Simran9

I got Dell inspiron 6000 year and half ago, so far no complaints. Only I hate carrying it around at school because it gets to be heavy, but then again...I don't have muscle power, lol. Friend of mine got Windows vista and I've used his laptop few times for typing papers and stuff, Vistas annoys me so much! It is totally different at least in Microsoft Word. The layout is so different it is hard to find anything! I would recommend staying with XP. The rest some things have changed, like now there is "dual core," but I don't know anything about what that does.

I don't think it matters what the specific problem is. The solution is always the same: have faith in waheguru and everything will get solved, even if it takes a little time.

lot of pinds still don't have 24 hour electricity. Though computers and lots of good software is made for educational purposes, a computer could easily just become a gaming thing. I don't see it working in India yet.

BUMP!! :lol:

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http://sikhsagainstbeadbi.googlepages.com/home

And spread the word!

but...your still gonna get maut one day...so that would be false then....

Well its not totally hopeless to make a living without a degree. Business can bring good income if you know how to run a business well. Of course, you're either born with natural business instincts or you have to work with someone in their business to learn the trade. Or you go to college and take business classes lol.

Generally, based on all the people I know, it takes longer to get promotions and good wages without a degree. But when you're looking at a potential marriage offer or whatever there are lot of other factors you will consider before you decide to accept or reject the proposal. Education is a plus, though I'm noticing that these days girls are getting more educated than guys.

I'd say education does matter because for lot of decent jobs you need a degree. California is expensive state to live in, but also has lots of opportunities for people who are qualified. So because its competitive in the job market, degree is kind of a necessity here. Without it, you're kinda screwed with the taxi/liquor shop/gas station or factory work. And I'm not talking about having money for the showoff stuff, just the bare necessities are expensive.

So yes, I'd want someone educated enough to understand that there are bacteria literally everywhere and that he needs to wash his hands!! Other than that, I don't care what he has a degree for, as long as he enjoys his job and it interests him.

ahhh...thank you I've been looking for that part 3 to finish the story...

Its "the life of sant jarnail singh khalsa bhindrawale." I have part 1 and 2 but there is part 3 out there somewhere. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has the third file could upload it here.

I've attached part 1 and 2 for anyone interested but mainly to eliminate confusion about what file I'm talking about.

thanks in advance.

the_life_of_sant_jarnail_singh_khalsa_bhindrawale_part_1.pdf

the_life_of_sant_jarnail_singh_khalsa_bhindrawale_part_2.pdf

Khalra murder: Life term for 4 cops

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 16

After holding that seven-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to four Punjab police cops by a lower court in the Khalra murder case was inadequate, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today enhanced their sentence to rigorous imprisonment for life.

Pronouncing the orders in an open court, the Bench, comprising Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Mr Justice A.N. Jindal, held that the intent of sub-inspectors Satnam Singh, Surinder Pal Singh and Jasbir Singh along with head constable Prithipal Singh was clear.

Human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra was “abducted so that his life could be extinguished” and the case against the four clearly fell within the ambits of Section 364 of the IPC (abduction).

The Judges had earlier held that Khalra was picked up from his house “at the instance of SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu by DSP Jaspal Singh, Satnam Singh, Surinder Pal Singh, Jasbir Singh and Prithipal Singh. He was tortured at the Jhabal police station and shot dead there. Finally, his body was disposed by them near the Harike bridge”.

Taking up the appeals and revision petitions filed in the matter, the high court had also upheld the conviction and sentence awarded in the matter to DSP Jaspal Singh, while acquitting ASI Amarjit Singh.

While the DSP was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court of Patiala’s additional sessions judge under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC, the other four were sentenced to seven-year imprisonment.

The Bench had further held that the motive behind the commission of offence was clear from the statement of witnesses.

Jaswant Singh Khalra, a bank employee in Amritsar, had embarked on a mission to look into the deaths of innocents while searching for some missing colleagues.

Khalra went missing on September 6, 1995. He was last seen washing his car in front of his house in Amritsar.

Besides the six sentenced by the lower court, the challan included the names of Tarn Taran SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu and DSP Ashok Kumar. Sandhu “committed suicide” by jumping in front of a train in May 1998, while Ashok Kumar died due to illness.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071017/main1.htm

TSA changes headwear screening policy

Air travelers not required to remove turbans, other bulky headwear

Updated: 2 hours, 34 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Air passengers will no longer have to remove bulky headwear such as turbans at screening checkpoints if doing so makes them uncomfortable.

A revised federal guideline, effective Oct. 27, gives airport screeners the option to pat down headwear at the metal detector if a passenger does not want to remove it for personal reasons.

In August, the Transportation Security Administration changed its guidelines and subjected travelers to secondary screening at security checkpoints if they were wearing head coverings, such as cowboy hats, berets or turbans. The screenings could have included a pat-down search of the head covering, if the screener found it necessary.

But some religious organizations were outraged at the new rule and felt it was a form of racial profiling. For instance, in the Sikh religion, the turban is considered private, and removing a turban would be like removing a woman's blouse, according to the New York-based Sikh Coalition. Since 2001, federal policy has required screeners to search turbans only if they do not clear a metal detector.

