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Sprint for -- as the government continues pushing so called health foods on Americans a new avenue -- junior shows.
Model Kate Upton getting heated up over eating one of its new burgers.
Meanwhile tackle battle is shelling out plans to turn its taco shell into a big.
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I don't -- a burden on health.
It's obviously worked for Kate -- so.
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What to eat how to access sides -- about walk all of the -- pentagon again and did this because they'll -- -- didn't.
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So you know that there's a balance -- and I think a public private partnership with business and government to know that what you are eating is actually what you think you're eating.
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Net net that's the real dangerous.
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Not something a conservative would admit.
Great, Jeb. Let´s create more welfare leeches (as if Johnson didn´t create enough.)
Lets run another bush with our nation of LoFos that´ll get get us back in the White House for sure!
JEB = LBJSurprise, surprise. Another boob named Bush.Let´s do it again!
Really Jeb....one of the WORST presidents ever. Holy cow...have you no sense at all.
All Bushes go to hell.
How´s the "Great Society" working out for America? You better think about that before you say any more dumb things.
To openly admit... and broadcast this info, clearly The Progressives think they are untouchabe. Jeb simply reiterates what we already knew.... but loud enough to try & convince the Lo Fo´s he´s their man.If he announces an exploratory team for the GOP primary... we must have a 3rd party ready to roll.
This is good to know. Now I wont have to keep saying "I dont know why, I just dont trust him."
Gee, thanks for the warning. I hope we have a better choice than that. LBJ was a lying democrat, Gulf of Tonkin, so I don´t think that we need another one.
Thanks, Jeb. You clinched my vote. Just because LBJ is from Texas does not mean he automatically gets our vote. Never cared for him; don´t care so much for your politics either. No way, Jeb This country has seen far too many of ´your kind´
thats how george sr and jr lead this country so where is the news here by the way those of us that rememberf lbj he was god awful almost as bad as carter and zero
Jeb sounds like the perfect fellow for Karl Rove to push on us.Gabula
LBJ was only on JFK´s ticket to attract Southern voters. Had the assassination not happened LBJ would´ve faded into the woodwork. He was totally unprepared for what happened and tried to please too many people at once.
Thanks for the warning, JEB...
Comparing yourself to fellow Texas Landslide Lyndon will not help you "win the hearts and minds" of the inhabitants of flyover country Governor.Here´s an unsolicited suggestion...Why not consider moving south of the Rio Grande and running for Presidente of The United Mexican States?
Why would a conservative ever make a statement like this? Wait, this is a karl rove republican, a long way from conservative.
Come out come out wherever you are all paling hatin rove luvin etch a sketch Romney is the only one social conservative issues should be abandoned sever conservatives!
Suspicions confirmed!!!!
Meh, nice try. Lo-Fo´s wouldn´t have a clue who LBJ is, they´d wonder what label he raps for.
Did anyone here actually read the article? Jeb points out that LBJ was a leader - he got into the thick of things with Congress, actually worked with members of both parties, negotiated, bargained, cajoled - whatever it took to get things done. Unlike President Obama, who makes a campaign-style speech and then flies off to a golf outing, leaving Congress to sit on its hands - after which he pouts that nobody listens to him.We may not all agree with the outcomes that LBJ promoted, but no one can claim that he didn´t get things done.
The Bushes are loathsome
"Did anyone here actually read the article?"You´re joking, right?
You´ve got to love Reagan´s comment on the "War on Poverty".
"Bush, who has a book on comprehensive immigration reform due out next month, said it was "un-American" to have illegal immigrants living in fear of exposure. "So I´m un-American if I expect people to follow the laws. I am sick of Jeb Bush and his holier than thou attitude to those of us who think that following the law is a good thing. They wouldn´t have to live in the shadows if they followed the proper channels to live in the country. THey sure did a lot of hiding to get into the country so they are experts on it.
I voted for Bush twice. During his second term I was appalled by his actions. Bush started the DHS, TSA and signed the Patriot Act. He worked lovingly with Ted Kennedy to waste billions. His selected prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, persecuted our fine Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean. Bush is partially responsible that Obama was able to be elected. I wouldn´t vote for any Bush, ever.
If you read the article, he was referring to Johnson´s legislative skills, not his policies.This is a very misleading headline.
Jeb, started out as a conservative governor in Fl.and somewhere turned left. Who would want to govern like Johnson? That means blackmail,arm twisting, backroom deals and more government.
...hip hip hurray!!!! this one stupid, telling statement by jeb bush has ended his campaign before it started!!!!
Doubt that Jeb has either the instincts or chops to pull it off.
That´s nice, Jeb. Maybe you can run as a Democrat.
A lot of LBJ´s legislative success was helped along by his ´close´ association with Katherine Graham. Is that what the rinos have in mind?
On the Democrat side it will be Biden, Clinton, and a few others looking to take on the job of POTUS.Republicans need to have name-recognition and stop focusing on social issues. They will take care of themselves once you actually gain majorities, and the power that comes with a majority party.Focus on fiscal responsibility, energy development and how both link to funding gov´t without raising taxes.When Democrats talk about education, remind them it´s a local funding issue, mostly with local property taxes, so why is this a federal conversation?But then pivot to how an expanded energy production boom will help NEW revenues to pay for things like education, police and firefighters.And has the opportunity to lower our gasoline prices which will be a benefit to taxpayers, and businesses alike.
Thanks Jeb, for the heads up.
Read the article, his explanation for this statement is overridden by the complete amnesty he wants for illegals. I would never vote for him. Never.
Soooo, he would be a dyed-in-the-wool racist? A man for whom nothing was not political and who so bungled a war that he -- an incredibly ambitious politician -- didn´t run for re-election.What is Jeb Bush smoking?
