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Museum Exhibition and Performance Series Run Through October
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., May 28, 2015 – The stage is being set for Nick Cave's most ambitious project to date – Nick Cave: Here Hear. The exhibition will open at Cranbrook Art Museum on Saturday, June 20, with a special ArtMembers' Opening Reception on Friday, June 19. A media preview of the exhibition will be held on June 18 from 10am-noon.
The celebration will continue through the weekend, with a special performance in Detroit's Brightmoor and Old Redford communities on Sunday, June 21. Join us at 2pm for a screening of Cave's video work at the historic Redford Theatre, followed by a celebration from 3-6pm at The Artist Village featuring food, music, and dancers in soundsuits – who will join the party in an impromptu flash mob. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Brightmoor celebration is just one of several events Cave is staging over the course of seven months throughout metro Detroit. The performance series kicked off last month when Cave began "invading" the city of Detroit for a series of site-specific photo shoots. He was spotted at locations such as Eastern Market, the Dequindre Cut, the African Bead Museum, and many more. The photos will be published in the forthcoming book, Nick Cave: Greetings From Detroit, which will be available for purchase at Cranbrook Art Museum. The book is designed by Bob Faust, with photographs by Corine Vermeulen and an essay by Laura Mott.
The Exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum
The exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will begin in the Main Gallery with a collection of approximately 30 sculptural soundsuits, 11 of which are new and on display for the first time. The Museum's North Gallery is devoted to a newly commissioned installation of nine black and white soundsuits surrounded by a new wall-based tapestry inspired by Cave's childhood watching the night sky. An additional gallery will feature a selection of his recent wall-based artwork and sculpture, including a new work inspired by Trayvon Martin. Finally, the "Map in Action" room will serve as a hub for the Detroit Performance Series and display the wearable soundsuits that will come and go to performances throughout the city of Detroit. Video footage of the performances will be added to the room throughout the duration of the show, thereby becoming a living document of the entire project. The exhibition is curated by Laura Mott, Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Cranbrook Art Museum.
The Performance Series
This exhibition is Cave's first solo exhibition in the state of Michigan, and for him, it was critical to involve the city of Detroit in the project. Cave is a 1989 graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, and he has said the time he spent in Detroit was critical to his growth as an artist. "My goal," says the artist, "is to work with those who live in and love the city, and to reimagine Detroit as an always-surprising environment of creativity, excitement, and engagement. My dreams for the city are big, because I believe it is important for Detroit to be dreaming ambitiously at this moment about its own future."
Cave will be using his time in Detroit to engage the area in a philosophy he calls "collective dreaming."
This will be Cave's largest performance series to date. He will design Dance Labs in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD); work with LBGTQ young adults from the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park to create the performance Up Right Detroit; and work with students from the Detroit School of Arts and the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy for Heard•Detroit, a procession of 30 life-size horse sculptures operated by 60 high school dancers that will parade along Detroit's riverfront on Saturday, September 26. Cave's project will culminate at the end of the exhibition in October, when the artist will stage Figure This: Detroit, a massive public performance at Detroit's Masonic Temple on Sunday, October 4.
This project has attracted a wide variety of sponsors and community partners who are eager to share Cranbrook Art Museum's desire to spread creative positivity throughout Detroit. The Presenting Sponsors are the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
The Knight Foundation, through their Knight Arts Challenge Detroit initiative, looks to fund ideas that engage and enrich Detroit through the arts. Cranbrook Art Museum received a matching grant of $150,000 from the Knight Foundation to kick-off this ambitious project. According to Dennis Scholl, vice president of arts for Knight Foundation, "Detroit's future is being driven by the cultural creatives who have big ideas for their city. It's an honor to help bring visual artist Nick Cave back to the Michigan, to engage many more people in thinking creatively about their lives, their neighborhoods, their Detroit."
The Ford Foundation also understands the impact of the creative sector on the city's restoration. "The creative sector is playing a significant role in the revitalization of the city of Detroit and the power of Nick Cave's work to transform those who interact with it is limitless," said Hilary Pennington, Vice President of Education, Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation. "We believe in The Art of Change to create economies of empathy and build movements on the path to social justice, especially in Detroit."
Leadership Sponsors include Quicken Loans with their Opportunity Detroit mission and The Kresge Foundation. The Major Sponsor is The Taubman Foundation. Supporting Sponsors include Strategic Staffing Solutions, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Masco Corporation Foundation, Maggie and Bob Allesee, and the Jack Shainman Gallery. Community Partners include the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, the Ruth Ellis Center, Detroit School of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and Detroit Public Television.
The ambitious 2015 schedule of events for Nick Cave: Here Hear, includes:
|June 19
|Nick Cave: Here Hear ArtMembers' Opening Reception at Cranbrook Art Museum. Memberships may be purchased in advance via our website or at the front desk the evening of the event.
|June 20
|Nick Cave: Here Hear opens to the public at Cranbrook Art Museum
|June 21
|A screening of Cave's video work at the historic Redford Theatre, followed by a celebration at The Artist Village, engaging the Brightmoor, Old Redford and Northwest Detroit communities. Free and open to the public.
|Up Right: Detroit. Nick Cave will create a new film featuring a performance with participants from the Ruth Ellis Center. Conceived by Cave as an "act of initiation" and a preparation of the mind, body, spirit, and selfhood, a group of African-American men will undergo a ritual of being costumed in elaborate soundsuits, before they reenter the city, transformed. The new film will premiere at Cranbrook in September.
|Cranbrook Art Museum will partner with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) to present three Dance Labs designed by Nick Cave. He will pair three local dance companies with three groups of musicians to create their own choreographed works with his extraordinary soundsuits. The free public performances will be staged at the following locations:
Sunday, July 19, 4pm
Sunday, July 26, 4pm
Friday, July 31, 6:30-7:30pm
|Sept. 26
|As a continuation of his renowned performance series, Nick Cave will present Heard•Detroit as a partnership between Cranbrook Art Museum, the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy and the Detroit School of Arts. The project will feature a procession of as many as 30 life-size horse sculptures operated by 60 high-school dancers along the Detroit riverfront. A dreamlike vision that stops everyday life for a collective transformative moment, Heard•Detroit will be performed by talented dancers and musicians attending the Detroit School of Arts, one of four magnet schools in the Detroit Public School system. The performance along the riverfront will be free and open to the public. Meet at Milliken State Park (near the hill), and across from the Outdoor Adventure Center. Rain date is September 27 (time TBD).
|October 4
|The culmination of the project will be Figure This: Detroit, a large-scale performance comprised of the dances and music from the Dance Labs, a presentation by children of their Cave-inspired creations, and be the live performance premiere of the artist's new artwork Up Right: Detroit. This final performance will be staged in Detroit's Masonic Temple for an audience of hundreds. Tickets for this free event will be available through Cranbrook Art Museum. Details will be posted on our website later this summer.
