Agrarian reform gets P10 billi

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the OPEC Fund for International Development have extended P10 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for basic rural infrastructure projects to the Department of Agrarian Reform.

OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries.

Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman on Friday said that the P10 billion would go to farm-to-market roads and irrigation systems that are expected to be completed within five years in 152 agrarian-reform communities nationwide.

Pangandaman added that the five-year project, dubbed as the Second Agrarian Reform Communities Project, is the biggest since it nearly doubles the cost of the previous project.

The first Chloe Bags phase of the project, worth P5.8 billion, was implemented for eight years, which ended in 2007.

Pangandaman said the new project, jointly initiated by the Agrarian Reform department and the Asian Development Bank, covers the provinces of Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Sorsogon, Romblon and Marinduque in Luzon; Eastern Samar, Western Samar, Northern Samar, Leyte and Negros Occidental in the Visayas; and Zamboanga-Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi and Sulu in Mindanao.

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He thanked the donors for making the Second Agrarian Reform Communities Project possible.

Pangandaman said that the continuing support provided by the ADB and other partners in the donor community "is a testament to the capability and credibility of the [department] to implement large-scale, multi-stakeholder development projects under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)."

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He expressed hope that the foreign donors' continued support to the agrarian reform program would help pave the way for the immediate passage of the agrarian reform extension law, which is being deliberated upon in Congress.

ADB representative Dr. Manoshi Mitra said that agrarian reform program was playing a vital role in "ending inequalities through land distribution as well as through the provision of support services to various agrarian reform communities."

Mitra added that the project aims to help raise the standards of living of farmer-beneficiaries, reduce incidence of poverty and promote lasting peace in the countryside.

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Ah, England

Ah, England

THE MID-1980S. TWO SISTERS, NONI AND LOLA, live in Kalimpong in the northeast corner of India at the foot of Mount Kanchejunga and in view of Mount Everest, absorbed by "Trollope, BBC, . . . Christmas time," shop in London and return with chocolates. Their neighbor, a judge named Patel, educated at Cambridge, is disgruntled at his unfulfilled life stuck away in the corner of this primitive land. His marriage dissolved because he was a "cartoon of the West . . . with his Wellington boots, binoculars and bird-watching book; with his Yeats, his Rilke, his Mandelstam ... his Burberry socks." His granddaughter, Sai, is "a westernized Indian brought up by English nuns, an estranged Indian living in India." Addicted to English novels, she falls bookishly in love with her mathematics tutor Gyan, a Muslim Nepalese. Also, there's Biju, son of the judge's cook. Biju lives in New York where he is on the run from the INS and sleeps in a series of rat-infested slums. Finally there is old, colonial India with its European and Eastern clutter: "Tibetan choksee tables painted in jade and flame colors piled with books, including a volume of paintings by Nicholas Roerich," along Balenciaga Handags Replica with "all of Jane Austen," and "Wedgwood in the dining room cabinet"-"Magpie things gleaned from a romantic version of the West and a fanciful version of the East."

All this is the substrate of Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss1 which documents the collapse of one kind of civility based nostalgically on English life, and the emergence of another-rash, uncivil, chaotic, and violent-at large in India today. In the wake of 9/11, it is an attempt to grapple with the human dimension of our current dilemmas by doing what novels have always done best, delineate the lives of a small cast of characters in reaction to the historic forces around them. Moving swiftly between New York, Europe, and India during the Indian-Nepali insurgency of twenty years ago, the novel is alive and luminous, compelling, and gorgeously written despite the ideological shrillness of our times. Her characters are quirky and privately motivated, and her prose is lush, playful, and occasionally too self-consciously crafted Thomas sabo charms for the business at hand. Her roots, like those of her colorful and anachronistic characters, lie in the English comic novel and therefore project an attitude that might appear mannered and complacent in a world that gnashes its teeth over past humiliations and present-day wrongs.

"Tolerance, good temper and sympathy . . . are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long" said E. M. Forster in 1939. "But for the moment they are not enough, their action is no stronger than a flower, battered beneath a military jackboot." And also today while Desai's small community of Anglophiles is in the process of being swept away, the rest of the world is busy proclaiming "Gorkhaland for Gorkhas." It is not, of course, that the complaints are invalid. Under the old regime, the Gorkhas (Gurkas) were mistreated, and those, like Lola and Noni who benefited under British rule, were "baldly richer" than the impoverished majority among whom they live. Love, too, is apt to be an impertinent distraction to individuals like Gyan who join the revolutionaries out of a sense of nationalist outrage. And even the judge has apparently forgotten how, during his student years in England, he was treated like a wog. Similarly Biju discovers how foolish his expectations are. No matter; "The anger had solidified into slogans and guns," and all of these dreamers will "pay the debt that should be shared over many generations." What is inherited as "loss" are primarily the solipsistic p
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Americans want to travel more, spend less

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More Americans are planning vacations away from home this Fourth of July weekend, even as summer travelers plan to stick to tight budgets, according to two recent surveys.

Auto club AAA forecast that about 34.9 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home over Independence Day weekend, up from 29.8 million during the 2009 holiday.

But fewer people are traveling compared to the more carefree times before the financial crisis. This year's projection is 7.7 percent below 2008 Independence Day travel levels, and 17.5 percent below the number of travelers during the July Fourth weekend in 2007.

Even as more travelers hit the road on Fourth of July weekend, AAA expects that vacationers will spend less: $644, on median, down from $693 in 2009. It expects lower spending even though hotel rates, airfare and car rental prices are expected to rise.

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If you're looking to remove some salt in your diet, take a sharp look at your daily lunch.

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More than 90 percent of U.S. adults eat more salt than they should, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of that sodium comes from the processed grains and meats present in many lunches.

The CDC said common foods that might not even replica balenciaga handbags taste salty were big sodium culprits. It cited breads, pizza and cookies. Deli meats, such as turkey and ham, common in sandwiches, were also big sources of salt.

Dietary guidelines say adults should consume only 2,300 milligrams, or a teaspoon of salt, each day. U.S. adults are taking in about 50 percent more salt than they should, on average, according to the CDC's report.

Eating too much sodium can lead to higher blood pressure.

The Associated Press

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