�The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) has reiterated calls for State and Federal Governments to desperately address the shortage of clinical training places available to medical students and junior doctors.
The telephone number of medical students graduating annually in Australia is expected to increase most three congregation in 10 years, from 1200 in 2002 to 3300 in 2012.
AMSA President, Michael Bonning aforesaid increasing medical student numbers would only be effectual in overcoming the nationwide doctor shortage if high quality clinical training positions were made available.
"The number of clinical grooming positions uncommitted for medical students and junior doctors can be increased if Governments dedicate to working with medical education stakeholders to direct the shortfall," Mr Bonning said.
"Increasing clinical education capacity volition require a significant fiscal investment which should be tied to the performance benchmarks in the approaching Australian Healthcare Agreements," he said.
"More investment is needed to expand teaching infrastructure, develop novel pedagogy programs such as the prevocational general practice placement program (PGPPP), and adequately remunerate senior doctors world Health Organization teach their junior colleagues.
"In accession we motive to expand medical scholarly person and junior doctor breeding opportunities in underutilised settings, such as private hospitals, general practices and rural areas.
"If we can guarantee high quality clinical training positions for medical students and junior doctors then the surge in medical scholarly person numbers will pay dividends for underserved Australian communities," Mr Bonning said.
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Friday, 22 August 2008
Mp3 music: Matt Monro
 Artist: Matt Monro: mp3 download Genre(s): Easy Listening Vocal Folk Matt Monro's discography:  The Ultimate Matt Monro Year: 2005 Tracks: 24  Mis canciones preferidas - Jokin - Euskal Herria Year: 2001 Tracks: 23  The Very Best of Matt Monro Year: 1998 Tracks: 20  Spotlight on Matt Monro Year: 1995 Tracks: 13  Musica para Year: Tracks: 24 Though Matt Monro is known topper to world audiences as the voice of unrivaled of the best James Bond themes, "From Russia with Love," the British vocaliser produced a lifetime of not bad mould. Often criticized as a second-rate Sinatra personation because of his abstemious, expressive expressive style of swing out, Monro hit the British Top Ten often during the 1960s but managed only deuce moderate hits in America. Innate Terrence Parsons in London, he began his life history tattle for tV commercials and performed with a few British bands (including Cyril Stapleton's Orchestra) during the early '50s. After a few sides recorded for diverse labels, he gestural to Decca for an album of standards, 1957's Blasphemous and Sentimental. His career actually took turned one year after when producer George Martin asked him to lend his deep voice to a Peter Sellers album of Sinatra satires, Songs for Swingin' Sellers. Monro's straight-faced contribution, "You Keep Me Swingin'," gained him a shrink from Parlophone, and he murder number iII in the British charts with 1960's "Portrayal of My Love." Both "My Kind of Girl" and "Lightly, As I Leave You" besides hit the Top Ten during the subsequent deuce years; the one-time became his kickoff transatlantic hit, reaching identification number 18 in America. Monro besides proved quite proficient in the maturation land of the uncut; his 1962 LP for Parlophone, Flatness Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael, was a very effected songbook compendium for a pop vocalizer. Though his theme to the irregular James Bond vehicle, From Russia with Love, only hit the Top 20 in Britain, it increased his exposure around the world. His adjacent undivided, "Walk Away," murder number iV in Britain and barely lost the Top 20 in America. Monro gained his last British Top Ten in 1965, subsequently his association with George Martin and Parlophone gave him the distinction of organism the first creative person of thousands to cover the Beatles' "Yesterday." After moving to America that year, his British chart fortunes declined (omit for the tame 1973 dispatch "And You Smiled"). He continued acting his nightclub act, and recorded slenderly during the '70s. The 1980 solicitation Heartbreakers rejuvenated his career somewhat, though his health suffered during the time. He ultimately died of cancer in 1985. |
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Aurosonic Vs. Kirsty Hawkshaw feat Tenishia
Artist: Aurosonic Vs. Kirsty Hawkshaw feat Tenishia
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Missing Outsiders
Year: 2007
Tracks: 1
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Shia LaBeouf 's Car-Crash Injury To Be Written Into 'Transformers' Sequel, Director Says
In the original "Transformers," Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) runs, jumps, falls, races fast cars and gets tossed round like a rag doll by
Monday, 23 June 2008
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 8-14:
June 8: Comedian Jerry Stiller is 81. Comedian-talk show host Joan Rivers is 75. Actor James Darren is 72. Actor Bernie Casey is 69. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 68. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 66. Singer Boz Scaggs is 64. Actor Don Grady ("My Three Sons") is 64. Guitarist Mick Box of Uriah Heep is 61. Actress Sonia Braga is 58. Actress Kathy Baker ("Picket Fences") is 58. Country guitarist Tony Rice is 57. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 55. Actor Griffin Dunne is 53. "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams is 51. Actor-director Keenan Ivory Wayans is 50. Singer Mick Hucknall of Simply Red is 48. Keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran is 46. Singer Doris Pearson of Five Star is 42. Actress Julianna Margulies ("Canterbury's Law," "ER") is 41. Actor Dan Futterman ("Judging Amy") is 41. Actor David Sutcliffe ("Gilmore Girls") is 39. Singer Nicci Gilbert of Brownstone is 38. Actress Kelli Williams ("The Practice") is 38. Actor Mark Feuerstein ("West Wing," "Good Morning, Miami") is 37. Guitarist Mike Scheuchzer of MercyMe is 33. Rapper Kanye West is 31. Fiddler Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek is 27.
