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Fruit and vegetables' share of total retail sales in Norway 2017, by region
Share of fruit, berries, vegetables and potatoes of total retail sales in Norway in 2017, by region
by M. Ridder, last edited Dec 10, 2018
This statistic displays the share of fruit, berries, vegetables and potatoes of the total retail sales in Norway in 2017, by region. In the given year, the share of fruit and berries of the total retail sales in Norway was 5.2 percent. The highest shares of 5.2 percent each were recorded in Oslo and Western Norway. In all regions in total, vegetables and potatoes had a share of 7.2 percent of the total retail sales in Norway, with the largest share of 7.2 percent being recorded in Oslo.
Vegetables and potatoes
Mushroom production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Zucchini production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Carrots production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Avocado: production in Spain 2012-2017
Statistics on "Vegetable industry in Spain"
Introduction to the sector
Vegetable retail & trade
Vegetable consumption
Potato market
Industry revenue of »manufacture of food products« in Spain from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)Industry revenue of »manufacture of food products« in Spain 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables« in Spain from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)Industry revenue of »processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables« in Spain 2011-2023
Breakdown of fresh vegetables volume in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel Fresh vegetables sales volume in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel
Average retail price of fresh vegetables in Spain from January 2013 to December 2018 (in euros per kilogram)Average monthly retail price of fresh vegetables Spain 2013-2018
Annual value of vegetables and legumes exported from Spain from 2012 to 2017 (in million euros)Export value of vegetables in Spain 2012-2017
Value of potatoes exported from Spain from 2012 to 2017 (in 1,000 euros)Spain: potatoes export value 2012-2017
Volume of fresh vegetables consumed in Spain from January 2017 to December 2018 (in million kilograms)Consumption volume of fresh vegetables Spain 2018
Year-on-year food expenditure percentage change in households in Spain in 2018, broken down by type of product (percentage)Year-on-year food expenditure in Spanish households 2018, by product
Volume of fresh lettuce, escarole and endive consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)Fresh lettuce consumption volume in Spain 2008-2018
Volume of fresh onions consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)Fresh onion consumption volume in Spain 2008-2018
Volume of fresh green beans consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)Green beans consumption volume in Spain 2008-2018
Volume of fresh tomatoes consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)Tomato consumption volume in Spain 2008-2018
Annual volume of potatoes consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018, by type (in million kilograms)Consumption of potatoes in Spain 2008-2018, by type
Breakdown of potato sales volumes in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel Potatoes sales volume in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel
Volume of potatoes produced in Spain in 2017, by type (in 1,000 tons)Potato production volume in Spain 2017, by type
Average retail price of potatoes in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel (in euros per kilo)Average retail price of potatoes in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel
Annual volume of celery produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Celery production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of lettuce produced in Spain from 2014 to 2016* (in 1,000 tons)Lettuce production volume 2014-2016 Spain
Annual volume of spinach produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Spinach production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of asparagus produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Asparagus production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of carrots produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Carrots production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of cultivated mushrooms produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Mushroom production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of cucumber produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Cucumber production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Annual volume of zucchinis produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)Zucchini production volume 2014-2017 Spain
Total sales value of fruit and vegetables in Norway 2017, by region
Share of vegetables in total retail sales growth of vegetables in Norway 2015
Vegetable purchases of households in volume by sales channel in France 2016
Monthly sales of fresh fruit and vegetables at large retailers in Canada 2015-2019
Total sales value of fruit, berries, vegetables and potatoes in Norway 2017
Total sales value of seeds and legumes in Norway 2017, by type
Total sales value of fresh herbs in Norway 2017, by type
Total sales value of stem vegetables in Norway 2017, by type
Total sales value of mushrooms in Norway 2017, by type
Total sales value of apples in Norway 2010-2017
Retail sales of organic fruit, berries and nuts in Norway 2011-2017
Fruit retail sales turnover in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2015
Fruit yoghurt retail sales volume in Japan 2010-2019
Vegetable consumption volume in the U.S. 2010-2015
Production value of fruit and vegetables in Sweden 2013-2015
Volume of sweet potatoes available for consumption per person in Canada 2010-2017
Value of fresh, chilled or frozen vegetables imported into Iceland 2007-2017
Retail sales of organic fruit in Norway 2017, by type
Potential rate of EU tariffs on vegetable exports from UK to European Union (EU) 2015
Small fruits retail sales volume in Japan 2010-2019
Food Shopping Behavior
Fruit industry in Denmark
Dried fruit market
Fruit consumption
Fruit juice market in Europe
Fruit juice industry in the EU
Fruit industry in Spain
Fruit industry in Norway
Fruit industry in Sweden
Fruit market in the Netherlands
Industry revenue of »manufacture of food products« in Spain from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
Industry revenue of »processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables« in Spain from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Breakdown of fresh vegetables volume in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel
Average retail price of fresh vegetables in Spain from January 2013 to December 2018 (in euros per kilogram)
Annual value of vegetables and legumes exported from Spain from 2012 to 2017 (in million euros)
Value of potatoes exported from Spain from 2012 to 2017 (in 1,000 euros)
Volume of fresh vegetables consumed in Spain from January 2017 to December 2018 (in million kilograms)
Year-on-year food expenditure percentage change in households in Spain in 2018, broken down by type of product (percentage)
Volume of fresh lettuce, escarole and endive consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)
Volume of fresh onions consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)
Volume of fresh green beans consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)
Volume of fresh tomatoes consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018 (in million kilograms)
Annual volume of potatoes consumed in Spain from 2008 to 2018, by type (in million kilograms)
Breakdown of potato sales volumes in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel
Volume of potatoes produced in Spain in 2017, by type (in 1,000 tons)
Average retail price of potatoes in Spain in 2018, by distribution channel (in euros per kilo)
Annual volume of celery produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of lettuce produced in Spain from 2014 to 2016* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of spinach produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of asparagus produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of carrots produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of cultivated mushrooms produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of cucumber produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of zucchinis produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Volume of avocados produced in Spain between 2012 and 2017 (in 1,000 tons)
Annual volume of radish produced in Spain from 2014 to 2017* (in 1,000 tons)
Total sales value of fruit and vegetables in Norway in 2017, by region (in million NOK)
Share of selected vegetables in total retail sales growth of vegetables in Norway in 2015, by type
Distribution of the vegetables purchases of French households in volume in 2016, broken down by sales channel
Monthly sales of fresh fruit and vegetables at large retailers in Canada from January 2015 to January 2019 (in million Canadian dollars)*
Total sales value of fruit, berries, vegetables and potatoes in Norway in 2017, by product category (in million NOK)
Total sales value of seeds and legumes in Norway in 2017, by type (in million NOK)
Total sales value of fresh herbs in Norway in 2017, by type of herb (in million NOK)
Total sales value of stem vegetables in Norway in 2017, by type of vegetable (in million NOK)
Total sales value of mushrooms in Norway in 2017, by type of mushroom (in million NOK)
Total sales value of apples in Norway from 2010 to 2017 (in million NOK)
Turnover from the retail sale of organic fruit, berries and nuts in Norway from 2011 to 2017 (in million NOK)
Turnover from retail sale of fruit in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2015 (in million GBP)
Retail sales volume of fruited yoghurts in Japan from 2010 to 2019 (in thousand metric tons)
Consumption volume of vegetables in the United States from 2010 to 2015 (in million tons)
Production value of fruit and vegetables in Sweden from 2013 to 2015, by type of cultivation (in million SEK)
Volume of fresh sweet potatoes available for consumption per person in Canada from 2010 to 2017 (in kilograms)
Value of fresh, chilled or frozen vegetables imported into Iceland from 2007 to 2017 (in million ISK)
Turnover from the retail sale of organic fruit in Norway in 2017, by type (in million NOK)
Potential ad valorem rate of EU tariffs on vegetable exports from the United Kingdom (UK) to the European Union (EU) in 2015, by product*
Retail sales volume of fresh small fruits in Japan from 2010 to 2019 (in thousand metric tons)


