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Hames Sharley Architects, Australia Office

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21 May 2021

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Hames Sharley named largest architecture firm in WA for the third year in a row

Hames Sharley has been named the largest architecture firm in WA for a third consecutive year, according to Business News.

Hames Sharley boasts a diverse portfolio with 45 years of design excellence. Specialising in nine key sectors – Education, Science & Research, Health, Office & Industrial, Public & Culture, Residential, Retail & Town Centres, Sports & Recreational Urban Development and Workplace.

Brook McGowan, WA Studio Leader, says, “The list acknowledges that Hames Sharley has found resilience in the past year and turned its challenges into a positive impact. We did more than survive, we thrived.”

Hames Sharley currently has a significant array of projects in WA, including its own studio on the Hay Street Mall, Karrinyup Shopping Centre Redevelopment, One Subiaco, Australis at Rossmoyne, Wearne Cottesloe, Kardinya Shopping Centre Redevelopment, Carillon City Redevelopment, and the TL Robertson Library Redevelopment for Curtin University.

The annual survey ranks firms based on the number of architects they employ.

Full article here: https://www.hamessharley.com.au/article/hames-sharley-named-largest-architecture-firm-in-wa-for-the-third-year-in-a-row

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14 May 2021 UWA Early Learning Centre, Perth, Western Australia image © Hames Sharley UWA Early Learning Centre The UWA Early Learning Centre outcome is an environmentally sustainable design with a fun environment for children to play, learn, and explore.⁠⁠ Nestled into a quiet, leafy corner of the UWA campus, the building’s single-storey scale and residential character relate well to the neighbouring residential area. ⁠⁠

23 Apr 2021 Picnic Point High School Redevelopment , Picnic Point, City of Canterbury-Bankstown, 23 kilometres south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia image courtesy of Hames Sharley Architects Australia Picnic Point High School Building, NSW Picnic Point High School (PPHS) is a government high school located in the Picnic Point, New South Wales suburb. The redevelopment project, which involves the refurbishment of some existing buildings and the construction of a new learning facility, responds to the expansion of the school’s catchment to provide the East Hill’s and Picnic Point communities more choices for co-education.

18 Feb 2021 NEXTDC Data Centre, Perth, Western Australia image © Hames Sharley Hames Sharley New Home in Perth A major international planning, design and architecture firm is moving its 80-strong workforce into a high-profile derelict site in Perth’s Hay Street Mall in a vote of confidence for the lacklustre precinct.

14 Dec 2020 East Village Karrinyup Apartments, Perth, Western Australia image © Blank Canvas East Village Karrinyup Apartments, Perth Hames Sharley is proud to have designed the first stage of the East Village Karrinyup residences for Blackburne. This important milestone starts to complete the picture of this $800 million mixed-use activity centre development with AMP.

1 Sep 2020 Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Master Plan, Perth, Western Australia image courtesy of Hames Sharley Architects Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Master Plan The Hames Sharley Team and their consultants engaged with stakeholders extensively for the Master Plan of Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEIIMC), which ensures a carefully planned future for the development of the campus over the next 50 years.

23 July 2020 Australis at Rossmoyne Waters, Perth, Western Australia photograph : Douglas Mark Black Australis at Rossmoyne Waters in Perth The result of the Australis Development at Rossmoyne Waters by Hames Sharley was an intelligently designed communal space that heavily focused on being legible and easy to navigate. The design resulted in a centrally focused spine of activity and green encouraging a connection of spaces, both internally and externally.

6 July 2020 Tonkin Office, Adelaide, South Australia photograph : Peter Barnes Tonkin Office Adelaide In designing the Tonkin Office Fitout Hames Sharley set out to create an environment that is conducive to ‘Building exceptional outcomes together’, Tonkin’s core vision.

1 May 2020 Essence Apartments, Perth, Australia photograph : Douglas Mark Black Essence Apartment Building in Perth Essence Apartments encapsulates a balance of vibrancy and intimacy for its residents through the design response that focuses on the end-user’s desires and comfort while still playing its role in its important local context.

26 Mar 2020 Aurecon Darwin Office Fit-out News, Berrimah, Northern Territory Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design image Courtesy architecture office Aurecon Darwin Office Fit-out A collaboration between multi-disciplinary design firm Hames Sharley and international engineer, Aurecon has ensured a hugely successful outcome in Aurecon’s own Darwin office fit-out.

19 Feb 2020 Forrest Chase Perth Shopping Mall, 200 Murray Street, Perth, WA Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design photograph : Douglas Mark Black Forrest Chase Perth Shopping Mall, Western Australia The redevelopment of Forrest Chase has positioned the complex as a world-class retail and entertainment precinct that was executed in multiple stages to maintain both the building operation and movement of people along Padbury Walk. A related article: Forrest Chase Mall, Perth

25 Jan 2020 One Subiaco Concept, 10 Rokeby Avenue, Subiaco, inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia image courtesy of architects practice One Subiaco This Australian architect studio explore architectural individuality, character and refined elegance in their latest project, One Subiaco. The interior palettes reflect a contemporary yet timeless aesthetic ensuring a luxurious haven from the vibrant Subiaco life.

