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Adele reveals we've been mispronouncing her name as she compliments fan for putting it 'perfectly'
A fan appeared to pronounce Adele's name with a north-London accent, calling her 'uh-dale' rather than 'ah-dell', which is reportedly the correct pronunciation
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Singer-songwriter Adele was recently amused by how a fan said her name and revealed that we had all been saying it incorrectly. The Grammy winner, 34, cleared the air about her name during a recent Q&A session called 'Happy Hour with Adele' with fans in Los Angeles to promote the premiere of her 'I Drink Wine' music video. She declared that the London-based admirer had nailed it.
“I love that. She pronounced my name perfectly,” Adele enthused. “Where’s she from, Enfield or something?” Adele made the statement after a fan from London asked her a question via satellite about composing through, as reported by People. The fan appeared to pronounce Adele's name with a north-London accent, calling her "uh-dale" rather than "ah-dell," which is the correct pronunciation, according to the Enfield native who was raised in Tottenham, north London. "Love that," Adele said, adding, "She said my name perfectly!"
In the same Q&A, the songwriter addressed whether she is interested in completing the elusive EGOT, having previously won an Emmy, an Oscar, and several Grammys. "I can't lie guys, I'm not a massive Broadway fan," she said. "I know, I know. I'm talking about musicals though because I've been seeing a couple of plays but I don't think I've seen enough."
Fans with deep pockets will be able to scream it out to the diva herself as tickets for her rescheduled 'Weekends with Adele' residency at Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las Vegas have soared to nearly £40,000 ($45573.40) online on certain resale sites this week. They were initially priced from £70 ($79.75) to £600 ($683.60).
The 'Weekends With Adele' concerts are set to take place from November 18, 2022, to March 25, 2023. While she is only now putting the performance back on track after a brief hiatus, she has confessed that she has contemplated changing it into something that could lead to a future Tony win. "I don't think I've seen enough [Broadway] as a grown-up to know if I would want to do it. I was wondering, 'Do I just move the show from Vegas to Broadway and win the Tony?' I actually prefer the sound of an EGO than an EGOT," Adele said at the event. "EGO is fun. But never say never. If I move to New York, I get bored, I'll be on that stage in a hot second."
The 'Hello' hitmaker startled fans in January when she canceled the original run only a day before it was set to begin. She apologized to viewers in an emotional video posted to social media, claiming, "My show ain't ready." She later called the cancellation "the worst moment" of her career.

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Dr. Erin Barth comes to Associates in Digestive Health from her most recent appointment at Kaiser Permanente in North California. She was in private practice in Phoenix and served eight years as a physician for the USAF. Dr. Barth is known for being patient and a good listener, which has earned her a high rating with patients. Her special interest is Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr. Barth has family in Sarasota. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and kayaking and tasting unique cuisines.
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Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America
Mount Sinai Hospital
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American College of Gastroenterologists
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Technical & Member Development Director
Metal Powder Industries Federation, Princeton, NJ
To drive the overall technical direction for MPIF technical programs, products and services, and to engage members to participate to advance PM as a technology.
Support, promote and coordinate the technical activities of MPIF. Serve as the primary liaison with the MPIF Technical Board and its committees. Facilitate initiatives and projects supporting the advancement of powder metallurgy and particulate materials technologies.
Work with committees to monitor technical developments in PM and related industries, as well as competing technologies, and serve as a resource for general technical information for members, affiliated organizations, publications, academia and others.
Support membership in MPIF by servicing the needs of existing members as well as promoting MPIF benefits and services to prospective members. Work closely with the Vice President, Member and Industry Relations to identify, develop and initiate member benefits.
Skills and Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years management experience in a powder metallurgy company or related industry. Minimum B.S. in materials science, metallurgy or related engineering degree. Very strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to work creatively and tactfully with various volunteer groups and members. Basic computer proficiencies.
Must work out of the Princeton, NJ office.
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Posted by Dale Buss on August 21, 2014 09:41 AM
McDonald's sees Russia shut four of its restaurants amid Ukraine tensions.
Ford plans hybrid-only family of products, report says.
Family Dollar rejects Dollar General bid and renews support of bid by smaller Dollar Tree.
Bank of America reaches $17-billion mortgage settlement with feds.
Sprint kills off "Framily" plan.
MORE BRAND NEWS
Apple stock hits new high on hopes for bigger iPhone.
Arby's lends Pharrell Williams' Grammy's hat to D.C. museum.
AT&T wins bid to bring fastest GigaPower broadband to Apple's backyard.
Barnes & Noble and Samsung introduce co-branded Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on August 19, 2014 09:32 AM
Google moves to target kids under 13 and builds its own content and services.
Saab owner seeks partner to secure brand's future.
Samsung buys US air-conditioner company Quietside in smart-home push.
Sprint dives into wireless-industry price war, as it promised, and rolls out new B2B brand, as owner SoftBank girds for US cellphone market.
Ugg launches first global brand campaign.
MORE BRAND NEWS
Aereo faces broadcaster opposition to a cable license.
Aeropostale names new CEO and promises narrower loss.
American Apparel narrows losses but troubles remain.
AstraZeneca says US clears it in heart-drug probe.
BlackBerry prepares for device-less future with formation of new business unit.
Burger King gets pecked by tweets for Chicken Fries.
CBS goes big in promos for Thursday Night Football.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on June 24, 2014 04:26 PM
General Mills’ Cascadian Farm Organic brand is the latest to make pleas for bees. Joining other brands with their ears to the earth, Cascadian Farms has been donating $1 to the cause for each box of its Buzz Crunch Honey Almond Cereal that's sold.
The plight of bees is only worsening; populations of pollinating honey bees have been rapidly declining across the country over the last several years in a problem known as colony or hive collapse.
Conservationists and farmers have variously blamed the problem on a virus and on environmental causes, but no one has been able to nail down exactly what the problem is—nor a solution. It’s important because honeybees, some bumblebees and Monarch butterflies are “pollinators” that make possible the seasonal proliferation of about 90 commercially grown crops in North America and many flowers, adding about $24 billion to the US economy.Continue reading...
brands under fire
Posted by Nate Bartell on June 6, 2014 06:33 PM
What seemed like smart marketing turned into a headache for Chobani as their #HowMatters campaign has transformed from a seemingly good-hearted platform to a legal and ethical mess.
The campaign, which debuted during this year's Super Bowl and ran througout the Winter Olympics and The Oscars, has met criticism from Dov Seidman, the CEO of business consultancy LRN, who claims that the catchphrase was stolen from the founding principle featured on his company’s website. Seidman has also written a book entitled “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything,” from which he believes Chobani extrapolated their controversial marketing campaign title.
Suing for damages based on trademark infringement, Seidman's argument hinges on a small, social detail: a tweet that Chobani sent Seidman back in January, thanking him for inspiring the "how" movement, and asking for his help in supporting their cause.Continue reading...
Posted by Sheila Shayon on May 16, 2014 05:54 PM
Let’s face it—we are now destroying our oceans in the same way we have desecrated our soil and air.
Greenpeace's eighth-annual seafood sustainability report, Carting Away the Oceans, exposes the sourcing and sustainability efforts of 26 major retailers—not all of which scored well.
Roundy's, Bi-Lo, Save Mart and Publix failed on their seafood sourcing and sustainability efforts completely, and Kroger, the fifth-largest food retailer in the world, is cited as selling the most Red List species of any U.S. grocery chain for the third consecutive year.
Whole Foods and Safeway, however, topped the ranking guide.
“When Greenpeace started ranking America’s retailers on seafood sustainability in 2008, every company failed,” said James Mitchell, Greenpeace Senior Oceans Campaigner. “We’ve seen huge improvements since then, yet grocery giants like Kroger are still stocking too many threatened Red List species, which are often caught using highly destructive fishing methods.”
Greenpeace credits Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for not stocking Bumblebee, Chicken of the Sea or StarKist’s tuna, all caught through destructive fishing methods such as the use of artificial floating objects that attract young tuna to the sea's surface.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on May 7, 2014 09:12 AM
TOP 5 STORIES
Alibaba files for U.S. IPO that is expected to be record-breaking.
Airbnb hires Coca-Cola's Jonathan Mildenhall as CMO.
Fiat Chrysler five-year plan elevates Chrysler brand, downplays Dodge.
HP invests $1 billion in cloud computing.
Twitter stockholders sold massively as lockup expired; stock price plunges.
MORE BRAND NEWS:
AOL acquires consumer-tracking platform.
Coca-Cola lifts lid on agency bonuses for cutting-edge work and drops "You're On..." tagline for Diet Coke.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on March 7, 2014 03:20 PM
Cerberus is buying Safeway and blending it in with the Albertson's supermarket chain it already owns. But the transaction seems more like the end of an era rather than the beginning.
That's because the intended $9 billion merger of Albertson's and Safeway will be a play meant largely to shore up the combined operations defensively against sea changes that have been sweeping the food-retailing business that simply don't favor traditional chains such as the two that Cerberus will own.
The rise of grocery availability at Walmart, Target and other discounters; the spread of dry goods through drug stores and dollar stores and other new formats; the rising popularity of Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and their organic, natural, locally-produced and private-label ethos; the fact that online CPG sales finally seem to be gaining traction; and the strength of club stores in the grocery trade—all are conspiring against the merger of two of the long-time giants of the business.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on February 14, 2014 09:12 AM
P&G begins considering candidates to succeed CEO Lafley (again) as it holds early lead in Sochi social media derby.
BP must face shareholder suit over 2006 Alaska spill.
Uber officially launches in China, but under new, localized brand name.
Apple continues hiring spree to devleop iWatch.
BMW plans to bring back BMW Films as it unveils first front-wheel-drive model.
Burger King global sales rise while North America drops, but company reaps benefits of refranchising.
CVS Caremark tests telehealth sites.
Carnival Cruise Lines sees image back on upswing.
Charter turns from Time Warner Cable to pursue other acquisitions.
Cheesecake Factory holds off on tablets.
Danone struggles to claw back market share in China.
“Dumb Ways to Die” returns with Valentine’s Day tribute.Continue reading...