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While they are both worth a visit you should choose which one according to your own personality. If you are bold and adventurous then head to Sydney and put your party clothes on. If you are a little bit more laid back then Melbourne is the place for you. Unsure? Then why not visit both and get the best of both worlds.


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Q: Python, for loop that prints 16 charracters at a time I am trying to loop through a string and print out every sixteen characters. The string also ends with a semicolon. This is what I have currently but I am looking for something that prints like this ARI:03,21-04,19; This is instead what I am getting
i = 0
for word in SIGNS:
    print(word[:i], end='')
    i += 16

The output is
R
I
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0
3
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2
1
-
0
4
,
1
9
;

A: You should print 16 characters at a time:
i = 0
#for word in SIGNS:
for i in range(0, len(SIGNS), 16):
    print(SIGNS[i:i+16])

Don't use for word in SIGNS: as it iterates through the string in SIGNS character-by-character, which is what messed you up.

A: Is there is a chance you want to split your data? It looks like the format of your data is separated by ;. In that case you can use:
data_as_list =  SIGNS.split(';')
for record in data_as_list:
   print(record)

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La locuzione latina Ex genere Achillis, tradotta letteralmente, significa della dinastia di Achille (Eutropio, Breviarium ab Urbe condita, II, 11).

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On May 6, 2017, Silk Road Dance Company performed traditional Azerbaijani dances at the Embassy of Azerbaijan as part of the annual Passport DC event.
The Embassy of Tajikistan presented a special Navruz holiday concert featuring Tajik pop singer Shabnam Suraya with dance performances by Silk Road Dance Company.
October 28, 2015, Washington D.C. TAA organized a reception at its headquarters to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Silk Road Dance Company. Almost 70 people attended the colorful event, which event began with an opening speech by Dr. Faruk Taban, President of Turkic American Alliance, followed by remarks by Laurel Victoria Gray, Founder and Artistic Director of Silk Road Dance Company.
Later in the evening, the audience were welcomed by hosts dressed in Crimean Tartar, Kazakhstan and traditional clothing, while the guests enjoyed ethnic food and drinks. Later in the evening, the dancers performed traditional dances from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
The reception was organized to builds bridges of understanding between East and West by traditional dance forms, encouraging cross-cultural dialogue and provide guests a unique opportunity to meet and interact with the dancers.
The Silk Road Dance Company is an award-winning organization that presents traditional and contemporary dances from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Caucasus. The performances offer a unique glimpse of the life and art of little known cultures, especially Silk Road Countries.
On the event, organized by the Embassy of the country in the United States in conjunction with the American dance group Silk Road Dance Company («Dance Ensemble Silk Road"), attended representatives of the American socio-political, academic communities and the general public of the city. As reported by "Jahon", Silk Road Dance Company has performed more than ten traditional classical Uzbek dances, such as "Mavrigi", "Dilhirozh", "Guldasta", "Pilla", "Boi Boi", "Samarkand ushogi", "Keling Gullar" "Katta uyin" in national costumes. Before the demonstration of each dance, Laurel Gray who was the leading musical evening artistic director was telling semanting feature of an Uzbek folk dance to the present public in detail.
The occasion was Around the World Embassy Tour-Passport DC – an annual event that introduces diversity of world cultures to Washingtonians at the start of each summer.
Almost customarily, Pakistani artefacts, cuisine, costumes, folk music, artefacts and paintings remained among major attractions, with endless lines of visitors coursing through the Pakistani embassy throughout the day.
Despite intermittent rains, visitors continued to enjoy the beats of traditional Pakistani music reverberating in the International Court diplomatic area, which also houses embassies from several Middle Eastern countries.
A special feature was participation of a group of American performers, who took part in the cultural performances arranged by the Embassy including regional and folk dances.
Dance conveys a culture without words, and dancers in Washington share the cultures they love from around the world. Each has unique characteristics, from dances of everyday activities in Central Asia to tributes to great kings in Africa.
The annual event held at the new home of Washington DC's Textile Museum drew audiences.
Silk Road Dance Company performed folkloric dances from different Arab countries. George Newcomb captured beautiful images from SRDC's Egyptian, Algerian, and Khaleegy choreographies. Click on this link to view photos.
At World Refugee Day festival in Baltimore, a focus on celebration and feeling welcome.
Images from the historic White House Nowruz celebration, hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Theatre goers traveled back in time to celebrate the spirit of exploration along the Silk Road. Set in the Edwardian age, the evening at the Arts Club of Washington featured a "guest appearance" by the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin who shared accounts of his most exciting adventures. Woven throughout the evening were traditional dance performances by Silk Road Dance Company from the very places Hedin visited, such as Baku, Tehran, Samarkand, and Bukhara.
Known as the "last of the great explorers," Sven Hedin made five journeys to Silk Road regions – including Persia and Central Asia - between 1885 and 1908. He was a prolific writer whose exciting travel accounts captured the public imagination and increased Western awareness of many places, like the Taklamakan desert, that had earlier been just a "white spot" on the map.
"Recently, the White House Office of Public Engagement was pleased to host its first Nowruz celebration at the White House. We hosted the celebration with guests that represented the many different ethnicities and faiths who celebrate Nowruz across the U.S. and across the world, including Iranians, Afghans, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Iraqis, Azeris and others. Guests included White House and government staffers, local and exchange students, lawyers, business leaders and academic and community leaders.
From traditional dancers to musicians and poetry, to the haft-seen table and Persian food, guests enjoyed a taste of the New Year at the White House Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Event attendees also took part in an East Wing tour and a policy briefing."
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In Washington DC, on November 10, 2001, Silk Road Dance Company performed at the Kennedy Cente, right across the Potomac from the Pentagon that had been attacked just two months earlier. The concert -- Remembering the Legends -- depicted women in myth, legend and history from various cultures of the Silk Road. Our finale, Raqs-e-Pari, embodied the beauty of the fabled Persian fairies: the dance was intended as a blessing, a wish for the happiness of all who would witness it.
