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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Agreed Bevan Sad day it is.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A message from his son James on Whirlpool<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yesterday my dad was doing what he liked doing best. Eating at a nice restaurant, drinking nice wines , and talking about the state of the telecommunications market in Australia, and the various companies that make this up.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>At lunch he suffered what was thought to be a mild stroke, and was immediately taken to St Vincents hospital. He was conscious in the ambulance, responding to their questions, but when he got to the hospital he had trouble breathing and they needed to put him into a medically induced coma and put him on a ventilator to help him breathe. Unfortunately it turned out to be a very intensive stroke and there was nothing the doctors could do, without killing him in an operation or leaving him severely brain damaged. So last night, with most of my family present, his ventilator was turned off and a few hours later he passed away peacefully.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This is the saddest day of my life, I have lost my dad, my mentor, my boss, and one of my best friends.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>However dad would not want us fussing over him, he would want to know what we have sold, which was actually one of the last things I said to him. He would also want Exetel to go on as he had planned for it to. He put in a place a strategic plan, so we need to move on as he had wanted us to, and remember him for the great man he was.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If any of you feel like buying my mum and family flowers, I would ask that you instead make a donation to his favourite charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.rspb.org.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>James Linton<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Condolences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=141 valign=top style='width:105.95pt;padding:2.85pt 5.4pt 2.85pt 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><img border=0 width=161 height=41 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CCE19D.D0744E60"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=445 valign=top style='width:333.5pt;padding:2.85pt 5.4pt 2.85pt 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Shaun McGuane </span></b><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#CC0000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> Managing Director </span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>RackCentral </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#CC0000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> Level M1 / 525 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000<br>Tel: 03 8618 6888 </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#CC0000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Fax: 03 8612 6980 </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#CC0000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>|</span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Mobile: 0437 633 491</span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>email: <b><a href="mailto:shaun@rackcentral.com.au"><span style='color:blue'>shaun@rackcentral.com.au</span></a></b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> </span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#CC0000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> |</span><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> w</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>eb: <b><a href="http://www.rackcentral.com.au/"><span style='color:blue'>www.rackcentral.com.au</span></a></b></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.5pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. 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