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Tony Shepherd was a bundle of nerves by the time the State Government car arrived outside 101 Collins Street at 9am yesterday to pick up him, Janet Holmes a Court and two other members of the ConnectEast consortium.
Across town at the Rialto building, another Government car had arrived for Transurban boss Kim Edwards and the key members of the consortium who were lined up against ConnectEast for a $3 billion-plus prize.
The two bidders had signed their side of contracts, covering their proposals to construct the Mitcham-Frankston freeway, in the offices of the Government's law firm, Minter Ellison, on Wednesday. The only thing left to know was which documents the Bracks Government was going to sign.
Eighteen months' work at a cost of more than $60 million by more than a thousand engineers, planners, lawyers, investment bankers, contractors and consultants had come down to this, and Shepherd, the chairman of ConnectEast, had not slept at all on Wednesday night.
He believed that his consortium had put the best offer it could muster on the table - one that eased political heat on the tollway by pitching toll prices low, on the assumption that high levels of traffic would make up the difference and produce an acceptable return.
But there was no way to know what Transurban and its partners, including Australian Infrastructure Fund, had put together.
Shepherd had been a key player in the earlier creation of Transurban and the CityLink tollway, and he knew the rival bid for the Mitcham-Frankston project would be competitive. He had booked a ticket on a flight to Singapore for yesterday afternoon, with the idea of grabbing some clear air for himself if the decision went against ConnectEast.
Confidence in the Transurban team was high. Insiders in that consortium say the group made a "cleaner" bid than ConnectEast, and say that feedback from the Government on it had been positive right up to the bid deadline.
The two teams were led from their cars to separate rooms in 1 Macarthur Place, the building behind the Premier's office at 1 Treasury Place that houses the state's senior bureaucrats. From there they were taken, separately, along the corridor that connects the two buildings, and up to a first floor anteroom
beside the Premier's office in the south-east corner of the building.
The Transurban team was probably already out of the building by the time Holmes a Court, Shepherd, bid team leader Jim Miller from Macquarie Bank and Ray Wilson, the general manager of construction company Thiess, entered the Premier's office.
There, the Premier, flanked by Treasurer John Brumby and Transport Minister Peter Batchelor, told them the project was theirs. Mr Bracks had been advised on Wednesday afternoon by the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority that ConnectEast was the preferred choice, and he had briefed his ministers of the decision at a special cabinet meeting that began at 8am.
Yesterday's victory for ConnectEast's main founders, Macquarie Bank, Thiess and John Holland, ended a process that began on Monday, April 14, last year, when the Premier announced that budget pressures had forced the Government to opt for a tollway connecting Mitcham and Frankston instead of the toll-free road it had promised.
The decision sparked a political furore, but it also converted a straightforward construction contract into something much more complicated. What was on offer now was a mandate to not only build a super-highway, but one to operate it, hopefully at a profit, for decades.
ConnectEast has taken the orthodox financial route to achieve that end. The road will be built entirely with private-sector money - including $2.1 billion in bank debt, about $300 million from the partners and $1.12 billion from a sharemarket offer and float of ConnectEast, most of it already sold to big investment institutions.
A $1.3 billion surplus over the cost of building the tollway is the key to the deal, for the consortium and the Government. The surplus services interest on borrowings, creates a cash safety net of $295 million and handsomely compensates a small army of advisers (led, as is often the case, by the local "millionaires' factory", Macquarie Bank, which will make at least $60 million out of the deal and perhaps much more). Most importantly, it also funds a cash kitty from which investors in the newly listed ConnectEast will be paid fixed interest dividends until the tollway is built.
Connecteast has spent more than $30 million on the job since it established its bid boiler-room on the 26th floor of 101 Collins Street in July last year. About 750 people had to sign confidentiality agreements with the Government. Similar resources would have been thrown at the bid by the Transurban consortium.
Overall, ConnectEast targets a return of at least 12.5 per cent from the tollway. That is a reward the consortium deserves for taking on the risk involved in building the tollway for a fixed price, and then running it with fixed toll prices, Shepherd asserts.
Whether it is a gamble worth taking remains to be seen, but Shepherd has cancelled his flight to Singapore.


text: Its that time of year again. Time to put aside twenty minutes a day and whip up something with pen and ink. I'll post my Inktober doodles here as well as on social media. It really is a great excercise to refresh the creative engine.As you can see, im going with a Victorian theme this year. I might not make everyday, but really speed is the key, so I should come up with at least a scribble.

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LOTS of smiles here!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)ReplyDelete
ooooh fun pictures!!!! you both look so happy!! i probably would be too after a drive that long! that's how we felt when we drove from chicago to GA...looooong drive.ReplyDelete
also love your red dress and belt. so fun! :)
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This year was a nontraditional one for me as well, and reading about your adventure makes me wish I'd had a better attitude about it all... Thanks for the wake up call; it looks like you guys had a blast!ReplyDelete
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Yep, it is public land, and I have to share it with…………white people. Hundreds of honkeys riding up the mountainside every morning, in the bike-shuttles (think van-taxis for bicycles). My favorite is Coyote – they use several VW buses to drag people up. I always get a thrill to see the green one dragging up the hill, just a bit faster than my bus would take the hill. Then the other shuttles companies BLAZING up the mountain in the newer Fords.
White people. Hundreds every morning go up, and I never see most of them again. I am guessing the trails they are blazing down are north of me, and take them back into Moab. So I see empty shuttles, a few campers, locals cutting wood, and a few scenery drivers. Lots of white people. But I do see another variety coming down the mountain.
Black faces, thousands of them come down the hill, right past my camp. A few brown faces mixed in. Refugees? What exodus is this? Why are they coming down the hill? My only guess was that they knew that it would be a hard winter surviving up top, and their best chance would be at lower elevations. But what made them all come down in large groups -as if answering the call to dinner?


