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Here's a gluten-free dish that won't leave you missing bread or pasta. I pan-fried pre-cooked basil and herb polenta medallions, then topped them with caramelized onions, turkey, eggplant and a small piece of goat cheese. I tied the dish together with tomato consommé and crunchy, coarsely chopped pistachios and
Ground turkey can taste a little bland so I upped the flavors with Mesquite seasoning, oregano, tomato paste, dry white wine and eggplant. I turned the eggplant into a garlicky sauce and cooked the browned turkey bits. The result is a hearty and rustic turkey ragu. To balance the spices from the turkey, I paired it with a tomato consommé. It provided a nice contrast in flavor, texture and color, but you could always add a drizzle of lime juice instead, if you prefer.
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Oh yes, he's doing this. 50-year-old man and Nissan executive vice president Andy Palmer is bringing the hurt. Let's hope he's got an industrial strength flamesuit, because this is going to be intense.
When asked about the rear-drive sports car market, Mr. Palmer rhetorically asked,
"Do we have any competitors?"
But he's well aware of the latest offering from Toyota and Subaru, winning the hearts of automotive journalists and consumers alike.
"...the Subaru [BRZ]? It was a car designed for a 50-year-old. It's for a midlife crisis. That's not what we do."
Damnnn. He continued,
"You'll see the answer to the midlife crisis. Except it won't be for the midlife crisis."
Nissan is set to debut their new BRZ fighter concept at next month's Tokyo Motor Show. So where there's fighter concept cars, there's fighting words. Andy Palmer could be civil about this. He could be nonchalant about Nissan's devious plans. But instead he's letting his mouth write a check. Next month, we get to see if that check has any hope of being cashed.
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The detention of a Beijing Twitter user, apparently over an online joke, is raising concerns among activists that authorities will keep their harsh grip on discussion long after the end of last week's Communist Party leadership shift.
Beijing resident Zhai Xiaobing, known by his handle @Stariver on Twitter, was apprehended by police in Miyun county in northeastern Beijing on Nov. 7 and later taken to the Miyun Detention Center on charges of "spreading false terrorist information," friends say.
A man answering the phone at the Miyun detention center on Wednesday confirmed Mr. Zhai was there and said he'd been detained because "he wrote a microblog post containing false information on the Internet."
Friends say they believe "false information" refers to a tweet, posted by Mr. Zhai on Nov. 5 that took aim at the 18th Party Congress – a week-long political event that culminated last Thursday with the unveiling of the party's new "fifth-generation" leaders -- by imagining it as the setting for a new installment in the "Final Destination" horror film series. That tweet (in Chinese), roughly translated:
#SpoilerTweet# #EnterAtYourPeril# Final Destination 6 will soon hit theaters. The Great Hall of the People suddenly collapses, killing all but seven of the 2000 people meeting there. Later, one-by-one the survivors die in strange ways. Is this God playing games, or the Devil venting his wrath? What does the mysterious number 18 have to do with unlocking the gate to Hell? An earthshaking experience premieres globally on Nov. 18!
The Communist Party's newly reconfigured Politburo Standing Committee, the group that essentially runs China, has seven members, including newly appointed Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.
Mr. Zhai works at an investment company and studied ancient Chinese literature at prestigious Peking University, according to friends. He interacts regularly with Chinese activists and dissidents on Twitter, which is blocked in China but accessible to those with the know-how to circumvent the country's Internet controls.
Like many Chinese users of Twitter, he has used the taken to the service to criticize and comment on the Chinese government in ways that wouldn't be tolerated by censors on domestic social media sites. Some of his criticisms, like the Nov. 5 "Final Destination" tweet, are wrapped in pop cultural or literary references. But others are more direct.
"The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics can only be smoothed out with tanks," he wrote on Nov. 4 in a post mocking the Communist Party's turgid slogans. "Only dwarves like Deng Xiaoping need to hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping theory."
Despite existing outside the purview of Chinese censors, Twitter is closely monitored by China's state security agents because of its popularity among dissidents, friends of Mr. Zhai's say.
"Personally, I think they were probably watching him for a long time. The 18th Party Congress is a hypersensitive period, so they I think they used the opportunity of that tweet to grab him," said Liu Yanping, an assistant to dissident artist Ai Weiwei and friend of Mr. Zhai's.
The Beijing Public Security Bureau did not respond to requests for comment.
This isn't the first time Chinese authorities have apprehended a critic for posting a joke on Twitter. In 2010, human rights activist Cheng Jianping was arrested on the eve of her wedding and eventually sentenced to a year in a labor camp for forwarding a sardonic tweet written by her husband that mocked an anti-Japanese boycott happening at the time.
Friends and advocates have launched an online petition calling for Mr. Zhai to be set free. If he isn't released soon, his friends plan to hire a human rights lawyer to take up his case, according to Ms. Liu.
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WSJ Live's Paul Vigna reports traders have a wary eye on President Obama's agenda he'll lay out in his State of the Union address. Also, potential answers in Boeing's efforts to solve its Dreamliner fire problems.
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by Tim Powers
Publishers Weekly Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisÄwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeÄand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah's Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale's mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby's death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It's all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyÄand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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There are a lot of ugly stats I could throw out you to explain the Mets sliding out of playoff contention, but one sticks out: They haven't won back-to-back games since June 22-23.
Kind of says it all, doesn't it?
The 56-56 Mets will try to keep their faint playoff aspirations alive behind Jon Niese, who'll try to follow up what Mike Pelfrey gave them last night. Pelfrey, who had been hit hard since last June, threw seven scoreless innings.
Niese (7-5, 3.63 ERA) is 0-1 with a 7.15 ERA in two career starts against the Rockies, including giving up five runs in five innings April 14 in a 6-5, 10-inning loss at Denver.
Niese is coming off a no-decision in his last start when he gave up a run in seven innings at Philadelphia.
The Mets went 2-4 during their Atlanta-Philly road trip, in large part because of the slumping David Wright and Carlos Beltran.
Wright, who led the National League in hitting with a .351 average in June and July, is a paltry 2-for-29 with eight strikeouts in eight game in August.
