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The New Jersey Turnpike Authority this week entered into a formal agreement with Jersey City to construct a $10 million bridge from Downtown into Liberty State Park.
State officials are moving ahead with plans to construct a $10 million extension of Jersey Avenue into Liberty State Park in Jersey City.
The proposed roadway would cross the Morris Canal, giving motorists a shortcut to Liberty State Park from Downtown Jersey City.
It would also relieve congestion on the New Jersey Turnpike Extension by giving drivers the option of using local roads to get to Jersey City rather than staying on the extension along with traffic headed to the Holland Tunnel, said Turnpike spokesman Thomas Feeney.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority yesterday approved a formal agreement between its executive director and Jersey City. A construction contract could be approved next summer, Feeney said.
Plans for the bridge have faced opposition in the past from Downtown residents who said they feared it would encourage commuters to use local streets to get to the Holland Tunnel.
Sam Pesin, president of Friends of Liberty State Park, told The Jersey Journal that the group's main interest is for the extension to have plenty of room for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Thousands of new residential units under construction Downtown means potentially thousands more people walking or biking into Liberty State Park, Pesin said.
He also wants there to be safety measures inside the park where the roadway would connect with Phillip Street, either a four-way stop or a traffic signal.
"The Turnpike can't just say, 'Oh we're (adding) a two-lane road' and ignore the fact that there's going to be a super busy, dangerous intersection," he said.


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It took three attempts, but voters in Wayne County have approved an $18 million school construction bond — a key component in a larger $42 million package.
That package includes construction of a new Ceredo-Kenova Elementary School and a new Crum Elementary School and will also pay for additions and renovations at Wayne High School.
When Gaston Caperton was in the second grade, his teacher noticed him struggling to read and began to suspect the future governor of West Virginia might have dyslexia, a common learning disorder.
Three Kanawha County Board of Education candidates have been asked to pull or revise their campaign ads after violating a policy that forbids footage featuring school property.
Becky Jordon, Calvin McKinney and Vic Sprouse all featured public schools in some form in their campaign ads but have since resolved those issues, according to Kanawha County Schools attorney Jim Withrow.
WASHINGTON- U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students.
BECKLEY — Three Raleigh County Board of Education members have been awarded the Margaret Baldwin Friend of Education award by the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA).

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Academic exchange between Mexico and Germany has grown continuously in recent years. In 2017, we registered 385 instances of collaboration between officially registered Mexican and German universities, and the number of Mexican students in Germany rose from 730 (in 2004) to over 2,900 (in 2016).
DAAD has signed agreements with government organizations, such as the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) and the Mexican Association of University Deans (ANUIES), to support and continue developing academic cooperation in Mexico. Both Germany and DAAD are keen on further strengthening academic relations between the two countries; this steered DAAD toward expanding its presence in Mexico through the establishment of a regional office in 2000.
In Mexico, DAAD’s presence includes a regional office in Mexico City and four lektors: 2 in Mexico City, 1 in Monterrey and 1 in Guadalajara. Moreover, the Humboldt Professorship, long-term German professors, and several language assistants.
We invite you to visit our office during service hours; we offer information and can advise you on the steps to follow to carry out higher education studies or research projects in Germany. In like manner, we also advise Mexican Universities or professors/researchers on how to find academic collaborators in Germany. In addition, we provide guidance on the various scholarship programs that DAAD has to offer Mexico. We are happy to work with you!
Dr. Alexander Au. More information in the section Contact.
We provide information on study and research opportunities in Germany.
We provide assistance regarding our scholarship and exchange programs.
We promote scientific exchange programs and multilateral research.
We represent the interests of German universities.
We support setting up collaboration, projects, events and meetings between German and Mexican universities.
We support the recognition of German academic degree equivalency.
DAAD does not offer assistance for enrolment in German universities, immigration procedures or private language learning.
Since 1998, DAAD has promoted the course "Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt". Since 2013, the course was established at the Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX), in the humanities and social science department.
DAAD offers two options for practices at its Regional Office in Mexico City.


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Coach Gary Kubiak might want to watch out. Scouts have their eyes on his backup quarterback.
Three days after Brock Osweiler’s impressive showing in Seattle — arguably his best showing as a pro — Nuggets coach Michael Malone, general manager Tim Connelly and other team assistants and staff members attended the Broncos’ training camp practice at Dove Valley.
And Osweiler, for obviously reasons, caught Malone’s eye.
Malone spent some time with Broncos general manager John Elway during practice and, afterward, had a lengthy conversation with Kubiak about coaching — and getting fired. Kubiak was let go by the Houston Texans in 2013, and Malone by the Sacramento Kings last December.
“We talked about myself being fired in Sac, when he got fired in Houston, and how it really does make you stronger and makes you a better coach at the next opportunity that you get,” Malone said. “We’re just really thankful for the time that they allowed us here today.
Malone stayed for the full practice, watching intently from the sideline as Osweiler and Peyton Manning led the team through 11-on-11 drills, and Joe DeCamillis coordinated three special teams periods. He watched as Von Miller tore through offensive linemen during one-on-one drills. And he watched as backup receiver Bennie Fowler hauled in a couple more deep catches, as follows to his 41-yard grab Friday.
But Malone couldn’t escape Dove Valley without fielding questions about the Ty Lawson trade last month.
Malone said he had input on the deal, acknowledging that he continues to work closely with Connelly, (assistant general manager) Arturas Karnisovas and (president) Josh Kroenke.
Why is Faried still on the roster? All of the good work Melvin Hunt put in is being wasted yet again.
Because Faried is one of their best players. Maybe even their best one now. I don’t get the hate against him. Or maybe it’s the lunatic idea that trading away the best assets for nothing worth anything is holy creative destruction that will bring fantastic results. Do something, anything! I’ve never seen that work out well.
Faried one of their best players? Do you watch him on defense? Do you see him clank 15 foot shots over and over again? Do you see him on the free throw line with an important shot to make, and constantly miss? Oh, you see the dunks when the game is no longer on the line, the playing to the crowd, and the posturing for the cameras. My 10 year-old-neighbor boy goes for that too.
He’s not the only one acting clueless on defense at times on last year’s team. What I see is that he was one of Coach K’s favorite Olympic team players. I trust Coach K’s assessment of Faried’s game more than yours or the other naysayers. Faried plays with passion & effort, he helps the team. I have no doubt that if Coach Malone does a decent job, he’ll improve Faried’s game. Faried’s improved his game every year. It’s a farce that some people think he’s a problem, when it’s clear he’s one of the top assets on this team.
Oh god, the NBA clueless Kizla again. I’ve had other more important things to do recently than post here but please. I agree that Faried is one of the better assets on a bad team. But he’s clearly a problem in the rebuilding plan that was supposed to be about ‘winning championships’ after getting rid of everybody that went to the playoffs ten years in a row and got to the conference finals in 2009 as the second best team in the league and broke every team record for wins a couple of years ago. He doesn’t have the physical abilities to be a serious starting power forward. He’s a top bench player on a contending team. He was one of K’s favorite players because he played the role he should play on a team like Team USA–in other words, a contender–with passion and hustle. All coaches love the semi-skilled guys that inspire other by their intensity even though Faried showed none of that over the past few years except in garbage time at the end of the season.

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Native to southwestern U.S., northern Mexico. A large desert shrub with long, grooved, spiny canes. During each spring and after summer rains, canes sprout small, green leaves their whole length. Leaves remain several weeks before turning yellow and dropping. (Especially during hot, dry periods.) Spiky, red, tubular flowers appear on cane tips April through July. Slow growth rate.
Produces a very stark and interesting silhouette.

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text: Jordon is from Brisbane, Australia where he attended Brisbane Grammar School. He is studying to obtain Associates of Arts and Associates of Science degrees. Jordon chose MCC because of MCC's very prestigious baseball program run by Coach Brabant. Brabant's influence on his players is well known and Jordon thought he had to be a par of this program. He received a Region IX Certificate of Academic Achievement during his Freshman year at MCC. Jordon has an identical twin that is a professional baseball groundsmen in New York.


