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Thousands of nurses join exodus from the health service
Telegraph.co.uk - Apr 28, 2005
He said: “This has caused some controversy but it is unlikely that health service nurse staffing growth targets in England would have been met without active international recruitment. “Dr Malone said that reliance on foreign nurses was a long-term risk because they were likely to be snapped up by other countries, such as America, now showing the first signs of a shortage. “There is a lack of a home-grown workforce,” she said. “We have to pay more attention to students and issues such as bursaries. “The net fall this year contrasts with an overall increase in numbers since Labour came to power. The Government says that 372,932 nurses work in the NHS, 77,000 more than in 1997. Dr Malone said: “The current range of policy initiatives has increased staffing growth in recent years but it is predicted that by 2014 we will need twice as many new entrants as we do now just to keep the workforce constant.
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Press-Enterprise - Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Apr 28, 2005
First to bat: At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, SBC Communications was first of the regional phone companies to introduce its concept for streaming "packet"-based video channels to the home via Internet protocol and wideband, fiber-optic cable — the same super-fat trunk line that carries SBC’s phone and conventional Internet services to some subscribers. On the bandwagon: At the recent National Association of Broadcasters convention, Verizon chairman Ivan Seidenberg touted a similar project called FiOS-TV. Deploying fiber-optic cable inside the house as well as on the main trunk lines, FiOS-TV will: deliver multiple streams of high-definition TV simultaneously; let you pick your favorite camera angle for viewing a ballgame; and even make it a snap for users to upload their home-grown multimedia content to share with other FiOS subscribers. I fought the law: Only one sticky wicket (and the billions companies will have to invest) stands in the way of these pipe dreams coming true. The phone companies need changes in regulatory policies that limit the enhanced services they’re allowed to offer. Cable shoots back: Not to be upstaged by these video upstarts, cable television companies are also gearing up to serve a more customized, interactive TV world. At their recent convention, known as the "National Show," major cable concerns, including Time Warner, talked up a similar, next-generation "Internet protocol" network architecture for high-speed delivery of video and other multimedia content…
Cable shoots back: Not to be upstaged by these video upstarts, cable television companies are also gearing up to serve a more customized, interactive TV world. At their recent convention, known as the "National Show," major cable concerns, including Time Warner, talked up a similar, next-generation "Internet protocol" network architecture for high-speed delivery of video and other multimedia content. "The theme ‘you’re in control’ was very big at the National Show," he noted. "On the surface, you might take that phrase as a marketing pitch to consumers. But given the audience that was seeing this on banners at the show, it seemed to be equally or more about the cable companies maintaining tighter control over their product. " Promises broken: Two government-mandated cable upgrades that would make life better for consumers may be buried by the move to a next-generation cable system, Doherty believes.
THE BAKU JAZZ FESTIVAL: REVIVING A TRADITION IN AZERBAIJAN
EurasiaNet - Apr 28, 2005
The music may have brought to mind more St. Louis than Saki, but many of the renditions had deep Azerbaijani roots. Jazz mugam is a home-grown specialty, a sultry combination of Azerbaijani folk music and traditional American jazz. The style reached its full fame in the 1950s and 1960s under the influence of composer Rafig Babayev and his Gaya quartet and jazz pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh. These sounds gave Azerbaijani music its identity within the jazz genre. Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary American jazz trumpeter, reportedly lauded Mustafazadeh for creating "the music of the future. "Today, Mustafazadeh’s daughter, Aziza, ranks as a star on the global jazz circuit with a fusion of classical and jazz scat styles.
Bill Calls for Foreign Workers
Wired News - Apr 28, 2005
companies if it wants to remain a leader in technology, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. Congress capped the number of non-immigrant visas for skilled professionals at 65,000 in 2004 and 2005 in an effort to increase border security and ensure more jobs for home-grown tech workers. Microsoft (MSFT) is having a hard time finding skilled workers within the United States, and the lack of H-1B visas for skilled workers is only making the situation worse. The entire quota of H-1B visas was snapped up the first day of the fiscal year by U. employers anxious to recruit foreigners for jobs in medicine, engineering, education, research and programming, among other fields.