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Sharon Lavigne's fighting faith on the bayou
Black Catholic woman leads battle against giant plastics plant in Louisiana
Sharon Lavigne, right, joins a march organized by the Coalition Against Death Alley in Louisiana in October 2019. (Courtesy of Louisiana Bucket Brigade/Tom Wright)
by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
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Welcome, Louisiana — October 30, 2020
Last May, on the day she turned 69, Sharon Lavigne and three Protestant pastors hiked the levee beside the Mississippi River and looked across the highway at the lush sugarcane fields and wetlands where Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group planned to build one of the largest plastics factories in the world.
The 2,400-acre, 14-plant complex would worsen the area's existing pollution overload, spewing cancer-causing chemicals into the air. Opponents say its environmental permits would allow it to emit greenhouse gases equivalent to the output of three and a half coal-fired power plants.
The complex would also disturb or destroy graves of enslaved Black people who were buried on the property, which was once a plantation.
A mile downriver from the Formosa site stands an elementary school, and a mile beyond that, Lavigne's home.
Standing atop the levee, she and her companions recalled the Old Testament story in which Joshua circled the ancient city of Jericho and caused its walls to tumble. Lavigne and the pastors walked six times in a circle, reciting Psalm 23, and on the seventh, they raised their arms skyward and begged God almighty to stop Formosa.
A devout Catholic, Lavigne is at the forefront of a campaign to thwart construction of the plastics complex. Two years ago, she founded Rise St. James, a faith-based, grassroots group made up of residents of the Fifth District of St. James Parish, an area of sugarcane fields and historically black hamlets interlaced with pipelines and industrial facilities.
Backed by environmentalists and community organizations, the group is speaking out for Black communities in St. James that face a new wave of industrial pollution.
Sharon Lavigne, left, with Anne Rolfes of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental organization with which Rise St. James works (Courtesy of Louisiana Bucket Brigade)
The group started with protest marches. When the coronavirus pandemic erupted, the activists adapted their strategies and message, pointing out that theirs is a struggle against environmental racism and linking it to national calls for racial justice.
The group's Facebook posts include updates on actions and lawsuits against the corporation, articles on plastics pollution, video clips of parish council meetings where Formosa was on the agenda, and numerous clips of Lavigne urging local officials to rescind approval of the complex.
She often mentions God.
"If you are Christians, if you believe in God, change this," Lavigne says in a Sept. 1 Facebook post. "I know you can't sleep at night because you live in St. James, too. When I am poisoned, you will be poisoned, too. So I ask you to go back, to get on your knees and pray and ask God to put it in your hearts to go back and rescind this decision."
The Formosa complex represents "an assault on human life at all of its stages," says Jesuit Deacon Chris Kellerman of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. In an Aug. 27 letter to the News Examiner-Enterprise, a St. James newspaper, Kellerman said ethylene oxide emissions from the facility would jeopardize the unborn, citing studies showing that exposure increases rates of premature births and miscarriages. He noted that adults and school-age children would also be at risk, and he mentioned the graves.
"And all of this without the express consent of the people," wrote Kellerman, who urged local officials to "find other alternative ways of investing in St. James that won't pose such an antilife, racist and existential threat to the parish."
Adding to Cancer Alley risk
In Louisiana, government officials have enthusiastically backed the $9.4 billion Formosa venture, saying it would bring much-needed jobs and revenue to a struggling region. State and local governments offered the petrochemical company $1.5 billion in incentives, mainly property tax exemptions.
Operated by FG LA LLC, a Louisiana affiliate of the Formosa Plastics Group, the complex will manufacture ethylene and propylene used to produce a wide range of plastic goods. Formosa promises 1,200 new jobs with annual salaries averaging $84,700, plus benefits, and 8,000 indirect jobs during construction.
When the state announced the project in April 2018, Timmy Roussel, St. James Parish president at the time, welcomed it, saying it would double the parish's tax base and provide jobs for unemployed and underemployed residents.
But Lavigne says it will put those very people at greater risk. The parish sits in the middle of Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," a corridor of 140 oil refineries and petrochemical plants lining the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. High rates of COVID-19 deaths plagued the region last spring.
The density of industrial plants is especially high in the Fifth District, where the population is 85% Black and where about one-third of residents have an income below the poverty line. In 2014, a parish land-use plan changed its designation from "residential" to "residential/future industrial," unleashing an influx of new plants and an expansion of old ones.
Landscape in St. James Parish, Louisiana (Courtesy of Louisiana Bucket Brigade)
When Lavigne learned Formosa was coming to her area, she was "outraged," she said. "We already had 12 plants. I couldn't understand why someone would do that to us."
After the parish council voted for the new complex, many people in the community considered it a done deal.
"Everything was can't, can't. I don't believe in that. Let's find a solution," said the mother of six and former schoolteacher. Yet she too struggled with defeatism. One tearful afternoon, she asked God what she should do. The answer Lavigne heard was, "Fight!"
