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|2007-06-21, 11:32
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Sawa-Chan <3 <3 <3
Join Date: Dec 2004
I had a friend who has a 3.3 but he was in public speeches and had tons of extra activities and got accepted.
I would recommend you when you write your application essay to check it with many people and ask for their opinion. It is always good to show them that you have leader capabalities too. In your senior year you should join a club and try to run for president. That will increase your chances of getting accepted even more.
If all failed and you didnt get accepted to UCLA or USC, Then just go to a community college. Take 1 or 2 years worth of classes, get 3.6+ GPA and you can get accpeted easilly ( you can save some money too this way). Many of my friends got accepted for UCLA and USC but took 2 years of community college to save money and just transferred those units.
One last advice. Know what major and profession you want to have. From that check the UCLA web site for related majors for that profession and see what are the rate of acceptance for each specific major. Just chose the major that has the higher rate of acceptance and that will also increase your chances of getting accepted.
Any ways good luck.
|2007-06-21, 15:49
|Link #22
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
|2007-06-21, 18:37
|Link #23
Sawa-Chan <3 <3 <3
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2007-06-27, 23:49
|Link #24
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
Should I retake or not @__@???
Okay here it is, my going on to senior year of high school and yes, like someone's thread before(Yakult I believe), I am pressed to apply for colleges. The only thing is, I have a dilemma.
I took the SAT I, which all of you know, is a very important test to college admission. The only thing is, I scored 80 points below my dream score (dream score: 2300, I got 2220). This has been pondering in my mind for a while now, but should I retake it??? Do I really need to retake it(I don't really have the skills anymore >< Have to redo all the stuff)
Here's my other profile for reference:
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That's about all, so should I retake my SAT I??? It has been a really hard decision for me so I'm asking for your opinions.
(my dream school is Stanford ><)
|2007-06-27, 23:52
|Link #25
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
There's no need to retake with those scores. They are perfectly fine, and the administration certainly understand when they see your SAT II scores.
But if you have nothing else to do, and are confident of scoring a higher grade; retake it. Given your (seemingly) anxious personality I don't think you'd keep still.
|2007-06-27, 23:55
|Link #26
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
Stanford is a beautiful place. Best of luck!
[Cynic] Geez...what's with all those SoCal kids going insane when they have 2220...I know a girl who came from there and even I think she's academically suicidal. [/Cynic]
|2007-06-28, 00:00
|Link #28
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
|2007-06-28, 00:11
|Link #29
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
Hmm, would summer camp teacher's rec help???
P.S. SoCal is really competitive here so yea @___@, bunch of ppl loading themselves up with APs (I took 5 AP courses during my Junior year)
|2007-06-28, 00:26
|Link #30
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Penn State University Park FTW .. good 'ole Happy Valley
But no, seriously.. I wouldn't worry about your scores. They look great to me. A lot of colleges don't even really focus on the scores all that much these days I've heard. Don't get me wrong, they're still really important, but colleges also want to see what activities you've been in during high school, volunteer work.. stuff like that. A little community service never hurts.
|2007-06-28, 01:00
|Link #31
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 29
See...I think the major point that got me into Carnegie Mellon was my enormous loadout of activities. I've been on the school's robotics team and school newspaper staff for 4 years, working myself up the ladder to leadership in both places. I also edged myself into positions here and there, and then I got recommendation letters from the teachers for these organizations. Realistically, my SAT scores and GPA are subpar (2110 and 3.65) compared to the other people who got in with me.
The SAT score doesn't matter all that much. In fact, if you look on the essays and recommendation letters you'll probably get a leg up over those people who really fretted over their scores without caring those little details.
|2007-06-28, 01:08
|Link #32
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
There's a statistically small chance of improving your scores... probably better off focusing on SATII. My son scored in that range so he had the same dilemma.
If you're trying to get into something like MIT or Stanford where only 10-20% of all applicants are accepted then little niggling things can matter.
With so many applicants, you can walk on water with your stats and still not get in.
Little known is that if you go to another decent university and do well in your classes you can wiggle into those lofty places as a transfer student -- often much more easily.
Also keep in mind that the name of a college really loses its significance in your degree after a few years once you accumulate practical experience. If you're going for a MS/PhD, ymmv....
|2007-06-28, 03:25
|Link #34
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In Maya world, where all is 3D and everything crashes
Age: 31
eehm just curious, how does that SAT stuff work?
our system is totally different i think, we build up several grades on several lose tests throughout the year, then have official exams and if we pass were just done, still dependant on what school youre going to, some school only look at the exam grades other that have this bingo kinda logic take all your grades, count them up, divide them to get the average and you get put in groups with the same range of average and just get randomly picked...
this is the USA system right? the Sat stuff i mean
|2007-06-28, 12:08
|Link #35
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
USofA uses SAT I and SAT II I believe. How it worked for me (I took the SAT's back when there was no essay writing part), our school offered the SAT I test a couple weekends out of the school year. You could sign up, go out to the school at like 9 in the morning on a Saturday and then take the test. For my college entrance, they looked at a mix between my academic transcript, class rank, activities, and of course SAT I scores to see if they would admit me.
I know the USofA does offer a PSAT for students who have never taken the SAT before.. it's kind of like a prep test. Many of the schools also offer a SAT prep course during one of your high school years.
