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With a focus on academics, international travel, sports, and community service, Ryan Gilway leads a balanced and fulfilling life.
With a strong fondness for sports and leisure activities, Ryan Gilway promotes balance in his work and life. A skier since the age of three, Ryan Gilway currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he takes full advantage of the nearby mountains and resorts. At 10, Ryan Gilway discovered SCUBA diving and has traveled to such exotic locales as St. Lucia, Aruba, the Cayman Islands, and Cozumel with his family. Ryan Gilway both wrestled and played for the varsity football team at St. Paul’s School in Brooklandville, Maryland, and additionally pursued mountain biking, ATV and motorcycle riding, and backcountry camping. In high school, Ryan Gilway also served as a Sales Associate at 3 Rideshop, where he sold a wide range of apparel, skis, and snowboards to customers throughout the metropolitan area north of Baltimore. An undergraduate at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Ryan Gilway is majoring in Business and Finance. Ryan Gilway also participates in the Westminster Garden Club and takes excursions with the school’s Ski and Snowboard Club. In his free time, Ryan Gilway enjoys making art and electronic music, and he reads whenever possible. Over the years, Ryan Gilway has developed a taste for the thrilling tales of Steven King, Clive Cussler, Stephen Hunter, and Lee Child, though he also values the social and environmental wisdom of Henry David Thoreau. Raised in both the United States and Canada, Ryan Gilway spends his time away from school in his hometown of Cockeysville, Maryland, near Baltimore. Ryan Gilway has played an active role in and around his community, volunteering in a vast array of charitable and humanitarian groups. The National Children’s Center of Washington, D.C., Habitat for Humanity, the Bridges Camp for underprivileged children, and St. Vincent de Paul have all benefited from Ryan Gilway’s valuable contributions.
Ryan Gilway's Publications
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Habitat for Humanity, Ryan Gilway
January, 2011
By: Ryan Gilway
Habitat for Humanity creates affordable housing for people in poverty around the world. With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and regional offices throughout six continents, Habitat for Humanity has crossed countless borders and made long-lasting accomplishments toward its goal of eliminating poverty and homelessness. With the help of thousands of volunteer builders, Habitat for Humanity provides homes for people in need at little or no cost.
Since 1976, Habitat for Humanity has been an international charity. Founders Linda and Millard Fuller moved from their farm in Georgia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then called Zaire, to build and give homes to families in need. Habitat for Humanity also gained national recognition in 1984 when then-President Jimmy Carter collaborated with the organization to create the Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carter Work Project, during which the President traveled to New York City to participate in Habitat construction.
In 1996, former President Bill Clinton granted Millard Fuller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. In addition to building houses, Habitat for Humanity enables its volunteers to become involved in numerous exciting programs, such as the youth program, which seeks to interest people ages 5 to 25.
Additional programs, like the Collegiate Challenge, an alternative break program offered during summer, fall, spring, and winter vacations, allow students to travel around the country to host sites, where they work with the regional Habitat for Humanity chapter for one week. Student-led organizations in high schools or colleges, known as the Campus Chapters, partner with local affiliates to build houses, raise funds for the organization, and educate the public on Habitat for Humanity.
Beyond youth groups, Habitat for Humanity also offers programs for adults, such as Global Village trips, National Service, Women Build, RV Care-A-Vanners, and A Brush with Kindness. Today, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 350,000 houses, sheltering more than 1.75 million people in more than 3,000 communities worldwide.
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Enhancing Your Electronic Music Creations, Part 1, Ryan Gilway
March, 2011
by Ryan Gilway
Experiencing a resurgence in recent years, electronic music allows artists to express their creativity while producing energetic dance beats. Try these techniques and tactics to spice up your own mixes.
1. Establish a Driving Beat
Most good electronic music features a rhythmic four-four beat. You can achieve this through a number of methods, such as programming a drum beat to loop throughout your tune. As the driving beat plays, weave catchy pop lyrics and simple chords into the song.
2. Interact with Peers
Even if none of your friends are interested in creating electronic music with you, thousands of electronic music communities exist on the Internet. Peruse websites and messages boards until you find a community that fits what you are looking for, then join and interact with their members. Ask them for advice and tips, volunteer to sample their music and provide feedback, and offer up your own creations for peer review.
3. Borrow from Genres
Some of the world’s most popular songs mix beats and ideas from different genres into something original and unexplored. Regardless of the core style you are aiming for, you should try infusing your track with rock, R&B, hip-hop, jazz, gospel, pop, or techno. You might be surprised at how well most genres seamlessly work together.
continued at Enhancing Your Electronic Music Creations, Part 2
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