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Chakravarthy

4/29/2005 9:00:00 AM

Hi,

We are developing an application using ASP.NET with C# as the programming
language. I would like to know about, "How one can close the Browser by code?"

Note: This is not for treditional WebApplication where you can use
window.Close() method. Is there any other way to close the browser?

Regards,
DSK Chakravarthy
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12 Answers

Old Pif

10/17/2011 1:38:00 PM

0

On Oct 17, 2:17 am, kamal <kama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 3:36 am, "P. Rajah" <u...@this.com> wrote:> Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in India
>

> so how would you like to alleviate/fix the problem? or what is the
> purpose of pointing out the problem if not to try and fix it?
>
> thanks
> -kamal
>


Strange to see this kind of question from the expert on everything ...

Advice is use standard economic tools - taxation, tariffs. quotas ...

kamalpr

10/17/2011 2:25:00 PM

0

On Oct 17, 6:38 pm, Old Pif <old...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2:17 am, kamal <kama...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 17, 3:36 am, "P. Rajah" <u...@this.com> wrote:> Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in India
>
> > so how would you like to alleviate/fix the problem? or what is the
> > purpose of pointing out the problem if not to try and fix it?
>
> > thanks
> > -kamal
>
> Strange to see this kind of question from the expert on everything ...
>
well -i am no expert on many of the things on which I have expressed
my personal opinion.

> Advice is use standard economic tools - taxation, tariffs. quotas ...

I don't see how either of the above can solve the topic in subject:-
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in India.
Forget what tools you use -do you really have any interest in fixing
any of the above mentioned problems in India?

thanks
-kamal

usenet

10/17/2011 5:38:00 PM

0

Forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar

Why are 50 Million Americans starving by Rakesh Krishnan Simha

http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/America%60s-Most-Desperate-~-Why-are-50-million-Americans-starv...

The protesters camped at Wall Street are not just speaking out
against corporate greed, they are middle and lower income Americans
whose lives have been devastated by poverty and hunger -- compounded
by Washington's apathy.

Robert, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran, is a descendant of a long line
of American servicemen. Two years ago, he lost his home in Florida
and moved to Connecticut, where he now lives out of a van. Often, the
only hot meal he has is at the community soup kitchen. Robert's
hardest days are Wednesday and Sunday when the charity doesn't
operate; then he has nothing to eat.

Five years after the death of her husband, Rosalinde Block found
herself at a New York food pantry, in desperate need of food to feed
herself and her teenage son. She is no ordinary American. According
to ABC News, the 58-year-old graduated from an elite American college
and made her life as a musician, illustrator, author and teacher of
music and art.

Roy is a casualty of the New England fishing industry that went bust
in 2007. With nothing in the way of savings, the 39-year-old found
himself homeless for the first time in his life. Hunger has forced
the once proud Maryland resident to visit local charities.

Sherry Byrum, 50, is a minimum wage worker at a day care centre in
Spokane Valley, Washington. She and her husband, who is unable to
work because of heart surgery, get groceries at a local food bank,
but there have been occasions when the couple have gone several days
without food. "We've got to pay our bills," Byrum says. "I can't buy
us the things we should eat because of our diabetes. Sometimes I go
to bed in tears thinking I just can't do it all."

America may be the land of the free, but it is also the land of the
hungry. Job losses, home foreclosures and other recent crises have
been truly life altering for Americans, with over 50 million who do
not know where their next meal will come from. That's one in six
Americans struggling with hunger.

This is the official figure in December 2010 and experts say the
current figure could be higher. "The numbers are provided by the US
Department of Agriculture," Ross Fraser of Feeding America, the
nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, informed this
writer.

Doctors at American clinics say they have seen a dramatic increase in
the number of children they treat who are dangerously thin; that's
not surprising considering hunger is an everyday reality for 16
million American children.

Middle America Hurting

What is worrying the American establishment is the demographic that
is seeking help. Most of the newcomers that show up at Feeding
America's centres are from middle class backgrounds and had until now
managed without handouts.

