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Migrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Migrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Qualified Gastroenterologists can Immigrate to Australia. This is because Australia has deemed Gastroenterologist to be an occupation that the nation is in need of.
The list of the most in need Occupations is called the Medium & Long Term Strategic Skills List or (MLTSSL). People who are approved to migrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist can be offered Permanent Residency residency in Australia.
How to move to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
There are a number of steps in the process of moving to Australia as a Gastroenterologist.
1 – Assessing if you are eligible
2 – Obtaining your skills assessment
3 – Submitting your Expression Of Interest
4 – Receiving your Invitation to Apply
5 – Medicals and Police Checks
6 – Granting of your Visa or Permanent Residency for Australia
Our Medical Immigration Experts are able to assist with your Move to Australia.
We can help you with your submission for Australian Permanent Residency or your long-term visa for Australia as a Gastroenterologist. Each application and each individual's circumstances are a bit different.
If you're looking to emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist you're in safe hands. For a full, honest and confidential discussion about emigration, visas, qualification equivalency, working in Australia, getting your Australian A Grade Medical License, costs, jobs, charges and time-frames take our FREE online assessment as the first stage.
Your assessment will be hand-reviewed by an Medical emigration specialist who will give you the full facts, without obligation.
Do I Qualify to Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist?
The ANZSCO code and what it means for Gastroenterologists wanting to move to Australia.
Australia has 2 lists that cover all the "Occupations in Demand". Only occupations on these lists are able to apply to move to Australia under this skilled migration program.
The lists are called the Medium Long Term Strategic Skills List or the MLTSSL and the Short Term Strategic Occupation List or the (STSOL). Every occupation that is on either list is given a number. This is called the Occupations ANZSCO number.
The ANZSCO code for Gastroenterologists is 253316.
Knowing your code, and indeed having the correct code, is important. Some Occupations are very similar and have different codes. Be careful to choose the correct one as all the deemed duties of the occupation that you will be assessed for are unique to the ANZSCO code.
Below is the full list of in-demand ANZSCO codes for occupations in Demand in Australia.
Occupations In Demand in Australia
Occupation ANZSCO Code
accommodation and hospitality managers 141999
Accountant 221111
Actuary 224111
acupuncturist 252211
advertising manager 131113
advertising specialist 225111
Aeronautical Engineer 233911
Agricultural Consultant 234111
Agricultural Engineer 233912
Agricultural Scientist 234112
Airconditioning and Mechanical Services Plumber 334112
Airconditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic 342111
aircraft maintenance engineer (avionics) 323111
aircraft maintenance engineer (mechanical) 323112
aircraft maintenance engineer (structures) 323113
ambulance officer 411111
anaesthetic technician 311211
anaesthetist 253211
Analyst Programmer 261311
animal attendants and trainers (nec) 361199
apiarist 121311
aquaculture farmer 121111
arborist 362212
Architect 232111
architectural draftsperson 312111
architectural, building and surveying technicians 312199
art teacher (private tuition) 249211
artistic director 212111
Artistic Director 212111
arts administrator or manager 139911
Arts Administrator or Manager 139911
Audiologist 252711
Automotive Electrician 321111
baker 351111
Barrister 271111
beef cattle farmer 121312
Biochemist 234513
Biomedical Engineer 233913
Biotechnologist 234514
Boat Builder and Repairer 399111
book or script editor 212212
Botanist 234515
Bricklayer 331111
building inspector 312113
business machine mechanic 342311
butcher or smallgoods maker 351211
Cabinetmaker 394111
cabler (data and telecommunications) 342411
cafe or restaurant manager 141111
camera operator (film, television or video) 399512
cardiac technician 311212
Cardiologist 253312
Cardiothoracic Surgeon 253512
careers counsellor 272111
Carpenter 331212
Carpenter and Joiner 331211
Cartographer 232213
Chef 351311
Chemical Engineer 233111
chemical plant operator 399211
Chemist 234211
chemistry technician 311411
Child Care Centre Manager 134111
Chiropractor 252111
Civil Engineer 233211
Civil Engineering Draftsperson 312211
Civil Engineering Technician 312212
Clinical Haematologist 253313
Clinical Psychologist 272311
commodities trader 222111
community worker 411711
company secretary 221211
complementary health therapists (nec) 252299
Computer Network and Systems Engineer 263111
conference and event organiser 149311
Conservator 234911
Construction Project Manager 133111
contract administrator 511111
cook 351411
copywriter 212411
corporate services manager 132111
cotton grower 121211
counsellors (nec) 272199
crop farmers (nec) 121299
customer service manager 149212
dairy cattle farmer 121313
dance teacher (private tuition) 249212
dancer or choreographer 211112
Dancer or Choreographer 211112
database administrator 262111
dental specialist 252311
dental technician 411213
dentist 252312
Dermatologist 253911
Developer Programmer 261312
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist 253917
Diesel Motor Mechanic 321212
dietitian 251111
director (film, television, radio or stage) 212312
disabilities services officer 411712
diversional therapist 411311
diving instructor (open water) 452311
dog handler or trainer 361111
Drainer / Drainlayer 334113
dressmaker or tailor 393213
drug and alcohol counsellor 272112
Early Childhood (Pre-primary School) Teacher 241111
earth science technician 311412
Economist 224311
education adviser 249111
education managers (nec) 134499
Educational Psychologist 272312
Electrical Engineer 233311
Electrical Engineering Draftsperson 312311
Electrical Engineering Technician 312312
Electrician 341111
Electrician (Special Class) 341112
Electronic Equipment Trades Worker 342313
Electronic Instrument Trades Worker (General) 342314
Electronic Instrument Trades Worker (Special Class) 342315
Electronics Engineer 233411
Emergency Medicine Specialist 253912
Endocrinologist 253315
Engineering Manager 133211
Engineering Professional nec 233999
Engineering Technologist 233914
enrolled nurse 411411
Environmental Consultant 234312
Environmental Engineer 233915
Environmental Manager 139912
Environmental Research Scientist 234313
Environmental Scientist nec 234399
External Auditor 221213
facilities manager 149913
family and marriage counsellor 272113
family support worker 411713
farrier 322113
fashion designer 232311
Fibrous Plasterer 333211
film and video editor 212314
finance broker 222112
finance manager 132211
financial brokers (nec) 222199
financial dealers (nec) 222299
financial investment adviser 222311
financial investment manager 222312
financial market dealer 222211
Fitter (General) 323211
Fitter and Turner 323212
Fitter-Welder 323213
florist 362111
flower grower 121212
Food Technologist 234212
footballer 452411
Footballer 452411
Forester / Forest Scientist 234113
fruit or nut grower 121213
furniture finisher 394211
gallery or museum curator 224212
gardener (general) 362211
Gasfitter 334114
Gastroenterologist 253316
General Practitioner 253111
geologist 234411
Geophysicist 234412
Geotechnical Engineer 233212
Glazier 333111
grain, oilseed or pasture grower (Aus) / field crop grower (NZ) 121214
grape grower 121215
graphic designer 232411
greenkeeper 362311
gymnastics coach or instructor 452312
hairdresser 391111
hardware technician 313111
health and welfare services managers (nec) 134299
health diagnostic and promotion professionals (nec) 251999
health information manager 224213
health promotion officer 251911
horse riding coach or instructor 452313
Horse Trainer 361112
hospital pharmacist 251511
hotel or motel manager 141311
human resource manager 132311
Hydrogeologist 234413
ICT account manager 225211
ICT Business Analyst 261111
ICT business development manager 225212
ICT customer support officer 313112
ICT managers (nec) 135199
ICT project manager 135112
ICT quality assurance engineer 263211
ICT sales representative 225213
ICT Security Specialist 262112
ICT support and test engineers (nec) 263299
ICT support engineer 263212
ICT support technicians (nec) 313199
ICT systems test engineer 263213
ICT trainer 223211
illustrator 232412
industrial designer 232312
Industrial Engineer 233511
industrial pharmacist 251512
information and organisation professionals (nec) 224999
insurance agent 611211
insurance broker 222113
insurance loss adjuster 599612
intensive care ambulance paramedic 411112
Intensive Care Specialist 253317
interior designer 232511
Internal Auditor 221214
interpreter 272412
jeweller 399411
jewellery designer 232313
Joiner 331213
journalists and other writers (nec) 212499
judicial and other legal professionals (nec) 271299
laboratory manager 139913
Land Economist 224511
Landscape Architect 232112
landscape gardener 362213
librarian 224611
library technician 399312
life science technician 311413
Life Scientist 234599
Life Scientist (General) 234511
Lift Mechanic 341113
livestock farmers (nec) 121399
Locksmith 323313
make up artist 399514
Management Accountant 221112
Management Consultant 224711
manufacturer 133411
Marine Biologist 234516
marketing specialist 225113
massage therapist 411611
Materials Engineer 233112
mathematician 224112
meat inspector 311312
Mechanical Engineer 233512
mechanical engineering technician 312512
Medical Diagnostic Radiographer 251211
Medical Laboratory Scientist 234611
medical laboratory technician 311213
Medical Oncologist 253314
Medical Practitioner 253999
Medical Radiation Therapist 251212
medical technicians (nec) 311299
Metal Fabricator 322311