Follow the project on our website: Nick Cave: Here Hear.
For high-resolution images, visit this link: http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/nickcave/media-images/
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you plan to attend the media preview on June 18, from 10am – noon, please contact:
Julie Fracker
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
Chicago: On Beans and Dumplings
Sighter: Chad Alligood
Sighted: Jun Kaneko, Dango sculptures
Location: Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
Date: May 26, 2013
I spent the recent Memorial Day holiday in the Chicago area, seeing several awesome things for the first time: the Bean, Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, and the Art Institute of Chicago among many others. As I traipsed through Millennium Park on my way to the AIC, frankly giddy at the prospect of viewing Grant Wood's American Gothic, I stopped cold in my tracks, captivated by a series of large-scale ceramic sculptures that looked vaguely like giant ice-cream pops.
Thinking that perhaps these were the work of famed Cranbrook alum Toshiko Takaezu, I hopped the metal barrier to snap a couple of pictures (the open-air exhibition was closed that day for some reason; in the far distance of the image above, you can see the figure of the guard who yelled at me). The surfaces of the ceramic forms undulated with repeating pattern and variegated glazing. They were—in a word—scrumptious.
As I approached the sculpture—and before I was shooed away by the guard—I read on the exhibition placard that the work was not by Takaezu, but rather by another Cranbrook ceramic artist of note: Jun Kaneko, who served as Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Department of Ceramics from 1979 until 1986. Kaneko's work often uses pattern, repetition, and surface painting to achieve effects that imply conceptual endlessness. The artist calls these outsized sculptural works Dango, meaning "dumpling" or "rounded form" in Japanese. Such an idiom positions Kaneko in a long line of ceramic artists at Cranbrook who pushed the medium to new heights of sculptural achievement, from Maija Grotell to Takaezu and continuing through to current Artist-in-Residence Anders Ruhwald, whose exhibition in Saarinen House is now on view. Kaneko's alien-yet-familiar forms, echoing both the organic line of the Bean and the repetition of the Chicago architecture, reminded me once again that even far afield, Cranbrook's always just around the corner.
Posted by Chad Alligood
2012-13 Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow
Getting "T-Square" All Square
Sighter: Chad Alligood
Sighted: Tony Rosenthal, T-Square, 1975-76
Location: Detroit, MI
Date: September 24, 2012
Monday morning, 9 a.m. On a typical Monday at this time, I'm settling in to my sweet Knoll-designed desk in our newly-renovated office space at the museum. "Settling in" for me means checking my calendar and email, guzzling Diet Coke, and chowing down on granola bars. But this is no typical Monday: I stepped out of the car with my three museum colleagues into a gritty, industrial corridor on Detroit's East Side—worlds away from the meticulously manicured lawns and bubbling fountains of Cranbrook's campus.
This is the setting for Venus Bronze Works, a local firm specializing in the conservation and restoration of outdoor sculpture. Giorgio Gikas, the founder and president of Venus, met us in his massive, hangar-like space to examine and discuss his ongoing conservation of T-Square (1975-1976), a large-scale outdoor steel sculpture by Tony Rosenthal (1914-2009) in the museum's collection. Works of art that are situated outdoors present their own unique challenges of preservation, and T-Square is no exception: after decades of sitting directly on those aforementioned manicured lawns, the massive sculpture plainly begged for restoration and repair. Years of exposure to rain and snow had caused some elements to rust through, threatening the work's long-term stability and preservation. Of course, Rosenthal anticipated that his outdoor steel sculptures would develop a layer of rust as they aged. In fact, these installation photographs from the object file show a lovely orange oxidation over the surface of the object in 1978—just two years after its completion!
But by the middle of the 2000s, the deterioration of the steel at the sculpture's base had begun to compromise its structural viability. In 2004, Gregory Wittkopp, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum, contacted Rosenthal to discuss best practices for conservation and preservation of his outdoor sculpture. The artist recommended a number of steps to conserve the work, including repair of the steel tubes followed by sandblasting, priming, and painting with industrial epoxy coating to preserve the steel. Enter Giorgio, a highly skilled sculptural conservator with over 25 years of experience, and voila—we have the first step in a repaired T-Square.
So far, Giorgio has refabricated interior brackets that had rusted through and reinforced the interior sidewall and other portions of the steel tubing. The next step: sandblasting the weathered surface so that the sealant can adhere. When all is said and done, T-Square can triumphantly return from Giorgio's workshop—30-odd miles away—back to its home at Cranbrook, where it will rest atop a newly-poured concrete pad to protect it from pooling moisture. One of the potential sites for the sculpture is just outside my window here at the museum…perhaps one Monday morning at 9 a.m. in the not-too-distant future, I can look out my window with a mouth full of granola and smile, knowing that T-Square is in better shape than ever.
Posted by Chad Alligood
2012-13 Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow


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Chelsea Message Board
Chelsea are not very good compared to the best teams in history
Chelsea fans may think they have the best team in the world...but remember this: If you want to be remembered as the best ever, then your team would have to win the European Champions league trophy at least 4 times in the next 7 seasons, to come anywhere close to being compared to the mighty Liverpool side of the late 70s/early 80s.