All across the country, from LA to New York, it seems the soup
kitchen lines are getting longer. And requests are so high that food
centres nationwide are turning away the hungry. "We will soon have
the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country," says
Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center.

Indeed, right now many are fighting for their lives. A USDA report
says more than a third of these households "had very low food
security -- meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was
reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the
year because the household lacked money and other resources for
food".

Unequal Society

So why does a country that spends more on its military than the next
11 nations combined have so many people in such dire straits? How can
so many be hungry in a country that has bought 185 F-22 stealth
fighters at $361 million each?

The chief reason is that America is among the most unequal societies
in the world; it is a country where the wealthy have a huge
disconnect with ordinary folk. It is deeply disturbing to many but
American leaders do not see the irony in doling out $700 billion to
bail out New York's rogue bankers while 40 percent of New Yorkers
have problems affording food.

Unemployment is growing rapidly even as new jobs are not being
created. Washington cites an unemployment rate of 9 percent, but if
you include the number of Americans who have stopped looking for work
or who are unemployable, then the real figure is 17 percent or 51
million out of work.

Invisible Killer

According to a USDA official, hunger is very much a hidden problem.
"When you walk by people who may be hungry, it's not necessarily
evident they're hungry. This is something that low-income people
don't talk about a great deal."

Worse, those who can help are looking the other way. What most people
would describe as hunger, the USDA couches it in the euphemism "food
insecure". And deaths caused by malnutrition are passed off by
hospitals and coroners as "natural causes" or "failure of bodily
organs".

The US has been loath to admit such gaping holes in its socio-
economic fabric. A study titled The American Famine by Russian
researcher Boris Borisov says that as many as 8 million Americans
died of starvation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This
massive toll lies buried in US census data, but the government has
airbrushed the data out of official records.

Here is what a child wrote during those years: "We changed our usual
food for something more available. We used to eat bush leaves instead
of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died in a
year."

During the Depression millions lost their homes and literally ended
up in the streets. Today, foreclosures are again forcing people out
of their homes.

As the recession deepens, poor Americans are not just competing with
each other for food and resources. In the backdrop of declining
incomes and rising unemployment in the US, keeping in step with a
billion Indians and a billion Chinese in the global marketplace is
going to be an extremely tall order.

About the author: Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based writer
and a columnist for Russia Behind the Headlines. He has previously
worked with Businessworld, India Today and Hindustan Times, and was
news editor with the Financial Express.

Inspite of there being so many poor and hungry Americans the Church
continues to pour billions of dollars into India every year. In the
name of social service or to convert Hindus is best left unanswered.
Wonder why the Church does not use the same money to look after
millions of Christians back home. To details of remittances

http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Foreign-funds-to-NGOs~-Why-better-scrutiny-is-needed-FCRA-Report-2008...

Sanjeev Nayyar

Become a FAN of eSamskriti on Facebook -- www.facebook.com/eSamskriti

Our Mission - "A platform to share knowledge and insights which will
help Indians globally, to reconnect with our heritage so that
together we can build a truly glorious future".

