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Can't believe it's here. The last week of the challenge. I sort of feel mixed emoitions about it. On one hand, I'm excited to be at the last week, and on the other hand, it feels a little sad to be at the end. Ha! I realize this isn't really the end, but those who have made it to week 12 probably know what I'm talking about.
I'm looking forward to having an awesome week to finish this thing out. Even though I'm still sitting at 12% fat, I'm still striving to get to 10% by the end of the week. Still got that little bit of low belly fat that won't give up! It just keeps hanging around like it has good sense. GO AWAY! You're not welcome here anymore! LOL!
Well, here's to finishing out my first ever BFL challenge with a BANG!
Finish strong! Can't wait to see your final pics. I bet your co-workers will be amazed! Good job!
Go get 'em, Mike! I finished mine on Mother's Day and I know exactly what you're talking about! In fact, I started C2 today! Felt like a ship without a rudder this past week.
Week 12 gave me great results tho and was happy with where I finished, despite missing my initial goals by a bit. What a great feeling to wrap it up...Get some!!
Yay Mike! Good for you! I know exactly how you feel. I was excited, sad, scared and happy all at once. This is really very exciting though! Work super hard this week (I know you will anyways). I love looking at my 1st workouts and comparing them to my last workouts, such a huge differnce!
Congrats Mike, you're almost there!
I know exactly what you're feeling - I finished my first challenge last week. I have to say that I feel a bit lost and I know I'm supposed to be taking it easy with my workouts, but I feel like I'll lose all that I gained (and lost) if I 'rest' too much!
Have a great week 12 - I lost a lot of body fat that last week - it was amazing!
"Without struggle there is no growth"
Great Job Mike. I am so excited for you. Cant wait to see the final pics.
Rachel - you look great! And, um, I see a six pack already! Rock on, girl! How much time did you take off between challenges? I've taken a week off, but I'm gettting restless.
Oh I know Rachel. And I still remember a few weeks ago seeing your 12 week pics and how AWESOME you look!! I'm so glad I journaled as I've gone through this so I could go back and see the progress. It blows me away to see on week 1, my High Point on treadmill cardio was 6.0 mph. This past Saturday it was 10.0 mph for that last minute. On lifting, Week 1 dumbbell bench press was 25 lbs for each dumbbell. Last week's workout I was up to 50 lbs for each dumbbell. I wouldn't have believed the progress if I hadn't written it down! And that's been part of what's kept me motivated to keep going during the last 11 weeks. I definitely see the importance of journaling as you go. It's a really powerful tool.
Heather ~ Congrats to you for finishing! I took two weeks off. I didn't stop working out though. I just did more cardio instead of weights (becuase I love cardio). Thank you for the compliment! I feel fantastic but not satisfied yet! I will get to my goal very soon!
Mike~ I'm very glad I tracked all my progress too! It really helps to look at how much you've improved in such a short amount of time.
Doesn't it feel great to be a success!!!?? We made a goal and we acheived it!
Yep it's an awesome feeling! Can't wait to see what this last week has in store for me.
I'm also planning to take 2 weeks off after this. No weights at all. But I'll do a little running in preparation of my FIRST EVER 5K run on Memorial Day. I set a goal to do a 5K in 2010 so I'm excited that it's coming up. Hope it doesn't kill me. LOL!
Hey Mike.....me too.....along with HeatherC are in our last week. Let's finish strong!!!!
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Way to go Mike and the others who are here. Kill it.
Mike: Have you gained any type of mass/strength since changing your nutrition up a few weeks ago?
Yeah fit4life and HeatherC!!!! I'm all for finishing strong!
@Armster - My strength has definitely improved, but my muscle measurements have stayed the same. In fact, over the whole 11 weeks, my muscle measurements have stayed the same. It's the weirdest thing. But I know it's because of the 'calorie deficiency to energy-spent ratio' since my body has been cutting fat because I've dropped 12% fat since starting, but all my muscle measurements have stayed the same. So the positive part is, I'm stronger than 3 months ago, I'm 12% lower body fat than 3 months ago, but I've got the same size muscles as 3 months ago, so now I've got the same size muscles but now on a body with only 11-12% fat so it looks a lot better. I'm lifting quite a bit heavier weights than I was in the beginning so I know I'm stronger now.
I'm going to take 2 weeks off after I finish, then I'm going on a bulking cycle to build up some size. Then I'll probably do BFL again to cut back down. But since I'm down to 11-12% body fat currently, I should be able to keep the fat fairly low even during the bulking stage. I'm still going to be eating clean, just LOTS more of it.
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No matter what you end up ordering up, be sure to get a mojito. They pour them just right here.
Smoked marlin tacos! They've been on the menu here since the beginning and they're still so good. Almos like Cuban whitefish salad.
One of the best in Philly – This place is great, the ambience, the location and the food.
Great drinks, and great entrees. The prices get a little high if you order too many "sides," one may be enough at most two. The lamb was the best I have had anywhere. Well worth the trip for special occasions (or if someone else is paying).
My favorite restaurant in Philladelphia – By far my favorite restaurant. Food is great. Atmosphere is sexy and great for romantic night out. LOve...LOve...LOVE the MOJITOS!!!
Sadly Disappointed – First, they lost our reservation so we ended up at probably the worst table in the restaurant, right next to the kitchen. There was a constant flow of traffic, this was supposed to be a romantic dinner but no, it wasn't . You would think since we were so close to the kitchen we'd at least get good service, but no again. We waited 20 minutes just to order a drink and it was another 15 minutes before we received our drinks.
