AAJ: Pardon me for not knowing about that. And I was presuming to start by talking about your new record, which is ridiculously great, and go backwards, if we are going to possibly hope to cover Alan Pasqua. The inspiration for the new record seems to me to be totally out of the Tony Williams Lifetime thing, but people are saying it's out of the Miles electric thing too. Do you feel the same way?
AP: Noit's uha great question! I'm so glad you asked [laughs].
It certainly came out of my time with Tony. I thinkif I kind of wind the clock backwardsAllan Holdsworth and I reunited a couple of years ago after a long spell where we hadn't played anything together. He showed up at one of my gigsit was a total surpriseand it was so good to see him. Then I was over in Europe touring and was talking to one of the booking agents over there and mentioned to him that I was thinking about putting something together with Allan and he just jumped at it and said, "Do it and I'll book it!" That started the while thing rolling. We did that live DVD at Yoshi's in Oakland, which came out really nicely. A great production company and film crew did that called Altitude Digitalwonderful cats from Austin Texas.
AAJ: They did that Out Trio thing with Terry Bozzio, Alex Machacek and Patrick O'Hearn.
AP: Exactly.
So I had to dust off, you knowI had to get rid of the cobwebs because I hadn't played electric music in a long timeelectric improvised music. So it just kind of led me down the road, of course, of equipment and all that stuff and I finally discovered this Swedish keyboard called the Nord. It was such a shot in the arm for me because I had heard it and I thought it sounded incredible and then I actually played it and it knocked me out. It allowed me to do thingsit's a really intuitive instrument so you can kind of program it to do what you need it to doand in real time.
Before, like in the old days with Tony, I had an Echoplex and a phaser and a wah-wah pedal and a volume pedal and all that stuff.
AAJ: I was going to ask you about thatyou've always been right therean incredible sound guyat the cutting edge as far as just sounds on the electric keyboardslet alone what you're playing. You obviously take great care as far as what's going on in terms of those great sounds.
AP: I'm interested, you're right, in those more classic sounds and I don't like to spend a lot of time getting it. I'm not one of those guys that likes to tweak stuff forever. I get real bored real fast, so I need to have something good quickly. So again, it's the Nord that just flat knocked me outand that kind of was the basis for this whole Antisocial Club record.
AAJ: Those sounds?
AP: Yeah. Once I had that instrument and I started working with it more it was likeah-hah. I was just getting really familiar with it when we made the record. Then Holdsworth and I went on the road this last summer to Japan and Europe and I really got the chance to play with it and really get it to work even more favorablyto check it out and see what it could do.
AAJ: So you're saying you made the Antisocial Club record before the Holdsworth tour, even though it took until, like November for the CD to come out?
AP: Yeah. It came out in October [2007] and we made it in March.
AAJ: Now I get it. That's incredibly fastyou just got the Nord last year and most of the sounds on the Antisocial Club are on that?
AP: Everything on the CD is the Nord except, of course, my acoustic piano on the last track. Everything else is on that one instrument.
AAJ: Well, that's surprising. I was going to ask you about the acoustic piano recording on "George Russell," because it had a treated quality to it. Now you're saying it's the other way around.
AP: That's the Nord processed with like, DDL and a bunch of other stuff. It has a great acoustic piano sample on it and really terrific Rhodes and great, built in, on-board effects, which is kind of the capper for me. That's what makes it really shinereally sets it apartbecause then you don't have to bring all that other stuff with youjust the cables alone.
AAJ: You get that really great processed Rhodes sound on the first tunethat dirty Rhodes. You used to have to use likea whole macro circuit board lookin' thing!!
AP: [laughs] There's this great analog overdrive circuit on that keyboard. Then you can program that in real time, you can add just by hitting a pitch wheelyou can add tons of distortion or notjust kind of dial in what you wantit's really great.
So a lot of the inspiration from the record came from Tony. And I mean, of course, Allanbut really Allan in the days of Tony. Then before Tony, when I was in Boston, I was a member of a band of a great bandleader and great trumpet player named Stanton Davis, who was one of George Russell's really kind of disciples. He had a band called "Ghetto Mysticism" and I was the pianist in that band for awhile. Bill Pierce played tenor, sometimes Leonard Brown played tenor, and JerryJerome Harriswas the bassist for awhile. It was a killer band! It was all instrumental groove, funk music and it was a tremendous influence on this project as well.
AAJ: Billy Pierce is still here at Berkleewe'll get on him to get you back here.
AP: I love him. I want to come back to too. I love New England I grew up in New Jersey but I consider myself more of a New Englander. I just totally get it and I just love it up there. I am a die-hard Red Sox fanlike crazy, I mean crazyand so's the whole family. We'll be back one day.
AAJ: So what's the chronology on Boston and Stanton Davis.
AP: I was in Boston from '72 to '75 and then I went on the road with Tony right during that time.
AAJ: So critics are making that Miles connection just because there's a trumpet in the band then?
AP: [laughs] Yee-ah. I mean I hear this stuff about On the Corner (Columbia, 1972) and [In a] Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969) or whatever and, my God, I love those recordsgood grief, I listened to that stuff so much when I was in school and back in Boston. So of course I'm going to be influenced to some degree by that, but I listened to M'wandishi [Herbie Hancock] just as much and the Meters and Kool and the Gang and Sly and then...Tony! Emergency! (Polydor, 1969) and Ego (Polydor, 1970) and all that stuff. I don't knowI think people that have reviewed the record and have made that comparison so strong to say it's another Miles Davis ripI think they missed the boat.
AAJ: Well, the thing is, all the reviews seem to mention Miles, but I only saw one mentioned it negatively. The rest are saying the record is great!
AP: Well, most of the time, yeah, thanks. Most of the reviews have been great.
AAJ: The Down Beat thing pissed me off! So I presume that's what we're talking about.
AP: Some reviews, you know, they don't do their homework. They get guys to listen to half of one track and they write a review about it. They read the liner notes and if the liner notes piss them off, they include that too!
AAJ: I don't remember the liner notes.
AP: There aren't any! [laughs]
AP: I wrote one little hilarious line that describes the Antisocial Club in really small print and then I just thanked Jaki Byard, George Russell, Stanton and Thad. They were my teachers in Boston.
AAJ: They were all Conservatory people.
AP: Yeah. I went to NEC [New England Conservatory].


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