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Featured Alumni
We love hearing from Bowdoin graduates who majored or minored in Spanish (or in Romance Languages with Spanish). Their messages inspire our work and help prospective or current majors and minors envision their future paths. Some of our alumni have just answered the question "How are you using your Spanish after graduation?"
Others have shared more of where they are in life. Due to space considerations, some entries have been edited or condensed.
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Biking on the Inca Trail (Perú), by Robin Trangsrud '06
Most recent entries: Liz Moe '06 – Erica Camarena '10 – Gillian Page '10 - Julia Garner '01
Rachel Ackerman '09
I am applying to medical school and have done clinical diabetes research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A good number of the research subjects that we have in our database are Spanish speaking, so I've had to speak Spanish on the phone to many of them in order to explain the study that I am leading.
Christopher H. Aidone '95
I have been working in the filed of investment banking since graduating. For a period of time, approximately 5 years, I was frequently travelling to Central and South America, representing companies looking for either acquisitions or buyers among US or non Latin companies. I am now starting to get active again speaking to institutional investors in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Spain.
Elena Albarrán '98
I've been teaching Latin American Studies and History at Miami University of Ohio since Fall 2008, after obtaining my PhD in History from the University of Arizona. My book project, Children of the Revolution: Constructing the Mexican Citizen, 1920-1940, examines the development of cultural nationalism through children's popular culture in revolutionary Mexico. My husband, Juan Carlos, joined the Latin American Studies faculty as well here at Miami, and we welcomed Noel Lewis Leblanc Albarrán a few years ago to our "LAS family."
Mike Appaneal '92
My Spanish language skills have minor direct implications in my business life. As an Employee Benefits executive, I've had occasions to communicate in both verbal and written form with groups of employees of a Latino background but it is a rare occurrence. What has benefited me greatly from our program in the business world was my study abroad experience in Madrid. Learning to deal with different cultures and how to adapt to differing languages, cultures, politics, and overall differing perspectives on life has been invaluable. I run a field sales/ distribution channel across the Northeast for an Oregon based company. Believe it or not, there are big cultural differences between Northwest US and the East Coast, where my employees are. The life lessons from my time in Madrid have helped me deal with and manage diverse opinions and even communications styles effectively.
Katherine Baldwin '98
I graduated as a Spanish major with a minor in Latin American Studies. Since then, I have been working and living in New York City as a bilingual elementary school teacher. I started teaching with Teach for America in 1998, and was initially placed at a school in the Bronx. I taught the 3rd grade bilingual class, and most of my students were from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and they all spoke Spanish at home. After 4 years I moved to a different school where I currently work in the Dual Language program. I work with both Spanish- and English-speaking students who come from all over the world: Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, and South America. The Spanish-speaking students in my class are learning English while at the same time maintaining their literacy skills in Spanish. The English-speaking kids are learning both English and Spanish too.
Sira Berte '91
After graduation, I started working in Washington, DC for Senator Dodd, who was chairman of the Senate´s Committee on Western Hemisphere Affairs. The highlight was the day Rigoberta Menchú came to our offices! I left the Hill and worked in Latin American small business development for various agencies, and then received my MBA from the University of Maryland, where I had the opportunity to study with economists in Havana. My husband, Brian Pearson, and I then moved back up to Maine, and after 4 years we sold our possessions to travel overland for six months from Chile to Ecuador, following the original Inca Trail. We even surprised the family I had lived with in Quito during Bowdoin junior year. We then moved to Santiago, Chile, where I consulted for the Ministerio de Economía, Ford Foundation and UNDP, on Chilean small business development for two years. For the following three years, I developed executive level courses throughout the region for business professionals. My husband and I also started a boutique tourism company called Santiago Adventures (www.santiagoadventures.com).
Sarah Bowdoin, please see Sarah Thomas '06
Erica Camarena '10
After graduating from Bowdoin, I have been working with indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, in support of the creation of community museums. I also worked with an NGO that focuses on sustainable development. I am getting ready to begin my Master's in Sustainable Development at UC Davis in the near future.
Vernon Castillo '97
After graduating from Bowdoin, I spent two years and three months in Paraguay as a beekeeping extensionist. I returned to the US in 1999 and received my MA from the University of New York at Albany in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Since then I have been working at Union College as a Senior Associate Dean and am hoping to complete my Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Christine Cloonan '02
After graduating with a major in Spanish and a minor in Economics, I spent two years as an analyst at a corporate law firm in Boston. I had the opportunity to use my Spanish skills to translate legal documents and to interpret for attorneys and clients. I then spent five years teaching Spanish at boarding schools while completing my M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College before accepting a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to spend a year studying finance in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Emily Coffin '08
After graduation, I moved to Philadelphia to be a staffer on the Obama campaign working with the Youth Vote team in Pennsylvania. It was an incredible experience and my Spanish helped when I was out working in the field. I am now the Entrepreneurship Advisor/Asesora de Emprendimiento and work within the Adult Literacy Program at Safe Passage (Guatemala City, Guatemala). My principal focus has been supporting the women's recycled jewelry collective, CREAMOS (Creaciones con Reciclaje Esperanza y Amor por Madres Organizadas y Solidarias). Over the past three years, the company has grown from a small workshop for Safe Passage mothers to a thriving company that sells jewelry throughout Guatemala and is beginning to export to the US (soon to be in the Bowdoin Bookstore!) Most importantly, almost all of the 25 women have been able to leave working in the city garbage dump, now on average earning about 40 percent more than they would in the dump. We also launched a sewing initiative and already have orders pouring in. We have redoubled our efforts to develop self-sustaining economic opportunities for parents as they continue their education. More than just the language skill, I appreciate the background I developed in Latin America culture, literature, and history through my Spanish classes.
Ashley Conti 07
From the April 2011 issue of the Bowdoin Magazine: "I recently left investment banking to join a Spanish-speaking microfinance institution that provides small loans to women in Latin America."
Monica Dargin Rushford '01
I graduated from Bowdoin with a double major in Spanish and Sociology in 2001, and I have been able to use my degree in a few different capacities since then. (Currently, I'm an attorney and I work for the US Dept of Health & Human Services, so no real connection there.) After graduation, I worked in Boston at the non-profit, The Network/La Red, an organization that works to combat domestic violence among lesbian, bisexual women and transgender communities. We provided hotline services in English and Spanish, and my proficiency in Spanish was a factor in helping me get the job. After that, I was a paralegal in a law office in Oakland, CA and regularly had to translate for Spanish-speaking clients.
Jonathan Dolan '03
Following graduation in 2003, I moved to Honduras to teach 6th grade at a bilingual school. I found the position through a small NY-based non-profit called Bilingual Education for Central America (BECA). Upon the end of the academic year, I decided to stay in Honduras for a few months to work as a translator for Operation Wallacea, a British conservation group that was doing research in the Honduran cloud forests. Upon my return to the US, I accepted a position with the SEEP Network, a microfinance association in DC, where I stayed for two years. Through this job, I had the good fortune to be able to travel regularly to various parts of Latin America and Africa. I completed my MS in Foreign Service at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 2009 (where one needs to pass a proficiency exam in a second language to graduate, mine was Spanish). Since that time, I have been consulting with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. My projects with IFC include work in both the agribusiness and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. In both cases, my projects have been about linking rural entrepreneurs in emerging markets to local, regional, and international markets. I got married to someone I met during my semester abroad in Chile, and we are hoping to move abroad again in the future.
Ellen Driver '02
I worked as an immigration paralegal right out of Bowdoin at an immigrant community organization in Cambridge, MA. Most of the clients are Central American immigrants and I used Spanish to help clients prepare immigration cases and to participate in community organizing. After that I worked as an immigration paralegal at a small immigration law firm in Cambridge, MA and I decided to apply for law school. I graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2009 and completed internships in the areas of public benefits, domestic violence, and immigration law, and my Spanish was helpful in all these experiences. I am now working at a small immigration law firm in Boston, MA, mostly on deportation and asylum cases, and I use Spanish with clients on a daily basis. Speaking Spanish has helped me to get every job and internship so far.
Sarah Edgecom '03
I have been practicing law in Miami for a few years and am about to wrap up a Masters in International Legal Studies at NYU School of Law in May 2011.
Andy Falkof '99
I don't use Spanish every day but it is a great tool that opens up new worlds and opportunities: Working on a PR agency's Spanish HIV/AIDS awareness campaign for the CDC; playing on a South American soccer team in DC; building a Spanish language call option for a health clinic; publishing short policy articles in Latin America; serving as an informal translator between American citizens and new arrivals to the U.S. I am currently working on the selection of a Hispanic marketing agency of record for my company.
