Last September, The Nadas performed in Fairfield with the Beach Boys to an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 5,000 people. With their uplifting harmonies and hauntingly beautiful lyrics they were a town favorite during a Memorial Day concert at the Convention Center. The Nadas, beloved natives of Des Moines, IA, have sold hundreds of thousands of albums over 16 years and seven albums, toured along thousands of miles of highway in Meatloaf’s old tour bus, no less, and were named Plaboy Magazine’s “Best College Band You’ve Never Heard of.” In this video The Nadas perform their hit song, Goodnight Girl.

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Last September, The Nadas performed in Fairfield with the Beach Boys to an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 5,000 people. With their uplifting harmonies and hauntingly beautiful lyrics they were a town favorite during a Memorial Day concert at the Convention Center. The Nadas, beloved natives of Des Moines, IA, have sold hundreds of thousands of albums over 16 years and seven albums, toured along thousands of miles of highway in Meatloaf’s old tour bus, no less, and were named Plaboy Magazine’s “Best College Band You’ve Never Heard of.” In this video The Nadas perform their hit song, Feels Like Home.

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Russell believes that the experience of silence is the birthright of every human being. But more than that, it is an absolute necessity to survive—much less succeed—in todays insane world. Yet so few of people ever achieve it—particularly young people.

Dr. George Doc Rutherford is principal of Ideal Academy Public Charter School in Washington, DC, where Quiet Time has been in place for several years, and has transformed the school. Doc is doing great things for his students.

Doc says he has tried every government program to improve academic performance for over 40 years—and nothing as worked as well as Quiet Time.

Quiet Time is such a simple, effective program. The kids love it. The teachers love it. The parents love it. So why isnt it in every school? It should be. That is why Russell supports the David Lynch Foundation—and you should, too!

See Russell’s blog about his visit to the Ideal Academy:

http://globalgrind.com/channel/news/content/1582385/this-is-whats-hot-in-the-hood/

Here are the facts, according to the Report of the Reentry Policy Council: Charting the Safe and Successful Return of Prisoners to the Community:

• Two million Americans are serving time in prison

• 50% of the inmates are in for violent crimes

• About 67% of the inmates released from prison are re-arrested within three years of their release

• This recidivism rate has not improved over the past 30 years

• Prisoners return to society more hardened and more willing to commit crimes than before

What the David Lynch Foundation is doing

The meditation-based rehabilitation program offered by the David Lynch Foundation has been utilized in dozens of prisons throughout the US and worldwide during the past 30 years. Research on meditating inmates at San Quentin and Folsom prisons in California and Walpole Prison in Massachusetts has found TM practice markedly reduces rule infractions and dramatically reduces recidivism rates by as much as 50 percent.

This five-minute documentary shows how the effects of Transcendental Meditation are transforming the lives of inmates, correctional officers, and staff of a medium-security prison in Oregon.

Starting in Medellin in the mid-1980’s, Father Gabriel opened the first Center de Hogares Claret: a place where children could come for a good meal and a safe place to sleep. In the late 1980’s, he traveled to the United States where he learned Transcendental Meditation. He knew immediately that he had found the answer to the overwhelming stress the children suffered from living on the streets. As the power of the drug cartels waned, the number of Father Gabriel’s orphan shelters increased. Now, in 2010, there are 47 shelters under Father Gabriel’s direction, which are spread across all of Colombia. His center of operations in Medellin is the former home of Pablo Escobar, the now deceased drug lord.

“In the rough part of Medillin there is an orphan center where children as young as six years old can come to seek solace,” Stuart recalls. “At the center the children can shower and get a good meal. The children are free to come and go as they wish. There is no pressure on them to stay; it is an open house. Father Gabriel has learned through his work with the street children that the desire to move away from their life on the streets must come from within the children themselves. Many of the children are addicted to sniffing glue or gasoline so the process of becoming free of this dependency is a difficult and gradual one. As part of their rehabilitation the children learn to meditate. This is combined with gentle guidance from Father Gabriel and other members of the Foundation.”

As Stuart’s film documents, over time an extraordinary transformation in the lives of the children takes place. They are freed from the torments they endured living on the streets, recover from their drug addictions and begin to gain an education. “The Foundation established by Father Gabriel embodies the wisdom, patience and knowledge that is required to rescue the ‘disposable’ children, restore their rights, their dignity and offer them a much brighter future,” Stuart says.

While walking through a popular Salt Lake City mall, Ali Stephens was approached by an Elite Model Management scout, whisked away on a plane to Milan and soon thereafter walked the runway for Prada. Following up her debut in Milan, Ali opened the Spring 2009 Calvin Klein show and shot the CK Jeans campaign with world-renowned photographer Steven Meisel, securing her place in model history.

Possessing a welcoming beauty and radiating presence, Ali has taken the fashion industry by storm appearing in campaigns for Prada, CK Calvin Klein, Chloe, Gap, Uniqlo, Lacoste, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, George Rech, Karen Millen, Alexander Mcqueen and shooting for publications such as Vogue (US, Italia, Paris, Nippon, China and UK), V, Numero (France, Tokyo), W Korea, Allure, French, Dazed & Confused, Another & POP.

Besides modeling, Ali cares passionately about the environment, focusing on raising awareness of the human impact on the worlds’ oceans. Currently she is working with the nonprofit group Oceana. Ali also enjoys spending time with her friends and family, playing sports and traveling. Ali is a supporter of the David Lynch Foundation and as she mentions in her interview with DLF.TV, has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 10 years.

Ali is representd by Elite Model Management

More than just a debut album from a gifted young storyteller, Ariana Delawari’s “Lion of Panjshir” is a psychedelic folk journey with a very interesting story behind it. Recorded in both Kabul and Los Angeles, Delawari’s own guitar, piano, and vocal melodies are soaked in classical Afghan rhythms and echoes of Laurel Canyon rock & roll. Delawari delivers a fresh and impassioned sound that exudes a universal spirit.

Delawari’s choice to record “Lion of Panjshir” in Afghanistan came with a phone call in February 2007: “It was my mother from Kabul telling me that the Taliban was starting to gain power again,” she says. As part of a reconstruction effort, Delawari’s parents had returned to Afghanistan in 2002; she herself had been going back and forth since then, diligently documenting her travels in photographs and film. The call though, signaled what might be a last opportunity for her: “At this particular moment I had a feeling that things were shifting- that I may never have the chance to record there again.” Three months later she and her bandmates Max Guirand and Paloma Udovic found themselves at her parents house in Kabul. Under the protection of two guards (AK 47s), they recorded the album right in the Delawari household. They collaborated with three Afghan Ustads: a tabla player, a rabab player, and an 88-year-old dilruba player, the last living master of his instrument. Under previous Taliban rule these talented musicians had once dismantled and hid their instruments due to a ban on music. Delawari and her band spent several days rehearsing and recording with them. The album was then finished in Los Angeles, featuring additional guest musicians and mixed by David Lynch. The album also includes one song “Suspend Me” produced by Lynch himself. The name “Lion of Panjshir” is an homage to the Afghan revolutionary Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Her previous recordings include the song “Crazy for You”, part of a Madonna tribute released by Manimal Vinyl. Delawari is also a member of the LA Ladies Choir, whose first album will be coming out soon on Teenage Teardrops. Delawari both sings and plays guitar on the album.

Delawari is a multi-media artist; in addition to her music she is also an actress, photographer, and filmmaker. A graduate of USC Film School, she’s currently co-directing a documentary about her family’s involvement in Afghanistan, and the making of her album there with Emily Lynch.

-David Lynch