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with Lia Haraki and Evi Haraki Mahera
Being in tune with beingand moving from that reality.The Intunition workshop is a physical exploration of the basic principles used in the making of the solo 'Tune In' by Lia Haraki. The workshop is taught by the artist and artist/energy worker Evi Haraki Mahera who was mentoring Lia during the making of the solo.
The body in the 'IntuNition' workshop is treated as a vessel of information and undoubtable knowledge led from the heart organ. The workshop includes meditation techniques, movement rituals and repetition as a tool for transformation.
The workshop can be a great tool for artists but also for any individual who wants to open and explore the creative self.
Workshop themes
• Attaining and maintaining I AM Presence• Body Balancing (physical/mental/emotional/spiritual) • Unity Consciousness (alone/all-one)• Be moved from within. Recognizing the impulse (working from the heart)• Repetition-variation-transformation (motion/emotion)• The voice as a vibrating force
Who can participate
All kinds of individuals of different age, sex, gender, race, profession with a strong interest in movement and curiosity to find connections between the formed and formless self. No previous dance experience is needed.
Previous IntuNition workshops
Dance House Lemesos November 2012, October 2017Studio 11 Cologne March 2013 Tanec Praha festival June 2013 Venice Biennale for visual arts June 2013 Pop-up festival Nicosia 2014Dimitria festival Thessaloniki 2014
IntuNition workshop, Demetria festival, Thessaloniki
IntuNition workshop, Pop Up festival, Nicosia
IntuNition workshop, University of Nicosia
IntuNition workshop, Dance House Lemesos
with Lia Haraki and Guy Cool
Details on upcoming workshop here
Standup PerformDance is where comedy meets dance, honesty becomes corporeality, spontaneity transforms into expertise, creativity translates into activity and history becomes presence.
In the Stand Up PerformDance workshop we get to keep the intimacy created and explored in the Standup comedy practise between the audience and the performer, as well as its biographical and self referential source of material.We then keep or replace text with other elements such as vocal sound, song or movement to tell the story. Standup performDance does not necessarily aim at producing laughter.
During the workshop a series of small performances are taking place by the participants, who are constantly asked to present 1-2 minute Standup PerformDances. The narration of stories and their embodiment, laughter as a bridge of communication, gesture as dance and the various live performances, lead the performers towards becoming creators through their own references, and sharing parts of their universe with others. Who can join?Any individual or performance artists of all kinds who have an interest in voice work and movement, and have an open mind to go beyond the limits of their own craft as they know it.Previous experience in movement and voice work is needed but it is not necessary for the participants to have acquired any previous professional training in either.
Previous Standup workshops5th Dance Reunion Cyprus, September 2009Lia Haraki–Cathryn Robson Kalamata International festival, July 2010Lia Haraki–Guy Cools Danshuis Station Zuid Tilburg, April 2012Lia Haraki–Guy Cools Impuls Tanz Vienna, July-August 2012Lia Haraki–Guy Cools
Dance House Lemesos 2016Lia Haraki
Guy Cools
After having trained as a dramaturge, Guy Cools became involved with the new developments in dance in Flanders from the 1980's, initially as a dance critic and from 1990 onwards as theatre and dance director of Arts Centre Vooruit in Ghent. In that capacity he was responsible for a large number of co-productions and collaborations with a variety of international dance companies. As vice-president of the Dance Council he contributed to the cultural policy towards dance of the Flemish Community.
He curated dance events in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Venice and Montreal. He is still working as an artistic consultant for amongst others Place des Arts-Montreal. He left Vooruit to dedicate himself fulltime to production dramaturgy with amongst others Koen Augustijnen (Les Ballets C. de la B.), Sara Wookey (Amsterdam-LA), Lia Haraki (Cyprus), Daniele Desnoyers (Montreal), Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sylvie Guillem (London), and to return to his old passions of teaching, writing, giving workshops, lecturing and publishing in Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Greece. Since 2004, he lives in Montreal-Canada.
Standup PerformaDance workshop, Dance House Lemesos
by Lia Haraki and Christos Hadjichristou
In the RRR workshop we share with people different ways of using the body, voice and technology as creative and expressive tools. The source for the workshop's tasks are based on the findings discovered during the creative process of the piece 'The RRR Show', while information is also brought in from Lia Haraki's choreographic practices 'Standup PerformDance' and 'IntuNition'.
The workshop is both physical and vocal (within each person's capability and limits) and includes writing and discussions. Movement, dance, sound, text and the use of the loop station are the creative tools used and explored.
More specifically the participants are asked to use material coming from their own life experience in terms of real conversations they had with people from their environment and then work with the chosen material to create a physical and vocal compositions with the help of the loop station. They are furthermore shown different ways of embodying these conversations so that they become the performance material.
The workshop takes place both inside and outside. During the 2 days the participants are sharing with the rest of the group small 2-3 minute performances. On the last day there is an open showing of short solos created during the process.
Participants don't have to be professional performers but need to have an interest to use their body as a tool of physical exploration within their own ability. At the same time they don't have to be good singers or actors but be ready to use their voice as an expressive tool. All ages of people can join over the age of 16.
Who can participate?
- Both professional artists and nonprofessional individuals can join. Persons of any age, profession or sex over 16.
- A strong curiosity for movement, voice and text are needed and a desire to use these as expressive tools. They don't have to have a so called 'good movement' or a 'good voice'.
- To have an open mind and be curious about new physical and vocal perspectives.
Previous The RRR workshops
Forget Amnesia, Fiorucci Art Trust. Stromboli, Italy
The RRR Workshop, Forget Amnesia, Fiorucci Art Trust. Stromboli, Italy
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A few months back I shared a little insight into the creative process of developing the concept that would soon become my first ever solo photography exhibit, a collection of abstract bodyscape portraits inspired by the neo-expressionist paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Now after five months of shooting, Obnoxious Liberals: A Bodypaint Tribute To Jean-Michel Basquiat will open on October 15th, 2016 at the Exchange Room Gallery of Il Tramezzino UCLA!
Come enjoy the Opening Night Reception on October 15th at 7pm, featuring live art and entertainment with music from DJ Santana of TruthSeekers Radio 90.7 KPFK, a live bodypainting session, guest photographic work from Sahmia Ase, and live spoken word performances, with free food and drinks courtesy of Il Tramezzino Italian Restaurant and free beer courtesy of Golden Road Brewing!
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Photo by Sarah Sadowski. I had my first panic attack at age four, and I was properly diagnosed with severe panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder when I was about 8 years old. I'm 24 years old now, and I've come a long way since 1992, the year of my very first panic attack. Sometimes I forget all of the accomplishments that I take for granted. I finished high school, I went away to art school, I had a few internships, a few jobs, won some awards and had a few shows. It doesn't seem like a lot, but when you put it next to this mountain of mental issues, well sometimes I just have to stop and pat myself on the back.
About this photo: This photograph is a part of my thesis work. I focused on using materials to obscure people's features, sometimes turning them into just silhouettes. I was trying to communicate the blurred line between focusing on your own mental illness vs. focusing on reality. it's kind of playing with the reversal of that, too. How does the real world see individuals, in this case, me, with my "cloak" of mental illness? It's something that I think about still often.
Hey Sarah, when you put your accomplishments against the fact that you're still only 24, I think you'll have to agree you've done more than ok, girl!
It's interesting to read your description of the thesis of your work, and I can see you have achieved what you set out to do. But that's not what I saw before I read your piece, isn't that interesting? What I saw was someone hiding, but keenly wanting to move this side of the veil.
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What do you do if you see a match fixture between two countries that have previously been at war and which are both headed by regimes that might be considered "not on the best of terms" with that of your own country? Well, if you are writer Andy Sloan you work out a way to attend. As a guest. Cue a great talk on the magic that can happen if you just ask if you can do something.
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Kenner Products was an American toy company founded in 1947. Throughout its history the Kenner brand produced several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines, including the original series of Star Wars action figures. The company was closed by its corporate parent Hasbro in 2000.
In 1979, Kenner unveiled the 18" Alien Doll, but parents complained about it so much that the toy manufacturer had to pull it from shelves. Around Alien 3's release in 1992, Kenner came out with a new series of Aliens action figures. UK versions had different packaging with collapsed bubbles and multiple languages. The US releases include short Dark Horse comics, some UK Cards came with special 3D space base pieces that could be assembled together, and others had collectible trading cards. Take a look at The Toy Scavenger blog for more information


