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Timeline: iPodding through the years
By Philip Michaels
Editor, PCWorld |
The iPod began life modestly, getting trotted out before the press in a small theater at Apple's headquarters. These days, it's a major attraction, drawing hundreds of reporters to a media event last month in San Francisco that featured appearances by the CEO of Disney and R&B singer John Legend. Here's what happened in between to make the iPod the rock star it is today.
October: At a press-only event at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus, Apple unveils the iPod, a 5GB hard-drive-based music player that will sell for $399. "To have your whole CD library with you at all times is a quantum leap when it comes to music," Steve Jobs tells the press. "You can fit your whole music library in your pocket."
November: The iPod officially hits retail shelves on November 10.
December: Between the iPod's November 10 release date and December 31, Apple sells 125,000 iPods.
January: The first-generation iPod gets a -rating from Macworld winning praise for its high capacity, fast transfer speeds, and iTunes integration, but getting knocked for its price as well as the lack of a case or strap.
February: Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Disney CEO Michael Eisner says Apple's "Rip, Mix, Burn" ads promoting its digital hub concept suggest "that [you] can create a theft if you buy this computer." Steve Jobs counters in the Wall Street Journal : "If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own."
March: Apple adds a second iPod to its offerings —a 10GB model priced at $499. In addition, Apple makes free software available for downloading and storing names and addresses on the iPod; the company also introduces a custom-order laser engraving service that let users engrave two lines of text with up to 27 characters per line on the back of the iPod for $49.
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July: Apple rolls out a new generation of iPods, topping out at 20GB in capacity. More important, instead of a scroll wheel, the 10GB and 20GB models feature a touch wheel and a door for protecting the iPod's FireWire port. A software update lets the music player organize songs by genre or composer in addition to title, album, or playlist. The price of the 5GB iPod falls below $300.
August: iPods become available to Windows users for the first time.
January: During his Macworld Expo keynote, Jobs notes that Apple has sold more than 600,000 iPods in the 14 months since its launch.
April: Apple introduces the iTunes Music Store; the online music service debuts with more than 200,000 songs available for download. Songs downloaded from iTunes can play on an unlimited number of iPods.
Also in April, the iPod's interface adds a solid-state scroll wheel with four buttons—rewind, menu, play/pause, and fast-forward—on top. Replacing the FireWire port is a thin connector that let the device hook up to a Mac or PC with either FireWire or USB 2.0.
September: Apple ups capacity on the iPod line, offering 10GB ($299), 20GB ($399) and 40GB ($499).
Software developer Dave Winer creates an RSS-with-enclosures feed that can be used to distribute audio content. This will eventually grow into a phenomenon that, by 2004, becomes commonly known as "podcasting."
October: Windows users get the chance to fill up their iPods with 99-cent downloads, as the iTunes Music Store goes cross-platform.
The iPod 2.1 software update adds the ability to store voice recordings and digital photos with the help of add-ons made by Belkin.
January: Apple expands the iPod line with a new slimmed-down—and colorful—offering: the iPod mini. Half-an-inch thin and about the size of a business card, the mini comes in gold, blue, pink, and green anodized aluminum. The 4GB player sells for $249.
During the same keynote as the mini's unveiling, Apple raises the capacity on the $299 iPod to 15GB. Jobs announces that Apple sold 730,000 iPods between October and December, pushing total iPod sales past the 2 million mark.
HP and Apple announce that HP will sell HP-branded iPods supplied by Apple.
June: Apple's iTunes Store expands overseas, opening in the U.K., France, and Germany. By year's end, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Canada will have iTunes Music Stores of their own.
July: A new generation of iPods incorporates the Click Wheel interface introduced six months earlier with the iPod mini. A 20GB model sells for $299 while a 40GB iPod is available for $399.
September: HP releases its iPod offerings, which are identical to Apple's 20GB and 40GB fourth-generation iPods—except for the HP logo on the back.
October: Apple introduces the color-screen iPod photo. Available in 40 and 60GB capacities, the device plays music as well as displays photos on a 220-by-176-pixel resolution screen. At that same launch event, Steve Jobs is joined by Bono and The Edge to introduce the 20GB iPod U2 Special Edition. Featuring a black case and red Click Wheel, the $349 iPod includes a $50 discount on a digital box set of all U2's albums as well as rare and unreleased tracks.
