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So this weekend I found out there was a half priced books store near my parents house. I originally went there to look at cheap books about Chinese economy and partical physics but saw a huge manga selection. I'm sorry… I couldn't control myself! Here are the volumes I picked up.
A. I. love you, from the author that brought you Love Hina. This story is about Hitoshi Kobe, not the brightest student in the world but he has an uncanny ability at creating artificial intelligence on his computer. A. I. number thirty is his favorite and the only girl he can talk to. One night, during a heavy thunder storm lightning strikes his house and his computer. This causes number thirty to emerge from the computer into real life. Sending his life into a new direction. I got the first 4 volumes, there are 9 in the series. This series ran from 1994 to 1997. MAL Link
Alive: the final evolution was written by Tadashi Kawashima and art by Adachitoka. Taisuke Kanou, 16 years old and has two close friends. During one class he is struck with a sudden vision of the universe. We find out later that a strange virus, that's making its way across the globe, is causing its victims to commit suicide. Within a week, a majority of the population has killed themselves. Leaving this group of high schoolers wondering why they were spared. I got volumes 1-3 and volume 7. There are 21 volumes in this series and was published between the years of 2003 to 2010. MAL Link
Saikano: the last love song on this little planet with the story and art by Shin Takahashi. Shy Chise and nervous Shuji are high schoolers just starting a relationship together. One day a group of bombers come to destroy the city Chise and Shuji live in. All seems lost until a mysterious person shows up and fights the bombers and destroys them. Later on Shuji finds out the person is Chise and she was developed by the Japanese Self Defense Force to transform into the ultimate weapon. I bought the first 2 volumes, there are 7 volumes in the series and was published between the years of 1999 and 2001. I'm really excited to start reading this one, it looks really good. MAL Link
Translucent, story and art was by Kazuhiro Okamoto, is a story about Shizuka Shiroyama was a rare disease that causes portions of her body to become invisible. This story is a slice of life, romance where you follow the life of Shizuka. Through her life you see her deal with her insecurities of her problem, the boy who is developing a love for her, and dealing with everyday life of a teen girl. I only got the first volume but this series caught my eye and I'm excited to get more of the volumes and read these. There are 5 volumes in this series and was published between the years of 2005 and 2006. MAL Link
Pita-Ten with story and art by Koge-Donbo is about Misha who just moved in next door to Kotarou Higuchi and promises to protect him no matter what. Another slice-of-life, romantic comedy. Misha is an angel who, up until recently, lived in heaven her whole life. Hilarity ensues as this overprotective angel learns the social norms of the human world. Unfortunately I only got the 2nd volume without the first volume. So I won't be able to start reading this yet. Which sucks, I like the old school cute art, it reminds me a little of Chobits back when I first read that series. There are 8 volumes in the series that were published between the years of 1999 and 2003. MAL Link
And lastly, Gakuen Alice with story and art by Tachibana Higuchi. Mikan and Hotaru are best friends. Although, Hotaru is… rather special… in a good way. She is given the opportunity to study in Tokyo at a school the government reserves for geniuses. After she breaks her promise to come home for the holidays, Mikan decides to run away from home to see her friend. She learns from a teacher and Hotaru's mother that this school is not what it shows on the outside. Once she arrives at the school, she soon realizes that this school is for students who possess special powers called "alices." She eventually is reunited with her friend but also finds herself enrolled in the school. But is Mikan actually an "alice" wielder? or is she like Tsukune from Rosario Vampire? I already have volume 4 of this manga and I picked up volume 3. I don't have the first two volumes so I can't read this yet but I'm excited to start reading it. I'm a little bummed though, there are 31 volumes in this series but only the first 16 volumes were translated into english. I guess I'll need to speed up my Japanese language learning so I can finish this story. This story ran from 2002 to 2013. MAL Link
I hope you all Enjoyed! Have a wonderful day!


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upcoming historical fiction author interviews
Hey there! I just wanted to give you all a heads up on the author interviews I have lined up in the next few months...whet your appetite, if you will =)
Susan Higginbotham ~ The Traitor's Wife (April 6)
C.W. Gortner ~ The Last Queen (May 6)
Vanora Bennett ~ Figures in Silk (tbd)
Jules Watson ~ The Swan Maiden (tbd)
Elizabeth Chadwick ~ The Greatest Knight (September, for US Release)
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- AnonymousMarch 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM
What a fantastic line-up! I'm so pleased to hear that The Greatest Knight is coming out in the US. Non-importing Americans are in for a treat!ReplyDelete
I just got an import of THE GREATEST KNIGHT! Can't wait for the interview!ReplyDelete
Awesome Amy. I'm just starting The Traitor's Wife this weekend.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM
I'm definitely looking forward to them! I LOVED C.W. Gortner's book.ReplyDelete
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Somerset, N.J. (Sept. 1, 2017) – Sky Blue – PDA will play its inaugural matches on Saturday with the launch of the U.S. Soccer Girl's Development Academy, marking the official start of a nationwide competition for more than 6,000 players from 69 member clubs.
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University strikes have inspired students on several campuses across Britain to occupy in solidarity—and raise their own demands for education.
Student activists have occupied university buildings in Bath, Exeter, Reading, Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cambridge and central and east London.
The latest occupation began in Glasgow this morning, when students took over the Senate Room of the university's Main Building.
The occupiers demand that management show support for university workers fighting attacks on their pensions by bosses' organisation Universities UK. Their demands include that workers get full pay during the strikes.
And they warned, "Failure to respond to our demands by 2PM will not be taken lightly, and if our demands are not met we may be forced to take further action."
Some 20 students have occupied the Octagon building at Queen Mary's university in east London. Occupiers protested at six o clock this morning as President and Principal Colin Bailey crossed the picket line.
They are also demanding that Bailey declare support for keeping workers' current pension scheme and release gender pay gap and diversity data.
And new demands have grown out of the show of solidarity for the strike. The students are calling on university management to reverse cuts to bursaries. Students say bosses justified the cuts with claims that the bursaries haven't lowered the drop-out rate.
Instead the occupiers say bursaries should be used to help poorer students, rather than focussed on retention. Occupier Nadia told Socialist Worker, "It's another example of the marketisation of education."
She added that the occupation had shamed university bosses. "On the first day security were awful to us," she said.
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But she added, "We used social media well and embarrassed managers over their treatment of us, so now it's a bit more relaxed."
Students at Bath university were also prevented from returning if they left to use the toilet. Instead they used bottles which they lowered to supporters below using a pulley system.
Occupiers at Cambridge university have held teach-outs, while activists in Dundee, Aberdeen and Bath occupied university offices.