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With two amazing little bundles of joy in our household, we thank our lucky stars everyday that they're part of our lives and that we've got such amazing friends and family to help guide them in the right direction (or at least keep their heads from hitting the hard wood too roughly while throwing tantrums on the kitchen floor – yes, we've hit the terrible two's a little early). And since we're not the most religious folks, but do have strong thoughts on the values we want to raise these kiddos with, we put together a little shindig to officially put those ideas to paper. Hadley and Carter's great godparents joined for a starry-themed brunch with bright colors and dancing cows and lots of quirky stars on sticks.
The gold-ish tablecloth and definitely gold chargers were a nice backdrop to bright colored napkins. Bud vases held up the nursery-rhyme-esque stars and pot-bellied cows. Our family creed was the centerpiece.
I loved putting together these bright paper stars that hung over the table. Something fun to look up at really makes a simple table look more festive.
So even if the girls were pretty/completely unaware of what was going on, it was a nice little moment for our little family that's full of lots of love. And hopefully the girls will live up to at least some of our wishes for them, like the (least) important one of wanting to get their nails done with me.


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Particularly relevant after my discussion of Canadian banking password policies, Microsoft is adding two-factor authentication to Hotmail, Outlook.com, the Windows Store, and other Microsoft services. Articles such as "Two-factor authentication finally heading to Microsoft Accounts" make it obvious that this is overdue (my emphasis). Unfortunately it's not released to the public yet, but if you use any of these Microsoft services then I recommend you use it when it becomes available.
Use two-factor authentication for your e-mail!
In fact, I STRONGLY recommend you use two-factor authentication for your e-mail account wherever you have e-mail.
The reason is simple: Most websites allow you to change your password using a "forgotten password" feature that will send a confirmation notice to your e-mail. Thus, if a hacker can breach your e-mail account, they then basically have access to every website you use on the internet, because they can ask that website to send a forgotten password e-mail. The hacker then gets that e-mail, and uses it to change the password on your [banking/twitter/Facebook/whatever] website to something they know.
This is not imaginary, it actually happened to reporter Mat Honan.
More in my next post about how this impacts companies implementing security – which is of course all of them…


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|Work...it can be difficult and frustrating at times, but at the end of the day, I am thankful for the challenges it presents and opportunities for growth.
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Wow, I am really late in posting this. I actually had to delete my original post to write everything in past tense... It has been a bit of a whirlwind last few days prepping for R and I's second Friends-giving dinner party. I may have slightly over-committed myself, but it turned out to be an amazing night, and I successfully prepared my 2nd turkey. We're off to Oregon tomorrow night to spend actual Thanksgiving with my best friend. So even though it is quite late, here are a few things I have been thankful for this week.
|Small reminders of my travels scattered throughout our apartment.
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."
|Good friends. All of them.
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|Moments of silliness and reminders to not take life too seriously.


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uint (C# Reference)
The uint keyword signifies an integral type that stores values according to the size and range shown in the following table.
.NET Framework type
0 to 4,294,967,295
Unsigned 32-bit integer
Note The uint type is not CLS-compliant. Use int whenever possible.
You can declare and initialize a variable of the type uint like this example:
uint myUint = 4294967290;
When an integer literal has no suffix, its type is the first of these types in which its value can be represented: int, uint, long, ulong. In this example, it is uint:
uint uInt1 = 123;
You can also use the suffix u or U, such as this:
uint uInt2 = 123U;
When you use the suffix U or u, the type of the literal is determined to be either uint or ulong according to the numeric value of the literal. For example:
This code displays System.UInt32, followed by System.UInt64 -- the underlying types for uint and ulong respectively -- because the second literal is too large to be stored by the uint type.
There is a predefined implicit conversion from uint to long, ulong, float, double, or decimal. For example:
float myFloat = 4294967290; // OK: implicit conversion to float
There is a predefined implicit conversion from byte, ushort, or char to uint. Otherwise you must use a cast. For example, the following assignment statement will produce a compilation error without a cast:
long aLong = 22;
// Error -- no implicit conversion from long:
uint uInt1 = aLong;
// OK -- explicit conversion:
uint uInt2 = (uint)aLong;
Notice also that there is no implicit conversion from floating-point types to uint. For example, the following statement generates a compiler error unless an explicit cast is used:
// Error -- no implicit conversion from double:
uint x = 3.0;
// OK -- explicit conversion:
uint y = (uint)3.0;
For information about arithmetic expressions with mixed floating-point types and integral types, see float and double.
For more information about implicit numeric conversion rules, see the Implicit Numeric Conversions Table (C# Reference).
C# Language Specification
For more information, see the C# Language Specification. The language specification is the definitive source for C# syntax and usage.
See Also
Integral Types Table (C# Reference)
Built-In Types Table (C# Reference)
Implicit Numeric Conversions Table (C# Reference)
Explicit Numeric Conversions Table (C# Reference)


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Until recently, brewers didn't bother too much with making mid-strength beers.
Instead of looking to brew a beer under 4 per cent, they wanted to play in the high-alcohol end of the spectrum and make crazy beers that pushed the 10 per cent mark –or went over it.
Part of that reason is that high-alcohol beers are easier to make than low-alcohol beers. The alcohol effectively camouflages all but the most obvious flaws, so when a brewer makes a low-alcohol beer they've got to be skilful as there's nothing to hide behind.
There's also the money-making option. You can drink severalsub 4 per cent beers without getting all that squiffy. But one 10 per cent beer might set you back a bit. From a brewer's perspective, that means if they make a good sub 4 per center, people can buy and drink more of them in a session.
More recently brewers have woken up to the bottom end of the alcohol spectrum. And one of the most spectacular examples of this is Bridge Road Brewers' Little Bling. It's part of the Bridge Road family that includes Bling IPA and Bling Bling Imperial IPA.
Little Bling is a "mid-strength IPA" that clocks in at 3.5per cent alcohol. But if you drank it without knowing that, I guarantee you'd think it was a full-strength beer.
Most mid-strengths have a bit of thinness in the mouthfeel, caused by using less malt in the brewing. Aside from the slightest hint at the front of the palate, Little Bling has no thinness at all.
What it does have is plenty of flavour and bitterness from the piney-resinous hops. And it's all so well-balanced too.
If you want to try it for yourself, Little Bling is easy to find. I picked up mine from Dan Murphy's.
This story Administrator ready to work first appeared on Nanjing Night Net.