He is just pandering to the Dems with his idolizing comment of LBJ. Won´t work!
The illegal immigrants I see are not afraid of exposure - they amass in the streets, they complain of being called ´illegal´, they´re offended if students chant ´USA´....Seem pretty bold to me.
Jeb, you moron, you have made a grievous error. Is he looking for $ from Dems?If I wanted someone playing games with the Senate, I´d have backed McCain when he started his presidential run. gag.
I do not want another Bush (or Clinton) in the White House, despite the fact that I loved Dubya. But how can our analyses be taken seriously when we base them, like the liberals do, on misleading headlines that only serve as chum for folks who aren´t really open to considering a thing thoughtfully?It just makes us look dumb.
Jeb better study history...LBJ came with a vast knowledge of Congress and his powerful connections there. He was willing to use his executive power like no one since to get his way. He won by a landslide in ´64 and had unthreatened majorities in both chambers. Jeb, who I believe is unelectable, has nothing going for him. Ex-Governor of Florida is not the same credential as Senate Majority leader and Vice President carrying on the work of a martyr.
I have no doubt he would. His brother certainly did, getting us mired down in an unwinnable war and expanding prescription drugs to the elderly.What we need is a libertarian now. We´re all done with the Bushes.And Rubio, who has close ties to this dinosaur, needs to distance himself.
Yuck. Thanks for the warning, Jeb.
Reason #71,328 to NOT nominate for Jeb Bush.
He´s got the example of Reagan, who knew how to deal with Tip O´Neill - and he prefers Johnson. Thanks for letting us know, Jebster.
OMGthe bushes are more responsible for the destruction of the republicasn party than any family or person i know of.stay outa da bushes
I always suspected Jeb`s mouth was big enough to fit both of his feet. Now I know.
Well, if he wants to jump party lines, so be it.He wasn´t much more than a RINO anyway.
Color me surprised that the headline is misleading!It really doesn´t matter if it is or not. Jeb Bush is still a RINO, and will more than likely be Roves #1 pick for the 2016 round. Watch and see.
OMG! Jeb, what did you drink? Even your brother wouldn´t say something so dumb or even think such a thing. LBJ sure couldn´t run a war.
I have been saying this for a long, long time,NO. Jeb Bush is a squishy middle of the road ,go along to get along Repub who will reach to the left if he needs to look good. I also don´t want his loud mouth ."Sarah Palin should stay in Alaska" mother out there. I have not forgot that nor have I forgiven her..Absolutely NO!
Actually, #23, I did read the article. Jeb Bush said stupid things in stupid ways. Like Lyndon Johnson, Bush wants to get things done in Washington. I want to get things undone. He says that "it is completely un-American to require people living in the shadows." That´s bad grammar, but he seems to be saying that I am un-American because I do not want to help people who are not Americans break our laws. This is the best we can do for 2016?You´re joking, right?
I like Jeb Bush but he´s another big government progressive supported by back-stabbing Karl Rove.
LOL # 23. I don´t think Jeb should run a third bush is too much, it goes against out traditions. Some of you look beyond foolish, I guess your to lazy to read the article, we have our own low information voters. To the lazy Bush was an economic and social conservative, very tough law and order 10-10-10. Of course you would have had to take the time to look up his record to know that,and that´s to much effort.
I suspect that Jeb grew up in a delusional family that thought highly of LBJ. Those old enough to remember LBJ know he was a total failure as a CIC who mismanaged a military he did not understand. Like Obama, he was way in over his head and stumbling from one bad idea to the next.
I lived through the Johnson era, which was a nightmare. It was when our country exploded and began its noisy descent to hell in a handbasket. The whole problem was that Johnson couldn´t govern. He was famously a great armtwister and deal maker in the Senate -- possibly the most powerful and effective Senator to operate in the 20th Century -- but the skill set that made him so effective in the Senate was exactly what was not needed to govern a country. Plus, he never got over the fact that every Kennedy-Worshiper in the country resented him for succeeding John F. Kennedy, and Johnson did not have the leadership skills to overcome this.Jeb Bush was our governor here in Florida, and did a very creditable job, but if Lyndon Johnson is his Presidential model, he should be kept away from the Presidency.
Jeb, find Karl Rove and both of you disappear.
Since this Bush is a champion for amnesty, so if the liberal Democrats get their so-called comprehensive immigration reform through which is nothing more then amnesty in a gift box with a fancy name, this Bush should think about running as a Democrat, as the Democrats will then have about 10 million new foreign born voters.
So what.
Wow. Just mind-blowing, head-slapping wow.
He finally fessed up? Jeb is a statist pol and he admits it?
´´Say goodnight Jeb´´. ´´Goodnight Jeb´´.
I understand WHY he said it, but he should surely understand the power of one-liners by now.I know that someone of Jeb´s ability should be able to make himself useful somewhere besides the Presidency.
I´m very disheartened to see so many nasty comments about the Bushes. I see them realistically (Jeb, go sit down...) but the invective is disappointing. I thought that was saved for the likes of KOS or DU.
Hey Jeb! While your heads up there, check for polyps. The GOP is a rotting husk.
LBJ was an absolute, power playing, arm twisting, string pulling politician who micro-managed the Vietnam war from the war room under the White House. (Those bohyas kain´t bomb a s*** house without mayh say-so from rait here!)He was the epitome of what is wrong with our government.He also killed many, many fine men without knowing what he was doing.
That should have been. ...("Those bohyas...here")


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Battlefield 4 developer DICE will cease working on expansions for the shooter until issues across all platforms are rectified, an EA spokesperson has said. This also means work on Star Wars Battlefront 3 has been put on hold, as all hands are on deck to fix BF4.