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This time it's the LG G3, which is launching in Korea now and will be on U.S. store shelves in July. It is the new undisputed smartphone hardware specifications king.
It was only in the Fall of 2011 that 720x1280 resolution (so-called "HD") hit the smartphone scene, with the Samsung (SSNLF) Galaxy Nexus being the poster child. Then, it was only little over a year ago when 1080x1920 resolution (so-called "full HD") hit, with Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One being two of the most prominent early best-sellers.
One would have thought that cramming a 1080x1920 resolution into a five-inch display would have been the new plateau, just as it was for TVs. As you know, TVs have basically been at 1080x1920 resolution for close to a decade now.
Apple keeps calling its tiny four-inch screen "retina" with the almost Soviet-style resolution of 640x1136. They might as well show up at the party with a 1980s Motorola brick.
Samsung and others have spent much of the last two years running circles around Apple, inventing the so-called "Phablet" segment, with smartphones mostly in the 5.5- to 6.5-inch size range. Together with bargain-basement prices for low-end small smartphones, this helped Android reach a 80% worldwide smartphone unit market share, with Apple stuck at 15% and Microsoft (MSFT) and BlackBerry (BBRY) with a combined 5%.
So far, so good, for Google (GOOGL) and Android. Victory was already achieved.
But now comes LG and upsets the Apple cart even more. People continue to buy TVs up to 80 inches with 1080x1920 resolution, but the new LG G3 flagship smartphone crams a 1440x2560 display into 5.5 inches. There is just nothing like it. The iPhone's 640x1136 resolution in a tiny four-inch frame simply doesn't reside inside the same competitive solar universe anymore.
Normally, a 5.5-inch phone, regardless of resolution, would mean it is impossible to hold comfortably with one hand. This LG has managed to make the bezels so thin that at least if you have large hands you can operate it acceptably.
The reason LG was able to make the bezels this thin is that all buttons reside on the back side, where your index finger normally rests anyway. No need to move your hand around to hit volume or wake-up buttons.
LG introduced this concept of backside-buttons already on the G2 last September but they have now been refined. I find that it works very well.
Unfortunately, the LG G3 has a critical flaw that makes it difficult to recommend in my view. In a word, it's slippery. Literally.


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Re: Phantasy Star IV
It's not. Phantasy Star: The End of the Millennium is the forth one.
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I was really surprised this was missing from the Genesis list of ROMs. Any particular reason>

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StudioIMC at Google
The City of the Future is about future cities and the emergence of the Outernet. Originally created by James Tunick, Carrie Elston, and Josh Schiller for an exhibition at Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, this digital art work and iteractive screen installation has been expanded for an exhibition at Google. The work imagines the Outernet as an urban communication medium that uses digital art and interactive media in public spaces to invite community participation. The work is powered by software developed at StudioIMC.
StudioIMC- TUNICK/ELSTON/SCHILLER, The City of the Future, 2009-2010
2 videos & interactive media, monitors: 21”x37”, 18”x32”, & 13”x23”
ABOUT THE WORK
The City of the Future is about future cities and the emergence of the Outernet. Originally created for an exhibition at Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the work has been expanded for this exhibition. It imagines the Outernet as an urban communication medium that uses digital art and interactive media in public spaces to invite community participation. The work is powered by software developed at StudioIMC. The City of the Future envisions urban spaces filled with art and technology that inspire creativity, offer open access to information, and foster a sense of community. The work explores concepts like: big screens and media architecture as community bulletins where people can discuss local issues; mobile phones as digital paintbrushes and building facades as open canvases; social games as new collective experiences; and light sculptures connected to the smart grid as data displays showing local energy consumption, pollution, and recycling habits. The City of the Future sees future cities as immersive information spaces where people can navigate a galaxy of information, friends, videos, and music that exist within our clothing, our phones, and in public spaces.
The City of the Future is comprised of two video screens and an interactive screen. One video describes the work with imagery by StudioIMC artists and narration by James Tunick. The 2nd video shows Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, and Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC speaking on a panel at Google about the smart grid and networked technologies that will shape energy and communication in future cities. The interactive screen depicts future cities as vast data spaces with 1000s of user generated Flickr images, YouTube videos, and Twitter posts pulled live from the Web. Using IMCmobile, a mobile social platform, viewers can connect to the screen from their phone and respond to the question: “What do you want to see in the cities of the future?” Using IMCtv, a software platform for big screens, viewers can wave their hands to make music and fly through a 3D city of YouTube videos. The city of YouTube videos is generated by a 3D visualization platform and visual search engine called IMCspace.
Digital Art @Google: We Write This To You From The Distant Future
Mark Amerika, Rachel Armstrong, Marc Barasch, Ed Bilous, etoy, Mitchell Joachim, Eduardo Kac, StudioIMC-Tunick/Elston/Schiller, Jack Toolin/C5, Marina Zurkow, Google UK, Clean Energy 2030, Andrew Senior, Cordero/Senior/Weston.
Opening Reception: Friday August 20, 2010 | 6-8pm GUESTS MUST RSVP RSVP@chelseaartmuseum.org
Exhibition Dates: August 20 to October 22, 2010
Exhibition and artist talks at: Google Inc. // 75 Ninth Avenue // NYC
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Ontario reports more than 4,300 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday
Ontario reported 4,383 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, and nine new deaths.
Of the new cases, 1,284 are in Toronto.
Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted that 311 of the total 420 new hospitalizations are among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals.
There are 168 patients in the ICU. Nearly all of them are not fully vaccinated, with 37 having received a full course of vaccine.
Individuals who are not fully vaccinated represent 22.8% of Ontario’s total population and amount to 918 of Ontario’s 4,383 new reported cases. 222 cases are in individuals with an unknown vaccination status.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 22, 2021
The province has administered 25,860,049 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Across the province, nearly 90.5% of those aged 12 and up have received at least one dose, and 87.9% have received both.
To date, Ontario has seen 661,563 COVID-19 infections and 10,133 deaths. One death was removed from the cumulative total after a data scrub.


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Updated to reflect recent changes in the field, the 2nd Edition of Forensic Psychology presents a comprehensive overview of forensic psychology and its applications in the civil and criminal justice systems of the UK.
- Builds on the first edition to convey material in an engaging manner to postgraduate students in psychology
- Includes a significant expansion of pedagogical features, including text boxes highlighting key seminar issues and key debates in the field to further group discussion
- Provides an up-to-date summary of emerging evidence in the field, and its implications for evidence based practice
- Points to additional online learning resources at the conclusion of each chapter
About the Editors:
David A. Crighton is a Consultant Psychologist and Honorary Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University UK. He is co-author of Psychology in Prisons, 2/e (2008).
Graham J. Towl is Pro Vice Chancellor, Deputy Warden and Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University UK. He is the editor of Psychological Research in Prisons (2006) and co-author of Psychology in Prisons, 2/e (2008).