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Consolidation has long been an uncomfortable - if necessary - spectre for financial services institutions (FSIs). Operating in a growing and increasingly global marketplace has forced FSIs to build economies of scale across product and service lines, lest they fall victim to larger, better-capitalised and highly aggressive competitors.
Not surprisingly, more than a decade of often frantic merger and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the insurance and banking sectors has made those companies fairly skilled at folding similar organisations into one another and extracting the cost-saving operational benefits. What's more, they have demonstrated this ability across geographic borders, melding different cultures and structures to create ever larger - and in some cases, more focused - companies in the process.
Still, despite many notable successes, the fact remains that almost half of FSI mergers and acquisitions fail to hit the targets for value-creation that are set for them in the planning phase. Further, a quarter of those deals fail to produce any added value at all, leaving senior executives hard pressed to justify their motivation to a base of disgruntled shareholders.
Given that ongoing regulatory reform is freeing insurers and banks to engage in cross-sector M&A, the long-running consolidation game will only grow in scope and pace. And because FSIs that engage in these kinds of deals will in most instances be branching into new businesses, the stakes are even higher for senior executives seeking to generate new sources of shareholder value by combining insurance and banking organisations.
That is because rather than simply profiting from operational efficiencies - as is the case with inter-sector mergers - the cross-fertilisation of insurance companies and banks demands that the merged company significantly boosts revenues by cross-selling products and services to its combined customer base. Further, the drive to increase revenues often entails opening new markets, as well as creating new sets of products and services that maximise the capabilities of both organisations.
As a result, going outside their industry sector presents senior executives with a host of new challenges that will test the mettle of their merger acumen. Corporate executives that are skilled at cutting costs are not necessarily good at understanding customer value propositions - especially those at work in the new sector they are entering - or at coming up with product sets that make both commercial and operational sense.
Cross-sector mergers demand greater strategic planning. Yet those senior executives that have successfully married like businesses often fail to recognise - or ignore altogether - the difficulties that lie in mixing dissimilar organisations and successfully growing shareholder value from the products of those exercises.
Corporate executives used to looking chiefly at cost reduction when undertaking inter-sector M&A deals must integrate the revenue sides of each component when merging across sectors. This means placing a greater emphasis on determining customer value propositions, as well as on understanding delivery channel dynamics.
When technology-driven initiatives such as ebusiness are added to the mix, it makes cross-sector M&A an even more perplexing task for senior managers. And that is before considering cultural issues, such as whether bankers are best-placed to sell insurance products.
To be sure, failing to overcome these challenges brings a significant degree of risk that goes beyond simply raising the hackles of shareholders. Because FSIs also have become adept at understanding what to do when their competitors merge, they present an increasing threat - both in terms of targeting the customers of the merged organisation and from cherry-picking key employees - especially when things go wrong.
Given that performance is paramount, the key to creating shareholder value from cross-sector mergers lies in proper preparation. And in most cases, this preparation begins even before companies seek out potential M&A partners or targets. This is especially important given that many inter-sector mergers fail to produce value because the combining entities simply are not suited to each other in terms of product and service lines, organisational structures or corporate cultures.
Delineating strategy and articulating it throughout the organization, as well as to customers and shareholders, will ensure that an often painful process is less so. Meanwhile, setting both short-term implementation targets for the merged business in conjunction with longer term objectives - and keeping a close eye on those goals - will provide senior executives with a clearer picture of the merged business and the ability to act quickly if and when problems arise.
Crunch time
Thanks to a host of factors - including the unceasing march of information technology, commoditisation of products and services, and the drive to create operational economies on a global scale - FSIs are consolidating at a blinding rate. And the value of those deals is increasing as ever larger organisations - themselves often the product of a series of mergers - come together in response to the drivers of change.
For example, in Q3 2000 alone, FSIs from all sectors of the industry announced nearly two dozen mergers worldwide which were each worth US$1bn or more.
Going forward, the trend shows little sign of abating. That is because regulatory barriers to these mega-mergers are continuing to fall, paving the way for cross-sector tie-ups and takeovers on a grand scale.
In the US, the adoption of Gramm-Leach-Bliley reforms of the Glass-Steagall legislation that separated banks from insurers is allowing some of the world's largest FSIs to explore what appear to be very attractive prospects for generating shareholder value from operations in other sectors.
In Europe, where universal banking models have long united banks and insurers, European Union legislation aimed at inducing more competition in the region's financial services industry is taking hold. Combined with the introduction of the single currency, banks and insurers see opportunity in reaching beyond their domestic borders to form the kind of organisations that are capable of competing on a global scale.
Further, the return to relative prosperity in emerging regions such as Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe after the series of economic crises in the late 1990s is presenting the kind of opportunity to open new markets that is imperative for cross-sector mergers to succeed. Thus, as the economic health of those regions continues to improve, it will provide further impetus for cross-sector unions.
Of course, not every one of those deals will succeed. And the fact that only about half of inter-sector M&A deals realise the goals for value creation that senior executives foresee in the planning process is leading many insurers and banks to adopt a "go-slow" attitude to cross-sector mergers.
Clearly, the task of marrying dissimilar businesses and product lines is a daunting one in the minds of senior managers. And this is despite the fact that they possess a considerable level of expertise in merging like operations. However, market pressures and the lure of new opportunities to create value for shareholders is pushing many down what will become an unavoidable route for success in increasingly competitive global markets.
Right from the start
Just as with same-sector mergers, the most successful cross-sector M&A deals are those in which the strategic planning phase begins well before potential partners and targets are chosen. Senior managers need to map out their plans of attack well in advance, looking at both the needs of their own businesses and the gaps they are hoping to fill, as well as the range of companies with the potential to shore up those shortfalls.
Indeed, there is no substitute in strategic terms for scenario planning. Knowing what management would do in a variety of situations that are more or less likely to happen is a key element of what a good corporate development and strategic planning department is all about.
Even in the face of careful evaluation, many mergers fail to deliver the expected levels of value simply because the strategic fit simply is not right. The risk associated with mis-aligned businesses arguably is greater with cross-sector mergers, given the lack of familiarity with product and service lines and operational models.
Many of the problems with evaluation lie in the fact that most senior executives only examine traditional areas of value creation - physical assets such as land, buildings and IT infrastructures, and financial assets like funds in the market and other investments. And then they only look at the assets of potential tie-up and takeover targets. Of course, these are good indicators of how businesses might be melded together, but senior managers need to take a deeper look at potential partners and takeover targets - as well as their own businesses - to ensure that M&A deals will succeed in creating value for shareholders.
In order to create and reap fully that value - particularly in light of the changes wrought by the new, web-enabled economy - senior executives must evaluate businesses by looking at three additional asset types. They include:
Assessing the strengths of their own businesses against the five asset bases (physical, financial, customer, employee and supplier, and organisational assets) enables senior executives to evaluate their own capabilities and work out where improvements need to be made. By viewing potential targets in this same light, senior managers can determine which companies possess the assets to help them meet their strategic goals and can be easily slotted into the existing businesses.
The results from using these criteria can lead senior managers to take a different strategic tack. For example, they may discover that they do not want to merge at all. Instead, the most efficient means of meeting their goals might be to pick off the most desirable assets - either by purchasing them or by a takeover and subsequent divestiture of non-target elements of the acquired business.
Measuring up
Whatever the strategy, the twin keys to extracting full value from cross-sector M&A deals are communication and in careful measurement of both implementation and the progress toward reaching long term business goals.
Senior executives must think through the strategies and articulate them across the organization, then work to develop solutions with the people who are actually doing the integration. Even if they cannot - for operational reasons - be privy to the strategic planning phase that is generally the preserve of senior management, it is important to get operations level managers in the loop and working for integration as quickly as possible.
Setting appropriate performance measures is equally vital, both in the integration phase, as well as to the overall success of cross-sector mergers and acquisitions in delivering shareholder value. Key metrics that run in parallel provide the measures that enable senior executives to gauge the progress and to act quickly when difficulties arise. Agreeing on the top 25 to 30 leading, not lagging, measures that are most important to management is critical. It is important to cover all significant risks with the smallest number of measures.
By linking focused, short-term targets for integration with longer term goals for business-as-usual operations, executives and managers can drive the business forward, as well as monitor what is going on directly beneath them. For example, in the area of customer retention, it is important for senior managers to closely track key customer activity, lest they become prey for more savvy competitors on the hunt to profit from disruption to business as usual. Over the longer term, the key metrics for customer retention centre on increasing sales to that same base of customers. Understand the ramifications of linked business objectives. For example, the company may be doing well relative to cost savings targets, but may also be simultaneously losing customer base.
As consolidation pushes cross-sector M&A higher up the agendas of insurers and banks, senior executives cannot afford to be complacent or to rest on the laurels of their past same-sector triumphs. Maximising shareholder value means that rather than focusing purely on implementation, they must think strategically in order to create the conditions for success.
Chris Mills is a Partner in Arthur Andersen's European Financial Services practice and is based in London. Joseph Teplitz is a Partner in Arthur Andersen's North American Financial Services practice and is based in New York City.