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Yakuza Restoration video shows katana and dual wielding gameplay
Yakuza Restoration – known in Japan as Yakuza Ishin – will feature gamplay elements other than just beating up enemies. According to a new video released, featuring producer Masayoshi Yokoyama and designer Shinnosuke Hirasawa, the game will also contains some dungeon crawling. Yakuza aficionados needn't worry though: combat will remain similar to previous games in ther series, only with a feudal Japan twist. In the video, you will see two-handed fighting using a katana, and dual-wield sword and pistol moves. The game launches in Japan on February 22 for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. Thanks, Siliconera.
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Zen Pinball 2 will release for PlayStation 4 later this month
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by scholarly concerns, it has run an exercise known as Digital Lives, which encouraged members of the public, including writers, to think ser iously about keeping not only their notes and photographs but a l so their entire dig i ta l output, including emails and Facebook entr ies. In many cases this meant
A l l Aboa r d t h e A r c h i v e
IF YOU ARE seeking a place in literary posterity and your own output is underwhelming, consider sending an email to Wendy Cope. She has just sold a lifetime's papers, including drafts of poems, correspondence and school reports, to the British Library for a reported £32,000. Included in this mountain of material (commonly descr ibed as her archive) are 40,000 emails. What is more, Cope is committed to forwarding to the Library any additions to her output and correspondence, including further email exchanges (which is how your thoughts on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis might yet feature in future versions of literary history).
It had been some time coming, but this is a recent and egregious example of computers' encroachment into the world of literary archives. Gathering an author's papers used to be a quirky, personal affair. Some writers liked, or at least managed, to keep drafts and letters; others regarded their wastepaper basket as their favoured long-term repository. When they were dead, their heirs rummaged through their surviving papers and, based on which relations they were still talking to, decided what was suitable for retention. They then called in an assessor from Maggs, and tried to sell the remaining bundles to an institution, preferably a well-endowed American university eager to acquire primary documentary material on which its PhD students could unleash their critical faculties.
teaching them to hang on to their computer hard drives.
Lately the British Library has been making great strides in storing, interpreting and making accessible this digital material. Amid talk of metadata and 'fuzzy hashing', a forensic process of comparing different versions of files, Jeremy Leighton John, the Library's curator of e-manuscripts, is now able to save the contents of a hard drive (including details of all those various changes) directly onto a single file and use this to recreate a virtual version of an individual computer – something that Emory University has done with Salman Rushdie's Macintosh Performa 5400. Students can work with this 'born digital archive' and gameplay what they themselves might have written at a particular moment in a manuscript's gestation. Wendy Cope's emails stand at a slightly earlier stage in the technical curve. But Rachel Foss, the British Library's lead curator of modern literary manuscripts, enthuses that emails often come with a trail, allowing researchers to follow both sides of an exchange (something not always possible with Dickens and Thackeray). She also points to the potential significance of an Amazon receipt: how it enables a researcher to know what a writer was reading at a particular moment and to speculate on its influence on a particular piece of work.
Then living authors got in on the act. Recognising the demand for their papers and looking for an easy way to supplement their often meagre incomes, they started to take the Yankee dollar. For the financially canny and retentive, their archives now became their pensions. Cue various expressions of outrage that Britain was losing its literar y her itage. But American librar ies often took greater care of their flimsy paper acquisitions than their cash- and space-strapped British equivalents.
As a biographer my reaction is somewhat conflicted. Of course, I am delighted to get my hands on all kinds of interesting new material. But oh! the labour that will be required to sift through pieces of minutiae. One of the banes of biography has been the so-called laundry list style of writing lives. Is this now to be superseded by the Facebook approach?
In recent years this transatlantic demand has been drying up. American universities, including the acquisitive Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, are turning their attention to their own writers. And British institutions have undoubtedly upped their act. Witness the list of distinguished British writers (or their executors) who have in the last couple of years decided to settle their papers in their own country – among them Harold Pinter, Alan Bennett, John le Carré, J G Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, Geoffrey Hill and Mervyn Peake.
Archive acquisition has become less of a competitive sport. When the Bodleian Library recently wanted to purchase some important cor respondence between Franz Kafka and his sister Ottla, it helped defray the cost by doing t h i s i n par t ner s h i p with t he Deutsches Literaturarchiv (German Literary Archive) in Marbach. Now the British Library is threatening to change the game plan completely. For some time, pushed as much by general interest in genealogy and personal history as
It rather depends on the individual writer's attitude to archive keeping. The hard disk never lies – or does it? I am sure that, in the spirit of Thomas Hardy's largely self-written biography in an earlier age, even the careful hoarders of electronic material will find ways of editing and otherwise reworking their digital history to enhance their reputations.
There are always refuseniks such as Rudyard Kipling. Back in 1934, little more than a year before his death, he was visited at Bateman's, his Sussex f astness, by his American publisher Frank N Doubleday, who found him in his garden, shovelling papers onto a fire. When asked what he was up to, the Nobel Laureate replied, 'Well, Effendi [a Kiplingesque play on his publisher's initials], I was looking over old papers and I got thinking – no one's going to make a monkey out of me after I die.' The funny thing is that this has not prevented the accumulation of an excellent Kipling archive at the University of Sussex where it sits happily alongside that earlier effort of mapping the nation's consciousness, the papers of Mass Observation. ❑
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each overall: 11 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. ( 28.3 x 14 x 12.4 cm )
Pair of wrought silver presentation pitchers; ovoid-shaped bodies with large chased ovoid flutes; each on an oval foot with molded footrings; applied oval necks with short, broad pouring lips, low on the sides; molded bands applied around the rims; cast double-scroll handles applied to the back of each; circular engraving on the front of each of Liberty freeing the Slaves, she holds a liberty pole topped by a liberty cap and is removing shackles from the arms of two slaves, a freed slave reading and Joseph Curtis raising a mirror to reflect the the rays of the sun rising over mountains in the background; engraved below the vignettes, "Act. 31.st March 1817/ Manumission Society of New York/ Joseph Curtis" in roman letters and script; maker's marks stamped on the base.
