Golee Maro

Congrats to the forum for having reached 5000 members! (5009 at time of post!) A lot of them probably dont come on but ah well.. its the numbers that count!

theyre the luckiest fish in the world... w a h e g u r u

maybe up until a certain age, i would agree. give kids the starting point in infants and early juniors... but you take it all the way up until high school graduation... and i dont think itll do the kids any favour. In the UK, kids have to go to school until they finish GCSE's. After that, they can go into the wide world of work... what will become of them then?! Will they have to join "all-Sikh" companies? I havent come accross one yet... none that are successful anyway. When they go to work into offices, law courts etc, they will have to get along with people from other cultures, faiths and backgrounds. And if you havent prepared them for that in the crucial stages of their developments (childhood to teenage years) then they will not know properly how to handle the sudden shock. Schools mainly provide you with good interpersonal skills and help you develop your character and personality. They try to help you distinguish between right and wrong in the wide world. Very importantly, they encourage the multicultural environment with tolerance and understanding, which i think Khalsa Schools take away. They can teach it all they want to students, but they need to experience it to properly grasp the idea. Forgive my mistakes.

damn slightly late happy birthday bro. keep doing the fantastic seva u r doin... always greatful for ure efforts.

w a h e g u r u i hear in the uk theres an apparent sweep of Gurdwaras up and down the country wanting to open up Khalsa schools? I think this is wrong. Why, when we campaign for a multi-cultural, tolerant nation, do we then want to seperate ourselves from the communities? I know its been tried and tested around Canada but they are not brilliant there. Im not for this split from society in such a way. Id want my kids to go to a mixed school - public or private - but mixed. And i wouldnt want to be brought up in an all-Sikh school. Im glad i got to experience other cultures, and be friends with people from other faiths and religions such as Xianity, Islam, Hinduism and so forth. Its made me stronger as a person. Maybe im wrong though, so please forgive me if i am. Please help me to understand this move. I understand that Sikhi parchaar will be done and will be encouraging a Sikh rehat, but this should be done at home anyway with the parents.

haha nah i was teasin. jao jao atte prerh naal horaah nu bhi leh ke jaao

weird. u need someone to hold ure hand taxali101?

Hanji, dass was reborn a few years ago... Maharaj di kirpaa de naal. I think theres a lot of "Amrit-dhaari" Gursikhs on board...

well it depends. Im sorry but there are fanatics and they become fanatics when they lose the meaning of their rehat and begin to use it as a kind of caste system - ie. "we are better than those who do not keep it" and i think theres enough out there who fall in that banner. saying that, penji Darshan Kaur jee, you have used the word fanatic in the wrong context. I think you mean "passionate".

I dont remember promotion of black magic, however i remember the awareness being raised. because theres no hiding the fact that black magic does exist but Sikhs are banned from indulging in such activities and are given Naam as protection from it. Also at the end of and during each programme there are chances for people to speak up. i suggest you speak up at the time, not afterwards on a forum I am sure the organisers will take your view into consideration for next time though.

oh believe me - the sikh awareness group is doing parchaar on those issues too.

With the law the way it is, u have to be tactical in your approach. Last thing we want is for Sikhs to get branded terrorists along with Muslims. The way this parchaar has been done up and down the country has been going very well so far with huge turnouts. Its working.

theyre on about muslims basically... get the hint

How sweet is that?! Vaheguroo. Amazing, may Maharaj keep you forever in His embrace. Congratulations

"Sikhi going down the drain"? Vaheguroo, please dont say that. Sikhi will never ever go down the drain. NEVER. Because Sri Guru Granth Sahib Jee is eternal and everlasting and will not ever disappear. I think we do as much as we can to educate and try and show the blind that our Guru Granth Sahib Jee is there for them and waiting to be embraced, so Guru Jee can embrace them back. I think thats our "faraz". If people wish to stay blind, then thats their problem. Guru Jee will be present eternally for those who do TRULY love Maharaj. So please dont use the term "Sikhi is going down the drain". Please. Forgive my mistakes.

thats such a stupid way of looking at that e-mail. i dont think thats dissing people with kesh. Its just one of the many emails that go around trying to help people understand God. Dont be so quick to get ure kisherahs in a twist and blame an Islamic nation. Talk about paranoia to the max...

veer jee if u want a place to upload them contact the ektaone guys - theyll just give u an ftp account and then u can upload on there. just a suggestion

yeh... UNITE.