In my opinion, SAT's and standardized tests are really overrated in America. These days teachers just teach to whatever is on the test, and it ends up hurting the students because they can do well on the test at the expense of not learning some of the other important concepts in the subject matter. But alas, that's politics for ya.
|2007-06-28, 13:18
|Link #36
Vinyl Nerd
In the USA it depends on what state you are in for the SAT or ACT. Here in Ohio schools mainly look at ACT, not SAT, so I never bothered to take the SAT. The best bet for any kid about to enter college is to take both the ACT and SAT.
|2007-06-28, 19:48
|Link #37
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
While Stanford, like you, was my dream undergraduate school, Berkeley is.. sort of.. my dream graduate school, mainly because of the faculty they have.
|2007-06-28, 21:04
|Link #38
Good-Natured Asshole.
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Age: 29
|2007-06-29, 00:02
|Link #39
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I went to Rice University, but I've been in and around UC Berkeley enough to think its an excellent way to spend either undergrad or grad time there. Going to college is a very personal experience though, so I'd never blanket recommend a particular school without knowing the applicant very well.
Like all schools though ... "goodness" depends on which major you're considering though. Most schools are known for the excellent output of a few particular departments (unless they're mostly known for their football team :P).
|2007-06-29, 00:38
|Link #40
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
I'll probably go for biochem or computers
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Seven Reasons Why Google Is Making A Mistake In Filtering Searches Based On DMCA Notices
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- This is the first change to Google's rankings that isn't in the best interest of its users. Google has argued that these new changes will actually benefit users by pointing them to "better" results. That argument is effectively that sites that they are demoting in the rankings are akin to "spam" sites. But there's a very big difference here. Spam sites tend to be sites that the person doing the searching doesn't want and which clutter up the results. For content searches, the searches that Google will be demoting actually might be the ones that the consumer does want. Google has always been pretty religious about making sure the search results best matched what the searcher was, in fact, looking for. But it's now changing that policy. That seems like a dangerous step down a potentially very slippery slope.
- Admitting that it's willing to cave to the interests of businesses, rather than users, will lead to more such demands. Already, we've seen companies complain about how Google rankings work -- and Google could always point to the fact that it determined how to rank its results based on what was best for users. But that's no longer the case, as others can point to Google caving in this one instance. Expect other industries to start asking for special treatment here, too. Google can fend these requests off, but it's going to start to get a lot of them.
- It's never enough. The industry will always want more: As we've already discussed, the MPAA and RIAA aren't satisfied with this move, and will continue to pressure Google to do even more. Opening the door here won't mean that they'll suddenly be satisfied. It's just going to convince them to keep up what they'd been doing in the past: complaining to anyone and everyone that Google doesn't do enough.
- Google's defense in anti-trust cases just got that much more difficult: Google has always argued in the antitrust efforts against them, that the ratings results are the best for users, not for any particular business. But this new effort will be pointed out time and time again to show that's not always the case, as those on the other side of antitrust fights will start asking why the RIAA and MPAA get special treatment, but others can't.
- This will harm new innovations: As we noted above, Google claims this shouldn't hurt YouTube. But, imagine if Google had this in place years back, when YouTube was first starting out. It gets a bunch of DMCA notices early on, Google "filters" it down, and YouTube never becomes "YouTube" -- one of the most important tools that many artists today use for promoting, distributing and monetizing their works. Did it have lots of infringement early on? Hell yes. Did it develop new tools that tons of artists now find so valuable that they rely on them every day? Yes. Would that have happened if Google had demoted them early on? Probably not.
- This may hold back other search engines: This one Google might not mind. As the entertainment industry has done with things like Content ID, it will now argue that all other search engines, by default, should do the same thing -- even though most of them may not have the tools or the DMCA data to make this work effectively. In doing this, Google may end up burdening other search engines -- especially upstarts -- in the space. Google may not mind this, but historically Google has at least been a reasonably good neighbor in not actively trying to undermine competing search engines.
- This won't hold back infringement. At all. The underlying rationale for this is that the RIAA and MPAA think that people searching for content online are too stupid to realize the difference between a paid link and a free link. They think that if someone does a search on the name of a movie along with "free online," that if they're shown an authorized fee-based offer, they're willing to pay for it. There's little evidence to support that. The people doing such searches know exactly what they're looking for. The real problem is not that Google is showing it to them, it's that the traditional entertainment industry players aren't providing users what they want.

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Oh come on.
This is complete and utter bullshit.
Test cricket, kiddies, shouldn't be played on pitches they only way you can get a wicket is by producing a knife.
8 wickets in 3 days?
Why even make test bowlers go through this?
Let's get a bunch of inmates from a local prison, and make them bowl all day long so these soft batsmen can really score at a good rate.
And why bother with fielders?
Let's just have cardboard cut outs.
Shit, we can make money off it too. They don't have to be human sized; we'll have them as logos of various companies.
"Kumar smashes a four past Adidas at point." Even Lalit could get behind test cricket then.
Because this isn't test cricket. As Dileep said on twitter, "If I wanted to see autopilot batting, I could play a video game."
I'm not anti-batsmen, actually I am, the greedy little fuckers, taking every last run that is offered to them by cricket boards trying to get that amazing last day of cricket in. Fuck them. Bowlers are real cricketers, they don't wear protection, they don't get nightfuckenwatchmen, they just go out there and do the job. The minute the pitch helps the screaming little nancy boy batsmen complain about the pitch. It's too fast, it's too slow, it spins, it seams, the ball is swinging everywhere.
Shut up and bat.
That is job, save the pithy comments for the commentary box.
I hate you all.
Let's even it up. Make them try, you know, give them something to conquer, not giving them an escalator up a mountain and then congratulate them for fucking climbing it.