November: Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of MP3 player manufacturer Creative Technology, declares "war" on the iPod.
December: During the holiday quarter, Apple sells more than 4.5 million iPods, a 500 percent jump from the same period in 2004. Apple's total iPod sales climb past 10 million, with 8.2 million units sold in 2004 alone.
January: Apple gets into the flash-based music player business, introducing the iPod shuffle. About the size of a stick of gum, the shuffle comes in 512MB ($99) and 1GB ($149) capacities.
At Macworld Expo, Apple announces that Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Volvo, and Scion will introduce iPod adapters for their factory-installed stereos in 2005.
February: The mini becomes available in 4GB and 6GB capacities. A 30GB iPod photo replaces Apple's 40GB offering. Prices fall to $349 for the 30GB model and $449 for the 60GB one. On the full-size iPod front, Apple drops the 40GB model and cuts the price of the 20GB iPod to $249.
Napster launches its subscription-based Napster To Go service during the Super Bowl with an ad blasting the per-download pricing model Apple uses for its iTunes Store.
June: The iPod and iPod photo lines are merged into the iPod (color), ending the availability of monochrome-screen music players. The new iPod is available in 20GB ($299) and 60GB ($399) sizes. Also, Apple cuts the price of the 1GB shuffle to $129.
iTunes 4.9 adds download and subscription support for podcasts within the iTunes Music Store, as well as features for managing podcasts and moving them on and off iPods.
July: Creative Technology warns its investors to expect a quarterly operating loss because of softer-than-expected sales of its MP3 players. Meanwhile, HP announces it will stop selling its branded iPods in September.
August: Creative wins a patent for how files on digital music players are organized that it claims coves not only its own Zen and Nomad jukeboxes but also iPods.
September: Despite the popularity of the iPod mini, Apple replaces the miniature player with an even smaller device— the iPod nano. Available in glossy black or white, the nano features a color display and a grey Click Wheel. The 2GB and 4GB nanos sell for $199 and $249, respectively.
At the same event, Apple announces the first iTunes-compatible cell phone, Motorola's Rokr. It will quickly become overshadowed by the nano.
October: Apple adds video playback capabilities to the iPod line. The fifth-generation iPod plays video on a 2.5-inch, 320-by-240, 260,000 color TFT display. It comes in 30GB ($299) and 60GB ($399) sizes. To coincide with the launch of the video iPod, Apple releases an updated version of iTunes that includes video playback. Disney becomes the first company to start offering television programs for sale at the iTunes Music Store, with episodes from four TV shows priced at $1.99 each.
January: During his Macworld Expo keynote, Jobs notes that Apple has sold 42 million iPods since the device launched in 2001. Also, consumers have bought 850 millions songs through the iTunes Music Store. Eight million videos have been sold and downloaded since that service was added in the fall.
February: Apple adds a third offering to its iPod nano line— a $149 1GB model. Also, the company cuts prices on its 512MB and 1GB shuffles to $69 and $99, respectively.
May: Creative and Apple trade lawsuits, with each company alleging that the other has infringed upon its patents.
August: Apple agrees to pay Creative $100 million to resolve the legal dispute between the two companies. Creative agrees to begin making iPod accessories this year.
September: Apple overhauls its entire iPod product line. The second-generation shuffle comes in only one capacity in a clip-on case that's roughly half the size of its predecessor. The second-generation nanos are available in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB capacities—because of their new scratch-resistant shell, they come in a variety of colors. And the video-capable iPod sees some changes as well, namely a brighter screen, longer battery life, and other enhancements. The newly renamed iTunes Store begins offering feature-length movies for download.
The iPod faces what could be its most serious challenge yet, as Microsoft readies its Zune media player for a November launch.
October: The iPod line gets another new color, as Apple unveils a red 4GB nano, as part of the Project Red initiative for raising money to combat AIDS in Africa.
Major iPod Introductions
Size (h x w x d) & Weight
October 2001 5GB 4x2.4x0.78-inches, 6.5 ounces $399 This debut iPod featured a stainless-steel back and Lucite front. It connected to Macs via FireWire, and was controlled by a scroll wheel with clickable buttons.
Second-generation iPod
July 2002 10GB, 20GB 10GB: 4x2.4x0.72-inches, 6.5 ounces; 20GB: 4x2.4x0.84 inches, 7.2 ounces $399, $499 Out with the scroll wheel, in with a touch-sensitive wheel that featured no moving parts. Also, the FireWire port on this iPod got a protective door.
Third-generation iPod
April 2003 10GB, 15GB 30GB 10GB, 15GB: 4.1x2.4x0.62 inches, 5.6 ounces; 30GB: 4.1x2.4x0.73 inches, 6.2 ounces $299, $399, $499 A slimmer iPod added a solid-state navigation wheel with four buttons on top. The FireWire port was replaced by a special thin connector.
