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Interactive Minds is proud to have a talented Advisory Panel to assist with planning our events. We have selected experienced industry professionals to assist Interactive Minds in ensuring that we continue to bring timely and relevant topics and speakers to the digital industry. We'd like to thank them for their contribution.
Naina D'Souza, Group Digital Manager, Michael Hill
Naina has delivered digital solutions for a range of organisations in Australia and the UK, she has a passion for shaping the customer expverience. Her career has included extensive experience in retail banking, as well as experience working in-house and for leading consultancies where she's advised clients across a diverse range of industries including entertainment, public sector, B2B, and not for profit. Naina is currently leading the digital agenda at Michael Hill International.
Rob Hudson, Managing Director, Clemenger BBDO
Rob has been delivering digital marketing concepts since 1992, which may just make him one of the longest standing digital practitioners in Australia. He is currently the Managing Director for Clemenger BBDO and is based in Brisbane.
Rob is a sought after public speaker on emerging digital strategy and technologies and amongst his credentials, he is the author of the 'Hudson report' a ministerially commissioned review of social media within defence.
Emma Croston, Co-Founder and General Manager, Epic Digital
Emma Croston is a digital strategist and business transformation expert. Developing digital businesses and managing the transition of business operating models from traditional to digital.
Emma is currently the Co-Founder and General Manager of Epic Digital which specializes in building custom web based software solutions to improve patient care and management in the health care industry. At Epic Digital Emma works with some of the most advanced technologies and thinkers coming out of the startup nation – Israel. Epic Digital was recently sold to Quadrant backed cancer care company The ICON Group.
Emma has had the privilege of working with some of the countries strongest consumer brand in media, real estate, travel and retail. Previous to her role at Epic Digital she was the Head of Digital at News Corp Australia and played a key role in driving the shift from a traditional retail newspaper business to a multichannel digital company.
Emma loves a challenge and working with new technologies to find solutions for today's ever changing environment. She believes predictive analysis will drive the next pivotal shift in how we communicate, transact and manage our day to day lives.
Han te Riele, General Manager, Brightlabs
Han is the General Manager at Brightlabs, a multi-award winning digital agency in Brisbane and Melbourne.
Han began his career in software development when he got his first Olivetti with two 5 1⁄4-inch floppy disks in the early 1980's. From there, he has seen the world of software and personal computers develop to what it is today. While in Europe, Han had a number of Director roles at LogicaCMG (now CGI), a major European management consulting and software development company.
Since his tenure, Brightlabs has won many awards, including two Webby Award Honourees, listed in the Top Ten Agencies Worldwide (Interactive Media Council), Interactive Media Awards, Communicator Awards, and the Web Marketing Association Awards. Brightlabs has also been listed in the SmartCompany Smart50 and BRW Fast100.
Michelle Wilson, Marketing & Communication Manager, The University of Queensland
Michelle is a strategic and innovative manager with extensive experience in strategy, digital marketing, design and communication. Michelle currently works for The University of Queensland and has delivered digital strategies and marketing campaigns for a range of clients either consulting or in-house within the higher education, hospitality and tourism, printing and publishing, coaching and not-for-profit-sectors.
Linh Diep, Account Executive, PublicisQ
Recently graduated with a Bachelor of Business Management & Commerce from the University of Queensland, Linh is pursuing her passion for bringing ideas to life as an account executive within the client services team at PublicisQ. During her studies, she was the founding president of the University of Queensland Marketing and Advertising Society, a position that led to Board and Committee positions with the Australian Marketing Institute, UQ's Business, Economics and Law Faculty and recognised as one of the Australian Institute of Management's top Student Leaders. Today, she volunteers her time with industry groups Interactive Minds, Startup Grind Brisbane and The University of Queensland's Young Alumni Advisory Board to continue creating relationships and opportunities with graduates and industry professionals.


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"Hey you rightwing bastard, why don't you get a job and stop wasting your time blogging with all this CIA conspiracy crap!"
Well, thank you! But I do have a job (although I can't devulged where....:)
But if you think I'm nuts, then I'm glad I'm not the only one.
In this article from Jack Kelly, of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bounces around the idea himself:
"In September 2002, the British government published a white paper in which it made public British intelligence's belief that Saddam had tried to buy uranium in Africa. A month later, the CIA received from an Italian source documents purporting to show that Niger and Iraq had done a deal. These turned out to be forgeries.
President Bush mentioned the British findings in his State of the Union address in January 2003. In his leaks to Pincus, and earlier to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Wilson claimed Bush knew this was false. The key sentence in Pincus' story is this:
"Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because 'the dates were wrong and the names were wrong,' the former U.S. government official said."
Wilson's official role ended when he returned from Niger in March. The CIA didn't get the Italian forgeries until October. Wilson had no access to them. He either was making up what he told Kristof and Pincus, or he had received an unauthorized leak of classified information."
then the squeaker.....
"What if someone in the CIA was leaking classified information to influence the 2004 election? Uncovering a crime like that would be worthy of Inspector Javert's doggedness.
I suspect the biggest shoe in this case has yet to drop, and liberal journalists won't be happy when it does."
That's what I've been saying all along....wait and see.
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Ever since the Liberals promised, during the past election campaign, that they "would not buy the F-35" stealth fighter-bomber, at the same time pledging to hold an "open and transparent" competition to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging fleet of CF-18s, speculation has raged over which promise the Liberals would have to break.
It was plainly impossible to keep both. By definition, a competition cannot be open and transparent if one bidder has been excluded at the outset. But if they did hold a competition, and excluded the F-35, they faced the prospect of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit from Lockheed Martin, the F-35's manufacturer. On the other hand, if the F-35 were allowed to compete, it might well win — which would be even more embarrassing.
So it was always a certainty they would have to break one promise. The defence minister's pointed refusal to rule out the F-35 from consideration, notwithstanding the platform's unequivocal language, suggested to many observers it would be the former. Others leaned to the latter possibility, on the theory the competition would be "wired" in such a way as to effectively exclude the F-35, much as the process had been rigged in its favour under the Conservatives. Little did anyone suspect that in fact they planned to dispense with the competition altogether.
Yet, that would appear to be the best explanation for the news, as reported last week, that the government intends to purchase an unknown number of Boeing Super Hornets via a sole-source contract, i.e. without competitive bids of any kind. Ostensibly this is being defended as an "interim measure," to close a suddenly discovered "capability gap" between our promises to our NATO and NORAD allies and our actual force on hand. But this has been widely dismissed as a fig leaf — the previous government had budgeted $400 million to refurbish the CF-18s, enough to keep them in the air until 2025.
The suspicion, rather, is that the purchase has been undertaken for (are you sitting down?) political reasons. By postponing the competition, neither buying the F-35 nor explicitly refusing to do so, they escape both the threatened lawsuit and the ignominy of choosing the F-35, without formally reneging on the promise to put the bulk of the purchase out to competitive tender at some later date. At the very least, they put off any difficult choices until after the next election. And if the "interim measure" should prove indefinite? Or the first in a series? Could the air force end up with a fleet of Super Hornets, acquired a few at a time?
After all, what option would remain, the initial commitment having been made? Bad enough the air force should have to maintain two fleets, CF-18s and Super Hornets, each with different training and equipment needs. But these are at least related, both using roughly similar technology, both made by Boeing (the Super Hornet is essentially an upgrade on its older cousin, originally known as the Hornet). But to add yet a third, entirely different category of plane? Possibly the military's statement of requirements could be rewritten to justify it. Or possibly everyone would just forget there was ever supposed to be a competition.
Lockheed Martin, meanwhile, is fighting back, warning that if Canada were to choose not to participate in the multinational F-35 project it could not possibly expect Canadian subcontractors to receive the hundreds of millions of dollars in business they had been promised. You might have thought the company would stress the technological superiority and/or cost-effectiveness of its planes, but only if you were wholly unfamiliar with how military procurement decisions are made in this country.
Which is the underlying cause of this whole mess. I'm not qualified to judge which plane — the F-35, the Super Hornet or one of their several European competitors — best meets our military needs, which are themselves open to debate. But what should be clear is that, one, any major purchase of this kind should be put out to competitive tender, and two, the competition should be judged strictly in terms of which plane offers the most military value for money. Yet neither condition seems to apply.