This isn't a test for batsmen; it's a free pass.
Look at the number of hundreds in this game, and I'm not just talking about the batsmen, I'm talking about the poor bowlers who have been viciously attacked for so called entertainment.
Entertainment is when Mahela, Kumar, Viru or Sachin make runs when the ball is doing something. When they have to really bat, not go out and collect runs.
Instead of making stupid fucken mascot competitions, the ICC should start banning test venues for putting in pitches like this.
Actually start doing things. You know, stop sitting around lazily in first class whinging about falling attendances, and get your hands dirty.
I know it is easier to send out a softly written memo asking cricket nations to prepare pitches that bowlers have a chance on, but if you banned a test venue for continually putting out rubbish batting decks, then you'd see cricket boards change the pitches.
A proactive decision or two could fix things, memos rarely do.
We all know that flat tracks are fawned over by Executives and CEOs the world over. I am sure they have a day when they all meet up on the flattest pitch they can find and all masturbate all over it. Ironically, their semen probably gives the pitch more life and the ICC have to warn it for being too bowler friendly in the future.
I forgot what I was talking about, in my head I just had the image of Giles Clarke masturbating while James Sutherland giggled in the background.
Batting pitches are shit.
Burn em.
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planet4ever wrote:Thanks for the logic test,
It sure would be nice if you told us model and year in your signature, so we didn't have to guess.
- Since you can change the unit on the instrument panel, you must have a 2013.
- Since you refer to the "A/C Unit" I'm going to assume you don't have the navigation screen, and therefore have an S model.
[See, from my signature below you can tell immediately that I have a 2013 S model with the charge package.]
- If I've guessed right, I don't know any way to set the units on the S model Climate Control display, though there may be some "easter egg" to do it. I would have thought that the instrument panel setting would have handled it, but I haven't played with it.
- If I've guessed wrong, and you do have a navigation unit, you need to push the MENU button to the right of the screen, then select Settings -> Other -> Language & Units -> Select Units -> Metric.


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An Alumni Prayer for Marquette
John Piderit, S.J. b. 1944
Lord God,
I thank you for the gift of my Marquette education.
As the interval grows longer
between that blessed event in my life and the present,
my memory is less distinct even as my heart grows fonder for my friends
whom I met in those years and who have been with me since.
Bless the faculty,
who tried hard to get me to learn more.
Bless my parents,
who made Marquette possible for me
and who continue to provide me with love and encouragement.
Inspire young men to become Jesuits,
so that future generations of Marquette students
can benefit from their insight and devotion to Christ.
As happened to me in Joan of Arc Chapel,
inflame the hearts of current students
to aspire to great acts of love and commitment.
Guide the faculty
to touch the hearts of current students,
just as they awakened awe and wonder in me.
Grant success to the many projects
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All this we ask through Christ our Lord.


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This week on TreeHugger, sandals made from old computers, DARPA's maple seed-inspired drone takes flight, kitchens that fold in half, solar powered grills that cook for 24 hours, and more!
1. Turn Your Bike Rims into Running Lights: Aura and Revo
If you're tired of regular ol' bike lights, and appreciate a clever verb, check out these two ideas for illuminating your bike on the road, via the rims.
2. DARPA's Maple Seed-Inspired Drone Takes Flight (Video)
DARPA's maple seed-inspired drone has taken flight, and can be remote controlled to fly around the room, even do vertical take-offs, while spinning just like a maple seed.
3. Print Out Your Own Home With WikiHouse
You download the plans and cut them out on a CNC router, then bolt them together into a frame, which are set at 2 feet on centre. when you bolt on the exterior panels you have a rigid structure.
4. Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed
Designed for small spaces, this kitchen hides the bulk of the room away when you are not using it, freeing the space for other uses.
5. Vegan Steampunk USB Bracelet is Made from Recycled Linoleum Flooring
Designer Jesse Herbert, who also works as a musician, wanted a way to distribute his music to friends and customers that wasn't as wasteful as CDs. Turns out the answer is in jewelry.
6. More Detail On Apple's New Foster-Designed Headquarters
So the spaceship has landed inside its private park with perimeter protection, its own world behind the fence.
7. Solar Grill Stores Latent Heat for 25-Hour Cook Time at 450F
Derek Ham writes over at Barbeque Lovers about a solar-powered grill project he has been working on that uses latent heat storage to both extend cooking times, create hotter temperatures, and reduce the problem of intermittent sun.
8. 5 Energy Efficient Air Conditioners to Keep You Cool
In a perfect, eco-friendly world, we would all stay cool by dabbing crystal, cold stream water on our pressure points and fanning ourselves with giant leaves. But in the actual world we live in, much of the United States has been facing a record-setting heatwave for weeks and, for some, there's only one way to combat it: air conditioning.
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These "Data Sandals" are fashioned from PC mother boards, ribbon wire and a host of other electronic components.
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Samantha Novacek and 'Patty the Pittsburgh Planker' Impress 'American Idol' Judges With Faith Hill Song
Samantha Novacek and Patricia Bell both scored golden tickets to Hollywood on Thursday night's episode of 'American Idol,' but only one of them sang a song. Bell, who says people know her as 'Patty the Pittsburgh Planker,' laid on her belly in a yoga pose (known as planking) as her 19-year-old sister belted out Faith Hill's 'Like We Never Loved at All.'