The choreography began as a silk veil wafted in the air, trailing behind a dancer who emerged from a cloud of smoke to float across the stage. Soon another dancer joined her, then another and another, until the entire space filled with fabric and movement. At last, with graceful steps, the dancers whirled and magically ended in a pose that looked like a Persian miniature painting.
We had no idea how our dances would be received, but the enthusiastic applause from the standing-room-only audience demonstrated the power of art to open hearts. In a post 9/11 world, Silk Road Dance Company's goal of promoting "Cultural Understanding through Beauty and Delight" became more vital than ever, a way to unveil the hidden grace of Iranian culture.
Founded in 1995, the award-winning Silk Road Dance Company (SRDC) presents traditional and contemporary dances from Central Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus and beyond. Our performances offer a unique glimpse of the Islamic World, especially Iran. Silk Road Dance Company has performed internationally in Uzbekistan, Qatar and Canada; nationally, we have appeared in fifteen states. Based in the DC area, we have been fortunate to dance at prestigious venues and for esteemed guests like Empress Farah Pahlavi and HM Queen Rania of Jordan; SRDC has also been featured at events for the Embassies of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Egypt and Russia.
Persian and Iranian dance has always been central to our repertoire. At first, we emphasized folkloric pieces like Ghasemabadi, Kafkazi, Kordi, and Bandari, augmented with my own interpretations of Persian classical dance of the Saffavid and Qajar dynasties. Gradually we included less familiar styles -- like Tajik, Uzbek, and Afghan -- that have deep historical connections with Persian culture.
Although SRDC often performs at museums and universities, we love community events like festivals, weddings, and Nowruz celebrations. We were delighted when in 2011, the Nowruz Commission engaged Silk Road Dance Company to perform at the Library of Congress, at their annual gala. Dedicated to representing all the countries that recognize Nowruz, the Commission asked us to present dances from several of these nations -- Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Georgia -- all in traditional costumes.
Another memorable highlight came at the invitation of the organizers of Toronto's 2011 Tirgan Festival -- the world's largest Iranian arts event. Attended by 120,000 visitors, Tirgan showcased the talents of over 150 artists from around the world who shared exemplary performances in Iranian music, dance, and theatre, as well as cinema and the visual arts. Astonished to be in the company of such distinguished artists, I was honored to be the first non-Iranian American to be presented with the Arash Award.
Silk Road Dance Company's performances were enthusiastically received in Toronto and several audience members expressed surprise when they learned that many of our dancers were not Iranian. But this is the secret power of Iranian dance. Richly diverse, every region of Iran sparkles with a distinct style of music and movement. Whether it is the joyous abandon of Bandari, the elegant gace of Kafkazi, or the soulful ecstasy of Sufi ritual, there is a quality in these dances that appeals to our shared humanity. Persian dance is so beautiful, so deeply feminine, that it -- like Rumi's poetry -- speaks to the soul, regardless of nationality.
And, of course, the costumes are breath-taking.
Forever fashionable throughout the ages, Persian women excel at personal adornment, so their historical and regional costumes are a delight to recreate. We adapt our garments for the stage and for quick changes which allow us to present each dance in the appropriate costume. Although some of our costumes are authentic dresses from "over there," most of our garments are of my design. The Silkies often help construct the dresses or add decorative elements. In 2006, we won the Metro DC Dance Award for Excellence in Costume Design.
Years ago a Persian friend graciously gave me a book about Empress Farah filled with colorful photographs of her visits to different regions of Iran. Those pictures inspired many of our designs.
Participation in Silk Road Dance Company requires tremendous dedication from the dancers who, after auditioning, serve an apprenticeship period. Dancers keep up a demanding rehearsal schedule and participate in over 30 performances a year. Silkies also tackle a formidable repertoire of over 120 dances in a wide range of styles. Even though they have formal dance training, they must master new dance vocabularies and absorb the "Silk Road" style. Performances that look effortless result from countless hours of dedicated work.
Some rare dances are part of the company's Legacy Repertoire, pieces now seldom performed in their country of origin. People's Artists of Uzbekistan Qizlarhon Dusmuhamedova and Qadir Muminov have passed on precious Central Asian dances to SRDC. Other collaborators include People's Artist of Azerbaijan, Yusif Gasimov; Turkic dance, Mujgan Ergil; and Iranian choreographer, Leili Tajadod.
Silk Road Dance Company also presents imaginative concert works like Legends of the Silk Road and the Golden Road to Samarkand, drawn from the history and fables of ancient Eastern civilizations. Inspired by Nizami Ganjavi's 12th century epic poem, Haft Paykar: Seven Beauties stays true the original text, celebrating the wisdom of princesses from different regions who teach Bahram Gur the virtues of the ideal ruler.
In the past, Persian dancers, musicians, and artists often depended on court patronage for survival. Today, we can thank our clients, since performance income helps cover our operating expenses. Happily, now that we are a tax exempt organization, we are beginning to get grants and donations so Silk Road Dance Company will continue to flourish and share the beauty of Iranian culture.
Dear Friends, It has been a long time since I have last written in my blog. The reason was that we had many events and activities which kept me busy. One of such activities is celebration of Nowruz in Washington D.C. I congratulate everyone on this wonderful festival season, which in Kazakhstan lasts one month from March 22.
At its core, the Nowruz festival (Kazakhs pronounce it "Nauriz") celebrates the awakening of Nature, symbolizing the triumph of the Spring over the Winter. Nowruz is believed to represent the transformation of weather from cold Winter to lively and hopeful Spring. This change also corresponds to the Spring Equinox. The central theme of Nowruz is renewal and the birth of new life.
Nowruz is widely celebrated in the countries of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey and Turkic communities in Russia, Ukraine and other countries. Nowruz is a non-religious folk celebration. It is believed that it originated from ancient Mesopotamia. In Babylon the New Year was celebrated on the 21st day of the month of Nissanu (corresponding to March-April) with festivities held further 12 days, each commemorated with individual rites, amusements and performances.