End of forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar

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10/17/2011 6:26:00 PM

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Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> Forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar
>
> Why are 50 Million Americans starving by Rakesh Krishnan Simha
>
> http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/America%60s-Most-Desperate-...
> 50-million-Americans-starving-1.aspx
>
> The protesters camped at Wall Street are not just speaking out
> against corporate greed, they are middle and lower income Americans
> whose lives have been devastated by poverty and hunger -- compounded
> by Washington's apathy.
>
> Robert, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran, is a descendant of a long line
> of American servicemen. Two years ago, he lost his home in Florida
> and moved to Connecticut, where he now lives out of a van. Often, the
> only hot meal he has is at the community soup kitchen. Robert's
> hardest days are Wednesday and Sunday when the charity doesn't
> operate; then he has nothing to eat.
>
> Five years after the death of her husband, Rosalinde Block found
> herself at a New York food pantry, in desperate need of food to feed
> herself and her teenage son. She is no ordinary American. According
> to ABC News, the 58-year-old graduated from an elite American college
> and made her life as a musician, illustrator, author and teacher of
> music and art.
>
> Roy is a casualty of the New England fishing industry that went bust
> in 2007. With nothing in the way of savings, the 39-year-old found
> himself homeless for the first time in his life. Hunger has forced
> the once proud Maryland resident to visit local charities.
>
> Sherry Byrum, 50, is a minimum wage worker at a day care centre in
> Spokane Valley, Washington. She and her husband, who is unable to
> work because of heart surgery, get groceries at a local food bank,
> but there have been occasions when the couple have gone several days
> without food. "We've got to pay our bills," Byrum says. "I can't buy
> us the things we should eat because of our diabetes. Sometimes I go
> to bed in tears thinking I just can't do it all."
>
> America may be the land of the free, but it is also the land of the
> hungry. Job losses, home foreclosures and other recent crises have
> been truly life altering for Americans, with over 50 million who do
> not know where their next meal will come from. That's one in six
> Americans struggling with hunger.
>
> This is the official figure in December 2010 and experts say the
> current figure could be higher. "The numbers are provided by the US
> Department of Agriculture," Ross Fraser of Feeding America, the
> nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, informed this
> writer.
>
> Doctors at American clinics say they have seen a dramatic increase in
> the number of children they treat who are dangerously thin; that's
> not surprising considering hunger is an everyday reality for 16
> million American children.
>
> Middle America Hurting
>
> What is worrying the American establishment is the demographic that
> is seeking help. Most of the newcomers that show up at Feeding
> America's centres are from middle class backgrounds and had until now
> managed without handouts.
>
> All across the country, from LA to New York, it seems the soup
> kitchen lines are getting longer. And requests are so high that food
> centres nationwide are turning away the hungry. "We will soon have
> the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country," says
> Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center.
>
> Indeed, right now many are fighting for their lives. A USDA report
> says more than a third of these households "had very low food
> security -- meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was
> reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the
> year because the household lacked money and other resources for
> food".
>
> Unequal Society
>
> So why does a country that spends more on its military than the next
> 11 nations combined have so many people in such dire straits? How can
> so many be hungry in a country that has bought 185 F-22 stealth
> fighters at $361 million each?
>
> The chief reason is that America is among the most unequal societies
> in the world; it is a country where the wealthy have a huge
> disconnect with ordinary folk. It is deeply disturbing to many but
> American leaders do not see the irony in doling out $700 billion to
> bail out New York's rogue bankers while 40 percent of New Yorkers
> have problems affording food.
>
> Unemployment is growing rapidly even as new jobs are not being
> created. Washington cites an unemployment rate of 9 percent, but if
> you include the number of Americans who have stopped looking for work
> or who are unemployable, then the real figure is 17 percent or 51
> million out of work.
>
> Invisible Killer
>
> According to a USDA official, hunger is very much a hidden problem.
> "When you walk by people who may be hungry, it's not necessarily
> evident they're hungry. This is something that low-income people
> don't talk about a great deal."
>
> Worse, those who can help are looking the other way. What most people
> would describe as hunger, the USDA couches it in the euphemism "food
> insecure". And deaths caused by malnutrition are passed off by
> hospitals and coroners as "natural causes" or "failure of bodily
> organs".
>
> The US has been loath to admit such gaping holes in its socio-
> economic fabric. A study titled The American Famine by Russian
> researcher Boris Borisov says that as many as 8 million Americans
> died of starvation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This
> massive toll lies buried in US census data, but the government has
> airbrushed the data out of official records.
>
> Here is what a child wrote during those years: "We changed our usual
> food for something more available. We used to eat bush leaves instead
> of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died in a
> year."
>
> During the Depression millions lost their homes and literally ended
> up in the streets. Today, foreclosures are again forcing people out
> of their homes.
>
> As the recession deepens, poor Americans are not just competing with
> each other for food and resources. In the backdrop of declining
> incomes and rising unemployment in the US, keeping in step with a
> billion Indians and a billion Chinese in the global marketplace is
> going to be an extremely tall order.
>
> About the author: Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based writer
> and a columnist for Russia Behind the Headlines. He has previously
> worked with Businessworld, India Today and Hindustan Times, and was
> news editor with the Financial Express.
>
> Inspite of there being so many poor and hungry Americans the Church
> continues to pour billions of dollars into India every year. In the
> name of social service or to convert Hindus is best left unanswered.
> Wonder why the Church does not use the same money to look after
> millions of Christians back home. To details of remittances
>
> http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Foreign-funds-to-NGOs~-Why-...
> utiny-is-needed-FCRA-Report-2008~09-1.aspx
>
> Sanjeev Nayyar
>
> Become a FAN of eSamskriti on Facebook -- www.facebook.com/eSamskriti
>
> Our Mission - "A platform to share knowledge and insights which will
> help Indians globally, to reconnect with our heritage so that
> together we can build a truly glorious future".
>
> End of forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar

