Up-close with world’s largest piece of curved glass at Apple HQ | Roof Sheet Curving Machine

 In 1966 the late Ald Frank Purdue led a Newcastle Lord Mayoral appeal to raise the $600,000 needed to build the hall. 

Surfest is now the longest-running surfi ng contest in NSW and has provided many diamonds over the years, particularly in 2000 when 12 world champions were in the water together – Pete Townend, Tom Curren, Barton Lynch, Shaun Tomson, Wayne Bartholomew, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Damien Hardman, Mark Occhilupo, Derek Ho, Martin Potter and Kelly Slater – a feat never before achieved. 

Danielle de Picciotto (Crime and The City Solution) and Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten) – Bowery Electric December 27, 2017 – New York

 “I heard the crowd erupt, then we erupted and the whole street erupted,” she said at the time. His father Wayne, a mine worker, missed the magic moment as a tree had fallen on their house during a storm the previous night and he was outside helping remove it from their roof.

A few steps away from the slurry mixers is the tape coater. It applies a microscopically thin layer of slurry to 13,000-foot sheets of polyurethane. Powerful magnets orient the iron oxide to create a recording medium.

Fifty years plus have passed. The last time we were civil to each other and united in our Americanism, was 9/11.

Now it spawns Missoula Rewound, a weekly spin through past Missoulian papers in an attempt to capture a sense of how we were living and what we were reading in the days of yore.

It was good and dark by the time they set out across the open fields. The dogs were soon shiftin’ and sniffin’ through the creek bottom, checkin’ the brush and cottonwood trees.

3. Drew McIntyre vs. Finn Balor vs. Dolph Ziggler in a Triple Threat. McIntyre was standing tall heading into an early break. [C] Balor had McIntyre down and went for his finisher. McIntyre avoided the Coup de Grace. Balor landed on his feet, but Ziggler was there to perform a Zigzag on Balor for a near fall.

They split us into teams. Mine was called Custer’s Last Chance and Bugle Corps. They hauled us out into the beautiful, rollin’ grain fields in Tripp County halfway between Dog Ear and Old Lodge Creek. Very quickly we formed into a cohesive family unit. If you’ve ever seen a troop of baboons high on bus fumes, you’ll be able to picture it. We lined up in a company front at the end of a milo field. It was as straight as a cracked windshield. At the signal from Wes, our team leader, we invaded the field with the precision and practiced skill of the Houston Oilers backfield coming ashore at the Bay of Pigs!

 Aberdeen’s critics said the new statue “looked like Basil Brush”, but it still stands proudly at the corner of Hill and Bridge streets, named Hunter the Heeler after a school competition to give it a name.   

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Grammy Award winning pianist, composer and educator Arturo O’Farrill — leader of the "first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz" (NY Times) — was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Son of the late, great composer Chico O’Farrill, Arturo was Educated at Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. He played piano in Carla Bley’s Big Band from 1979 through 1983 and earned a reputation as a soloist in groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Freddy Cole, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis and Harry Belafonte. The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is the resident large format ensemble of the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) founded by Arturo O’Farrill in 2007 and dedicated to preserving the music and heritage of big band Latin jazz, supporting its performance for new audiences, and educating young people in the understanding and performance of this important cultural treasure. For more information about the orchestra and other ALJA initiatives, please visit us at www.afrolatinjazz.org https://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/431549038/first-listen-arturo-o-farrill-cuba-the-conversation-conti… (read more)