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Ambode Unveils New Initiative to Attract Investors
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has unveiled the Office of Overseas Affairs and Investment, also known as 'Lagos Global', in line with his administration's efforts to boost ease of doing business in the state, as well as to actualise the state's vision of becoming Africa's model megacity and financial hub.
At the official presentation in Lagos recently, Ambode, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the initiative was also part of the commitment of his administration to make Lagos an investment destination of choice by creating a favourable environment for local and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
According to the governor, Lagos State has remained the desired investment destination, having attracted massive FDI such as the $1.65 billion Lekki Deep Seaport and the $12 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant among other investments coming to the State.
He promised that the seaport would be completed in 2019 to become the deepest seaport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The governor also emphatically stated that the Badagry Creek Industrial Park, a $1.3billion investment, would be completed in 2018.
He said: "As the world continues to acknowledge Lagos as a regional financial hub, we as government have demonstrated the commitment to strengthen this position through deliberate policies aimed at improving the business climate in our state.
"In this regard, we have successfully placed Lagos on investors' radar by putting in place effective legal and regulatory frameworks such as the Land Reform Act, Double Taxation treaties, Limited Liability Reviews and the development of Free Trade Zones. Likewise, the on-going judicial reform is aimed at strengthening our laws for the protection of enterprise."
Ambode said his administration was committed to infrastructure development and maintenance was evidence in an efficient Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which transports over 200, 000 passengers daily; functional Integrated Power Projects; enhanced security and access roads to sea and airports, among others. He said all of these projects , underscored his administration's determination to make Lagos a functional megacity.
In his welcome address, Special Adviser to the Governor on Overseas Affairs and Investment, Prof. Ademola Abass, said Lagos Global was created by the current administration to act as one-stop shop with the mandate of promoting foreign investment into the state and managing export out of the state.
He also said the office has the mandate of managing foreign investment transaction and ensure that would-be investors enjoy seamless and hurdle-free experience by providing first class service delivery to them right from the point of initial enquiry down to the setting up and running of businesses in the state.
This, he said, would eliminate difficulties and bureaucracies often associated with multi-agencies handling of investments. "Never again will an investor give up the hope of setting up business in Lagos State on the obstacles of suffocating an interminable bureaucracy. The job of Lagos Global is principally to enhance the ease of doing business and create an enabling environment for investors," Abass said.
Renowned economist and Founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof. Pat Utomi said the creation of Lagos Global was a major step towards transforming the state to a modern city-state just like the advanced ones in the world.
"Lagos can play the kind of stimulating role Singapore played in South east Asia," Utomi said.
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The date 18 March marks the anniversary of the Ottoman naval victory in 1915, when British and French ships tried unsuccessfully to force a passage through the Dardanelles. Commemoration of this victory was slow to get under way in the subsequent years and the first 'official, state-sponsored' ceremony did not happen till 18 March 1934 and it was 'a very modest affair'. It is this modest affair that Cengiz Özakinci describes in an article in the January 2016 edition of Bütün Dünya (Ankara). Özakinci has written a number of articles critically assessing the evidence for events during and after the Great War and they can be found on the Honest History website.
Honest History has been particularly interested in the provenance of the famous 'Atatürk words' commencing 'Those heroes that shed their blood …', of which there are two well-known versions and which are variously said to have been spoken by Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk), written by him, or written by him and then spoken on his behalf by his minister, Şükrü Kaya. For example, the website of the Turkish Embassy in Canberra quotes one version of the words and says that they 'were delivered on his [Kemal's] behalf by Şükrü Kaya, the Minister of the Interior, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Çanakkale Victory and the Martyrs' Day, on 18 March 1934'. The Australian War Memorial has one version of the words on a panel on the wall and another version nearby on audio, uttered in a BBC-style voice, accompanied by a picture of Atatürk.
Cengiz Özakinci, in his article which can be translated as 'The unforgettable heroes of the 18th of March naval victory', gives an account of the commemorative ceremonies marking the 19th anniversary of the battle. Starting with the brief history of the origins of the campaign and the initial Allied attack, Özakinci says that, almost twenty years on, the hidden heroes of Gallipoli began to be present and commemorated. He points out that earlier ceremonies at the site only focused on Corporal Seyid and his achievements, while the 1934 ceremony, organised by Çanakkale People's Houses, also included Corporal Cemal (behind Corporal Seyid in the well-known photos of the latter carrying artillery shells weighing 275 kg). The article continues with the personal account of Corporal Cemal and some details on the participants in the 19th anniversary of the naval victory, supported by some photos from the newspapers of the time.
Kaya was a close associate of Mustafa Kemal. If Kaya had spoken during the Martyrs' Day ceremony in March 1934 his speech would have been widely reported, particularly if he spoke words given to him by Kemal, the Ghazi ('warrior' or 'champion'), the President of Turkey, a man at the height of his powers, soon to be given the title 'Atatürk' ('Father Turk' or 'Ancestor Turk'), the man reputed by 1934 to have been the decisive commander at Gallipoli in 1915. Such a speech would have been the highlight of the day.
Utkan Kocatürk's publisher, the Atatürk Research Center, is part of a Turkish government body, the Atatürk High Institution – some translations say 'Supreme Council' – of Culture, Language and History, set up under Article 134 of the Turkish Constitution of 1982.
18 March 1934, Gallipoli: Minister of the Interior Sükrü Kaya's speech – which Atatürk himself wrote and provided the text – at the Mehmets Monument, addressed to other nations' soldiers who lost their lives at Gallipoli.
Another book by the same author [Utkan Kocatürk] which was first published with the title of Atatürk ve Türk Devrimi Kronolojisi (Atatürk and the Chronology of Turkish Revolution) in 1973 and then changed to Atatürk ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Tarihi Kronolojisi (Ataturk and the Chronology of the History of the Turkish Republic (1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1988) does not have the above comments on Şükrü Kaya being in Gallipoli in 1934.
There are two press reports (here and here) of Kaya visiting Gallipoli in July 1934 during a tour of Thrace. The reports include a long statement from Kaya referring among other matters to the presence of Jews in Turkey but they say nothing about speeches composed by Kemal or anyone else.
The above quote from Kocatürk's From Birth to Death, first published in 1988, is an example of the received version of how the 'Atatürk words' came into existence. Yet even an Atatürk specialist like Kocatürk – his Wikipedia entry shows eleven publications on Atatürk between 1969 and 2005, some with multiple editions – published by a government body set up 'to disseminate information on the thought, principles and reforms of Atatürk', hedged his bets on the Kaya speech, including the 'Atatürk words'. He accepted the date only 'cautiously'.
Kocatürk's book, Özakinci says, 'is the origin of the claims that the date of Sükrü Kaya's speech written by Ataturk was 18 March 1934 at the 19th anniversary of the Dardanelles Naval Victory celebration in Çanakkale. But … this claim is wrong'. Not just cautious, but wrong.
Kocatürk gives Kaya's 1953 Dünya interview with journalist Yekta Ragip Önen as the source for his claim. But the Dünya interview includes no date. The date 1934 is attributed by Uluğ İğdemir of the Turkish Historical Society in his 1978 booklet Atatürk ve Anzaklar (Atatürk and the Anzacs), which reprints the interview. (The Turkish Historical Society was established by Atatürk in 1931, was semi-official for decades and became a government body in August 1983, as part of the Atatürk High Institution of Culture, Language and History referred to above, alongside the Atatürk Research Center.) The Dünya interview says the speech was delivered near the Mehmets Monument. Kocatürk presumably knew there had been a ceremony at Çanakkale on 18 March 1934 so, 'cautiously', he concluded that Kaya had delivered the Dünya words at that ceremony. He basically worked backwards from the Dünya interview and punted for a possible date and place.
Honest History has received from Özakinci photographs of the title page and table of contents of a book of Kaya's speeches between 1927 and 1937. We are awaiting a translation of the preface of the book. The book (published 1937) is called Şükrü Kaya: Sözleri – Yazıları 1927-1937, (Şükrü Kaya: Words – Writings 1927-1937) and it includes what were regarded as Kaya's important speeches over this period, as selected by Kaya and Ekrem Ergüven, Internal Legal Counsel at Kaya's Interior Ministry. There is no mention in the book of any speech being delivered at Çanakkale on 18 March 1934.
What are we left with then? First, we have no evidence that Kaya delivered a speech at the Mehmets Monument at Çanakkale on 18 March 1934. There is no evidence that he was even in Çanakkale that day. Secondly, Kaya visited Gallipoli in July but there is no evidence he made speeches about 'Those heroes …' on that trip. Thirdly, we have from previous research found no evidence that Kaya was at Gallipoli during the visit of the Duchess of Richmond party in late April and early May when friendly messages passed between Atatürk and the pilgrims (although these messages did not include the famous 'Those heroes …' words). Fourthly, Kaya certainly gave a speech near the Mehmets Monument in August 1931 but that speech does not include the 'Those heroes …' words. While the text of this speech appeared in a contemporary newspaper, again Kaya did not include the speech in his 1937 collected speeches, presumably because he did not regard it as important, even though it was based on 'an anecdote that … I heard from the great man'.
In view of the other evidence presented in this article, it seems that Kocatürk's caution was justified. As we said in the introduction to our resources on this subject, it is not up to Honest History to go on failing to find evidence of the words being said or written at particular times or places by Kaya or Atatürk; it is up to those who believe the words are Atatürk's to provide robust evidence that they were indeed said or written during his lifetime.
We have heard it said that it does not matter whether Atatürk wrote the words; by him allowing these words to be sent to Australia they became his words. Remarks like that undermine the discipline of history, based as it is on the search for and presentation of evidence. (They also raise a further question: if the words were sent to Australia when was this and where is the evidence?) Sliding away from a difficult evidence trail to say 'evidence doesn't matter' really doesn't cut it.
As it stands, the 'best' evidence for how the 'Atatürk words' came into being remains the Dünya interview with an elderly, sentimental, possibly politically motivated or manipulated Şükrü Kaya in 1953, fifteen years after Atatürk's death. That is not robust evidence. We cannot even be sure how much of the Dünya report is Kaya and how much is the journalist Onen, who also may have had a political axe to grind. (We are trying to find out more about Onen.) Yet, to alter only slightly the remark of Australian historian Douglas Wilkie in a very different context, people – even historians – like a good story.
To finish, Honest History has said many times that the words commencing 'Those heroes that shed their blood …' contain admirable sentiments. Remarks about settling issues between nations without the spilling of blood would be much more admirable. They would mark the putting into practice of some other Atatürk words: 'Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh' ('Peace at home, peace abroad').
 Ayhan Aktar, 'Mustafa Kemal at Gallipoli: the making of a saga, 1921-1932', Michael JK Walsh & Andrekos Varnava, ed., Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology, MUP Academic, Carlton, 2016, Kindle location 3048. This book is reviewed for Honest History by David Stephens.
 The English version the Embassy uses includes the line 'There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets …' which Honest History's research based on Özakinci shows beyond reasonable doubt were composed by Alan J. Campbell in Brisbane in 1978 and accepted by Uluğ İğdemir of the then semi-official Turkish Historical Society.
 Aktar, op. cit., has evidence on the retrospective growth in Kemal's military reputation.
 See section 12 of the Honest History research note.
 See note 2 above. The Embassy's English translation includes the Campbell-İğdemir 'Johnnies and Mehmets' 1978 gloss.
 Again, see section 12 of the Honest History research note and the references linked from there which refer to the political environment in Turkey in 1953. Honest History and its associates are doing further work on this part of the story.