metal fitters and machinists (nec) 323299
Metal Machinist (First Class) 323214
metallurgical or materials technician 312912
Metallurgist 234912
Meteorologist 234913
Microbiologist 234517
middle school teacher (Aus) / intermediate school teacher (NZ) 241311
Midwife 254111
mine deputy 312913
Mining Engineer 233611
mixed crop and livestock farmer 121411
mixed crop farmer 121216
mixed livestock farmer 121317
Motor Mechanic (General) 321211
Motorcycle Mechanic 321213
Multimedia Specialist 261211
music director 211212
Music Director 211212
music professionals (nec) 211299
music teacher (private tuition) 249214
Musician (Instrumental) 211213
Natural and Physical Science Professional 234999
naturopath 252213
Naval Architect / Marine Designer 233916
network administrator 263112
network analyst 263113
Neurologist 253318
Neurosurgeon 253513
newspaper or periodical editor 212412
Nuclear Medicine Technologist 251213
nurse educator 254211
nurse manager 254311
Nurse Practitioner 254411
nurse researcher 254212
Nursing Clinical Director 134212
nutritionist 251112
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist 253913
occupational health and safety adviser 251312
Occupational Therapist 252411
Ophthalmologist 253914
Optometrist 251411
organisation and methods analyst 224712
Organisational Psychologist 272313
Orthopaedic Surgeon 253514
orthoptist 251412
Orthotist or Prosthetist 251912
Osteopath 252112
Other Spatial Scientist 232214
other sports coach or instructor 452317
Otorhinolaryngologist 253515
Paediatric Surgeon 253516
Paediatrician 253321
Painting Trades Worker 332211
Panelbeater 324111
pastrycook 351112
patents examiner 224914
Pathologist 253915
performing arts technicians (nec) 399599
Petroleum Engineer 233612
pharmacy technician 311215
photographer 211311
Physicist 234914
Physiotherapist 252511
pig farmer 121318
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon 253517
Plumber (General) 334111
Podiatrist 252611
poultry farmer 121321
power generation plant operator 399213
precision instrument maker and repairer 323314
Pressure Welder 322312
Primary Health Organisation Manager 134213
primary products inspectors (nec) 311399
primary school teacher 241213
print finisher 392111
print journalist 212413
printing machinist 392311
private tutors and teachers (nec) 249299
production manager (forestry) 133511
production manager (manufacturing) 133512
production manager (mining) 133513
Production or Plant Engineer 233513
program director (television or radio) 212315
program or project administrator 511112
Psychiatrist 253411
Psychologists 272399
psychotherapist 272314
public relations professional 225311
quality assurance manager 139914
Quantity Surveyor 233213
Radiation Oncologist 253918
Radiocommunications Technician 313211
records manager 224214
recreation officer 272612
recruitment consultant 223112
Registered Nurse 254499
Registered Nurse (Aged Care) 254412
Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health) 254413
Registered Nurse (Community Health) 254414
Registered Nurse (Critical Care and Emergency) 254415
Registered Nurse (Developmental Disability) 254416
Registered Nurse (Disability and Rehabilitation) 254417
Registered Nurse (Medical Practice) 254421
Registered Nurse (Medical) 254418
Registered Nurse (Mental Health) 254422
Registered Nurse (Paediatrics) 254425
Registered Nurse (Perioperative) 254423
Registered Nurse (Surgical) 254424
rehabilitation counsellor 272114
Renal Medicine Specialist 253322
research and development manager 132511
resident medical officer 253112
residential care officer 411715
retail buyer 639211
retail pharmacist 251513
Rheumatologist 253323
Roof Plumber 334115
roof tiler 333311
sales and marketing manager 131112
school principal 134311
science technicians (nec) 311499
Secondary School Teacher 241411
sheep farmer 121322
Sheetmetal Trades Worker 322211
Shipwright 399112
signwriter 399611
Small Engine Mechanic 321214
snowsport instructor 452314
social professionals (nec) 272499
Social Worker 272511
Software and Applications Programmer 261399
Software Engineer 261313
software tester 261314
Solicitor 271311
Solid Plasterer 333212
Sonographer 251214
sound technician 399516
Special Education Teacher 241599
Special Needs Teacher 241511
specialist managers (nec) except:(a) ambassador; or (b) archbishop; or © bishop 139999
Specialist Physician 253311
Specialist Physician 253399
Speech Pathologist 252712
sports development officer 452321
sportspersons (nec) 452499
stage manager 212316
Statistician 224113
stockbroking dealer 222213
Stonemason 331112
Structural Engineer 233214
student counsellor 272115
sugar cane grower 121217
supply and distribution manager 133611
Surgeon 253511
Surveyor 232212
swimming coach or instructor 452315
systems administrator 262113
Systems Analyst 261112
Taxation Accountant 221113
teacher of English to speakers of other languages 249311
Teacher of the Hearing Impaired 241512
Teacher of the Sight Impaired 241513
Technical Cable Jointer 342212
technical director 212317
technical sales representatives (nec) including education sales representatives 225499
technical writer 212415
Telecommunications Engineer 263311
Telecommunications Field Engineer 313212
telecommunications linesworker 342413
Telecommunications Network Engineer 263312
Telecommunications Network Planner 313213
Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist 313214
television journalist 212416
tennis coach 452316
Tennis Coach 452316
textile, clothing and footwear mechanic 323215
Thoracic Medicine Specialist 253324
toolmaker 323412
traditional Chinese medicine practitioner 252214
transport company manager 149413
Transport Engineer 233215
University Lecturer 242111
upholsterer 393311
urban and regional planner 232611
Urologist 253518
Valuer 224512
Vascular Surgeon 253521
vegetable grower (Aus) / market gardener (NZ) 121221
vehicle body builder 324211
vehicle trimmer 324212
Veterinarian 234711
veterinary nurse 361311
video producer 212318
visual arts and crafts professionals (nec) 211499
Wall and Floor Tiler 333411
watch and clock maker and repairer 323316
web administrator 313113
web designer 232414
web developer 261212
Welder (First Class) 322313
Welfare Centre Manager 134214
welfare worker 272613
wood machinist 394213
wood machinists and other wood trades workers (nec) 394299
youth worker 411716
Zoologist 234518
If you have any questions about your correct code or if your qualifications and experience meet the requirements simply do our free visa assessment and our team will get you the information you need for your personal circumstances.
The good news is that Gastroenterologist is on the MLTSSL list – which is the most in-demand list.
It is good to take a look to check that the details the Australian Government list under the ANZSCO details for a Gastroenterologist, match you and your experience in your career.
Australian Immigration describe a Gastroenterologist 253316 as:
"Investigates, diagnoses and treats patients in need of intensive and critical care. Registration or licensing is required."
The Australian Immigration Department also defines the qualifications a Gastroenterologist required to immigrate to Australia against the Australian Qualification Framework ("AQF").
This is determined in Levels of Skill – and the skill level for Gastroenterologists is 1.
Which means :
Skill Level 1
Occupations at Skill Level 1 have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.
Tasks and Responsibilities of a Gastroenterologist in Australia.
Australia considers the following as the Tasks and Responsibilities of a Gastroenterologist
"1. Examining patients to determine the nature and extent of problems after referral from General Medical Practitioners and other medical specialists, and undertaking laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures"
2. Analysing test results and other medical information to make diagnoses
"3. Prescribing and administering drugs, and remedial and therapeutic treatment and procedures"
4. Recording medical information and data
5. Reporting specified contagious and notifiable diseases to government health and immigration authorities
6. May admit or refer patients to hospitals
"7. Prescribing post-operative care, and observing and investigating patients' progress"
8. Maintaining records of operations performed
9. May specialise in particular types of operations
Do I need a Job to Apply for Australian Permanent Residency as a Gastroenterologist?
No, You don't need a job in Australia to apply. The Skilled Visa for Gastroenterologists is about you, your skills and how you're going to benefit the Australian economy and fill the need Australia has for more Gastroenterologists.
Determining your Eligibility to immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist.
This is the most important part to get correct. However, many people think they can't apply when indeed they can. The most common errors arise from not knowing all the areas Australian Immigration Points can be gained.
It is always best to discuss your particular situation with us here at Australia Made Simple so we can give you a full and complete assessment along with all the extra lesser-known ways to gain Australian Immigration Points for Permanent Residency.
How to Calculate your Australian Immigration Points
Add your points for each section to come up with your Immigration Points Total.
1. Points for Age to Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Your age points are calculated as within an age band until the last day before your birthday which pushes you into the next bracket.
For example, you are in the 18-24 age band until the day before your 25th Birthday. On the date of your 25th birthday, you move up to the next age bracket for points purposes.
Age 18 – 24 = 25 points
Age 25 – 32 = 30 points
Age 33 – 39 = 25 points
Age 40 – 44 = 15 points
Age 45 – 45 is the new age limit for Australian Skilled Migration. Once you are 45 you are not eligible for skilled migration, however, you may be able to move to Australia under one of their many other visa programs. To find out which visa options you are eligible for – take our Free Visa Assessment.
