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Update: Canceled [Video] President Donald Trump Press Conference, G20 Summit Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1, 2018
See live video — and later, full replay and transcript — of President Donald Trump's press conference* at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, December 2, 2018. See it in real time via the embedded video player below starting at 1:45 p.m. ET (GMT/UTC -5). Thereafter check back for the full text and replay which will be posted as soon as available. *UPDATE: The press conference was canceled due to the death of former President George H.W. Bush. You can read President Donald Trump's official statement on the death of the 41st U.S. President below.
[Full Video & Transcript] President Donald Trump at USMCA Signing Ceremony with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, November 30, 2018
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Holidays, Politics
[Full Video & Transcript] President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony 2018 at The Ellipse at the White House
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[Full Video & Transcript] White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Press Briefing, Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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[Full Video] President Donald Trump Rally in Biloxi, MS, Monday, November 26, 2018 at Mississippi Coast Coliseum
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[Full Video] President Donald Trump Rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, Monday, November 26, 2018 at Tupelo Regional Airport
Watch live stream — and later see replay video — of President Donald Trump's MAGA rally in Tupelo, Mississippi on Monday, November 26, 2018 at Tupelo Regional Airport. See it in real time via the live stream video below starting at 4 p.m. CST local time (5 p.m. EST; UTC/GMT – 5). Thereafter the full replay, text and photos will be posted. UPDATE: Full replay video of President Trump's speech and the replay video of the rally in its entirety have been posted below.
[Full Video & Transcript] President Donald Trump Thanksgiving Teleconference with the Military, Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, November 22, 2018
Here's the full video and transcript of President Donald Trump's Thanksgiving Day teleconference members of the military at Mar-a-Lago Club and Resort in Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday, November 22, 2018. In addressing border security and the migrant caravans, The President said in part, "As you probably see over the news what's happening in our southern border and our southern border territory. Large numbers of people, and in many cases, we have no idea who they are. And in many cases, they're not good people; they're bad people. But large numbers of people are forming at our border, and I
[Full Video & Transcript] President Donald Trump Pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey 2018
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[Full Video & Photos] President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump Welcome the 2018 White House Christmas Tree
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Awards, Politics
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See live video — and later, full replay and transcript — of President Donald Trump as he awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as well as to Senator Orrin Hatch, former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach, former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, and billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and wife philanthropist Miriam Adelson. The White House ceremony takes place in the East Room on Friday, November 16, 2018. See it in real time starting at 1 p.m. ET via the live stream video player below. Thereafter, the full
President Obama: Rollins College, Florida Campaign Speech Video Aug. 2, 2012, in Winter Park (Orlando)
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Watch President Barack Obama's Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida campaign speech video on Thurs. Aug. 2, 2012. The Orlando area grassroots event at Harold & Ted Alfond Sports Center starts at 2:40 p.m. ET. See it in real time time via the embedded live stream video player below. Thereafter, check back for the full replay video and transcript text which will be posted as soon as they are available.
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Remarks by the President at Campaign Event — Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Orlando! (Applause.) Thank you.
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: Now, first of all, anybody who's got a seat, feel free to use the seat. (Applause.) Go ahead, sit down, you guys, make yourselves comfortable. Those of you who don't have a seat, make sure to bend your knees — (laughter.)
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Obama!
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) It's great to see you. It's great to be back in Orlando.
First of all, can everybody please give Sonia a big round of applause for that great introduction? (Applause.) I want to thank Darren Soto, State Representative, for our pre-program. And I want to thank all the neighborhood team leaders for the great job you guys are doing. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Happy birthday!
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. It's true that I'm going to be — what am I going to be? (Laughter.)
AUDIENCE: Fifty-one!
THE PRESIDENT: I'm going to be 51 on Saturday — (applause) — 51. But Michelle says I look 50. (Laughter.) So that's not bad.
AUDIENCE: (Sings "Happy Birthday.") (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Now, if I had known you guys were going to sing, we would have had a cake. (Laughter.) And then I would have blown out the candle, I would have made a wish — (laughter) — that probably would have had to do with electoral votes. (Laughter and applause.) Win in Florida wouldn't be a bad birthday present. (Applause.)
But before we talk about politics, let me say, how about our Olympic athletes in London? (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: USA! USA! USA!
THE PRESIDENT: USA. Yesterday I had a chance to talk to Michael Phelps — (applause) — and then I spoke to the Fab Five, these gymnasts — (applause.) And let me just say — I was saying this to some folks in Ohio yesterday — I understand how to swim and how to run, although I don't swim and run like these folks do. (Laughter.) But this whole gymnastics thing, I don't get that. (Laughter.) I don't understand how you're standing on a little beam, and then you flip around a bunch of times without breaking your neck. (Laughter.) It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
So we could not be more proud of them. And obviously, it's a reminder that even when we've got our differences, we come together when it's about presenting ourselves to the rest of the world — that we are Americans first. (Applause.) And we are so grateful for them and the classy way that they're representing us.
Now, unless you've been able to hide your television set somewhere or your cable is broke — (laughter) — you are aware that there's a pretty intense campaign going on right now.
AUDIENCE: Yes!
THE PRESIDENT: And the reason for that is because the choice that we face this November could not be bigger — could not be more significant. In some ways, it's more important than 2008. This is not just a choice between two candidates or two political parties. This is a choice about two fundamentally different visions for America — (applause) — two fundamentally different paths for our future.
And here's the good news — you choose the direction. You are the tie-breaker. You will decide — you will decide the direction that we go in not just — when you walk into that voting booth, it won't just be for next year or the year after that. You'll be making decisions that will have an impact on our kids and our grandkids for years to come, for decades to come. (Applause.)
Now, four years ago, we came together -– as Democrats, but also independents and some Republicans -– to restore that basic bargain that built this country, what made us an economic superpower, what made us the most prosperous economy that the world has ever known. And it is a simple bargain, it's a simple deal, a simple credo. It says that if you work hard, your work should be rewarded. (Applause.) It's a deal that says if you put in enough effort, you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. You should be able to afford a job — you should be able to afford a home that you call your own. You should be able to count on health care if you get sick, and retire with dignity and respect. (Applause.) And most of all, you should be able to give your kids an education that allows them to dream even bigger than you did and do even better than you ever imagined. (Applause.)
It's a simple idea. It's the basic American promise. And we knew that restoring it wasn't going to be easy -– we knew it would take more than one year, or one term, or even one President. After all, we had gone through a decade of sluggish job growth and jobs being shifted overseas, and going from surpluses to deficits, all culminating in a financial crisis on Wall Street. So we understood it was going to take some time to deal with challenges that didn't happen overnight. And that was even before the middle class was hammered by the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes -– a crisis that robbed too many of our friends and neighbors of jobs and their homes and their savings — and pushed the American Dream even further out of reach for too many working families.
But, you know what, over the last three and a half years, I have taken strength from you, the American people. (Applause.) Because I've seen your resilience, I've seen folks get knocked down and get right back up. You are tougher than tough times. And that is the reason why we've been able to see 4.5 million jobs created. (Applause.) That's why we've been able to see the housing market just barely, slowly start to tick back up. That's the reason that we've seen the auto industry come all the way back. (Applause.) It's because of you.