On Sept. 8, 2018, Lavigne and her daughter organized a march to a local park. That evening, 10 people showed up in her living room, asking what they could do. The next month, 20 people gathered and organized a second march, held in November 2018.
"It was my first time getting on the bullhorn," Lavigne said. "We talked and we sang. I didn't know this would go further. One man said he could 'see the Spirit' in me."
Since then, Rise St. James has joined a coalition of environmental and community groups staging protests along Cancer Alley, and Lavigne has testified before a U.S. congressional committee.
History of rights violations
Campaigns like Lavigne's are not uncommon along Cancer Alley. Environmentalists say national and state environmental agencies have done little to protect residents from toxic emissions, leaving communities to fend for themselves.
News reports and a lawsuit filed by environmental groups notes that state permits would allow the complex to emit 800 tons of toxic air pollution annually, an amount equal to emissions from all other plants in the area, and to be one of the largest industrial sources in Louisiana for carcinogenic pollutants like benzene and formaldehyde and one of the largest nationally for ethylene oxide.
"We as a people are fighting Formosa. We should be fighting our local government for not stopping industry," said Harry Joseph of Mount Triumph Baptist Church, one of the pastors who joined Lavigne on the levee last May.
Joseph is among a handful of male Protestant pastors in the Fifth District who support Rise St. James and whose congregations' membership consists mainly of Black women. Some ministers are keeping silent, he thinks, because they have family members or congregants who work in chemical plants.
"What good is something helping you, if that thing is also killing you?" he asked.
Last summer, after a judge ruled that Rise St. James could host a Juneteenth commemoration at the Formosa site despite the company's opposition, Fr. Vincent Dufresne, a Catholic priest, accepted Lavigne's invitation to bless the graves of the formerly enslaved people buried there.
"I am not opposed to industry for the sake of industry," said Dufresne. "As a civil parish, we need the revenue of industry for infrastructure, but industry needs to be a good neighbor. That's where I support Rise St. James. Formosa has a history, as a corporation, of not being as community-sensitive as they claim to be."
Fr. Vincent Dufresne prays at the Formosa site during a 2020 Juneteenth commemoration hosted by Rise St. James. (Courtesy of Louisiana Bucket Brigade/Bron Moyi)
In 2019, the company paid $50 million in a settlement for dumping tiny plastic pellets called "nurdles" off the Texas Gulf Coast.
In Vietnam, toxic waste from a Formosa steel facility contaminated 125 miles of coast in 2016, decimating fisheries and leaving 40,000 people jobless. Victims still await compensation. Catholic bishops and priests spoke out against the company and the government, which they said impeded the investigation, and a Catholic activist was sentenced to nine years in prison for subversion after filming protesting fishermen.
Rise St. James and its allies have also faced pushback. During a protest in October 2019, Baton Rouge police arrested the Rev. Gregory Manning, a Lutheran minister from New Orleans and a leader in the struggle along Cancer Alley, and charged him with inciting a riot.
The bow-tied pastor, who is legally blind, said he could not see the uniform on the man who ordered him and his fellow activists to leave the building where the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry was meeting. The charges were later dropped.
In June, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that would have made trespassing on the property of a petrochemical facility and adjacent levees a crime punishable by a mandatory three-year prison term.
And Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental organization with which Rise St. James works, face terrorism charges for leaving a box of nurdles from the Texas spill on a chemical industry lobbyist's doorstep in December 2019 as a protest.
Construction at the Formosa site is now on hold. Last January, environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the project's federal permits, which resulted in Formosa agreeing to delay major construction until early 2021. On Oct. 25, the company announced it would now defer "major construction until the pandemic has subsided and/or an effective vaccine is widely available."
Nevertheless, Lavigne continues to fight, pray and add new allies to the struggle. At her invitation, Catholic Bishop Michael Duca of Baton Rouge will preside over a service at the Formosa site on Oct. 31, the eve of All Saints Day. There, he will pray for the dead buried beneath the sugarcane fields over which Lavigne hurled her Jericho Wall prayer last May.
"The more focus we can keep on that property, the more confident I feel that we are going to win," she said. "[Formosa] is going to see how much we care about it and eventually will back down."
[Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, a freelance writer, lives and works at the Sts. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts.]
A version of this story appeared in the Nov 13-26, 2020 print issue under the headline: Sharon Lavigne's fighting faith on the bayou.
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It's Thankful Thursday and Lynn of Spiritually Unequal Marriage is once again our host. Lynn has chosen the theme of victory for this week. You can join in and link there or find other participating blogs to read.
Have you ever started to read a mystery book and couldn't wait to find out how it ended? I used to love to read Nancy Drew and Grace Livingston Hill books as a child. And I have to admit there were times when I peeked at the last few pages just to find out how it ended. I couldn't wait but then I returned to where I was reading even though I already knew the ending.