2. Points for English Language to Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Good 20 points
Medium 10 points
Basic 0 points
3. Points for Work Experience to Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
3 to 5 years 5 points
5 to 8 years 10 points
8 years + 15 points
Please note that your work experience time continues even after your application is submitted if you are working in your qualified profession.
So if you look like moving into the next experience band for work experience in the coming months – give yourself the points for the higher band as you will be into that bracket by the time the final tally of points are made by Australian Immigration as a check.
4. Points for Qualification to Immigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
PhD 20 points
Degree 15 points
Trade Qualification 10 points
5. Points for Community Language Skills.
Languages qualifying for extra points for Immigration to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
To gain the 5 extra points for a credentialed Community Language listed above you will need to be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters NAATI . To become accredited you will need to pass the NAATI testing at Level 2 or above.
It is not enough to simply speak the language, you must have the accreditation to be able to claim the extra 5 points.
6. State Sponsorship and Regional Area points.
We will always make an application across the State Sponsored visa class of Permanent Residency. So add an extra 5 points for the State Sponsorship Visa and an extra 15 points of the Regional Visa 491 option.
7. Partner Skills points for Australian Skilled Migration
If your partner is also qualified in an occupation on the Occupations in Demand Lists, and your partner is willing to undertake the skills assessment for that occupation, you can add another 5 points.
Now add up your points
The minimum points you need to qualify for Australian Skilled Migration is 65. If you have not yet reached 65 please get in contact with us through completing this free visa assessment. There are some other ways to gain points that you might qualify for and there are other visa pathways that could be open to you. Too many people assume they do not qualify, when indeed they do.
The process of Immigrating to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
Once you've satisfied ANZSCO and calculated a minimum of 65 emigration points it's time to start looking at getting your migration case underway.
The 3 stages of Emigrating to Australia as a Gastroenterologist
1. Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist Stage One: Skills Assessment
Every occupation, trade and profession has its own skills assessment body. It's their job to say that you are who you say you are and that you have the right skills, experience and qualifications.
In the case of ANZSCO Code 253316 the Australian Skills Assessment body for Gastroenterologist is MedBA.
Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist Skills Assessment – Training and employment Check:
Stage one is the collation of a decision-ready bundle of documents which can be used by the assessment body to evidence and substantiate your skills, training, qualifications and experience.
You will need the following documents as a base and more role-specific documents as requested:
- Copy of your Passport
- Your CV OR Resume
- Payslips from each of your employers
- Your Qualifications
- Very specific references for every role you've held (we will provide you all the details of what to include and an appropriate layout to give your referees to help ensure the references contain all the information Australia needs)
- ID Documentation
The Skills Assessment is a mandatory part of the Australia Emigration process and we can't move on to other stages of the application without it. Indeed, the number you are granted on your Skills Assessment certificate is required to be submitted for the next stage of the process.
Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist with your skills assessment.
The skills assessment Certificate, that you will be issued once you have passed your skills assessment, verifies and recognizes all of your skills, qualifications and experience in your home country. This then helps with your transition to work in Australia so you can gain any local licensing and registrations required.
For further detailed information about how to emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist feel free to take our Free Online Assessment for an in Depth Consultation, with No Obligation.
For now though, let's continue with the emigration to Australia process as it applies specifically to Gastroenterologists.
2 Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist Stage Two: Expression of Interest EOI
After receiving a positive Skills Assessment an Expression of Interest can be lodged which places you into a pool of candidates all looking to migrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist.
It is important therefore that you build the strongest possible case to receive an invitation to apply for your formal skilled visa.
3 Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist Stage Three: Formal Application
The final stage of your migration to Australia as a Gastroenterologist is your formal application to the Department of Home Affairs after receiving an invitation to apply. At this stage police checks and medicals are required.
What Emigration Australia Visas are available for a Gastroenterologist?
The main skilled visa classes of 189 and 190 bring what's termed Permanent residency Status from day one. Permanent Residency for a Gastroenterologist means you'll be able to:
Live and work in Australia
Enter and leave without the need for further visas
Access Medicare
Access education for children without contribution
Access financial services
Own property
Sponsor other eligible family members after two years
Apply for full citizenship and dual nationality after four years
Can my family join me on a skilled visa?
Yes, with the additional bonus that your partner may not even need to do a skills assessment in their own right for whatever occupation they hold. The rights and privileges afforded to the main visa holder are passed onto partners and children automatically.
Employer-Sponsored Visas for Gastroenterologists Emigrating to Australia
Gastroenterologist is on the MLTSSL for Australia which means it's eligible for the TSS Employer Sponsored Visa and whilst this visa is initially classed as temporary it can convert to fill Permanent Residency Status after three years.
Occupation Ceilings for Gastroenterologists Emigrating to Australia
Occupation ceilings dictate how many skilled visas are issued to applicants in a particular year. For 2020-2021 the occupation ceiling for Gastroenterologists immigrating to Australia is "1,000".
State Sponsorship Options for Gastroenterologists
190 State Nomination for Gastroenterologists Emigrating to Australia
The following Australian States and Territories currently offer their weight to the 190 Visa class for Gastroenterologists emigrating to Australia
NSW New South Wales
NT Northern Territory
VIC Victoria
WA Western Australia
SA South Australia
TAS Tasmania
Do I need a job to emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist?
Not usually. The 189 visa class does not require a formal job offer although some States and Territories do require this for the 190 subclass.
Jobs in Australia for Gastroenterologists
The entire point of Australia's Skilled Migration Immigration program is to have more workers in specific occupations moving to Australia and taking up the vacancies in those positions.
The Occupations on the in Demand lists have vacancies in Australia that can't be filled. There are simply not enoughGastroenterologists in Australia to fill all the jobs.
There are currently 18624 Gastroenterologists working in Australia and they need more.
The Average Salary in Australia for a Gastroenterologist is "Weekly Earnings = $ 3,327.70 Annual Salary = $ 173,040 Average Age = 50.2"
To look for Jobs for Gastroenterologists take a look at our Jobs for Gastroenterologists in Australia here.
Search for Jobs for Gastroenterologists in Australia
Who can come to Australia with me when I move?
Your spouse or partner as well as your children can come with you. To find out about Australian schools you can read our guide to the typical Australian school day.
Your partner or spouse will be awarded the same rights as you under your visa in Australia. They will be able to work and your children will be able to study.
Take our online Visa assessment to help our visa consultants determine the best path to Australia for you and your family.
We only take on cases where our experts are positive about securing a successful outcome for you and your family.
Emigrate to Australia as a Gastroenterologist with Australia Made Simple
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The Secret Beyond Matter
The Miracle of Migration in Animals
Part 5 - A Stumbling in Evolutionary Theory: Animal Migration
The preceding sections of this book have examined the complexity of animals' migratory behaviors and mechanisms. The very fact that such complex behaviors exist constitutes evidence that God has created these animals.
But how does Darwinist evolutionary theory—which claims that animals appeared as a result of natural effects and coincidences—explain migration? What claims do evolutionists make on the subject of migration?
This chapter offers a brief answer to this question and you will see that on the subject of migratory behavior and mechanisms, evolutionary theory comes to a dead end.
On the one hand, animal migration shows the superior knowledge of God in creation, but also exposes the invalidity of the claims of evolutionary theory. As we know, evolutionary theory tries to explain the root of animals' behavior to so-called evolutionary mechanisms—mutations brought about by coincidental effects and the unconscious process of natural selection. According to this theory, these unconscious evolutionary mechanisms can eventually explain every question on the origin, variety and behavior of animals. However, scientific developments have produced conclusions that totally contradict the evolutionists' expectations.
Findings in paleontology, biochemistry, anatomy and genetics have shown evolutionary theory to be based on false claims. The defeat of its claims by modern science is the subject of several of our books. (For detailed information, see Darwinism Refuted, The Evolution Deceit, and The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution in 20 Questions.) In this chapter, it will suffice to touch upon how the evolutionists cling to their theories with contrived elucidations in their attempts to explain various aspects of animal behavior.
First, evolutionary sources offer no satisfactory or tenable explanations for animals' migratory and navigational skills. This is surprising, as the evolutionists often make up false evidence when they cannot find support in fields such as paleontology or molecular biology. Animal migration does not lend itself to such fabrications, which is why evolutionists' efforts to explain migrating animals are based on no evidence and go no further than a few biased hypotheses. To evolutionists, it's a total enigma how animals reach their destinations without going astray, how they muster the energy to travel thousands of kilometers, how they develop strategies to cope with weather conditions, and how their memories are strong enough to let them remember the way back. The following is an admission that evolutionists are aware of the difficulties they have on this subject and the contradictions of their explanations:
On the flight of migrating birds, the Danish ornithologist Finn Salomonsen has this to say:
Evolutionary theory is based on the results of coincidental effects. The very word "coincidence" suggests unconscious, random, unplanned and haphazard events. Yet in their explanations, evolutionists use the concept of coincidence as a system of conscious, rational intelligence and a source of knowledge. Evolutionary sources refer to coincidence as a power with foresight that can take preventative measures, create perfect designs, and make decisions for a specific purpose. When animals' circumstances change, coincidence is described as making the necessary adjustments and innovations. These claims surely give rise to certain questions:
How can random effects create a characteristic in an animal, of whose effects themselves have no knowledge? How can they program it into that animal's genetic code so it can be passed on to future generations? It is doubtless impossible for coincidence to identify a need and create appropriate solutions. And it is beyond the realms of probability for an animal to differentiate by trial and error whichever characteristic serves it best from those that do not.