Karen Finnegan '03
After graduating from Bowdoin, I spent a few years working in an urban community health center in Boston where I focused on health education and community outreach. In May 2008, I received my MPH in Epidemiology from Emory University and moved to DC. I am now working as a health analyst on international health research projects with an emphasis on HIV and family planning services in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Melissa Perrelli Foley '94
My first job after graduating in 1994 was with the MA state Dept. of Public Health. For about 5 years, I worked making health education materials and doing various forms of outreach to Spanish-speaking populations around the state. Next, I worked for Houghton Mifflin Co. publishing house in their college textbooks division as an editorial assistant for the Modern Languages group. We published both texts and collections of new fiction in Spanish and other romance languages.
Katherine Ford '99
After graduation I got my Masters in Spanish at Middlebury in Madrid. In 2006 I finished a doctorate at Emory University in Latin American Theater. Since then I've been teaching at East Carolina University. My husband Rufino and I had a baby girl, Julia, and in 2010 my first book came out, Politics and Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), which examines how violence was used as a spectacle in Cuban and Argentine theater in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reflection of and a dialogue with the violence occurring in the public arena.
Casey Freedman '09
Since graduating from Bowdoin, I've been working in Madrid as an "auxiliar de conversación" at a bilingual public school, teaching elementary school students English and Science. Even though I'm not allowed to speak Spanish at school lest the students use that fact as a crutch instead of working to communicate in English, my fluency in Spanish and familiarity with Spanish culture and history that I gained through coursework at Bowdoin (and abroad) is infinitely helpful on a daily basis both in and outside the classroom. I am looking forward to getting my masters degree in Spanish sometime in the next 2 years and eventually plan on becoming a Spanish teacher.
Julia Garner '01
Julia Garner received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University, and is currently completing her Ph.D. at Brown with a dissertation entitled "After the Earthquake: Literary Responses to Catastrophe in Mexico City, 1985-2000". Her research interests include: 20th century Mexican novels, Mexico City's visual culture and urban art, Latin American cultural studies and film studies, Peruvian narrative, novels of the "fin de siglo" and the 21st century. She has lived in Ecuador and Mexico, and has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. She is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.
Tiana Gierke O'Konek '03
I work for the legal department of the United Farm Workers Union. My husband and I live in Tehachapi, CA – 5 minutes away from UFW headquarters. The UFW has summer internships and spring break opportunities for college students. Both are great opportunities for students to learn about César Chávez, dig through some of the historic documents that need to be organized at the UFW headquarters, practice their Spanish, and learn more about farmworkers' rights and struggles.
Shelley Goulder, '07
After graduation I worked as a counselor at a girls summer camp in Damariscotta, Maine. Then I moved down to Boston to work as a full time tutor and teaching assistant at the MATCH Charter Public High School. I tutored five students daily in every subject imaginable, and loved every minute of it. This year I am working at the new MATCH Middle School. I provide support for the Academic Resources Department, plan field trips, among a myriad of other tasks.
Todd Greenwood '04
I went to a graduate school (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies) which required foreign language proficiency. I was able to pass out immediately without taking any classes. I spent the first year of grad school at the Bologna, Italy campus. My knowledge of Spanish made learning Italian much easier. And whenever I got into a jam (frequently in the beginning since I lived with an Italian that didn't know much English), I spoke Spanish and was more understood than I otherwise would have been. Immediately after grad school I served as an election observer for the OAS in Guatemala. Outside of this brief OAS job, my Spanish hasn't really been too useful in the workplace (I've worked in Congress and DOJ), but I'm thinking about applying for the Foreign Service soon so that could change.
Michelle Greet '93
I received my Ph.D. in Modern Latin American art from New York University in 2004. I am now a tenured professor of Latin American art history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. My book, Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 was published by Penn State University Press in 2009. I gave two talks in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the work of the Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín at Georgetown University and the Art Museum of the Americas and traveled to Florida Atlantic University to give yet another presentation on the artist. I have also published several articles and received a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC to work on a book project on Latin American artists in Paris between the two world wars.
Julia Guerrero Reed '06
One year after graduating from Bowdoin, I went to graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to get a Master's degree in Library Science. I began working at the Newberry Library in Chicago in October of 2006, and have been there since then, slowly working my way up the career ladder. I am now the Senior Library Assistant of General Collections at the Newberry. My education as a Spanish major at Bowdoin has actually been very relevant and has given me an edge over other job applicants at the Newberry. The Library has a very strong Spanish and Latin American collection, including many primary sources such as the earliest existing copy of the Popol Vuh, as the Spanish colonization of the Americas is one of the library's strongest subject areas. These are the extra projects I have been able to take on because of my Spanish skills: I have evaluated fellowship applications in the area of Latin American and Iberian studies; written reference letters in Spanish and assisted patrons in Spanish when they visit library; monitored a show-and-tell for Latin American genealogists; proofread the Spanish-language version of the Newberry Library brochure; created an orientation-to-the-reading-rooms handout in Spanish that is given out at the Welcome Desk; translated a 14th c. Spanish inscription for a scholar-in-residence who needed it for a presentation at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Emily Guerin '09
After graduation, I led wilderness trips in New Mexico and then taught environmental education at Ferry Beach Ecology School in Saco, Maine. then I interned for the public radio show "Living on Earth" in Boston. I then moved to Portland where I became a freelance journalist and waitress at a Latin American restaurant. I am now a reporter for The Forecaster newspaper covering Brunswick and Harpswell.
Jenny Harvey '04
After leaving Bowdoin, I did Teach For America in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. I used my Spanish degree to communicate with the parents of 90% of my second grade students and to explain, translate, and teach, in a mixture of Spanish, English, and something in between! Last year, I taught in San Pedro Sula, Honduras at an International Duel Language School. I then taught bilingual 4th grade in Austin, Texas. I will be pursuing a Masters in Bilingual/Bicultural Education and University of Texas at Austin. Estoy en mi sexto año como maestra en la escuela primaria bilingüe. Enseñé por tres años en el sur de Tejas cerca de la frontera con México. El año pasado, viví y enseñé en Honduras. Luego he vivido en Austin, Tejas enseñando el cuarto grado bilingüe en una escuela pública. Tengo intención de hacer estudios de posgrado en educación aquí.
Benjamin Hess "Jamie" '02
I am currently working as an International Development Fellow with Catholic Relief Services in Guatemala. Mostly I work on savings-led microfinance projects, but I've also had the opportunity to support our agriculture, health, migration, and youth development initiatives. In 2006, I received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and earned my Master's in International Peace Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. I've also worked in Peru and Dominican Republic since graduating from Bowdoin in 2002. My fascinating semester abroad in Argentina, terrific teachers in the Spanish and History departments, and a senior spring break trip where I met my wife while hiking to Machu Picchu were all the result of my Bowdoin experience.
Hillary P. Hoffman '08
Since graduating from Bowdoin, I have been working as a corps member for Teach for America. My position has been as a third grade ELA-S teacher, which means I teach students for whom Spanish is the primary language. I began the year teaching almost entirely in Spanish, and I still communicate with my students' families in Spanish only.
Jillian Hoyt '08
I am currently a graduate student at the University of Southern Maine working toward my certification so that I can teach Spanish at the high school level. I have been interning at Casco Bay High School in Portland where I have taught Spanish I and II. I enjoy it tremendously and I am excited to be embarking on a career in education and guiding young adults as they explore possibilities for their future.
Molly Juhlin '05
Shortly after graduation, I convinced my Bowdoin roommate to walk the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain. When I returned home, I quickly joined the NYC Teaching Fellows and was placed in a first grade classroom in the South Bronx. In 2007, I moved to Boston where I now work at Emerson College. I run an AmeriCorps program at the school called Jumpstart. I train and support Jumpstart Corps members (Emerson students) as they serve over 300 hours in high-need preschools in the Boston area to help develop children's literacy and social skills.
Amit R. Karna '02
I work in investment banking for a firm in New York City. I do feel that Spanish has added value in helping me position myself as a bilingual person who is knowledgeable about international history and issues. Further, I have continued to stay close to Spanish language, culture, and music and I am sure that it will be useful down the road when I am involved in more international work.
Holly Kingsbury '07
After graduation I moved to Denver and started working for The Denver Foundation, a community agency working to improve life in Metro Denver, where I've been ever since. I help run an internship program that matches undergraduate students with nonprofit organizations, and provide support to projects focusing on inclusiveness, mental health, and philanthropic leadership. It's not what I thought I'd be doing after graduation, but I love it! I've also really enjoyed living in Colorado and exploring the Rocky Mountain west. However, I'm always trying to figure out how I can get back to Mexico or explore the rest of Latin America.