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engraved: below the vignettes: "Act. 31.st March 1817/ Manumission Society of New York/ Joseph Curtis" in roman letters and script
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The Manumission Society presented this pair of pitchers to Joseph Curtis in 1817 in recognition of his successful efforts to have the New York State Legislature pass the Manumission Act, freeing slaves in New York beginning July 4, 1827. The pitchers depict Liberty removing the chains of bondage from slaves, with a freed slave reading a book behind. Curtis himself is depicted behind Liberty, using a hand mirror to reflect the rays of the sun onto the freed men.
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It's called 12 Years, and it's four minute, 3D computer animation written and directed by Daniel Nocke and designed and produced by Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Studio Film Bilder.
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The way mortgage rates have been falling the past three years, a lot of homeowners are not only refinancing their mortgages, they're doing it for a second or even a third time, maybe more. Should you join them?
Many homeowners are leery of refinancing again because they're heard it's not a good idea to refinance too often. And that's true -- continually refinancing in pursuit of ever-lower mortgage rates can be a recipe for financial disaster, piling up origination fees faster than you can pay down your mortgage by refinancing.
The key though, isn't how often you refinance but how much you save by refinancing. If you can whack a full percentage point off your current interest rate, it's probably going to make sense to refinance again, even if you previously refinanced just last week. At the same time, if you're only going to shave off a quarter of a percent, refinancing is going to be hard to justify, even if you've had the same loan for 10 years.
The problem with frequent refinancing
Here's the problem with refinancing too often. Every time you take out a mortgage, either to buy a home or refinance your current loan, you pay origination fees. These typically run from 3 percent to 6 percent of the loan amount. You can pay for those up front, but many people simply choose to have them added onto the loan.
This makes it pretty clear why it's not a good idea to refinance too often. If you have a $200,000 mortgage and refinance every six months, that's $6,000-$12,000 in fees you're tacking on twice a year. With a 30-year mortgage, you'd be piling on new debt faster than you can pay it down with your regular payments.
So how often should you refinance?
The main thing about refinancing is that it should save you more than you pay in fees to refinance. Obviously, you're not going to realize those savings immediately, but over time as your savings from a lower interest rate add up.
If refinancing costs you $6,000 in origination fees but saves you $100 a month on your mortgage payments, it's going to take you 60 months, or five years, to reach your "break-even" point where your savings exceed what it cost you to refinance in the first place. If it saves you $150 a month, you'll reach your break-even point in only 40 months, or less than 3 ½ years.
This doesn't mean you have to reach your break-even point before it makes sense to refinance again. Any savings from your new refinance are on top of what you saved from your last one. So if your first refinance saved you $150 a month, and you can save another $100 by refinancing again, you'll be saving $250 a month over what you were paying on your original mortgage.
So generally speaking, you should only refinance as often as you can save enough to make it worthwhile.
About break-even points
The important thing is that you should be able to reach your break-even point in a reasonable time. Five years or less is pretty reasonable -- you'll be saving enough that you'll "pay off" your origination fees quickly enough to make it worth your while.
If you're looking at eight to 10 years to reach a break-even point though, you really ought to consider whether you'll be saving enough to make it worthwhile. Many people don't even stay in the same home that long, meaning you might move out before you even reach your break-even point. And if you move just a few years after that, how much have you really saved?
Generally, if it's going to take you a decade to reach your break-even point, you're probably not saving enough to make refinancing worthwhile, even if you expect to be in the home longer than that. You may find there are other ways that provide a better long-term return on your money than refinancing to obtain such a small savings.
How much will you save?
The general rule of thumb is that you shouldn't refinance unless you can save a full percentage point -- for example, reducing your rate from 5 percent to 4 percent. However, that's not hard and fast. How much you're going to end up saving depends on other factors as well, including the size of your mortgage, how long you've been paying on it and the length of the term of the new mortgage you'll be taking out.
The only way to really know how much you'll save is by using an online mortgage calculator, such as one in the links on this page. This lets you enter your loan amount, interest rate and length of the loan to determine exactly what your new mortgage payment will be.
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Letter to CEO of Porsche regarding GEORGIA BOYCOTT after lawmakers passed Arizona-style harsh anti-immigrant law
Friday, May 20th, 2011May 20, 2010
Mr. Detlev von Platen CEO, Porsche Cars North America 980 Hammond Dr., Ste. 1000 Atlanta, GA 30328Subject: New Headquarters in Georgia
Dear Mr. von Platen:
We are pleased at Porche's commitment to the U.S. market, but surprised at your choice of Atlanta for a location, especially as a foreign based company.
As a national organization based in Arizona, we've seen the disastrous results of Arizona's anti-immigrant law (SB1070) on Arizona's economy and reputation as a place that welcomed hard working immigrants. Losses run well into the 100s of millions due to lost tourism, and lost economy from over 100,000 hard-working tax-paying Hispanics leaving. SB1070 has already cost several million in legal fees, and hate crimes against Hispanics have soared along with a very negative image of Arizona as hostile.