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That fancy watch on your wrist...is it the Chicken or the Egg?
I'm predicting two things with the new FDA approved heart-rate device, and every other fancy ECG-reader on the wrists of millions, for that matter!
1) Many people will panic unnecessarily thinking they are electrophysiologists, cardiologists or cardiac surgeons and reading/trusting/interpreting the ECG output on their watch!!
2) The detected rhythm will misinterpret or incorrectly detect an abnormal rhythm...also creating unnecessary panic.
Panic=stress which triggers AF. These devices likely trigger what they are intended to "help" provide awareness against...an abnormal rhythm.
Are these devices the chicken or the egg! What comes first...the abnormal rhythm or the panic? What causes the abnormal rhythm - something else, or the panic? Did people panic BEFORE they look at the device? And, is that panic what causes a lot of the abnormal rhythm? Does just wearing these devices cause panic....are people just uber-abnormal-rate-sensitive?? Are they just waiting for this device to detect a problem? In their subconscious - are those who wear and rely on the devices ever really calm?! Who can tell?
What I want to come out with is a "Panic Sensor Device!" After all, panic, stress, and anxiety trigger/cause many heart and health disorders. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a device that took you from stressed to a quiet and peaceful state of mind? For example, as soon as this device detected your anxiety, it had an immediate calming effect on your body and mind.
You can't trademark ideas, but I sure wish I could! I think we need the "Panic Sensor" more than something that reads the end result, which is a rapid heartrate that, in turn, causes more stress and anxiety resulting in a continued, sustained or worsened rapid and irregular beat.
And, how long until the first lawsuit?? It seems it is only a matter of time before these devices are deemed responsible for a misdiagnosis or "pain and suffering..." or some other litigious nightmare.


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Blaze: Working Women, Public Leaders explores the stories and achievements of women who have served lead roles in the NSW public sphere from the 1860s to the present. Blaze gives voice to remarkable trailblazers from the past and offers insights and perspectives from women today about their unique and diverse journeys of leadership.
Melding past and present, this unique exhibition asks provocative questions about women, the public sphere and leadership. Blaze: Working Women, Public Leaders is a new exhibition curated and produced by State Archives and Records NSW, presented in Riverside Theatres Foyer.
Dates & Times
Wednesday 10 April – Saturday 18 May 2019
Open Box Office hours and one hour prior to performances. Please confirm exhibition times with Box Office on 8839 3399.
Free, no bookings required


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I want to go from Hanoi to Saigon. But still don't know what're differences between companies in Vietnam regarding quality, reliability or service?
Vietnam Airlines! Of course. VNAirlines have a good service, food is fine ( not so good, do not expect about it).But if you want a budget tour, try Jetstar or VietJet. Make sure you know that what price you will pay, you will receive that kind of service.
Vietnam airline is high cost carrier and is the best carrier in vietnam. it has the quality is pretty good, very comfortable( the plane is big and wide) but staffs in plane are not enthusiastic and friendly and especially, they show contempt for the vietnamese. perhaps they only priority foreigners.jestar and vietjet are low cost carrier, two of carrier are competitors together about the price. but planes of them are smaller, older. and staffs are like above. the quality is normal, especially, delaying and canceling are often.so i think if you need higher accuracy. i recommend you should choose vietnam airline
Vietjet and Jetstar are low cost carriers which means you pay for your meals, pay for your drinks, pay for your baggage and probably pay to watch movies. The site below may be useful although it does not mention Vietstar, a but i notice comments are not too favorable re Vietnam airlines.


