Gurpreet Kaur’s journey in this world ....
Gurpreet Kaur was a Musician. She was a singer and a composer of music. Her interest was composing and singing Gurbani Shabads in Indian Classical style. She sang Shabads in All the Raags mentioned in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. She also taught Gurmat Sangeet at Gurmat Gian Missionary College, Jawadi, Ludhiana.
Elder child to Pushpinder Kaur and Dr. Brig. Harminder Singh, was born in Amritsar on 13th Jan 1962. She attended various convent schools as a child because her father would get frequent Army postings as a dental surgeon. She graduated with Music Honors from Govt. College for Women, Chandigarh.
Music was her hobby and she composed and sang Raag based Gurbani Shabads. Doing Kirtan was part of growing up nurtured by her parents. She learned music from her father Dr. Brigadier Harminder Singh who was a dental surgeon in Indian Army and a very good singer himself. Gurpreet’s Bhua (father’s sister), Ajit Kaur retied as a Head of Department of Music from Govt. College for Women Ludhiana, and was a renounced Punjabi singer of her time. Gurpreet Kaur also learned nuances of Indian Classical Music from Pandita Sharma.
She was a mother of three children, and a grandmother. Her daughter Keerat Kaur is a Computer Engineer. Her two sons Gurkeerat Singh and Jaskeerat Singh are doctors in USA. Her daughter Keerat Kaur too was part of her group ~ Gurmat Gian Group.
Gurpreet Kaur left this world at the age of 54yrs on 12th Sept 2016 in Baltimore USA.
She had recorded around 25 cds of Gurbani Keertan.
'Raag Ratan' Album (6 CDs) is a Compilation of Shabads in All the 31 Sudh Raags of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
'Gauri Sagar' Album (3 CDs) is a Compilation of All forms of Raag Gauri in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
'Nanak Ki Malhaar' ~ ((3 CDs) is an album of Raag Malhar Shabads in various forms of Malhar.
'Gur Parsaad Basant Bana' ~ (3 CDs) is an album of Shabads in Raag Basant sung in various forms of Raag Basant.
Har Ki Vadeyai
Sarni Aayea
Sewa
Priya Kee Preet Piyaree
Mohan Ghar Aavho Karo Jodariya
Mo Kao Taar Le Raama Taar Le
Tere Kavan Kavan Gun Keh Keh Gawan
Mera Baid Guru Govinda
Saajanrraa Mera Saajanrraa
ANACONDA, common name for a large South American snake of the boa family. The anaconda or water boa is one of the largest and most powerful snakes in the world, and the largest in the western hemisphere. It kills its prey by constriction, or squeezing. The reptile is found in the rivers of the Guianas and Brazil. The female anaconda gives birth to living young.
Anaconda Snake
Average length is 20 ft. Average diameter is 12 in. Average weight is 330 lb. (148.5 kg.)
Anaconda Snake
The anaconda lives in rain forests and river systems of the Amazon; it prefers swamps and sluggish streams. Its diet is aquatic and amphibious animals, mammals, fish, caiman, birds, ducks, and turtles. The anaconda is an excellent swimmer, but it also climbs on branches to dry off. . It is easily angered. It uses the water to rapidly escape predators and to conceal itself while searching for food.
Python is a common name for Nonpoisonous snakes of boa and python family. Pythons are large and muscular, and kill their prey by squeezing, or constricting, until it suffocates. Although most feed on small mammals, some large species can kill and swallow small pigs and goats. Rarely have they killed humans.
Python Snake
Pythons range from 1 to 10 m (3 to 33 ft) long and weigh up to 140 kg (300 lb). The female lays 15 to 100 eggs, and broods them until they hatch.
They are found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands.
Python Snake
The reticulated python of Southeast Asia is among the largest snakes, reaching a length of 10 m (33 ft). Other well-known pythons are the Indian python, a favorite of snake handlers;African rock python; ball or royal python of equatorial Africa, which curls into a ball and can be rolled on the ground.
Diamond snake or Carpet snake, also diamond python, common name for a large constricting snakefound in Australia and New Guinea. It is named for diamond-shaped markings of yellow and black on the back and abdomen.
Black Snake is a common name for a non- poisonous snake — Common black snake or Black racer ; black rat snake or pilot snake.
Found throughout the eastern U.S.
Black Snake
It is uniformly black, with smooth scales. It preys on small warm- and cold-blooded animals and swallows them alive. The adult blacksnake is about 2 m (about 6 ft) long. The female lays eggs.
Kaposi’s sarcoma is a cancer of the walls of the blood vessels or lymphatic system. Kaposi’s Sarcoma is a malignant tumor frequently associated with AIDS. It mainly involves the skin.Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8)is associated with development of Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
Before the AIDS epidemic, Kaposi’s sarcoma was seen primarily in elderly Italian and Jewish men and developed slowly in these people.In AIDS patients, it can develop aggressively and often involves the skin, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and other organs.It is more frequently associated with AIDS in homosexual men than AIDS in IV drug users. The malignancy results in purplish grape-like lesions in the skin, gastrointestinal tract and other organs.Symptoms associated with Kaposi’s Sarcoma in the gastrointestinal lesions is bleeding. With lesions in the lungs it may cause shortness of breath and bloody sputum.The disease usually progresses slowly and can remain stable for years or decades. However, the skin tumors do have a substantial impact on quality of life in these patients, due both to the stigma associated with the visible skin tumors and the pain they can cause.The cancer usually occurs in people with weakened immune systems, such as those with AIDS or patients who are on immune-suppressing drugs following an organ transplant. The disease is rarely fatal and can often be successfully treated with chemotherapy or other therapies.The appearance of Kaposi’s sarcoma is a poor prognostic sign for individuals with AIDS. It was seen very rare in the United States before the AIDS epidemic.Treatment depends on the site and extent of the lesions. Radiation therapy or cryotherapy can be used in selected cases. Lesions can recur after treatment.
Cancer causing Virus can be spread by Kissing
John Pauk, M.D., M.P.H., formerly of the University of Washington in Seattle, and his associates found out that most cases of new infection of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), which caused an explosion in the number of Kaposi’s sarcomacases at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the virus was most likely transmitted through saliva. This cancer-causing form of herpes disproportionately affects homosexual men.
This study was done on 27 homosexual men. Comparing the sexual history of these patients with those of other homosexual men who were not infected with HHV-8, Pauk found that “deep” kissing (in which saliva is exchanged) with an HIV-positive partner or a partner with Kaposi’s sarcoma and the use of amyl nitrate capsules (“poppers”) or inhaled nitrates (both used to enhance the sexual experience) were associated with an increased risk of infection.
It has been found that the markers ( Viral Load, T-cells ) doctors generally use to determine progression of HIV infection behave differently in women and people of color as compared to white men.
Viral load, a measurement of how many virus particles are in the blood stream, is lower in women than in men infected for the same amount of time.
It remains low in people of color longer than in whites, so women of color generally have the lowest viral loads of all.
T-cells, protective immune cells whose number declines over the course of HIV infection, start out at higher levels in healthy women, and decline more slowly in HIV-infected women than they do in men.
More research is needed to determine what these differences mean in practical terms in the treatment of women.
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