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Part 3: How to install Windows Server Backup?
Part 4: How to backup files with Windows server backup?
Windows Server Backup, or commonly known as WSB is a backup and recovery feature that was first introduced in Windows Server 2008. Though, it became an evident part of it and can be found in the recent updates as well (like Windows Server 2012). Since it is a complete backup and recovery solution, it can be used to backup an entire server or its selected volumes. The maximum data volume capacity of Windows server backup 2008 is 2 TB.
It has introduced the new backup and recovery technology by replacing the previously used Windows backup feature. It comes with an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and CLI (Command Line Interface) that provides an easy access for users to perform their backup operation. While using a simple wizard, you can backup your data as per your needs and later restore it as well. Therefore, it can save your data in case of an unforeseen situation like hard disk failure or malware attack.
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Step 3 On the next window, you can give the server roles before installing any new feature.
Step 4 Now, select the "Features" option from the provided menu. Scroll down and enable the option of "Windows server backup". You should also enable the feature of "Command line tools".
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Bij zijn negende deelname aan de Ronde van Guadeloupe behaalde Alidor zijn eerste UCI-overwinning: in de zesde etappe, van Deshaies naar Sainte-Anne, kwam hij solo als eerste over de finish. Meer dan een minuut later sprintte Cédric Ramothe naar de tweede plaats.