See, there's one thing that the crisis did not change. It did not change who we are. It has not changed our fundamental character. It hasn't changed what made us great. It hasn't changed how we came together in 2008 –- it's only made us more determined to make sure that America is doing right by everyone, that our prosperity is broadly based and broadly shared. And we're here to build an economy in which work pays off, so that no matter who you are, or what you look like, or where you come from, what your last name is, here in America, you can make it if you try. (Applause.) That's what we're fighting for. (Applause.)
That's what this campaign is about, Florida. That's why I'm running for a second term as President of the United States of America. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Now, there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to our challenges. But let me say this. We know what we need to do. There are no challenges that are not within our power to solve. We've got the capacity to meet any challenge. We have the best workers in the world. We've got the best entrepreneurs in the world. We've got the best scientists, the best researchers, the best colleges, the best universities. (Applause.) We're a young nation — we're still a young nation and we've got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. Nobody knows that better than Florida. (Applause.) So no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on Earth that would not gladly trade places with the United States of America. (Applause.)
So I want you all to understand, we can solve our problems — and we've made significant strides on a whole range of areas. But what's standing in our way still is our politics. What's standing in our way is a group of folks in Washington with some uncompromising views, folks who believe that the only way we can get back on track is to go back to the same top-down economics that got us into this mess in the first place.
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE PRESIDENT: What do I mean by top-down economics? Their basic theory — Mr. Romney, his friends in Congress, they basically believe that if we just give more tax cuts, on top of the Bush tax cuts, to the wealthiest Americans, and we get rid of regulations that we've placed on Wall Street banks, for example, to make sure we don't have another crisis, or on the health care industry to make sure that they don't discriminate against you because you've got a preexisting condition — the idea is that somehow, if we cut taxes for folks at the top and get rid of regulations, this will lead to more jobs and more prosperity for everybody.
That's their theory. That's the path that they're proposing. It's not that complicated. That's where they will take us if they win, I guarantee you. The centerpiece of Mr. Romney's economic plan is a new, $5 trillion tax cut. That's the heart of his economic plan. Now, we know that this tax cut would probably be going to the wealthiest 1 percent of all households — we knew that. But just yesterday, an independent, non-partisan organization, they dug into the numbers. They investigated, what would it mean to give this Romney plan a try. And by the way, this is an organization that's headed by an economist who worked for President Bush. All right? So this was not my opinion. This was not our team's opinion. This is something that was looked at by a non-partisan group.
Here's what they found. They found that folks making more than $3 million a year, the top one-tenth of 1 percent, would get a tax cut under Mr. Romney's plan of almost a quarter of a million dollars —
THE PRESIDENT: — $250,000 would go to folks who are making $3 million a year or more. That's the average, that's the typical.
Now, Mr. Romney claims that he's going to get this tax cut and he's going to bring down the deficit. So then the question is, who do you think gets the bill for these $250,000 tax cuts?
AUDIENCE: We do!
THE PRESIDENT: This is a smart crowd. (Laughter.) You do.
This analysis also found that if Governor Romney wants to keep his word and pay for his plan so that he does not increase the deficit even more, the average middle-class family with children would be stuck with a tax increase of more than $2,000.
THE PRESIDENT: So I want everybody to understand here — he's not asking you to pay an extra $2,000 to reduce our deficit; he's not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 to help care for our seniors; he's not asking to pay an additional $2,000 in order to rebuild America or to fight a war. He's asking you to pay more so that people like him can pay less.
THE PRESIDENT: So that people like me pay less.
Look, in order to afford one $250,000 tax cut for somebody like Mr. Romney, 125 families — like many of yours — would have to pay an additional $2,000 in taxes. And that's not a one-time thing; this would be each and every year.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, I just want you to know this study was released yesterday. So his campaign was asked about it, well, what do you think? Well, first they said, well, this is a liberal organization — despite the fact that it's headed by an economist who worked for George Bush. Then they said that the study failed to fully take into account the massive economic boom that would come from cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans in the biggest corporations — because we all know how well that worked out the last time we tried it. (Applause.)
Look, Orlando, we know better. They have tried to sell us this trickle-down tax cut fairy dust before. (Laughter.) And guess what — it didn't work then; it will not work now. It's not a plan to create jobs. It is not a plan to reduce the deficit. It is not a plan to build our middle class. It is not a plan to move our economy forward. It takes us backwards to a place we don't need to be.
We do not need more tax cuts for folks who have done very, very well. We need more tax cuts for working Americans. We need tax cuts for families who are trying to raise your children and keep your children healthy and send them to college and put roofs over their heads. (Applause.)
We don't need more tax cuts for companies that are shipping jobs overseas; we need tax cuts for companies that are investing here in Florida and in the United States of America — (applause) — hiring American workers, sending products around the world stamped with those proud words: Made in America. (Applause.)
That's what we're fighting for. That's the choice in this election. And that's why I'm running again for President of the United States of America. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: So, listen, when it comes to taxes and reducing the deficit, I've got a different plan for America. Four years ago I promised to cut middle-class taxes; that's exactly what I did. (Applause.) By a total of about $3,600 for the typical family. Now, I want to keep income taxes exactly where they are on the first $250,000 of everybody's income tax. So if you're a family that makes under $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of American families do, you won't see your income taxes increase by a single dime next year. (Applause.)
On the other hand, if you're fortunate enough to be in the other 2 percent of Americans, like I am, all we're asking is that we contribute a little bit more so that we can pay down our debt and so that we can still invest things — in things like education and infrastructure — (applause) — and basic science and advanced manufacturing — all those things that help us grow as an economy. (Applause.)
And look, I'm going to make sure government does its part. We're going to have to cut away spending that we don't need. We've made enormous progress in making government more efficient and streamlining it, but we can do more. We've cut a trillion dollars already. We can do more. But I'm not going to pay for a massive new tax cut for folks who don't need it by gutting the investments that have always kept us at the forefront and have kept our middle class strong. (Applause.)
And by the way, Florida, just like we tried their way, what I'm talking about we've tried, too. All I'm asking is that we go back to the rates that were paid by wealthy individuals under Bill Clinton. And if you remember, that's when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs — (applause) — we created the biggest budget surplus in history.
And here's the kicker: It was good for everybody. People at the top, they did well, because if a construction worker has a job and he's got some money in his pocket, then he might go out and buy that new appliance. And if that small business just opened a restaurant and now everybody in the community has a little extra money to spend, that restaurant will do better. And if you've got a job and you're feeling pretty good, got some money in your pocket, you might decide to get rid of that old beater and buy a new car. And then those businesses hire more people — and you get what's called a virtuous cycle.
So, Florida, if you believe their plan will make us better —
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: — if you believe that it's okay to pay for a big tax cut for folks who don't need it —
THE PRESIDENT: — and asking you to pay for it, and cutting our investments in education, and voucherizing Medicare, and making a whole other range of changes that will impose greater hardship on the middle class — if you think we should set our sights lower like that, settle for something less, then go ahead and send these folks to Washington.
THE PRESIDENT: Obviously, that was a rhetorical question. (Laughter.) But let me ask you this: Wouldn't we be better off if we keep fighting for the things that have always made us strong? (Applause.) Making sure our young people can afford to get a higher education. (Applause.) Wouldn't we be better off if we're developing new sources of American energy because we've put the money into the research to develop them? Wouldn't we be better off if we were investing in things like advanced manufacturing to sell goods around the rest of the world made right here in Florida with American workers? (Applause.)
Five years or 10 years or 20 years from now, won't we be better off if we've made these smart, sometimes tough decisions, understanding that we grow this economy not from the top down, but from the middle out and from the bottom up — (applause) — creating an economy where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same set of rules.
Won't we be better off if we've got the courage to keep working and fighting and moving forward? That's what I believe. That's why I'm running for President. (Applause.)