Aside from Frank Lampard, Chelsea don't have any truly world class players. Liverpool on the other hand had Dalglish, Keegan, McDermott, Lawrenson, Ray Kennedy, Phil Neal, Hansen etc. They were all British players too! I'm certain the Liverpool side of 77 and 84 would have torn the current Chelsea side to shreds. Both Ajax and Bayern Munich won the European Cup 3 times in a row back in the early seventies. The current crop of Chelsea players will NEVER come close to achieving this feat. Chelsea fans think they have the best team in the world just because they haven't been beaten in 39 games . Not much of an achievement considering that most of the teams they face in the premier league are sub standard. AC Milan were able to go unbeaten in 58 matches back in the 92/93 season (against the ultra defensive Catenaccio system which most teams adopt in Serie A) . They won the European Cup 3 times in the space of 4 years during the nineties .Reached the final 5 times in in 7 seasons. Chelsea don't have what it takes to do this. Faced against the great Milan side of Gullit, Rikjaard and Van Basten, they make Drogba and Gudjonsen look like third rate strikers,
Just because you've beaten Betis 4-0 at home, you already think your team are a bunch of world beaters. Betis are in the lower half of the Spanish division...doesn't really compare to beating Juventus 3-0 at the Stadio Del Alpi (which Manchester United did back in 2003) or annihilating Inter Milan 5-1 at the San Siro (which Arsenal did achieved back in 2002). Face it, Chelsea are not the best team in the world, and will never be. Nottingham Forest were better than Chelsea. Forest won the European Cup twice in a row back in the late 70s. Chelsea have never won the European Cup. They will never win the trophy...not even come close to reaching the finals. Best team in the world? More like best team in a mediocre English league. Enjoy your time at the top, because once Mourinho leaves for Portugal, Chelsea will be forgotten as just another mid-table side.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
this is an argument for ten years down the line right now you can't compare chelsea to liverpool of the 70s/80s or united of the 90's because we haven't done enough to be compared yet ten years we will see how they compare to each other for now just let it go chelsea fans are very happy that we got our first top league title since 1955 and you should be happy for us too we might win it again this year but united and arsenal are perfectly capable of winning the title
A Yahoo! User Oct 26, 2005 23:50 Flag
mate i agree with you a little bit.
well every great team is built on defence,and you have said apart from lamps we dont have world class players.
well by the looks of it we have terry,carvalho,gallas,del horno,paulo,geremi,bridge,johnson,huth which forms our backline,i included subs there too.
isnt that world class you mean terry and gallas are not world class.we made the record of conceding the smallest number of goals last year beating the great liverpool record.so do you think mate isnt that world class.
moving to mid-field makelele,lampard,essien,gudjohnsen(he is being transformed into a mid),diarra,and robben,cole,swp,duff form a world class mid field.
as a neutral you might not agree with it,but it is true.
in crespo we have the accuracy machine.
ok drogs wouldnt score that many goals but still he is our own version of beast.
and fans would always think that their players are the best in the world.and you cant blame them for that,and stats say that way.it could have been 10 consecutive wins this season if it wasnt for linesman for not wearing glasses.
we have the stats,and we have a great future by the looks of it.and we chelsea fans are proud to say that hopefully in the next few years if not the best ever but we could be the most successful team ever.
i could be biased in a way,but its ok.
A Yahoo! User Oct 26, 2005 22:50 Flag
oooh its not that we beat bettis, in fact apart from second half against bolton and liverpool I don't think we have played as well as we can yet, lord help the rest when we click. I reckon when we beat Barcelona last year was when I thought hold on we have a damn good team here, shame we didn't buy owen though I woulda love him in the side, still beats me why Liverpool went for Crouch, Ameobi has a similar style but at least he scores.

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Daffy Duck by ThemrockWatch
©2014-2016 Themrock
Quick cleanup of an old Daffy sketch.
A Duuuuck!!!!
Your despicable
Where is that hat from?
You should've been in charge of that new Loony Tunes show, goddamn.
Your art is like a less psychotic version of Ren And Stimpy!
I quite like how you do daffy; very expressive and limber like.
thats great! im in the middle of an animation with this dude.
Woo! Love it.
Crazy Daffy
One of my favorite characters ever!
looks perfect in your style
I love this duck
I can imagine him doing that "woohoo" kind of laugh he does, usually right after kissing Elmer Fudd just to enrage him
I like better that screwball duck than he came later. Awesome and very expressive work.
Sittin' on eggs is out; O-W-T, OUT!
Bob Clampett would be proud


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Rex Ryan has named EJ Manuel the starter for Saturday's game against Pittsburgh. pic.twitter.com/vhDv6Ve8LQ
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Fred Jackson returns to start of Thursday practice. Spiller also participating early in session. No sign of Lawson or Manuel.
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FIG. 1: Cakewalk Guitar Track Pro 3''s Mix view offers a fully featured and familiar-looking mixing console that displays 32 audio channels, 8 buses, and 2 aux buses.
Cakewalk has updated its Guitar Tracks Pro software to version 3, creating a real contender in the audio-only multitrack wars. Version 3 boasts a new Loop Browser for Acid-style functionality; a navigator pane, allowing you to view a project in its entirety; a Tempo Map for creating tempo changes; and completely reimagined Edit and Mix views. These new features are among the changes designed to increase the application's capabilities and ease of use.
Don't let the name fool you into thinking that this application is limited to guitar-related uses. Guitar Tracks Pro 3 (GTP3) is a fully featured 32-track audio recording, editing, and mixing application. It can record and play back up to 24-bit, 96 kHz audio. It can import and adjust the tempos and keys of Acid loops. It comes with DX effects and can also use VST effects with the integrated Cakewalk VST-DX adapter. GTP3 can export songs in WAV, WMA, RealAudio, or (using an optional encoder) MP3 formats. Moreover, the Edit, Mix, and Loop browsers are just as effective with a full band, a string section, or vocals as they are with guitar tracks.
GTP3 features some extras that are geared toward the guitarist, including the LE version of IK Multimedia's guitar-amp simulator, Amplitube. The seven effects that Cakewalk designed for GTP3 are ones generally found in a guitarist's rack or stompbox collection, and encompass a tuner, an echo unit, reverb, delay, and chorus. The effects interfaces look like rackmount effects found in pro guitar rigs. The well-done demo song is a hard-rocking guitar affair. Unfortunately, GTP3 has no tablature interpreter or similar guitar-specific function.