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Bone Thugs are a hip hop group, based out of Cleveland & Columbus Ohio. All of it's members are born & raised in Cleveland Ohio, except for Bizzy Bone, who was born in Columbs, and raised in Cleveland Ohio. They are currently signed to Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang Records.
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Dr. David Bainer, DDS: The Smile Gallery
Dental Clinic, Root Canal, Dental Work
When Do You Need a Root Canal?
The tooth pulp is the living material inside the tooth. If your decay is starting to advance into this part of your tooth you will probably want to consider having a root canal.
If you feel an infection or abscess inside your tooth, or at the tip of the root, you may need a root canal to treat the tooth and remove the infection.
Sometimes if one of your teeth has experienced trauma it may become infected. In this case you might also need a root canal to promptly address the infection.
Once you or your dentist have detected an infection inside the tooth, keep reading to learn what you should expect when receiving root canal therapy
What Does Root Canal Treatment Involve?
Root canal treatments may be done in one appointment, or may require a couple of visits to your dentist, depending on the severity of the decay. In most cases your root canal can be performed by your regular dentist, although specialized endodontists may also be required in some cases.
During the root canal, your tooth and the surrounding area is first numbed. Then a sheet of rubber (known as a dam) is carefully situated around the tooth to ensure your tooth stays dry and free of saliva. This is important because your saliva contains bacteria that must be kept out of your open tooth.
Next, special dental instruments are used to open the top of the tooth, creating the access gap. This is the hole through which your dentist will remove the decay, and any other loose bits of filling or fragile portions of the tooth. Your dentist uses the access gap to place root canal files into the pulp chamber and removes the infection, decay and nerve tissue. Once the tooth has been cleaned out, it will be sealed with a temporary or permanent filling (depending if more cleaning is required or not).
In most cases, you’ll go home and return to the dentist about a week later. At this point the roots and the cavity in your tooth will be filled with special dental materials that are designed to help your tooth heal. Then you will get a filling to seal your tooth for good.
Finally, root canals should always be capped with a crown. This last step is necessary to protect the filling from breaking. It also allows you to regain full function and use of your tooth. Although your tooth may remain sensitive after your root canal treatment, you can expect this to subside in a few days.
After you receive a root canal, good dental home care is as important as ever. When cared for properly you can prevent further infection and greatly extend the life of your root canal. If you have any questions about whether or not you need a root canal in Escondido, you’re encouraged to call to book an appointment.
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Air India is doling out free air tickets to its 24,000 employees, even as it expects to incur a loss of Rs 3,900 crore this financial year and has a debt burden of Rs 35,000 crore.
While its top officers like functional directors and joint managing directors are entitled to get 24 free tickets each year, deputy general managers and above get 20 passages under a scheme called Passage Entitlement-Vacation Travel.
Those in the category of assistant general managers and senior AGMs having less than 20 years of service can avail 12 such tickets and those above 20 years can get 16.
The remaining staffers, who have put in between one and 20 years of service, are entitled to eight free tickets and 12 for those beyond 20 years.
Half of these tickets can be used for international travel, according to the scheme which also makes it clear that the number of such staff-on-leave passage would be determined by the airline's commercial department.
The scheme comes at a time when the national carrier is estimating a loss of Rs 3,900 crore in 2013-14, though it is down from Rs 5,200 crore reported in 2012-13 and Rs 7,560 crore posted the year before. The airline is also faced with a whopping debt burden of Rs 35,000 crore.
While retired employees can avail this facility on par with what they were getting at the time of superannuation, the scheme also provides that "in exceptional circumstances" an employee could use a maximum of four of his or her own passages for travel of brothers, sisters, son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Prior to their 2007 merger, senior officials of the two erstwhile carriers used to enjoy unlimited domestic travel, which has now been discontinued.
When contacted, Air India officials said the new scheme had been brought to put a cap on the free passage given to the employees, which was unlimited earlier. The scheme, they said, was a substitute for the leave travel concession scheme for government employees which Air India employees do not get.
While the free passage scheme was based on the accepted market practices followed by airlines across the globe and in India, the tickets were subject to load factors on each flight, they said.
The national carrier has been dependent on equity infusion by the government, which has so far given it a total of Rs 12,200 crore primarily for paying off loans due to aircraft acquisition.
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Gippy Grewal will Direct his next Single Velna
His Last Single Car Nachdi was a big hit. Now Gippy is ready with his new Song Velna, Under his newly launched music label Humble Music. he is making sure that each side of his creative self is fully explored. His newly launched music label, Humble Music, already has gathered a lot of positive response from the industry.
After punjabi film Ardaas, it will be the second attempt in Direction for Gippy. Interesting part is that, he is going to direct himself for the first time.

