This history was originally written in 2000 for the 75th anniversary of ABC local radio in Brisbane
For more than 75 years the local radio station has been a distinctive part of Queensland’s way of life.
As part of Australia’s only national, non-commercial broadcaster, 612 ABC Brisbane has shared its history and development with the growth of Queensland.
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Losing his left foot while trying to clear a blockage on a corn-picking machine never slowed Ian Allen down.
He once told how he took up ballroom dancing to improve his dexterity. A friend of 80 years, Joe Tomerini, once said he thought it was so he could meet women. And whichever is true in the 1950s, he met Joycephine Greenfield, a New Zealand dairy farmer’s daughter, on a working holiday. The two became well known at dances across the north and were married in early 1956.
Born in Atherton at Nurse Austin’s Clinic, to Margaret (nee Rae) and William Stephen Allen, Ian was the youngest son in a family of six children.
He grew up on the family farm near Tolga on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland, and spent most of his life in the area, buying his farm just across the road.
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From the directory containing ffmpeg.exe run:
ffmpeg -i /path/to/inputfile.mp3 -af loudnorm=I=-16:dual_mono=true:TP=-1.5:LRA=11:print_format=summary -f null -Result should look like:
Input Integrated: -18.4 LUFS
Input True Peak: -0.0 dBTP
Input LRA: 7.4 LU
Input Threshold: -28.6 LUFS Output Integrated: -16.8 LUFS
Output True Peak: -1.5 dBTP
Output LRA: 6.7 LU
Output Threshold: -27.0 LUFS Normalization Type: Dynamic
Target Offset: +0.8 LU
With discussion about dual citizenship, Fred Hooper used my experiences as an example in an interview on Drive, broadcast on ABC Northern Tasmania on Tuesday 15 August 2017
Central atrium Berggruen Museum
Terrific day at Berggruen Museum and the associated gallery at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. Berggruen has the annex under renovation at the moment so the Paul Klee part of the exhibition is housed across the road at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. .
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This view is looking up into the Museum dome with a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (http://bit.ly/1oAgz0l ).
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The museum has three floors of Picasso’s arranged in chronological order and a fabulous audio tour. ( http://bit.ly/1oAgz0o… ) ?
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The next closest U-bahn stop to where we are staying is Senefelderplatz. Named after the inventor of lithography, nearby is a marble statue of him. I thought naming it with the sort of mirror reversed lettering lithography uses, and having one of the putti looking at it with a mirror a nice touch. #sculpture
Alois Senefelder
This finch was sitting on the back of the chair across from me – they are quite common in this area and there were a couple having a dust bath where some of the cobbles had come adrift outside our front door.