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"How do you know that the run-up to war in Syria is eerily similar to the run-up to the Iraq War? Liberal journalists keep reminding you of the many ways in which they claim it is not," conservative Mediaite writer Noah Rothman noted at the open of his excellent August 30 piece, "As Expected, Liberal Reporters Mock Bush's 48-State Coalition to Absolve Obama of Failure Abroad."
Rothman first turned his focus to today's edition of MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner, a daily resource for Obama administration puffery and hackneyed liberal talking point generation. The Mediaite editor found the program's panelists twisting themselves into a pretzel to explain how President Obama's poise to truly "go it alone" on Syria is more defensible than President Bush's 48-nation "coalition of the willing" in Iraq:
New York Times reporter Annie Lowrey engaged in the unforgivable offense on Friday of giving voice to the empirical fact that the White House will be practically "doing this alone." She said that, more than two years into the civil war in Syria, one year after Obama established a "red line," and three months after his administration confirmed that red line had been crossed, they "didn't even lay the groundwork" to assemble an international coalition which would participate in the intervention.
This undeniable failure on the part of the Obama administration, having been acknowledged, could not stand without pushback. The unfavorable comparison of Obama to Bush must be invalidated – any defender of a frail and crumbling worldview would do the same. Enter, Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein.
"Let's not overplay the coalition of the willing," Stein interrupted. "He was trumpeting up Poland as like the big member — this is George W. Bush trumpeting up Poland — that was never a major coalition and it's not going to be now."
This was not so much analysis as a flailing effort to derail and redirect the conversation away from its natural course — criticism of the president.
Okay, but that's just MSDNC, you might say. Well, CNN was in on the fun to, bringing in Time's Jay Newton-Small:
Stein was not alone. TIME Magazine's Jay Newton-Small penned a post for that magazine making the case for why "Syria 2013 Isn't Iraq 2003." In an interview on CNN, she mocked the Micronesian nations who served in a support capacity in Iraq. She added that Australia, France, and Turkey lend "legitimacy" to the mission to the mission in Syria in a way that Bush's coalition did not.
Rothman then went on to further dissect the illogic of the liberal media as they desperately seek to puff up President Obama even as his weakness on foreign policy is painfully evident. Do yourself a favor and read Rothman's full piece here.


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Part 1 - Meeting, Website Brief / Requirements
It's not always easy to find a date and time that suits both parties but its an important step as we need to compile a clear list of requirements that you have.
Part 2 - Design and Mock up
Once we've met up and thrown around some ideas its time to design the website and create a mock up for you to see. Depending on the requirements then the design time can vary. You may be completely over the moon with the mock up or have a few design ideas of your own you'd like to see on the website - this would then be a bit of extra time to go back and make some changes.
Part 3 - Development
Once we have a design mocked up which you are happy with then we can build the website. Again, depending on the features and requirements can sway the development time.
Let's talk about some key factors in the website building time frame;
1. Budget
You may be starting a new business and have a limited budget to begin with or it may be that you have a budget to start the website but not complete it. This could then put a strain on the time because you are waiting for some revenue to put into completing the website.
2. Functionality
A website can be a simple information tool or a more complex system with ecommerce functionality, search features, website management and other custom built solutions.
3. Work load
It may be that we are completely snowed under but you know our reputation and love our ideas so are willing to wait. This could cause a slight delay on the design or development aspect.
4. Going live
Going live is what it says on the tin. Once we have built the website, tested it and you are happy with it then we can go live and let the public in. This is normally a fast and seamless process but normally requires a few fiddly bits such as updating domain name servers, setting up and testing email.
5. You
If you disappear while we are building the website then there is a good chance that can cause time delays. We may need you to confirm some details such as a WorldPay key or maybe we are ready to go live but just need you to add the content in.
Generally building a website is a pretty smooth and time efficient process.
If you are interested in our website design services or any other service then please feel free to get in touch via email: email@example.com or telephone: 01476576839


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Anyone who has gone through a divorce knows how tough the whole process can be. Sometimes it can just be as easy as signing a piece of paper and presenting it to the judge. Most of the time it involves so much more. There are couples who don't seem to have much tension between each other when the decision has been made to end the marriage. These people most likely do not need the help of a Divorce Lawyer. However, there are times when a divorce lawyer will need to provide his services to the divorcing couple. So what is it really that calls for a divorce lawyer to be hired? Today we are going to take a look into the reasons to hire a divorce lawyer.
1.) Divorce lawyers provide a voice of reason during an emotional situation – It can be understood that many marriages do not end well. Both sides can become quite emotional and a lot of tension is developed between the couple. All this can affect the way the divorce process goes and can result in the wrong choices being made. Having a divorce lawyer means having someone who can be level headed when the couple is constantly in argument. He ensures that logic is followed for the best of both parties.
2.) Divorce lawyers act as a guide to their clients – The process of a divorce is much like a tough and challenging journey with many obstacles in the way. Hiring a Divorce Lawyer is like hiring a guide who will guide you through the way and helping you wade through the struggles. Divorce lawyers help you out in areas where you do not have enough knowledge so that you may understand the whole divorce process better and ultimately find satisfaction in the end.
3.) Divorce lawyers help out in the legal work – During the divorce process there will be some legal work that needs to be done. This is especially important in cases where there are assets owned by the couple together and custody of any children is still vague. It is things like this that will have to be processed at court with a judge in order to come to the final and best decision. A couple alone without a lawyer will struggle to be able to process let alone understand fully what goes on in court and the legal papers.
4.) Divorce lawyers offer their input and suggestions to the couple's decisions – There are situations wherein the couple, without a divorce lawyer, have already made certain decisions on how things will be and they believe that this would be the best for everyone. Having a divorce lawyer however is someone who can look at these choices with fresh eyes and provide a third opinion on the matter. Both sides may not really know what they want and might find dissatisfaction in the end. A Divorce Lawyer can provide his suggestions to the couple which can even be better that what they had in mind.


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Dianthus Seeds - Sweet William Mix
Flower Specifications
Approximate seeds per pound: 420,000
Season: Perennial
USDA Zones: 3 - 9
Height: 18 - 24 inches
Bloom Season: Spring and summer
Bloom Color: Mix
Environment: Full sun
Soil Type: Well-drained, pH 6.0 - 7.2
Deer Resistant: Yes
Planting Directions
Temperature: 60 - 70F
Average Germ Time: 14 - 30 days
Light Required: Yes
Depth: 1/16 inch
Sowing Rate: 2 ounces per 1,000 square feet or 6 pounds per acre
Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
Plant Spacing: 12 inches
Care & Maintenance: Dianthus
Sweet William Mix (Dianthus Barbatus) - There is no disappointment with this wild flower seed! It is winter hardy to USDA Zones 3-9. This Dianthus Sweet William mix is a short-lived perennial wild flower seed that is perhaps best grown as a biennial. Many of the new cultivars will bloom the first year from wild flower seed when the seed is started early enough. Sweet William flowers are grown best in deep, organically rich, well-drained soils in full sun, but generally appreciates some light afternoon shade in hot summer climates such as the South. In optimum growing conditions it will re-seed each year and remain in the garden for many years as if it were a long-lived perennial. Prompt deadheading of spent flowers (shear back large plantings) promotes perennial tendencies. Sow the flower seeds directly in the garden in prepared soil after danger of frost has passed.
Shake 'n Seed - We are now offering shaker bottles filled with our seed starting matrix: rich soil, gardening sand, water absorbing crystals, and starter fertilizer. This not only helps dispense your seed, but it gets it off to a great start! Simply remove lid from shaker bottle, add seed from packet, put back on lid, shake the bottle vigorously for 15 seconds, and then shake your way to beautiful new plants! Use Shake 'n Seed over good quality soil, and then gently water to keep seed moist until it sprouts. Great for ground covers or mass planting flower seeds.


