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Ermm...Nice tattoos....

A cultural shift is changing where in some parts of China, men cannot find wives. So they are having to earn lots of money (to compete) with other men to 'win' girls....a kind of dowry but in reverse. All rare things are valuable.

After an afternoon of setting up my NAS drive (4TB) and my Popcorn Hour Media Player, (PHMP), I started installing some apps on the PHMP. The BBC iPlayer app worked a charm, glorious HD at my finger tips....I started browsing other apps and came across Channels.com. Did a search through the channels and saw the Sikh News Network...(http://www.sikhnn.com/)...never heard of them before but they had an interview with Darshan 'Singh'. Here's the link.. http://www.channels....h-The-Interview All old stuff though...but thought it might of been of interest...I hadn't seen it.

With the rating people have given me it's lucky that I joined the forum in February....

Species count put at 8.7 million By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News The black-capped woodnymph of Colombia was identified as recently as 2009 The natural world contains about 8.7 million species, according to a new estimate described by scientists as the most accurate ever. But the vast majority have not been identified - and cataloguing them all could take more than 1,000 years. The number comes from studying relationships between the branches and leaves of the "family tree of life". The team warns in the journal PLoS Biologythat many species will become extinct before they can be studied. Although the number of species on the planet might seem an obvious figure to know, a way to calculate it with confidence has been elusive. In a commentary also carried in PLoS Biology, former Royal Society president Lord (Robert) May observes: "It is a remarkable testament to humanity's narcissism that we know the number of books in the US Library of Congress on 1 February 2011 was 22,194,656, but cannot tell you - to within an order of magnitude - how many distinct species of plants and animals we share our world with." Now, it appears, we can. "We've been thinking about this for several years now - we've had a look at a number of different approaches, and didn't have any success," one of the research team, Derek Tittensor, told BBC News. "So this was basically our last chance, the last thing we tried, and it seems to work." Dr Tittensor, who is based at the UN Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Unep-WCMC) and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, worked on the project alongside peers from Dalhousie University in Canada and the University of Hawaii. The vast majority of the 8.7 million are animals, with progressively smaller numbers of fungi, plants, protozoa (a group of single-celled organisms) and chromists (algae and other micro-organisms). The figure excludes bacteria and some other types of micro-organism. About 1.2 million species have been formally described, the vast majority from the land rather than the oceans. The natural world in numbers Animals: 7.77 million (12% described) Fungi: 0.61 million (7% described) Plants: 0.30 million (70% described) Protozoa: 0.04 million (22% described) Chromists: 0.03 million (50% described) Linnaean stepsThe trick this team used was to look at the relationship between species and the broader groupings to which they belong. In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus developed a comprehensive system of taxonomy, as the field is known, which is still - with modifications - in use today. Groups of closely related species belong to the same genus, which in turn are clustered into families, then orders, then classes, then phyla, and finally into kingdoms (such as the animal kingdom). The higher up this hierarchical tree of life you look, the rarer new discoveries become - hardly surprising, as a discovery of a new species will be much more common than the discovery of a totally new phylum or class. The researchers quantified the relationship between the discovery of new species and the discovery of new higher groups such as phyla and orders, and then used it to predict how many species there are likely to be. "We discovered that, using numbers from the higher taxonomic groups, we can predict the number of species," said Dalhousie researcher Sina Adl. "The approach accurately predicted the number of species in several well-studied groups such as mammals, fishes and birds, providing confidence in the method." And the number came out as 8.7 million - plus or minus about a million. Muddied watersIf this is correct, then only 14% of the world's species have yet been identified - and only 9% of those in the oceans. T The rate of species discovery has remained about even ever since Haeckel compiled his Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) a century ago"The rest are primarily going to be smaller organisms, and a large proportion of them will be dwelling in places that are hard to reach or hard to sample, like the deep oceans," said Dr Tittensor. "When we think of species we tend to think of mammals or birds, which are pretty well known. "But when you go to a tropical rainforest, it's easy to find new insects, and when you go to the deep sea and pull up a trawl, 90% of what you get can be undiscovered species." At current rates of discovery, completing the catalogue would take over 1,000 years - but new techniques such as DNA bar-coding could speed things up. The scientists say they do not expect their calculations to mark the end of this line of inquiry, and are looking to peers to refine methods and conclusions. One who has already looked through the paper is Professor Jonathan Baillie, director of conservation programmes at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). "I think it's definitely a creative and innovative approach, but like every other method there are potential biases and I think it's probably a conservative figure," he told BBC News. "But it's such a high figure that it wouldn't really matter if it's out by one or two million either way. "It is really picking up this point that we know very little about the species with which we share the planet; and we are converting the Earth's natural landscapes so quickly, with total ignorance of our impact on the life in them." Follow Richard on Twitter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14616161

So you say...