Matthew Fisher: Why the Super Hornets will force Canada out of its own north
Liberals shrug off Lockheed warnings it will take business elsewhere unless F-35s purchased
F-35 'ready to go,' company says as U.S. Air Force prepares to declare stealth fighter combat-ready
Indeed, the same could be said for any number of similar procurement fiascos. Even where a competition is held, the criteria are as often political as military: that is, the "industrial and regional benefits" that are attached to every contract, in the form of local content, maintenance contracts and the like. The much-vaunted National Shipbuilding Strategy, now billions of dollars over budget and the subject of vicious inter-regional infighting, is a case in point.
Supposedly this was to be an example of a cleaned-up process, after the controversy surrounding the F-35 purchase, itself following on the EH-101 helicopter calamity, the submarine disaster and countless others. But the very decision to build the ships in Canada, at a time when there was no industry to speak of, rather than buy them off the shelf at half the cost from some other country, was a sign of what was really at work.
This remains the case, notwithstanding the government's decision to use existing blueprints rather than build the ships from all-new designs. Defending the decision, Minister of Public Services and Procurement Judy Foote tweeted that the National Shipbuilding Strategy was about bringing "jobs and prosperity to many communities" and "leverag(ing) economic opportunities for (the) Canadian marine sector and economy." Oh? I thought it was about getting ships for the navy.


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A 10-minute Walk to the beach patrolled daily by Surf Life Saving and just 5-minute walk to the marina. Port Douglas on Macrossan Is located at the beginning of the shopping strip with many restaurants, cafes, shops and also is located across the road from the beautiful St Mary's Church by the Sea.
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A collection of Welsh pedigrees, coats of arms and a few folk tales in a late 16th century hand. The identity of the compiler is unclear, but it could possibly be the work of Wiliam Cynwal (5943)
A collection of the work of the chief bards, compiled by Evan Lloyd of Maes-y-Porth, Anglesey in 1756, and mostly in his hand. Amongst the poets which are featured are Sion Tudur, Dafydd ap Gwilym, John Dafydd, Thomas Price of Plas Iolyn and Goronwy Ddu (5944)
A collection of poetry created by William Evans of Llanwnda, c. 1770's. It contains the work of the chief bards, mixed with the more wanton works of poetry of his own period (5945)
2 books of poetry compiled by John Roberts of Rhoscolyn in the early 19th century. The first includes the work of such poets as Sion Phylip, Lewys Morgannwg, Huw Pennant, Sion Tudur and Dafydd Nanmor. The second includes some English poetry, such as the work of Sir Walter Scott (5946-5947)
Diary of John Roberts for 1828 with observations on the weather mainly with occasional notes of church services at Rhoscolyn, Llanfair and Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (5948).


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Inhibitory Effect of Arctigenin from Fructus Arctii Extract on Melanin Synthesis via Repression of Tyrosinase Expression
Inhibitory Effect of Arctigenin from Fructus Arctii Extract on Melanin Synthesis via Repression of Tyrosinase Expression - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative MedicineVolume 2013 2013, Article ID 965312, 10 pages
Research Article
KM-Based Herbal Drug Research Group, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Yuseong-Daero 1672, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daehak-Ro 99, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Munhwa-Ro 266, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea
Received 5 February 2013; Revised 29 April 2013; Accepted 13 May 2013
Academic Editor: André-Michael Beer
Copyright © 2013 Hwayong Park et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
To identify the active compound arctigenin in Fructus Arctii dried seed of medicinal plant Arctium lappa and to elucidate the inhibitory mechanism in melanogenesis, we analyzed melanin content and tyrosinase activity on B16BL6 murine melanoma and melan-A cell cultures. Water extracts of Fructus Arctii were shown to inhibit tyrosinase activity in vitro and melanin content in α-melanocyte stimulating hormone-stimulated cells to similar levels as the well-known kojic acid and arbutin, respectively. The active compound arctigenin of Fructus Arctii displayed little or no cytotoxicity at all concentrations examined and decreased the relative melanin content and tyrosinase activity in a dose-dependent manner. Melanogenic inhibitory activity was also identified in vivo with zebrafish embryo. To determine the mechanism of inhibition, the effects of arctigenin on tyrosinase gene expression and tyrosinase promoter activity were examined. Also in addition, in the signaling cascade, arctigenin dose dependently decreased the cAMP level and promoted the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase. This result suggests that arctigenin downregulates cAMP and the tyrosinase enzyme through its gene promoter and subsequently upregulates extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity by increasing phosphorylation in the melanogenesis signaling pathway, which leads to a lower melanin content.
Autor: Hwayong Park, Kwang Hoon Song, Pil Mun Jung, Ji-Eun Kim, Hyunju Ro, Mi Yoon Kim, and Jin Yeul Ma
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HAINES CITY — Several cities across Polk County have declared the month of July "Parks and Recreation Month."
The declaration has been made in each of the county's largest three cities. Winter Haven, the largest city in East Polk, has released a list of things to do for the month that can be viewed on the city's website at www.mywinterhaven.com under events.
Haines City's parks and recreation department is taking its Mobile City Hall on the go for the summer, including twice during the month of July. The vehicle will be at the Randa Ridge subdivision on July 13 and at Eastwood Apartments on July 27. The city will provide crafts, games, art, music and sports, among other things.
"While I was in Winter Haven, we had what we called 'Fun on the Run,' " said Terrell Griffin, Haines City's director of parks and recreation. "Not everyone can go to a summer camp, whether it be for financial or transportation issues, so we bring activities to the kids."
Griffin said the city hosted the first event this summer at what was formerly 8-Acre Park and about 100 children attended.
"We're just putting the feeler out and seeing if the enthusiasm is there," Griffin said. "So far, it seems like there is. It's really an opportunity to get the kids out of the house and away from the video games."
Other recreational activities throughout the summer include summer and soccer camps. The Aquatic Center at Lake Eva is also open during the summer. Lake Eva also has playgrounds, an exercise trail, tennis, open space and basketball courts.
"It's always a plus for us this time of year in between storms," Griffin said. "Just on the property of Lake Eva alone, there's always so much to do. You can spend the day there."
Haines City's parks and recreation department has 80 full-time employees and 30 seasonal staff members. The city proclaimed July as Parks and Recreation Month on Thursday night.
During Tuesday's Town Commission meeting, commissioners will listen to presentations from Raftelis Consulting of Casselberry and Gov Deals. Both have put bids in to conduct studies on the town's water, wastewater and stormwater rates. Raftelis was initially scored the highest by the town, but a scoring error was made. Gov Deals received the higher score the second time around.
During Monday's City Commission meeting in Lake Alfred, commissioners will have a chance to change the legislative policy committee for which they serve with the Florida League of Cities.
On the City Commission agenda in Winter Haven Monday night will be an agreement for providing water and wastewater upgrades to the recently annexed Valhalla subdivision. The total estimated cost of the upgrades will be about $123,000. The Valhalla homeowners association has agreed to put $30,000 toward the project.
Mike Ferguson can be reached at email@example.com or 863-802-7445. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeWFerguson.


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Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 2014, Article ID 154347, 5 pages
Laparotomic Myomectomy in the 16th Week of Pregnancy: A Case Report
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Urologic Sciences, "Sapienza" University, Viale Del Policlinico 155, 00155 Rome, Italy
Received 16 December 2013; Accepted 18 January 2014; Published 4 March 2014
Academic Editors: M. Furuhashi, M. K. Hoffman, M. A. Osmanagaoglu, and P. Schuetze
Copyright © 2014 Lavinia Domenici et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to Cite this Article
Lavinia Domenici, Violante Di Donato, Maria Luisa Gasparri, Francesca Lecce, Jlenia Caccetta, and Pierluigi Benedetti Panici, "Laparotomic Myomectomy in the 16th Week of Pregnancy: A Case Report," Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 2014, Article ID 154347, 5 pages, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/154347.