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Q: How can I sum the earliest and the most record in a group? I have a table with the uid, date, and the value.
I want to group by uid, and get the different between the earliest found value and the most recent value. How can I do this in ActiveRecord or just SQL?
Example Data:
UID   DATE        VALUE
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a    | 2016-10-01 | 5
a    | 2016-8-01 | 10
a    | 2016-12-01 | 15
b    | 2016-10-01 | 5
b    | 2016-8-01 | 10
c    | 2016-12-01 | 15

Desired Result
UID   DELTA (absolute value)
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a    | 5
b    | 5
c    | 15

A: select uid, abs(max(latest) - max(first)) diff
from
(select uid,
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           then value end first,
  case when (row_number() over
           (partition by uid order by date desc)) = 1
           then value end latest
from table
) t
group by uid;

A: I'm not experienced with activerecord, but in plain SQL you can use the row_number window function to find the first and last records. E.g.:
WITH first_and_last AS (
    SELECT uid,
           value,
           ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY uid ORDER BY date ASC) as r_asc
           ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY uid ORDER BY date DESC) as r_desc
    FROM   mytable)
SELECT a.uid, a.value - b.value
FROM   first_and_last a
JOIN   first_and_last b ON a.uid = b.uid AND a.r_desc = 1 AND b.r_asc = 1

A: If you are going to use window functions before aggregation, then use first_value() and/or last_value():
select uid, abs(max(value_first) - max(value_last)) as diff
from (select uid,
             first_value(value) over (partition by uid order by date asc) as value_first,
             first_value(value) over (partition by uid order by date desc) as value_last
      from table
     ) t
group by uid;

You can also do this without a subquery at all, if you want to use array aggregation functions.

A: with
  t(i,d,v) as (
    values
      ('a'::text, '2016-10-01'::date, 5::int),
      ('a', '2016-08-01', 10),
      ('a', '2016-12-01', 15),
      ('b', '2016-10-01', 5),
      ('b', '2016-08-01', 10),
      ('c', '2016-12-01', 15)),
  e as (
    select distinct on (i) * from t order by i, d),
  l as (
    select distinct on (i) * from t order by i, d desc)
select
  e.i,
  abs(e.v - case when e.d=l.d then 0 else l.v end) as diff
from
  e join l using(i);

The case in the final query needed to handle the cases like c uid where only one row in the row set (of course it does not handle the cases with several rows with same dates, so you can use 'id' if it present).

A: Check This.
        select distinct a.UID,
        -- ,a."VALUE",b."VALUE",
        abs(coalesce (a."VALUE",0)-coalesce(b."VALUE",0))
        AS "DELTA (absolute value)"
        from
        (select * from
        (select UID,"VALUE",ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION by uid order by rnk desc ) as rnk from
        (
        select UID,"VALUE", date,ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION by uid order by  (select 1 ) )as rnk
        from  edata
        )a  )a where rnk='1' )a
        left join
        ( select * FROM
        (select UID,"VALUE",ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION by uid order by rnk desc ) as rnk from
        (
        select UID,"VALUE", date,ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION by uid order by  (select 1 ) )as rnk
        from  edata
        )
        b )b  where    b.rnk=2 )B
        on a.uid=b.uid ORDER BY UID

Also Try postgresql Demo Here.
Above code is working fine for SQL server and postgresql.

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Very pleased to present the video for 'I Shiver' from 'The Nashville Songs'.
Filmed, directed, produced and edited by the extremely talented Chris Summerill.
Additional aerial photography by Les Davies.
Song written by Christopher Rees & Rick Brantley.
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Here's a rehearsal clip of Christopher Rees performing 'Dance With Desire' from the 2017 album 'The Nashville Songs' accompanied by John Lewis on electric guitar.
Song written by Christopher Rees & Rick Brantley
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Welsh singer-songwriter Christopher Rees returns with his long awaited new album, 'The Nashville Songs' on 30th June 2017 - an inspired collection of songs co-written with some of 'Music City's finest writers.
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Swan View Coalition testified before a Federal Advisory Committee on May 29, 2014, detailing how "collaboration" on the Flathead National Forest is being used to marginalize the best available science and those who use it to protect fish and wildlife. Click here to read Keith Hammer's testimony.
Hammer's testimony includes links to sources indicating the Whitefish Range Partnership intended to front-load the Flathead National Forest's Forest Plan revision collaborative by being "first out of the chute." His testimony and that of F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber's Paul McKenzie (a Partnership member) showed that the Partnership's proposal to nearly double the lands slated for logging in the Whitefish Range was indeed applied across the Forest during the Forest-wide collaborative and involves relaxing standards for the protection of threatened grizzly bear and lynx habitat.
During follow-up questions, Hammer stressed that failing to firstly apply the test of the best available science to such an expansion of logging in threatened species' habitats sets up unrealistic expectations and increases the likelihood of litigation.
McKenzie concluded collaboration should deal with social issues and leave science and other technical matters until later. For its part, the Flathead National Forest followed a similar path in failing to produce the required Assessment of the Flathead National Forest at the outset of its Forest-wide collaboration, instead releasing the 718-page document near the end of the process.
1. Will the Flathead write a new Forest Plan that represents the will of the American public, whose laws require the use of the best available science, or will it write a Plan that hedges on those laws in order to placate local residents?
2. There is renewed vigor in the movement to turn control of federal lands over to State or local governments. To what degree is collaboration feeding this movement toward local control over America's public lands?
3. Under the new Planning Rule, the use of collaboration is optional, while the use of the best available science is mandatory. What recommendations could this Committee make to insure that collaboration, when used, reinforces use of the best available science rather than marginalizing those who use it to give voice to fish and wildlife?