There you have it folks 'blind faith is a part of Sikhi'!! LOL

So says Kulbir Singh, the supporter and believer in blind faith.

How do you know that individual doesn't keep strict bibek?

100% agree. But there are a lot of Sikhs that are happy to engage in bull$hit activities without engaging their brains.

In the Amrit ceremony, the participates drink from the same bowl, so what about hygiene then?...anyways that shows that jhoot doesn't apply to partners. Amritdharis can eat and drink from the same bowl as other Amritdharis. Once you realise that the real Jhoot to stay away from is the five vices you might then start progressing in your life.

Oh well...they had a good innings...

Eh?...Animals all exchange fluids when they mate or to show affection? Exchange?...that denotes a two way process....but mating is one-way...during mating fluid goes from the male to the female....in animals (not humans) what fluid exchange goes the other way? If such fluid exchange in mating is Joot then all humans are the results of Joot..(i.e. sex)...an act (according to you) that breaks our spirituality and causing moh and attachment. So all Guru's, Saints, and Bhagat who had children, their spirituality was broken because of the fluid exchange during sex? What a load of bollocks! Also according to your logic, if fluid exchange is jhoot which breaks our spirituality, then when a mother breast feeds her child, that will break her spirituality has well. Now come to think of it, what about cow's milk...will drinking that break our spirituality if we drink that animal fluid? What about all the bacteria and other organisms in your gut that are exchanging fluids with you....are they breaking your spirituality and causing moh and attachment in you? If Joot is so bad then the warrior Khalsa should be banned from swimming...we don't want fluid exchange do we?...it's Joot...it'll 'break our spirituality and causing moh and attachment'!!! If the Khaksa army ever come across a river then they wouldn't be able to swim across...can't risk getting fluid exchange from this fishes that live in the water!! Without the Guru's Grace, how can logic and contemplation be bestowed? And without logic and contemplation, how can the darkness of ignorance be dispelled?

100% agree

Thanks to Sangat TV, sales of KTC Pure Butter Ghee are going through the roof!!

Bobby is a complete Twat and an embarrassement to the Asian community.

A London chimp looting rice.

Policing by consent, no army, no water cannon, no rubber bullets, no tear gas, no curfew, woman as Justice Secretary? There is only one thing for it. We need the A-Team.

Thanks to these jungle bunnies, the England friendly against the Netherlands tomorrow has been cancelled!!!

I'm in Bristol today fighting 'dem feds on da streets' I've heard some rumours that cars at the car park at Gravesend Gurdwara had been set alight...can someone confirm this or is it just bull$hit?

Seeing all these blacks rioting...it's like watching The Rise of the Planet of the Apes....crossed with Dale's Supermarket Sweep! I don't blame those Blacks in north London for going on a looting rampage though.... How else are they supposed to make a living now Amy Winehouse isn't buying cocaine anymore? On a side note there was confusion in Tottenham this morning as the blacks who torched a post office at the weekend turn up wanting to collect their benefits.

How do you know if the buildings in the country estate dont have meat and alcohol stored in the them? And you're bringing the Guru to your wedding rather than going to the Guru Gur?

What's the difference between Emile Heskey and Amy Winehouse? Amy got at least one killer shot in before she died.

The Gravesend Gurdwara does not look that grand. The shape of the building does look good, however the grey marble looks crap. The grey marble looks like concrete. What twat (on LSD trip) decided to blow £8million on that grey marble needs to be hung, drawn and quartered at the Gravesend Clocktower. We all known they won't be able to repay their loans in full, let alone keep up with the monthly maintenance costs. No consideration was put on the energy efficiency on the building, which is graded at a G. We all known that in 30 years time the Gurdwara will be repossed by the UK banks and turned into flats....(thankfully at least the local pigeons will be without a home).

What is DHESI full name and what is his job title in the Gurdwara? Is Tarem Mahal the Gurdwara Sectetary?...isn't he the uncle of Mundil Kaur Mahil the 19 year old girl who is charged with the murder of Gagandeep Singh? Who is Jalman Singh and what is his job/role in the Gurdwara? What is Seva Singh Laali's job/role in the Gurdwara? Who is Baksish Sodhi and what is his role?