In migration, many animals cover vast distances with nothing to show the way or any instrument to guide them. When weather conditions and climatic changes are taken into consideration, as well as the size of the animals, this phenomenon takes on new dimensions. Migration's remarkable aspect lies not just in the length of the distances covered. Some migratory birds return to their former winter habitat after spending several years in one region. Some of their journeys are made by individual, solitary birds and during the night. And whether the journey is to be 1,000 or 10,000 kilometers (620 or 6,200 miles), great physiological preparation is necessary. Some of the problems that migrators may encounter include high energy requirements, being carried off course by harsh weather conditions, finding food and defending against predators. How do birds manage to cover these distances in spite of all these difficulties? Moreover, some animals decide to migrate even when not forced to do so by such reasons as harsh weather or scarce food—but how do they know when to do so? And who guides them on their journey? How can random coincidences teach birds how to store the energy needed for long distance travel, navigate, and judge time? Darwinists pass over such questions with veiled explanations like the following:
Those who consider no possibility besides evolution draw biased, limited conclusions in evolutionary terminology that doesn't clearly express the intended meaning. They clearly overlook the remarkable aspects of animals risking their lives in crossing vast oceans and deserts. Why do they feel the need to set off on such a dangerous journey? How would they know they will find a suitable habitat where they have never been before? Deviating from the journey by even one degree could bring creatures to the middle of an ocean or desert, so how do they manage to navigate so perfectly?
Migrating animals are also very exact in the timing of their journeys. What makes a flock of birds take off at the same moment, as though in agreement with one another? Who calculates the same period every year? What makes the intricate mechanism known as "the biological clock," claimed to regulate annual behavior, work so perfectly? Who lets them know when the time has come and initiates their pre-programmed movement?
Evolutionary ornithologists claim that birds' migration routes are shaped by weather conditions, subject to change with each new generation. However, none of these elucidations explains how birds can establish that there are suitable climatic conditions and a plentiful food supply on the other side of the world, and can judge the best routes as though reading a map. What's more, evolutionists are unable to answer how these migration routes are passed on to subsequent generations.
There is no question of coincidences defining time and having knowledge of navigation, and making these conscious concepts manifest in living creatures. All these questions indicate the presence of a Creator possessing infinite knowledge and intelligence. As a verse of the Qur'an makes known, all living creatures are under the control of God, "... there is no creature He does not hold by the forelock" (Surah Hud, 56).
Natural Selection and Mutations Cannot Explain Living Creatures' Perfect Structures and Behavior
New-hatched chicks follow exactly the same migration routes used by previous generations, without the guidance of experienced birds. The hummingbird has a brain the size of a grain of corn and a body weighing 2 to 5 grams (0.07 to 0.1 ounces), yet it covers great distances perfectly. According to evolutionists, natural selection is why a living creature lives in harmony with its environment and migrates to a more beneficial region. But when evolutionary scientists claim that there is competition and struggle between living creatures in nature and that animals are still evolving by means of natural selection, they are making a great scientific blunder. Today, it is an accepted fact that natural selection has no evolutionary effect and therefore, falls far short of explaining the origin of living species.
According to natural selection, creatures whose physical characteristics make them best adapted to their environment have a better chance of surviving to breed. However, this advantage never results in the creature's evolution. For example, birds' tendency to migrate is no reason for large wingspan, as some evolutionists claim. Natural selection will never transform them into a different living species or provide them with any organ or characteristic that they didn't already possess. Natural selection can only encourage birds with large wings to fly greater distances, to where better living conditions prevail.
As a mechanism, natural selection was described before Darwin. For example, in a flock of birds threatened by freezing cold, those physically able to fly long distance will survive and over time, the rest will become fewer in number or die out. But Darwin gave natural selection a different meaning. By asserting that this mechanism created new species over the course of time, he suggested the possibility of migration creating different species. But today, even evolutionists acknowledge that natural selection has no power to make living creatures evolve.
Natural selection adds no new information to the gene pool of living creatures, and thus cannot provide them with new characteristics. Some evolutionists also claim that the characteristics that creatures acquire through natural selection are passed on to the next generation. Before Darwin, the French biologist Lamarck advanced the theory that living species evolve from one another. In his book, Zoological Philosophy, Lamarck asserted that creatures passed on changes they acquired in the course of their lives to future generations. In his famous example, he claimed that giraffes originally had much shorter necks, but with each subsequent generation, their efforts to reach tall trees made their necks grow longer.
Lamarck's "transfer of acquired characteristics" was invalidated with the discovery of the laws of heredity. In the mid-20th century, the discovery of DNA proved that genetic information is encoded in the nucleus of cells of living creatures and could not be changed by "acquired characteristics." Even if an animal's neck stretched by a few centimeters over the course of its life, its young would still be born with necks of the standard dimensions. In short, scientific findings disproved Lamarck's theory as a false hypothesis.
But to disguise the invalidity of this claim, some evolutionists put forward the concept of mutation. To date, however, no useful mutation for developing genetic information has been observed. Accordingly, living creatures' "irreducibly complex" structures invalidate the concept of "gradual accumulation of small changes," which is the essence of Darwinism. Richard Dawkins, one of Darwinism's staunch defenders, acknowledges the negative effects of mutation:
Also, random changes in DNA do little to explain the migration phenomenon in animals. For example, how can a bird's flying for six weeks in a southeasterly direction, then four weeks in a northeasterly direction, be programmed gradually in its DNA's amino acid chain? Or how can a gene tell a fish when to migrate and where in the ocean it should go? No rational, intelligent person could agree that unconscious molecules can direct an animal so precisely as to when it should act and what it should do. But evolutionary biologists claim that selective genetics lets animals "bequeath" useful forms of behavior to future generations. Even though he is an evolutionist, Gordon R. Taylor criticizes this claim in his book dealing with subjects that Darwinism cannot explain:
In saying, "Why a particular type of organism displays the behavior components it does is a result of evolution,"61 Darwinists lead the evolutionary scenario to an even greater impasse. According to them, all seemingly conscious behavior in animals is to be explained as instincts directed by coincidences. However much you try to explain this using a different concept such as "instinct," coincidence essentially expresses an unconscious, random intervention. From the evolutionists' perspective, the idea of an instinct making conscious precautions to ensure animals' continued existence constitutes a serious contradiction. As already pointed out, one of the first to confess the weakness of claims concerning instinct was Charles Darwin himself:
Darwin was also aware that evolution could not explain the conscious behaviors he observed in nature. Intelligent logic shows the truth of this. But a number of evolutionists still try to explain Darwin's long-since-discredited theory with meaningless words. In spite of being an evolutionist, the famous German biologist Hoimar Von Ditfurth admits that animal behavior is a matter of rational intelligence and consciousness:
But then he resorts to demagogic methods so as not to acknowledge that the remarkable indications of intelligence are evidence of creation:
As the evolutionists are also aware, the word "instinct" has no elucidative meaning, but has become a refuge for those who do not acknowledge the inspiration of God. Evolutionary scientists use "instinct" to define certain innate aspects of animal behavior. Always left unanswered, however, are the questions of how animals acquire these instincts, and how instinctive behavior first emerged and was passed on from generation to generation. In The Great Evolution Mystery, evolutionary geneticist Gordon R. Taylor makes the following confession on this impasse:
When we ask ourselves how any instinctive pattern of behaviour arose in the first place and became hereditarily fixed, we are given no answer.65
Certain evolutionists who do not admit the truth like Taylor try to get around these questions with veiled answers that are really meaningless. One of the greatest mistakes is the claim that over time, instincts have been shaped into their present form and passed on from generation to generation. This is the same logic used by Lamarck, proven to be a myth more than a century ago. In fact, even evolutionary scientists acknowledge the implausibility of instinct and impulses being passed on from generation to generation.
Taylor evaluates the claim that behavior can be inherited as "lamentable":
Biologists assume freely that such inheritance of specific behaviour patterns is possible, and indeed that it regularly occurs. Thus Dobzhansky roundly asserts: "All bodily structures and functions, without exception, are products of heredity realized in some sequence of environments. So are all forms of behaviour, without exception." This simply isn't true and it is lamentable that a man of Dobzhansky's standing should dogmatically assert it..66
These creatures were not able to invent the extraordinary characteristics they possess, but were born with these characteristics. It is our Lord God, Whose intelligence and knowledge is supreme, Who creates them in a fashion that enables them to display these characteristics.