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7.Keeping a tab on collection and ensuring that the collection objective is met.
8.Managing the shortages / other related issues and settling the issue by raising a CN / DN.
9.Close follow up with the clients in case of client's failure to pay the due outstanding.
10.Appointing, retaining & training the team members to boost sales and handle the queries / objection / doubts of the clients.
11.Motivating and delegating the task to team members and get the work done including Bangalore Branch.
12.Create systems to Oversee individual and team's performance. Ensuring all the leads to sales team is efficiently handled.
13.Maintaining the statuary norms of the office and ensuring the adherence to discipline regulation.
14.Manage the operation of the Branches like License, Expenses, Manpower, Work delegation.
15.Following up with the Taxations / other trade licenses related to sales and branch operations.
Other Details:
Age Group: 40-47
Languages :Hindi, English
Basic Education Qualifications: Bachelors / Masters in respective field
|22 Lac 50 Thousand To 45 Lac P.A.
|Work Experience
|20 - 25 Years
|Professional Degree, Other Bachelor Degree, MD/Medicinae Doctor
Key Skills
Company Profile
|Company Name
|About Company
|Reputed Steel (TMT ) ,IRON Manufacturing Company Based at Corporate Office, Secunderabad
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Keeps shampoo and water out of baby's or toddler's eyes and ears during bath or shower time.
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The true culprits in this mad experiment are the liberal position of "evolution" and "mad radical scientists". The government laboratories were the site of this project. The donor subjects were gathered, the scientists harvested the needed materials from the "donors". The mad radical scientists knew that the new "creature" would be not only ungainly even possibly unable to move or care for its own self, it would also be easily recognized. Deception would be needed at this juncture. The further aid of science was needed because the new "creature" must look exactly like an elephant. The science of DNA came into play. The "mad scientists" arrived at the conclusion that they would also need other "donors" to complete the task. The other "donor" subjects were gathered they were a chameleon, an ant and a termite. The needed materials were harvested from these "donors".
The chameleon was chosen because if its ability to change to fit the surroundings. The new "creature" must be able to change quickly to fit the surroundings or opinions of others nearby. A true liberal position of being all things to all people.
The ant was chosen because they are industrious. The new "creature" must at all times appear to be busy working for America and the American citizens interests.
The termite was chosen simply because of its ability to eat and destroy.
All the harvested materials were then mixed together in a petri dish then injected back into the donor elephant. This could not be a "test tube operation", that would reveal that science had created the "creature" and it was not a product of evolution. Live birth was needed, giving the illusion that an elephant had given birth to an elephant not a "creature". No liberals called for the abortion of this creature and it was protected. The Creature was born and it sure looked like an elephant.
Time passed and the "creature" grew up to become a politician. It gave its self a name, it became a "compassionate conservative". The outward appearance of an elephant, the inner workings of a donkey, the ability to change appearance like the chameleon, the busyness of an ant and the destructiveness of a termite.
The liberals chose the path of science to create the compassionate conservative, evolution takes too long. No known attempts have been made to mate an elephant with a donkey, probably would not survive any way. But if any attempts are made leave the termite out of the mix, our country has suffered enough destruction.
Anyway happy Tax day, mailed the crooks another "pound of flesh".


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The team worshipped at Bon Berger (Good Shepherd) in Cayes, which is the first and largest of the ESMI-planted churches in the region, pastored by Louis St Germain. It is a well known church in that region of Haiti, and its services are televised locally and streamed live on the internet. As a result, it's not uncommon for several thousands to tune in every Sunday, many expatriate Haitians living all over the world. The worship service is long (by US standards) and loud, and joy filled and lively. Our team leader, Ted, preached twice today, once at Cayes and once at Cambry, with the help of an interpreter. The team met new little friends and saw old ones, including Toto (see picture).
There was also a special third "graduation service" this afternoon at Cambry, honoring students completing training in the health services field and other vocational training offered by ESMI's school. Ted spoke at that, too, and a few team members tagged along. After clocking in at three hours in length, they wished they'd known what they were getting into!
This afternoon, the mammoth sorting job was done. This will allow them to be strategic as to what they take tomorrow to Cavaillon as far as medicines and supplies, as it's not possible to carry everything at once each day. It will be a nightly job to restock, re-direct, re-purpose all that they brought, based on the needs of the community they're going to. In some places, they'll see numerous adult community members as well as kids, so meds that adults might need will be packed in greater quantities for those trips, for instance. See some pics attached of bags going to Cavaillon and some reserved for the rest of the week.
The team also got an orientation on how our teams set up medical stations and training on how to do each job that's been assigned. Some will do vital stats like height and weight, some will do a scabies wash (scabies are tiny skin parasites that causes incessant itching, leading often to skin infections, and it's rampant in tropical regions and especially easy to transmit in shared living environments like orphanages; our teams treat every child they see on every trip). There's a full scale mobile pharmacy to dispense meds prescribed by doctors, which the housemoms are given for each child and administer as needed.
Last thing for the evening is "the parade of showers" - 16 people and two bathrooms. Talk about advanced planning abilities!
One correction from last night's update - there were 35 large duffel bags brought into Haiti, not 65. Forgive the typo!
Please pray:
- For restorative sleep aided air conditioning, even in cramped and shared sleeping rooms. The short night last night, the long day in new surroundings today, and the busyness of the day all take their toll. Everyone wants to hit the ground running tomorrow.
- For the team to continue to quickly coalesce into a smooth working unit. They did a great job today sorting and working together. There's always more to do than can get done every day, and working well together means more are served.
- For continued good health as the week goes on.
- For safety in travel. The trip to Cavaillon tomorrow will likely be in a few four wheel drive open bed trucks (travel between ministry sites is part of the adventure of ministry in Haiti; some say better than a ride at Disneyworld). It will be about 45 minutes. Also please pray for a timely departure with no hiccups. They hope to leave about 8:30 EST, but things run on Haiti time.
- For the work the team will do in sharing the gospel along with medical care. Every person seen by the team stops at several "stations", one to take vital stats, for instance, before seeing a medical provider. At most stops, they are prayed for as well. The gospel is shared numerous times during the day.
- For the water team who will be checking the water system at Cavaillon, installed last year.
- For the continued work of the pastoral training team in Jeremie. A picture is attached of a building being used in Jeremie to house orphans there.