Meanwhile, Beltran has been frigid since coming off the DL to start the second half, hitting only .195.
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Today, Microsoft held a three hour Windows 8 event in New York City, but failed to say much of anything we didn't already know… but it did unveil one of the most expensive skateboards ever made. After demonstrating the durability of the Surface tablet by dropping it on stage (onto carpeted floor, might we add), Microsoft's Panos Panay showed us another way he and Windows 8 chief Steven Sinofsky have been testing the durability of the new magnesium-encased tablet. The team pasted skateboard trucks onto a regular Surface and converted it into a skateboard. A skateboard! Though they didn't do any kickflips or ollies on stage, we did see a picture of Sinofsky sporting a massive helmet standing on the homemade sports equipment. For some reason, it didn't seem too crazy that tablets can become laptops, and since laptops have learned Yoga, why can't a Surface become a deck?
No, you can't buy a Surface skateboard, but we wish you could. It could be one hell of an optional accessory. Maybe the trucks could attach with industrial grade magnets like the TouchCover. And you don't have to worry about falling after a tough grind either. The Surface can hit the ground in 72 different ways without breaking, or so we learned today. Actually, after three hours of Microsoft press conferences, this might have been the only thing we actually learned. But… skateboard! That's hip, right?
Somebody should call Tony Hawk. He may have found the next great way to make a skateboarding game.
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Howdy, PARTNER: Gay Men and HIV Transmission
June 3, 2014
Hi James. Thanks for agreeing to talk to PositiveLite.com again, this time on the PARTNER study. Now, I read your analysis of the interim results -- Positive Lite.com published it here -- which took me back to the day the news first broke from CROI that we finally had data about the risk of HIV transmission involving gay men with an undetectable viral load. I was really excited that day. Would you agree that this was ground-breaking stuff?
Yes, I think the preliminary results from this study are very important. Ever since the HPTN052 study released its results in 2011 -- showing that antiretroviral treatment can significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission through vaginal sex -- there have been unanswered questions with regards to its implications for populations which mostly have anal sex, such as some gay men and men who have sex with men. The preliminary results from the PARTNER study help answer some of these questions.
But we did have some pretty good ideas about the very slim likelihood of transmission occurring involving undetectable viral loads prior to PARTNER, didn't we. The fact that so few known transmissions were occurring in the studies of heterosexuals that Mona Loutfy looked at was well established, wasn't it? And many people were talking about it.
Well, we knew from HPTN 052 that the risk of HIV transmission through vaginal sex could be drastically reduced by starting treatment, but it was unclear exactly what this risk was reduced to. Because of this, Mona Loutfy -- a physician and researcher from Woman's College Hospital in Toronto -- conducted a review of the research on serodiscordant couples to determine how many HIV transmissions had occurred when the viral load was undetectable.
Her research team identified six studies of heterosexual serodiscordant couples where the HIV-positive partner was on ART. In these studies, no HIV transmissions occurred when the viral load was undetectable. This was a significant finding because the couples in these studies were followed for a long period of time, a total of almost 3,000 couple years of follow up (equivalent to following 3,000 couples for a year with no HIV transmissions).
The findings from this review got a lot of attention and it was definitely good news. However, the review also had its limitations. The main one being that the couples in these studies reported using condoms the majority of the time. This made it difficult to know the extent to which having an undetectable viral load, and not condoms, was responsible for the absence of HIV transmissions. In other words, it didn't answer the question of what the risk of HIV transmission is when the viral load is undetectable and no condom is used. This, as you know, is a question that many people want the answer to.
Also, Mona's review didn't provide any information on what the risk is reduced to for anal sex, as the studies her team identified only enrolled heterosexual couples. There is the concern that -- even if the reduction in risk is the same for anal sex as it is for vaginal sex -- that the risk when undetectable may still be higher for receptive anal sex (where the HIV-negative partner takes the receptive position during anal sex, also known as bottoming) compared to other types of sex. This is because the risk of HIV transmission through receptive anal sex is much higher than other types of sex when the viral load is detectable. Therefore, there is the possibility that the risk could also be much higher when the viral load is undetectable.
In the face of these research gaps, uncertainties, and unanswered questions, we have seen expert consensus statements playing an important guiding role in translating the research we have available into useful messaging. You may remember that, shortly after the HPTN 052 results were released in 2011, the World Health Organization released an expert consensus concluding that treatment also reduces the risk of HIV transmission through anal sex, but the risk-reduction may or may not be the same as for vaginal sex.
More recently, but prior to the results of the PARTNER results, the British HIV Association released an expert consensus saying that the risk of HIV transmission through both anal and vaginal sex is "extremely low" when the viral load is undetectable and other conditions are met. These conditions included the absence of STIs, having had an undetectable viral load for at least 6 months, regular viral load testing and complete disclosure within the couple about sexual relationships outside the partnership.
So on to PARTNER. Do you want to summarize briefly what PARTNER told us, James?
Sure. The purpose of the PARTNER study was to answer the question: "what is the risk of HIV transmission through anal and vaginal sex when the viral load is undetectable and no condom is used?" This was a question that had not previously been answered.
To do this, the study enrolled heterosexual and gay male serodiscordant couples that had previously made the decision -- for whatever reason -- to stop using condoms consistently. In fact, the couples who ended up enrolling had already been having condomless sex for an average of two years prior to entering the study. It is also important to note that the study only enrolled couples in which the HIV-positive partner was on treatment. The study did not enroll a "control" group of couples who were not on treatment.
The preliminary analysis of the PARTNER study was presented in March 2014 at a conference in the United States and included information on 767 couples followed between September 2010 and November 2013. During this time, couples engaged in approximately 44,000 condomless sex acts when the viral load was undetectable. This included 13,728 receptive vaginal sex acts, 14,295 insertive vaginal sex acts, 7,738 receptive anal sex acts, and 11,749 insertive anal sex acts. No HIV transmissions occurred.