Evolution Cannot Explain any Aspect of Migratory Behavior
Basing the origin of animals on their so-called struggle for survival, evolutionary theory supposes that new species arise from the gradual addition of small coincidental advantages gained in the course of this struggle over time. A small bird only a few weeks old sets off on a journey thousands of kilometers long, but its success is due to its having the necessary structure and perfect mechanisms. Accordingly, it's not possible for the necessary organs and behavior to develop in stages, because for any animal lacking the necessary equipment and skills, the chances of survival would be very slim, as an evolutionary source mentions:
But this impasse does not deter evolutionists from making fantastic speculations about migration. Their most publicized scenario is based on the retreat of icebergs, as is related in an evolutionary source:
There are serious contradictions in the explanations linking migratory behavior in animals to hereditary characteristics shaped by coincidental effects. Information encoded in an animal's DNA cannot create compatibility with environmental factors or be influenced by any aspect of an animal's behavior. As already explained, this unscientific logic emerged in an era before any knowledge of genetics. For example, even if migration in birds began in ancient times when moved to a different place as the icebergs retreated, that does not support the evolutionist claims of corresponding changes in genetic information. Wherever all the members of one species move, or however often they travel, it has no effect whatsoever on their DNA. In short, migratory behavior is not added into the genes of living creatures.
If migratory behavior is not exactly correct, it is disadvantageous to the species and can even be fatal. As evolutionists have also stated, during migration the risk of mortality is great and no living species has time to wait for random mutations to let it acquire accurate migratory behavior. It is illogical to accept that migratory knowledge, passed on genetically and which enables a bird to find a place it has never been before, has emerged as a result of mutations known for harmful effects.
The "planning" in migratory behavior is so complex that refusing to see it as the product of creation can be explained only with Darwinist dogmatism. For example, consider the preparations that start taking place prior to migration: Birds go into an accelerated feeding to store energy for their upcoming journey. Some birds double their body weight in this period of excessive eating known as "hyperphagia," which is part of the genetically controlled migration process. Interestingly, this behavior starts two to three weeks before migration, just before the food supply diminishes, which prevents the birds from experiencing lack of energy before their long journey. From the bird's point of view, this is an extremely effective precautionary mechanism. Evolutionists assert that all the mechanisms in this physiological adaptation are linked to random mutations accumulated in the bird's DNA, but they can show no evidence.
Another physiological mechanism related to migration that evolutionists cannot explain is the marked changes in birds' hormone levels. The neuroendocrinal system, responsible for nervous stimulation and inner hormone secretion, triggers diurnal changes affecting the pituitary gland and the pineal, the gland in brain for secretion of the hormone melatonin related to sleep. The joint actions of the hormones corticosterone and prolactin are thought to stimulate nocturnal restlessness (zugunruhe), which increases during migratory times of the year.69 The molecular structure of hormones playing a role in this complex endocrinal process is so finely calibrated that it's not possible for even one such hormone to appear by chance. Nor is there any scientific evidence of this. (For detailed information, see Harun Yahya, The Miracle of Hormones, Goodword Books, September, 2003.)
Another feature that cannot be explained by mutations is that some migrating birds fly at high altitudes. For example, the bar-headed goose, Anser indica, is known to fly over the Himalayas at an altitude of 9,000 meters (29,500 feet). At such altitudes, the atmosphere is lacking in oxygen, and the oxygen-carrying capacity in the birds' blood is increased by a high concentration of red blood cells. Unlike non-migratory birds, the hemoglobin in some migrating birds is found in two separate forms, differing in their oxygen carrying and releasing capacities. This special creation lets the bird adapt rapidly to varying levels of oxygen availability as it moves between different altitudes.70 This superior ability could be an advantage only if the bird's body was ideally created. Accordingly, the complex structure of living species, and the remarkably skillful behavior, are too perfect to consider the possibility of coincidence.
Evolution cannot Explain the Root of Migration
Scientists studying and conducting experiments on migration have concluded that the mechanisms that make migration possible are genetically transferred. Two different such experiments are quite illuminating:
1) In one experiment, the eggs of the herring gull, a bird that does not usually migrate, were exchanged with the eggs of the migratory Lesser black-backed gull. Consequently, 900 hatchlings emerged in the nests of the wrong family. Even though their "adopted" families did not migrate, the Lesser black-backed gull hatchlings did!
2) Professor Peter Berthold, who has researched bird migration for some 20 years, is president of the Max Planck Research Center for Ornithology in Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Germany. Berthold and his team confined thousands of migratory birds in one place and studied their movements. The results were as follows:
a) The birds' migratory behavior showed an inner and annual rhythm. (These rhythms that organize animal behaviors which require physiological arrangements such as hibernation are based on a genetic "biological clock.") Although the birds were kept in a constant environment with fixed cycles of light and darkness, they showed a number of changes: weight gain, renewal of feathers, and nocturnal restlessness at the appropriate times of the year—spring and autumn. Even though they had no natural environment to remind them, some program in their bodies prepared them for migration. The scientists concluded that this behavior was pre-programmed.
b) 97% of the captive birds began their activity at the same time as birds in nature set off.
c) Different bird species subjected to the experiment showed different levels of activity, appropriate to their own migratory behavior. For example, birds migrating over longer distances showed activity over longer periods.
d) Crossbreeding trials showed that the quality of migratory activity is population-specific and pre-programmed, or genetic.
Furthermore, birds in the experiment changed direction from southwest to south at the time when they would be expected do so on their normal migration crossing the Mediterranean near Gibraltar. Accordingly, birds have a mechanism that tells them not only how long the migratory activity will last, but also at what point in the migratory journey they must change direction.
Today, scientists agree that these exceptional skills are pre-programmed in birds, as is related in an article in Science magazine:
There is good evidence that young birds are equipped with endogenous migratory programs, which tell them roughly how many days and/or nights that they must fly, and in what direction.71
Just as other researches revealed that penguins used the Sun to navigate, scientists also discovered that penguins have a biological clock that is adjusted in accordance with their original location. So the Cape Crozier penguin migrated according to Cape Crozier time. In addition, they discovered that young penguins were just as adept at navigating as the adults, meaning that penguin chicks are born with this knowledge.72
Although the mechanisms that play a role in migration have not been definitively brought to light, it is widely believed that they emerge at birth as pre-programmed behavior. But how can complex behavior be transferred genetically? Is there some program in the genes to direct behavior?
Even if migratory behavior in animals is transferred genetically, how is this heredity achieved? Animals display exceptionally complex detailed migratory behavior. On flights covering thousands of kilometers, do strings of amino acid in the genes determine the preparations beforehand and the directional and navigational skills during the migration?
If the answer is yes, and if a genetic program determines migration, this, too, constitutes a great impasse for evolutionary theory since the genetic encoding of such complex information cannot be explained by evolutionary mechanisms. As is the case with the origin of new organs and biological structures, this complex and detailed information cannot be explained by natural selection. Believing that information defining migration is produced by random mutations is like believing that a road map can arise from ink accidentally spilt on a piece of paper.
No one of common sense could believe in such an impossibility. The logical explanation is not the work of chance, but of an almighty intellect. In other words, what is logical is to accept that our Creator gives birds their knowledge of migration.
And the information coded in the cells of migrating creatures has not come into existence over time by the accretion of random atoms and molecules as a result of unconscious coincidences. This extensive knowledge is the work of the eternal power of God, the Creator of all.
The Golden Plover: A Creature to Challenge Evolutionary Theory
To spend the winter, plovers migrate from Alaska to Hawaii. They must fly non-stop over the ocean, because there are no islands on their route and they are not a species that can swim. During their 4,000-kilometer (2,400 mile) journey, which takes 88 hours, their wings beat an incredible 250,000 times. At the start of their journey, they weigh 200 grams (7 ounces), of which 70 grams (2 ounces) consist of fat to be burned as fuel. These birds consume 0.6% of their body weight every hour. By this calculation, in 72 hours—81% of the necessary flying time—they need to consume 70 grams (2 ounces) of their fat, virtually all their fuel. This should make the birds fall into the ocean some 800 kilometers (500 miles) before their destination—but that never happens.
Werner Gitt, professor and director at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, gives the following explanation of how these birds manage to complete their 88-hour flight with only 70 grams of fat:
As the example of this bird shows, there is no room for coincidences in migratory flight. On the contrary, there are fine mathematical calculations that we have not included here. This efficient way of flying, which even man has not yet succeeded in duplicating, raises a number of questions:
The clever planning and techniques of these creatures devoid of conscious intelligence, with no decision-making or judgmental ability, and with bodies perfectly suited to this purpose, can only be explained by one truth. These creatures act under the inspiration given them from the first moment of their creation. They continue their lives under the order and control of our Lord, the Creator of all things.
In his documentary entitled Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution Dr. Jobe Martin uses the plover as an example to invalidate evolutionary theory:
It is not possible for this little bird to establish by trial and error what method it should use and how much fat it should burn in order to be able to migrate. Failure on any flight would mean death for the bird, and no question of it passing on its experience to future generations. It is ridiculous to assert that through some unconscious mechanism such as natural selection, a bird has learned that it is not possible to fly alone or with 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of fat. It is also beyond the realms of probability that genetic coding of finely calculated flying techniques is based on destructive influences like mutations.