Lines at food banks in California are 3-4 times longer than what they
used to be just last year, according to the news.

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

P. Rajah

10/17/2011 6:54:00 PM

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"India is facing a stable famine situation"
Health and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen speaks to Governance Now
Trithesh Nandan | October 04 2011


Even as the top economists in the government concern themselves with 8
percent growth, they seem to be missing the urgent concerns. Health and
human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen talks of India's nutritional
failure and the ramifications it could have in an interview with
Trithesh Nandan.

Dr Sen says that large parts of the country are under the grip of a
stable famine situation since the last several years. As a member of
steering committee of health in the planning commission, he has been
vociferously laying India?s health woes in front of the policy makers.

Edited excerpts:

Q: Looking at the health of the country, what would be your immediate
area of concern?

A: I want to talk of the malnutrition problem which is rather shocking.
The extent of malnutrition in India is a part of general discussion but
it is not exactly known in the country. We generally discuss
malnutrition in children and also anemia in women, an extremely
important part. But over large parts of population in India, there is
stable famine, which is caused by high prevalence of malnutrition and
starvation and its has been continuing since years. This has not been in
the common knowledge.

Q: Can you elaborate more on stable famine conditions in India? How do
you measure it?

A: Considering body mass index (BMI)* as a measure of nutritional
status, people with BMI below 18.5 are regarded as undernourished. At
the population level, more than 40 percent of the pouplation with a BMI
less than 18.5 level indicates famine in the community, according to the
World Health Organisation (WHO). At least 37 percent of the total adult
population of India have BMI less than 18.5.

More:
http://www.governancenow.com/views/interview/india-facing-stable-famine...

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Old Pif

10/18/2011 1:47:00 AM

0

On Oct 17, 10:24 am, kamal <kama...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Advice is use standard economic tools - taxation, tariffs. quotas ...
>
> I don't see how either of the above can solve the topic in subject:-
> Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in India.
>

Well I am embarrassed to lecture such a great economist like you and
therefore, just remind that you always promulgate free trade, free
movement, free whatever. So, do just the opposite with undesirable
economic activity such as slavery - impose quotas, set up tariffs and
tax heavily slave traders and owners. Apparently right now the slave
market in India is completely free and unregulated which is why it
flourishes. Put some economic restrains if you don't like it.

usenet

10/18/2011 2:20:00 AM

0

Stocks Plunge; Dow Back in the Red for the Year

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/279...

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

kamalpr

10/18/2011 6:31:00 AM

0

On Oct 18, 6:47 am, Old Pif <old...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 10:24 am, kamal <kama...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > Advice is use standard economic tools - taxation, tariffs. quotas ...
>
> > I don't see how either of the above can solve the topic in subject:-
> > Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in India.
>
> Well I am embarrassed to lecture such a great economist like you and
> therefore, just remind that you always promulgate free trade, free

Thats been promulgated by your elected representatives and not me.