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Her life is a continuous search, an attempt to reach the truth. She has the gift of insight into the soul of another person. She has graduated from philosophy and being artist is her passion. She has graduated from vocal studies and is certified music scene actress. She was working with two cabaret teams ‘Kabareciarnia Zenona Laskowika’ and ‘Kabaret Adin’. Thanks to this cooperation she has released her own album « I’m worth it » in 2011. The major awards she was given are: Grand Prix on the XIX National Festival of French Song, Lubin 2002; 2nd prize at the 41st Student Song Festival, Kraków 2005; Audience Award and 3rd prize at 30th Stage Songs Review, Wroclaw 2009. She is still active on stage and currently performing ‘Todo Cambia’ music and words performance. Stage work helped her to discover the importance of the voice in expression and in contact with other people. She uses that knowledge in her vocal workshops.
While seeking deeper forms of expression she met on her way other forms of work including those proposed by Olga Szwajgier and Tantra of the Heart. She has graduated from Tantra of the Heart school – Formation. She cooperates with Tantra of the Heart today. Thanks to that she has been introduces to body work methods, psychotherapy (Gestalt, Rebirthing, Postural Integration, day dream, regeneration movements, experimental Gestalt approach, myths and fairy tales work), various forms of relaxation (dance, massage, spontaneous movement) and meditation (meditation, dynamic meditation, trans), and shamanic journeys. She participates in Creation Laboratory – Psychodynamics of the Relationship & Body Communication.
She facilitates vocal workshops and individual sessions. Her work focuses on opening the body, spontaneous movement, dance and tantra. She uses therapeutic tools, so that her workshops are focused on personal development.

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text: Gena grew up outside of Hugoton, Kansas where both sides of her family were involved with horses. She doesn’t recall ever consciously deciding to be a horse trainer. “It was all I knew how to do.” Gena has ridden all-around horses, like those competing in western pleasure and horsemanship. While she enjoys horsemanship, she also likes meeting people at the events.


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There's a reason Portland looks so inviting on the hit IFC show "Portlandia."
"We film only during the summer so it appears particularly sunny and bright, though I will tell you it is not that way always," co-creator and co-star of the show Carrie Brownstein told CNN. "It's a pretty special place and there is such fondness for me for the city."
The city seems to love Brownstein and her creative partner Fred Armisen right back, as evidenced by an award they received from one of the travel boards in Oregon. After all, they have helped draw plenty of fans with their quirky sketch comedy series, which returns for its third season Friday.
Brownstein recently spoke with CNN about the changes fans can expect this season, her dream guest stars and "the hipster method of acting."
CNN: How will season three of "Portlandia" be different?
Carrie Brownstein: First and foremost when we were going into season three we were thinking about other shows and what drew us to those shows and kept us coming back. We realized that it was character and developing some type of relationship with a character.
We realized that we had only introduced characters in the first two seasons, but hadn't really explored who they were or that much about their lives or their relationship to the city. We really started focusing on the characters in the third season so there will be a deeper exploration of the people on the show. I think that definitely makes for a richer and more intriguing season. It feels like a more fully actualized show to me now.
CNN: Since the series has been so character-driven, have there ever been any characters that you tried but had to abandon?
Brownstein: There have been plenty of one-off characters that haven't worked out, but I couldn't even name them now 'cause they are done. Any character that we have had a fondness for or feel like we can explore are the ones that come back.
CNN: Is it at all challenging having a show tied so closely to a specific locale? It's as if Portland is its own character in the show.
Brownstein: I agree. We've intentionally made Portland a character on the show.
I like the notion of place in any narrative. People's relationship to where they live, and the idea of an internal landscape that people possess has always been fascinating to me whether it's in fiction, song writing or in television. I love how "The Wire" and Baltimore are so intrinsically tied. I think that in terms of the narrative landscape, really having place be distinct helps define shows.
So it's not a challenge. I actually think it really grounds the show and provides a reality that we can spring off of.
CNN: The show has been very successful in luring a variety of stars to appear in cameo roles (several celebs including Jack White, Edward James Olmos, Selma Blair, Gus Van Sant and Sarah McLachlan have had bit parts). Who are your dream folks that you haven't had on the show yet who you would love to see appear?
Brownstein: A couple years in a row we've tried to get Cate Blanchett, which is crazy. Werner Herzog, the director, we have tried to get on the show. There is always this pie in the sky list, but each and every time I feel happier and luckier with the guest stars that we do get, so I would consider them dream casting as well.
At the beginning of the year you think you are going to end up with every Oscar-winning actor or actress and that's not usually the case.
Brownstein: She's just so enigmatic. When I think of the film "I'm Not There" where she plays Bob Dylan, she just has this kind of boldness about her and she's very interesting. We always kind of want her for a slightly malevolent type of role. She's just a great actress, and we would love to work with her.
CNN: I've always wanted to see Quentin Tarantino on the show.
Brownstein: You know, we asked him to be on the show. A lot of times people want to do it, but it's scheduling issues and such. People are very gracious in declining.
CNN: How long do you envision "Portlandia" going on, because fans would like for it to be on forever.
Brownstein: Ha! You say that now, but I don't think it's true.
I feel like shows have a time and place. I'd like to think of it as coming to existence, hopefully being something that people are drawn to and feel a connection to and then kind of leaving before we wear out our welcome. Ideally I think five seasons would be the perfect amount of time "Portlandia" should exist in the world. That's not to be self-defeating; it just feels like we can tell a story and get to the places we want to get to in terms of writing in that amount of time.
But you never know whether we are getting another [season] or not, so maybe it will be three.
CNN: You and Fred [Armisen] recently voiced the characters of Terrance and Emily, a couple from the Pacific Northwest who settle in Springfield on "The Simpsons." Do you feel like you guys are kind of locked into the hipster method of acting?
Brownstein: Hopefully not. I'm not even sure what that is, but I like your description of it that way.
I just think that "The Simpsons" had that episode percolating for awhile, but I don't think we are limited to just that. There was certainly some crossover between "The Simpsons" and "Portlandia" that seemed natural.


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*This paper is very thick and lovely and needs no framing unless you so desire.
Please allow up two weeks for shipping and handling.

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The �08 recession brought a huge increase in the number of people seeking emergency food � and demand has not fallen significantly since then. FFO relies on the generosity of the community to help neighbors who, with the high cost of living in Northern Virginia, are unable to meet basic needs. It is the first stop for those in crisis (including working families with children), providing emergency food to those without, bulk supplies to community partners, supplementary food at 17 sites in low-income neighborhoods, and weekend backpack food for hungry children at 28 Fairfax County elementary schools. Moreover, it creates opportunities for neighbors to help one another in times of need: last year, volunteers logged over 27,000 hours to serve 1,800 households weekly. With your help, the FFO team will be sure that no one is left hungry.
Featured in the 2010/11 Catalogue for Philanthropy.
Featured in the 2014/15 Catalogue for Philanthropy.
Received 2014 Distinguished Partner award from Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services.
Received Volunteer Administrator of the Year in 2013 from Northern Virginia Association for Volunteer Administration.
Received Volunteer Program of the Year award in 2014 from Volunteer Fairfax for Food for Others Power Pack Program.


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I got 5k to spend on mods......any suggestions?
If you plan on more power, than a new diff for the WS6.
Looks like you have lots to do! What brand suspension stuff did you go with? Will your car see any track time?
A4 = Converter & cooler. A4's are easier on differentials, so I wouldn't go that far yet.
M6 = ?, hmmm, Rear only if it's gonna see hard track time.
Dyno tuning might be an option?!?
You'd see some minimal gains there too.
ls7 clutch, and tick performance hydraulics if m6!!
Rear and cam stranos, konis, cutout, fast intake, tune... the list never stops!
All sorts of ideas to do to it but any type of mod to help with traction is well spent plus if your gonna mod it alot I would go ahead and get a 12 bolt or 9 inch rear the stock 10 bolt tends to break alot once you are putting down higher numbers and getting better traction. Hell they can break with stock HP numbers if driven hard.
Goodies on the way for the SS!!

