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There have been some exciting new developments here in SGCC Land lately, and I'm thrilled to finally be able to tell you about them! I've held off until I knew that they were sure things, because…well…because, I don't like to count my chickens before they're hatched. I'd hate to make a big splashy announcement to you all and then have to take it back because things didn't work out as planned! Though, if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might already know what I'm talking about.
My first bit of news is that I've been hired as a contributing writer by Creative Loafing! In case you don't know, Creative Loafing is a weekly newspaper published in various venues around the U.S., focusing on local culture, and including restaurant, food, film, movie, arts, and entertainment news and reviews, blogs and Podcasts. I'll be writing for their Sarasota and Tampa online and print editions. Of course, my focus will be on food and recipes, but the editors have graciously left the door open for me to contribute on other topics as well.
This is big, big, big for me because writing has always been a special passion of mine. From the time I could hold a pencil I was always scribbling down little poems, plays and short stories. In high school I was the editor of our school's literary magazine, which won state and national awards. I often fancied myself authoring the next great American novel, but life got in the way, as it often does. One of the reasons I started blogging in the first place was to hone my writing skills and see if I could recapture my "voice". I'm so delighted to be able to share that voice in another venue, especially one as cool and relevant as Creative Loafing!
My second announcement is that I've been hired to teach Italian cooking classes at my favorite Italian gourmet market. How cool is that!?!? I've enjoyed shopping at Casa Italia for many years, and I've even written about the store on this blog before. The proprietors, Nita and Raj, are lovely and gracious people who always go the extra mile to keep their customers happy and well fed! So, when they approached me about joining their team of instructors, I jumped at the chance!
Casa Italia has offered various kinds of cooking classes to the public for years. Of course, as an Italian market, most of them focus on Italian cuisine. However, they also offer classes on their native Indian cooking as well. In fact, if you stop by the shop on any given Thursday, you will smell the welcoming, fragrant aromas of simmering curries and other Indian delights that permeate the space.
Some of the luminaries that have graced Casa Italia's kitchen include the doyenne of authentic Italian cooking, Marcella Hazan and her equally talented son, Giuliano Hazan, who has authored several popular cookbooks of his own and also currently offers classes there. It is quite a thrill to be slicing and dicing on the same table as those two!
My first class was held this past Friday, and I am happy (and relieved) to say that everything went very smoothly. My pupils and I prepared a fabulous four course lunch that included: Caprese Salad with Basil-Orange Vinaigrette, Roast Chicken with Pancetta and Olives, Orzo Primavera and Tortoni for dessert. I'm a firm believer in learning by doing, so I quickly put them all to work, encouraging them to dive in and get messy. They a great job, and I'm really proud of them! Since I was kind of busy, Raj was kind enough to snap some photos of me and the class in action.
The whole experience was tons of fun for me and I think that everyone else had a great time too. I can't wait for round two! I'll keep you posted!
For now, here's a super simple recipe for the Caprese salad we made. We used sliced juicy, sweet Campari tomatoes, basil and fresh mozzarella, which we also sliced and cut into small rounds. Then we made adorable little Caprese "towers" with them and drizzled a sweet and spicy basil-orange vinaigrette on top. The vinaigrette is just wonderful and can also be used as an accompaniment to chicken or fish.
Caprese Salad Stacks with Basil-Orange Vinaigrette
For the Basil-Orange Vinaigrette:
- 1 small shallot, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh red chili or jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
- 1- 1 1/2 cups loosely packed fresh basil leaves
- 3 tablespoons fresh orange juice (You can use blood orange juice if you are lucky enough to find blood oranges. If you do, you might need to increase the sugar a pinch as they are a little more bitter than regular navel oranges.)
- 2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
- 1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
For the Caprese Salad:
- 8 small ripe tomatoes, each sliced into 4 thin slices
- 1 pound fresh mozzarella, sliced thinly and cut into rounds to fit tomatoes (a cookie cutter works well for this)
- 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves
- Salt and pepper to taste
For the Basil-Orange Vinaigrette:
Combine all ingredients except olive oil in a blender or food processor. Blend until completely pureed.
With the machine running on low speed, slowly drizzle in the olive oil until well blended.
For the Caprese Salad:
Layer the tomatoes, mozzarella and basil leaves to make little stacks. Season each with some salt and black pepper to taste.
Drizzle the vinaigrette on top.
Makes 8 Caprese Stacks.
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Getting Down TO BUSINESS; NERYS FULLER-LOVE LOOKS AT THE SME SECTOR
Byline: NERYS FULLER-LOVE
SMALL businesses are at the forefront of innovation and creativity in business. They have to be, otherwise they would not be able to compete with the large multi-national companies.
Recently, the government published the Innovation Report prepared by a committee chaired by Science and Innovation Minister Lord Sainsbury. The report called for various measures to support innovation in business. One route is through closer links with universities. There will also be a technology strategy, which will provide a framework for policy, and improved business support.
Other initiatives include advice on intellectual property from the Patent Office and campaigns for better design. Finance will be targeted at high value jobs and female entrepreneurs. Business schools will be encouraged to develop the teaching of the management of high technology, high growth businesses as well as new product development.
What is `innovation'? Innovation is defined as `the successful exploitation of ideas'.Although some innovations are dramatic, the majority of innovations are small, cumulative improvements in a product or service. One pre-requisite for innovation is the development of a culture of innovation and creativity within the business, where new ideas are not dismissed out-of- hand but are given considered thought. Others include an investment strategy geared towards developing new products and services or new markets, investment in research and design and skills.
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ALL MY FEELINGS ! MY SHIPPER HEART. RIGHT IN MY KOKORO. I waited so long for this moment.
How many times do we have to hit the baka with the cluebat(TM) for him to finally get it100%? Actually, naruto did a little better this time, so there's still hope for the shippers yet! I do sense another NaruHina moment coming up in the manga in a little while....
Love this so much! The coloring is amazingggg!!
Thought you should know that someone reposted it and added their name to it :/ (xoxoyrbyzr.tumblr.com/post/392…
awesome coloring i loved this whole scene. i hope she ends up with naruto
The Colouring is Amazing
Best NaruHina Moment, Hinata is Awesome
Just beautiful
Best NaruHina Moment, Hinata is Awesome
Just beautiful
Don't I know it! Favorite scenes in that chapter!
great coloring!!