Footnotes56- Dawn Chorus, "Bird Migration: Evolution ambience;" http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Sep99/1974.html
57-Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information, 3rd. ed., CLV, Germany: 2001, p. 244
58- The Marvels of Animal Behaviour, National Geographic Society, 1972, p. 279
59- Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, W. W. Norton & Company, USA, 1996, pp. 80-81
60- Gordon R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, Harper & Row Publishers 1983, 221
61- Ernst Mayr, This Is Biology, The Science of the Living World, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 7th ed., 1999, p. 119
62- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 233
63- Hoimar Von Ditfurth, Im Amfang War Der Wasserstoff (In the Beginning Was Hydrogen), vol.1, Istanbul: Alan Publishing, 3rd ed., 1996, p. 17
64- Ibid., pp. 15-16
65- Gordon R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, Harper & Row Publishers, 1983, p. 222
66- Ibid., p. 221
67- Animal Behavior: Observing bird behavior", http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/sgoldsmith/abhandouts/lab_first_birds.html
68- Ann E. Kessen, "Amazing Flight: Mysteries of Bird Migration;" http://www.bellmuseum.org/imprint_migration01.html
69- "Ornithology Lecture 3;" http://www.humboldt.edu/~tlg2/365/lecture3.html
70- Mary Deinlein, "Have Wings, Will Travel: Avian Adaptations to Migration;" http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Fact_Sheets/default.cfm?fxsht=4
71-Wehner, R., Bird navigation—computing orthodromes, Science, vol. 291, 2001, pp. 264–265; A. J. Helbig, J., [Exp. Biol.—IS THIS A TITLE? IF SO, WRITE OUT IN FULL] 199, p. 49 (1996).
72- Gardner Soule, Strange Things Animals Do, How Scientists Probe Their Secrets?, New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, p. 35
73- Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information, p. 243
74- "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution"–II, Dr. Jobe Martin, Reel Productions, 2000


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The White Rose by Amy Ewing
And little wonder when readers can immerse themselves in dangerous and daring landscapes like the Lone City, the extraordinary backdrop to Amy Ewing's electrifying young adult trilogy.
A breathtaking blend of beauty and brutality, the series opened with Ewing's stunning debut, The Jewel, in which we met Violet Lasting, a young woman whose genetic mutation meant she was no longer considered to be a human being.
Auctioned as Lot 197 to the highest royal bidder in the Jewel of the Lone City, she became the Surrogate of the House of the Lake, her sole purpose to produce a healthy heir for the ruthless Duchess of the Lake.
Destined to carry the child of a woman she despised, Violet entered a living death of captivity and quickly learned the unsavoury truths of the Jewel's glittering façade and cruel royals. But then she set eyes on Ash Lockwood, the companion to royal daughters, and their reckless, clandestine, illicit passion started to threaten both their lives.
In The White Rose, the second book in Ewing's masterful adventure series, Violet goes on the run in the Lone City with Ash and her best friend and fellow surrogate Raven. But nowhere is safe for them – and never will be – until the royalty is destroyed.
The Regimentals are hunting for them across the city and they are dependent on Lucien and his secret society, the Black Key, for survival. If they can reach the safety of the White Rose, then Violet may be able to help Lucien in his plan to rescue more surrogates.
For one surrogate, however, it seems it is already too late. Raven is pregnant and in the Jewel, childbirth kills surrogates…
Ewing works her special magic in a gripping, world-building saga full of romance, fast-paced action and spine-tingling danger. Add a cast of exciting and credible characters and a sensational cliffhanger ending, and The White Rose will leave fans begging for the final instalment!
(Walker Books, paperback, £7.99)


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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Chinos For Your Feet
While the Vans California collection has gotten much love over here I had yet to track down some cool styles that were actually worthy of purchase. While the salmon joints were the consensus favorite, these tan herringbone Authentics are pretty boss - I mean, they are basically chinos for your feet. In fact, they are like premium chinos because of the added herringbone pattern. If you don't think these are straight smooth you might want to get yourself checked out by a licensed physician. Pairing these up with denim would be a borderline novice sartorial move, but with masterful results. While I'm always recommending readers to grab your first pair of Authentics in white or navy, these would be a suitable third option and a must cop if you've already got the aforementioned staples. Urban Outfitters even has them on sale for $50, but in only 8, 9 and 13 so act fast if that's the size of your dogs.
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I love these, remind me of the visvim logan deck lo which was a rip of vans authentics anyway.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2010 at 4:44 AM
Yes please.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Between these and the tan chukkas from Gap you posted a few weeks back, I am feeling a tan canvas comeback.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Wrong lacing on the shoes. They were obviously constructed to be laced straight-across (parallel lines).ReplyDelete
Does anyone know of an online store in which these are available? I can't find them anywhere!? I've been looking since your last post about the california line.ReplyDelete
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That was a good kick in the butt, Jonathan. I wish that the classes that I want to take were online courses, but alas. I guess I can use the time to brush up on my Chinese. That can be done online.
Lunch hour has become recess, a chance to unwind and play a little bit. But it doesn't have to be. Those 45 minutes every day can be the reason you go to work and just the time you need to make some major changes in your life. Get ready to give a whole new meaning to the term lunch money.
Make money on your time
You have 45 minutes of scheduled free time every day. You can watch videos online, get trapped behind your desk, or you can do something useful- like launch your own business. By having time set aside every day, you no longer have an excuse not to launch your dream career. So, tap into your entrepreneurial side and start selling wine on your lunchbreak.
So, you're not the Coppola winery, what do you want to do? Get started on your business plan, website, or corporate logo. Even with just a few minutes a day, you'd be suprised how much you can accomplish in a week.
Back to school
As long as you're thinking about school recess, you might as well head back to the classroom. With online courses offering everything from certificate to master's degrees, your lunch time might be the right time to pursue an advanced degree. According to the U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau, an average working person can expect to earn $2.1 million over the course of their lifetime if they have a bachelor's degree. That number bumps up to $2.5 million if the have a master's degree. Think your lunch hour is worth $400,000? It is now.
For those of you with MBAs in the crowd, take this step to the next level. Approach your local adult education center about teaching a series of business seminars or classes over lunch. Take your industry expertise or just best general business practices and structure a curriculum. Your rationale for offering the course can be that not everybody has time for classes, but everyone has time to eat. Say hello to a new profit center.
At work-out
Not a gym rat? Not a problem. With the new Nintendo Wii Fit being launched soon, you'll be ready to get in shape with a video game. A wireless board serves as a base for the series of low-impact, core-centric workout programs. In many ways, this is the evolution of the Dance, Dance Revolution Workout - where video games are masquerading as exercise routines.
The challenge will be convincing your human resources department to purchase the game for corporate use as opposed to a stody corporate gym membership. That should be somewhat easier thanks to Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko.
But perhaps the best way to approach HR is to pitch the idea as part of an employee fitness challenge that you would run. The goal would be to encourage your entire company to get in shape together. The beauty of this plan is that you'd be playing video games at work, improving your physical health, and getting noticed by management. Who is the creative genius in accounting with this great idea? That's you. Don't forget your fast track pants.
Now that's a lunch hour that's truly satisfying.
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That was a good kick in the butt, Jonathan. I wish that the classes that I want to take were online courses, but alas. I guess I can use the time to brush up on my Chinese. That can be done online.
Andrea, there are online classes that aren't for credit, but which can go on your resume and can be a boon to your career. I added a few to my social bookmarking in the past month: MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/) is free. (I have others in my del.icio.us but I need to see if the links are still valid.
I worked my way through another round of school, from 2002-2004, for another certification. (NOTE: I do not have children at home and don't ever blame people for wanting to spend their evenings with their families.)
I took notes in class on a Palm with keyboard, and printed them. I'd sit on my car when it was warm enough, and eat lunch and study. That was the ONLY time I studied - and I pulled of a cumulative 3.97 GPA.
Thirty minutes of study a few times a week (with reading novels the other days) made all the difference in the world.
I guess it all depends on how determined you are to make changes in your life. Just 45 minutes in a day is great, but you also have time after work and during the weekends to make your dreams come true.
Dennis, the whole idea of this is to do something with the other 45 mins of your lunch hour that you don't use, for those of us that get hour lunches.
My problem is I work night shift at an IT company, and when I got the job I agreed to work 10 hour nights, 3 days off. Fine, it's cool. But the worst thing is I don't get a lunch. I can't tell you how many times I go to microwave some food, start eating, and get a phone call. Usually I haven't had one in like 3 hours, so that's when it sucks.
But I really do like the idea of the Wii-Fit thing. I might use that for personal time at home. Now if only I could figure out a way to play World of Warcraft while riding an exercise bike!