June 9: Guitarist-inventor Les Paul is 93. Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 69. Keyboardist Jon Lord of Deep Purple and Whitesnake is 67. Actor Michael J. Fox is 47. Actor Johnny Depp is 45. Actress Gloria Reuben ("The Agency," "ER") is 44. Bassist Dean Felber of Hootie and the Blowfish is 41. Bassist Dean Dinning (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 41. Musician Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers is 38. Actress Michaela Conlin ("Bones") is 30. Actress Natalie Portman is 27. Actress Mae Whitman ("Arrested Development") is 20.
June 10: Singer Shirley Alston Reeves of The Shirelles is 67. Actor Andrew Stevens is 53. Bassist Kim Deal of The Pixies is 47. Singer Maxi Priest is 47. Actress Gina Gershon is 46. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn is 45. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) is 44. Actress Kate Flannery ("The Office") is 44. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 43. Guitarist Joey Santiago of The Pixies is 43. Guitarist Emma Anderson (Lush) is 41. Country guitarist Brian Hofeldt of The Derailers is 41. Singer Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) is 38. Singer JoJo of K-Ci and JoJo is 37. Singer Faith Evans is 35. Actor DJ Qualls ("Hustle and Flow") is 30. Actor Shane West ("ER," "Now and Again") is 30. Singer Hoku is 27. Actress Leelee Sobieski is 26.
June 11: Actor Gene Wilder is 75. Actor Chad Everett is 71. Comedian Johnny Brown ("Laugh-In") is 71. Singer Joey Dee is 68. Actress Adrienne Barbeau ("Maude") is 63. Drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top is 59. Singer Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special and of Van Zant is 56. Actor Peter Bergman ("The Young and the Restless") is 55. Actor Hugh Laurie ("House") is 49. Singer Gioia (JOY'-ah) Bruno of Expose' is 45. Country singer Bruce Robison is 42. Bassist Smilin' Jay McDowell (BR5-49) is 39. Bassist Dan Lavery of Tonic is 39. Bassist Tai Anderson of Third Day is 32. Actor Joshua Jackson ("Dawson's Creek") is 30. Actor Shia LaBeouf ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," "Holes") is 22.
June 12: Singer Vic Damone is 80. Disney composer Richard Sherman is 80. Actor-singer Jim Nabors is 78. Jazz musician Chick Corea is 67. Sports announcer Marv Albert is 67. Singer Len Barry is 66. Singer Reg Presley of The Troggs is 65. Singer John Wetton of Asia and King Crimson is 59. Drummer Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick is 57. Country singer-guitarist Junior Brown is 56. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is 55. Actor Timothy Busfield is 51. Singer Meredith Brooks is 50. Actress Jenilee Harrison ("Dallas," "Three's Company") is 50. Accordionist-keyboardist John Linnell of They Might Be Giants is 49. Rapper Grandmaster Dee of Whodini is 46. Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 31. Singer Robyn is 29.
