In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? | Ibr Roof Sheet Making Machine

A week of celebrations ran in conjunction with the openings, including a re-enactment of Shortland’s landing at the mouth of the Hunter, a harbour regatta, boxing at Newcastle Stadium, a surf and swimming carnival and a fireworks display.

Gold #15 – You will spawn in at the back of the semi-circular control room. Go to the main control center, then up to the walkway above you. Drop down outside and the gold will be near the front of the room.

Need something more to be thankful for? How ‘bout the Bill of Rights. It and subsequent amendments guarantee our rights to speak, preach, own guns, vote, have our privacy and be treated equally regardless if we’re rich or poor, immigrant or Indian, socialist or libertarian.

"A friend told me it was Saturn returns and that may be true. I was about to turn thirty and I knew that if I didn’t change direction I was going to end up exactly where I was headed." At the end of Leif Vollebekk’s twenties, his own songs didn’t sound right. He had spent an entire year on the road, playing almost 100 shows, but every night his favourite moment came only right at the end, covering a song by Ray Charles or Townes Van Zandt. Every time he got home from tour he took a hot shower and lay still under a window, listening to Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, feeling saved, wondering why his own music didn’t give him that. Why the songs he had written himself always felt like so much work. He booked himself a secret show. One night only at a Montreal dive bar — not to play his own songs but other people’s. Leif found a rhythm section and they rehearsed once. Then midnight unspooled. Leif called it the most fun he had ever had playing music: Ray Charles and Tom Waits over a locked groove; Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar over a slow pulse. The light was dark blue and purple. Listen to it in a rental car in cold weather, with the windows all rolled up. Listen to it laying by an … (read more)

As was once tradition for mining companies, you plant orchards out past the back of each construction project. To give a modern high tech spin on the idea, you set up automated irrigation systems, using water caught off of the roofs, and stored in galvanised iron water tanks that you build yourself, with the assistance of some homeless people, and an autonomous robotic lawn mower.

The victory caused a sales rush on Peugeots, and every new model in Australia was sold within a week. 

Milkmen concerned about interruption to deliveries by revellers asked the army to provide them with a military escort, and by nightfall Newcastle was ringed with bonfi res on the hills at Merewether, New Lambton and Waratah. 

In my mid-20s, I lived in London, where I worked for a newspaper. It was a job that required me to sit for long hours in front of a monitor, clicking again and again on a mouse, scrolling up, scrolling down, zooming in, zooming out, over and over again, five days a week, sometimes until midnight. It wasn’t long before my back seized up: I had pins and needles between my shoulder blades and a numbness down my right arm. My boss, nervous about RSI absenteeism, sent me two floors up to see the company physiotherapist.

The last car to leave the Koondooloo was a 15-year-old grey Rover 90 driven by Tony Earp, of Church St, Newcastle, who made the trip “just because it was the last”. 

Elected leaders ride into battle, voices loud, sabers rattling and flash bulbs popping, on the backs of men like Grandpa Tommy who answer the call and if they are lucky, come home to the welcoming arms of a thankful country.

Commenter: PAMI took a loan for $4000.00 back in 1987. Suppose to be for books, housing, food etc. However when the check arrive the school made me sign this over to them. Later found out that the school was stealing grant checks and loan checks. Including my grant check. Well in 1995 Sallie Mae took over loan could not afford to pay. Since then, I have paid their collection companies. Then they add more interest onto the loan. I also have it on my credit report saying "Loan paid by insurance" Then they changed my account# and the dollar amount by one dollar and it started all over again. Anyways my $4000.00, will be over 34,000.00 by the time it is over. Sallie Mae just cares about making money. Nothing else. Do not ever get a loan from them.

Commenter: SURPRISED BY THE LACK OF CARING…TO THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE FINANCIAL GUIDANCE AND GET GREAT JOBS WHEN YOU GRADUATED – GREAT FOR YOU – BUT PLEASE DO NOT JUDGE OR BELITTLE THE PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT AS LUCKY AS YOU. SHAME ON YOU FOR GLOATING INSTEAD OF UNDERSTANDING AND SHARING IDEAS.