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I am a feeler. I feel strongly. No matter if it's sadness, joy, anger- it comes strong, frequent and pure. What I used to be annoyed and embarrassed by when it came to my sad feelings, I now embrace. Because in my wisdom, I now know that what my uncontrollable tears mean, or my anger suggests is that I am not good. My discomfort signals that it is time to slow down and evaluate where I am and where I want to be. Lately, I've noticed in an effort to be "mature" (I guess), and in control of my feelings, I have been suppressing me and messages God is trying to convey to me. My body doesn't like it. Twice in eight months a small patch of hair has fallen out. My cravings for chocolate go beyond good chocolate, but move to drugstore finds. My dreams are more aggressive and I am angry or moody. But when I talk, I cry and when I cry there is release. So I have been talking lately. A lot. My friends have provided advice. An attentive ear. And suggestions. I have greedily taken each. It's not the best feeling when your eyes start to leak at inopportune moments, but it lets me know there is something deeper to observe. And that is the time to listen...and learn.
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*if you're not the cheesy kind
1. This is my dream date! Go at a Drive-In. Nothing more romantic, just a pinch of retro can make it perfect.
2. Cook together. Go to the market and pick up the ingridients. It will be fun, especially if one's got no idea how to cook. (yeah, well. That's me!)
3. Go to a nice concert. I would suggest my "birthday surprise",
The Raveonettes. So if they're touring near your town, it would be a pity to miss them on a day like this.
4. Go for a long walk, including vintage shopping, hot cocoa drinking and classic american meal included.
5. Probably what we'll be doing on Valentine's day. Since we're big lovers of old sitcoms, from the 60s to the 90s we love spending our time watching series. So grab a bottle of wine, some pop-corn, turn your neon sign on and enjoy!
5 Suggestions:
1) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2) Fawlty Towers
3) Daria
4) Friends (Surprise, Surprise!)
5) Black Books
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Our town library has a display case with a new display every month or so. I was asked to create a display of some of my woodworking. Since I am a hobbyist, I have no pieces "in stock." So, I used some objects from around the house that I have made over the years.
I created descriptive and educational signs to include in the display. I plan to add some photos of larger pieces that I have made as well.
This was a lot of fun to design and set up.
I can't help but think of this exchange from Steve Martin's The Jerk:
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 – Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in print – that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
[the Sniper points to Navin's name in the phone book]
-- "Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are." ― R. Waters


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Well Positioned for the motorway network and good local amenities, this is a large and extended detached true bungalow in need of some refurbishment, however the property has been substantially extended and comprises: hall, two bedrooms, bathroom, extended lounge and breakfast kitchen, both gas central heating and double glazing are installed.
The property has an open style lawned front garden with block paved driveway which gives access to the extended detached garage and long rear lawned garden with side well stocked borders and shrubs well screened.
From a panelled Roc style door into the hall.
Access is gained from here to each room.
Bedroom Two: 3.24m x 2.23m (10' 8 x 7' 4)
Double glazed window to the front elevation, wall positioned radiator
Fitted with a modern White three-piece suite comprising: low suite W.C. pedestal wash hand basin and panelled bath with shower over, obscure double-glazed window and built in storage housing the gas central heating boiler, coordinating tiling.
Lounge Extended: 8.59m x 3.55m (28' 3 x 11' 8)
With double glazed window to the front elevation and French doors to the rear garden, Living Flame effect fire with feature fire surround, additional heating from a panelled radiator.
Bedroom One: 3.60m x 3.21m (11' 10 x 10' 6)
Good size first bedroom, panelled radiator, double glazed window.
Breakfast Kitchen: 5.11m x 2.65m (16' 9 x 8' 8)
Fitted with a range of wall, base and drawer units, inset sink unit plus mixer taps, integrated oven/grill with hob and canopy extractor fan over, plumbing and space for an automatic washing machine, double glazed window, laminate ceiling with recessed lighting.
Front Garden:
Open style lawned garden with side driveway leading to the garage.
A detached extended garage.
Rear Garden:
A very attractive and not directly overlooked rear garden mainly laid to lawn, well planted with mature trees, shrubs, flower borders, paved patio areas, enclosed.
Strictly by appointment, please call 01744 752898 to arrange a convenient day and time.
We must advise prospective purchasers that none of the services have been tested; prospective purchasers are advised to obtain their own independent reports.
The property is freehold.
Surveys and Valuations:
Our associate Surveyor can carry out a private survey or valuation for you, please call us on 01744 752898 for more details.
Financial Services:
Burns & Reid make introductions to Associated Financial Services, our Associates will search 'whole of market' products for you and they are regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
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Not fun, but necessary. I can bear some minor design features, but not too much. Then my motivation drops: Ergo frogging.
Problem no 1: I must have got the thumb gusset wrong. Instead of stripes I got dots… Must remember to rewrite all patterns that suggest doing more than 3 things at the same time!
Problem no 2: The available sizes were both to big for me so I made my own version and knitted on 2.5 needles. However, the technique of lifting stitches to form the pattern produce a less elastic piece. I've therefore decided to go up to 3.0 mm instead. I'm keeping the cuff knitted on 2.5 mm.1


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Course Title: Calculate cost estimates for fashion products
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2013
Course Code: GRAP5211C
Course Title: Calculate cost estimates for fashion products
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C5220 - Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Technology
Course Contact : Mandy Penton
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259202
Course Contact Email:email@example.com
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Ginny Yarnton
Laura Holmes-Brown
Dawn Taylor
Nominal Hours: 30
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Course Description
This unit covers the skills and knowledge to develop cost estimates for sample production of products within the fashion industry.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title:
LMTFD4004B Calculate cost estimates for fashion products
1. Identify factors to be considered when costing fashion products
Performance Criteria:
1.1 Factors to be taken into consideration when costing
2. Identify costs involved in producing fashion products
Performance Criteria:
2.1 Costs of fabric and trims for sample garments and
3. Identify and calculate labour costs involved in fashion product production
Performance Criteria:
3.1 Labour involved in fashion product production is
4. Develop costing sheets to industry standards
Performance Criteria:
4.1 Components of fashion industry costing sheets are
Learning Outcomes
In this unit you will develop the skills and knowledge required in cost estimating for a range of garments and products developed for the fashion industry, including sample production.
Details of Learning Activities
Details of Learning Activities:
The course is integrated with LMTFD5019B Analyse individual fit and make pattern alterations.
LMTFD5010B Develop and present Design concepts within specific guidelines
to form a cluster or learning program called Design Studio 2
In this course you will be involved in blended learning activities involving both theoretical and practical tasks.
• You will be required to undertake research outside of regular class times.
• You will integrate skills across the design process and focus on the use and experimentation of design studio processes which will result in the production of a fashion design product which meets a specified brief
Develop and produce costing specifications for Assessment task 1
Design Studio 2 this semester will consist of two major projects and a minor costing assignment (that will be assessed as part of project 1). Some elements of these tasks will run concurrently and students are expected to time manage projects to ensure that all expected due dates are met.
Teaching Schedule
Wk 1 11/02/13
INDUSTRY PARTNER - PROJECT 1 – 9 weeks
Assessment expectations; attendance. Finalise groups.
Discuss: design, research, customer and fabrication & associated costs.
Industry partner to RMIT to deliver the brief.
Wk 2 18/02/13
In class exercises: Design and range development.
Discuss final fabric swatches and design ideas & associated costs.
information delivered regarding Project 2 "Future Visions"
Wk 3 25/02/13
RECOMMENDED ATTENDANCE at Adidas Head Office.
Groups to present: visual diary, tech drawings (in Illustrator format), colour palette, fabric swatches and graphic to Industry Partner.
Selection of final styles by Industry Partner.
Wk 4 04/03/13
Visual Diary assessment
Pattern and Toile Development.
Consider suitability of design, costs, fabrication and fit.
Discuss ideas regarding Future Visions project – one on one with your teacher.
Wk 5 11/03/13 & Wk 6 18/03/13
Pattern and Toile Development.
Consider suitability of design, costs, fabrication and fit.
Prototype/toile and final patterns due end of week 6 for assessment.
Both sessions of week 6 will have detailed in-class activities that will assist them to produce accurate costings for their garments
Wk 7 25/03/13
Session 1: Peer assessment of Patterns: Compulsory attendance.
Session 2: Costing exercises: Compulsory attendance.
Prepare and cut fabric, include calculations of fabric usage for costing
Discuss ideas regarding Future Visions project – one on one with your teacher.
Wk 8 08/04/13
* Prepare and cut fabric
Commence final construction, include calculations of labour/machinery and trim usage for costing
Discuss ideas regarding Future Visions project – one on one with your teacher.