January 2004 4GB 3.6x2.0x0.5 inches, 3.6 ounces $249 Apple described this colorful miniature iPod as the size of a business card. Buttons were placed right on the wheel, introducing the Click Wheel interface to the iPod line.
Fourth-generation iPod
July 2004 20GB, 40GB 20GB: 4.1x2.4x0.57 inches, 5.6 ounces; 40GB: 4.1x2.4x0.69 inches, 6.2 ounces $229, $399 The fourth-generation of iPods adopted the mini's Click Wheel controls and lowered the price of the most expensive iPod to less than $400.
October 2004 40GB, 60GB 4.1x2.4x0.75 inches, 6.4 ounces $499, $599 The first iPod to integrate a color screen, the iPod photo displayed album art as well as color photographs on a 2-inch, 65,536-color display.
January 2005 512MB, 1GB 0.98x3.3x0.33 inches, 0.78 ounces $99; $149 The first flash-based music player from Apple featured circular, clickable controls, but no screen. A switch on the back let users choose between Shuffle and Play in Order modes.
Second-generation iPod mini
February 2005 4GB, 6GB 3.6x2.0x0.5 inches, 3.6 ounces $199, $249 The most significant change to the iPod mini line added a 6GB model. The color of the Click Wheel's buttons also matched the mini's color.
September 2005 2GB, 4GB 3.5x1.6.0.27 inches, 1.5 ounces $199, $249 Replacing the popular iPod mini, this flash-based player featured a color screen, black and white cases, and a familiar Click Wheel.
Fifth-generation iPod
October 2005 30GB, 60GB 30GB: 4.1x2.4x0.43 inches, 4.8 ounces; 60GB: 4.1x2.4x0.55 inches, 5.5 ounces $299, $399 Available in black and white models, this iPod played video on a 2.5-inch, 320 x 240, 260,000 color TFT display and features realtime decoding of MPEG 4 and H.264 video at 30 frames per second.
Second-generation iPod shuffle
September 2006 1GB 1.07x1.62x0.41 inches, 0.55 ounces $79 The silver shuffle comes in only one capacity—1GB—and adds a built-in clip to easily attach the music player to a person's clothing.
Second-generation iPod nano
September 2006 2GB, 4GB, 8GB 3.5x1.6x0.26 inches, 1.41 ounces $149, $199, $249 Apple refreshed its flash-based nano line, creating three different capacities in a scratch-resistant aluminum shell, available in a host of iPod mini-esque colors.
The above chart lists each major iPod introduction, including the capacity and size of the iPod at the time Apple released each generation. Many of the above models received updates—typically, increased capacity or price changes; those updates are not included for the sake of brevity.
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Report: St. Louis set to become latest MLS expansion city
August 15, 2019 August 15, 2019 by Jenny Hojnacki
Major League Soccer is reportedly coming to the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch MLS is ready to officially award the Missouri city a franchise as early as next week. Their multiple anonymous sources said the city has an event planned for next Tuesday.
St. Louis would be the 28th team in MLS and the league has current plan to expand to 30 teams over the next few years.
The prospective ownership group is led by Carolyn Kindle Betz, president of Enterprise Holdings Foundation, other members of Enterprise's Taylor Family, and Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology and CEO the USL's Saint Louis FC.
"Major League Soccer is responsible for the timing of any announcements around League expansion, but we remain confident St. Louis has made a strong case for a team," the ownership group said in a statement.
St. Louis has had several attempts at landing an MLS team. Their first go was launched in 2017 when they were one of a dozen cities to submit applications. The bid was led by Kavanaugh and Boston-based investor Paul Edgerley. Their efforts fell apart when they failed to secure public funding for a stadium.
The Taylor family came in to revive the bid last year and they pledged to help fund a $250 million downtown stadium and cover the $200 million expansion fee. MLS commissioner Don Garber praised the effort during the league's expansion meetings in New York City last month.
Garber also visited the city back in March to meet with the ownership group and potential sponsors and in April he announced that the league ws in "exclusive, formal" expansion discussions with both St. Louis and Sacramento. Finally, the comissioner said during the MLS All-Star Game last month in Orlando that the St. Louis expansion effort was moving quickly.
"Their project is amazing," Garber told Fox Sports. "It's a massive downtown stadium project. The Taylor family really is St. Louis."
As for what the city already has, Saint Louis FC has been playing in the USL since the 2015 season. The team averages about 4,400 fans per game at Toyota Stadium in nearby Fenton, Missouri. The city also has a rich soccer tradition and has hosted the U.S. Men's National Team in World Cup qualifying matches as recently as 2015 and as far back as 1989.
The new St. Louis expansion team would aim to begin play in the 2022 MLS season.
Quit Whining About Soccer in the US
Congrats to St Louis….$200 million expansion fee seems very small and a great deal