We lived in Miami for a few years and I think I can recognize good Cuban food. Alma De Cuba's food can only be compared to a middling Cuban restaurant at a Miami strip mall.
All around this was a disappointing evening. The service was poor, the food was just average, and I will never have another meal there again.
hard to believe they are still in business! – This place has absolutely nothing of Cuban/Central/South American cuisine, if not some dishwashers in the back of the kitchen likely paid minimal wage.
Well.. I guess it all depends on what you are looking for: if you want ambiance, it's quite nice inside. But don't eat!! The food is bad, served in small portions. The service is horrible. They kept taking my plate out of hands while I was literally eating. And they kept doing
this many times....The meat (CARNE) is horrible. Bad quality and they really don't have a clue how to cook it. Desserts are cheap and poorly served. The vine list is limited. Finally, it is very expensive. 5 people with 1 bottle of vine and just 1 entrée each + appetiser ... we topped at $350!! A real shame . I guess America is a real Oasis when it comes to overcharging for bad food. Most people have no education and palate when it comes to food and they pay a fortune for any crap they get service. But I really think Alma de Cuba has not been worth my time and money.... and I gave it two chances and in both cases we left angry and hungry.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS PLACE!!! – This was one of my favorite meals ever! the atmosphere was so cool and the food was exceptional! can't wait to come back
Very dissapointed with this restaurant – Not the tipical cuban restaurant I'm used to in Miami and North Jersey, I just visited this restaurant on 10/11/09 after reading a review on gophila. Not what I expected at all. The dining room is a cocktail lounge with small cocktail tables, the food is not the tipical cuban food I expected. It is over priced for the small food portions they give. Dining room is too dark where one have trouble reading the menu. After filling out their comment card I was approached by the general manager, one Mr. Mark Dombkoski or perhaps DUMBkoski, who after I complaint claimed that the restaurant was not a cuban restaurant. EXCUSED ME. THEY SURE G HAD ME FOOLED. WONT RECOMEND IT TO ANYONE
Great Cuban Food in Philly – My husband and I ate at Alma de Cuba this past Saturday. I have nothing but great things to say about this restaurant. We made a reservation through Open Table for 8:30PM. Upon our arrival, we were seated immediately. As we were being led up the stairs to our table, I overheard the Maitre D' tell another patron that the wait without a reservation was two hours. The atmosphere is incredible and we enjoyed the music being piped through the restaurant. For drinks, I had Sangria any my husband had a dirty martini. We started with the 3 plate ceviche tasting. It was out of this world. For an appetizer, we had the fried oysters. I had the Xim Xim for dinner and my husband ordered the lamb. We also shared a side of asparagus. The food was amazing. I have no complaints about the taste of the food. I will say that the portions are small, but since we knew that beforehand, we ordered enough food so that we left feeling thoroughly satisfied. The service was amazing. Our server was extremely attentive. The busboys cleared our plates immediately after we finished eating. The food runners explained what everything was as they were putting your plate in front of you. Our silverware was changed with each course. Overall, we very much enjoyed our whole dining experience.
smallllllll food for $$$$$$$$$$...and it wasnt even that good – It was freezing inside, strange music played and gave me a headache plus i couldn't hear our conversation. Food is tinnnyyyyy so dont come hungry or in attempt to communicate. Its lit too dark as well. Server was trying very hard and sooo nice. The dessert we ordered was the cigar. It was pretty but too stiff, too dark cocoa/dark chocolate for me, too plain. The whole meal for 2 was over 130 but wasn't impressive. I didnt leave amazed or full with delicious food. Go here if you have money and been everywhere else thats classy.
Compelled to write because service was so poor in addition to too-small portions. Go to Tequila's or one of Philly's many other great restaurants. – I never thought I would write a poor review for a restaurant, but our service tonight was so poor that I don't want another person to waste their money and more importantly, precious time here. We were ignored from the moment we stepped in the door (yes, we had reservations and had to wait)! We waited for 15 minutes at the table before even being brought menus and water - and these by the host because apparently the waitress was too busy. This continued throughout the meal...received our entrees about an hour later and though my tuna was good, it had a slight chill (its pan-seared tuna not pan-frozen). The 3 shrimp that my companion received for his $30 entree, obviously did not fill him up. I'm fine with paying for smaller or "appropriate" proportions at a fancy restaurant, but 3 shrimp is rediculous.
Don't waste your time or money here....the poor service and pricey food for the proportions far outweight the few good items on the menu. Tsk Tsk Steven Starr..maybe you should start taking advice from your former proteje, Jose Garces.
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Frank Lampard says the evolution of Major League Soccer in recent years means we cannot take the All-Stars lightly in tonight's game at Phildadelphia's PPL Park.
The midfielder was speaking ahead of tonight's game against the All-Stars, whose squad features both David Beckham and Thierry Henry, as well as US all-time record appearance maker Landon Donovan, who enjoyed a successful stint in the Barclays Premier League with Everton recently
'I think it's evolved a great deal. David Beckham has been a huge influence on the game taking it worldwide and bringing attention, which lifts the levels of players brought in,' Lampard said. 'You can feel the quality going up and the level of the fans' excitement, which helps the game evolve and we've seen it improve a lot in that time.
'The big names have got a lot to give and it's pushed the standards up. Back home we can watch an MLS game, we couldn't do that a couple of years ago. We're now taking notice and it's a very nice thing to come here and play the MLS All-Stars, we have a lot of respect for them and the American national team as well, who we played in the World Cup, and I know are taken very seriously. It shows the development of American football as a whole.'
The midfielder has also been impressed with the hospitality, and support, the team has enjoyed since arriving stateside last weekend.