I was sooo happy when she told him she loves him ;u;
It's still hard to believe this really happened. Almost seems like a fanart to me. God, Kishi, I love you so much...
Beautiful coloring
Beautiful coloring
OMG!!! ASDFGAJDH!!! I was so happy when I saw this! I couldn't even look at the screen! XD I'm so proud of you Hinata, your so beautiful and strong!! ;w; (I shall now painfully wait for SasuSaku....;^; )
Absolutely beautiful (:
The quality of your work is fantastic, my poor shipper heart is dying, this is beaut! xx
I'm truly happy!!
Beautiful!!! OMFGGG NaruHinaaaaaaaa
One of the best I've seen if not the best. (and there's many LOL)
That moment when you realize the love of your life has Been with you every step of the way... You just didn't know it yet.
beatifull TwT
YAY!! me too! I am so happy that it's FINALLY happening!
this is sooo great...a great moment in all of the naruto saga! i really think the action of holding on to hinata and not letting go was an answer to her confession, in a way. he will answer her with words and more action before long.
havent we all, hopefully he answers her confession right after this
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I'm very happy with this chapter. If it turns out they end up together in the end I hope they name their first kid Neji, that'd be awesome.
read description.....ME TOO SISTA I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A MOMENT LIKE THIS....... though i was suprised hinata held up together better than naruto about nejis death
Je me disais bien que c'était ton style. Magnifique.
this chapter was justze perfect ^^ naruhina 4 eveeeeer
Gorgeous coloring!
uhwqfnjhafdmkldvknvsdbjhdz <3 sorry had to do that
Wanderful colors for this lovely moment! [yeaaah! Finally NaruHina!!!]
awesome coloring... nyaaaan when I read the manga I was just.. KYAA!!! *O*
ASDFGHJKL; just beautiful :3
Moi aussi et comme tous les fans du NaruHina ~
maintenant espérons que ça va durer jusqu'à la fin T.T ce serait horrible que Hinata meurt maintenant ;A;
i spead tears of joy
i like that this happened but now i feel that she i going to have a lot of close calls that or she gets killed
F-F-F-FUUCK YEEAAA!!! i've been waiting for this! :´D ps: kishi if u kill neither naru or hina i will find u and u share the same Fate! xd
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I hate windows 8.
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I had spent about 15 minutes writing away non stop yesterday when my computer crashed. It's done that a few times lately. Sigh.
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Enjoy an afternoon glamorous enough for royalty and the aristocracy with a high-class afternoon tea at a luxurious and exclusive hotel or lounge. London has some fabulous Afternoon Tea venues to suit all budgets, all offering fine teas, rich cakes, excellent sandwiches and delicious scones.
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Afternoon tea was popularised by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the upper classes enjoyed large breakfasts, small lunches and very late dinners. Frustrated with the "sinking feeling" she felt every afternoon between lunch and dinner, Anna instructed her servants to serve tea and cakes in her bedroom.
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"Stepping one foot inside Sage is to see all there is to see: three or four tables, a bakery case and counter, a few baked goods and a kitchen in the back from which pumps whatever music the cook has a yen for at the moment. The décor is minimal (artful photos of flowers and salads) and the service simple: Step up, order what you like, take a seat and wait--sometimes for a long time. Because of the size of the place, ten customers can feel like a king-hell rush, and three orders coming in at once can jam up the kitchen for a half-hour, easy.
But none of this is what matters. The style of cooking is what's important here. A form and a mindset. There is something different about Sage, something that sets it apart from most other vegan operations from the minute you step through the door and into the swing of lunch business on the Hill. It's the smell. Sage smells good, like caramelizing onions and hot oil in the pan, like roasting mushrooms and smoke from the grill, the tart spike of citrus and the deep, earthy sweetness of sugars meeting heat. Too many vegetarian restaurants stink like flowers, patchouli, wet dog and the hippies keeping them, of the dim and verdant vegetable murk of slowly dying greenery that is like the death scream of broccoli being terribly abused."
From this week's review of Sage Cafe, in which I become a highly temporary vegan.
From this week's review of Sage Cafe, in which I become a highly temporary vegan.
Yes, that's right: Me, the consummate carnivore, eating vegan food. And not just a little vegan food, either. A lot of vegan food. And while my usual trick--my usual snarky, smart-ass gimmick for reviewing vegan and vegetarian restaurants--is to sneak in a little plastic baggie filled with pre-cooked chicken or bacon to add to whatever wad of tofu or vegan not-dog I'm trying to choke down in the name of fair play and reasonable critical representation, this time around I did none of that. Inspired by the love lavished on the place during our discussion of possible vegan barbecue operations in the greater Seattle area, I went in cold, with no backup, and I ate as much as I could hold.
So what happened? Well, you'll have to wait for tomorrow to find out. That's when the review of Sage will be available both on the newsstands and online. And at that point, I expect this whole battle over cruelty-free-versus-delicious to start up again with each side equally entrenched and itching to have their say.
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LONDON, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ), the world's leading general use car rental brand, has introduced the latest model BMW 3 Series sedan (320i) to the New Zealand fleet as part of the company's ongoing commitment to provide innovative car hire options. The move also marks the extension of the Hertz Prestige Collection range of high end, luxury vehicles to New Zealand. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130812/HS62345)Michel Taride, Group President, Hertz International, said: "We are pleased to now offer customers the chance to drive the BMW 3 Series sedan, most fuel efficient and best performing model in its competitive class. The extension of the Prestige Collection into New Zealand builds on our huge success of this range of sophisticated, luxurious vehicles in the US and Europe." Having won many international awards, the prestigious 320i from the renowned German manufacturer sets new benchmarks in terms of sporting prowess, elegance and comfort. As well as featuring innovative technologies from BMW's 'EfficientDynamics' stable, which reduce fuel consumption and boost performance, the 320i has an award-winning fuel efficient engine, brake energy regeneration and Stop/Start technology. The high performing 320i sedan will be initially available at two key Auckland locations, the Airport and Victoria Street Downtown. Mark Righton, Hertz New Zealand Country Manager, added: "The introduction of BMWs to our New Zealand fleet highlights our dedication to providing customers with a broad rental offering and value for money – from our economy models right up to these prestigious motor vehicles. These BMWs are currently being introduced into Auckland, but we'll be monitoring customer feedback and demand to determine whether we'll extend these cars to other locations around the country in the future." The Prestige Collection forms part of Hertz's global collections of speciality vehicles. All cars in the Hertz Fun, Green, Adrenaline and Prestige Collections come with the Hertz Make and Model Guarantee, so renters know that the car that they book is the exact one they will drive away in.
