Add skilled playworkers and the result is a place where children can leave adult anxieties and inner city realities behind and, in the words of trainer Penny Wilson, "learn to live creatively".
As I'm hearing that the talent pool of experienced engineers in the Bay Area is currently in short supply, this layoff might be a boon for local startups looking to add skilled staff.
Forget, for a moment, the obvious attempt at regional balance, or the tactical advantage of adding a skilled campaigner to the ticket.
"Midwife literally means 'with woman,'" photographer Brooke Walsh said, adding, "These skilled professionals bring more than just a medical mindset to the births they attend -- they bring a kind of patience and love".
We build links between artists and local neighbourhoods: we place artists in schools, bring skilled people and add excitement to changing places with our events and exhibitions.
Various forms of needlework added by skilled collaborators, all women, embellish the pictures.
Wages within the industry tend to keep pretty much in line, he adds, because skilled mining labour is in short supply.But the biggest concern is for Codelco, which produces a tenth of the world's copper.
The hospitals "are scrambling to cut costs like never before," she said, adding that a skilled chief financial officer "can almost name his price".
Sacked Adelaide and Geelong plant workers will soon be applying for jobs that don't exist (there's an 800,000 gap between unemployed Australians and job advertisements; adding more low skilled workers to the dole queues will not help).
Companies like MphasiS are the biggest beneficiaries of a movement among many of the largest corporations in the United States to shift certain white-collar work to low-cost India, where local companies are adding thousands of skilled, English-speaking employees every quarter to meet the increased demand.