Tim Kuhner '98
A few months after graduating, I spent 12 months living in Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica as a Watson Fellow. Getting a Watson Fellowship depended on showing competence in a foreign language. Majoring in Spanish made that part of the process easy, and it also set me up for international jobs later. A few months after returning to the US, I got a job with a negotiation consulting firm that focuses on Latin America. This involved giving conflict resolution courses in Spanish and doing consulting for clients based in Latin America. About ten years later, after getting a law degree and beginning my teaching career, I took a job as a visiting professor at a university in Pamplona. After a year of teaching law in Spain (admittedly in English to students enrolled in a sort of global studies major), I've decided to stay here, keep teaching, and pursue a European Doctorate in comparative constitutional law. I'd feel claustrophobic if my life options were constrained to English-speaking countries (and I'm aware that might sound silly given the size of such countries). (From Pamplona, Spain): A partir de enero de 2011 tengo una especie de sabático por 12 meses y pienso pasar la mayoría de ellos en EEUU. Es para terminar un libro y empezar otro. Los dos son sobre el tema de la financiación de los partidos y los candidatos políticos. Empecé como profesor visitante aquí el semestre pasado y ahora estoy de una forma más permanente, es decir, al menos un semestre de cada año académico, y más si quiero. Además de impartir las asignaturas de tort law y derechos humanos (en inglés como parte del programa de derecho global), tengo la oportunidad de hacer un doctorado europeo, y así presentar como tesis el tercer libro que iba a escribir de todas maneras. Será un libro de derecho comparado sobre la financiación y la teoría democrática en EEUU, España, el Reino Unido y Alemania.
David Lawrence '00
After graduation I worked in Miami for a developer of wireless applications for cellular operators and media companies in Latin America. After 2 years I was Sales Manager and traveling to Central America and the Caribbean weekly. In early 2005 I was hired by AgCert International and moved to São Paulo, Brazil to manage the regulatory department in Latin America to ensure that the company's carbon-offset projects were registered with the United Nations. Later on I was hired as a business development manager to identify and originate large-scale emission reduction projects throughout Latin America. My Brazilian girlfriend and I then moved to Durham, NC and I am studying at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Kate Lebeaux '08
I have been living in Madrid since September of 2008, working in a program sponsored by the Spanish government as a North American Language and Culture Assistant in a bilingual primary school. Obviously my professional life is centered around English, but one of my main reasons for coming here was to improve my Spanish skills. I have done my best to immerse myself in the language and culture here whenever I'm not teaching. I've joined two choirs, made some friends and tried to experience all that Madrid and Spain have to offer.
Michael Lettieri '05
After graduating, I spent a year working at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, DC writing press releases/reports and doing interviews with a variety of media outlets. I also served as an electoral observer during Mexico's 2006 presidential election. Since then, I've moved on to the University of California, San Diego where I'm finishing the doctoral program in Latin American history, focusing on mid-20th century Mexican politics. My dissertation examines the negotiation of transportation policy under the one-party state.
Kim Levine '03
After graduation I spent the summer in Trinidad and expanded on my Caribbean studies that had begun with Pat Saunders. She helped me apply for and earn a fellowship allowing me to take classes at UWI Trinidad for several months. I now work at Novartis in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I realized that I am a science nerd at heart and have been working as a research scientist in the oncology department for the past several years.
Luis Malavé '08
Después de graduarme regresé a Filadelfia y he trabajado con The Philadelphia Academies, INC.; buscando los mejores estudiantes de Filadelfia para ayudarles con el proceso de solicitar ingreso a las universidades. Muchos de estos estudiantes no tienen a nadie que les informe sobre escuelas como Bowdoin, Middlebury, Carleton, etc. Los estudiantes vienen a la oficina para ayuda con sus solicitudes, sus ensayos, y también para conversar con representantes de muchas de estas instituciones. Además de mi trabajo con estudiantes, soy actor. Tengo un agente que me busca trabajo en la ciudad. Durante mi tiempo en Bowdoin hice mucho teatro. En mi último año hice un estudio independiente adaptando una obra basada en una colección de cuentos sobre la experiencia puertorriqueña en Nueva York durante los años 50.
Grant McLean '93
Grant McLean's professional career has spanned diverse assignments in the US and Costa Rica with extensive real estate marketing, sales and project management experience. His brokerage experience includes positions with Christie's Great Estates, where he set several regional sales records in New England, and Sotheby's International Realty in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In 2006 he established Grant McLean Luxury Real Estate, an independent real estate, marketing and consulting firm based in Guanacaste. In Costa Rica he has held key sales positions in major master-planned developments including Hacienda Pinilla, a 4,500 acre oceanfront resort community on the Pacific Coast. and Sotheby's International Realty.
Michael Melia '99
I was a correspondent for the Associated Press in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where I was posted since 2006. I've been fortunate to cover a wide range of interesting stories in places including Trinidad, Guyana and Guantanamo Bay. A few years ago I was very pleased for finding a way to get my story, "José Martí, Cuba's independence hero, emerges from his statue" on the wire -- no small feat considering how few people really know about this influential writer! More recently, I have been named correspondent for the news cooperative in Hartford, CT, to oversee news operations.
Monica Merino '97
Monica holds an International MBA from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business with concentrations in Marketing, Strategy and Economics. While in business school she spent her summer in Mexico City at a Mexican food and beverage company and subsequently returned to Mexico for a semester at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She has worked in a number of brand driven business including Marketing for L'Oreal and Strategy for Victoria's Secret. Monica has also served as an independent consultant for Givaudan, a leading company in fine fragrances and flavors, as well as an industry advisor for various retail investment funds. She is currently Global Portfolio Manager at Avon in the Global Marketing Operations group.
Elizabeth Millan '90
I went on to graduate school in philosophy, and now I do work in German philosophy and Latin American philosophy. My first job out of graduate school was at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. My major in Spanish (with the heavy dose of Latin American literature) certainly helped prepare me for the work I did (and continue to do) on Latin American philosophy. I am currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago -- and both of my recent Ph.D. students did their dissertations on Spanish-language philosophy (one on Ortega's philosophy and the other on the transition from subject to citizen in the Latin American tradition, with a focus on Andrés Bello and Simón Rodríguez). I have published articles and edited volumes on Latin American philosophy and have done a translation of a book on Mexican colonial philosophy. I also offer courses for the Latin American/Latino Studies Program here at DePaul.
Elizabeth Moe '06
Liz worked for a year in Laredo, Spain, with a North American Language and Culture Assistantship Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education. Then she led a network of companies as Global Knowledge Manager and Communications Associate, and more recently worked as marketing manager for Global Communications. She has also been a volunteer member of Revolución Latina, a performing arts and community activism nonprofit based in New York City. In 2011, she was admitted, with a combination of full scholarship and teaching assistantship, to the graduate school at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, to pursue her PhD in Spanish. She intends to focus her future research on 20th-century poetry from Spain.
Sarah Mountcastle '05
When I majored in Spanish, I didn't do it with a particular career in mind, but rather because I had always continued taking Spanish courses and loved studying Latin American cultures. Since graduating, however, I have realized just how important my Spanish major is. After graduating from Bowdoin in 2005, I worked in the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good as an AmeriCorps *VISTA for a year, then went on to work at an international development organization in Toronto called Free The Children. While there, I used my Spanish skills to lead trips of high school students on service trips to Ecuador. More recently, I worked at an early literacy organization, Raising A Reader Massachusetts. I used my Spanish every day to engage Latino parents in the Boston area in the critical behavior of sharing stories with their young children. I then headed to graduate school to pursue an MBA at Duke with a focus on social entrepreneurship.
Tiana O'Konek, please see Tiana Gierke '03
María Openshaw '08
Por ahora sigo viviendo en East Boston, y trabajo en el centro de salud local del barrio, en la clínica de VIH. Casi todos los pacientes y vecinos son latinos (de Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, y también dominicanos, colombianos, brasileños) y en la oficina conversamos en español todo el día, todos los días. Estoy preparándome para presentarme a la escuela de posgrado, para completar una maestría en enfermería. Específicamente, mi plan actual es estudiar para partera (nurse-midwife) y brindar atención primaria entre las comunidades recién llegadas aquí. Es un campo de estudio que siempre me ha interesado.
Gillian Page '10
My year-long fellowship at MATCH Charter Public Middle School came to a close in June, 2011. In May, the Dean of Students at MATCH approached me about a job in Newark, NJ, where he was planning to open a new charter school based off the MATCH model of "no excuses" and daily tutoring for every student. I was delighted to accept this challenge. My job has been unpredictable but never boring as I have helped to train a Corps of 23 tutors, launched eight enrichment programs (including two World Culture programs), and stood beside our Executive Director pulling staples from walls, painting classrooms and generally repairing a school building that had fallen into disuse. I am excited by the challenges of this unique position and have learned an enormous amount about school reform at the ground level. This experience has only further fueled my desire to study education reform through the pursuit of a Master's degree in Education Policy.