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The pace of change in e-commerce means always looking ahead.
In this line of work I get to talk with a lot people, and after hundreds of conversations with e-retailers I can say with confidence that people working in e-commerce are the most energetic and excitable (in a good way) people I've had the opportunity to get know in the business world. Maybe it's the relative newness of the space or the speed at which things change in online retailing that keeps people looking ahead. It probably also doesn't hurt that seemingly everybody I speak with is increasing sales.
In more mature industries I've reported on—like the highly regulated financial services industry in the wake of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation—all the low-hanging fruit was plucked long ago, leaving it harder to uncover new profit centers. Interviews in that space could be teeth-pulling affairs. That may have been because most interviews had a corporate communications rep present to make sure the interviewee kept to the company line, or that few people had anything really new to say.
I keep a running log of the people I interview and jot down a few notes after an interview is complete about my impressions of the person and what they told me. Been doing it for years. I hope no interviewees from my former life in the financial industry are reading this, because a good portion of those notes trended toward "snooze," "same old story," and "schmoozer." There were exceptions of course, and if you are one of the dynamic executives I talked with back then, take comfort in thinking that you were among that number, OK?
My notes on e-retailers read differently. They include comments along the lines of "up-and-comer," "tells it like it is," and "pacesetter." So many of my comments are about movement and change. In interviews, questions about past programs or what things were like "before" are always the ones that seem to throw people for a loop. Recall is short because something that happened two years ago reads like ancient history in this field. The preference, or course, is to look ahead and with optimism.
I also keep an eye on the Monday edition of Internet Retailer's Newslink e-newsletter. That's the edition dedicated to "NewsMakers" and highlights the new hires and career moves made by e-retail execs. I read through the employment histories of those profiled and see how they've moved from e-retailer to e-retailer, making changes and then moving on to tackle another challenge. Change is constant, and change makes for good stories.
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I had a friend. We worked together in the greatest harmony. She entertained me in her home. We enjoyed a day-trip together. She's the only person ever to read my major literary effort and actually seem to understand it, and had good things to say about it.
Yes, she was a "card-carrying" liberal. It was no surprise, what with her academic background, and to me it made not the slightest difference. And, yes, I was a mossbacked conservative, which she knew perfectly well from my writings, and it seemed to make not the slightest difference to her either. People are more than their politics, larger and more interesting than their abstract opinions. At least to me, and seemingly to her, too.
She moved away. I reminded her that the regrettable loss of face-to-face interaction might weaken a relationship; but this was a thing to be guarded against, not accepted as inevitable. For friendship (like all else, in the last analysis) essentially is mental. There have been friends who never came face-to-face in their lives. To my mind, our friendship would continue, nay thrive, as long as faithfully nourished by exchanges of ideas.
Unfortunately or no, that required letters, real letters, not electronic blurts of notions and emotions. Only in chunks of discursive prose, dialogue, can ideas be developed and exchanged.
And I'm old-fashioned enough to enjoy swapping such letters. It's a kind of thinking aloud, often a very fruitful aid toward clarifying one's own ideas. There's room to treat serious subjects seriously, but not too seriously, in the playful, often ironic manner of the Platonic dialogues. It's a highclass entertainment, and with a point or purpose, something most entertainments lack.
Naively, perhaps, I assumed all intelligent people relished such intelligent interchange. Such high-level friendship. "Philia," the disinterested form of love. Not, as usually translated, "brotherly love," but rather "two people loving, not each other, but the same things."
To my surprise and dismay, I began to find that my friend and I didn't necessarily love the same things after all, or not all of them; and to her it made a difference indeed. For her, manythings were off the table, not to be taken "seriously, but not too seriously." They were grimly serious from first brush, unpleasant, to be avoided. Far from siding me in my labor to treat issues in the highest possible light, ecJeaeternitatis, she lost herself passionately in the ephemera of the moment, the trivial particulars that make up the day's news.
Politics to me is a dismal science, best touched only with the proverbial ten-foot pole, and then only to distill and organize its particulars into generalities, principles, ideas.
Politics to her, in contrast, seemed to consist, for the time being, of just one monotonous particular: "George W. Bush is the devil. If only we could get rid of him and his ilk, the millennium would have arrived."
So grim was she about it, I worried she'd go so far as the NPR arch-liberal Nina Totenberg, who, in a typical sally of liberal charity, wished a horrendous cancer death on Robert Bork; or as those Hollywood liberals who've wished like fates on Bush. All the while of course decrying the "hate" of any who, perversely, don't hate Bush and Co. enough.
Politics having become epistolary taboo, social and cultural subjects soon followed.
Now taboos are earmarks of religions, not politics. Religions are systems of settled, taken-for-granted doctrines. Politics, in contrast, or at least ideally, consists of matters that can be discussed and dispassionately reasoned about, and on which friends may differ.
What was left to write about? Well, we could have swapped letters like those of my old aunt: "How are you? I'm much worse. This morning I washed my hair. Now I'm going to pop some potatoes in the oven and run down to the market. Isn't this weather awful?"
It was to her credit, I'm sure, that my friend didn't share her days with me in such "kitchenmaid's chatter," as Europeans call it. Yet the lack of such an everyday element impoverished the correspondence almost as badly as the lack of any more elevated dimension. Of her new life my natural curiosity elicited only the barest grudging hints.
Then innocently I asked her advice on a touchy subject, doing so in the usual "politicallyincorrect" vocabulary I grew up with, and which I assumed, knowing me, she'd take in the offhand, half-tongue-in-cheek, harmlessly ornery spirit intended.