Well, I have a news flash! I already know the ending to the greatest battle of all time. I'm so thankful that the battle has already been won and ...Jesus is the victor.
Learning to live in victory today is the challenge. But it helps to remind myself that I already know the ending and ...I'm on the winning side.
So, in the midst of many challenging days when I become discourged and tired, I can continue to be thankful and praise God.
How about you? Have you reminded yourself that you already know the ending?
I find it amazing that God chooses to use me as His hands, feet and dare I say my mouth ...for His purposes in this world. If my job was done, I'd already be at home with Him. So, what's my response?
Listen, obey and press on continuing in the work God has called me to do.
Happy Thankful Thursday to you!
it helps to remind myself that I already know the ending and ...I'm on the winning side.
AMEN! And I say again, AMEN!
Hi dear one, I loved this post-such encouragement and hope. BTW, I am a prayer partner with Lynn and would love for you and I to uphold eachother as well...so write me when you can. Have a blessed day...and joy for the journey.
It's always good to be reminded that we win in the end. Thanks!
Cute little graphic of the runner!
Thanks for the reminder that we know the ending!
Great post......and you are so right, it's the daily victories, or lack of them, that is the challenge. It is so good to know that my victory is not based on me, but rather Him. He has overcome this world. Alleluah!
Another great post. Thank you this reminder. His promises bring such encouragement!
Love this: "Listen, obey and press on continuing in the work God has called me to do."
You are always such a blessing.
It was a plesure to be with you today. How very refreshing a spirit you are. He is watching , your husband...he sees you. It is his own wounded heart that his eyes stain away from. When he is safe he may show you. You will see oh how very tender a heart a man can have. Do not get too discouraged. Kindness be the rule of your heart.


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Amid intense clashes between Hadi government forces and UAE-backed STC security belt in Ahwar city.
Abyan's governor returns to Zinjibar and resumes his duties
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The Governor of Abyan, Major General Abu Bakr Hussein Salem arrived to Zinjibar, the governorate's capital, on Wednesday evening for the first time since August, after clashes with Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces forced his departure. He is said to begin a tour of inspections in a number of Abyan districts, local sources told Almasdar.
The governor was seen holding two separate meetings with the heads of Zinjibar and Khanfar districts to discuss resumption of stalled projects in the two districts, witnesses have reported to Almasdar.
Hussain Salem's return to the city comes amid intense clashes between Hadi government forces and UAE-backed STC security belt in Ahwar in Abyan resulted in full control of Hadi's forces of the city leaving seven casualties from both sides.
A military source told Almasdar Online today that the government's military forces have withdrawn from the city of Ahwar, and units of the Government's "Special Security" forces, led by Lt. Col. Mohammed Al-Awban, were deployed g in Ahwar city center and established a number of checkpoints coastal road leading to Shaqra city.
The governor Hussein Salem left Zinjibar for the al-Mahfad district in southeastern Abyan governorate with the governorate's security chief, Brig. Gen. Ali Al-Dheib Al-Kazmi. Al-Kazmi was likewise forced to leave ZInjibar in August, and then joined Hussain Salem in leaving for Saudi Arabia in September due to clashes with STC forces.
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Rally Great Britain, also canceled due to coronavirus
The Rally of Great Britain, which was to be held from October 29 to November 1 in Wales, within the WRC World Cup, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers announced.
«The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and the security restrictions imposed on large meetings and international travel always raise concerns, there are too many ignorance for the organization of such an important sporting event to be a realistic or reasonable option in these times with so many doubts, "explains the British organizer in a statement.
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The next six tests were postponed sine die (Argentina, Italy) or canceled (Portugal, Kenya, Finland, New Zealand).
Three tests are currently still scheduled on their initial date: in Turkey (September 24-27), in Germany (October 15-18) and in Japan (November 19-22).
When they had been banned at the beginning of April to maintain sporting fairness in the face of more or less strict confinement measures, depending on the countries, the trials can resume from the beginning of June and the teams line up at the start of the rallies in other championships. AFP (HN)
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It is not for any man to judge the salvation of another. There is, however, a mark of true discipleship that exceeds all others. The man that enters into a right relationship with God through our Lord Jesus Christ becomes a man of prayer.
This post is not meant to cause doubt concerning the assurance of salvation. Neither is it to heap guilt upon anyone that struggles to pray. There is just a direct correlation between the man who knows God and the prayers he prays. Likewise, there is a similar correlation between religious but unsaved people and their prayers.
Jesus spoke of two men who went up to pray; the first was religious and unsaved. Consider his prayer. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get." (Luke 18:11, 12) This religious leader when "praying" spoke very highly of himself. Jesus said of this man that when he prayed, he prayed to himself. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself." This man though religious was not praying to God.
The second man of whom Jesus spoke, prayed in a much different manner. "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' Unlike the man who thinks he prays but only speaks to himself, the sinner who enters a right relationship with God through repentance and faith comes to know what manner of man he is. He knows he is a detestable sinner in God's sight; therefore, he beats his breast and begs for mercy.