Perhaps one reason that guitar-tab functionality was left out is that score and tab functions often involve MIDI. Except for compatibility with a number of popular control surfaces, such as Tascam US-428, CM Labs MotorMIX, and Roland U-8, GTP3 is a MIDI-free zone. A Generic Surface option can be used with most control surfaces, but other than that, there is no MIDI capability in GTP3. That can be confusing, because GTP3 allows you to instantiate a DX or VST instrument (DXi, VSTi) on an audio track, but it offers you no way to play them. According to Cakewalk, GTP3 works with most popular guitar-processors that have a MIDI out, such as DigiTech's popular RP and GNX models. That allows guitarists to operate the GTP3's transport controls and even punch in and out while keeping both hands on their axes.
Cakewalk points out that the lack of MIDI, which many guitarists and audio recordists don't want anyway, tightens the focus and ease of use considerably. GTP3 is designed squarely to be an audio recording and editing application, and plug-in-instrument compatibility enables the use of audio inputs and soft-instrument filters. In keeping with its audio-recording focus, Cakewalk provided useful professional features such as SMPTE time-code generation for locking to standalone hard disk and digital tape recorders and envelope-based (non-MIDI) automation of mixer and effects parameters.
FIG. 2: You can arrange and edit the audio and Groove Clips for your project in the Edit view.
GTP3's focus pays off. The application does an excellent job of organizing its functions into a single window. The Control Bar — with transport controls, song display, locators, and view modes — is always visible, although you can place it at the top or bottom of the window. You also have the option of switching the Navigation Bar — which displays an overview of all your tracks and their position in the project — on or off. Additionally, you can use the Navigation Bar to zoom in and to move in the Edit view. Finally, you can switch the middle of the window between the two main views in the application: the Mix view and the Edit view.
The Mix view (see Fig. 1) consists of a straightforward Sonar-like mixer. You can view tracks 1-16, 17-32, bus and aux tracks, or all of your tracks at once. The nonadjustable size of the mixer strips enables 16 tracks to fit across the width of a 1024 × 768 monitor, so the various view options make perfect sense. There are no key commands to switch between mixer views. The mixer has 32 audio channels, 8 buses, and 2 auxiliary buses. In the Mix view you can choose any available hardware input as the input for a track, and you can choose any available hardware output or any of the eight available buses for the track's output. You can assign the two aux buses to any of the available hardware outputs, buses, or auxiliary tracks. The auxiliary send knobs can be either pre- or postfader.
GTP3 has as many as 32 effects per song. These can be distributed among tracks in any way you want — there is no per-track effects limit. GTP3 has plug-in delay compensation on all tracks during playback, so if you use DSP cards or third-party plug-ins with high latency, you don't need to worry about sync. You can easily add effects to the insert field by right-clicking on them — a convenient feature.
The mixer has all of the standard DAW controls and functions and is laid out logically according to the signal chain, with the input at the top, the output at the bottom, and the other controls where you'd expect them. The individual playback meters are accurate, but they create a drain on CPU efficiency. If you find that your project is straining your CPU, the manual recommends that you turn off meters to gain back some CPU cycles. You can automate volume, pan, send-knob, or plug-in edit moves by right-clicking on the control and selecting Arm for Automation. GTP3 also has snapshot automation of these controls.
Click on the Edit view button on the Control Bar, and an arrange-style edit screen, with tracks listed on the left and each track's audio waveforms displayed on the right (see Fig. 2), replaces the Mix view. The Edit view allows you to arrange, split, cut, paste, and draw automation envelopes on your audio clips. You can adjust the vertical zoom of each track, and you can horizontally and vertically zoom in on one or more tracks for precise editing. The Edit view has a comprehensive list of musical notation and audio/project-related Snap-to-Grid options, from note divisions and markers to zero crossings. You can also disengage Snap-to-Grid completely for freeform editing. Finally, the Edit view offers an array of metering options, including meter source (record, playback, and bus), meter type (Peak, RMS, or Peak + RMS metering), and meter alignment (horizontal or vertical).
The Edit view features a "smart" cursor that changes function based on its location. At the center of a clip, the cursor becomes a pointer for selection or grabbing. Move the cursor over a clip-envelope line or node, and the cursor changes to a crosshair for operating on the envelope instead of the clip. At the center edge of a clip, the cursor takes the shape of a small box and will expand or reduce the size of your clip (unless your clip is a Groove Clip, which is explained in the next section). A cursor at the top edge of a clip becomes a triangle, indicating that the cursor can draw fades (either fade-ins, fade-outs, or crossfades, depending on whether you are positioned on the right or left edge of the clip).
Guitar Tracks Pro 3 has an intuitive Loop Browser (see Fig. 3), which can be opened regardless of your current view. GTP3 is fully compatible with any Acidized loop (which Cakewalk calls "Groove Clips"). You can audition your loops directly in the browser. In the Edit view, you can drag them straight onto a track in your project. You can also audition loops while the project plays back.
Loops will always play at the current project tempo, regardless of the loop's original tempo. Once on your track, you can repeat (loop) the Groove Clip by dragging it from its center edge. This is a wonderfully intuitive way of looping — I wish that Cakewalk allowed non — Groove Clips to be repeated in this fashion. I also wish that for multiple monitor setups, you could open either the Mix or the Edit view as a floating window.
Guitar Tracks Pro 3 is simple, powerful, and intuitive. Its well-organized layout keeps window switching to a minimum, and its feature set is streamlined and well implemented. The program is rock solid — it never crashed on me during a month of use. If you want a user-friendly yet capable PC application to record band rehearsals, live gigs, or a bed of loops, look seriously at Cakewalk's affordable Guitar Tracks Pro 3 application.
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Churching the Nation: Sharing the Orthodox Christian Faith in America
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While attending this conference this weekend, I happened in some of my offhand remarks during one of the discussion sessions to tip my political hand as "localist / libertarian-leaning." Of course, questions of ecology and how to work with God's creation eventually do lead to economic and political issues, though … READ MORE ›
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Perhapse everyone needs to stop and consider before the next time they judge,you never know what someone has been through.....
Amy Miller,age 18 she has always been the most popular young lady of her class,Shes got the looks,The walk and the Talk lol.
Her grades are nice wich some say wish could double for her attitude.....But what you may not have known ya know is that Amy grew up in a household with a drunk as a father who beat her mom all the time and had to hear it continuously.....Maybe shes just afraid to loose what friends she has an be abused,Perhapse it would be good if she was nicer to everyone and not justto the "In" crowd,But people do strange things when they are scared.....