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My Dark Sky
- Steve Cramer
- 7 September 2006
Tramway, Glasgow, Sat 16-Sat 30 Sep, then touring
There seems to be stirrings of activism in our student population for the first time in a generation. For a long time young people seemed to have responded to their programming to do nothing and keep their heads down, watching shows about buying things, while not participating in the political world outside, thinking they'd be okay, if not happy. Increasingly there seems to be a desire, particularly with regard to issues around the war and environment, to participate and change things, which will no doubt alarm the ideological forces that seek to keep them doped up and out of it.
Timely then that Reeling and Writhing, the Glasgow company responsible for Standing Wavea couple of years back, who've shown a consistent commitment to innovation, should bring us a tale of student activism of bygone eras. This piece by Tim Nunn looks at the true story of The White Rose, a group of student activists in Nazi Germany who acted against the authorities with a succession of secret publications and dissenting acts. They came to an infamously nasty end, yet the example they set might stand as a paradigm for young activists in subsequent years. This looks an intriguing piece, providing no shortage of dramatic tension and food for thought.


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Ban on hand-held devices in force October 26
Ontario's ban on hand-held devices while driving will take effect on October 26, 2009. It will be illegal for drivers to talk, text, type, dial or email using hand-held cell phones and other hand-held communications and entertainment devices. There will be a three month transition period for enforcement where the focus will be on educating drivers; police will start issuing tickets on February 1, 2010.
Hands-free devices are permitted. Employers should establish a cellphone use policy before October 26, and take appropriate measures to ensure the health and safety of their employees and the public as well as their own business interests. For more on employer policy for cell phone ban read http://www.hrinfodesk.com/preview.asp?article=30282.
Fines of up to $500 can be levied against distracted drivers who text, type, email, dial, or chat using a prohibited hand-held device. For more information, go to http://news.ontario.ca.
Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor
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As of yesterday, the law is in effect that no hand-held devices can be used in cars. Apparently police can use their discretion whether to warn a driver or ticket them for using a hand-held device while driving.
So far this morning, I saw 8 drivers talking or texting on their morning commute. It seems that people are not taking this law seriously.
I constantly see people swerving because they are staring at their blackberry screen and not paying attention to the road. One car almost drifted right into mine before the driver finally looked up and realized they were no longer in their lane.
I wonder how many warnings, tickets, and accidents it is going to take for Ontarians to get the message?
What's more important? Getting that email or text message out, or making it to your destination safely?
If you're violating this law, it's not just you that could get hurt. Everyone around you on the road is at risk. Do you want to be responsible for taking someone's life because you had to reply to that text message?


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The Cleveland Browns show how analytics trump 'Gut-Feelings' and improve process
Watching the NFL Draft this past weekend I was once again reminded of how analytics are improving processes everywhere.
I was watching the Cleveland Browns get panned by talking heads all day for not drafting a QB which they so desperately needed. But, I also knew the Browns had recently hired Paul DePodesta who was the brains behind the analytical approach Billy Beane took constructing the roster of the early aughts Oakland Athletics. Their revolutionary innovation was written about in Michael Lewis' best-seller "Moneyball" (and was also turned into a movie).
The Browns, a historically bad franchise, had three first round picks. With each pick they drafted great players, however, there was a glaring hole at the absolute most important position on their roster, quarterback.
What a wasted opportunity; 3 quarterbacks had been selected in the first round. ln fact one was taken with a pick the Browns traded. What were they thinking!?
Well, the next day they were able to select a quarterback (Deshone Kizer of Notre Dame) who many scouts had rated neck and neck with the quarterbacks drafted with much more valuable picks in the first round. What an arbitrage!
Not only did they secure three extremely talented prospects to fill positions of need in the first round (including the drafts widely regarded best player available Myles Garrett), they drafted a first round projected quarterback in the second round.
They did all this by ignoring the outside criticism and conventional wisdom teams have always used and instead stuck to the ratings they had and saw an inefficiency in teams reaching for quarterbacks. They let one slide to them and derived the most value out of their picks. This could end up being a franchise-altering draft for the Cleveland Browns.
The Cleveland Browns are one of the first teams in the NFL to embrace advanced statistics in roster construction a strategy immortalized in the aforementioned Michael Lewis book Moneyball. This "Moneyball Strategy" was originally applied by Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics who used analytics to exploit inefficiencies in the market to acquire undervalued talent which helped their low budget team compete with the much more cash rich franchises like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
Since then analytics have made quite an impact on the sports landscape. For instance, the NBA has wholeheartedly embraced analytics, led by visionary Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey whose major insight was that shooting more corner three-point shots and reducing the number of mid-range jump shots would increase efficiency. The results have been historically efficient offenses. Teams leading the charge in this category include the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, who each have quite a few championship banners hanging in their arenas owing in part to the application of these analytics.
Now I know you're probably thinking…isn't this an investor relations blog? Are you auditioning for a job at ESPN, I know they recently laid a bunch of people off but this is ridiculous.
My answer, yes this is an investor relations blog, and no you could never pay me enough to work for someone else again, being a business owner is the key to happiness in America.
Here's the tie-in, all these examples of analytics have one thing in common, groups with limited resources used analytics to identify market inefficiencies they could exploit for their benefit.
Analytics are everything!
My business partner has a catchy little line he likes to say; "everything we do is bathed in math and science…but it's not rocket science!"
Everything…I mean everything we do is based on analytics because if you can't measure it you can't improve it.
Are you using analytics in your investor marketing programs? Are you looking for market inefficiencies where your company can improve their shareholder acquisition cost?
Do you know your shareholder acquisition cost?
Do you know your investor conversion rate?
How many people per week visit your IR website?
How many people show behavior online that would make them a potential investor?
Is your IR firm asking these questions? Are you? If not, give us a call, we'd love to help you find the inefficiencies you can exploit to reach your goals. It is our passion, we love this stuff!