Jesus concluded His story with a profound truth. It is not an empty religion that saves people but a humble heart. "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." At an outward glance, the hypocrite can look good to many. To God, all have sinned and come short of His glory. Jesus did not come, by His own words, for the righteous but that sinners might come to repentance. For this reason, the hypocrite was not heard for his praying, but the thug, liar, and thief went his way justified in God's sight.
Humble prayer is the door opened by God's grace, that then makes a way to God's mercy, forgiveness, and fellowship. In my next post, I will explain the dynamic of prayer that changes saints into warrior soldiers.


1. History Does Rhyme … But Times Are Far From Identical: In response to economic weakness and the prospect of Fed intervention, the stock market indexes have risen an average of 14% since July of this year. As is normally the case, the tape writes the headlines and the headlines imprint the attitudes of economists. More and more, as stocks and bonds advance, due to Fed leniency and intervention, Wall Street and its opinions grow bolder.
Recently, I have been able to peruse a few reports from competing firms, and most refer to our present condition as difficult, but getting better, and our future, to be bright and no different from past recessions.
Specifically, many continue to compare this crisis with that of the 1989 S&L crisis, which set off a recession that lasted until roughly mid-1993. Arguably the crisis of 1989 was significant, and no doubt, produced substantial losses for those with selective exposure to garbage loans. Inflation, debt, deficits, unemployment, stocks, and housing also were issues during this time, as they are today. And I also suppose that if you read the headlines of that era vs. now, they would be almost identical. History does rhyme, as our learned colleagues would eagerly suggest. But in our opinion, it is far from being identical. The devil is in the details, as they say. With that notion, I would like to make two major points of comparison.
The first is in regard to solvency. In 1990 total debt (Federal, Household, Municipal, Corporate, and Financial) of the U.S. was $12.8 Trillion and total GDP was $5.5 Trillion (for a ratio of 2.3). Today, that relationship is radically different, where total debt is $52.2 Trillion compared to GDP of $13.1 Trillion (for a ratio of 4.0). Most entities that have breached 3.5 on the ratio are in essence insolvent (no wonder the Fed wants to print), due to the inability to service the debt from pre-interest income. Do you remember Enron, Worldcom, Bear Sterns? They all had similar dynamics in comparison to the United States presently.
Today that picture is again, very different. We could pick year 2000 as a starting point of this crisis, when the Nasdaq fell apart. But we would rather keep this comparison limited to a five or six year stretch. So, below I have provided the stats on the same indexes for the period between 2005 (when housing began to roll over) and the present day.
The numbers would look similar if we took the sample from year 2000 forward as well. In any case, the returns are clearly stacked in favor of the commodities. That simply means costs are going up and margins are getting squeezed in the corporate sector – a completely different scene from the 1990s.
So, as the Fed prints (to save us from immediate bankruptcy), this bifurcated relationship between stocks and commodities grows – producing negative real rates return for those in stocks – in general. This is a condition we expect to continue until voters scream uncle … or something along those lines.
2. Week in review: Stocks, bonds, and gold continued to rise, while the dollar fell sharply on any prospect of economic weakness. Although the data was mixed again, weak Factory Orders, ABC Consumer Confidence, ADP employment, Continuing claims, and Non-farm payrolls were enough to stoke the fires once again for QE part II. Japan lowered its interest rates to zero to stem the loss of the Yen against the dollar. And China extended its stimulus, both internally and abroad (potentially in Europe, Greece), while Ireland increased its total bailout from the ECB to €119.1 Billion in loans.
Although the global and domestic economic situation is still shaky and the election is in tow, we can't help but feel that the Fed is overreacting, or that Wall Street is getting carried away with speculation. The Fed may want to pull in the reigns a bit in their policy meeting November 3rd (the Fed already leaked this concern to the WSJ last week).
If they do moderate policy, it could temporarily put the screws on the runaway markets and the near vertical drop in the dollar. However, we have seen a careless Fed in the past, and if one looks at the debt levels in this country versus our earnings, it's easy to see the larger concern – and consequently, what their bias will be in the long run.


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After 4 years of research, persistance and hard work our work on graphene reinforced concrete is published in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Functional Materials, doi:10.1002/adfm.20170518
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Moffitt Cancer Center Once Again Named a Best and Brightest Company to Work For
TAMPA, Fla. — For the second year in a row, the National Association for Business Resources has recognized Moffitt Cancer Center as one of the 2017 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®.
The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® competition honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in operations and employee enrichment that lead to increased productivity and financial performance. Moffitt is one of 437 national organizations being honored out of 2,000 nominations.
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In my preview article in July's issue, I showed the guts of an unnamed robot (page 54). It was HyperShock driven by Will Bales (Figure 2, top left).
