Northern Health: Teaching & Training Research Precinct

Converged AV brings Health to Life Northern Health is one of Victoria’s busiest public health services, covering a local community of approximately 728,000 people. Already operating across several sites in the northern suburbs, Northern Health have recently opened a hi-tech teaching and training facility in Epping, partnering with The University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University to…

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What Woodie Wanted

Talking about male cancer issues is REALLY freaking boring. I know, I track what you click. If I write about a punk who runs a crap festival and rips off crew, you click 28 x more than if it is about men stuff. Especially THIS man stuff, cancer of the gland that helps you ejaculate.…

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CX Wayback: How we’ve changed – TAPE!

From CX 1997: Protalk ! All about tape Compiled by Dan Cole What breed of tape should you use and what to watch out for are crucial questions. Duncan Wood is from World Record Studios and Tap, Brisbane, and says that whether it’s good or bad, tape will be here for many years to come.…

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Guitar Armageddon for Jackson clients

When Jacksons Rare Guitars went broke last month guitar customers suddenly faced immediate loss. For many years the Sydney firm had sold rare guitars on consignment and were slow to pay owners. Now it appears unsold guitars, totalling almost $1 million worth, may not be returned to angry owners. A year ago CX reported the…

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Local Conman ‘Ran Recording Label’

29 NOV 2012 – SYDNEY Now that he’s been convicted, CX can discuss our neighborhood conman freely. Dimitri de Angelis seriously weirded out Mrs CX by appearing often in and around North Turramurra where she works. One night he was at (now closed) Tables Restaurant at a nearby table with some suits as she dined…

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Australian Road Crew Collective. About:

It seemed a stretch at first. “It’s been a long time coming but we would like to invite you to a crew reunion with as many of the old crews as we can. Quite a few have passed so maybe it’s time to remember”, wrote Ian ‘Piggy’ Peel, back in winter 2012. But by the…

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Jacksons Rare Guitars: closure raises questions

(26 NOV 2012 – updated 29 NOV at end) Parramatta Road in Sydney’s inner west suburb of Camperdown was a guitar hub – until last week home to a large Billy Hyde store (closed); a busy Gallins Pro Shop (very open), and a double frontage mecca for guitar collectors – Jacksons Rare Guitars. Now just…

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Australian Crew Collective has impressive start

(Sunday 25 Novemberm 2012. St Kilda) Ian ‘Piggy’ Peel fronted the new Australian Road Crew Collective at its debut in St. Kilda late November. Around 200 crew who worked prior to 1982 gathered at St. Kilda Bowling Club for an emotional and laughter filled reunion, which defied the dreams of many, and delivered the hopes…

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Reader comments on Dwight Yoakam concert sound

(22 Nov 2012) David W. Jones writes: I have a question about the production quality at the Dwight Yoakam concerts. I attended the Canberra show and found the sound for Lee Kernagan was good but the follow spot guy could not get his act together to spot the lead guitarist during solos. All in all…

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Maizels on Electricty, death and ohms law

(Nov 21, 2012) This from November CX: Ohm I God How much tech do you need to know?  It’s a frequently visited (and dismissed) topic at the bunker.   There are those who think that theory of anything is a quick trip to boredom.   OK, here’s a test:  “Ohm’s law”.   Have you stopped reading yet?   Clearly…

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Wonderworld of electrical surprises in showbiz!

Not being very technical, my lessons about electrics have been of the experimental kind. With a whole arena PA failing due to a breaker at a recent arena gig, I got to thinking again about the delicate balance of power provisioning. Which is why I’ve hired Richard Cadena from the comforts of his Austin HQ…

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Spare Part$ the new profit centre

As CX read of airliner and jet engine prices falling in real terms because the spare parts are now very expensive, a reader called to report the new power supply for his powered mixer would exceed the retail price of the mixer. In aviation, the engine makers require new airliner buyers sign to agree not…

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