Wk 9 15/04/13
Final Construction.
End of week 9 – costing assignment DUE
Wk 10 22/04/13
Hand in industry partner project,
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Fashion Design by Sue Jenkin Jones
Other Resources
RMIT Library
Document folder for filing of costing information
Work produced as part of their studio 2 Project 1
Garments. patterns and Information relating to usage of Fabric, Printing and Embellishments for their garments
Essential Learning Resources students need to have for all Design Studio classes:
Selection of pencils: H, HB and 2B
Pattern making equipment, rulers and set squares pattern scissors
Pattern hooks,
Sewing equipment. fabric scissors
Fabric purchased by the student suitable for toiling garments and producing final product with all linings and interlinings
Visual Diary
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As part of the Blended learning activity Students are to identify all elements of their designs that will need to be considered to create costing sheets for all garments made for Project 1 (WIL Industry Partner project)
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|1. Identify factors to be considered when costing fashion products
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Like many of their fans, I first came across Ash when 'Girl From Mars' became a hit back in the heady days of mid-nineties britpop. The album which spawned it, 1977, was/is a great album, but if I'm honest I never imagined back then that that noisy teenage trio would have the staying power to still be releasing great records fifteen years on. But, happily, their writing is just as strong now as it ever was - witness songs like 'Arcadia', for example.
Me, I'd probably be happy if Ash just released ten variations on Girl From Mars every year, but through sheer familiarity it's understandable that they've recently tried to vary the style a little. Binary is one current track that incorporates a few electronic elements, swapping some of the guitars for synths. Lucky for me, then, that this was the song they offered up for remixing, since I was always going to want to swap those guitars straight back in!
So my version is a straight-ahead indie rock number. Unsurprisingly, therefore, it sounds a bit like Ash as they have always sounded in the past. Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening.
You'll find Ash's original version of Binary as track four on the newly released A-Z Vol. 2 which you can preview and purchase here.
Binary (James Merrifield remix)
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I was so surprised when I tasted my easy-and-cheap-to-make salad: it's so delicious and tasty! I mean, REALLY! I don't lie, try it! The recipe:
- fresh mixed salad
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
East Sussex, visit Pashley Manor Gardens, or even take a ride on the famous Bluebell Railway. But our memories of bluebells are from the beech-woods of Derbyshire, where they are accompanied by wild onion flowers. Yesterday we just had to dream of bluebells as snow came down on the hills a quarter of an hour's drive away from our home. Then this morning we enjoyed a lovely breakfast at our favourite Kaleden restaurant, from which the saying was taken. It fits us like a glove!
3 comments:
- Friko said...
No bluebells yet here in Shropshire. It's too early in the season. But the strap leaves are all over my banks already. Soon . . . Ah, Spring!
- March 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- H said...
No bluebells here yet either, but it won't be too much longer now :)
- March 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- Barbara said...
No bluebells or any other flower here either. My first childhood memories of spring time was the flowering of lilies of the valley in the woods around us in Germany. Why? because even though they had a lovely fragrance, I was told not to pick them because they were poisonous. Only grownups were allowed to touch them.
- March 21, 2011 at 11:01 AM
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The heartwarming holiday, musical show, Mrs. Claus and the Littlest Reindeer, reminds us that the quality of one's character is more important than their outward appearance. The touching story, interactive songs and a special visit from "The Man in Red" himself, is sure to bring holiday joy to the young and young at heart. Following the show, everyone will enjoy a homemade holiday cookie and craft and then visit a real reindeer! Finally, a ride on the Candy Cane Express will add the finishing touches to a unique and educational holiday
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Thread: Who Is Your Favorite Character?
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After that the list gets a bit crowded. Manwe is suitably kingly, but he'd be lost without Vardas wisdom. Ulmo, well, he should be higher given my love of Gondolin (Osse is a punk!) Mandos is imposing, and has Feanor et al. living with him. Yavanna gave us the Two Trees, and you gotta like Tulkas as the only Vala who can kick Morgoths --- one on one.
Olorin (of course) and Melian; pretty much anyone from Doriath, really, which brings us to....
Beren (but not in LT; making him a Noldor took all the fun out of it for me,) Luthien, Huan, Mablung, Huan (hitting all around him; I also like Carcharoth,) Beleg, and, of course, Thingol himself. I run hot and cold on Turin (see handle) but I definitely like Tuor better. Hurin Thalion and Huor ('natch, though I'm still a little upset at Hurin because I (in case you missed it the first time) love Gondolin.)
And I LIKE Feanor (a lot) and probably wouldn't if he lacked the tragic flaws. Still like Maedhros, too, but I can't stand Curufin. Finrod for his loyalty to and sacrifice for Beren, and Fingolfin for what he did to Morgoth. Finarfin because there's no blonde Noldor without him, and I'm really partial to blondes (like Galadriel, whom I still think was miscast in the movie.) I can't really say how I feel about Fingon because my impression of him is sort of "Congratulations, you're High-King of the Noldor. BTW, you're also dead."
Can't like Tuor and Idril without liking Earendel, but he still feels like an afterthought to me; I think I prefer Elwing, but she didn't take on Ancalagon.
From the Trilogy I probably like Aragorn best of all because it seems the Elder Days are echoed most strongly in him and Galadriel. Then probably Sam, who saves the day not once, but twice. Faramir and Eowyn give him competition though (there's that blonde thing again.) I'm still a bit upset that there was this speculative/tentative beginning of things between Aragorn and Eowyn in the movies that's totally inconsistent with Aragorns character. Recap of the options: destroy the Ring, beat Sauron, take the crown (or winged helm, as the case may be) of Gondor, and wed Arwen, OR perish in the attempt. Either way there's no room for an Eowyn romance, and Aragorn says as much once in the books, seeming to expect the latter. My two cents.
Felagund seems to me to have everything a good person is supposed to have. He's got the valour of Fingolfin's house, the wisdom of Finarfin's house, and some kindness of his own heart. He really knows things. He actually thinks of the world, the fates and the more deeper stuff. I think he ponders more about the more important aspects of spirit than any other. He doesn't just think about fighting and ridding the earth of Melko, but beyond. His debate with Andreth was very interesting too.
I like Galadriel too, I guess. She was really my first favourite, before I read the Sil or knew anything of Finrod. But then after that she seemed to me to be a bit too proud and stubborn for my liking, although I still like her. She became wise in the end, after all. And I hope she got a happy reunion with her brother...
I also like Turin. He gets a lot of tragedy points from me. But his tale is really just too dark. It makes me feel sort of uncomfortable. But then he was really just Fate's plaything, and Melkor's victim. The slaying of Beleg really gave me the creeps. I reread it four times before I could believe it was really what had happened. I really liked Beleg too. He is sort of like Finrod...
Gimli is my favorite dwarf, while the cousins Tuor and Turin, and Beren are tied for Men.
But I think that my all-time favorite is the one-and-only, Tom Bombadil.
if the Sil. ever gets made into a movie,
I plan on being the person to make that happen, as well as several other movies. However, the Sil could not be made into just one movie, it would have to be like a series of movies. Like one would be the tale of Beren and Luthien, another, the story of Turin. It would be an imposing undertaking, almost like making a whole movie solely out of a history book. There's four thousand years of recorded history, plus an unknown period of time before the measure of Time began. You'd have to come up with quite a bit of dialogue, as well as a way to cramn about a hundred years into four or five hours without boring people.
And... Frodo
And Pippin and Merry
And Faramir.
he arrives precisely when he means to
everyone loves Gandalf, they love his words, who wouldnt???
So tell me: how do the Scandinavians pronounce 'Kraken'? (I saw PotC: Dead Man's Chest this afternoon.
The bit about the Kraken is in the new PotC 2 movie, the two comic relief pirate characters are having an argument over the pronunciation of the word and one of them asked the other how Scandinavians pronounce the word: is it kray-ken or crack-ken? Its like how to say tomato: is it toe-may-toe or toe-maw-toe?
Legolas: surfs everywere, great with bow.
Maeglin:Badass evilness (COOL!) ,and a dab hand at welding.
They're both so cool, I can't decide.
Can I have some help.
P.S no opinions from fangirls, as may not help (All fangirls must DIE!)