23 Jan 2020 Charles Darwin University City Campus Concept, Darwin CBD, Northern Territory Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design image Courtesy architecture office Charles Darwin University City Campus Building Elevating the base of the buildings and lowering the carpark creates Darwin’s first proposed “public plaza” – a focal point for students,community events and CBD users.

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This Australian architecture practice has offices in the following cities:

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Brisbane Level 2, 235 Edward Street Brisbane QLD 4000

Darwin Level 1, Tower 3 19C Kitchener Drive Darwin City NT 0800

Melbourne Level 3 Podium, 530 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000

Perth Level 2, 50 Subiaco Square Subiaco Western Australia 6008

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10 Unmissable Art Exhibitions Of 2020

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by Sally Tabart

Henri Matisse – ‘The sorrow of the king (La tristesse du roi)’ , 1952. gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas. Courtesy of AGNSW.

Henri Matisse – ‘Blue nude II (Nu bleu II)’ 1952. Courtesy of AGNSW.

Henri Matisse – ‘Decorative figure on an ornamental ground (Figure décorative sur fond ornemental)’, 1925. Courtesy of AGNSW.

Matisse: Life & Spirit November 2020 – March 2021 Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

It’s no surprise that one of the most prestigious galleries in the country, Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) will show a dynamic exhibition from one of the most famous and influential artists of all time, Henri Matisse.

Exclusive to AGNSW, Matisse: life & spirit, masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou will show over 100 works spanning six decades from the French master.

Developed alongside the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known for its unmatched collection of Matisse works, Matisse: life & spirit will be the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney. Yep – you’ll be able to see his famed cut-outs, but also his adventures in paintings, sculptures, and drawings, tracking the vast and varied exploration of his artistic career. This is TRULY unmissable!

Left to right: Dhuwarrwarr Marika Makassan, swords and long knives, Carlene Thompson, Kipara and Kalaya. Photo – courtesy of MAGNT.

Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) August 8th 2020 – January 31st 2021 Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, NT

Now in its 36th year, the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) is a major highlight for the Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin. This fantastic exhibition spotlights emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across a varying range of mediums, and attracts more than 85,000 visitors.

This exhibition is so important for visitors to gain an insight into First Nations People’s perspective in both contemporary interpretations, as well as those steeped in generations of tradition. It also offers some prize money of up to $50,000 for winning artists, courtesy of longtime sponsor Telstra. All finalists’ work will be displayed in the world-class exhibition, opening in August.

Left: Mikala Dwyer: a shape of thought featuring The Angel; Possession; Sigil for Heaven and Earth by Mikala Dwyer, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017. Photo – Mim Stirling. Right: Julia Robinson, Australia, 1981, Beatrice, 2019–20.

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art February 29th – June 8th 2020 Art Gallery South Australia, SA

This year the Art Gallery of South Australia welcomes the hugely popular Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art back for its 30th year. Known for its risk-taking and expansive vision, the Biennial welcomes the wild, wacky, weird and wonderful.

The theme of the 2020 iteration is Monster Theatres, inviting artists to bring to life the ‘monsters’ of today. As described by curator Leigh Robb, ‘Monsters ask us to interrogate our relationships with each other, the environment and technology. They force us to question our empathy towards differences across race, gender, sexuality and spirituality.’

Artists involved in the Biennial include Abdul Abdullah, Polly Borland, Yhonnie Scarce + many more!

Olafur Eliasson, Riverbed 2014. Photo – Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.

Water December 7th 2019 – April 26th 2020 Gallery of Modern Art, QLD

Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art never fails to disappoint with its innovative, world-class programming – and Water is no exception! Exploring the theme of, you guessed it,��Water, this exhibition explores this vital element from the perspective of artists around the world.

Here is some of what you can expect, according to GOMA:

‘Walk across a vast, rocky riverbed created by Olafur Eliasson. See animals from around the world gather together to drink from Cai Guo-Qiang’s brilliant blue waterhole. Gaze at Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s snowman frozen in Brisbane’s summer heat. Traverse a cloud of suspended gymnastic rings in a participatory artwork by William Forsythe. View the tidal currents rise and fall around Angela Tiatia. Reflect on the cultural traditions of bodies of water with Judy Watson, and on the long history of our reliance on water through Megan Cope’s re-created midden.’

Left to Right: Photo by Beth Wilkinson for Lindsay. Stanislava Pinchuk, ‘Topography : Topsoil Storage II, Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone.’ Pin-holes on paper, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo – Matthew R. Stanton. Stanislava Pinchuk, ‘Topography : The Road to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’. Pin-holes on paper, 2017. Photo – Matthew R. Stanton.

Stanislava Pinchuk June 27th – October 4th 2020 Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC

Stanislava Pinchuk (also known by her pseudonym, Miso) has emerged as one of Australia’s intriguing contemporary artists in the last decade. The Ukranian-born, Melbourne-based artist captures the changing topographies of war and conflict zones through data mapping, making tiny, individual pin pricks to realise these patterns – an incredibly labour-intensive and mentally and physically draining process that appears effortless, and beautiful.

This major exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne will feature a survey of Stanislava’s most powerful pinprick projects from the past five years, accompanied by terrazzo-like sculptures comprised of pieces of debris left behind in conflict zones.