Also shown clockwise from HyperShock are Wrecks and Plan X; HyperShock being dismantled by Ice Wave during a grudge match; Warhead flying like a bird; Nightmare and its team; Tombstone being tested in the pits; Sweet Revenge spinning against the hammer bot Radioactive; the dual vertical spinner, Counter Revolution; and Witch Doctor, a colorful vertical drum spinner.
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Figure 3 shows some of the non-spinners. Clockwise from top left are: Overhaul and LockJaw; Mohawk with flames; Bite Force; Ghost Raptor vs. Complete Control; Razorback; and Chomp vs. Overdrive. Each of these had a movable appendage that could either lift the opponent off the ground or clamp onto the opponent.
Bite Force may have been the most versatile robot in the event, fighting with a removable clamping arm and two different wedge attachments — one of which was actually assembled the week of the event.
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Although it might be fun to think about it, you can't just throw two dozen robots into the arena and give the trophy to the last one moving. (Well, you could, but it would be hard to film and make a six-episode season.)
The task of organizing the event into a tournament of one-on-one fights falls to the Tournament Selection Committee (TSC), which is a small group comprised of BattleBots founders, former BattleBot contestants, and executive producers of the show itself. Membership in this group had to be the hardest job at BattleBots, because each night after the action was over and the audience left, the committee members were tasked with evaluating the robots and deciding what would happen the next day.
After the 24 robots passed safety inspection, each TSC member and each safety inspector scored each robot in four categories:
Aggression: How mean and fast the robot seems
Control: A measure of the skill of the robot's driver
Weapons: How destructive the weapon appears
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Figure 4 shows the statistics given for the final match between Tombstone and Bite Force. The numbers you see on the televised graphics are averages of the individual scores. The result is much like the BCS poll numbers you see each week during college football season (BCS is Bowl Championship Series). You can argue endlessly about how accurate the numbers are, but someone has to sit down and reduce a slew of information down to a single number you can use to decide who fights who.
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April 14, 2005 — Every Sunday morning, there's a small market in a plaza in the village we're living in, Bernal, Queretaro, Mexico. I (or Kelly and I) grab a tote bag or two and some pesos and head over there around nine or so. If we arrive much later, the produce has really been picked over. Once I asked the lady who runs it with her family what time they get here and she said very early. She said that they leave their own town around 4:30AM to get the produce in the city of Queretaro and then come here, an hour away. No wonder her teenage son is often yawning. I doubt he goes to bed early on Saturday night!
This last Sunday, I was alone and the produce was exceptionally good, so I loaded my bag to the very top and had to carry my half kilo of eggs in their plastic bag in my other hand. So I skipped my usual stop at the tortilla place, where half a kilo of fresh-ground corn tortillas would have set me back 3 pesos, about 27 cents. I also skipped the plastics lady with her son who appears to have Downs syndrome and is always very friendly (I meant the son but the mother is too), the used-clothing vendor, the CD vendor whose wares are likely not made by the original music companies as they cost about $2US each, and a couple of other vendors. Like I said, it's a small market.
It seems to be a large family who runs the produce stall, sprawled out over several tables. I didn't think to bring my camera, not knowing I was going to be blogging! Any one member will weigh each item and put it carefully in a plastic bag if I have left it loose, while telling someone else what the item is how much it cost. This Sunday, the teenager was weighing and a plump boy (amazing how many kids are plump here nowadays) of about nine was writing things down.
It's about a ten-minute walk from our house down to the downtown area and then back uphill several blocks in another direction. It takes me longer to get back home with my load. As I walked along this time, I thought how nice the fresh papayas and mangos would be with pancakes, one of Kelly's specialties on Sunday mornings.
That's a papaya next to the bananas, and the funny looking thing next to the broccoli is a root vegetable you may be familiar with, jicama. Tasty in salads and often served here as a snack with lime juice and hot sauce sprinkled on it. The dark green thing in the top center is a slightly spicy green pepper, the kind used in making chile rellanos, which we also use in cooking or even salads. You don't see any tomatoes, cucumbers, grapefruit, or carrots because we had some at home.
After the photo op, I did my usual produce washing. Bananas I just rinse off, and I don't do anything to onions except peel their outer layers off before cooking, but just about everything else I rinse and then dump in a bath of tap water and MicroDyn, a form of colloidal silver widely available in grocery stores and pharmacies. (There are other brands but this is the one I always seem to see.)Everything sits there for about 20 minutes, and the things that float I turn over about midway.
I am more careful than some people, since I had pretty intense training in self-protection from 3rd world bugs both from my father, who grew up all over the globe many years ago, and from a summer I spent on a work camp in Africa when I was in college.
I keep two basins, bought from the friendly plastics lady and probably made in China, just for my Microdyning projects. Here they are. What looks like it could be soap on the first basin is just the flash glittering off the wet broccoli.
Once the time is up, I drain the produce and it's ready for use. In the sink to the right of the bins you can see our homemade way of keeping the smell of the drains from coming into the kitchen, a little plastic bottle we happened to have with us that we jam into the drain. But we still get smells pretty often, because we have to take the bottle out to let water go down the drain. It's a funky kitchen and we may redo the whole thing eventually.