But no. Doggedly I'd pose a question, respectfully soliciting a reasoned response. The one I got was invariably the likes of, "It's a shame you're so full of hate." She went on to tell me my town, like me, was full of hate. After all, a "minority" of her acquaintance had had an unpleasant experience here. (Was this the black girl who couldn't find blacks' hair care products in town, that "hate crime" to the local "diversity concerns committee"? This in a world where, e.g., over in Africa children's arms were being chopped off.)
I can find as much fault with my native place as the most cosmopolitan incomer. Still, I can't help bristling a bit when the incomer, whom I've done my best to befriend, scorns the town as such an unfriendly, bigoted place, where life isn't perfect, where one's in constant peril of personal inconvenience and irritation, like every other place on earth.
Well, I was forced to conclude that my friend simply didn't, after all, share my pleasure in exchanges on serious questions. Not, at least, with me. Because seemingly to her, as to all liberals, such questions are all answered and settled. Raising them could only gratuitously unsettle things, threatening angst and "cognitive dissonance" in the true believer's breast.
Isn't it strange that liberals are the ones bound by a creed, sure they have all the answers? Conservative I, on the other hand, at heart am sure of nothing save that I'm unsure. On most controversial subjects I'm "of two minds, at least two." That's why I'm so eager to discuss them, hoping for enlightenment, and at worst "agreeing to disagree agreeably." Liberals are welcome to try and win me over, but in a reasoned debate, not a revivalist harangue.
And what sallies of reason do I get? "It's a shame you're so full of hate."
Liberals are famously tolerant... of liberalism. They dig "diversity" in everything but ideas. And the true liberal definition of "friend," it seems, is "another liberal."
I told my (now problematical) friend she needn't feel obligated to go on subjecting herself to the torture of replying to my seemingly so painfully malevolent letters. She seems to have accepted the invitation. Dum tacit clamant. "Her silence speaks volumes."
One's always sorry to lose a friend. Sneakingly one feels one must be at fault, somehow. I've wracked my brain for that fault, searched for that amorphous, unspecified, generic "hate" of which I'm reportedly so full. But I've yet to find it.


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Legislation would mandate insurance coverage for hearing aids
A Democratic state lawmaker wants health insurers to be required to cover hearing aids.
State Sen. Edna Brown of Toledo, D-11th, offered SB 257 to help a growing number of hearing impaired resident cover the costs of the devices and related care.
For more on this story, see Wednesday's Vindicator or vindy.com
The hearing aid business is one of the biggest rackets going and someone wants the government (us taxpayers) to get involved?
Hearing aids can be like shoes, a dozen or sizes would handle 99 % of all cases.
But the industry wants us to believe that each person needs ultra expensive, custom fitted devices.
And most folks buy that story.
Digital technology has improved devices and brought the price down.
Best price is Sam's Club at half what the others charge. Pays to shop around.
Another moronic inner-city liberal wanting to spend our money. Her brother-in -law must be in the business! Her next project is having the Gub'mint pay for her babydaddy's gold teeth!
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PEMEX Awards Multi-year Seismic Data Processing Contract To ION
HOUSTON, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) today announced that its GX Technology (GXT) group has been awarded a multi-year contract with Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), the national oil company of Mexico. Under this contract, GXT is providing a broad range of seismic data processing for multiple offshore and onshore surveys over the next three years. The work will be executed via GXT's Villahermosa, Mexico, and Houston offices and through its Houston high performance computing center. GXT will utilize its proprietary imaging technologies to process seismic data acquired on behalf of PEMEX, including in deepwater regions of the Gulf of Mexico, in highly complex subsalt areas and in various onshore regions throughout Mexico. The scope of services includes GXT's WiBand TM broadband processing, velocity model building and pre-stack depth migration (PreSDM) using both beam migration and high frequency reverse time migration (RTM) techniques. Through their presence in Villahermosa, GXT professionals will closely collaborate with their PEMEX counterparts to accelerate the identification of new exploration leads and development drilling targets.Jose Antonio Escalera, Sub-Director of Exploration at PEMEX, commented, "PEMEX will continue to invest heavily in hydrocarbon exploration and development in the years ahead. Much of this investment will be directed at E&P projects in which the targets are located in complex geologic regimes, including in fractured carbonate and deepwater subsalt reservoirs. Processing these datasets requires the most advanced imaging techniques. GXT continues to be well suited to help us address these challenges, having demonstrated their ability to deliver superior images within our required timeframes." Christopher Usher, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ION's GeoScience Division, added, "ION and PEMEX have a solid, long-standing relationship. This multi-year contract award expands our existing services and demonstrates that PEMEX continues to derive value from our differentiated technologies and services. We are excited about continuing to collaborate with PEMEX as they navigate this new era of energy reform, and to support the technical and commercial success of their core assets."
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By Bertram de Souza (Contact)
Published December 4, 2008
Here's one explanation for Boardman Township Trustee Robyn Gallitto's failure to win the approval of the Mahoning County Democratic Party's executive board for the vacant 33rd District state Senate seat: Her political instincts failed her.
Going into last Saturday's meeting of the Democratic Party elders, Gallitto certainly seemed to have one of the three inside tracks (the executive board submitted the names of three individuals to the Democratic caucus in the Senate) — by virtue of her winning election in a major community in the county.
However, she stumbled — by submitting a letter of recommendation from county Prosecutor Paul Gains.
Did Gallitto forget (or choose to forget) that during the November general election, Democratic Party Chairwoman Lisa Antonini supported Gains' opponent, Marty Yavorcik, even though the prosecutor was the party's nominee? Did she also forget that Antonini hand-picked some of the members of the executive board, and still holds sway with a goodly number of precinct committeemen and women?
And, how could she have forgotten that Antonini has a close political relationship with shopping center magnate Anthony Cafaro, and that Cafaro and Gains locked horns during the Job and Family Services controversy?
Gallitto's political tin ear not only cost her a finalist slot in the 33rd District sweepstakes, but it has all but assured her an opponent next year should she run for re-election in Boardman.
The trustee is no doubt aware of a governing rule of Mahoning Valley politics: A friend of my enemy is my enemy.
And, of course, an enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. And the rhetorical fog suddenly lifted and everyone was seen to be full of crap! Politics here sucks! It seldom considers the people that pay the bills.
Yes, Tugboat it does suck here. Seldom might be optimistic. I think it never considers the people who pay the bills.