"She sings better when I plank," the 23-year-old told viewers before both women entered the audition room to face the judges. Steven Tyler seemed more than unamused by the good luck gimmick, but came around once Novacek began to sing. Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez agreed that the server from Sutersville, Penn. had what it takes to move on.
"I felt like there was some guts behind the voice," Lopez said.
"Very pure kind of sound that you got going on. Reminds me of Faith Hill, a little Carpenter-ish," added Jackson. Both women came running out of the audition room with golden tickets, meaning both are going to Hollywood. It will be interesting to see how other contestants take to the Pittsburgh Planker lying at their feet while they fight for a spot in the Top 12.
"I'm just planking her to Hollywood," Bell said. She can check that off the bucket list.
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Who was Reb Shlomo? by Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)
Natan Ophir's book, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach: Life, Mission, and Legacy, has just appeared. This is a complete biography of Carlebach's life (not a hagiography) and is essential for anyone with an interest in Carlebach. The Seforim Blog is happy to include this excerpt from the book, pp. 413-419.
1. Who was Reb Shlomo?
Who was Reb Shlomo Carlebach? This question was deliberated in the obituaries after his death. Elli Wohlgelernter of The Jerusalem Post tried to describe Shlomo's elusive uniqueness:
The obituaries referred to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach as the "Singing Rabbi," but that's like describing Yankee Stadium as just some ballpark in the Bronx.... To have spent any time with Shlomo – that's all he was called, never Rabbi Carlebach – was to understand this: he was his own kind of rabbi and they were his own songs, and they will be sung for as long as Jews gather to sing and dance….He was part hippie, part yippie, part beatnik, and part New Age. He was Dylan, Elvis, Arlo and Seeger all rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1]
Indeed, Shlomo just didn't seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report for Religion News and Ethics, labeled Rabbi Carlebach as the "most unorthodox Orthodox rabbi." Moshe Stern, the internationally renowned cantor, characterized Carlebach as a combination of "a prodigal tzaddik, a musical genius, perhaps a religious exegete, a hippie in religious-ultra-orthodox garb." Stern highlighted the all-encompassing nature of Reb Shlomo's personality which defied categorization:
His greatest strength was and remains chiefly his ability to be all encompassing, a kind of prototype for felling the divides, for blurring the borders. This, it seems, is what the ears and souls of many in that younger generation latched onto, seeking as they did an escape path from the rigid categorizing enforced on them by the split reality of Israeli life.[2]
Similarly, Robert L. Cohen asks: Was there ever such an "embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions?"[3] Cohen enumerates some of the seemingly contradictory aspects of Shlomo's life. For example:
A thoroughgoing traditionalist, with Orthodox yeshiva education and rabbinical ordination, he outraged the Orthodox; a man for whom "pluralism" was an alien, ill-fitting concept, he was an implicit pluralist – teaching and singing everywhere, honoring rabbis of every denomination and encouraging others' unorthodox paths.[4]
Shlomo was equally at home with the Admor of Amshinov, the homeless in Riverside Park, and Hadassah women. But there were subtle differences in how he presented himself. It was a different type of Shlomo comforting soldiers in hospitals during the Yom Kippur War, and another Shlomo singing for Christians in Poland and Germany.
A 1994 obituary by Yossi Klein Halevi in The Jerusalem Report used the term "Pied Piper of Judaism" to describe how Shlomo "taught an orphaned generation numbed by the Holocaust and assimilation how to return to joy." Halevi captured the uniqueness of Shlomo's concerts:
A Shlomo concert was part 60s-style happening, part Hasidic revival.... Shlomo always appeared with an entourage – strung-out street people, rebellious yeshivah boys, spiritual seekers, groupies… The only constant was Shlomo himself: his beautiful melodies; his deep, sure voice; his at-once profound and hokey rap ranging from Hasidic stories to exhortations for people to love each other, to mocking and very funny critiques of both ultra-Orthodoxy and Reform Judaism.[5]
The question of who was Reb Shlomo was often a reflection of how people related to him. Sometimes, it was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach officiating in rabbinical functions such as weddings. Most disciples preferred the appellation "Reb Shlomo" to indicate a Hasidic closeness and warmth.[6] But for many followers, it was simply "Shlomo," the best friend, informal confidant, eschewing titles or other artificial barriers. He was the rabbi poised at the entrance to his shul on West 79th St. to welcome all with a bear hug. In the setting of Manhattan's street corners, he was a "holy brother" to many a "holy beggar."
With a natural ease, Reb Shlomo also assumed the role of a charismatic prayer leader. For example, on Hoshana Rabbah services at West 79th St., wearing a white kittel and black gartel, he was like a choirmaster orchestrating the musical accompaniment of trumpet, violin and singing congregation. In the full hour-long video dated September 26, 1994 at the Carlebach Shul, one can see the epitome of the new religious structure invented by Reb Shlomo: integrating a selection of his songs for the Hallel, each setting a different mood and spiritual direction; the symbolic waving of the lulav and arava with joyful dancing, and interjections in English creating a thoughtful direction.[7] This is the Shlomo leading a new form of religious experience specifically adapted to the Orthodox community.
Shlomo was able to blend in to so many different types of communities because he reflected sundry images to diverse audiences. Prof. Shaul Magid uses the metaphor of a mirror:
Most remember him as a mirror: They saw in him what they wanted him to be, or what they imagined themselves to be…. each of his followers heard what he or she wanted and constructed him in their image. The Orthodox offer one reading, the neo-Hasidim another, Diaspora Jews another, Israeli Jews another; leftists read him one way, Jewish militants another. The point is none of them really know… He bequeathed a "Judaism of uncertainty" ("what do we know?" was his catchphrase) so that everything could be reviewed and revised, in the spirit of love and not separation, on compassion and not exclusion.[8]
Nonetheless, of all the images of Shlomo, the most well-known is that of the Singing Rabbi, the father of modern Hasidic music.