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Throughout its intriguing history, San Francisco has welcomed a variety of eccentric souls, but humans aren’t the only ones to have come to the beautiful City by the Bay. Many non-native animals also call the city home, including a flock of mostly red-masked parrots, known locally as the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and regarded as some of the area's most popular residents.
Despite the “Telegraph Hill” in their description, these vivid, boisterous personalities can be found throughout a few hills of San Francisco. Sightings have been reported from Fisherman’s Wharf, Russian Hill, Chinatown and even the Presidio, toward the Golden Gate Bridge. The birds are difficult to spot; the trick is to listen and not to look for the birds. Their trademark squawk can give away the flock no matter where you are in the city — all you need to do is look up.
If you are lucky enough to find them, please don’t feed the birds because it’s against city law and can endanger the parrots.
Many wonder how these feathered friends came to call San Francisco home. After all, the city’s climate isn’t the tropical weather these parrots originally lived in. Many urban legends surround the parrots’ arrival, with some saying they were imported from South America.
Until the U.S. ban on the wild bird trade in 1993, America was the largest importer of wild-caught, tropical birds in the world, with many arriving from Latin America.
Wild parrots were sold as pets in S.F., but some escaped or were let go because they were too noisy. And although speculated today, some say a female mitred parrot came into the picture to create a secondary Summer of Love for the parrots. But truth be told, nobody really knows how the population of parrots came to be.
Much of what is known about the parrots is because of “Parrot Man” Mark Bittman, a local who fed and looked after the birds for six years. Learn more about him and his colorful co-stars in the documentary “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.” Or grab your camera and create your own story with these iconic characters that embody the charm of San Francisco.
Listen for the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. They can improve your time in San Francisco.

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In case you haven’t heard, there will be another Montreal Sewing Bloggers’ Meetup this Saturday.
We are meeting at noon on Saturday August 17 at El Chalateco at 520 rue Beaubien E. for lunch. Next there will be a swap of patterns, fabric and whatever else people bring and then we will hit the shops. Fun!
This time the meetup will be hosted by Vicki over at Another Sewing Scientist. So hop over to her blog for details and to RSVP.
A few weeks ago I asked if anyone would like to go to a sewing meetup in Montreal, and the answer was a definite “yes”. Yay!
So I am happy to announce that this coming Saturday, May 25, there will be a sewing meetup at 2 p.m. We’ll meet at Caffé Mille Gusti on St-Zotique. It’s very close to Saint-Hubert, but it’s a bit small, so if lots of people RSVP, we may change the location. Be sure to RSVP yourself to get any updates.
For those taking the public transportation, the nearest metro station is Beaubien.
We’ll grab coffee at 2 p.m and have a quick pattern exchange (bring those patterns that just aren’t for you). Then we’ll hit the fabric shops on Saint-Hubert: Effiloché, Couture-Elle, Rubans, Boutons and more (or less, if everyone finds what they need right away). We may also try Saint-Laurent. Montreal has some great fabric shops, but there is so much to choose from that it can be overwhelming, at least for me. I need a second opinion. That could be you!
Out-of-towners are welcome and having a blog is entirely optional. If you are worried about language, don’t. All the shop clerks will speak both English and French.
I know some people would have preferred a different date, but that means only one thing! We’ll just have to have another meetup. I just hope my fabric budget can take it.
If you would like to RSVP, send me a quick email so I know how many people to expect. See you then!
Here are some buttons for you as well.


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Compared to last year the share received by producers was four percentage points lower, reflecting the decline in pig prices, while at a retail level prices have increased. However, the producer share of retail prices last year was exceptionally high.
For specific cuts, the change in retail prices compared to the previous month was mixed during June, according to the AHDB retail price survey. The largest percentage increase was recorded by fillet end leg, up 6% month-on-month. Meanwhile, boneless leg joints decreased on average by 4% during the same period.
Looking at prices compared to this time last year, most cuts have recorded a rise in price. Conversely, the average price of fillet of pork has remained steady on the year, while boneless shoulder joints were the only cut to record a price decrease.


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Many of the following points apply wherever you are doing your barging whether it is in the UK or Continental Europe. Barges are slow, heavy vessels which need skilful handling. Once those skills are mastered they are easy to steer, fun to travel about on and very simple to handle. Keeping yourself and your crew safe is the essential prerequisite to a hugely exciting and satisfying adventure.
Accidents rarely happen to those in the wheelhouse; they happen out on the deck to the crew.
Accidents to people almost always involve the use of ropes: learn to handle them properly.
Treat ropes with respect; never step on them, keep them coiled, don't stand with them round your feet.
Accidents mostly happen in locks: don't allow yourself to be distracted.
Accidents happen because of poor communication between master and crew: be sure that instructions are clearly understood.
Accidents happen through ignorance and inexperience: learn as much as you can about barging before you set out.
When you have visitors on board make sure they are fully briefed before you allow them to assist.
Many accidents occur as a result of boats getting hung up in locks by lines becoming jammed: learn how to ensure this never happens.
For the most part you have no control over how much and how fast water fills or empties a lock: keep careful control your boat and an eye on your crew.
Don't climb up and down lock ladders unnecessarily: learn to throw ropes.
Don't get off the boat to put a line ashore or onto a lock side bollard: make it a generality to always work from the boat to the bank.
Never jump off the boat.
Don't try to stop a moving boat by hauling on the rope: take a turn with it round anything to hand.
Man overboard is a rare occurrence but most likely to happen in locks: be extra vigilant.
Keep deck equipment and ropes tidy and always in the same place.
Lock-keepers do not know much about barges: obey their instructions only if you think it is safe to do so.
Gaining an ICC does not teach you how to handle a barge.
If thinking about going on the sea or estuary, read the articles in the Cruising section of the Knowledgebase.
Keep safe; be happy; have fun on your barge.


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To mark his 37th birthday, Bobi Wine went on a charity drive, visiting different places to make donations. He visited Mengo based Sanyu Babies home and a hospital in Kasangati, among other places. That was his plan. His friends other plans for him. He was treated to a surprise birthday party at DNA Lounge in Kololo.
The party was attended by his friends in the music business and politicians. People were requested to take off their red berets so as to avoid turning a birthday into a political rally. MP’s who attended were to told to restrain from making political statements. It was therefore dance, eating cake, and taking selfies with the birthday boy.


text: In 1864, the 26th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops trained on Rikers Island. They went on to fight, along with 180,000 other black soldiers, for the Union cause.