You are partly correct about Robyn Gallitto, but mostly wrong. You are listening to the wrong people. The selections were decided weeks ago. Engler was Cafaro's choice (dad & daughter) and they feared the press might make an issue of Engler's past, so they needed two hacks to be there if Engler fell apart. Robyn was a threat; she is a party person, but independent of thought and won't be dictated to by volatile leaders. She boldly brought an endorsement letter from Paul Gains (against the advice of most of her supporters, who know how party politics work) to make a stand and show herself to be an independent Democrat. She should be uplifted and applauded for her courage.
She is our Democratic party's future.
If she's the future of the Democratic party in the valley, then things are worse than previously thought.
Believer wrote: "...she is a party person, but independent of thought.."
First of all, the whole Trustee thing is supposed to be a non-partisan position that administers the services provided to the people of Boardman. The Ohio Senate was created to do the work of the people of Ohio. At least that's what this fancy brochure in front of me says.
Her agenda was certainly not being 'independent of thought' when she first took office:
Welcome to business-as-usual.


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You'd think I'd know better than to even start. And yet...
Somehow this morning started off with the International Space Station and wandered through space tourism, Biosphere 2, the godawful Pauly Shore movie Bio-Dome, and via intervening steps I don't seem to recall, I've wound up reading the rules for ice hockey, which I have never watched or cared for and which now confuses me even more than it did before, if such a thing is possible.
Oh, and on this day in 1947, Howard Hughes did his high-altitude taxiing with the Spruce Goose.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Curse Wikipedia...
Labels: Blog Stuff, history, planes, trivia
7 comments:
- karrde said...
"high-altitude taxiing..."
funny stuff!
- 3:39 PM, November 02, 2007
- Freddyboomboom said...
The Spruce Goose is in the Evergreen Aviation Museum, right next to the SR-71 they have.
Just down the road a short hop from me.
It's seriously cool.
- 5:22 PM, November 02, 2007
Well, that link just sent me on a 2 hour journey...
- 7:29 PM, November 02, 2007
- Roberta X said...
I know it's made out of wood and it's only high-end 1940s tech, but the interior of the Spruce Goose, that's how spaceships were supposed to look!
(Ice hockey, Tam? And not lacrosse?)
- 8:08 PM, November 02, 2007
- Tam said...
It was obviously totally random...
- 8:32 PM, November 02, 2007
- Zendo Deb said...
And probably most (or some anyway) of the stuff in Wikiwhatever was actually true.
- 11:47 PM, November 02, 2007
- Ian Argent said...
I don't know how I got there, but I wasted a chunk of time on Cricketing one day in Wikipedia and related links.
- 10:42 AM, November 06, 2007
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Discourse Nineteen: Miracles1
The Holy Qur'an claims to be a miracle in many of its verses. This claim in fact is comprised of two claims.
That, essentially, miracles exist in the world;
That the Qur'an is one of these miracles.
Obviously, if the second claim (that the Qur'an is a miracle) is proven, the first (that miracles exist in the world) will also be proven.
An important point in this discussion is that, basically, how can a miracle occur in the external world whereas they are contradictory to the laws of nature. A prevailing and constant law of nature is that every effect has a cause.
This is a certain natural law that can never be violated. How can a miracle occur in the external world while simultaneously not harming the generality of this law, causing an exception in causality? Therefore, the Qur'an must reveal two things:
First, what is the essential truth of miracles and how it is possible for something to happen in the natural world against the laws of nature?
Second, miracles exist and the Qur'an is one of them.
There is no doubt in the fact that the Qur'an testifies to the occurrence of miracles in the natural world. The miracles spoken of in the Qur'an do not necessitate the impossible which would negate an incontrovertible intellectual axiom.2
Some people who consider themselves scientists interpret the verses regarding miracles such that they conform to modern science. However, these endeavors are in vain and the belief is rejected. I will explain the Qur'an's definition of miracles in two parts:
Just as reason, scientific discussion, and logical judgments prove the existence of causes for natural events, the Qur'an also confirms the general law of causality and considers all natural phenomena to have causes.
In explanation, humans innately believe that every physical event has a cause which brought about the event. Natural and other sciences also demonstrate events and their related phenomena as fitting causes distinct from them.3
What does cause mean? What I mean by cause is that wherever an event takes place there must be one or several things preceding it such that whenever those things transpire, another thing will surely come into being. This phenomenon that has come into existence is called an effect. This is understood though experience.
By way of example, experience shows us that whenever combustion occurs, there must be a cause anterior to it, such as a spark or friction, resulting in a flame. Through careful deliberation of the meaning of 'cause' it is clearly understood that two irrefutable qualities of 'causality' are 'generality' and 'inviolability'.4
In all the cases where the Qur'an speaks of life, death, livelihood, and generally, all events, both heavenly and mundane, it is totally clear that the Qur'an endorses this law. It should not be forgotten, however, that the Qur'an ultimately attributes all causes to God since they all eventually must end in a single central cause.
In short, the Qur'an asserts that the law of causality is authentic. This means that whenever a cause exists with the characteristics necessary for creating an effect, if there are no obstacles the effect will surely occur—by God's leave of course. On the other side of the coin, whenever an effect is found, perforce the existence of a cause is recognized.
The Qur'an informs of some events that are contradictory to the normal course of the natural world, which is based upon the system of causality. These events are the signs and miracles that the Qur'an ascribes to some great prophets, such as the miracles of Noah, Hūd, Sālih, Abraham, Lot, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus ('a), and Muhammad (S).
These miracles are things that go against the prevailing routine of the natural world. However, it must be noted and carefully considered that even though these phenomena seem unfamiliar and highly unlikely5 in relation to the normal way of the world, they are not essentially impossible and in no way warrant that two antitheses may co-occur or that one is not half of two.
These are things that the intellect deems as impossible and if a miracle were like this, no mind could accept it whereas we see that the minds of the people of many nations and religions have accepted these miracles without protest.
In addition, if one contemplates the matter, the essence of miracles is not completely unknown in the natural order of things. Every moment, the corporeal system of the world takes the life of the living and gives life to the dead; it changes one event into another and that into yet another; it alters one form into a different one and again into another; it transforms frailty into resilience and so on. The world system performs these transformations and alterations upon matter.