Listen, Florida — Orlando, I want you to know my hair may be grayer than it was four years ago — (laughter) — I may be turning 51, but my determination to do right by you, to fight for you, to think about you every single day — (applause) — that determination is stronger than ever. My faith in you is stronger than ever. (Applause.) I still believe in you. And if you still believe in me, if you're willing to stand with me, if you're willing to organize with me, if you're willing to make some phone calls for me, if you're willing to register some voters for me, if you're going out there and voting with me, I promise you, we will finish what we started and we will remind the world just why it is that the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth.
God bless you, everybody. God bless the United States of America.
Live web-feed video player is above. If not working on your computer or mobile device, there are other viewing options including CNN Live and the CNN for iPhone and iPad app. Another option is the C-SPAN for iPhone and iPad app and Blackberry App here. The speech is scheduled to begin at 2:40 p.m. ET and the location is Harold & Ted Alfond Sports Center at Rollins College in Winter Park, near Orlando, Florida in Orange County.
President Obama returns to Florida; his previous campaign trip to the state was cut short due to the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado. He was originally scheduled to speak at Rollins College on July 20, 2012. Florida is a key battleground state in the 2012 election, and the latest Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls show him with a lead in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania over contender, presumptive Republican Presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney.
Today's complete itinerary: President Obama official schedule and guidance, Aug. 2, 2012 .
Watch a video report below.
President Obama: Akron, Ohio Campaign Speech Video Aug. 1 2012 John S. Knight Center
President Obama: Mansfield, Ohio Campaign Speech Video Aug. 1 2012
President Obama: House of Blues, New Orleans Campaign Speech Video July 25, 2012
President Obama: Portland, Oregon Campaign Speech Video July 24, 2012 Oregon Convention Center
President Obama: Jacksonville, Florida Campaign Speech Video July 19, 2012 Prime Osborn Convention Center
President Obama: Austin, Texas Campaign Speech Video July 17, 2012 Austin Music Hall
President Obama: San Antonio, Texas Campaign Speech Video July 17, 2012 Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center
President Obama: Cincinnati Ohio Campaign Speech Video July 16, 2012 Cincinnati Music Hall Ballroom
President Obama: Clifton, Virginia Campaign Speech Video July 14, 2012 Centreville High School
President Obama: Glen Allen, Virginia Campaign Speech Video July 14, 2012 Walkerton Tavern
President Obama: Roanoke, Virginia Campaign Speech Video July 13, 2012 Fire Station No. 1
President Obama: Hampton, Virginia Campaign Speech Video July 13, 2012 Phoebus High School
President Obama: Virginia Beach Campaign Speech Video July 13, 2012 Green Run High School
President Obama: Cedar Rapids, Iowa Campaign Speech Video July 10, 2012 Kirkwood Community College
President Obama: Poland, Ohio Campaign Speech Video July 6, 2012 Betting on America Bus Tour
President Obama: Pittsburgh, PA Campaign Speech Video July 6, 2012 Betting on America Bus Tour
President Obama: Sandusky, Ohio Campaign Speech Video July 5, 2012 Betting on America Bus Tour
President Obama: Parma, Ohio Campaign Speech Video July 5, 2012 Betting on America Bus Tour
President Obama: Maumee, Ohio Campaign Speech Video July 5, 2012 Betting on America Bus Tour
President Obama: Miami, FL Campaign Speech Video June 26, 2012: Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
President Obama: Atlanta, GA Campaign Speech Video June 26, 2012
President Obama: Boston Symphony Hall Campaign Speech Video June 25, 2012
President Obama Durham, New Hampshire Campaign Rally Speech Video June 25, 2012
President Obama Tampa, FL Campaign Speech Video June 22, 2012 Hillsborough Community College
President Obama Cleveland, Ohio Campaign Speech Video June 14, 2012 Cuyahoga Community College
President Obama OSU Columbus, Ohio Campaign Rally Speech Video May 5, 2012: 'Ready to Go' Re-election Campaign Kick-off
President Obama Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Richmond, VA Campaign Rally Speech Video May 5, 2012: 'Ready to Go' Re-election Campaign Kick-off
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By Zaid Hamzah For The Straits Times
Positioning Singapore as Asia's legal capital
It builds on a strong brand and should aim to spread use of its law.
-- ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
Zaid Hamzah For The Straits Times
https://str.sg/3BaM
The launch last week of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) positions Singapore decisively as a leading city where international commercial disputes can be heard in a court of law.
London and New York, both leading global financial centres, have traditionally been the two leading locations for international commercial dispute resolutions.
English law and New York state law, in turn, have traditionally been the preferred neutral choice of governing law for the international business community, even when the business transactions are done in Asia.
The law follows financial and business flows. With Asia outperforming the global economy and attracting a higher share of international capital as well as trade, the legal services sector in the Asia-Pacific region will grow significantly, as Law Minister K. Shanmugam observed recently. He added that cities in Asia - Singapore, Hong Kong and others - are in a position to service large, growing economies such as India and China.
With the recent launch of the SICC, Singapore courts will provide the necessary institutional framework for disputants to resolve their disputes where the mediation option has been exhausted or where arbitration is not an available or preferred option.
This is where Singapore, as a trusted neutral centre with an established tradition of judicial integrity and efficiency, can fill a natural gap in Asia.
What does the establishment of the SICC mean for the Singapore economy?
First, it can boost the legal industry in Singapore. As the past experience in promoting Singapore as an arbitration centre has shown, more international arbitration in Singapore means more Singapore lawyers being engaged to provide legal support services. More complicated commercial disputes brought before an international court in Singapore will require sophisticated legal services. This will enhance the professional development of the legal industry.
Second, it strengthens Singapore's brand as a premier dispute resolution hub in Asia. The setting up of a court complements Singapore's ongoing effort to provide mediation and arbitration services, not just for Asean but also for Asia.
Third, the setting up of the SICC will eventually help boost the Singapore economy, especially with Singapore emerging as an increasingly sophisticated service economy.
In recent years, the legal industry in Singapore has been growing faster than Singapore's economic growth. According to Mr Shanmugam, the growth rate of legal services compounded over the past six years is about 7 per cent per year, compared with GDP growth of about 5.4 per cent per year.
According to the minister, the value of legal services has grown between 2008 and 2013 by 71.5 per cent, and the nominal value-add of the sector has grown by 40 per cent in the same five-year period. Singapore has seen the legal profession grow in the last five years, not just due to the banking and financial services sector, but as a whole.
Regionalising Singapore law
THE choice of forum is separate from the substantive law governing commercial transactions.
International businesses have traditionally preferred to adopt English law or New York state law because of their historically trusted legal traditions and predictable commercial practices.
There is a compelling case to promote the Singapore law strategy, which if successful, will further advance Singapore's standing as a regional or international legal hub.
As Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said at the launch of the SICC, the establishment of the SICC might expand the scope for internationalising Singapore law. This, in my view, is a good and necessary move to further bolster the development of Singapore legal jurisprudence to support business growth in Asia and beyond.
Now that the SICC is set up, what's next?
In my view, the next challenge will be to design a preventative regime and create a legal eco-system that focuses on prevention of disputes.
To quote Sun Tze, the ancient military strategist, "to win without fighting is best". Litigation costs money and if disputes can be prevented, all the better.
The existing international forums for mediation, arbitration and litigation in the court system are meant to resolve disputes after they have taken place. With Singapore pushing ahead in the area of analytics, it might be useful to explore how we can leverage technology in the area of legal analytics to prevent disputes from arising. So instead of settling disputes after they have arisen, we process "big data" in the litigation and dispute resolution space to gain insights on the source of disputes and understand the picture better to enable us to take proactive measures to prevent disputes from arising. In the United States, there are already companies and legal practices moving into this new space. As the Singapore economy transforms to become more innovation-driven and knowledge-based, the legal profession and the judicial service will have to address increasingly issues of legal and judicial innovation to push the boundaries further and move up the legal value chain.
The design and development of a preventative regime will require a new paradigm shift in the way we look at the sources of conflict and how we should proactively manage such dispute-related risks from emerging. There is a real opportunity to develop a unique Singapore methodology and development model to manage disputes in the international arena by leveraging our trusted brand, legal and judicial talents and technology.
stopinion@sph.com.sg
The writer is a technology and intellectual property lawyer, author and associate law lecturer at RMIT University.