The present day name of Nowruz originates from the Persian. It is translated as "a new day". In Kazakhstan, Nowruz is certain to have been celebrated in pre-Islamic times and later. During the Soviet period, it was declared ideologically inconsistent and was "hushed up". It has a remarkable endurance and survival capacity through a long and dramatic history of Kazakhstan and was formally reinstated as a public holiday in Kazakhstan in 1988.
fellows. The "Aytis" (a contest of two or more improvising folk poet-musicians) is a joyful competition of wit and poetic skill. And of course there were many songs, dances and games. One of the bright traditions that we come across in Kazakh tradition is the "Nowruz bata" or Nowruz blessing. To receive a blessing on this day from aqsaqals (elderly) and aje (women of old age) is considered a big honour and sign of kindness.
the best meat dishes qazy, qarta, shujiq (lamb and horse meat delicaces), etc. Nowruz is almost synonymous with renewal and joy, hence the tradition of cleaning one's house on the eve of the holiday, returning all one's debts, forgiving all offences and resentments and to make peace with all with whom you were at odds. Thus, it symbolizes unity and peace among peoples of various backgrounds.
It is believed that Nowruz night brings luck and realisation of wishes. Therefore one has to greet it with clear soul and mind and to fill all the vessels at home with milk, grain or spring water so that prosperity never leaves one's household.
fertility to Mother land; cultivation, planting and other agricultural work are to be started.
The first celebration of "New Day" took place in 2010 at the Library of Congress and was a great success.
nature and the strengthening of friendships.
ancient string bow instrument in the history of music. Its music is exotic, yet powerful.
The celebration of Nowruz also continued on March 18, 2011, at the Embassy of Kazakhstan with the "Central Asian Music Festival" jointly organized with Asia Society. Welcoming the guests, Jack Garrity, Executive Director of the Asia Society of Washington, discussed the importance of knowing the Central Asian people through their culture. Ambassador Idrissov talked about the symbolism and meaning of the Nowruz festival for Kazakh nation.
Hundreds of years ago, the Silk Road trade route transmitted both goods and culture from China to the Mediterranean. Now that we're in the 21st century, the Silk Road Dance Festival hopes to revive the route's tradition of cultural exchange. Drawing upon the history of the ancient Silk Road, the day-long festival, presented by the Asia Heritage Foundation, Uzbek Dance and Culture Society, and World Arts Focus, hopes to educate the metro area about the beauty of eastern dance and culture.
Festival focuses on the rich diversity of dance found along the historic trade route that connected China with the Mediterranean. Lectures, workshops, and a concert featuring artists form India, Central Asia and China are hosted by Joe's Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier, Maryland.
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An article about the Bahar Ball appeared in a Persian language newspaper with the headline - "A magnificent soiree in order to raise funds and to send help to Iranian children in need of medical treatments."
" Outside the building 12 young and beautiful Iranian girls in traditional outfits were standing at the two sides of the stairways that led to the entrance of the building where the ceremony was to took place and they were greeting the guests. This sight grabbed the attention of passers and DC tourists; and a lot of them were taking photos of this scene and were asking about the reason for this gathering."
& Mystery." With the passion of an educator and avid storyteller, Gray, along with her 23-member troupe, proceeded to unfold the myths and history of the ancient world. The work is a "reconstruction of what they might have danced like," said Gray, who drew her ideas from ancient Egyptian art as well as current Middle Eastern dance styles.
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Aslan Media reporter Sheridan Gunderson created this slide show of Silk Road Dance Company's performance at the Embassy of Uzbekistan, enhanced by images from the embassy's collection of Central Asian folk art.
Artful Afternoon brought India to Greenbelt on Sunday, Aug. 7. This month's theme was "Hooray for Bollywood," featuring a host of activities for all ages that took Greenbelters for a ride through Indian culture.
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Long ago and far away, the women along the Silk Road, from China to the Mediterranean, created colorful, evocative dance forms. Thanks to an inspired troupe in Washington, D.C., we can experience them today.
They dance in sumptuous costumes and fantastic headdresses to the effervescent sounds of bells, cymbals, and drums. Some wear the mysterious burka, with tiny eye slits that leave everything to the imagination.\ These are the talented and culturally astute dancers of the Silk Road Dance Company, who proudly embody the resilient and colorful dance heritage of Central Asia and the Middle East.
This unique, all-female company was founded in Washington, D.C., by Laurel Victoria Gray, a dancer, choreographer, instructor, scholar, and dance ethnologist. "A dance ethnologist attempts to understand dance in a cultural context, examining its social significance for a particular part of the world," she explains. Her field of study--with its possibilities for presenting rare forms of dance--is a vast one. The ancient Silk Road, a network of caravan routes connecting the Mediterranean world with China, ran through Central Asia, the Caucasus mountains, the Levant, and North Africa. It was most active as an East-West linkup from the second century BC to the sixteenth century.
"On it," says Gray, "they traded silk, gems, and slaves. The slaves were Persian, African, Chinese--anyone could be made a slave. The men would be killed off and the women and children taken into slavery" by a conquering army. Perhaps, she speculates, that is why these ancient women's dances have so endured. In cultures in which women were so inexorably fixed in a subservient role, dance may have been the main, and often the only, medium in which they could express themselves.
A vast array of cultures were linked by the ancient trade routes. "People along the Silk Road were not exclusively Muslim," notes Gray. "There were also Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, and shamanists." These religious traditions, and the cultures that rose around them, greatly affected the dances from these regions.
This fun-filled day will feature special performances by Silk Road Dance Company, which has delighted audiences around the country with traditional and fusion dances from the Middle East and Central Asia. Performing Uzbek, Afghani, Tadjik, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Persian, and Egyptian dance techniques rarely seen in the United States, Silk Road Dance Company offers a unique glimpse of the life, culture, and art of little known regions.
Nizami is celebrated as a national poet throughout Azerbaijan as well as in Iransince the poem was written in Persian, the court language of the day.