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Also open to the public on Sat., April 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.


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The East Coast Could Make The Race End Early
You can rest easy: Soon, this will all be over. America votes for the next president on Tuesday. But it ain't over until it's over, and given how much anxiety this election has created, many people (myself included) just want it to be done with as soon as possible. So, when will the election results be in?
The polls usually close between 7 and 9 p.m. local time, depending on the state; here's a list of state-by-state polling hours. But not all states are equally important to the electoral math, which makes it a bit more complicated to predict when we'll actually know who won the election. It depends largely on which states deliver victory to the winner — and by how much.
It's possible that the election will be called very early in the night. If Hillary Clinton were to win all of the swing states east of Iowa, and the votes in those states were counted relatively quickly, and the networks take it as a given that Clinton will win California and Hawaii (which she very likely will), then Clinton could clear 270 electoral votes by 9 p.m. EST, when the polls close in Wisconsin. It would look something like this:
In fact, Clinton could even lose New Hampshire in this scenario, and the outcome would be the same: 270 electoral votes in her column by 9 p.m. EST.
That said, this scenario essentially depends on Clinton winning in a landslide, both in terms of the electoral college and on a state-by-state basis: The only way so many swing states would call their results so early would be if Clinton's margin over Trump in each state was enormous. If the vote tally is even a little bit close, we'll be in for a longer night.
Bustle looked at when past presidential elections were called, and found that five of the last 10 have been called between 11 p.m. EST and midnight. Statistically, then, one might say that there's a 50 percent chance that the race will be called inside of that window.
Ultimately, it's impossible to say when the election will be called, because that depends almost entirely on how close the vote is in each individual state. We won't know anything for certain until the results start trickling in — but if we're headed towards a Clinton landslide (which I, personally, suspect that we are), the usual election night tension may be a mercifully brief experience.
Images: Octavus/Shutterstock (1); 270ToWin.com (1)


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Use a visual hierarchy.
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For the past few years, there were not enough blog in my site and as much as I want to update my blog site, several things happen for a reason. Not that I was quite busy it's just that few things that I've been fixing around when it comes to my personal moments.
Today I decided to go to Binondo, Manila and it just happened that it was new year! I should have gone to this place a few days ago but unfortunately due to the rains it prevented me to go to Binondo.
According to Wikipedia, Binondo is a district in Manila and is referred to as Chinatown and is the world's oldest Chinatown. Its influence extends beyond to places of Quiapo, Santa Cruz and San Nicolas.
|BPI Old Building
|Sta Cruz Church
|The Fountain serves as the landmark that you already reached the entrance of Ongpin St.
Then when you see the arch you are entering Ongpin St., the most popular street of Binondo where you can walk from the main entrance until you reached Quintin Paredes road.
|The Arch of Goodwill, which serves as the main entrance of Ongpin St.
|The main street of Ongpin
|The vendor spinning the singing bowl with a stick
|Singing bowl and inside is a lucky bracelet
|Lucky Charm
|Ongpin North Bridge
|Mr. Ube Rice and Noodle House
|Hopia of all sorts
|One of the hopia flavors
|Little altar in one of the streets in Ongpin
|Eng Bee Tin one of their branch
|New Building at the corner
|First Floor
|Second Floor where the restaurant is located
|Second Floor where they sell souvenir items
|The Great Budhha located at the second floor
|The Staff of the Great Budhha
|At the Entrance
As I continued to walk, finally I reached at the end of Ongpin St. Quinton Paredes road is just right on the end where you can explore more of Chinatown.
Finally, I was able to see the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church in Binondo which is also located at Ongpin St and Quintin Paredes.
|Calesa is still traditional in Manila up to this day
|San Lorenzo Ruiz Church
|Candles and Prayers
|Inside the church of San Lorenzo
|Joshua and Joan


