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Foreign Partnerships To Be Key Determinant Of Success For Thai Banks The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s plan to establish an economic community by 2015 will result in increased foreign competition in the banking industry.
We believe that establishing strategic foreign partnerships will be a key determinant of success for Thai commercial banks in the coming years. Small-sized commercial banks that command a limited market share are in the precarious situation of being left behind by the competition.
On the other hand, Bangkok Bank remains our favourite to outperform its competitors due to its strategic moves in extending its network overseas. We expect the ASEAN's plan to establish an economic community by 2015 to have a significant impact on Thailand's banking industry. We note that the Thai government's protective stance towards the banking industry in previous years has resulted in a lack of foreign competition and encouraged an excessive focus on the domestic market.
We believe that establishing strategic foreign partnerships will be a key determinant of success for Thai commercial banks in the coming years.
This has in turn created technological gaps and undermined the competitiveness of Thai commercial banks in the region. In order to stay competitive, opening up the banking sector to foreign competition is increasingly being accepted as an inevitable choice for Thailand. Meanwhile, commercial banks in Thailand are beginning to establish strategic partnerships with foreign banks to expand into regional countries.
Intense Domestic Competition Driving Banks To Seek Growth Abroad In addition to the prospect of increased foreign competition in the coming years, domestic competition is also driving Thai commercial banks to expand overseas in search of better opportunities and diversify asset risk. Back in December, the Bank of Thailand warned that intense competition in corporate lending could eventually result in a deterioration of credit quality.
This suggests to us that commercial banks could be trying to maintain earnings growth by taking excessive risks, undermining the strength of their balance sheets. From this aspect, the decision to avoid direct competition domestically and diversify overseas appears to be a prudent strategy by commercial banks.
From a strategic perspective, we believe that establishing partnerships with foreign banks will help mitigate the uncertainties of entering into an unfamiliar market. More importantly, partnering with foreign banks that possess a technological advantage will allow Thai commercial banks to close the technological gap with foreign competitors. However, small-sized commercial banks that do not command a significant market share in Thailand will be at a great disadvantage. We note that with little market share to offer their foreign counterparts, small-sized commercial banks are in a precarious position
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A: Sad but true, my own rocky relationships are the inspiration and fodder for this book. I use loads of my own real-life experiences and I also steal indiscriminately from people close to me. It's like I promise not to tell a living soul but you can bet your ass whatever you share with me will end up in print.
Surprisingly everyone's cool with it (I do change the names and mash up a lot of the details) but the villains in my life would definitely be able to recognize themselves and that is extremely satisfying for me. Therapy was too expensive so I exorcised my trauma and exacted sweet revenge by writing down the bones in my books.
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A: I'm all about the ending so as soon as I have my premise I figure out my ending before I do anything else. I wrote this book very fast, even for me and I'm a very fast writer.
I come from a screenwriting background so I am a serious outliner but with this manuscript I deviated from the outline much more than I usually do. The characters sort of took over the story which was pretty magical for me to witness. I basically just did the typing. The ending didn't change completely but it definitely morphed.
When I was finished writing the book and received my first few rejections I was surprised that my strongest feeling was one of disappointment, thinking that if the book didn't sell I wouldn't be writing more in the series and I realized that I would miss spending time with the characters and finding out what their futures held for them. They really did take on a life of their own and drove the story.
Q: Your character Gina is an advice columnist, and you also began writing self-help guides as your character, the Ex-Whisperer. What do you think the novel says about the idea of advice columns and self-help guides, and their importance in today's world?
A: I think my mystery novel says that writing advice columns and self-help guides can be a very dangerous enterprise. But they can also be a lifeline for the desperate and that makes them very important in today's world.
The internet has made physical connection less common and the global pandemic made it near impossible. I think my mystery novel highlights how awfully lonely many people feel. They are starved for connection.
The Gal Guides self-help books are a bit of a cross between a reinvention of Miss Lonelyhearts and Dear Abby with attitude. Women write to me all the time sharing deeply intimate stories and asking for advice.
I write in a conversational style that I hope makes my readers feel like we could just as easily be sitting at a kitchen table having deep convos over coffee or a bottle of chardonnay.
Reading a Gal Guide is sort of like sitting down with a best girlfriend and letting her give it to you straight. The books are a unique blend of self-help and memoir and at times, cross over into true confession.
I don't shy away from sharing extremely intimate stories from my own tumultuous relationships in order to make it real and to help others. My intention is to provide inspiration and supportive advice and it seems that is sorely needed.
Q: What do you hope readers take away from the story?
A: I feel so crazily grateful that readers choose my books to invest their considerable resources of time, energy, and money in and I hope from the bottom of my heart that they feel the experience was worthwhile for them.
Beyond that I hope readers feel like they've connected with a friend in my main character Gina Malone and that they've had a good laugh along the way. I love to entertain and I consider being able to do so a high calling.