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now May 30th – September 13th 2020 National Gallery of Australia, ACT

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) celebrates its ongoing initiative to increase representation of artists who identify as women with Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now.

Drawing on works from the National Gallery’s own collection, as well as others from across Australia, Know My Name showcases the work of lesser-known artists alongside Australian greats from different times, places and cultures.

As part of the broader Know My Name initiative, a new commission by the Tjanpi Desert Weavers will be on display at the National Gallery. Patricia Piccinini’s iconic Skywhale (2013) will also see its new counterpart, Skywhalepapa (2020) ascend over Canberra on its maiden voyage, travelling alongside Skywhale eight times during the exhibition period.

Left: Pierre Bonnard – French 1867–1947 The dining room in the country, 1913. Right: India Mahdavi (designer). Jardin d’intérieur – collection for La Manufacture de Cogolin. Images courtesy of the NGV.

Pierre Bonnard designed by India Mahdavi June 5th – October 4th 2020 National Gallery of Victoria

While Sydney-siders enjoy the masterful works of Henri Matisse, Melbournites won’t miss out on the opportunity to experience an incredible exhibition of another beloved French painter! The exquisite works of Pierre Bonnard will be on show at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for their major winter showcase, a kaleidoscopic exhibition of 150 works from the painter with a fondness for domestic scenes and rural life. Pierre Bonnard has been developed in partnership with Musee d’Orsay in Paris.

Described by Matisse, a close friend of Bonnard’s, as ‘a great painter, for today and definitely also for the future’, this groundbreaking exhibition spans paintings, drawings, photographs, folding screens and early cinema, depicting scenes of modern 20th century France in bright, vivid colours.

Aside from the opportunity to see one of the works of this beloved painter, what makes this exhibition absolutely unmissable is the design of the show itself. Iranian Paris-based designer India Mahdavi (the interiors genius behind the iconic pink Gallery at Sketch restaurant in London) has been commissioned by the NGV to bring Bonnard’s extraordinary works to life, elegantly balancing historical references with contemporary culture in an immersive experience.

22nd Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN November 8th 2020 – 16th February 2021 Various locations, NSW

First held in 1973 as part of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Opera House, the Biennale of Sydney is now in its 22nd year and is one of Australia’s blockbuster contemporary art events.

Taking place across six major sites – Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Art School – the Biennale of Sydney will see 94 artists from 47 countries

Under the guidance of multidisciplinary artist and this year’s Biennale Artistic Director Brook Andrew, the 12-week exhibition is titled NIRIN, meaning ‘edge’ in Brook’s mother’s Nation – the Wiradjuri people of western New South Wales. He says, ‘Optimism from chaos drives artists in NIRIN to resolve the often hidden or ignored urgency surrounding contemporary life.’

Carriageworks Commissions Rebecca Baumann: Radiant Flux, January 8th – June 14th Reko Rennie: REMEMBER ME, January 2020 – January 2021 Kate Mitchell: All Auras Touch, January 8th – March 1st Daniel Boyd: Video Works, January 8th – March 1st

Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, Carriageworks, has been home to some pretty major large-scale installation commissions in its time (who could forget German artist Katherina Grosse’s otherworldly technicoloured universe in 2018?). This summer, four new site-specific commissions from leading Australian artists Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Boyd, Kate Mitchell and Reko Rennie have taken residence in the epic historical space.

Spanning over 100-metres, Rebecca Baumann’s Radiant Flux sees every glass surface of the building’s exterior covered in a film that changes colour at every angle, flooding the space with kaleidoscopic light that will never be the same twice.

A study in human energy, All Aurus Touch by Kate Mitchell captures an aura portrait for each of the 1,023 census-recognised occupations.

Video Works by Kudjala/Gangalu artist Daniel Boyd features three major video installations, where gallery walls will be mapped with the artist’s otherworldly, infinite cosmos.

Interdisciplinary Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie references the massacre of First Nations people in Remember Me, a massive illuminated sign that will remain on display for the whole of 2020, the year marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s first landfall.

Installation view of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2019 exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Photo: AGNSW.

Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes May 9th – September 6th 2020 Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

The Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes are some of the most prestigious and highly anticipated art events in the country. Since its inception in 1921, The Archibald Prize the most well-known of the three awards celebrates paintings of notable figures that reflect Australian culture across areas including art, media, entertainment, politics, sports and more. The works are always a great capsule to represent Australian culture of the moment.

Finalists for the Archibald (portrait), Wynne (landscape/scenery) and Sulman (genre/subject) are shown in an exhibition that starts at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and tours at select galleries around Australia for the remainder of the year.

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Blind shrimps, translucent snails

By Jenny Davis, Charles Darwin University; Daryl Nielsen, CSIRO; Gavin Rees, CSIRO, and Stefanie Oberprieler, Charles Darwin University

There aren’t many parts of the world where you can discover a completely new assemblage of living creatures. But after sampling underground water in a remote, arid region of northern Australia, we discovered at least 11, and probably more, new species of stygofauna.

Stygofauna are invertebrates that have evolved exclusively in underground water. A life in complete darkness means these animals are often blind, beautifully translucent and often extremely localised – rarely living anywhere else but the patch they’re found in.