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Q: which data type i must choose for boolean type field? I wanna create a Boolean field in my oracle table but I seen there is no boolean or byte data type so,which one of the oracle data type I must choose for a boolean value?
answer:
I find how Oracle developer do this by wisard:
CREATE TABLE TABLE17
(
  COLUMN1 CHAR(1 BYTE) NOT NULL,
  COLUMN2 VARCHAR2(4000)
)
;

A: if you are looking for "y" or "n" you can use CHAR(1)

A: You can use char(1) or number(1)
If you use number(1), set 0-False and 1-True as many programming languages 1 & 0 for Boolean


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iam8bit to release the Old Man's Journey soundtrack
August 7, 2018 rpbtz
iam8bit have announced that they will be releasing scntfc's soundtrack to the adventure game Old Man's Journey on vinyl.
The release will be a double 10″ on black vinyl. It will come in a cloth-wrapped jacket with printed inners and 4 post cards – all with artwork by Arno Kiss. It will be a limited run of 1000 copies.
It is priced at $45 and is scheduled to release in Q4 2018. Preorders are open now via iam8bit's store.
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SCNTFC's Oxenfree Soundtrack can now be preordered on vinyl via iam8bit
May 26, 2016 rpbtz
While preorders opened for yesterdays Hyper Light Drifter announcement, iam8bit also snuck in a brand new listing for the soundtrack to Oxenfree, which is composed by SCNTFC.
The soundtrack will come on 2LP 180g colored vinyl in a foil-printed and die-cut jacket with cover art by Austin James and sleeve art by Heather Gross. The release comes with a download code which will be sent out to people who preorders on June 3 (and immediately to people who order on that date or later).
It had already been confirmed by SCNTFC on Twitter that his soundtrack would be released on vinyl and it was speculated that iam8bit would be the ones putting it out as they had already done merch for the game. It hadn't been officially announced until today, though.
The release is expected to ship in late September 2016 and can be preordered via iam8bit's US store here and their UK store here.
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Q: Change text color of a ternary operator's expression to red or green depending on which one is executed I'm very new to Javascript and I've been stuck on this problem for a few hours now and I cant seem to find out how to solve the problem.
Is there a way to have the ternary operator output "$" with green text or "-$" as red text?
The way I have it set up right now will check if the income is greater than or equal to the outcome and then add the appropriate sign in front of the balance amount. But I want the Balance and Sign to turn red if the value is negative and green if positive.
I've tried to assign an ID of 'signValue' to the $ in the HTML file and then use
document.getElementById("signValue").style.color = "red"

for example and I still can't get it to work.
 // DETERMINE THE + or - SIGN OF THE BALANCE
         let sign = (income >= outcome) ? "$" : "-$"
}

A: This should work depending on the values of income and outcome

const income = 1000
const outcome = 500
let sign = (income >= outcome) ? "$" : "-$"

const element = document.getElementById("signValue")
if (sign === "$")
  element.style.color = 'green'
else if (sign === "-$")
  element.style.color = 'red'

element.innerHTML = sign;

A: You can try this
    let element = document.getElementById("signValue");
    element.innerHTML = (income > outcome ? "" : "-") + "$";
    element.style.color = income > outcome ? "green" : "red";

A: Hope that below code will help you,
HTML Code :

  $   100

JavaScript Code
 getCheck() {
    const income = 120;
    const outcome = 110
    let res = income >= outcome ? "green" : "red";
    document.getElementById("currency").style.color = res;
}

`


Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of interest in the modern as weil as the clas sical techniques of applied mathematics. This renewal of interest, bothin research and teaching, has led to the establishment of the series: Texts in Applied Mathematics (TAM). The development of new courses is a natural consequence of a high Ievel of excitement on the research frontier as newer techniques, such as numerical and symbolic computer systems, dynamical systems, and chaos, mix with and reinforce the traditional methods of applied mathematics. Thus, the purpose of this textbook series is to meet the current and future needs of these advances and encourage the teaching of new courses. TAM will publish textbooks suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, and will complement the Applied Mathematical Seiences (AMS) series, which will focus on advanced textbooks and research Ievel monographs. Preface This book is based on a one-term coursein fluid mechanics originally taught in the Department of Mathematics of the U niversity of California, Berkeley, during the spring of 1978. The goal of the course was not to provide an exhaustive account of fluid mechanics, nor to assess the engineering value of various approximation procedures.


In a boost for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the Nishad Party Thursday announced an alliance with it and Praveen Nishad, who won the Gorakphur Lok Sabha bypoll last year on an SP ticket, joined the saffron party.
Hours later, Samajwadi Party president Yadav termed it a ghaate wala sauda, or loss-making deal, for the BJP and also alleged that money had changed hands.
Praveen Nishad, whose father Sanjay Nishad is the head of the Nishad Party, won from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's home turf after the SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party joined hands there to take on the BJP.
Akhilesh Yadav said by inducting Praveen Nishad the BJP was entering into a loss-making deal, not realising that the people in Gorakhpur had voted for the SP-BSP alliance and not for the candidate.
In a series of tweets in Hindi, Yadav also mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party for not coming out yet with its manifesto, asking if it planned to release it only when the polls are over.
Will the prime minister's 'achhe din' (good times) manifesto come after the elections? he tweeted in Hindi.
This time even BJP supporters are not able to say among themselves that 'achhe din' are coming, so how will they say it to the people?" he said.
The SP chief insinuated that Praveen Nishad switched over to the BJP in return for a bag of 'prasad' (cash) from the 'mathadheesh' of Gorakhnath temple, referring to Adityanath.
He, however, did not substantiate the allegation.
"Will the Gorakhpur MP who got a bagful of 'prasad' from the mathadheesh' distribute it among others or devour it alone?" Yadav said.
"It is certain that the brothers' boat will sink in the elections," he said in an apparent reference to Praveen Nishad and Adityanath.
Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Nishad Party joined the SP-BSP-RLD alliance on March 26. Three days later, it quit.
It was keen to contest on its own symbol this time but Akhilesh Yadav's party apparently wanted it to fight on the SP ticket again.
On Thursday, Praveen Nishad joined the BJP in New Delhi in the presence of Union minister J P Nadda.
Nadda said the Gorakhnath MP had joined the BJP due to his faith in the policies of the Narendra Modi government.
The Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (Nishad Party) was formed in 2016, claiming to empower Nishads, Kewats, Binds and other communities, whose livelihoods are dependent on the river.
Members of these communities are mostly boatmen or fishermen, and are demanding a Scheduled Caste status.
Nishad Party fielded 100 candidates in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly election in alliance with the Peace Party, the Apna Dal (Krishna Patel faction) and the Jan Adhikar Party.
Its candidate Vijay Mishra won Gyanpur assembly seat in Bhadohi district.