A: I'm currently working on the first draft of Book 2 in the Ex-Whisperer Files series, titled How to Kill a Kingpin. (Waiting for the characters to take over the writing again so I can put my feet up).
On the heels of that I'll be writing the fourth book in the nonfiction Gal Guides series, which doesn't have a title yet.
I'm also starting a company of organic health products for elder gals like myself which I'm hoping to launch next year. (I have no idea where I will find the time for that but rational thinking rarely poses an obstacle for me.)
A: I'm also hungry for connection. The pandemic has me feeling pretty lonely and isolated which has surprised me because I am a die-hard introvert.
I'm thrilled when readers and other writers reach out to me and I invite them to do so. Instagram is my favorite platform and I am on it way too much. Give me a shout @gabrielle.st.george .

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Stanley Johnson finished 2021 on a strong note, making his debut for the Los Angeles Lakers — the team that made him fall in love with basketball.
Johnson signed a 10-day contract with L.A. just before the Christmas Day clash with the Brooklyn Nets, making his debut in the marquee holiday game. Since then, the 25-year-old forward has averaged 8.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in four games, featuring in the Lakers' starting lineup in the last two outings.
Growing up in Southern California, Johnson has been a fan of the Purple and Gold since his childhood days. Hence, his Lakers debut was a real dream come true.
The 2015 lottery pick told The Athletic's Jovan Buha he would imagine himself wearing a Lakers jersey when thinking about his future NBA career:
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This exhibition was inspired by conversations last summer with Ignacio Chillida. His memories of the summers spent in Saint-Paul de Vence with his family and the Miró family really inspired me to want to know more about the friendship between the two artists.
Every year both artists and their families would spend several months in the summer with the Maeght family working in Saint-Paul. There was a ceramic studio and a printing studio – the press was renamed 'La Pilar' after Miró's wife.
Chillida first met Miró in Paris in the late 1940s when the two artists and their wives – both named Pilar – were staying in the same hotel. Pilar Chillida would vividly recall those early days of the friendship, which grew steadily in mutual admiration and respect. Chillida viewed Miró as a revolutionary, both artistically and in his readiness to support causes he believed in – indeed Chillida himself benefited from Miró's support during the controversy over his sculpture Lugar de Encuentros III in the 1970s. And he came to see the concave lines in his own work differently, in the light of Miró's use of the convex. Chillida would go on to be represented by the same gallery as Miró, and in this exhibition we look at Miró's work through Chillida's eyes. In the catalogue we include correspondence between the two men: letters, notes and poems that are testimony to a deep friendship.


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There was certainly a model shop at the top (west) end of Chambers Street. I think however that Royle's shop was close to the Salisbury cinema in Clerk Street.
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Cases of SC coronavirus, deaths decrease
The state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced on Sunday 663 new confirmed cases and 33 new probable cases of the new coronavirus COVID-19, 8 additional confirmed deaths and 4 new probable deaths.
As of Saturday, the state had 825 new confirmed cases, 68 new probable cases, 33 additional deaths and 2 new probable deaths from the new coronavirus COVID-19.
Sunday's figures bring the total number of confirmed cases to 110,658, probable cases to 1,330, confirmed deaths to 2,380 and 124 likely deaths.
Two of the confirmed deaths reported on Sunday occurred in Anderson County.
The recently confirmed cases in Upstate were in Greenville County (51), Anderson County (27), Pickens County (24) and Spartanburg County (18).
On Saturday, DHEC said a total of 954,442 tests were carried out in the state.
The agency said in its statement that, through its quality control process, it found that the number of tests performed was doubled in four days: May 1, June 1, July 1 and August 1.
DHEC is removing this duplication of numbers in these four days, which leads to a reduction of approximately 21 thousand in the total of tests carried out in the state. This duplication did not affect the test results (positive or negative); the number of tests for those four days was counted twice during a data processing error that the statement said and the processing problem was fixed.
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Days before school started, the Pickens County School District reported that it had 22 employees and five employees who were quarantined because they had close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.
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"Things are looking up a lot," said Dr. Eric Ossmann, head of preparation at Prisma Health. "But people are still getting this disease and we can't, especially on Labor Day holidays, you know, just pretend that it went away because it didn't."
Primsa Health System and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System have seen the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients drop by 50% since a sudden increase in July.
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On Friday, SC's DHEC announced 967 new confirmed cases and 52 additional confirmed deaths, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 109,135 and confirmed deaths to 2,339.
The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC yesterday across the state was 7,436 (not including antibody tests) and the positive percentage was 13.0%.
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"Restricting visits to our state's nursing homes and assisted living facilities in March was a painful necessity," wrote McMaster in a letter to Mark Elam, chairman of the board of the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control. "It was the most effective way to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save the lives of the elderly and at-risk residents of our state.
"As expected, this separation and isolation caused loneliness, depression, stress and anxiety among residents and frustrated those who were concerned about the well-being of a parent, grandparent or other loved one.
