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Agle hafte di competition hovegi "Sab Tau Interesting/Sohni Profile."

Mai socheya sareya nu das deva, taan ki tussi saray apni profile nu modify kar sako competition which enter karan layee.

Koyee khaas rules nahi haige, just no offensive pictures or words.

Jehra vi vote pauna chaunda hove finalists nu, ohde kol minimum 200 posts hone chaide, nahi ta ohdi vote count nahi keeti jaavegi.


Let's pimp those profiles!

Boy hears back from 'Heaven'
Brantford student, 11, gets reply after sending 'touching letter' to God
May 31, 2009

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Bob Mitchell
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When Bailey Pinto tied a letter to God to a helium balloon and sent it flying into the sky, he hoped but never dreamed the Almighty would write him back.

Bailey, 11, of Brantford, Ont., asked God in the letter what it was like in heaven and whether miracles happen. Bailey's father, Paul, has served in Kosovo and Bosnia with the Canadian Forces and the boy is worried because his father is expected to join a unit in Afghanistan next March.

While God never replied, a Brampton criminal lawyer did, and their unlikely paths have created an experience neither will forget.

It was actually Gary Batasar's wife who found the mysterious letter inside a zip-lock bag on the driveway of their Brampton home earlier this month.

"It was such a touching letter that I knew I had to try to give him a reply that he deserved," said Batasar, who has defended drug dealers and killers.

Batasar also had T-shirts made and he sent them to Notre Dame, the boy's school in Brantford. The T-shirts have a child holding a pink balloon and looking up into the air with the words "Dear God. What is it like it heaven?"

Batasar initially thought about buying pizza for Bailey's Grade 6-7 class, where all 26 students wrote letters to God as part of a project.

"But I wanted something they would remember for a long time," said Batasar, who has three young children. "I think that over 100 years have passed since the famous 'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus' letter. Perhaps this will have the same kind of snowball effect like – Yes, Bailey, there is a God."

It has been three weeks since the students sent their letters into the air but Bailey is the only one to receive a reply.

"I was so surprised," Bailey said. "It was amazing that he liked my letter. It was really cool."

In his return letter, Batasar told Bailey he wasn't an authority on God but tried to answer him the way he thought God would reply.

He said heaven was a "wonderful place" filled with love, life and laughter, where children play, families reunite and adults love each other regardless of religion, ethnic origin, class or skin colour.

He also said it was unfortunate people don't always get along on earth, where wars are fuelled by hate, greed and differences.

"It makes no sense," Batasar wrote, suggesting things could be different if people could read Bailey's letter. "They would feel ashamed of themselves that a child of your tender age has more sense than they do."

John McDermid, principal of Notre Dame, called it the "feel-good story of the year at our school."

At first, school officials didn't know what to make of the large parcel that arrived at their doorstep.

"We weren't sure ... what was in the box," McDermid said. "It was addressed to one of our students from a Brampton lawyer with 'Heaven' marked as the return address.

Bailey said he and his younger sister, Alexis, 8, have been tying letters to balloons for a couple of years. Usually, it's just pen pal stuff, asking people to reply.

"We've never got a reply so Bailey was really excited," said his father.

Pinto, 38, has been with the army for 14 years and is a reservist posted in Cambridge. He had been based in Petawawa but moved back to his hometown last August to take some time to be a full-time single father.

Bailey's teacher, Andy O'Brien, has been having his students send letters into the sky for more than a decade, although most have been hellos, not questions to God. Once, when he was teaching in Oshawa, a reply came back from an international school in Panama.

"Nothing like this," O'Brien said. "I know everybody, the entire staff, was touched."

This is the fourth largest bankruptcy filing in the USA and the largest for an industrial company. The world as we know it is changing. This story is taken  from the New York Times.


G.M. Files for Bankruptcy Protection
June 1, 2009, 8:07 am

GM

General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, a humbling fate for the longtime titan of American industry.

The bankruptcy filing, which includes G.M.’s Saturn unit, is a means to a government-sponsored reorganization that would slim the carmaker down by selling its most desirable assets to a new entity that would be majority owned by American taxpayers.

G.M. said in its filing that it had $82.3 billion in assets and $172.8 billion in debts, including $26.3 billion in unsecured debt held by more than 500 creditors. Its largest creditors were listed as the Wilmington Trust Company, representing holders of nearly $22.8 billion of bond debt, and affiliates of the United Auto Workers union, representing nearly $20.6 billion in employee obligations.

The case was assigned to Robert E. Gerber of the Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Manhattan. Before joining the bench in 2000, Mr. Gerber was a partner at the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, specializing in bankruptcy.

These photos are taken from www.sikhpioneers.org
The website shows in great detail the first pioneer Sikhs in Canada. There are lots of interesting stories and pictures.

Sikh Soldiers



First Gurudwara in Victoria, B.C.



Famous Lumber Yards of Vancouver

Sat Sri Akal Dosto/Saheliyo,

Es hafte di competition haigi, "Gana Likho".

Rules: Gana os Punjabi musician/artist te hona chaida, jehra saday naal hun es duniya wich nahi reha. Tuhanu minimum do tappe likhne pehne, par ziyada vi likh sakde. Yaad rave, hamesha vangu, gana kisse nu offend na kare.

Gana likhan layee ek hafte di muhlat ditti javegi. Fer assi aggay vangu voting karange. Es time award thora different hovega. Osnu mai baad wich samjaungi.

Examples of artists: Soni Pabla, Surjit Bindrakhia, Jagmohan Kaur, Surinder Kaur, Kaka Bhainiawala, Kulwinder Dhillon...or anyone that is no longer with us in this world.


Je kisse nu samaj nahi laggi, ta please menu puch levo.


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Ah dekho, apni body di photo ta layee ki koyee ah qayamat na dekh lave.

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Thank you everyone for participating and uploading your hard work. Below are our finalists. All of the banners are awesome! Voting is on and as always results will be posted after voting closes. Good Luck!


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The following was posted originally on Sikhnet.com


Sonny Caberwal's moody looks have won him a string of commissions and caused a surge of pride and excitement throughout the world's Sikh community.

Mr Caberwal's appearance in GQ's Style magazine for spring-summer 2009 has been hailed as major boost for Sikh traditionalists. In a spread, shot by Gregor Hohenberg, Mr Caberwal, 30, poses in a black dinner jacket, black silk scarf and a pink turban. In another he wears a white tuxedo with a yellow sunflower and matching turban.

His sudden emergence as a model has come as a surprise to him. Mr Caberwal, who was working as a business developer for IT companies while running his own tea firm, was discovered by Kenneth Cole, the American fashion designer, early last year.

He featured in a video called "We Walk in Different Shoes" and was signed up by the American and South African model agency Boss.
"Cole was looking for a turbaned man for their 25th anniversary campaign, but could find no professional Sikh model," he said. "My brother-in-law suggested that I email a photo to them, and the rest is history."

He said is delighted and proud of the reaction he has received so far, and hopes it will promote greater self-confidence among Sikh men.

"It's not about me, but about Sikh identity and about our culture and traditions being in a positive light to people around the world," he said.

Although Sikh American-Indian hotelier Vikram Chatwal featured briefly in Zoolander, the Ben Stiller satire on the fashion world, Mr Caberwal is believed to be the world's only Sikh professional model.