> movement, free whatever. So, do just the opposite with undesirable
> economic activity such as slavery - impose quotas, set up tariffs and
> tax heavily slave traders and owners. Apparently right now the slave

Slavery is illegal in India. So, how does one tax a mechanism that is
not legal in the first place? Child labour and various forms of forced
labour happen because of lack of economic oppurtunities.

> market in India is completely free and unregulated which is why it
> flourishes. Put some economic restrains if you don't like it.

My point was that if you are bringing this up, is it because you want
to get it fixed or because you have a hidden agenda to divert
attention from something else?

thanks
-kamal

usenet

10/18/2011 6:42:00 AM

0

The original post of this thread:

Forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar

Why are 50 Million Americans starving by Rakesh Krishnan Simha

http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/America%60s-Most-Desperate-~-Why-are-50-million-Americans-starv...

The protesters camped at Wall Street are not just speaking out
against corporate greed, they are middle and lower income Americans
whose lives have been devastated by poverty and hunger -- compounded
by Washington's apathy.

Robert, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran, is a descendant of a long line
of American servicemen. Two years ago, he lost his home in Florida
and moved to Connecticut, where he now lives out of a van. Often, the
only hot meal he has is at the community soup kitchen. Robert's
hardest days are Wednesday and Sunday when the charity doesn't
operate; then he has nothing to eat.

Five years after the death of her husband, Rosalinde Block found
herself at a New York food pantry, in desperate need of food to feed
herself and her teenage son. She is no ordinary American. According
to ABC News, the 58-year-old graduated from an elite American college
and made her life as a musician, illustrator, author and teacher of
music and art.

Roy is a casualty of the New England fishing industry that went bust
in 2007. With nothing in the way of savings, the 39-year-old found
himself homeless for the first time in his life. Hunger has forced
the once proud Maryland resident to visit local charities.

Sherry Byrum, 50, is a minimum wage worker at a day care centre in
Spokane Valley, Washington. She and her husband, who is unable to
work because of heart surgery, get groceries at a local food bank,
but there have been occasions when the couple have gone several days
without food. "We've got to pay our bills," Byrum says. "I can't buy
us the things we should eat because of our diabetes. Sometimes I go
to bed in tears thinking I just can't do it all."

America may be the land of the free, but it is also the land of the
hungry. Job losses, home foreclosures and other recent crises have
been truly life altering for Americans, with over 50 million who do
not know where their next meal will come from. That's one in six
Americans struggling with hunger.

This is the official figure in December 2010 and experts say the
current figure could be higher. "The numbers are provided by the US
Department of Agriculture," Ross Fraser of Feeding America, the
nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, informed this
writer.

Doctors at American clinics say they have seen a dramatic increase in
the number of children they treat who are dangerously thin; that's
not surprising considering hunger is an everyday reality for 16
million American children.

Middle America Hurting

What is worrying the American establishment is the demographic that
is seeking help. Most of the newcomers that show up at Feeding
America's centres are from middle class backgrounds and had until now
managed without handouts.

All across the country, from LA to New York, it seems the soup
kitchen lines are getting longer. And requests are so high that food
centres nationwide are turning away the hungry. "We will soon have
the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country," says
Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center.

Indeed, right now many are fighting for their lives. A USDA report
says more than a third of these households "had very low food
security -- meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was
reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the
year because the household lacked money and other resources for
food".

Unequal Society

So why does a country that spends more on its military than the next
11 nations combined have so many people in such dire straits? How can
so many be hungry in a country that has bought 185 F-22 stealth
fighters at $361 million each?

The chief reason is that America is among the most unequal societies
in the world; it is a country where the wealthy have a huge
disconnect with ordinary folk. It is deeply disturbing to many but
American leaders do not see the irony in doling out $700 billion to
bail out New York's rogue bankers while 40 percent of New Yorkers
have problems affording food.