P.S no opinions from fangirls, as may not help (All fangirls must DIE!)
Haha, look who's talking...
They're both so cool, I can't decide.
Can I have some help.
Grondy says stay away from men and boys like 'Maeglin: Badass evilness'. They'll only break your heart; they are pure disaster. The girl thinks she can change his ways, but she seldom can and it always ends in tears. Here endeth the lesson.
Among the children of Illuvatar,Eowyn is my favourite.She has everything in her...beauty,chivalry and grace...it takes a lot of guts for a woman to ride for war.
...it takes a lot of guts for a woman to ride for war.
It takes alot of guts for anyone to ride to war. Not so difficult to push a button from miles away when you outnumber the enemy considerably anyway...you know..progress. No offense to anyone currently serving in the military, though. You're the one risking your life, not me, and I admit that my opinion of courage would probably change considerably if our positions were switched.
I've said this before and I maintain it. My favorite character might be Boromir. I really believe that he meant well and just didn't understand what he was doing. After all, being more or less royalty, he was brought up to believe that he was solely responsible for the security of so many people. He therefore, probably, believed that power was invested in him for the purpose of the protection of others. When power was denied to him, he felt useless and wronged. After all he did use his power to defend Merry and Pippin despite the cost to himself. He rode to Rivendell alone just to see if there was a chance that he could save his people. Had he just wanted glory, he could have stayed in Gondor and died admirably in front of hundreds or thousands of adoring subjects. Instead, he died underneath the shadow of his forefathers' legacy (Look whose "epic" now!) within site of home. Of course, many people make this point. I just like pointing out that he was more complex than the arrogant brute that he is usually made out to be. I have similar opinions regarding Sir Gawain, although I have not studied the Arthurian legends deeply. T.H. White The Once and Future King Have you read it? Good! Now read it again!
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i just like how they are portrade ( i cant spell :p )
tall, blonde, slender-thin features. plus i like the craftmanship on their blades and bows, entwining leaves, overlapping roots and vines. :p
Oh, that sounds more like Dwarves rather than the Elvesees.
plus i like the craftmanship on their blades and bows, entwining leaves, overlapping roots and vines.
I guess you haven't seen the craftsmanship of dwarves then? Our weapons and armour are made with fairer designs than any elf weapon can bear. And hath thou not seen the cities of the dwarves? There can be no fairer dwelling than them! Oh sweet khazad Dum...
My favourites characters are Legolas and Gimli because I like how these traces were enemies but they are best of friends!! Legolas because he is just amazing how he can run across thick snow with hardley leaving a print and because his eyesight is brilliant he could probualy spot a man from 12 legues away!!
I really enjoyed reading the Lord of the Rings!
But again I must point to Eowyn, because her life was filled with such pain and emptiness and hopelessness as one by one people died and left her bereft, nearly dead inside.
The coming of Aragorn, in my opinion awakened something deep inside her and she quite naturally fell in love with him, or perhaps the fantasy of life with him-all the magic and making herself alongside him renown by mighty deads.
The added grief of knowing that he loved another would have perhaps just killed the heart of a lesser woman. Her beloved brother had been banned by the creepy Wormtongue supposedly on behalf of her dear but quite useless and demented uncle(for the time being)
I love that she had the once in a lifetime opportunity not only to face an enemy, but THE ENEMY and take the Witch King down. How glorious to have that hunger to do something really fabulous for her people come true and in the b argain meet and then love in a real deeep way Farmair whom I deeply respect. She was in some respects so ordinary, aside from her beauty, living a life of quiet despair like millions of others. I just loved her dignity and her courage and her sweetness.
Of course I like and admire the nine, they all have a special place in my heart.
The Nazgûl? Why, that was unexpected.
Of course I like and admire the nine, they all have a special place in my heart.
that's the Fellowship...
my other one is Gandulf because he is the oldest and the wises.
I'm going to read The Lord of the Rings again now! I never met a character called Gandulf!
My all time favourite character is Aragorn!
I never met a character called Gandulf!
Gandulf was the seventh son of the seventh son of Poppa Smurf, but he still wasn't much of a wizard. Would you want everything you touched to turn into a foamy resemblance of its former self? After he accidentally turned their toadstool house to foam and it blew away in during a high windstorm, his parents fitted him with a pair of white gloves and things turned a little more normal for him.
Then in 1969, Gandulf was hired by Parker Brothers in their Sporting Goods Division, where he worked in the production department. That portion of the company is now part of Hasbro due to a series of mergers and acquisitions. Gandulf has had a direct hand in the manufacture of all their creations that have "NERF" as part of their name. NERF, which rhymes with Smurf, stands for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
And if you don't believe my little factoid, so much the better.
But of course, Smurfs aren't the creation of Tolkien and thus Gandulf can't be my favorite character. I lean more towards Tom Bombadil.
and dark and long her tresses lay,
beneath her silver girdle seat
and down unto her silver feet."
- who could resist falling in love with this introduction.
Melian was indeed special.Her entry into the plot was original.It was she who began the inter-racial union "trend".Her unconditional love,though not presented in elaborate sub-plots like her daughter Luthien's,touched many hearts.I truly admire the ability to care and love with level-headedness and this maia was at the top of my list.Melian definitely stands out for all the right reasons!
See I have always liked bad guys, and Lurtz (Ugluk) is an awesome fighter, so he would probably be my favorite character. For the good guys I would have to say It is either Gimli or Eomer.
I just had this feeling the first time that I heard the name of Prince Imrahil the fair I loved him, Don't quite know why but I wish he would have been a fleshed out character in one of the films
There is a small section about Imrahil's bloodline in Unfinished Tales...
There used to be a small Elvish port near Dol Amroth. It was here that Nimrodel was headed when she became separated from Prince Amroth. With her was a companion, an elf-maiden called Mithrellas. When they became lost in the forest Imrazor the Numenorian found and harboured Mithrellas, eventually marrying her. Their children were Galador, who became the first Lord of Dol Amroth, and his sister Gilmith. Imrahil was the 22nd Lord of Dol Amroth, and as a descendant of Galador also carried this Elven blood (albeit much diluted). Mithrellas was a Silvan Elf, rather than a Noldor or Sindar, but this blood was said to have ever made the Lords of Dol Amroth noble and fair in face and mind.
I think this matter is to be seen as a legend within a legend, or as Tolkien put it in 1972, concerning the princely house of Dol Amroth: 'this line had a special Elvish strain, according to its own legends' Legolas appears to believe the legend just by looking at Imrahil, so if you take it as true you would at least be in good company.
In a text written before The Return of the King was published, Mithrellas was said to be one of the companions of Nimrodel who fled Lorien in the year 1980 of the Third Age. She was ultimately harboured by Imrazor the Numenorean, who took her to wife.
Granted, it is hard to see how Legolas could be wrong, and the author does provide a somewhat detailed tradition in posthumously published papers, but I note that the tradition itself includes the detail that after this Elf maiden had born children 'she slipped away by night and he saw her no more'
So I think Tolkien plays with the legendary status of this tale: on the one hand it might be thought that it was well known that Imrazôr had taken a 'fairy wife', however it might also be wondered why she appears to have fled so early -- thus her time was limited here, at least; in other words, perhaps this very action led some to wonder about, believe, or even start the tale that this woman had been one of the immortal folk?
Anyway, the founding of Dol Amroth is another matter: according to an author's note to Cirion and Eorl (Unfinished Tales) the founding of Dol Amroth may go well back before Galador (son of Mithrellas according to the legend), with the name 'Dol Amroth' being applied much later. This is a late note, but if I read the description correctly, in a very late note (December 1972 or later) Tolkien again refers to Nimrodel in any case, with:
'The legend of the prince's line was that one of the earliest fathers had wedded an Elf-maiden: in some versions it was indeed (evidently improbably) said to have been Nimrodel herself. In other tales, and more probably, it was one of Nimrodel's companions who was lost in the upper mountain glens.'
Which again, considering 'one of the earliest fathers' here, seems to imply that the line started nearer the drowning of Amroth instead of much earlier. With respect to these accounts Christopher Tolkien notes:
'... the two statements can only be reconciled on the supposition that the line of the Princes, and indeed the place of their dwelling, went back more than two thousand years before Galador's day, and that Galador was called the first Lord of Dol Amroth because it was not until his time (after the drowning of Amroth in the year 1981) that Dol Amroth was so named.'