Interpreting these results is challenging. Since there was no control group, it is difficult to know how many HIV transmissions would have been expected if the HIV-positive partner had not been on treatment and had a detectable viral load. However, based on results from previous studies, I would have expected about 10 infections each through receptive vaginal sex, insertive vaginal sex and insertive anal sex. So, for these sex acts, the preliminary results weren't super compelling because not many infections would have been expected anyways. Also, for vaginal sex, these results are less compelling than the results for vaginal sex from the HPTN 052 study.
The most compelling result from the preliminary analysis is that no infections occurred despite participants engaging 7,738 receptive anal sex acts. As I mentioned already, when the viral load is detectable, receptive anal sex is much higher risk than other types of sex. In the PARTNER study, I would have expected about 80 HIV infections through receptive anal sex if the viral load of the HIV-positive partner had been detectable. This is a significant number of HIV infections and therefore the preliminary analysis provided the first direct evidence that treatment can dramatically reduce the risk of HIV transmission through receptive anal sex.
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The development of Slovak culture reflects the country's rich folk tradition, in addition to the influence of broader European trends. The impact of centuries of cultural repression and control by foreign governments is also evident in much of Slovakia's art, literature, and music.
There are 12 state scientific libraries in Slovakia, 473 libraries affiliated with universities and institutions of higher learning, and 2,600 public libraries. The University Library in Bratislava, founded in 1919, contains more than 2 million volumes and is the country's most important library. The Slovak National Library (1863), located in Martin, includes a collection of materials relating to Slovak culture.
Slovakia is also home to more than 50 museums. The Slovak National Museum (founded in 1893), located in Bratislava, contains exhibits on Slovak history, archaeology, and musicology, and is probably the country's best-known museum. Other museums include the Slovak National Gallery (1948), also in Bratislava; the Slovak National Uprising Museum (1955), located in Banska Bystrica; and the Museum of Eastern Slovakia (1872), in Kosice.
Historical Cultural Synopsis
The emergence of culture and of Slovak national literature came late in the European context.
Elements of the Slovakian spoken language appeared in literary texts during the centuries preceding the 18th century, but Anton Bernolak (1762-1813) was the first who attempted to create a literary language. Bernolak's language was used by two talented writers, Jozef Ignac Bajza (1755-1836), the author of the first Slovakian novel, and the famous classical poet Jan Holly (1785-1849), who wrote his epic poems in alexandrine verse in order to prove the Slovakian language malleable enough to be equal to complicated forms of ancient poetry.
The two main representatives of Slovakian literary classicism are the poet Jan Kollar (1795-1852) and the historian Pavel Jozef Safarik (1795-1861), even though both continued to write in Czech, their work belongs equally to Czech and Slovakian literary heritage.
Both writers adopted J.G. Herder's philosophical conception about the glorious future reserved to Slavs, and they became the most important promoters of Pan-Slavism. Holly, Kollar and Safarik greatly helped to awaken national conscience and showed the way to the creation of native literature.
19th Century
The most prestigious personality of the 19th century is undoubtedly Ludovit Stur (1812-1856): writer, scholar and deputy in the Hungarian Diet. He was the main architect of the creation of a modern literary language (1844).
This language, based on the dialect from central Slovakia, was adopted by the entire nation. Inspired by the Helegian philosophy, he developed the concept of Slovakian romanticism, whose main characteristics are the pre-eminence of patriotic thought and the attachment to popular traditions.
During the difficult period of forced "Hungary-isation" that followed the missed revolution of 1848, a few writers endeavoured to maintain the morale of a population progressively stripped of its culture.
This situation delayed the advent of realism in Slovakia, and thus it is not before 1870 that a new generation of writers began to raise the level of Slovakian literature.
"Realistic" authors chose their subjects in contemporary life, rather than in the past. This is true for the poet Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav (1849-1921) and for the novelists Svetozar Hurban Vajansky (1847-1916) and Martin Kukucin (1860-1928).
20th Century
At the beginning of the 20th century a literary group called "The Slovakian modernists" whose leader was the poet Ivan Krasko (1876-1958) stood out among the rest. His style is close to those of western symbolists yet exemplifying the worries of the poet for his peoples' fate.
Prevalent in this writing style and common to all the literary streams of 19th century Slovakia, is the constant concern to defend the very existence of the nation; its language and its culture.
The establishment of the Czechoslovakian republic (guaranteed by France with the treaty of Trianon) enabled young talented Slovaks to go France to continue their studies; the painters Imro Weiner-Kral and Ludovit Fulla were among them.
Guillaume Appolinaire and Andre Breton influenced young Slovakian poetry, whose most talented representatives were Vladimir Reisel, Jan Rak, Ctibor Stitnicky and Rudolf Fabry.
Impregnated with their French culture, many were the Slovakian writers like Alexander Matuska, Albert Marencin, Vladimir Minac and Jan Stevecky who contributed to bring the two countries closer together.
In the late 18th century, a national movement began in Slovakia, with the aim of fostering Slovak culture and identity. One of its leaders was Anton Bernolak, a Jesuit priest who codified a Slovak literary language based on dialects used in western Slovakia. In the 19th century, Protestant leaders Jan Kollar and Pavol Safarik developed a form of written Slovak that combined the dialects used in central Slovakia and the Czech lands. The linguist and Slovak nationalist Ludovit Stur, a contemporary of Kollar and Safarik's, rejected the Czech influence and set out to develop a more authentic literary Slovak; his language was adopted by a group of Slovak poets, whose work dealt largely with national Slovak themes. Poetry remained an important literary form into the 20th century, and was used by some Slovak writers to address the experience of World War II and the rise of Communism. During the Communist period, Slovak literary culture suffered from heavy governmental control. The works of Dominik Tatarka, Lubos Jurik, Martin Butora, Milan Simecka and Hana Ponicka were exceptions to the pattern of politically influenced works.
Folk Art
Folk arts and crafts, which include wood carving, fabric weaving, and glass painting, have a long and popular tradition in Slovakia, especially in rural areas. Examples of folk architecture, such as wooden churches and brightly painted houses, are found throughout the country, particularly in the Ukrainian communities of Eastern Slovakia.