Marcus Pearson '05
In July 2009 I got married, then we moved to Seattle where I enrolled at University of Washington Law School. I am focusing on community land rights and water access issues in rural Latin America as well as among American Indian tribes. Since the earthquake in Haiti I have facilitated a campus-wide fundraising drive aimed at raising money for Partners in Health, a non-profit health organization. Additionally, I have connected with lawyers and other law students around the country to launch the Lawyer's Earthquake Response Network (LERN), which addresses the political, legal, and environmental issues that have been laid bare by the earthquake and will continue to play a large role in Haiti's long road to recovery. I am writing a legal analysis of Chile's environmental ministry and regulatory structure over a controversial hydroelectric dam project in Patagonia.
Anthony Pisani '93
I teach Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. I have been involved in hospital administration, teaching in family therapy and pediatrics, clinical work with children and families, and training clinicians in suicide prevention. I was awarded a three-year National Institute of Mental Health fellowship to retrain as a suicide prevention researcher. My knowledge of Spanish and Latin American cultures got my first job in mental health and has been central to my clinical work. I often work with Spanish-speaking families in primary care clinics, and have been invited to give conferences in places like Caracas. The interdisciplinary commitment of the Spanish and Latin American Studies faculty has stayed with me. I strive in my work (and life) to draw on wisdom without regard to disciplinary or political boundaries.
Alexandra Reed '10
After four months in Washington, DC writing about Latin America for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), I began an 8-month Fulbright grant in Uruguay in 2011, my first three months in the interior, and my last five months in Montevideo. I've been teaching English, volunteering, and drinking as much mate as possible. I hope to have some time to explore Brazil and Argentina, and revisit Chile (where I studied abroad in '08) before I return to the U.S. Bowdoin visitors and traveling companions are welcome!
Julia Reed, please see Julia Guerrero '06
Lindsay Reuben '05
After graduating, I went to teach kindergarten in The American School of Madrid. Upon returning to New York, I worked as a Spanish interpreter for legal cases and applied to the New York City Teaching Fellows program. Once accepted, I became a high school Spanish teacher here in New York City. I have been teaching Spanish for over three years and completed my M.S. in Teaching in 2008. I have recently been accepted into an M.A. in Hispanic Literature program in Madrid through NYU.
Mike Ritter '02
I have become a freelance photographer in Boston (www.ritterbin.com). My major has been a wonderful help on shoots I've done in Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala. A highlight of my photographic career so far was working with Safe Passage (http://www.safepassage.org/) founded by the late Bowdoin alum Hanley Denning. I'm very proud of the work I did there and that it has helped in Safe Passage's amazing cause. I would be happy to talk to current students about what I know.
Seth Ritter '00
I worked on an ambulance in Boston for five years and I'm finishing medical school this may. I still get to use Spanish regularly.
Cassia Roth '08
After my graduation, I headed to Monterrey, Mexico to work with Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. While there, I started the process to apply to graduate schools in Latin American history. I randomly stumbled upon the Washington-based think tank, Center for Strategic and International Studies and received a research internship in the Americas program. I am now pursuing my doctorate in Latin American history at UCLA. My dissertation proposal connects socioeconomic changes during turn-of-the-century Brazil to women's reproductive practices. My research will take me to Rio de Janeiro in 2011.
Monica Rushford, please see Monica Dargin '01
Coleen Ryan Shaw '97
I graduated from Bowdoin in 1997 with a Spanish major/Education minor. That fall, I began teaching Spanish at Freeport Middle School. I taught there for two years and then moved to the Camden area where I taught elementary Spanish to third fourth, and fifth graders... When my husband and I started our family, I left the classroom and started a small tutoring business. I tutored middle and high school students and I also offered some small group Spanish lessons to the elementary set in town…Since graduating, I've used my degree to connect with and encourage the younger set, hoping to spread enthusiasm and interest in a beautiful, useful language…Our goal back in the late 1990s was to ensure that all districts in Maine offered some sort of elementary language education. Many school districts embraced this directive and began implementing some truly wonderful and dynamic programs. Unfortunately, many districts disregarded this mandate and many more since have had to cut these programs because of budget shortfalls. It would be lovely for some new, young, and passionate language majors to get involved once again in this worthwhile endeavor.
Gretchen Selcke '00
I'm a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, a graduate fellow at Vanderbilt's Center for the Americas, and an Arts and Sciences graduate select scholar. I previously served as the assistant editor of the Afro Hispanic Review and am currently a member of the publication's editorial board. My dissertation, entitled "Isolation on and off the Island: The Politics of Displacement in Contemporary Spanish Caribbean Fiction," explores contemporary Spanish Caribbean and U.S. Latino literatures. In addition, I'm working with Dr. William Luis on his forthcoming study on the Caribbean Vanguard. My research interests include contemporary Caribbean writing and literary theory.
Colleen Shaw, please see Coleen Ryan '97
Erik Shea '05
I actually use my Spanish everyday! I'm currently living in Brooklyn, NY and working in Greenwich, CT at BCP Securities, a boutique investment bank dedicated exclusively to the emerging markets. My geographic focus is Central America and the Caribbean, and I also assist with projects in Mexico and Argentina. I travel about once every six weeks and frequently hold conference calls in Spanish. I was for a time involved with a non-profit organization in New York called Help Argentina. I recently learned about an IE International MBA in Madrid, which is a 13-month program that allows students to complete their studies in Spanish, and am planning to apply.
Richard Sherman '02
Since completing a Master's Degree program in Latin American Studies at Indiana University, I have been working in the Admissions Office of California University of Pennsylvania. One of my chief responsibilities is improving access to higher education for Hispanic/Latino students. My wife and I live near Pittsburgh, and welcomed our first child in July 2010.
Elizabeth Shesko '02
While working at a law firm in Boston after I graduated, I looked for ways to return to Latin America. I was eventually hired by the American School in Guatemala, where I worked as a first grade teacher for two years and was able to travel throughout Central America. I then applied to graduate school and began a Ph.D. program in Latin American history at Duke University in the fall of 2005. Since then, I have taken several research trips to Bolivia and Paraguay, and spent a summer in Brazil to learn Portuguese. I am finishing the research for my dissertation, which explores the effect of obligatory military service on ethnic identity in twentieth-century Bolivia.
Emily Sowell '05
I worked for three years in the felony division of the Lake County Clerk's Office in Lake County, Florida. I just began my first year at the Law School of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Although I haven't had the chance to travel back to Latin America since graduating, I will be concentrating in International Law.
Lindsay Steinmetz '03
After graduating, I taught 4th grade at Escuela Bilingue Honduras, a private, bilingual school in Comayagua, Honduras. My classmate Tiana Gierke also taught there, as did alum Russell Crandall '94 after he graduated. While I taught the core subjects in English, 70% of the staff was Honduran and so I used my Spanish with them and the parents. After returning to the US, I spent 4 years at an education reform organization, RISE, and worked with 50+ schools in low income communities in the Bay Area. I graduated from Harvard Business School and am working at the Ford Foundation in New York City in the area of impact assessment. While I don't use my Spanish on a regular basis, I believe my Spanish major sparked my interest in working on issues in public education that largely affect Latino students.
Alison Sylvester '03
I now practice law at a large law firm and focus my pro bono work on representing Spanish-speaking asylum seekers, many of whom speak little English. Although I've never pursued a Spanish-speaking job per se, the ability to speak Spanish has enriched my life in many ways.
Naomi Sturm '08
Since graduating I stayed working at Bowdoin's Student Aid Office and as a TA for Music 101 and Dance 101. I received the Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper given at the annual North East Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology Conference. The paper was part of my Honors Thesis written for Latin American Studies. I am now in Columbia University's Ph.D. program in Ethnomusicology with a focus on Latin American immigrant studies. I also work on independent dance choreographies.
Rachel Tavel '05
I lived in NYC after leaving Bowdoin. First I worked as an intern for Food&Wine and Travel+Leisure magazines. After that, I traveled to Costa Rica where I spent a month volunteering at a daycare center in the Central Highlands. After a couple more trips (to Turkey and Japan), I landed a dream job: coauthoring a Frommer's guidebook about Mexico. I spent the summer in Mexico and wrote the Acapulco, Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo and Taxco chapters for the book, MTV Best of Mexico (Wiley Publishing, 2007). For the past three years, I have been working as the editor of an independent school's annual magazine and traveling as much as possible. I am actually about to leave my job to pursue travel writing full-time! I will be spending the spring and beyond working on my blog, travelswithtavel.com, and spending some time in Argentina. Now I am living in Quito, writing for V!VA Guides and managing the Argentina guidebook.