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Memorial Service for Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
The University of North Carolina's Friends of the Library will host a memorial service for Louis D. Rubin, Jr., on Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 pm in the auditorium of the Genome Sciences Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rubin was a beloved editor, novelist, essayist, teacher, and publisher. He and Shannon Ravenel co-founded Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1983 to discover and promote talented new voices of Southern literature—voices like Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Kaye Gibbons, and Clyde Edgerton, among many others. The New York Times called him "a champion of Southern writers."
"He became something of a literary hero to me even before I met him," said Edgerton. "After I met him, I respected him even more."
Rubin came to the University of North Carolina in 1967, following two years at the University of Pennsylvania and ten at Hollins College in Virginia, where he chaired the English department for several years. He remained on UNC's English faculty for twenty-two years, retiring from teaching in 1989 as University Distinguished Professor of English, and later Emeritus. He left teaching in order to devote his energies full time to Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
He wrote two hours a day and credited his newspaper background with his ability to produce rapidly. "On a newspaper you do the best you can and you get it out," he said. "You don't hold it forever. It's a matter of discipline. I've found it very valuable."
He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 1997.
Parking for the memorial service will be available in the nearby Bell Tower Parking Deck. The service is sponsored by the department of English and comparative literature.
English department chair Beverly Taylor will open and close the service. Speakers include Clyde Edgerton, Joseph Flora, William Harmon, Meg Harper, Jill McCorkle, Shannon Ravenel, and Robert Rubin.
UNC's Friends of the Library will host a reception in Wilson Library immediately following the service.
For UNC tributes to Rubin, visit http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/content/professor-louis-rubin.
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Our traditional style home is bright and cozy and the perfect place to call your "Home Away from Home." Our guests will have access to the entire home which includes 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a walk in closet, patio, and TV room. Located in a great location in the Glebe, it is just steps away from Lansdowne Park, TD stadium, the Rideau Canal, restaurants, shops, pubs, boutiques, grocery stores, movie theatres and much more!
A very comfortable and cozy space with lots of natural light, partial antique flooring and narrow staircases. Spread out over 3 levels, guests will have to be able to climb 2 sets of stairs to reach the bedrooms or the media room on the lower level. The kitchen is well supplied with dishes, pots and pans and all the basic fixins' for a Do-It-Yourself breakfast in the morning.
Guests will be provided a personal access code prior to their Check-In day. This access code will be valid throughout their stay and will grant our guests access to come and go as they please, without a key. (*Please note: if a late check- out is required, arrangements must be made in advance as the access code will expire and arrangements need to be with our cleaning staff).
Guests will have access to the entire home. There are no shared spaces.
We provide "self serve Check- In" via personal pin after 3 pm. We will give you space and privacy to enjoy our home and surrounding area, however we are quickly available by phone, email or text if you have questions or require assistance.
Two guest street parking passes are available for our guests but subject to availability (events at Lansdowne or city of ottawa snow removal). Underground parking is also available at TD stadium for $20/day. (Steps away).
You can walk, bike (rentals available nearby), taxi, Uber or take the public bus to all major attractions.
Major public bus line #6 and #7 are a couple blocks away and takes you to Parliament building and Byward market in approx 15 minutes.
We love Ottawa and are very excited to share our home with you. In our spare time, we love to travel aboard, meet new people and explore new cities and cultures. If we can't travel abroad, we also enjoy staying local! We love trying out new restaurants and exploring all the different activities our city has to offer... and trust us- there are so many things to do!
We are located in the Glebe! This is one of Ottawa's older and more prestigious neighbourhoods located just south of the downtown area. Here you will find mature trees, early 20th century homes and the beautiful Rideau Canal. You will fall in love with the local shops and restaurants along Bank Street. We are also steps away from Lansdowne Park. Here you can enjoy Ottawa's VIP cinema, restaurants, shopping, grocery stores and TD Place. You can catch Ottawa's Red Blacks football team in action, or enjoy your favourite musician when he/she comes to town!
Washing Machine is located on the property. We supply laundry detergent for your convince. Not share with others.
Dryer is located on the property. Not share with others.
2 guest street parking are available to our guests but subject to availability (Events and Lansdowne or City Ottawa snow removal). Underground parking is also available a the TD stadium for a fee.
Towel provided depending how many guest are staying.
We have high speed WiFi.
provide dishwasher soap located under the sink.
We have bread, eggs, butter, jams, creams etc for our guest to have access to.
Large Microwave located over the stove.
We have a coffee Maker and provide free coffee to our guests.
We have a Flat Screen LCD TV. We also have a RUKO streaming player which allows you to access your own Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu account. Please log yourself out of your account before you leave.
We have a selection of DVD to choose from.
We have different genres of DVD to select from : kid movies, adventure, teen, horror, comedy.
We have a patio set (seasonal).
We had a great stay. near restaurants and Landowne Park. neat and clean, well stocked.. A Whole Foods a block away.
This rental is in an awesome location; walking distance to events venues, the canal, shopping, many restaurants and more. Couldn't have been happier with being located in this trendy new area!
The hosts surprised us with all the fixings needed for breakfast and some evening snacks. This was really appreciated.
Washrooms and bedrooms are up or down a flight of stairs.
We are from Ottawa, but currently live overseas. We were looking for a place in our 'old' neighbourhood so that we could be close to friends and so we would be familiar with the area. We had previously stayed in apartment hotels downtown which were rather sterile.
From the time we walked in, we could tell that we had made a great choice. The house is half of a side by side double, and is cosy but very well equipped. It would be regarded as being small for a home but it was certainly enough space for us (couple with a child) and a pleasant alternative to an apartment. The place was immaculate, and there were even some goodies already in the fridge for us to use. On-street parking was perfectly adequate, in fact we managed to get a space right in front most of the time. The house was very quiet despite being a stone's throw from the Lansdowne development - this is actually a bonus as there are many restaurants to choose from.
Contact with the owners was very easy and they were responsive. Access was via a code so we did not even see them, but it was comforting to know that they were just an e-mail away.
We were very happy and wouldn't hesitate to stay here again.
Lots of nice little extras including breakfast makings and cosmetics. Very clean and well equipped.
Charming old home full of character. A short walk to shops restaurants, the canal and landsdowne. Plenty of on street parking and easy to access. Deo and Kim are easy to deal with.
We visited for Winterlude, it was an easy walk to a mid canal access point (5 street). Deo And Kim were extremely helpful and responsive to all of our questions. We parked the car and never needed it again, as we walked or skated everywhere. The home was very clean and cozy, with nicely equipped kitchen, small but comfortable bedrooms and a delightful living room for evening wine and cheese. The location could not have been better, lots of interesting restaurants / bars, shopping and even a Whole foods. This was our first VRBO rental and we could not have been happier.
Lansdowne has transformed with time to better fit the increasing modernity of the great world capitals. Located in close proximity to downtown, this community is vibrant and lively. Easily accessible using public transit lines 1 and 7, and flanked by the Rideau Canal and Bank Street, Lansdowne has numerous amenities that make it a unique space. A trade hub whose history began with the construction of the Aberdeen Pavilion in 1898, today Lansdowne is firmly focused on the future with a completely renewed space dedicated to sports, culinary experiences, the art of living, culture and leisure.
The TD Place Stadium alone shows the community's ambitions. It's an ultramodern sports complex, which regularly hosts Redblacks football games and Fury soccer matches as well as the young and talented 67's, who are progressing in the Ontario Hockey League, in the arena located under one of the stands. Up to 24,000 fans can fit into these stands for the big nights, which makes for a great atmosphere.
The stadium also hosts large international competitions, like the last FIFA Women's World Cup, which energized fans of all the countries represented at Lansdowne Park.
The TD Place Stadium isn't just a hotspot for sports. It's also a major venue for world famous musical acts. Plenty of concerts take place each year in the arena and the stadium, such as Def Leppard, AC/DC and The Piano Guys.
And if your favourite band isn't playing yet, be sure to plan a special night at the Lansdowne Cineplex, a brand new complex with features such as VIP theatres to watch your favourite movies in the utmost comfort with luxurious seats, in-seat service and a special menu. What's more, parking is free with your movie ticket!
For the simple pleasure of sharing a good meal with friends or family, before or after a game, Lansdowne offers many possibilities for dining in a casual and accessible atmosphere. Take, for example, the famous Jack Astor's franchise, known for its tacos, nachos and burgers and its large selection of beers, or JOEY with its menu full of flavours and specialties from around the world. More classic, but just as popular, South St. Burger Co. serves their burgers in a New York–style atmosphere, while Milestones puts a brilliant spin on the great culinary classics. Regardless of your tastes and budget, you'll definitely find the fare for you at Lansdowne!
What would Lansdowne be without its traditional and much-anticipated Farmers' Market? Year-round, inside the Aberdeen Pavilion or outside, many merchants, farmers and artisans sell their fresh products, creations and prepared dishes. Seasonal fruits and vegetables, practical ideas, local bread and pastries, drinks, organic product stands… the market is brimming with great ideas for your table. Whether you like to cook for your family, your friends or yourself, or you just want to taste the local specialties, the market is the perfect occasion.
Just a five-minute walk away, on Bank Street, the famous Whole Foods Market also has a particularly well-stocked establishment that emphasizes products that are organic, local or environmentally friendly. Good values to shop well and eat well, with direct access to the underground parking lot connecting all the stores in the area.
Finally, the art of living also includes "living well" at home. Beyond the ultramodern and luxurious apartments that surround the area, the Structube store, specializing in modern designer furniture, should give you countless ideas for interior design or renovations! Lansdowne is also a lively area for solo or family leisure activities. Winter is full of adventures with free skating on the rink in the heart of the area, or on the Rideau Canal, which is very close to the park. In the summer, the skate park, kids' play structures and fountains will delight young and old. And if you want to just take your time, the park that surrounds Lansdowne is great for walking, with its numerous green spaces.