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Things are topsy-turvy in these times of Trump.
The president last week practically endorsed pugilistic politician Roy Moore's bid to be the next senator from Alabama despite allegations from multiple women that Moore had sexually abused or harassed them when they were teenagers and he was a district attorney in his 30s. The same President Trump castigated Moore's Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, as being soft on crime, though it was Jones who prosecuted Ku Klux Klansmen for the 1963 bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham that resulted in the deaths of four young girls.
Trump has named utterly unqualified people to fill seats on the federal bench, in government science posts and at the Environmental Protection Agency. Having Trump and his henchmen in charge of this nation's national parks, its environment and its economy is a situation that would have had a Republican president, parkland proponent and big business regulator named Teddy Roosevelt speaking loudly and carrying a big stick against the corporate cronyism and shady shenanigans of what passes for a GOP president today.
Some journalists have likened covering the daily scandal and skulduggery of the Trump crew to trying to drink from a high-pressure fire hose. Drinking from a sewer might be a more apt comparison.
The corruption and collusion of the Trump crowd continue to make this nation a laughingstock in the eyes of late-night comedians and much of the civilized world, but the dangers of the current administration are no joke. The gravest danger of all – the threat of nuclear war – cannot be discounted under any president of either party. But it is a danger that is vastly magnified when the president is a volatile and bellicose bully who uses his Twitter account to tweak Kim Jong-un, the equally unstable leader of a nuclear-armed North Korea.
During one of the 2016 campaign's televised debates, Trump fumbled a question about the American "nuclear triad" of manned bombers, land-based missiles and missiles launched from submarines. Now the same man who has shown himself to be both unawed and uninformed about nuclear weapons is in charge of their possible use.
On Nov. 14, retired Air Force General Robert Kehler, the former head of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the American military could refuse to carry out an illegal presidential order to launch a nuclear strike.
Still, presidents including Trump have wide leeway to initiate what could turn into World War III. On Nov. 18, the current SAC commander, Gen. John Hyten, echoed his predecessor's comments, telling a security conference in Nova Scotia, Canada, that such an illegal order can be refused by the military.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democratic critic of the Trump administration, disagreed with the reassuring words of the generals. "We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U. S. national security interests," he said.
Not since Arizona Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964 has there been such widespread worry about the possibility of an unhinged commander-in-chief with his hands on the nuclear codes. Goldwater lost his bid for the White House because he was seen as too extreme by voters in 1964 , but Trump now sits in the Oval Office.
President Trump seems blithely unconcerned with the realities of the Atomic Age, but just one small nuclear weapon can cause damage that would dwarf the devastating terrorist attacks on this country on Sept. 11. 2001. When the Japanese city of Hiroshima was the target of the first nuclear weapon used in World War II in 1945, tens of thousands perished immediately and thousands more died from blast injuries or radiation in the days, months and years that followed.
Immediately after the bombing, most of the city's hospitals were damaged and most of its medical personnel were dead or too injured to help others. Even a small nuclear weapon would kill or maim not just civilians, but first responders like police, firefighters and medical workers.
Nearly 40 years ago, when I was writing for the weekly Athens Observer, I interviewed Senji Yamaguchi, who had survived the second atomic bomb that was dropped on his home city of Nagasaki. Yamaguchi was scarred for life by burns from the bomb, but he was touring the United States as part of a peace delegation warning against the specter of nuclear war.
In the interview, Yamaguchi painted a word picture straight out of Dante or Hieronymous Bosch. "People were scorched black like charcoal," he recalled. "People without arms or legs. No pen, no poet, no genius could put on paper what I saw that day."
Trump would do well to listen to nuclear survivors like Yamaguchi before he ponders launching a nuclear strike.
In the early 1960s, physicist Herman Kahn discussed the use of atomic weapons in his books "On Thermonuclear War" and "Thinking About the Unthinkable." He warned his readers that with words that still are relevant today, more than 50 years after they were written: "We must guard against many types of events – psychopathic or irrational individuals, mechanical or human failure, sabotage, irresponsible behavior, and so on," wrote Kahn.
He also cautioned leaders that "we must not look too dangerous to the enemy. This does not mean that we cannot do anything that threatens him … We must not appear to be excessively aggressive, irresponsible, trigger-happy, or accident prone, today or in the future."
Though he was one of the inspirations for the title character in the darkly comic 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove," Kahn also was admired by some pacifists like Britain's Bertrand Russell. Until his death in 1983, Kahn advised presidents of both parties from Democrat Harry Truman to Republican Ronald Reagan. His words of caution should be heeded by Trump.
Instead, Trump merely proves what another physicist, Albert Einstein, meant when he said, "Force always attracts men of low morality."


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Brexit who? Record investment last year fuels big spike in registered UK biotech firms
LONDON — After Britain narrowly signed up to leave the European Union in June 2016, the prognosis for industry was projected to be grim. A new analysis suggests that UK biotech has escaped that noose — and indeed flourished — over the period that the divorce terms were meant to be formulated.
By analyzing data from the Companies House register — a place where information about firms registered in the UK is made publicly available by the government — London-based investment manager Downing found that 3,456 active companies are currently involved in biotechnology R&D activities, a staggering 65% increase from 2,095 such firms in the first quarter of 2016.
Some 44% of active biotechnology businesses have been incorporated in the three years since January 2016 — including 127 in the first two months of 2019, or roughly three every working day in January and February, the analysis suggested.
The surge has been supported by record investment in UK biotech 2018 — a £2.2 billion injection, up 85% from 2017 (with venture capital contributing to more than half of UK biotech funding: from £681 million in 2016 to £1.1 billion in 2018), Downing said, citing UK BioIndustry Association and Informa Pharma Intelligence data.
Although private firms account for the bulk of UK biotech (96% as of Q1 2019), the number of publicly listed companies are also growing (from 30 in Q1 2016 to 42 in Q1 2019), Downing found.
"So not only are there a lot of new companies being established, the funding is growing across areas as well…from 2017, Series A, Series B and post Series B have all increased quite dramatically, especially at series B and a later stage, which is a sign that the healthcare, health technology and biotechnology market (in the UK) is actually maturing," said Will Brooks, who directs the healthcare activities for Downing's venture funds, in an interview with Endpoints News.
"The funding has doubled for Series A, more than doubled for Series B and post Series B…and people see that the maturity of the companies is changing — its no longer being led by a huge number of small companies struggling for capital. I think there seems to be more appetite for continual funding, and also various different exit routes, from M&A to the public market…I think that creates a confidence factor in the financial community."
Brooks suggested genetics-focused firms, digital health companies and those involved in healthcare-related data mining for screening, drug development, and disease etiology are the ones garnering significant interest. Alongside, the larger pharmaceutical companies are now seeing more value in early stage technologies, which is triggering M&A, he said.
Genetics and big data-focused deals are all the rage across both sides of the Atlantic. Apart from the slate of recent deals betting on gene therapies, AstraZeneca has sharpened its focus on genomics by pouring its R&D resources into a new center in partnership with Cancer Research UK to develop personalized cancer drugs. Fellow British drugmaker GSK $GSK, has tied up with 23andMe to gain access to the latter's database — to look for disease relevant genes. Regeneron $REGN has carved out its own genetics centre, Amgen $AMGN is delving deeper to identify and validate disease targets with its investment in Oxford Nanopore Technologies and acquisition of deCODE genetics, while Vertex $VRTX has partnered with UK-based Genomics plc on their platform for genetics and machine learning.
With a surge in biotech business and investment comes an uptick in hiring.
Demand for workers within the larger UK life sciences industry jumped by 11% last year, according to data compiled for the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). Clinical vacancies rose the highest, with an increase of 37%, while demand for R&D personnel remained relatively flat at 4.6%. Overall, pharmaceutical firms continued to offer the lion's share of work opportunities, although CRO job openings saw a steep spike of 25.6%.
Syneos Health is now the largest single recruiter for scientific roles in the UK, while IQVIA and GSK are also driving significant demand for talent, with vacancies at these firms increasing by 81% and 14% respectively, according to the analysis.
"Despite uncertainty surrounding Brexit, the strength of the UK pharma sector has been thriving over the past year, with clinical vacancies showing extremely positive growth. Global testing volumes are rising due to an ageing population, surplus in management of diseases, and increased access to care. This reason, and the fact that the UK is home to three of the top five universities for pre-clinical, clinical and health sciences, explains why there is such a high demand for professionals in this sector," APSCo chief Ann Swain said in a statement.
But a GlobalData survey published last November indicated dampening enthusiasm for the sector — a mere 23% of healthcare professionals surveyed across the US, UK, and EU thought that the UK would be an attractive destination for healthcare companies to conduct research and manufacturing following Brexit.
"The Brexit effect has not really funneled through — in terms of funding — for companies on the pureplay financial level. Where it may have an impact is on the ability to access research funding and research grants through the European funding agencies — I think that will have a knock on effect in the future, but it's not really significant just now," said Brooks.
All things considered, the future for UK biotech looks bright — barring an unforeseen macro event, he added.
"For now there's a degree of confidence in the sector, I think people are understanding it better. The biotech market has now been going for 25-30 years, and I think now you're getting a maturity amongst the investors, that they understand what they're actually doing. More flexible investment products are coming up as well, making it easier for companies to fund themselves. I think you'll see an increase in actual funding round sizes and a continual stream of companies moving from seed capital to funding rounds."