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'The games are very good for us, the Seattle game was a great first game for us, we are still fighting to get our fitness for the season coming up so it was a good competitive game for us and the Paris St-Germain game was a step up in terms of opposition and again was a test. We're enjoying it and we want to get to stage where by the time we are leaving the States we are in a state to think about starting our season.'
Lampard believes with the injection of youth in the transfer market, the team will have a different feel to it this season, but is as determined as ever to play his way into Roberto Di Matteo's plans.
'Last year we proved to be a great team and a great unit in the second half of the season with what we achieved,' he explained.
'This year maybe we are slightly different because we have more new young players coming in so there might not be the settled togetherness that we had on the pitch at that side because we had been together a long time but there is an excitement about our team as well and that's probably the main difference.
'Everyone is trying to impress, and you never lose that in pre-season, there's not one manager I've met yet who will close the door on any player. We are all playing for our season at this stage trying to show Robbie that we are fit and ready regardless of last year. We have to perform at a high level to stay in the team because of the quality of the squad we have.'


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LHASA, TIBET - Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is "totally getting into Western philosophy." "I've been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it's blowing my mind," Hsu said. "It's so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist 'being is desire and desire is suffering' shit my parents have been cramming down my throat all my life. Most of the kids in my school have never even heard of Hume's views on objectivity or Locke's tabula rasa." Hsu said he hopes to one day make an exodus to north London to visit the birthplace of John Stuart Mill.
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The Kangol Space Siren is a beautiful way to keep the sun off this summer. The Siren style mixes a fedora shaped crown with a deep center dent and a wide brim for shade against the sun and an elegant silhouette. This version is made of lightweight smooth woven straw for a perfect warm weather feel, and is finished with a slightly pearlescent shine that adds a dramatic touch to the look. Finished with a delicate sheer ribbon hat band and a small Kangol pin, this hat will keep you looking good from the pier to the party.


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This year I've had the pleasure of planning an hosting a series of workshops and events for Kinfolk Magazine. The first workshop was in late winter just outside of Charleston at one of my favorite places on earth. We gathered at Deux Puces Farm owned and operated by my dear friend Tara Derr Webb, and spent a chilly afternoon baking with whole grains and stone ground flours. We made fresh butter from cream by shaking it in glass jars with a marble, baked clementine cardamon yogurt cake, rolled out dough on the front porch, made an array of fruit tarts, and baked a number of other delicious treats all morning stopping to make tea and enjoy our labors in the afternoon. It truly was the perfect way to spend a winter day.
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Disappointed Really like design and fit, but fabric is much thinner than appears in picture. Will have to wear camisole underneath and also has to be ironed. Really disappointed in quality. January 20, 2014
not worth the cost I'm sorry to say that this blouse is NOT worth $79 plus tax and shipping. I LOVE the pintucking in the front and back, but the fabric is very thin. You can see your slacks at the waistline and the lining along the front where you button the blouse. I've bought blouses from Chicos and Coldwater creek - their no iron blouses and the fabric of their blouses is more substantial. I'm guessing because the fabric is SO thin that it probably is great in hot weather, but I just got it and wore it for the first time today and it was cooler. I sorry I can't recommend this. I've purchased other items and have been very happy. September 23, 2013
love the style - hate the fabric I ordered this tunic blouse because of the pleating in the middle of the blouse - a style very different from other tunic blouses I've bought...but the quality of the fabric was very disappointing. It is very thin...I have to wear a camisole under it and it doesn't have the weight of other no iron blouses I've bought. I don't consider a no iron fabric for traveling it would get pretty wrinkled before you got to your destination. October 8, 2013
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Obama can always be counted on to choose the most unqualified, controversial nominee to head a department or office. He relishes sticking his finger in the eye of the country. Anything to cause outrage. This type of behavior has been the hallmark of his regime and will continue until he is out of office.
FTA: The White House has not decided whether it will submit a budget before Feb. 4 as legally required....Uhhh................[Can people finally start to see, to acknowledge, to act on the fact that treating Obama like another political figure, to "engage" via the "usual channels" isn´t just nuts, but helping him to tear the nation down?]
Pres Obama is intentionally picking cabinet candidate designed to provoke the Republicans. Presumably this is his latest temper tantrum, over the Republicans not rubber stamping his previous nominations. Also, the meme in the media will be about the how awful and unreasonable they are because they are objecting to all of Pres Obama´s nominations.
Whadja expect from this muslim wrecking ball?
Can´t Congress take the administration to court over this lack of budget. Yes, it seems like overkill, but at this point it is the only way to get this lack of responsibility noted in the LSM. I wouldn´t mind my taxpayer dollars going for this over Zeros green boondoggles.
Name one Cabinet member who meets the requirements of the job and who actually contributed to the good of the country. Just one....
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Lou Cohen: Opening the Door
It is a warm, comfortable environment in Cohen's cozy living room, filled with friends and admirers. Cohen is the dean of the local Boston experimental scene, instructing and inspiring younger artists. With a hard, firm grasp of the great classical tradition, he is also a master technologist, and he can transform electrical impulses into beautiful lyrical flights. What's more, his own efforts stitch together those of his entire music community, as at his Open Sound series, in Somerville, MA, where he brings together his colleagues and associates near and far for stimulating performance interspace.
Cohen is, indeed, a composer with a stern, magisterial demeanor beneath his gentle eyes. And his compositions are strictly determined. The question he is always exploring, however-ever since he studied with composer John Cage in the 1950s, is: What determines choice? Tradition lies heavy, with its heavy demands-and even iconoclasm is ideologically laden. Cohen explores the line between these poles, walking it like a tightrope. As a teacher, he will soon have his students doing the same, with no net; and he will draw his listeners into the atmosphere of tense exertion as if they were up in the air themselves. Again, in his elegant living room, Cohen discusses how his philosophy has kept evolving and reinventing itself, even now, into his seventh decade, as he leads his scene with fire.