The difference between the manifest routines and miracles is that the normal causes we see everyday can only be effectuated under specific relations and temporal and spatial conditions. These relations and conditions necessitate that this effectuation be gradual.6
For instance, a cane may turn into a serpent or a decomposed and lifeless body may transform into a living human being. However, observation and experience shows that this alteration normally happens under specific temporal and spatial circumstances and causes.
As a result of these causes and conditions, matter transforms from one state into another until eventually it gains the form that we intend—such as a cane becoming a serpent or a dead corpse reconstructing and coming to life. Therefore, the normal material system is based upon graduation through specific conditions and relations.
However, the miracles the Qur'an speaks of did not occur in specific relations and temporal and spatial circumstances, rather they occurred under prevailing conditions or even without any causes and conditions at all or at the will of a certain individual!7
Bear in mind that neither can simple sense and experience confirm these miracles nor can natural scientific theories corroborate them since natural sciences are on the same level as the manifest system of natural cause and effect; the same level that modern scientific experience and theories that explain material events are based on. Neither can normal and simple experience confirm miracles nor can the theoretical natural sciences. Even so, science cannot deny these phenomena either.
Science cannot conceal all those strange and miraculous performances of ascetics. Everyday people observe such events and newspapers, magazines, and journals record them. Such occurrences are so numerous that no sane person can doubt them. It is these wonders that have forced modern scientists—those who research spiritual effects—to consider them effects of an obscure type of electrical wave or magnetic field.
In short, the theory of electrical waves is that through strict self-discipline, humans gain the ability to exploit a mysterious type of waves. These waves are such that the will and intellect of the individual can take possession of them or accompany them. As a result of this appropriation and exploitation of these unknown waves, an ascetic can perform wondrous and extraordinary acts by expanding and compressing matter.
If this theory is comprehensive and free of exception, it entails another all-inclusive theory. This theory bases all the events that previous theories justified on a general and constant principle, i.e. force and movement, and relates all material events to a specific natural cause.8
This is what modern scientists say and in essence they are correct because it is meaningless to assume that a natural effect exists that does not have a natural cause. Bearing in mind that (in the natural world) the relationship between cause and effect must be natural, a natural effect must have a natural relationship with its natural cause.
To state matters differently, the coincidence of natural existents (i.e. natural causes) in specific proportions and relations brings about the existence of a new natural existent that is subsequent to its causes. This new being is related to its causes such that if the system governing them was terminated then it would surely never have come into being.
In short, every natural effect requires a natural cause. However, we cannot insist that the natural causes are those that we think they should be. The ultimate natural cause may be something else—as shown in the wave theory posited by natural scientists.9


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TheStreet) -- Oracle (ORCL - Get Report) is set to report earnings after the close of trading Thursday, and all eyes will be on whether the tough IT environment is continuing for the software giant. Oracle, led by CEO Larry Ellison, is expected to earn 87 cents per share on $11.12 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.Shares of Oracle were higher in Tuesday trading, up 0.8% to $34.54. Oppenheimer analyst Brian Schwartz, who rates shares "overweight", with a $40 price target, says the softer trends for Oracle are likely to continue, and could actually wind up weighing on Oracle's guidance, as it moves into fiscal 2014. "Recent feedback from our larger system integrator contacts was mixed as the pace of new strategic, enterprise-wide business initiatives experienced softer trends within their pipelines," Schwartz wrote in his note. This suggests that a tough IT selling environment for infrastructure software remains, consistent with our prior view, and could restrain Oracle's outlook." Especially of concern for the May quarter is Oracle's European business, as the macro environment there continues to stay weak. Lazard analyst Joel Fishbein, who rates shares "buy" with a $41 price target, says Oracle is likely to be muted in its optimism, as Europe continues to struggle. Fishbeing notes the fourth-quarter is usually Oracle's strongest, and it started the quarter with a strong pipeline. "Oracle entered the quarter with a robust pipeline, which combined with improving sales rep productivity and hardware business could offer potential upside to our estimates," Fishbein wrote. However, Europe isn't cooperating and could weigh on Oracle's results. In light of the past earnings stumble, Oracle may have set the bar so low that it becomes nearly impossible to jump over it, even with Europe being a drag on the Redwood, Calif.-based software giant. Credit Suisse analyst Philip Winslow, who rates Oracle "overweight", with a $40 price target, noted that some recent Oracle customers have been pushed to sign contracts before May 15th, which could be a good sign for the quarter. Winslow noted "...data points suggest that Oracle was pushing customers, partners, and sales people to sign contracts (especially those associated with smaller deal values) before May 15th, a strategy that we believe was utilized to "take stock" of how the quarter was closing earlier than normal in order to enable senior management to focus on larger transactions in the final two weeks." -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Chris_CiacciaNEW YORK (
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It's just a question of additional flexibility. The more flexible the product is the more people will buy it. No-one would be forced to set a connection limit of one would they - it's a decision individual users would have to take responsibility for.
And maybe this also ties in with other discussions about protecting Radmin settings to stop _any_ user with a full connection changing the settings - the idea of another permissions level like "Radmin Admin " who _is_ allowed to change settings.
Paul is right here. This is a feature we'd like to ensure that servers with the most sensitive and critical information aren't being worked on at the same time. You don't have to limit it by default but since this app only does console level access, it would help to give the users some ability to limit how many concurrent connections there are to whichever console at a certain time.


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Burglary charges on county court docketPublished 12:44am Sunday, February 3, 2013
Two men answered burglary-related charges Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
Bill Goody, 24, and Donald Goody, 49, both of 4113 County Road 128, South Point, were arraigned separately for second-degree complicity to burglary, which carries a sentence of up to eight years in prison. Each pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Judge D. Scott Bowling continued bond from a lower court and added a $10,000 own-recognizance bond. Both men will return to court for pretrials on Feb. 20.
In other cases:
• William Roy, 42, of 1299 County Road 1, South Point, was arraigned on a charge of fifth-degree obstruction of justice, to which he pleaded not guilty.
Bowling continued bond from a lower court plus a $25,000 OR bond and set a pretrial for Feb. 13.
• Ruby Stubbs, 44, of 3409 Route 75, Huntington, W.Va., was arraigned on a charge of fifth-degree possession of drugs (oxycodone). The woman pleaded not guilty.