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Five Best Books on Oil
(The Wall Street Journal publishes a column every week in which an author lists the five best books on a particular subject. This is my list on oil.)
1. The History of the Standard Oil Company
By Ida M. Tarbell
McClure, Phillips, 1904
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. was the colossus of petroleum until Ida Tarbell's seminal investigation hastened its court-ordered breakup a century ago. Tarbell's work has lost none of its relevance as a Rosetta Stone for understanding the oil business and the character of the industrial titan who created it. Tarbell's writing, though a deep critique of Standard's monopolistic practices, includes a touch of grudging respect for the determination possessed by Rockefeller and the company he built. "This huge bulk, blackened by commercial sin, has always been strong in all great business qualities," she wrote. "If it has played its great game with contemptuous indifference to fair play, and to nice legal points of view, it has played it with consummate ability, daring and address."
2. The Seven Sisters
By Anthony Sampson
Viking, 1975
This is one of those forgotten classics that should not have been forgotten. "The Seven Sisters" reveals the political clout wielded by the largest Western oil companies back in the 1970s, when they dominated the industry. The book includes a telling moment from the era of the Arab oil embargo when the American companies that controlled Saudi Arabia's petroleum cut off the flow to the U.S.—their own country. If you want to know whether BP's zeal for profits in the Gulf of Mexico was an anomaly of selfishness in the history of the industry, just read a few pages of Anthony Samson's meticulously reported book. His mining of the historical record includes a memorable reference to Sen. Frank Church's comment at a 1974 inquiry into the power of the oil industry: "We are dealing with corporate entities which have many of the characteristics of nations."
3. The Bottom Billion
By Paul Collier
Oxford, 2007
Oil is an amazing product of nature, though not always in ways we expect. Its discovery, for instance, can do more harm than good to the countries where it is found. In what is known as the resource curse, some countries become poorer, not richer, as the influx of oil revenues deadens other economic growth and encourages corruption. Oil riches also tend to fire the imagination of aspiring dictators. Paul Collier explores the paradox of oil's baleful effects in revelatory detail in "The Bottom Billion." Collier, an Oxford professor and former World Bank official who blessedly writes like neither an academic nor a banker, doesn't restrict his argument to oil—plentiful supplies of gold, iron and other natural resources all can have deleterious effects on national development. Collier proposes a rescue of countries where the "bottom billion" reside, calling on the Group of Eight industrialized nations to institute preferential trade policies, do a better job of policing corruption and even consider military intervention.
4. Cities of Salt
By Abdelrahman Munif
Random House, 1987
If a reader desires a fictional account of oil's discovery in Texas, there is "Giant," the Edna Ferber novel turned into a classic movie starring Rock Hudson and James Dean. But what is the "Giant" of Arabia? It is called "Cities of Salt," by Abdelrahman Munif, and it is justifiably regarded as one of the finest Arab novels of the 20th century. It tells the story of a fictional emirate (meant to be Saudi Arabia) that has just discovered oil and is being pushed into the modern world, losing part of its essence in the process. Far better than any nonfiction account, "Cities of Salt," the first volume of a five-part epic, deftly explains the social and cultural upheavals in Middle Eastern countries that, with the discovery of oil, were catapulted from the nomadic to the modern. The novel was banned in Saudi Arabia, where the House of Saud did not want its subjects to read about a royal family corrupted by petroleum.
5. A Month and a Day
By Ken Saro-Wiwa
Penguin, 1995
The spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought to American shores the sort of environmental disaster that many Nigerians have been living with for nearly a half-century. Their oil region, the Niger Delta, has endured years of leaks as well as warfare pitting local tribes against a corrupt government allied with multinational oil companies. The Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa famously led an environmental-justice movement in the 1990s, and his account of his imprisonment, "A Month and a Day," presents a searing portrait of the ecological and political travesties that led him to put his life on the line (and he would lose it—the government executed him in 1995). Saro-Wiwa describes his Ogoni homeland as "a blighted countryside . . . full of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons; a land in which wildlife is unknown; a land of polluted streams and creeks, of rivers without fish." After reading this book, you will find it hard to buy a gallon of gas without thinking of the misery at the other end of the pipeline.
—Mr. Maass's "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil" has just been published in paperback by Vintage.
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Explore Al Hijal in Oman.
Al Hijal in the region of Az̧ Z̧āhirah is a town in Oman - some 125 mi (or 201 km) West of Muscat, the country's capital city.
Current time in Al Hijal is now 04:24 AM (Tuesday). The local timezone is named "Asia / Muscat" with an UTC offset of 4 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Bandar Abbas, Sur, Al Sohar, Nizwa, Muscat or Hayyal. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Khadhil, Al Hijal and Al 'Arid. We also found some pictures.