Did Losing GOP Senate Candidates Falter by Not Backing Trump?
The results are in and the Republicans are holding on to control of the Senate. But there was an interesting trend that happened on Election Night.
The senators who disavowed Donald Trump during their campaigns ended up losing their races.
There were nine competitive Senate races going into Tuesday night — eight Republican-held seats and one Democratic-held seat: Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Six of the Republican candidates in these states stood by Trump, though for Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, he waited until just before the polls closed to announce that. But three other candidates rejected him: Mark Kirk of Illinois, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Joe Heck of Nevada.
Those three candidates ended up losing their races, while everyone else won theirs.
But Jennifer Nicoll Victor, associate professor of political science at George Mason University, is cautious to say that because these candidates didn't support Trump, they lost their races.
Nicoll Victor points to the Illinois race between Kirk and Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth. Duckworth became a Democratic champion in the state and was known for being outspoken. Kirk had an uphill race from the beginning.
Ayotte and Heck did have a chance of winning though. Heck led throughout the summer, but after he withdrew his support for Trump when the video came out showing Republican presidential nominee making lewd comments about women, his support started to decline.
He ended up losing to Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto by more than 26,000 votes and had 17,000 fewer votes than Trump on Election Night.
Ayotte's race was even closer. She and Democratic challenger Gov. Maggie Hassan were virtually tied since last year. But Ayotte was consistently running two points or more higher than Trump in the polls.
Trump ultimately lost New Hampshire by just 1,500 votes, but even though he lost, it would seem that Ayotte would be poised to win, even by a narrow margin. But she ended up losing by about 700 votes. There is clear evidence that Ayotte was correct to distance herself from Trump as she received 7,883 more votes than he did.
Ayotte could have called for a recount since the results were so close, but she conceded to Hassan on Wednesday.
Joseph Bafumi, associate professor of government at Dartmouth College, said it's not necessarily surprising that these candidates lost.
"Keep in mind that a lot of candidates were in states that are leaning Democratic and someone like Ayotte and Kirk, they felt like they were in a really tough contest and they needed to appeal to the swing voter," he said in an interview with NH Journal.
Bafumi has a point. Illinois, New Hampshire and Nevada's electoral votes all ended up going to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. These Senate candidates needed to appeal to those independent voters in the state and after constantly getting called out by the left to disavow them, they saw no choice but to distance themselves from the president-elect.
Did that work for them? It's hard to say that is the direct cause of their loss, but overall, it is an interesting dynamic that happened on Election Night.
There is one notable exception though: Incumbent Republican Sen. John McCain was also in a fierce fight with Democratic challenger Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. McCain never embraced Trump, and he held on to his Senate seat.
But then again, Arizona's electoral votes went to Trump and he won the state by nearly 85,000 votes. McCain even garnered more votes than Trump by about 68,000.
Nicoll Victor said many people underestimated Trump's victory and the effect it had on down-ballot races. Trump brought new voters to turnout for him who were not counted in previous polls.
This was evident in the other Senate races where Republicans had a long-shot at taking the seat.
Ron Johnson had a tough race in Wisconsin, but he ended up riding Trump's coattails to a 3 point victory against Democrat Russ Feingold. Johnson received more votes than Trump too, by almost 70,000 proving that his support for Trump throughout the campaign didn't hurt him at all.
Todd Young was barely favored to hold on to a Republican-controlled seat in Indiana, but he beat Democrat Evan Bayh by about 10 points. Although Young took fewer votes than Trump — about 133,000 — his wide margin win against Bayh showed that his support for the president-elect had little impact voters at the polls.
They all supported Trump and ended up winning. But keep in mind, all these states went to Trump as well.
Maybe if the three candidates who lost disavowed Trump earlier in the race, they might have won. Maybe not. Or maybe the Republicans always faced an uphill battle in their blue-leaning states.