Sarah Thomas Bowdoin '06
Since graduating I taught Social Studies for two years in the South Bronx and many of the parents of my kids spoke strictly Spanish. I was able to communicate with them and enlist their help because I spoke the language. After my time there I decided to move to Latin America and I landed a job at Colegio Internacional de Caracas teaching middle school. Although I do not teach in Spanish I speak it everyday and have been traveling a lot around Latin America. I am moving back to the US to pursue a law degree and I would love to come and speak sometime at Bowdoin.
Robin Trangsrud '06
I was Vice Director of Quito-based NGO ASELER – Asesoría y Servicios Legales para los Refugiados en Ecuador, which provides legal assistance to the community of approximately 250,000 Colombian refugees in Ecuador. After many busy but wonderful months, I have finally gotten around to posting on my blog about life in Ecuador (http://rtrangsrud.travellerspoint.com/). More recently, I have worked as an immigration paralegal in Boston.
Vanessa Vidal '08
Vanessa has been awarded a Thomas Pickering Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to pursue her graduate studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
Elizabeth Wiles '04
Upon my graduation in 2004, I have been teaching Spanish at Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine. I am finishing up my sixth year at Thornton and thoroughly enjoy teaching Spanish and working with teenagers each day.
Conor Williams '05
My Spanish degree from Bowdoin was highly useful in my first two years after graduating. I served as a Teach For America corps member, teaching first grade in New York City. Now that I'm pursuing a PhD in Government at Georgetown University, I continue to make use of my degree for research (and for passing my required "language exam!").


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How many freakin' times is Evanescence going to get the question... "Are you a Christian Band?" We didn't register the domain to provoke debates or discussions on the matter, the domain was registered in jest so don't even try to start anything silly with emails on the subject. It's about the music, and Evanescence is one of the greatest bands in rock music today! As the domain says, the answer is simple; Evanescence is Not a Christian Band, although in their personal lives they are all Christians. The goal of this site is to be a resource for most of your Evanescence needs. So Enjoy!
-Kevin (blackvulture) & Katia (katia)
News & Site UpdatesJanuary 25, 2007
On January 31st Vitamin Records will release Immortalized: The String Quartet Tribute to Evanescence Vol 2. There will be string versions of every song off of The Open Door. It should be good.
Order it from Vitamin Records
October 3, 2006
Check out the featured review over at AlbumBuzz for The Open Door.
September 14, 2006
Only a couple weeks left till the release of The Open Door. In preparation for it's release we have the full lyrics to the album available right here on the site.
July 30, 2006
"Call Me When You're Sober" has made it's debut, and we got your lyric needs covered.
July 5, 2006
The tracklist is now available for the new CD THE OPEN DOOR
1. Sweet Sacrifice
2. Call Me When You're Sober
3. Weight Of The World
4. Lithium
5. Cloud Nine
6. Snow White Queen
7. Lacrymosa
8. Like You
9. Lose Control
10. The Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough
(thanks to stranded in suburbia)
The first single "Call Me When You're Sober" will be going to radio very soon, once it does be sure to check back here for lyrics and audio!
April 26, 2006
This article from MTV News talks quite a bit about the new album.
This summer's going to be an impossible one for Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee.
If she ruled the world (or at least ran her band's label, Wind-Up Records), The Open Door would be on shelves by week's end. But instead, fans will have to wait until October 3 for the follow-up to Evanescence's 2003 breakthrough, Fallen.
"I'm just totally dying to get it out," she said. "It seems like it's been forever since Fallen," which has sold about 6.5 million copies in the United States. Plus, Lee's just flat-out psyched about The Open Door.
"I feel like with Fallen, a lot of those songs sound like I was trying to prove myself and establish what we were and our sound," she explained. "I was trapped having to feel a certain way. But with the new record, I sort of went with everything. I am not afraid to feel happy sometimes, and I think there's moments on the album with sensuality, which is really fun and beautiful, instead of the last time, where I felt like I was only getting out part of me. This record embraces the whole me."
It's been a hell of a three years for Evanescence. The forthcoming disc — which will feature 13 tracks including "Good Enough," "Weight of the World" and the first single, "Call Me When You're Sober" — will be the Arkansas band's first since the departure of lead guitarist and principal songwriter Ben Moody, who jumped ship in 2003, in the middle of Evanescence's European tour.
February 2006
Things are moving forward with the new album. Terry had a stroke this past November which pushed everything back several months, but at the moment things are on track for a late August - October release for the new CD and the first single impacting radio during midsummer.
May 12, 2005
The debut single "One Day" by David's band Trading Yesterday is up on the MySpace Audio Player. Or you can hear a clip of it right here!
April 8, 2005
Some older photos from the Kerrang magazine.
February 23, 2005
These pictures arent new, but we do have them in high quality now.
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February 3, 2005
We recently opened a new message board. It's centered around David's band Trading Yesterday. It's growing quite fast, we had over 50 members in the first day. Check it out, register, postwh0re!
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This fall, the NEA announced new research regarding the status of artists in the American workforce. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of artists and industries, state and metro employment rates, and new demographic information such as age, education levels, income, ethnicity, and other social characteristics.
Among the key findings:
- There are 2.1 million artists in the United States
- Artists work in many industries and job sectors
- Wage gaps persist
- Artist demographics
- Artist-heavy states and regions
The NEA analyzed data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, a new annual survey tool that complements the decennial census. The report analyzed 11 distinct artist occupations: actors, announcers, architects, dancers and choreographers, designers, fine artists, art directors and animators, musicians, other entertainers, photographers, producers and directors, and writers and authors.
The press release and full report can be found here.
TCG regularly engages in formal listening opportunities, which we call Field Conversations, and over the past year and a half, TCG has worked to investigate the relationship between individual artists and institutions in the field, and to identify the successes, challenges, and ways of strengthening relationships in order to strengthen our field.
This most recent endeavor began in the spring of 2010, with a series of teleconferences with actors, directors, designers, playwrights and dramaturgs. With the support of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, we then held Roundtable conversations inLos Angeles,New YorkandChicagothat included individual artists, leaders form TCG member and non-member theatres, trustees and educators. A National Survey was conducted to gather quantitative information from artists about their working conditions and relationships with organizations, and finally, Town Hall conversations were hosted locally all over the country.
Findings from all three parts of the Field Conversations were condensed into a report written by Celia Wren, published in American Theatre magazine in the summer of 2011. That report can be found here.


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Analyzing binaural beat CDs, and a tip for BAVSA users
Every few weeks I get a call from a user who wants to import a brainwave entrainment CD or MP3 they bought elsewhere into our program in order to change what frequencies are being used and at what times.
If only it were that easy. Once a composition has been exported from a brainwave protocol into a sound format, it becomes very challenging to reverse engineer that and determine what frequencies are being used.
It becomes even more difficult when you realize that there are many different forms of auditory brainwave entrainment – binaural beats, monaural beats, isochronic tones, audio modulation, filtering and so on. Most commercial products also "mask" the entrainment in some way, usually with nature sounds such as rain, or with music.
Simply determining what brainwave frequencies are used in a recording is hard enough, much less changing or altering those frequencies in some way.
However, some users in our community forum have found a way to do this, at least with recordings that use binaural beats. First, they use a tool called BAVSA to determine what binaural beat frequencies are being used. Then, they use audio filters (band pass) to remove the binaural beats. Later, they re-insert binaural beats of their choice, using our software.
BAVSA, which stands for "binaural beat visual analysis tool", is a program specifically designed for analyzing binaural beat frequencies. It is the creation of Jim Peters, who also created SBaGen, which I mentioned in a recent article in the AVS Journal.
You can find BAVSA here: http://uazu.net/bavsa/
BAVSA is a remarkably accurate program, but can sometimes take some fiddling with to get a clear result. This is understandable, given the complexity of many binaural beat CDs, especially those with music.
Back in June, another user and I analyzed a recording with a single binaural beat that ramped from 10 hz to 2 hz. As the beat and pitch decreased, we noticed something strange: 10 hz remained through the entire recording, and other "phantom" beats showed up in the analysis as a result.
After some experimentation, we discovered that if a binaural beat is present at a high enough volume in the first 3 seconds of the recording, BAVSA's analysis of the rest of the track will always contain the first 3 seconds of sound.
To show you what I mean, I created a binaural beat that lasts for 5 seconds and then a minute of complete silence after that. You can use any binaural beat program to create this yourself, such as our software, cooledit or SBaGen (all will produce the same result in BAVSA).