TSA officials listened to these concerns, and now passengers wearing bulky clothing — including bulky headwear — can be subjected to a mix of screening, such as pat-downs, X-ray devices and portal machines that check for explosives. If an item still cannot be ruled out as a potential threat, the screener still has the option to request that the passenger remove it in a private screening area.

Experts say mixing up the screening techniques is good security. "We must use security measures that are unpredictable, agile," TSA Administrator Kip Hawley told a Senate panel Tuesday.

Notice of the change was posted on the TSA Web site Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21324817/

I need advice about doing a masters or Ph.D in Sikh Studies. What do you think are the prospects for someone with that degree-- besides becoming a professor what other job opportunities might there be? Is there a need for people with this education?

What should I be looking for when I compare/contrast the different Sikh Studies graduate programs that are out there?

Is anyone here doing this by the way?

Tell me anything and everything that is relevent to this. I am just trying to research this out before I make a decision.

I'd appreciate any info, Thanks!

Job candidates getting tripped up by Facebook

Many students learn the hard way that online image can limit opportunity

By Wei Du

MSNBC

Updated: 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

Van Allen runs a company that recruits job candidates for hospitals and clinics across the country. With physicians in short supply, he was happy to come across the resume of a well-qualified young female psychiatrist.

As part of his due diligence check, Allen looked her up in Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, and found things that made him think twice.

“Pictures of her taking off her shirt at parties,” he said. “Not just on one occasion, but on another occasion, then another occasion.”

Concerned about those pictures, he called the candidate and asked for an explanation. She didn’t get the job.

“Hospitals want doctors with great skills to provide great services to communities,” Allen said. “They also don’t want patients to say to each other, 'Heard about Dr. Jones? You’ve got to see those pictures.’”

Job candidates who maintain personal sites on Facebook or MySpace are learning — sometimes the hard way — that the image they present to their friends on the Internet may not be best suited for landing the position they’re seeking.

Although many employers are too old to qualify as members of the Facebook Generation, they’re becoming increasingly savvy about using social networking sites in their hiring due diligence. That has both job candidates and human resources professionals debating the ethics and effectiveness of snooping on the Web for the kind of information that may not come up in a job interview.

According to a March survey by Ponemon Institute, a privacy think tank, 35 percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, and 23 percent look people up on social networking sites. About one-third of those Web searches lead to rejections, according to the survey.

Social networking sites have gained popularity among hiring managers because of their convenience and a growing anxiety about hiring the right people, researchers say.

Big corporations long have retained professional investigators to check job applicants’ academic degrees, criminal records and credit reports. But until now the cost has deterred the ability of smaller firms to do the same level of checking, said Sue Murphy, a director of National Human Resources Association.

One problem is that there is little to prevent hiring managers from discriminating on the basis of personal information discovered through social Web sites.

"There's just not much legislation on that yet," Murphy said.

New college graduates, the most active social networkers, are most likely to be the target of Web research.

“For people new to a field, companies just don’t have a lot to look back on,” Murphy said. “They can’t call up your former boss. They look you up on Facebook.”

Financial services firms and the health care providers are among the biggest users of social networking sites, said Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute.

“These industries are stewards of people’s property and health, and companies really look for a high level of integrity,” said Ponemon.

Professional services like law and consulting firms also are big users, because companies care about how employees present themselves to clients and look for clues in how applicants present themselves online.

Risqué pictures are not the only way a job applicant can be tripped up. Pictures of illegal behavior like drug use, or heavy alcohol use, could disqualify a candidate. Some also suggest poor writing and bad grammar on Facebook profiles and in blog entries can raise a red flag about communication skills. Derogatory comments or complaints or radical political positions also can draw the scrutiny of a prospective employer.

One job applicant indicated in his Facebook profile that he was a leading hacker, and he was applying to be a computer security analyst, said Ponemon. He didn’t get the job.

“It’s amazing how many things people just put out there,” said Murphy of the human resources association.

Facebook users often don’t expect their personal information to be monitored by potential employers, and many consider their online profile information to be private.

A study by Adecco, a work force consulting firm, showed that 66 percent of Generation Y respondents, those in their late teens and 20s, were not aware the information they put online can be factored into hiring decisions. Fifty-six percent said they think the practice is unfair.

Originally Facebook was seen as a safe "closed circuit" site, in which profiles would only be visible to people in a limited group. The site originally required users to register with a valid college e-mail address. But the site loosened the restriction last summer to allow anyone to register with a valid e-mail account. Facebook networks, which had been relatively small, expanded to include companies and even large geographic areas.

The new policies of Facebook drew public attention this year when Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo nearly lost her crown after being blackmailed over pictures of her that were taken off her Facebook profile. Ultimately the judges decided not to take away her title, but her crown was tarnished.

“This was meant to be private,” Polumbo told TODAY Show host Matt Lauer, referring to photos that showed her fully clothed but posing provocatively and drinking at clubs.