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  return curScore_;
}

- (id<JavaUtilCollection>)getChildren {
  return JavaUtilCollections_singletonWithId_(create_OrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_ChildScorer_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_withNSString_(in_, @"CACHED"));
}

+ (const J2ObjcClassInfo *)__metadata {
  static J2ObjcMethodInfo methods[] = {
    { NULL, NULL, 0x1, -1, 0, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { NULL, "F", 0x1, -1, -1, 1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { NULL, "LJavaUtilCollection;", 0x1, -1, -1, -1, 2, -1, -1 },
  };
  #pragma clang diagnostic push
  #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-multiple-method-names"
  #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wundeclared-selector"
  methods[0].selector = @selector(initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer:);
  methods[1].selector = @selector(score);
  methods[2].selector = @selector(getChildren);
  #pragma clang diagnostic pop
  static const J2ObjcFieldInfo fields[] = {
    { "curDoc_", "I", .constantValue.asLong = 0, 0x2, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { "curScore_", "F", .constantValue.asLong = 0, 0x2, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
  };
  static const void *ptrTable[] = { "LOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer;", "LJavaIoIOException;", "()Ljava/util/Collection<Lorg/apache/lucene/search/Scorer$ChildScorer;>;" };
  static const J2ObjcClassInfo _OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer = { "ScoreCachingWrappingScorer", "org.apache.lucene.search", ptrTable, methods, fields, 7, 0x1, 3, 2, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 };
  return &_OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer;
}

@end

void OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer *self, OrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer *scorer) {
  OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilterScorer_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_(self, scorer);
  self->curDoc_ = -1;
}

OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer *new_OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer *scorer) {
  J2OBJC_NEW_IMPL(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer, initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_, scorer)
}

OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer *create_OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer *scorer) {
  J2OBJC_CREATE_IMPL(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer, initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchScorer_, scorer)
}

J2OBJC_CLASS_TYPE_LITERAL_SOURCE(OrgApacheLuceneSearchScoreCachingWrappingScorer)

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So lately it's been a bit try on new material around this place so I thought I'd write a bit about what I've been doing instead of tapping away at my keyboard lately. Actually, no, scratch that, I've still be at the keyboard a lot but recently I've been trying to read more. I've always enjoyed reading but in the last 18 months or so I'd only read a couple of books which was making me feel a bit guilty.
I'll try and write a review of each of them as I complete them, I've already knocked off two of them so I'll try and get that post up in the next few days.
As you can see, my primary interests in what I read is IT & business. The only odd one out is 'The Fingerprint of God' which is mostly about physics, a pet interest of mine. Are there any books you could recommend for me to add to my list?


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Updated Oct. 31, 2002 11:56 am ET / Original July 16, 2019 2:43 pm ET
Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT-NYSE)
By Bear Stearns (37.96, October 30, 2002)
We are initiating coverage of Kraft with an Outperform rating.
Despite softness in its key U.S. cheese business, Kraft appears capable of delivering its stated 2002 earnings per share and volume goals. We view Kraft as a blue-chip consumer name capable of delivering superior earnings and rising cash flow over time.
Near term, we expect 2003 improvement in domestic cheese and overall volume growth. With $30 billion in sales, Kraft is easily the industry leader among U.S. food companies and holds top share in 21 of its top 25 U.S. categories.
Its scale, marketing acumen, and ability to develop successful new products are second to none among consumer names as is its relationship with key trade customers.
At an estimated $2.2 billion this year Kraft's free cash flows are prodigious and dwarf industry peers. Over time, we expect free cash deployment to help drive share performance and perhaps fund valuable acquisitions.
-- Terry Bivens
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I have been reciting this prayer more often than usual these past few days (and weeks... and months). After a long calm, I feel that a big storm is about to come into my life. Or rather, I'm about to conjure a big storm that will shake my currently safe but passive existence. Deep inside, I know that this is for the best, since only in the face of challenges could we grow and mature. Even with this knowledge, however, I still cower in fear and frustration on the uncertainties that will surely befall me.
Though I know that a lot of people will support me in my actions (with a special mention to my special someone), in the end, this challenge is mine to face, and mine alone. There are a lot of bad things that MAY happen, but if I do not do anything, nothing will change, and contentment is something that I am currently not enjoying.