All About Jazz: I know you took many years off from music, and I'd like to know were you entirely separated from music during those years?
Lou Cohen: No. I composed in solitude. We should probably go back to the Cage years and start there. I was in college here, and I couldn't decide whether it was going to be music or math.
AAJ: At MIT?
LC: At MIT. So I took a leave of absence from MIT and I went back to New York City, which is where I came from.
At that time my family was living in Queens. A section called Hollis Hills. I lived pretty far out on Long Island, in Queens, near Union Turnpike and 208th Street. Further out than Flushing. So there was a bus I would take to the nearest subway stop. The bus was about a 30- minute ride. To get to Manhattan from home by bus and subway took an hour.
So, anyway, I left MIT and went home. I knew that John Cage was teaching a composition course at the New School, and I signed up for it and I managed to get MIT to give me credit for taking that course. So I took the course for about a half-year, and I got to know him a bit, and he got to know me, and at the end of it I asked him for advice. He said: "You can compose well, but you need to know that I [Cage] cannot make a red cent as a composer." Recently I read a memoir by Carolyn Brown of that period. She was a dancer in Merce Cunningham's dance company. I learned that at that moment when he was giving me that advice, he was selling his books to make rent. Just a few months later he actually made some money, but I didn't know that. And he couldn't have predicted it either.
Anyway, I took his advice seriously. He suggested I go back to MIT. He put me in touch with Christian Wolff. Chris was at Harvard at the time, teaching Classical Languages. We got to be good friends and we put on several concerts around here for a few years. Then I got married, and moved to the suburbs. I just didn't have the time to do concerts any more. And Chris was getting ready to move on too. It wasn't long after that that he left Harvard, but he hadn't quite left at the time that I disengaged. I was working very hard, raising a family, and all that.
But I didn't stop writing music. I continued to compose. The only difference was that without the concerts, I didn't get the performances. So I now have manuscripts stacked this high, that I've never heard. I did that for a long time, but at the same time, I got interested in early music, also because of Christian Wolff. He had gone to Europe for a year and he loaned me his harpsichord. I baby-sat his harpsichord, and I played it. After he came back from Europe and took it back, I bought my own harpsichord. I ended up taking lessons from John Gibbons and I got pretty good at playing the harpsichord for a while. So I played early music, I organized classical music concerts in people's homes, and I composed, but I wasn't in any way in touch with the new music scene. I didn't know anyone who was doing new music for a long time. That's the disengaged part.
So, after many years, I retired. My goal all along had been to be able to retire young enough so that I could write music full-time. I had some false starts: I got involved with astronomy for awhile, and some volunteer work in the public schools, all enriching but not music. But a big thing happened at that time. It was becoming possible to hook synthesizers up to computers. And that got me interested in electronic music, something that I could never have done before because the only electronic music labs were in academic settings and I wasn't in an academic setting.
So all of a sudden there were computers and there were synthesizers. That got me very interested...
AAJ: What year would this have been?
LC: ...it started around 1980, with hobby computers like the Radio Shack TRS80, and by '85 or so I had a Mac and I could afford to buy a synthesizer, and a sampler, and another synthesizer, and I had a rack of these devices, and I was driving them from the computer.
AAJ: So you were retired at this time?
LC: I retired in 1992, so from 1985 to 1992 I was "getting my chops" and writing a few new electronic pieces. I was also going back to my old pieces and trying to create MIDI realizations of the pieces that I had never heard. And I began to write new pieces, although I imagined them for piano or string quartet, so I was using the synthesizers to hear what my string quartet would sound like.
But then I had a breakthrough. This was shortly after I retired: I was having coffee at the 1369 with my wife and she saw that the Out Of The Blue gallery was having poetry open mike nights, maybe once a month. And there was one coming up. This was in December of '92 or '93. And the sign said that musicians were invited. So I went in and asked if I could bring in an electronic piece. I had written two electronic pieces at that point. One of them was called "Vocal Music." They said it would be OK, so I brought it. There were about 20 people in the room, and to my surprise I discovered that everybody liked this piece. So I decided from that moment that I didn't need to write music for acoustic instruments anymore.
I could write electronic pieces. I didn't have to worry about performers who wouldn't rehearse enough, or worry about finding a venue for a concert, or copying out scores and parts-I wouldn't have to worry about any of that. I could burn discs and give them to people, and with electronic music I could get my music heard much more easily. Not only that, I could hear it played perfectly as I was writing it, which was something I could never do before.
So that was a big thing for me, a big change. So I started to exclusively write electronic pieces.
AAJ: Even if they're atonal, your pieces always have a pleasing lyrical quality to them. I'm not sure how you achieve that.
LC: I don't know either. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to.
AAJ: A human quality, I think...
LC: I don't know exactly what that is, but when I write music I always think about the whole piece up front, and I have some idea about what the structure is going to be, so it has a kind of a shape. Usually there's some place in the piece where there's a climax. So maybe that's what you're hearing, I'm not sure. I usually make sure that there are some consonances: unisons, open fifths, things like that. Maybe that's what you're hearing.
Then I had another breakthrough. I told a friend of mine that I was writing electronic music. He was a member of the MIT Gamelan orchestra. He introduced me to another member of the orchestra who wrote electronic music, and that was Ken Ueno.