2. The Foremost Songwriter in Judaism?
Ari Goldman, in The New York Times obituary in 1994, designated Shlomo Carlebach "the foremost songwriter in contemporary Judaism."[9] Recently, Goldman reiterated this statement, adding that it has never been disputed.[10] In 1997, music historian, Robert L. Cohen, referred to Shlomo as "the most prolific composer of liturgical folk melodies in this, perhaps any, century."[11] In a later article, Cohen explained that Carlebach "opened the gates for a new generation of niggun makers" by creating music with a Hasidic flavor that could be accessible to young Americans:
Shlomo Carlebach had a phenomenal gift for melodies that conveyed yearning and joy, sweetness and exultation all at once… His example inspired an entire generation to set traditional, and some original, verses to their own new melodies… The result has been a garland of new Jewish music – of new wings for our prayers.[12]
This type of recognition recurs in various Jewish encyclopedias and year books. Mark K. Bauman in the 2011 Jewish American Chronology, recognized Shlomo as "the twentieth century's most prolific and influential composer of Jewish music and a key ambassador of spirituality, especially to Jewish youth."[13] Judah M. Cohen, in the Encyclopaedia Judaica entry, defined Carlebach's extraordinary influence:
At the time of his death, Shlomo Carlebach had become a legend of sorts, having recorded over 25 albums, composed up to 5,000 songs, performed on five continents, released two official songbooks, amassed a broad following, granted semikhah to both male and female students, and given away nearly all his earnings. Several of his songs, moreover, had become "traditional" during Jewish events; revelers would sing such songs as "Esa Einai," "David Melekh Yisrael," "Am Yisrael Chai," and "Od Yeshoma."[14]
Mark Kligman, professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College in New York, in his survey of contemporary Jewish music in the American Jewish Year Book (2001) stated: "Jewish musical artists of today consider Shlomo Carlebach the father of contemporary Jewish music."[15] Kligman explains that the most innovative part of Shlomo's musical success was "the blending of Hassidic song with folk music":
Combining the participatory ease of folk music, the energy of the newly created music from Israel, and the religious fervor of the Hassidic niggun, he succeeded in moving liturgical music out of the synagogue and into a wide range of other settings, including concert halls and night clubs, and used his music to educate and inspire Jews to renew their Jewish identity and discover the beauty of Jewish life.[16]
Nonetheless, not all Jewish musicologists have recognized Shlomo's importance. Cantor Macy Nulman in his 1975 comprehensive encyclopedia of Jewish music does not have an entry for Shlomo Carlebach.[17] Similarly, in his 1992 masterful survey of Jewish musical traditions, Hebrew University Professor of Musicology, Amnon Shiloah, does not mention Shlomo.[18] Presumably, part of the reason is that popular Hasidic folk songs are not on the same level as professional music. Indeed, Shlomo's musical success is remarkable considering that he never really trained as a professional musician, and apart from a few voice lessons in Manhattan, was not an expert cantor. Or as Shlomo self-effacingly explained in an interview to Elli Wohlgelenter:
I don't think I have a good voice. I think my voice is just good enough to inspire people to sing with me. If I would have a gevalt voice like, let's say, Moshe Koussevitzky, then nobody would want to sing with me, because then they'll think they don't want to miss my voice, but my voice is just good enough to make them sing.[19]
Shlomo's self-comparison to the renowned cantor Moshe Koussevitzky highlights a key ingredient of his musical success. Rather than impress an audience by a beautiful recital, Shlomo led a sing-along of catchy tunes. A typical Carlebach tune is easy to follow.[20] At Shlomo events, participants quickly learned his new songs thus furthering their popularity.
Musicologist Velvel Pasternak explained that if judged by objective musical standards, Shlomo was not the most outstanding composer, singer or guitarist, but his success was due to an uncanny ability to strike an immediate responsive chord in the ears of his listeners:
Even a seemingly banal sounding melody became a hypnotic and mesmerizing chant. The simplicity of his melody line, the intensity of his performances, the charisma of his personality, served to create a worldwide musical following.[21]
Furthermore, by adapting the form and fervor of a Hasidic farbrengen (see above, Chapter 6), Shlomo constructed a new hybrid of folk singing and semi-prayer. To quote the insightful appraisal of Motti Regev and Edwin Seroussi:
Armed with a guitar, dressed like an "orthodox hippie," and using the most basic harmonies and short, repetitive melodies, Carlebach appeared at concerts that became a kind of unorthodox prayer that recalled the traditional Hassidic tish, an assembly of Hassidim around the table of the rebbe, held on special dates, and characterized by singing and dancing.[22]
In sum, the amalgamation of a Hasidic tish, inspirational storytelling, emotional insights, and ethical exhortations created the innovative Carlebachian musical experience. Samuel C. Heilman, professor of Sociology at Queens College CUNY, describes Shlomo Carlebach as a product of a synergy between Hasidic, Israeli, and American trends:
He attached himself to Hasidic prayer styles from which he took the idea of expressive enthusiasms in prayer and devotional ecstasy as part of Jewish outreach. From American new folk idioms, he took the guitar, rhythms, the practice of sing-alongs, the "talking blues," concertizing, and the idea of making recordings. From Israeli culture, he borrowed the idea of shirah b'tzibbur, i.e., choral singing as a tool of social solidarity. All these he mixed syncretistically to develop his particular style.[23]
Indeed, this description sums up the secret of the appeal to Reb Shlomo's music. He was able to bring together the popular folk music of the 1960s and the fervor of Hasidic niggunim to create a new genre of music. But Heilman goes further and explains:
Contemporary Carlebach minyanim have elevated him and his approach to a kind of mythic status. Reb Shlomo, as devotees refer to him these days, is the modern Jew's counterpart to the Hasidic rebbes and other immortals that the Haredi world has enshrined. Like these rebbes, he is frequently resurrected in stories, songs, aphorisms, and teachings that are meant to shape the attitudes and religious character of those who invoke his memory.[24]
[1] Elli Wohlgelernter, "Simply Shlomo," The Jerusalem Post, April 20, 1995.