June 13: Actor Bob McGrath ("Sesame Street") is 76. Magician Siegfried of Siegfried and Roy is 69. Singer Bobby Freeman is 68. Actor Malcolm McDowell is 65. Singer Dennis Locorriere of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show is 59. Actor Richard Thomas is 57. Comedian Tim Allen ("Home Improvement") is 55. Actress Ally Sheedy is 46. Former "Early Show" co-host Hannah Storm is 46. Bassist Paul DeLisle of Smash Mouth is 45. Singer David Gray is 40. Musician Soren Rasted (Aqua) is 39. Actor-singer Jamie Walters is 39. Singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo of Weezer is 38. Actor Steve-O ("Jackass") is 34. Actor Ethan Embry ("Can't Hardly Wait," "That Thing You Do!") is 30. Singer Raz B (B2K) is 23. Actresses Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are 22.
June 14: Actor Gene Barry is 89. Actress Marla Gibbs is 77. Actor Jack Bannon ("Lou Grant") is 68. Singer Rod Argent of The Zombies and Argent is 63. Singer Janet Lennon of The Lennon Sisters is 62. Businessman-TV personality Donald Trump is 62. Drummer Alan White of Yes is 59. Actor Eddie Mekka (Carmine on "Laverne and Shirley") is 56. Actor Will Patton is 54. Singer Boy George is 47. Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 40. Actress Traylor Howard ("Monk," "Two Guys And A Girl") is 37. Actor Daryl Sabara ("Spy Kids") is 16.
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Celia Nicklin, Barry Davis - O
Artist: Celia Nicklin, Barry Davis - O
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Divertimento In C, K188/240B
Year: 1989
Tracks: 6
Brad, Ange splash out on nursery
Monday, 16 June 2008
Franz Ferdinand Announce UK Tour In Intimate Venues
No sooner did Franz Ferdinand announce a low-key intimate London date earlier today, the band have now mapped-out a full UK tour of smaller venues.
The seven date jaunt will call at a number of tiny venues previously un-visited by the band - similar in spirit to their shows at Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry and across the highlands & islands of Scotland last summer.
Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning (Friday June 6th), limited to 2 per person and priced at �15 - available directly from the venues.
Franz Ferdinand will be playing old favourites, as well as airing a number of new songs from their third album - now in its final week of recording in their Govan hideaway with Dan Carey.
June Dates:
21st - York Fibbers
22nd - Hull Adelphi
24th - Bristol Thekla
25th - Bath Moles
26th - Yeovil The Orange Box
28th - Cardiff The Point
29th - Leeds Faversham
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Hulk to Larry King: "It's God's Will"
Hulk Hogan almost broke down on "Larry King" last night, but neither that -- nor him getting asked about his ex's 19-year-old boyfriend -- was the most outrageous part.
How about when he said he believes Nick's accident, which put friend John Graziano in a vegetative state, was God's plan to make John a better person?
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Laura Marling to play UK church tour
Laura Marling has announced details of a tour of churches in the UK.
The singer/songwriter will begin the four-date jaunt in Glasgow on June 9 and end it at Birmingham's St. Paul's church on three days later.
Laura Marling will play:
Glasgow Gilmore Hill and Upstairs at Oran Mor (June 9)
Manchester St Phil's (10)
London St James' (11)
Birmingham St Paul's (12)
To check the availability of Laura Marling tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
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The singer/songwriter will begin the four-date jaunt in Glasgow on June 9 and end it at Birmingham's St. Paul's church on three days later.
Laura Marling will play:
Glasgow Gilmore Hill and Upstairs at Oran Mor (June 9)
Manchester St Phil's (10)
London St James' (11)
Birmingham St Paul's (12)
To check the availability of Laura Marling tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
Sep 8, 2008 at Academy 2, Manchester -
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Apoptygma Berzerek
Artist: Apoptygma Berzerek
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The 2nd Manifesto
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
The Norwegian industrial band Apoptygma Berzerk is actually one Stephan Groth, sometimes known as Grothesk. Groth released his first single as Apoptygma Berzerk in 1991 and got his international break with an appearance on the Sex, Drugs and E.B.M. compilation. He gestural with Metropolis Records, which issued a career rundown in 1998 entitled The Apopcalyptic Manifesto, a collection of early singles and tracks from the Norwegian album Soli Deo Gloria. The full-length, all-new 7 followed later on in the yr, and in early 2000 Apoptygma Berzerk resurfaced with Welcome to Earth. Kathy's Song followed a class later on.
Potential Bad Boy
New Big Brother house is unveiled
The new 'Big Brother' house has been unveiled ahead of the launch of the ninth series of the show.
