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A common misperception is that the there’s not enough food to feed the world’s 1+ billion who go hungry every day. Another lie is that the population growth is too high to feed so many people. The truth is there’s more than enough food to feedeveryone. In fact, the majority of the world’s food supply doesn’t even go to people but to fatten farm animals raised for meat.  This is also why food prices have risen – food that could be sold to people is in shortage because it’s instead eaten by cows, pigs, chickens, fish, and other livestock.

सृष्टि पूर्वर सृष्टि पछी जुनतत्वो बिधमन रहन्छ त्योहो शिव।जसलाई भगवान इस्वर परमात्मा आदि नामले पुकार्छौँ। उस्को कुनै रुप कर्म गुन र कृया हुदैन।जसबाट सम्पुर्ण निकाल्दा सम्पुर्णनै निस्किन्छ र सम्पुर्ण बाँकी रहन्छ। जसलाई हाम्रो मन बुद्धि बाणी द्वारानै प्राप्त गर्न सकिदैंन आदि अन्त रहित अखन्ड तत्वनै शिवतत्वहो। शिवको अर्थ हो कल्याण।शिवतत्व प्राप्त गर्नु नै प्राणि मात्रको लक्ष्य हो। ब्रम्हा बिष्णु महेश्वोर्जस्को ध्यान गर्छन्र अनन्त शक्ति प्राप्त गरेर सृष्टि  स्थिती लय गर्छन्।

An online meeting of the ANMA executive members was held on January 15, 2011. There were 13 members present. Various concurrent topics were discussed. The main highlights and resolution of the meetings are below.

Recruiting ANMA life members for effective reach-out and financial strength. Life member fee is $250. Eleven people in the meeting committed to become ANMA life members and decided to approach other friends. Executive members were assigned as regional coordinators to contact, coordinate and participate in different Nepalese social and other organization in ANMA region.

Nepali American Center (NAC) is actively reaching out to community members and leaders to facilitate various activities and to raise the fund for a physical facility in the Chicagoland.  The Center has come with plans and tentative timelines for following events and initiatives:

An oath taking ceremony and first meeting of the new Board of Directors of the NRN NCC USA was held in New York on January 8, 2011. The board consisted of six executive members with Mr. Suman Timsina as the president. Similarly there are nineteen Board of Directors representing different region, social groups and other Nepalese organization in USA.

बितेछ बिसौ बर्ष 

इसारा मेरो  बुझन

आखामा हेरन मायालु 

माया मेरो गहिरो छ है 

सतहमा नखोज  मायालु  /

During my most recent trip to Nepal I volunteered teaching English in the village of Damdame, a small rural village several hours north of Pokhara. I was there for one week with an American friend and two other Westerners. Volunteering in Damdame was a thoroughly rewarding and thought-provoking experience. The village, though poor financially, and rural (no electricity or roads), was extremely rich in culture, its inhabitants among the most hospitable to be found anywhere in Nepal during my trip. The people of this small community were mostly Gurungs and almost all of them farmers. They live traditionally with extended family and ate most of their food from the land. 

Nepali American Center (NAC) wishes you and your family a very Happy New Year 2011. May this new year bring happiness and prosperity to you and your loved ones.

Every single one of us has potential but the catch is that the word itself comes along with a degree of flexibility.

As a child, we were granted the gift of creativity and imagination.  We utilized these two things and learned what every child learns. We figured out how to fend for ourselves- whether it was waiting for our parents to put a bowl of biscuits in front of us, taking biscuits from the grasps of other babies, or finding biscuits on the floor and scooping them into our mouths.  No matter what method we chose the outcome was all the same. At the end of the day we realized that biscuits would always be within reach.  Now this principle continues to take effect today. Most of us have the means to get what we want on our own yet we likely have support systems in the form of family and friends as insurance.

For the last few months, I have been playing with Virtual Box from Sun/Oracle as the virtualization platform for my laptop. To those not familiar with the technology Virtualization in a very simplistic term, allows to run many operating systems on the same physical hardware. As an example on a Windows XP laptop/desktop hardware (host), it is possible to install most of the operating systems (as guests) such as Linux, Solaris, and different flavors of Windows: Windows 3.1,Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc. It is also possible to run multiple guest instances of the same operating system (such as Windows XP) on the same physical hardware.