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Heart Autographed Epiphone guitar raised $2400.00 for GnG |
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Video made by Kaces of a GnG graduation ( click on logo)
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Virginia Guitars not Guns receives a WAMMIE.
Skip Chaples (photo left) Virginia's GnG President accepted the award |
Act of kindness . Nate Plutzik works as a volunteer for Guitars Not Guns in Washington DC. A charitable non profit music program that helps foster kids, underprivileged and at risk kids. Last night he was teaching the kids with his guitar that he LOVES more than anything and is probably worth $1,000 or more --- Anyway, his guitar strap that holds the guitar over his shoulder came apart and his guitar fell to the floor and cracked. He said he was trying to stay calm and pretend that it was not a big deal... he told the kids that he had to step out of the classroom for a minute or so -- he would be right outside the door -- so after a few moments of cursing to himself and in a state of 'guitar cracking that is the end of my guitar' shock -- he went back into the class. There is a little 9 year old girl that really likes Nate -- so, when he got back to the classroom she said "Mr. Nate -- look in your guitar case" so --- Nate went over and looked in his guitar case and inside of his case was the girl's own guitar. She told Nate he could have her guitar...Anyway, we learn life lessons in many ways and this little act of kindness really touched Nate! - carolyn plutzik Carolyn, Thanks for sharing. .
Mobile AL...- Wilson Newell had a GnG fundraiser at his school's auditorium (UMS-Wright) ......... Live in the Mobile area? e-mail - markanewell@bellsouth.net - Guitars have arrived - Sign up for classes (Here)
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Music Quotes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. - Carlos Santana
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
- Herbie Hancock
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. - Ella Fitzgerald
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. - B. B. King
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. – B. B. King
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. -Reba McEntire
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Five Students Arrested in Alleged School Shooting Plot
RIVERTON, Kan. (April 21) - Five teenage boys fully intended to go on a shooting spree at their high school but were stopped after one of them discussed the plot on a Web site.
The boys, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were arrested Thursday, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, just hours before they planned to shoot fellow students and school employees, authorities said.
Deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one suspect, Authorities also found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects' school lockers.
They planned to wear black trench coats and disable the school's camera system before starting the attack between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday, Norman said. The suspects apparently had been plotting since the beginning of the school year.
The sheriff said the message discussed the significance of April 20, which is Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado, in which two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people and committed suicide. ....
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Guitars not Guns Music Program with the help of the Gibson Foundation furnished 10 guitars to the Boy's & Girl's Club in New Orleans.
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Warning Signs Of Youth Violence "Being on either end of a violent situation, whether you seem to have come out with the upper hand or whether you don't seem to, it doesn't resolve anything. It escalates the problem. Hatred leads to more hatred. Violence leads to more violence." - Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys Violence. It's the act of purposefully hurting someone. And it's a major issue facing today's young adults. One in 12 high schoolers is threatened or injured with a weapon each year. If you're between the ages of 12 and 24, you face the highest risk of being the victim of violence. At the same time, statistics show that by the early 1990's the incidence of violence caused by young people reached unparalleled levels in American society. There is no single explanation for the overall rise in youth violence. Many different factors cause violent behavior. The more these factors are present in your life, the more likely you are to commit an act of violence. |
Helping Troubled Youth
October 10, 2009 .....The San Mateo chapter just completed a Level I class held at Camp Glenwood, which serves high-risk young men who are facing extended detention in Juvenile Hall or who would have been sentenced to long-term incarceration in a secure California Youth Authority facility. The class was arranged with the assistance of the Honorable Marta S. Diaz, Supervising Judge of the Juvenile Court, San Mateo County Superior Court. There thirteen students, and all graduated. In fact, the scores on the written test were among the highest in the history of the San Mateo County chapter. In addition to learning the basics of guitar, the class worked on songs by Santana and Chuck Berry. Chris Quinn, Jude Damasco, and John Allured co-taught the class.
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1951 |
Playing a musical instrument helps brain
BOSTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Children who play a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no music training on verbal ability, U.S. researchers said.
The study, published online in the journal PLoS ONE, found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training -- not only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity, but on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion -- skills not normally associated with music.
Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner of Harvard Medical School in Boston tracked 41 8-11-year-old children who had studied either piano or a string instrument for a minimum of three years and compared them to 18 children who had no instrumental training. Children in both groups spent 30-40 minutes per week in general music classes at school, but those in the instrumental group also received private lessons learning an instrument.The researchers also found that the longer and more intensely the child had studied his or her instrument, the better he or she scored on these tests
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Aaron Brown Chapter. If you can help please e-mail -skipchaples@cox.net - Read newspaper account below
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Dale Ockerman Project
Dale is a supporter of the Guitars not Guns Music Program. He is a former member of the Doobie Brothers Band and is currently involved with the White Album Ensemble. The White Album Ensemble has raised $100,000 for charities . |
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A “Big Check” for $500.00 was presented to GNG in Georgia.
Ray Nelson founder of Guitars not Guns (photo center) accepted the check.
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