Analyzing this in BAVSA, I skip ahead to 48 seconds. It should register silence, but instead it still shows the original binaural beat:
The Solution: To work around this problem, I insert 3-4 seconds of silence at the beginning of any sound file before analysis. We applied this fix to the 10hz/2hz sound file I mentioned above, and BAVSA accurately reported the binaural beat at the exact same time mark, without showing 10 hz or the other non-existent frequencies:
In most cases, this workaround isn't strictly necessary, since binaural beat CDs typically don't have tones at a high enough volume for this to matter, and many CDs fade in over 10-20 seconds, effectively eliminating the potential for a problem. This may also explain why this hasn't been noticed before.
Still, if you want to be absolutely sure of an accurate measurement, try the above tip.
2 Comments to "Analyzing binaural beat CDs, and a tip for BAVSA users"
Thanks for the post. That piece of advice will help me to decide the buy of brainwave entrainment software.
In this website you can try free binaural beats to find out if this works with one:
Great Article ! I was going through BAVSA programs and found some really interesting frequencies in many of CDs. For eg.
frequencies found by bavsa on CD "Orientation Focus 3":
it starts with
3.9 herz (at 300 herz carrier frequency)
then it changes into
3.9 (300)
0 (60)
and again changing at 23 min. into more complicated
1.4 (114)
3.5 (111)
6.3 (116)
3.8 (300)
CD "Super Sleep":
1.5 (100)
49 (74)
51 (75)
CD "Cable Car Ride":
impossible to read, due to its strange
and ever-changing frequencies.
The same goes for CD "HemiSync in Motion."
I don't know if bavsa really does the reading
and if I read the frequencies correctly.
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Random QuotesRandom quotes to give you encouragement and inspiration. Sometimes just reading a quote will give you motivation.
"I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems. It is a simple philosophy." Ray Kroc, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Words of Encouragement |
"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm." Charles Kettering
Inspirational Quotes |
"Appreciate those early influences and what they've done for you." Willie Davis, Closing the Gap
Appreciation |
"If I can help people I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation." Elbert Hubbard, Works of Elbert Hubbard
Helping Others |
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke
Books |
"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts." James W. Fulbright
Dare |
"I learned really to practice mustard seed faith, and positive thinking, and remarkable things happened." Sir John Walton
Positive Thinking |
"Life itself is the proper binge." Julia Child
Quotes about Life |
"In any project, the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome." William James
Believe |
"I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through." Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
Success |
"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived." Paul Bourget
Attitude |
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in." Alan Alda
Questioning |
"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes." Napoleon Hill, The Law of success
Mistake |
"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force." Albert Schweitzer
Work |
"As you go through life, you'll have maybe a handful of friends who are in it for the long haul. A true testament to their character is how consistent they are throughout that friendship." Jerry Kramer
Friend |
"Compassion is the form that altruistic love takes when it is confronted with others' sufferings." Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
Compassion |
"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life." Abraham Lincoln
Purpose |
"Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream." John Lennon
Peace |
"Half of the things they worry about will not even come to pass, or will not be relevant in just a year. Yet people give a massive amount of power to these worries and fail to focus on what is real and what is concrete." Robyn McComb, The &1 Rule of Happiness: Appreciate the Little Things
Worry |
"It may seem funny to say that giving makes us feel happier. What about receiving, I hear you say, that's nice too! But, believe me, giving will make you feel ten times happier." Francis Brennan, Counting My Blessings - Francis Brennan's Guide to Happiness
Giving |
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama
Change |
In the past, women's stories have been ignored by culture - particularly stories about sisters, for female siblings have little power in the world - yet today that mythology is irrelevant, outdated. Patricia Foster, Sister to Sister
Sister |
So don't waste your time fighting for a longer life, just enjoy every day. Because this day is not a random day, but a unique one and you have been blessed with an amazing gift. Use it wisely, as it passes by and it never comes back. Andy Hertz, Life, The Best Birthday Gift
Poems about Life |
What words compel a people to unite and overthrow the oppressor, to repel the aggressor, to rescue the destitute? They are words that stir our inner being, convict our souls, and move our spirits. They are neither accidental nor random; they are honed and tempered in the fires of human adversity and experience. Randy Harvey, Public Speaking 101: Messages That Matter
Experience |
Today we have CDs, and better yet MP3s, and we are into random access. You can go wherever you want, whenever you want. The book is your book, you have begun a conversation with the author, and you should feel free to interrupt, skip around, and ask questions at any time. If you give yourself this freedom, you will be amply rewarded. Gary Hoover, The Lifetime Learner's Guide to Reading and Learning
Encouraging |
Diversity and social justice are distinct though interconnected terms. Diversity refers to differences among social groups ... Social justice refers to reconstructing society in accordance with principles of equity, recognition, and inclusion. Maurianne Adams; Lee Anne Bell; Diane J. Goodman; Khyati Y. Joshi, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
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More Quotes by Topic To Encourage and Inspire
Random Quotes with Thoughts:Comments by Byron Pulsifer, � 2017
"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."
Winston Churchill
It's easy to fall into the trap by thinking that super intelligence wins the day, or has all the success, or gets all the great promotions. The sad truth is that far too many people think this way. The real truth is almost the opposite. One person who forever stands out in my mind is Thomas Edison.
I know it could be argued that he had a superior brain, but more to the point is that his intelligence in and of itself did not lead directly to the invention of the first light bulb. On the contrary, Edison failed thousands of times despite his intelligence. So, what was the underlying secret to his final success? If you guessed that he just got lucky, you'd be dead wrong. But, I'm sure you know the real story. The secret ingredient that Edison used was continuous effort; a tenaciousness that powered him on to his goal.
Potential is a lot more than intelligence, and a lot more than strength. However, when strength (of character) and intelligence is married with effort, you have found a winning combination.
"What you will do matters. All you need is to do it."
Judy Grahn
The quote by Grahn strongly makes the point that the best intentions are nothing more than hollow words if there are no resultant actions. You don't have to look far to see that this is true. Let me be so bold as to say that you simply have to look at your own life to find examples. And, if you keep your focus on your own family members and extended family members, I know you will find apt examples. Extend this examination to your social group, work group or club and you will easily discover more examples than you really want to.
What is the remedy? Be a doer instead of a talker. Be the inspiration to those immediately around you. Be the model of the behavior you would like to see adopted by your own family members, your work group, your social community, or your favorite club.
"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy."
Karl Reiland
Reiland makes a significant point about life that many people should adopt. Why? Let me put the reason why in realistic terms that could be applied to everyday life be that at home or at work.
First, let me ask you a question. Think about this seriously; don't just read over this question without pondering its' true meaning. The question is this: have you ever met an unhappy person who gives others a helping hand; is willing to put others' needs before their own; is always ready to contribute monetarily to aid others in need; is the one who stays behind to clean up when others have left; is the one who supports you when others shun you; and is the one who extends warm wishes, or a smile whenever you meet them?
The point is clear: happiness is not a product of what you get or take; it is a direct result of what and how you give to others be that service, caring, compassion or inspirationally.
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur's quote hits the mark dead on. On many, many occasions, I have heard people complain that they are not lucky. I have heard this sentiment expressed with rapidity in every work environment I've been in. Complaints about having no luck flows from the mouths of those who have been unsuccessful in securing a promotion; from those who have been assigned a challenging task bemoaning that their colleagues were lucky to get an easier assignment; and from those who have to work late in order to get their work caught up.
Luck has absolutely nothing to do with any of the above examples. Preparation is a key ingredient to those who complain they did not get a promotion. These are the very people who shunned extra courses, or rejected opportunities to take on difficult assignments that would have provided them with new skills or a chance to hone current skills and elevate them to a new level of competency. These are the people had to stay late to get their work caught up not because their work load was too heavy but because they spent too much time socializing or sticking their nose into other colleagues business instead of doing their own work.
"The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have."
John Locke
It's a funny thing about getting or receiving a new idea or a way of solving a problem. The most advantageous time to arrive at this stage where thoughts appear to come out of nowhere are those times when your mind is engaged in quiet reflection away from the constant intrusion of sights and sounds; a time when you are away from whatever the issue or problem you need to solve.
This technique of reducing yourself to a level of complete calmness, or going to zero as I like to say, are those times when your mind is not attempting to focus on a resolution or a new method of proceeding.
This is the time when you may be enjoying a quiet walk in the park, or a time when you are calmly engaged in a favorite hobby, or a time when you asleep. The mind relaxes; the subconscious mind is quietly working away, and behold, the idea or thought simply seems to surface.
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
When I read Wright's quote, I am reminded of the power of perception. Let me give you a few simple examples.