He's probably in his early 30s right now. He was Ph.D. candidate at Harvard at the time, and since then he's won some major composition prizes-the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. But at that time he was still just an aspiring young composer. We got together a few times and he told me some of what was going on in the electronic music world. I had no idea who was doing anything, or what was going on. Everything I was doing was completely on my own. He invited me to come to a concert at Berklee [College if Music, in Boston], where, he said he was going to perform a piece of his. So I went to Berklee, where he had a part-time faculty job, and he got up on stage with Tim Feeney and Hillary Zipper. And they played this incredible piece. And there was no score, no music stands.
AAJ: It was improvised?
LC: Yes, but I didn't know that. I was thinking: how did they do that? Then he told me that they were going to play the piece at Harvard. So I went to hear it again, and it was completely different. And that's when I found out it was improvised. Up to then I had never dreamed of improvising "noise." Because when I got introduced to "noise," through Cage, there was no such thing as improvising-Cage was totally against it, and nobody else I knew at that time improvised. What you did with noise was, you organized it, using random methods or other methods, but you did not introduce your own personal taste into the process. The way Cage was using it, he was trying to get the music outside of himself, he was trying to get himself outside of his music, which was one of the reasons he was using chance processes.
But here, at Ken's performance, there were people who were expressing their musical feelings with sound and noise. It was like a breakthrough for me. I had no idea anybody was doing this. And then I discovered there was a whole community of people doing it, and I had never known anything about them. So I began to meet them. I organized a few concerts myself at [Cambridge, MA venue] Zeitgeist, and I brought Tim, Ken and Hillary in. And they brought in Jack Wright and Vic Rawlings. One thing led to another and I got to know more and more people. And I became part of this lively community of people who were working with noise and it was just wonderful. So it's like I was born all over again.
AAJ: Anthony Braxton talks about the "post-Cage-Ayler continuum." I never realized they were so different in their approaches, Cage being anti-expression and Albert Ayler being so radical in self-expression. What is your relationship to jazz?
LC: When I was in high school I played a little bit of jazz, I wouldn't say Dixieland jazz, but otherwise, no. I knew about John Coltrane in the '60s, but I wasn't very interested in what he was doing. For me, the thing about jazz is: you don't hear jazz unless you hear drums. And that seems like such a limitation-it makes so much of jazz sound the same, so it didn't interest me. There wasn't enough freedom in it for me, so I was never very much interested in it. And besides that, I was interested in composing. So, jazz musicians, as a rule, don't play "compositions" or if they do, it's a very loose idea with improvisation, and I was writing computer music that got burned into a disc. Once on a disc it wasn't going to change. So I don't feel any connection to jazz, really.
AAJ: But you do improvise, so you must respond to it in some way if you're an improviser? whether you reject it or whether you're responding to it?
LC: There's a tradition of improvisation in classical music. And it goes way back. Almost all the great composers of the 19th century could improvise, and did, and they were famous for it. And I've improvised plenty on the piano. But it's sort of classical style music. So improvisation is nothing new to me. But improvising "noise" was new. But in a way, it's the same for me. And you're not limited to the structures that I see in jazz. Besides the fact that almost every jazz group has a drummer, the other thing that's the same is that there is usually a riff-a tune-and then each player gets a solo, then they come back to the tune at the end. So the structure is almost always the same.
AAJ: That's changed since the '60s, like the European school: saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Derek Bailey.
LC: I'll have to listen, but I'm not aware of that. One of the things that's strange for me is that I cut myself off, or I wasn't in touch with so much that was going on, for so long. Except for now with what I do in this improv community almost everything that I do is on my own. There are very few composers for example, who I can talk with-I don't them and they don't know me. There are actually just two now: one of them I just met a few months ago (Noah Creshevsky.)
AAJ: Christian Wolff, he's still alive isn't he?
LC: Yes. He's at Dartmouth. He's retired. I haven't seen him in a long time. The last time I saw him was right after Cage delivered the Norton lectures at Harvard. I went to those and Chris was there. We got in touch then and I went to visit him once, but he went off in a different musical direction and we don't have much in common. I saw him once when he was here. He spent some time at NEC [New England Conservatory] for awhile, he organized some concerts-they had a "Christian Wolff" residency. So I saw him then also.
AAJ: How do you feel about taste in musical self-expression? These were things that Cage was against?
LC: I don't have any problem with self-expression at all. There's a lot that I learned from Cage, but that doesn't mean that I did everything the way he did. He was a great influence on me, and a lot of times I think of him as my father. But that doesn't mean that I write like him, or that my music sounds like his, or that I believe in what he believed in. But at the same time, he made a lot of things possible for me, artistically. He really taught me how to compose. And there are some very important things that I learned from him that have nothing to do with Cage's music. They have to do with what he knew about music.
AAJ: People look at Cage as rejecting all convention, and I guess that's not the case. If he taught you how to compose that must mean that he was carrying on a lot of conventions that you would have thought he would have rejected.
LC: He did reject a lot, but at the same time he had his own standards. Maybe some people don't know: Cage studied with Schoenberg, and with other Viennese composers. He studied with Henry Cowell. He studied with Virgil Thompson. And he wrote 20th century classical music, when he started out in the '20s and '30s. He wrote music just like everybody else did. It was unique but it wasn't like what people think about when they think of Cage now. Not these incredible, "anything goes" types of events at all. It was music written down, note by note on a page, just like everyone else was doing. So he did a lot of that and he knew a lot about it. He had this interest in Satie and, in many ways, Satie was a very conventional composer. He had unconventional views which Cage was fond of, but he essentially wrote dots on a page like everybody else did. And Cage could play that music and he did. And he promoted it as well. So he came from the tradition of classical music. And when he performed he put a suit on, like every other classical musician did, and went out on the stage, and he bowed, and he took applause (if any was available) and he started the piece, and he played the piece, and he finished the piece, just like everybody else.