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The dozen or so policy groups advising Gov.-elect Ned Lamont on priorities for his administration have outlined a robust agenda they suggest the Democrat should advance in his first 100 days and beyond.
In public meetings this week, and in documents obtained by The Courant, their recommendations included the creation of a tolling authority, the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, requiring small school districts to share services regionally and stricter gun laws, all with various timelines for implementation.
Many of the committee's suggestions are issues Lamont campaigned on, but he is not bound by their recommendations.
Most of the suggestions would require legislative approval. Democrats expanded their margins in the House and Senate in the November elections, but anything with a significant cost is expected to face scrutiny given the state's persistent budget problems.
A transportation committee recommended Lamont boost funding to the state's Special Transportation Fund by raising the gas tax and creating a tolling authority within his first six months. Both would require approval by the legislature, which has rejected past proposals for tolls. Lamont, who campaigned on truck-only tolls, seemed reticent to go beyond that when asked about the committee's report.
"It's High Time for the High-Speed Rail," reads another section from the transportation committee's report. The group recommended the Lamont administration follow up on work done by the Federal Rail Administration and the Northeast Corridor Commission and work with neighboring states to improve the speed of train service between New Haven and New York City and to establish high-speed routes from New Haven to Boston with stops in Hartford, Storrs and Providence.
The panel advising Lamont on criminal justice matters suggested so-called "raise the age" legislation, which would allow offenders aged 18 to 20 to be referred to the juvenile justice system in many cases. Malloy pushed similar legislation several times, including this year, but could not gain sufficient support in the General Assembly.
The criminal justice committee also recommended Lamont support legislation to legalize marijuana (something he was in favor of during the gubernatorial campaign). "Marijuana legalization would create new jobs in the regulated industry," the committee wrote in its report.
Connecticut enacted significantly stricter gun laws under Malloy but a public safety committee recommended a few more for the Lamont administration. Bans on 3D-printed guns and so-called "ghost guns," which are assembled from parts purchased online and do not have serial numbers, are recommended along with stricter laws about gun storage when minors are in a home.
Public safety officials also said Lamont should push to enact a law requiring all motorcycle operators and passengers to wear helmets. Connecticut repealed its motorcycle helmet law in 1976. The group also recommended requiring backseat passengers to wear their seatbelts.
A "women's issues" group recommended raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023 and enacting a statewide paid family and medical leave program, both issues Lamont has been supportive of. Democratic lawmakers have made previous efforts to create a paid leave program but startup costs — estimated to be between $14 million and $20 million — have doomed the legislation.
The women's panel also recommended tuition-free community college, which would have an estimated cost of $48 million a year. It's an idea Lamont also proposed during the campaign, saying the benefit should be extended to students who promise to live and work in Connecticut for a certain number of years after they graduate. Nearly 20 states offer some form of tuition-free college, according to a recent report by CNBC.
One suggestion from a group looking at environmental issues was that the Lamont administration announce its "commitment to phase-out single-use plastics such as plastic bags and Styrofoam." Some municipalities in Connecticut, including Westport and Greenwich, have already banned plastic shopping bags.
An education committee offered several suggestions in the area of regionalization, including requiring small school districts to consolidate or share services and establishing a minimum school district size that would be implemented over time. "If we expand shared services models and incentivize regionalization across the state, there is significant opportunity to realize cost savings," the group wrote.
The committee studying housing recommended Lamont pledge to "end all homelessness" by 2023, the end of his first term, and end youth and family homelessness three years earlier in 2020. "Research shows ending homelessness results in significant cost offsets to public resources ... and therefore results in lower burden on state and municipal services," the committee wrote.
Two policy committees, the criminal justice group and a human services group, recommended expanding voting rights for parolees and perhaps even allowing inmates to vote. More than a dozen states including Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire allow parolees to vote, according to the ACLU. Just two states, Vermont and Maine, allow those in prison to vote.


