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Russian athlete Ilia Burov jumps during a training session before the men’s aerial final at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Brooklyn-based Super Hi-Fi mixes jazz-inflected trombones, the rhythmic landscapes of Jamaican dub and touches of afrobeat and funk for a unique and heady mix memorably described as an ‘imaginary soundtrack from Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, The Specials and Led Zeppelin.’ Led by bassist and composer Ezra Gale, whose last outfit, the San Francisco-based Aphrodesia, took their take on afrobeat all the way to Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria, Super Hi-Fi has been creating waves in the fertile New York music scene since 2010 and released their debut full-length album, "Dub To The Bone" (Electric Cowbell Records), in 2012. The band’s latest release, "Yule Analog Vol. 1- A Very Dubby Christmas", is a re-imagining of Christmas classics like "We Three Kings" and "Little Drummer Boy" with blasting trombones, swirling tape delay and ass-shaking wallop. The album is a hit, with critics like InForty wishing "If only shopping malls were blasting this every holiday season"! The band has debuted the material to a raucous crowd of Santas at SantaconNYC, and looks to follow the album up with a new record of all original material in 2015. Super Hi-Fi: Rick Parker, Alex Asher- trombones Jon Lip… (read more)

It was just one of the batting highlights of an elegant cricket genius who started his first-class career for NSW at 18 with the then unprecedented feat of a century in each innings.

“Gulp. They will soon be moving us from our pastures. They will force us from the open plains and high mountain valleys! They will pave our homesteads and cover the grass with Verizon stores!”

It was a fine western Kansas mornin’. J.T. made two passes around the wheat field before the sun burned off the moisture. He parked the 930 Case with the New Holland round baler and decided he could make it to Winona just in time for coffee shop communion. He leaped aboard his ‘79 Ford 4-wheel drive and cranked the engine. Unfortunately, it didn’t crank back!

He reached Port Stephens before giving up and heading home, and on the way back on September 9, he pulled in around that “small clump of island” and found the harbour. Shortland had a quick look around, but reported “we had rain which prevented my doing so much as I otherwise should”.

Until the Knights won the title in 1997, there was little doubt what Newcastle rugby league’s greatest glory day was – the David and Goliath 5-3 victory over the mighty St George in the State Cup semi-final in 1964, then going on to finish the job by beating Parramatta 14-7 in the final. 

Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays presented by AT&T heads to the Beacon Theatre on December 9, 2017.

I was out in the driveway scattering stove ash when I heard the geese. It was three days until the end of the season and I was still zero for 6. They rose from the field to the north, squawking raucously and aimed straight over the house.

The uneven curvature of my coccyx was caused by spending upwards of a year lying on my back, in bed, as a child. My spine grew, of course, as would that of any eight-year-old, but it grew crooked, from the pressure of the mattress beneath. I’d contracted encephalitis and the virus was eating away at my brain, a maggot through an apple, making lacework of the neural pathways. Most of the lasting neurological damage was done to my cerebellum, that part of the brain involved in movement and coordination, but the virus also dismantled many of the neuromuscular junctions in my spine and pelvis. Muscles in my back and upper legs were left much weakened and foreshortened.

Commenter: Bob DanforthI had decided to go back to school and was given a great pep talk told I could definitely get in and handed a batch of papers to sign that would commit me to paying the school what would eventually cost about $50,000 and lay out a great career. Before I signed committing to pay the money, I asked what loans grants etc were available as I do not have that sort of money. I was told that they would help me get what was represented to be mostly grants but I would have to actually commit to paying the Tuition first, before I could apply for the Grants. They did such a good job of convincing me that I actually signed the papers, but after thinking it over realized that all their promises were talk and all mine were on paper. There was a 24hour escape clause and I took it just in time. It is easy to think that a starry eyed student of lesser years would not have had the second thoughts soon enough. I am self taught in Engineering and Design and get paid half what those who have degrees get and often find myself doing their work in any case, and have a harder time finding that work. That the many Vampires sucking our society dry might finally be pushed back in Health, Education, Military, Banking, and the myriad other ways more subtle was the Change I was hoping for. Unfortunately I see more Audacity than Hope.