AAJ: So what are your other influences? What did you start off listening to, and what do you listen to now?
LC: I started off listening to classical music when I was 11, 12. What I listened to was Beethoven, Mozart, Copland, but then one night on the radio I heard a piece by Bartok which had a big impact on me: "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta." In that piece there's a striking moment in the slow movement where a percussionist hits a repeated note, probably on a xylophone. The repeated notes begin slowly, then speed up, then slow down again, with nothing else going on, and then there's a drum roll or a tympani roll at the end. It was very dramatic and completely different from anything I had ever heard before. There was no rhythm-it was a gesture. And it was a gesture that involved no rhythm, no melody, no harmony. It opened up this possibility to me that music might not have rhythm, melody or harmony. Of course the Bartók music moved in a different direction after that, but the impact on me remained.
Later on I got exposed to the Schillinger Method. Joseph Schillinger was a Russian musician who came to the U.S. in 1928. I learned about Schillinger from Carmine Coppola, who was the father of a high-school roommate of mine. Besides his musical training, Schillinger had a mathematical background. He taught privately and also by correspondence courses. His most famous pupil was George Gershwin, but many of his other students were also famous: Benny Goodman, Oscar Levant, Tommy Dorsey. Also Henry Cowell, who later was one of Cage's teachers. Schillinger's methods allowed musicians to write music quickly, which was a big advantage for composers of Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies tracks. He provided ways to generate music with mathematical methods. And it was decent music.
One of Schillinger's disciples, by the way, was Lawrence Berk, who taught the system in Boston from 1945 to 1954. He then went on to found the Berklee School of Music.
Anyway, the whole idea that mathematics could be used to generate musical ideas, musical patterns, that was a big influence. Later, through Ken Ueno, I learned about Iannis Xenakis, who also wrote a book describing his mathematical methods. So that was a big deal for me.
Since then, the biggest influences have been the people I play music with, all these young, wonderful people. I listen to the many, many ways that they make music, the many different ideas, I don't know where I'd be without them. They've really changed my world.
AAJ: You're a very responsive player. When you play with Vic Rawlings you play one way, that sort of contrarian, bitter style, the audience-be-damned way, and then with Andrew Eisenberg, his music is very extroverted, an easy-going guy, you're very approachable when you play with him. I notice you really fit into your context very well.
LC: I like to play by listening. Maybe that comes from the days when I accompanied people on the harpsichord. Often there's a soloist, and the harpsichordist's job is to be the rhythm and support section. But I like to play with people, I like the idea of making things happen together. I like to listen and do what they do, or sometimes take the lead, but usually I try to feel my way, and see what they're doing and do more of that.
AAJ: Tell us about the wiimote.
LC: This started from my interest in Csound. Csound is very important to me because it's given me a way to combine computer programming, mathematics and music, all rolled up together. I was very interested in Csound and I tried to start a Boston Csound User's Group, in order to swap information with other Csound users around here. One of the biggest names in the dissemination of information about Csound is Richard Boulanger, who teaches at Berklee. He was the editor of the Csound Book. He offered to provide a place for the Csound Users Group to meet-at Berklee. As it turns out, I didn't find anyone around here who knew more than me about Csound, except for Richard Boulanger.
There were no other users who I could learn anything from. But I gave a number of presentations at Berklee, and he gave me the wiimote as a gift. It's made by Nintendo and it's a game controller. Richard had figured out how to link it up to Csound. At first I wasn't interested in doing that, but one day I looked at a videotape of me performing on the laptop, and it looked like I was doing my email. Also I remember this clearly: I was doing some duos with James Coleman, who plays the Theremin, and at the end of each of these duos, people would come up and look at the Theremin. Nobody was interested in what I was doing. They had no interest in what was on the computer screen, for example. I realized that although it ought not to be this way, what audiences see, matters. Audiences respond to what they see.
So here I had the wiimotes and I wondered if I could do something with them that was similar to what I had been doing with the mouse, and people would be able to see what my gestures were. I worked on that and it turns out that it's way better for me than what I was doing before. It allows me to be much more responsive to what else is going on. The way I was doing it before, I was moving the mouse around on the screen very rapidly, but I couldn't start and stop things fast enough. There are a lot of musical gestures that were very hard for me to do before that are easy to do on the wiimote. The wiimote has buttons on it, so I programmed it so that when you press a button a note starts, and when you release the button the note ends. It's so logical-it took me a while to figure that out, but it makes sense. And there are two wiimotes (one is called "wiimote," the other is called "nunchuck"), so I can control one note's start and end with one, and another note independently with the other.
AAJ: So you can play two notes at a time?
LC: Actually more. There are two notes at a time if they are short. But if I set things up so that a note plays for a long time after it's started, then I can start another, and another, and another, and they will all play together. So I can play many things at once, in certain situations. But two notes at a time is actually a lot if the sounds are complicated to start with.
AAJ: What is the relationship between spontaneity and premeditation in your work?
LC: I like to have some kind of structure when I improvise. I like there to be sections, something agreed-upon. First we're going to do this, and then we're going to do that. I prefer that because it gives me something to aim for. So instead of just being intuitive, I can think ahead about where I'm going, what I'm doing, and I can think about where I'm going to be next and how I'm going to get there. I think this makes the music more comprehensible to an audience. It makes it more comprehensible to me. I don't mind doing things on the spur of the moment, but when it's all over, I don't know what I've done. If there's a structure then I've got that in my head from the beginning, so when it's all over then at least I feel that I know what happened. A lot of people I play with prefer no structure. So then I just go with the flow, and do it their way. One of the reasons I like to play with [dancer] Joe Burgio and his group is because he likes structure. These are structures within which you can be free. So you do "this" for awhile, but what "this" is, isn't so spelled out. It's a certain sequence of events, or a certain way of responding to other people, but not necessarily spelling out whether you should play loud, soft, or busily, or quiet.