This year's house is a brightly-coloured purpose built complex and is the biggest house ever used for the show.
The exterior walls are painted in pink, orange, yellow and green and the garden will once again have a swimming pool.
The bedroom, in the usual dormitory style, is less luxurious than in previous years, with thin, scratchy blankets and uncomfortable mattresses.
There is a large living area with comfy sofas and plush coverings as well as an ultra-modern separate kitchen area with a red theme.
The bathroom houses a swan tap attached to a huge bath, which is surrounded by flowers, greenery, gold statues and blue velvet sofas.
The garden also has an enclosed seating area this year, with an Alice in Wonderland-proportioned giant ashtray for smokers to sit in.
Sharon Powers, creative director of 'Big Brother', said: "We've got a really exciting group of housemates ready to go into the 'Big Brother' house."
"But they need to remember that the 'Big Brother' rules are there for a reason - 'Big Brother' will not tolerate rule breaks and will be tougher than ever on housemates. It's going to be really exciting to see how they rise to the challenge of life in the house."
"For the housemates, and the viewers, it's going to be a summer to remember."
'Big Brother' begins on Thursday 5 June, with Davina McCall once again hosting the show.
This year's house is a brightly-coloured purpose built complex and is the biggest house ever used for the show.
The exterior walls are painted in pink, orange, yellow and green and the garden will once again have a swimming pool.
The bedroom, in the usual dormitory style, is less luxurious than in previous years, with thin, scratchy blankets and uncomfortable mattresses.
There is a large living area with comfy sofas and plush coverings as well as an ultra-modern separate kitchen area with a red theme.
The bathroom houses a swan tap attached to a huge bath, which is surrounded by flowers, greenery, gold statues and blue velvet sofas.
The garden also has an enclosed seating area this year, with an Alice in Wonderland-proportioned giant ashtray for smokers to sit in.
Sharon Powers, creative director of 'Big Brother', said: "We've got a really exciting group of housemates ready to go into the 'Big Brother' house."
"But they need to remember that the 'Big Brother' rules are there for a reason - 'Big Brother' will not tolerate rule breaks and will be tougher than ever on housemates. It's going to be really exciting to see how they rise to the challenge of life in the house."
"For the housemates, and the viewers, it's going to be a summer to remember."
'Big Brother' begins on Thursday 5 June, with Davina McCall once again hosting the show.
Missy Elliott - Elliott Vows To Continue Timbaland Collaborations
Hip-hop star MISSY ELLIOTT has vowed never to part ways with her producing partner TIMBALAND - because the music-making duo have irreplaceable chemistry in the studio.
The Work It hitmaker has repeatedly released hit after hit with the help of longtime collaborator Timbaland, but the superproducer was a notable absence from her last studio LP The Cookbook.
However, Missy insists she will never outgrow her partnership with Timbaland and has rekindled their studio magic for her forthcoming album Block Party.
She tells Billboard magazine, "People always ask if we're still working together, and the answer is we will always work together. He's always going to be involved, even if it is just on one record.
"That's my brother. I respect and honour what he says. It's deeper than this music industry thing for Timbaland and I. There's a chemistry between us that will never leave."
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The Lillingtons
Artist: The Lillingtons
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Shit Out Of Luck
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Too Late Show
Year:
Tracks: 11
Parents fret as even toddlers love 'High School Musical' and its products
NEW YORK - Talya Appelbaum recently had a "High School Musical" birthday party. She got special balloons and a slice of cake decorated with the spoiled Sharpay, her favourite character because "she's with Ryan."
Jemma Fox has an HSM karaoke microphone and trading cards of the East High gang.
Talya and Jemma are three years old. They have tot-sized insights but large obsessions with the wildly popular Disney franchise that has jumped from TV show to hit song factory to merchandising mania since 2006, when the Wildcats first took kid culture by storm.
But it's high school, and now senior year at that. Do Talya and Jemma need to "bop to the top" or demand "all things fabulous?" And what about the kissing, the backbiting and the big-kid fashions?
With the October release of the third HSM movie - this one in theatres rather than on the Disney Channel - parents of extra young aficionados are debating whether the phenom is innocent dance-'til-you-drop fun or not quite appropriate.
"It really is insipid and Disney starts early and has some clever ways to get to the kids who don't even watch movies, listen to the radio or read," said Jemma's mom, Jennifer Hawkins of New York.