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When the topic of disassociating people with dwarfism from the word midget comes up, people often begin the rant of "The world is too politically correct", "You can not say anything any more" and so on. This has always been fascinating since this seems to happen only with smaller minority groups such as the dwarfism community. When dealing with other larger minority groups, that have large numbers in society and pose a threat either by force, financially or through boycott the rants seems to silence.
The fact is that until a few decades ago, even in the medical world, the word midget was in common use: Some physicians employed the word to refer to persons who were small and proportionate, most often as the result of a growth hormone deficiency. Dwarf was used to differentiate this category from individuals who were small and disproportionate, most often as the result of various cartilage and bone disorders; their conditions were known medically as forms of skeletal dysplasia.
While proportionate dwarfism is quite rare today because of medical advances, people still refer to individuals who are small and disproportionate as "midgets".
If the word were still considered acceptable today, the reference would in fact be incorrect. Yes incorrect..Not politically incorrect.
Many times, when justifying the reasons that the "M" word is considered offensive, a comparison is made to the "N" word. This comparison often brings up the argument of one can not compare the history of both these words. While this is true, as it is with any offensive and hurtful term, they are all labels which at times becomes a person's only identity and offers a less of a chance for them to succeed in life.


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A residential site (pictured) at New Upper Changi Road (Parcel A) has been awarded to Sherwood Development by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).
The developer submitted the highest bid of S$434.55 million for the 31,881.6 sq m site.
Launched for public tender on 23 August, the 99-year leasehold site has a maximum gross floor area (GFA) of 51,011 sq m.
A total of 11 bids were submitted for the land parcel when the tender closed on 16 October.
The URA expects the site to yield some 540 homes.