Bowling continued bond from a lower court and added a $10,000 OR bond. Stubbs will have a pretrial on Feb. 20.
• Charles Johnson II, 23, of 56 County Road 57, South Point, was arraigned on a bill of information of fifth-degree theft.
Johnson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11 months in prison with a judicial release to the STAR Community Justice Center as soon as space is available. Bowling also sentenced the man to four years community control sanctions under intensive supervised probation, 200 hours of community service and restitution not to exceed $1,400.
• Jamie Adkins, 23, of 1260 County Road 411, Proctorville, admitted CCS violations.
According to the adult probation department, Adkins tested positive for drugs, attempted to flee from officers and in the process injured herself. Adkins also left the hospital where she was being treated for her injuries against medical advice.
Bowling sentenced the woman to 21 months in prison with judicial release possible after eight months.
• Joseph Profitt, 45, of 79 Township Road 1339, South Point, admitted CCS violations.
According to the adult probation department, Profitt was convicted of a new crime in West Virginia and also failed to continue making restitution payments.
Bowling extended the man's CCS commitment another year and ordered him to resume monthly payments.
• Jonlee Boggs, 29, of 253 Township Road 1430 Apt. 6, South Point, pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree count of receiving stolen property. The charge was amended from a charge of breaking and entering.
Bowling sentenced Boggs to four years CCS/ISP, 200 hours community service, STAR and $390 in restitution.


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- ParaguayClothingFunding via Fundación Paraguaya
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They think of themselves as very enterprising, hard-working, and above all, very selfless women. They want a better future for their families, which is why they struggle day after day.
Cynthia makes her living selling clothing so she can earn enough to cover household expenses. She has well established clientele that are always asking for all kinds of clothing. One day, Cynthia would like to have a shop where she can display all her goods. This winter she has gotten a lot of requests for coats so she'd like to buy more product to offer her customers.
Cynthia is seeking a loan to buy winter clothing to meet demand. She is very hopeful about getting the loan.
Ellas se definen como mujeres muy emprendedoras, trabajadoras y por sobre todo muy sacrificadas. Desean un futuro mejor para sus familias y es por eso que luchan día a día por la consecución de sus objetivos.
La señora Cynthia se dedica a la venta de ropa, con lo cual obtiene los ingresos necesarios para cubrir los gastos que surgen en la casa. Tiene una clientela bien definida que siempre le solicitan todo tipo de ropas, le gustaría poder, algún día, tener un local donde exhibir todas las prendas que posee. En esta temporada de invierno ha recibido muchas demandas de abrigos, por lo que le gustaría comprar más prendas para ofrecerlo a sus clientes.
Ella solicita el crédito para la compra de ropas de invierno, con lo cual podrá hacer frente a la demanda. Está muy esperanzada en el crédito.
Additional Information
About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Ixobrychus exilis
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Michael Libbe
A tiny heron, furtive and surpassingly well camouflaged, the Least Bittern is one of the most difficult North American marsh birds to spot. Despite its inconspicuousness, however, the species can be rather common within appropriate habitat in its breeding range.
Freshwater or brackish marshes with tall emergent vegetation.
Small fish and insects.
A platform of marsh vegetation with a canopy made by pulling tall marsh plants over and crimping them in place. Placed in dense, tall stands of vegetation.
Stalks along reeds, sometimes next to rather deep water, or climbs on reed stalks, and strikes downward into water with bill.
Difficult to survey, so few data available. Loss of wetland habitat and the encroachment of exotic species of marsh vegetation may pose a threat.
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Daily News Digest
February 5, 2015
In this morning's edition of the CyclingTips Daily News Digest: Mark Cavendish wins Dubai Tour opener; Will Clarke claims Jayco Herald Sun Tour prologue; Ellen van Dijk takes stage 2 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar; Sharon Laws out of the Ladies Tour of Qatar with collarbone fracture; 2015 Tour of the Mediterranean cancelled; Korean […]
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The Scott Solace exists in both women's and men's models. It's a model designed to be fast, with comfort elements, allowing the infrequent weekend rider to progress into the occasional weekday morning, and even through to riding every morning. CyclingTips' Caz Whitehead put the Scott Contessa Solace through its paces and wrote this review.
Scott Week 2014: new bikes, helmets and the people behind them
July 31, 2014
It's easy to dismiss a brand's catalogue launch as a press junket, especially when it involves flying the media to a classy ski resort in Utah. However, as CTech Editor Matt Wikstrom writes, Scott's 2015 catalogue launch provided a unique opportunity to learn more about the company's culture and the way it designs and develops […]
Le Tour Tech: Adam Hansen's shoes, computers, mattresses and more
July 24, 2014
In today's instalment of his Le Tour Tech series, reporter Dave Everett has the latest on more new gadgets and tech that have been spotted at this year's Tour de France.
Interview with Scott Bikes
September 5, 2011
My good mate Cam was over in Germany at Eurobike last week and has a whole bunch of tech goodies coming up in the next few days. One thing he was able to get to us quickly was an interview with Reto Aeschbacher, the head of marketing of Scott International. Cam used to hold a similar […]


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Pharma Report: Cliff Notes
Pharma Report: Cliff Notes
"Expiries weren't any worse in 2010 than in 2009—a little bit but not a whole lot," says Michael Kleinrock, director, research development, IMS Health Institute for Healthcare Informatics. "What we're actually seeing is a base case US market growth in the 3-5% range. So in 2010, a relatively unprecedented group of 'pre-expiry' impacts on protected brands…created a slowdown in the market from that base case."
The volume of prescriptions for several brands that treat chronic conditions declined dramatically, as new therapy starts and switches for these brands were filled with generics more often than before. Overall dispensed prescription volume grew by just half the 2009 rate, 1.0% vs. 2.1%, and that, along with an abridged flu season, impacted revenue.
"There are a number of treatment areas where a lot of high-quality generics are available, and patients, providers and insurers were already weighing options more carefully," choosing those low-cost alternatives when available, notes Kleinrock.
With less revenue to support other areas, promotional spend took a dive. A 4.1% decrease was led by the biggest players.
"Top spenders Pfizer, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline supported their brands with almost $740 million less than they did in 2009," observes Melissa Leonhauser, strategic marketing director at SDI.