Thank you to all who supported the SFCS Winter Catalog and PartyLite Candle fundraisers by purchasing the terrific products offered. The fundraisers were a huge success. Special thanks to Ruth Smiley and Donna Harveston for organizing the Winter Catalog and PartyLite fundraisers respectively, and Ruth, Donna, Catalina and Cody Hernandez, Dana Swarth, Henrietta DeGroot, Lindsay Main, Amber Edwards, Robin Cook, Steph Evans, Linda Dinnel, Anahata Fair Trade, Buchanan Hollow Nut Co, and all of our wonderful SFCS students who helped with garden and art projects for putting so much time and effort into the success of these fundraisers. Thanks to Malte Salonen for all of her help in putting together and distributing catalog orders on pick up day. Everyone's hard work is greatly appreciated. We hope everyone enjoys the items they purchased!
Winter Catalog and PartyLite Candle Thank Yous!


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This weeks mood: Decided to stop recking my brain about this labor, I'm gonna chill!
Looking forward to: 16 week appointment in 2 days!!
Symptoms: Eating first thing in the morning has become a MUST!
Movement: Ahh Haa...yes!! 2 nights in a row laying next to Tj on my left side!! Flutters, first thing I asked myself....gas?!! NOPE it was for sure the baby!
Baby H can sense light, hears sounds, is the size of an orange and developing taste buds.


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Бакай () — левый приток реки Псёл, протекающий по Решетиловскому району Полтавской области Украины.

География
Длина — 21 км (по другим данным — 26). Площадь водосборного бассейна — 185 км². Русло реки в среднем течении (пруд, южнее села Крахмальцы) находится на высоте 103,1 м над уровнем моря.

Река течёт в южном, затем в западном направлении, после в среднем и нижнем течении в юго-западном направлении. Река берет начало на болоте в селе Лиман Второй (Решетиловский район). Впадает в реку Псёл севернее села Каленики (Решетиловский район).

Долина глубокая (особенно в среднем течении). Русло слабоизвилистое. На реке создано несколько маленьких и один крупный пруд. В верхнем течении река летом пересыхает. В приустьевой части (южнее села Онищенки) река проходит (сливается не имея чёткого русла) по заболоченной пойме Псёла. На протяжении всей длины реки пойма очагами заболочена с тростниковой и луговой растительностью.

Крупных притоков нет.

Населённые пункты
Населённые пункты на реке от истока к устью: Лиман Второй, Глушачи, Крахмальцы, Малый Бакай, Онищенки.

Примечания

Источники

Притоки Псёла
Реки Полтавской области

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He calls it Real Estate NOW and NOW stands for New Order of Wealth. He says to make sure that who you're learning your real estate stuff from is a product of what they teach. So basically they are doing in the field actively what they teach.
He's also a fan of what he calls "rolling up" I'm pretty sure he means 1031 exchanges cause he says to start small and use it to buy bigger.
How to go from limited to success or from just plain failure to success?
Key Question Am I going to go with the flow and follow the pack? or Am I going to realize the market we're in and lead the pack!!!
How to evaluate a real estate market!
Does it have any serendipities- does it have any extra benefit? Like a beach? technology? beautiful? conventions?
Shut out the bad & open yourself to the GREAT!
The great methods are the methods that are working TODAY!
Action also equals follow through.
Become a pro in the biz. The size of the check makes you a pro!
Screamers low ball spaghetti offers (10 of the 20 will be these) 20% or greater off of asking price.
Counters 7 or 8 of them will be decent enough that you'll get counter offers. 10 to 20% off of asking price.
Golden 1 to 3 of them will be Golden and accepted. 10% or less off of asking price.
The counters and screamers will go in a future wealth file for you to revisit. ONLY SUBMIT YOUR GOLDEN OFFERS!!!!!
Putting money together to fund your deals.
Which do you do first? Make offers or get money? You do BOTH!
Harv, I know this isn't for you, but who do you know, that might be interested in earning 10% to 12% on their money, secured by a first lien in below market real estate, short term 6 to 9 months?
1) How much do you have available to lend?
2) How much lead time do you need to get access to the funds?
1) Wholesale – this is your down payment that you receive.
2) Rental- this is the monthly spread that your receive.
When you are seller financing deals for buyers charge them 8% compounded interest.
When you are borrowing money from private lenders pay them 10% simple interest.
For those of you looking for private money….how about some homework?
1) Create a HOT 100 list! List at least 100 folks that you know. Start right now with 50.
2) Use the "Solid Gold Script for Private Money" on at least 3 investors that you know with money and then use it on everyone from your HOT 100 list.
If you choose to do this….please come back here and report your results!
This guys sounds like he was trying to sell a system. That's half the reason why I stopped going to my REIA in the area. Everyone was pitching a product, even the founder.
Anytime a speaker as special "Phrases" to describe a part of real estate, he's pitching a product. Funny some of the things they come up with.
You're actually right, he was trying to sell his course. At first that's what I did not like about this seminar at all. I'd say 90% of folks were trying to sell a course. It was so fkn annoying to me.
But then I just relaxed and thought about it and as I get more into the presenters you may realize like I did that even though most of the folks are trying to sell a course that a) I didn't have to buy it and b) most importantly I am being introduced to a passive income opportunity that I didn't know about before.
A lot of folks were offering partnership opportunities. Like for instance, they had an australian company that would let you get in on the wave of australian atm's because it's such an untapped market there. Kathy and I were SUPER excited to hear about this until we learned how much their atm's were 🙂 But there were some pretty good opportunities presented that you could act on now, think about and decide how to incorporate them on your own when you're ready or you could just pass.
We're a group of volunteers and starting a new initiative in a community. Your blog supplied us important information to work on. You've done a marvellous work!
Welcome and thank you. Good luck with your work! Let me know if you need any more information.


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Pissalin is a village in the Bissiga Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2005, the village has a population of 282.

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Foot-and-mouth cases confirmed on Cyprus
By Michele Kambas - Reuters
November 6, 2007 06.11.2007 • 08:00
NICOSIA – An EU expert has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at two farms on Cyprus, the first sign of the livestock killer in more than 40 years on the Mediterranean island, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. Final results were not expected from a European Union lab in Britain until later yesterday, but a Dutch veterinary expert confirmed the authorities' worst fears, Agriculture Minister Photis Photiou told Reuters. «The EU expert who arrived visited the two farms this morning and has confirmed there is an outbreak,» Photiou said. «This is a very bad situation. We are a very small country and all farms are next to each other. It will be a big disaster for these people (farmers),» he said. Cypriot authorities pre-emptively culled 300 goats and sheep yesterday morning, but there were fears the cull could spread to thousands to ward off the highly contagious airborne disease. In Brussels, a spokesman for EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said preliminary tests were positive for the O type virus. Type O is the most prevalent of the seven types of foot and mouth. Cyprus had stopped all exports of meat, dairy and livestock, spokesman Philip Tod said. EU vets would meet today to discuss further measures, he said. The afflicted area of Larnaca is a farming-intensive district dotted with pig and cattle farms. If necessary, authorities would extend the cull, Photiou said. «We have already killed 300 animals, but we don't know how far we have to go.» Cyprus has not experienced an outbreak of foot-and-mouth, which is devastating to livestock, since 1963. The disease is usually harmless to humans, but extremely dangerous to many animals, including cows, pigs and sheep, which develop blisters on their hooves, foam at the mouth and collapse. The virus is highly contagious and spreads easily with the wind. Local reports have suggested that anything between 100,000 and 160,000 animals were at risk. Around 15,000 animals were in the risk zone of 3 km around the two farms, and 150,000 in a broader 10-km zone, Photiou said. Agriculture, including farming, represents about 2.8 percent of Cyprus's gross domestic product. The island is generally self-sufficient in its meat and dairy products and exports pork and cheese. Authorities were puzzled at an apparent false alarm in late October, when tests on another flock of sheep showing suspect symptoms came up positive, but EU test results were negative. Vets maintained a quarantine over the first suspect farm because of the discrepancy, and extended it after a flock at a second farm 500 meters away showed symptoms late last week. «Nobody knows how it reached Cyprus. There are a lot of scenarios, a lot of suspicion, but we cannot know,» Photiou told reporters earlier.
Turks want to merge Botas and TPAO into energy flagship
Serbia mulls 'big' privatizations
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Q: Display div on hover of different element I'm trying to build a css drop down menu.
I have a div #category_list which is hidden and I want to display it once user hover over #category_drop list element. I tried
#category_drop:hover #category_list {visibility: visible;}

