Ciliff Ayers is the CEO of EMERALD Records
Hi everyone,  

I just came by to spread a little good news. I spoke with Cliff Ayres a little while ago. Although there have not been many submissions to the free air time, Karen did submit some songs. Cliff is very impressed with her singing and very shortly one or more of Karen's songs will be featured on www.nbrn.fm This internet radio station has affiliates world wide, so when Karen's songs are featured she will have a listening audience of over four million people. It is also a video network and sometime in the near future the video of the show will be distributed to several cable channels throughout the World.  
  
CONGRATULATIONS BLACK BELT GRANNY  
  
You delivered a one two punch in NASHVILLE and came out the WINNER!!!!  
  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 	
Great grandmother earns her black belt and plans an action-packed future
66-year-old Anoka resident Karen Gigikos will give a live demonstration at the 3rd annual Seniors Spring Show™

When Karen Gigikos took her first Taekwondo/Hapkido lesson two years ago at the young age of 64, she had no idea how it would change her life. The mother of seven daughters, 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren, Gigikos simply thought the classes looked like fun.  Now, after having earned her first black belt as well as numerous trophies and awards, she’s set her sights on becoming a world champion.

Gigikos will give a live demonstration, and discuss her martial arts experiences, at the 3rd annual Seniors Spring Show™, to be held April 3-4, 2006 at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake.

“I used to watch martial arts on TV when I was real little, and was intrigued,” Gigikos recalls. Then in 2004, shortly after eight family members including her husband and parents died of cancer, Gigikos met martial arts Master Instructor Stephan Stenzel. “He invited me to come by and watch his students at his Minneapolis/New Prague Centers. I kept coming to watch and finally asked if I could join a class. I started training, and the more I did the more fun it became! I never thought I’d get a black belt. But Master Stenzel always told me that if a person in a wheelchair can, if a man he knows with one arm did, and a man who did not complete the second grade – Abraham Lincoln – became one of the most revered presidents of the United States, it’s not the dream that quits but only the dreamer. So I started to believe him.”

Gigikos began training three to four times a week, a schedule she still maintains. “I have trained about 650 hours in the last year and a half,” she confirms. She won the Minnesota state titles in 2004 and 2005, and has earned more than 20 trophies, a dozen medals, and a leader certificate. “I still have goals I’d like to reach. I’m going for another black belt. I’d also like to become a world champion. And I want to be an instructor someday.”

Some might find it amazing to learn that Gigikos has accomplished all she has despite having had two knee surgeries, a stent in her heart, and having a parathyroid tumor that left her feeling rundown. “My doctors are all for this! They say it is helping and strengthening me,” she says.

Gigikos adds that seniors should not be afraid to try martial arts. “All seniors should consider this. It teaches you valuable self defense lessons. There are so many easy things you can do to protect yourself! Also, this is an art that does not weaken you, but safely strengthens you mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. You’ve got all kinds of padding. You’re taught where to hit. A good master will watch over you. I do a lot of blocking and striking with my arms, elbows and hands, more so than my feet although I use them as well. The other day, I was able to break a green board when other students in the class could not!”

Gigikos says that the martial arts have helped improve her emotional outlook as well, saying: “I’m on a high!” For additional information on martial arts classes within the Twin Cities, contact Stephan Stenzel at 763-427-1083 or via e-mail at stenzeltkd@aol.com.

The Seniors Spring Show™ is an opportunity for seniors and caregivers to explore hundreds of products and services targeting their age group. There also are interesting speakers, great entertainment, and hundreds of dollars in free prizes and giveaways. For additional information, and half price tickets visit www.101expos.com

GOD BLESS YOU  
~Mike~  
Oh, well. I guess I can tell you now. You are going to be on the air. He said that he was very impressed with your music, plus your biography. He will be in touch with you to let you know when your songs will be featured. You are a Hit with Nashville.   
   
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!   
   
GOD BLESS YOU   
~Mike~   

My name is Nuno Gavina (a.k.a. NGConnect) and Music is just a restless hobby of my existential self... After all, I'm part of the pioneers that tried to produce some digital sounds using the first Personal Computers and, since then, never ceased from disturbing the uninvited voices that try to steal our common silence.
I'm a Strategic Web Services Writer with 30 years of Computer Systems experience, 21 years at Professional level and, besides my current occupations, I was a Radio Voice in Portuguese Radio Stations during the last part of the 80's and beginning of the 90's. From Technical and Commercial Director to Administrator of two relevant and Pioneer Technological Companies of Portuguese market (between 1989 and 2006), the last 12 years of my career I've dedicated my life and Professional experience to a detailed and complex Scientific Investigation about Conventional and Traditional phenomenon’s when there is any kind of interactivity with Technology by itself, especially when facing new and unpredicted approaches to technically functional commercial online markets as well as interacting using common platforms at Social Online level... Therefore, my mission is to conserve the long wisdom path that truly defines 'know-how' and Usability standards. 
Yet, what better than music to simply secure such wisdom?...

For more information: 
http://NunoManuelGavina.biz
http://OR2WebProductions.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/professionalook
http://OsloRevival.net
http://OR2.Live

Followers of MXO21