Skipping over the further difficulty of an Adrahil mentioned here, Christopher Tolkien also notes that while his explanations to reconcile the seemingly variant accounts are not impossible, they seem less likely than there being two distinct and independent traditions of the origins of the Lords of Dol Amroth.


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Yet, size and placement of those devices connotes a personal experience. Say what we want, such devices by design are almost a Berlin Wall around the individual.
The old photographs on the wall stood there like a communion of saints. One by one, each harkened me to remember: "Preserve the Tradition of music. If we don't preserve the Tradition of music, then it too will die and remain as only an image of it's true self."
As audiophiles and even more so as human beings, I think that we strive for an authentic experience of music. That authentic experience can only be discovered through an authentic Tradition of music. The church historian Jarolav Pelikan put it best when he wrote, "Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."
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August Illuminator – Resources for New Program Staff & Residency Applicants
August 8, 2017
This issue of The Match Illuminator features resources for new program directors and coordinators. Also highlighted are resources for residency applicants and a reminder for fellowship program directors to check the eligibility of applicants before offering interviews.
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A Newport Beach man was arrested after Newport Beach police and the Huntington Beach police helicopter searched the Back Bay for a burglary suspect.
Thomas Jeffrey Bird, 41, was arrested on suspicion of residential burglary in the 1700 block of Galaxy Drive on Monday, Newport police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe said.
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Truth be told, With The Lightnings — David Drake's first entry in the Leary-Mundy space opera series — is available for free. But it's still a fun series, not least because Drake has no intention of producing a happy-shiny spacefaring culture that has learned to get beyond those things that divide us and all the other anodyne proclamations. Nope! Leary and Mundy work for a star nation that can be rather obnoxious at times, amazingly culturally chauvinistic, and often cheerfully indifferent to corruption and the two don't try to do anything about that. And why should they care about the way this might come across to their distant ancestors (i.e., us)? We're practically barbarians ourselves! I don't know if I'd want to read nothing else besides this series, but it usually serves as a decent bracer.
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Winter Break and Lice
Schools see increase in lice after children come back from winter break. Family and friends get together and have lots of sleepovers during this time. Please make sure you are educating your children on prevention of lice. See some of the tips below.
Avoid Head-To-Head Contact
Advise your child to avoid head-to-head contact when playing with others, whether at school, on a playground, or during sports activities. Head lice can't fly, hop or jump; they spread from one child to another through direct contact.
Don't Share What's On Your Hair
Ask your child not to share combs, brushes, hats, scarves, bandanas, hair bands, ribbons, barrettes, towels - basically anything that is worn or used on the head. Keep your child's hair in a ponytail, braid or bun when possible.
Bring Your Own Pillow and Blanket to Sleepovers
Bring your own pillow and blanket to sleepovers and then wash your child's clothes, pillow case and blanket it hot water when they return home. If possible, comb your child's hair with a metal lice comb when they return home. Households that have elementary aged children (or younger) should have a metal lice comb in their home that they use weekly to prevent lice.
If your child or something in your household has lice, make sure they are getting treated as soon as possible. Notify friends and family members who were with your child or household member so they can check their children as well.
If your child should get lice during break, please make sure they are treated prior to coming back to school in January. A notification to your child's school nurse is also needed so we can follow-up with lice re-checks.
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It's the 50th anniversary of the Beatles seminal gig at the fabled Starr Club in Hamburg, which was the seminal point during a two-year run Germany's second-largest city that transformed them from a bunch of lads from England into superstars. Looking for traces of their Hamburg legacy, I found a few addresses with links to the boys. Mostly, though, I found sun-faded dildos.
The Star Club is most closely associated with the Beatles in Hamburg but it's long gone. There's only this sad plaque [above] on the shabby apartment complex that replaced the 2000-seat venue after it burnt down in 1987. However the Beatles didn't play the Star until it opened on 13 April 1962 by which time they were well on their way to fame and fortune. Their Hamburg gigs began in August 1960, when John, Paul and George plus bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best arrived from England in a busted up old van and began their transformation into sensations.
The first gigs were in the small Indra Club, which actually survives and once again has live music some nights. They were paid next-to-nothing and played at least four sets a day for what must have seemed eight days a week. Their quarters were an unheated room at a nearby movie theatre (now an apartment house) where they were awakened each day by the sounds of budget-matinee-attending housewives pissing in the adjoining toilets.
In October 1960, the Indra was closed due to noise complaints (I lived in Germany, Germans hate noise.) The boys moved just up the block to the Kaiserkeller, a basement venue of a larger theatre. This place also survives, although in much-altered form.
As you wander about the Grosse Freiheit, the short and straight road that was the center of the Beatles time in Hamburg, you realize just how small their world was: their venues and scuzzy rooms were all within a few hundred meters of each other. Their favourite cafe and bar durimg their few off-hours, the barely changed Gretel & Alfons, was almost next to the Star Club.
In late October 1960, the Beatles broke with their promoter at the Kaiserkeller and went for slightly more money and marginally better living quarters at the Top Ten Club just around the corner. Things quickly fell apart as the old promoter reported George Harrison to immigration authorities (he was 17) and McCartney and Best retaliated by setting fire to a condom in their old daggy living quarters. This added "attempted arson" to their legal woes and the boys went back to Liverpool. The Top 10 Club building survives but has had many incarnations over the years, most recently a now-closed gay disco.
Unlike the early 1960s, the infamous Reeperbahn, the main drag of Hamburg's renowned St Pauli district, is no longer an edgy strip of cutting edge clubs and bars. Today neon-bedecked strip joints and live sex clubs are as common as bars with shot specials aimed at tourists and weekend warriors from nearby farm towns. Even the goods in the plethora of sex shops look deflated. You won't find the Beatles of today playing anywhere here. On weekends, prostitutes with so much makeup that they look like grotesquely animated blow-up dolls prowl the streets, chatting with the mobs of cops.
Where the Grosse Freiheit meets the Reeperbahn, the city has created "Beatlesplatz," a desolate open-space with the outlines of the Beatles formed from stainless steel. You can decide if the drummer is Best or Ringo Starr (who had replaced Best for a Starr Club appearance in November 1962). By 1963, the Beatles were gone from Hamburg. John Lennon later said: "I might have been born in Liverpool – but I grew up in Hamburg."


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Meyer 30th
Scott and Wendy Meyer of 894 Dodsworth Road, Franklin, will observe their 30th wedding anniversary Tuesday.
Scott Meyer and Wendy Wallbaum were married Nov. 29, 1986, at Durbin Methodist Church near Franklin by Rev. Dave Venter.
They are the parents of two daughters, Danielle Rister and Chelsea Beard, both of New Berlin. They have four grandchildren and one on the way.
Mr. Meyer is employed by Beard Implement Co. in Prentice. Mrs. Meyer is employed at Community State Bank in Franklin.


text: So here many seniors have section 8 housing which pays the landlord a set amount for rent if they will accept it. So I have 2 friends (one with lots of $) and one with none that live in the same nice 2 bedroom apartment complex for seniors. The one with no $ pays 30% of her income. The building has a community room and a card room. The tenants organize all their fun activities themselves and their is always something to do. Some can't afford cars but the people that have them often take the ones that don't when they go on errands. Talk about busy-my 2 friends have a huge friend network and are busy all the time. No more rules then having to live in a regular apartment.


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EuroPerio9 Deadline Day nears – abstract submissions and applications for EFP Research Prize and Perio Talks must be in by November 28
Tuesday, November 28 is a key date in the EuroPerio9 calendar as it is the deadline for receiving applications related to three different parts of the congress programme.
Filippo Graziani gives keynote presentation at St Petersburg conference
A multidisciplinary dental meeting recently took place in St Petersburg (Russia), which included a strong level of participation from the EFP-affiliated Russian Society of Periodontology.
Oral Health and Pregnancy moves to next stage as EFP provides materials to national perio societies
The Oral Health and Pregnancy project, launched by the EFP in partnership with Oral-B in September, is moving to its second stage.
Czech perio days explores failures in periodontology, compromised teeth and implants, and other key topics
The Czech Society of Periodontology recently staged a two-day meeting that explored key topics in periodontal clinical practice.