Adrian Smith,He wears all black his head is down and he sits alone.When you see him talk every now and then he seems to always have a smile on his face,But yet he looks like a freak.Hes dark and quite,you instently judge him as a bad person.....But maybe what you didnt know abut him is his sister was killed in a car accident when he was about 8.He realy loved his sister and they got along great,He wears black because he feels comfortable.He doesnt always like to talk because hes still trying to deal with everything.Yet when he does hes a nice guy.But If you saw him and judged him,You would never know him,cause you would probably say hes bad.....
Chris Field,He casualy sits back and doesnt do much of anything,He dresses commonly and likes some sports but isnt a fanatic or anything.People sometimes talk to him but they dont realy want to.Hes not the most oustanding individual by looking at him,wich we find is a standard for some of us....What you may not know is hes probably one of the funniest people around.He can make you laugh at any time and has a nice way with words.Also hes sick,He may have something wrong with him hindering being to outstanding in class....you never know,But you wouldnt want to know this guy anyway,hes nothiing special..........
All im trying to say here as that there is an infinite amount of possibilities for a persons past.We never know what someone has gone through so we shouldnt be so fast to judge.Sometimes yes,people are just to downright rude to realy get to know.And thats fine,they could try and be nice ya know.But maybe we shouldnt just decide about someone just by looking at them ya know?Think about this,Cause you never know what has happened to the next person you look at.
More harsh than you think..... by ImnotantWatch
©2005-2016 Imnotant
I wrote this little synopsis up as like kind of a way to get a point across,All humans are guilty of judging in many forms or fashions and this is a basic introduction to such events,But what it may deal with is how a person is on the outside may be because of something they bury on the inside.We never know what can hurt someone so bad till we know there secrets,Just take a look and you will understand Im sure ^^
People can be really naive sometimes, thinking that bad things only happen to them. My friend is like that sometimes and she doesn't even realize it.
Yeah we have humans tend to want to relate everything to us,sad things especially.you vget alot of extra attention,a faultv thats most common,but well off avoiding!
Oh jeez I almost forgot to mention... when I was reading the second one about the goth... I remembered a certain person... You see, my senior year in high school I learned of this girl who had died of cancer when I was in 8th grade because my boyfriend at the time's best friend Colin had actually gone out with her before she died. Later in the year, in my math class, we had a substitute for the day who was very gothed out... Colin mentioned afterward that the substitute was the brother of the girl who had died, and that he had changed immensely from how he was before she died... so basically Matt, your story is very true...
I see,Thank you for sharing that with us.Its sad to know that sometimes these things happen,but yes once again another reason we learn not to judge.Im realy hoping we can all learn this.
Very very true... people are so shallow... we all know that each and every one of us judges others, we can't help it it's just human nature. But we have to try and realize that we do this, and train ourselves out of it... or at least train ourselves to know that our judgements should not stay permenant...
Myself, I have trained myself to put people in one of two categories: one being people that I just don't think I could be friends with no matter how well I get to know them.. particularly annoying people or just extremely stuck up people; and the other being people that I may be able to get along with eventually... But I never try to assume what a person's been through or why they are like that, I am sure to always keep that possibility open.
Very nice work Matty, it needs to be realized by more ^^
Myself, I have trained myself to put people in one of two categories: one being people that I just don't think I could be friends with no matter how well I get to know them.. particularly annoying people or just extremely stuck up people; and the other being people that I may be able to get along with eventually... But I never try to assume what a person's been through or why they are like that, I am sure to always keep that possibility open.
Very nice work Matty, it needs to be realized by more ^^
thank you very much,Yes judging is unfortunatly hard to avoid but as you stated we have to be able to train ourself not to stick with first impression.Thanks for the comment ^^
no affence i didnt read it all but i had input about half way through... some people may have had it rough, whether they decide to show it or not... death, abuse all roots of which any plant can flourish... but those who have it half way decent, they do not deserve to act so rough and tumble... the "goths" i see everyday do nothing but act as immature as they come..... sure some may have had it hard but some just chooseto make it hard for themselves, or to make it look like life has delt them the Ace and the Eight... but truely half of them have no idea of how deep life can run... my life, i can only catagorize as the year of the dragon is..." i am eccentric and my life complex"... not a day has gone by that my life has not tempted me with my sharpened instruments.... i cant explain it all but i know its worth nothing to me... the people, few of which have the kindness to approach me, a basic outcast, a "nobody" and speak words...i ask for just a little kindness, a little attention for the many, but by expecting from such a extravgant number, i ask a lot from the world... things road me into the ground today of all days.. my body was but a husk after a quick review of my current position..... i have so little friends, and although i hold a boyfriend position, i have no girlfriend..... and thats only surface tention in comparison to it all as a mass... and that is its striking method of choice.......people... i dont care how they look... if they are nice, open and trustworthy... then i see othing but ther personality... but that goes same for the arrogant, slutty and "gothic".. without words or a show of kindness, then they exist to me as only that, and that alone....WOLF
The focus of this was not to show how hard someone has it or anything like that.The focus of this piece was to simply not assume that there life has been fine and that they are the way they are just because.Sure some people do that but its never up to us to decide who.We dont know what anyone elses life has been like at all and thats what the focus is.Some people may make it hard on themself just for pitty or anything,But im not dealing with that.Im simply saying that We have no right to judge so fast why someone is the way theya re,if we dont even know them.
point taken and was already understood.. im just saying some people in my book deserve no right in the assumption of their character cause they show no right in their action.. no kindness, no helping hand... some taake it upon themselves to tease and taunt... actions and experience make up a being... everything falls in those catagories... action meaning what they say do,.. experience meaning what they have learn or events that altered their life... all of this molds the personality..... your point i understood... just thought id throw in some of my input on how people should be viewed... you dont need to know what makes them, they make themselves with ever move they make....WOLF


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Habits are hard to break. That's why the sooner in life we build good, healthy habits, the easier it is to keep them and stay as healthy as possible. And when good habits are in place, it's easier to resist bad ones.
Your child's habits start with you
The most important thing to remember is that you are your child's role model. Your habits affect your children's habits.