If you believe that you are going to have a bad day, you will have a bad day; if you believe the project you are about to tackle is undoable, it will be undoable; if you believe that you will never successful, you never will be successful. Why is this? It is the power of perception. I often think of a simple statement that goes like this: if you think there is a ghost behind the tree, than there is a ghost behind the tree. It is really a matter of what you put into your mind as a belief will most often be the outcome.
So, turn those negative thoughts to positive thoughts and you will experience a new level of success; it is a success at the very beginning because you believe it will be so.
"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."
Oprah Winfrey
We do not know what God intends for us in this life. No matter how smart you think you are, or how strongly you believe that you are in complete control of your own destiny, God's power is far beyond your wildest dreams. If God intended for us to know and understand everything he has in store for us then we would have the same power as God.
If this was the case, we would know exactly what we are to do. But, no one will ever know what God knows. No one will ever understand his great scheme or plans. All of these thoughts we have simply pale in comparison to an Almighty God.
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The Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT is both an awards ceremony for the women who are driving healthcare technology and innovation forward and a day of professional development and mentoring for all women in the healthcare IT world. This unique event will showcase the industry's leaders and offer inspiration to the next generation in the women as technology reshapes how healthcare is provided and paid for. Why now? Women in senior positions in healthcare make, on average, 79 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, according to a recent survey. This event will highlight the success of the most influential women in the industry, and provide a networking and idea platform for women who'd like to join them at the table.


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The one memory that will stay with me, when all other memories of September 11, 2001 have faded, is how obscenely beautiful the weather was. There really should have been more portents. Fierce, fiery warriors battling in the clouds. Graves yawning and yielding up their dead. At least a two-headed cow, or the ghost of William McKinley.
But no, the New York sky was barely touched with clouds when the Twin Towers crumbled to the ground. Just as clear was the Arlington, Virginia sky as American Airlines flight 77 slammed into the western side of the Pentagon, and over Stoney Creek Township, Pennsylvania, as the hijackers of United 93 plowed their Boeing 757 into the ground to prevent the passengers from taking over. And it was just as beautiful in Omaha, Nebraska, where I listened to my cab's FM radio in horror, knowing exactly why Peter Jennings quietly said, "Oh, my God," as soon as he said it. Satan had apparently decided not to overdo it.
The Loss of Faith
Inevitably, anniversaries such as this will produce analyses in gross lots, rewriting as growing out of the evil stem of the 9/11 attacks trends that were already in place the day before. We need no "truther" conspiracy theories to explain the nadir of our trust in our government; it had been declining for three decades and more. Anti-Moslem sentiment didn't begin with the collapse of the World Trade Center; it was present during the OPEC oil crisis in the late 1970s, a natural outgrowth of American nativism. We don't need al-Qaida to explain our interventionism; it was already implicit in complaints that Operation Desert Storm didn't "finish the job" by going to Baghdad and ousting Saddam Hussein.
Of course we became more afraid. For the sake of security, we permitted the federal government unprecedented powers of investigation and almost casually dispensed with habeas corpus rights for suspected terrorists. In the meantime, we created a new Cabinet-level department whose name carries perhaps-unintended echoes of totalitarian police states. And we also built a cheap, absurd wall along our border with Mexico, as we flailed around to find solutions that would keep terrorists out without going so far as to completely imprison ourselves or stop tourists and imports from coming.
I can't help but think, though, that in the last fifteen years we became more aware of the fact that America is rotting from within, that both the dream and the reality of America have been corrupted. That's a broad and vague charge, one not easily specified or documented. However, as much as has been written about the loss of faith in God, I believe that we've lost faith in everything — faith in ourselves, in each other, in our social institutions, in our government, in our founding principles.
The Disunited States
The fleeting feeling of having been brought closer together by the tragedy of 9/11 merely highlighted the absence of authentic communitas in our quotidian experience. In the fifteen years since, social media has provided a number of poor second-bests in platforms like Twitter and Facebook, coincidentally fostering social division and political tribalism, as well as providing a convenient method for the culture-wide dispersal of lies, hoaxes, and slander. Far from being more united than before 9/11, we are more disunited, more balkanized by tribal loyalties and tribal dogma that, thanks to social media, now cross lines on the map.
Replacing our sense of community is an increasing emphasis on autonomy — an assertion of freedom that recognizes no social obligation or reasonable limit to individual action, an ideal that replaces the "tyranny of the majority" with the tyranny of the autonomous self. Social cohesion has been replaced by a false, sexually amoral "inclusiveness" that has destroyed the biological family, the foundation of civilization, in the names of equality and progress. The Righteous Judge of traditional Judeo-Christian morality has been replaced by the Heavenly Grandfather of moralistic therapeutic deism, a God Who places no moral constraints on us and exists only to confirm us in our unique, special goodness.
We've lost our sense of what truth is. Truth is necessary for a robust and reasonable sense of justice. As St. Thomas Aquinas said, it's impossible for people to live in community unless they can trust one another to tell the truth; truth is something we owe not only ourselves but one another (cf. Summa Theologiae II-II; Q. 109 A. 3 ad 1). Without a robust sense of objective truth, science loses its ground, and our "knowledge" becomes an illusion, a mere manufactured product of our subjective appetites.
A New Crisis of Confidence
The next generation is less prepared for the future than we were. One hundred-plus years of educational "reforms" have left us smarter in a limited number of areas, beset by neo-philistinism in others, and less rational overall. Several decades of increasing concern for children's safety and self-esteem have resulted in the increasing presence on college campuses of "fragile snowflakes and manipulative narcissists": young people unable to cope with the risks and challenges of adult life. Meanwhile, the spiraling costs of post-secondary education have put college degrees beyond the reach of many people unless they're willing to take on crushing debts in student loans. As physicist Dr. Michio Kaku put it, "Without the H1B [visa allowing non-immigrants to work in American jobs], the scientific establishment in this country would collapse."
As I said before, many of these trends were already in place prior to September 11, 2001. What has happened since is that, like the Twin Towers, our blindness to these trends has slowly crumbled, revealing a fatally compromised culture ready to collapse on itself. 9/11 stripped us of confidence in the future, a confidence that had only a mere twenty years to recover from the chaotic darkness of the Vietnam era and the economic doldrums that had followed in its wake. Since then, we have become increasingly angry, increasingly distrustful, increasingly corrupt, increasingly irrational, and increasingly fearful.
There were some present at that very time who told [Jesus] of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." (Luke 13:1-5)
A Call to Repentance
In one sense, 9/11 was America's Middle East policy chickens coming home to roost. But in another sense, it was a portent in itself, a signal that the American Era is coming to an end, as all things must. Only God is eternal.
Come November 9, there will be citizens voting for the first time who have little to no memory of that obscenely beautiful day. To them, 9/11 is something remote, as was John F. Kennedy's assassination to those of us born in the 1960s. But for many of the rest of us, graying slowly as we shuffle toward our common mortal destiny, we still stand in the rubble of the World Trade Center, overwhelmed with grief, pity, anger, and fear … fear that God has finally turned His back on the U.S., abandoned us to our pride and our folly.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them. (Romans 1:28-32)
September 11 is officially the Day of Service and Remembrance. But it is not enough for us to remember. We must also repent.


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Bulldozer collision leaves one dead
KINGFISHER, Okla. – One man is dead after a fatal collision involving a bulldozer.
According to reports, the driver of the bulldozer, Brett Montgomery, attempted to park on an embankment when the accident took place.
After stepping out of the vehicle, the parking brake disengaged, causing the bulldozer to roll back and pin the Montgomery underneath the vehicle.


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Facial reanimation procedures help children move their face or make more even movements on both sides of their face.
The nerve that controls the face muscles is called the "facial nerve." One facial nerve comes out of each side of the skull near the ear. These two main nerves divide into many smaller branches that connect to different face muscles.
If the facial nerve does not work properly, it will affect your child's ability to move the muscles in their face. Those muscles will be paralyzed. This is sometimes called "facial palsy." Facial palsy usually affects 1 side of the face. Some children have a condition that affects both sides of their face.
Children who have facial reanimation procedures may benefit in these ways:
Any child who cannot move part or all of their face because of a problem with the facial nerve might benefit from facial reanimation. We treat children with many types of conditions, including:
Seattle Children's Facial Reanimation Program is the only one of its kind for children in the Northwest. We do many types of facial reanimation. Our experienced team and advanced technology help your child get better faster.
We use minimally invasive procedures to reduce scarring and help your child get better faster.
During surgery, we make a small incision to access the facial nerve.
On the leg, we make a small incision along the inner thigh to remove a short piece of the muscle (gracilis muscle). The incision is small enough to be hidden by shorts or a skirt.