The species we discovered live in a region earmarked for fracking by the Northern Territory and federal government. As with any mining activity, it’s important future gas extraction doesn’t harm groundwater habitats or the water that sustains them.

Our findings, published today, show the importance of conducting comprehensive environmental assessments before extraction projects begin. These assessments are especially critical in Australia’s north, where many plants and animals living in surface and groundwater have not yet been documented.

When the going gets tough, go underground

Stygofauna were first discovered in Western Australia in 1991. Since then, these underground, aquatic organisms have been recorded across the continent. Today, more than 400 Australian species have been formally recognised by scientists.

The subterranean fauna we collected from NT aquifers, including a range of species unknown to science. A–C: Atyid shrimps, including Parisia unguis; D-F: Amphipods in Melitidae family; G: The syncarid species Brevisomabathynella sp.; H-J: members of the Candonidae family of ostracods; K: the harpacticoid species Nitokra lacustris; L: a new species of snail in the Caenogastropoda: M-N: Members of the Cyclopidae family of copepods; O: The worm species Aeolosoma sp. GISERA, Author provided

Stygofauna are the ultimate climate change refugees. They would have inhabited surface water when inland Australia was much wetter. But as the continent started drying around 14 million years ago, they moved underground to the relatively stable environmental conditions of subterranean aquifers.

Today, stygofauna help maintain the integrity of groundwater food webs. They mostly graze on fungal and microbial films created by organic material leaching from the surface.

A thriving stygofauna ecosystem lies beneath the surface of northern Australia’s arid outback. We sampled water through bores to measure their presence. Credit: Jenny Davis, Author provided

In 2018, the final report of an independent inquiry called for a critical knowledge gap regarding groundwater to be filled, to ensure fracking could be done safely in the Northern Territory. We wanted to determine where stygofauna and microbial assemblages occurred, and in what numbers.

Our project started in 2019, when we carried out a pilot survey of groundwater wells (bores) in the Beetaloo Sub-basin and Roper River region. The Beetaloo Sub-basin is potentially one of the most important areas for shale gas in Australia.

What we found

The stygofauna we found range in size from centimetres to millimetres and include:

two new species of ostracod: small crustaceans enclosed within mussel-like shells

a new species of amphipod: this crustacean acts as a natural vacuum cleaner, feeding on decomposing material

multiple new species of copepods: tiny crustaceans which form a major component of the zooplankton in marine and freshwater systems

a new syncarid: another crustacean entirely restricted to groundwater habitats

a new snail and a new worm.

These species were living in groundwater 400 to 900 kilometres south of Darwin. We found them mostly in limestone karst habitats, which contain many channels and underground caverns.

Perhaps most exciting, we also found a relatively large, colourless, blind shrimp (Parisia unguis) previously known only from the Cutta Cutta caves near Katherine. This shrimp is an “apex” predator, feeding on other stygofauna — a rare find for these kinds of ecosystems.

A microscopic image of Parisia unguis, a freshwater shrimp. Credit: Stefanie Oberprieler, Author provided

Protecting groundwater and the animals that live there

The Beetaloo Sub-basin in located beneath a major freshwater resource, the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer. It supplies water for domestic use, cattle stations and horticulture.

Surface water in this dry region is scarce, and it’s important natural gas development does not harm groundwater.

The Beetaloo Basin is part of the federal government’s gas expansion strategy. Credit: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

The stygofauna we found are not the first to potentially be affected by a resource project. Stygofauna have also been found at the Yeelirrie uranium mine in Western Australia, approved by the federal government in 2019. More research will be required to understand risks to the stygofauna we found at the NT site.

The discovery of these new NT species has implications for all extractive industries affecting groundwater. It shows the importance of thorough assessment and monitoring before work begins, to ensure damage to groundwater and associated ecosystems is detected and mitigated.

Where to from here

Groundwater is vital to inland Australia. Underground ecosystems must be protected – and not considered “out of sight, out of mind”.

Our study provides the direction to reduce risks to stygofauna, ensuring their ecosystems and groundwater quality is maintained.

Comprehensive environmental surveys are needed to properly document the distribution of these underground assemblages. The new stygofauna we found must also be formally recognised as a new species in science, and their DNA sequence established to support monitoring programs.

Different species of copepods from various parts of the world. Credit: Andrei Savitsky/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Many new tools and approaches are available to support environmental assessment, monitoring and management of resource extraction projects. These include remote sensing and molecular analyses.

Deploying the necessary tools and methods will help ensure development in northern Australia is sustainable. It will also inform efforts to protect groundwater habitats and stygofauna across the continent.

Jenny Davis, Professor, Research Institute for Environment & Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University; Daryl Nielsen, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO; Gavin Rees, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, and Stefanie Oberprieler, Research associate, Charles Darwin University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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36. Lead up to the 1987 Season --- Expansion: Team 20 --- The Boston Breakers

Team 20: The return of the Boston Breakers and the birth of the New Orleans Jazz

Turner would have his eye on the Boston Market as the location for the franchise to pair with his Tribe. Boston College would graduate a bumper crop of good players in 1986 and Turner saw those players as an opportunity to recapture the Boston market.