Ibri is a city in the region Az Zahirah, in northwest Oman.
Located at 23.43, 56.63 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 16 mi away.


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Траян Йордаке ( ) — румынский футболист и футбольный тренер, игрок сборной Румынии.

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Иордаке начал свою футбольную карьеру в бухарестском «Тейшоре». Затем он стал игроком бухарестской «Униреа Триколор». В 1932 году он был переведен в первую команду, а с 1936 года стал играть в ней в румынском первом дивизионе. Его дебют состоялся 30 августа 1936 года в домашнем матче против «Чинезул Тимишоара» со счетом 8:1, в котором он забил гол. В сезоне 1936/1937 годов, забив 21 гол, он стал со-бомбардиром лиги вместе со Штефаном Добаи. В 1938 году он ушел из «Униреа Триколор» в «Венус». В 1939 и 1940 годах он становился чемпионом Румынии в составе команды «Венус». В 1945 году он перешел в «Кармен Бухарест» и завершил свою футбольную карьеру в 1946 году.

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Kongjian Yu is the founder and Dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape. He founded Turenscape, an internationally awarded firm of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. Yu defines landscape and urban design as the Art of Survival and is well known for his ecological stance, which often against the resistance from local authorities. Through his works, Yu tries to reconstruct ecological infrastructure across scales as alternative infrastructure to solve multiple environmental problems and to define a new aesthetics (the big feet aesthetics).
His ecological approach to urbanism has been implemented in over 200 cities in China and abroad, and have had significant impact on national policies aiming at improving the environment in China, for which he was recognised with numerous awards and honours by the central government including the Overseas Chinese Achievement Award, the One Thousand Talents Award. He has also won numerous international awards including 12 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards (American Society of Landscape Architects), an ULI Global Award for Excellence in 2009, and 5 WAF Landscape of the year Awards at the World Architecture Festival (2009, 2010, 2011,2015 and 2017) and Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award (2020). He received the Doctor Honoris Causa in Landscape and Environment from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2017, and the Honorary Doctor in Landscape architectrure from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019.
Yu has published over 20 books and 300 articles. Sponge City, Big feet Revolution, Art of Survival, and Deep Form are some of the key words that depicted his design philosophy and research. His works have been featured in publications such as Scientific American (December 2018), Time, and Landscape Architecture (February 2012), and two recently published books: Letters to Chinese Leaders: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City, and Designed Ecologies: The landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu.
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Dems, PDI-P discuss cooperation in upcoming regional elections
Ghina Ghaliya
Jakarta / Fri, August 7, 2020 / 03:48 pm
House of Representatives speaker and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) executive Puan Maharani (second left) and Democratic Party chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (second right) talk to the press after a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (tribunnews.com/Chaerul Umam)
Democratic Party chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and House of Representatives Speaker Puan Maharani, an executive of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), sat together on Thursday to discuss the two parties' cooperation in the upcoming regional elections.
The PDI-P and Dems formed a coalition to nominate candidate pairs running for regional head posts in 28 of the 270 regions in the country that will participate in the elections, which are to be held simultaneously on Dec. 9.
"We have discussed the PDI-P and the Democratic Party's collaboration in the regional elections. Hopefully we can maintain the cooperation for the sake of the nation," Agus said after the meeting at the legislative complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Thursday.
Agus, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, further said that he and Puan also touched on the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the country's economy during their meeting.
Speaking to the press with Agus, Puan expressed her expectation for the PDI-P and the Democrats to continue maintaining their relations and that she looked forward to her next meeting with him.
"This is our first meeting since [Agus] was appointed chairman," Puan said. "I hope this isn't the first and last meeting for us. We'll maintain this friendship for this nation together."
Read also: Archrivals Megawati, SBY prepare successors for 2024 race
In the 2019 presidential race, the Dems joined the coalition supporting the candidacy of Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto, who went head-to-head against PDI-P-backed President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. After the latter won his reelection, Gerindra jumped ship to the ruling coalition since Prabowo was appointed a Cabinet member.
Both Agus and Puan – the daughter of former president and PDI-P matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri – are among those who might join the 2024 presidential election. However, thus far only Agus has declared his intention to run in the race.
Although the two are rather cordial when it comes to their ties, relations between Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the PDI-P chairwoman have been strained since he ran against then-president Megawati in the 2004 presidential election. He was serving in her Cabinet as the coordinating political, legal and security affairs minister at the time.
Separately, Agus said that he hoped the Dems could return to their political glory in 2024 and secure more seats in the House than the current 54 gained in the 2019 legislative elections, a steep drop from the 150 seats the party won in 2009.
"This is not a baseless hope. Because we have had success," he said.
The PDI-P currently has the most seats in the House with 128 after the ruling party secured 19.3 percent of the vote in the 2019 legislative race.


