The ABC Doll Club is a doll collecting club based in Australia. The club generally focuses on Barbie dolls and other 1/6 scale fashion dolls. The intention of the club is to share doll collecting news and resources, as well as liaise with doll manufacturers and sellers to provide a fair and informative relationship with the doll collecting community.
History
The Club has been around for close to two decades. It originated from a small group of collectors in Melbourne and has grown to include members nationwide and a few internationally.
Naming Controversy
The club recently changed its full name from Australian Barbie Club to the ABC Doll Club to keep in line with Mattel's regulations regarding its trademarks. However, while operating under the former name, the club had always respected Mattel's ownership of the term "Barbie" and officially referred to itself as "ABC". The new name now reads as the abc of doll collecting, although its goals and intentions remain the same.
Club Structure and Membership
The club is headed by a group of office bearers who have varying roles in contributing to the running of the club. Paying members receive a regular newsletter as well as discounts from corporate member stores and the opportunity to meet up with other members, including invites to conventions. Members are generally adult collectors above the age of 14 and are accepted from all around the world.
Office Bearers' Roles
President
The President's many roles include liaising with the company Mattel and to oversee the running of club activities.
Secretary
The Secretary processes the membership applications & enquiries and replies to club correspondence.
Treasurer
The Treasurer manages all financial affairs for the club.
Editor
The Editor compiles the bi-monthly newsletter.
Archivist
The Archivist keeps a copy of all newsletters for record keeping and to distribute to members wishing for a back copy.
Webmaster
The Webmaster manages the club website.
State/Regional Coordinators
The State/Regional Coordinators organise get-togethers in their region. Currently there are events planned within the following States and Territories - ACT, NSW, SA, Victoria and QLD. No events have been organised for the NT, WA or Tasmania at the moment.
Charity Contributions
Recently the club took part in a collaboration of the creation of a OOAK doll for the charity Starlight Foundation.
International Involvement
The club has also taken part in the International Doll Community in various activities. In 2007, a collaboration with the NY OOAK Doll Artists Ninimomo was undertaken to create the Australian themed doll for that year.
Media Appearances
The club has appeared on the ABC program Collectors on the 13th June 2008 and 3rd August 2007.
History
The Club has been around for close to two decades. It originated from a small group of collectors in Melbourne and has grown to include members nationwide and a few internationally.
Naming Controversy
The club recently changed its full name from Australian Barbie Club to the ABC Doll Club to keep in line with Mattel's regulations regarding its trademarks. However, while operating under the former name, the club had always respected Mattel's ownership of the term "Barbie" and officially referred to itself as "ABC". The new name now reads as the abc of doll collecting, although its goals and intentions remain the same.
Club Structure and Membership
The club is headed by a group of office bearers who have varying roles in contributing to the running of the club. Paying members receive a regular newsletter as well as discounts from corporate member stores and the opportunity to meet up with other members, including invites to conventions. Members are generally adult collectors above the age of 14 and are accepted from all around the world.
Office Bearers' Roles
President
The President's many roles include liaising with the company Mattel and to oversee the running of club activities.
Secretary
The Secretary processes the membership applications & enquiries and replies to club correspondence.
Treasurer
The Treasurer manages all financial affairs for the club.
Editor
The Editor compiles the bi-monthly newsletter.
Archivist
The Archivist keeps a copy of all newsletters for record keeping and to distribute to members wishing for a back copy.
Webmaster
The Webmaster manages the club website.
State/Regional Coordinators
The State/Regional Coordinators organise get-togethers in their region. Currently there are events planned within the following States and Territories - ACT, NSW, SA, Victoria and QLD. No events have been organised for the NT, WA or Tasmania at the moment.
Charity Contributions
Recently the club took part in a collaboration of the creation of a OOAK doll for the charity Starlight Foundation.
International Involvement
The club has also taken part in the International Doll Community in various activities. In 2007, a collaboration with the NY OOAK Doll Artists Ninimomo was undertaken to create the Australian themed doll for that year.