But this doesn't work. Can you please suggest any solution?
My full HTML

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js Fiddle of a current situation http://jsfiddle.net/nzC65/2/

A: Please note that :hover doesn't work for non-anchor (a tag) on older browsers.
Secondly in your code, category_list is not a child of category_drop and hence your CSS will not actually match any elements.
Check this fiddle for a working implementation: http://jsfiddle.net/YT8YR/

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Looking forward to seeing the market in Federation Square this weekend Sunday 8 May!
With approximately 100 designers setting up for this unique one-day event to show their wears. The Markit is set within the beautiful Atrium and Deakin Edge Theatre at Federation Square in Melbourne. The biannual event is known for bringing together a unique line-up of Australia's hidden creative treasures all under one roof. Markit draws an amazing selection of designers out of their workspaces for the day – ceramicists, jewellers, shoemakers, illustrators and micro fashion studios – so that Melbournians can pick up limited-edition pieces, one-off gifts and handmade objects of beauty that won't be found on any high street. Many of the designers' wares are only available online with Markit being one of the few places you can find them in person. You're likely to discover new additions they've created especially for the market too!


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Q: caught exception from jest mockRejectedValue is undefined I'm trying to write a test.  That test looks like this:
it("throws expected error when invoke action promise is rejected", async () => {
    const datadogWarnSpy = jest.spyOn(datadogLogs.logger, "warn");
    const invokeActionSpy = jest
      .spyOn(flex.Actions, "invokeAction")
      .mockRejectedValue("no active call");

    const SUT = withConference((props: WithConferenceProps) => (
      <button onClick={() => props.outboundConference.controls.endCall()}>
        End Call
      </button>
    ));

    task.conference.liveWorkerCount = 1;
    render(
      <SUT flex={flex} task={task} conferenceService={conferenceService} />,
      { store }
    );

    userEvent.click(screen.getByText(/end call/i));

    await waitFor(() => {
      expect(invokeActionSpy).toThrow("no active call");
    });

    await waitFor(() => {
      expect(datadogWarnSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});

In my test, I click a button that triggers an asynchronous piece of code to run.  That code looks like this.
private endCall = async (other?: {
      taskSid: string;
      reservationSid: string;
}): Promise<void> => {
  try {
    const { task, flex } = this.props;

    if (
      this.getParticipants(other?.reservationSid).length ||
      task.conference?.liveWorkerCount
    ) {
      const payload = other?.reservationSid
        ? { sid: other.reservationSid }
        : { task };
        await flex.Actions.invokeAction("HangupCall", payload);
      }
    } catch (e: any) {
      if (e.messsage === NO_ACTIVE_CALL_MSG) {
        datadogLogs.logger.warn(`endCall: ${e.message}`);
      } else {
        datadogLogs.logger.error(`endCall: ${e.message}`);
      }
    } finally {
        this.endRecording(other?.taskSid);
    }
};

I want to verify that, when this button is clicked, and the exception message equals a specific string (ie NO_ACTIVE_CALL_MSG), that the correct datadog logger method (in this case, "warn") is called. The problem I'm dealing with is that the caught exception object (e) is always coming in as undefined in my test.  Thus the wrong logger method is called and my test fails.  Does anyone have any ideas a) why the exception is always undefined and b) what I should do to fix this problem in my test?  The code under test works as expected when it is run.


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Update: Fire destroys building owned by WPA activist; several businesses also displaced
Posted by: Denis Chabrol in News July 18, 2017	3 Comments
The remains of the three-story wooden building on Charlotte Street, Georgetown where Jocelyn Dow lived and several businesses were housed.
An early Tuesday morning fire destroyed a decades-old building on Charlotte Street, Bourda and threatened nearby houses, causing residents to evacuate.
As a result, Jocelyn Dow's residence and several other businesses were displaced. They include Trans Caribbean International Shipping, Anetha's African Boutique, Target Services Pest Control, Hardwood Veneers (Guyana) Limited, and the Westmas Acupuncture Clinic.
Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle said fire fighters received a call at about 5:20 AM. "They (fire fighters) reported heavy fire conditions at the rear, upper and middle flat of the building," he said. He said fire fighters contained the fire from spreading to nearby buildings.
He said a probe would be conducted to determine the "point of origin" of the fire at the building located on Charlotte Street between Camp and Alexander Streets. Fire Chief Gentle said fire fighters were experiencing "minor shocks" although electricity supply to the area was switched off.
Owner of the building, Jocelyn Dow being interviewed by a fire fighter at the scene.
Dow recounted to Demerara Waves Online News the early moments of the fire. "I heard the fire alarm in the kitchen. I went outside- how strange- no smoke. I went down into the middle floor and I could see smoke coming up through the floor boards; went back upstairs to get my pets and to see what I could do," she said. Dow said by the time she woke two other occupants and searched for her pets, the building was engulfed in toxic smoke. "They grabbed me out of the house with the animals that I think got frightened," she said.
Dow said she called the Guyana Fire Service on 912 and by the time she exited the building, a fire tender was outside. "They responded very quickly," she said.
Dow could not immediately estimate the value of the building that she said was insured, but lamented that several valuable paintings have been destroyed. "The most important thing is that I have very precious old paintings, art work, all of those things," she said.
With Dow's Liana Cane furniture factory at Victoria Road, Plaisance having been destroyed in January, 2016, she declined to speculate whether she was being targeted. "I don't know- the guy at the bottom- I have asked them to make sure there was nothing untoward, give what I am doing," she said. "Who would want to burn me down?," she said when asked whether she had any suspicions.
Businesses affected
Anetha Daniels (red top) in front of her boutique.
Owner of Aretha's Boutique, Aretha Daniels could not immediately say the extent to which the blaze affected her business, but she indicated that many of the items have been damaged by water. "I don't know. Everything is wet. It's all wet but there is no fire-burn in the shop," she said, adding that she was informed about the blaze at about 6:15 AM. She managed to remove almost all of the items from the store where water was pouring from the middle flat.
Owner of Trans Caribbean Cargo International, Larry London described the impact of the fire on his business as "terrible" "We would just have to reconstruct and carry on. It's a difficult time right now for me but we
Owner of Trans Caribbean Cargo International, Larry London (left), his friend, Bobby Vieria, and Fire Chief Marlon Gentle look at the remains of the building.
can't just throw our hands up and give up. This is something that none of us planned for and we'll have to reconstruct," he said.
London said items belonging to a number of his clients have been affected by the fire, but he hoped that they would be "understanding and patient and wait for us to get our act together." He said some of the items were insured while others for charities were not.
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This is a song about living your truth. Onus was a last minute choice for the project. It has to do with a transgender person (a woman living in a man's body) who wants to live life in truthfulness. By the end of the song, Onus has made his choice to live as a her and is accepted by the community! Yea!