"Since that time, experience and resources have accelerated our efforts," said McMaster.
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This will be an academic year unlike any other – many students will attend classes on Monday for the first time since schools in South Carolina closed in March, in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Other students will appear for class on a computer screen in their rooms.
The Greenville News and Anderson Independent Mail want to talk to parents about the first day and the first week of school, whether it's wearing a mask and stepping into a classroom for the first time in five months or turning on a laptop and finishing school. kitchen table. And we want to keep in touch about how you are feeling about the school year as you go along.
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On Thursday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported 896 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and 42 additional confirmed deaths.
While expressing confidence that South Carolina's economy will recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Henry McMaster instructed more than a dozen state agencies on Thursday to plan to cut their budgets by up to 3% during the current fiscal year. . Read the details.
Despite the outbreak that closed the historic courthouse, Anderson County leaders took no steps to approve, or even draft, a mask requirement across the county to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Contrary to a downward trend last month, claims for unemployment benefits increased last week in South Carolina and in the interior of the state, the SC Department of Employment and Workforce reported on Thursday.
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Scientifically, the reactions can be differentiated by the fact that some cause an immune response, whereas others do not.
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Connecticut Bird Atlas Kick-off
January 8, 2018 7:00 pm
Monday, January 8, 7 p.m., Center at Pomfret
Snow date: Tuesday, January 9, 7 p.m.
The state birding community will be called on to conduct surveys for the Connecticut Bird Atlas Project, which gets underway in 2018. The project will focus on all birds that breed, winter or migrate in Connecticut. The Bird Atlas project is also the subject on our upcoming Connecticut State of the Birds report, to be released on December 1.
The goals of the project are to provide information on bird habitats that can then be used to guide conservation and development decisions, and to contribute meaningful data for the state's Wildlife Action Plan.
The scope of the atlas is to understand breeding bird distribution and abundance; to document changes since the last atlas in the mid 1980s; to understand wintering distribution of the birds in the state; to identify stopover habitat during migrations; to establish predictive relationships where species occur on the landscape; and to use the results and data to create an interactive website.
The last atlas was published in 1994, based on data collected after years of surveys from 1982 to 1986. This effort was supported by many NHBC members. We hope the members can come out again to support the new effort.
Min Huang is a wildlife biologist for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and heads the Migratory Bird Program for the State. Min received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Conservation and a Bachelor of Art in English from the University of Connecticut and received his Master of Science in Wildlife Management from Frostburg State University. He received his Ph. D from the University of Connecticut, researching sub-population structure and survival of resident Canada geese. He has worked as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission where he managed a wildlife management area, working primarily with deer and various endangered species such as the Florida grasshopper sparrow, red-cockaded woodpecker, Florida scrub jay, and whooping crane. He also spent 5 years working for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as a District Biologist, where he primarily worked with ungulates and endangered species such as the spotted owl and marbled murrelet. Current projects he is involved with include nesting success of forest interior songbirds, chimney swift survival and nesting ecology, ruffed grouse habitat use and survival, American kestrel survival, dispersal and migratory stopover habitat use, purple martin survival and dispersal, and multi-stock harvest management of waterfowl.


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Something I've learned since becoming a parent.. the cutest thing in the world is a moving target. I remember thinking it was the cutest thing in the world when Catherine first smiled. And then when she first started to crawl, when she was just figuring it out, that was the cutest thing in the world. And then when she started pulling up on things, or when she learned to wave to people, or when she started to say "daddy". Right now it's the cutest thing in the world when she tries to say long words by breaking them into bits. A few nights ago I pointed to an elephant and asked Catherine what it was called. She said, "ele", which has so far been her word for it. So I tried to get her to say the whole word by breaking it in two, "ele" and "phant". I asked her to say each one separately, which she did – she's very good at reciting what you say to her. Then we put them together and she did it! There was a big gap in between the words but she said it, "ele … phant". Proud daddy moment… And now she's doing it all the time. Tonight I said to her after she grabbed a towel, "you stole my towel! You nicked it. You purloined it!", and what do you know… "pur … loin"!
Can't wait to see what's the cutest thing in the world tomorrow!
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'Our Son Is a Beautiful Colour Now'
"Bound Together in Close Friendship"
Imitate Their Faith
Jonathan—"It Was With God That He Worked"
Brave and Loyal Jonathan
Lessons You Can Learn From the Bible
Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
OUR son Jonathan is one of twins. When he and his little sister, Abigail, were born, Abigail was perfectly healthy, but Jonathan had serious problems—extensive congenital defects of the heart.
Our local doctor said that Jonathan would be disabled within two years, and eventually he would die. An operation might clear up the problems, but then again Jonathan might not survive it. And since the doctor knew we took seriously the Bible command to "abstain . . . from blood," and hence would not accept blood transfusions, he told us we would not be able to find a surgeon to do the operation anyway.—Acts 15:20.