Appelbaum has three older kids, including a four-year-old daughter. All are HSM fans. Appelbaum isn't sure she could shield her youngest, even if she wanted to. But HSM's popularity among young children, along with similar adolescent fare like Hannah Montana - the other Disney mega-franchise - isn't limited to those exposed through older siblings.
Jemma, who has a two-year-old brother, stumbled on HSM at a Target store, where Hawkins bought "what I thought was an innocent toy." She didn't know the microphone was preprogrammed with two HSM songs and admits: "I didn't really look at the packaging."
Five-year-old Valencia White got hooked after dad bought tickets to "High School Musical: The Ice Tour" last year.
"She went straight from Disney princess to 'High School Musical,' " said her mother, Virginia Duplessis of El Cerrito, Calif. "The child has never seen the movies, yet she knew the songs immediately. It just got to a point where it's everywhere and the more we were trying to make it this forbidden fruit, the more interested she was getting."
Therein lies the parenting challenge, said Jean Twenge, a social psychologist and associate professor at San Diego State University who studied young people and pop culture for her book, "Generation Me."
The pressure to succeed, materialism, an emphasis on outer beauty, narcissism, romance trouble and other issues faced by high schoolers may not be what draw in young children, but the issues are there nonetheless, Twenge said.
"How do you even talk to a three-year-old about this stuff? Think before you leap. If you've leapt, then cut her off. There are things you have to take a stand on," she counsels parents.
Any hint of parody or sarcastic nuance is most likely lost on the very young, Twenge said.
Consider Sharpay, the brash and popular HSM schemer who wants heartthrob Troy to herself and makes dark-haired, brainy Gabriella miserable in the process. While Sharpay may learn some life lessons on the way, her journey might be difficult for the very young to process.
Like three-year-old Talya, Duplessis' daughter Valencia is a Sharpay fan.
"I say she seems kind of mean, and she says, 'Oh but she's so pretty and I really like that song "Fabulous."' " Duplessis said. "It's the focus on clothes, appearance. That's what bothers me the most. It's good clean fun with Jimmy Choo flip flops, perfect hair and makeup. I would just rather her focus on being a kid and having fun and getting dirty."
Before "High School Musical" entered their lives, Duplessis and her husband, David White, restricted their kindergartner's TV-watching mostly to PBS in their crunchy liberal area just outside Berkeley. Now Valencia's grandparents, aunts and uncles have bought her HSM notepads, a backpack, cups and a T-shirt.
Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague said children younger than six have an eight-hour dose of Playhouse Disney geared just for them on the Disney Channel.
"We recognize that younger siblings most often watch Disney Channel with their older brother or sister and that some aspects of our programming, including the music of 'High School Musical' and 'Hannah Montana,' can strike a responsive chord with younger kids," she says, but she adds that outside of Playhouse Disney, most shows "reflect themes more relevant to kids age 6-14."
Talya's mom, Melanie Appelbaum of Harrison, N.Y., doesn't worry about the teen themes.
"They don't really kiss until the end of the second movie," she says. "So much of what people are worried about is going over their heads. I think you can overanalyze anything."
Selling products to the very young is perhaps the bigger danger, said Juliet Schor, a psychology professor at Boston College who explored the effects of marketing on children in her book "Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture."
Hawkins agrees. The microphone Jemma has is bright pink, "looks like a baby toy" and was placed on a low store shelf in a section for young children, she said. And this year's big-screen movie release "High School Musical: Senior Year" includes three new sophomore Wildcats aimed at keeping the franchise fresh.
"They're trying to appeal to a much younger child in order to prepare them for being hooked in," Hawkins said. "One piece of the scenario leads to the next."
While social psychology has much to say on the extension of adolescence through one's 20s, Twenge said, there's an extension down the age ladder as well.
"Pretty soon adolescence is going to last from age five to age 35," she said.
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Another Breath
Artist: Another Breath
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Not Now, Not Ever
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Fulton, NY's Another Breath deals in semi-melodic hard-core and, at the time of the band's 2004 debut EP, Not Now, Not Ever, featured Ted Winkworth (vocals), Jon Davis (guitar and vocals), Scott Gillard (guitar), Matt Garrett (bass), and Bob O'Neil (drums). Bassist Garrett was after replaced by Sean Barr.
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