Monday 29 February 2016

More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope with a shortage of qualified staff, figures reveal.
Tens of thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts are vacant.
The statistics, obtained by the BBC, show the scale of the NHS recruitment crisis.
Health unions blame poor workforce planning, but officials say the NHS has more staff than ever before.

Data from a BBC Freedom of Information request shows that on 1 December 2015, the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had more than 23,443 nursing vacancies - equivalent to 9% of the workforce.

Agency workers
In comparison, the average vacancy rate across the UK economy from November to January 2016 was 2.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The figures - which include 106 out of 166 trusts and health boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - also revealed:
Between 2013 and 2015, there has been a 50% increase in nursing vacancies, from 12,513 to 18,714.
For doctors, the number of vacancies went from 2,907 to 4,669 - an increase of roughly 60%.
In England and Wales, there were 1,265 vacancies for registered nurses in emergency departments - about 11% of the total.
For consultants in emergency medicine there were 243 vacancies - again 11% of the total.
Paediatric consultants - specialists in the care of babies, children and young people - were also hard to recruit, with 221 vacancies - about 7% of the total.

Friday 26 February 2016

Jessie Ellen Cornish is a british song writer and singer. Better known for her stage name as Jessie J. 
net worth $8 million 
2006- 2010
Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind. She studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing where she wrote for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus.  

Jessie J was signed to Gut Records, recording an album for the label, but the company went bankrupt before any material was released. She then found success as a songwriter, gaining a Sony ATV publishing contract. She was also the support act for Cyndi Lauper during Lauper's UK dates of her 2008 Bring Ya to the Brink tour. Jessie has also written lyrics for artists such as Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus, including "Party in the U.S.A.". 

Jessie J was also part of a girl band, called Soul Deep, for two years, however, believing "it wasn't going anywhere," she left the group. Despite people thinking that her first notoriety was through YouTube, Jessie was signed for four years before her first video was posted. Jessie first came to the attention of Lava Records when her publisher at Sony/ATV, Rich Christina, sent Lava president Jason Flom a link to her MySpace page, which the record executive loved. 

2011- 2012
Jessie J began recording her debut studio album in 2005 and it was completed on 19 January 2011. Jessie J says the album's title track, "Who You Are", is one of her proudest creations, she said the song is a positive role model for young people and I always say that I'm half-artist, half-therapist. In late 2010 Jessie J released her first single, "Do It Like a Dude" which was co-written with George Astasio, Tj Normandin, Jason Pebworth, Jon Shave, Kyle Abrahams and Peter Ighile. Originally, she wrote the song with Rihanna in mind because "Rude Boy" was released at the time, partly inspiring the song. She then sent the song to her label, Island Records, before sending it to Rihanna's management. Island insisted the song become Jessie J's first single. She wishes to perform the song with Rihanna at one point. The single gained positive reception from critics. The single charted at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Her follow-up single "Price Tag" was released in late January 2011. It was written by Jessie J, Dr. Luke, Claude Kelly, and B.o.B and peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. "Price Tag" was released in the US on 1 February 2011 and peaked at 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

On 25 February 2011 her debut album, Who You Are, was released. The album first entered the UK Albums Chart on 6 March 2011 where it charted at number two. The album charted into the top ten in a number of countries and number 11 in the US. After the release she went on to release a third single from the album, "Nobody's Perfect". MTV reported that the single is, so far, only confirmed for release in the United Kingdom. The album's fourth single was "Who's Laughing Now". 

On 12 June 2011, at the Summertime Ball held at Wembley Stadium, London, Jessie ruptured several tendons in her foot during rehearsals, and performed her set the following day while sitting on a gilded throne. For her appearance at Glastonbury Festival 2011 on 25 June 2011, she performed on the throne again, stating that he doctor had told her not to perform with her broken foot which would take six weeks to heal. 

2013- Onwards 
On 31 January 2012, Jessie J announced that she had begun recording her second studio album. She also stated that she hopes to collaborate with many artists this year, possibly including some of her fellow coaches on The Voice. It was revealed that she has worked in the studio with CeeLo Green after he contacted her on Twitter. Jessie has also revealed on Twitter that she worked with Diane Warren and co-author of her song "Price Tag", Claude Kelly.

Her third studio album Sweet Talker was released on 13 October 2014 in the UK, where it peaked at number 5. "Bang Bang" recorded with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj serves as the first single from the album. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her third number one and seventh top five single in the UK. "Bang Bang" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 6, making it the second highest new entry of 2014 on the chart. The song became Jessie J's second top 10 single in the US, after her previous single "Domino", and eventually peaked at number 3. In 2015, she became the judge and mentor of The Voice Australia. In the nominations for the 2016 Brit Awards, Jessie J's 2015 single "Flashlight" (from the soundtrack to the film Pitch Perfect 2) was among the nominees for Best British Video. 
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is a british singer and song writer. 
net worth- $75 million 
She was born in tottenham 1988 in May. She went to brit school and when she left in 2006 she had received a recording contract by XL recordings after her friend posted her demo on myspace. In 2007 she was given a brit award from critics choice and won the bbc sound of 2008. Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official representative. 