To this end, he would encourage Randy Vataha to re-recruit Vataha’s old partner George Matthews to restart the Boston Breakers.

Doug Flutie had become the league’s third or fourth biggest star and Turner was confident the league could leverage that into a much better stadium negotiation in Boston if they “struck while the Flutie was hot”. He was right. Boston College had seen a tremendous uptick in applications and football recruiting based off the success of Doug Flutie. Flutie was money to BC.

The idea of seeing Flutie play the Boston franchise at Alumni Stadium was very appealing to the private university. The league promised Boston College an annual Flutie vs. the Breakers matchup in Boston each year as part of a newly created “rivalry week” series. BC opened their 32,000 seat Alumni stadium up to Matthews’ new team on extremely favorable terms to thwart a late push by Harvard to host the team.

Boston College had seen a strong spike in enrollment after Doug Flutie won the Heisman. They were very eager to try bottling that magic. The university discovered that good football had the ability to drive increased enrollment and alumni donations. They were in the beginning of plans to expand the stadium when the USFL called. The deal with the Breakers would speed up that expansion effort.

Turner would agree to pay a large portion of the expansion price for Matthews in order to get him back in the league. (In the years since then, it has been reported that the league owners knew Turner actually paid Boston’s full expansion price —$12 Million. Turner’s thinking was that the league barely used his loan, so he basically got his franchise for free. He bought into the league to “keep the league on track”, but he worried that without an expansion fee the owner might resent him at some point, making TV negotiations harder.)

Paying for Boston’s expansion killed several birds with one stone. It got the #1 market Turner wanted back into the league.

It got a budget conscious year 1 owner back into the league and earned Turner his favor.

With the fee not an issue and almost non–existent stadium rent, Matthews could sign that class of Boston College stars and compete for the playoffs from year one — a requirement in re-entering that market.

Finally, if the league could report that their latest team actually sold for the full $12 Million expansion fee, everyone’s franchise value would more or less double, including his. The league would seem more solid, and the new market for expansion teams would be confirmed.

Joe Carnazario would sell the “Breakers” brand and equipment back to Matthews after a conversation with Turner about the business implications behind such a deal.

Carnizario’s New Orleans franchise would be known as the Jazz from this point forward. Mathews would buy the new equipment for the Jazz.

Long disheartened with the poor luck Dick Coury had in New Orleans, the Breakers had would re-hire Coury, the USFL’s Coach of the year in 1983.

Matthews would approach his fellow first year owner J. Walter Duncan and request Boston be allowed to have Notre Dame, given the the large Catholic population in New England.

Duncan would concede as he would feel that it was perceived as a competitive advantage for his Outlaws have both Oklahoma and Notre Dame and that Boston needed a better territorial draw than they had the first time through. (For this reason, Duncan would insist the league not award him SMU as his replacement school. SMU was simply too loaded with talent for Duncan’s sensibilities. Texas Christian University would be the Outlaws’ fifth territorial assignment.)

Boston would have Boston College, Notre Dame, Massachusetts, Boston University, and Holy Cross as their territorial schools.

The Breakers would trade for a number of old Breakers players. Collins had wanted to rebuild the Breakers to his sensibilities so he and Coury would quickly work out a deal to reduce New Orleans’ salary commitments.

Collins would send TE Dan Ross, ILBs Marcus Marek, OLB Ben Needham from the Jazz for a 1988 1st and 3rd, and a 1987 3rd round pick. Additionally several New Orleans players would be reallocated to Boston.

Miami would trade Boston College alum NT Mike Ruth, WR Joey Walters, and QB Mike Hohenesee and their #2 pick to Boston with the blessing of Woody Weiser who had his eyes on younger, more marketable replacements on the University of Miami team. The Spirit would receive back the #1 pick overall in the draft.

The Breakers would sign Boston College players DE John Bosa,

RB Troy Stratford,

WR Kelvin Martin,

and G Steve Trapilo,

Holy Cross All American CB Goldie Lockbaum,

and Notre Dame QB Steve Beuerlein,

DT Wally Klein, DL Robert Banks and K John Carney.

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Sonder wander

I was woken up by the noise of somebody shuffling in the tent behind me. Wearily checking the time on my phone, I discovered it was 2.50am. What ungodly hour was this? I had been robbed of a full ten minutes of sleep before my alarm was due to go off.

There were thirteen of us in total. All rugged up in our sleeping bags as the central Australian overnight temperatures were finally beginning to drop. At 3am, we started emerging from our cocoons, blindly stumbling through the campsite, finding torches, getting changed, half packing, mostly yawning as we made ready for our pre-dawn ascent of Mount Sonder.

Coming in at 1380m, Mt Sonder is the Northern Territory’s fourth highest mountain with Mt Zeil taking top honours at 1531m which in turn is just another 7000m shy of Everest. It also marks the conclusion of the Larapinta Trail, a world famous walking track that starts in Alice Springs a couple of hundred kilometres back east. We were taking advantage of a mid-week public holiday and had driven out the evening before to the campground near the base so we could make our early start.

Piling in to the three vehicles, we drove the first few clicks to the day use car park and checked the map to make sure we didn’t begin with a wrong turn, although trying to find the start and one of the blue arrows that point the way over the full 234kms of the Trail was not quite as easy as hoped at silly o’clock in the morning. Once we’d established which way would take us up and not down into Redbank Gorge, we were on our way. It was 3.50am.