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Graphic Novel Review: Guardians of the Galaxy: Original Sin
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Marvel's spacefaring superheroes step up a gear in this latest collection
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At last! Something happens.
Although writer Brian Michael Bendis has no problem in shaping realistic, well-rounded characters, he repeatedly fails to craft strong narratives, with his protagonists apparently more interested in conversation than action. All that finally changes in this fourth volume of Guardians, in which events move forwards substantially with various key developments.
The long unresolved issue of how Star Lord and Thanos escaped the "Cancerverse" in which they were trapped before the launch of this latest GotG series, and what happened to Nova Richard Rider, are finally answered, and these revelations have a dramatic effect on both the survivors and teammate Gamora…
Then new recruit Flash Thompson, aka Agent Venom, leads the team on a mission to the "Planet of the Symbiotes" which birthed the alien entity that gives him his powers, offering a new take on Venom's origins and subsequent history since his debut as Spider-Man's new black costume in the first Secret Wars back in 1985.
On top of these two major shifts in the Guardians' status quo, there are plenty of other plot developments setting up narrative threads for the future, offering a satisfaction for the reader which has been lacking in previous collections.
It's been a long road, but Bendis has got there in the end, and now the Guardians title is starting to live up to its potential as one of the strongest Marvel books in the line.
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November cold pierces like tiny shards of glass. November sun takes the bite out of winter and makes delicate frosted flakes. I think Tony the Tiger would like this. Although it no longer feels like fall and it's a mere month from winter, we have no snow! Throughout the valley, the sun is shining, skies are blue, clouds are […]
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
This week we also watched green transportation take a plunge beneath the sea as French engineers unveiled an awesome pedal-powered submarine. Our neighbors to the north also broke news as students at the University of British Columbia embarked upon a record-setting trip across Canada in an electrified VW Beetle and three Canadian schools announced plans to create a car out of cannabis - hopefully it doesn't go up in smoke. Finally, we took a (sobering) look at the havoc that poor public transportation planning can wreak: a massive traffic jam in China that extended for more than 60 miles and 9 days.
Speaking of students, here are a few projects to get you energized for the coming school year: a German tank armory was recently transformed into an ultra-modern solar-powered school, and we showcased some of the world's most incredible student-built structures. In other news, we brought you two dispatches from the realm of wearable tech - a new energy-harvesting film that could wire your wardrobe and a line of clothing that lets you send and receive phone calls. Can you hear me now?


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Покупал TradeBooster и скрипт closeALLpro - задача была закрыть более 200 сделок по одному инструменты. Все работает на отлично, как заявлено продавцом. Консультировал быстро, четко, профессионально. Совместной работой и покупкой доволен.
What is TradeBooster?
TradeBooster is a tool that allows you to speed up sending multiple trade orders to the trade server.
You will be able to send trade requests using all trade contexts of the terminal, thus reducing the sending time by several (up to 8) times.
This may not be vital if you only hold open one or two positions.
But you will immediately see the difference in speed if you, for example, decide to delete 50 pending orders placed by a grid Expert Advisor or close 25 positions.
How It Works
You open a chart, run TradeBooster and it automatically launches several more copies of the program (the number is set by the "Number of charts to open" variable).
When it is time to start trading (you run a special script or your Expert Advisor connected using TradeBoosterAPI gives a trade order), all TradeBooster copies launched begin execution of prepared trade requests simultaneously.
So, if TradeBooster is not used, an Expert Advisor (or script) will:
- send the first trade request (e.g. for closing a position);
- wait for a response from the server;
- send a repeated request in case of an error;
- send the second trade request after receiving the response regarding the successful execution;
- and so on until all requests are executed.
At the same time, an Expert Advisor that uses TradeBooster will:
- send up to 8 trade requests simultaneously;
- process server response for each of them, without waiting for the rest (an error occurring somewhere will not slow down the entire process);
- handle subsequent requests as soon as at least one trade context is free.
You can check this system in action in the attached video.
Available Toolset
At present, you can use TradeBooster in combination with the following scripts:
- CloseAll Pro - closes all trades by selected instrument;
- DeleteAll Pro - deletes all pending orders;
- CloseAndDeleteAll Pro - clears the instrument of all open trades and orders.
TradeBoosterAPI will soon be available to enable you to connect TradeBooster to any Expert Advisor you have.
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Drugs and Road Safety
From a road safety perspective, marijuana is already second only to alcohol as the drug most frequently found among drivers involved in crashes and drivers charged with impaired driving. It is also the most frequent drug found mixed with alcohol usage in vehicle crashes.
Drugs and driving has been an issue in road safety public policy for decades but only recently came to the forefront as a major issue of concern to Canadians, with the federal government's commitment to legalizing marijuana. CAA believes government and other stakeholders must focus their attention on making sure that the legalization of marijuana does not increase the frequency of drug-impaired driving. We note that the state of technology to determine impairment is a work-in-progress. Equally important is polling that suggests that there is a lack of public education around the effects marijuana has on a driver's ability to safely control their vehicle.


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Small beginings…..
Our first glimpse of our Spring Pansies.
Our first glimpse of our Spring Pansies.
The begining of something beautiful, our seeds of Geranium Maderence have germinated and so their journey of life begins. They unfurl from their seeds case. Their seeds leaves open wide and photosynthesis to create energy for growth Then their true leaves are formed, see how very different they are to the seed leaves.