By 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. The album 19, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. 

She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month, and 19 was released in the US in June. 

By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder," and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 23 The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week. By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. 

At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory." 

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US. She said that the album was inspired by the break-up with her former partner. The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. 21 hit number 1 in more than 26 countries, including the UK and the US.

"Someone like You" at the 2011 Brit Awards on 15 February propelled the song to number one in the UK. Her first album, 19, re-entered the UK album chart alongside 21, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.

By December 2011, 21 sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one year. 

In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.On 14 October, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days."Skyfall" has sold more than two million copies worldwide and earned Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

On 18 October, a 30-second clip of new material from Adele was shown on UK television during a commercial break on The X Factor. The commercial teases a snippet from a new song from her third album, with viewers hearing a voice singing accompanied by lyrics on a black screen.In a statement released three days later she confirmed that the album is titled 25. 

Monday 22 February 2016

More than 10 million people in India's capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say.
Keshav Chandra, head of Delhi's water board, told the BBC it would take "three to four days" before normal supplies resumed to affected areas. Jat community protesters demanding more government jobs seized the Munak canal, the city's main water source on Friday. Sixteen people have been killed and hundreds hurt in three days of riots.
Mr Chandra said that prior warnings meant that people had managed to save water, and tankers had been dispatched to affected areas of the city, but that this would not be enough to make up for the shortfall. Schools in the city were also closed after supplies from the canal were sabotaged during the protests. The army took control of parts of the canal on Monday morning, but repairs are expected to take time. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder who is near Delhi's border with neighboring Haryana state, said protesters who have set up road blocks are refusing to budge. "We don't trust them. Let's get something in writing. Let them spell it out," one demonstrator who refused to be named told the BBC.
Why are the Jats angry?
The land-owning Jat community is relatively affluent and has traditionally been seen as upper caste. They are mainly based in Haryana and seven other states in northern India. Comprising 27% of the voters in Haryana and dominating a third of the 90 state assembly seats, they are a politically influential community. Seven of the 10 chief ministers in Haryana have been Jats. The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but the demonstrators have been demanding inclusion in caste quotas for jobs and education opportunities that have been available to lower castes since 1991. In March 2014 the Congress-led national government said it would re-categorise Jats as Other Backward Castes (OBC), opening the way to government job quotas. But India's Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the Jats were not a backward community. As jobs have dried up in the private sector and farming incomes have declined, the community has demanded the reinstatement of their backward caste status to enable them to secure government jobs.

Monday 8 February 2016

TV Industry
Representations

MISFITS
Series 1 - 5

YOUTHS- 16 to 23
They are all aged between them ages. All of the characters throughout all of the series they're all aged between 16 to 23. Some how inevitably they are always ending up in trouble. they get involved with various criminal activities including taking drugs and disturbing the peace such as killing people and threatening people.

WORKING/ LOWER CLASS.
They are represented as scape goats for  people's quams and dilemmas. They are always blamed for various crimes they did not commit. Such as the first probation group leader is killed by the lightening storm and the group are scared that the authority will think it's them because it's easy to blame the lower class. Since they're doing community they are all considered working class.

STEREOTYPICAL FEMALE-
Alisha even before she gains her power of lust she uses the male gaze to her sexual desires. the first scene is them getting into their infamous orange costumes and we see the Alisha character in a pink bra and provocatively getting changed and looking at her self. She is sexualised is considerable amount and this related to how woman are viewed as victims and used for sex. Another example of this is when she is walking through the club touching boys as she walks through the club simultaneously all of the boys are looking at her.



Sunday 7 February 2016

David Cameron has called for an urgent rethink of the way the prison system in England and Wales treats pregnant women and mothers with babies.

Ministry of Justice figures suggest 100 babies spent time living with their mothers in prisons last year. The prime minister said it was "absolutely terrible" to think of infants spending time behind bars. Labour said Mr Cameron had made promises on prisons before but they were still violent and overcrowded. Mr Cameron, who is due to give a speech on prisons policy on Monday, said: "There are actually women in these prisons who were born in the same prison 20 years earlier, and then have ended up there later as criminals themselves.
"Think of the damage done to the life chances of these children."
'Break the cycle'
At present, when a woman gives birth while serving a custodial sentence, she is usually transferred to a prison's mother-and-baby unit (MBU) for an initial period. MBU policy requires that these units should be available to accommodate babies up until the age of 18 months.
Mr Cameron said:
"It's time to think seriously about whether this is the right approach.
"We've got to break this cycle."
The review will look at whether female offenders with babies could be dealt with by special problem-solving courts, housed in resettlement units or electronically tagged, rather than being locked up.
Downing Street said alternatives to custody would not be appropriate in every case and in some circumstances it could be in the best interests of the child for both mother and baby to be together in prison.