The development of folk art and crafts developed throughout Slovak history which is documented by the abundant archaeological findings on its national territory. These findings were composed of tools and artefacts - over time, these useful objects became more and more refined and thus became what we call today's folk art. The tradition of folk art and crafts has been handed down through the generations and is supported by ULUV, The Centre for Folk Art Production. Since 1954 ULUV's expositions have shown throughout dozens of countries.
Fine Art and Architecture
Slovak modern art is influenced both by Slovakian folklore and European art and is represented today by numerous artistic associations.
Contemporary sculpture is divided between the old generation with artists like V. Kompanek and A. Rudavsky who are from a classical school, using traditional material, and the younger generation who use more original materials and are inspired by a more psychological approach. A Slovak school of painting emerged in the mid-19th century. Sculpture and architecture also developed in the 19th and 20th centuries, much of it heavily influenced by western European styles. Peter Michal Bohn and J.B. Klemens were among the best-known artists of this period. The work of landscape and figure painters Ladislav Mednansky and Dominik Skutecky received widespread attention in the late 19th century. The cubist artist Ester Simerova-Martincekova and surrealist Imrich Weiner-Kral were influential in the early 20th century. Other important 20th-century artists include Ludovit Fulla, Mikulas Galanda, Martin Benka, and Mikulas Bazovsky. Dusan Jurkovic was an important architect of the early 20th century.
Among the well-known pieces of Slovakian art is the Venus of Moravany dating from the Palaeolithic era, art forms from the stone and bronze age, as well as religious architecture from the Great Moravian Empire. In Slovakia, artistic tradition in several forms developed long ago.
Other Museums:
- Antol Museum
- Balneology Museum
- Betliar Museum
- Bojnice Museum
- Center Slovakia Museum
- Cerveny Kamen Museum
- Eastern Slovakia Museum
- Liptov Museum
- Little Carpathian Museum
- Museum of Mining
- Museum of History and Geography Zvolen
- Museum of History and Geography Banska Bystrica
- Museum of History and Geography Zilina
- Museum of Slovak National Uprising
- Museum of Spis
- Museum of Nitra
- Museum of Orava
Music has long occupied an important and distinguished place in Slovak cultural life. In the first half of the 19th century, a national musical tradition began to develop around Slovakia's impressive folk heritage. Modern Slovak music has drawn from both classical and folk styles. Well-known works from the 20th century include the compositions of Alexander Moyzes and the operas of Jan Cikker.
Traditional Slovakian music is one of the most original of Slavic and European folklore. Its oldest form is liturgical (in Slavon) from the time of Great Moravia (9th century) which is the origin of the sacred music of the 15th and 16th centuries. National Slovakian music was heavily influenced by liturgical and chamber music.
Today, music is one of the most significant aspects of Slovakian culture. Some of the most renown orchestras are: The Philharmonic Orchestra of Bratislava and Kosice, The Symphonic Orchestra of Bratislava Radio and The Slovak Chamber Orchestra.
- Astorka Theatre
- Puppet Theatre Nitra
- Puppet Theatre Zilina
- Theatre of Andrej Bagar in Nitra
- Theatre of J.G. Tajovsky
- Romatan Theatre
- Theatre of Slovak National Uprising in Martin
- Thalia Theatre
- Naive Theatre of Radosina
- LUDUS Theatre
- Chamber Opera
- Nova Scena
- Slovak National Theatre
- Theatre of Spis
- Trnava Theatre
- Eastern Slovakia Theatre
- State Opera
- State Puppet Theatre
- Stoka Theatre
Motion Pictures
During the Communist period, when art was to be directed to political ends, filmmakers in Slovakia suffered from the same restrictions that affected their counterparts in the Czech lands. Nonetheless, certain individuals, including Jan Kadar, Dusan Hanak, Stefan Uher, and Juraj Jakubisko, gained international recognition for their work. As in many of the other post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe, the Slovak motion-picture industry has been affected by the reduction in state subsidies and increased competition from international filmmakers. Although the main film studio has been closed, filmmakers Jakubisko and Uher, as well as Martin Sulik and Stefan Semjan, continue to make important and innovative films.


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A family vacation to Mexico coupled with a midlife crisis produced a third bilingual children's book in 18 months by Springfield Township resident Cynthia (Rafetto) Kreilick, founder of Morning Circle Media. Her 24-year-old daughter, Alyssa, a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, illustrated the book with colorful acrylic depictions of "Calaveras" or skeleton-like figures commonly seen in Mexican folk art.
Kreilick, 52, who began her career as a journalist, moved into early childhood education, and then produced programming for children's television and educational exhibits for the Please Touch Museum, said she was captivated by the iconic Calaveras while sitting in a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende last year with her husband and two grown children.
"I looked over and there were these little skeleton people confined in boxes. I was feeling the effects of a whopping midlife crisis and days later, the story of Lucha and Lola! came to life as I wandered the paths of a cactus garden in the hills of San Miguel," Kreilick recounted.
Lucha and Lola! Is the story of two Calaveras who take a road trip by motorcycle to remedy their midlife crises. The combination of friendship and travel transforms them and they return home ready to embark on new adventures.
"Sometimes trips are triggers for change," said Kreilick, noting that she had a high paying job teaching childcare workers proper diapering and hand washing techniques, as well as curriculum development and business administration. "It was a wonderful job, but it had become very mechanical. I felt like I was in a box, withering away, and I didn't want to die in that box, so I knew it was time to make a major shift in my life," she said. "Once I created Morning Circle Media, the books came streaming out of me because I had been deprived of using my creativity for so long."
First came Slide! in which young readers are encouraged (in English and Spanish) to coast down the best slide in Philadelphia. Slide! features Smith Playground's signature attraction, the 150-year-old, giant wooden sliding board. Alyssa took the photographs for the first book.
Next came The Gingerbread Gift, a delightful tale (in English and Spanish) about a gingerbread man who builds a gingerbread house in the forest for his best friend.
And now Lucha and Lola! Originally designed for children, the book is also geared toward adults facing issues of change.
"People are buying the book for adult family members, particularly women who can relate to mid-life issues after they've raised their children," she added.