Proponents of anti-immigrant laws would like for others to believe that all 100,000 of those who left Arizona were undocumented immigrants, but in fact a sizeable percentage are U.S. Citizens and legal immigrants tired of the hostile environment and racial profiling by police that has become so pervasive in recent years. Many Arizona companies report difficulty recruiting Hispanics from outside Arizona. Fortunately, a second round of anti-immigrant bills failed to pass, as Arizona businesses finally decided they had had enough of the disastrous consequences of SB1070 and aggressively opposed the new bills.
Georgia enacted a very similar law just a week ago, HB87, and Georgia can expect similar consequences as Arizona, perhaps even worse due to more of Georgia's economy dependent upon critical sectors that depend heavily on immigrant labor, such as tourism and agriculture.
Critics of HB87 are already organizing boycotts, a development which should concern PCNA, which as a Georgia based company would likely experience a reduction in sales from such a boycott.
We urge Porsche to reconsider your choice of Georgia as the site of a new headquarters facility, as we don't believe Georgia has provided an accurate picture of Georgia's economy and the regression into a past era where Georgia experienced some of the worst bigotry in modern times.
Yours truly,
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Achieving farm resilience requires building up the resilience of vulnerable farmers by developing their skills, expertise and voice while supporting their use of agro-ecological farming practices. Building resilience depends not just on how farmers manage resources, but on how well local, national, and global institutions support farmers. Agro-ecological practices can empower vulnerable small-scale farmers, offering them both greater control over their lives and an accessible means of improving their food security, while decreasing their risk of crop failure or livestock death due to climate shocks. Vulnerable farmers can use agro-ecological practices to build resilient farms and improve their livelihoods, achieving multiple benefits: 1. improved food security; 2. adaptation to a changing climate; and 3. mitigation of climate change.
People-centred resilience consists of five principles which should guide how investments in vulnerable farming communities are designed and implemented. They are:
Following these principles ensures that investments support farmers in their efforts to become food-secure and adapt to climate change. Four institutions central to delivering people-centered resilience are: secure land rights; dynamic farmer associations; responsive agricultural advisory services; and public support for environmental services.
]]>When disaster-affected people have to move into crowded, makeshift camps, conditions can jeopardize public health. Outbreaks of deadly waterborne diseases like cholera can compound the original emergency with a health crisis. Oxfam specializes in providing clean water and sanitation facilities in emergencies, and we are moving quickly to meet these and other needs in the Ketsana-affected areas: along with clean water, we will distribute blankets, water containers, soap, cleaning equipment, clothes, and shelter materials.
Donate now to Oxfam America's Asia Pacific Emergency Relief Fund.
]]>Legal services for the disadvantaged did not exist in Cambodia until a decade ago. With the change in government in 1998, the US began to support efforts to strengthen civil society. While other donors focused on improving the judiciary and other state institutions with little measurable impact, the US backed many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working on human rights, rule of law, and government accountability. Many believe that the continued involvement of the US in civil society is critical to avoiding potential setbacks in Cambodia's young democracy.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) knows that empowering citizens to secure their rights is fundamental in breaking free from poverty. In 1996, USAID helped to found one of the first legal resource centers in Cambodia, the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC). Now a nationally registered NGO, and still supported by USAID, CLEC educates communities and government officials on citizens' legal empowerment and advocates reforms to protect citizens' rights. In part because of USAID's long-term support for CLEC, the center has evolved into an effective NGO capable of taking on sensitive, high-profile "land grabbing" and illegal eviction cases. CLEC has a unique two-part strategy: it selects legal cases that have the potential to generate wide publicity and debate, and it also demands broader accountability and respect for legal norms in Cambodian society as a whole.
This approach was effective when one Phnom Penh community facing forced eviction sought CLEC's help. Group 78, a cluster of 146 families, sits on 11,700 square meters (approximately 3 acres) of prime real estate in the heart of Phnom Penh. Seeing commercial potential in the land, the municipality sought to evict the families who had been living there for over 20 years. In 2001, after proper documentation had been processed recognizing Group 78's right to remain on the land, the village chief falsified a white paper stating that the community members wished to vacate their land. In reality, the authority had duped them into signing an agreement to vacate. Intimidation tactics were used: residents were repeatedly threatened with house burnings if they did not clear out immediately. Undeterred, members of Group 78 went to the municipality and Land Management Ministry for an investigation. That investigation went nowhere for five years; then suddenly the community started receiving multiple eviction notices with different and flimsy justifications in each notice. One claimed the reason was for the city's beautification; another, that the land was classified as state land and that the people had no rights to it; and the last, that the land was owned by an unidentified individual. Fed up with the authority's actions, the community sought the aid of CLEC.
Man Vuthy, coordinator of CLEC, says of Group 78: "They know us because CLEC used to successfully help their neighboring community, Koh Pich (Diamond Island). They came to CLEC's office for help. And then CLEC accepted the case."
Group 78 resident and CLEC client Lam Sambo describes his community's struggle to claim their legal rights:
"Since 2006, I have received five to six eviction notices. CLEC recognized the notices were inconsistent. We benefit from the NGO. With CLEC's help, we can stay here and are stronger than before because we trust our legal support. We know how strong the commune is. If we don't have strong legal aid, we will be gone in a few hours."
CLEC pressed the case that the government had no grounds to expel Group 78. Since the community has strong possession rights as stipulated in the 2001 Land Law, the authorities had no right to evict the community. According to CLEC, publicity generated from this case has helped spread the notion within Cambodian society that citizens can use the law to defend themselves and uphold their rights, even in conflicts with the government.1
Not many NGOs will work on high-profile cases like Group 78's because they consider it too dangerous. In an environment where power is highly concentrated among elites and is not often questioned, it is risky to take on the government. Despite numerous threats and arrests, CLEC has been able to achieve tremendous success because of USAID's continued investment and belief in CLEC's public interest advocacy. Thanks to CLEC's work, many citizens realize they have legal rights and feel some confidence in demanding that their government respect those rights. By committing to a long-term and broad- reaching effort at improving the justice system and building consensus for reforms, USAID has fostered an environment where active citizens can finally have a voice in their government.