Media Appearances
The club has appeared on the ABC program Collectors on the 13th June 2008 and 3rd August 2007.
Lee Davis (born May 18, 1982, in Kent, UK), better known by the pseudonym Dj Tempo, is a English musician and DJ. Dj Tempo describes his own music as Techno, while others may also interpret it as Dance, club, and other electronic music genres. Dj Tempo is managed by Dance Jam Music.
He has become most noteable for his songs "Sweet Dreams" and "Final Countdown", in part owing to their references to Happy Hardcore and Old school styles of music.
Biography
Lee Davis was born on 18 May 1982 in Chatham, Kent, England. He lived with his parents and younger sister near Rochester, Kent, a famous historical town. He started to produce & remix music under the stage name "Dj Tempo" but in 1999 this was interupted after he joined the Army aged 17 in which he served 4 years before being medically discharged, he then left his home town and moved to Swansea in South Wales, where he once again took up music with the computer program Fruity Loops, and released his first album, "The Hits", through his own home page earlier this year. His interest in music became greater as he progressed. After several demo songs spread over the internet, he started to recieve emails from dance clubs that wanted to hire him as a DJ as far afield as Australia. In 2007, he became signed with Dance Jam Music, releasing his first remix online (not through the record label), "Sweet Dreams". Amongst the younger generation, the song became a hit instantly and was the highly requested by many of his fans which he used to talk to via his windows live messenger. After Dj Tempo started advertising online his fan base steadily increased & he began making more popular music and spreading his name further.
Throughout 2007, Dj Tempo was working on his new album, titled The hits". He has so released a many other popular remixes / productions including one originally by Mika.
Tempo is probably most recognisable by his popular catch phrase "Peace Out" always with an added X at the end to express the his love for his fans and supporters as he is quoted for saying "I make my music for the fans not myself without the love and support of the fans there can be no DJ its the fans that make the name"
Discography
:Ass in the air - 2008
:Calming of the heart - 2008
:Take it Easy - 2008
:In your life - 2008
:Supermans Melody - 2007
:Bounce - 2007
:Hit me - 2007
:Ocean of Eternity - 2007
:Sweet Dreams - 2007
:When will you come home - 2007
:Blade Parade - (blade theme remix) - 2007
:Castles in the sky - 2007
:Piece of heaven (Original Tempo mix) - 2007
:Final Countdown - 2006
:Angel - 2006
He has become most noteable for his songs "Sweet Dreams" and "Final Countdown", in part owing to their references to Happy Hardcore and Old school styles of music.
Biography
Lee Davis was born on 18 May 1982 in Chatham, Kent, England. He lived with his parents and younger sister near Rochester, Kent, a famous historical town. He started to produce & remix music under the stage name "Dj Tempo" but in 1999 this was interupted after he joined the Army aged 17 in which he served 4 years before being medically discharged, he then left his home town and moved to Swansea in South Wales, where he once again took up music with the computer program Fruity Loops, and released his first album, "The Hits", through his own home page earlier this year. His interest in music became greater as he progressed. After several demo songs spread over the internet, he started to recieve emails from dance clubs that wanted to hire him as a DJ as far afield as Australia. In 2007, he became signed with Dance Jam Music, releasing his first remix online (not through the record label), "Sweet Dreams". Amongst the younger generation, the song became a hit instantly and was the highly requested by many of his fans which he used to talk to via his windows live messenger. After Dj Tempo started advertising online his fan base steadily increased & he began making more popular music and spreading his name further.
Throughout 2007, Dj Tempo was working on his new album, titled The hits". He has so released a many other popular remixes / productions including one originally by Mika.