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Introduction to CNI & Program Plan
Introduction to CNI
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, promotes the use of digital information technology to advance scholarship and education. In establishing the Coalition under the leadership of founding Executive Director Paul Evan Peters, our sponsor organizations recognized the need to broaden the community’s thinking beyond issues of network connectivity and bandwidth to encompass digital content and advanced applications to create, share, disseminate, and analyze such content in the service of research and education. Reaping the benefits of the Internet for scholarship, research, and education demanded–and continues to demand–new partnerships, new institutional roles, and new technologies and infrastructure. CNI seeks to advance these collaborations, to explore these new roles, and to catalyze the development and deployment of the necessary technology base.
Since its founding in 1990, CNI has addressed a broad and diverse array of issues related to the development and use of digital information in research and education environments. As the premier organization fostering connections and collaboration between library and information technology communities, we represent the interests of a wide range of member organizations from higher education, publishing, networking and telecommunications, information technology, government agencies, foundations, museums, libraries, and library organizations.
CNI is supported entirely from dues paid by its roughly 230 member institutions. We do not seek or accept grants, and all content produced by the Coalition is openly accessible. Membership in the Coalition is open to all organizations–both for-profit and not-for-profit–that share CNI’s commitment to furthering the development of digital information in the networked environment. We view our members as partners in advancing the Coalition’s mission. Fall and spring membership meetings are CNI’s flagship events, bringing together hundreds of representatives for a comprehensive update on critical issues; attendance at CNI’s meetings is included in membership dues.
Governance and Leadership
CNI’s program is guided by a Steering Committee to which sponsor organizations ARL and EDUCAUSE each appoint three representatives drawn from their member leadership; the current roster of Steering Committee members appears on the inside front cover of the printed Program Plan and on our website. Three “at large” representatives on the Steering Committee contribute additional perspectives. The chief executives of ARL, EDUCAUSE, and CNI serve as ex officio members of the committee.
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch has led the organization since 1997. Joan Lippincott, CNI’s Associate Executive Director, has served since fall 1990. For more information about the Coalition’s history and contributions, see the CNI website, www.cni.org.
CNI’s work is structured around three central themes that we believe are the essential foundations of the vision of advancing scholarship and intellectual productivity:
• Developing and Managing Networked Information Content
The Coalition has played a central role in ensuring that the network richly engages the needs of scholarship, teaching and learning. We bring together many diverse groups that create and manage content, and work with these communities to advance the deployment and stewardship of networked information resources. Changes in scholarly practices (particularly those shorthanded by “e-science” or “e-research”) and the development of large-scale digitized collections require a close and continuing examination of information creation, aggregation, exchange, reuse, and preservation throughout the research and education community and society broadly; these developments, and the evolving roles of higher education institutions and cultural memory organizations in facilitating and supporting them, are a central part of the CNI agenda. Working within these contexts and others, CNI furthers the development of economic, policy, social and legal frameworks to sustain the creation and management of digital information and to facilitate its access.
• Transforming Organizations, Professions, and Individuals
The pervasiveness of ubiquitously accessible digital information is transforming institutions, professions, and the practices of learning and scholarship. CNI focuses on the unprecedented need for collaboration among libraries, information technology and instructional technology groups, faculty, museums, archives, university presses, and other units in order to achieve success in this environment. In addition, we promote new alliances and partnerships with publishers, information technology and network service providers, scholarly societies, government, and other sectors. Organizations must understand their constituencies and adapt their services and facilities to current needs; they must develop and share new strategies, policies, and best practices. Professions need to develop new competencies and enter into new dialogues that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. CNI seeks to facilitate these collaborations and dialogues and to help professions and institutions work together in program strategy formulation.
• Building Technology, Standards, and Infrastructure
The networked information environment relies on the development and deployment of standards and infrastructure components in order to enable the creation, discovery, use, and management of digital information on the Internet. The ability to use collections of resources in a unified, consistent fashion is essential and requires a continuing focus on interoperability of services. At the same time, promising new technologies need to be explored, assessed and tested, and sometimes adapted to the needs of the CNI community. No one institution acting alone can build the needed infrastructure or explore the full range of new technologies as they become available; it requires a coordinated, community-wide effort that also reaches out to other communities, such as the world of e-research. CNI seeks to highlight links between technology and policies at all levels, to offer a context for collaborative experiments and test beds, and to serve as a focal point for sharing knowledge about new technologies.
The specific program initiatives that further CNI’s themes evolve from year to year. The initiatives and strategies planned for 2016-2017 are described in the Program Plan portion of this publication; most build upon and continue efforts already underway. Many of the initiatives seek to make strategic progress relevant to more than one theme.
It is important to recognize that the digital information environment is still changing rapidly. CNI is continually adapting its activities in response to new developments and opportunities. Indeed, CNI believes agility is essential in the current environment and invites a continuous dialogue with its members on the need for additional program initiatives. Because of this, the 2016-2017 Program Plan should be viewed as a snapshot of our thinking about priorities and opportunities as of late 2016 that will inevitably develop further during the coming program year.
Policy and Consultative Activities
CNI acts as an important and respected voice on behalf of our community in a wide range of national and international policy venues. This is accomplished through our participation in the ongoing scholarly dialogue; through collaboration with key funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Jisc in the United Kingdom (UK); through work on advisory groups of organizations such as ITHAKA, OCLC, the American Library Association (ALA); through service on numerous visiting and advisory committees for our member institutions; through contributions to standards efforts and standards organizations such as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO); and through participation in organizations such as the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and the Library Publishing Coalition.
Of particular note in this area are our recent contributions to various studies and programs conducted by the U.S. National Research Council, particularly in conjunction with the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), the National Academies Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research study, the Committee on Coherence at Scale, the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report, and the ALA Working Group on Libraries and Digital Content.
As a contributor and participant within a complex and dynamic ecosystem of organizations that share common interests, CNI works with Internet2 on advanced networking applications and standards; with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on scholarly communication, cyberinfrastructure, and preservation issues; with the New Media Consortium on the exploration and use of new media and new technologies in higher education; with the Learning Spaces Collaboratory on development of principles for technology-enabled spaces that enhance learning; with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) Assignment Library; and with ALA on policy and professional development activities. We are deeply involved with some of the programs of our sponsor organizations, notably the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), the ECAR/CNI Working Group on Supporting Digital Humanities, the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, and the recent SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) effort that ARL is leading in partnership with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).
In addition to specific initiatives to address CNI’s overarching program themes, the Coalition actively conducts an ongoing program of collaboration and advocacy to advance the development of digital information and its role in transforming organizations and scholarly activities. To this end, CNI works with scholarly societies, government agencies, publishers, and others. CNI is also committed to leadership development within the community and contributes regularly to the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows program and the ARL Leadership Fellows program.
On an international level, we collaborate with other organizations concerned with networked information, including the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Jisc in the UK, the German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI), the German Research Foundation (DFG), Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), SURF (the collaborative information and communications technology organization for Dutch education and research), and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR).
CNI works to provide our community with frameworks for understanding key networked information issues so that institutions can develop strategies to address these issues on the local, regional, or national level. We write white papers, reports, and articles, we present talks at conferences, and we make institutional visits that may involve meetings with campus leaders and presentations at public events and seminars.
CNI alerts its community to our organizational activities, significant new publications, and important developments in the field via the CNI website, the CNI-ANNOUNCE e-mail list, and the CNI News RSS. Additional information about CNI’s activities and interests is available through social media channels. We also make video of selected sessions from our membership meetings publicly available from our YouTube and Vimeo channels.
The Coalition’s semiannual membership meetings, scheduled for December 12-13, 2016, in Washington, DC, and April 3-4, 2017, in Albuquerque, NM, highlight activities related to CNI’s program themes, focus attention on significant new thinking and technology developments, and provide opportunities for members to showcase and discuss a wide range of emerging issues and developments in networked information. Some participants have developed knowledge communities within CNI and use the meetings as an opportunity to share ideas on a particular aspect of networked information and to incubate new initiatives. Each member organization is invited to send two delegates, typically a senior information technologist and a senior librarian. Meeting participants are introduced to new developments that may reshape institutional plans in a forum that encourages collaborations and dialogues with others who share common interests.
CNI has a long history of being the first to offer discussion of major networked information developments, including the early Web browser Mosaic, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Digital Libraries Program, the Google Books Scanning program, and NSF’s DataNet initiative. CNI regularly co-sponsors an event in partnership with Jisc as part of our ongoing collaboration with our UK colleagues; the most recent event, the conference International Advances in Digital Scholarship, took place in Oxford, England in July 2016. CNI occasionally convenes invitational or public workshops to advance specific elements of its program plan, most recently Planning a Digital Scholarship Centers, sponsored jointly with ARL and held May 17-18, 2016, in Washington, DC, and the Security & Privacy Workshop held March 2015 in Washington, DC.
We also serve as an active co-sponsor for other meetings relevant to the CNI agenda. This year these events include the NCSU Libraries, CNI, and University of Calgary co-sponsored conference “Designing Libraries for the 21st Century V,” on September 18-20, 2016 in Calgary, Alberta, and the 12th International Digital Curation Conference, “Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation workflows for data science, scholarship and society, ” to be held February 20-23, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Additionally, CNI is serving as a cooperating organization for several other conferences, including: Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL) 2016, in Hannover, Germany, September 5-9, 2016; Archiving 2017 in Riga, Latvia, May 18, 2017; the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2017 on June 19-23, 2017, in Toronto, Canada; and the Open Repositories 2017 meeting in Queensland, Australia, June 26-30, 2017.
PROGRAM PLAN 2016-2017
- Institutional and Disciplinary Implications of E-Research
- Digital Preservation
- Institutional Content Resources and Repositories
- Today’s Learners and Digital Environments
- Spaces and Services that Support Technology-Enhanced Research and Learning
- Supporting Emerging Scholarly Research Practices at Scale
- Museums, Libraries and Scholarship
- Executive Roundtable

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element of the cut contributes to it.
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A new desert song with Mharo Khet’s farm-to-fork experience in Jodhpur
It isn’t everyday that you get a chance to sit under a canopy of guava trees, with a table laid out as immaculately as you would see on an episode of The Crown. Placeholders, ornate tableware and vintage barnis with dried pearl millet flowers adorn our table. Bright yellow sunflowers and gorgeous vegetable produce extends as far as the eyes can see. All of this, interestingly enough, stretches amid a patch of arid desert by Jodhpur, in Rajasthan.
Mharo Khet, located around 25 kilometres from Jodhpur, is a 40-acre experiential farm that produces more than 80 varieties of nutritional crops, including vegetables, fruits and herbs. On a recent visit, I got savour the near-indulgence of Mharo Khet’s farm-to-fork dining experience.
Interestingly, it all starts with a touch of familiarity.
“This farm has been in our family for decades, and we used to use it to grow desi vegetables for our personal consumption, until the pandemic,” says Rajnush Agarwal, a biomolecular engineer by training, and founder of Mharo Khet.
It was during the pandemic that Rajnush, and his wife, Vedika, who now had more time to be in Jodhpur, decided to convert the farm into a commercial setup. This is when they began to grow exotic vegetables and fruits, alongside the desi ones. To make commercial sense of their investment, they began supplying to local hotels, restaurants and even people’s homes–through their initiative of BYOT, Build Your Own Tokri.
The concept was a simple one–a basket of vegetables that one can order in Jodhpur, and get delivered to their homes on the same day.
Chuffed by the response to their produce, Rajnush and Vedika took the call of opening up their farm for curated experiences, last December. Today, one can opt to come for a farm tour and stay back to relish a relaxed seven-course lunch by Chef Sejal–the in-house chef at Mharo Khet.
The journey has been a story of slow growth–something that is a bit of a rarity in today’s narrative of hypergrowth among tech-backed startups.
“We once got strawberry saplings from Himachal and thought of planting them in the farm to see how they take to this land. Honestly, our expectations were low, and in the first year, there was hardly any yield as most saplings gave up,” Vedika says.
However, there was a surprise in store for the farm.
“The next season we had a bumper crop of approximately 1000 kg! We successfully grew strawberries in Rajasthan!,” she says. The elation is palpable. To be honest, it is quite unimaginable–given the surroundings.
On a guided tour of the farm, Rajnush and Vedika, whose passion for farming is hard to miss, showed us a room that has now been converted into a suitable biome for cultivating oyster mushrooms. You also find freshly harvested pearl millet, or bajra, kept in the farm.
Fresh gourds, carrots and corn line one side of it, and there is also a chamomile patch being readied for February–call it love, and all the jazz of the early-year season! The philosophy, as it is for every agrarian venture, is rooted in thinking forward to the approaching seasons–and what that would demand.
In terms of an experience for guests who visit, a highlight is in plucking fresh produce straight off the trees–a hark back to the days of childhood. I, too, gave in and picked some of the sweetest semi-ripe guava directly from the tree. In the concrete, steel and glass of quasi-luxury urban life, is this truly a niche experience to savour?
It’s not all luxury, although it isn’t anywhere close to the rigours of kheti. Nevertheless, the extensive farm tour ensures that one earns their meal.
As you settle into your meal, you’re presented with an Indian meal that honours the myriad regions of our diverse land– conceptualised in a modern way, yet in the most rustic of set-ups. From an amuse-bouche of Shengdanya chi chutney made with farm-grown jalapenos and wheat crisps, to a Chaat-style Matar Kachori in creamy Kadhi with radish rasher and crunchy okra, Zero-waste Curried Carrots where every part of the carrot is utilised, to Hulled Sweet Wheat dessert–every ingredient is grown in Mharo Khet.
While farm-to-fork isn’t a newfound trend in India’s rapidly growing and adaptive food industry, it is indeed heartening to see it turn into a lifestyle that has many takers today. The concept brings a very grounded practice–that of cultivating a farm–to an urban population that is increasingly disconnected from haathon ka mehnat (a toil of physical rigour).
Connecting to your food, from the root of where it is grown–to how it reaches your table–is a fascinating process, and one that everyone should be privy to. It instils in one the respect for the ingredients, the farmer who toils in the field and the hands that feed you.
Mharo Khet ensures all of this, while also closing the loop by being a sustainable farm where even the waste is processed and is turned into compost–mixed in the soil to nurture it further.