With a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Oreland native initially went into journalism, covering the education beat for a local newspaper in Lansdale. She soon got the urge to be in the classroom, and did so for several years before her children were born. The couple moved to Massachusetts and started their family. Kreilick went back to that time period when thinking of a name for her new company.
"Morning Circle is the time in the early childhood education world when students and teachers gather to greet each other, read stories, sing songs, and to discuss the plans for the day."
When her children were young, Kreilick signed up for a local cable television class in Peekskill, New York, that taught volunteers how to produce their own television shows.
"I loved the medium and did a weekly show in which we talked about issues facing parents with small children, videotaped field trips, and brought what I had learned about early childhood education to a larger audience," she noted.
When they moved back to the area, Kreilick worked at the Please Touch Museum, where she did educational programming, teacher training and exhibit design. Kreilick had the opportunity to work directly with prize-winning author Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are. She then transitioned to WHYY's public television station doing short segments on topics like 'Kindergarten Readiness' and 'How to Select a Daycare Center.'
"It was a creative paradise," she recalled of her time at these places. "It was amazing to work for both of these organizations."
She always had a love of language, having been influenced by her grandmother, who introduced her to the French language at the age of two.
"Her name was Inez (Dorsey) and she would sit with me by a bookcase near my bed and coach me with French flash cards. I remember loving being so close to her and sitting on the carpet and her encouraging me to learn the words," she said, noting that she attended Germantown Friends School and graduated from Germantown Academy "where the Latin and Spanish teachers continued to nurture this interest." My world is infinitely richer because of the languages I can speak and the cultures I can interact with," she added. In addition to English, Kreilick speaks Spanish, French and Russian.
Her husband, T. Scott Kreilick, was a longtime chairman of the Black Horse Inn preservation project in Flourtown and is the incoming president of the Springfield Township Historical Society. By day, he heads Kreilick Conservation, a firm specializing in the conservation, restoration, and preservation of monuments, sculpture, statues, architecture, objects, and industrial artifacts.
"He's been very supportive of this new venture," she said.
Kreilick's 22-year old son, Raymond, an entrepreneur, and daughter, were both graduates of Springfield High School. While Alyssa had several art teachers who encouraged her along the way, it was a part-time job at O'Doodles Toy Store in Chestnut Hill that helped her move toward majoring in art.
"I was exposed to a really intelligent and creative group of co-workers and the customers who were encouraged to be creative and supportive of the store. Owner Fran (O'Donnell) was a great boss and he gave us a lot of freedom to be responsible and run the shop," she said, noting that she had a particular affinity for arranging how the store looked and setting up displays of merchandise.
"That's something most artists don't learn early on, but I was fortunate to have learned the retail and business side of the business at a young age," Alyssa added.
As for working with her mother on the book, Alyssa had only positive things to say.
"It was really cool. I feel very lucky that we ended up getting along very well over the entire process. This was the most time consuming and ambitious project I've taken on so far and it gave me a real love of storytelling," she said.
The mother and daughter team launched Lucha and Lola near the Day of the Dead holiday at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia.
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday that focuses on the gathering of family and friends to pray for and remember loved ones who have died. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts.
The mother and daughter team also did a book signing and puppet show for an audience filled with youngsters at Musehouse in Chestnut Hill just as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down.
"People actually came as it was starting to rain on that Sunday night. I was very happy to see the support and the number of children there," said Alyssa.
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Harper Collins, Jan 6, 1995 - Self-Help - 256 pages
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the incredibly popular and controversial psychotherapist who hosts a nationally syndicated, top-rated midday radio talk show. She has strong convictions and doesn't hesitate to voice them to callers. She urges women emphatically to lose a domineering jerk of a lover and pick one of the "good guys," to stay home and parent the babies they've made, and to follow the dream rather than some dreamboat. Above all, she exhorts women not to blame anybody or anything but themselves if they're unhappy and their lives seem a mess.
10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives uses real-world examples from Schlessinger's radio show and private practice to drive the message home. And the message is that our reticence to be bold and brave often makes us act like stupid, submissive victims. Once we muster the courage to take responsibility for our own problems and to tolerate the discomforts of risk, the possibilities for personal growth and joy are limitless.
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People have been talking about who should be in the movie and plot lines but who would you want to be on the soundtrack/score for the movie? Bands, music style, anyone you want to see for the main theme or the fight scenes score.
People have been talking about who should be in the movie and plot lines but who would you want to be on the soundtrack/score for the movie? Bands, music style, anyone you want to see for the main theme or the fight scenes score.
As long as it's not dubstep, I'll take practically anything.
But, considering how awesome and epic some folk metal/viking metal/pirate metal out there can be, I'd love to hear a soundtrack mostly consisting of that stuff. Everyone's going to want sweeping, epic-sounding fully-orchestrated stuff, but I say get a bunch of folk metal bands and let 'em rip. But still, no dubstep.
i'm very curious about this as well, in fact, i made a poll some time ago to that affect- http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...95#post3237095
my choice is elliot goldenthal by far.
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I absolutely hate it when they ruin a film by throwing in some modern fanboy band which noone remembers in 5 years time and dates the film horribly. A good soundtrack specifically written for the film takes it to a whole new level- but given who the director is I expect we will see some bland 'of the moment' indie rock score.
I often find orchestrated music, seems to cover up a movies lack of story, structure and volume.
Like if a script has been changed 6 times, including on the day of shooting.
(I can just see them saying, "Don't worry about 'this or that', we'll fix it in editing and put a big symphony in there too, no problem.")
The best orchestrated music was always a simple song or jingle hidden in layers, or a new big version of the TV show's theme.
..a version of the Masters theme in orchestra would be perfect for the center point of two movies, in the final musical sequence of the first, but not for all the musical sequences.
Honestly - I wouldn't mind an updated, orchestrated version of the original Filmation cartoon soundtrack... its classic stuff and would sound pretty darned neat orchestrated.
No John Williams though... it would sound like *every other John Williams score ever composed!!!*.
This is the best I could find.
Yes, King Paul... *** kind of *** what I was thinking about, but more along the lines of an actual 90+ piece orchestra and chorus.