If your habits are unhealthy—smoking, drinking too much alcohol, or always expecting the worst, for example—your child is more likely to get those habits.
If your habits are healthy—eating a balanced diet, getting regular exercise, looking forward to tomorrow, for example—your children are more likely to build those habits in their own lives.
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- Ertem IO (2011). Child development. In CD Rudolph et al., eds., Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22nd ed., pp. 34–42. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Kelly S, et al. (2011). Correlates among healthy lifestyle cognitive beliefs, healthy lifestyle choices, social support, and healthy behaviors in adolescents: Implications for behavioral change strategies and future research. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 25(4): 216–223.
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Disagreements delaying oversight system overhaul
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration scrambled yesterday to defend major elements of its plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system in the face of significant criticism from lawmakers, the financial services industry, and even senior regulators whose authorities would be eliminated under the proposal.
A turf war among some of the most powerful regulators in Washington, which has played out largely behind the scenes in the last few months, burst into the open at a House hearing. It featured disagreements over two cornerstones of the administration's financial regulation plan — a new consumer protection agency to take over the functions now performed by the Federal Reserve, and a greater role for the Fed in overseeing large institutions that could pose systemic risks if they become troubled.
Those disagreeing were the Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner; Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve; Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and John Dugan, the comptroller of the currency.
The open display of opposing views, which Geithner characterized as regulators understandably protecting the prerogatives of their agencies, showed how cumbersome the current financial regulatory system can be. An alphabet soup of agencies oversee the nation's financial system — sometimes in conflicting ways.
The dispute left some lawmakers baffled and others who oppose the legislation entertained.
"You all agree that some of the power being proposed for the new agency should reside somewhere else?" Rep. John Campbell, R-Irvine, asked the panel of senior officials who all nodded affirmatively.
The dissent is playing into the hands of industry lobbyists, who are trying to defeat major provisions of the ambitious White House plan — and are skilled in playing regulators and lawmakers against each other.
In the early skirmishes, the lobbyists have notched a few small victories. This week, senior Democrats in the House conceded that they would not be able to complete work on the proposal to create a consumer protection agency for financial products like credit cards and mortgages before the lawmakers depart for their summer recess at the end of next week.
House Democrats had hoped to complete legislation creating the agency this month. But because of the opposition, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who heads the House Financial Services Committee, said yesterday that the committee would delay its work on the proposal until September.
Frank said that next week the committee, and then the full House, would approve legislation imposing new rules on how companies award executive compensation.
In the Senate, meanwhile, both the chairman and ranking Republican on the banking committee have been skeptical of the administration's proposal to expand the reach of the Federal Reserve, even though Bernanke has said that the proposal is only a modest extension of what the central bank is already doing.
Barely had Geithner left the witness chair when a panel of senior regulators challenged many of the details of his plan. First Bernanke questioned the proposal to transfer the Fed's existing job of regulating mortgages and credit cards to a new consumer product agency. Bernanke said the writing and enforcement of consumer protection rules "are complementary" to the other bank supervisory functions performed by the Fed and those important benefits "would be lost through this change."
Then Bair, the outspoken chairwoman of the FDIC, criticized the proposal to give the new consumer protection agency the authority to enforce new regulations. She also said it would be better to give a council of regulators, which would include her agency, the authority to oversee risk across the industry, rather than vest broad new authority in the Federal Reserve.
"The oversight council described in the administration's proposal currently lacks sufficient authority to effectively address systemic risks," Bair said. Flatly contesting Geithner's recommendation on the new consumer agency, she added, "Federal banking agencies should retain the authority to examine and supervise insured institutions for both consumer protection compliance and safety and soundness."


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As we head further into 2012, many restaurants are continuing to feel the financial pinch in this recovering economy. In order to maintain your profit margin during slower months, consider adopting a few energy-efficient equipment habits that lower overhead costs. Such practices significantly reduce your food establishment's bottom line as utility costs shrink and equipment life is lengthened. The following list contains some ideas of small energy changes that can save you big dollars:
Clean Equipment Regularly
Once you have invested in a piece of equipment, make sure to clean it on a regular basis. This ensures superior performance while reducing the risk of malfunction within the model. For example, dust build-up within your refrigerator compressor can eventually affect the temperature of the fridge, thus affecting energy bills and the quality of your food. By taking a few moments each month to clean the compressor coils, you are preserving the efficiency of your refrigerator and saving the dollars it would cost to replace it if the compressor were to fail. This idea extends to nearly every piece in your kitchen, from countertop fryers to oven ranges. Here are a few cleaning suggestions for equipment that should receive frequent cleaning attention:
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- Oven fan with a damp cloth
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By investing a few minutes each month to properly clean equipment, you will keep your kitchen operating seamlessly at a low cost.
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Turning off equipment when it is not in use can lead to a significant annual savings. In the majority of operating kitchens, a fryer is idle for more than 75 percent of the time.
If this sounds like your kitchen, then you are missing out on significant savings. By turning that fryer off for just four hours a day, a commercial kitchen can see a total savings of up to $150 each year. Turn off an idle broiler for an hour each day and you will pocket up to $400 annually.
While this principle might not necessarily be applied to your freezer or refrigerator, taking a moment to turn off feasible equipment when it is not in use can end up saving you significant dollars each year.
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When it comes time to purchase a new oven, dishwasher, stove top or any other piece of equipment, do consider selecting an energy-efficient model that will work for you, the environment and your pocket book. By selecting energy efficient models, you are setting yourself up to spend 25% to 27% less in energy bills than you would be spending with standard equipment.
Such savings will be especially valuable in the slower months when shrinking your bottom line is vigorously sought after. To off-set the initial purchasing costs, a variety of state-wide rebates and federal tax credits have been made available in an effort to promote energy-efficient purchases. You can find out what programs you would qualify by looking on the Energy Star website prior to purchasing.
Implementing effective cost-saving practices continues to be vital in any market, but is certainly more sought after during the slower months of the year. Routinely cleaning your kitchen, turning off idle equipment and selecting energy-efficient models can lead to lower costs within your establishment, allowing you to save a notable amount in the long run.


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His other big initiatives as commissioner have included: securing equal revenue sharing for the first time ever, delivering a landmark media rights agreement with ESPN and Fox that has dramatically increased revenue and national exposure for school and creating the Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Digital Network that has significantly enhanced exposure for all sports throughout the conference.