[2] Ronit Tzach in Yediot Aharonot, Seven Day Magazine, Feb. 4, 2005, 34. Cited in Shmuel Barzilai, Chassidic Ecstasy in Music (Frankfurt am Main: 2009), 152.
[3] This witty aphorism is a quote from Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832), Lacon or Many things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think, vol. 1, CCCCVII, p. 1980.
[4] Robert L. Cohen, "Jewish Soul Man." Moment, August 1997, 59–64, 83.
[5] Yossi Klein Halevi, "The Pied Piper of Judaism," The Jerusalem Report, Nov. 17, 1994, 45.
[6] Shlomo explained the advantages of using the designation "Reb" rather than "Rabbi" by playfully distinguishing the letters. "Rabbi" is a combination of Ra (Hebrew for "bad") and Bi ("he gets by"), whereas "Reb" is a shortened form of "Rebbe," and in Hebrew means "Rabbi" with the letter yod, signifying the Divine Presence – "God is so tremendous inside" – God's Light in you. Shlomo's explanation can be heard on segment 4:53–5:11 in part 4 of "Rabbi Shlomo In Concert", YouTube, http://bit.ly/1bq3rE0. This is from his concert in Feb. 1994 in Miami Beach.
[7] For an hour long program of Reb Shlomo leading the singing for the Hoshana Rabbah service at the Carlebach Shul on 79th St., see Kikarhashabat.co.il; http://bit.ly/16CTaBM. Compare http://bit.ly/1dbGmHj; http://bit.ly/18pI96e. A record was produced entitled R. Shlomo Carlebach – The Last Hoshana Raba, http://bit.ly/HjJRAv, http://bit.ly/1g44CyH; http://bit.ly/18pHZMk.
[8] Shaul Magid, "Carlebach's Broken Mirror," Tablet Magazine, Nov. 1, 2012, TabletMag.com, http://www.tabletmag.com; http://bit.ly/1ac2Yc6.
[9] Ari L. Goldman, "Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach," New York Times, Oct. 22, 1994.
[10] Ari L. Goldman, "Why Carlebach Matters," The Jewish Week, May 8, 2009.
[11] Cohen, "Jewish Soul Man," 59.
[12] Robert Cohen, "New Wings for Our Prayers: On American Jewish Music," Open the Gates!, vol. 1, 2005, excerpted in Tikkun, March 27, 2008, Tikkun.org, http://bit.ly/17Qyw1k. Cohen's essay accompanies the CD American-Jewish Music for Prayer and describes Jewish religious folk music, its inspiration in the Hasidic movement and its cultural roots in American folk music. The CD includes 18 different composers and performers of prayerful melodies and #17 is "Ein Keilokeinu" of Shlomo Carlebach.
[13] Mark K. Bauman, Jewish American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic (Santa Barbara, California: 2011), 119.
[14] Judah M. Cohen, "Carlebach, Shlomo," Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., vol. 4, 481–482.
[15] Mark Kligman, "Contemporary Jewish Music in America," in David Singer and Lawrence Grossman (eds.), American Jewish Year Book. New York: 2001, vol. 101, 88–140.
[16] Kligman, "Contemporary Jewish Music."
[17] Macy Nulman, The Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (New Zealand: 1975).
[18] Amnon Shiloah, Jewish Musical Traditions (Detroit: 1992). His book is based on a course in Hebrew that Shiloah prepared for the Open University in the years 1985–1987.
[19] Wohlgelernter, "Simply Shlomo."
[20] A typical Carlebach tune has two contrasting sections of only eight bars each, with the second one in a higher register, melodic sequences, and constant syncopation (with the rhythm accenting a normally weak beat) – see Motti Regev and Edwin Seroussi, Popular Music and National Culture in Israel (Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: 2004), 129.
[21] Velvel Pasternak, "A Musical Legacy," Aquarian Minyan Newsletter, Autumn–Winter, 1995, reprinted in David Wolfe-Blank (ed.), The Aquarian Minyan KhaZak! Khazak!, 388–389.
[22] Regev and Seroussi, Popular Music, 127–128.
[23] Adapted from Samuel C. Heilman, Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2006), 291.
[24] Ibid.


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Torbole, Italy - The second to last event on the 2013 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series takes place this weekend in Torbole, Italy on July 6-7, hosted by Circolo Vela Torbole. Twenty-eight teams representing seven countries are in attendance, and some arrived a few days early in an effort to better prepare, fine tune their boats and dial in their handling skills as they prepare for some of the toughest competition ever.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Junior Amanda Jason went 4-for-5 with three doubles and freshman Priscilla Army notched the first victory of her intercollegiate career, as MIT's softball team ended the season on a positive note with an 11-8 win over Regis College on Wednesday afternoon at Briggs Field. Leah Bogsted - normally a prolific starter - earned the first save of her three-year tenure in 2.1 innings of no-hit relief.