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We have attended our last farmers market as a chicken, pork, egg and turkey producer.
We plan to take a bit of time to recoup and spend time with family before we head off in another direction.
Our next step is to start raising goats. Goats will help us keep our pastures clear of weeds and shrubbery. These will be meat goats and at some point we will sell them for just that.
Below is the letter we wrote to all our market family in April. It explains why we have stop producing chicken, pork, eggs, and turkey after doing so for 6 years.
It is with mixed emotions that Mary and I announce the shutdown of Haskins Family Farm to the world at large. As you might expect, this has been a very difficult decision for us since we have worked very hard since 2006 to produce what you see at the market. The process of shutting down our business has already begun and is almost finished. Much of our chicken raising equipment and laying flock has been sold, with the rest up for sale with active buying interest.
We expect to sell out of all of our available pork by May 30, 2013 (or before) and will not have additional product (chicken, turkey, pork or eggs) going forward. We will cease selling our products from the farm and from Farmers Markets we sold at last/this year (Leesburg, Palisades and Crystal City).
The only reason we have stayed with this little experiment so long is due to you, our loyal customers. You have kept us going when the times got tough. If it weren’t for the extraordinary support we have received over the years, we would most certainly not have made it this long. We consider you, our customers, each to be friends of the family.
As for interns, we have found finding a good one problematic. Furthermore the cost of paying a fair wage and offering housing is an issue. We have tried to work through this but money is really at the heart of it. Our little farm does not make enough to support hiring help and building more infrastructure.
Both of the issues outlined above would cause us to have to outlay more cash. We were in a time crunch and needed to find someone quickly to replace our intern, as we only had about 45-60 days before the preparation started again for the 2013 season. We were getting burned out and needed help desperately.
In addition to all of the above problems, when we looked at the return on our investment, it was very small and doesn’t support all of the required funds/cash flow to fix the above problems. Basically, we could hire someone and give our meager return to them and not have anything to invest in the farm for the future or to keep for ourselves.
Without some help (labor), the amount of time required to keep this experiment going was also problematic. As many of you know, Bob has an off-farm job that in fact pays the mortgage. This required a lot of late nights caring for the 4000 chickens/year and 50 hogs/year that we raised. While Mary was doing the daytime chores it was Bob who came home from his job and did the heavy work. In most cases we were working alone. Most nights we would throw some dinner together (usually after dark), eat, and head to bed. Bob took up a Mountain Dew kick and Mary drank Coke...not exactly fitting with our lifestyle. We were tired A LOT! Let’s not even talk about time together as a family. Getting everyone together for one of the kid’s concerts was about all we could manage.
So we came to the very difficult decision to shut our farm business down. We know that we are impacting our customers, but we have no other choice available to us. We will do our best to refer you to other producers who use similar methods to ours to help you with the transition.
So what will we be doing now with all of our free time? We hope to stay in the agricultural arena by raising meat goats. We feel that goats are a good fit for our property (lots of rocks, brush and hills) and for our marketing goals by not attending farmers markets. Our sales will be in the form of live animals for breeding, meat and wholesale carcasses to restaurants/etc. Bob is interested in performing vendor inspections for market operators to ensure each vendor adheres to the rules of the market operator. Also, we plan to stay in the farmers market scene by blogging with a unique perspective about all aspects of the subject. (Before we were farmers we were, and still are, farmers markets junkies of the first degree!!) So stay tuned, as exciting times are ahead!
In closing, we would like to thank every one of the customers who have supported us over time, as well as all of the people who have helped us get going and stay going over the years. We will most certainly miss you, but we expect to be seeing many of you as time goes on. We will continue writing about our adventures on our new re-designed web site and our existing Haskins Family Farm Facebook page.
Thanks for your support of our farm!!


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During this year’s Purple Door festival, inReview caught up with Pillar for a few minutes aboard their air-conditioned tour bus. (A much appreciated break from the weekend’s heat). As we heard the female-fronted band, The Pledge, take the stage behind us, we were able to delve into the minds of the four band members and pick their brains about the past tour, new members, and an upcoming CD release.
Later that night we witnessed the crowd intensify as Pillar began their set. With such a great live show and dedicated fans, only greater things could possibly be in store for this hard rock act. Listen in on what they had to share, and be sure to pick up their new album when it drops on September 22nd, 2009.
inReview: What gave you the idea for the Confessions Tour and cards?
Rob: There was a series that my church went through a couple years ago called “My Secret” and they did a similar type thing. They also had an online confessions area. I talked to somebody at our church about bringing it on the road. We set up a confessions booth on the tour and took that philosophy out on the road with us.
inReview: How is Confessions different or similar to your previous records?
Noah: Well, musically it’s still reminiscent of old school Pillar but it has a lot of new, modernistic tones.
Noah: It’s definitely a lot more modernized. Its definitely more big rock and a little less riffy. The drums are huge, the bass sounds phenomenal, Rob’s vocals are amazing, exquisite, superior.
Rob: The writing process was different on this record. But overall, the ultimate similarity is that I’m still singing. If you put the Confessions record with our very first record it wouldn’t even sound like the same band. Every record has changed, evolved. Rob Gray produced this record so just having a new producer brought it to a whole different level and perspective.
inReview: What would be your favorite song on the record?
Noah: “Not Without a Fight”, but I also like “Will You Be There”, and “You Are Not The End”. But I think the whole record is a step up.
Taylor: Yeah you can’t pick your favorite song really. It’s like picking your favorite episode of Full House!
inReview: The majority of songs on this album have already been dubbed ‘radio friendly’ – were you striving for that when you began the songwriting process?
Rob: It wasn’t necessarily an intentional process. We started off with like 36 ideas and we picked the ten songs that are the best, the catchiest ones. If radio friendly is what they want to call it, then we’re fine with that.
Noah: We’ll see you on the charts!
Rob: We’ve always been a rock band, and we still are. There are still heavy songs on there, and we’ve always had ballads. There’s a lot of bands in the world where they have a radio hit, but the rest of the record doesn’t sound a thing like it. Hey, shame on radio for not letting them play more of our songs.
Taylor : It’s the beginning of a new era, too.
inReview: What led to the new lineup, and picking Rich for bass and Taylor for drums?
Rob: Well actually, I was on craigslist.
Rich: Nah really, it wasn’t an ad. I went to the same church for a while and then Noah and Rob showed up and started going there so I got to know them through that. I’ve played with a lot of Christian artists – been doing it since ’99. Something happened that I couldn’t be with the person [band] I was with, and they couldn’t be with the person they were with anymore and it all just worked out. It couldn’t have been orchestrated any better.
Taylor: I drove all night to audition. And it was totally worth it. It’s weird. I never knew, when I was standing on the side of the stage watching these guys play a few years ago when I was in a pop/punk band, that I’d be in Pillar a few years later.
Noah: What’s cool is that the formula [lineup] has changed numerous times and it just gets better every time. Each equation is equal to a big step forward. Some bands get a new drummer, singer or bass player and all of a sudden they just fall off. But musically we’ve really grown in the past twelve years.
Taylor: I think now it’s Pillar!
inReview: What’s a question that you haven’t been asked, that you’d want to be asked? Cause you know, people always have to ask that question.
Noah: Well I’ve never been asked that before!
Rich: What’s your workout regiment, Taylor?
Noah: Unfortunately, they won’t hear this interview.
Taylor: Well let’s see, Rich - I wake up, I lift a shake out of the fridge and I drink it like this.
Rich: Do you curl it?
Noah: How many sips do you get out of that?
inReview: How has the way you connect with fans changed over the years?
Rob: Yeah, so we went into the label and said “this is what people are saying.” We put up a poll over a weekend and at the end of the weekend there were over 3,000 votes. Over 90% of fans said to keep the old logo. So the label said “Okay, we will.” The fans are just jacked up right now. There’s some people that are so excited that I thought they were going to like drive down, find our houses and give us hugs…What we’ve done in the past is one thing, and this is a new opportunity. We’ll see how it goes!