When I entered a GeoQuest race a few years ago, I’d had to buy a whole heap of compulsory equipment to satisfy their safety requirements. Grumpy then at the expense, the thermals have since come in very handy on the bitterly cold winter morning cycle rides to work, the Gore-Tex jacket a blessing on the rare occasion we get rain and the buff has saved me from heatstroke and my bald pate from sunburn more times than I care to remember. The head torch though, during my usual last minute packing back at home, nowhere to be found. As it so often seems, the one thing I actually needed is the one thing I could not source. Consequently, I’d grabbed the only light I could find which was some cheap NT Government freebie torch not much bigger than a AA battery. It’s fair to say that its ability to light up anything further than a few inches away is very, very, very limited. With a moonless sky above, even crossing the sandy, largely rockless river bed was proving a tripping hazard with that in hand. Luckily, with one other exception, the rest of the gang were not so ill-prepared and as we settled into a crocodile line once across the river and onto the narrow track, the light shining from those in front and behind proved more than sufficient for me to keep my feet.

The walk itself is around 8kms long to the summit. Under the cover of darkness, the views remain unseen and the route unknown. Every now again the up and up is punctuated by a short descent before climbing once more. One foot in front of the other, head down, just keep going. Kilometre markers pass by, time flies by. No distractions. Around the 7km marker there was an awareness of being on a ridge as the first glimmer of light far off on the eastern horizon teased a distinction between land and sky.

At 6.30am, the last few yards of the ascent to the flat, false summit as a line of tangerine orange extended horizontally across the skyline bringing the silhouette of the sister peak into full view. We had reached 1360m since the real summit of Mt Sonder sat 750m in front of us, the other side of a gully but deemed too unsafe to reach when the track was made back in 2002. Regardless, we’d reached the high point of our trek and waited for the sun to rise.

At 6.52am, the first rays of the days shot over the horizon and cast a mellow glow over the surrounds. They opened up the sheer majesty of the views below to the ranges, the gorges and the expanses in between and the lack of signs of humanity; no street lights, no roads evident, not even the one we came in on. The path of the dry Finke River and her tributaries instead carving their way through the arid landscape.

By climbing in darkness, there was no glimpse of the views to come and thus no expectation. As day broke, the slow reveal made the beauty of the vista so much more rewarding. After an hour or so of gawking and picture taking it was time to head back down. The sun now high in the sky and the descent providing the stunning panoramic views that had been hidden all the way up. Furthermore, the flies had yet to wake up and the heat of the day still to come. By arriving back at the start a touch before 9.30am, we had avoided all the miseries of day walking in central Australia. Watching trekkers at the base getting ready to start their climb, I think there was plenty of group satisfaction and smugness in knowing we had done it better than they would.

After a short drive back to camp, it was time for coffee and pancakes before packing up camp and heading back home to the Alice. Plenty of time left in the day to put my feet up, drift in and out of naps and reflect on a perfect morning. Every day the sun comes up and some of those days, I’ve watched it do so. This time though, surrounded by good friends and overlooking my southern NT homeland from high up in the MacDonnell Ranges, turned out to be the best dawn yet.

The Magnificent Thirteen (Photo credit; Andrew Jolly)

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Australia's Northern Territory lifts fracking ban

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Australia's Northern Territory lifts fracking ban

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The government of Australia’s Northern Territory on Tuesday said it would allow gas extraction via fracking, ending a moratorium it imposed almost two years ago amid concerns the drilling method could damage the environment.

The Northern Territory (NT), a 1.4 million sq km (540,000 sq miles) expanse extending from the centre of Australia to its northern coastline, had banned hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in September, 2016 and commissioned a study of the environmental, social and economic risks of the extraction process.

The government accepted the inquiry’s conclusion, published in March, that risks from environmental damage and groundwater contamination could be managed if the industry was tightly regulated.

“The risks from fracking can be reduced to acceptable levels,” NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner told reporters in the Territory’s capital, Darwin.

“The moratorium on fracking in the Northern Territory will be lifted, with strict new laws to be in place before exploration or production can occur,” he said, adding that 49 percent of the Territory will remain “frack-free”, including national parks and reserves.

Drillers will need to make wells compliant with new design codes and present plans for decommissioning and rehabilitation before production begins, the Northern Territory government said in a statement.

Gas has become a hot political issue in Australia as soaring domestic prices are hurting households and threatening jobs at manufacturers as well as driving up electricity prices.

The national government sees fracking as a way to help ease some of those concerns, but environmentalists and some scientists are opposed to it, urging local and national officials to consider installing more renewable energy capacity.

The NT was one of five Australian provinces to restrict fracking, with the state of Victoria having banned it as well as shale and coal-seam gas exploration, while New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania have moratoriums.

“This decision … is a betrayal of the science and of the significant community opposition which has been expressed over the last few years,” said Lauren Mellor, a spokeswoman for environmental group Frack Free NT Alliance.

Matthew Doman, a director at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association said lifting the moratorium was “welcome” news for the industry.