Each child who comes to Seattle Children's with a facial nerve problem is assessed by a team of providers from many areas of healthcare. This multidisciplinary approach helps us learn about your child's condition and give the best treatment just for them. The team may include pediatricians, surgeons, feeding specialists, speech therapists, radiologists, nurses, social workers and many others.
The exact team for your child depends on your child's needs. For example, if there's a problem where the facial nerve comes out of the skull near the ear, your child's team may include an ear-nose-throat specialist (otolaryngologist). If there's a problem with the facial nerve inside the skull, your child may need a neurosurgeon.
High-definition video and 3-D imaging of your child's face and head help us plan their treatment.
Surgeons use the images as a guide when doing complex procedures. We use the technology to measure treatment results and constantly make our techniques better.
We work with you to make a care plan that works for your child and your family. Our team members work together to coordinate care before, during and after surgery. We are there to help your child adapt to changes in their face after surgery.
If 1 eyebrow does not move and the other does, doctors can inject Botox into the moving eyebrow to paralyze it. This way, your child's eyebrows match on both sides.
This treatment usually lasts less than 6 months. Your child would need repeat injections.
If your child's eyelids do not close, surgeons may place tiny gold weights inside the upper lid to help pull it down. They may use a small piece of tendon to create a sling that pulls the lower eyelid up.
If the area around the mouth does not move, surgeons may take a muscle from your child's inner leg (gracilis muscle) and move it to your child's face. They connect 1 end of this muscle to the cheekbone and the other end to the corner of the mouth. They connect the muscle to working nerves, like the ones that help you chew. This procedure is sometimes called "smile surgery."
Read about Christian's new smile.
If 1 side of the lower lip does not move and the other does, doctors use 2 different ways to make the lip match from side to side. They may inject Botox into the moving side to paralyze it. Or, they may recommend taking the muscle out on the moving side.
Facial reanimation is usually done when your child is 4 or 5, but the procedures can be done at any time. Doctors want to do a procedure early enough to get the best results possible but also wait until your child's body grows big enough to safely do these procedures. The ideal age is around 4.
Advantages to having the surgery early include:
Our board-certified surgeons and our speech and language pathologist (SLP) work together to plan and carry out treatments for your child.
Read more about the Craniofacial Center's team approach.
To make an appointment, you or your child's doctor can call the Craniofacial Center at 206-987-2208.
We encourage you to talk with your primary care provider about coming to Seattle Children's specialists. This helps coordinate your care.
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Intermediate Windsurfing board
I know you answer this a thousand times...
but I can't sleep for 1 week...
I started windsurfing this summer. I have a Fanatic slalom Bee 125l and a Nova 180l. Although the Bee is 15 years old, it is in good shape and weights 21 pounds.
I only used the Bee 4 times since I've used the foostrap. Since I loves the speed and agility of the Bee (compared to my Nova). I might look to replaced both boards. I weight 180 lb, 34, and I am an agressive intermediate who wants to progress (footstrap, harness and water start OK). I sail 30 times a year in these conditions: 8.5 (35%), 6.7 (35%) and 5.5 (20%) and looking for a 4.5 (10%) to complete my quiver. 12 days are in Cape Hatteras and others in Montreal, Quebec area.
Any board suggestion? Can a board be good in these broad conditions or 2 is required? if so which to replace? Should I only replace the Nova, keep the Bee and buy a board for light wind or the opposite: keep the nova the light wind and get a board for medium wind?
In other words, which one is the most restrainer (prevent me to get air, jibe or chop fun)? A New Big fatso board or an old design medium wind board.
Thank you!
RE: Intermediate Windsurfing board
I am still asking this question every night. I came up with an idea: 2 new board:
- Carve133 with my 6.7 and 8.5 sails (and 5.5 for 1 board family trip)
- Kombat 95 with my 4.5, 5.5 and 6.7 sails
My weight is 195 lbs in winter and 180 lbs on the water!
Thank you for comments
RE: Intermediate Windsurfing board
Hello, I think that this is perfect for you.
The carve one easy board and fast, for light winds is perfect.
The Kombat, perfect board for medium-high winds it's dificult to tack because it has little volume in the nose. but in few days you will be ok
RE: Intermediate Windsurfing board
Looks like you are on the right track. Have you thought about the 93 SType?? This is going to be a faster board and if you are not going to be in the waves at all you might enjoy it more. Just a thought.
RE: Intermediate Windsurfing board
And when buying new boards, one might also think about buying the same boards. This way you will get to know the boards you have better and faster, and will be able to sail your smaller board better because you have a better idea of what the board will do. The S-Type also seems to be (shamefully, I've never ridden one) a very easy, yet very potentional freeslalom board, so I don't think it will be too hard for you ;)
Good luck in buying your board and hopefully you'll catch some sleep from now on :D
RE: I beg to differ.
You should also consider using the boards that you already have longer. Sailing experience is the key, here. I've gone through a number of boards in my windsurfing years and currently own five. One board I bought more than a year ago, but haven't found the opportunity to use it. Not that I don't put in my TOW as I had 45 days out last season. It's just that if you live in one location, your sailing conditions don't change all that much from my experience. I didn't find the winds to warrant using that board. I also find I can't take all 5 boards to the beach every time. Not only that, I'm still looking to pick up another board. You have to control your aggressive tendencies or they will work against you!!!
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During our latest visit to Disneyland, we headed straight to Tomorrowland and got in line right outside the Starcade. We got in line a little after 10AM with the Meet and Greet stating at 10:30AM. The line was about an hour and a half wait total, but it was so worth it! The boys did the cool hand shake with Baymax and Hiro, and I got my big hug from Baymax!
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Go with my raw detox soup with beets for a cool and refreshing burst of energy and detox power. By keeping it raw you get all of its innate goodness delivered directly to your body and its antioxidants go to work right away to make you feel great.
Brown Rice, Kale and Green Pea Patties
In my brown rice, kale, and green pea patties you'll find an assortment of superfoods all geared towards helping to nourish you, body and soul. There's fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals in each patty.
Detox Spinach Soup (Raw)
Raw soups are like a savory version of smoothies and I love to have them as a quick lunch because they are energizing and intensely detoxifying. This spinach soup is one of my favorite raw treats. It has a gorgeous green color, tastes fantastic, and is packed with exceptional nutrients. It's ready in just a…
Pea Guacamole with Baked Beet Chips
Oh guacamole, you are near and dear to my heart! In this pea guacamole with baked beet chips we take things to the next level of deliciousness while keeping it healthy so it's still detox food.
Chocolate Superfood Granola Bars
Perfect before your workout for a quick energy boost, or just the right portion for a cleansing breakfast on the run, these superfood granola bars make the perfect cleansing choice for snacking or a quick meal.
Cumin Roasted Cauliflower Steak
Perfect for a dinner party, a quick vegetarian dinner, or convincing a meat-lover to try a vegan steak, this roasted cauliflower recipe is my new addiction. It's also vegan, Paleo and gluten-free, so it will appeal to a number of different diet plans.
Whipped Berry Porridge
When it comes to making porridge or oatmeal I like to play with different flavors and ingredients, so when I discovered this whipped berry porridge idea, breakfast suddenly became my favorite meal of the day. The pink color, refreshing taste, creamy texture, and the detoxifying properties – can you think of a better way to…
Iced Ginger, Orange and Turmeric Tea to Fight Inflammation
On hot summer days, staying hydrated is the most important step to keeping your cells healthy and running the way they should. Personally, I think water is a little boring, so I like to take summer drinks to the next level, improving their nutritional value and their flavor using healing spices and roots, fresh juices,…
Skinny Salad With Zucchini Noodles, Kale, and Strawberries
If you love pasta salad, you'll go crazy for this skinny version made with zucchini noodles. It not only tastes delicious, but it's also filled with fiber, vitamins, and fat-burning nutrients to give your body a good cleanse and kick-start your natural detox processes.
Crunchy Root Detox Salad
While winter is all about roasting and baking, this salad is made with fresh ingredients only, meant to restore your alkaline balance, while also nourishing your cells with concentrated doses of antioxidants.
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Sweatshirts are definitely the coziest option for staying warm on chilly evenings, but they aren't always that cute. Try these two techniques (either solo or together) to make that gym staple more presentable.
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Fresh off his gig at the Republican National Convention, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stopped by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" Tuesday night to share his love for his home state's #1 music icon (sorry Jon Bon Jovi).
During the interview, Christie and Fallon bond over their love of Bruce Springsteen. As it turns out, Christie has been to
130 Bruce Springsteen shows in his 50 years. That's an average of 2.6 concerts per year!
To show that Christie isn't the only one who loves The Boss, Fallon
invited challenged the Governor to sing "Thunder Road" with him, and Christie accepted. Watch the unlikely pair harmonize in the video above.
Fallon's Best Musical Moments