Here we have the coy stylings of a synthesizer... usually reserved for those made for TV movies from the late 80's/early 90's at best.
I think a soundtrack based off the more adventurous themes (including the ominous Skeletor/Snake Mountain cues) would really tie things together; not only for the movie, but original fans of the MOTU universe and the next generation of fans as well.
..well, my, musical sequences are all sewn up.
Its the ending sequence that I see as an orchestral theme.
definitely! ;-)
Hans Zimmer!
That said. HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME MUSIC!!
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I would like to see some of the original 1980s commercial music thrown in where appropriate. The thunderous slow big bass sound would be awesome in a scene highlighting a display of raw power.
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Check out 'skyworld' two steps from hell, on YouTube, the first track, it gets a bit keyboard tinkley in the middle but it's kind of epic and the build up at the end is great, and yes it gets a bit dubbie at the end but it realy works, I suggest earphones and closed eyes for this one
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It's gotta be epic full syphony stuff I'd LOVE for them to use music from the original cartoon but done good and definitely without the whole "he-man!" of the original show maybe with just a musucal emphasis at that part. Of course a full hard rock/metal guitar/drum driven sound track could be done too big NO to a pop one for sure though. that said we'll get Maroon 5 for sure " I got the moves like He-man I got the moves like He-man I got the moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooves like He-man"


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Something just became very apparent and now I realized a few things…
- I have neglect my blog for my massive love of Twitter
- I fell in equal love with Tumblr
- I still love advertising
- I want to know everything about everything
- This list could be endless
But what happened?
Over the past few months I have had some amazing things happen. New projects, meet some amazing new people and appeared on some pretty strange stages (the ass grab with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Art of Marketing Toronto may be the highlight), but even with these new projects and events it became harder to blog.
I was hardly bored because I was challenging myself; I was determined to understand the power of Twitter and Tumblr and all things under the Social Media sun, all making writting new blog posts that were worth reading harder. It all became very simple putting down in 140 characters or a simple "post to Tumblr" link.
And now I looked at my old friend the "A View From An AdGuy" blog and relize that I have posted so little new content or details of these new opportunities.
So did Twitter and Tumblr kill my blog? Hardly, on my blog there is still a great resource of wonderful content archived there. Information for young AdLanders to get inside the thinking needed to be a better/smarter creative, to become portfolio ready and access to information that will remain of value.
What did I learn about Twitter and Tumblr?
- Twitter gave me "instant" access to a new frontier of smart people and information.
- Tumblr gave me a new way to post "Thing of Interest" instantly… with or without comment.
- New opportunities to "curate" content and indights about advertising, marketing and communication.
- In 8 short months I went from a handful of followers to over 4,300.
- I had the privileged of being named 2011 winner of The Shorty Award for Advertising Education.
- Joined in on a group of highly active and intelligent folks in a pair of Twitter "tribes" called #usguys and #MMchat.
- Attended the Wharton School of Business "Future of Advertising" Think Tank in New York by invitation only and because of being of my Twitter presence.
So is my blog dead. Far from it.
Will it grow?
I hope so.
I back.
Cleaning up some dead links. Re-post and update older content.
Maybe even give you a few updates about the great things that have happened over the past few months.
Thanks for your support, interest and mostly time for having interest in what I am thinking.
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On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" with a Note on "Hop o My Thumb"
Leslie Wolf (1980)
A close look at even the sounds of some of his lines belies the charge that the poet is not exercising control. At the end of "Hop o My Thumb"
There are still other made-up countries
Where we can hide forever,
Wasted with eternal desire and sadness,
Sucking the sherberts, crooning the tunes, naming the names.
the three pairs of words in the last line move from the consonance to rhyme to literal identity, enacting a subliminal form of convergence. These lines may have been composed rapidly, but we cannot help but see how wedded to the poems ambitions are its technical resources.
Let us finally consider one of Ashberys most challenging poems, one that engages his entire methodology, to see how we are taken to a place "both here / And not there," where the freedom to inhabit images and ideas is not hampered by formal considerations or "plausibility." Clement Greenberg has found, in paintings like [Willem de Koonings] Gotham News, a "plastic and descriptive painterliness that is applied to abstract ends but continues to suggest representational ones" [in "After Abstract Expressionism," in New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, ed. Henry Geldzahler [New York: Dutton, 1969), p. 363]. He calls this "homeless representation" and I think the late poem "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" a self-portrait, again we can discover a verbal equivalent. The sheer length and number of directions taken by some of his sentences are an embodiment of the difficulty with which the mind mired in "consciousness of history" finds its way. Indeed, Ashbery sometimes seems to have the same aspirations for a single statement that poets like [John] Donne brought to whole poems. What is exhilirating and new in this is the way the network of voices in the poem is used to animate and propel the almost impossibly eclectic and allusive diction. This poetry asks readers to hear inflections not only in the briefst fragments but also in the image-choked busyness of complex sentences. For only then are the attitudes summoned that make the poems arguments and reversals into emblems of a complicated response to experience.
This poem, like de Koonings paintings of the fifties and his even more fluid masterpieces of the mid-seventies, appropriates the world and transports it into the imagination where we can move with a freedom impossible in any representational art. Ashbery involves us in sentences whose machinery makes us feel how, not what, they mean and after we have become sensitive to the moves that serve his "desperate quest masked as an ease with things" ([Harold] Bloom), we become ourselves the medium for their operation. This poetry creates in us a palpable current of feeling that is held like some plastic entity, to be shaped, twisted, expanded and diffused, that blossoms from within itself and is replaced by new blossoming.
from Leslie Wolf, "The Brushstrokes Integrity: The Poetry of John Ashbery and the Art of Painting" in David Lehman, ed. Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery (Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1980), 249-250, 253-254.
Vernon Shetley (1993)
This style of chaotic juxtaposition produces an effect of agitation and urgency, which in turn is continually undercut by the humor generated in the collision of elevated language with the mundane. Daffy Ducks voice seems consistent in its cycle of inflation by allusion to chivalric romance, followed by farcical deflation, while at the same time these contrasts seem far too great to subsume under any notion of a coherent speaker. The title, "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," in its specification of speaker and situation, promises a dramatic monologue, but what the poem delivers cannot be brought together within [Cleanth] Brooks and [Robert Penn] Warrens notions of "fundamental character and situation" [as outlined in Understanding Poetry, the fundamental textbook of New Critical reading].