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Q: python Occurring letters in a string. Index Counting Just trying to write a basic function where the function should print index numbers of a certain letter in a word for.
Below is the function is wrote. It is only printing out the first index a the letter I give
def ind_fnd(word, char):
    """
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "o")
    '2 5 '
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "l")
    '3 4 '
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "n")
    ''
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "a")
    '0'
    """
    index = 0
    while index < len(word):
        if word [index] == char:
            return index
        index += 1

The above is the type of function i need. I cant figure out what is missing.

A: You shouldn't return the index straightaway since that terminates the function. Instead do it as follows:
def ind_fnd(word, char):
    """
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "o")
    '2 5 '
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "l")
    '3 4 '
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "n")
    ''
    >>> ind_fnd("apollo", "a")
    '0'
    """
    index = 0
    indices = []
    while index < len(word):
        if word [index] == char:
            indices.append(index)
        index += 1
    return indices

This creates a list of all the indices and then returns it.
Examples
>>> ind_fnd('apollo','o')
[2,5]

>>> ind_fnd('eevee','e')
[0,1,3,4]

>>> ind_fnd('hello, 'z')
[]

A: Try this,
>>> def find(word,char):
          result=[]
          for index,i in enumerate(word):
            if i==char:
               result.append(index)
          return result

>>> print find("this is example string",'i')
[2, 5, 19]

A: I would do:
def ind_find(s, c):
    return (i for i, x in enumerate(s) if x == c)

Demo:
>>> list(ind_find('apollo', 'o'))
[2, 5]

The reason your code isn't working is that you return once the first index is found. My code fixes this by constructing a list of all indices, and then returns that when applicable.

