The Unbiased Advisor is a book written by Warren MacKenzie and published by HarperCollins (2007). It was originally published under the title A Second Opinion on Your Finances.
The book offers advice to average investors on a range of relevant topics, including aiming for the right rate of return, achieving tax efficiency, reducing fees, and asking the right questions of your advisor.
The book offers advice to average investors on a range of relevant topics, including aiming for the right rate of return, achieving tax efficiency, reducing fees, and asking the right questions of your advisor.
Rachel Bishop is a ceramic designer. She graduated from Staffordshire University with a BA hons in Design.
Career at Moorcroft
She joined Moorcroft Pottery in 1993 at the age of 24. A year earlier the firm had turned her down for a job as a paintress, but they had been impressed by her portfolio - the stylised florals and rich colours were already akin to the Moorcroft style - and so they made contact with her when they were recruiting a designer.
Bishop's first commission was to design a large vase for the front of a trade stand at the NEC in Birmingham. The resulting vase Tigris featured iris and lilies on a blue ground, perhaps her most traditional design.
The vase was a success and she went on to take sole responsibility for design at Moorcroft for four years until the firm's centenary in 1997. (Bishop became the head of a team of designers thereafter, as the firm diversified into enamels, stoneware and even glass for a short time).
With a sensitivity to the past, Bishop created innovative designs such as Oberon, Foxglove, Pansy and Lamia. The company, which had been struggling, was transformed. Within two years of her appointment turnover had increased by 150%. Moorcroft had not enjoyed such success since before the Second World War. The Moorcroft collectors´club grew: among the collectors of Bishop's designs are Rod Stewart, Tom Cruise, Leonard Lauder of Estée Lauder cosmetics fame, and the Sultan of Brunei. With good prices on the secondary market, experts such as Eric Knowles have listed Rachel Bishop's work as antiques of the future.
Described in The Glasgow Evening Times as a 'prodigy', Bishop won a Gold Medal in 1996 for Product Of Excellence at Earls Court in London with her 'tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh' design, an achievement followed by a Silver Medal the following year. The design, along with the famous Lami], featuring water lilies, became Moorcroft's new image and ran for ten years.
Bishop was largely responsible for re-establishing links with the prestigious in London. The two firms enjoyed a strong partnership in William Moorcroft's era, and Bishop re-kindled the relationship with her annual commissions for the store, and annual public signings of her work that drew in crowds of collectors. The inspiration for these pieces came from Liberty's heritage and Arts and Crafts background in designs such as Cymric Dream, Tudric Dream and Regent, showing Bishop's inventive use of coloured tubelining and stylised design.
As well as ceramics, Bishop was designed scarves and ties for Liberty. The scarves used a version of her Oberon design, featuring intertwining honeysuckle and wild roses, and are now collectors items.
Bishop's eye for detail is never more evident than on the Bullerswood vase, an adaptation of a William Morris carpet, the intricate pattern work almost fills the surface. Bishop employs a similar intricate design style in works such as Anatolia and Renaissance.
In 2003 Rachel Bishop produced Reflections of a Decade, a collection of 10 pieces to mark her decade at Moorcroft. The collection shows versatility of design, from the stylised pattern work of the limited edition Owlpen Manor and Pavion to the delicate more naturalistic Nivalis snowdrops and Amberswood foxgloves.
Rachel Bishop's name was linked to those of great women ceramic designers from the past when her alma mater Staffordshire University named one of the component houses of its Clarice Cliff hall of residence after her .
Media Interest
The Channel 4 television programme "Collectors Lot" followed Bishop's design process from conception to completion in a series of three programmes, featuring her New Forest range of designs, inspired by her childhood home. She also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and has featured in numerous articles.
An exhibition of her work was held at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery this year and Bishop travelled to Australia on a promotional tour with much media interest.
Career at Moorcroft
She joined Moorcroft Pottery in 1993 at the age of 24. A year earlier the firm had turned her down for a job as a paintress, but they had been impressed by her portfolio - the stylised florals and rich colours were already akin to the Moorcroft style - and so they made contact with her when they were recruiting a designer.
Bishop's first commission was to design a large vase for the front of a trade stand at the NEC in Birmingham. The resulting vase Tigris featured iris and lilies on a blue ground, perhaps her most traditional design.
The vase was a success and she went on to take sole responsibility for design at Moorcroft for four years until the firm's centenary in 1997. (Bishop became the head of a team of designers thereafter, as the firm diversified into enamels, stoneware and even glass for a short time).
With a sensitivity to the past, Bishop created innovative designs such as Oberon, Foxglove, Pansy and Lamia. The company, which had been struggling, was transformed. Within two years of her appointment turnover had increased by 150%. Moorcroft had not enjoyed such success since before the Second World War. The Moorcroft collectors´club grew: among the collectors of Bishop's designs are Rod Stewart, Tom Cruise, Leonard Lauder of Estée Lauder cosmetics fame, and the Sultan of Brunei. With good prices on the secondary market, experts such as Eric Knowles have listed Rachel Bishop's work as antiques of the future.