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What year was agreement taken out ?
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The Fascinating History of Stamped Concrete
How Concrete Stamping was Used in the Ancient Times
Stamped concrete has been around for far longer than you might be imagining. The Ancient Roman Empire started using a form of concrete in the early 150s B.C., using it in the buildings many of us still see standing in Rome today — the Pantheon, the Colosseum — and other bridges and structures spread around their empire's territory.
If you look around those structures today, you'll find evidence of attempts to decorate the concrete they were using. Take the columns of the Pantheon, for example. The capital, the shaft, and the base all carry some kind of imprint that looks almost uniform to one another.
Of course, it is more likely that they used a single engraver to imprint these kinds of complex and detailed designs on the capitals and bases of the columns. But we can see from their old structures that they had the same ideas of decor and patterning that we have today.
Concrete Stamping in the Modern Times
For the modern era of uniform and systematic concrete stamping, that story starts with Brad Bowman. But for Brad Bowman, that story starts with his experimentations. First using a single wooden blade to imprint small designs on wet concrete, he then progressed to two blades, then figured out a way to bind them together and use it to imprint patterns on concrete.
In the 1950s, Bowman began making those stamps with sheet metal, then with heavy aluminum casts. He patented these tools and processes and sold the patents to a larger corporation, which used his patents to stamp concrete sidewalks and to franchise contractors around the country to use the same patterns on floors in homes and other areas. Disney also began stamping their own concrete.
Brad Bowman was an innovative and creative man who gave us the gift of concrete stamping, but other people also helped develop the craft.
A man named Joe Nasvik thought about the heavy aluminum patterns that had to be used to stamp concrete and invented urethane stamps, which were far lighter than Bowman's original aluminum casts. In the 1970s, he further developed his idea of creating lighter and long-lasting stamps that could be easily used by both contractors and people who were looking to improve their own homes by inventing the plastic stamp.
The plastic stamp was revolutionary in the concrete stamping industry for two reasons: the first is that, as we have said, it was far lighter and easier to use. But secondly, plastic stamps were able to deliver both design and texture. The texture of concrete floors had started to become important when it became known that certain textures helped refract sunlight more than others, thus, making it cooler to the touch.
For the stamped concrete we have today, we only know about its ease, its customization, and how beautifully it transforms plain concrete floors. But it's also important to remember the people who used their originality and creativity to give us that.