AAJ: With Joe Burgio, with a structure, is there a give-and-take between you and his dancers?
LC: Yes, here's an example: one of things we do is "lead and support." To keep it simple, there might be two dancers and two musicians. So, dancer "A" will be the leader, musician "B" will support the leader (dancer "A.") The next dancer, "C," will support musician "B." And the last musician, "D," will support dancer "C." So each person is supporting someone else, which means that you're responding to what they do and making them look good or sound good. But what you do depends partly on what they do, but partly it's your own choice what to do to make them sound or look good. So that's a structure, but it doesn't dictate that you play loud or soft, or for a certain length of time, or rapidly or slowly, and yet there's a structure. It just dictates who you play attention to and what your intention should be when you play.
AAJ: You play music that is experimental, atonal. So many people find that disagreeable. Why are some of us so attracted to that kind of music?
LC: I don't think this is true for me, but for some musicians there's a kind of rebellious thing going on. A kind of "up yours" thing. I'm not in that category. I don't feel rebellious any more-I might have when I was 20. From my perspective, over the years the range of acceptable sounds, the palette, has expanded, just because each composer, each musician, has pushed the boundaries a little bit. So there are more and more sounds that have become legitimate. The people who don't like these sounds are the people who either haven't been exposed to it, or they have some preconceived idea of what they're supposed to like.
I have a friend, a colleague of mine for many years, and he had a subscription to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Any time they played new music he would complain to me. He had an expectation of what he was supposed to hear at Symphony Hall, and he was not about to expand that expectation. He grew up being told "this is the kind of music you're supposed to like." That's what I imagine is going on with a certain class of people, usually non-musicians, by the way. But it's really taste. There's lots of music I don't like, for that matter. Even though I like noise, there's various kinds of music I'm not interested in at all. Some music doesn't do anything for me, or it seems repetitious, or it doesn't seem original, and other people love it, in fact most people love it. There's no accounting for taste. You've heard that phrase: "That's what makes horse races"? One thing I know is that there are a hell of lot more people who like noise, or tolerate noise, than than there used to be.
It's really different now than when I first started making noise. 20 or 30 people in a room may not seem like much, but compared to when I first started in the '60s, that's a big deal. And they all stay there to the end. And they pay to hear it. None of that was true when I started.
AAJ: One thing I've noticed is that when there's a shift in taste, there's often a turning away from the old things.
LC: In order to embrace something new, you have to reject something else?
AAJ: Picasso got bored with Da Vinci.
LC: That probably was true for me when I was younger, but it isn't now. I can remember when I was learning 12-tone technique and embracing new music (or what was new music in the late '50s, early '60s), I had no patience for Tchaikovsky or Brahms or most 19th century music. But now when I listen to Tchaikovsky I get tears in my eyes. All the way back, I love the entire Western music tradition.
I forgot earlier to mention my other important music teacher-Alan Kemler (aka Avram David.) I had written a short piece of music for a friend of mine, and he had hung the score on his wall. Kemler saw it there and when he first met me he told me that I was headed in the right direction but I still had a lot to learn. I took lessons with him for about a year and half. And I learned a lot of things that Cage wouldn't have taught me. Maybe Cage was required to do counterpoint and harmony exercises when he was studying with Schoenberg, but he didn't teach those things at the New School.
So I learned how to analyze pieces, how to do counterpoint, harmony, how to use the strict 12-tone technique, some orchestration. All that was important because it gave me a basis for teaching myself more later on. And I use it all, I always think about those techniques. I always think about classical counterpoint even when I play music now on the wiimote. It's time for some low sounds, it's time for two things happening at the same time, it's time to hear two things together. All that comes from my classical training.
AAJ: I think a great thing about your career is that you've been able to recover so much. You've been able to recover your taste for the romantics and classics, you've recovered your creative outlets...
LC: This is a golden age for me. It's way beyond my expectations. I'm writing music like crazy, I'm playing more than I have energy for, there are always new ideas, and I've made so many great friends, it's just wonderful-finally I'm not alone.
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Will Canadian code allow you to design and plumb your own home?
Hi guys
I'm seeking advice and recommendations on a DWV and water supply design for a new house that I will be building this upcoming year.
Some information on me and the project.
I am not a plumber, but very handy in just about any field.
I plan on building a house in the country, so water will be taken in from a drilled and dug well, two seperate systems most likely, and waste water will be going to a septic tank.
I was wondering if someone could point me to a location where I can find the plumbing code and regulations, I am having a very hard time with this. I'd like to study it and make a CAD drawing with everything layed out.
I would very much appreciate your help.
Thanking you in advance
Will Canadian code allow you to design and plumb your own home?
I am sure you are an accomplished DIY'er, but an entire house DWV system is NOT something you can post on the internet and hope we will diagnose it and then HOPE you install it properly. We go to school for MANY years in order to learn how to do it. A plumbing code book and a do it yourself manual, is almost a guarantee that there will be inaccuracies in the design and installation. Even a simple sink addition can make us post dozens of replies before the person starts to understand what we are trying to tell him. Multiply this by many degrees and you will understand the difficulty, and futility, of doing it.