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We bury her in a graveyard in Pickering, an hour east of Toronto, wrapped in a white shroud her daughters and grand-daughters twined around her. In the orthodox way, we don’t put up a gravestone, no plaque and no flowers. I send myself an email to remember her plot number. We visit often, commencing a new, far different relationship from the one we’d had through the ravages of her long, croaking dying.
My mother begins a slow, thorny grieving. Time wrinkles around her periodically heaving body. In May, she decides we will make umrah, pilgrimage, in my grandmother’s memory. My immediate family doesn’t do field trips. I can’t remember the last time that we, all seven strong, went anywhere together—we are always too busy or too dispersed.
By month’s end, we are flying to Saudi Arabia for the first time in fifteen years.
Twenty-four years ago, when our family first arrived in Saudi Arabia (I was born in Sri Lanka), the country was at war with Iraq. I was young then, repeating kindergarten to compensate for the ocean-wide migration. We landed in Yanbu, a highly industrialized expat-heavy petrochemical centre, then moved to Jeddah, the country’s grittier seaport commercial capital.
My parents eschewed compounds, those securely gated, miraculously green alternate realities occupied largely by wealthy white Westerners and served mostly by South Asian labourers. Instead, we grew up on hospital premises, so that my doctor mother could walk to work. Bussed between our low-rise apartment building of other doctor families from the global south and my state-run international all-girls school, the war seemed far away.
Still, the fighting found ways to impinge on my heavily regimented childhood of school and home. Sometimes I would call my aunt in Riyadh and hear bombs close by in the background. A weird normalcy hung over our conversations, a sense not so much of resignation as of suspended disbelief. I imagined stony grey rubble unfurling beside them, their building the lone monument still standing. In retelling these years, my mother describes sirens, but I do not remember them.
This was the era of the first Gulf War and the first George Bush. In response to Iraq’s 1990 occupation of Kuwait, the U.S., once supportive of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, convened the largest military alliance since World War II to fight Iraq. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia paid more than half of the war’s $60-billion cost, and the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division landed in the deserts of Dhahran, scarcely 400 miles from Madinah.
By then, the U.S. had long been partnering with the wealthy kingdom: during the Cold War, the U.S. had trained al-Qaeda to fight the Soviet Union, and had propagated Saudi religious schools across the world, aiming to use U.S.-funded interpretations of Islam to fight the U.S.S.R.
By my early teens, a marked shift had emerged. With rifts growing between al-Qaeda and the (rest of the) Saudi royal family over U.S. involvement in the war on Iraq, Usama bin Laden became a household name. September 11, 2001 was on the horizon.
As we prepare to fly out of Toronto in 2015, Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, while simultaneously negotiating a $15-billion arms deal with Canada. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s “sunny” soon-to-be prime minister, will spend the election cycle decrying then-PM Stephen Harper for the Conservative-initiated deal, but when elected to power later that year, will himself approve the sale. The light-armoured vehicles, or LAVs, that Canada is to provide to the Saudi Arabian National Guard will reportedly be equipped with, among other things, machine guns that can fire 105mm shells or missiles.
But our departure from Canada is smooth—to my surprise and relief. My brother shares a name with someone on the no-fly list. He’s missed flights before. It’s a bureaucratic nightmare that leaves me enraged, fearful, and despondent by turns. In contrast, my brother, who was in grade school during 9/11, takes it in stride as some kind of Muslim rite of passage.
It’s almost impossible to get off the no-fly list: the Canadian government doesn’t have to tell you that they’ve put you on it, and if somehow you find out that you’ve been blacklisted and attempt to challenge that listing, the government doesn’t have to tell you or your lawyer what evidence they’re using against you to keep you on it. The Orwellian paradox of laws that openly parade their concealment makes it difficult to map, let alone fight, the list’s reach.
Under Trudeau, the no-fly list has been expanded through the so-called “anti-terror” bill C-51. Though the bill was introduced by Harper, Trudeau voted to make the bill an act, and has refused to heed calls for its repeal. Of the act’s myriad racisms, the list, with all the resources required to execute it in airports across the country, perhaps most visibly exemplifies racialized paranoia. But in the nearly two decades since 9/11, Canada has made such ample use of secret trials against Muslims that ultimately the mass surveillance of the no-fly list feels cynically unremarkable.
We land in Jeddah. Though I spent close to a decade of my childhood in this still-familiar dusty city—“the Bride of the Red Sea”—we do not linger. At the King Abdulaziz International Airport, we pile into a van and head to Madinah.
We quickly discover the A/C is broken, so we pull off the highway to grab some pop and shawarmas for the four-hour drive. We enter a sort of strip mall of low-roofed restaurants set a little ways back from the road.
If I had escaped the symbols of war during my childhood here, not so this time. Men mill around us in military uniform, also getting food. Wearing light brown camouflage and traveling in groups, the ease with which these soldiers move through the take-out joints reminds me of my birthplace, Sri Lanka.
After twenty-seven years of civil war, soldiers are as much a part of Sri Lanka’s national landscape as the flora and fauna. My memories of Sri Lanka are as much of checkpoints, soft-jawed teenage boys drooping with the weight of machine guns, and the sunburnt remains of bombed-out commuter buses, as they are of first friendships or the spider-web of familial dramas. After all, a civil war is the war at home; civil war is place imploding in on itself. In contrast, Saudi Arabia’s wars were not, thanks to its domestically relentless and now LAV-equipped autocracy, civil; they were directed elsewhere (such a young country, and so insecure, perennially fighting its neighbours). So I had grown up with Saudi Arabia serving as a foil to my first home, its relative peace counterbalancing the turmoil of the place my family comes from.
Along our drive, we’re waved through a few such checkpoints. Mostly I sleep through the ride, lulled by the heat and the monotony of the view. We arrive without incident in Madinah.
When we lived here, we visited Makkah and Madinah often. Makkah was where the Prophet Muhammad had been born and was later exiled from; Madinah where he subsequently found refuge and later died. I had always preferred Madinah to Makkah. Officially titled Madinah tul Munawarra—City of Light—I thrilled to the idea of a city named, simply, City; it seemed so confident and cosmopolitan an understanding and demonstration of self.
For millennia, Madinah had been a city without a country, ruled by a shifting patchwork of local and global powers. By the eighteenth century, the House of Saud had emerged as the Ottoman Empire’s chief rivals for control of Madinah. In 1925, Madinah was finally brought under the rule of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, who founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
Six years later, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company hit oil in Dhahran. Now called Aramco, it is the world’s most valuable company, with estimates ranging from $1.25-trillion to $10-trillion USD.
Seven years later, in 1945, with the end of World War II in sight, King Abdulaziz and then-U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt met for the first time. They reached an agreement in which Saudi Arabia would supply oil to the U.S., in exchange for U.S. military protection of the Saudi regime. This agreement remains in effect: it has survived seven Saudi kings and twelve U.S. presidents.
We spend most of our time in Madinah in Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet’s Mosque. It is the world’s second-oldest mosque, and the second-holiest site in Islam. Built by the Prophet a year after his migration to Madinah, the mosque was originally about the size of an average house, with pillars of palm trunks and roofs of beaten clay and palm leaves. After his death, under a succession of caliphs, sultans, and kings, the mosque underwent a series of renovations, razings, and reconstructions, until now, at over 50,000 square metres and with a capacity of 1.6 million people, it has become one of the largest mosques in the world.
It is also one of the most opulent. The mosque is a thing of wonder, bedecked in marble floors, cream columns, dizzyingly tall doors and archways. Qurans, hardcover and green-backed, are stacked in gold shelving. Gold chandeliers hang from the ceilings, and every pillar has lamps hung in each of its four corners, each pillar inscribed with the name of God.
A marquee outside declares that photography is prohibited, a decree belied by how liberally the mosque is peppered with security cameras, curving out from behind the pillars, positioned high above our heads.
Inside, the carpets—thousands and thousands of square feet of them—are thickly embossed with the Saudi state emblem, a palm tree emerging from the crossing of two swords. I can’t remember if the carpets were always designed like this, but it feels now like a deeper obscenity than the wealth on display within the mosque, or the five-star hotels and expensive malls that crowd in on its courtyards.
Today, these carpets feel subtly militaristic, this encroachment of state power into the house of God, this laying claim to the spirituality performed here, the countless palms and foreheads pressed in prayer against this symbol of state conquest.
It’s too full indoors, so at 4 a.m. on a Thursday, my mother, sister, and I are praying on plastic-sheeted walkways in the mosque’s courtyard. My mother wants to attempt the ziyarah, a visit to the rawdah, the Prophet’s grave. The ziyarah has strictly enforced women’s hours; it is otherwise open to men. Being no less desirous of visiting the grave than men, this constriction has resulted in the women’s ziyarah being a full-on scrimmage. We’ve arrived for the women’s sunrise hours.
As we wait for the gates to the gravesite open, the female guards begin organizing the hundreds of women assembled around us into groups.
The racial logic of their ordering quickly becomes apparent. Following some unspoken rule, Arabs are typically allowed entry first, South Asians last. All the guards, irrespective of whether or not they understand that we speak English, point us in the direction of the India/Pakistan grouping, where another guard is lecturing the group in what sounds like Urdu or Hindi.
My mother asks where the gates are, and is ignored, until one guard asks where we are from. Given pervasive racism in Saudi Arabia against Sri Lankans, my mother says Canada, and then, into the blank stare that follows, America. The guard nods vigorously, and point us back to India/Pakistan.
Eventually we settle among some Indonesians. Even if she could understand the guards, my mother neither needs nor wants the lectures being imposed on the pilgrims. She quietly manoeuvres through the guards’ racial obsessions, trying to get us as close as possible to the grave so that we can enter quickly when the gates open.
Over the course of our trip, my family discusses often this disconnect between the mosque as a place of faith and the state as a mechanism of racialized profit and regulation. The crassness on display, mere feet from the Prophet’s grave, feels like yet more proof of this tension. There’s little point raging about it here, it’d be like beating a wall, though a woman close by is in fact telling off security for precisely this. My mother just sits, bides her time, absorbed in prayer. When jetlag rears, we nap briefly. Otherwise, there is too much to see to be bored.
A woman in a sparkly niqab bears down on us, an elderly matriarch on her arm. She asks the guard beside us if there are (in this order) groups for English, Tamil, or Malayalam speakers. After first hopefully pointing out Urdu/India/Pakistan, the guard says no. The city—and indeed the whole country—is in fact full of Tamil speakers, many of them migrant workers hailing from Sri Lanka, whose GDP rests heavily on the housemaids and labourers it exports here. But in the mosque’s policed attempts at language accommodation, the most impoverished of its worshippers and custodians do not register. The two women leave.
It becomes evident that we have seated ourselves in the Arab section. A guard comes up to the edge of our motley group and attempts to dislodge the Indonesian women beside us. They are reading the Quran and ignore her wholly. Her pitch grows increasingly frustrated and quick. Eventually, she wins and they disappear, perhaps to their prescribed spot in the mosque ecology. They are soon replaced by a troop of worshippers robed in electric blue. Behind me, there is a group speaking Telugu. I pick out a few words that mimic Tamil, chief among them “palli,” which in Tamil means mosque.
A flock of women in deep brown chadors swoops by us; the backs of their scarves are imprinted with the address of a tour group in Niger. Sometimes it’s the accoutrements that distinguish the tour groups: fluorescent yellow backpacks here, baby blue headscarves there, green messenger bags, orange lanyards, thick winter scarves the shade of the Toronto Blue Jays logo.
Southeast Asians are by far the easiest to spot, each tour group marked by their particular choice in fabric—huge purple flowers for one group, orange and green forest foliage for another—cut at the wearer’s pleasure into long dresses, tunics, sarongs, pant suits. In each group there is always one noncompliant member: among the purple floral is a woman dressed in a solid and beautifully complementary block of violet. I wonder idly about the cost of coordinating outfits like this, how much work it must entail. I like to imagine the odd one out as the group’s poorest planner. I sympathize.
It is not clear if anyone is listening to the guards on the loudspeakers, who carry on anyway. I exchange smiles with a twelve-year-old in jeans. As the hour for the gate opening nears, women begin to stand up, and an expectant lean ripples through the crowd.
We are let into the rawdah, and the women’s bodies push up tight against each other, everyone’s fleshy parts part of a larger thrust towards the dead. Arms reach out and clasp me as they pass by, bracing themselves against me or pushing me out of the way, as the case may be. There is no compunction in touch. My brothers later describe strolling through the gravesite during the much longer men’s hours.
I leave Madinah praying I never hear “idhar aao,” Hindi for “come here,” again. The patience with which the immigrant cleaners and pilgrims put up with the mosque’s daily, inept, and deeply entrenched racisms seems indicative of the Muslim cognitive dissonance on which Saudi Arabia relies: the holiness of this place exists in a different dimension than the profanity so openly on display. Everything that is beautiful about this place seems also laced with disrespect for both the sacred and the human. It falls to the individual pilgrim to carve out worship from the cacophony of ugliness.
On July 4, 2016, the day before Eid, a year after our pilgrimage, a string of bombs goes off across Saudi Arabia: one near the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, wounding two security officers; the next a suicide bomb near Masjid an-Nabawi, killing four officers; and the third outside a Shia mosque in Qatif. In Jeddah, the government arrests a thirty-five-year-old Pakistani migrant worker.
By February 2016, at least 8,000 Yemenis had died, at least sixty percent of them killed by Saudi air strikes. Much of Yemen is on the brink of famine.
In this light, it’s not surprising that Madinah was attacked. It is terrifying and reprehensible, and in the magnitude of the symbolic breach, staggering—but it is not surprising.
What makes a war our war? The Iraq Wars. Are wars named only after the home team? The War on Afghanistan. Is its name the measure of who is doing the killing and who the dying? The War on Terror. If the dead die far from where we can see, are we still at war? The War of Terror.
Our pilgrimage was hemmed on both sides by carnage. At once a site of faith and war, this feels like a central tension in being Muslim in the era of the nation-state. Across the world, we are tied to cities we love in countries we fear.
This article originally appeared on Hazlitt.net.
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Exploring the temple town can easily be done on foot or bicycle. Auto-rickshaws and taxis are easily available and are quite convenient.
Bhubaneswar's cuisine has a distinctive blend of Bengali and Oriya foods, though locals opine that the two states offer absolutely different tastes! Their staple food includes rice cooked with potatoes and accompanied by aaloo-bharta and saag. The chatu tarkari made of mushrooms is a local specialty here. The food cooked is mostly seasoned with the five-spices and cooked in mustard oil. Fish is obviously a favourite and its proximity to the sea makes it a fresh fish paradise. Try the shorsen maach (fish cooked in mustard paste), chingdi (prawns) and the all-time favourite of maach bhaaja (fried fish).
Lamb, fried or with curry, is also quite popular. The restaurant at Hotel Siddartha serves a wide variety of multi-cuisine non-veg and veg dishes and is a great place for eating out. For real local cuisine, head out to restaurant Sangam located in Gautam Nagar. Other restaurants serving true Oriya cuisine are Dalma, Odissi, Swastik Plaza, Mayfair Lagoon and Hotel Crown. Pushpanjali, the restaurant at Hotel Trident is expensive, but well worth the money spent. Vegetarians can head out to Hotel Harekrishna, Prachi Garden for veg-thalis and Madhuban Restaurant. A delight for sweet-lovers, the famous Kalinga Sweet Market is located almost 12 kms from Bhubaneswar on the way to Cuttack. Made up of a row of small shacks, this is the best place to savour the softest and melt-in-the-mouth variety of rosogolla. Other delicacies include the chennapoda, the chennagaja and pithas.
Bhubaneswar is known for its typical Oriya handicrafts and fabrics, available at all major stores. Typical to the region, the ikkat saris and kurtas are particularly favourite. Hand-woven and available in a whole range of bright colours, they are best available at Priyadarshini Odissi Handloom and Kalaniketan. Another great buy when it comes to textiles is the appliquÃ© work, locally known as Chandua. Sambalpuri silk and cotton, tussar silk and gold embroidery are other materials that must be taken home.
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Ashokashtami is one of the most important celebrations here dedicated to Lord Shiva. During this, the image of Lingaraja and other deities are taken in a procession from the Lingaraja Temple to the Rameshwara Temple. This festival is attended by hundreds of devotees who join together and pull the chariot that carries the deities. The deities remain in the temple for four days, after which they are carried back to Lingaraja Temple.
Celebrated by the tribal community in the end of January, Adivasi Mela holds a wide display of arts and artifacts created by the tribal, and is an excellent opportunity to experience the culture and tradition of them. One of the most vibrant festivals is Durga Puja, celebrated in worship to Goddess Durga. The festival takes place in September or October and idols of the goddess are created and decorated with lights, flowers and jewellery. Preparations start weeks ahead and the entire community comes together to enjoy in the festive spirit. The ceremony continues for 10 days, culminating with the immersion ceremony on the last day. The images are taken in a huge procession to the nearest river or tank and are immersed to the accompaniment of loud devotional music. Also celebrated with great splendor is Janmashtami, dedicated to Lord Krishna. This festival is marked by people observing day-long fasts and finally celebrating the birth of the Lord at midnight.
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Air: Biju Patanik Airport in Bhubaneswar is located 4 kms from the main town. Taxis and pre-paid cabs are available to commute within the city.
Rail: Bhubaneswar Junction is linked to Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Road: Bhubaneswar is connected by NH6 and NH5 to Kolkata. Overnight buses play daily through this route.
The Lingaraja Temple owes its origin to the following legend: it is believed that once Shiva expressed his preference for Bhubaneswar over Benaras to Parvati. Parvati then disguised herself as a common cowherd woman and went to look at the city. There, two demons Kritti and Vasa expressed their desire to marry her. She then requested them to carry her upon their shoulders, following which, she crushed them to death. Shiva then created the Bindusagar Lake to quench her thirst and stayed here thereafter as Lingaraja.