Robot device mimics human touch By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News Image from device of one cent coin (Science) Particles in the device emit light to show changes in texture A device which may pave the way for robotic hands that can replicate the human sense of touch has been unveiled. US scientists have created a sensor that can "feel" the texture of objects to the same degree of sensitivity as a human fingertip. The team says the tactile sensor could, in the future, aid minimally invasive surgical techniques by giving surgeons a "touch-sensation". The research is reported in the journal Science. "If you look at the current status of these tactile sensors, the frustration has been that the resolution of all these devices is in the range of millimetres," explained Professor Ravi Saraf, an engineer from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, US, and a co-author of the paper. "Whereas the resolution of a human fingertip is about 40 microns, about half the diameter of a human hair, and this has affected the performance of these devices." Nano-device But Professor Saraf and colleague Dr Vivek Maheshwari, also from the University of Nebraska, were able to attain this high level of sensitivity by creating a very thin film made up of layers of metal and semiconducting nanoparticles flanked at the top and bottom by electrodes. When the film touches a surface any pressure or stress squeezes the layers of particles together. This causes the current in the film to change and light is emitted from the particles, an effect known as "electroluminescence". The visible light is then detected by a camera. Optical image of 5 cent coin (left), device image (right) (Science) The device image (right) clearly shows the number 5 on this coin "The beautiful thing is that we have managed to make the device in such a way that the amount of current change, or light, that you get out is exactly proportional to the stress that you apply," added Professor Saraf. To demonstrate the high sensitivity of the device, the scientists pressed a US one cent coin against it. The sensor revealed the wrinkles in President Lincoln's clothing and the letters TY in liberty. Detecting cancers Professor Saraf said the film, as well as matching the sensitivity of a human fingertip, was also flexible and robust enough to be used repeatedly. He also said the device could have medical applications. "The hope is that if you have the resolution close to a human finger in applications like minimal invasive surgery, where the surgeon could actually "touch" while he or she doing the procedure and tell if the tissue is cancerous or abnormal etc, that would increase the success of these surgeries." Dr Richard Crowder, a robotics expert from Southampton University, commented in an accompanying article in the journal: "The development of tactile sensors is one of the key technical challenges in advanced robotics and minimal access surgery. "The unique sensor developed by Maheshwari and Saraf could prove to be a key advance in technology, for reasons including relatively simple construction, apparent robustness, and high resolution." Professor Saraf added that now he would like to see if he could create a device that can detect temperature changes as well as texture, enabling it to closer mimic the sensations humans can feel.

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Past : Bhagat Kabeer Jee (who i think had such a beautiful soul reflected in Bani written by him. Present : Bhai Sukha Singh Jee (from London whos katha/keertan and diverse knowledge at such a young age is so inspiring to me.)

forgive me for i have not reli been keeping up to dates with Bill Gates... but im kinda sure that Windows Longhorn was only a temporary name and was changed to Vista as the final version? They are the same thing as far as ive been aware... ... ...

Im going home tonight and will be installing Windows Vista Beta on a machine to test it out! Has anyone else got it installed or planning to? Id love to know of any experiences you may have with it, and i will share mine.

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Sikhi is here. It always will be. Gurbani will never die. The Guru will never die. We have been given an immortal and eternal Guru who, no matter what happens, will ever just whither away or disappear. Do parchaar but at the end of the day, just tell people that the Guru and all source of bliss, resides in Guru Granth Sahib Jee, who is at their local Gurudwara. Show them path - its up to them to walk it.