Here you go. This pretty much covers everything
The subtitle, "Expert advice from the Home Depot" is also self explanatory, even though it is an oxymoron.
Hi Guys
Thanks a lot for your input, positive or negative.
Let me rephrase.
I would love to design my own DWV for my house, however, I realize that I lack the expertise some of you have having worked in the field for many years.
I will hire a contractor to do the work, but having a lot of contacts in the contractor field, I know some of the contractors out there do such pig slop they should be shot on the spot for it (my current house being an example).
Now, my goal is to have an understanding of the installation, I don't want the walls to be closed off without having the slightest idea of what is behind them. I will be doing electrical myself for the most part, and water supply too, already done it a few times.
My current problem, I don't know where I can find the code, the guide lines. The city provided me with a pamphlet stating the pipe sizing for fixtures in the house and I'm sure as long as I follow it, it will pass inspection. This is not the idea here.
I have spoken with the city inspectors, and I can't say I have much faith in them, they will approve just about anything if it is explained to them right. What I'm looking for is not something that will simply meet the city bylaws, but something that will surpass them.
I have already designed my own septic tank and I am currently working on the water supply, all I ask, is advice from you experts as to where I should look for how things should be done the RIGHT way.
With the current plans I forsee a few challanges.
1. I would like a bathroom in the basement
2. The kitchen sink is on the opposite side of the house where the stack will be.
3. Freeze proofing, if anything like that even exists.
The reason for these challanges is that I want everything to run on gravity, no storage tanks or pumps, everything has to be able to flow from any fixture in the house right down to the septic tank without any other assistance then that of gravity.
Key things to mention here, I have lots of room to go down with the septic tank, and the basement is not going to be very deep in the ground.
Finally, I have lots of time to work these details out, I will be filing for building permits in March/April of next year, before the shell is put in place to start installing the mechanics, it might be close to the end of the year, and it might be beginning of 2011 before it will actually be put to work and this is the scariest part for me.
I realize this seems like a lot for a single person, especially someone who is not a professional in the field, so again I will hire a contractor, I just want to know that what he/she puts in will do what I want it to, I'm not paying for cats in a bag here, neither would you, right?
Thanking you in advance
Canada uses the National Plumbing Code (NPC)
However, I know that certain parts of Canada (Ontario being one) have many local amendments to this code.
I am assuming you are in Ontario, Canada and not a different Ontario (like in California).
Because of the many local code amendments, it would probably be best to get someone experienced in your local area to do the design/install. Read up what you can about the NPC and local codes so you know what is going on, but it would be difficult for you to design it yourself and meet all of the codes on the first try. I figure that you will also be plenty busy will other aspects of the house, so you may not have the time to learn & understand all of the codes and do the design.
Try to be educated so you know when something doesn't look right (especially during the install). I would let the pros handle the design.
Thanks a lot Nukeman
I have a copy of the National Plumbing code, and I have a contact in the city for any specific bylawas. And yes, I'm in Canada Ontario.
I'll start reading up on that.
Many many thanks.
Note the NPC has an illustrated version as well as the standard version (at least in the US). The illustrated has helped me out in the past.
Thanks gator
I'll look into the illustrated version, I used a similar edition for the electrical code which makes a big difference.
Good luck to you as you get started on this. FWIW, I built a 5000 sq ft 'log mansion' myself, over 3.5 years. 3.5 baths, etc, and with zero help from anybody in regards to physical work (in the plumbing department), other than the septic tank and field, which I hired out.
I was helped tremendously by two books by Peter Hemp (Plumbing a House, and Installing and Repairing Plumbing Fixtures) and the local inspector, as well as some fine folks on this forum. The inspector, true to his word, was all over my work, not believing that a veterinarian could do it. I bought a copy of the applicable code books, and asked questions to the inspector.
Other than about 13 leaks on the first test, I had no problems; the system has worked perfectly, and tradesmen friends are impressed.
I say this not to brag, but to encourage you that YOU CAN DO IT! Don't let anybody tell you that you can't.
Best wishes, Steve
quote; I say this not to brag, but to encourage you that YOU CAN DO IT! Don't let anybody tell you that you can't.
That may be true for you, but not necessarily for EVERYONE. There are people who have constructed their own automobiles, but that does not mean EVERYONE can do it. And even when you CAN do it, sometimes the time frames make it expedient not to waste your time trying. One of the most frustrating things is to spend days, or weeks, installing what you think is the "jewel" of plumbing systems and then have an inspector, or plumber, tell you it "all has to come out and be redone properly". (I have had to do it to some DIYer installations. Even when they installed it just like they THOUGHT the city's drawing showed it.)


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My first thought: we'll see how long I'll be able to keep this up. I've never been a very disciplined about writing in a diary, this seems roughly equivalent. However, I'm newly addicted to the medical blogs, and wanted to try my hand a creating a witty, intelligent, thought-provoking read for other blogopaths out there. No pressure.
Truth be told, I've always wanted to write a book. Maybe this will be my first foray in authorship.
I'm relatively new to medicine, been in the biz about 3 years. I'm a family doc, and work for an FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center). I make less money than I would in private practice, but I also have lower blood pressure than most other docs - all the angst about reimbursement, medicare payments, GD insurance companies, etc is essentially of casual interest to me, but doesn't affect my bread and butter. But I would like to say thanks to all the docs out there fighting the good fight.
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- Kids paint their own Boruca masks with an indigenous artist
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james wrote:Apple have released their new iOS (4.2) for iPad, and we can confirm that the i2M musicport MIDI works with this. Using the free "MIDI Monitor" application, you can see that it works correctly. This should also work on the iPhone4, but we've not tested that yet.
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