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Cream butter; add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg and egg yolks, one at a time, beating well. Beat in vanilla and lemon rind. Sift together cornstarch, flour, baking powder and salt. Add to mixture and mix well. Drop batter by small spoonfuls onto well buttered baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove immediately.
Easy version: use 1-2 boxes of vanilla wafers.
Sandwich the cookies together with dulce de leche (caramelized sweetened condensed milk). Roll edges in coconut. Dip entire cookie in melted chocolate. Let dry on wax paper.
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crushed red pepperFinely dice the beef. In a medium-size frying pan, melt 2 tbsp vegetable shortening. Dice the onion, bell pepper and add to the pan. Saute over medium heat until the onion starts to turn golden. Add the diced meat. Season to taste with salt, red pepper, and paprika. Saute, stirring occasionally, until the beef turns brown on all sides. Remove the frying pan from the heat. Mix in the egg, the raisins, the olives, and the green onions. Allow to cool until it drops to room temperature.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lightly flour a baking sheet. Arrange the empanadas on the sheet and until the pastry is golden brown, approx. 10 minutes.
Mayonnaise and Salt to taste.Cook potatoes and carrots separately in boiling water until tender. Allow to cool and cut into cubes. Add peas, mayonnaise and salt to taste. Mix well and refrigerate. Serve cold.
This is a dessert that can be eaten with a cup of coffee in the afternoons, as a snack at any time of the day, late at night, etc. Of Italian origin, this can be done with the filling you choose, it’s usually done with quince paste, or dulce de leche or tomato jam, either way Pasta Frola is delicious, and Argentineans love it. With dulce de leche it is a great dessert!
Put in a bowl the flour, the sugar, baking powder, salt and butter. With your hands work this so that the butter looks like corn grains. Then add the eggs, the water and the vanilla. Separate ¼ of that dough. With the ¾ of the dough, cover a baking dish that has been previously buttered. Once the dough is all covering the dish, fill it with the filling you choose, be it quince jam, dulce de leche or tomato jam. With the ¼ of the dough you had separated, make long strips and cover the whole dish from one side to the other in a crossing pattern, covering partly the jam. You can put grated coconut in the borders of the cake, where the strips join the other part of the dough. Take it to medium warm oven, for some 25 minutes. Serve it cold, delicious with a cup of coffee.