Tempo is probably most recognisable by his popular catch phrase "Peace Out" always with an added X at the end to express the his love for his fans and supporters as he is quoted for saying "I make my music for the fans not myself without the love and support of the fans there can be no DJ its the fans that make the name"
Discography
:Ass in the air - 2008
:Calming of the heart - 2008
:Take it Easy - 2008
:In your life - 2008
:Supermans Melody - 2007
:Bounce - 2007
:Hit me - 2007
:Ocean of Eternity - 2007
:Sweet Dreams - 2007
:When will you come home - 2007
:Blade Parade - (blade theme remix) - 2007
:Castles in the sky - 2007
:Piece of heaven (Original Tempo mix) - 2007
:Final Countdown - 2006
:Angel - 2006
Clear Medical Solutions
Clear Medical Solutions is a mid-sized private healthcare industry conglomerate, with divisions that focus on Management, Compliance, Finance, Recruitment, HIM (Medical Records), Consulting and Staffing. The Clear Medical Agency is also a division of Clear Medical Solutions and serves medical professionals such as Nurses, Pharmacists, Doctors, RHIA's, Surgeons, Techs, and many others.
Location:
The company is headquartered in the Milwaukee-Chicago area and primarily serves North America, with limited service to Europe, Dubai, and Australia.
History:
Clear Medical Solutions began in 2006 with the goal of improving a struggling healthcare industry with new ideas and additional support. In 2007 it expanded with the merger of several private consulting practices. In mid 2007, the Clear Medical Agency division was created with a focus on helping healthcare professionals find the type of work that they enjoy, in order to reduce burnout and improve talent liquidity and flexibility. The agency does this through job placement, travel nursing, PRN (Per Diem) assignments, and experience (resume) building.
Company Mission Statement:
Clear Medical Solutions exists to improve patient care worldwide as we provide healthcare leaders, administrators and medical professionals with solutions to problems that hold back their passion and care, thereby helping to improve the lives of people in all places, one facility, one person at a time.
Company Vision Statement:
We believe that healthcare administrators and medical professionals should have the tools, staff, and time to make their corner of the world a better place for patients and employees.
With that vision in mind, Clear Medical Solutions works every day towards becoming the integrated solution for the healthcare industry; caring for patients, professionals and institutions around the globe.
Clear Medical Solutions is a mid-sized private healthcare industry conglomerate, with divisions that focus on Management, Compliance, Finance, Recruitment, HIM (Medical Records), Consulting and Staffing. The Clear Medical Agency is also a division of Clear Medical Solutions and serves medical professionals such as Nurses, Pharmacists, Doctors, RHIA's, Surgeons, Techs, and many others.
Location:
The company is headquartered in the Milwaukee-Chicago area and primarily serves North America, with limited service to Europe, Dubai, and Australia.
History:
Clear Medical Solutions began in 2006 with the goal of improving a struggling healthcare industry with new ideas and additional support. In 2007 it expanded with the merger of several private consulting practices. In mid 2007, the Clear Medical Agency division was created with a focus on helping healthcare professionals find the type of work that they enjoy, in order to reduce burnout and improve talent liquidity and flexibility. The agency does this through job placement, travel nursing, PRN (Per Diem) assignments, and experience (resume) building.
Company Mission Statement:
Clear Medical Solutions exists to improve patient care worldwide as we provide healthcare leaders, administrators and medical professionals with solutions to problems that hold back their passion and care, thereby helping to improve the lives of people in all places, one facility, one person at a time.
Company Vision Statement:
We believe that healthcare administrators and medical professionals should have the tools, staff, and time to make their corner of the world a better place for patients and employees.
With that vision in mind, Clear Medical Solutions works every day towards becoming the integrated solution for the healthcare industry; caring for patients, professionals and institutions around the globe.
Dirk Hooper (born 1969) is an American fetish photographer and fetish artist. He was raised in Moore, Oklahoma, where he resides today. He attended the University of Oklahoma in 1988 for filmmaking and again in 1999 where he pursued a degree in media arts with an emphasis in photography.
