While senior nurses would once have been re-routed into purely management posts, the advent of nurse consultant posts in 1999 has widened career options.
Since the post-war advent of the welfare state increased the size of public services dramatically, many people have found themselves in the often contradictory world of being a public sector manager.
After keeping a relatively low profile last year, Canadian producer Lunice has shared a new song "One Question," as part of LuckyMe's annual post-Christmas advent calendar.
Now in its eight year, LuckyMe's post-Christmas advent calendar has become something of an annual tradition, a 12-day giveaway of rarities, alternate versions, and new material from the label's eclectic roster of artists.
Avoiding direct commentary on the book's quality, Shippey attributed the book's success to the post-Tolkienian advent of the fantasy genre: "What The Sword of Shannara seems to show is that many readers had developed the taste... for heroic fantasy so strongly that if they could not get the real thing they would take any substitute, no matter how diluted".
Also keeping busy with advent posts is Manchester electropopster David's Lyre, who's been uploading a video of himself performing a cover each day to facebook.com/davidslyre.com/davidslyre
As for that new Gorillaz album, who knows what could be waiting at the end of their digital advent calendar, posted this week.
Perhaps an exhaustion with national myths explains the recent advent of post-apocalyptic literature: from Cormac McCarthy's The Road to Colson Whitehead's Zone One.
It is a state that, until the post-World War II advent of air-conditioning and Interstates, was more sleepy Southern colony than capitalist cornucopia.
With the advent of post-Exilic Judaism (Ezra and after), including its emphasis on law and cult, there was not much room left for prophecy.