Unemployment is growing rapidly even as new jobs are not being
created. Washington cites an unemployment rate of 9 percent, but if
you include the number of Americans who have stopped looking for work
or who are unemployable, then the real figure is 17 percent or 51
million out of work.

Invisible Killer

According to a USDA official, hunger is very much a hidden problem.
"When you walk by people who may be hungry, it's not necessarily
evident they're hungry. This is something that low-income people
don't talk about a great deal."

Worse, those who can help are looking the other way. What most people
would describe as hunger, the USDA couches it in the euphemism "food
insecure". And deaths caused by malnutrition are passed off by
hospitals and coroners as "natural causes" or "failure of bodily
organs".

The US has been loath to admit such gaping holes in its socio-
economic fabric. A study titled The American Famine by Russian
researcher Boris Borisov says that as many as 8 million Americans
died of starvation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This
massive toll lies buried in US census data, but the government has
airbrushed the data out of official records.

Here is what a child wrote during those years: "We changed our usual
food for something more available. We used to eat bush leaves instead
of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died in a
year."

During the Depression millions lost their homes and literally ended
up in the streets. Today, foreclosures are again forcing people out
of their homes.

As the recession deepens, poor Americans are not just competing with
each other for food and resources. In the backdrop of declining
incomes and rising unemployment in the US, keeping in step with a
billion Indians and a billion Chinese in the global marketplace is
going to be an extremely tall order.

About the author: Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based writer
and a columnist for Russia Behind the Headlines. He has previously
worked with Businessworld, India Today and Hindustan Times, and was
news editor with the Financial Express.

Inspite of there being so many poor and hungry Americans the Church
continues to pour billions of dollars into India every year. In the
name of social service or to convert Hindus is best left unanswered.
Wonder why the Church does not use the same money to look after
millions of Christians back home. To details of remittances

http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Foreign-funds-to-NGOs~-Why-better-scrutiny-is-needed-FCRA-Report-2008...

Sanjeev Nayyar

Become a FAN of eSamskriti on Facebook -- www.facebook.com/eSamskriti

Our Mission - "A platform to share knowledge and insights which will
help Indians globally, to reconnect with our heritage so that
together we can build a truly glorious future".