Reporting by Tom Westbrook; Editing by Michael Perry and Joseph Radford

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Emmerson and Evolution Mining will Begin its Gold Production in Northern Territory AU

Emmerson Resources will open its new gold mine with the Australian gold producer Evolution Mining in Northern Territory. The company announced that the local government in NT granted the final approvals for Edna Beryl gold mine to begin its production.

According to the managing director of Emmerson, the commencement of production at Edna Beryl is a pivotal step since Emmerson began its exploration in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field back in 2008.

In the said agreement, Evolution is funding $15 million in exploration by the end of the year in order to earn a 65% interest in the project with an option to earn an additional 10% over the next two years through a $10 million commitment.

The mine is being developed in cooperation with the NT government, which is conducting a feasibility study into establishing a mill at Tennant Creek which could lead to the mine's expansion. The first 600 tonnes of development ore averaged grades of 40 grams per tonne, which would make the mine high grade.

Mining at Edna Beryl East will be undertaken by the Edna Beryl Mining Company under a tribute agreement. It says the underground mine will start small but has exploration upside. The agreement relates to a 3D envelope around the shallow mineralisation.

Drilling last year extended the mineralisation beyond this 3D envelope, opening up the possibility of either expanding the current mining area or if the next round of drilling is successful, contemplating a larger scale of development.

Emmerson's stock price has risen 7.53% in the last 5 trading days since the announcement, compared to a year to date loss of 23.08% on the ASX.

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22. Lead up to the 1986 Season --- Expansion: Team 17 --- the New (New) Chicago Blitz

Based on a recommendation by Peter Hadhazy, the league hired Bill Polian back from the Buffalo Bills at double his salary to be the GM/President of the Chicago Blitz. Polian was told up front it was a 1 to 2 year job that would likely lead to much better ones in the future.

He was tasked with making the Blitz competitive immediately. He was told that the league would assure Chicago would get the number one pick overall and the league office would work with Polian to sign Bo Jackson after the end of the college baseball season.

Polian was told that the league owners had no problem with him signing one more first-round pick level talent in support --- ala the original George Allen Blitz --- as that is the talent level that will be required to re-earn the fan trust in Chicago — a requirement if the league was going to find a buyer.

Denver backup QB Vince Evans would also be assigned back to Chicago. Evens had lost his job in Denver to Doug Flutie, but had learned a lot about quarterbacking from Mouse Davis. Polian laid out the plan and Evans was eager for a second shot in Chicago.

Polian set about securing his other rookie star.

“I think they were expecting me to sign a wide receiver or something but you know they told me 'We’re going to give you the greatest running back in college football… but a guy who wants to play baseball half the time! And you don’t get him in this, your key season, until the college baseball season is over!’ I had these visions of Bo quitting the team around week 10 each year and us not having a running game.”

“I could totally see that tearing the team apart with players picking sides. So it was a total no-brainer when I looked at the regional assignment and saw that I had Ohio State [because Oklahoma was going to keep Notre Dame as their territorial assignment] that I was going to sign Keith Byers to play fullback. Byers was a beast as a junior and had really made an impact on the fans in the area.”

“Getting that done took some doing. The Byers signing was not popular among the league owners I can assure you… but people don’t understand the potential the Jackson signing had to rip apart a roster.“

Usher had a problem with the league owners. They felt he favored Oklahoma owner J. Walter Duncan and had given Duncan far too much talent the previous off-season. Usher and Duncan decided to eliminate that by pushing Outlaw defensive Coordinator Jim Bates and several players who fit Bates’s scheme to Chicago.

The league needed Chicago to succeed. They told Bates that while he was good enough to be a head coach in the league, the league itself needed him in Chicago because it needed the franchise to be good from day 1. Bates felt some loyalty to Haphadzy who had recommended him to Duncan.

Bates was not high profile enough in the area to curry Chicago area fans who for the most part had been actively ignoring the USFL and had not seen Oklahoma’s run, but his ability to produce as a coordinator was unquestioned by Polian. Bates would be rewarded with a very large contract that mirrored what USFL head coaches were making to do the job for a year.

The Chicago Bears had done a similar thing paying their Defensive Coordinator Buddy Ryan a very large salary that rivaled a head coach’s salary to stick around. Defense mattered to Chicago fans, so it was good business.

Outlaws LT Duane Wilson, DE Mike St. Clair, DE Ken Gillen, NT Bob Nelson,NT Paul Hanna, DT Tony Suber, ILB Jeff Leiding, OLB/DB Jim Bob Morris, OLB/DB John Barefeild, OLB/DB Larry James, DB Mike Ulmer, would be reassigned to the new Blitz. Outlaws owner J. Walter Duncan who had gotten quite close to all of the players would personally decide to meet with each of the 11 players to explain the situation and personally apologize. They were after all having to uproot their families in part because Duncan was embarassed. He would hand each of the 11 players a $10,000 check to help with relocation costs. (St. Clair would thank Duncan, but refuse the relocation check and chose to retire.)

Nelson would recount the meetings later. “Man, it was emotional. Mr. Duncan explained that if things stayed the way they were NONE of us would ever get the credit we deserved for our hard work. Mr. Duncan really liked Coach Faibanks and Coach Bates. Neither one would get any credit for anything we did if we kept that team together. It sucked, but he was right.”