As Jonathan grew older, he was often short of breath. His little heart used to beat hard at the slightest exertion, and the purple colour in his cheeks and under his fingernails and toenails told us that he really needed the operation; otherwise he might not live much longer. In time we got in touch with one of Britain's most eminent surgeons who, with his specialist team, was willing to undertake the necessary open-heart surgery without using blood.
We arrived in London on a Thursday, but we had to wait for more than a week for Jonathan's operation. He was now just four years old. On the Wednesday before the operation, we had an interview with a haematologist. About a year before, he had been involved in the case of one of Jehovah's Witnesses who had undergone an open-heart operation that was performed without blood. So we asked him what he thought of our stand regarding blood.
To our surprise, he did not oppose it. Why? He could see how important it was to our faith. He also mentioned that blood is more difficult to get now. People are not as prepared to give it as they once were, so it is expensive. Besides, he said, blood transfusions sometimes cause hepatitis. So some surgeons are now learning to operate with less blood on hand than they used to.
When we asked what was Jonathan's chance of coming through his operation, the answer was: "You are fortunate because you have one of the best surgeons in the world. Also, you have your God, and I am sure he will answer your prayers for your son." This haematologist happened to be contacted at his home that same week by one of Jehovah's Witnesses engaged in the preaching ministry. The doctor told the Witness about our son and said: "I want you to go home and pray for little Jonathan."
However, while we were waiting for the operation, there were comments of the other kind, too. For example, the hospital physician came around the ward visiting the young patients. She was accompanied by about 20 foreign doctors who were delegates to a conference on heart surgery being held that week. When she reached Jonathan's bed she asked the other doctors whether they would accept the case of one of Jehovah's Witnesses and operate without blood. They all said, No, they would not do it. It would be too difficult. You can imagine how that made us feel.
Thursday, the night before the operation, Jonathan was visited by an Australian surgeon. He was very kind and gently explained to us the seriousness of the operation that Jonathan was about to undergo. He said: "I give Jonathan a 50/50 chance of pulling through."
He also asked us if it would be possible to take some of Jonathan's blood and store it for use in case of possible emergencies. Then he himself said, "No, we can't do that, can we? That would be against your conscience." When we said, "That's right," he went on: "Anyway, if we did that, there would be no guarantee that the blood used would be Jonathan's blood!"
Before the operation, Jonathan's blood count was checked and found to be 15, which was very good under the circumstances. That was not surprising, however. Some time before, when we knew the operation would have to take place, we had noted the recommendation in the booklet Blood, Medicine and the Law of God that the blood count should be built up before an operation. We wrote to our general practitioner and received a prescription for iron medicine for Jonathan. We had given him this for the previous two and a half months.
Thursday evening, after kissing Jonathan good night, we went to bed, discussed together verse by verse Psalm 116 and prayed earnestly to Jehovah before trying to sleep. Fully aware of Jonathan's danger, we were not asking for miracles. If things went wrong, we knew that Jonathan could die, and if that were to happen, we had full faith that we would see him again in the resurrection.
Our son was due in the operating room at eight o'clock on Friday morning, so at seven o'clock we arrived at the hospital and stayed with him until he was prepared to go into the theatre.
At one-thirty that afternoon we were back at the hospital, but Jonathan was not out of the operating theatre. At two-thirty we asked again, and he was still in the theatre. Three o'clock, three-thirty and four o'clock passed. Still no news. He had been in there now for eight hours. Finally, at 4:15 p.m., we called the nurse and she said: "Wait a minute, I have to get the sister." We had a sinking feeling, sure we were going to hear bad news. Then the sister came on the line and said: "We've got good news for you. Jonathan has come through the operation and he is in the recovery room!"
At five o'clock we were allowed to see him. He was conscious but looked awful with all the tubes and wires attached to him. However, he was alive, and in a faint voice he said to us: "I want to get out of here!" After the short visit, we thanked Jehovah that his first big hurdle was over.
Of course, the danger was not completely past. One possible source of problem was that the surgeon had inserted catheters into Jonathan's body to drain excess fluid, and these had to be removed. Seemingly, there is some danger in this procedure. However, when Jonathan's drains were removed, we were told that he did not lose a drop of blood. Another big hurdle was behind him.
The hospital domestic staff, too, were interested in Jonathan's case. They tended to be opposed to our decision not to allow the use of blood. Two Spanish girls who are Jehovah's Witnesses worked among them, and they came under a lot of pressure. The women they worked with were saying how cruel we were to let Jonathan die! However, when Jonathan recovered, they became more friendly and helpful.
Blood transfusions became quite a topic of conversation. The mother of another little patient, a girl, said: "Could you tell me if my little girl had blood? I hope she was like Jonathan and did not have any. We don't want any complications."
