We all know that moving can be complicated and frustrating. You have a lot riding on your shoulders, and you are solely responsible for all the operations. Here budget also plays an important role. Being short on the budget not only gives rise to funding problems but also forces you to take some wrong decisions as happened to my friend Brenda. She had a cash crunch while relocating and due to this, she hired a cheap removalist without checking the background and customer reviews. And on the D-day, he started nagging and adding new costs to the given quote. If you wish to save yourself from any such situation, here is a list of common mistakes people make while moving.
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Posted July 27, 2018 09:22:39
Lloyds Auctioneers and Valuers Chief Operations Officer, Lee Hames, standing in front of Peter Brock car collection Source: Tom Forbes Topics:motor-sports,carrara-4211 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-27/lee-hames-photo/10030402 This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
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Lloyds Auctioneers and Valuers Chief Operations Officer, Lee Hames, standing in front of Peter Brock car collection Source: Tom Forbes Topics:motor-sports,carrara-4211 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-27/lee-hames-photo/10030402 Posted July 27, 2018 09:22:39
Lloyds Auctioneers and Valuers Chief Operations Officer, Lee Hames, standing in front of Peter Brock car collection Source: Tom Forbes Topics:motor-sports,carrara-4211 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-27/lee-hames-photo/10030402 This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
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![]() In the 30 years since Village Roadshow started making films on the Gold Coast, the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Johnny Depp and Heath Ledger have all filmed at the studios. The studios, which are credited with bringing Hollywood to Australia, have been looking back on the films made there as it marks its big 30-year birthday celebrations. External Link:Instagram Chris Hemsworth Props master Bob Booker has been there from the beginning. "My first show was The Delinquents with Kylie Minogue that was in 1989," Mr Brooker said. "That was the first show I was on and I have just completed my 60th." The film veteran has worked on blockbusters like Thor: Ragnarok and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. "The big productions are, I think, quite mind boggling with the amount of money that gets used," Mr Booker said. "One of my bigger projects was in Pirates of the Caribbean there was a sequence there, Jack Sparrow and his cohorts were rowing away from the ghost ship in a long boat. "We had to make about eight of those [boats] because they were in different stages of degradation through the sequence, they were being attacked by ghost sharks." But his favourite production was a TV series. "I think the highlight of my career there was working on a production we did in 1997 called Roar which starred Heath Ledger that was a pretty exciting production," Mr Booker said. "He was only a young man in those days and unfortunately [is] not with us anymore, but a lovely young fellow and it was a great pleasure working with him." ![]() Village Roadshow studio president, Lynne Benzie, said the studios were built two years before the company took over in 1988. "Back then we had very limited crew and resources and support facilities," she said. Ms Benzie said that growing the studio facilities and hosting big American films have been highlights for her but that there have been challenges too. External Link:The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film was shot on the Gold Coast And the biggest challenge? "We run on five staff, I have got three maintenance staff and two admin staff plus myself," she said. "So running a facility when you have over 2,500 crew on site can be quite a challenge." Ms Benzie said the Gold Coast was unique in its ability to make big films from in a small city. She said the city's geography helps. "You don't have to travel very far to get the look of the jungle, the dense rainforest and the beaches as well." ![]() Screen Queensland chief executive, Tracey Viera, said the Village studios have allowed Australia to compete with other places in the world for big Hollywood films. "I think it has really established that we are a professional place to make world class film and television," she said Ms Viera said the studios opened at a time when there was not much film or television being made in Queensland, and helped attract professionals to the region. "It has enabled us to essentially have a base and a home where productions both local and international have come," she said. "We had a lot of people move to the state because of that, so people like Gina Black who works with us at Screen Queensland, she moved to Queensland as a unit production manager because the studios came here and that early work started bubbling up in the state," she said. Topics:film-movies,arts-and-entertainment,film,business-economics-and-finance,oxenford-4210 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-26/30-years-since-hollywood-arrived-on-gold-coast/10033166 Updated July 24, 2018 10:27:41
![]() China's decision to stop being the world's garbage dump has prompted a Gold Coast recycler to invest in technology that turns unwanted car tyres into bricks to be used for paving, retaining walls and house foundations. ![]() Adrian Fuller, who owns Adrian's Metal Recyclers at Molendinar, said they scrapped 1,200 to 1,500 cars a month but times were getting tougher now China had restricted imports of recyclable material. "The days of buying material from the public and putting it into a container and sending it overseas are all done and dusted," he said. China's National Sword policy, introduced this year, means it will no longer accept foreign recycling waste unless it was almost completely uncontaminated. Mr Fuller's core business is recycling metal from end-of-life cars, but he said it costs him $3.30 to dump each old tyre. "The Government and the council have noticed that tyres are going to be a problem and we've come up with a solution," he said. One solution is to shred tyres and turn them into existing products such as playground equipment and gym matting. Mr Fuller said he would be the first in Australia to convert finely crumbed rubber into fire retardant bricks, pavers, fence panels and sound barriers, having just secured the patent from Canadian company Eco-Flex. "We can take people's waste that people don't want that's a problem, and we're going to make it into materials that people can use," he said. Waste industry welcomes plan Waste Management Association of Australia chief executive Gayle Sloan said she welcomed the innovation. "We recognise as the waste industry that what we're actually dealing with is resources and these companies that are prepared to invest in technology to turn that back into other products is just terrific," she said. "We know if we recycle we create 9.2 jobs for every 10,000 tonnes that we recycle, compared with 2.8 jobs if we simply landfill." Mr Fuller said he planned to start production by the end of the year and, if successful, it could be expanded to recycle large quantities of end-of-life tyres. ![]() John Randel, who runs A1 Rubber, Australia's largest rubber up-cycler, said new technology had to be cost effective. "I would advise them that the product they wish to manufacture must utilise the natural characteristics of recycled rubber that being flexibility, non-slip and impact attenuation for it to be successful," Mr Randel said. "What we have found is that if your product doesn't utilise those natural characteristics of the product there is always a cheaper alternative." But Mr Fuller said he was confident of finding a market for the products and his aim would be to help reduce Australia's mounting stockpiles of used tyres. "There are instances where people are renting big blocks of land all over Australia and just taking over a million tyres, or 500,000 tyres, and just storing them there and just walking away from the lease," he said. Ms Sloane said greater consumer awareness about the benefits of buying recycled rubber products would help the waste management industry. "We're actually seeing greater demand for recycled plastics as a result of the awareness about this issue," she said. ![]() First posted July 04, 2018 17:09:54 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-04/old-tyres-could-find-new-life-as-recycled-building-products/9940524 |
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