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An Open Letter to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper
By frankadmin October 3, 2010
Dear Prime Minister:
Re: Stop the Attack on Employment Equity
As Canadians who believe in a discrimination-free society, we are writing to express our grave concerns regarding recent comments made by the Hon. Stockwell Day, President of the Treasury Board, who insinuated that the Federal Employment Equity program is barring qualified Canadians from job opportunities in the federal public service.
We are equally dismayed by similar comments made by the Hon. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, who stated that all Canadians should have an equal opportunity to work for their government based on merit, regardless of race or ethnicity, as if to suggest that unmerited candidates from racialized communities are taking over the jobs of qualified white candidates, thanks to affirmative action.
The truth, as you are well aware, is the opposite. Employment equity guarantees merit-based hiring because it removes artificial barriers to employment. All too often, qualified candidates from racialized communities do not get hired because of their race or ethnicity.
The current legislative framework that supports employment in the federal public service is found in the Employment Equity Act, 1995, s. 15 (2) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provincial human rights legislation and policies. The purpose of this framework is to ameliorate the historical and current marginalization of members of designated groups not only in hiring practices, but in promotion and retention practices as well.
Yet despite nearly 25 years since the Employment Equity Act was first put in place, there continues to be serious under-representation of workers from the Aboriginal communities, visible minorities, women, and people with disabilities in the federal public service, the single largest employer in Canada.
In a recent report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Reflecting the Changing Face of Canada: Employment Equity in the Federal Public Service, the Senate Committee examined issues of discrimination in the hiring practices of the federal public service and found that employment equity targets among the four designated groups were not fully being met, especially for visible minorities. Based on data available for the core public service in 2008-2009, visible minorities were represented at 9.8%, a figure that was much lower than their workforce availability rate at 15.3%.
The fact that discrimination persists despite governments' best efforts should motivate our political leaders to redouble their resolve to advance policies and programs to make our workplace truly inclusive. That Minister's Jason Kenney and Stockwell Day are now asking for a review of the Public Service Employment Act suggests either a lack of understanding of the purpose or the mechanics of the Employment Equity Act, or an attempt to divert attention away from the Government's failure to deliver on its obligation to eradicate discrimination in employment.
Contrary to the Ministers' assertion, employment equity has proven to be an effective measure to ensure candidates from marginalized groups get the jobs that they are qualified to do. It also promotes diversity in the workplace, something that most Canadians value. For these reasons, an increasing number of business leaders have embraced employment equity as the model for their corporations. In short, employment equity makes good business sense because it works.
Rather than perpetuating the myth about employment equity as replacing merit-based hiring, we need you to affirm your Government's commitment to equity and diversity by strengthening employment equity measures, and by educating all Canadians the need for such programs.


As we move into 2019, we reflect on the achievements made by Union members over the last 12 months in more than 140 countries around the world and we look to build on the momentum we have gained in the fight for lung health.
Members organised regional conferences including the 22nd Annual Conference of The Union North America Region and the 29th Conference of The Union Middle East Region, which brought together Union members, partners and others working in the field of tuberculosis (TB) and lung disease to discuss topics of particular importance to the region.
The Union's Zoonotic TB Sub-section launched the Ibarapa Meje One Health Initiative to raise awareness of zoonotic TB among the Fulani pastoralist community in Ibarapa, South Western Nigeria, whose livelihoods depends on their livestock. The Fulani pastoralists live in remote areas with reduced access to health services, yet due to their work and living conditions, are exposed to many infectious and zoonotic diseases. The launch, in March 2018, was attended by government representatives, NGOs, pastoralists and butchers, veterinarians and academics and students. It included awareness raising discussions as well as healthcare and TB screening for the pastoralists and butchers.
As part of the commitment to provide more value than ever to Union members, a new online membership platform was launched to facilitate networking and collaboration among members. The platform also hosts members-only expert-led webinars with leading scientists, researchers and advocates who provide information, debate and analysis of major issues and breaking news. The webinars were attended by more than 1400 people who heard about a range of topics including best practice for the care of patients with TB, zoonotic TB and drug resistant TB updates. A full list of recorded webinars is available on the membership platform so members can listen again at any time.
2018 was a historic year for TB with commitments made from world leaders at the UN High-Level Meetings on TB and non-communicable diseases. Union members united to amplify the five key calls to action that the TB community wanted from the political declaration. Members used Union briefing notes and social media tools to apply consistent pressure throughout the year to political leaders around the world. To harness the expertise of the global network of Union members and to add to the growing momentum for the UN High-Level Meeting, The Union also delivered a series of well attended HLM specific webinars. One webinar focused on the importance of meaningful civil society input and shared practical tips for maximising opportunities to gain vital media attention.
2018 also saw the creation of Membership Engagement Teams. The concept was developed to drive member engagement by inviting members with expertise and interest to join Union funded projects to offer advice and support. This has been well received with 19 members signing up to support the first project, DETECT TB in Uganda.
To learn more about all the work our members were involved in last year please read the 2018 Scientific Section Highlights.
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