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State Fair - The Shrinking Islands
Swallowed In Grace - The Shrinking Islands
Allow me to point out the elephant in the room. Over there, a little dusty, musty, smelling of lower wolves, harborcoats, maps and legends and other jangly folk-rock artifacts after a good South Central rain. Yep, it's the sublime influence of early R.E.M and you can't miss it when listening to The Shrinking Islands. In these late days, it seems churlish to bitch about this sort of thing. So I'm not gonna. Nothing's original anymore; who cares; get over it. Because The Shrinking Islands have. They produce very good songs in their own right. But while we're on the subject, this Cambridge, Mass. band's bio also mentions The Clean and The Moles--shout-outs guaranteed to win my approval, even if, IMHO, they sound little like those sainted (I have little shrines set up in my bedroom) Kiwis/Aussies. Still, if these are faves, massive props for good taste.
So what does The Shrinking Islands sound like? To borrow a line from "State Fair": "green miles on parade," or feathery guitar arpeggios, rolling, melodic basslines, thwacking beats, yearning, vulnerable vocals, slippery lyrics that seem to evaporate in the sun. The first two verses of "State Fair" are diffident, close-to-the-chest feints before the band punches out the walls, opening the song in an expansive, extended instrumental of blue skies, brown, snaking roads and hills that march to infinity. "Swallowed In Grace" is a more conventional verse-chorus-verse pop composition, with a first-rate earworm of a melody. Once heard, you can't shake it.
I didn't just cherry pick these two tracks off the band's forthcoming debut EP In The Black Carpet (in August, on Sort Of Records). Everything on the stylistically consistent record is this good. Also, if you go to the band's Myspace you can stream an excellent, more recent song, "Blood Rays," one that hints at the unexpected breaks and er, crazy rhythms of The Feelies.
Sort Of Records is a newer, Pittsburgh-based label with an all-around impressive lineup of artists. So I strongly encourage you to check out some of the other acts (including free mp3 downloads) over there. Besides The Shrinking Islands, I was struck by The Instances, label founder/manager Raymond Morin's own project (Indie Workshop has a really good interview with Morin). In particular, this lovely, acoustic fingerstyle rumination:
The Mist Covered Mountains of Pittsburgh - The Instances
Listening to The Shrinking Islands had me dredging up R.E.M's Chronic Town, something I hadn't listened to in eons. It makes me feel 16 again, spending hours lying on my stomach on my bed trying to decipher the spoken segment of "Stumble." I just looked up the lyrics. Not what I thought at all.
Stumble - R.E.M.
Find on Dead Letter Office (US, UK).
Berkeley Place is giving away one of my favorite albums of 2006, Big Buildings' Water Everywhere. And posts a slightly pugilistic interview with the band. This is exactly what I love about that blog--and I'd say this even if Ethan (Ekko) wasn't a former college classmate of mine--everything's freewheeling, even a little unhinged, and always honest in that old-school Brooklyn kind of way.
In the everybody's loss department, Angels Twenty, one of the best mp3 blogs, is taking a hiatus (with only sporadic posts anticipated). But, in happier news, makes a brief reappearance to post Erase Errata's "French Canadia" in honor of Canada Day. Happy Canada Day, friends to the north!
Finally, if you missed yesterday's interview with Chicago's fab pop band The 1900s, here's your chance to get to know them before they become superstarrrrs.


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Country Report Jordan
The precarious social situation is the largest country risk in Jordan. Protests continue in the wake of the Arab Spring. However, we expect power in Jordan to remain firmly in the hands of the broadly respected King, who will also retain the loyal support of the army and the security services. A regional risk is that the Jordanian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood could intervene in Syria, where it plays an important part in the opposition movement seeking the overthrow of the Assad regime. The country runs substantial twin deficits, which are mainly the result of costly social spending packages and an expensive energy import bill in recent years. However, the fact that Jordan can count on significant donor aid partly mitigates this risk.
We have lowered our economic growth forecast for 2012 of 3.4% in our last country report, dated January 2012, to 2.7%. We expect economic growth to accelerate to 3% in 2013, driven by private consumption and gross fixed investment. A boost for Jordan’s exports will be the post-war economic rejuvenation of Iraq in the coming years. However, the downside risks are large. Especially the civil war in Syria is affecting the Jordanian economy, since Syria is a transit country for a large amount of Jordan’s traded goods. Also, if the US economy continues to struggle, this will result in subdued demand for Jordan’s exports.
Jordan’s largest country risks lie in the social-political sphere. In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions, tensions flared again after a cut in fuel subsidies in 2012. Another important risk stems from Jordan’s dependence on imported energy, which has resulted in weak fiscal and external balances. In this update report, we also discuss the energy dependence of Jordan and analyze the government’s policy response.
Fuel subsidies to end
On November 13th 2012, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour announced the end of fuel subsidies. The decision had been widely expected, with the prime minister and his ministers repeatedly seeking to persuade Jordanians during the week before the announcement that there was no alternative to ending the subsidies, which they said would amount to JOD2.5bn (USD 3.5bn) in 2012. Indeed, Jordanians have been queuing at petrol stations in anticipation of the move.
Nevertheless, protests proliferated immediately after the news broke. The public reaction was immediate and furious. The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, suggested that the decision to increase fuel prices would be the "last nail in the coffin of the government". In parliament, 89 deputies called for a vote of no-confidence in the government over the increase, and taxi drivers staged a demonstration, blocking traffic in a major thoroughfare in Amman for several hours. Jordan's newspapers were also full of comments from ordinary Jordanians on the difficulties that they would face following the increases.
Following the outcry, the prime minister, citing "national interest", said that the government had been forced to act because international oil prices were rising and this was adding further to the budget deficit. Ministry of Finance figures show the cost of fuel and food subsidies for the first half of 2011 at JOD 313.4m, up from JOD 187.5m the previous year. In comparison, the government had budgeted just JOD 450.8m for total food and fuel subsidies in 2012, despite the fact that the full-year cost reached JOD 796.5m in 2011. In this light, Mr. Ensour's argument for higher fuel prices carries some weight.
But a cash transfer program should compensate
In order to compensate them for the recent fuel price rise, the government has started to make payments to low- and middle-income families, starting from November 18th. According to the government, ending the subsidy will save the government JOD 800m (USD 1.13bn) a year, of which some JOD 300m will be reallocated as cash payments of JOD 420 (USD592) a year to households with an annual income below JOD 10,000 (a category that the government says includes 70% of the population). However, despite the commencement of the cash payments, opposition groups can be expected to keep up the pressure. For example, at a press conference on November 19th, the Muslim Brotherhood, which warned of a "national uprising", called for a reversal of the fuel price increase and the establishment of a national salvation government to deal with Jordan's economic and political challenges. Meanwhile, the influential Professional Associations (which at times act more like political parties) have also staged a demonstration calling for the move to be rescinded. However, the protests have been peaceful of late, with the violence witnessed shortly after the announcement having died down.
In all, since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, capital expenditures have been increasingly replaced by current expenditures and the budget deficit has widened, which is a worrisome development. As a result of the social spending programs, the budget deficit is estimated at a high 11.6% of GDP in 2012. We expect a slight improvement to 9.1% of GDP in 2013, which is still considered high, as the bulk of social spending has been implemented. Reflecting the wide budget deficits in the past years, public debt has increased to 62% of GDP in 2012. While the fiscal outlook is troublesome, it is partly mitigated by strong donor support from the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).
Energy problems to continue
Going forward, Jordan’s energy problems will continue, despite the removal of fuel subsidies. The government is still confronted by the substantial problem posed by its continued subsidizing of electricity prices. Low-cost Egyptian natural gas supplies (which until 2011 had met some 80% of Jordan's energy needs) have been severely reduced following constant attacks on the Sinai pipeline, forcing the country to buy far more expensive fuel products on the international markets.
In an effort to lessen this burden, the government has announced that it will seek to ration electricity consumption by reducing the use of lighting in public buildings and on little-used roads, and large supermarkets that open after 10 pm will have to pay higher electricity costs. The government is also planning to import 1.5m energy-saving light bulbs that will be sold to Jordanians at low prices. If these measures prove insufficient, the government will consider timed blackouts throughout the country in order to save on the use of electricity. Meanwhile, in an effort to reduce fuel consumption, it is planning to facilitate the licensing and importation of motorcycles.
Interestingly enough, the Iranian ambassador to Jordan, Mustafa Zadeh, has offered 30 years of "free oil" to Jordan, in return for unspecified agreements on religious tourism. The Iranian offer appears to be a blatantly opportunistic attempt to exploit Jordan's present energy difficulties and draw it away from its traditional allies (and paymasters) in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and the US. We believe that the Jordanian government will be wary of such a superficially generous offer and Iran is likely to be disappointed.
These are all one-off measures to reduce the country’s energy problems and, while useful, will not provide a structural solution. The country’s oil imports alone constitute 25% of the country’s total imports, and we believe Jordan will remain a net energy-importer. As a result, the trade balance is estimated to show a large deficit of around 30% of GDP in 2012 and the current account deficit at 10.8% of GDP. The current account deficit is forecast to improve in 2013 to 7.9% of GDP. This forecast is made on the assumption that the global economy continues to falter, which results in softening global energy prices and hence a lower energy import bill for Jordan. Furthermore, if the regional unrest fades in 2013, increased tourism revenues is expected to boost the current account. FX reserves stand at USD 9.1bn, enough to cover 6 months of imports, a moderate level, and FX reserves cover debt service by 392%, which is sound. While the deficit on the current account is large, this is mitigated by substantial donor aid by the GCC. If this donor aid would fall away, the external position of Jordan would become unsustainable.