That week, too, we met a young Muslim couple whose little boy had serious problems. They were very religious and each time one of the tiny patients was taken down to the theatre, they prayed for him. They wanted to know why Jonathan was looking so well after having such a dangerous operation.
Of course, all we could say was that we were immensely grateful for the skill of the whole medical team, and especially that they had consented to do the operation without blood. We started to explain: "As Jehovah's Witnesses we do not accept blood . . ." But the husband cut us short and asked: "Why don't you accept blood?" We showed him from the Bible where Christians were commanded to abstain from blood and gave him some Bible literature. He asked who had operated on Jonathan, and we told him. So he said that since his son would need another operation he was going to approach Jonathan's surgeon and ask him to do it, if possible.
Jonathan had other problems to overcome. But his own spirit, the skill of the doctors, the care of the hospital staff, the prayers of our friends and especially the strength that Jehovah gave carried the three of us through. After six weeks in London, we returned home.
It was a difficult experience. For four years, we had watched Jonathan suffer. Now, we are grateful to have a healthy son. When Jonathan runs upstairs, if we put our hand on his heart we cannot feel anything abnormal. Each day we see him gaining strength. He is smaller than Abigail, but he's growing! The purple has gone—he is a beautiful colour now.—As told by Simon and Brenda Pitts.
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Jonathan would be disabled within two years, and eventually he would die
"I give Jonathan a 50/50 chance of pulling through"
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Have you considered a career as a Company Secretary?
by Mark Chambers on 03 July 2017
What is a Company Secretary?
The Company Secretary is a strategic position of considerable influence at the heart of governance in organisations. The role therefore involves playing a key role in upholding the rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. Company Secretaries can work in a range of sectors including the private, public sector and not-for-profit sectors. Their responsibilities include maintaining good shareholder relations, keeping the board informed of these views, taking charge of the day-to-day administration of the organisation, by keeping the statutory registers up-to-date, organising directors' meetings as well as being a trusted advisor to the board on matters of governance and company law. Depending on your organisation, the company secretarial function may have a wider remit including insurance, pension and investor relations' responsibilities.
Is the Company Secretarial route right for me?
The company secretary has a position of considerable influence and has a broad skill set across governance, strategy, corporate law and finance. The role will be particularly suitable to you if you have a strong interest in governance, are technically minded, have strong attention to detail and enjoy a varied workload. In addition, softer skills like emotional intelligence and relationship building are particularly important to foster trust and a culture of good governance. You may be particularly well placed if you have come from a law degree or business/accountancy background given the technical nature of the role.
As a specialist company secretarial recruiter, I am regularly instructed by candidates who range from being qualified or part-qualified company secretaries, qualified solicitors, trusts/company formation specialists, paralegals and law and business graduates.
How much can you earn?
The earning potential varies greatly and typically depends on the sector you are working in, the seniority of your role and individual qualifications. Salary bandings are generally split between those at trainee company secretary, company secretarial assistant, assistant company secretary, deputy company secretary and group company secretary level. Positions at entry level may typically fall between £20-£30k, often with financial assistance for study on offer. At the other end of the spectrum, a Group Company Secretary in a FTSE 250/100 organisation, may expect a six-figure salary, a five-figure bonus and a range of further financial incentives.
What is ICSA?
ICSA is short for The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators; the professional body that trains, informs and represents governance professionals across all sectors. ICSA are the rough equivalent of The Law Society for solicitors or the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales for accountants. For further information on the ICSA, please see their website - icsa.org.uk
How do you qualify as a Chartered Company Secretary?
The Chartered Secretaries Qualifying Scheme (CSQS) or an accredited Post Graduate qualification accompanied by relevant work experience will enable you to qualify as a chartered secretary. You may be entitled to exemptions on the CSQS course if you have taken a law or finance degree or are already a qualified law professional. There are three levels of membership; GradICSA (which indicates that you have completed the academic stages of training), ACIS and FCIS. To be granted Associate membership (ACIS), you will need to have six years of relevant work experience, which can be reduced by up to three years if you have taken a university degree. For more detailed information on this, please see the Institute website – icsa.org.uk
My own route to qualification consisted of sitting the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course. These examinations are also a typical route to qualifying as a solicitor. This gave me two exemptions on the CSQS course. Thereafter, I worked full-time, taking a module on a six monthly basis, eventually qualifying as a GradICSA company secretary. In light of my Management and French degree, which reduces the time to become chartered, along with prior experience of working as a company secretary, I am now eligible to apply for the ACIS qualification.
How can G2 Legal help?
G2 Legal has a specialist company secretarial division, headed by myself, Mark Chambers. I am a GradICSA qualified Company Secretary and previously worked as a Company Secretary in a range of FTSE organisations. As such, I can provide guidance on qualifying as a company secretary as well as the technical aspects of day-to-day company secretarial work.
Here at G2 Legal, we have a track record of placing company secretaries at all levels into professional services organisations, such as accountancy practices, law firms and specialist company secretarial providers. We can provide specific company secretarial guidance on drafting an effective CV, preparing for interview and sharing market knowledge.