Amsterdam, May 17, 2018 - Constellium N.V. (NYSE: CSTM) announced today that it is expanding its operations in Decin, Czech Republic, to support increased demand for aluminium profiles by its customers. Expected to be completed by October 2019, the expansion will include a new casthouse and extrusion press, and will increase the plant's recycling capacity.
Europe's largest integrated manufacturer and processor of hard and soft alloys profiles, Constellium Decin produces customized aluminium extrusions primarily for automotive and industrial applications. With this added capacity, the plant will broaden its product portfolio to include sections for Crash Management Systems and for new aluminium applications for hybrid and electric vehicles. Constellium currently employs more than 800 people in Decin and expects to create approximately 90 new jobs at the plant by end of 2019.
Constellium previously expanded its Decin operations in 2015 to increase production of hard alloy extrusions. Both developments further Constellium's strategy of boosting production capacity of high-volume specialty alloy products and extrusions.
Constellium Decin currently has an integrated foundry and 12 presses for direct and indirect extrusion production, as well as equipment for additional downstream operations, such as sawing and milling.


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Russia: The New Arctic Strategy
By Anton Vasiliev, Russia's Senior Arctic Official 2008-2014, Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland 2014-2020
Some important events of 2020 were obscured by the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia taking a series of impressive strategic and practical decisions on its policies in the Arctic up to 2035 definitely was one of them. The new strategy builds on the previous documents of 2008 and 2013. The very fact that 2020 objectives of the previous documents were met highlights the cohesion of policy and reliability of policy planning. Therefore, the strategy update by the leading Arctic state is a noteworthy act by itself that makes the situation 15 years ahead more predictable.
The new "Fundamentals" of the Russian state policy in the Arctic up to 2035 expand the list of basic national interests in the region from previous four - resources for economic development; keeping the Arctic as a zone of peace and cooperation; protecting environment; Northern Sea Route - to six, adding safeguarding national sovereignty and assuring high life standards of the Northerners. The novelties reflect an appearance of conflict potential and national security threats in the Arctic. They also reflect a shift in Russian domestic politics by making consumption a stronger factor of economic growth, as well as attracting people to the High North.
A set of measures to restore and strengthen military presence in the Arctic is provided. These measures are of a clear defensive nature and serve the goal of prevention of military action against Russia in the region. However, the key messages of the updated documents are;
Peaceful settlement of all potential problems in the Arctic on the basis of existing international law and good will;
Promotion of good neighborhood relations among the Arctic states;
Supporting the Arctic Council (AC) as a key regional cooperation body; - More economic collaboration of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) with the Arctic and non-regional countries;
Protection of the interests of indigenous peoples and environment.
The new "Strategy" of development and national security up to 2035 provides for among other things;
Effective Russian chairmanship of the AC in 2021-2023;
Inviting foreign investment into AZRF;
Creation of a unified system of search and rescue in the Arctic;
More active role of the Arctic Economic Council;
Further promotion of the regional scientific and educational cooperation;
Active participation of the Russian governmental agencies and NGOs in various international forums on the Arctic.
The most interesting and far-reaching steps are taken to assure a "big leap forward" in economic and social development for the next 15 years, and its geographic and time layout is notably detailed, suggesting high level of planning coordination within federal agencies and regions. Among the projected outcomes;
Arctic share in Russian GDP is supposed to grow from 7.2 to 9.6 per cent;
200.000 new jobs will be created;
Life expectancy will rise from 73 to 82 years;-
Cargo shipments on the NSR will increase from 32 million to 130 million tons (including transit - from 1 to 10 million tons);
LNG production will jump from 8,6 in 2018 to 91 million tons;
8 new nuclear icebreakers shall be built, including 3 world's largest "Leader" class vessels.
A breakthrough is expected in building safety, security and port infrastructure of the NSR, in bringing innovations, development of science and technology, including reaching 100 per cent families internet coverage, in health care, education and other social infrastructure. Many prominent undertakings are under way. One of them, Vostok Oil by Rosneft in the Taimyr region, with production of more than 100 million tons of top-quality oil by 2035, promises to be the largest single project in Russian history.
A breakthrough is expected in building safety, security and port infrastructure of the NSR, in bringing innovations, development of science and technology, including reaching 100 per cent families internet coverage, in health care, education and other social infrastructure.
The share of capital investments into AZRF in the Russian total will increase from 9.3 percent in 2019 to 14.0 percent. Two federal laws, adopted in 2020, provided domestic taxation benefits - for hydrocarbon extractors, and customs duty beneficial regime - for investors officially registered as residents, de-facto turning the newly expanded (compared to what was fixed in 2014) AZRF, which stretches across 9 time zones and covers 1⁄4 of the Russian territory, into the largest special economic zone in the world. Starting from 2021 the Federal Government will partially compensate the cost of bank credits to resident investors in the AZRF. Despite financial damage of the pandemic, new taxation and other privileges for AZRF are under discussion between the interested government agencies. These game- changing incentives and preferences have already resulted in increased investment and economic activities, as well as rapidly growing number of registered residents of AZFR.
The updated Russian strategic documents on the Arctic give answers to many questions. I recommend them as a must read for everyone with a sincere interest in the region. They are serious, comprehensive, concrete, blunt, sometimes quite critical but generally optimistic. In the years to come Russia hopes to make practical use of the new opportunities which open up with climate change and technological revolution, to concentrate on economic and social development of AZRF in a responsible and sustainable way, to maintain and strengthen the unique culture and spirit of international cooperation of the Arctic states, and to protect its interests in the region in compliance with international law. I believe all this is good news to the Russian partners in the Arctic.
This article is a part of the Arctic Circle Journal Series which provides insight, understanding and new information. The material represents the opinions of the author but not those of the Arctic Circle.
Anton Vasiliev
Russia's Senior Arctic Official 2008-2014; Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland 2014-2020
The Arctic Circle is an international organization with a Secretariat based in Iceland.
© 2021 Arctic Circle


1- According to HESSES law,therml effects of a reaction depends upon?
2-when ammonium chloride is dissolved in water,the solution becomes cold.the change is?
3-how much heat is liberated when 100ml of 0.1M NaOH are completely neutralized by 100ml of 0.1 MHCl?