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Topic: Buck O-Neil Bridge Environmental Study & Design Build. Items discussed include the Access Justification Report, the Environmental Assessment findings, and the next steps heading into the Design-Build procurement process.
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Speakers: Mary Miller, Gerri Doyle, & Josh Scott (MoDOT)
Mary Miller is the Project Director for the Buck O'Neil Design-Build project. She has worked for MoDOT for 24 years in varying roles including highway design, project management, construction engineering and Design-Build. She earned her BSCE from University of Kansas and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Missouri.
Gerri Doyle is a Transportation Planner with 23 years of experience. She has worked as a transportation planner with Mid-America Regional Council and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, and is currently a Transportation Planning Coordinator with MoDOT in the Kansas City District Planning Department. Gerri graduated from the University of Kansas with a Master's in Urban Planning.
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Perceptions of visual communication design education in higher education in Ireland: A multi-case study from the design industry, institutes and graduates perspectives
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"Use your own vision and mentality in order to form design decisions + Don't believe your professor" Annelys de Vet – (Kiosoglou & Frank, Ed. 2013., p 34). The aim of the study was to evaluate and construct an explanation behind the currency that higher education degrees in design enjoy in Ireland. The Visual Communication (VC) design discipline at Bachelors (BA) level accounted for the greatest cohort of students leaving design HE in Ireland in the 1990s. This graphic design (GD/VC) domain, together with related programmes in design in digital media still account for the largest numbers of students in design at Higher Education (HE) in Ireland. The Opportunities in Design; Strategies for Growth in the Irish Design Sector report (1999, p.p.5.1.c-d) by PricewaterhouseCoopers/Bradley McGurk and more recently Harvey's Irish Design Footprint: Economic Value and Characteristics report for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (DJEI, 2016 pp. vi-vii), outline the strategic economic value that design provides for the Irish economy from the VC and creative digital media domain. This study has adopted the VC discipline to explore the design HE experience from the perspective of graduates of one undergraduate (UG) VC programme. It considers their early design career and the transition that they make from leaving their UG HE to the design industry and, in some cases, to their decision to return to take up Masters and PhD level programmes. The emphasis of the research study has been from the graduates' perspective. The academics and industry are referenced in two ways: the first by way of context setting, and the second providing a critical commentary on design education from their perspectives. The objective was to define the effect of these programmes on the students' 'creative' experience and how relevant it was when applied to the design industry. There has been little research carried out on the Irish design postgraduate (PG), VC and creative digital design programmes and the design graduates' early socialisation. This dissertation, therefore, is important as it considers the iv Irish graphic design (GD/VC) industry, the Higher Education Institute (HEI) and the design graduate, i.e., the three stakeholders, from a number of perspectives. The research questions are: 1. What type of employment does the graduate designer secure after undertaking an MA or PhD?; 2. What is the current employment status for graduates from xsUG and PG degrees in terms of, for example gender roles, work conditions, salary etc.?; 3. What is the relationship between the different stakeholders, and 4. Which of the stakeholders, e.g., HEI design, design industry or graduate designer benefits the most from an MA or PhD? The methodology employed three case studies, which represented the three different stakeholders. This qualitative approach involved 20 semi-structured interviews with graduates. All of these had attended the same VC, UG four year programme and had graduated over a five year period between 2009-2014. The HEI site choosen for the study, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), did not have a PG design programme pathway in place to evaluate. Hence, the cohort of graduates provided the insight into the Irish design student HE as they attended PG design programmes at Levels 9 and 10 in other Irish design HEIs, before they continued their progression into the workforce. Some 20 semi-structured case study interviews with design academics, and 20 semi-structured case study interviews with industry practitioners completed the sample for the research study. The 60 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the three stakeholders from 2014-2015. The study therefore had a solid representation of participants in relevant categories that had validity and reliability for the research findings. Secondary issues such as: i) HEI and industry jointly provided assessment, and ii) graduates' continuing professional development (CDP) demands have been referenced. Learning attributes for design inclusive of digital, blended learning, placements/internships have been identified from the research findings for curriculum inclusion and development. In conclusion, the research has highlighted the main characteristics and distinctive qualities of the individual stakeholders and their inter-relationships. It has been possible to construct a v profile of the Irish post UG student now armed with their VC design qualification, and to track their early progression into the design industry. The rationale for these qualified designers to further pursue PG degrees and how these enhance their opportunities and creative prospects, has been commented on from the three stakeholders' positions. The domain is in constant flux, with change in 'trends and technology' dictating a tension between the design industry and the HE education provision. The 'catch-up' situation in digital input has put pressure on training at HE causing it to be fluid in order to be in keeping with the design industry. The research study is timely as HE in all domains is in a process of transition in Ireland, with HE policy documentation (Hunt et al, 2011) and the proposed Technological University Bill (2015) indicating future mergers for some HEIs, together with a more central role for the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The position therefore, that design VC at present holds would suggest that there is a 'gap' between the stakeholders that requires more accountability, communication and transparency. The State intervention to support design practice with incentives like the '2015 Year of Design', has been prompted by economic considerations for trade and the growing social media and interactive platforms, i.e., user experience (UX) and design thinking. The personal financing for PG curriculum has suggested a slowdown in "take-up" by graduates until they consider their options in the workplace before committing to further degrees later in their careers. The question of how appropriate these design PG degrees are for the future graduates of tomorrow is dependent in the short term on the desirability of design graduates seeking creative, digital up-skilling and long-term graduates seeking marketing/ communication knowledge which will further their career longevity and leadership roles.
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Explore one of England's 'Walkers are Welcome' towns on this delightful 2½-mile circular route.
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The county is blessed when it comes to impressive manor houses.
A Slow day in… Chester
Steeped in history – Roman, medieval, Tudor, Georgian and Victorian – Chester is a charming place to wander down the ages.
We take a tour of the county's lesser-known trails, nature reserves and forests.
Whether rain or shine, you'll find plenty of fantastic day trips for the family to be had here.
From cheese rolling to worm charming and just about everything in between, England has its fair share of unusual events.
To celebrate our Destination of the Month, the team at Discovering Britain have picked their favourite walks and viewpoints from around Britain.
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As a reminder, labradorite has a highly unique iridescence, so each stone will be slightly different in color and fire.
Due to the size and cut of the stone, we offer this ring in full sizes only.
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