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Citing Trump Admin Failures, Judges Order Immigrant Families Reunited
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: Paul L. Friedman, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, poses for a portrait in his court-room on July 28, 2014 in Washington, DC. Judge Friedman, who presided over Byron Lamont... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: Paul L. Friedman, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, poses for a portrait in his court-room on July 28, 2014 in Washington, DC. Judge Friedman, who presided over Byron Lamont McDade's trial on drug offenses, was required to apply a 324 month mandatory sentence. McDade has already served nearly 15 years of his sentence and is currently at the Federal Correctional Institution Loretto (Pennsylvania). The Department of Justice has recently announced new guidelines that could accelerate McDade's release. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
By Alice Ollstein
The Trump administration's uneven, foot-dragging compliance with court rulings against its immigration policies is having a ripple effect across the federal judiciary, prompting judges that previously gave the administration the benefit of the doubt to issue injunctions forcing the administration to speed up the reunification of the families it forcibly and unconstitutionally separated.
U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago ruled on July 9 that the Trump administration must reunite within 72 hours a 9-year-old and a 16-year-old boy who were each separated from their fathers after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in May. Though the two families are already entitled to reunification under a California judge's order to reunite all separated families, Judge Change said the Trump administration's missed deadlines, broken promises and lack of progress in the national class action case prompted him to step in.
"The solidity of the government's prior representations that the deadlines will be met has waned," he wrote. "In this situation, which all began with a chaotic circumstance of the Government's own making, it is appropriate to consider Plaintiffs' request for reunification with a skeptical eye to the government's prior representations."
This week, in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ordered the Trump administration to reunite one Guatemalan mother with her 9-year-old son by midnight on Friday, citing the "irreparable harm" the ongoing separation is causing the family.
Though the mother, identified by her initials E.F. to protect her identity, is only charged with a civil immigration violation and has no other criminal record, she has been kept in detention in El Paso while her son was held in a foster care facility New York, and she has not seen him since May 15.
The two other parents who sued the federal government in the D.C. case have been reunited with their children, but E.F. remains separated from her child.
Citing the Trump administration's admission that it first deported and then lost track of at least a dozen parents while their children remained in the United States, Friedman also inserted into his order language banning the administration from deporting E.F. or either of the other two parents without his permission.
Friedman had originally held off on issuing a decision in this case, saying he would wait to see if the Trump administration was working in good faith to comply with Judge Sabraw's order to reunite all families, including the three parents in the D.C. case. Echoing Judge Chang, Judge Friedman's order this week cited the administration's shortcomings as necessitating his intervention.
"At the hearing, defendants represented that they had provided, or would soon provide, certain information that plaintiffs had requested," he wrote, referencing the Trump administration's promises to provide E.F. and the other two parents the locations at which their children were being held, updates on their health and well-being, and more frequent telephone calls with them. Some of those promises were not fulfilled, the judge's order indicated.
The Trump administration has argued to Friedman that the national injunction ordered by Judge Dana Sabraw in the Southern District of California would cover the families pleading with the D.C. court for relief. But Friedman noted in his ruling Wednesday that the administration blew past the deadline for reuniting children younger than 5, and repeatedly and unsuccessfully sought a deadline extension, making them an unreliable party in his case.
"Defendants previously have asked for partial relief from the timelines set in the class action," he said. "The July 26, 2018 deadline for reunification, therefore, is not guaranteed."
Friedman is similarly unsympathetic to the Trump administration's argument that it is doing the best it can with limited resources and that further court orders would present a burden.
"Given the gravity of the harm at issue, the need to expend resources cannot outweigh these threats to constitutional rights," he wrote. "The harm to defendants is self-inflicted: defendants embarked on a zero-tolerance policy, bringing misdemeanor charges and separating thousands of children from their parents, without a plan for reunification after the short, time-served sentences for improper entry into the United States."
Read Judge Friedman's ruling below:
Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) was a reporter at Talking Points Memo, covering national politics. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in DC ever since, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and national elections for TV, radio, print, and online outlets. Her work has aired on Free Speech Radio News, All Things Considered, Channel News Asia, and Telesur, and her writing has been published by The Atlantic, La Opinión, and The Hill Rag. She was elected in 2016 as an at-large board member of the DC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Alice grew up in Santa Monica, California and began working for local newspapers in her early teens.