However, CLEC staff are unsure of how long they can expect this investment by USAID. Since CLEC must apply every year for funding from the US, they can't predict whether they will have the funds to continue their work defending citizen rights. According to Yeng Virak, executive director of CLEC, they may be victims of their own success: "USAID money supports this project. However, our funding is ending this year, and we will have to apply again next year. Our project has been too effective and is seen as troublesome to the government because we do impact high-profile litigation cases."2
1 Group 78's story has been followed by The Phnom Penh Post, Voice of America, Amnesty International, Center on Housing Rights and Evictions, UN Cambodia Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, numerous other organizations, blogs, and networking sites.
2 This article is based on interviews conducted in October 2008. Since then, CLEC has received funding from USAID to continue its high-impact advocacy work. To see Group 78 residents describe their situation as of May 2009, view a video by LICADHO (Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights), a Cambodian NGO that advocates human rights.
]]>"The discovery of oil, gas, and minerals and the revenues gained from them could have a potential to lift Cambodians out of poverty," said Mam Sambath, Chairperson of CRRT. "However, for this to happen, important steps need to be taken to ensure that revenue management is done in an accountable way and that the benefits gained are invested into basic social services such as health care and education."
Solinn Lim, a program coordinator for Oxfam America's East Asia program in Cambodia, spoke at an event held by the CRRT on June 12th in Phnom Penh to launch the new coalition. She said that Cambodia is poised to earn much-needed capital that can be used to drive a new phase of economic growth for the country. "This can only be done with a strong and meaningful engagement between government, companies, and civil society," she said.
Cambodia has recently discovered offshore oil and has mineral deposits in its northern provinces. If effectively exploited, these resources could drastically increase the country's $2 billion national budget. How these additional funds are expended, and the ways the country can safeguard their effective use, is a primary motivating factor for the establishment of the CRRT and its mandate to promote active citizen participation in decisions about use of resource revenues. At the same time, Cambodia's legal and regulatory framework, both for mining, as well as for oil and gas industries, need to be created. This will help Cambodia to "manage these industries from extraction to revenue collection to spending," said Lim from Oxfam.
Oxfam is making grants to individual members of the CRRT coalition and encouraging other donors to help support the coalition.
The five founding members of the CRRT are Centre for Social Development, Development and partnership in Action, Economic Institute of Cambodia, NGO Forum on Cambodia, and Youth Resource Development Program. The coalition is being funded by Oxfam America, Norwegian People's Aid, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and Trocaire.
]]>These, and many more lives and livelihoods are at risk unless urgent action is taken to protect poor people from the triple threat of the economic crisis, rising food prices and climate change. Sub-Saharan Africa alone is expected to lose $245 billion this year as a result of the global slump but will receive only about $5 billion in additional aid.
Yet rather than delivering on his own aid promises and encouraging other countries to meet theirs, Silvio Berlusconi, G8 chair and Italian president, is attempting to wriggle out of his commitments to the world's poorest. He has cut aid and pushed the G8 to adopt a new "whole of country" approach that would use creative accounting to hide broken promises.
Max Lawson, Oxfam senior policy advisor, said: "Like a modern day Nero, Berlusconi is fiddling while Africa burns. G8 leaders must get serious and ensure this summit delivers a concrete plan to get aid promises back on track, and to protect poor people from the triple threat of the economic, food and climate crises."
According to the OECD, G8 leaders will fall short by as much as $23 billion in their 2005 promise to increase annual aid by $50 billion over five years. Oxfam calculates this money could be used to pay for HIV treatment for 500,000, services for mothers and newborns that would save a further 2.5 million, child health services that would save a further 600,000 lives.
On average, rich countries outside the G8 give more than twice as much of their national income in overseas aid (0.54 percent), as G8 members (0.23 percent).
Farida Bena, Oxfam International Italian spokesperson said: "It is time that G8 countries paid their fair share of aid to reduce poverty in Africa and elsewhere. Why can other rich countries put their hands in their pocket whilst most of the G8 refuses to do so? A G8 that refuses to keep its word, a G8 that fails to meet the unprecedented challenges facing the world's poor—that is a G8 in crisis."
Far from showing leadership in its role as G8 chair, Italy is cutting its aid to poor countries. Last year Italy cut its aid through the Foreign Affairs Ministry by a staggering 56 percent. France too has barely increased aid despite promises to do so, and other countries are not bringing the ambition needed to the table this year—when it is most needed.
The "whole of country approach" promoted by Berlusconi could allow countries to count money charities, philanthropists, companies and trade links deliver to developing countries as part of their assistance to poor countries. Adding these disparate elements to produce a large cash figure of little value would allow countries like Italy and France to deflect attention from their lamentable performance on aid.
Instead of muddying the waters with creative accounting, Oxfam is calling on the G8 to agree an emergency plan to get their aid commitments back on track ahead of the 2010 deadline. The need for increased aid is shown by the $245 billion economic black hole facing Africa as a result of a reduction in expected growth from 6.7 percent to 1 percent. By contrast, aid will only increase by $4.6 billion this year. IMF special drawing rights and other measures agreed at the G20 add only another $16 billion. This falls way short of what is needed.
Lawson said: "The world has a triple crisis on it hands. The economic crisis is destroying jobs, reducing remittances and forcing cuts in health and education services for some of the world's poorest people. Africa is set to lose $245 billion this year alone yet the response from rich countries remains pitifully small.