During the mid nineties, Dirk had a stint as a comic artist and comic writer on a comic named "Rough Cut" and a pin up comic titled "Bad Girls". He has also done pen and ink illustration work for "The Darkmoor Talisman" and numerous commercial projects. In 1999, Dirk began doing band photography for local musicians, and working on a fine art career with both photography and mixed media artwork. "Toxic Goddess: Volume One", published June 2008, features the photography of Dirk Hooper and Robert Henry with make-up by Jennifer Marks.
Hooper has displayed work in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, and multiple times in the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery and The Electric Chair Gallery. He has had work accepted times in The Dirty Show in Detroit, Michigan. Among other venues, Hooper was the first American artist to exhibit work at Fetish Project in Brussels, Belgium. In 2007, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, based at Indiana University, added two of Hooper's photographs into their permanent collection.
While much of his work comes from his own imagination, he has sought out dominatrix, fetish celebrities and adult entertainers to expand his portfolio. Dirk has built a body of work that focuses on fantasy, science, metaphysics, fashion, sexual fetishism and goth subculture influences. A pseudonymous article in Norman Transcript says that, “Dirk Hooper's gothic photography tells forbidden tales to rival the likes of H. P. Lovecraft and the Marquis de Sade.”
Dirk Hooper is CEO and Chairman of the Board for Sight Key Studios Incorporated, a photography studio and entertainment company that provides content for several websites, including Toxic Goddess and The Beefboy Rants.
Quotes
"There's an aesthetic aspect to my interest in both fetish and Goth culture. It's just fascinating visually and is choked with amateur work. But, besides the rich tableau that those cultures offer, it's also something that I am personally interested in and my work follows my passions."
"As an artist, I think it’s important to ask questions with your work and allow the viewer to come to their own conclusions. I’m not interested in reality at all. I’m creating a moment in fantasy and I want the viewer to wonder what happened right before the image they are looking at and figure out what is going to happen next. If my work is a detour from the mundane, then I’ve done my job."
During the mid nineties, Dirk had a stint as a comic artist and comic writer on a comic named "Rough Cut" and a pin up comic titled "Bad Girls". He has also done pen and ink illustration work for "The Darkmoor Talisman" and numerous commercial projects. In 1999, Dirk began doing band photography for local musicians, and working on a fine art career with both photography and mixed media artwork. "Toxic Goddess: Volume One", published June 2008, features the photography of Dirk Hooper and Robert Henry with make-up by Jennifer Marks.
Hooper has displayed work in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, and multiple times in the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery and The Electric Chair Gallery. He has had work accepted times in The Dirty Show in Detroit, Michigan. Among other venues, Hooper was the first American artist to exhibit work at Fetish Project in Brussels, Belgium. In 2007, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, based at Indiana University, added two of Hooper's photographs into their permanent collection.
While much of his work comes from his own imagination, he has sought out dominatrix, fetish celebrities and adult entertainers to expand his portfolio. Dirk has built a body of work that focuses on fantasy, science, metaphysics, fashion, sexual fetishism and goth subculture influences. A pseudonymous article in Norman Transcript says that, “Dirk Hooper's gothic photography tells forbidden tales to rival the likes of H. P. Lovecraft and the Marquis de Sade.”
Dirk Hooper is CEO and Chairman of the Board for Sight Key Studios Incorporated, a photography studio and entertainment company that provides content for several websites, including Toxic Goddess and The Beefboy Rants.
Quotes
"There's an aesthetic aspect to my interest in both fetish and Goth culture. It's just fascinating visually and is choked with amateur work. But, besides the rich tableau that those cultures offer, it's also something that I am personally interested in and my work follows my passions."
"As an artist, I think it’s important to ask questions with your work and allow the viewer to come to their own conclusions. I’m not interested in reality at all. I’m creating a moment in fantasy and I want the viewer to wonder what happened right before the image they are looking at and figure out what is going to happen next. If my work is a detour from the mundane, then I’ve done my job."