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Q: get helm values from yaml inside a range loop How can I get .Values.someVal from values.yaml file or passed through cli inside a {{ range .Values.smtg }} loop?
for eg.
spec:
      containers:
      {{ range $k, $v := .Values.smtg }}
      - name: {{ $k }}
        image: {{ printf "%s:%s" (required "no img" $v) (required "no tag" .Values.someVal) | quote }}   <<<--- how can I get .Values.someVal from values.yaml or cli?
      {{- end }}

If I try to get them with .Values.smtg I will got : ... at <.Values.someVal>: nil pointer evaluating interface {}

A: Use $.Values.someVal. The $ will always point to the root context:
spec:
  containers:
  {{ range $k, $v := $.Values.smtg }}
  - name: {{ $k }}
    image: {{ printf "%s:%s" (required "no img" $v) (required "no tag" $.Values.someVal) | quote }}
  {{- end }}


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McDonald's Olympic Marketing
As a huge sponsor of the 2008 Olympics in China, McDonald's has undertaken various promotions around the globe.
In Australia, for example, McDonald's offered "Limited Edition Flavours of the Game" sandwiches celebrating the Olympics. For 2 weeks each they offered the McEurope sandwich, McAmerica bagel, McAfrica burger, McAsia wrap, and McAustralia burger (in that order). [some photos of the sandwiches]
Why don't we get these special McDonald's creations in the US?
The McEurope 'burger' was "crispy chicken fillet burger with shavings of parmesan cheese and traditional Napoletana sauce made from rich tomato, oregano and basil." [read a review]
The McAsia Wrap was fried chicken strips, tatsoi salad, cucumber, with sweet chilli sauce and mayonnaise, wrapped up in a tortilla (?).
The McAustralia Burger was a Pineapple ring, bacon, bacon, tomato, cheese, beef patty, lettuce with BBQ sauce.
The McAmerica Bagel was "a lightly toasted bagel with freshly cracked egg, premium rasher bacon and spicy ketchup." [photo by xamesm]
and then, the McAfrica Burger...
The McAfrica burger was withdrawn from McDonald's menu after some people pointed out that their are 12 millions starving people in Africa.
Click on the these McSandwiches to watch video reviews from down under by xReventonx: McEurope, McAmerica, McAfrica, McAsia.
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The Davis' said...
i don't think McD's could do anything to get me back in there.VERY interesting though, I would like to have seen the McArica burger myself-FEED all of africa McD's
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Fears of another trade war spooking the stock market; Greg Palkot with the latest from London.
China's announcement Wednesday threatening to place tariffs on $50 billion worth of American agricultural and manufactured products – in retaliation for a U.S. announcement Tuesday placing tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products – is yet another sign that China and America are destined to wage a broad battle for global power and influence for years to come.
The Trump administration clearly accepts as fact something that many of us in the national security community have been arguing for a long-time: China is no friend of the United States. It is a tough geopolitical, economic and diplomatic competitor and our competition is intensifying.
But despite the magnitude of the challenge, President Trump was right to take China on – no matter what action the Chinese take to push back.
Washington and Beijing were always set to clash, but such a struggle has been deferred time and time again. We need to accept now that there is no more common ground to preserve, no more common enemy to rally against, and that trade is not the elixir it once was – but rather part of a larger struggle likely to last for many decades.
To understand this challenge, a little history lesson is in order. In the 1950s and much of the 1960s, American commentators referred to Beijing as "Red China" or "Communist China." The nation was an ally of the old Soviet Union and no friend of Washington. We feared China would spread Communism throughout Asia, and countries would fall into the Chinese orbit like dominoes.
U.S. fear of spreading Communism – "the Red Menace" some called it – was a big factor in our involvement in the long and costly Korean War and the War in Vietnam, fighting forces backed by the Chinese.
It was not until President Nixon visited China in 1972 to try and change the balances of forces against the Soviet Union that U.S.-China ties warmed. However, the two nations did not establish full diplomatic relations until 1979.
But there was always a catch to U.S.-China ties. Ask any national security strategist at the time and they would tell you that such ties were predicated on trying to contain the Soviet menace and would likely return to a much more competitive phase if Moscow was defeated.
In fact, archival research I have done shows that Chinese defense experts in the mid-1980s were already thinking of ways to modernize and shift their military planning to counter a growing challenge from the United States in Asia, as they saw the Soviet Union starting to weaken.
And history proved correct. Just a few years after the Soviet Union collapsed, China and America were battling over the fate of Taiwan during a protracted spike in tensions between1995 and 1996.
Taiwan was determined to become a democracy – something China saw as an existential threat.
China began large-scale military exercises to intimidate the island nation, with Washington responding by sending aircraft carrier battle groups to the region to ensure Taiwan's safety and prove to Beijing that Washington would protect its ally.
While China backed off, Chinese officials were outraged, for they knew, at least at the time, that they had no way of countering America's military or economic power in a protracted struggle. In fact, China's military was so weak that it could not even find where America's carriers were operating in the open seas, not far from the Chinese coast.
But, as happens in history, current events conspired to delay a great power rivalries. First came the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This pushed the George W. Bush administration to move from what at the time was a reconsideration of the U.S.-China relationship to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition, Washington gambled that bringing in Beijing to the World Trade Organization in 2001 would moderate China's geopolitical, economic, diplomatic and maybe even military goals. The thinking at the time was clear: by showing China the benefits of becoming a "responsible stakeholder," Beijing would play nice in the international system and grow rich and prosperous – and not try to upend the system.
Unfortunately, that thinking was wrong and we have been paying the price ever since.
Millions of American jobs have been shipped to China since 2000. Beijing used this time – what the Chinese refer to as their own "peaceful rise" or "period of strategic opportunity" – to build up their military and economic capabilities, while Washington was busy waging a global war on terrorism.
Clearly, we should not be shocked by the events that are taking place between America and China today. In fact, things will get much more dangerous in the months and years to come.
Considering both nations are on the opposite ends of a regional struggle over issues such as who will dominate the South and East China Seas, Taiwan, the fate of North Korea's nuclear program and now hundreds of billions of dollars of trade and millions of jobs, we should get ready for the geopolitical and economic reality that is before us.
The facts are obvious: America and China are now enemies. And there is no turning back.