Though the game - which was a makeup from a contest that was postponed on Apr. 5 - was played at MIT, Regis served as the home team.
With the victory, Tech snapped a nasty losing streak and bumped its final record up to 2-24. The Pride fell to 6-25 with the loss.
Army (1-3) went 4.2 innings to earn the win, allowing just four hits but finding control an issue with a steady rain making for a slippery ball. The rookie from Pomfret, Conn., issued nine walks all told, while striking out two and surrendering eight earned runs. Bogsted was stellar in relief, allowing just two base-runners on a pair of walks while striking out five. Sophomore hurler Kristen Tavares (5-12) went the distance for Regis, allowing 11 runs (four earned) while notching three strikeouts.
The Engineers pounded out a season-best 15 hits to amass their 11 runs, also a season-high. Jason led the way with her 4-for-5 performance, while Amanda Poteet, Kasey Rowe, Holly Jeffrey and Lily Keung all pitched in with two hits apiece.
Tech wasted no time getting on the board in the top of the first, tallying five runs with the help of RBI singles by Keung and junior Kaitlyn McCartney. Poteet also earned an RBI by drawing a bases-loaded walk.
The Cardinal and Gray added a sixth run in the top of the second when rookie Chelsea Ostrander led off with a double, moved to third on a passed ball, then scored on a Jason groundout.
The Pride answered with a pair in the bottom of the third, as senior Melissa O'Donnell belted an RBI double to left before scoring on an errant throw back to the infield to cut the lead to 6-2.
However, MIT tacked on three more runs in the top of the fourth and two more in the fifth to stretch the lead to 11-2. Jason and Jeffrey picked up RBI hits to help the cause.
Regis showed some determination in the bottom of the fifth, however, plating six runs to severely cut into the deficit. The Pride was aided by five walks and run-scoring hits by junior Ashley Kiley and twin sisters Megan and Melissa O'Donnell. Melissa finished 2-for-3 with three runs-batted-in.
With Regis threatening to tie the game, Bogsted entered and shut the door, getting out of a two-out jam in the fifth before tossing scoreless sixth and seventh frames.


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Monday, July 5, 2010
Ralph me out.
Lately on the framebuilder chat forums ( The ones I do not participate in anymore...) There has been a number of firestorms-at least, that's what I call them. Topics that get people arguing fine points. The big problem I see is that some of the folks giving opinions really don't know jack about cyclocross.The latest topic is the UCI's move to reverse their ban on the use of disc brakes in cyclocross events at the elite UCI level. Since about 99% of cyclocross racing is not at that level, most of us will not be effected by this ruling and shouldn't give a rat's ass.
Well, get on the forum and you'll see who gives a rat's ass-people who should really just keep thier mouths shut for the most part until they do some racing or work as a mechanic in the pit area of an elite cyclocross race. These are things that I have done......for about 10 seasons so far and I'm not quitting soon. While I don't claim to be any great or even average 54 year old racer ( 26th at the nationals being my best result at that level) I have been washing the mud off of bikes at some of the premiere events on both coasts. What I notice are which of my framebuilding bretheren are out there racing and being bike grunts with me. Almost all of the folks on the forum with greatly detailed arguments and engineering data on why we should all switch to disc brakes are absent......maybe I wouldn't know them if I saw them , but they are most assuredly not at the race. Why then, do they argue thier points so vehemently when they are completely clueless about the experience of the race itself ?These are folks who want to have the last word , even if it means ignoring the elemental truths of the actual subject ! Ahh, this is the essence of the internet-people who want to be right but really don't want to actually wade in the mud or beat themselves up on the bike to find out the real truth about cylclocross racing. If I were someone wanting to find out information on the forum, I think I would shut up and listen , perchance to somebody with real world experience in the subject at hand.
Year after year, I go to the nationals although not every year. When I go there I get to race but more importantly, I get to support the riders on my team who really are talented and will be in contention for medals or at least a top-ten finish. These and the folks in the pit are the ones who will give me the real world data that will help me improve as a builder, making bikes that will not hold them back when everything is on the line in a race. I'll look to my left.....there's Sacha White , ready to catch a bike and rinse the mud off of it before the rider completes the next half a lap. I look to my right....there's Richard Sachs, ready to do the same. While I might not build bikes the same way as these two builders might, I know that we are all in the same place at the same time for a reason....it is because we care. We , and other builders are there at trackside because it is a real world reality check on weather or not the stuff we do in the shop will hold up. Sooo.......all you other folks weighing in opinions on what should or shouldn't be on the bikes we build for the athletes we support-I guess you had better get your sorrel boots on and come out to the races or just shut the fuck up.
Oh, yeah.....disc brakes. hmmm, should they be on 'cross bikes ? Don't ask me......ask the guy who is trying to get the stars and stirpes jersey. I'm sure he'll give you an informed opinion, even if he isn't and out of work engineer.