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Know your Institute: Mainland China
The board secretary role has gone from being virtually unknown in Mainland China 20 years ago to commanding increasing importance and respect today. This fourth article in our 'Know your Institute' series looks at the role that the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries has played in the development of the board secretarial profession in Mainland China, and looks at the challenges for both the Institute and the profession in the years ahead.
T he board secretary role was first introduced in A-share companies in the PRC as recently as 1996, but today the value of well-qualified board secretaries is well recognised in the Mainland and experienced practitioners can now command high salaries and enjoy a high status within Mainland companies.
With so recent a history, there are understandably still areas of underdevelopment – the PRC does not have a national board secretarial qualification or a national board secretarial professional body, for example – but the first tentative steps towards these goals have been made.
This article will look at the development of the board secretarial profession over the last two decades in Mainland China, focusing on the role that the HKICS has played in that development, and will look at the challenges facing both the Institute and the profession in the years ahead.
Stage one (1996–2002)
Kenneth Jiang FCIS FCS(PE), Chief Representative of the Institute's Beijing Representative Office (BRO), divides the development of the profession on the Mainland into four stages. The story starts with the first introduction of the board secretary post in A-share companies in 1996.
'When I was appointed as the board secretary of First Tractor Company Ltd,' says Jiang, 'the concept of the board secretary post was very vague and barely known by most people. It was the H-share training programme in 1998 for chairmen and board secretaries, jointly organised by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) and the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries in Hong Kong, that made me understand the corporate secretarial system in Hong Kong and its core duties and responsibilities particularly in terms of corporate governance.'
With this experience in mind, Jiang is well aware of the value of the Institute's training programmes on the Mainland, both in terms of the practical value for practitioners and in terms of the boost it gives to the Institute's profile. CPD training has in fact been the cornerstone of the Institute's strategy in Mainland China.
The first training programmes – held jointly with key stakeholders on the Mainland – were set up in the 1990s when the Institute's China strategy was the responsibility of its China Affairs Committee (CAC). Dongfang Gumi was recruited as a part-time consultant in 1995 and she helped set up the Institute's Beijing Representative Office in 1996. She became the Institute's first Chief Representative of the BRO in that year.
The Institute was eager to promote better knowledge of the board secretary role and the importance of good corporate governance and that strategy dovetailed with that of regulators on both sides of the border. In the 1990s the HKICS started to enter into agreements with stakeholders in the Mainland to jointly provide such training.
Meanwhile, the Mainland was building up its regulatory and legislative infrastructure to support better corporate governance. The Code of Corporate Governance for Listed Companies in China was issued in 2001 and the CSRC's International Department and Listing Company Supervision Department started to promulgate a clearer definition of the board secretary's duties and responsibilities in listed companies. This was eventually backed up by the introduction of a statutory requirement in PRC company law for the role to be at the senior manager level in 2005.
Stage two (2003–2006)
The key event in this second period of development was the launch of the Institute's Affiliated Persons (AP) programme. After consultation with HKEx and Mainland regulators, the Institute officially launched the programme in 2004 and set up its own CPD series designed for APs in the Mainland (The AP ECPD programme). The Institute now has 135 registered APs from H-share companies but also, increasingly, from red-chip and A-share companies.
Dr Gao Wei FCIS FCS(PE), Vice-President of the HKICS, says that the Institute's AP ECPD programme was one of the main drivers for his decision to seek HKICS membership. He points out that the programme is particularly relevant for board secretaries and related personnel in H-share companies in Mainland China, not only for CPD training but also as a communication platform for all stakeholders.
'The company I work for, Sinotrans Ltd, is an H-share company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which means that I need to abide by the law and listing rules of Hong Kong. Being a member of HKICS provides me with training and communication with market participants and board secretaries of Hong Kong and international leading corporations in order to better perform my duty as a board secretary,' he says.
Stage three (2007–2011)
In this period the Institute embarked on its promotion of the professionalisation of the board secretarial role. As mentioned at the outset, the PRC does not have a national board secretarial qualification or certification system. The rules and regulations of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges restrict the appointment of board secretaries to those attending the training and examinations organised by these stock exchanges, but the Institute believes that Mainland China would profit from having a national board secretarial qualification to provide a quality assurance system for board secretaries.
While it is too early to say what form any eventual board secretary qualification system will take, the Institute seeks 'mutual recognition' of appropriate professional qualifications attained in Mainland China or Hong Kong. The Institute believes that the Chartered Secretarial qualification can be one of the qualifications pertinent to the appointment of the board secretary for Mainland China listed issuers in the long term.
In 2007, an examination centre was set up in Beijing and the Institute started to recruit students from H-share companies. The Institute currently has 151 registered mainland students and 13 graduates via its IQS examinations. Dr Gao was one of the first Mainland China-based members to gain HKICS membership via the IQS exams.
'The IQS provides the necessary expertise board secretaries need to acquire to fulfil their obligations,' he says. 'You need to master this knowledge whether you take the exam or not, but I found that the IQS helped me to understand the concepts of corporate governance better and to know how our global peers run their companies. This is an international profession and, through the HKICS, board secretaries in Mainland China can learn about the corporate secretarial profession globally. Although different markets have different features, the basic logic of corporate governance is the same. Corporate governance lays down the rules of the game and Chinese enterprises need to learn these rules during their internationalisation.'
In this period the Institute also revised its Mainland affairs structure. In 2008 it dissolved its China Affairs Committee and incorporated its work into the work of its three principal Committees:
• the Professional Development Committee is responsible for CPD training and research reports
• the Membership Committee is responsible for the admission of APs, and
• the Education Committee is responsible for studentship admission and the IQS examinations in Mainland China.
The Institute also set up its Mainland China Focus Group to implement the initiatives set by Council and to coordinate the Institute's Mainland work. Members of the Group are: Edith Shih FCIS FCS(PE), (Convener); Jack Chow FCIS FCS; Dr Gao Wei FCIS FCS; Maurice Ngai FCIS FCS(PE); Ivan Tam FCIS FCS; and Yao Jun FCIS FCS.
Stage four (2012 to the present)
The key event in this current phase of development of the board secretarial profession was the creation of China's first national self-regulatory organisation for board secretaries in July 2013. Kenneth Jiang believes that the launch of the China Association for Public Companies (CAPCO) Professional Committee of the Board Secretary may represent China's first step towards the professionalisation of the board secretary position in China.
Another key development was the publication of the Institute's research report – Guidelines on Practices of Inside Information Disclosure of A+H Companies. 'This was the first time we organised board secretaries of H-share companies to sum up our experiences and write a guideline on compliance with domestic laws and the laws of Hong Kong,' says Dr Gao, who played a central role in writing the Guidelines.
He adds that the disclosure of pricesensitive information (PSI) has become a major compliance challenge for H-share and A-share companies in the Mainland. In particular, the implementation of the revised Securities and Futures Ordinance in Hong Kong in January 2013 brought in new and complex requirements regarding the disclosure of PSI. The Guidelines attempt to clarify the appropriate compliance best practices since the requirements regarding PSI disclosure in Hong Kong and China are not identical.
'Although the regulatory purposes of the two laws are almost the same, the specific regulations of the two laws are quite different, which makes it more difficult for H-share companies and the A+Hshare companies on the Mainland to deal with compliance work. I hope that the Guidelines can provide help with this compliance work and I also hope that in the future we can do more work in this field to support Chinese enterprises to abide by foreign laws and internationalise successfully,' says Dr Gao.
This article has traced the evolution of the board secretarial profession over the last two decades in China, but what challenges will it face in the future? Kenneth Jiang points out that many key trends in the corporate and regulatory environment in the Mainland bode well for board secretaries. These include:
• the impact of deregulatory reform
• the ongoing reform of state-owned enterprises and the development of 'mixed-ownership' enterprises
• the continuing trend for increasing numbers of Mainland companies to seek listings overseas, and
• the professionalisation of the board secretary role.
'As the fast-growing Mainland capital market continues to converge with its international counterparts, the need for corporate governance professionals with international perspectives keeps growing,' says Jiang.
Dr Gao points out, however, that there are challenges ahead. 'Board secretaries enjoy a high status in the PRC as they are by law part of senior management, but they make less of a contribution than expected to corporate governance. I anticipate that, with the development of the capital market in Mainland China and the improvement of the level of internationalisation, the board secretarial profession will have an increasing social influence.'
Both Jiang and Dr Gao believe that the Institute will continue to play an important role in the development of the profession in China. 'The Institute will further strengthen its student recruitment to a wider group, including red-ship companies, to-be-listed companies, A-share companies and multinational companies. It will also further strengthen services to its Mainland students so as to enlarge the member pool and boost its professional influence in Mainland China,' says Jiang.
Look out for the concluding article in this series in next month's journal (December 2014 edition).