The poems contrasts reflect those of its source, which is not so much Tex Averys 1938 cartoon "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" as Chuck Joness celebrated "Duck Amuck" of 1953. In "Duck Amuck," Daffy swashbuckles onto the screen wielding a rapier, as if to reprise his 1950 role, "The Scarlet Pumpernickel." The setting, without Daffys noticing it first, shifts to a barnyard, where, after an ineffectual attempt to apprise the cartoonist of the problem, Daffy chooses to switch rather than fight, changes to overalls, and throws a hoe over his shoulder. Throughout, the scene keeps shifting in this fashion, with Daffy always a step behind. Ashberys character is at the mercy of disconcertingly rapid changes of scene which leave the speaker disoriented and strange to himself, unable to face his own "reflection." Yet, at about its middle, the frenetic motion of the poem gives way to a moment of syntactical calm:
I have
Only my intermittent life in your thoughts to live
Which is like thinking in another language.
If the poem, to this point, has embodied the predicament of the mind assaulted by the chaos of discourses that compete for priority in our culture, here it stands back to reflect on that predicament. While marginalization seems potentially liberating, a way to "step free" of the concerns of the self, it is shaded with some of the pathos generated by the most extremely marginalized character in English poetry, Miltons Satan, as Daffy continues:
While I
Abroad through all the coasts of dark destruction seek
Deliverance for us all, think in that language
On first thought Daffy seems to get the worst of the comparison these lines propose. But if the distance between the earlier and the contemporary culture hero allows us to measure the diminishment of our own civilization in comparison to Miltons, it also invests with a certain grandeur the ducks struggle to prevail against the shocks and indignities inflicted by an unseen tormentor, a tormentor who is in fact his creator as well. Its by no means certain whether the joke here is on him or on us.
[Shetley cites from the last six lines of the poem.] This closing section sports a number of inversions (e. g., "bivouac we") reminiscent of the verbal habits of the Daffy Duck voice, yet this ending seems very different in tone from the broadly ironic opening. How has this voice entered the poem? I propose that the often highly conventional-seeming endings of Ashberys poems are enabled by the fracturing and displacement of voice of which "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" is a particularly baroque example; Ashbery is able to employ highly traditional forms of lyric closure because the play of voices in the poems prevents these passages from being read directly as expressive utterances by the poet saves them, that is, from sentimentality.
Again and again, even the most discontinuously organized of Ashberys poems arrive at some traditional form of elegiac terminus: a phrase or image that seems to sum up the poem as a whole, a natural image, an epigrammatic reflection, or a gesture that suggests a return to beginnings: [Shetley cites here, among other passages, the concluding 4 lines to "Hop o My Thumb."]
from Vernon Shetley, "John Ashberys Difficulty" in After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham: Duke U P, 1993), 124-125, 127.
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This property consists of three traditional Pyrenean farm buildings — "bordas," in the local Aranese language — that were renovated and reconfigured in 2000 to create a "coto," or compound, with a total of six bedrooms. Exteriors are native stone, the roofs slate. The interior walls are lime plaster, and the wooden beams and trimwork are cherry, oak and fir.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
3634 NW Georgia Avenue
Washington DC
March 8th
Here we are at Yoga House. From left to right: Krishan Prakash, Snatam, and GuruGanesha. You can see Washington DC right in back of us.
Here's GuruGanesha in the "Miracle" Van on the way to Connecticut
Our first 2006 Celebrate Peace concert started off in the capital of the United States, Washington DC. It felt good to be in the capital of the United States sending prayers of peace to our leaders.
We played at Yoga House on 3634 NW Georgia Avenue, just blocks away from where the Golden Temple Restaurant used to be. This is where GuruGanesha first experienced the healing mantra "Guru Guru Waheguru Guru Guru Ram Das Guru" about 30 years ago. He was very touched at the concert because one of the first people he ever met at the Golden Temple Restaurant, Bhagwant Singh, was sitting up in the front row. Back in the early 70's GuruGanesha had come to DC to take Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Training, and was dropped off at the restaurant at the back door and told that this was where teacher's training was being held. He knocked on the back door of the restaurant and Bhagwant Singh, a tall man with a flashing white smile, opened the door.
GuruGanesha said, "I'm here for teacher's training." And Bhagwant Singh handed him a mop.
GuruGanesha said, "What's this? I'm here for Teacher's Training!"
Bhagwant Singh laughed heartily and said "This is Teacher's Training!"
He was given the job of dish washer at the restaurant, and did nothing but wash dishes for eighteen hours a day. Needless to say he was disappointed and slightly depressed to be doing this job. But the thing that kept him alive was that every morning at Ahimsa Ashram everyone would gather and chant to Guru Ram Das, and GuruGanesha always had his guitar and would sing with so much love that some mornings he would even cry. One of his friends, the vegetable chopper, pulled him aside one day and said "Hey man, you sing with so much joy in the morning and then come to work looking very depressed. Why don't you imagine that the sprayer at the dish washing station is your guitar, and just chant to Guru Ram Das." GuruGanesha took this to heart and began chanting every day while doing dishes. Pretty soon he started feeling great, and actually enjoyed his job. After awhile everyone in the kitchen started to sing with him. The efficiency in the kitchen increased ten fold as everyone worked with so much joy and love. And pretty soon people started coming up to GuruGanesha wanting to do the dishwashing job. Ever since, GuruGanesha has been chanting this mantra and he has shared many stories with us along the way of how it has transformed his life miraculously.
Anyway, we were there just blocks away from where it all started for our dear band mate GuruGanesha, and it was a very magical evening. We rocked the "hallway" as Krishan put it. The room where we performed was a very long and narrow room… and the place was absolutely packed! It was pretty fun. One of the funny moments of the evening was that just before the concert the fire alarm went off at an ear piercing level. Something had set it off, but it wasn't a fire. Krishan was in the bathroom at the time and when he opened the door to the bathroom to leave some people looked at him accusingly and said, "Were you smoking in there?" Krishan was shocked to be accused of something like that and denied it vehemently. But it still seemed like they didn't believe him. So, while on stage I set the record straight and let everyone know that Krishan does not smoke.