Prior to entering collegiate athletics as an administrator, he served six years as chairman and chief executive officer of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour (Women's Tennis Association).
Scott answered questions about a variety of Pac-12 Conference topics in a live chat on Feb. 21.
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With the humidity at about 100% today–my glasses steam up when I step outside–I figured today was the perfect day to revisit a reader question from a few years ago. It was about whether it makes more financial sense to spring for central air conditioning or use window a/c units. (We have central air and I couldn't live without it.)
Q: How energy efficient is central air vs. window units? I bought a house that can be easily converted to central air, but have been living with window units for the last two summers. Would I save energy by making the switch? I don't cool the whole house at the same time — in fact, when it's really hot out (like last week) I move my home office downstairs and stay in the dining room, which is the only downstairs room with a/c.
A: Turns out the answer isn't as simple as one might think. There are a number of factors that affect whether or not you should use window units versus central air. According to experts what really matters is the climate where you live (hot and humid Houston versus dry Denver), how your home is insulated, and what your personal preferences are. Let's start with climate.
If you're looking to cool your home and lower the humidity, a central air system is your best bet, hands down, as far as efficiency goes. "Well-designed central systems win out in terms of being able to filter the air for allergens and pollutants, and for controlling humidity," says Mike Rogers, a senior vice president with Green Homes America, a company that provides residential home performance contracting solutions that increase in-home comfort, health and safety, and significantly reduce energy usage and utility bills.
Two reasons that window units are all wet when it comes to reducing humidity are that they tend to sweat (especially if they are overworked) and therefore introduce moisture into the room. And, adds Rogers, "it's harder to seal window units, and thus you do get some of that hot, humid air sucked in from the outside."
That said, if humidity isn't your problem but you'd just like to cool your home, you could get away with one window unit on each floor, if your home is well insulated. (Check out this Energy Star website to figure out the right-sized air conditioner based on a room's size.) Insulation isn't just in the walls, by the way. We're also talking about well-insulated windows and, believe it or not, a well-insulated attic. "In the summer, temperatures in the attic often climb to more than 140 degrees," says Rogers. "This tremendous heat conducts down into your home. Even when the first floor is comfortable, this constant flow of heat from the attic can bake your bedrooms upstairs. Although most people don't think of insulation as a way to keep cool, increasing levels in your attic can make a huge difference."
Keep in mind that while window units are cheaper in the short run, if you're looking to purchase more than a few of them, you're probably better off going with a central air system. Says Rogers, a central air unit will use less energy overall and cool more efficiently than a series of window units running in tandem. On the other hand, he says, "if you're just trying to cool one or two rooms—not the whole house—a window unit or two can use less energy than a central system, and a couple of window units are much cheaper than a central unit. And, if you have a very energy-efficient house, or small house, they may be all you need."
Finally, it's all about personal preferences. The reader who sent in this question doesn't seem to mind moving into a single room when it's really hot out. And if it doesn't get hot that often that she needs to disrupt her life regularly like this, then she can probably continue to get away with window units. However, if she's fighting humidity and she seems to be losing the battle, then maybe it's time to make the leap to central air.
Now, when it comes to keeping a home cool in summer, consider these 9 free and low-cost ways to reduce energy use and control costs:
Not surprisingly the demand for electricity rises as the weather gets hot and air conditioners start humming. Even so there are ways you can keep cool at home, save energy and save money this summer. Check out the following 9 free and low-cost ways to reduce energy use and control costs.
- Install a programmable thermostat and raise the setting to the highest comfortable temperature. You can save 3 to 5 percent on your air conditioning costs for each degree you raise the thermostat.
- Close doors leading to uncooled parts of your home. If you have central air conditioning, close off vents to unused rooms. Keep filters clean.
- Even if you have air conditioning, use ceiling and other fans to provide additional cooling and better circulation. All of our bedrooms have ceiling fans that can help people "feel" cooler without cranking the a/c.
- Seal holes and cracks around doors and windows. Eliminate air leaks around window air conditioners with foam insulation or weather-stripping.
- Close blinds, shades and draperies facing the sun to keep out the sun's heat and help fans and air conditioners cool more efficiently.
- Turn off power sources. TVs, computers and other electronic devices draw power when they are in standby mode or turned off but still plugged in. Plug electronics into power strips and turn off the power switch when the items are not in use. Not only do these electronics suck up energy, but also some of them cool give off residual heat that could raise the temperature of the room.
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- Replace old appliances with new energy efficient Energy Star appliances.
- If possible, install whole-house fans that bring in cooler night-time air that can pre-cool a house and reduce energy use in the daytime if heat is kept out by closing windows and shades.


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The Columbian's "Summer Journeys" blog on the Web
The Columbian's "Summer Journeys" blog on the Web
During the summer, some Clark County residents recharge by traveling to other countries to gain a new perspective, see things in a new way. Many volunteer summer after summer, and say that they gain as much as they give. Some of these world travelers wrote posts for The Columbian's "Summer Journeys" blog. Here are their stories.
Occupation: English teacher, Skyview High School and Concordia University online Master's in Education instructor.
Organization: Helping Hand for Nepal.
Location: Shree Madan Smarak School, Kathmandu, Nepal, and Bright Horizon Children's Home outside Kathmandu.
Distance from Vancouver: 7,081 miles.
On the Web: www.hhnepal.org/html/
During the school year, Bev Questad teaches at Skyview High School and Concordia University. In the summer, she leads classes in developing countries in Asia.
In the summers of 2011 and 2012, Questad taught in an orphanage in Bangladesh for the nonprofit Distressed Children and Infants International.
This summer, she taught English at Shree Madan Smarak School in Kathmandu, Nepal. Questad said her world travels have changed her.
"Now that I know these people, I cannot turn my back on them," Questad said. "Now that I know them, I have a responsibility. No matter how many challenges I may face in my life, they are standard, low-level challenges for women who are slum-dwellers who have not been allowed an education."
Carrie Foshee in Peru
Occupation: Second-grade teacher, Orchards Elementary.
Organization: Kids at the Crossroads-Peru.
Location: Ayacucho, Peru.
Distance from Vancouver: 5,064 miles.