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Milwaukee man's death may be heat-related
Milwaukee may have recorded its first heat-related death from this week's heat wave.The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office is investigating the death of a 28-year-old man as possibly heat-related.The man was pronounced dead just after 7 a.m. Wednesday at a home on North 66th Street in Milwaukee. He had a core body temperature of 104 degrees.An autopsy is scheduled Thursday.A neighbor said he thought the man there just had the air conditioning fixed and was surprised to hear what happened."I assumed somebody died because when the cops (show up) usually someone passed away, and then I heard he died of a heat stroke," said David Nowak, a neighbor of the victim.The National Weather Service said temperatures in Milwaukee hit 95 on Tuesday and 90 on Monday and Sunday. The heat index Tuesday was 101.A spokeswoman for the city of Milwaukee Health Department said Milwaukee recorded five heat-related deaths during a hot spell in mid-July.
MILWAUKEE —
Milwaukee may have recorded its first heat-related death from this week's heat wave.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office is investigating the death of a 28-year-old man as possibly heat-related.
The man was pronounced dead just after 7 a.m. Wednesday at a home on North 66th Street in Milwaukee. He had a core body temperature of 104 degrees.
An autopsy is scheduled Thursday.
A neighbor said he thought the man there just had the air conditioning fixed and was surprised to hear what happened.
"I assumed somebody died because when the cops (show up) usually someone passed away, and then I heard he died of a heat stroke," said David Nowak, a neighbor of the victim.
The National Weather Service said temperatures in Milwaukee hit 95 on Tuesday and 90 on Monday and Sunday. The heat index Tuesday was 101.
A spokeswoman for the city of Milwaukee Health Department said Milwaukee recorded five heat-related deaths during a hot spell in mid-July.


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Last week I enrolled in a MOOC – a Massively Open Online Course – via Stanford University on Scaling Up your Venture without Screwing Up. As a course it's awesome , how could it not be with exercises like "Your Favourite ClusterFug" and lectures called "Mindset: Not Footprint" it's like the people speak my language – oh yeah they do! they are entrepreneurs and they get it.
People are somewhat polarised on the whole MOOC thing it seems, personally I find it hard as a business owner to find study I can both fit into my busy schedule and that addresses the challenges I am facing. Equally I love the idea that education has been disrupted to the extent anyone can access a variety of free education via their computer and internet connection.
The opposing view however is valid too, questioning the quality, the depth of the MOOC's offered, describing them as advertorial and broadcasting, the erosion of value in higher education and more. Here is a great resource listing many articles from highly pro through to terribly negative on the whole topic of MOOC's, some noting a lack of maturity in this space as one of the more real issues.
Whatever your view everyone craves new information and experiences so perhaps this education delivery mechanism will prove accessible to those who are unable to engage with traditional education delivered via academic institutes? Happy sharing, Vic.


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In MemoriamRichard Kinsel, Jr., died Oct. 2, 2018, in Friendswood, Texas.
He founded Kinsel Industries Inc., a Houston-area civil construction firm primarily involved in water/sewer business, in 1976. Under his leadership, the company became a pioneer in trenchless pipe construction/rehabilitation technology for infrastructure development, the largest pipe-bursting company in the world and a leading micro tunneling contractor.
One example of Kinsel is accomplishments was successfully installing 4 million feet of 6- to 96-inch diameter pipe underground, coast-to-coast, using directional drilling technology.
The company's other contracting business involved heavy civil work, such as highway, bridge and airport construction. He is credited with building much of the Beltway in South Houston, as well as other highways and bridges in the area.
After selling Kinsel Industries to Insituform Technologies in 2001, he continued to be an accomplished entrepreneur as a real-estate developer in the Houston area, and founded and operated businesses in the construction materials, oil field services and logistics industries.