Karta Kaur, our new sound engineer did a splendid job on the board for us. Being the first night and all was a lot of pressure. There are three things that you don't want to mess with when it comes to GuruGanesha… his guitar, Kettle Chips (Sea Salt and Vinegar), and the sound system! Needless to say Karta did a great job. Phew!
Well, thanks to the Yoga House crew, and especially to Gurmukh Kaur. We had a great evening. And thanks to the entire Herndon crowd who made a showing.
We're in the van… and on the road on our way to Connecticut.
May Peace Prevail on Earth.
Over and Out.
Its so good that you have joined the world of blogging.
I was looking for an opportunity to email you at your main site: http://www.snatamkaur.com.
I just wanted to say that I have all of your CDs. Recently, I purchased Mothers Blessing. The included translations sleeve is really excellent.
I've also put snippet/samplers onto our podcast at http://sikhwithin.blogspot.com - outlining where the selections can be purchased. The podcast is in English and I've tried to develop something that is a bridge.
Gurumustuk has kindly given me encouragement and support and for that I'm truly grateful.
Back to the tour - The best of luck.
Any chance on coming to the UK?
We'd really support you over here.
All the best & Peace.
Sundays the restaurant was closed, our only day off in the week. In nice weather we liked to go to parks and pretty places and enjoy the outdoors after living inside the restaurant for 15-20 hours a day the rest of the week.
One time (actually many times! but this one stands out in my mind) a large group of us went to Dumbarton Oaks, an incredible old estate in Georgetown whose grounds and gardens are open to the public. We wandered around the beautiful landscape with GuruGanesha leading us with his guitar, chanting Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru all the way, for a long long time! It was heavenly...
Hope he remembers that too :-)
Gurukarm Kaur
Deseo felicitarte en primer lugar por la música tan bella que interpretas, siempre con una voz angelical. En segundo término, por éste recién inaugurado blog, en el cual he podido leer acerca del "Peace Tour".
Espero que algún día no muy lejano puedas extender ese tour a latinoamérica, específicamente "CHILE", donde con muchos amigos te estaremos esperando con los brazos abiertos.
Besos y abrazos.
pd: Disculpa que no utilice el idioma inglés, pero no lo manejo muy bien, aunque entiendo leyéndolo me cuesta escribirlo.
Vaheguru ji ka khalsa,
Vaheguru ji ki fatheh!
Congratulations on starting your Peace Tour and your new blog.
Wish you all the best.
We look forward to your visit to Vancouver in July.
- Sikh youth of BC
MAKE EVERYTHING MAGIC - Doing a boring task? No problem, just visualize the love and mindfulness with which you are doing it being applied throughout the universe for all beings.
Or more specifically, may all dishwashers be happy!
Like you said in Ashland a few years ago, Snatam, we meet again.
Much Love and Many Blessings!
I'm happy to be a part of the mission!!
We are exicitedly looking forward to your arrivial to Michigan.
Sat Nam
I have 'discovered' your music and share it continually - to my yoga teacher especially - now she plays it in our class. I understand yoga is usually done without music but your album 'Prem' only adds to the concentration of the poses through the mantras. I cannot express how much your music has touched my life at all times and moods of the day.
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Contact me if you find something you like.
Best regards.
i think you are amazing, and i really look upto you. i love your music and have all of your cds. The gurbani can always calm me down and give me a peace of mind. I was so happy to know a few weeks back that you are visiting my khalsa school! i am looking forward to meeting you soon!
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
Amrita Kaur
Thanks you very much for your presence in our city toronto, and specially at our Healing Arts centre (3600-A Laird Rd, Mississauga). The experience is endless, countless, infinite, (no words can explain the feelings). Your PRESENCE is well enough to spread GURUJI'S message of love, peace and Sikhism. Thank you again from all of us.
GuruJi's Sevadaar
Purshotam Singh
will be very nice to see the band in London,tell me if is your intention to play in UK.
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A volunteer army, with code names like "Red Dog," roams the halls of KU, making sure the athletes actually attend class. Don't fuck with them. They lived through The Big One.
The farce of amateur athletics has led to a paradox: we think a full ride and college degree is enough of a reward for the players, yet we need to babysit them to ensure they take advantage of a free education. To that end, many schools employ "class checkers," who randomly peek in on scheduled classes to make sure the athletes aren't cutting. But the checkers, usually students, can easily be star-struck (Greg Ostertag married his!). So Kansas broke out the old people.
It seems to be working well, because the elderly don't take shit from anyone, and you also don't want to let them down because you feel bad about forgetting to call your own Gam-Gam on her birthday. But there are drawbacks.
Jerry Robinson, a 67-year-old retired child psychologist, says he has waited for hours outside eerily quiet classrooms only to realize later he was in the wrong building or had confused the days of the week. Mr. Guy, the retired truck driver, says he has trouble hearing some of the big, macho players "who feel like they have to talk real low" and can't stand watching student-athletes in headphones blithely wander into traffic. Some checkers say their vision isn't quite what it used to be, either: Except for the offensive linemen, it can be tough to pick the athletes on their lists out of a crowd.
I give it, oh, six months before our first scandal comes out about the class checkers slipping recruits their Social Security checks.
Making Sure Athletes Go To Class [Wall Street Journal]
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Where the jobs are
So the election is over and we can breathe a sigh of relief. There's general agreement that jobs are a priority for the coming months and the Sierra Club Magazine has helpfully illustrated where those jobs might come from. The short article and infographic debunks the fossil fuel industry's well-heeled insistence about the huge loss of jobs that will occur in a switch to a clean energy economy. It's just not so, according to the club, and its sees big opportunities in the concentrating solar and solar photovoltaic sectors.
Peter and Maria Hoey did the graphic and the text is by Paul Rauber.
Image: From Sierra's Grapple page.