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Police have arrested a 29-year-old Los Angeles man on suspicion of fatally shooting Jacqueline Avant, the wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant, after he shot himself in the foot during another home burglary.
Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed Aariel Maynor is in custody after investigators traced him through security footage which captured his vehicle heading east out of Beverly Hills following the fatal burglary.
Police caught Maynor at the site of another home burglary in Hollywood Hills where he had shot himself in his foot with what is thought to be the same AR-15 he used to kill Avant.
New footage shows Maynor handcuffed to wheelchair with his bloody foot on display as he is being taken in to custody by police.
Maynor has an extensive criminal record dating back to 2013 and has served time for robbery and grand theft, TMZ reported.
Maynor was on parole at the time of the alleged homicide for a domestic violence case.
He was arrested by LAPD officers and taken to a hospital where he remains in custody.
Police say Maynor is currently their only suspect and his motive for the alleged homicide remains under investigation.
Maynor is set to be booked once he is medically cleared, police said.
The 81-year-old philanthropist whose daughter Nicole is married to Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer, was shot dead early Wednesday morning in her $7 million Beverly Hills mansion despite a security guard being on the property.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail, Gina Martinez


“A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it.” – Peter Wohlleben
Welcome to Season 2
In this episode we talk about beginning a new season, the daily encounter with God, the gift of presence in the moment to moment and the hidden life of trees (as well as nuns with chainsaws!)
Please check out our new website and discussion questions for each episode of the podcast!
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Recent Development in Disease Diagnosis by Information, Communication and Technology KE01-KE05
Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University,
Greater Noida-201312, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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The usage of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in health sector has a great potential in improving the health of individuals and communities, disease detection, prevention and overall strengthening the healthcare systems, vital for development and poverty reduction. Large ICT establishments offer a variety of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions; and their tenacities are inclusive of wearable therapeutic devices, healthcare management arrangements, extrapolative healthcare diagnostics, ailment prevention systems, detection and screening of diseases and automated tactics. In the field of healthcare related instrumentation, AI plays a prevalent role with the amalgamation of several technological progressions. This enables machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn to perform organisational and clinical healthcare functions as well as serves the research and training purposes. Additionally, it enables to accomplish the anticipated directorial and medicinal benefits. The major causes of life threats reported in literature are; heart and brain diseases. In this paper, an extensive review is presented exploring the evolving ICT technologies in machine learning and AI to help ICT enthusiasts to be able to catch up with the emerging trends in healthcare.


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||Edwin B. Worthen Collection
||"Recall," Vincent A McCrossen, The Lexington Minute Man, July 10, 1969
McCrossen notes a recent referendum which passed. McCrossen suggests that the School Committee, intent on upsetting the results of the referendum, scheduled a new Town Meeting. McCrossen describes the members of the School Committee and Town Meeting as "extremist ideologues grinding out their own socialistic and racist schemes at the expense of the town's children and its taxpayers." McCrossen reminds readers he had previous voted against the "extremist schemes" of the Town Meeting. He insists Lexington's only option is to obtain "a clear cut right of recall from the Legislature and then recalling the school Committee... and the Town Meeting members."
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An explosion has hit an underground station in the city of St Petersburg. At least 10 people are feared dead and dozens wounded in a blast in the metro system of Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second city, according to local authorities.
The Tass and Interfax agencies reported a blast at the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station, which left a number of victims. Initial reports suggested there had been two explosions, one at Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations.
Ambulances and fire engines descended on the central Sennaya Ploshchad metro station after the explosion on Tuesday at 240pm (11:40 GMT). Russian media initially reported that there were two blasts, but officials later said that there was only one blast which happened in a train carriage between two stations on a busy line.
Another explosive device was later found at a different station in central St Petersburg and made safe, the country’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said.
Images posted on social media showed a train carriage with its doors blown out and damage inside.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in St Petersburg to attend an economic forum, said the government was considering all possible causes for the blasts.