End of forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
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STOCKS GET CRUSHED AND EVERYONE'S AFRAID OF EUROPE AGAIN: Here's What
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> The original post of this thread:
>
> Forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar
>
> Why are 50 Million Americans starving by Rakesh Krishnan Simha
>
> http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/America%60s-Most-Desperate-...
> 50-million-Americans-starving-1.aspx
>
> The protesters camped at Wall Street are not just speaking out
> against corporate greed, they are middle and lower income Americans
> whose lives have been devastated by poverty and hunger -- compounded
> by Washington's apathy.
>
> Robert, a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran, is a descendant of a long line
> of American servicemen. Two years ago, he lost his home in Florida
> and moved to Connecticut, where he now lives out of a van. Often, the
> only hot meal he has is at the community soup kitchen. Robert's
> hardest days are Wednesday and Sunday when the charity doesn't
> operate; then he has nothing to eat.
>
> Five years after the death of her husband, Rosalinde Block found
> herself at a New York food pantry, in desperate need of food to feed
> herself and her teenage son. She is no ordinary American. According
> to ABC News, the 58-year-old graduated from an elite American college
> and made her life as a musician, illustrator, author and teacher of
> music and art.
>
> Roy is a casualty of the New England fishing industry that went bust
> in 2007. With nothing in the way of savings, the 39-year-old found
> himself homeless for the first time in his life. Hunger has forced
> the once proud Maryland resident to visit local charities.
>
> Sherry Byrum, 50, is a minimum wage worker at a day care centre in
> Spokane Valley, Washington. She and her husband, who is unable to
> work because of heart surgery, get groceries at a local food bank,
> but there have been occasions when the couple have gone several days
> without food. "We've got to pay our bills," Byrum says. "I can't buy
> us the things we should eat because of our diabetes. Sometimes I go
> to bed in tears thinking I just can't do it all."
>
> America may be the land of the free, but it is also the land of the
> hungry. Job losses, home foreclosures and other recent crises have
> been truly life altering for Americans, with over 50 million who do
> not know where their next meal will come from. That's one in six
> Americans struggling with hunger.
>
> This is the official figure in December 2010 and experts say the
> current figure could be higher. "The numbers are provided by the US
> Department of Agriculture," Ross Fraser of Feeding America, the
> nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, informed this
> writer.
>
> Doctors at American clinics say they have seen a dramatic increase in
> the number of children they treat who are dangerously thin; that's
> not surprising considering hunger is an everyday reality for 16
> million American children.
>
> Middle America Hurting
>
> What is worrying the American establishment is the demographic that
> is seeking help. Most of the newcomers that show up at Feeding
> America's centres are from middle class backgrounds and had until now
> managed without handouts.
>
> All across the country, from LA to New York, it seems the soup
> kitchen lines are getting longer. And requests are so high that food
> centres nationwide are turning away the hungry. "We will soon have
> the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country," says
> Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center.
>
> Indeed, right now many are fighting for their lives. A USDA report
> says more than a third of these households "had very low food
> security -- meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was
> reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the
> year because the household lacked money and other resources for
> food".
>
> Unequal Society
>
> So why does a country that spends more on its military than the next
> 11 nations combined have so many people in such dire straits? How can
> so many be hungry in a country that has bought 185 F-22 stealth
> fighters at $361 million each?
>
> The chief reason is that America is among the most unequal societies
> in the world; it is a country where the wealthy have a huge
> disconnect with ordinary folk. It is deeply disturbing to many but
> American leaders do not see the irony in doling out $700 billion to
> bail out New York's rogue bankers while 40 percent of New Yorkers
> have problems affording food.
>
> Unemployment is growing rapidly even as new jobs are not being
> created. Washington cites an unemployment rate of 9 percent, but if
> you include the number of Americans who have stopped looking for work
> or who are unemployable, then the real figure is 17 percent or 51
> million out of work.
>
> Invisible Killer
>
> According to a USDA official, hunger is very much a hidden problem.
> "When you walk by people who may be hungry, it's not necessarily
> evident they're hungry. This is something that low-income people
> don't talk about a great deal."
>
> Worse, those who can help are looking the other way. What most people
> would describe as hunger, the USDA couches it in the euphemism "food
> insecure". And deaths caused by malnutrition are passed off by
> hospitals and coroners as "natural causes" or "failure of bodily
> organs".
>
> The US has been loath to admit such gaping holes in its socio-
> economic fabric. A study titled The American Famine by Russian
> researcher Boris Borisov says that as many as 8 million Americans
> died of starvation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This
> massive toll lies buried in US census data, but the government has
> airbrushed the data out of official records.
>
> Here is what a child wrote during those years: "We changed our usual
> food for something more available. We used to eat bush leaves instead
> of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died in a
> year."
>
> During the Depression millions lost their homes and literally ended
> up in the streets. Today, foreclosures are again forcing people out
> of their homes.
>
> As the recession deepens, poor Americans are not just competing with
> each other for food and resources. In the backdrop of declining
> incomes and rising unemployment in the US, keeping in step with a
> billion Indians and a billion Chinese in the global marketplace is
> going to be an extremely tall order.
>
> About the author: Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based writer
> and a columnist for Russia Behind the Headlines. He has previously
> worked with Businessworld, India Today and Hindustan Times, and was
> news editor with the Financial Express.
>
> Inspite of there being so many poor and hungry Americans the Church
> continues to pour billions of dollars into India every year. In the
> name of social service or to convert Hindus is best left unanswered.
> Wonder why the Church does not use the same money to look after
> millions of Christians back home. To details of remittances
>
> http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Foreign-funds-to-NGOs~-Why-...
> utiny-is-needed-FCRA-Report-2008~09-1.aspx
>
> Sanjeev Nayyar
>
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> End of forwarded post from Sanjeev Nayyar
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
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