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Lyrics to song I Don't See 'Em by DJ Khaled feat. Birdman&Ace Hood&2 Chainz
Hook: 2Chainz
If I stand next to ice, then I'm camouflaged
If I stand next to lights, then I'm camouflaged
My future's so bright, that all I see is stars
My shades on in the club, I don't see you broads
I don't see you broads, I don't see you broads
I don't see you broads, I don't see you broads
My future's so bright, that all I see is stars
My shades on in the club, I don't see you broads
Verse 1: 2Chainz
I'm criminal minded, winter coat climate
Cold. Fucking up your sinus, bitches might
Choke, I'm giving them the heimlich, I'm a
Pimp in my own fucking rhyming, you my side bitch
UGH... Two chainz, two pinky rings
I like to play with Lucille's: B.B. King
You don't fuck with us, we don't really fuck with y'all
Stunna bought some Yatchs, We in the ocean playing bumper cars
Pocket full of money, bitch, and my crew eating
Got a nigga shining like a brand new nickel
Plated pistol, this's my last shot
Just left the dealership and the cashed out
Verse 2: Ace Hood
Black shades, gold chain, and a Versace scarf
Swear you haters couldn't see me if I glowed in the dark
What it be like nigga? What it look like ho?
Still shining a nigga, two chains looking like it's lightning doe
No love for you bustas, keep on steady stuntin'
Mo' bottles of Rose, yeah you know who run it
Thousand dollar shades on, all gold frames
Mister Fuck-your-bitch-and-leave-her, that's my code name
I'm blowing money in this bitch, I think I'm Birdman
Trapping ain't dead, getting money like the bird man
Bad bitches, whole lotta ass
Make you famous in this bitch soon as the camera flash
Verse 3: Birdman
In the kitchen and we cooking up that raw hog
Dry when shining, I'm a movie star
Open up the bank bitch, bring em large
Flip em and we bust em, then we ship em off
Perpetrating'll get your head bust
A hundred million, 'll get you dope flush
A new Bentley, you get a ho rush
Big money shit, we popping cause we came up
Hella choppers, on them new thangs
Big yachts, brand new wings
Them hoes yapping, cause they know the frame
Cardinal, Ten Carats on my pinky ring


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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Almond and Honey-Butter Cookies...
We took Gus around Lake Calhoun for another walk yesterday to get him ready - it is just over 3 miles around and he finished happy with his tail still waggin' like crazy - I think he was still raring to go for more! Look how long his hair is getting!
Saturday mornings usually end up being the time that I make sure to set aside extra time to throw together some homemade snacks for us. I did just that again with a recipe for these honey-sweetened thumbprint cookies called Almond and Honey-Butter Cookies.
These round gems have a few things going for them that make them a bit better for you than your everyday cookie. Besides using only honey as the sweetener, we used a combo of soft whole-wheat pastry flour and all-purpose flour to achieve a delicate texture, yet still retain some good-for-you nutrients. Also bumping the cookies up slightly in protein and heart-healthy fats in the dry ingredients is a full cup of toasted whole almonds that we first finely ground in a food processor before adding them in.
While you would typically expect a stick or so of butter to get the cookies movin', this recipe only calls for three tablespoons used in the dough, while the remaining fat comes from canola oil. And as mentioned, instead of using white sugar, these are sweetened with a generous amount of sticky honey. This is where you can play around with imparting delicate notes into the cookie with the type of honey if you like - try orange-blossom, lavender or even tupelo, if you are lucky to find it.
Before you begin working with the dough, you'll want to let it hang out in the refrigerator for an hour to give the flour time to soak in the moisture and make it easier to work with. After rolling tablespoons worth of dough into balls, each is given a "thumbprint" or indent in the center, which will make for a crater to hold a creamy filling once they have cooled. You'll want to bake these just long enough to set the cookies and give them a light golden tinge around the edges. To fill up the dent in the cookies, we stirred together more of that sweet honey with just a tablespoon of softened butter to add just a kiss of richness without the guilt. To echo the almond in the dough and add a visual appeal, we slipped a couple sliced almonds that we toasted into each of the tiny honey-butter pools.
The texture of the actual cookie is somewhat crumbly, yet not dry and hard - they also contain a delightful nutty essence throughout. While the centers don't set up like a frosting, it does firm slightly so it isn't too messy to eat. If you're looking for a well-portioned cookie that tastes good and still packs a nutritious punch, I wouldn't wait too long to get a batch of these into the oven!
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What beautiful cookies! My hubby is a huge almond fan and would love them!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/11/2009 05:46:00 PM
We are finally having our much deserved spring like weather--I walked around Calhoun today (with about a million other people, lol) and it was gorgeous! Gus is so cute--I am glad he enjoyed going around the lake!ReplyDelete
These cookies sound fabulous--and they are so pretty too! I am going to try them with agave and an egg replacer to make them vegan. They are too cute to pass up!
Love the cookies - they look gorgeous in the sun!ReplyDelete
Gus's fur really IS getting long! Good on him for making the trek so well.
I wanted to donate to the walk but was hoping to do it through Paypal...is that an option?
Kerstin - Thanks!ReplyDelete
Courtney - I bet it was packed! It was fairly light when we went mid-afternoon!
MB - Send me an e-mail so we can discuss.
Hope the walk went fabulously!! It's such a great thing you're doing. These cookies look just great. I love almond. Can't wait to try them!ReplyDelete
These look delicious and healthy! I'll have to try these soon, but I was wondering how you think it would work with ground pecans instead. I don't have a food processor, but I do have some pecan meal (ground pecans).ReplyDelete
Elyse - Almonds work well in cookies!ReplyDelete
Pamela - I don't see why not!


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The Xbox 360 and Wii are, if you want to stay under warranty, locked entities. You can't upgrade them at all. The PS3, though, lets you swap out a hard drive, and with the coming of the age of solid state drives (SSD), this can result in big performance gains.
Running a series of tests across games using a standard PS3 hard drive, a hybrid drive (half regular drive, half SSD) and a Samsung SSD, tech specialists Digital Foundry have found that, depending on the game, there are some major improvements to be had in both a PS3 game's loading times and associated stuff.
RAGE, for example, looked way better, with much of its annoying texture pop-in resolved. Skyrim gets a big boost too, including a noticeable reduction in the "lag" that's been affecting PS3 owners of the game.
It's not a magic fix for all games, though. An SSD didn't do squat for Battlefield 3, nor Kingdoms of Amalur, and only made a slight difference to a range of other titles.
You can see the full run-down, including handy comparison vids, below.
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In Reserve: A Curatorial Education
Johanna Burton
To a degree, when considering the parameters of a program such as the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, one is, in fact, examining the very institutions of art as they exist today. Saying as much is partly to state the obvious: by necessity, if not by definition, curators grapple not only with images and objects that appear and circulate in the physical architectures of museums and galleries, but also with the concepts and language used to organize this material into meaningful relations, regardless of literal context. Simply put, our ideation of the curator is intimately linked to that of art.
Yet even the briefest consideration of just the history of this particular school reveals such a plain assertion to be on anything but stable ground. When the CCS first materialized nearly twenty years ago, its appearance reflected a growing sense that curating should be regarded as embodying more than the caretaking operation implied by its etymology, and that its pedagogy must entail more than a skill set whose pragmatic tools included conservation, installation, and inter-institutional communication. Rather, just as artists were often migrating to cultural spheres far removed from art's traditional contexts, so curators wanted to see their work in an expanded field, wanted to take into account (and desired suitable environs for exploring) newly developing questions of globalization, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Subsequently, and just as for artists, these regular forays into other cultural arenas have prompted a new kind of self-reflexivity (or self-consciousness) among curators, for whom a definition of their discipline—if curating can or should be considered a discipline—is perhaps not so clear. The task for those of us teaching and studying at the CCS today is thus redoubled, in a sense: not only must the school consider the institutions of art as they exist now, but also—through such close examination—undertake the project of creating novel terms for those institutions. Indeed, in a time of potentially radical shifts in artistic practices and their place in culture, the school seeks to arrive at new criteria by which to explore and articulate those shifts.
Or, more accurately, to arrive at "other" criteria for such assessments. I borrow Leo Steinberg's terminology while I bear in mind especially this art historian's assertion that any "critic interested in a novel manifestation [of art]"—or, for that matter, prompted to recognize alterations in the contours of art given changed cultural circumstances—initially "holds his criteria and taste in reserve [s]ince they were formed on yesterday's art." In such a situation, Steinberg asserts, nothing should be deemed "irrelevant" until the work's inward objectives come into focus and the critic may "feel along with it as with a thing that is like no other." For me, such an approach is crucial not only for a critic (or art historian), but also for any program of study in the discipline of curating. While cultivating art-historical and critical practice in the classroom, gallery, or journal, one should, I believe, seek nevertheless to place such understanding in historical perspective—continually summoning and holding at bay previous artistic, critical, and curatorial models in order to tease up to the surface what is unique about our own time. In this regard, one must grasp as well that established tools by which art and its institutions have in previous decades been appraised and (whether by artists, curators, or critics) problematized are themselves also susceptible to losing vitality. Indeed, they might become formal devices that merely obscure the unique situation of contemporary art, and merely reinscribe things as they are. What seems provocative or progressive on its face can be, in fact, very conservative in its disallowing of thoughtful reflection on art-making today; and what seems conservative or obtuse on first glance might, as in Steinberg's postulations, open onto alternative modes of art-making and reception that otherwise would have been inaccessible.
