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This is not a Christmas email, they are arriving thick and fast, mostly from people I have never known. This is the Julius Christmas posting on this website.
Are you irritated when you get a Christmas email from a stranger, or do you rate that the same as a random card? At least the card cost fifty cents to mail.
I always had a thing about Xerox Family Letters. Where Anita has a new hair colour and is living the life in year one at Uni, while dad has restored his 1973 Peugeot and mum is busy bonking the guy down the road. You get the idea: the gloss someone puts on their own family dross of the year. Is that like this article?
At 10.15pm on Tuesday, 16 December 2008, Pat Bonham passed away peacefully after a long and courageous battle. It was the day after his 68th birthday. Our sympathies are extended to Carol Johnston, her family and everyone at CMC Music. Pat Bonham's funeral:
Monday Dec 22, at 11am
The Chapel, Monte St Angelo Mercy College
Corner of Miller and Berry Streets, in North Sydney
RMIT survey shows that girl techies are growing in numbers
Until now there's been a dearth of females in technical roles, and the reasons why are generally known. This year RMIT (Melbourne) and Julius College (Sydney) have record participation by girls in technical courses, although the best result is 25% female participation, against 75% males.
The study by Rebekha Naim, a trainer in Audio Visual at RMIT, drew on interviews with female students, staff and industry, and found that employers tend to favor female graduates. At RMIT 90% of graduates find work in the AV industry, a result consistent with outcomes at Julius College in Sydney.
Females studying AV at RMIT report they enjoyed training alongside men. "They talked of the positive aspects of studying with men and their "...easy going natures..." (Student A), with less "...cattiness..." (Student C). They also mentioned that working with men was a lot less emotionally draining, even if they had to put up with occasional sexism."
Another day another move in the corporate AV industry. Gary Hackett has joined the board of Haycom's parent company in a non executive capacity.
Hackett was founder and Managing Director of Staging Connections, a business he commenced in the mid 80’s and sold to AAV Ltd in 2003. Hackett is well known in both the audiovisual and hospitality industries as an innovative business strategist.
Selecon is pleased to announce the launch of their completely redesigned website this week - the contemporary, user-friendly and elegantly designed interface brings the company's extensive range of both theatrical and architectural lighting products together in one place; an amalgamation of the Selecon and ARDIIS brands which reflects Selecon's recent review of its purpose, vision, inspiration, principles and culture. Many will be pleased to note that drop-down menus are now a thing of the past!
Following the 2008 Annual General Meeting of Staging Connections, CX has acquired this un-authorised and very forensic review of the Staging Connections corporate history since the founders flogged it for fifty million in 2003. It's a dull read but it could well be a management text on how not to run a company.
The world seems a strange place as the economic upheaval reverberates. So how does this affect our industry - the sound, lighting and vision services business? Let's look to history as a guide.
CX has archives stretching back to our creation in 1990 - and founder Julius Grafton started collecting data when he opened his first lighting company back in 1973. Here's what history says about previous cycles:
This article was first published in CX Magazine towards the end of 2003. It was about the opening of the SAE Byron Bay campus - an audio industry milestone. But the opening was overshadowed by The Book, aka The Misner Factor. All 500 audio and education industry VIPs from around the world found a copy on the table at the opening dinner. I couldn't put it down - and this article illustrates why.
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