So, if you are considering your career options or would like to discuss the market in general, please get in touch. In the meantime, please join the G2 Legal Company Secretary Group to keep track of industry news and current roles and follow us on Twitter/LinkedIn!
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Began with: Vol. 23, whole no. 1041 (July 3, 1874).
"The oldest English-Jewish weekly in America."
Description based on: Vol. 23, whole no. 1041 (July 3, 1874); title from PDF banner (ProQuest, viewed Aug. 23, 2012).
German supplement, Die Deborah, published July 3, 1874-June 27, 1901.
Latest issue consulted: Vol. 147, no. 25 (Dec. 28, 2000) (ProQuest, viewed Aug. 23, 2012).


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Tomorrow I'm going to the day-long conference http://www.diversityatwork.org/ put on by Skills for Change. The topic is faith in the workplace – an issue that is on the radar more often these days in the world of diversity and inclusion.
I'm looking forward to the panel discussion on the difference between faith and culture (because I think we often confuse the two when we don't have enough information), and to the workshops in the afternoon. I'm hoping to attend Nadir Shirazi's workshop on balancing assimilation and integration (moving beyond meditation spaces at work) and Immam Michael Abdur Rashid Taylor's session on accommodation (a common sticking point with HR and other employees). Of course these are only 2 of the 4 workshops available, so if I can't get into those, I will have other great choices.
I'll report back on Thursday to tell you all about it!


Worried about over eating during holidays?
We all love holidays ,good food, fun with friends and families.
But if research is right, then we gain about half a Kilo, after each bout of holiday food.This piles up.
The holiday food binge makes "you" 5Kg heavier , every decade.
Remember how much sweat you shed to get rid of that 1 kilo?
It's so easy to gain ?
Why can't the calories just melt away?
Believe me I researched thoroughly .
You have to prevent it with your body ,mind and soul .
Repel those calories , which slow you down ,make you bloated and unhealthy.
But how can you diet during holidays?
The two never go well together.
So what's the best way to avoid the fitness crash during,and after holidays ?
How to avoid getting back all those pesky love handles?
Try to exercise in the morning . This helps to decrease cravings .
Don't skip the weights . Weight lifting helps you boost up your BMR .You burn more calories the entire day.
Those endorphins which are released when you exercise helps you avoid emotional. overeating.
Starving the entire day for the party, will make you overeat. .Go for low-calorie ,high fibre options.
Avoid Stress over holiday plans ,menus and guest list.That will make you stuff yourself with high salt high sugar snacks . Emotional earing roller coaster from which it's a battle getting off.
Burning the candle at both ends cm make you crabby .So if you party till late night ,catch up on sleep next morning .
Sleep has a big role to play in decreasing stress,cravings and overall healthy eating choices.
Can your plate help ?
A big white plate makes you heap up all food .Even those that you don't eat.
Take a smaller plate . If your plate looks crowded you automatically take less.
Try a coloured plate .White colour makes you eat more.Blue less according to colour psychology.
Don't forget to use your fork while eating.
Avoid seconds.This is your pitfall. Remember if you keep healthy ,you can eat all your favourite food forever. Control is key .
Drink water 2 glasses 15 to 20 minutes before your meal.It will make you full and help you avoid overeating.
The less salt you have the less sugar you will crave.
Salt makes you swell up .
Plus its relationship with sugar cravings ,make it the number 1 evil to avoid .
Chewing 20 times as the saying goes ,does help you cut back.
When you chew your muscles break up the food into tiny pieces.This helps in digestion .
The time it takes to chew helps your brain process your eating activity.
Satiety is actually something your brain realizes.Your tummy comes quite late to the game.That's why eating slowly helps your brain and tummy communicate better.
Mindfulness helps you enjoy every mouthful .Appreciating every morsel is a way to practice thankfulness . Plus prevent over indulging.
Before starting to cook or bake at home ,have an apple .Never cook bake on an empty stomach .
All the aroma will make you taste too much of your own cooking.
Get water favoured with lime ,cinnamon ,and your favourite fruits.
Try to adjust the sugar content in your own baked goodies .Tweak it to make it healthy .
Use healthy methods of cooking.
Grill ,shallow fry or airfry.
Deep frying kicks your fitness out of the orbit.
Don't eat all the deserts on the buffets . Select the one you really love . Maybe have a bite of another .
Use the 3 bite rule.First bite for pleasure.Second bite to slowly savour it.3rd bite for a lingering memory.
Be very picky about your favourites.
Ask someone to watch over you .
If you are hosting the party give away the leftovers.Maybe keep some.But not all.
Lastly enjoy your self .Keep your health in mind .But don't obsess about it.
Do you worry about holiday over eating?
What's your favourite way to keep fit du ring holidays ?