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Guinness can, yep, I have those.
I wanted a Maz Box for this one, not movie accurate, just a box built to look like an old wooden box.
Next, I cut the lines so it looks like planks, then burn, dremel, mar, and scar. FIRE!
Add Stain, and hardware, and oilah, it looks like an old box that has been in Maz's place for hundreds of years.
Lined it with some padding and burlap over padding. Box fit for Maz!
Step two: I wanted to do a momentary switch in the clamp on this one. I'm doing another MR Graflex (Rey's Jedi Training Hasbro), and I'm going to give red button activation a whirl on that one. I got rid of the latching switch here. I dremeled out the existing switch hole to allow for the new tactile switch hat to poke up into the clamp. The micro tactile switch was then intalled there under the bubble strip. Got rid of the factory metal underneath the bubble strip, and replaced it with some layers of aluminum beer can trims until I got the appropriate response out of the tactile switch. It took 3 layers of beer can trim. I trimmed the aluminum in a solid rectangle with no slots, so that it prevents the clamp card from sliding forward as it did from the factory with the latching switch.
Step three: Prep the conversion kit. I painted the round recesses flat black where the short graflex pins go. I drilled out the stock MR Electric tabs so that they fit the TCSS Short Graflex Pins, so I could re-install them. They are chrome, and should be brass, but looks better with them than without. Installed the new LED Star on the heat sink and popped the conversion kit into the saber after de-burring the inside of the saber per Tim's advice. The fit is tight, but accurate. I have no complaints about the conversion kit, none. I think its awesome. I also drilled and tapped the conversion kit to receive the Graflex 2.5 Red Button and Glass Eye. Threads are 10-24. I did have to mill down the base of the red button so that it fit in the button receptacle, but that took a minute. Simple.
Arrival of the TCSS Conversion Kit!
Step four: Prep the MHS V6 chassis. I trimmed the battery holder, wired it, wired the speaker, and attached the NBIV aboard. I went ahead and soldered the speaker wires, but left the positives and negatives off until they joined with the wires coming from the saber (LED+ and Switch - will join with battery leads and then onto NBIV). I also cut a piece of T8 tubing and routed the saber wires into the tube, so that the tube could be later slid over the MHS V6 chassis, once the install was complete.
Step five: Route the wires into the MHS V6, join where appropriate, and solder in the board!
Insert blade (new red button is blade retention!) and rock and roll!
Last edited by Tom Tilmon; 03-13-2018 at 09:52 AM.
I forgot photos of the guts!
I'm really happy with the results and performance. The NBIV is such a neat little board. This saber is pretty loud too, way louder than my 2.0 Installs. You can feel the hums through the hilt! I'm getting ready to convert a Rey Jedi Training from Hasbro as well. I'm going to repeat this process, except for using a Graflex 2.5 Red Button for Activation next time. So the clamp switch will be totally dead. Going to use RB,B,W in that saber too. Other than that, it'll be the same. These conversions are cake, and come out great given what you start with. I still like the hilt kits a bit better for some accuracy stuff, but the MR's are ok for what they are!


Like many, Jane Taylor is tired of the tenuous economy that has made retail sales a challenge, so she's bucking conservatism—and hoping to inspire sales—by way of a new collection of intriguing gemstones.
So the Amherst, Mass.–based designer dug deeply into her 30-year reserves of awesome gemstones and put together some loose pairings of stones, bringing them to Modaoperandi.com headquarters in January to show buyers. They loved the idea of a collection of one-of-a-kinds, so Taylor made 16 rings, which will debut on the site's online trunk show on April 14. (Whatever doesn't sell will be available to other merchants.) Plus, Cirque will be built out by Couture (see her in Next Wave 14) to include all styles, complete with an entry retail price of $2,000. The retail price range of the existing rings, made in simple and striking geometric 18k gold silhouettes, is from $3,370 to about $31,000. Future looks can also be ordered in 14k gold.


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White House trade adviser says phase one trade deal with China is 'in the bank'
By Justine Coleman - 12/31/19 09:36 AM EST
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the phase one trade deal with China is "in the bank" during an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.
Shortly afterward, President Trump Donald John TrumpLev Parnas implicates Rick Perry, says Giuliani had him pressure Ukraine to announce Biden probe Saudi Arabia paid 0 million for cost of US troops in area Parnas claims ex-Trump attorney visited him in jail, asked him to sacrifice himself for president MORE announced on Twitter that he was signing the deal on Jan. 15.
Navarro offered his remarks to CNBC's "Squawk Box" host Joe Kernen.
"That one's in the bank, Joe," he said. "We're just waiting for the Chinese translation of the 86-page agreement and I'm trying to figure out whether it's going to be more pages or less in Chinese."
Navarro also hinted at future trade deals with the post-Brexit United Kingdom, other European countries and Vietnam. He expects economic growth to reach 3 percent in 2020 and the Dow Jones to increase to at least 32,000.
"It's going to be the roaring 2020s next year," he said.
Trump and China reached a long-awaited phase one to the trade dispute earlier this month after more than a year of the trade war with U.S. imposed tariffs on China. The president said phase two talks will begin immediately after phase one.
Tags China Robert Lighthizer Donald Trump phase one deal U.S.-China trade war Tariffs


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