Spate of expiries
The trickle of patients leaving mature brands is set to become a wave, with a spate of patent expiries on blockbuster drugs worth $25.4 billion this year and $26.1 billion in 2012. Most of pharma gets a reprieve in 2013 before being deluged again in 2014 and 2015, when another $36 billion in branded drugs falls prey to generics.
Newer brands can't keep pace. "We don't forecast a lot of new drugs coming on to offset revenue loss," says Les Funtleyder, healthcare strategist and portfolio manager at Miller Tabak + Co. "Because there's so much going generic, it would require a lot to offset that completely."
Case in point: Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy (ipilimumab) for treating late-stage melanoma is launching this year, but in 2012 BMS is going to lose Plavix, a $5-6 billion product. "Even with ipilimumab, which we think is a blockbuster, and a couple other blockbusters like dapagliflozin [diabetes] and apixiban [stroke/atrial fibrillation], that's still not enough to offset Plavix, at least in the year, maybe in a couple years," says Funtleyder.
The pipeline is, nevertheless, producing interesting and innovative products—21 last year in areas of unmet need like multiple sclerosis (Gilenya) and AFib/stroke (Pradaxa). Says Kleinrock: "The headwinds are this increasing generic share, so new products that come to market are in more competitive and essentially smaller market spaces and thus have less contribution to overall market growth."


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Veronica Prout is one of the most manipulative and selfish people I have ever come across in my many years. She will tell you whatever you want to hear, to your face, to put money in her pocket. In her world she is the center and the poor students and teachers she claims to want to help are very far down on her list.
I warn anyone to not fall victim to her lies and if you have to end your dealings with her immediately.
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R2 Games' Excalibur: Knights of the King is a new browser-based title that is often billed as an MMO. But does that title fit and how does the game play? Find out in our latest review!
Loosely set in the time after King Arthur in Roman Britain, you become the chosen one and you draw the sword out of the stone. The story is peppered with NPCs from the Arthurian legends including Merlin and Morgana who are quest givers, among others. It is a side scrolling online RPG played on the browser as well as Android and iOS. This review was done on the iOS version, on an iPad 2.
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Australian Government invites applications for Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Award available for international students. The award is open to undertake vocational education at a Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree level in any field of study. The award provides financial support for up to 2.5 years. The award also provides support for English Language Training worth of ?$6,500 per semester up to 6 months, if required. Applications will close on 30th June 2015.
Study Subject(s): Awards are available in any field of study. The courses are directly related to a trade, occupation or 'vocation' in which the applicant participates. These courses exclude degree and higher level programmes normally delivered by universities.
Course Level: Awards are available to undertake vocational education at a Australian Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree level.
Scholarship Provider: Australian Government
Scholarship can be taken at: Australia
Eligibility: To be eligible to receive an Endeavour Scholarship or Fellowship, applicants must:
-be aged 18 years or over at the commencement of their programme
-be a citizen and/or permanent resident of a participating country (section 8)
-commence their proposed programme after 1 January 2016 and no later than 30 November 2016. Applicants who have already commenced or will commence their intended programme prior to 2016 are not eligible to apply
-provide all relevant supporting documentation (section 9)
-not currently hold or have completed, after 1 January 2014, an Australian Government sponsored scholarship and/or fellowship (directly administered to recipients by the Australian Government).
-not apply for a category in which they have already completed an Endeavour scholarship or fellowship.
Scholarship Open for Students of Following Countries: Students from following countries can apply for the Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship. Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China (People's Republic), Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Republic of Korea – South), Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam. The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (including Reunion), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland). Middle East: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. Pacific: Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated states), Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand (including Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna.
Scholarship Description: The Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Scholarship provides financial support for international applicants to undertake vocational education at a Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree level in any field in Australia for up to two and a half years. Vocational education and training provides occupational or work-related knowledge and skills. The courses are directly related to a trade, occupation or 'vocation' in which the applicant participates. These courses exclude degree and higher level programmes normally delivered by universities.
Duration of award(s): The Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Award provides financial support for up to 2.5 years.
What does it cover? All recipients of Endeavour postgraduate scholarship will receive:
Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Award: $6,500 per semester, total value up to $131,000.
-Travel allowance: $3,000 (Provision to pay up to $4,500 under special circumstances)
-Establishment allowance: $2,000 (Fellowships) or $4,000 (Scholarships)
-Monthly stipend: $3,000 (paid up to the maximum programme duration on a pro-rata basis)
-Health insurance for the full programme duration (OSHC for non-Australians)
-Travel insurance (excluding during programme for non-Australians)
-Endeavour Scholarship recipients will also receive tuition fees paid up to ?$15,000 per semester and total value Up to $272,500 (PhD) and $140,500 (Masters).
Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for all categories of the Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships are the same. The following are the selection criteria and their relative weighting:
-record of high-level academic achievement and/or relevant work experience in the applicant's chosen field of study (40%)
-well-defined study, research and/or professional programme (20%) 3. statement on how the international study, research or professional development opportunity would further the applicant's academic and/or professional career (20%)
– statement on how the international study, research or professional development opportunity will benefit Australia and the applicant's potential to foster ongoing collaboration and cooperation with their home and host country (10%)
-statement in support of the applicant's service to the community. Unpaid service within the applicant's field of expertise or community service (10%).
Notification: The department will email all successful and unsuccessful applicants regarding the outcome of their applications by the end of December 2015. Due to the high volume of applications received, the department does not provide individual feedback to unsuccessful applicants. There may be a number of reasons why an application does not pass through to the next stage.
How to Apply: Applications must be submitted using the Endeavour Online Application system. Applicants are encouraged to commence their applications early and submit their application as early as possible during the application period due to the large volume of users on the system in the lead up to the closing date. Submitting early ensures that you will not have any last minute technical problems due to the large number of applications being submitted. The Endeavour Online application system will not allow you to submit your application unless you have filled in all the required components. Once you have completed your application through Endeavour Online, a submit button will appear.
Scholarship Application Deadline: Applications for the 2016 close at 11.59 pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on 30 June 2015. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that their application and supporting documentation is submitted by the closing date. Applications (including supporting documentation) received after the closing date will not be considered. Incomplete and/or late applications will not be accepted.