Described in The Glasgow Evening Times as a 'prodigy', Bishop won a Gold Medal in 1996 for Product Of Excellence at Earls Court in London with her 'tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh' design, an achievement followed by a Silver Medal the following year. The design, along with the famous Lami], featuring water lilies, became Moorcroft's new image and ran for ten years.
Bishop was largely responsible for re-establishing links with the prestigious in London. The two firms enjoyed a strong partnership in William Moorcroft's era, and Bishop re-kindled the relationship with her annual commissions for the store, and annual public signings of her work that drew in crowds of collectors. The inspiration for these pieces came from Liberty's heritage and Arts and Crafts background in designs such as Cymric Dream, Tudric Dream and Regent, showing Bishop's inventive use of coloured tubelining and stylised design.
As well as ceramics, Bishop was designed scarves and ties for Liberty. The scarves used a version of her Oberon design, featuring intertwining honeysuckle and wild roses, and are now collectors items.
Bishop's eye for detail is never more evident than on the Bullerswood vase, an adaptation of a William Morris carpet, the intricate pattern work almost fills the surface. Bishop employs a similar intricate design style in works such as Anatolia and Renaissance.
In 2003 Rachel Bishop produced Reflections of a Decade, a collection of 10 pieces to mark her decade at Moorcroft. The collection shows versatility of design, from the stylised pattern work of the limited edition Owlpen Manor and Pavion to the delicate more naturalistic Nivalis snowdrops and Amberswood foxgloves.
Rachel Bishop's name was linked to those of great women ceramic designers from the past when her alma mater Staffordshire University named one of the component houses of its Clarice Cliff hall of residence after her .
Media Interest
The Channel 4 television programme "Collectors Lot" followed Bishop's design process from conception to completion in a series of three programmes, featuring her New Forest range of designs, inspired by her childhood home. She also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and has featured in numerous articles.
An exhibition of her work was held at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery this year and Bishop travelled to Australia on a promotional tour with much media interest.
The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) is a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. It is one of the few international associations that promote the open-access of journal publicaitons. As a non-profit organization, its membership is free-of-charge.
Its main objectives are to promote the co-operation between the professionals in various fields of the engineering and to cultivate an environment for the advance and development of the technology.
The IAENG Societies are organized to cover the different engineering and computer science disciplines. The IAENG has the following constitute societies:
Member Societies
* IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence
* IAENG Society of Bioinformatics
* IAENG Society of Chemical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Computer Science
* IAENG Society of Data Mining
* IAENG Society of Electrical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Imaging Engineering
* IAENG Society of Industrial Engineering
* IAENG Society of Information System Engineering
* IAENG Society of Internet Computing and Web Services
* IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Operations Research
* IAENG Society of Scientific Computing
* IAENG Society of Software Engineering
* IAENG Society of Wireless Networks
* IAENG Society for HIV/AIDS
List of Publications
Each journal has their own web page and ISSN, and is available to accredited universities and government libraries with no charge.
* Engineering Letters
(ISSN: 1816-0948 (online version); 1816-093X (print version))
* IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
(ISSN: 1819-9224 (online version); 1819-656X (print version))
* IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics
(ISSN: 1992-9986 (online version); 1992-9978 (print version))
Its main objectives are to promote the co-operation between the professionals in various fields of the engineering and to cultivate an environment for the advance and development of the technology.
The IAENG Societies are organized to cover the different engineering and computer science disciplines. The IAENG has the following constitute societies:
Member Societies
* IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence
* IAENG Society of Bioinformatics
* IAENG Society of Chemical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Computer Science
* IAENG Society of Data Mining
* IAENG Society of Electrical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Imaging Engineering
* IAENG Society of Industrial Engineering
* IAENG Society of Information System Engineering
* IAENG Society of Internet Computing and Web Services
* IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering
* IAENG Society of Operations Research
* IAENG Society of Scientific Computing
* IAENG Society of Software Engineering
* IAENG Society of Wireless Networks
* IAENG Society for HIV/AIDS
List of Publications
Each journal has their own web page and ISSN, and is available to accredited universities and government libraries with no charge.
* Engineering Letters
(ISSN: 1816-0948 (online version); 1816-093X (print version))
* IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
(ISSN: 1819-9224 (online version); 1819-656X (print version))
* IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics
(ISSN: 1992-9986 (online version); 1992-9978 (print version))
Rudrasankar is a contemporary Bengali poet (born 29 September, 1974 in Hooghly district of West Bengal) of young generation. At the age of 16, his first poem was published in little magazine "Archi" and later his poems were published in several leading literary journals and collections of poetry in India, Bangladesh and USA. He got his PhD degree in Science from Jadavpur University. Rudrasankar’s poetry is a sophisticated combination of self-reflections of everyday life. In 2005, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi invited him for poetry reading in rhyme festival.
Books:
Ami Youban Prethibe ("I, Youth and World" a Poetry collection),
Nirbachito Charra (Rhyme collection)
Books:
Ami Youban Prethibe ("I, Youth and World" a Poetry collection),
Nirbachito Charra (Rhyme collection)