Awesome ideas! I know I'm a prime example for over eating during the holidays! Especially with desserts but it's a great idea to start eating before I cook! Will give it a try!
I feel like I already have gained 5 pounds. I really need to push the water.
I struggle with overeating all year round. This was extremely helpful roundup of tips, thanks!
These are some really awesome tricks!!! Thanks for sharing them!!
Such a helpful post! I honestly already started overeating. LOL. This season can be the worst when it comes to diet. These are such awesome tips. Thanks.
Holidays and food will get you. Sneak right through your goals and live you disappointed. I skipped a cookie exchange to avoid the temptation but now want to do 12 days of cookies. Which means not starting a no sugar diet until that's over, lol. I'm pretty good at not over indulging but I'm also good at eating a treat daily.
Thanks for these great tips. My biggest overeating problem comes from relatives insisting that I'm too skinny and non stop handing me food that they made specially for me. It's nearly impossible to refuse without hurting their feelings.
These are excellent tips. I also try to eat healthy during the holidays. I like to try everything, but only put a tiny bit of everything on my plate. That way I know I'm not going overboard.
I admit it, I do overeat during the holidays. The food is just so dang good, I can't help it!
I love these tips, i drink alot of water which definitely helps, and i dont over indulge like i used to as i always drink the water first and then eat.
Oooo great tips!!!! Not over eating is so tough this time of year!!!
These are great tips!I need to follow these tips so just bookmarked this post.
These are really good tips. I'm not a fan of cooking with salt, but I can't control what others put in their food.
Don`t eat all the desearts on the buffet table! Thats my biggest take for today especially as I love desserts very much.
Great tips! What helps me is drinking plenty of water and staying active. I like helping the host in the kitchen: Setting the table, clearing the table. As well as going outside and playing with the kids.
I'm so bad about eating breakfast. I need to start and to eat more protein.
Thanks for your tips! I avoid stress eating and also eating lots of sweets. Drinking hot tea also helps me to digest well.
Good tips to keep in mind anytime I'm invited to a large gathering where there is always a variety of food choices. The opportunity to overeat is so tempting.
I always try not to overeat but at the same time, it is the holidays 😉 But I will try to watch it so I can fit into my pants.
"The holiday food binge makes "you" 5 kg heavier, every decade"… OMG!! That's scary! Thanks for the tips, they make sense and can certainly help in staying fit!
I always over indulge over the holiday season, so it's always good to keep in mind a few tips to prevent this. Especially after I end up with a very sore stomach from over eating. Your tips are great, thanks for sharing them.
Great Tips Amrita…never knew there was a connection between the color and food. But somewhere, the overall Indian cooking is loaded with weight-increasing stuff. Need to select the healthier options (still a challenge for me though).
Great tips Amrita. Portion control, eating healthy, water and staying physically active can actually do the trick. Useful and informative post and apt for the festive season.
Excellent tips there, Amrita 🙂 Helpful.
Really, "holiday seasons" can load you up with weight, which you spent months working out. But I think when you do for a vacation, you should not restrict yourself. Cause that is the very reason, you took a vacation. To be Yourself. To Have Fun. To Relax. To Enjoy.
Hee hee.I really wish I could do that without the guilt trips.
I do all the things you mentioned we shouldn't and so holidays and weight gain are my constant companions.
Very interesting and useful tips. Completely agree to each one.


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I often meet people who have entered their personal intellectual ice age. Permafrost has gradually anesthetized their curiosity and their pursuit of knowledge has stalled.
Of course, some people have never gotten their mental engine up and running. But others have and not sustained it.
Here are some pitfalls to avoid.
Some people reach an intellectual pinnacle but then push the pause button.
I have a friend who is a physician—a good physician—who punched the pause button on his personal development about twenty years ago. I can only imagine how sharp-witted he was when he earned the post nominal "MD," but having achieved that notable goal, he has since coasted through life. John Maxwell calls this "destination disease"—we reach a desired point in life (graduate from college, start a successful business) but then cease growing.
Some people know a lot about one particular area and they continue to grow in that one area, but they have not expanded to other areas.
The best antidote for intellectual atrophy is to read.
Click here to see an essay I wrote entitled How to Learn from Reading.
In addition to reading, there are many other ways to stay fresh and vital. I wrote a monograph titled Lifelong Learning—Why it's more important and doable than you think – and would like to give you a free digital copy. Click here to download Lifelong Learning – Don McMinn.
You don't want your tombstone to read: Died, age 45. Buried, age 75.
Wonderful words. I grade papers and teach an occasional seminary class. It is so easy to spot those who stopped learning years ago. It is also easy to spot those whose intellectual curiosity kept them learning throughout life.
Remember Nicodemus in John 3? He was reported to be the most advanced teacher in Judea except for Gamaliel. Yet, he still went to Jesus with sincere questions. He left fulfilled.