I think this last point is all the more pressing among curators and artists today, given their work's increasing extension into other cultural spheres. Considered in light of art-making during the past few decades—and particularly in light of those artworks that sought to underscore the power structures and ideologies of institutions in art and in society more generally—such maneuvers, ostensibly skirting the prevailing systems of art, would seem absolutely necessary. Indeed, if artistic and curatorial practice takes as part of its mission today the very disruption or eliding of institutions, then how could artists and curators ever possibly wish to work within them? In response one immediately asks what long-term, generative impact such efforts might have on the field of contemporary art and, moreover, whether many modes of critique today, steeped as they are in yesterday's art, have become the stuff of performance, parody, and gesture. (Recall in this vein critic Isabelle Graw's claim that institutional critique had by the mid-1990s—as its practitioners were invited time and again to collaborate with various museums—become "subversion for hire.") If there is a strong impulse today to disengage from institutions, perhaps we should recall Steinberg's holding of "criteria in reserve" and ask whether it is the institutions themselves writ large that require changing.
This is not to assert that institutions as such are appropriate for every artistic venture, or that moving more nimbly among broader, multivalent cultural settings in art is not productive today. Rather, I mean to suggest that novel models in art and its institutions need to be proposed and described, and that such languages for art as those appearing in this journal should act as springboards for arriving at new meanings in art when they are urgently desired. More simply put, perhaps we need to reevaluate our most near-to-hand contexts in order to see what they foreclose, as well as what they might yet be pressed to provide. Curatorial programs and institutions—including the one from whose platform I currently write—may well bear both the promises and the perils of the very future we seek to create.
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Get out your notepads and get ready for the mainframe resurgence. Tell your friends you heard it here. I'm not talking about a UNIVAC comeback, or Burroughs Large 2.0. I'm telling you, dear readers, that now's a good time to invest in the few remaining big iron dealers: IBM, Unisys, Hitachi, and Fujitsu, baby. Why, you ask? Because mainframes solve the cloud's impending challenges.
High-performance? Check. Secure? Check. Worth their proverbial weight in x86 boxes? Check. The more businesses move into the cloud, the closer we'll get to coming full circle. I'm talking Linux partitions on mainframes. Eventually the sheer number of x86 boxes involved will mean it makes monetary sense to consolidate. Some say cloud computing is the reincarnation of the mainframe. While I'm not sure that mainframe manufacturers would tell you they need reincarnating; I do think the cloud will soon be stickered "Powered by Big Iron."
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Back in the day, we started out with mainframes. Shocking for you youngsters, I know. Turns out mainframes were too large and expensive for basic computing applications, so the industry developed cheaper processors and put a server in everyone's hands in the form of pizza boxes and x86 machines.
Soon we learned that when any monkey can purchase and implement a new x86 server in a few minutes, datacenters get fat. To combat the sprawl, we patted ourselves on the back as we created virtualization. All we really created was virtual sprawl. We replaced the ability to easily add a physical server with the ability to point-and-click to spawn a virtual server. Funny how the 1960s mainframe could shoot some holes in both of these problems. Sure, they're large and awkward, and they require a cooling system the size of my Honda, but they can do the work of an army of x86 boxes.
I'm sure my hawk-eyed audience spotted my usage of the past tense above -- especially since I italicized it. I started digging into the numbers and here's what I found. You can purchase a Linux-capable IBM z8 series for as little as $40,000 plus an external disk array and network equipment. You can add additional IFLs for as little as $95,000, according to IBM's 2008 pricing. Even at a conservative consolidation ration of 10:1, that already sounds reasonable. I know what you're thinking: The z8 is two series old.
So I followed up with some z9 series competitive analysis and found some practical, convincing customer testimonials. Allow me to summarize one: Jim Marshall (U.S. Air Force, retired) describes running two production applications on 45 virtual servers across three logical partitions. The applications were secured behind two firewalls and an authentication system. He priced this setup on both a z900 with one additional IFL and Intel x86 machines. The z900 with one IFL running Suse Linux, Novell e-Maintenance, and IBM 24/7 support cost $240,000. At $2,000 per server, the Intel machines, switches, firewalls, and zero support cost $840,000 -- 71.5 percent savings sounds pretty good to me.
Jim added that his Intel estimate would likely balloon to a million with support and software upgrades, while his z900 with 24/7 support "is not even breathing hard yet." That last offhand comment is actually an excellent point. The z10 series is getting up to 10 times the performance on floating point and Java workloads versus the z9. The z10's processors can run at 95 percent capacity, whereas x86 typically runs at 10 percent -- maybe 30 percent if fully virtualized. That's three times more capacity, even before we add virtualization to the z10.
All that tells me that your datacenter doesn't even need to be very large before you can start seriously thinking about a mainframe. I'm guessing your age will dictate whether you think I've just gone out on a limb or told you something you already know. If you cut your teeth on a mainframe, you know I'm right. If you've never touched a mainframe, you'll think this is crazy talk. If you still think the Internet is the cloud, take a second to recall that the very first Web server running anywhere outside of CERN in Switzerland ran on an IBM mainframe on the Stanford University campus in California. Maybe we had it right the first time. The cloud migrating toward mainframes just makes sense.


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The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.
The success or failure of tech company IPOs will depend on market conditions, not fallout from Facebook, analysts say.
The Facebook IPO was in many ways an anomalous event, a public offering of one of the most-hyped companies ever, taking place against market headwinds. The events specific to the whole mess — which ultimately, successfully brought in US$16 billion for Facebook — don't by themselves mean that a tech bubble has been burst.
"An Internet bubble came and went in one day," said John Fitzgibbon, who runs IPO Scoop.com.
"One thing got overlooked in all the hysteria," Fitzgibbon said. "The stock market was not in great shape." On the eve of the IPO, the Nasdaq had come down from earlier highs of the year, and they are still down. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, which closed Friday at 2837.53, down by 1.85, is now about 10 percent off previous highs.
Many Factors
Problems with sovereign debt in Europe, fears that Greece will default and pull out of the euro, and mixed economic reports in the U.S. have put a damper on stocks lately.
"I've talked with investors and they've been grumpy — things were getting a bit frothy right up to the Facebook IPO," said Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis.
Meanwhile, a lot went wrong with the Facebook IPO itself, starting with how the offering was put together. Facebook picked a half-dozen high-profile investment bankers, led by Morgan Stanley, to see the offering through.
"What if putting way too many banks on a cover, thereby slicing fees to insulting levels for everyone, simply makes nobody interested or accountable?" asked Davis. "I've said it before, and even if it hacks off issuers, boards, or whatever — it is just plain stupid to do IPOs with so many banks on the cover."
The underwriters at the last minute increased the size of the offering and jacked up the offering price to an astronomical value, compared to what the company actually earns.
Even based on the value of Facebook shares a week after the IPO, down about $7.00 from the initial asking price, the company's price-to-earnings ratio is 72.20. In other words, it costs about 72 times the amount that Facebook is earning per share to buy that share. Apple, arguably the most successful company on the planet right now, has a P/E ratio of only 13.68. (Facebook's earnings per share are $0.43, while Apple's are $41.04).
Then, stories from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, among others, reported that a Morgan Stanley analyst had cut his revenue forecast for Facebook in the days before the offering, and may have only told top clients verbally, rather than spreading the word publicly. If true, this action could be interpreted as an infraction of financial laws, and now spokesmen from U.S. House and Senate committees monitoring the financial sector, as well as the state of Massachusetts, say they are looking into the matter.
Technical Difficulties
Problems with the Nasdaq computer system on the day of the IPO made matters worse.
The glitches delayed trade notices, and a number of trading firms lost money due to mismatched Facebook share prices. About 30 million shares' worth of trading were affected, the exchange estimated.
The multiple underwriters, the price and size of the offering, the technical glitches, not to mention the nature of Facebook itself, all combined to form a perfect storm unlikely to be repeated.
"It was a one-time event, a media blitz combined with a Wall Street blitz," said IPO Scoop.com's Fitzgibbon.
To be sure, the Facebook fracas may put a near-term damper on tech IPOs from smaller companies and increase scrutiny on earnings results for the quarter.
"The bungled IPO has increased investor skepticism, and this means June quarter shortfalls will be severely punished and near-term hot IPOs more difficult to complete at astronomical valuations," said Canaccord's Davis. "But these are both good things."
The point is that ultimately, the Facebook IPO fiasco may mean that tech companies teeing up for IPOs this year, and their potential investors, will simply be more realistic relative to market conditions.
Out of the 173 IPOs in the U.S. over the past 12 months, 37 have been for tech companies — more than for any other sector. And there are a number of interesting, up-and-coming tech companies preparing for IPOs this year. Companies mentioned by Davis and Fitzgibbon include firewall-maker Palo Alto Networks, marketing automation vendor Eloqua and SaaS provider Workday.
And while U.S. economic indicators have been mixed lately, they tend to start looking good in the months before a presidential election, Fitzgibbon said.
In a footnote to the week's financial news, Canaccord's Davis noted that Ariba's market capitalization — its share price multiplied by its number of shares — peaked at $40 billion 11 years ago. This week, SAP announced it was buying the company for $4.3 billion.
At the right price, you can close any deal.
(Also see "7 Tech IPOs That Flopped.").