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- Vasquez Gomez VasquezJuly 8, 2010 at 10:03 AM
You the best in the business, Paul Sadoff!ReplyDelete
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I'm not sure I get it. You've spent all this time in elite/pro 'cross pits - listening to racers and trying to learn about what might make them faster - and from that vast wealth of experience you're unable (or is it just unwilling?) to say whether you think use of disc brakes would be a benefit? I'd genuinely like to know what you think.ReplyDelete
Even having only done local 'cross races on a disc equipped bike, still riding while those with cantis stop to scoop mud out from behind the brakes, I can see an advantage in those sorts of conditions.
Oh, and a paragraph break once in a while would certainly make your always interesting posts a heck of a lot easier to read.ReplyDelete
I think the last sentence of the post says how I feel. I really don't care either way about the brakes , it's all about what makes people go faster. Mud does pack up around rim brakes, it's true. I say, ride what works best for you where you race. Here in Calif. we have dry conditions 90 % of the time so disc brakes are not a plus. In the snow I never had a problem with buildup of mud.....I guess I've only had that issue in Portland, Ore.-specifically , the P.I.R course. It would be hard to justify changing all the bikes for one course.ReplyDelete


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I can't get enough of them at the moment. Saw them live in Manchester recently and they were awesome - although I couldn't understand a word of what was said between songs! Thoughts?
- calumlynn this'd this
- badmanreturns this'd this
- politelydeclined this'd this
I'm the same.
Their EP is great, I was at the Manchester gig too and I'm looking forward to seeing them again on May 1st.
Someone has uploaded all/most of a gig they did in Bristol here:
I'm a big fan of 'Gun' and 'Night Sky'
few great singles
but the guy really needs to stop singing, it's not good. just like purity ring.EndlessWindow this'd this
- wonton this'd this
yes he does
on grandloves
nevermind i figured it out
either way that song sucks
- mistersappy and Severed799 this'd this
Cracking songs
Recover and Lies are the winners so far imovery_small_monk this'd this
I'm sic of bands that toss traditional spelling out the window
They're stupid.
I bet you hate tUnE-yArDs
And Dntel
Also was the typo of "sick" intentional? Because if so that was brilliantthedamnedear and TJFalvey this'd this
they used to spell it properly
but changed it for legal reasons. Also to make themselves easier to google.
I always pronounce it in my head
as Chiverches. Great band though, going to be absolutely massive. And along with Walls they have helped me get over my aversion to band names consisting of plural noun without definite article.
I may as well give these a listen then
Doesn't seem they're going away any time soon
Ha, just watched a video.
That is one of the Aereogramme guys, right? Remember them saying something about inadvertedly dodging zeitgeist being a big reason they couldn't going as a band, so there's a nice irony there. They were nice guys, glad one of them got a break.
And I think I quite like them.
Pushing all the same buttons as about 20 other acts I've fallen in and out of love with in the last year. The Mother We Share is really nice.
Yeah, Iain Cook,
plus one of Twilight Sad and the lead singer used to be in The Blue Sky Archives.
They're really good live too.
There's some other videos and links in previous threads:
Really don't want to hate for the sake of hating...
but for me this is pretty unremarkable generic stuff. I wish them all the luck in the world, it's just doesn't appeal to me personally, and i get the distinct impression people are championing them so veciferously on here more because they can see they're going to be very popular than because they think they're genuinely standout, in a sort of a BBC Sound of... way. Not 100% sure that's such an awful thing, it can be nice to be with a band from the start, but on this occasion the music doesn't really warrant the hype for me.FrancescoNoir, politelydeclined, and Severed799 this'd this
I think its very rare
that bands who are about one EP into their career are already releasing their standout stuff. I haven't heard Chvrches but presuming you are right and these tracks aren't outstandingly amazing...I think people get excited because of their potential more than their current output. I've done it before where I've heard 4 perfect tracks from a new band and thought "imagine if they stretch this quality across 40 minutes". Of course, it rarely works out that way...
For me
it just sounds like generic 80s revival stuff that seems the flavour of 2013.
looking forward to them getting an album out
it'll be interesting to see if they've got the range in their songwriting to sustain a full-length. Recover is really good though. And obviously The Mother We Share is a downright incredible song.
Possibly the first time I've got into a band by hearing a song in H&M and googling the lyrics to find out who it was by...
I do think they need to improve their 'range' of songs.
There's nothing ballad like in their set etc.
I'm going to reserve judgement until they have an album out
but they have the potential to be either really brilliant or really bland.
I'm really out of the loop on this
They are just - alright, y'know?
The Mother We Share
is simply one of the best pop songs I've heard, let alone electro/synthpop/witch house/whateverthefuck else you want to call it. It's the sort of song most bands might never ammount to in an entire career, and Chvrches slipped it out before they'd even settled on how to spell their name. I don't think I'm being hyperbolic on this, either; and I'm usually quite a cynical, grumpy old bastard.
On the strength of that one song alone, I am excited about a future with them in it. Recover hasn't blown my head off but it's still a damn fine song, and it's going to be a proper thrill to hear what they put together for a full length release. I really need to catch them live.orangejuice and SpartacusHughes this'd this
that recover song is well bland
i've decided that lies is quite good but i can do without the rest.
New single streaming now
They were fucking amazing at Field Day yesterday. It's a real shame their album isn't out until September, based on their set it would have made a lovely summer day's listen.
Sounds great live
I'm not surprised they've chosen to release this one.
I saw them for the first time at Field Day. I thought they were pretty
good. I missed out on tickets for their ICA gig a few months ago.
CHVRCHES doing Game of Thrones theme tune...
Of course it works - you got to do a lot to make this tune sounds bad.
New Song
They've put a new song on their soundcloud called Gun.


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