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Cadogan Hall is delighted to welcome back the enormously popular Russian State Philharmonic with its Music Director Valery Polyansky, recognized today as a leading interpreter of the works of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
Rachmaninov himself said that the third was his personal favourite amongst his piano concertos, requiring breathtaking virtuosity from both soloist and orchestra. Valentina Lisitsa joins them for one of the most difficult and physically demanding works for pianists.
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, written soon after the collapse of his brief and disastrous marriage, is saturated with the idea of fate, or as the composer wrote ‘that fatal force which prevents the impulse to happiness from attaining its goal’. The vigorous finale, incorporating a famous Russian folk song, swings from the dark emotions of the first movement to a more triumphant mood.


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Three shootings at a Milford apartment complex over the last month have residents questioning their safety.
Down the street from an elementary school in Milford, a recent spate of gunfire has residents wondering whether the time has come to find a new place to live.
Gunfire has rung out at the Brightway Commons apartment complex three times in less than a month, with one shooting sending two people to the hospital.
On April 13, police responded to the small community off Church Street around 11:30 p.m. for a report of two gunshot wound victims. Both were taken to Milford Memorial Hospital and one was later transported to Christiana Hospital. Police said one victim was shot in the stomach area and the other victim was shot in the leg. No suspects have been announced and the shooting remains under investigation.
On May 3, officers again returned to Brightway for a report of shots fired. This time there were no victims, but property was damaged. Five days later, Bridgeville resident Ronnier Elmore, 25, was arrested in connection with the shooting, as well as another one on May 5 in a different part of town.
Hours after Elmore was arrested, gunshots again were heard in Brightway. That investigation remains open and no suspects have been identified. No injuries or property damage were reported, police said.
“I think the last few could be possibly linked,” said Milford Police Department Detective Cpl. Timothy Maloney. He said he does not suspect the April shooting is connected to the two in May.
“It all depends on further investigative leads we need to follow up on,” he said.
Maloney said his department is stepping up surveillance efforts in an area they say is an on-and-off hotspot for violent crime, and the department is working with property managers to update lighting and surveillance cameras.
Over the last 12 months, police have been called to Brightway more than 200 times for everything from disorderly conduct and domestic disputes to thefts and assaults. The three recent shootings are the only ones in Brightway that have been reported over the last year.
Maloney said it’s difficult to say whether the recent shootings constitute a crime trend in the area, but incidents have been increasing.
He said most shootings occur well after school is dismissed at nearby Benjamin Banneker Elementary School, which is staffed with school resource officers and other security measures.
Brightway has seen its fair share of violent crime in recent years. In May 2016, a 21-year-old man was critically injured after he was shot in a parking lot at the complex. In August 2015, a man fired multiple rounds into one of the lower-level apartment buildings, but no injuries were reported.
So far this year, Milford police have received seven reports of shots fired, three of which occurred in Brightway, Maloney said. He said six of those seven reports were confirmed to be gunfire.
In 2017, Milford saw three shootings that resulted in injuries, one of which was fatal and none of which occurred at Brightway, according to police reports.
Last year, police reported 283 shootings statewide that resulted in injuries or deaths. That number does not include shots fired complaints.
One lifelong resident said she remembers when police would regularly patrol the neighborhood and ask anyone outside their homes to show identification. She said she does not see that anymore.
Maloney said police are increasing patrols, but the residents said they haven’t noticed. Or when they do see police in the neighborhood, it’s as if they’re just passing through. Maloney said they are keeping a close eye and residents will notice more officers walking through on weekends.
“Sometimes, the cops even seem scared to come out here,” said one resident, who — like all of the other neighbors who spoke with The News Journal this week — asked not to be identified out of fear.
“Milly” means Milford, she said. Maloney said he could not comment on whether that gang is legitimate.
The recent gunfire is not the first the 28-year-old woman experienced, but she said it is still scary no matter how many times it happens.
The mother of two remembered one evening in recent years that she looked out her window after hearing a loud bang and saw a man lying on the ground, clutching his neck. Blood was everywhere, she said, and the puddle left behind was not washed away for two days.
“It’s been the same for years,” she said. She said every time gunshots ring out, people go running. And when the police arrive, people run away again.
“I’m leaving in two weeks,” she said.
Many of her neighbors said they also are looking for new places to live, out of fear for their family’s safety.
Another young mother, who had not heard about the recent shootings, recalled a few years ago when bullets were shot through her apartment. She was uninjured in that incident and continued living in the home because she had nowhere else to go, she said.
Stanley said there are security cameras in the neighborhood, but declined to comment about it being labeled by police as a crime hotspot.
“We do cooperate closely with the police department,” she said.
Anyone with information about the recent shootings is asked to contact the Milford Police Department at (302) 422-8081, Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333 or go online at MilfordPoliceDE.org/TIPS.

