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My kids attend the fabulous SOUNDS Academy, learning to play the violin and piano respectively. Extracurricular activities like music lessons provide a channel for reinforcing the lessons learned in the classroom, offering students the opportunity to apply academic skills in a real-world context. Recent research suggests that participation in extracurricular activities may increase students' sense of engagement with their school, thereby decreasing the likelihood of school failure and dropping out. #musiceducation #extracurricularactivities #educationresearch

Our Story The idea for Ozstream was born as a way of giving back to friends and family who work in the creative and performing arts and seeing the devastating impacts the pandemic years had on their ability to do what they love. Ozstream isn’t just about people. It is just as much about venues and business owners, who also experienced financial strain and hardship when they were unable to open their doors. They now find themselves facing difficulties in finding and retaining staff, and in their ability to source suitable artists, musicians or entertainers. Artists of all forms, be they musicians, entertainers, writers, or creatives, should all be seen as professionals who shape our cultural identity. And so, driven by a desire to see that people receive fair compensation and recognition of these contributions, Ozstream has set out to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity, by leveraging technology to better connect those in the industry. As we grow, Ozstream seeks to become Australia's trusted source of information, support, and inspiration for the entire arts community. We know the road ahead will present us with any number of challenges. It is our belief, that contained within these challenges, exist the keys to unlocking the opportunities of the future.

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The recent removal from the web of the MTV News and Comedy Central digital archives by Paramount Global, which eliminated access to decades of cultural history, underscores the critical need for robust digital preservation. 0️⃣1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ Paramount's action demonstrates the ephemeral nature of digital content on the web and the necessity of safeguarding our contemporary cultural heritage. 🎉🎉 Fortunately, tools like the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine play an essential role in capturing and preserving such content before it disappears. 🤔 This situation emphasizes the importance of stronger digital preservation awareness and strategies to prevent potential cultural amnesia, to ensure future generations can study and understand 20th- and 21st-Century creativity and societal evolution. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gaVzYr3C See the collection in the Wayback Machine: https://lnkd.in/gr6QEEk3

The origin of our amateur bands https://lnkd.in/ghG6Uc_N #weekly Foundations of #Amateur #Radio #podcast Foundations of Amateur Radio The origin of our amateur bands It's hard to imagine today, but there was a time when there was no such thing as either the 80m or the 20m amateur band, let alone 2m or 70cm. Picture this. It's the roaring 20's, the 1920's that is. Among a Jazz Age burst of economic prosperity, modern technology, such as automobiles, moving pictures, social and cultural dynamism, the peak of Art Deco, we're also in the middle of a radio boom where the world is going crazy buying radios as fast as they can be constructed, there are hundreds of licensed broadcasters, the bands are getting crowded, radio amateurs have been banned from the lucrative radio spectrum above 200 meters, and can only play in the "useless short waves" using frequencies greater than 1,500 kHz. And play they did. On the 2nd May 1925 amateurs proved they could communicate with any part of the world at any time of the day or night when Ernest J. Simmonds G2OD and Charles Maclurcan A2CM made a daylight contact between Meadowlea, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, and Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on what we now call the 20m band. This contact occurred not once, but regularly, for several days, using 100 Watts. To give you a sense of just how big news of this feat was, on the second scheduled contact the Prime Minister of Australia, Stanley Bruce, sent a message to England's Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin: "On occasion of this achievement Australia sends greetings." If you recall, the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union, was a fortnight old at this point. Less than a year later contact was made using voice. Between the banning of radio amateurs from frequencies below 1,500 kHz at the London International Radiotelegraph Conference in 1912 and the Washington International Radiotelegraph Conference in 1927 the world had irrevocably changed. In 1912 the discussion was almost all about ship to shore communication. By 1927, the world had tube transmitters, amplitude voice modulation, higher frequencies and what the 1993 IARU President, Richard Baldwin, W1RU calls, "literally an explosion in the use of the radio-frequency spectrum". In 1927 individual countries were beginning to control the use of spectrum, but there was no universal coordination, no international radio regulation and as we all know, radio waves don't stop at the border. Richard W1RU, writing in 1993 says: "In retrospect, the Washington conference of 1927 was a remarkable effort. It created the framework of international radio regulation that exists even today. It had to recognize and provide for a multitude of radio services, including the Amateur Service. It was at this conference that amateur radio was for the first time internationally recognized and defined. Bands of harmonically related frequencie…