"The food crisis has pushed another 200 million people into hunger. More than one in six of the world's people now do not have enough to eat. The climate crisis contributes to severe weather that forces people from their homes and destroys their livelihoods every day."
Bena said: "Over the next few days, the G8 must show the leadership the world needs. There won't be any second chances to save these 3 million people later. The G8 cannot turn their back on the poorest people now. This must be a week of bold action."
]]>Oxfam Hong Kong responded with relief work in the first few months following the disaster, bringing relief supplies to 125 impoverished communities and getting children back into safe, temporary schools. As of March 31, 2009, we have worked alongside 20 organizations in 3 provinces, supporting about 700,000 people as they rebuild their communities; allocation for these 37 relief and reconstruction projects total over HK$33 million.
One year on from that terrible morning, the relief phase is over. As a poverty-relief agency, Oxfam's task is not only to help lives return to normal, but to improve economic well-being and permanently reduce people's vulnerability to future natural disasters. In this task, Oxfam's priority is to assist the poorest and most marginalized survivors of the disaster: women, children, the elderly and ethnic minorities.
]]>Last month, Newmont released the results of an independent review, which provides information about the company's community relationships and important recommendations for improving operations on the ground. The review, the first of its kind by a major mining company, came at the request of shareholders, led by New York-based Christian Brothers Investment Services, concerned about protests and environmental problems at Newmont's mining projects around the world. The company will formally present the results of the report to shareholders at the annual meeting.
"We commend Newmont for conducting a critical assessment of their community relationships. As shareholders gather this week, plans for urgent action to improve relations with the communities living near its operations should be at the top of the agenda," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America.
Recommendations from the report include handling community conflicts at an earlier stage, holding management accountable for community relations, and establishing effective grievance processes at all sites. The report indentifies problems with Newmont's community interaction at several locations, including sites in Ghana and Peru.
Nearly 10,000 villagers, mainly poor farmers, were displaced by the Newmont's Ahafo mine in Ghana. The report identified the long-term success of the resettlement as one of the greatest risks confronting the project and called on Newmont to actively monitor the implementation of resettlement. Newmont and the World Bank (IFC) will be conducting an audit of the resettlement program this year. Oxfam urges Newmont to make the audit process transparent and participatory.
Newmont's Yanacocha mine in Peru has been the site of repeated protests and violence in recent years. In 2007, local mining activists were the targets of harassments and death threats.
"The report identified an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among local residents at the Yanacocha mine, who worry about speaking out against the company out of fear of harassment by the mine's security forces," said Offenheiser. "It is very troubling that people are afraid to peacefully express their concerns. Newmont must address this situation immediately."
Communities affected by mining projects should have a role in decision-making about how the project will affect their lands and livelihoods. The report recommends an action plan that includes clarification of Newmont's commitment to the principle of free, prior and informed consent for communities.
"Newmont's endorsement of the principle of free, prior and informed consent for communities would be an important step forward," said Offenheiser. "The key now is to engage with local communities and apply this principle to company practice. We are pleased that Newmont's board of directors has accepted the report's analysis and recommendations and directed management to engage with affected communities on the report's findings."
The Newmont report also highlighted community concern about lack of access to information about the revenues the company pays to local and national governments, leaving communities unable to hold their governments accountable for how mining revenues are used.
"Newmont has been a leader in committing to greater transparency and can help address community concerns about revenue sharing by recommitting to disclose all payments made to host governments," said Offenheiser. "Endorsing mandatory public disclosure policies like the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act would be an important first step."
Oxfam advocated passage of the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act, legislation that would require all mining, oil, and gas companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose the payments made to foreign governments. The bill, which was introduced by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) in the 110th Congress, is expected to be reintroduced shortly.
]]>"There is not as much fish coming from the lake like there used to be," she says as she wraps her head with a kroma, a traditional Cambodian scarf. "Buyers are the same. Not as many."
At the same time, 88 miles away on a small fishing boat at the southern tip of Tonle Sap Lake—Cambodia's largest lake—Hem Von is taking a break from his work to eat some rice that his wife prepared for him. Even though it is only 6 a.m., he has been fishing non-stop for the past two hours. His next break will come at 11 a.m. when he goes to sell his fish. After that, he will continue to fish until 8 p.m.
"It is one way or another," Von says with an exasperated sigh. "Sure my fish have gone up in price, but so has everything like the fuel for my boat. I can't catch enough fish to buy food for my family, and so we don't eat as much. It is a miserable way to live."
Like the rest of the world, Cambodia has seen the cost of living increase in the last few months. In the past year, the country's staple food, rice, has increased in price 100 percent. A recent survey conducted by an Oxfam partner shows that for the poorest people in both rural and urban areas, getting adequate food is a daily struggle, with 20 percent of the population living hand-to-mouth on about $2 a day. The survey also showed that fisherman like Von will have a tough time coping with the rise in prices, since fish prices have only gone up 20 percent, while the stocks in the lakes and rivers continues to dwindle.
The hardest hit by this imbalance will be people like Savan and Von. Like most Cambodians, they spend about 70 percent of their income on food. By comparison people in the US spend about 10 percent. To cope with the soaring food prices, people are buying and eating less food—adding to existing malnutrition rates and the poor economic outlook of Cambodia.
Back at the southern tip of Tonle Sap Lake, in the village of Chnock Tru it is 11 a.m. and fish buyer Lor Bun, 40, is setting out scales and money on a straw mat under a make-shift shelter. In front of him several young men spill out of the back of la arge truck, preparing crates and baskets with ice to transport fish to Phnom Penh. Bun, the main fish buyer in the village for the past seven years, says he has seen prices continue to rise as buyers in the market decrease. He says that the price of rice is the highest he has ever seen it.