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William Anderson (RAAF officer)
Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton (Bill) Anderson, CBE, DFC (30 December 1891 – 30 December 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He flew with the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Belgian Croix de guerre, and leading Nos. 3 and 7 Squadrons. Anderson commanded the Australian Air Corps during its brief existence in 1920–21, before joining the fledgling RAAF. The service's third most senior officer, he primarily held posts on the Australian Air Board in the inter-war years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1934, and promoted to air commodore in 1938.
William Hopton (Bill) Anderson
Air Vice-Marshal William Anderson
|"Andy"; "Mucker"
|30 December 1891
Kew, Victoria
|30 December 1975 (aged 84)
East Melbourne, Victoria
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Years of service
|Air Vice-Marshal
|No. 1 Squadron AFC (1916–18)
|Commands held
When World War II broke out, Anderson was Air Member for Supply. In 1940 he acted as Chief of the Air Staff between the resignation of Air Vice-Marshal Stanley Goble in January and the arrival of Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, RAF, the next month. He led the newly formed Central and Eastern Area Commands between December 1940 and July 1943, briefly returning to the Air Board as Air Member for Organisation and Equipment in 1941–42. Anderson was founding Commandant of the RAAF Staff School from July to November 1943, and held this post again from October 1944 until his retirement in April 1946. Known to his colleagues as "Andy" or "Mucker", he died on his birthday in 1975.[1]
Early life and World War IEdit
Born on 30 December 1891 in Kew, Victoria, Bill Anderson was the third son of surveyor Edward Anderson, from England, and his wife Florence, a native Victorian. The youth was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, where he joined the cadet corps. He began his professional military career as a Royal Australian (Garrison) Artillery officer in December 1910, before transferring to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, based at Rabaul in what was then German New Guinea, in March 1915.[1] The following January, Anderson joined the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) as a captain, serving with No. 1 Squadron in Palestine.[1][2] He was posted to No. 3 Squadron (designated No. 69 Squadron Royal Flying Corps by the British) in August 1917, operating Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 two-seat reconnaissance aircraft on the Western Front.[1][3]
From October 1917, No. 3 Squadron was heavily involved in artillery ranging, activity that left the slow R.E.8s vulnerable to attack by German fighters. Twice that month Anderson's plane was dived upon by multiple enemy aircraft. He was, in his own words, "too scared to think" on the first occasion, but both times held his nerve and manoeuvred his plane so that his observer could hold off their opponents with Lewis Gun fire while other R.E.8s came to their aid.[3][4] Anderson was spotting for artillery near the Messines Ridge on 6 December when he engaged a German two-seat DFW that observer John Bell was able to shoot down; it was No. 3 Squadron's first confirmed aerial victory.[5][6]
In January 1918, Anderson was given the temporary rank of major and posted to England to take charge of No. 7 (Training) Squadron AFC.[1] He was recommended for the Military Cross (MC) on 12 March for his achievements with No. 3 Squadron in France, the citation noting his "resolute fight" and "cool and capable flying" in evading attacks by enemy aircraft and successfully carrying out his reconnaissance missions.[7] In the event, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in the King's Birthday Honours promulgated in the London Gazette on 3 June, becoming the first Australian to receive the newly created decoration.[8][9] He was also awarded the Belgian Croix de guerre, gazetted on 9 July.[10] Anderson went back to France in October 1918 as commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron.[1][11] His service earned him a mention in despatches on 11 July 1919.[12]
Inter-war yearsEdit
Anderson relinquished command of No. 3 Squadron in January 1919 and returned to Australia two months later.[13] In December that year the Australian Flying Corps was disbanded, to be replaced on 1 January 1920 by the short-lived Australian Air Corps (AAC), which was, like the AFC, a branch of the Army. The AFC's senior officer, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams, was still in England, and Major Anderson was appointed commander of the AAC, a position that also put him in charge of Central Flying School (CFS) at Point Cook, Victoria.[14][15] On 31 March 1921, he joined the newly formed Australian Air Force (the "Royal" prefix being added in August) as a squadron leader, becoming its third most senior officer after Williams and former Royal Naval Air Service pilot Stanley Goble, both now wing commanders.[11][16]
During 1921, Anderson headed up the RAAF's Point Cook base and its two major units, No. 1 Flying Training School (No. 1 FTS)—the successor to CFS—and the newly established No. 1 Aircraft Depot (No. 1 AD).[1][17] Over the next four years he acted as Director of Personnel and Training, Chief of the Administrative Staff, and Second Air Member on the RAAF's controlling body, the Air Board, when Goble was away on overseas postings. In April 1922, he took part in the new service's first army co-operation exercise, piloting an Airco DH9 with Flight Lieutenant Adrian Cole, who spotted for artillery firing from an emplacement at Queenscliff, Victoria. A year later, Anderson proposed a special RAAF workshop for research and development, which was duly formed at Point Cook later that year.[18][19]
The young Air Force staged numerous public displays in its early years; on one such occasion over the Melbourne suburb of Essendon in September 1924, Anderson, Ray Brownell and another pilot took part in a mock dogfight while ace Harry Cobby gave a demonstration of balloon busting.[20] During 1925–26, Anderson again took command of No. 1 FTS, as well as occupying a position on the Air Board as Air Member for Personnel. He was posted to England between 1927 and 1929, attending RAF Staff College, Andover, and serving as Air Liaison Officer (ALO) to the British Air Ministry. On 23 March 1927 he was promoted to wing commander.[1][18] As ALO in 1928, he provided information to the Air Board concerning shortcomings of the de Havilland Hound light day bomber, then being strongly considered for the RAAF, that led to the Westland Wapiti being ordered instead.[21]
Returning to Australia in mid-1929, Anderson was for a short time in charge of No. 1 AD, now based at RAAF Station Laverton, Victoria, before appointment to the Air Board as Air Member for Supply in October.[1][22] He spent most of the 1930s in this position, aside from an acting role as Air Member for Personnel in 1933–34, and attendance at the Imperial Defence College, London, the following year.[18] Anderson had no formal training in the supply field,[23] and though regarded with affection was variously considered "not quite on the same wave length as others" and "so immersed in the minutiae of administration that some important policy matters languished". His chronic shyness with women other than his unmarried sister also made him an object of fun in some quarters.[1][24] He was raised to group captain in December 1932 and air commodore in January 1938.[1] Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1933 King's Birthday Honours,[25] he was promoted Commander in the same order (CBE) in the 1934 New Year Honours.[26]
World War IIEdit
Anderson was still serving as Air Member for Supply when Australia declared war in September 1939.[27] On 9 January 1940 he was appointed acting Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), following the resignation of the incumbent, Air Vice-Marshal Goble. Anderson remained in the position until 10 February, when Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, seconded from the Royal Air Force, arrived to take over.[1][28][29] The Australian government at this stage had so little faith in the leadership of its Air Force that it had briefly considered offering temporary command of the service to a Royal Australian Navy officer, Second Naval Member Commodore Maitland Boucher, before deciding against such a "monumental slight to the senior ranks of the RAAF" and settling on Anderson.[30] After relinquishing his temporary position as CAS, Anderson briefly reverted to his previous role as Air Member for Supply before taking over as Air Member for Personnel (AMP) in March 1940; he was succeeded in November by Air Vice-Marshal Henry Wrigley.[31][32] The next month, Anderson took over from Air Commodore Cole as Air Officer Commanding Central Area, with responsibility for air defence, protection of adjacent sea lanes, and aerial reconnaissance for most of New South Wales; he remained at this post until it was disbanded in August the following year.[33][34]
Promoted acting air vice-marshal in September 1941, Anderson resumed his position on the Air Board by replacing Air Marshal Williams as Air Member for Organisation and Equipment.[35] In May 1942, he assumed command of the newly established Eastern Area, which was headquartered in Sydney and controlled seven squadrons from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales.[36][37] One of the area's main roles was anti-submarine warfare; its squadrons also included fighters and army co-operation aircraft.[38] In July 1943 Anderson became the inaugural Commandant of the RAAF Staff School at Mount Martha, Victoria.[1][39] The school was instituted to further the training of officers at the squadron leader and wing commander level, whose basic education standards Anderson, among others, found sadly lacking.[40] In December 1943 he was again appointed Air Member for Personnel, taking over from Air Commodore Frank Lukis, before returning to command the RAAF Staff School in September 1944.[32] He continued in the latter role until being forcibly retired, along with a number of other senior Air Force commanders, in April 1946, ostensibly to make way for younger and equally qualified officers.[41][42] A confidential report in September 1944 had found him "hard working, conscientious and loyal" but lacking in "constructive capacity and organising ability".[41] He was still four years below the statutory retirement age of fifty-seven for his substantive rank of air commodore.[43]
Following his discharge from the RAAF as an honorary air vice marshal, Anderson lived in East Melbourne. A lifelong bachelor, he shared a house with his sister, who also never married. From 1947 until 1971, he served as honorary chairman of the Victorian branch of the Services Canteens Trust Fund.[1] On 31 March 1971, he was among a select group of surviving founder members of the RAAF who attended a celebratory dinner at the Hotel Canberra to mark the service's Golden Jubilee; his fellow guests included Air Marshal Williams, Air Vice-Marshal Wrigley, Air Commodore Hippolyte (Frank) De La Rue, and Wing Commander Sir Lawrence Wackett.[44] Bill Anderson died on his birthday in 1975, and was buried in Boroondara Cemetery, Kew.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Coulthard-Clark, "Anderson, William Hopton", pp. 53–54
- ^ Cutlack, The Australian Flying Corps, p. 35
- ^ a b Cutlack, The Australian Flying Corps, p. 181
- ^ Molkentin, Fire in the Sky, pp. 201–202
- ^ Newton, Clash of Eagles, p. 16
- ^ Molkentin, Fire in the Sky, pp. 224–225