Latest issue of JCP Digest focuses on generalised aggressive periodontitis
Generalised aggressive periodontitis (GAgP) is characterised by rapid attachment loss and bone resorption in the inter-proximal areas of more than three permanent teeth, other than first molars and incisors.
University of Turin joins EFP's accredited postgraduate programme
The University of Turin has become the latest university to offer an EFP-accredited postgraduate programme in periodontology.
Key date: November 28, deadline for EuroPerio9 abstract submissions
The deadline for submissions of abstracts for consideration for next year's EuroPerio9 congress is fast approaching.


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Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Delicious quinoa salad with feta cheese and pomegranate
When you try to eat healthily there are some ingredients that appear everywhere. Sweet potatoes are a good alternative to regular potatoes and kale is the be all and end all. But if you're not used to cooking with them, sometimes it can be tricky to incorporate them into your diet.
Quinoa is one of those. It is well known for its nutritional goodness, packed full of aminoacids, and a great source of protein. Although low GI diets seem a thing of the past, quinoa is in fact low in GI, which means that it takes your body longer to digest it and it releases energy more slowly, leaving you full for longer.
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Sunday, 8 February 2015
DIY chicken art for hen weekend
My friend Daisy is getting married in a couple of months, and this weekend we celebrated her hen weekend in Bath. Ruth and Anna, the two bridesmaids, did a truly amazing job organising a weekend for all of us to meet and get to know each other better and give Daisy a weekend to remember.
This little art project was part of it. We were asked to create a picture of a chicken (one of Daisy's favourite animals) and write a message for her on the back. We could choose anything we liked, from photography, collage, a drawing...
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Sunday, 1 February 2015
January favourites
January is the month of the year when most of us try to be our best selves - go to the gym, start running, meditate, drink 2 litres of water, eat more greens, and quite often stick to our skincare routine. It is a fresh start, a clean slate.
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GHSA releases roadway drug use report
Posted October 14, 2015
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility recently released a report on drugged driving that includes recommendations on dealing with the issue.
According to the GHSA, recent national data shows that 40 percent of fatally – injured drivers tested positive for drugs, which is close to the percentage of those that tested positive for alcohol. Also, a recent roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that 22 percent of drivers tested positive for a drug or a medication.
The report provides suggestions to states to combat drugged driving, including:
- Assessment of data to understand the current situation
- Reviewing and updating drugged driving laws
- Training and educating law enforcement and justice officials
- Testing all fatally-injured drivers for drugs
- Providing drug screening and assessment to offenders and referring them to treatment if necessary
- Tracking alcohol and drug – impaired driver crash data separately
The report also highlights an Ohio pilot program, "Drugged Driving=Done Driving," which provides education to younger drivers about the hazards of driving while under the influence.
Additionally, the report suggests actions at the federal level, including:
- A national drugged driving education program
- Standardized roadside testing policies and devices
- Data collection guidelines, and
- Continued research on the effects of drugged driving laws and policies
Click here to view the entire report.
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bossylittledogs.com is going away. The blog itself isn't going away. I've just decided to stop paying for hosting on a third party site, because I've never been able to overcome my squeamishness about letting Google pick my ads: talk about being a grandma, the sidebar ads are for incontinence products and phones for old people...talk politics and sketchy ads for mock polls like "Do you support Trump"", etc. So, if you have bossylittledogs.com bookmarked, please change your link to yorkiedog.blogspot.com, the original address. Right now that address is redirected to the domain so you'll get there either way, but yeah, I can't justify paying for hosting when I'm not making a dime off this sad little neglected blog. Not to mention that my water bill just doubled (a court challenge is imminent on that bullshit) and my condo dues are about to increase again, and yet, I still make no more money. Oh, and I tried to switch auto insurance carriers. I've been with the cute gecko for years, and lately my premiums have gone up with every renewal, though I have a spotless driving record and drive a common as dirt used vehicle. I found an alternative that would lower my annual premium by $600 with better coverage and tried to make that happen, but they're not writing policies here now, because my county is still under a flood alert. Nothing is flooded. I don't live on the river, or a lake. But the flood alert is still in place for the entire county because water levels on lakes and streams are still higher than normal, and that means insurance companies aren't writing policies here. So I had to take money out of my ever-dwindling emergency fund to pay the gecko. I'll switch when the flood warning is dropped and other carriers will write in my county again, and get a refund, but still, that was a startling amount of money out of pocket. My cost of living goes ever higher, while my income remains the same. So yeah, the vanity plate equivalent domain name will no longer be hosted.
But boy howdy, yesterday was a GOOD DAY in Resistance World, and a model for how we fix this shit. And the answer isn't "Sit down with a Trump Voter and Try to Understand His/Her Angst, because we need to bring them into the light." NOPE. Fuck that. If they now regret their vote, let them quietly take stock of their lives and vow to do better, and leave them alone with their shame. If they still support him, fuck them, they are hopeless. They're just shitty people mired in their own toxic stew of Fox News fueled racism and resentment, but that's fine. Let 'em rot in it. They are the 33-36% that we just have to accept as baggage. They just don't understand how this country works.
We need to focus on the people who didn't vote last year, and make sure they do. A whole lot of eligible voters sat it out last year, and that's why we are where we are. Yes, of course Russia had a huge thumb on the scale for Trump, but last night was the model for going forward, and it's turnout, turnout, turnout. Russian bots are still active on Facebook and Twitter. Fake ads and dark money still flowed on the GOP side. But people got out and knocked on doors, made calls, made connections, drove people who didn't have rides to the polls if they needed a lift. And the GOP got their asses kicked up and down the ticket, all over the country. Never mind the awesome wins in VA and NJ, freakin' Helena, Montana elected a Liberian refugee as mayor. And many state houses got way more colorful and female, and that's the blueprint for how we fix this mess.
Focus on turnout, focus on issues that matter, like jobs and health care, and 2018 can be a rout like last night. But it's going to require a huge freaking turnout, because gerrymandering and voter suppression aren't going to get fixed in our current almost cartoonishly corrupt, GOP-controlled Congress. And I am committing today to pick a campaign to volunteer for - I have an embarrassment of riches, with a senator and a representative I'd like to see go back to DC, and an underdog candidate for FL governor that seems like he could shake things up, and knows Tallahassee.
Be patient with us, world. We had a really unfortunate, embarrassing accident in our government, but last night was proof that we are committed to cleaning this shit up and taking out the trash. This has been an absolutely awful year, but last night was an incredibly positive first step forward.
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
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Amen, Sister! And I follow you from the Rav feed, so I'm assuming that will still work? I'm sorry about all the money out the door. Same here.
- T.T.J. said...
Yes we did elect a Liberian refugee - one I'm still amazed at how few people voted in Helena and two I can't get over those same non-voters complaining about the ethnicity of the new mayor! But Helena is just the tiny tip of the iceberg with regard to voting!
I feel your pain. I'm trying to find a new job and am probably facing a 33% cut in pay at least. I need a new job, but that percentage is killing me.
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MISHAWAKA -- Mishawaka officers Thomas Roberts and Bryan Verkler were killed in the line of duty nearly nine years ago, but their memory remains through their charity to benefit children.
The seventh annual Tom and Bryan Ride, a 70-mile motorcycle trip, will take place Sunday to benefit the Tom and Bryan Foundation, a nonprofit for children's charities in the area.
"We don't do this to remind everyone of their death," said Mishawaka police Sgt. Russ Haimbaugh, one of the event's organizers. "We do this to remind them there are good people out there that do good things for the community. It reminds us of the good things these guys did for the community."
Cpl. Roberts and Patrolman Verkler were responding to a call on Dec. 13, 2003, when they were fatally wounded by a gunman who later turned the weapon on himself.


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Nov 30, 2009 06:57 PM|Beth Castillo|LINK
I tried to install SQL Server 2008 Express using the Web Platform Installation. After downloading SQL in hung for a few minutes and then said it failed to install
The 'Get Help' link sent me to this forum. The first 'View log here' link displayed the following:
Overall summary:
Final result: SQL Server installation failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server, and then rerun SQL Server Setup.
Exit code (Decimal): -2067922940
Exit facility code: 1214
Exit error code: 4
Exit message: The performance counter registry hive is corrupted. To continue, you must repair the performance counter registry hive. For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956.