"We are increasingly concerned about the prices of fuel, food and there are fewer fish, but I have not seen a big drop in profits yet," he says.
Von, the fisherman, who is standing nearby waiting for his baskets of fish to be weighed, says that Bun has coached the local fisherman on how to raise their prices.But even with that he isn't making enough from selling his fish to cover the extra costs.
"We want to cry. We want to shout. But we don't know at who," he says.
Brian Lund, Oxfam America's East Asia regional director, says there are a number of people that need to get involved.
"To solve this issue we can not look to the Cambodian government alone," Lund says. "Donor countries should support the country's effort to support small scale food producers in their agricultural input, resource management, and sustainable production techniques."
In addition, Lund says that providing people living in poverty with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively manage their resources and assisting them to effectively engage and interact with the markets, can ensure they will benefit from selling their products in the market. Nearly 80 percent of people in Cambodia make a living from agriculture, so higher prices offer the possibility of a better livelihood. However, with the agriculture sector accounting for a quarter of the gross national product, strong efforts must be made to ensure that benefits reach small-scale producers in remote markets, not just large-scale commercial operations and agribusinesses.
"And it is important that as investments and aid is given to Cambodia to help with rising costs, that it be a transparent and accountable process," Lund says.
At the same time agriculture investments need to better incorporate poverty reduction elements to create a better environment for small farmers to produce and sell their agricultural products so that they can invest in their family's future.
Von Siphou, 42, dices pineapples in the mid-day heat in Kandal, a Phnom Penh neighborhood. 3 p.m. is the hottest time of day in the city, where the heat comes off streets and buildings in waves. And it is the best time for selling juicy, ready-cut pineapples. For about eight cents more per pineapple, Siphou takes off the rind, cuts it into bite-sized pieces and provides customers with a plastic carrying bag and toothpicks to make the fruit easier to eat—fast food, Cambodian style. Several months ago Siphou saw profits of $7 on a good day. Now she says she is lucky if she breaks even. If she raises her prices—even by a few cents—no one will be able to afford the service, she says.
"I am working as hard as I can and it is not good enough," she says, chopping up a mango. "The only thing left to do is to not eat."
Across the street, Phi Thoeng, 27, is also at his peak time for selling spicy papaya salad out of his street-vendor cart. In the mornings he sells fried noodles while his wife cuts up and prepares the papaya for him to sell starting at noon.
"This is a new business for us, and it is hard work," he says. "My wife and I are doing OK, but we are eating less.You have to manage somehow."
It is now 7 p.m.. Darkness is falling and the heat of the day is receding. As she cleans bits of left-over fish from her counter, Savan, the mother who rose early to fix her children breakfast ,says her family also is coping by consuming less food.. The traffic outside of O'Russey Market is still at a regular hum. Savan won't get home for another hour, but today she doesn't mind.
"I sold all of the small catfish," she says. "It is unpredictable, so we will still only eat a little for dinner. But it is a good day."


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December 21, 2012 Overthinking ItThe Mike Minor MysteryThrough his first four starts and 26 1/3 innings of 2012, Braves starter Mike Minor allowed one home run, striking out 21 and walking five. He had a 3.42 ERA, and the Braves were 3-1 when he pitched. Then came his next six starts. In those six starts (four of which Atlanta lost) and 31 2/3 innings, Minor still struck out 30, but he walked 16 and gave up 12 home runs—as many as Tim Hudson allowed all season. Minor's outings got so ugly that on May 21st, after the fifth of those sixth starts, Fredi Gonzalez defended him—sort of—by saying, "he only gave up four solo home runs." The next day, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Mark Bradley wrote a post entitled, "Numbers suggest Minor hasn't been quite as bad as all that." In that post, Bradley pointed out that Minor "has, at least according to one key stat-geek metric, pitched almost as well as Brandon Beachy." Beachy, at the time, led the majors with a 1.33 ERA; Minor's ERA was 6.96. Predictably, frustrated Braves fans left 100-plus comments helpfully suggesting that stat geeks start watching Minor's starts instead of their spreadsheets. Through that point of the season, there was one obvious difference between Beachy and Minor*: very few of Beachy's fly balls had left the ballpark, while many of Minor's had (roughly 28 percent over those six ugly outings, or about three times the league-average rate). The stat Bradley based his post on was xFIP, a spin-off of FIP that replaces the actual percentage of a pitcher's fly balls that left the ballpark with a league-average rate. xFIP assumes that a pitcher who's allowed more homers than his fly-ball rate indicates has been "unlucky" and adjusts his stats accordingly, penalizing him only for how many homers he "should" have allowed. But just as some pitchers consistently allow low BABIPs and beat their FIPs, some pitchers consistently allow a higher-than-league-average rate of home runs on fly balls, either because of the way they pitch or because of their ballparks. For them, xFIP is deceptive, like Spanx for pitching stats. It makes their lines look less bloated, but it can't remove the bulges beneath. *Actually, there were a couple other important differences: Minor also had a higher BABIP and an awful strand rate (because he'd pitched poorly with runners on base). I'm just focusing on the homers here. At that point in the season, Minor's and Beachy's xFIPs were almost identical. The question was whether Minor had been the victim of bad luck on fly balls—in which case his 3.82 xFIP was a better reflection of how he'd pitched—or was doing something to make himself more susceptible to homers. In his first two partial seasons, Minor hadn't shown any tendency to give up more homers than expected (for a fly-ball pitcher), which suggested bad luck might be to blame. Still, 12 homers was a lot to wipe away with one stat.
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