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The man reaches into a deep oven that looks like a door to hell, pulling flat, hot rounds of bread from its clay walls. The naan is rolled quickly into white paper and tucked under the arms of waiting customers, who disappear into the dark night. Romal Saleh-Zada with naan from the Maiwand Bakery. Credit: Eddie Jim The Maiwand Bakery is warm and steamy as a team of Afghan men and boys in T-shirts works in a chain, conversations in Dari switching to English as they proffer a round of sesame-studded naan roghani hot from the tandoor. In the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was a must-visit on the overland hippie trail through Central Asia, but Afghanistan’s deep blue chain of Band-e Amir lakes , the high peaks of the Hindu Kush and the glittering turquoise domes of Mazar-i-Sharif’s Blue Mosque are currently unreachable for all save the most intrepid traveller. However, get a taste of the Central Asian country without breaching smarttraveller’s red-flagged, “Do not travel” warning. In fact, you don’t even have to leave Melbourne. A 45-minute train ride from Flinders Street Station, Dandenong is the home ground for Melbourne’s Afghan population. Romal Saleh-Zada has spent a decade as a cultural ambassador for the City of Dandenong, where 163 dialects are spoken by people from over 100 countries. Originally from the capital, Kabul, Romal is one of 23,500 people born in Afghanistan who now live in Melbourne, ahead of Sydney’s population of 14,000 – not counting the next generation of Australian-Afghan children born here. Romal’s family moved to New Delhi for his father’s heart operation, their return blocked as the country spiralled into civil war. They came to Melbourne as refugees in 1997, where Romal – now a printer by trade and a tour guide by chance – has stayed. Romal Saleh-Zada, right, with the owner of Afghan Kitchen, Naueed Ahmadi. Credit: Eddie Jim Afghans are not new to Australia; remember that our signature luxury train – The Ghan – is named for Afghan cameleers working on the Central Australia Railway, in the 1860s. Romal leads groups to Thomas Street, the heartland of Afghan Melbourne, its footpaths stencilled in turquoise and lapis lazuli geometric designs inspired by Mazar-i-Sharīf. The street is lined with Afghani-run old-school grocers and homewares stores, bakeries and butchers. In Maiwand grocer, named for the district in Kandahar Province, there are barberries for rice dishes, rose jam, a tray of saffron-flavoured rock sugar on sticks, used to swirl in your tea. For curious foodies yet to fossick through Central Asia’s spice rack, there’s a cornucopia of the unknown – unripe grape powder, plantago major, balangu and ajwain seeds. Due to the crumbling of the Afghan export market, much of the goods hail from Iran, Tajikistan, Turkiye, says Romal. “And it’s not just Afghans, but a lot of Pakistanis, Iranians and Indians who come here to shop.” Shops are stacked haphazardly with gold-rimmed dinner sets, racks of bright rugs, silver platters for a whole lamb, stock pots to fit enough rice for a diaspora. “If you have 10 guests over, there will be cooking for 20. Anything can happen, but food must not be short,” advises Romal. That principle is amply displayed at dinner at Afghan Kitchen, where trays jostle for table space, slow-cooked lamb shanks hidden in Uzbeki rice pilau, manto (beef dumplings), are doused in a tomato and lentil sauce and lashed with yoghurt, and borani banjan – fried eggplants in tomato sauce and garlic yogurt. Bread, half a metre long and grooved, is central to the table. The Dandenong Market Cooks’ Tour visits the 154-year-old Dandenong Market, where a queue waits outside Kabul Kitchen for Kabuli pulao (rice), manto, kebabs and some of the 700 loaves of naan the kitchen bakes daily. Founder Ali Haidari fled Taliban-occupied Afghanistan for neighbouring Pakistan in 2009, where he trained as a chef before arriving in Australia by boat. After a year’s detention in Darwin and Christmas Island, he was released and, in 2017, opened Kabul Kitchen with fellow refugee Mohammad Sarwari. Belatedly, they realised they’d travelled on the same boat to Australia; the pair says they were reunited by fate. “Kabul Kitchen really says a lot about the market,” says market guide and chef Tim Holland. “A refugee came here with nothing, and within a few years, he’s got a cast of thousands!” As the Afghan proverb goes, “Even on a mountain, there is still a road.” TOUR Take a walking tour of Afghan Dandenong with Romal Saleh-Zada, $100 includes dinner, dandenongtours.com.au The Dandenong Market Cooks’ Tour includes a market walk, cooking demonstration and three-course meal, $100-$150, dandenongmarket.com.au STAY Holiday Inn Dandenong has rooms from $180, holidayinn.com/dandenong EAT Maiwand Bakery , 7 Scott St. Afghan Kitchen , 247 Thomas St. Kabul Kitchen , in Dandenong Market. The writer was a guest of Holiday Inn Dandenong and the City of Greater Dandenong.UIC 91, AURORA 76
The potential for record-breaking online sales this holiday season unfortunately signifies opportunities for holiday scams, adding urgency to consumer warnings from U.S. government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Federal Trade Commission. Yet as technology advances, so do the tactics of scammers. Virginia Tech cybercrime expert Katalin Parti has shared tips with Digital Journal for new scammer tactics to guard against, through the holiday season and beyond. Katalin Parti is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on both the offender and victim sides of cybercrime and online manipulative scams targeting older people. Her Virginia Tech (ICAT) and State (CCI) sponsored project, PROS: Performances to Reduce Online Scams that educates audiences about scam victimization of older age groups, reached more than 600 audience members in the New River Valley. Dr. Tim Sandle is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for science news.Tim specializes in science, technology, environmental, business, and health journalism. He is additionally a practising microbiologist; and an author. He is also interested in history, politics and current affairs.Strictly feud revealed as star mysteriously snubs FOUR of the cast just hours before reuniting at the final