- ^ Recommendation: Military Cross at Australian War Memorial. Retrieved on 26 June 2011.
- ^ "No. 30722". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1918. p. 6519.
- ^ Sewell, Flying the Southern Skies, pp. 12–13
- ^ "No. 30792". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 July 1918. pp. 8169–8189.
- ^ a b Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942, pp. 1, 16
- ^ "No. 31448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 July 1919. pp. 8813–8839.
- ^ Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton Anderson at Australian War Memorial. Retrieved on 30 June 2011.
- ^ Sutherland, Command and Leadership, pp. 32–33
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 17–21
- ^ Stephens, The Royal Australian Air Force, pp. 31, 332
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, p. 41
- ^ a b c Honorary Air Vice-Marshals at Royal Australian Air Force. Retrieved on 14 July 2011.
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 210, 258, 466–468
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 47–49
- ^ Stephens, Power Plus Allitude, pp. 37–38
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, p. 367
- ^ Stephens, Going Solo, p. 179
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 359–360
- ^ "No. 33946". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1933. p. 3807.
- ^ "No. 34010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1933. p. 8.
- ^ Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, p. 3
- ^ Helson, Ten Years at the Top, p. 37
- ^ Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942, pp. 67, 77
- ^ Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, pp. 18–21
- ^ Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, p. 468
- ^ a b Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, p. 301
- ^ Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, p. 303
- ^ Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942, pp. 91–92
- ^ Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, p. 41
- ^ Ashworth, How Not to Run an Air Force!, pp. 132–133
- ^ Stephens, The RAAF in the Southwest Pacific Area, p. 61
- ^ Odgers, Air War Against Japan 1943–1945, pp. 141, 152
- ^ RAAF Staff College History at Department of Defence. Retrieved on 28 June 2011.
- ^ Stephens, Power With Attitude, p. 83
- ^ a b Helson, Ten Years at the Top, pp. 228, 233–237
- ^ Anderson, William Hopton at World War 2 Nominal Roll. Retrieved on 7 January 2008.
- ^ Stephens, Power With Attitude, p. 92
- ^ Stephens, Going Solo, pp. 451, 498
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- Ashworth, Norman (2000). How Not to Run an Air Force! The Higher Command of the Royal Australian Air Force During the Second World War: Volume 1. Canberra: Air Power Studies Centre. ISBN 0-642-26550-X.
- Coulthard-Clark, Chris (1991). The Third Brother: The Royal Australian Air Force 1921–39. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-442307-1.
- Coulthard-Clark, C.D (1993). "Anderson, William Hopton (1891–1975)". In Ritchie, John (ed.). Australian Dictionary of Biography. 13. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84512-6.
- Cutlack, F.M. (1941) [1923]. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 (11th edition): Volume VIII – The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. OCLC 220900299.
- Gillison, Douglas (1962). Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Series Three (Air) Volume I – Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 2000369.
- Helson, Peter (2006). Ten Years at the Top (Ph. D thesis). Sydney: University of New South Wales. OCLC 225531223.
- Molkentin, Michael (2010). Fire in the Sky: The Australian Flying Corps in the First World War. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-74237-072-1.
- Newton, Dennis (1996). Clash of Eagles. Kenthurst, New South Wales: Kangaroo Press. ISBN 0-86417-793-3.
- Odgers, George (1968) [1957]. Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Series Three (Air) Volume II – Air War Against Japan 1943–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 246580191.
- Sewell, Hal (1999). Flying the Southern Skies. Glebe, New South Wales: Book House at Wild & Woolley. ISBN 1-74018-055-0.
- Stephens, Alan (1992). Power Plus Attitude: Ideas, Strategy and Doctrine in the Royal Australian Air Force 1921–1991. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-24388-0.
- Stephens, Alan (1995). Going Solo: The Royal Australian Air Force 1946–1971. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-42803-1.
- Stephens, Alan (2006) [2001]. The Royal Australian Air Force: A History. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-555541-4.
- Stephens, Alan (ed.) (1993). The RAAF in the Southwest Pacific Area 1942–1945. Canberra: Air Power Studies Centre. ISBN 0-642-19827-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Sutherland, Barry (ed.) (2000). Command and Leadership in War and Peace 1914–1975. Canberra: Air Power Studies Centre. ISBN 0-642-26537-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
|Military offices
|Preceded by
Air Vice-Marshal Stanley Goble
| Chief of the Air Staff
January–February 1940
|Succeeded by
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
|Preceded by
Air Commodore John Russell
| Air Member for Personnel
March–November 1940
|Succeeded by
Air Vice Marshal Henry Wrigley
|New title
| Air Officer Commanding Eastern Area Command
May 1942 – July 1943
|Succeeded by
J H Summers
|Preceded by
Air Commodore Frank Lukis
| Air Member for Personnel
December 1943 – September 1944
|Succeeded by
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Yeah. He was really good drummer for the first minute or two, then it dragged on. And why did no one stop him from approaching Dave afterward? It seemed like the kid wanted to play guitar too. At first, I thought it was great. But, now that it's been a few days and I've rewatched the videos, I'm kind of pissed about it. I really like Shifty singing, and the dad disrespected everyone there. After the show, they were hanging out at the entrance acting like celebrities too.
I'm ok with not seeing fans on stage. It seems like it's almost every show lately. I know it was 2 out of 3 last week. I'm there to see the Foo. I'd much rather have White Limo, Let it Die or Enough Space with the screen down as opposed to fans on stage.
Yes - the kid wanted to play guitar too. You could tell Dave was pissed because he didn't ask the kids name. To be fair it was probably wasn't the kids fault - I'm sure he had been coached by his father on what to do - but it totally ruined the flow and vibe of the show. I saw so many signs asking to play drums/guitar that I'm glad Dave doesn't want to do it any more.....I pay to see Foo not some random ass person.
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I noticed that there was a stack of ripe bananas on the counter and since nobody else was eating them in the house other than I, I decided to use them for something. Banana bread popped into my head as something to make, but it felt boring. Instead I found a bag of pecans and decided to make banana nut muffins.
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- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 large overripe bananas, mashed
- 3/4 cup sugar (1/2 brown and 1/2 white)
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Step 2: Line the muffin pans or lightly grease the pans
Step 3: In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
Step 4: In a large bowl, combine the bananas, sugar, egg, and melted butter
Step 5: Fold the flour mixture into the banana mixture, mix until smooth
Step 6: Fold in the chopped pecans (can add optional ingredients at this time)
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Step 7: Bake: (minis: 10-15 minutes) (large: 25-30 minutes) muffins will spring back when lightly tapped
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After reading The Anarchist Toolchest by Chris Schwarz I purchased the video and halfway through it you can see Chris sitting on a stool like this. I became fascinated with the stool so after some research I found the Popular Woodworking article by Robert Lang. I used a slab of black locust my Dad gave me years ago, he received from a friend who brought it to Georgia from Delaware. Very hard and dense wood. This is a challenging project that involves 9 mortis and tenon joints, none of which are square. I turned the recess in the seat on my lathe. I finished with 2 coats shellac/BLO/alcohol mix. Then 3 coats wiping varnish. After curing I used EEE polish and Renaisance wax. I am taking one of them to my Dad this weekend. I took the one I am keeping to the Atlanta Wood Working show. Our group, the MOdern Woodworkers Association had a booth where we brought some of our projects. I have made a series of 5 videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPk2Sb8WuMA Not the best video quality but you can see the process.
-- Bill from Lithia Springs, GA I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.
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#1 posted 03-27-2012 03:56 PM
That's funny, just two days ago I was showing my wife one of these and that I would like to build one. Now I really have to.
Great work. Any tips or pitfalls you care to share on this one?
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#2 posted 03-27-2012 04:50 PM
The article says your joinery has to be loose to fit the whole thing together, jsut use several shims to fill in the gaps. I used wedged tenons on the seat. Also it said to use a chairmakers scorp to hollow out the seat or a drinder but I used my lathe instead.
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#3 posted 03-27-2012 04:54 PM
Very Nice work! Great lookig stools!
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#4 posted 03-27-2012 04:55 PM
Very Nice !!!
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#5 posted 03-27-2012 05:09 PM
I remember seeing this stool and wishing that I had the skills to build it. You did a great job on both of yours ! Dad will be very pleased : )
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#6 posted 03-27-2012 05:09 PM
Awesome, this looks really comfortable.
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#7 posted 03-27-2012 05:10 PM
Nice stools. I drew this out in SU a while back with some modifications. Thanks for the reminder that I need to get back to this.
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#8 posted 03-27-2012 05:49 PM
You can only sit on one, so send the other my way :) They look great. Thanks for the videos.
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#9 posted 03-27-2012 06:18 PM
Bill, I watched the youtube videos and love this build. Great stools and I know your dad will love the one you give him. Great project.
#10 posted 03-27-2012 09:09 PM
Great stools, and great build thanks for posting the video too.
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#11 posted 03-27-2012 09:19 PM
They looks great , even every one would make some and sell them to the people of china we could help balance the trade situation
#12 posted 03-27-2012 11:04 PM
That is awesome, thanks for sharing
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#13 posted 03-28-2012 01:03 AM
You did a great job on these. They look pretty complicated to construct but you nailed it. Love the black locust and the finish. You mixed shellac/BLO/alcohol together? Never heard of that one but it looks great!
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#14 posted 03-28-2012 01:58 AM
Very Cool. Thanks for posting.
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#15 posted 03-28-2012 08:10 AM
Very nice fit and finish.
Well done and thanks for sharing.
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