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Schwarzenegger's National Guard Plan for Border Is Measured and Intelligent
Chuck Devore
Nearly one month ago, on May 14, President Bush ordered 6,000 National Guard troops to America's 1,900-mile border with Mexico to bolster the Border Patrol. While Bush is the commander in chief, his order isn't the last word, as the National Guard is under state jurisdiction unless federalized. This means that individual governors have a say in how or whether their National Guard forces participate in the President's plan.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R.) was initially reluctant to accept the President's mission, calling it "a Band-Aid solution." But 17 days later he approved a California National Guard role in the plan to better secure our southern border. Examining the governor's actions over these two-and-a-half weeks sheds light on both the border mission and Schwarzenegger's growing effectiveness as California's chief executive.
When Bush first announced the National Guard border deployment it appeared that he wanted Guard units to spend their 15 days of annual training in support of the mission. This plan would certainly save money as Guard members typically perform a minimum of 15 days of federally funded active duty per year anyway, when not in Iraq, Afghanistan or Kosovo. The flip side of a plan reliant on a series of 15-day border deployments is that it erodes military readiness when not done on a military base in areas void of any of the training support needed to perform weapons qualification or conduct maneuvers or other complex training.
After conferring with California's Adjutant General, Major Gen. William Wade, and military staff officers, Schwarzenegger readily grasped the negative impact on readiness that the President's plan would have on the state's Guard. With 37 million residents living amongst a vast and varied geography, California has accounted for about half of America's National Guard state call-ups over the years. California's four "seasons" — flood, fire, earthquake and riot — keep its Guard busy. Clearly, rotating California's 20,000 Army and Air Guard members to the border for two-week stints would degrade military effectiveness, leaving the state less prepared for disaster and the Guard less able to contribute to the larger national defense mission as well.
Saying the President's mission, "must not compromise the Guard's emergency response," Schwarzenegger drafted his own border deployment plan. California would activate 1,100 troops, he decided. Of these, about two-thirds would be longer-term "durational" soldiers composed of volunteers serving six to 12 months while the rest of the force will be composed of "rotational" soldiers performing their 15 days of annual active duty. This plan preserves military readiness and military readiness translates directly into emergency response capability.
As for the military mission itself, what will it accomplish and how?
Under President's plan, the 6,000 solders in "Operation Jumpstart" will stay on the border through 2008, by which time an additional 6,000 Border Patrol agents are to be hired, bringing that force to 18,300. The Guard's tasks include flying helicopters and manning outposts to watch the border, providing bilingual troops to act as translators, staffing communications nodes to cover the many radio dead spots along the rugged border, performing intelligence analysis, mapping and survey work, logistics support and medical services, as well as building fences, vehicle barriers and roads. What the Guard won't be doing is arresting illegal border crossers or detaining them.
So, does the mission make sense? As a stopgap measure, yes. Obviously the best way to secure the border is by making the serious investments in labor (Border Patrol) and capital (fencing and barriers) needed to secure it. One way to begin to do that quickly is with military forces.
Every set of National Guard eyes on the border frees up a Border Patrol agent to make an apprehension. Surveillance and intelligence, what the military calls "force multipliers," are invaluable, too, in that proper use of these skills allows Border Patrol agents on the ground to be vastly more effective. This was confirmed in a June 5 news conference with Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, who said Guard personnel will be "relieving Border Patrol agents to get back to direct enforcement work in the field."
Lastly, it may be instructive to look at two previous deployments to the Mexican border in the National Guard's history.
Because of increasing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border due to Mexican revolutionary unrest, President Woodrow Wilson mobilized the National Guard on June 18, 1916. He did so without any provision of federal assistance, forcing the states to spend their own funds for weapons and equipment. The Guard remained in the field against Francisco "Pancho" Villa and other Mexican irregulars and bandits through the end of January 1917. A few months later America entered World War I during which National Guard units were considered to be the best Army forces fighting in France, due in large part to the extra training they received in the field during the Mexican campaign.
For the past 19 years up to the present, the National Guard has had, on a continual basis, about 450 personnel on the border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas conducting counter-drug missions in support of the Border Patrol, Customs, the Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement arms. These soldiers have distinguished themselves, providing a unique dimension to law enforcement's capabilities. This mission will continue and likely last beyond the new border deployment.
Schwarzenegger has stressed that, unlike the 1916 deployment, all costs will be "paid in full by the federal government." Further, in a separate executive order that was not part of his agreement with the federal government, Schwarzenegger has mandated that the California National Guard's border mission will end no later than Dec. 31, 2008.
Schwarzenegger's response to the federal National Guard border mission has been measured and intelligent. Schwarzenegger has said that protecting our borders is the federal government's responsibility, but, he also knows we need to do something to address the problem of our porous borders. "It is not my preference to send the National Guard," Schwarzenegger said, "but there's an important need to protect the border." In contrast, Schwarzenegger's Democrat opponent, State Treasurer Phil Angelides, flatly opposes any National Guard participation in the securing the border, saying Mexico and California should instead, "be good partners."
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Written By Chuck Devore
Chuck DeVore served in the California legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army (retired) Reserve and served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon. He co-authored the novel China Attacks . He can be followed on Twitter @chuckdevore and his Facebook account is facebook.com/DeVoreForCalifornia. Chuck is also the author of the Eagle Publishing special report The Next Middle East War available at: www.MidEastReport.org.


President-elect Trump credited his supporters with revealing the dishonesty of the media Friday at the Dow Chemical hangar in Baton Rouge.
"The one thing we have done, we have exposed the credibility of the press," Trump said during his Louisiana rally.
"They have the lowest credibility of anybody," he added.
Trump's attacks on the media have intensified in the days since his upset victory stunned most members of the political press corps. His barbs have created a sense of mutual distrust between the president-elect and many of the left-leaning reporters that cover him.
"We fight for other countries so they can have a border, but we don't fight for our own border," Trump said.
He said he planned to instruct his Justice Department to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undermined the American economy.
Trump's visit was meant to boost turnout in favor of State Treasurer John Kennedy ahead of the the Senate run-off on Saturday.
Kennedy has enjoyed a significant lead over Foster Campbell, a Democratic member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, in polls leading up to the election.
An analysis from Social Security's actuaries indicated the reforms would result in substantial cuts to beneficiaries.
Louisiana's election system requires an automatic run-off to occur if no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote. Instead of having traditional primaries, all candidates run in the general election and the top two vote-getters survive to compete in the run-off regardless of their affiliation.
Even if Campbell notched an upset victory over Kennedy this weekend, Republicans would still control the Senate with 51 votes.
The president-elect kicked off the event by urging voters to turn out for Kennedy on Saturday.
"If you go to the polls, he's going to win," Trump said.
"And if he doesn't win, I've got myself a problem in Washington," he added, joking that he might not be able to "build the wall" if Kennedy loses the election.
Kerry rallied U.S. embassy staff for a diplomatic push before leaving office.
Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson's stock is rising, the report said.


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Applications are invited for a Research Associate / Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the "Fire Materials Research" team based in the Institute for Materials Research & Innovation at the University of Bolton. The team has recently been awarded a KTP project by the Innovate UK.
This project is in collaboration with Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings (Bolton, UK) who is an industry leader in the manufacture, distribution and sale of paints and coatings for the protection of steel from corrosion, fire and marine environments. The company serves as a business hub for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and India (EMEAI) region and is a subsidiary of the multi-national Sherwin-Williams Company, which has over 50,000 employees and sales in over 120 countries.
The main aim of this project is to develop fire-resistant intumescent protective coatings with improved thermal insulation efficiency for steel and other substrates.
Applicants for the Research Associate position should hold a good honours degree and/or MSc in Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Polymer Science, Materials Science or a related discipline. The candidate should have a good working knowledge of materials and analytical techniques. Experience in materials fire testing would be very useful for the proposed project. The candidate would have an opportunity to pursue a MPhil degree during the KTP project, therefore the successful candidate should have excellent written and oral communication skills, be highly motivated and resourceful. If the candidate has a PhD degree, the position can be upgraded to a Post Doctoral Research Fellow.
The position will be supervised by Prof Baljinder Kandola (IMRI, University of Bolton). Although the associate will be an employee of University of Bolton, he/she will spend about 75% of the time in the company for the characterisation and development, therefore a hard-working person with self-motivation is essential. The associate also needs strong communication with excellent IT skills and should be able to work with academic staff as well as the industrial partners.
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