“I’ll tell you this. I have never had an owner look me in the eye and give me the straight truth like that. I appreciated it and I know everyone else did. And no other players in the history of the USFL who was reallocated ever got any relocation money prior to that day. Mr. Duncan started that. He was a standup owner.”

Polian would want to bring back Blitz coach Marv Levy but the USFL owners would insist that he could not. While they all agreed Levy was a fine coach who did a great job in Chicago, they felt they needed to create excitement with the coaching hire so they provided Polian with a short list of successful area coaches — former Notre Dame coaches Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine, and current Illinois coach Mike White — Polian quickly decided that White was the choice.

“The first two seemed vaguely interested but seemed to want to drag out negotiations haggling about control and the length of their contracts. White on the other hand had a situation where all his best talent had graduated and the cupboard was looking pretty bare. I needed a coach who could accept the Bates situation without taking it out on the Oklahoma players and who could work with Jim and I.”

The league wanted the team to be competitive fairly quickly, so Polian decided that White would be the right hire. “He was a fantastic young coach who had unprecedented success at a really tough location. White was the perfect mix of ‘great coach’ and ‘easy to work with’. ”

The new Blitz would build the core of their team around the former outlaws and members of the historically unprecedented 10-2 1983 University of Illinois team that went 9-0 in the Big Ten conference. That team would end up producing 21 players who would go on to be drafted by the NFL. Most of them did not make the NFL rosters, leaving a large contingent of almost NFL caliber players who knew what Mike White wanted.

The Blitz signed them all.

Highlights included flamboyant unanimous All-American wide receiver David Williams (the Bears 3rd round pick),

QB Jack Trudeau,

T Jim Juriga,

All-American S Craig Swoope,

Big Ten MVP DT Don Thorp, TE Cap Boso, and RB Thomas Rooks. Rooks and Byers would carry most of the rushing load when Jackson was unavailable.

"Those Illinois kids were a cocky bunch. That’s probably why so many of them made it. They just refused to be bad. But in our plan it really didn’t matter if all 21 of those illini made the roster or even most of them,” Polian would state in an interview years later.

“The first time we did the Blitz, we were in a bad spot because there was no culture on that roster. Arizona was a failed franchise and they gutted the franchise and broke the player’s focus by moving across the country before they gave it to us. A total lack of expectations really screwed Marv over. I was determined that was not going to happen again.”

“Having those 21 Illini in camp created a ‘Mike White culture’ and gave White shot to hit the ground running. The fact that only 12 of them made the final roster is really almost irrelevant. That opportunity, I felt, gave White the edge as a coaching candidate in a situation where we needed the team to be competitive immediately. The league didn’t afford me the time to argue with a coach about the right way to do things, so it made a lot of sense to do it the Mike White way.”

The team would also sign a key young All-American who had quickly fallen through the NFL system’s cracks.

WR Steve Bryant had been a star and All-American at Purdue but was just a part time player for the Oilers. Bryant had a couple of productive years in the NFL but now it looked like his NFL career was done at 27.

Polian thought Bryant would immediately be at least a solid second starter in the USFL with a chance to get a lot better with consistent playing time. “He was a good talent but not an elite one. He didn’t have great speed and wasn’t a tall strong possesion receiver, but he just made more out of every opportunity than most with his skill level. He reminded me a little of (Philadelphia Stars star WR) Scott Fitzkee.”

The territorial draft would yield three very good linebackers from Ohio State in Pepper Johnson, Byron Lee, and Larry Kolic.

“It was a great setup. With the league support, I was able to give White one of the League’s best running games and the league gave us the core of that defense. Bates had a defense that everyone struggled with in the USFL. White really understood the passing game and could teach it. Trudeau was a solid Talent and available at the right price and while Vince Evans was inconsistent and the times inaccurate, he had a confident swagger and no ceiling on his talent – and the Bears fans loved that. I felt very comfortable that White could deliver a passing game that would be effective in our league. That team was pretty much ready to challenge for a playoff spot from day one.”

The Blitz would sign the league’s fourth Heisman Trophy winner in a row in Auburn’s Jackson after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers purposefully caused Jackson to lose his collegiate baseball eligibility. The Bucs had done so to try to steer Jackson towards a football-only future in Tampa Bay. The Bucs were dead set on picking Jackson number one overall in order to force the issue. The USFL was able to take advantage of that animosity.

“We always in the driver’s seat vs. the NFL in the Jackson negotiation anyway. It is harder to get physically ready for football. We were able to offer a situation where Jackson could come to camp allowing him to get properly conditioned for football and play the entire USFL season. He would only miss the beginning of the baseball season. Jackson would be able to pay in the playoffs in both leagues with no animosity on our part.”

“The whole Bo thing worked out much better than I thought it would. We led the league in rushing that year and Bo and Keith were phenomenal. We were able to keep Bo’s workload in check with Keith and Thomas, and I think that kept Bo healthy with the strain he was putting on his body playing two sports. Bo never missed a regular season or playoff game while he was healthy in his years with the Blitz. The guy was a beast on the field. The fans loved him. Pretty good baseball player too.”

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