Northwest B.C. First Nation Nadleh Whut’en has confirmed the identification of potential unmarked graves at the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School, located at Tseyaz Bunk’ut near Fraser Lake. Earlier in May, the First Nation had said it would search the residential school site using both ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetometry to detect irregularities underground. Lejac Indian Residential School operated from 1922 to 1976, impacting children from over 70 Nations. Nadleh Whut’en's announcement on November 30 follows nearly two years of geophysical surveys that began after Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation revealed in 2021 that they had identified around 200 potential burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Nadleh Whut’en said the preliminary findings from GPR and magnetometry surveys at Lejac uncovered geophysical signatures consistent with burials. These results are part of ongoing efforts to locate and honour the children who died while attending residential schools in Canada, the First Nation said. The survey, conducted by the guiding team of the project, which translates to "Let's Look for our Children" in Dakelh, covers a 142,500 square-meter area (about 27 football fields). The research is a response to survivor testimony and archival records that suggest numerous children may have been buried in unmarked graves at Lejac. During its operation, at least 7,850 Indigenous children, including day scholars, attended the residential school, which subjected students to harsh conditions, including forced labor, abuse, and the loss of cultural identity. The school’s cemetery, where some graves are marked, has long been known to survivors. However, the recent surveys suggest there are additional unmarked graves that have not been accounted for. “The work is hard and it takes a long time – and we are bringing information forward as we receive it because survivors have a right to know,” Nadleh Whut’en Chief Beverly Ketlo said about the importance of these findings. The Lejac Indian Residential School has had an active cemetery on the grounds since it was founded in 1922. "We have always known that there were children buried at Lejac because many of their graves are marked in a cemetery. I want you to ask yourself if your elementary school had a cemetery,” Ketlo added. Ketlo said this is not just a thing of the past but the horrors experienced at Lejac are still very real for the survivors who lived through this "genocide.” “Lejac relentlessly taught the children that they were inferior. They were forcibly taken from their families, lands, and cultures, leading them to believe that everything about their identity was wrong,” she said. The geophysical surveys, which were conducted in winter 2023 and spring/summer 2024, used advanced technologies to detect disturbances beneath the surface that could indicate burial sites. GPR sends radar pulses into the ground, revealing underground conditions, while magnetometry detects metal objects and magnetic changes. This data is being analyzed by two independent teams of experts and will guide future steps in the search for missing children. Former Chief Archie Patrick of Stellat’en First Nation, a survivor of Lejac, expressed hope that these efforts would help bring justice to those affected. “Lejac is still with me. I continue to deal with the upheaval of being taken from my parents, and the daily trauma of living at that place. But I am so pleased that the stories of survivors are finally being brought to light.” The findings are part of ongoing work, and no immediate plans for excavation or exhumation have been made. The guiding team, made up of survivors and inter-generational survivors, is overseeing the research and will determine the next steps. The federal government has committed to funding these efforts, and an estimated 20 years of work remain to uncover the full truth about the missing children from residential schools across Canada.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder set sights on HornetsAccording to the Indiana Department of Revenue, residents of Floyd, Gibson, Jay, Monroe, Rush and Switzerland counties will see more money taken out of their paychecks to cover the cost of county government services in the new year. The new local income tax rates in those counties are Floyd 1.89%, up from 1.39%; Gibson 1.3%, up from 0.9%; Jay 2.5%, up from 2.45%; Monroe 2.14%, up from 2.035%; Rush 2.15%, up from 2.1%; and Switzerland 1.45%, up from 1.25%. Records show three additional Indiana counties already hiked their income tax rate on Oct. 1: Fayette 2.82%, up from 2.57%; Fulton 2.88%, up from 2.68%; and Henry 2.02%, up from 1.8%. No changes are slated for the local income tax rates in Northwest Indiana that currently stand at 1.5% in Lake County, 0.5% in Porter County, 1.45% in LaPorte County, 1% in Newton County, and 2.864% in Jasper County. But those rates, and local income tax rates across Indiana, might be headed dramatically higher if Republican Gov.-elect Mike Braun succeeds next year in enacting his property tax reduction plan at the Republican-controlled General Assembly. Braun has proposed reverting residential property tax bills to their 2021 amount, regardless of any subsequent increase in the assessed value of the home, as well as increasing the value of residential property tax deductions and capping future property tax revenue growth. Those changes likely will result in a shift of the property tax burden onto rental, business, industrial and agricultural property owners, or higher local income tax rates if counties look to other ways of replacing the lost property tax revenue from owner-occupied homes. Though any local income tax increases will be partially offset by continuing reductions in the state's 3.05% income tax rate that's set to fall to 3% on Jan. 1, 2025, to 2.95% on Jan. 1, 2026, and to 2.9% on Jan. 1, 2027, according to House Enrolled Act 1001 (2023) . The rate cut means a Hoosier worker earning $50,000 a year will pay $1,500 in state income tax next year, instead of $1,525 — a savings of $25, or about $1 per biweekly paycheck. Hiking that same worker's county income rate by 1% would take an extra $500 a year out of the worker's wages, or about $20 from each check. Illinois has a 4.95% state income tax rate and no local income taxes. The combination of the two in Indiana means most Hoosiers are paying more of their earnings in state and local income tax than Illinois residents do.Saudi Arabia banned film for 35 years. The Red Sea festival is just one sign of the industry's rise
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