Crews begin blasting underground for construction of East End Bridge
Updated On: Jun 27 2013 12:52:06 PM EDT
A key phase in the East End Bridge Project is getting underway underground Thursday afternoon.
Construction crews will be blasting today and tomorrow starting at 2 p.m.
It's near the intersection of US-42 and the Gene Snyder Freeway.
Traffic in the area will be stopped for up to 20 minutes.
Construction is beginning on a 2,000 foot tunnel.
The East End Bridge is scheduled to open in late 2016.
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Japan Airlines Co. has abandoned plans to begin flights between Haneda airport and New York this fall, sources said Wednesday.
The move came as the transport ministry plans to apply rules limiting the opening of new routes by JAL, which was rehabilitated from its 2010 bankruptcy with taxpayer money, the sources said.
JAL is now looking to open the Haneda-New York route in fall 2017, after the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism scraps the rules, they said.
The airline had previously planned to start service on the route on Oct. 30, when U.S.-bound flights departing Haneda during the daytime begin, in line with a Japan-U.S. aviation agreement reached in February.
Under the Japan-U.S. deal, the number of flights connecting Haneda and the United States will rise to 12 from eight now, with Japanese and U.S. airlines getting six slots each.
The transport ministry has since given four slots to All Nippon Airways Co. and two to JAL to ensure a level playing field for competition between domestic airlines.
Starting Oct. 30, ANA will open routes linking Haneda to New York and Chicago, while continuing to serve the existing Haneda-Los Angeles and Haneda-Honolulu routes.
For its part, JAL will move its Haneda-San Francisco and Haneda-Honolulu flights to sometime between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Japan time from the late-night and early-morning slots.
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A new study by the Columbia Business School is titled, People with power are better liars.
The average liar experiences negative emotions, physiological stress and fear of getting caught. Power, however, enhances the same emotional, cognitive and physiological systems that lying depletes. So holding power over others makes it easier to lie.
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By Silvia Martelli
On April 19, Cardiff’s council cabinet met to discuss a £26.2 million scheme to heat the city’s public and commercial buildings using energy from burning non-recyclable waste. Analysis show that the scheme will save 5,600 tonnes of carbon each year, and around 5% on energy costs for the buildings.
Buildings connected to the network will no longer need to use gas for heating, relying instead on the energy generated at the Trident Park Energy Recovery Facility and transported across the city through a network of underground pipes. Low pressure steam generated from the waste plant will be used to heat water, which will then circulate across Cardiff at around 90C (almost at a boiling point). Heat exchangers will be installed in customer buildings to ensure physical separation of building heat fluids and those in the network.
Councillor Michael, Cardiff Cabinet Member for Clean Streets and the Environment, said: “This is an exciting opportunity for Cardiff to develop new low-carbon, energy infrastructure, fuelled by existing assets and facilities in the city.”
The network will begin in Cardiff Bay, then cross the main railway line, skirt the southern edge of the city centre and end in the western parts of Newport Road. It will be built in two phases: in phase one, heat pipes will be laid to connect public buildings south of the railway line, and a centre of back up gas boilers will be built for when the incinerator is undergoing maintenance; in phase two, buildings north and east of the railway will be connected too.
The first phase will have a capital cost of £14.4 million. The Council’s Cabinet has been asked to allocate £4m towards the scheme – the rest of the funding will be external and most likely achieved with the cooperation of both Central and Welsh Government. The Central Government may indeed award grant funds available from its Heat investment Programme (HNIP), which currently amounts to £320 million, whilst the Welsh Government may offer “direct financial investment either in the form of an Equity stake or loan on bespoke and favourable terms”, as outlined in the 19th April Cabinet Meeting Report. To save loan from the Council, borrowing through an invest will also be possible.
Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths said: “Decarbonising heat is a significant challenge in delivering a low carbon economy for Wales. We are supporting a range of initiatives and have provided significant assistance to Cardiff Council to develop the project to this stage. We will continue to work in partnership with Cardiff Council with the ambition of making the project a reality”.
Trident Park ERF already has contracts to burn non-recyclable waste from nine local authorities in South East Wales. With the Welsh Government setting out their aim for all the public sector to be carbon neutral by 2030, it is hoped that other cities will quickly adopt Cardiff’s sustainable pioneer project, giving waste a purpose and valuing it as a precious resource.
A Full Business Case for the project will be outlined in the next 18-24 months, before final authority will be seeked to begin the construction works.


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Accession Number : ADA325839
Title : CJTF and the Pathway to the Littoral.
Descriptive Note : Final rept.,
Corporate Author : NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
Personal Author(s) : Hockgraver, Valerie R.
PDF Url : ADA325839
Report Date : 07 FEB 1997
Pagination or Media Count : 34
Abstract : 'Operational Maneuver from the Sea' (OMFTS) identified the littoral environment as the new frontier of joint warfare. Moreover, adapting maneuver warfare to the littoral environment has created many new challenges for the Joint Task Force Commander (CJTF). Sea Dragon, a five-year USMC Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, was created to explore the principles and technical challenges addressed by OMFTS. This paper conducts an examination of the Sea Dragon framework to determine the contributions and disadvantages of this process to joint littoral warfare. Although Sea Dragon was devised to champion Marine Corps littoral objectives, its goals must complement the overall joint perspective. In addition, selected operational functions relative to the CJTF and his command of joint littoral operations are evaluated to determine inherent downfalls of the current force organization and technical applications. If pivotal issues associated with these functional areas are either ignored or mishandled, resultant difficulties may fracture future joint interoperability and negatively affect littoral operations. In this ERA of diminished resources, all services need to foster and contribute to joint warfighting requirements.
Descriptors : *LAND WARFARE, *LITTORAL ZONES, MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, DEMONSTRATIONS, TASK FORCES, INTEROPERABILITY, JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES, MANEUVERS.
Subject Categories : Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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Audible Favourite Dan Stevens Is a Happy Reader
I spent this frozen Saturday obsessing over magazines in Do You Read Me?, a stunning bookshop filled with coffee-table books, cookbooks and magazines in Berlin’s Mitte. I flipped through Lodestar‘s England issue, Granta’s new India issue and Canada’s Brick journal (featuring new work by Louise Erdrich and an extract from Ben Lerner’s bestselling 10:04!), but ended up taking home The Happy Reader, a new magazine from Penguin and Fantastic Man. This beautiful mag celebrates the luxury of being offline and a love of books. The first half features a long interview by Best Young British Novelist Naomi Alderman with book lover and actor Dan Stevens, currently of the wild and creepy film The Guest, a former Booker judge and of course, known for strolling the halls of Downton Abbey. Audible listeners will also know him for his excellent recordings of Wolf Hall, Frankenstein, Casino Royale and more. The second part takes a deep, quirky look at the Victorian classic The Woman in White through a fashion spread, a walking tour, and short essays on food and more. You can subscribe here for the cost of postage.
New Sounds and Words From Scandinavia
Recently Music & Literature has been on the road launching their fifth issue. Each launch has been a sort of live edition of the magazine, which spotlights underrepresented artists from around the world. On 24 January in Berlin, we gathered at the Nordic Embassies with the editor of the Norwegian arts mag Vagant to celebrate the life and work of Norwegian writer Stig Sæterbakken, and Chinese author Can Xue. The readings and heart-felt speeches about the featured authors were strung together with the avant-garde sounds of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose music played with the edges of the possibility of the sound of a cello and a flute.
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Rosegarden, the Berlin-based online arts, culture and lifestyle magazine is making its way into print and want to see more contributions in English. To get a sense of what they cover, check out this Book Lover interview Audible did with co-founder Mario Münster. On 22 January the contributors of Rosegarden magazine gathered to toast the magazine’s new era inside The Wine’s showroom. Glasses were filled with Riesling from Hessen, where Mario grew up, and German craft beer. The underground supper club Daniel’s Eatery provided feta-filled brioche and summer rolls filled with truffled mushrooms, among other delicacies. Their first print issue is themed “Home” and will be published in Spring 2015. To get in touch about writing for Rosegarden, email redaktion(at)rosegarden-mag.de.


RIYADH: The Ministry of Justice announced on Saturday that beneficiaries can update their real estate deeds online, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The move coincided with the launch of the third phase of the deed verification service. Deeds that are updated on the portal now look like paper deeds, improving the beneficiaries’ experience.
The service is a substitute for visiting notaries. It also allows the verification of the authenticity of the deed online by visiting the link (https://www.moj.gov.sa/ar/eServices/Najiz/Pages/RealstateQuery.aspx) and entering the numbers of the deed and ID of one of the owners to see the full details. Beneficiaries can view the real estate deed in full as saved in the systems of the Ministry of Justice, allowing for more reliable information than paper deeds.
The second phase enhances the reliability of the deeds updated online, improves the experience of the beneficiaries, ensures the validity of the information and ease of access, and provides privacy and transparency of information.
Dr. Walid bin Mohammed Al-Samaani, justice minister and president of the Supreme Judicial Council, launched the digital transformation in the Ministry’s documentation sector on Nov. 19, 2018. The digital transformation targeted a number of digital forensic services aimed at eliminating paperwork and making procedures easier for beneficiaries who no longer need to visit notaries to issue low-risk powers of attorney.
The ministry highlighted that the digital transformation in documentation would save about 8 million papers annually, which leads to spending efficiency, protects the environment and makes things easier for beneficiaries as there is no need to carry documents and visit notaries to issue clauses specified by powers of attorney.


