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This is a shabad from the animated film Bhai Taru Singh from Vismaad Productions.I couldn't find this clip anywhere so I have got it from the DVDThis clip contains two shabad-----------------------------------------This Shabad is by Bhagat Sheikh Fareed Ji in Salok Fareed Jee on Pannaa 1379joban jaa(n)dhae naa ddaraa(n) jae seh preeth n jaae ||I am not afraid of losing my youth, as long as I do

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Saturday 17th Jan 2009 was the date for the latest Sikh Course. The course was held at Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Ilford.Over 130 people attended the course. There was a great atmosphere during the course, with plenty of questions and answers and great debate.There was a good mix of people from University students to elderly member of the community. There was even a celebrity in attendance...The next

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Alot of food's have labels on them to show various properties of the food. For example the UK has a traffic light system to show if the food is good for you or not. There are a set of ingredients on the label so we can see what makes up the food we are eating. There are also other labels to show how much sugar, salt and calories are in our food.Unfortunately there is one vital piece of

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The current credit crisis have got me thinking about how crazy our current financial systems are:Here are a lay man's observations about how it works.Why do we have to work? So that we can buy thingsWhy do we buy things? So that we feel happierWhy don't we stop buying things when we are happy? Because we are never happy / satisfied with what we have got and always strive to get the new "better"

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I was just reading a story on the the bbc website about how the US national debt clock couldn't cope with the size of the US's national debt. The electronic board had to be modified with the dollar sign ($) replaced with a (1).The Debt Clock problem has a few similarities with the Credit Crunch problem...1. People could see that the debt clock was reaching it's limit but they didn't do anything

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I am not fluent at reading Gurmukhi so I have always found it difficult to use the Sikhi To The Max software.Last weekend I was given an invaluable tip to make finding Shabads much easier. (Sorry if this an obvious tip but it has helped me so I hough I should pass it on)In the search section of SikhiToTheMax click on the option 'First Letter (from start)'. This will let you type in the first

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The Sikh Course has been developed to tell people about the fundamentals of the Sikh religion.Here is a quote from the website.Discover the fundamentals of the Sikh faith in a FREE one day course. The Sikh faith is an unknown to many people and yet it is full of gems which can dramatically improve your life and the lives of those around you. To register and find out more, simply visit:

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Jonah Takalua is a 13-year-old school boy in year 8 at Summer Heights High. He is of Tongan descent and lives with his father. Jonah, however acts up at school, treating his teachers with disrespect and bullying younger students. He is at serious risk of being expelled. Summer Heights High is Jonah’s third school after being expelled from two others in eighteen months for setting fire to a

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The new version of SikhiToTheMax has arrived. You can download it free from here. For anybody who doesn't know, SikhiToTheMax is software that includes a fully searchable version of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. Along with Gurmukhi, there is also English translations and Romanised script.I was surprised to read that the original version of SikhiToTheMax was never officially released. It seems that

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We have started to create presentations for the Gurdwara.The first one we have created is about what you have to do to be a Sikh.Right-click on the title of the post and choose 'save link as...' to download the presentation.

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Kids at the Gurdwara love playing 'Hangman' with Sikhi related words. Keeping this in mind we have developed a Sikhi related Hangman flash game.We created the flash game using a tutorial from http://www.lukamaras.comWe have packaged a zip file with the source code.We have made a few modifications to the game as compared to the tutorial. The first thing is that it automatically fills in any spaces

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We reached the final peak and I knew exactly what I had to do. I had 5 hours to complete the challenge in the 24 hour time limit. The guys who had done it before said it should be easy to do it in that time. I was still a bit worried that I'd got this far and could still fail to complete the challenge within 24 hours. I thought that Snowden was the most picturesque peak that we

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This is a shabad that we went through during a discussion group (Courtesy of SikhiToTheMax ) You will need to download a font from SikhiToTheMax to see the Gurmukhi scriptmwJ mhlw 4 ] maajh mehalaa 4 || Maajh, Fourth Mehla: mDusUdn myry mn qn pRwnw ] madhhusoodhan maerae man than praanaa || The Lord is my mind, body and

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Went to India in August 2007 (I know I was crazy to go in August, but I just forget how hot it gets).I went for two weeks. One week was spent going to Sri Hemkunt Sahib Ji. Here is a map of the journey (blue line)View Larger MapIt was quite tough because of the tight schedule, which wasn't helped by the odd land slide along the way!!!We set off during the night from Panjab and got to Hrishikesh

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I was inspired by Mr Singh's post about a new film and how it was similar to Purab aur Paschim, the classic film by Manoj Kumar.I decided to upload a song from the film. It's the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' with a desi twist.Here you go...

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I came across a site called Geni. It's a site where you can map your family tree.I thought it would be good to map out the Sikh Gurus family tree. So that you can see exactly how each of the Gurus were related.The tree starts with Guru Amar Das Ji and goes all the way to Guru Gobind Singh Ji. I have started it at Guru Amar Das Ji because he was related in some way to all the Gurus after him.I

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During the last few weeks I have been trying to get up earlier in the morning.Unfortunately I have been failing miserably.The pattern seems to be as follows. Every night I tell myself that I will wake up earlier so that I can do things like Path or finish off things that I didn't finish during the evening / night. I set my alarm for 6:00am. During the night I wake up at various times during the

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I have modified the example Blogger widget on Blogger Buzz. So that it shows Sikh Photos. Add it to you blog by clicking the button below. I have an example in the sidebar.The next step is to make a general widget that shows any type of photos that you want. </a><div id='flickr_badge_wrapper'><script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?

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I found this trick by accident.OverviewThe following procedure will allow you to play music on your computer without having to be in the same location. The music can be controlled from one location and it will play in another location.1. Set up your music output computer so that you can remote desktop to it.2. Set up your remote control computer / laptop so that you can remote desktop to the

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I wanted to do some work with API's and Web Services so I decided to create a standalone You Tube Video Viewer. I used C#.Net 2.0 to create it. The source is freely available to modify if you want.Some of the features of the You Tube Viewer are:Works independently of your browser.Search facility built inView thumbnail and description of video before playingFully re sizableThere are probable other

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The walk up Ben Nevis was a real experience. All the way down I was debating with myself about whether I should continue with the challenge or not. I decided to wait until we got to Scafell Pike to see if I wanted to continue. We set off for Scafell Pike, the second peak in our challenge.The drive to Scafell was done overnight. We all tried to get a bit of sleep (except the driver) to recover

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I've uploaded some videos from Manoj Kumar's Kranti.I don't think it's up to the standard of his earlier films like Upkar, Purab Aur Paschim or Roti Kapada Aur Makhan but when you have Dilip Kumar and Manoj Kumar in one film then it's bound to be a quality film.My favourite song in the film is Channa. The best part of the song is when the Dilip / Rafi combo kicks in. They both take the song to a

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I found this video on You Tube.It shows how Sikhs are stuck in the Caste system more than most other people, even though they are supposed to be totally against the Caste system.It's funny and has a great message

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I have created this Google Map showing all the Gurdwara's in Bradford, UKmap loading...TO DO:Add Info to each of the points with address details and name of GurdwaraIf you want to try something similar on your own site then go to the following link.Map in your blog tutorial

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We started at about 3pm on Saturday afternoon. One of my work collegeshad done the challenge before. He said that Ben Nevis was the longestone of the three peaks, but it was easier than Scafell Pike. I was in confident mood as we started. Myconfidence was completely misplaced. As soon as we started I knew itwas going to be tough. The first section on Ben Nevis is fairly steepand everybody else in

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