Start time: 2009-11-30 16:36:34
End time: 2009-11-30 16:36:50
Requested action: Install
Machine Properties:
Machine name: BETH-PC
Machine processor count: 2
OS version: Windows Vista
OS service pack: Service Pack 1
OS region: United States
OS language: English (United States)
OS architecture: x86
Process architecture: 32 Bit
OS clustered: No
Product features discovered:
Product Instance Instance ID Feature Language Edition Version Clustered
Package properties:
Description: SQL Server Database Services 2008
SQLProductFamilyCode: {628F8F38-600E-493D-9946-F4178F20A8A9}
ProductName: SQL2008
Type: RTM
Version: 10
Installation location: c:\dfc28dc17871a9cedb11c0cd11b3a9ba\x86\setup\
Installation edition: EXPRESS
Slipstream: True
SP Level 1
User Input Settings:
ACTION: Install
ADDCURRENTUSERASSQLADMIN: True
AGTSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
AGTSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Manual
ASBACKUPDIR: Backup
ASCOLLATION: Latin1_General_CI_AS
ASCONFIGDIR: Config
ASDATADIR: Data
ASDOMAINGROUP: <empty>
ASLOGDIR: Log
ASSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
ASSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
ASSYSADMINACCOUNTS: <empty>
ASTEMPDIR: Temp
BROWSERSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Disabled
ENABLERANU: True
ERRORREPORTING: False
FILESTREAMSHARENAME: <empty>
FTSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
HELP: False
INDICATEPROGRESS: False
INSTALLSHAREDDIR: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\
INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\
INSTALLSQLDATADIR: <empty>
INSTANCEDIR: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\
ISSVCACCOUNT: NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService
ISSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
PCUSOURCE: c:\dfc28dc17871a9cedb11c0cd11b3a9ba\PCUSOURCE
QUIET: True
QUIETSIMPLE: False
RSINSTALLMODE: FilesOnlyMode
RSSVCACCOUNT: <empty>
RSSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
SQLBACKUPDIR: <empty>
SQLCOLLATION: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
SQLSVCACCOUNT: NT AUTHORITY\Network Service
SQLSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Automatic
SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS: <empty>
SQLTEMPDBDIR: <empty>
SQLTEMPDBLOGDIR: <empty>
SQLUSERDBDIR: <empty>
SQLUSERDBLOGDIR: <empty>
SQMREPORTING: False
X86: False
Configuration file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20091130_163559\ConfigurationFile.ini
Detailed results:
Feature: Database Engine Services
Status: Failed: see logs for details
MSI status: Passed
Configuration status: Passed
Feature: SQL Server Replication
Status: Failed: see logs for details
MSI status: Passed
Configuration status: Passed
Rules with failures:
Global rules:
Scenario specific rules:
Rules report file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20091130_163559\SystemConfigurationCheck_Report.htm
Exception summary:
The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
Inner exceptions are being indented
Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RulesEngineRuleFailureException
The performance counter registry hive is corrupted. To continue, you must repair the performance counter registry hive. For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956.
DisableWatson = true
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.RulesEngineExtension.RunRulesAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.Action.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.InvokeAction(WorkflowObject metabase, TextWriter statusStream)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.PendingActions.InvokeActions(WorkflowObject metaDb, TextWriter loggingStream)
The second 'View log here' link displayed this:
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Loading product xml from 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158722'
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Product manager downloading: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158722
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Remote file has not changed, using local cached file:C:\Users\Beth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\112853652.xml.temp
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Loading product xml from 'https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebApplicationList.xml'
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Product manager downloading: https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebApplicationList.xml
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Remote file has not changed, using local cached file:C:\Users\Beth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\-1221301405.xml.temp
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Filtering by majorOS: 6, minorOS: 0, majorSP: 1, minorSP: 0, productType: 1, architecture: x86
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Filtering by majorOS: 6, minorOS: 0, majorSP: 1, minorSP: 0, productType: 1, architecture: x86
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Adding product SQL Server Express 2008 with Service Pack 1 (SQLExpress) to cart
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Product 'SQLExpress' was already in cart.
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Configuring SQL
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Using SQL mixed mode authentication
DownloadManager Information: 0 : No MySQL to configure
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Setting current install to 1
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Starting install sequence
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Using cached file at C:\Users\Beth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers\SQLExpress\ADF5AEBD8EB56A136D310360D59DB8E21802CFF8\SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe instead of downloading from http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/5/8E53FAA8-1129-4621-903F-3F8DB6D066AC/SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Starting EXE install for product 'SQL Server Express 2008 with Service Pack 1'. Commandline is: 'C:\Users\Beth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers\SQLExpress\ADF5AEBD8EB56A136D310360D59DB8E21802CFF8\SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe /q /ACTION=Install /SkipRules=RebootRequiredCheck /FEATURES=SQL /INSTANCENAME=SQLEXPRESS /SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\Network Service" /SQLSVCStartupType=Automatic /AddCurrentUserAsSqlAdmin /ENABLERANU=1 /hideconsole /SECURITYMODE=SQL /SAPWD="sa"'
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Waiting for process: 4392 - C:\Users\Beth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers\SQLExpress\ADF5AEBD8EB56A136D310360D59DB8E21802CFF8\SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Install exit code for product 'SQL Server Express 2008 with Service Pack 1' is -2067922940
DownloadManager Error: 0 : Install return code for product 'SQL Server Express 2008 with Service Pack 1' is Failure
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Product SQL Server Express 2008 with Service Pack 1 done install completed
DownloadManager Information: 0 : Increasing current install to 2
When I went to the site "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956" that was suggested in the first log it said "This article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you." I'm not to keen on messing with my registry.
One thing I tried was to do a system restore, but the the restore point doesn't go back far enough and the performance counter registry hive appears to still be corrupted. Is there anything else I can try short of reinstalling Vista?
Dec 01, 2009 10:09 AM|richma|LINK
You can try the following on Vista .This will rebuild the counters.
1.Click Start, expand All Programs, and expand Accessories.
2.Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
3.At the command prompt, type lodctr /r, and then press ENTER.
Reference : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc774958.aspx
If still failing you can check the event viewer and see if there are specific counters failing.
Dec 07, 2009 10:17 AM|Beth Castillo|LINK
This worked. Thank-you
Aug 02, 2011 07:41 AM|mkjenna|LINK
I'm getting the same error as the original poster, but running the lodctr /r command does not fix it for me. I'm running a localized norwegian version of windows 7, could that be the cause?
What the lodctr does is rebuild the hive from a previous restore point if my understanding of it is correct, but this is a vanilla OS install and basicly the first thing I did was trying to get SQL up and running.
Any tips would be greatly apreciated :-)
Aug 02, 2011 09:11 AM|HCamper|LINK
Note: This is old post.
Did you install SQL Server using the Web Platform Tool ?
You might try
method for Vista Windows 7.
To resolve the problems it might be better to create a new thread
with information for Windows Edition and type amd X64 intel X86
along with more details for SQL version Edition Server or Express X86 X64, Advanced, With Tools.
You might check the SQL Server Forums Setup http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlsetupandupgrade/threads
for suggestions.
Aug 02, 2011 09:58 AM|richma|LINK
See the following post
There is a section here on this error and this happening under different localized versions of Windows. What I dont know is this code to use for norwegian , but process monitor may show you that information during the troubleshooting.
Aug 04, 2011 09:15 AM|mkjenna|LINK
Aug 04, 2011 09:17 AM|mkjenna|LINK
Aug 04, 2011 10:02 AM|richma|LINK
Thanks for the update and glad it helped. I added your country code to the blog
Jun 07, 2012 05:46 PM|LalitMeesala|LINK
This Worked for me... Thanks!
Jun 17, 2013 03:23 AM|suflingreeen|LINK
If registry hive is corrupted then it becomes difficult to install SQL Server 2008. This needs to repair as soon as possible. Windows sometimes displayed and error and stop working with Windos application. This situation of Windows generally appears due
to corrupt Windows files or registry. Such problem also comes with you when you are installing SQL server 2008. To repair these error Use Windows repair tool. This will solve your problem and starts is fe seconds.
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Jul 28, 2015 12:18 PM|dsebastiao|LINK
Funciona perfectamente.