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You were right to be afraid of the dark.
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Released: October 25, 2016
- Originally Released: 2016
- Label: New Line Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Deleted scenes
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
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|Starring||Teresa Palmer, Billy Burke & Maria Bello|
|Directed by||David F. Sandberg|
|Edited by||Michel Aller & Kirk M. Morri|
|Screenplay by||Eric Heisserer|
|Original story by||David F. Sandberg|
|Composition by||Benjamin Wallfisch|
|Produced by||James Wan|
|Director of Photography:||Marc Spicer|
[E]nergized by some spiffy scare effects from cinematographer Marc Spicer who works wonders with underlighting.
[T]he Swedish director David F. Sandberg extracts maximum frights from the simplest of conceits....An eerie blend of haunted-house thriller and supernatural-stalker story...
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The movie is believable and the characters are very convincing. I have to admit that I definitely screamed and jumped with the rest of them. Full Review
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Rating: 2/5 -- Lights Out is a decent conceit stretched till it snaps, tied back together with feeble wisps of story, and re-stretched so dimly and often you'll mainly be craving the illumination on your watch dial. Full Review
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Rating: 7/10 -- It uses some good old fashioned jump scares and a tense atmosphere to make a really effective scary movie. Full Review
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LIGHTS OUT is crazy scary....The film’s central conceit of a mysterious, malevolent figure who appears only when the lights are out, and who disappears, physically as well as visually, with the flip of a light switch, is enormously, even irrationally, effective.
Rating: 3/5 -- There are scares from the off in the short, punchy horror Lights Out, adapted by the director David F Sandberg from his short film. Full Review
A young woman (Teresa Palmer) must protect her brother (Gabriel Bateman) from a terrifying apparition that only manifests in total darkness. Later, she realizes that this fearsome entity is connected to her mentally ill mother (Maria Bello), who has started hallucinating conversations with a mysterious figure named Diana. Billy Burke and Alexander DiPersia co-star. Produced by James Wan (THE CONJURING), LIGHTS OUT is a feature-length expansion of director David F. Sandberg's short film of the same name, which became a viral sensation online.


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Hundreds of practitioners gathered outside the Palace of Westminster this afternoon in protest at the government’s policies on access to justice.
A 42-mile Relay for Rights march, from Runnymede to Westminster, was organised by Justice Alliance, culminating in an event called Not the Global Law Summit.
Robin Murray, vice-chair of the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association, told the event that he did not criticise justice secretary Chris Grayling for being a non-lawyer lord chancellor – ‘just for being a very poor one’.
Murray said it was a disgrace that, so close to a general election, ‘[Grayling] is pressing forward with [fee] cuts and a ridiculous two-tier [contracts] proposal’.
Describing Grayling as ‘the antithesis of what Magna Carta represents’, Murray warned the lord chancellor: ‘We’re coming for you. We will prevail. Our battle-standards will have the words “Magna Carta” embossed upon them.’
Jonathan Black, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association, said solicitors had gathered outside parliament ‘not to network but to expose the decimation of our justice system, which is being flogged off in a glorified car-boot sale’.
Black said the shredding of the legacy of this ‘great charter’ risked the profession returning to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s, ‘and the horrors of miscarriages of justice’.
‘Please do not say we didn’t warn you,’ Black declared.
Labour MP Karl Turner said Grayling ‘should be in a prison rather than running our prisons’.
‘At least he’s consistent – consistently incompetent,’ he said. ‘[Labour is] not going to throw 1,000 experienced solicitor firms on the scrapheap. We’re going to protect that, and that’s a great place to start.’

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CHICAGO, Nov. 2, 2023 — The American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession has announced its 2024 Spirit of Excellence Award honorees. The Spirit of Excellence Award celebrates the efforts and accomplishments of lawyers who work to promote a more racially and ethnically diverse legal profession.
The awards will be presented on Feb. 3, 2024, during the ABA Midyear Meeting, Jan. 31–Feb. 5, 2024, in Louisville.
2024 Spirit of Excellence Award Ceremony
Sponsored by the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
12-2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
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400 South 2nd Street
The 2024 Spirit of Excellence Award honorees include attorneys, military officers and judges who personify excellence in the profession:
- Capt. Benes Z. Aldana has carved a legacy as a trailblazer in both the military and legal fields. He is the first Asian Pacific American chief trial judge in the U.S. military, following significant roles as an appellate judge, trial judge and prosecutor. He once led legal services for Coast Guard operations across 26 states.
- Col. Jose A. Cora is an accomplished military officer and an advocate for the advancement and development of Hispanic and Latino judge advocates. He is an attorney in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and an expert in government acquisitions and appropriations law. He currently serves as the Army’s chief of the Contract Litigation and Intellectual Property Division.
- Judge Dolly Gee combines a brilliant legal mind with an unflinching devotion to the law. She is the first Chinese American woman to be nominated and confirmed as an Article III federal judge. As a jurist, she has presided over a number of landmark cases protecting the rights of migrants.
- Sara Hill is committed to creating a more diverse, inclusive and equitable world for the betterment not only of her tribe and tribal members, but all Oklahomans, Native Americans and countless others impacted by her efforts nationally and internationally. She recently was nominated to the serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
- Juan R. Thomas is a changemaker, mentor and source of inspiration for many diverse attorneys. He serves as of counsel to Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., and is the founder and principal of The Thomas Law Group. He is listed as one of the Top 100 National Black Trial Lawyers.
For media registration, please contact Shanda T. Ivory at [email protected].
The ABA is the largest voluntary association of lawyers in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law. View our privacy statement online. Follow the latest ABA news at www.americanbar.org/news and on X (formerly Twitter) @ABANews.


Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Industrial Organization III C11-V1
In this paper we analyze the investment behavior of electricity distribution companies. First, we test the hypothesis if the implementation of an incentive-based regulatory scheme with revenue caps impacts the firms' investment decisions in general. Second, we test if the specific regulatory design to determine the revenue caps impacts the firms' investment behavior. The analysis is based on a unique and detailed firm level data for German electricity distribution companies over the 2006-2012 period. Controlling for a large amount of firm specific heterogeneity and ownership, we show that the investment rate is higher after the implementation of incentive regulation in 2009. Furthermore, we find that the design with its specific institutional constraints for determining the revenue-caps, influence the investment decisions of the firms. Especially in the base year, when the rate base is determined for the following regulatory period, investments increase. The analysis demonstrates that the whole design of incentive regulation must be taken into account for a sound assessment of investment behavior in electricity distribution.


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Kylie Scott has written another great book with her newest story Dirty. Dirty is the first book in the Dive Bar series. Dirty is a Stage Dive spin off that tells the story of Vaughn, who readers were introduced to in Deep. Fans of Stage Dive will not be disappointed with Dirty.
Dirty is a fun and entertaining read that will leave you laughing throughout. Dirty follows the relationship between Lydia and Vaughn.
Lydia is a heroine that anyone would love with her sarcastic remarks and her never give up attitude. Vaughn is a sexy musician that quickly became my next book boyfriend.
The story starts with Lydia dressed in her wedding dress running from her wedding after finding out her fiancée was having an affair with his best man.
Vaughn found Lydia hiding in her wedding dress in his bathtub and it was crazy at first sight. The relationship between them is slowly building throughout the book and it will leave you laughing and smiling all at the same time.
The secondary characters in the story are fun to read about and add to the story.
Dirty sets up the atmosphere for the series, where readers are introduced to the characters of the Dive Bar.
All characters were enjoyable and fun to read about.
I would recommend dirty to everyone that wants to read a new book series or anyone that enjoys an entertaining read.


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In today’s Pound to Australian Dollar forecast we look at the shift in the GBP/AUD exchange rate following the recent news on trade talks between the US and China.
A trade truce between the US and China has caused quite a significant, positive movement for the Australian Dollar against the majority of major currencies. This is despite the high probability of a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) tomorrow.
Australia is heavily reliant on China purchasing it’s goods and any slow down in growth has a knock on effect on the Australian economy and in turn the Australian Dollar.
Although Donald Trump and Chinese President, Xi Jinping have agreed to a temporary truce in their trade war. Do not be fooled into thinking a deal is close to being agreed. The truce is definitely good news and shows progress, but there has been occasions before where it looked as though a deal was coming close to fruition only for President Trump to increase tariffs after he found an area of the deal that was disagreeable.
The trade war could be going on for a considerable period of time and if tariffs increase the ramifications could be wide reaching which does not bode well for the Australian Dollar.
Brexit and the lack of a Prime Minister hurt the Pound
At present Brexit woes and the lack of a Prime Minister outweigh the problems in Australia. Until we have a confirmed PM and clarity on Brexit I am afraid Sterling will remain fragile.
Boris Johnson threatening to bring a no deal Brexit back to the table to negotiate an improved deal with Brussels will cause concern for investors. The higher the probability of a no deal the weaker Sterling will become.
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American actress Courtney Cox has celebrated her 45th birthday this Monday. Cox is best known for her role of Monica Geller on the sitcom Friends. She was originally auditioned for the role of Rachel Green, but she was instead cast as the character Monica Geller. "Friends" became a mega successful sitcom which ran for 10 episodes from 1994 till 2004. Guinness Book of Records lists Cox as one of the highest paid sitcom actors (along with her co-stars) with $1 million-per-episode paycheck in the last season of "Friends".
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