“People have a common misconception about how big their networks really are,” said Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputationdefender.com, a year-old startup offering services to minimize the damage of Web background checks. “Nothing on the Internet is private. Period.”

Reputationdefender.com offers to monitor one’s Web reputation for $10 a month plus a one-time fee of $30 to remove from the Web an unwanted item that may have slipped out of the user’s control.

In one high-profile case last spring, a group of law school students found that pictures were taken off their Facebook accounts and reposted onto an online discussion board without their permission. Whoever posted the pictures then invited suggestive comments.

The law students tried to have their pictures removed from the discussion board, complaining that had been shunned in job interviews.

“People also have to understand the standard you will be judged against in hiring,” said Fertik. “Employers don’t have to believe what they see — they only have to decide not to take a chance on you.”

© 2007 MSNBC Interactive

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20202935/

BUMP! :wub:

err...dunno if he's really from Jallandar. He was on alpha punjabi news couple months ago. the police in Himachal Pradesh wanted to take some action because Dalip Singh hadn't returned to his job there.

wwe made him look like a hindu. i don't know if he really is, but it doesn't matter to me. wonder what it will do to the image of indians in america in general though. indians are typically thought of as ice cream man, taxi man, truck driver, gas station owner, and liquor store owners here.

I admit...I actually read this whole thread...

and I admit I dip my salad in my dahi as if its salad dressing, and when I finish the dahi, I lick the bowl

I consider anyone desi who acts/dresses/lives like a desi. Generally, I see all south asians--vietnamese, cambodian, chinese, japanese, philipino, laotian, thai, etc just as desi as indians and pakistanis. Mainly its the older bazurgs who are really acting desi. Take my neighbor for example. He came here as a refugee...like some indians who came here on political asylum. He dresses in the junkiest clothes like I do at home. He grows a garden of god knows what like we do. He speaks his mother language like we do. He wears his traditional clothes like we do. He has a salvaged car like I have. He has another nice car like my parents have. His son lives with him like my bro eventually will. His wife cooks their traditional foods like we do. Most importantly, we all had it bad in our homeland.

so yeah...I think hes just as desi as we are.

haha!

yes I wished I was born a boy cuz I think as far as sikhi goes, they have it easier and better. Regardless of the theory about equality and that our Gurus banished certain things, the reality of whats being practiced is the opposite. I was "supposed" to be a boy just for my bibi because I was second baby to be born in the family that year, and the first one was already a girl...so you see they had their hopes really high on me but I disappointed them LOL.

but I learned to accept being a girl and figured that guys have it harder in other areas I wouldn't know how to deal with. Meanwhile I have my own minicrusade going to banish this boys better than girls theory in my family and I look forward to the day when my cousin is old enough to see her bibi in another light when she finds out she was also expected to be a boy! You see, she was also second ohhh I can't wait.....

I was also thinking of some sort of card or system which would allow a commitee to check the status of a potential giani they are going to hire. But we don't have the resources to start that system and how would they keep track of the gianis who aren't even legal in the country? It defeats the purpose of firing one when you know hes just going to take up a job at another gurdwara across town.

Lately, and this is not the first time, I have heard the latest news of another granthi singh who has recieved 2 weeks notice to pack his bags and leave from the gurdwara because someone has accused him of flirting with a female student who was there to learn. In the past when a granthi gets kicked out he simply moves to another gurdwara and gets a 'job' there. So really these guys aren't being punished by losing a job, sure they get a bad rep, but they can go to any other gurdwara that will take them. This does nothing to solve the problem though, the same criminals are just doing their rounds and going from gurdwara to the next.

What could be done about these people? Get them deported if they don't have a visa? What are your views?

this

http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

and this

http://vixy.net

did not work for me...sooo...still searching, if anyone else find something post it! thanks for all the help.

dang I was just talking to a friend the other day about buying stocks for long term investment in a stable company...

stocks are investments if you do the research and do it right. Its a gamble if you put all of your money into one comany and that company sinks the next year or whenever, then you'll lose a lot of money there.

even real estate property is an investment. Most people don't live in the same house for more than several years. When you sell it you look to make more than what you paid for it, and you try to sell when the property value is high.

rental property is also investment. would that be wrong to have that income from tenet living there who pays you monthly? Obviously you'd have the tenet paying more than what the actual mortgage payment is.

someone above mentioned bank interest. Thats investing your money in a bank so they can loan that money out to other people who are taking out loan. Nobody is going to go back to the bank and say take back the interest I earned!

that electrical work is the most dipped out and unacceptable job for a gurdwara.

i might be off topic, but one white lady and her husband went to harmandir sahib. she was disappointed that its not handicap accessible for people who are on wheelchair etc. she was told she could not go in darbar sahib because she refused to remove her leg wrappings which she has because of low blood ciculation to her legs. I thought that was weird that the guard would ask someone to remove something like that that a person needs for health problems.

but technology like that is reducing the importance and significance of simplicity and ruining sacred treasures.

alright, so now if I wanted to convert this "flv" compatible file to something that will open with Windows Media Player or Real Player, how do I do that?