Thanks, Bill, for sharing insight about Nicodemus; I hadn't thought of that. And, kudos for being a lifelong learner yourself.


Find how you can watch the celebration gig for the late Linkin Park frontman, which takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this Friday.
Linkin Park fans will be able to watch the Chester Bennington tribute concert on the band's official YouTube page.
The sold-out show will be a heartfelt farewell from his bandmates, and the likes of Blink 182, members of Korn, Avenged Sevenfold members M. Shadows and Synyster Gates, System of a Down, Yellowcard singer William Ryan Key, and solo artist Kiiara, who featured on Linkin Park track Heavy.
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor of Chester Bennington will begin at 7.45pm PST (2.45am, Saturday 28 October GMT).
It will then be on YouTube on Demand for 48hrs after the event (until Monday morning UK time).
Proceeds from the charity concert will go to Music for Relief's One More Light Fund.
One clip, which was posted last Monday (16 October), sees Bennington put on a French accent just before they take to the stage in Paris.
The band also recently shared their Carpool Karaoke video, which was filmed just six days before they lost their frontman to suicide on 20 July 2017.


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October 2019 is the completion date for the concourse housing gates 92 through 98. The two concourses and the headhouse are scheduled for substantial completion and operations by early 2022, with the rest of the program scheduled to finish in 2026.
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Just over 2,000 face-to-face interviews were conducted with mothers with children aged between 12 and 18 months in Autumn 2009 and Autumn 2010. Their partners were contacted by telephone, with 1,253 responding to the survey.
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Diamonds are hunks of carbon. They are not forever. They are not rare. They are not even a girl's best friend. We think of them as a luxury item instead of common shiny rocks because De Beers, the company that holds the diamond monopoly, wages one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Even if you knew all this, chances are you have or will have a wedding ring that has a diamond on it — because others still believe in the power of the diamond.De Beers is so successful because they can do two things that many others can't: generate self-perpetuating consumer enthusiasm and silence critics. They can get every single romantic comedy to emphasize the importance of diamonds without having people feel guilty about buying diamonds from conflict-ridden places. A few companies have been able to replicate the first: Apple, for instance, gets product evangelists without even having to pay for them. 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You are always in the heat of conflict. You are always in the right and strictly professional, occasionally giving off the cool one-liner. The enemy is always evil — and the remedy is always death in your hands. Some will argue that that's the point — shooter video games should entertain, and using these tactics do a great job of entertaining. But think about the beginning to Call of Duty: Black Ops. It's an adrenaline pumping gunfire fight where you command an operation to assassinate Fidel Castro, until you realize that you don't even have to shoot in order to advance. A situation that was supposed to inflate egos was actually heavily scripted: it is a simulacra of assassinating Fidel Castro. As shooters get more realistic graphics and historical context, it ironically becomes harder to make war entertaining. In order to get the cinematic bravado and patriotism that characterizes these video games, it must be a replication of reality only in form, not substance. The game must become a selective simulation of war for a society that selectively loves it. Any more realistic, and it hits an uncanny valley where war becomes too real to be fun. Granted, everybody knows that the games we're playing aren't the real deal. In real life, ammo pickups aren't everywhere, you don't magically recover within seconds, and there is a lot more paperwork. But in the end we are still left in a nationalistic afterglow of how honorable they are, which help games sell and raise interest for potential recruits but do nothing other than harm the soldiers they glorify. Images of valor, honor, and patriotic duty prepare beginner soldiers for a hard fall in expectations. Soldiers already jaded with these ideals have to deal with living up to them when they go home. They can't honestly retell their experiences when they go back home. They can't talk about lying in an uncomfortable position for hours shooting randomly at people they can't see, or being forced to stay at their post per protocol even if they hear a fellow unit cry for help. A lot has been written defending such games by saying that they lose their entertainment value if they become more realistic. Nobody wants to buy a game where dead women and children are commonplace, much less have to kill them. But soldiers do have to deal with such horrors, and even more has been written about the desensitization, the PTSD, and the drug use that is rampant. It doesn't only stem from soldiers' own unrealistic expectations, but because they have to keep the traumas to themselves; they have to bottle it up and act like the stoic tough guys that we expect. Such nationalistic kitsch is unfair and selfish. It sanitizes war into something that it is not, while expecting soldiers to pick up and mask the parts we don't want to see. It sends a mixed message that their job is both amazing and shameful at the same time. It ultimately tells them that we don't want to listen to what they think.If we want to change anything, we have to demystify and devalorize the images of war that we see. Let's stop making up scripted crap and treat the job of a soldier as a job, albeit a very dangerous and tiring, but yes, an honorable and appreciated job. Let's talk about the existential fatigue and attrition in addition to the parts we see in video games. Let's openly embrace all the jobs a serviceperson has, instead of making them lead double lives of loyalty and doubt. In the meantime, we should focus on all these things instead of whether we can make trees destructible. I'm looking at you, Battlefield 3.