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The Vatican is a global player in bioethical debates. Its magisterium has been addressing bioethical issues since the birth of this discipline in the Sixties. Encyclicals like Humanae Vitae (“[The Transmission of] Human Life”, 1968) dealt with contraception in the context of changing sexual habits; Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”, 1993) defended the teaching of the authority of the Church in an age of moral relativism; Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”, 1995) underlined the inviolability of human life in the context of thorny debates about abortion, euthanasia, and medical research involving human embryos.
From the institutional point of view, the Pontifical Academy for Life was established in 1994 as the Vatican department whose mission is defending and promoting the views of the Church in academic and public debates around the world.
Theologically and ethically, Roman Catholic bioethics has been majoring on categories like “nature” (understood rather philosophically and statically), “the sacredness of life” (verging towards the absoluteness of what is a created and transient gift), “person” (conceived in rather monolithic terms and not adequately distinguishing human biology and human biography). More than exploring and developing Biblically supported reasoning, Catholic bioethics has preferred locking itself in natural law and the finality of being.
If secular bioethics has elevated the “ego” as its idol (i.e. whatever the individual decides, that’s fine), Catholic bioethics has tended towards elevating the “bios” as its idol (i.e. the decisive point is wherever and whenever biological life is found). The complexity of life is therefore flattened in both approaches and the Biblical realism about life is left aside.
Catholic bioethics has become synonymous with ethical conservatism and frequently mocked in public debate dominated by secularist trends. It has always been defending something and has developed a defensive attitude. However, things may change.
A recent move by the Pontifical Council for Culture (another important Vatican department) calls for attention. For the first time ever, the Vatican has signed a contract with a US biotech company (NeoStem) to stir research on adult stem cells. NeoStem is working in the field of regenerative medicine in order to develop cell therapies for autoimmune disorders (e.g. diabetes), heart diseases, and orthopedic ailments. Regenerative medicine using adult stem cells does not destroy human embryos and is therefore ethically legitimate for those who are in the pro-life front.
The Vatican financial investment amounts to 1 million US dollars. Not a big deal, but not an insignificant figure either. An international conference at the Vatican on “Adult Stem Cells: Science and the Future of Man and Culture” (November, 9-11) hosted the launching of the joint-venture in the biotech industry and the new Vatican engagement in the bioethical arena. The great promises of the use of adult stem cells were highlighted as far as the reduction of human suffering is concerned as well as their full ethical viability. Participants were also granted an audience with Benedict XVI who delivered a speech reinforcing the morality of using adult stem cells over against the immorality of destroying embryo stem cells.
The Vatican is well aware that the bioethical debate is very polarized. In the area of regenerative medicine, the embryo stem cells versus adult stem cells debate has taken a very ideological turn. It is more often a clash of opposing worldviews than an informed scientific and moral discussion.
So far the Vatican has tended to embody and support the conservative side of the debate offering philosophical and moral arguments against embryo destruction and for the use of adult stem cells on the basis of Catholic moral theology. The partnership with NeoStem amounts perhaps to a paradigm shift or at least to a broadening of scope. The regenerative medicine battle will not be won by arguments, principles, and values alone. Those who discover sustainable cures first will win the day. So the Vatican, in investing in the adult stem cells industry, shows its willingness to run the race by financing research on adult stem cells with the expectation that it will deliver what it promises before the embryo stem cells industry gets to it. First come, first served.
Of course the Vatican will continue to play its role in the battle by way of its traditional contribution, e.g. through encyclicals, documents, conferences, moral suasion, etc. It will keep on employing its philosophical and theological expertise in order to support its moral framework. It will continue to let its voice be heard through its institutions. Yet this is not enough. For a global player like the Vatican, the bioethical challenges of our day require a new two-fold strategy as a moral reference point and as a financial investor. The Vatican seems to have the know-how and the resources to do both.


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With his contract renewal with Sun Cellular, Jay-R says thatfans can expect "More commercials, more campaign, billboards, and I think I'mgonna be paired up with Iya [Villania, another endorser of Sun Cellular] thistime."
The Prince of RnB, Jay-R, looked surprised when he was askedabout the network-transfer rumor about him. It started to circulate because Jay-R was not seen in SOP forseveral Sundays.
In an interview with the singer-actor during the media junket for the renewal of his contractwith Sun Cellular network yesterday afternoon, July 8, at Circle's Café on TomasMorato, Quezon City, Jay-R assured the press that transferring to the othernetwork never crossed his mind. He just had some shows abroad so he was absentin GMA-7's Sunday variety show for a couple of weeks.
"Actually, imposible kasi I'm binded with GMA-7 for twoyears," explained Jay-R, who just renewed his contract to his motherstation. "It's gonna be inappropriateto even just be negotiating or anything like that, you know, it's impossible."
Jay-R is under a network contract with GMA-7. This means that aside from appearingregularly in TV shows like SOP, he will also have movies andtelenovelas. However, he is not yet seen active in these fields.
"There's talk of [making a movie and TV projects], but we'restill waiting for the good role for me," Jay-R related to PEP (PhilippineEntertainment Portal). "Siyempre 'yongTagalog ko, medyo baluktot. Basta we'rejust waiting for the good role na bagay sa akin. So we're just waiting butthere's talk of one."
ON BILLY CRAWFORD. Another possible source of the network-transfer rumor was the news aboutBilly Crawford, who recently moved to ABS-CBN. Billy's booking agent here in the country is Arnold Vegafria, who incidentally handles the showbiz career of Jay-R.
With this connection, the press asked Jay-R if the rumoredrivalry between them is true.
The RnB prince immediately replied, "Friends kami [ni Billy]at saka magkaibigan talaga. Walangrivalry, but I'm sure the networks, they're gonna ano, pagtapatin kasi parehokaming RnB [singer], di ba?
"Pero okay lang, sa akin maganda 'yon, e, healthycompetition. Kasi it just makes me better as an artist, it inspires me to dobetter—you know, start dancing like Billy, start singing more. Siyempre ang galing ni Billy, e, kailangantapatan ko rin, di ba, for my network naman?"
To prove that there is no friction between these two musicartists, Jay-R told PEP that he and Billy sometimes work together at his ownrecording studio. "We're constantly inthe studio, we're always meeting, you know, we're always communicating. So you know, we're friends talaga," saidJay-R.
He also added that he is willing to work with theinternational singer for an album. In fact, Jay-R said they've alreadyrecorded some songs together.
"We collaborate all the time, actually. We're always writing songs together, alwaysrecording. So, it's just a matter ofputting it out na lang."
Before the press conference started, Jay-R's manager toldhim that his album Soul in Love has already reached gold. He will be given an award this Sunday, July13, on SOP.
When asked about it, Jay-R gave a smile and told PEP, "I just released it last January... It feels goodkasi I really worked hard in the album, you know. I guess a lot of people appreciate my hard work and they got acopy of my album."


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The salesclerks of Los Angeles are steaming—and not over the warming temperatures. Beginning last summer, all the department stores agreed that instead of closing at 10 p.m. on Saturdays, they would close at 12:30 p.m., giving the staff a half-day off with pay.
Thousands of store workers crowded into Simpson Auditorium for a meeting on preserving the half-holiday in the summer and closing at 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. on Saturdays for the rest of the year. Speeches were made and boycotts were threatened.
In the end, the half-holiday prevailed.
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