On the Web: Foshee's blog: perucrossroads.blogspot.com/. Kids at the Crossroads-Peru on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kids.at.the.crossroads
For three consecutive summers, Carrie Foshee has traveled to Ayacucho, Peru, high in the Andes to serve as the education director of Kids at the Crossroads-Peru, a nonprofit organization that provides education, food, and a safe environment for at-risk children.
"I spend my summers in the Andes working alongside the staff and more than 100 amazing children served there each day," Foshee said.
Kids attend public schools in the morning and the Kids at the Crossroads program in the afternoon.
Children in two remote villages high in the Andes had no books at all in their classrooms, so Orchards Elementary students raised more than $1,200 for books and educational materials, which Foshee delivered this summer.
"That was an amazing day," Foshee said. "I have learned that kids are kids wherever they are. Traveling expands my heart."
Henry Sessions in Colombia
Occupation: Physician assistant, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.
Organization: World Teach.
Location: Santa Ana, Colombia.
Distance from Vancouver: 3,789 miles.
On the Web: www.worldteach.org
After graduating from college, Sophie Sessions is spending a year teaching children in Santa Ana, Colombia, through the nonprofit organization World Teach. During her summer vacation, her father, Henry Sessions, and brother, Christopher Sessions, traveled to Colombia to explore the country with her. They toured Cartagena, took a boat tour on the Rio Magdalena and backpacked into Tayrona National Park on the Caribbean.
"Colombia has a reputation as a dangerous place, but it has become much more safe in the past decade. Everywhere we went, the people were helpful and eager to show us the wonders of the place. Colombia really is a largely undiscovered gem. In several places we went, we were the only Americans," Henry Sessions said.
Sessions has instilled a fondness for international travel in all four of his children, who have managed to travel around the globe, paying for many of the trips themselves.
"Since they grew up traveling, I think curiosity about and desire to visit other places comes naturally to them," he said.
Rachel Clark in Tanzania
Occupation: Medical science liaison at Sanofi Pasteur, a global vaccine company, and ambassador liaison at Red Sweater Project; student at Oregon Health & Science University.
Organization: The Red Sweater Project.
Location: Mungere Secondary School, Mto wa Mbu region, Tanzania, East Africa.
Distance from Vancouver: 9,253 miles.
On the Web: www.redsweaterproject.org/; https://www.facebook.com/redsweaterproject
Most kids in Tanzania don't get a chance to continue their education beyond elementary school. It's expensive and is often a very long and sometimes dangerous walk to school. The Red Sweater Project, a Portland nonprofit, built Mungere Secondary School and opened its doors last fall with 40 students. Eventually, the school will serve at least 240 students. In addition to an education, the school provides safe drinking water and sanitation, health services and nutritious meals.
Rachel Clark, a public health professional, traveled to the school last fall and again in July to conduct public health resources assessments and to teach health and hygiene classes.
"People may not have the latest smartphone or computer, but for the most part, people seem happy. People greet each other on the street and smile at one another. I feel this basic human interaction is something we are starting to lose in the U.S. because of our reliance on technology and having to have everything instantly. My time in Tanzania has taught me to slow down. I have developed patience and learned the importance of getting out and seeing the world and taking the time to talk to people, connect with them and learn from then. You do not know what you are missing."
Karissa Cooke in Guinea, West Africa
Occupation: Student at Concordia University, Portland.
Organization: Concordia University students and teachers.
Location: Health clinic in Siguiri, Guinea, West Africa.
Distance from Vancouver: 6,748 miles.
Karissa Cooke's only previous experience out of the country had been a weekend trip to Canada. Then, she boarded a flight from Portland to Paris to Conakry, Guinea in West Africa. From there, "we had a 16-hour, very bumpy car ride to Siguiri," Cooke said.
"Going to Africa had been the No. 1 thing on my bucket list for as long as I can remember," said the graduate of Washougal High School and Clark College. A Concordia professor and his wife took Cooke and three other students on the 12-day trip to help at a health clinic run by missionaries where "we saw a lot of malaria, typhoid, malnutrition and worms/flukes," Cook said.
A trip to the Niger River provided memorable experiences of seeing four hippos in the water, and in another section of the river, women washing their laundry.
"I got a great deal of appreciation for what we have here in America. I learned not to take things for granted, like flushing the toilet."
Crystal Steinmueller on the Camino de Santiago (France and Spain) and in Morocco
Occupation: Special education paraeducator, Battle Ground High School, Battle Ground.
Organizations: 2 Hands 7 Continents and Chantiers Sociaux Marocains.
Location: Muros, Spain and Casablanca, Morocco.
Distance from Vancouver: 5,100 miles to Muros, Spain; 5,636 miles to Casablanca, Morocco.
On the Web: Steinmueller's blog: www.2h7c.com Morocco nonprofit: csmmorocco.org/
After her twin sister died, Crystal Steinmueller was determined to travel and volunteer in her sister's memory. Since then, Steinmueller has traveled extensively and volunteered in eight countries, reaching her goal of traveling to 30 countries by the time she turned 30. Last summer, she volunteered at an elephant preserve in Thailand.
This summer, she walked the 621-mile Camino de Santiago, a well-traveled pilgrimage through France and Spain. She walked with Dorota from Poland and Mario fromGermany. One of the highlights was leaving an offering for her twin sister at the Thibault cross. One of her friends "said a lovely prayer, we cried, then we pressed on up the mountain," Steinmueller said. "It was a short but significant moment for me."
"Another moment that sticks out was the night we stayed at a donativo run by a real Templar Knight," Steinmueller said. "No electricity, no running water, nothing more than a hole in the ground for a toilet, mattresses on the floor with no sheets, rain coming through the roof, all at the top of a mountain."
After she finished the journey, she traveled to Casablanca, Morocco, to work with children and help remodel a school.
"The Camino taught me that I have a strong will to succeed, make others proud and open myself up to others," she said.
Susan Parrish: 360-735-4515; http://twitter.com/Col_Schools; email@example.com


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The POV office has been busy over the past few weeks as we get ready to kick off our 23rd season on June 22, 2010! Here's a roundup of news about POV films and from around the documentary world. Getafilm Blog previews the 2010 POV season and says that through the series, "nearly every week […]