Our first Digital Garden Party of the year got off to a flying start with more than 60 attendees coming out on a grey, miserable Thursday night in February (it's a good job we're able to meet inside during the winter rather than in the garden!).
We kicked off with a debate between Jeff Coghlan from Matmi and Nicola Drinkwater from Tech North, discussing 'Smart Home Gadgets and the Internet of Things'.
Jeff took to the floor first, with the 'for' argument, saying how he's set his home up to open the door for him when he arrives, set the temperature of his heating system and to detect intruders. He went on to say how technology is being used for far more than this though, particularly in the care sector where patients can use home monitoring systems to potentially enable them to stay in their own homes, whilst still receiving the care they need.
Nicola was speaking 'against' and led with the security aspect of devices being used, saying that over 80% are insecure. She also questioned whether some devices are just going too far, citing the example of L'Oreal's smart hairbrush which provides data on how you brush your hair and therefore could help you to take better care of your hair. At £150, is this really something we need?
The audience then voted with their feet, with more people agreeing with Jeff – in the digital industry we all work in, we obviously love our tech!
As usual we had our sponsors to thank for the food and drink – Shortlist Recruitment and iomart – thanks guys.
The next gathering is set for Thursday 15th June – keep the date free!
Back in May 2014, we ran the first Digital Garden Party in Chester and nearly 3 years later, the event is still going strong. It's a chance for people who work in digital to have a chat over a drink and share contacts, ideas and maybe the odd project or two.
There's always a debate and previous topics have included 'Technology vs Learning', 'The Website Is Dead' and 'Has Online Tracking Gone Too Far?'.
The event is run from 6.30pm until around 8.30pm at the wonderful, if not slightly bonkers, Oddfellows in the centre of Chester. If you'd like to be kept in the loop with future Digital Garden Parties then email Sarah and she'll let you know when the next one is.
We hope to see you at the next do.


The perfect Earth size globe has an surface acceleration of 10 m/s squared.
That statement is a perfect example of your profound ignorance on all things scientific.
That is why the qualifier " Perhaps" is used at the "10 ms^2 " post.
perhaps it would climb from 9.82 to more nearly 10 m/s^2? or correction please!
You don't even understand why your statement is so horrid. If you had any real interest in science it would be too bad that you were so uniformed but since you aren't really interested in science - it's not a problem!
The Earth, a near perfect ten in so many ways.
Nebel, if you want contributions to understanding of this Numerology stuff, you would do better in an Astrology Forum.
Numerology is not scientific, and neither are your ideas.
If you choose to bring them here, to a Science Forum, expect to get criticism.
On the flip aside, your rejection of science-based criticism would be best communicated by your absence.
No, astrology has no contribution to make to the coincidental pattern of 10 s associated for whatever reason/causes with the No 1 place we know to harbour life.
Yes, not only expect, but welcome, criticism, which will enlighten, it not expose the critic and the criticized.
I do not reject arguments, often incorporate them in my response, and not all my hypotheses have been successfully debunked, my absence can easily be simulated by keeping the blinkers on.
As to the converging of 10s on our planet, I am inviting thoughts.
Here is another vague happenstance, a ratio of 1/ 10 , vague by ~1%; Venus our sister planet rotates once in 243 days, the Earth in 24 hours.
Admittedly far fetched numbers comparing days and hours, but a real, obscure ratio.
Yes, this person does not grasp that the units for measuring all these quantities are arbitrary ones set by us, with no particular significance at all.
One might as well marvel at the fact the acceleration due to gravity is exactly 1 g! I mean, what are the chances of that?
Venus our sister planet rotates once in 243 days, the Earth in 24 hours.
That isn't just far-fetched. It's downright egregious.
Here's a perfect example of this numerology crackpottery.
nebel has been going on about the cosmic significance attached to the number 10, and has listed several examples of unrelated values that vaguely come near 10.
And, now that it suits his purpose, nebel has decided that hours have some cosmic significance. An hour is simply 1/24 of a day, and that's a human invention. And it's doesn't even come close, except by nebel's arbitrary choice of how close is 'close enough'.
So, yes, if you take any value of any property of any object in the solar system - and multiply it by a number of your choosing (in the above case, 24) - you can arrive at any other value of any of property of any other object in the solar system - especially if you apply an arbitrarily large 'close enough factor'.
The mass of Titan in trillions of megatons (134,520), when multiplied by the Moon's albedo (.12) equals 16,142 - which is the same as the diameter of Earth (12,700 km)! (with a margin of error that is).
Orbital velocity of Sun in Milky Way: ~ 220 m/s : Rotation velocity of Sun ~ 2m/s = a ratio of ~ 110/1. multiply by solar diameter ~ 1 300 000 km = 150 000 000 km aka 1 AU, Earth orbit semi major axis.
well. not cosmic or comic, interesting coincidences, not that our fore bearers had the foresight to pick units like km, hour that give these ratios. but some will come out to 10, no matter what units we pick.Natural occurring or artificial, interesting artifacts associated with the first planet to harbour life. will we ever leave that harbour?
I mean WTF, it's genius..
it was called clever a long time ago when I pointed out that the AU is 1000 (998.9) light seconds/2, the minimal planetary distance 300 ~.3 AU.
If one sees too many sixes (or 10s) at dice, people will start to suspect that they are loaded. so: get a load of this: another 10 coming up --soon.
If one sees too many sixes (or 10s) at dice, people will start to suspect that they are loaded.
Exactly. Deliberately faked to misrepresent reality.
What exactly is that clever about that?
nebel is not facted, but falsed.


The Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics and the Zika virus are in the headlines right now, but if you're looking for a local connection to those stories look no further than Printcraft Press.
Printcraft is the Idaho Falls company building the huge edifice that you can''t help but notice on your right if you're westbound on the Pancheri I-15 overpass. Along with printing, a significant part of its business is putting together medical testing kits. When the U.S. Olympic Team returns from Brazil this summer, the kits they'll be using to test themselves for Zika will have been put together by Printcraft for ARUP Laboratories, a non-profit owned by the University of Utah.
Printcraft CEO Travis Waters said they have been doing medical kits for about 15 years and that it represents about 40 percent of the company's business. ARUP (which stands for (Associated Regional and University Pathologists) approached him earlier this month about 500 Zika kits for the U.S. Olympic athletes.
The kit is fairly generic looking, a white box with red, yellow and black. When it comes to printing, the real challenge with any medical testing kit is getting the barcodes and numerical sequences right. "There is no room for error," Waters said. Quality control checks are done three times before they go out the door.
Although ARUP is a non-profit, Printcraft puts together kits for for-profit companies as well, including DNA paternity testing for Sorenson Genomics.