Chris Coleman has insisted he was never going to hover like a vulture in the hope of landing a Premier League job.
The 47-year-old former Wales manager accepted the task of restoring Sunderland's fortunes at the weekend after failing to agree a contract extension with the Football Association of Wales.
Having enhanced his reputation by guiding Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals, he could have been forgiven for biding his time for a less taxing position to come along, but Coleman was not going to wait for one of his colleagues to get dismissed.
"My industry is a cut-throat industry. Not all great people work in my industry," he said.
"I've seen it before where managers are struggling, managers out of work in directors' boxes smooching around directors because they're looking for that job with the guy in the dug-out going through absolute hell.
"Not one person can point a finger at me and say, 'He's a vulture'. I don't like to see other managers struggling."
Coleman knows he has taken on a major challenge at the Stadium of Light - the Black Cats head for Aston Villa on Tuesday evening rooted to the foot of the Championship table and without a home league win in a record 20 attempts.
"I'm not put off by what's in front of me, what's coming, tough, hard times," he said. "I know what's coming, but I've been through it before. I've come through that and I'm confident I'll come through this.
"I just want to get on with it."
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Asked what would represent a realistic target, Coleman, who is moving his family to Wearside, said: "Safety from where we are. That's the aim. The sooner we get away from where we are, we can set a new target.
"To be bottom of the league after 17 games and start setting unrealistic goals, I don't like doing that. What we've got to do is get away from where we are, otherwise we will be in a relegation battle.
"We've got a lot of games, a lot of points to play for. We've got a lot to get right."
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The protective shell is covered in solar panels to make use of light and produce energy. This will drastically reduce energy loss.
More than 80 per cent of the energy consumed by the French pavilion will be produced by the sun.
The architecture will control light sources to provide a highly insulated and airtight building.
The forecourt is protected from the sun and the plants will refresh the inner spaces.
A micro water treatment plant will recycle used water to supply the irrigation for the plants and to flush the toilets. This will reduce the pavilion’s need for fresh water by 30 per cent.
Energy-saving equipment will be used for all lighting and projections.
Beyond its use for the expo, the pavilion will be easy to dismantle and reuse the material.
Some elements of the metal frame can be prefabricated in a factory.
From architects to sound technicians and construction companies, a group of experts from 10 companies have created the pavilion.
Work will begin in May; the first stone will be laid in Dubai in the second quarter of 2019.
Construction of the pavilion will take 17 months from May 2019 to September 2020.
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Trial & Error — cognitive disorder prosopagnosia (facial blindness and dyslexia)
Grey’s Anatomy — prosthetic leg
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Switched at Birth — deafness
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Dragons — double amputee
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Date started: 2012
Founder: Amir Barsoum
Based: Dubai, UAE
Sector: HealthTech / MedTech
Size: 300 employees
Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)
Investors: Technology Development Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Technology Ventures and IFC
